Chapter 18: The Sacrifice of the Raven

The old people didn't react for a while, and when they did, joy had climbed up to their old faces.

"Fifth uncle, the house I built is the strongest, and when the time comes, I must let this old bone do my best."

"Fifth uncle, I'm an expert at digging wells, let me do it when the time comes, and make sure to make a well with the best taste in the mouth."

"As you said, when I have your good water, I can make good wine for everyone to drink, spirits are not suitable for the fifth uncle, I will brew more Zhenguo brew and honey for the fifth uncle to drink."

"Do you lack me for winemaking, what good grains do you take to make wine without me, Uncle Five, I will take out the best grains to make sweet wine for him, Uncle Five sweet wine is not a spirit."

"I can finally have a home, and the honey I raised is more than dead, and I feel sorry for me. Hurry up and settle down, I'll raise more bees and produce more honey. ”

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This bunch of old people is like this, you talk about the desire to settle down and the imagination of future settlement. Drinking tea and chatting like this, Xiaoyu sent a light porridge with green vegetables, and after Shang Wu and the old people had lunch together, they sent a tea leaf to each old man and let them go back.

After sending the old people away, Shang Wu leaned on the carriage and closed his eyes to rest for a while, frailty is not only easy for Shang Wu to get sick, even if he talks more, he is easy to get tired and tired. Fell asleep unconsciously.

When Shang Wu woke up in a daze, he found that he was already lying under the quilt, and Lu Lu was lying next to him, looking at him with big eyes.

"Little lazy pig, you've been sleeping for half an afternoon." Lu Lu said with his index finger hanging on Shang Wu's nose.

"I've slept for so long, tell me what you received in the morning." Shang Wu sighed with emotion and just squinted his eyes for a while and slept for half an afternoon, and suddenly thought of a situation where he had already made way to go to Xiaoyu to help, but he actually made way to touch the crows, so he continued to ask.

"I hunted a few deer in the morning and chased a leopard, and I was going to call you to make up for it, but the leopard was too cunning to spread to the trees and disappeared." Lu Lu said heartlessly about her hunting.

"Our road is so powerful, there are a lot of new things outside this way, have you encountered any new things outside?" Shang Wu didn't like to ask directly, for fear that Lu Lu would be wrong for a while, so he turned a corner and asked.

"Yes, you were also told that there was a crow in the little fish, and she made a very good hunting tool, and I was rampage in the woods, and she was digging traps and tools for hunting in the back, and one person caught more than me." Lu Lu said the crow that caught her attention the most.

"She's so powerful, she must be a very capable person." Shang Wu casually catered to Lu Lu, waiting for her to say the next words.

"Hmph, I don't like to get along with her very much, she finally likes to ignore her when she talks to her, and she likes Shinto, she always likes to do things alone, and she doesn't fit in." Lu Lu crackled and said a bunch of words.

It turns out that the crow is such a person.

"So that's the case, then she's not lonely to listen to." Shang Wu asked Lu Lu to confirm it, Lu Lu spoke directly to the point that his mouth was faster than his head, and it was very likely that he would say something exaggerated for the sake of his addiction to talking with his mouth. Therefore, Shang Wu had to ask more times to confirm.

"Not really, every now and then a few men and women come to the crows and say something strange, and I don't listen to them when I think it's boring, and they go away." After Lu Lu finished speaking, he got up and poured water into his mouth with a water bag and drank it.

Shang Wu has collected the situation about crows these days, and when he comes over in his head, he thinks it is quite interesting, and the problem of crows does not seem to be as difficult as he thinks, after all, it has not reached the point where the gods are mysteriously hiding, that is to say, this crow is only a few people according to their thinking, habits or beliefs, and personal charm, but now there is no tendency to split the team or destroy.

For this kind of person with his own cohesion ability, Shang Wu still needs to rely on a lot, he can't use a hard system to restrain people, especially outsiders, and if he wants them to contribute to the whole family, he must give them some things they want, as long as their goals are consistent with the interests of the family, they are not afraid of chaos.

