How to wear a goddess statue

It is decorated with snow tea flowers, inlaid with blue chalcedony, and the white skirt is draped with silk. This is indeed the unified image of the river goddess everywhere.

The characteristics of the main gods are clearly depicted on the stone statues of the temple, but anyone who has witnessed them will never admit it wrong.

And Hefeite deserves to be a city lord who has seen the world.

Facing such a situation, he just froze for a moment, then bowed his head and saluted deeply.

Rhodes nodded flatly in response.

Because of the precedent of Eleuil's parents, Rhodes didn't think it was sudden at this time. Compared with the city lord Hefeet who also retained consciousness, she was more concerned about those undead ghosts floating towards the Illu River with a blank expression.

Is it true that most souls cannot stay awake after death?

Concentrating his thoughts, Rhodes asked: "Do you have any unfulfilled wishes when you stay here?"

Heffet paused and looked in Lena's direction.

After the baptism ceremony, the coffin must be sealed. As a daughter and the only surviving relative of the city lord, this step is naturally completed by Lena.

She hummed the tune of farewell to the dead souls in her mouth, and Rhodes had heard the same tune played by the ravens.

On the banks of the Yilu River, the dead and the living live in the same land, but they cannot make the other party perceive their own existence. If there is anything that can profoundly explain the difference between life and death, it must be this moment.

Rhodes almost thought that the Lord Hefeet would soon make a request to see his daughter for the last time, but he didn't.

After only one glance, Hefet looked back: "It was my biggest mistake not to defend Digbia. I have no regrets seeing His Majesty taking back the city and presiding over the funeral for us."

The hale and hearty old man raised his head, and said respectfully: "May I ask, are you here..."

Rhodes thought for a while: "I am the guardian of Eleuil."

Hefet murmured: "So the rumors are true."

Rhodes knows what the rumor is, the guardian of the gods and the people of the gods, this is what Eleuil said when he "borrowed" her name and refused Horst's arrangement. Lan people are convinced of this.

"I have witnessed your miracles before. During the festival of Goddess Amira, the messengers you sent sent snow tea to show the favor of the gods." Hefet recalled, filled with emotion, "Were you there at that time?"

Rhodes nodded.

Not only here, but she also played the role of the blue heron messenger, and she was the one who gave the snow tea flower to the princess with her own hands-kiss.

Thinking of this, Rhodes looked down at the expression of the princess.

At this time, Aleuil could feel the spirit body with the help of divine power, and naturally she could also listen in on the conversation between her and Lord Hefeet, but it was inconvenient to reveal it in front of everyone.

But seeing the smile in Aleuil's eyes, one knew that she must have remembered the scene of that day.

The blue heron holding the flower is actually a deity or something...

Hefeet was unaware of Eleuil's onlookers, he stood there for a moment, the wrinkles at the corners of his mouth loosened, showing relief.

"This is really great." The old city lord said, saluting again.

During those days trapped in the human body, Hefet also heard a lot of news about the current situation, the reliable ally of Sanur's population, Kasne, and the aliens who were arranged in the cities of Solan to stir up people's hearts. , made him feel deeply about internal and external troubles, and it was hard to let go.

But with the goddess of the river protecting the princess and Solancia, he can finally relax and respond to the call of the dead souls from the Yilu River and the underworld.

Following his comrades, the old city lord was the last to step into the Yilu River.

Obviously, the soul is submerged underwater when going upstream through the Yilu River. Otherwise, every time Rhodes sees the river, he will probably see the strange picture of the undead floating on the water.

So did Heffett.

Before sinking into the water, the old city lord kept his eyes on the river bank, so he saw Eleuil salute in this direction.

Putting his left hand on his shoulders and leaning slightly, this is not the ruler's nod to the subordinate city lord, but the farewell etiquette of the soldiers in the army to the upper peak.

Hefeet once accepted the same etiquette. In the city of Digbia, the 14-year-old princess referred to the cumbersome laws to win the opportunity for herself to join the army and earn merit.

That day, in the reception room of the City Lord's Mansion, Aleuil saluted like this, and then raised his head, his golden eyes concealed all his ambition and persistence.

It was also on that day that Hefeet inexplicably realized that this girl would go far.

The next moment, the river flooded the sight of the undead.

The dead sank into the depths of the river uncontrollably, and flew away against the current at a speed comparable to a wooden boat going down the river.

The city lord who is not ready yet: "..."

Wait, so the princess who has been silent since just now can see the soul?

On the shore, the living people are still bowing their heads and praying for the dead.

All souls were sent to the underworld of the kingdom of God, and the most important link here was over. After the host Aleuil performed his duties, he walked to the open space away from the crowd.

"It seems that there are very few people who stay awake after death." Eleuil said, gazing at the calm river, "I thought they were all like father, queen and queen."

Rhodes wanted to say something, but considering what he had conveyed to Priest Ruiya in the letter, he still didn't choose to mention that matter at this time, and said softly, "You won't lose those."

Aleuil's tone was brisk, with a lighter ending: "Of course not. Even if it's death, don't let me forget it."

Rhodes: "You..."

Eleuil: "Huh?"

Luo Dasi said indifferently: "You are not very old, so you should think about what will happen after death first? Let's take care of your injury first."

Ailuil smiled: "You are right."

On the night of the funeral, a celebration banquet was held as usual.

The place is in the city lord's mansion, which is both to celebrate the victory and to remember the comrades-in-arms. The generals are in the banquet hall of the city lord's mansion, and the ordinary soldiers are in the barracks, but the food and drinks provided by both sides are the same.

They raised their glasses to celebrate, and they also raised their glasses to sacrifice to the spirit. The atmosphere of jubilation and mourning coexisted, showing a strange harmony.

