Chapter Twenty-Three: A Strange Sacrifice
"Yuliang, give!" Gu Yin's big hand held his half-dried robe and passed it in from outside the forest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
I was trembling for a long time, so I quickly replaced it and said, "Fish, is the fish cooked?" ”
As soon as I got ashore I hid in the woods on the rocky beach, and the four of them found dead branches and leaves on the rocky beach, erected wooden frames, and built a bonfire, and roasted the wet clothes on the one hand, and the big fish that was enough for us to eat for two or three days.
Changing into Gu Yin's clean cotton robe, soft and warm, I jumped to the campfire and joined the grilled fish brigade.
He glanced at me ambiguously, couldn't help but smile, and pretended to be pitiful: "Alas! Some people can't hold their breath, and others "hmm".
He pouted and made a kissing motion: "But some people can't hold their breath either, so they can only be kicked away." ”
I remembered that moment, my heart fluttered slightly, and the corners of my mouth couldn't help but curl, and I picked up a piece of half-cooked fish and stuffed it into his mouth: "Let you not go." ”
Gu Yin was only wearing a moon-white underwear, a little more elegant, his face was slightly red, he pretended to make a bonfire, buried his face, and said in a cold voice: "Shut up." ”
Min Qiu cut the fish with a Ruyue knife while smiling: "What, I'll come to you next time?" ”
As he spoke, he leaned over to the pout.
"Ahh Wuxian screamed and hid behind the three lines.
Sanxing also became lively, shaking his ears, and walked towards Wuji, and said, "If you don't say it earlier, I can also give it to you!" ”
Wujian got up and hid in Gu Yin's place, shouting: "Your Highness save me!" ”
Gu Yin raised his head and looked at me and said, "What kind of stone is yours?" ”
I took out the yin-yang stone on my chest, and now it has turned into a beautiful and beautiful ordinary white jade like usual.
The other three also gathered around.
I scratched my head, held it up and said, "This is the yin-yang stone that my grandmother gave me, saying that I have the ability to know the past and the future, but I don't know how to use it yet, it's usually like this, day and night are white, I can't figure out why it was so bright just now?" ”
Wufeng quipped: "Yuliang Immortal Gu, is it a bad effect, why don't you try again?" ”
This time, even I couldn't stand it, so I jumped up and hit him, "Wuji, your skin is very itchy!" ”
Wufeng just ran behind Gu Yin, and Gu Yin reached out and tripped up, "snapped", and fell into a dog eating.
"Hahahaha!" The crowd burst into laughter.
The joy of the aftermath of the catastrophe spread in the night, soaring into the starry sky.
Wu Jian deliberately used hay and dead leaves in front of the boulder next to the campfire, and laid a flat ground for me to make a bed, and I lay quietly, but all kinds of thoughts flew in my head, and I couldn't sleep.
Wujian and Sanxing were lying outside me, and there was already a faint snoring.
Min Qiu and Gu Yin sat silently around the bonfire, only the crackling sound of the branches burning and the singing of the nameless insects were in symphony in this quiet night.
Deeper nights.
Suddenly, Gu Yin whispered, "Brother Min." ”
Min Qiu casually responded: "Huh? ”
There was silence again, and Gu Yinfang said, "Today's matter." ”
He paused for a moment and changed his words again: "You and Yuliang, do you have any ......?"
Min Qiu's always ridiculous voice sounded: "Are you afraid that I have a relationship with Yuliang, and today is it offensive to me?" ”
Gu Yin was silent, Xu nodded his head.
Min Qiu snorted and said with a smile: "I just treat her as a little brother, and she should only treat me as a big brother." Brother Gu was too worried. ”
After being silent for a while, Min Qiu said, "What about you, Brother Gu?" ”
Gu Yin's voice sounded after a while: "The hatred of the family and the country has not been avenged, how can you be qualified to talk about anything else." ”
I only heard Min Qiu sigh faintly, and said: "I don't mean anything else, I just want to remind you that Brother Gu and Xiangguo have a marriage contract." ”
The night fell silent again.
The next day, I was woken up by a commotion.
