Chapter 654: A Ritual to Soothe People’s Hearts (Asking for Monthly Votes)

The Queen was a little dazed. When she returned to her residence, her head was buzzing.

She didn't understand why it was originally an interrogation, but it turned into praise and support in the end?

Zuo Youxian didn't care what the Queen was feeling. After coming out of the tent of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, he immediately asked the Queen for a long vacation, and then went to find his junior brother Jia Huan without stopping.

"Junior brother, junior brother, good news..."

When he finally found Jia Huan, he couldn't wait to tell Jia Huan the good news.

"Not bad, it seems that the current Emperor of Sui is still clear-headed!"

While cleaning the dust on his body, Jia Huan smiled and said: "Finally, it's not in vain that I talked so much with my senior brother before!"

"You kid, why are you so dirty?"

Zuo Youxian was angry and amused, and then he realized that the conditions that Yang Guang agreed to were all discussed with him by his junior brother Jia Huan a long time ago.

He didn't believe it before, so he didn't take it to heart, but now he was a little too happy.

At the same time, Zuo Youxian also saw that his junior brother was covered in dust, and the original color of his clothes could not be seen clearly.

He felt a little uncomfortable, and of course he was more puzzled.

Zuo Youxian was not an orphan like Jia Huan. He had a good background. He was considered the direct descendant of a county-level tyrant and received a very good education since childhood.

In this era, the influence of the "Nine-Rank System" was deeply rooted in people's hearts. People like Zuo Youxian looked down on the lowest level of people.

"If you want to get the recognition of the laborers, why don't you just hang out with them?"

Jia Huan didn't care much, and said cheerfully: "I just helped the laborers deal with some physical discomfort, and I didn't do any work myself, which is already very good!"

"You kid still want to participate in the labor yourself, aren't you afraid of losing face?"

Zuo Youxian said unhappily: "In the future, it's better to do a little bit of this kind of thing!"

"What's losing face or not?"

Jia Huan had almost finished cleaning his personal hygiene at this time, and then he said: "Compared to the large number of laborers who died of exhaustion on the construction site, it's nothing at all!"

"Besides, the emperor has pressed the construction period so tightly, and it will expire in a few days!"

"Then how much have you achieved in the labor group these days?"

" The results are not small. At least tens of thousands of people have clearly agreed to stay as long as the labor is over!"

"No way, there are so many. Aren't they all reluctant to leave their hometown?"

"Brother, you think too much. No matter how reluctant they are to leave their hometown, what does it matter compared to the lives of their families?"

"Well, is there anyone who can help me next?"

"Of course, you are here at the right time. I need your help with something!"

"Just tell me what you want. As long as I can do it, I will definitely do it without hesitation!"

"Brother, you can act as a funeral Taoist priest. There are too many people who have died recently!"

Zuo Youxian: "..."

If he hadn't seen Jia Huan talking about this in a serious manner, he would have had the urge to hit him.

Damn, isn't this insulting? He is the master of Taibai Temple after all, right?

By the way, although he is a serious Taoist priest, he has never performed rituals for people.

All the colleagues from Qingfeng Temple were invited to help with the deceased master's funeral affairs. Zuo Youxian was focused on practicing martial arts to improve his strength, and declined to do things like performing rituals. Regardless of whether he was willing or not, Zuo Youxian started to work with his junior brother from the next day.

Jia Huan continued to act as a doctor, mixing among many labor groups, and might even run hundreds of miles a day, with hundreds of patients in need of treatment.

Fortunately, some of the younger brothers who came with him have been trained, at least there is no problem to be an auxiliary nurse, otherwise Jia Huan would not be able to handle it.

He could clearly sense that the favorability of countless laborers towards him and the Taoist lineage was increasing every day, which gave him great motivation.

But this was obviously not enough for more laborers to make up their minds.

Although Jia Huan said that he didn't care much about "it's hard to leave his hometown", it was actually a huge obstacle.

Otherwise, how could he risk his senior brother getting angry and ask his senior brother to act as a funeral Taoist priest?

Could it be that Jia Huan could not see that his senior brother Zuo Youxian was reluctant or even angry?

But he could only think of this way. Sometimes the sect's methods were still very effective.

Here, Zuo Youxian brought a makeshift funeral team and started a simple funeral activity.

The so-called funeral team is a funeral band composed of funeral instruments such as lock gongs and wooden drums. It couldn't be simpler.

When Zuo Youxian saw the large mass grave, he was shocked.

Although he knew that the number of casualties among the laborers was astonishing, he was shocked when he saw the area of ​​the earth pile where they were buried.

For the first time, Zuo Youxian felt that it was so difficult to perform a ritual. His hands and feet were weak and his scalp was numb!

In the untidy and even very harsh white music of the funeral band, he stepped on the Seven Star Steps with his feet, stammered and chanted the "Rebirth Mantra", and waved the long sword in his hand to send the dead.

After the extremely simple ritual was completed, Zuo Youxian was in a trance.

He was greatly shocked this time, and his mind was a mess!

He had not been in the martial arts world for a long time, so where had he seen so many dead people?

Moreover, he had to preside over the ritual to send these dead laborers off for the last time, and he felt very heavy-hearted.

Because he knew that this was his first time to perform a ritual, and no matter how he looked at it, there were many mistakes.

He felt that such an act was too disrespectful to the deceased, and he even felt a lot of uneasiness in his heart.

But at the same time, he had some inexplicable feelings about life and death!

As a result, those laborers who came to help on their own initiative were grateful to him.

It seemed that after Zuo Youxian's ritual, the many deceased laborers could rest in peace.

This made Zuo Youxian embarrassed, and ripples in his heart again.

It was obvious that his junior brother's strong invitation to him to be a funeral Taoist priest for a period of time was not a whim.

In any case, he was no longer so opposed to doing funeral rituals at this time.

In the next few days, Zuo Youxian and his junior brother Jia Huan were busy almost every day.

From morning to night every day, there were endless rituals to do!

Fortunately, he was already a late-stage innate strongman, otherwise he might not be able to withstand such high-intensity work.

Almost every day, he had to attend the funerals of thousands of dead laborers, which brought him a great psychological shock.

These laborers, too many died, right?

"Humph, if I hadn't led people to apply medicine and treat them in time, I'm afraid the number of casualties would have doubled!"

During the night break, Jia Huan said calmly: "The construction period is too tight. Even if those supervisors want to let them go, they have to consider their official duties and the serious consequences!"

Zuo Youxian was speechless. He didn't have much dissatisfaction and resentment towards Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty. He just felt that this guy was definitely a tyrant.

"I know that my senior brother is depressed and needs to relax!"

Jia Huan comforted: "It's only a few days, senior brother, hold on!"