Shang Wu has now realized that the entire convoy has changed from the beginning of the migration of the family to the agreed family rules and blood management methods, to the current commercial trade nature and began to gather some outsiders who have returned, the original family management method is no longer enough and not suitable for the pre-existing situation, the sharpening of contradictions and the collision of opposites are already inevitable things, and must be adjusted or cut before deteriorating to the point of outbreak, otherwise the consequences can be unimaginable.

Shang Wu lived these things in his mind, Lu Lu also put it into the quilt after drinking water, Shang Wu helped Lu Lu cover the quilt on his shoulder, rubbed Lu Lu's face with one hand, Lu Lu felt very happy and smiled slightly.

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[In the evening, a bonfire was lit a little further away from the convoy]

"Everyone is here." The crow looked at the dozen or so people in front of him.

"It's all here."

"Here we are."

"It's all here."

A crowd of people replied to the crows in an irregular manner.

"Then let's get started." After the crow finished speaking, she walked into the campfire and the flames were imprinted on her serious face, especially when she said that the dark night gave a mysterious feeling.

"The gods of the heavens, the devils of the demon world, the great demons of the demon world, the powerful beings of all walks of life, I, the crow, lead a group of believers to pray here, pray for strong protection, and lead us lost people to the future。。。。。。" The crow began to pray.

While the crow was praying, three or two of them brought out a goat from the tree, and the goat had a wound on its leg, which was obviously caught by the crow in a trap during the day.

Then two or three people came up and held the goats firmly to the ground.

"Baa, baa, baa." The goat was pressed by a group of people and was very frightened, its four legs kept kicking hard, and its head and tail kept shaking, but it was helplessly pressed and couldn't move steadily, and could only use its mouth to make a terrible sheep cry to vent the horror in its heart, and the helpless mouth was also sifted out, although the sound was not very small, but it could not be transmitted to the distant convoy, attracting the attention of people from afar.

The crow picked up a morally made stone spear head, and cut the ribs of the goat little by little, after all, the stone spear head is not a very sharp weapon, although it can cut the skin and flesh of the sheep, but it is impossible to cut the bones of the sheep, and at this time it must be broken with some brute force.

The poor goat, tossed by the crow and the crowd, had no strength to shout and kick his legs, and the heaval of the goat's cavity became smaller and smaller, and it was only a matter of time before he lost his breath.

The crow took a rib from the goat's body and burned it on the fire, then took out an herb from the goat's body, put it in the goat's mouth, and hung the goat for a breath, presumably because the crow did not allow the goat to die so soon in this ritual.

"Wait until the goat dies and see what the ribs are roasted into, and the result will be. This sheep can't let it die immediately, but the hind legs of the sheep can still be used for supper to fill the stomach, wait a minute, don't put too much blood, come and share the mutton with a few of you. The raven said.

The crow did the man chew the roast leg of lamb like this, and stayed up all night waiting for the goat to die. When the white line did not appear in the sky, but the black gray has faded a little, the crow checked the goat again, only to see the goat staring at the beads of the eyes and did not move, one hand on the goat's abdominal cavity Although the goat's body is still warm but can not feel the ups and downs, tear off a few wool and put it on the sheep's nose There is no movement, presumably the sheep has just died.

After watching the crow inspect the goat, he walked to the roasted lamb ribs, and knew that the result of the sacrifice would come out immediately, and they also gathered around to see what was going on.

The crow looked at the crack in his ribs and frowned.

The crow said solemnly:

"The demons and gods have made a prediction, and they say that we have a powerful being who is protecting us and will lead us into the future."

And the crowd was very happy to hear the crow say the result of the sacrifice, and lowered their voices to cheer, and the crow who was the happiest among the people who sacrificed was a little troubled by the bright premonition shown by this rib, which was obviously not as simple as the crow said, and there was a secret hidden in the mouth of the crow and did not say it.