Chapter 187 The Price

The great witch didn't speak or move.

Su You continued to speak, his voice was soft and soft, but extremely clear: "I admire you very much. I admire your persistence in your ideals and your pursuit of truth. But the bones of nineteen children in the snake cave tell you

It was a naked sin on my part.”

"You gave in again and again at the conference, pretending to be asking for advice humbly, but in fact you are just convinced that I can't come out of the snake hole."

"After I came out of the snake cave, you immediately adapted to the situation, but you just wanted to exchange benefits so that I could keep your great witch heritage alive."

"You are the wisest Erlin person I have ever met, and for the development of the Erlin Department, I can only cooperate with you in acting."

"However, as wise as you are, you should know that I will never trust you again, so I agree to all your requests and realize your ideals, but in exchange for you disappearing into the snowy mountains, okay?"

"In this way, you can become the greatest wise man in the tribe, become an example for them to seek the truth, become a legend in the tribe, and add a tragic chapter to the epic."

"But if you come back, even if I hear rumors of your return, I will immediately order people to reopen the snake cave and let the tribesmen see the miserable situation inside. Let them know that the shamanic sacrifice they once admired is a

What a terrible and perverted belief.”

"When the time comes, not only you, but also your sect of great witches will be hated and cast aside by others."

"Before entering the snake cave, you once told me: No one will not pay the price for his actions and ideals. I listened to your words and obeyed your arrangements, and I also made the payment."

"So Great Witch, now, it's your turn."

The great witch still didn't look back. After pondering for a while, he took off the bone skewer tied with a leather rope in his hand and placed it on the ground.

After standing up again, his figure became even more stooped, but he began to move forward barefoot.

A strange feeling arose in Su You's heart. He seemed to see a hint of lightness and relief in the steps of the great witch.

The great witch walked far away and disappeared into the mountains.

Li Shuanshuo emerged from the grass not far away, carrying a crossbow in his hand, and stepped forward to pick up the bone string.

Su You put the little white ape on his shoulders: "Mu Ke, let's go home!"

Shuan Lean walked beside Su You: "Master, the one in the cave was an explosion, right?"

Su You nodded: "Yes."

Shanshao asked: "Is it the kind we do in the back mountain?"

Su You stopped and said, "Brother Shuanzhao, you all know the power of this thing. Everyone thinks it was the blessing of God who sent down the thunder to kill the giant snake, but in fact, it is just the kind of firecracker we made."

"But it must be kept secret now. Not to mention the Dali people, the Erlin Department, even Cheng Gong, your Wengweng father, and my Eighth Prince cousin, everyone must hide it."

"Go back and ask you how much effort Weng Weng has put into preserving your family's well-digging skills. You will know how much trouble it will cause if people know that we have such power. Even the Jiangqing family can't afford it.

Can’t live.”

Li Shuanzhuo nodded and said: "I know, young master. But, why don't we present this thing to the court?"

Su You smiled and said: "If you offer it to the imperial court, I'm afraid that the Song army won't use it, but the Western Xia and Liao people will use it first. Can you believe it? Our imperial court, it's better not to have too much hope..."

"Let's wait a little longer. When the young master comes up with something better, we will put this to good use. By then, the young master may already be standing in the court, and maybe he can get some credit. Do you understand?"

Li Shuanzhuo nodded fiercely, grinned and said: "When the time comes, let those officials know how awesome our science and engineering is!"

The large lathe was installed, and the sawing machine was added, and the carpentry workshop of the Second Forest Department started work in full swing.

Wooden bowls are divided into ordinary types and expensive types.

The ordinary type is made of the roots of birch, rhododendron and other trees or miscellaneous wood such as beech and mountain cherry. It is not decorated, has a strong texture, is not easy to crack, and has delicate patterns.

Wooden bowls made of miscellaneous wood are said to be poison-proof.

The luxury model is made from a local parasitic plant called "Jiu". The wood is dark and translucent, with textures as thin as hair. Su You feels that the texture of this wood is comparable to red sandalwood, but it has no smell. It is really the best for making wooden bowls.

choice.

Making a wooden bowl is not a simple matter. It generally requires more than ten processes such as material selection, harvesting, boiling, drying, shaping, turning, painting, baking, polishing, painting, and baking.

Atunmi has been preparing the wood for a long time.

After finishing, the juice of a kind of grass called "Jiayu" is used to smear the inside and outside of the bowl wall to turn it orange, making the wood grain clearer and more beautiful.

What interested Su You was the silver lid and silver carving decoration on the precious wooden bowl.

