Chapter Eighty-Five: The Dance of the Shrine Maiden
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The weather was fine tonight, still cold, but bearable, and by the time the green moon appeared in the night sky on time, the clearing was already full.
I don't know if it's for heating, there are several iron buckets in the open space, and there are burning firewood in them, and I don't know what kind of tree wood it is, and it smells good when it burns.
What's even better is the taste of the dish, though.
Grandma Lena and a group of grandmothers can be said to have shown real skills, and the ordinary ingredients are cooked by them with all the color and flavor, and Sheila's evaluation is that it is no less than a three-star hotel outside.
"However, there are very few people in this town, and all of them are old people. Blue Moon sat down next to Sheila, looked at the people who were still busy, and said, "Is it okay for us to come here?"
"It's okay, Xiao Yueyue~ We haven't seen so many young handsome guys and beauties for a long time~ You guys, just sit down and remember to eat more!" Grandma Lena served a bowl of broth, and the fragrance was appetizing.
"Hey, grandma, you really have a vision! I am not talented, and the handsome and handsome Baihua Xiangzi is me!" The wrench stroked his bangs and put on a handsome pose, causing the others to laugh.
"I think I was an old man back then, but now I'm old!" said the mayor's grandfather, who was passing by with a stool, laughed loudly, causing several old grandfathers to laugh.
While speaking, Lin Mingfeng, who was wiping his sweat with a towel, came back.
The grandparents said that they would just wait if they wanted Sheila, but because of Sheila's order, several men went to fight, the wrench was to help cook, and Lin Mingfeng was to deal with firewood, and almost all the wood used to burn in the open space was chopped by Lin Mingfeng - although Lin Mingfeng didn't seem to be able to do farm work, his neat wood-splitting technique even the old grandfather with decades of woodcutter experience was amazed.
"Good work. Sheila put the extra broth in front of Lin Mingfeng.
"It's ok. Lin Mingfeng took the soup and drank it all, regardless of whether the soup was freshly cooked and had a temperature that could burn his tongue - and after drinking it, his face was still the same as usual.
"You're not afraid of getting hot! What a man!" the wrench was still blowing on his bowl of soup, which had been blowing for three minutes from the time the broth was placed in front of him.
"It's you...... What, the cat's tongue is too serious!" Lin Mingfeng gritted his teeth and changed his statement, so as not to be heard by the older generation, which would cause a lot of criticism and preaching, and Lin Mingfeng didn't want to do it again after trying it once.
Lin Mingfeng's most unhappy thing is the old man and children, he can't beat or scold, and it's very annoying.
For example, now, there are several old people who completely ignore Lin Mingfeng's stinky face and stick it up, as for the reason, it's just that Lin Mingfeng's unhappy appearance reminds them of their grandson - because of this, as soon as Lin Mingfeng gets angry with them, these old people enjoy it with an expression of "Ah, this is the feeling of being disgusted by his grandson", which makes Lin Mingfeng shudder.
No, another grandmother took a small toy and pasted it, and regardless of Lin Mingfeng's very disgusted expression, she stuffed it into his arms, saying that it was a small gift for him - but Lin Mingfeng couldn't understand why he wanted to give an adult rag doll as a gift, and it was also a rag doll that was completely suitable for this kind of play style at home.
Although he didn't want it, he couldn't just return it - Sheila was watching from the side - so Lin Mingfeng planned to give this thing to Liuli after he went back, although Liuli was 7 years old, it should also be ...... You'll love ragdolls, right?
When Lin Mingfeng was struggling with where to stuff the rag doll, the joyful atmosphere in the open space became stronger and stronger, and there was an old man with wrinkled faces and sharp eyes who also brought out a four-stringed musical instrument and sang there, while the rest of the old people clapped their hands and happily responded to it.
"How does this look like a New Year's party?" said Wrench, who had just drunk half of the soup.
"It's not like it, it should be!" Blue Moon said with certainty, "Isn't it the same on your TV? ”
"The New Year's festival is supposed to be a way for the townspeople to gather to celebrate, and it's almost the same as a gala, but it's just a big point here. Sheila spoke, looking at the window of the Eternal Night Shrine, where the lights were on, and unlike the bustling open space, the shrine was very quiet.
"Yes~ How long will it take? I really want to see Tsukizakura in a shrine maiden costume! It must be beautiful!" Lan Yue shook her hand and looked very much looking forward to it.
"It should be the only one chance, I'm going to take a good picture!" The wrench didn't know where to find a camera, and began to debug, seeing that he was prepared, and now waiting for Tsukizakura to appear.
There were a few more people playing on the field, a grandmother who played the flute and a grandfather who played the piano, plus the old man who played the piano before, it became a very peculiar triple performance. In this way, it is more and more similar to the ordinary New Year's party.
I have to say that the level of performance of these three old men is very high, and they can also open classes and teach apprentices outside, and they have been playing together for a long time, and they are very skilled in cooperating with each other, so it is also very strange that such musicians will be unknown in this kind of village.
Just as everyone was immersed in the music, the music stopped with the sound of the piano.
