Chapter 308: The Festival of Torches
The next day, Zhu Rong actually went to the Chu army camp to meet Wu Yi and Jiang Wei in person. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Wu Yi and Jiang Wei glanced at each other, and Jiang Wei said, "Could it be that you are here to discuss surrender?" ”
Wu Yi stroked his beard and said, "It won't be so fast!" ”
"Maybe our Huairou has played a role."
"Let's please Zhu Rong come in, so you know."
Zhu Rong came, only with a girl, the girl is about fourteen or fifteen years old, the girl is beautiful and full of heroism, radiant, really beautiful spring plum blooming snow, like autumn frost, eyes are clear, eyebrows and nose, cheeks slightly pear vortex, when I look at it, I see that this girl's face is slightly round, her eyes are wide open, and Zhu Rong's appearance is quite similar, not as sexy and charming as Zhu Rong, but full of girlish youth.
Jiang Wei couldn't help but take a breath, looked at the girl, and said secretly in his heart: Could it be that Zhu Rong wants to marry her daughter to me?
The girl looked at Jiang Wei with big eyes, flashing and flashing, Jiang Wei's heartstrings were messed up, Jiang Wei smiled at the girl, the girl stared at Jiang Wei, and she didn't blush, but removed Jiang Wei's eyes.
Jiang Wei not only said in his heart: The girl of the Yi nationality is really bold.
"Madam, what are you here for?" Wu Yi asked.
"Tomorrow is the torch festival of our Yi people, we want to truce with you for three days, and after the torch festival, we will go to war again."
"That's it!" Wu Yi looked at Jiang Wei, but found that Jiang Wei was looking at the girl again, with autumn water in his eyes, secretly sending autumn waves.
Wu Yi coughed, Jiang Wei reluctantly withdrew his eyes and nodded towards Wu Yi.
Wu Yi said: "Our army agrees that it will never be a sneak attack." ”
"It would be better if Madame could send a message to King Meng Huo and agree that our two armies would celebrate this torch festival together." Jiang Wei smiled at Zhu Rong.
Zhu Rong glared at Jiang Wei and did not speak.
But the girl spoke: "The Torch Festival is the festival of our Yi nationality, what kind of excitement do you Han people have." ”
Jiang Wei saw that this girl could also speak Chinese, and he was not only overjoyed: "The so-called local customs." ”
The girl glared at Jiang Wei, and even her eyes were somewhat similar to Zhu Rong: "Your Chu army has invaded my Yi territory, how can we invite you to celebrate our Yi Fire Festival together." ”
What this girl said is very right, this is like a strong man who went to someone else's house and beat the man of this family, caught the woman three times and then let go, and said with a hippie smile: I am not here to fight with you, I just want to have a good relationship. This is clearly ......
"Now that General Wu agrees, then let's go back!" After Zhu Rong finished speaking, he left the Chu camp with his daughter.
"It seems that if you want to make the Yi people surrender, it is not a matter of one or two days." Wu Yi said to Jiang Wei.
"The road is slowly repairing and far away, I will go up and down and seek." Jiang Weidao.
The worship and sacrifice of fire by the Yi people is very common, and when it comes to festivals, young men and women light torches made of pine wood, go to the villages and fields to carry out activities, and scatter rosin incense on the torches as they walk, or hold gatherings, sing and dance, or race horses, bullfights, and wrestling. The Yi Torch Festival is the most grand and grand traditional festival of the Yi Nationality, every year from June 24th to 27th of the lunar calendar, each village of the Yi Nationality has to hold a grand sacrifice activity, sacrifice to heaven and earth, sacrifice fire, sacrifice to ancestors, drive away evil, pray for the prosperity of the six animals, and a bumper harvest of grains. The Torch Festival is a large-scale festival of the Yi nationality in addition to the Songkran Festival.
