Datang romantic little landlord

As a result, the top of the ten-foot-high fence of the Zoroastrian Temple was instantly covered with the heads of people watching the excitement, and some brave people even rode directly to the top of the wall, watching the faces of the Zoroastrian priests and priests twitch.

"Xiao Lang, what else do you need to prepare for collecting the Sun Flame? If you need it, just mention it, and I'll get someone to prepare it for you right away." When Milriman saw Li Wangyou, he immediately came up to him.

Today, whether Li Wangyou can collect the sacred flame of the sun in public is a matter of life and death for him, so he can't help but pay attention to it.

Li Wangyou said: "Prepare me a big block of ice, tools for cutting ice, and a room for me."

"Ice cubes?" Milliman and the dandies were taken aback, what do you want ice cubes for?

"What? Don't you have ice cubes stored in the Zuo Temple?" Li Wangyou asked.

Milliman shook his head: "No, no, the ice cubes are naturally available. I'll have someone prepare them for you right away, how big are the ice cubes you need."

The nobles and rich people in Chang'an City have ice cellars dug in their homes to store ice for summer use.The Zoroastrian temples of the Sogdians did not lack copper coins, and naturally dug ice cellars to store ice.

Li Wangyou said: "It's fine to use Mopan to defecate."

Milliman nodded, and immediately ordered the priest to prepare what Li Wangyou needed.

After the ice cubes and ice-cutting tools were delivered, Li Wangyou ignored the fiery eyes of a group of dandies, and directly locked everyone outside the house, and got busy inside the house.

The collection of the Olympic torch in later generations is to concentrate the sunlight in the center of the concave mirror to generate high temperature to ignite the torch.

In addition to the concave mirror, the magnifying glass that I played with when I was a child can also focus the sunlight and play a role in igniting the fire.

Naturally, Li Wangyou didn't have a magnifying glass, so he only knew that glass was probably made of sand, but it would be impossible for him to make glass in Datang.

But in addition to glass, grinding ice into a convex lens like a magnifying glass can also focus sunlight.

Although there are many bubbles and cracks in the ice, and the transparency is far less than that of glass, the magnified convex lens can still focus sunlight and ignite combustibles.

That's why Li Wangyou asked Milriman to prepare a piece of ice the size of a millstone for him, and he took the ice chisel tool and began to polish the ice convex lens indoors.

As the sun gradually rises, the sun slowly rises above the head, and the Zoroastrian sacred fire collection ceremony is about to begin.

In Milriman's eager anticipation, the door finally opened with a creak, and Li Wangyou walked out with a relaxed expression.

"Sabao, you can start collecting the torch."

177 Sun Flame Collection

The torch collection ceremony of Zoroastrianism in Sogdia began amid the prayers of Zoroastrian priests.

Dozens of priests prayed in their mouths: "Burning holy fire, burn my remnant body. Promoting the good and eradicating the evil is only for the light. Joy and sorrow, all return to the dust. Pity me, the world, there are so many sorrows."

Milman led the priests to sing the praises to the gods in front of the fire altar and recite a large section of "Avesta" scriptures.

As I said before, the highest holy fire, the "Flame of Victory", is not just a sky fire, but also an ordinary holy fire that is worshiped by believers.

For this ceremony, Milman spent three full days collecting the sacred fires from all the homes of Sogdian believers throughout Chang'an City.

The highlight of the ceremony now is to wait for Li Wangyou to collect the sacred flame of the sun, and then combine the two flames into one to complete the ceremony.

Although the process of collecting ordinary holy fire is quite hasty, Milman believes that as long as the sun and sky fire can be collected as Li Wangyou said, then this is the top holy fire, even higher than the holy fire enshrined in Persian temples .

After the lengthy and solemn sacrificial ceremony was completed, it was Li Wangyou's turn to perform.

Li Wangyou's small body couldn't carry the convex lens made of ice as big as a millstone.

However, there were dandies rushing to help him carry it. After Li Wangyou asked who would help light the torch, the group of dandies almost didn't fight.

Apparently, the three brothers of the Cheng family can crush a lot of dandies simply by comparing their muscles, and even the Yuchi twins have not been able to compete with them.

Under the gazes of all the dandies, the three brothers of the Cheng family came out carrying the huge ice convex lens.

However, Li Wangyou did not intend to expose the mystery of using a convex lens to make fire.

After grinding the ice cubes indoors, he asked Milriman for some silk, and wrapped the ice cubes with silk and satin.

No one could see the original shape of the convex lens of the ice cubes carried by the three brothers of the Cheng family.

On the open space of the Zoroastrian Temple, good fire-igniting materials had already been prepared, and the sandalwood covered with oil was placed in the bronze tripod, and a lot of sandalwood sawdust was sprinkled on it to prepare for the fire according to Li Wangyou's instructions.

It was midday, and the sun was shining directly overhead.

Li Wangyou commanded the three brothers of the Cheng family to hold the ice convex lens high above their heads, and then constantly instructed the three brothers to adjust the angle of the convex lens according to the light spots formed by the sunlight passing through the ice.

This weird move caused a lot of discussion among the crowd outside the Zoroastrian Temple.

"What kind of trouble is this? Didn't you say you want to collect the sun's sacred flame? What are these three big men holding?"

"Why does it look like a piece of ice?"

"That's right, what is wrapped in the satin is a large round ice cube. Is this used to fetch the sun's holy flame?"

"I don't understand. How can this ice make fire? Isn't this nonsense?"

"Can you collect flames from ice cubes? I'm afraid even a god can't do it."

"Tsk tsk, if I can collect some holy fire, I will eat this piece of shit."

Not only the onlookers outside the Zoroastrian Temple were talking endlessly, but even the priests and priests of Zoroastrianism were all surprised.

Seeing this scene, Milliman was so regretful that his intestines were green.

Are you out of your mind?How could you trust this young man's nonsense, believing that he can gather the sun's holy flame.

He really wanted to stop the farce, but he opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

The matter has come to this point, let this group of dudes do it.

Anyway, if he can't collect the sun's holy flame, his position as Sabao will be exhausted. In this case, only prayer can make a miracle happen.

Cheng Chumo asked in a low voice while holding up a large ice cube convex lens: "Ziyou, are you sure you can really collect the solar flame? This is no joke, if you play tricks on the Sogdians, they will really go crazy. "

"Brother Chumo, don't worry about it, there is nothing wrong with it. Brother Chuliang, don't be so swaying, lift it up." Li Wangyou said to Cheng Chumo with a smile while directing them to adjust the angle of the ice cube .

But even though he said so, none of the three Cheng family brothers had any confidence that the solar flame would really be collected from the ice cubes he was holding.

Under Li Wangyou's continuous command and adjustment, the noon sun finally gathered into a large spot of light through the ice convex lens, and irradiated on the kindling wood in the copper tripod.

Li Wangyou clapped his hands: "Okay, that's it, three brothers, hold on, don't shake around."

Seeing that he was so determined, the Cheng family brothers obediently held up the ice cubes.

But because the purity of the ice is not high, and Li Wangyou's polishing is limited, although the focus of the light spot is formed, and it shines on the kindling wood in the copper tripod, there is still no reaction.

Milman became more and more anxious. He couldn't help walking to Li Wangyou, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Lang, is this how the Sun Flame is collected?"