In the quiet atmosphere, Tsukizakura appeared on the stage.
"Ah...... It's beautiful. Lan Yue covered her mouth and said with a confused look in her eyes.
The wrench looked sluggish, his body stiffened, and only the mechanical finger pressing the shutter showed that the man still had a little sense.
As for the others, it was the same, until Sheila suddenly gasped for breath and realized that she had forgotten to breathe, which also woke everyone up.
"This ...... Is this Tsukizakura?" Sheila tried to calm down, but in the end she could only pick up the soup she hadn't finished and drink it with a clatter.
If their eyes hadn't been blinded, the person standing on the platform now, the unbelievably beautiful person was the one they were used to seeing, looking a little dazed, and now he was nervously straightening his body, and if he looked closely, Tsukizakura's fingers were still rubbing the corners of the shrine maiden's clothes.
Lin Mingfeng sniffed hard, grabbed his hair at a loss, and then simply beat his face to himself, and then collapsed on the chair, staring at the starry sky with blank eyes, not daring to look at the moon cherry blossoms on the platform.
As for Alice, her attention was not on the stage at all, but on the other side of the river, not knowing what she was thinking.
"Who are you?" Blue Moon noticed the performance of her companions, "Moon Sakura has become so beautiful, why don't you have any intention of appreciating it?"
Indeed, the current appearance of the moon cherry blossoms, described as a beauty, is very cheap, and it doesn't seem to be enough to overwhelm the country and the city, if you really want to generalize, it is three-quarters of the closed moon and three fifths of the sinking fish and geese and then multiplied by two.
Not only Sheila and the others, but the hundreds of old people present were all attracted by the current Moon Sakura, and a few old people directly folded their hands and bowed to the Moon Sakura.
Dorosi hurried over and woke up the three old men who were playing, and when she pointed to the moon and said something, the three old men sat down at once, and after a few moments the music began to play like Sheila had never heard before.
Strings of bells rang in the hands of Moon Sakura's light dance, magically blending into the song, and with the beat of the song, Moon Sakura began the witch dance.
Dancing under the moon, like a dream.
An elderly grandmother sobbed quietly, tears flowing, "Fairy, fairy descends to earth......"
Lin Mingfeng, who was closest to her, was twitching all over his body, although the adjective fairy was indeed not too much, but Lin Mingfeng knew that the beautiful "fairy" on the stage was not like a human, but their captain was not only a man, but also killed people without blinking!
But what is this strange feeling? Obviously the witch dance is so beautiful, but there is nothing to admire - suddenly, Alice stood up and looked up at the sky.
"It's coming. She whispered.
"What?" Wrench looked up and found that the originally clear night sky, I don't know when it had turned dark, the moon was long gone, but there was still moonlight in the clearing, brightly shining on the dancing moon cherry blossoms.
"What's going on?" Blue Moon also realized that something was wrong, "The magic here...... Messed up?"
Lin Mingfeng, Wrench, and Ferdy's faces all changed, as cultivators, they knew what the consequences of changes in the magic power in nature would lead to, just like people going mad when they were cultivating, and the ending would be devastating.
"Elemental elves, in the sky. Alice raised her hand to the sky, as if trying to grasp something in the sky, "Here it is." ”
"Elemental elves? can't be! They don't just exist in books—" Blue Moon looked at the sky, her mouth wide open.
In the darkness, there was a little fire, small, but extremely dazzling, and the fire grew larger and larger, and finally became a huge and incomparably large torch, and in the midst of that torch appeared an ugly "face" made of flames—it was a face, just because the flame had eyes and a mouth, or it just happened to be that way, or it was just a simple illusion.
And except for Sheila and the outsiders, whether it was the dancing Tsukizakura or the townspeople, they were unaware of this anomaly, but continued their rituals, and when Sheila and they were attracted by this anomaly, several old people picked up torches and began to parade around the small platform, and their mouths were still playing and singing, completely immersed in the witch dance.
At the same time, the music played by the three old men also reached its climax, and Tsukizakura's dancing posture became faster and faster, and at the end, he held the bell high and pointed to the sky.
The crisp laughter rang out suddenly in everyone's ears, and this laughter was actually emitted by the flame.
"That's what it is...... What does the eternal night mean?" Blue Moon murmured.
Yes, despite the fire burning overhead that could consume the entire town, the whole town of Eternal Night was not illuminated by this, but as if it had fallen into darkness, only a little moonlight reminded them that this was still a human world, not a real abyss.
The moon cherry blossoms were still dancing, and as the music gently swirled on the stage to the beat of the song, the song was coming to an end, and the soft tune was echoed over the shrine, and even the burning flames became less dazzling.
"What's the situation now?" Sheila's voice no longer had the confidence it used to have, facing an unknown and powerful thing, and she had no power to rely on, only these subordinates around her.
But now it seems that none of her subordinates have any confidence - except for Alice.
"It's fine. Alice sat back in her chair, "It's just coming to see." ”
"What are you looking at?"
Facing the crowd full of question marks, Alice pointed to the moon cherry and said, "When it's done, it will go." ”