The next day.

Xiao Jinyan got up early and came to the yard. He saw Li Shamo practicing breathing. His breathing was long, and while he was swallowing and vomiting, a white air came out of his mouth, surrounded his body for a while, and then returned to his body. This breathing method was the Taoist method of practicing Taoist gynecology.

When Li Demo saw Xiao Jinyan coming, he finished his merits and said hello, "Brother Xiao is here."

?Xiao Jinyan saw that he was like nothing happened. If he hadn't happened to bump into him last night, he would never have thought that Li Demo was planning a mutiny. He smiled, "Brother Desmo looks not very good."

Li Shamo smiled bitterly, "Last night, I was taken to drink by a few colleagues. I couldn't bear the alcohol after drinking a few drinks. I still hurt my head. Brother Xiao is here to practice qigong?"

Xiao Jinyan nodded and Li Shamo said, "It's better to try a few moves."

Before Xiao Jinyan could reply, Li Shamo handed him over to him. Although his moves were slow, he was full of murderous intentions. Xiao Jinyan used the Unparalleled Divine Fist to deal with him.

Xiao Jinyan once saw Li Shamo compete with Lu Fanren. His martial arts are at the top of Zhixuan. Logically speaking, Lu Fanren knew Xuanxuan and was slightly better than Lu Fanren, but he easily beat Lu Fanren.

Xiao Jinyan dared not be careless about such a scheming person. In addition, Li Demo was about to frame him last night, so he did not dare to do his best. Wushuang divine fist cooperated with Wuwangbu and barely tied with him.

Li Shamo had never seen Xiao Jinyan's martial arts skills, but his moves were exquisite and his footwork was excellent. He only stayed in the Wen Realm in the Realm of Internal Power. However, he was not at all inferior to the Zhixuan Realm. He couldn't help but wonder, was he deliberately hiding his shortcomings?

Thinking of this, Li Shamo raised 30% of his internal force. The soft sword whistled, and the internal force spitted out, stabbed Xiao Jinyan in the chest. Xiao Jinyan shouted, "Good come!" He took Wuwang step and turned around, and used a single fist to break Li Shamo's long sword and jumped backward out of the battle circle.

"I won't fight anymore, I haven't eaten breakfast, I'm a little hungry!" Xiao Jinyan said.

Li Shamo was amazed in his heart and asked, "Brother Xiao, your internal strength is not only in the hearing realm, but both in the boxing power, footwork and body skills, have the strength of the Zhixuan realm. This situation is unheard of!"

Xiao Jinyan didn't want to reveal his strength, so he could only say, "Half a year ago, I met an extremely powerful opponent, and my realm fell from the realm of hearing, but I still had the insight of internal strength and true energy. However, it was a bit difficult to fight with Brother Li."

Li Shamo nodded and said, "So that's it. This morning is a ceremony for ancestor worship. After the ceremony, Your Majesty will lead all officials to hunt in the hunting ground. In groups of four, those who hunt the most will receive the imperial edict of Your Majesty and will also receive a reward. Brother Xiao, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Xiao Jinyan said, "I am a wise man and have no interest in being a Chu official. However, if it helps you, I can do my best."

Within the palace, a drum sounded.

Li Famo gave a few words and took Ali to the palace to attend the ancestor worship ceremony presided over by the emperor. Xiao Jinyan and Buda chatted in the villa and prepared for the afternoon hunting ceremony.

Inside the palace, in front of the emperor's tomb.

A grand ceremony for ancestor worship is underway. The Emperor Chu Bieli of the Great Chu State was wearing a purple five-clawed golden dragon robe, with an emperor's crown, and stood in the front row. King Breguet, King Cheng Xianwang and his son, followed him only, and were divided into left and right. The civil and military officials, princes and nobles, and tribal leaders stood in several rows.

Right ahead are the tombs of the 18 emperors since the founding of the Great Chu Dynasty. Of course, Chu Qiu, who died suddenly last year, was posthumously named Ling Emperor.