The legend of the Torch Festival is also quite mythical, it is the story of the Yi heroes who defeated the gods and demons and united the people to fight against evil and disasters. Legend has it that in ancient times, there were six suns and seven moons in the sky, the sun was scorching during the day, and the strong light shone at night, the land was barren, demons were rampant, and everything in the world was facing the catastrophe of extinction. At this moment, the Yi hero Zhige Along shot the scorching five suns and the six moons, tamed the last remaining sun and the last moon, subdued the raging flood, and wiped out all kinds of demons that ravaged the world. However, the god Grace Guzi, who ruled over the heavens and the earth, was disgruntled when he saw that the world was so prosperous and rich, so he sent his son Hercules Srea to collect harsh taxes on the earth every year. Later, there was a Yi hero named Heiti Laba in the hometown of Zhige Along, who was infinitely powerful and superhumanly wise. One day, Blackbody Raba went up the mountain to hunt, and her high-pitched singing voice attracted the melodious and graceful singing of Nizhang Azhi, a shepherd girl on another mountain. The Hercules Sreabi, who had long coveted Nizhang and Azhi, heard about the relationship between the two, and his heart was intertwined with resentment and jealousy. It didn't take long for Sreabi, who couldn't hold back his jealousy, to challenge him to wrestle with the black-bodied Raba. As a result, in a wrestling duel, he was killed by the Yi folk hero Heiti Laba, and the gods were furious and released an overwhelming number of heavenly insects (locusts) to destroy the ripe crops. Nizhang Azhi went over the mountains and found a respected priest in the sky, Bimo looked through the book of heaven and told Nizhang Azhi: To destroy locusts, you need to use torches. Nizhang Azhi and Heiti Raba led the people up the mountain to tie torches, and after three days and three nights of torches, and burned torches for three days and three nights, they finally burned all the insects and saved the crops. Seeing this, Tiguzi used his mana to turn the overworked Blackbody Raba into a high mountain. Seeing all this, she was heartbroken and in pain, and she gave up her life to turn into a beautiful Soma flower blooming all over the mountain at the sound of the prayer of the Great Bimo, and bloomed on the high mountain that the black body Rabah had become. This day happens to be the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. Since then, in order to commemorate this day, the Yi people will hit the flint in the traditional way to light the sacred fire on the 24th day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year.
Zhu Rong is a descendant of the fire god Zhu Rong, naturally I hope that this torch festival will continue as in previous years, and the Chu army in order to let the barbarians return to their hearts, they have to agree to Zhu Rong's conditions, if the Chu army chooses to attack, but three days will be able to break through Yunnan City, capture Meng Shu alive, just kill Meng Huo, the barbarians will appear another king, it is still not easy to control at that time, if once Meng is returned, with Meng Shu's influence in Nanzhong, it will not take long for Chu to completely control the southern and central regions including Yunnan.
On the night of the Torch Festival, tens of thousands of torches were lit in Tucheng, Yunnan, and the barbarians danced and sang with torches, twisted from the city to the outside of the city, danced and sang by the woods outside the city, and even those young men and women even found a clean place directly next to the woods and then did it with real guns, and it was really an indescribable feeling to walk to the side of the grove. Jiang Wei now understands why E Huan is reluctant to come with Jiang Wei, Jiang Wei found two Yi clothes, and then dragged half of the Yi people's E Huan into the Yi Torch Festival.
"Ehuan, this and this ......"
The torches brightened the whole night, and even if the Yi men and women hid in the woods, the pedestrians walking beside the trees could see the flesh of those white flowers.
"Hey, shameless, shameless!" Jiang Wei shook his head, listening to a few waves from time to time, only to feel that the whole person was not good, and his heart was really like a fire burning again.
At this moment, several scantily clad Yi women walked in front of them, and those women passed by Jiang Wei, and suddenly one of them turned around and grabbed Jiang Wei's clothes and said, "You are so familiar with each other?" ”
Because the woman was using barbarian language, Jiang Wei couldn't understand it, but seeing the girl's face, Jiang Wei knew who this person was, it was Meng Shu's daughter. (To be continued.) )