After all, there are only a few people in this world who are willing to die for love, and forced burial is a tragedy in the world, as mentioned above, many Hindu women have been forced to be martyred, so in order to rebel against this tragic fate, they have invented a custom that seems extremely absurd to outsiders.

On the morning after the visit to Pasupati, while Shakru was having breakfast, Alok suddenly walked in and said to Shakru, "Elder Pandeit, Master Platon wants to invite you to a wedding today to bless them, I don't know if you mean to go or not?" ”

"Going to a wedding? It's a happy event, and I can get some joy. Shakru said as he ate.

"But this wedding is a little special." Alok said with some hesitation.

"Oh, what's so special?" Shakru asked curiously.

Alok hesitated for a moment, then said, "Because today's groom is a fruit."

"What? Fruit? What does that mean? Shakru asked, puzzled.

"Well, it's a tradition of the Newari people, where girls have a special wedding when they're five to eight years old, and it's their first wedding in their lives, and in this wedding their groom is a fruit called bel, which is not available in other countries, and even in Nepal, the yield is very low. This hard-looking, harvested in the middle of summer, is juiced and drunk by the locals, and is said to be very medicative, and has a cough-relieving effect. Alok explained.

Before Shakru could speak, Kabaeva exclaimed, "Oh my God, what do these parents think, how can they marry their daughter to a fruit?" Are they all crazy? ”

At this time, Shakru suddenly remembered that in his previous life, Aishvayare had married a banana tree in order to change the fate of Kefu (this is true), so he guessed: "If you marry this bel fruit, you can change the life of Kefu or something." ”

"Uh. Elder Pandit, you guessed pretty much, they did marry Bel Fruit to change their fate, but not for any fate. Rather, it is to avoid the fate of martyrdom. Because there has always been an unwritten custom here that if the husband dies. His wife could not remarry in order to show her loyalty to her husband, so there would be many tragedies of young widows.

In order to escape this tragic fate, some women have come up with a solution, which is to marry bel, and from then on bel will be their husband, so that as long as the bel husk (dried husk) is preserved, it is equivalent to having a husband who will never die. Marry another man later. They are not the "main room" of these women, and they no longer have to be buried for them. Alok sighed and explained:

After listening to Alok's explanation, Shakru's mood was also a little heavy, and sure enough, there was a last resort behind every seemingly absurd phenomenon, and these women had worked hard to get rid of the fate of the burial, so he nodded and said: "In that case, then I'd better go to this kind of wedding, as long as I can make some efforts for these poor children, it's all good." But how on earth am I supposed to bless them?"

"Actually, it's quite simple, you use the Sky Dance Treasure Wheel to divinate them. Then tell the girls that they will all be happy and happy in the future. I know it's a bit hard for you, but like you said, these kids are actually pretty poor. You should take pity on them."

Shakru didn't intend to refuse this request, firstly, as he said earlier, he wanted to do something for these poor girls, and secondly, he was embarrassed to refuse when Master Platon asked him for help for the first time, after all, this time in Nepal was inevitably troublesome, and in addition, he did not value the sacredness of this so-called sacrificial divination as much as others imagined.

So Shakru pretended to hesitate for a moment, then nodded and said, "Okay, I'll make an exception for the sake of these poor children."

Seeing Shakru agreed. Alok was relieved. So after breakfast, Shakru and his party came to the wedding scene. This special wedding is held in front of the temple of Goddess Kumari as they both worship chastity.

Before the wedding begins. In addition to dressing their daughter in a beautiful wedding dress, parents also have to prepare a plate of flowers, a basin, bright red tica powder, and, of course, her other half of the bel fruit.

At the wedding, the shaman would pray for each girl with a fruit bel, sprinkle flowers on their heads, and light a bright red tika on their foreheads, after which it was the turn of Shakru, a Hindu elder who had traveled all the way from New Delhi, India, to bless the girl, and the so-called blessing was actually a divination by Shakru using the Heavenly Dance Treasure Wheel to pretend to divination, and then say that the girl would be happy in the future.

After that, the mother would put her daughter's feet on the basin and wash her daughter's feet with holy water mixed with ox urine, and then the mother would drink the water from her daughter's feet, because they believed that the water of these chaste daughters' feet had the effect of curing diseases, and when he saw this, Shakru almost threw up, although he knew that in Nepal the ox was a sacred cow (according to legend it is Shiva's mount) and knew that the Nepalese people attached great importance to chastity, but he still could not accept this practice of drinking foot-washing water.

Seeing Shakru's appearance, Alok on the side persuaded in a low voice: "Elder Pandeit, hold on, this is the custom in this place, and it is not for us to drink anyway." ”

After the wedding ceremony, the girls have to take their respective husbands home and collect them, and this fruit will slowly turn into a dried fruit that will accompany her for the rest of her life.

Originally, Shakru thought that this kind of fruit wedding was strange enough, but he didn't expect that the following Dashan Festival made him really see what blood, cruelty and slaughter are!!

ps: Recently, the starting point of the China Literature Group is taking the lead in suing Baidu, cracking down on piracy, as a writer, this kind of thing naturally has to be fully supported, now pirated online music has been cracked down, pirated movies have also been cracked down, and finally it's the turn of online novels, although now it's just Baidu Tieba and UC no piracy, but after all, it's a good start, I believe that if there is really no piracy, in the case of higher writers' income, the phenomenon of hydrology will be less and less, and there will be more and more good books! (To be continued.) )