Yesterday, after tossing and turning all night, I fell asleep in a daze when it was almost dawn, I saved a stomach to get up and sat up, rubbing my eyes while shouting: "What is the noise in the morning!" ”
There was a sudden silence all around, and I heard someone say, "There's a woman!" ”
I was just about to open my eyes when a pair of big hands "rubbed" my face.
"Let go! Who is it! ”
Min Qiu whispered in my ear: "I let go, don't regret it." ”
"You let go!" I pulled his hand off with all my might.
"Ahh A scream rushed from the shore of the lake into the sky.
Oh my God, what's going on?
There was a large group of people standing on the rocky beach, and at the front of that group of people, there were three young men tied up, naked!
I stood up and rushed to the river, and Sanxing hurriedly jumped over to stop me, saying, "Good girl, even if you see it, you don't have to kill yourself?" ”
"It's a suicide head." I wanted to pull him away by the ear: "I'm going to wash my eyes!" ”
After I washed it thirty times, I finally heard what they were arguing about.
It turned out that this group of people were villagers in Qianya Village near the lake, with high mountains and deep gorges, few fields, and basically made a living from fishing in the lake.
But in the past month or so, the fish that can be caught every day are getting less and less, and there is no harvest in recent days, so the village chief went to ask the gods on the goddess peak, and the gods said that there were lake demons, so let three young and strong men go to worship the demons.
The village chief came back to discuss with the villagers, what should I do? In order to survive, you still have to do what the gods say.
The village chief took the lead, first tied up his youngest son, and then picked two quite strong young men in the village, who were actually going to sacrifice demons on this rocky beach today!
When they saw us eating fish here, they were surprised and delighted, and kept arguing about where this fish came from and where we came from.
I shook my head and asked the young man to sacrifice to the demon? Some people say this kind of nonsense? Some people believe it?
I only heard Min Qiu smile and said to the villagers: "We have a fairy girl here, you might as well let her calculate, is there a lake demon in this lake?" ”
Sure enough, one of them, who should be the village chief, said in an old voice: "This girl is really a fairy girl?" ”
I turned my back to the crowd and said helplessly, "Can you get them dressed first?" ”
The mothers of the three men were already crying beside her, and when they saw that things had taken a turn for the better, they went home and brought clothes to put on their precious sons.
I turned around and saw that the village chief was thin and thin, hunched over, and even shorter, with half a hundred hair, and deep furrows on his face, which reminded me of my grandmother, who was stroking a goat's beard at this time, looking at me tremblingly, and said with earnest eyes: "Girl, do you know what is going on with this lake?" Our ancestors have been fishing here for generations, but this has never happened before. ”
I smiled helplessly, and saw that Min Qiu Wufeng was staring at me with a smile on his face, and Gu Yin was standing behind them, his head down. These people, obviously guessing what's going on, have to borrow my mouth.
I had no choice but to point to the half-sized giant fish on the rocky beach and say to the village chief, "Old man, have you ever caught such a big fish in this lake?" ”
The village chief shook his head: "Never." ”
"That's it." I spread my hands: "This must be the lake demon, killed by us." ”
The village chief glared at the boss with a pair of black eyes, "How did the girl know?" ”
I thought for a moment and said, "Surely such a big fish can't grow in this lake, right?" So it must have come from outside.
And more than a month ago, when the Liang army's large army marched into Padang, this strange fish must have been alarmed from the deep pool in the river, and when it swam to the Yangtze River on the other side of this mountain, it was swept into the underground river by the whirlpool and sent in.
It can't get out, it eats fish in this lake every day, so big appetite, how can this fish be enough for it to eat? There must be fewer and fewer of them. ”
I pointed to a few of us: "We all came from the underground river, and we know the ferocity of the whirlpool, and we can't get in or out, otherwise we wouldn't have guessed where the fish came from." ”
The old village chief squinted his eyes, nodded slightly, and said, "But the immortal of the goddess peak wants us to give sacrifices to the lake demon, and the words of the immortal can't help but listen?" ”
I was angry, I hated this kind of liar who swaggered under the banner of immortals, and said indignantly: "Where is the immortal, I'll help you ask, if it's a fake immortal, I'll demolish his temple." ”
The old village chief was so frightened that he waved his hand again and again: "Girl, you can't talk nonsense, this fairy is amazing." ”
Awesome immortals? I'm more interested, what if it's the one I'm looking for?