Chapter 3: Sacrifice
"Is there a fuss about the funeral star?" Seeing Du Yu enter the house, the aunt Du Li hurriedly put down the half-knitted straw sandals in her hand and stepped forward to ask Du Yu.
Du Yu sat on the stone bench near the bed in the room with a smile, and said sweetly: "That fool, when he sees the new clothes, he can't care about anything, where will he make trouble?"
If Du Wanwan heard this, he would be afraid of being wronged and burst into tears. You're happy! Your whole family is happy! She just can't figure out what this strange family wants to do, when will she see new clothes and can't find the north?
When Du Li heard this, he was slightly relieved. In the past two days, she has been worried.
That day, the village came to say that Yuniang, who chose her for this year's sacrifice, she had a feeling that the sky had fallen. The couple had no children under their knees, except for a mourning star left by their brother and sister-in-law, there was only a charming and lovely daughter of Yu Niang. Even if the wizard told them that the girls who sacrificed were all going to enjoy the blessings, the couple was reluctant!
At that time, she happened to kill the mourning star by mistake, and she couldn't even find a replacement person.
When Du Yu found out, she cried in the house, Lord Hebo is an old man at all, how can he compare to the younger son of the village gentry? She and the youngest son of the village gentry's family have long been on good terms, and they often have secret trysts. The man said that as long as he married his wife after this year, he would be able to get her through the door.
The couple felt sorry for their daughter, and after discussing for a long time, they came up with a solution that was not a solution. They begged the village chief and the village gentry to change the noon sacrifice ceremony to the night, and sent a large amount of money for this purpose.
Muramasa is a shrewd person, and he knows that they have a somewhat stupid niece at home, so he also turns a blind eye to it. The couple got the right word, so they ran to the mountain, dug out the buried mourning star, and wanted to take advantage of the night to replace their daughter with her and sacrifice Hebo.
How do you know that this mourning star has a big life, and it has come back to life. After living, his eyes looked a lot clearer, but he became a mute who was silent, which made Du Li always feel that something was strange, and his heart was very unstable.
Today, I saw my daughter say that the mourning star obediently changed her clothes and didn't cry or make trouble, so she settled down. My man went to see the village squire again today, and the sacrifice was still at noon, and when the time came, he gave her to Hebo, and the mourning star had nothing to do with them.
Du Wanwan in the firewood and grass room looked at the silk in her hand and was dumbfounded, what should I do?
Du Wanwan complained in his heart, the system is simply a god pit, this plot is so bloody, won't the official smash his shoes? !
After greeting the company that developed the system one hundred and eighty times, the system was still reserved and silent, Du Wanwan was injured, could it be that after today, she was going to become the first crossing bride of Hebo?
Dejectedly, he threw the silk cloth onto the haystack, and Du Wanwan hugged his legs and squatted down against the haystack. When people are unlucky, they really drink cold water and stuff their teeth, and she is so energetic that she has to catch up with the fat rats in the game of whack-a-mole!
After being depressed for a long time, Du Wanwan seemed to remember something, tilted his head, leaned to the side, turned his hand and picked up the piece of silk again, and gently rubbed it in his hand. She remembered that in ancient times, silver was not widely circulated, and apart from copper, only precious silk silk could be used as currency. In other words, if the system didn't cheat her in secret, then this silk silk can also be used as a soft girl coin!
But then, Du Wanwan withered again, and she found that although the picture was painted, it was not so easy to get rid of. Besides, this silk is not big, and even if the painting is removed, the middle part of the silk is spent, and it is not worth much at all.
More importantly, if she really wants to become Hebo's bride, what is the use of giving her 180 silk silks?
Du Wanwan sighed and looked sideways outside the house. The sky outside was gloomy, and there was a little cool breeze, which seemed to be her mood at the moment.
When the obscene second uncle came back, Du Wanwan had barely sorted out her chicken-like hair. She looked diagonally across the larger domed thatched hut, just in time to see Du Yu's smiling expression and Du Li's relieved expression.
"Daddy, how is it?
Du Yu's main concern now is the matter of sacrifice, if it can be arranged, she will be able to marry into the village gentry family in the future and live a good life.
Du Qiang put down the empty cloth bag in his hand and took a breath, "Don't worry, it's all arranged, nothing will happen." Du Li took the empty burlap bag, muttering in his mouth, with a painful expression on his face.
This was given away, but the things that the couple had saved for many years were all gone at once, and they were simply ripping off her flesh.
Du Wanwan was resigned to her fate in the firewood and grass house, the system had already saved her once, if she really let her sacrifice Hebo this time, and then die in the belly of the fish, she would have no reason to blame anyone. After all, she has more time now, and the real Du Wanwan has long since died.
experienced the line of life and death, her hatred was greatly reduced, and at the same time, it also made her look down on many things. Sometimes you get too much luxury, but you don't get anything. Playing with the silk silk in his hand, Du Wanwan smiled indifferently.
Suddenly, the silk silk in his hand seemed to be hidden, and it was completely gone.
"Huh?" Du Wanwan looked at his empty hands, and his mouth opened in shock. What happened? This silk silk just disappeared out of thin air?
Uh, Du bent his eyes, suppressed the surprise in his heart, and tried to start the system and backpack again.
With a "buzz", a huge transparent panel appeared in front of Du Wanwan's eyes. Hey, hey!
Du Wanwan almost wanted to look up to the sky and let out a long roar, the system you are really powerful! I was really ashamed to greet the development company before, if I knew that the system could give her such a big surprise, she would definitely draw a small card for the development company, and worship it every day!
