Chapter 332: The Sacrifice of the Lake God
After a while, it began to rain in the sky. The rain in the jungle is very boiling, and it will make the already difficult road to walk several times more difficult, but Ning Xiaoxian is no longer Wuxia Ameng, who followed the Yunhu caravan back then. When the first drop of rain fell, Qizai found a nearby cave to take shelter from the rain. Subsequently, Tu Duan also rushed back. He had a happy face, and it was clear that he had made a great gain.
She casually summoned a fresh breeze, swept all the dirt out of the small cave, and then took out the firewood from the small kitchen on the fifth floor of the Gods and Demons Prison and lit it. No one here is afraid of the cold, but she still likes to light a bonfire on a rainy day and listen to the crackling sound of firewood bursting in the fire. In words that Tu Duan and Qizai don't understand, this is called "feeling".
The rain in the forest came quickly and urgently, and a few thunderbolts flashed, and then a rain curtain like beads was hung at the entrance of the cave. The cave that Qizai found is very good, the terrain is very high, and the rainwater will not pour in.
When it rained, the forest began to smell of grass and earth, and she loved the smell of it, which she could not smell in the gods and demons. Ning Xiaoxian looked at the bonfire in a daze, and suddenly said after a long time: "I always feel that something is wrong." ”
Qizai was arranging the feathers on his back, and when he heard this, he turned his head and said, "You mean, that little girl?"
"Not bad. We were in a hurry to leave just now, and many signs are not quite right when I think about it now. She sighed, "She is a mountain dweller, she must know the danger of entering the mountains late at night, how can she walk into this deep mountain forest in the dark?"
Tu Duan said lightly: "Maybe it's a brain that doesn't know what." ”
Ning Xiaoxian glared at him: "The people who came to look for her also have problems, and they are all men." Men and women do not kiss each other. If she really remembers her relatives, she should send a woman to answer her, the woman in the mountains. Some bodies are not necessarily worse than men. ”
Chang Tian said: "In the end, she was injured by the wild boar you were chasing, and you feel guilty in your heart." If you really care about her safety, let's go look for her again tomorrow morning. It just so happened that the process of our pursuit of the wild boar should also be erased from her memory. ”
There was nothing to say that night, only the sound of rain. Drip until dawn.
Raj woke up slowly, she had just had a good dream, said the handsome Cambu in the dream. He's going to marry her. But she also agreed, and A-Niang's cry came faintly.
She tried to open her eyes and found that A-Niang was really sitting next to her, covering her face and sobbing and crying. "I'm still alive! after being hit by the big boar. Why am I still alive?"
A-Niang is really made of water. She likes to cry when she encounters problems, and she has known this since she was a child. The mother and daughter depend on each other, and she is like the backbone of this family.
A-Niang also found that she was awake, and quickly wiped her tears and said, "You woke up, it's almost dawn...... My daughter, why do you want to anger the Lake God, and in another hour, the village chief will send you to the sacrifice!" Obviously bitter in my heart.
Raj propped up the bed, but found that he was in pain all over his body. She clutched her chest, calming her cough. But she found that her wounds were well bandaged, and that Hengzhu was going to be pushed into the lake this morning, so why did the villagers take her injuries so seriously?
Besides, there is only one clumsy witch in the village, is his ability so good?
She said weakly: "Mother, who treated my wound?"
A-Niang paused and cried: "When you were brought back yesterday, the injuries on your body were dealt with. The village chief said that you fell in the woods and were picked up by them. Such a serious injury is not dead, this is the will of the lake god. "Everyone knows that the god of the lake only eats live food, and if Raj dies, the god of the lake will not accept this sacrifice.
Raj's eyes widened, and she looked blankly at the rafters on the roof: "Really?" For some reason, after seeing the big wild boar, she was very indifferent to her life and death, and it seemed that being eaten by the lake god was not a big deal. She now wondered what had happened after the boar had struck her, for she remembered vividly that someone had made a noise, and that it was a woman.
If she survives, it must have something to do with the woman, otherwise these men in the village are still fierce and vicious when they face her, but it is not enough to make it arch in front of the wild boar. Raj sighed, if only she was awake at that time, as long as she begged loudly, maybe the woman could save her and save A-Niang.
It's just fate, right? It's the will of the Lake God.
There were only two of them in the hut, and the villagers probably didn't bother to send someone to watch them because they couldn't walk. The mother and daughter suddenly had endless words. Then, an hour passed in the blink of an eye.
In the midst of A-Niang's bitter cries and pleading, Raj was lifted by two big men and put on the valve, and his hands and feet were also firmly tied, and then transported to the lake.
The whole village, men and women, young and old, gathered here.
This village has a nice name, called Xinghuang Village. The village is backed by snow-capped mountains and lives near the lake for more than 300 years. Standing on the edge of the lake, you can't see the end of the lake at all. The villagers call this lake with open water and abundant aquatic plants "Heavenly Lake", and Heavenly Lake is where the lake god lives.