According to rumors, Chu Qiu died of a strange infectious disease. In order to prevent him from spreading the strange disease to his ancestors, at Chu Bieli's strong request, he was cremated and buried his ashes in a cesspool.

Of course, the real reason is self-evident. Twenty years ago, Chu Qiu framed his brother Wang and seized the throne that should belong to Chu Bieli. Chu Qiu was exiled to the Ming Dynasty for decades and hated this brother to the core, so after he ascended the throne, he deprived Chu Qiu of his power to enter the imperial tomb.

A long time ago, the Chu people worshiped ancestors relatively simple. They believed that after death, they would return to the heaven of immortality. The souls would bless their descendants in heaven. In order to commemorate their ancestors, they worshiped their ancestors mostly with pigs, cows, sheep, dogs, chickens, and five animals.

Later, after the introduction of the Lama religion, the ancestors returned to the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. When worshiping ancestors, they burned high incense and turned prayer drums to pray for blessings to the gods.

Later, the Central Plains culture advanced westward. After fully absorbing the etiquette traditions and worship culture of the Central Plains, the Western Chu court worshiped ancestors and imitated the Central Plains and began to burn paper ingots, paper money, paper horses, eight-carrying sedan chairs, and paper palaces.

These things are piled up like mountains in front of the imperial tomb.

After all, it was the royal family who took action and should not be too shabby. An etiquette official called the auspicious time, and Chu Bieli held the torch and lit the paper.

Everyone present fell to their knees.

Chu Baoji and Chu Xian each took a willow branch, kowtowed and flipped through the paper, muttering words in his mouth. When he heard it carefully, he said something like "The ancestors and ancestors eat and drink well there, but if they don't have enough money, they can just send a dream."

After burning the paper, Chu Bieli began to recite the ancestor worship text.

This article of worshiping ancestors was written by Grand Secretary Jie of Wenhua Pavilion, and it took about ten thousand words to read it for an hour in one breath before half of it.

The emperor turned his back to all officials and read the imperial tombs.

It snowed last night and the weather was cold.

A palace maid brought a hand stove and handed it to King Breguet and King Cheng Xian, but the ministers kneeling on the ground below were a little difficult to bear.

The first seventh-rank official in the back row knelt on the ground and cursed in a low voice, "I would have had breakfast if I had known it. Now I'm empty and have a cool breeze."

In a blink of an eye, a colleague next to him was lying on the ground, with his butt raised high, a mouthful of pork on his left hand and a mouthful of strong wine on his right hand, and was stealing it, saying, "Hey, Brother Nian, give me some wine to get rid of the cold."

The official who stole the food kept covering him and said, "Brother Nian, how can the country's important ritual do such an illegitimate thing today?"

"Then I owed you the six hundred copper coins I owed you the year before, I won't pay them back."

Another person said, "You have something to discuss." As he said that, he handed over the wine pot reluctantly. You sipped in one sip, I sipped in one sip. After that, the five leaders and three stars started to play.

After drinking, I only read three-quarters of the sacrificial text.

The man before couldn't help but sigh, "We small officials are still not in a good position. No wonder we have been unable to get promoted over the years. Look at the Grand Secretary, His Majesty has been reciting the ancestor worship text for more than an hour. He knelt there and did not move. With this concentration, you and I feel inferior to you!"

Another person said, "He is sour scholar. This sacred text was written by himself. He thinks he is a saint with his words and deeds. He has so many eyes staring at him. If he moves around, wouldn't he be impeached and killed by others?"

thump!

Grand Secretary Xie fell to the ground, his face pale and his lips turned purple, and he fainted from the cold. Even a little eunuch came over and carried Grand Secretary out.

Chu Bieli thought about it for a long time, and when he saw that there were still some behind him, he couldn't help but be angry. He raised his hand and threw the sacrifice into the fire, "The ancestors and sects, burn the rest to you."

The etiquette officer shouted: "Etiquette is fulfilled!"

Chu Bieli turned around and looked at everyone, saying, "You are all good friends!"

Only 30% of the people present could stand up, and the rest of them had sore knees and sat on the ground. King Breguet suddenly stood up, and the rest struggled and stood up after seeing this.

