156. The Feast of the Dead
In order to prevent being swallowed, Niu Niu reacted quickly and slipped away under the shattered hot gaze.
When she felt sorry for the food she had escaped, Niuniu suddenly ran back with the fruit she had just picked from another forest.
"Now, I'll give you something to eat!"
Staring at the pile of fruits still with dew in front of him, and then looking at the little thing in front of him looking well-behaved, a little tangled.
She found that the little creature didn't have that particularly good smell on him when he came back, but she brought back a bunch of very delicious fruits.
Although she really wanted to keep her bottom line and not eat the food handed by other beasts. But in the blink of an eye, she remembered that when she and Hum met for the first time, he said that the first time they met, he took the initiative to give her food, and they were all good-hearted beasts, and at this time they should not refuse.
Not...... It's definitely not that this fruit looks so fragrant.
I'm not hungry either!
Well, it has absolutely nothing to do with what she doesn't eat for breakfast......
I did some psychological construction for myself, looked at the pile of colorful fruits in front of me, and swallowed my saliva silently.
"Goo~"
Looking at the little cub sitting under the big tree holding the fruit and feasting on it, Niuniu held a velvet flower that she used as a small umbrella and looked at her fixedly.
It's such a cute color~Boom, I really want to take it home and hide it~
Oh, that's a pity!
"I don't think I've seen you here, are you here recently?"
Hearing Niuniu's question, Crush slowed down his eating, looked up at the little thing that was sitting on the leaves and shaking his feet, and hesitated for a while before saying, "Well, it's only been a few days since you came, are you a beast here?"
She has been wandering around here for so many days, except for the annoying little lord Sugar Candy and the little cub named Wuya who brought her something to eat, she hasn't seen any other beasts, and she is still wondering, obviously there are still a lot of little cubs when she comes back here, but this time she is directly gone.
"No, I just came to find Sugar Candy to borrow something~"
After saying that, Niuniu found that she had almost forgotten the main purpose of her coming here this time, and only cared about teasing the little cub.
"Borrow something?"
Although she knew that Ermao did have a lot of good things in her hands, there were really not many practical uses. To say that it sounds good is to look at it but not to use it.
So this makes Shatter very curious, this little thing doesn't look like a poor beast, what else does it need to borrow from Ermao?
"Well, it's something to be used for the afterlife banquet!" Niuniu wants to borrow from Ermao is not something that can't be said, so she quickly confessed to Shatter, and tried to invite her to go with her, "Do you want to come and play together?"
"Uh...... No, I'm not going!"
As soon as he heard that it was a death feast, he hurriedly waved his hand and shook his head, not happy to touch this thing at all.
"Ah, that's a pity, it's going alone again this year. ”
Niuniu, who failed to invite her, was a little frustrated, but it was only a while, and it was not good for this afterlife banquet cub to go, since she didn't come, it wouldn't be reluctant.
But when she thinks about it, she still wants to be sad, and every year at this time she is very sad.
Giving gifts or something, the most troublesome!
After the real death of the beasts of this world, a special funeral ceremony is held, which is called the feast of the dead.
This afterlife feast is very important for every beast that is about to die, so when they know that they are about to die, they will start preparing in advance.
However, because the afterlife banquet is the last banquet in the life of the beast, there are many rules and regulations, and it is also particularly cumbersome.
Before this feast can take place, there is a very strange rule that must be completed. If the body of the previous first life can be found, it must be dug up, and when the beast dies, it will be buried with the body of the second life. And if you can't find a body, you have to make sure that body is gone, not in this world. And if you are not sure if it is still there or if you know that it is still there but you can't find it, then the feast cannot be held.
The feast must be held at the beginning of the winter season or at the beginning of the winter season. The place of the feast is determined by the beast that is about to die, and if there is no fixed date, it will be held at the altar near Mount Kinabalu.
There are also certain restrictions on the beasts that come to participate in the feast of the dead.
For adult beasts, they can choose to go to the afterlife feast or not, and if they go, they have to bring a small gift.
This gift doesn't have to be expensive or rare, as long as there is a gift, even if you pick a small flower from the side of the road, they will let you in.
However, for cubs, except for the cubs of their own clan, the cubs of foreign clans cannot come at will without permission.
Here are some important rules about the afterlife feast that Crush knows from Hum. It's just that humming said that this thing is too complicated to say, but if you go to participate once, it will be easy to understand, so I didn't say much to her.
However, I didn't really plan to understand it. Attending the death banquet was a particularly terrifying thing for her. She had seen cubs who had returned from a past birth feast, and she found that they had all been seriously ill when they returned, and that they had no sense of taste or smell for more than two months.
I haven't had a sense of taste or smell for more than two months!
How do you eat this?
Isn't it the rhythm of starvation?
Although Hum also tried to abduct it to the death banquet, but every time she slipped away halfway.
Hum was puzzled as to why Crushed was so resistant to going to the death banquet, but she had to go.
Death is not a very sad thing for most of the old beasts in this world, on the contrary, they look forward to the day when death comes. Therefore, every beast that can successfully hold a feast will be very cautious.
Most of the old people like the lively and cute little cubs, except for a few special beasts and beasts of the afterlife, the more cubs are generally in the afterlife, which means that the more successful the afterlife banquet is held.
However, due to the fact that the day and place of the afterlife feast will largely restrict the arrival of the little cubs, coupled with the delicate health of the cubs and the fear of death, there are very few healthy cubs who can voluntarily come to the feast.
Alas, who is not afraid of death?
As a Niu Niu who has to go to a death banquet every ten years, she is actually not very happy.
If she goes to the death banquet, it means that she won't be able to come out to play for the next year~
Boom, she wants a fragrant and soft little cub~
She didn't want to go to those chatterbox's gatherings at all, and she talked about boring topics, she didn't know what else to talk about, she could talk for so long, long-winded, and talked about some things.
Regarding the fact that Niuniu was going to the death banquet but came to find Ermao at this time, Shatter expressed a little curiosity, she blinked her big bright eyes, tilted her little head, and then stretched out her chubby little paw and poked the little red flower on the top of Niuniu's head who was sitting not far from her head, "Then do you want to go to find Sugar Candy now?"
An inattentive little chubby claw poked forward and backward, Niuniu could only jump forward with a velvet flower umbrella, and then jumped to the broken shoulder in the void.
"No, that thing is not good now, and it will be in vain if it goes. After standing firmly on the broken little shoulders, Niuniu let go of the velvet flower casually, and directly hugged the braid hanging down next to the broken ear.
"And what are you going to do now?"
Crushed didn't mind seeing his hair being grabbed by this little thing to play, this little guy's strength was very small, and it didn't hurt to hold it, but he was a little uncomfortable.
"I'm playing with you~ At this time, there are a lot of delicious fruits near here~ Do you want to eat them?"
Anyway, being idle is idle, so it's better to stay here and tease this cute little cub, and find something delicious by the way~
As soon as I heard the delicious food, I instantly came to my senses, and the things I wanted to ask just now instantly soaked in the back of my mind.
The world is big, and the food is the big~
Boo, everything this little thing brings is delicious~
"What's delicious?"
"I'll take you there, and you'll know~"