Chapter 30: Dance
The sound of brushing when the wind blows the leaves, the roar of the stream, the sound of the fish spitting bubbles in the water, the roar of the wild beasts in the mountains, the chewing of small animals when they eat, the chirping of birds and the fluttering of their wings, the conversation and conversation of people in the houses in the city in the distance, the shouting and selling of street vendors, and the laughter of people in restaurants and tea shops......
And that's not all.
Not only could she hear the sounds, but she seemed to be able to see the scenes
The hand held in mid-air clenched slowly.
Black hair fluttering in the wind.
The unfamiliar images in my mind flashed continuously, and finally stopped at the body of a little girl of five or six years old.
The little girl was dressed in a plain white collared garment wrapped in a black gauze tunic over the outside. There is a faint white in the black, and it looks like there is a different kind of beauty.
She stood on a high altar, her hands raised and slowly swinging back and forth, her wide sleeves fluttering with them. The wind blew in her face, causing her hair and skirt to flutter in the air.
Below the altar was a surging crowd, and the people below looked at the small figure on the altar.
As the little girl moved, people also raised their hands and swayed along.
They all opened their mouths wide and shouted something, looking at the little girl's crazy eyes and flushed faces.
Spun, the little girl stopped and swung her hand back and forth, spinning rapidly.
Black hair fluttered with her movements, and the little face was hidden in the hair, looming.
The spinning slowly stopped, hands raised and swayed back and forth, one foot sticking out from under the wide skirt.
He was barefoot.
The foot is raised high and then falls down heavily.
Tread, tread, tread......
One, two, three.
It should have been a small voice, but it rang in the ears and hearts of everyone under the altar.
The crowd under the altar was silent for a moment, and then it became even more frantic.
The people behind began to squeeze desperately in front of them, trying to get closer to the high altar, and they all looked at the little girl with obsessive and fanatical eyes.
At this moment, the little girl withdrew her foot and jumped violently.
The crowd below froze, stopped going crazy, and slowly quieted down. It's just that the little girl's eyes are still obsessed.
The little girl is no longer just doing the monotonous movements before.
Sometimes she beckons, sometimes leans over, sometimes spins.
Shoulders sway, dresses flying, long hair flying.
Xiao Anniang closed her eyes, feeling all this, the little girl's sometimes heavy and sometimes light dance steps, and the obsessive madness of the crowd under the altar.
All of this seems to be clearly in her mind, and the emotions of those people seem to have infected her.
Fanatical, obsessive, reverent......
Suddenly, her hands in the air began to swing slowly, just like the little girl's movements.
Swinging his hands, his body began to spin with him.
Slowly, Xiao Anniang's movements began to coincide with the little girl.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew.
Whew......
Leaves rub against each other.
The sound it makes also seems to have a rhythm.
Xiao Anniang still spun and jumped.
The branches and leaves swayed in the wind.
The sound made when the wind blows the trees seems to be catering to Xiao Anniang's dance steps.
In the distance, on a tree, sat a teenager.
It was the boy Xiao Anniang met in the woods last time.
The young man watched Xiao Anniang's movements with his mouth open, and he didn't know when the dog's tail grass in his mouth fell off.
He hugged a branch and leaned in to look at it.
Actually......
Actually, there is a little lady dancing here?
In the distance, there was a sudden sound of chirping birds and flapping wings.
When the boy looked up, he saw a dark patch in the sky.
He squinted and looked closely.
It's a flock of birds!
A flock of birds! A flock of different species of birds!
Sparrows, larks, magpies, crows...... There were many, many more that he didn't know or had ever seen.
What, what's going on?
Do the birds move en masse?
His mouth was open, a little dumbfounded.
Smack.
He felt as if something cold had hit him in the face.
He blinked, a little confused.
Be...... Is it raining?
Raised his hand and wiped it on his face, feeling something sticky and greasy.
He put his hand in front of him and looked at it, and there was something white and sticky on his hand.
He shuddered.
Oops my mother!
It's bird poop!
After reacting, he hurriedly wiped his face again.
Finally, one of them didn't hold his ground, and he fell off the tree.
He fell to the ground solidly, and he hissed in pain.
One hand touched his buttocks, and the other hand was raised and wiped his face with his sleeve.
On the other hand, he looked up too much to look in the opposite direction.
As soon as he looked up, he saw something that he found incredible.
The flock of birds.
That flock of birds actually hovered over the little lady's head!
It had been hovering above the little lady's head.
He blinked, the pain he had forgotten for a moment and the bird poop on his face.
This, did he meet a fairy?
Oh my mother!
Did he see a fairy dancing?
He jumped up from the ground at once, lifted his feet, and ran in that direction.
His feet staggered, and his feet were still a little lame, because he had just fallen and hurt.
Running to a place not far from Xiao Anniang, he stopped.
looked at Xiao Anniang without blinking.
The wind is still blowing, Xiao Anniang is still dancing, and the birds are still hovering above.
When Xiao Anniang turned around to face the boy, he sighed.
This is, that little lady that day?
That little lady who behaved strangely that day?
He blinked.
In the distance, there was a rush of running footsteps and shouting, "Lady, lady." ”
The boy turned his head to look.
I saw a five or six-year-old boy running in this direction.
Shouting as you run.
Slowly the child is getting closer and closer.
Suddenly, the boy stopped, as if he had seen the situation clearly.
He stood there for a moment, then ran again.
Finally, he ran to the boy's side and stopped.
With a pair of big eyes, she looked at the little lady who seemed to be dancing in the wind in the open space for a moment.
He looked at Xiao Anniang, and then looked up at the flock of birds in mid-air.
His mouth moved, "The lady is so powerful, the lady is so powerful!" Not only did the big cow listen to the lady, but now even the birds listen to the lady. He muttered.
After that, looking at Xiao Anniang's eyes, they lit up a little more.
The rapid spinning and abrupt stop, the little lady in the open space closed her eyes, her head looking up at the sky, and her hands at her sides.
She stopped, but her hair and dress were still dancing in the wind.
Slowly, the wind became a little lesser, and the curvature of the hair and skirt was much smaller.
The birds in the sky circled two more times above, and eventually flew away in different directions.
Everything is slowly calming down.
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