King Brege came to Chu Bieli and said, "Thank you for your hard work, Your Majesty."

Chu Bieli was obviously very afraid of King Breguet, and waved his hand and said, "It's not hard, it's not too early, it's time to have a meal!" While saying that, he held King Breguet's shoulder with his hands and wiped his hands on his back.

...

The afternoon is a hunting ceremony.

The Li Palace was built at the foot of Tianmu Mountain. Further east is a 30-mile yard. Inside the yard, a horse farm and an archery field were built. You can compete and hunt for formal activities, and you can move your muscles or warm up.

When Xiao Jinyan arrived at the yard, everyone was already active in the field. In addition to the emperor and the officials, ten teams were specially organized to conduct hunting competitions.

Each team will hunt within the thirty-mile yard. Among the prey, there are hares, deer, wild boars, prairie wolves, etc. Each prey corresponds to different scores. The team with the highest score will win in three hours. There are generous rewards and can also be promoted to an officer directly, so there are many people who sign up every year.

Of course, there are also hunting for the powerful and the area is limited to a very small range of activities.

Xiao Jinyan, Li Demo and Ali brothers are in a group. At lunch time, they have discussed tactics. The Ali brothers are responsible for driving away the animals, and Xiao Jinyan and Li Demo are responsible for hunting.

Lu Fanren came over with a team of men. He lost to Li Shamo a few days ago and was still jealous. Today, he came here, took a bow and shot an arrow, and shot a gong fifty steps away.

clang!

Hit the bull's-eye.

Everyone cheered in unison.

Lu Fanren said provocatively, "Are you here to compete for second place?"

Li Shamo smiled and said, "My grandma is more accurate than you with her eyes and her feet."

"If you have the ability, try it out?"

Li Shamo blindfolded his eyes, turned around twice, and suddenly shot an arrow, which landed three meters away from the Gonggong. Lu Fanren laughed, "Just this technique, you are competing for second place, you are raising you. Is there a tumor on your neck?"

"Slaves of the Three Certificates."

"I would like to advise you to stay away from everyone when hunting, otherwise you will be miserable if you shoot an arrow on your teammates."

Li Demo continued, "Slaves of the Three Certains."

"You know, good birds choose trees to live on, I am relying on the prince. It's true that I am not like you, but women take off their pants to get into the prince's mansion."

Buda was furious when he heard this and was about to curse, but was stopped by Li Demo, but he said indifferently, "Slaves of the Three Cities."

Lu Fanren mocked, "Just one word, it's over and over again, and there's no level at all. I advise you to find a corner to squat, otherwise you will encounter wolves and leopards, which is not enough for them to get stuck in their teeth."

"Slaves of the Three Certificates."

Lu Fanren said again, "I scolded you for so long, but you didn't respond. It seems that you are so thick-skinned. I shave putty powder on my face last night, and I still put on tiles at home? Today I don't want to scold people, so I scold you."

"Slaves of the Three Certains!"

"So what, I'm not angry."

Li Shamo sighed and said, "If I remember correctly, your hometown should be Zuan."

Lu Fanren was immediately furious, "I'm fighting with you!" After that, he was about to shoot Li Demo. King Breguet saw this in the distance and shouted, "Rail!"

When Lu Fanren saw the prince speak, he glared at him fiercely and said ill-heartedly, "It's best not to let me meet you in the afternoon."

Li Shamo said, "If you can get tens of them when you shoot to death, I don't mind giving you an arrow in the back of your head."

After Lu Fanren left, Buda said dissatisfied, "This guy is too bullying. He wants to pretend when he comes to us, but fortunately Guo Yan didn't let him succeed."

Xiao Jinyan said, "What exactly is Desert Brother's archery technique?"

Li Shamo was full of confidence and said, "In the past, the archery skills were very poor, and every time he hunted, he ranked low, which caused ridicule from his opponent. Later, I met a good teacher and practiced hard for a summer. Now no one is my opponent."

“Arrow?”
Chapter completed!