Chapter 31: Sacrifice to the Heavens
Of course, I'm in a hurry to get out, and there's a reason.
I've been down the mountain for so long, and I haven't gone to the pillar incense in front of the third master's grave.
The third master has been on the person surnamed He all his life, and I haven't been able to earn him back the coffin book, but I can't even look at him after she dies.
In this way, the third master will blame me.
I don't know how long I was locked up, I really couldn't wait, I looked up and asked Ercha, I said Ercha, what are you going to let me do? Paying for your life?
The two forks shook their heads, clasped their hands on their chests, and said with a proud face, I can't tell you, they won't let me say it!
The two forks lack heart, this is a fact that everyone knows, and it is estimated that someone has told him early in the morning not to tell him about their plans.
I asked in a different way, and I said, "Two forks, are you going to kill me?"
He shook his head and said, Uncle said, if you can't kill you, the mountain god will blame!
After speaking, the second fork covered his mouth, as if he realized that he had missed his mouth, but seeing that I didn't react, he was not afraid, and returned to his original appearance of the door god, fierce and vicious, and even felt that he was a little powerful.
Mountain God ......
I immediately understood that they were a group of idiots who actually regarded that terrible ghost as a mountain god!
In order to prevent the two forks from becoming suspicious, I pretended to sleep for a while before asking him again: "By the way, do you know what the mountain god looks like?" ”
The two forks shook their heads again, looking at me with disdain, as if I had asked what an idiotic question. He said, you are stupid, the mountain god is a mountain god, how can we see it easily! After saying that, he lowered his head and smirked for a while, squinted his eyes and spoke again, saying, but it doesn't matter, we can see soon!
The words of the two forks were like a thunderbolt on the top of my head, and I could see what they meant soon.
Thinking of the fact that they tied me up, but did nothing, and only let a second fool look at me, I almost guessed that they were going to take me to sacrifice to the mountain god!
I haven't experienced the ritual of sacrificing to the gods, but I've also heard the third master talk about it, only when a major event happens, people are unable to return to heaven, will take such a method. However, even if this is the case, it is already a matter of the old society!
When I was a child, I listened to the story of the third master, he said, he said, when he was young, he did not live in this village, at that time, there was a plague in his hometown, because of the backward medical technology, so there was no cure at all, seeing that more and more people were dying, their village chief had no choice, and invited a Taoist priest.
When the third master said this, whenever he talked about this Taoist priest, he had to roll his eyes to show his disdain, it can be seen that the third master has real skills, and the Taoist priest is probably just a half-hanger, just abducted and deceived.
The Taoist priest pretended to do the Fa for a long time, and when he was about to take the money and leave, he found that the plague had not been alleviated, and the village chief sent someone to find him, but there was no way, the Taoist priest gritted his teeth and said, it seems that there are many sins in your village, and the general method is no longer enough to calm the anger of the sky, so there is only one way left - sacrifice to the sky!
Why did the third master hate that Taoist priest so much, and even ran away from home in the end? Because the woman selected by the Taoist priest to sacrifice to the sky is the mother of the third master.
In fact, at that time, the third master did not tell me this matter very clearly, he only said that it was a woman in his own family, but later, whenever I remembered the expression of the third master when he spoke, I could clearly recall that his feelings were not only regret for an acquaintance, but the sadness of losing a loved one.
I forgot that the third master once told me that the woman had a holiday with the Taoist priest, probably in that era when there was not enough to eat, the woman did not give the Taoist priest a bowl of rice.
In short, the Taoist priest held a grudge against the mother of the third master, secretly investigated her mother's birth date, and chose the mother of the third master as a candidate for worship.
The third master said that on that day, his mother was tied to a log, and there was hay underneath, the kind that was just a little bit. The bodies of countless dead people were piled up around the woman, and with the order of the Taoist priest, torches were thrown into the hay, and the hay, the living, along with the dead who had begun to stink, were all reduced to ashes in the hot summer.
Later, the third master said: "So, those people who are chattering with gods are all liars, you see, even if you don't use that woman to worship the heavens and burn the corpses, will you destroy the source of infection?" In fact, if we had done this earlier, people's illnesses would have been cured long ago! ”
This is also another truth that the third master taught me, that is, if you don't believe, then there are no ghosts and gods in the world. Anything that can be solved by normal means should not be involved in ghosts and gods.
As I began to come out of my memories, I saw that the two prongs had begun to nap.
I don't know what to tell them that I have killed the mountain god they talked about. If I don't do it, they will kill me immediately to appease the "wrath of heaven", but if I don't, I'm afraid I'll be burned alive.
Since the death of the third master's mother, he has gone away, met a master in the world, learned a good skill, and never returned to the hometown that brought him these nightmares.
I moved my body, but when I saw that no one was coming, and the two forks didn't do anything, I just leaned against the corner and took a nap, waiting to see what happened. At night, it seemed that someone had come to bring food to the two forks, and they spoke very quietly, but I still heard some of them.
As if to say, tomorrow you will sacrifice me to the mountain god, let the two forks look at me, don't give me food, so as not to stain the sacrifice.
I looked at my gray appearance and thought to myself, "Am I not dirty enough now?"
However, jokes aside, if I am going to face the fate of being burned alive tomorrow, if I don't run away tonight, I will be sorry for myself!
After the man left, I listened for a while, and after making sure that there was no other movement, I shouted Ercha, and I said, Ercha, I haven't eaten for a day, you give me something to eat!
The two forks poked their heads in, stuffed a steamed bun in their hands and stuffed it into their mouths, eating it very deliciously, and said while chewing, you should die, just now the uncle said, I can't give you something to eat!
I stared at the two forks, frowned, and I said, two forks, you come this way, I think something is wrong with you!
The two forks waved their hands and said, don't tease me, Uncle said it, I can't believe you.
I said, "Then if I say that your seal is black, don't you believe it?"