The ritual began, the drummers played strange tunes, and the yellow-robed witches began to dance, in strange, stiff, and strange postures. She is usually familiar with this process, and knows that the village chief will come up to recite the sacrifice later, and finally push the sacrifice into the lake, but today's sacrifice was replaced by her.
Sure enough, the village chief opened his mouth, and after reciting the sacrificial text in a routine manner, he painfully counted her crimes, what went against the wishes of the lake god and brought disasters and illnesses into the village......
She thought about her thoughts, and gradually she couldn't hear anything, but saw the old man's mouth open and closed, like a big fish caught ashore from the lake, and couldn't help laughing. This laughter made the whole village white-faced. The village chief exclaimed: "Her nightmare has attacked, send it down quickly!"
Suddenly, someone put the valve down, and then several strong men worked together to push it flat into the water. Raj knew that the valve was specially made, and if it was not tightly tied, it would fall apart when it drifted about halfway up, and the sacrifices on it would fall into the lake. She didn't dare to struggle, afraid that the more she struggled, the faster the valve would fall apart.
Before entering the water, her eyes lingered on the faces of many acquaintances. They all looked at her with the same eyes as if they were dead, with fear, gloating, and disgust...... Probably knowing that she was going to die, they no longer had to hide their feelings.
The water gurgled in her ears. She suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with dying, but she couldn't serve A-Niang, and she wouldn't see Kambu again.
The valve drifted for a long time and seemed to float into the middle of the lake. The village chief frowned and asked the person who tied the valve, "Are you tying it too tightly?"
Before the other party could answer, everyone around him pointed out: "Sink it, sink it!" Sure enough, the small valve in the middle of the lake gradually spread out, and the little girl above floated and sank in the water, and soon disappeared.
The village chief breathed a sigh of relief.
At that moment, a white shadow streaked over the woodland by the lake, and the wind swept through the exclamations of the crowd, and then landed.
It was Ning Xiaoxian who came. After a night of rain, it was noticeably more difficult to track down humans. There is a way to steal rain but not snow, and the rain destroys the smell and footprints. It took a lot of effort for her to get here.
As soon as she jumped off the bird's back, the village chief exclaimed, "Immortal Gu." The surrounding villagers immediately retreated several feet, and their eyes were filled with awe when they looked at her.
She looked around and saw the faces she had seen last night, and knew that she had found the right place: "Village chief, where is the little girl named Raj last night? ”
As soon as these words came out, the village chief's face suddenly turned pale. Knowing that the fairy girl would come back to find Raji, he said that he was in no hurry to sacrifice her to the lake god. Now it's okay, the fairy girl is here, and the people are gone.
"She, she asked her mother to take it back, at this moment...... Not in the village at the moment. ”
Not in the village? Ning Xiaoxian raised his eyebrows. Raj's injuries are so bad, her family will send her out of the village?
Before she could speak, a woman suddenly jumped out of the crowd, knelt at Ning Xiaoxian's feet and cried loudly: "Fairy Gu, save my family Raji, she was sunk into the lake by the village chief!"
Ning Xiaoxian was startled, helped her up and asked urgently, "Which direction?"
The woman trembled and pointed to the center of the lake. Ning Xiaoxian turned his head and shouted, "Qizai!"
Before she finished speaking, Qizai had turned into a white rainbow and headed towards the center of the lake. There are also a few bamboos floating on the water as markers, and it should not be difficult to find the girl who has fallen into the water. It flew to the middle of the lake and plunged headlong into the water.
The village chief was shocked and stopped: "I can't help it, fairy girl." Scoop up the offerings, the lake god will be angry!"
Ning Xiaoxian was really angry this time, and said with raised eyebrows: "You sacrifice with living people?!" She knew that human sacrifice was not uncommon on this continent, and there were such practices in many places, but she couldn't allow this to happen under her nose, especially the girl who sacrificed, she was rescued from death last night!
She was so angry that the village chief immediately felt that the air around her was stagnant and stagnant, and it was even a little difficult to breathe. He didn't know that this was caused by the coercion on the immortal cultivator's body, but it was an indisputable fact that the other party had supernatural powers and could kill him at any time, so he immediately knelt down and pleaded: "We are also forced to do it, because this little girl has angered the lake god, and several people in the village have been sick and died. If we don't take her as a sacrifice, our whole village will bury her!"
"That is to say, you all expect to sacrifice this little girl's life to live yourself?" she snorted, her gaze sweeping over the faces of the crowd. The people she had seen lowered their heads and didn't dare to look directly at her.
At this time, Qizai flew up from the broken water in the lake, grabbed a person under his claws, and paralyzed himself did not know whether he was alive or dead. Ning Xiaoxian and Tu tried their best to see at a glance that this was the little girl from last night. (To be continued......)