Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival.

During their evening chat, Yan Yiyi asked Xinye about the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Xinye didn't remember it very clearly and told the story haltingly.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a woman whose husband went to the front line because of national conscription. Her husband had no brothers or sisters, and his parents were still alive but weak. When he went to the army, he already had two sons and a daughter, but the oldest was only six years old, and the youngest was still in swaddling clothes.

After the man went to the battlefield, the whole family was worried about him. Every day in the dead of night, they would make wishes and pray to the moon. When there was no new moon, they would still pray in the direction of the rising moon at the same time, asking God to bless the man's safety.

Once a war breaks out, it can last from a year to more than ten or even hundreds of years.

In a blink of an eye, the man had been away from home for more than six years. During this period, his family only received a letter of safety written by the man and all the military pay he had received.

The next time she heard from the man, it was the news that he had unfortunately died in battle, and the fifty-tael pension given to him.

Upon hearing the bad news, the two old people could not bear it and fell ill one after another. All the burdens of the family fell on the woman, but she gritted her teeth and persevered.

She worked harder during the day to make money, and still insisted on praying to the moon at night, praying to God to bless her parents and keep them healthy, and praying to God to have mercy and let her husband's soul return to appear in her dreams. She wanted to see him for the last year, and she wanted him to say goodbye to his parents and children properly.

This day was August 15th.

God took pity on the woman's misfortune, admired her tenacity, and cast a spell to fulfill her destiny.

In the dream, the man said that he was not dead, but was just injured and recuperating in a safe place. The military camp did not get accurate news in time. Because he had been missing for many days, his companions who came out with him had all died in battle, so he was presumed dead.

On the same night, the old couple and their children all dreamed of the man. The next day, when they shared their dreams, they found that they all had the same dream and immediately realized that it was a gift from God.

From then on, they were even more reverent to the gods, and they never stopped praying to the moon every night, no matter it was windy or rainy.

The old couple's illness gradually recovered. The family prayed every night and waited every day for news that the man was safe and sound.

They waited for more than half a year, and just when they were about to give up and thought that what happened that day was just a coincidence, the man's letter of safety came back.

But the war has not stopped yet.

It was the Mid-Autumn Festival again, and the family prayed and made wishes as usual. As a result, that night, they were reunited with the man again in their dreams, and the family was overjoyed.

Two years later, the man returned victoriously with the army, and on the day of August 15th, they finally met again in reality.

Because of his achievements, the man successfully became a third-rank general. With the reward from the emperor, they set up a sumptuous banquet and offered tribute to worship the Moon Goddess, thanking her for her guidance and gifts.

From then on, every August 15th, the general's mansion would always set out tributes and solemnly worship the Moon Goddess.

After the news spread, his subordinates followed suit. Some of them made wishes and they really came true, such as meeting deceased relatives in dreams, or not daring to express emotions to someone they like, so they made a wish to express their feelings to the person they like in a dream, and the next day they found that they both had the same dream. However, those who wanted to get rich and get promoted did not realize their wishes.

Since the general returned safely, he has been praying for the safety and health of his family. He has never been greedy for material things and has a sincere heart for his family and country.

In this way, word spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred. Some people succeeded, some failed, some believed in the Moon God, and some thought it was nonsense.

A hundred years later, the country encountered a very serious drought. The emperor prayed to his ancestors and to God, but no rain fell.

Suddenly he remembered that when he was traveling among the people, he worshipped the Moon God on the 15th day of August with the common people. At that time, he prayed to see his deceased mother, and his wish came true that night.

With a try-it attitude, the emperor chose to offer sacrifices on the 15th day of August, praying to the moon god to send rain to save the people from suffering.

The emperor looked at the big, round moon, his eyes full of hope.

"Boom!"

After midnight, a huge thunder broke through the sky, followed by heavy rain. The emperor woke up from his sleep and found that it was raining heavily outside.

On impulse, the emperor rushed into the rain, kowtowed and knelt in the direction of the setting moon, thanking the moon god for the rain.

Afterwards, the emperor renovated the temple and worshipped the Moon Goddess, and August 15th became the Moon Goddess Festival.

A hundred years after this emperor who had the world in his heart passed away, power passed to his grandson. This grandson was ambitious and enjoyed a life of luxury and debauchery. Because of his excessive spending, the country gradually declined. The newly emerging countries were eyeing him covetously and finally launched a war.

The result is predictable.

Since the war broke out, the country has never won a battle and has been losing ground one after another.

This grandson wants to ask the Moon God for help like his own royal grandfather, but the Moon God is not his, so how could she possibly help him?

Finally, in order to preserve his last bit of wealth and glory, the grandson wrote a letter of surrender, ceded territory and paid compensation.

In order to vent his anger, the grandson who had barely grasped his throne ordered his people to smash all the temples of the Moon Goddess, and also issued a decree forbidding anyone to worship the Moon Goddess.

Of course the people would not agree, but they would not openly oppose this tyrant who was not good at killing people. So some poets wrote poems, calling the Moon Goddess Festival the Mid-Autumn Festival, which meant celebrating the harvest.

People worship the Moon God under the name of Mid-Autumn Festival. In order to avoid being caught, they call the Moon God Festival Mid-Autumn Festival.

This country eventually collapsed, and the new emperor who ruled this land thought that the Mid-Autumn Festival, which celebrated the harvest, had good meaning. Such a festival could give the vassal small countries another reason to pay tribute, so the Mid-Autumn Festival was passed down.

After listening to this, Yan Yiyi sighed secretly: It turns out that the Mid-Autumn Festival here has nothing to do with Chang'e and Houyi in the mythological story!

"Then...Aye, do you believe in the existence of God?" Yan Yiyi thought this story was quite mysterious, even more mysterious than the story of Chang'e flying to the moon.

"I didn't believe it at first, but since I awakened to the space, I feel that God does exist."

Yan Yiyi looked at his serious expression, not knowing whether to tell him that she might be able to talk to God.

Although there is no evidence, after repeated experiments, she feels that the mastermind behind the system is a person from a higher plane who is like a god to people from lower planes, and is more likely to be a god!

Her intuition told her that she was more inclined to the latter.