Chapter 9: The Last Day

Coming to the sacrificial square, the priest Wei Hao tried his best to hide his injured body, trying his best not to let the people add another layer of fear on top of the panic, after all, he was the only priest present.

To be honest, I didn't expect to finally come to the scene of the sacrifice with my father, my mother and Sister Wenwen, although my father and Sister Wenwen were already tired. But everyone should know that this is the "last day", the last day of the sacrifice.

As the Great Witch Zhu wore a mask with wide eyes and angular patterns, accompanied by the sacrificial music that had no impression, the square was silent, time seemed to stand still at this moment, and even the birds in the sky calmed down, just passing by, not screaming.

Da Wuzhu danced a strange dance step, chanting words in his mouth, holding the jade bi of the worship of Jingshan Mountain God in one hand, and waving a long staff in the other hand, sometimes pointing to the sky, sometimes sweeping the mountains in the distance, and sometimes poking heavily at the ground. The people gathered in the square bowed their heads and were silent, their hands clasped in front of their chests, their chins closed, waiting for the moment when the jade was buried in the ground.

At noon, Da Wuzhu's shadow had gradually shortened, and the direction was pointing to Jingshan in the north, the music stopped abruptly, and his dance gradually slowed down. The last action was that he slowly lowered the priest's staff in his hand, knelt down on his left knee, and held the jade bi in both hands to face the mountains. I don't know what kind of pious expression the Great Witch Zhu uses to face the magnificent mountains and the great mountain gods under the mask of the priest now.

Wei Hao Wuzhu slowly placed the jade bi in the wooden plate with sharp patterns, took the jade shovel next to the wooden plate with his left hand, and dug a square pit in the bare land in the center of the altar under his feet. Somehow, a few wisps of breath were blown out from behind the closed mask, and the Great Witch Zhu paced around the square pit, blowing the dry soil from the jade shovel into the pit, and then swept the dirt into the square pit with the wide sleeve of his right wrist.

At the last step, even the sound of breathing seemed to disappear from the square. The priest holds the jade and gently puts it into the square pit, then fills the pit with both hands the soil piled up next to the pit, and smooths the excess soil with his hands. At this time, something wonderful happened, I had never seen such a flash of cyan blue. With a wonderful flash, the land was uplifted and undulated in the distance, in exactly the same direction, like a miniature small Jingshan-like shape, formed and swollen under the flash, and finally collapsed and returned to its original state.

The sacrifice was completed.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, as if nothing had ever happened in the county. Everyone silently retreated from the square into the streets and alleys, and after a short time the crowd disappeared without a trace.

I have not yet recovered from this magnificent ritual and fantasize about how great it would have been if the many shamans were still alive. At this time, my father and mother had already reminded us to go home.

As I walked in the direction of home, I gradually began to wonder if the mystery that had happened recently would really end. I looked sideways at the expressions of my father and mother, but I still didn't relax. When I got home, nothing had changed, except for the lack of the cooking smoke from the sixth child's cooking, the hot tea brewed by Ruyue, and the sound of Maidi once calling me to go out with her outside the door.

When they went back to their bedrooms, I didn't know what to do, so I couldn't help but start learning "Haishan Lu". I didn't use "dummies" to confuse my father and mother last night, and suddenly I felt that I wouldn't need him in the future, I would work hard to learn thaumaturgy, and the knowledge of strange things and strange animals, and it would be good if I could help a little, so why don't I throw it away now?

Picking up this "dummy" from under the bed made it feel like it was lighter than the day before, and it took me a lot of effort to put it on the seat that night, but today I can pick it up more easily.

Walk towards the backyard, prepare to dismantle the "dummy" in the back cover room first, so as not to be discovered by Mom and Dad, and then throw the debris to the garbage place on the street, so that it can be disposed of cleanly. Picked up the axe of chopping wood, first dismantled the limbs before talking, and was about to start, when there was a scolding voice from behind him: "Stop! Shameless sour, you dare to spread wild in my Zhang family's house, and you have no choice but to perform thaumaturgy in the past few days, and you can't accept you as a strange animal, so you are so bold that you dare to kill my Zhang family!"

"What, Daddy, what are you talking about? What's the sourness there?"

"Let go of my son, I can spare your life, otherwise you will disappear completely today!"

Looking at my father's face, I felt a hundred times stranger, I didn't know what my father was talking about, but the axe in my hand was put down by me. "Daddy, I'm Zhang Yue, I'm your son, what are you talking about?" I was inexplicable, Daddy suddenly didn't know me? Could it be that I was blinded by acid and mistaken for a strange animal?

Sister Wenwen and my mother also came here from the front, standing behind my father, looking into my eyes with unfamiliar eyes. Why do I feel that the experience of the past few days is so hazy, as if I have experienced something in a dream, it is difficult to distinguish the truth from the false, is Ruyue and Lao Liu really dead?

"Sour, don't be entangled, now return to Jingshan, you still have to save, the mountain god is no longer vibrating now, the anger has subsided, take your heirs back to Jingshan to continue to find a place to live on the top of the mountain, don't do evil." "I see, "I" is sour and.

I woke up.

It felt so familiar all around me, but how could I lie on the floor in the backyard and sleep? I was so hungry, so tired, and I felt like I had a long, long dream in which I kept wandering between my desk and my bedroom, reading during the day and resting at night, but I was still so tired. Daddy, Mom, and Sister Wenwen ran towards me from there and helped me to my feet.

"I've wronged you, kid. Daddy's voice was a gentle tone I had never heard in my life, and it startled me.

"Daddy...... What's wrong with you......" I couldn't speak in my throat, and a feeling of weakness spread all over my body, and I felt like I had been kicked in the head a few times, and I was dizzy.

"Son, take this notebook, go back and rest for a few days with the ear mouse, and when you wake up, take a closer look at this notebook, and you will know what is going on. As she spoke, my mother slipped a brand new notebook into my clothes and helped me back to the bed in my bedroom.

When I woke up, I had a headache, lying on the bed, and the little feeling of lying on my stomach next to me was very cute, but there were a few more ominous wisps of demonic atmosphere.

I just woke up from a long sleep, and I can't sleep anymore, so I might as well look through the notes my mother gave me and think about what strange things have happened after I have fallen asleep for the past few days.

The first three words written on the first page are "I'm awake." ”