Although it is a festival to worship the gods, in a small place like Yueqin Village, the scale of the festival is not much larger. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoEven if there is food and wine, after all, it is just some coarse tea and light rice, and it can't be compared with Crescent Manor at all, this is Xuanyu's first impression of this village. Of course, even so, the locals still take it very seriously and celebrate it with great reverence, but it is not clear what they worship as sacred. The people in the village were as Lucia said, simple and enthusiastic, except for the cold-faced Adunis, the other villagers saw Xuanyu and flew over to ask for warmth, and then stuffed all kinds of delicacies they thought into his hands, and there were some girls with big shoulders and round waists who secretly sent autumn waves to Xuanyu, which is no wonder, after all, Xuanyu is the type that even the succubus mermaid is optimistic about.

Xuanyu didn't shy away from it, greeting the people in the village one by one, wandering around like in the blue water city, and his "sister" Lucia was also the focus of the young men in the village, but she was soon taken away by Jasmine and "occupied" alone.

"Oh, oh, is that your brother? he's a prince!" Jasmine whispered to Lucia as she looked at Xuanyu in a distracted manner.

Lucia twitched the corners of her mouth and smiled wryly: "You're out of sight." ”

"But he's so handsome!" Jasmine said to Xuanyu affectionately, much to the dismay of Adunis, who was standing a few meters behind her.

"It's useless, it's not meaningful!" Lucia said, waving her hand.

"So you don't want me to be your sister-in-law!" Jasmine looked at Lucia very seriously.

This shocked Lucia, this Jasmine was too direct. Looking at Lucia's tangled expression, Jasmine suddenly laughed out loud: "I will not fall in love with your brother, my ideal is to marry a prince, he is not a prince, I will not marry him!"

"Ahaha, you're very principled. Lucia said with a wry smile.

"Jasmine, are you still daydreaming like this?" Adonis finally couldn't bear it anymore and rushed over, "How can a prince marry you with such an identity!"

Jasmine rolled her eyes: "Even if there is no prince who wants me, I will not marry you!"

At that moment, Lucia seemed to be able to hear the sound of Adonis's little heart breaking, and then she saw him walk away in anger.

"Isn't he quite capable, and he will be bullied by little girls?" got rid of the village girls, and Xuanyu came over.

"There is a saying in my hometown, no matter how good the helmsman is, he can't escape the huge waves of the sky. Lucia raised her eyebrows and squinted at Xuanyu.

Xuanyu responded with a knowing smile.

At this moment, a melodious piano sound wafted in, and Jasmine took Lucia's hand and said, "The festival has begun, let's go quickly!"

Without saying anything, she picked up Lucia and wanted to run forward, Xuanyu followed, and the three of them came to the square in the center of the village. Although it is a square, it is not very large, and there is an altar in the middle, and five players of the twelve-stringed harp on each side are playing diligently.

On one side of the altar, the village chief of Banku was ready to climb the altar to start the celebration, and when he looked up at Xuanyu and Lucia in the crowd, his feet retracted.

Seeing this, the witch doctor behind him, Ophelly, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Have you asked?"

Village Chief Banku nodded, "Both demeanor and words are very different. ”

Ophelie smiled and said, "So what else is there to worry about?"

"It's me who is too careful. The village chief of Banku nodded.

Seeing the twelve-stringed piano, Xuanyu remembered Sennaou's entrustment, lowered his head and said to Jasmine, "Who in your village plays the twelve-stringed piano the best?"

"Oh......" thought Jasmine, "the best thing to say is Grandpa Banku, but he hasn't played it in a long time." ”

"Grandpa Banku is old this year?" Xuanyu said again.

"One hundred and twenty-eight years old. Jasmine blinked. "How?"

"It's just the right time," Xuanyu whispered to herself.

"What time?" Jasmine's ears were pointed.

"Grandpa Banku is such a long-lived man!" Xuanyu deliberately diverted the topic.

When Jasmine heard this, she disdainfully said, "Most of the people on the island have lived a long life, even that fool in Rixian Village has lived for more than a hundred years. Then, she sighed and muttered in a low voice, "If I have to live such a boring life for so long, my words will definitely be suffocated!"

Just as he was talking about it, the music stopped. Wearing a black robe, the village chief of Banku slowly walked up to the altar and said to the villagers: "Today is the annual festival of worshipping the gods, on this day, we thank the gods for giving us a peaceful life, blessing us from natural disasters and monsters, blessing our fishing boats always returning with full loads, blessing our crops every year, blessing our villagers with health and longevity, and blessing ......."

Lucia was bored by the village chief's lengthy rituals, and she leaned over to Jasmine next to her and whispered, "Your gods are so versatile that they can bless you everywhere!"

"Do you think it's wrong? I'll just say, where can there be such a god!" Jasmine said.

Jasmine's answer surprised Xuanyu, "So you have other opinions about the gods that your village worships?"

"I'll tell you," Jasmine whispered with her hands over her mouth, "this god is fake!

"Are there any other villages on the island?" said Xuanyu, surprised.

"yes, don't you know?" Jasmine blinked.

Xuanyu just wanted to ask something more, and suddenly remembered a round of applause around him, it turned out that the village chief's sacrificial words had finally ended. This is followed by a series of inexplicable ritual actions, ending with the witch doctor leading a horse into the middle of the square. Lucia patted Jasmine beside her and said, "What is this for?"

"That's a unicorn. Jasmine said in a flat tone.

"Independence...... Unicorns?" Lucia looked at the horse from head to toe, "Unicorns must have horns." ”

"It's a unicorn without horns. Jasmine's tone was still flat, but it seemed that Lucia was making a little fuss.

"It's just a horse. Xuanyu's affirmative words made Lucia feel much better.

A moment of silence followed, not because there was nothing to say, but because there were too many questions to know where to start. There is a show on stage, where a villager dressed as a hunter is fighting a "unicorn" and then being "subdued" by it, and after three or four times, a man in a black robe enters the arena, and although he wears a mask, it is immediately clear from his body and costume that he is the head of Banku.

The women of the village stood on either side with a jug in hand, watching the battle between the village chief and the "unicorn", and after some maneuvering, he began to chant a mantra. Lucia pricked up her ears to listen, then glanced at Xuanyu and shook her head. Suddenly, the previous villagers rushed up, led by Adonis. They knocked the horse down in a few blows, and Adouis took out his dagger and stabbed the horse in the neck. It was so sudden that Lucia opened her mouth wide and stared at the horse's blood gushing out. Xuanyu also twitched the corners of his mouth, he always felt that this matter was a little delicate.

In the stands, the women, who had long been standing aside, ran over to fill the containers with blood and then stepped aside. At this time, the young man carried a stone statue on the stage under the leadership of the witch doctor, and suddenly there was a burst of cheers from the audience, and Xuanyu unconsciously looked left and right, and saw that the faces of those people were full of pious worship. I guess it's a statue of a god. As he thought so, he looked up and felt lightning burst through his chest, and he gasped.

Although the stone sculpture could not see the color of its hair and pupils, its face was seven points similar to that of Xuanyu. The most surprising thing was that there was a large bird on the shoulder of the bust, although there were some discrepancies in the details, but Xuanyu recognized at a glance that it was made after a blood-regulating beast, what did it mean? Xuanyu lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and suddenly as if he remembered something, a charming smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Lucia, on the other hand, stared at the jar of horse blood, not paying attention to the statue at all. I hadn't sucked blood for too long, and suddenly smelled blood, Lucia only felt that her throat was dry and itchy, and she couldn't wait to jump directly on the stage and drink the blood!

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