The silver cover is engraved with auspicious patterns, and the entire wooden bowl is inlaid with silver. Only a finger-width part is left on the waist of the bowl, letting you know that the bowl is made of wood.

There is a bowl lid on top and a bowl holder on the bottom, which is similar to the shape of a tureen, but the lid is in the shape of a tower and is made of silver.

This thing was made by Tibetan craftsmen recruited by the Erlin Department. It is a top-notch intangible cultural heritage.

As a new great shaman, Su You had the most exquisite set of wooden bowls first presented to him by the craftsmen.

The wooden bowl is carved with silver and inlaid with gold. There is a bright red bead on the top of the lid as a button. The bowl holder is in the shape of a blooming eight-petal lotus. There is an auspicious pattern on each petal. The eight petals together have a name, called the Eight Auspicious Pictures.

It's really beautiful, the only regret is that it lacks the paste.

Su You rubbed it for a long time, but still couldn't bear to take it away, so he sent it to the sacrificial hall together with the manganese steel Miao Dao as the highest achievement of the Erlin Department's handicraft industry.

But Su You knew that the top bead was a sorbet bead, a craft of craftsmanship that has been lost in later generations.

In later generations, it was exaggeratedly called the purest red colored glaze product in the world. Glazed craftsmen of all generations have tried to restore the craftsmanship, but no one has succeeded.

Now, somehow, the formula was easily obtained. The devout craftsmen never thought of keeping the secret from the great witch they admired.

The altitude of Erlinbu is higher than that of Meishan, and the boiling water temperature is lower than that of Meishan, so Su You ordered another cooking skill for Erlinbu, baking.

With the mill, you have fine flour of various grains; with the milk source, you have cheese, butter, and ghee; with honey, refined salt, eggs, and melon seeds and peach kernels, if you don't make bread and biscuits, you will be a foodie.

's name.

All that's missing is yeast and an oven.

The bread was made into a ball with soy sauce, about the size of a human head, and had a delicious thick sweet crispy crust on top. It was actually the pineapple bun of later generations, but much larger.

The crispy skin was made into curls, and there was stuffing inside the bread to simulate the human brain. The first batch of bread was baked and was also sent to the sacrificial hall as a sacrifice. It was regarded as a substitute for the human sacrifice ceremony and was preserved as an ancient custom.

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The people in the tribe couldn't help but admire Su You. The young wizard did not completely deny their sacrificial rituals, but improved them, even taking these small details into consideration.

Every tribesman who visited the sacrificial hall was excited and grateful.

To Su You, it was actually just the old wisdom of Marquis Wu.

In addition to studying every day, Su You also has to work with Mr. Fan to receive wizards from various tribes who come to pay homage to the temple, and have heated discussions with them. Using the three rites of the Han family as theoretical guidance and tribal rituals as the basis, Su You formulates new rituals suitable for the tribe.

Code, and then put it into writing.

From now on, the rituals of the Erlin tribe will be maintained and passed down through written links, but only for the wizards. Sorry, they have to learn Chinese characters to understand them.

Under the auspices of Su You and accompanied by shamans from various tribes, the Erlin tribe's alliance held a solemn and grand ceremony for the inauguration of the sacrificial hall, the seating ceremony of the great shaman, and the release ceremony of the new sacrificial ritual.

From then on, the rituals passed down by tribal wizards were truly upgraded to a religion similar to Tianshi Tao. All rituals, rituals, and order of succession were followed by laws.

The cohesion of this thing is not ordinary. Many tribes, even the small tribes that originally belonged to the Shama tribe and bordered the control area of ​​​​the Erlin tribe, sent envoys to send gifts as congratulations to the new great witch.

As for how angry, worried and resentful Sha Ma Pizhi was, Su You no longer considered it.

On the contrary, he will next send wizards to the Shama tribe to teach the Dharma among the people. This will be a slow noose, gradually making the leaders of the Shama tribe feel breathless.

After two months of frantically building weapons, the Erlin tribe has been fully armed. Now it has religious appeal and spiritual weapons, making it powerful.

The Shama tribe will die if they don't struggle; if they struggle, the Erlin tribe will have a reason to send troops and die faster.

The Great Witch is right in at least one thing. No one can avoid paying the price for his actions. The Great Witch is like this, Mr. Fan is like this, and Su You is like this.

It's the same thing when you get to Samapizhi.

Shama Pizhi's best choice is to immediately go back and raise troops to attack the Erlin tribe when Su You comes out of the cave. There is still a glimmer of hope. But now it seems that Shama Pizhi is just a jealous villain, and
Chapter completed!