The overdraft panel looks very clean, and the redemption page has not yet been unlocked, but this is harmless, doesn't she still have a backpack?
The map's icon is also gray, and the map's function can only be turned on if the redemption page is unlocked. In addition to the redemption page and map icons, the status bar on the far left of the panel shows an energy value of 13.
It seems that as she thought, the system collected the piece of silk, and the energy value rose to 13, which unlocked the system.
Du Wanwan found that there was an extra icon below the energy value, which said Crossing Guide. After Du Wanwan clicked in, he realized that it was written that after she crossed over, there were some additional options for the overview of the world, such as language adjustment.
Decisively lit up the local language, Du Wanwan felt that he seemed to have something more in his mind.
According to the systematic account, this world is not the ancient world in Du Wanwan's understanding, nor is it a primitive society, this is an alien plane space-time, and the southern country where Du Wanwan is currently located is a very small country on the mainland, poor and backward, although its development level is not a primitive society, but it is not much better. The neighbor Daqian is a well-known developed power, comparable to the Han and Tang dynasties in China in the past. Du Wanwan is a person who yearns for a quiet life, and a small wealth is peace, and Daqian seems to be the most suitable place for her life and development at present.
Knowing a rough idea, Du Wanwan also knew it in his heart. The world of the heterogeneous plane, that is, there is a high probability that something will appear here, something that Du Wanwan has never heard of and never seen. It's just a bit of a pity that the system doesn't explicitly say what exactly it recycles.
This simple exchange system has been following her since the beginning of the last days. Du Wanwan fights zombies in the last days, using the crystal nuclei of zombies and some mutated animal and plant corpses to increase the energy value of the system. At the same time, the energy value can also be exchanged for what Du Wanwan wants on the system exchange page.
Maybe it was because of this system that Jiao Yuan would do her best to protect her in the last days.
Opening the backpack again, Du Wanwan sighed with satisfaction.
Although there are not many things to eat, they are very complete, and even the pots and pans used to cook rice have a set in the backpack. For this world without woks, those pots in the backpack are simply rare treasures
In addition to these things, there are several cold weapons in the backpack, a pistol. This is all after the end of the world, Du Wanwan walked around and collected. Carefully picked, found the most compact dagger, hid it in the place where the flesh was attached to the waist, and then went to Zhou Gong safely. With the system, Du Wanwan is completely at ease.
There's still a tough battle to fight tomorrow!
Every time the ceremony of sacrificing Hebo is a big scene. This time was no exception, in addition to the village and the village gentry, there were also many people from the township and county. For example, the big squires in the township, as well as some big families in the county, even the county lieutenant also came to the county, which surprised the village Zheng.
All the spectators were seated, and the young male wizard led Du Wanwan out of the village.
This is the first time that Du Wanwan has studied this small village in such detail.
The whole village covers an area of about three or four hundred acres, and the residential area is concentrated in the east side of the mountain, while the flat place near the deep forest in the west has been opened up and planted with some plants that Du Wanwan does not know.
Between the east and west, there is a one-meter-five-wide dirt road, smooth and flat, I don't know what is pressed out of it.
The living quarters on the east side are all built around a few large igloos in the middle, and the whole looks like an elliptical belt, with many forks and paths, and there is no big difference between the houses.
The wizard was a young man, his steps were very rhythmic, he walked neither fast nor slow, about twenty minutes, and then led Du Wanwan to the high platform where he sacrificed to Hebo.
There were a lot of people around, and the most conspicuous was a row of brightly dressed people sitting directly opposite the high platform. Two of them wore narrow-sleeved robes, tied their hair and wore crowns, and they looked a little like people in the government.
The sorcerer knelt down with Du Wanwan on the offering table that had been set up long ago, and after a few minutes of muttering, he took the bouquet in his hand to Du Wanwan, led her down the high platform, and came to a bamboo raft covered with wild flowers on the riverside.
After walking around the bamboo raft, the wizard sprinkled some more things, and then tied Du Wanwan's hands and feet with fine hemp ropes, and fell stones on his feet, and then released the raft and pushed it into the river.
After going up the river, Du Wanwan found that this sacrifice was really a real death!
Not long after the raft entered the river, it began to spread out one by one, disintegrating in the river. Du Wanwan was speechless, if he didn't understand water, even if he didn't tie his hands and feet, then there was no way to live.
When the bamboo joints on the soles of his feet were scattered, Du Wanwan took a deep breath, took one last look at the people watching from the shore, and then fell into the water with a "poof". The river was cold and urgent, and after Du Bend bent into the water, the cold water squeezed in from all directions. The stones tied to his feet quickly sank towards the bottom of the river, and he didn't know how deep the river was.
During the rainy season, the mud from the mountains is constantly washed into the river, and the water in the river is very muddy. The river water that entered the mouth did not taste very good, and it was fishy and astringent, which made Du Wanwan want to gause.
She threw the flower in her hand, and her bound hands groped around her waist to find the dagger she was hiding.
The wizard Xu didn't expect that a delicate and weak girl would produce some moths when she was sacrificed, so the rope was not tightly tied. Even so, Du Wanwan did not successfully find the dagger.
First, the visibility in the water is extremely low, and it is all instinctive to explore, and second, Du Wanwan's small body really can't withstand any toss. After just a while, she choked on several mouthfuls of water, and the strength of her body was lost little by little, and her arm was like a lead block, and she couldn't lift it.
Du bent his chest and felt stuffy, his lungs were swollen and painful, and he felt a little suffocated. If she didn't hurry up, she would really drown in the river!