The big saffron sedan chair stopped not far in front of the bus.

The people on the bus watched with bated breath, and there was an inexplicable tense atmosphere in the air.

The four big men put down the sedan chair, and the heavy solid wood sedan chair fell to the ground, making a dull sound, which was particularly clear in the silent mountains.

Two women in bright red robes raised the lanterns in their hands and sent them back, and the candle flame of the lantern illuminated the front of the sedan chair and also illuminated their faces.

They were two horrible faces, as white as a dead man, with only a hint of red on their lips and cheeks.

Typical dead man makeup.

The screams of several women rang out from the bus.

The woman in the bright red robe heard the noise and turned her head, her face full of dead white, and her two black eyes turned to this side, staring at the bus.

The screaming woman in the car quickly covered her mouth.

The woman in the red robe did not hear the sound again, turned her head, and continued to hold the lantern aloft in front of the sedan chair.

The mountain breeze blows, the curtain of the sedan chair swings with the wind, and the atmosphere in the night is eerie, and it seems that a pale hand will stretch out at any time.

Yet nothing happened.

It was a big man who, under the light of the woman's lantern, lifted the curtain of the big red sedan chair and took out a person from it.

The man was dressed in a bright red wedding dress, embroidered with auspicious patterns of mandarin ducks, flowers and birds, and covered with a big red hijab on his head.

It's a bride.

Looking at the way the big man is hugging, the bride under the red hijab is very light.

A gust of wind blew, and the bride's big red hijab fluttered slightly, fluttering away.

The sedan chair, the bride, this should be a very beautiful picture, but when you change the time and place, it becomes particularly eerie.

The woman carrying the lantern seemed to be worried that the red hijab would be blown off, and reached out and tugged at the corner of the hijab.

The hijab didn't fly, but the shoes on the bride's feet slipped off as the big man walked, revealing a white calf.

Only legs, no feet.

There was another screaming woman on the bus.

The woman with the red candle and lantern also whispered: "Wait, wait! Hi shoes are off! Hi shoes are off! ”

As he spoke, the white/powder on his face fell.

The woman picked up the wedding shoes and stuffed them into the bride's legs, and with a bang, something seemed to be broken on the bride's calves.

"Be careful, you've pierced the paper." The big man holding the bride whispered.

At the tip of the bride's calf, a piece of white paper was swaying in the wind, and from time to time it scraped over a bundle of straw exposed from the bride's calf.

"What! O bride made of straw! Fang Youning said in a trance.

Zhuang Yi smiled, with his night vision, he had already seen that this bride was not a real person. Moreover, the back of the big red sedan chair is separated by a distance, and a large group of tourists are still followed, holding mobile phones and cameras to shoot.

Taking a closer look inside the bus, Fang Xin and several members of the film crew have long since disappeared.

Too many people on the bus were shocked by the big red sedan chair swaying on the mountain road in the deep mountains and mountains in the middle of the night, and they didn't notice the surrounding situation at all.

The big man holding the bride and the woman carrying the lantern passed through the mountain road next to the bus, heading towards the mountain, and the onlookers followed all the way, most of them were quiet, only some mobile phones clicked when they took pictures, and there was a slight buzz at the end of the tourist procession.

There are so many people, the bus will not be able to drive away for a while, everyone is here to play, just to see such a wonderful wedding scene, all feel novel and excited, most of the people in the middle of the night are as excited as chicken blood, have gotten off the bus to watch.

Fang Youning dragged Zhuang Yi and wanted to go down to see the excitement, but as soon as he got up, a person walked against the current in the car, and the fancy undershirt and pants were none other than Fang Xin.

Fang Xin's face was furious, and Zhuang Yi and Fang Youning moved inward, so as not to be accidentally injured by Fang Xin's angry artillery battle.

Fang Xin walked over, raised his foot, and kicked directly towards the seat in the aisle next to Zhuang Yi.

