Sister Wenwen followed her father out of the main gate, and walked towards the man standing outside the blood line that had already dried at the foot of the steps, my mother and I stood a little further away from the door, and I couldn't hear what they were saying clearly, I could only vaguely hear the bad news such as "it's gone" and "Wei Wu was seriously injured", and the crisis hit again, breaking the daydream that I thought everything would end today in the early morning.

"Xiaozhu, you take your son home, and I'll go with Sister Wenwen to see the situation. "I couldn't see Daddy's expression, and I could only hear anxiety in his tone.

"I'm going too! Daddy, take me there!"

"Yueyue, you are at home, my mother will protect you. My mother said to me tenderly, holding my shoulder.

"But ......"

"Yue'er, with my father here, it will be fine. ”

This is the first time I've heard my dad say this kind of thing to me, and since I can remember, I've only heard him reprimand me for being lazy and scolding me for not learning the art of collecting, and all that's left is a stiff face or a small wooden stick drawn on my body.

After saying this, Dad took Sister Wenwen and left with the man who delivered the message. I looked at them in the distance, and I hated my own incompetence more and more.

I followed my mother back to the hall, sitting at the table and no longer had the intention of continuing to eat, I asked my mother: "Is there something else to do with the witches, so let's go to see the sacrifice?"

"It stands to reason that this has never happened on the last day of the mountain god sacrifice for so many years, even if there is an accident, this sacrifice must be carried out, otherwise the vibration of the mountain god is not only a problem for Jing County itself, if the strange animals in the mountains are rampant, the county will inevitably send officers and soldiers or collectors from the government to come here to assist your father." When my mother said these words, a nervous look appeared on her face, "To be honest, your father and I decided to settle here, firstly, because it was close to Jingshi, and secondly, in order to maintain the safety of the people, your father specially selected Jingxian County, which is a settlement established by Jingshan, which is inhabited by harmful animals, and your father and I don't care, we have lived for forty or fifty years, and we have already lived enough, but it is really hard for you and Wenwen......

I held the little one in my hand from my shoulder and handed it to my mother and said, "Mom, you rub the little one, it can help you relieve mental pressure." ”

My mother smiled and touched her little head: "Haha, I told your father, Yueyue is definitely not the kind of child who only knows wasted time all day long, it is really a child with a heart." ”

"Then let's go to the square for a while, if Daddy is over there, he probably handles it well, if Daddy and Wu Zhu don't come, Mom and we can also go and help my sister and Daddy. ”

"Okay, Yueyue has really grown up. Although my mother said this, she still seemed to be a little entangled, "Forget it, I'll take you with me, my mother has followed your father to the north and south in the past few years, and she is not a fledgling spearhead girl, and she can protect everyone." ”

Hearing this, I got up and helped my mother clean up the breakfast dishes and chopsticks, and sat in the hall to prepare to watch the most critical sacrifice ceremony. When the time was almost up, our mother and son were ready to leave, and just as we walked out of the door, the man who delivered the message came running panting from a distance.

I shouted "here again" in my heart, and another stone pressed against the tip of my heart, almost piling up into a small mountain, crushing my heart.

"Madam, Madam, hurry up and see Uncle Zhang Cheng's side, I look at him and Miss Zhang Wen I'm afraid that he is a little prostrate, you hurry up and help." ”

Hearing this, where else could my mother take care of, holding my hand and preparing to find my father, I couldn't break away from her right hand that was holding my arm tightly, and ran a few steps to the side of the blood line that had darkened, closed my eyes and was mentally prepared to be impacted, but nothing happened. Then it doesn't matter much, I ran all the way with my mother.

Following the messenger, I passed by the county office, and went straight to a unique style next to the county office, the top of the house was facing the sky, and as soon as I entered the door, I saw my father and Sister Wenwen sitting on the bench on the side, their clothes stained with blood, resting without saying a word.

"This ...... What's going on?" I blurted out when I saw the state of the two of them, "Is it a strange animal that is harmful to people and has broken into the county?"

"Xiaozhu, why did you bring him here?!" Dad ignored me and said to Mom, "Didn't I tell you not to take him out of our house?"

"I ...... I heard the message from them, and I really didn't care about it so much, so I came out with Yueyue, and it should be fine. ”

"Alas, Wen'er and I have already settled it here, let's hurry home and wait for the sacrifice to end, everything will be over tomorrow." ”

Hearing these words come out of my father's mouth, the stone that was about to crush me on the tip of my heart burst into the slightest crack. However, as a strong word came, several people present couldn't help but look at the source of the voice deeper in the room, "Thank you, Lord Zhang Cheng." ”

It was a slightly chubby, round-faced man, dressed in a witch costume, visibly lame, holding his waist with one hand and walking in our direction as he spoke. This person looked very familiar, and when he thought about it carefully, wasn't this the person who was in the middle of the square with the other witches in the middle of the square to recite prayers and participate in the ceremony when he went to the square to talk to Maidi yesterday morning?

"Wei Wu, I hope you can insist on the last day of the sacrifice today. Daddy said to the fat man with a blank face, "The work I can do for the sacrifice is basically done. ”

The fat man surnamed Wei replied, "Thank you Lord Zhang Cheng for your contribution to our mountain god sacrifice, the mountain god will surely bring blessings to you and your family." Is this the young master of your family?" he turned his head to look at me, smiled and asked if I was Zhang Yue, I looked at my father's eyes, and didn't dare to answer him for a while.

"My name is Wei Hao, and I am the great witch Zhu sent by the Jingshi Tianzhu Temple to sit in Jingxian County and be responsible for planning and arranging the sacrifice of the mountain gods, just call me by my name. ”

I know that in the eight wildernesses and nine states, everyone worships the gods of the land, the sea and the sky, and the people in the palace have specially gathered the witches of the world, established the Tianzhu Temple, and specially sent all kinds of famous or capable witches to all parts of the Quartet, presiding over or participating in the festival of sacrificing the mountain gods, sea gods, river gods, and heavenly gods, saying that they participated, in fact, the Tianzhu Temple had already begun activities before I was born. The Tianzhu Temple is in charge of the sacrificial affairs, and the residences of the official witches in various places are collectively called the Tianzhu Temple.

It seems that we are now in the Tianzhu Temple in Jingxian County, but I have also heard my mother say that the word "witch" is actually a person who walks the streets and alleys to sacrifice and eliminate disasters for people and predict dream interpretation, and "witch zhu" is a profession derived from these people who are specially used as priests after they are fixed. In fact, there are still many folk witches who do not join the ranks of Tianzhu Temple, and many witches are no longer collectors, and more than half of the witches are also collectors and master thaumaturgy.

When I heard him speak to me, I couldn't ignore it without politeness, so I asked him, "Did something happen to the temple on this day, and why did my sister and father have blood on their clothes?"

"Look at my lame and injured waist, what do you think is the reason, the other witches were killed by some kind of strange animal, I escaped with two of them, and sent one of them to inform Lord Zhang Cheng. I can't say what these strange animals are, but they have turned into the appearance of other witches under my command, and some of the missing people are probably like them, after being killed by this strange animal, they changed into their original appearance and blended into the county. ”

Hearing him say this, it seems that all the mysteries ahead have been solved.