Eleuil sat at the head, but there was more than one seat here.

Of the two high-back seats of the same size, the one next to the princess is empty, which is indeed the case in the eyes of others.

In fact, Rhodes was sitting there.

...so why does the spirit need a chair?

"Because I can't let you not have a matching seat." Eleuil plausibly said, "You don't have to sit, but you must have one."

If it wasn't for worrying about looking too strange, Eleuil even thought about sitting in the first seat on the lower left, leaving the only seat on the upper one empty—thinking about that scene felt suffocating.

So Rhodes sat on a seat that was "enough to match", his gaze swept across the center of the banquet hall, and then he silently retracted his gaze.

Yes, like all feasts attended by nobles, the hall resounded with the beautiful melody of the harp.

This is a traditional piece of music to celebrate the victory, usually accompanied by the wonderful dancing of the dancers. The blank space in the middle of the hall is prepared for this purpose, and they can give all the banquet guests a sense of visual and auditory beauty.

but.

Right now, playing the harp in the banquet hall is a group of high-ranking and rough generals, even the veteran who once debated with the princess was among them, playing the harp with great enjoyment.

If you want to say whether the music is pleasant to your ears, it is of course pleasant. After all, many generals are from noble families, and music art is also a compulsory course for them.

However, visually...

Fortunately, no one came up to dance, otherwise the scene might be even more indescribable. Even at this moment, many people are already looking down at the plate in front of them, unwilling to look up to the center.

It seems that I can hypnotize myself in this way, it is not these hot-eyed colleagues who are playing the piano there.

Looking around for half a week, Luodas missed the goddess of music and art a little bit. When he returned to the Kingdom of God for a banquet, he saw her playing and singing at the banquet.

However, in the past few years, the banquets of Solancian nobles were extravagant. When Rhodes played the role of female officer, he would occasionally go to banquets with the princess, and he saw many absurd scenes.

How did it change to this now?

Receiving the questioning eyes of the gods, Aleuil sipped the mead lightly, and said casually: "At Acht, I looked at it as an eyesore, so I asked them to rectify it."

In the royal city, after Horst escaped, Aleuil took over the kingship logically.

The banquet was organized soon, and the ethos of the nobles in Wangcheng can be imagined. In the eyes of the princess at that time, it was more than just an eyesore. She immediately ordered a rectification.

Not only to curb the extravagant and chaotic aristocratic atmosphere, but also to prevent some guys who fish in troubled waters from taking the opportunity to falsely report their accounts and make money in their own pockets, killing two birds with one stone.

As for the indispensable music and dance of the banquet?

The original words of the princess were: "Have I stopped you from enjoying the singing and dancing?"

The intention is that as long as they don't mess around at the banquet, musicians, singers, dancers, girls, and actors are not forbidden. The atmosphere group still has to be in charge.

But the aristocrats who were frightened by the princess's methods would have the wrong idea. Either they didn't prepare to sing and dance, and the atmosphere of a group of people was serious as if they were discussing business;

As a result, all kinds of unnecessary banquets in the royal city have been reduced by half, which is also a good thing.

Sitting at the top, Rhodes, who could have a panoramic view of the entire banquet hall, sighed softly.

But why bother the eyes?

Aleuil couldn't hold it back, and with a charming smile on his lips, he whispered, "If you don't like it, just look at me."

"I can play any song you want to hear, and I can learn any dance you want to see. They are nothing to watch."

Luo Dasi said that it was hard to disagree with the last half of the sentence, and then the princess continued: "Or, would you like to play a song for me?"

When it's just us.

Eleuil put the hand close to Rhodes on the table, with the palm facing up, and the slender and beautiful knuckles were naturally relaxed.

The other hand was still holding the wine glass, which looked more like a work of art than a well-crafted glass. She stared into Rhodes' eyes with a smile that was not obvious enough to attract the attention of others.

Rhodes put his hand on it.

Between the fingers, the honey color is entangled with the translucent ice white.

At this moment, a guard standing behind looked at the princess's palm spread out on the table with a troubled expression.

None of His Majesty's attendants in Wangcheng came to the border, but a good personal guard should also serve as an attendant, right?

So, she winked at the colleagues beside her, and left by herself through the back door of the banquet hall.

After a while, the guard came back with what he found.

"Your Majesty, please use it!"

The guard presented a silver platter.

for what?Luodas looked sideways subconsciously, and saw a set of somewhat familiar utensils on the plate.

Including a long gold tube inlaid with tiny gemstones, a small jade bowl, powder contained in an agate box, and a faint aroma mixed with spices, mint and tobacco.

Rhodes' eyes stayed on the long pipe.

She had seen something similar at the concubine's place in the city of the sun god, and at many banquets afterwards - it was a cigarette pipe.

Rotas blinked, raised his silver eyelashes, and stared at the princess.

Eleuil: "..."

The author has something to say:

A bad cat(?)

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And, I forgot whether Concubine Wen Shen mentioned it before when she lit a cigarette, but I will say it here:

Ancient Solan smoke is more popular among the nobles, and it is more used in religious ceremonies, using smoke to communicate with the rain god, referring to ancient Mayan sacrifices.

The setting in the article is that the main components of Gusoran tobacco are mint and spice powder, and it will be fine if you don’t use it too much. 2612 is only used occasionally. Luo Dusi has never touched it since he came back, so that he only discovered now that he is about to face a large-scale discipline cat. live (no)

But in reality all smoke is harmful!

Regardless of whether cigarettes, menthol cigarettes, hookahs or electronic cigarettes are harmful to health, there are many hazards, so please do not imitate!

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