"Jiang Songfan! You bastard boy! I can't sleep with you! ”

Jiang Songfan was kicked awake and opened his eyes in a daze: "Arrived?" ”

"It's time for the crematorium! It just happened to be the 'mandrill bride' getting off the sedan chair, a ceremony that is only held once a year, and you actually fell asleep for me!? Fortunately, Lao Yang took the camera and recorded it completely, otherwise our materials would not be complete, and the topic would be a fart! ”

"Mandrill bride?" Jiang Songfan grabbed the hair that slept into a chicken coop, "Didn't it start after eleven o'clock at night?" ”

"It's past half past eleven! There's a big traffic jam on the road, bastard! Why don't you sleep to death? Hurry down! ”

Fang Xin scolded and left, and Jiang Songfan quickly rubbed his face and followed behind.

Zhuang Yi and Fang Youning also got out of the car and walked behind the tourists.

The ceremony of the mandrill bride, Zhuang Yi saw it on the Internet.

The Yuanlin area is mountainous, and the belief in the mountain god is one of the mountain gods of one mountain, and the mandrill god is one of the many mountain gods believed in by the people of Yuanlin.

I don't know when the mandrill god became the only mountain god belief in the Yuanlin area, and the name changed from the mandrill god to the tomb mandrill, and the legend has also changed significantly.

In the belief of the god Mandrill, the mandrill is depicted in the form of a monkey-like animal, guarding the safety of the mountain forest. However, the Tomb Keeper Mandrill is depicted as a warrior wearing a mandrill mask, and the entity has changed from an animal to a human, and its role is no longer only the guardian of the mountain, but the gatekeeper of the tomb gate.

Legend has it that somewhere in the mountains of the Far Forest, there is a tomb gate, which is the entrance to the abyss of hell, the source of evil and darkness, and once the gate is opened, calamity and calamity will belay the Far Forest, and then the entire Far Forest will become a barren land where all things do not exist.

The guardian of the tomb mandrill guards the gate of the tomb, which is to guard the safety of the distant forest. The people of Yuanlin were grateful for the kindness of the mandrill guarding the tomb, and tried every means to worship this god, not only offering food and clothing, but also marrying a virgin/female bride like flowers and jade every five years.

The wedding ceremony is usually held on the eighth day of the sixth month, and is witnessed by the first quarter moon in the height of summer.

Most of the selected mandrill brides are cardamom girls, after bathing and cleansing, wearing red wedding dresses, and being sent to the tomb of the mandrill temple by the family team, lying on the marriage bed paved with flowers and leaves, spending the night alone, the next day will be picked up by the family team, and after three years, you can get married.

When Zhuang Yi saw the marriage bed, there was always a beautiful image of a ghost baboon lingering in his mind, and he felt that the marriage bed should be covered with bananas.

Most of the modern Yuanlin people have inherited the ritual of worshipping the mandrill mandrill, but the bad habit of the mandrill bride sacrifice, which disregards the dignity of women, has been forcibly canceled. However, the clever Yuanlin people quickly thought of an alternative method, replacing the real virgin/girl with a scarecrow or a paper tie man, and marrying the tomb keeper mandrill as his wife.

Anyway, it's just a comfort for the soul.

Today's mandrill bride sacrifice is more to satisfy the curiosity of tourists, from once every five years to once a year, the time is still the eighth day of June.

Today is the 23rd day of July, the eighth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the season is hot, and there is a quarter moon in the sky. However, Zhuang Yi didn't expect that the bride of the mandrill was sending off her relatives in the deep mountains and mountains, and she was pinching the time point at midnight, and the uninformed people were afraid to be scared to death when they saw the strange scene just now.

There are a lot of tourists, and in front of it is the temple guarding the tomb mandrill, Zhuang Yi looked at the dense crowd of people, and sighed in his heart that everyone was so interested in the middle of the night, and he didn't have much hope for squeezing in to watch the ceremony.

He wandered around, his eyes with night vision looking at the scenery around him at night, but he saw a stone that looked like a boundary monument under the mountain wall not far from the temple of the Tomb Guarding Mountain.

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary boundary stone, but there is no text on it, but there is a dark red streak.

Zhuang Yi looked at it for a long time, his brows furrowed: Blood talisman?