I'm a priest in North America, and I'm my own god.

“Houston has a Chinatown too!”

Joseph said.

During his police training, he also took a test:

If you were in Houston's Chinatown and got a call that your Chinese neighbor was causing a pungent odor.

When you quickly arrived at the scene, you found that the Chinese resident was frying something called Sichuan peppercorns.

May I ask: What is Zanthoxylum bungeanum?

He failed the test because he didn't know what Sichuan pepper was.

After checking some information, I found out that Sichuan peppercorns are spices.

There was such a nonsensical question in the police officer training course exam.

Later, when I really got to know it, I found out that there is a large Chinatown in Houston, which is quite old.

There, there should be the oriental incense candle that the priest mentioned.

But Rainbow Town is also far away from Houston. It would take a day or two to drive there at this time.

It’s definitely too late to go shopping in Houston.

Chen Yuan decided to put his armor on it first, try to temporarily replace the incense offering with cigarettes, and simplify the ceremony for the time being to see if it works...

Originally, the place where the statue of the Virgin Mary holding a child was enshrined was moved away by these heretics.

If someone sees it, it will probably cause a war of faith!

Then, set up a wooden frame and hang the armor on it.

When it is hung up, it looks like a person is sitting there wearing armor, almost the same shape.

Next to it was the horse blade with a broken handle.

James had already driven to a nearby farm to get two pigs, and also went to the supermarket to buy fruits, roses and cigarettes.

“There is no pig head supermarket, they only sell decomposed meat. I went to the farm and got two live pigs.

After a while, just shoot them apart and cut off the pig's head.

Father, you said, one pig head per person, I got two.

This is the fruit bought in the supermarket, and these are the flowers, roses, bought from the flower shop in the town. The fragrance is fragrant.

This is cigarettes.

Looking at the two big pigs, Chen Yuan couldn't laugh or cry.

It's not a pig's head for each person, but a pig's head for a first sacrifice or annual sacrifice is enough!

Multiple people can make offerings together!

A family, a group of people, or a town can conduct a sacrificial activity at the same time.

In this case, a pig head is enough!

If a person offers incense with a pig's head, then if ten or eight people come, wouldn't the church be filled with pig heads?

That's not called a church, that's called a slaughterhouse!

As he spoke, he looked at the flowers and fruits again.

There's nothing wrong with the fruit, just a few, five, seven, nine are all fine.

But not this flower.

The flowers need to be fragrant and elegant, or have no smell. Roses are not suitable for worshiping gods.

Its smell is so fragrant and exciting, just go to the roadside and pick some wild flowers. It doesn't matter if you don't have any.

But roses are really not suitable!

Upon hearing this, Joseph turned around and trotted back.

When he accompanied the priest to the land behind the church just now, he saw a lot of wild flowers there.

I quickly picked out a handful.

After coming out, I found that Father Ryan had already killed one of the pigs himself. He didn't kill it with a gun, but stabbed it directly in the neck, as if toward the heart, and the knife was clean and crisp.

Now James is helping him press the pig on the table, and there is a basin of pig blood below!

Um! The priest who killed the pig.

It’s really the first time I’ve seen it!

However, watching Chen Yuan move like water, he took out a large bucket of boiling water from the church kitchen, gave the pig a boiling water bath, and then used a knife to shave the pig's hair clean.

Only then did I realize that the priest was very skilled at killing pigs!

“In our area, pigs are usually killed during the Chinese New Year, and the vegetables used during the Chinese New Year, including pigs, beef, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, are all made by us ourselves.

A professional butcher is rarely used!

Even for large banquets with more than ten people, men are basically the ones doing the cooking.

Killing pigs and cooking is called a basic life skill here!

Facing Joseph's doubts, Chen Yuan gave an explanation, but this was not quite right. This was a survival skill for rural people and had nothing to do with city people.

This is the knife! It's not as good as our pig-butchering knife. Our pig-butchering knife is very convenient for shaving, but the knife you have here is not of the same style.

You may need to use fire to burn the hair on the pig's head later, but it will not look good if it is burned.

Generally speaking, the pig's head that is enshrined to the gods should not be too ugly. It is better to be natural. The smoky look is too ugly.

Chen Yuan directed James to pour boiling water into the pig's ears and clean them there as well.

He didn't know what impact the pig's head enshrined to him would have if it looked bad.

But he has to set a rule for the first and second believers in front of him.

Even if it is a tribute, it must be solemn when worshiping oneself. Even if it is a tribute, the pig's head must be clean and good-looking.

This will make it appear that you are attentive.

Only when a person pays attention to something can he show awe in his heart, and only when he has awe can he abide by some rules and regulations.

Just like people must have a certain degree of respect for traffic rules, it is the same reason, otherwise it will be a disaster for such people to drive on the road.

Belief, first of all, is to establish rules, which can also be put another way. In Buddhism, it is called precepts, and in Taoism, it is called law.

Soon, an offering table was placed in front of his armor.

On the offering table, there is a simple incense burner made of wooden blocks, containing some soft soil, which will be used to place incense later.

There are pig heads that have been cleaned, briefly blanched in boiling water, and shaved clean.

There was a handful of wild flowers that Joseph went to pick.

And, three fruit plates, each with five apples.

Everything is ready, all we need is the east wind.

Okay, now read the list of sacrifice words!

Chen Yuan stood aside, directing the two people who were about to become his followers to carry out the next ceremony.

He has already written the list of sacrifice words for them in both Chinese and English!

Originally, it was okay to write in English, but then I thought about it and added Chinese to it!

Let them read out their own documents, that is to say who they are, and from today onwards they will begin to believe in the heavenly soldier Chen Yuan.

After reading it, he took out his lighter, lit the list of sacrificial words, and burned it in front of the incense burner.

The moment they finished reading and lit the yellow paper in their hands with a lighter, Chen Yuan, who was standing aside and watching, felt vaguely that James and Joseph in front of him began to have a vague connection with the armor placed on top to replace him. About the contact.

And the armor that he had sacrificed once had a slight connection with him at this moment, and then a breath drifted towards him.

This seems to be incense.

Only then did he realize that the incense was the thought of belief, not the stick of incense that was lit.

It's done!

but.

What is the difference between scented and unscented?

Until James and Joseph lit the three cigarettes in their hands, according to the rules taught by Chen Yuan, the first worship required kneeling down.

As they bowed down holding three lit cigarettes.

At the moment they bowed down, although Chen Yuan closed his eyes, he used his insightful eyes to see a faint wisp of green smoke rising from James and Joseph's bodies and disappearing into the armor in front of him.