Chapter 009: Mysterious Stone Tablet
As soon as Qian Cang went out, he walked towards Shi Jingfu's house, and when he met some villagers on the way, he would greet them, but he didn't ask about the death sacrifice again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Although she didn't ask anything useful about the death sacrifice in Shi Xi's mouth, the fear she showed definitely couldn't be fake, Shi Xi was very afraid of the death sacrifice, but as Hawkeye said, since they were afraid, why didn't they stop holding it, their behavior was like being forced to sell drugs by drug dealers, and the end of not selling drugs was death, but there were no other people in this village except them, is it really a ghost?" In the reasoning, Qian Cang thought of the two dead villagers, and the expressions on their faces could not be forgotten.
"If there are ghosts, then is it useful for Taoist monks?" When he thought of this, Qian Cangyi had already walked to the door of Shi Jingfu's house, he retracted his thoughts, because Shi Haimin and Shi Jingfu had a good relationship, so Shi Haimin walked directly into Shi Jingfu's house, and in Shi Jingfu's house, Qian Cangyi saw Shi Jingfu who was working.
"Eh, Haym, you're here, sit down." Shi Jingfu stopped what he was doing and took out two stools.
"I'll make you tea." For Qian Cangyi's arrival, Shi Jingfu's face was very happy, which made Qian Cangyi particularly embarrassed, he had no memory of Shi Haiyi, he didn't know what the two experienced in their childhood, and it was not easy to talk nonsense.
"Don't bother, I'll ......" Qian Cangyi wanted to refuse, but Shi Jingfu's enthusiasm made it difficult for him to persevere.
Facing this stocky man, Qian Cangyi suddenly had an impulse in his heart to tell him that he was just an actor, but this idea was quickly rejected.
"After saying it, the other party was treated as mentally ill? Or is it considered a treacherous person by the other party? Even if I take 10,000 steps back, Shi Jingfu believes that I am not Shi Haimin, what good is it for me, and what help does it help me to know the truth of this village and the truth of the death sacrifice? Nothing! Qian Cangyi smiled self-deprecatingly at the crazy thoughts that popped into his head.
This smile was seen by Shi Jingfu.
"What are you laughing at? So happy. Shi Jingfu sat on the stool.
"Oh, nothing." Qian Cangyi was shocked in his heart, and retracted his thoughts to deal with the situation in front of him carefully.
After that, Shi Jingfu and Qian Cangyi talked a lot, all about interesting things about childhood, for these, Qian Cangyi could only smile and respond, not daring to say more, and not daring not to say it. However, Shi Jingfu noticed something, and began to ask about things outside Qian Cangyi's village, for these things, Qian Cangyi is really not modest, it can be said that he came with his mouth open, just like that, the relationship between Qian Cangyi and Shi Jingfu gradually narrowed, at least for Qian Cangyi, it is no longer a situation that is embarrassing when he believes it.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Qian Cang began to inquire about the death sacrifice.
"Jingfu, there's one thing I want to ask you." Qian Cangyi's expression was serious.
"Just ask if there's anything!" Shi Jingfu smiled, relieving the tense atmosphere.
"How much do you know about the Death Sacrifice?" As soon as Qian Cang got straight to the point, he didn't hide it anymore.
"Death Sacrifice...... I don't know, the last time I participated was when I was 6 or 7 years old, I just remember that something terrible happened at that time, I was very scared, and you too, and I don't remember the rest clearly, and the adults didn't tell me. Shi Jingfu shook his head, a little frustrated.
"Something terrible? What is the awesome thing? Qian Cangyi grasped the point, there are many things that can be regarded as great for the villagers of Yuxi Village, such as the murder that happened today, but for Qian Cangyi, this level of explanation is far from enough.
"Ah, I don't know, but a lot of terrible things must have happened, right?" Shi Jingfu looked up at the sky, the scene of blue sky and white clouds was refreshing, but for Shi Jingfu, he seemed to be using the sky to recall something, using the sky as a medium, wanting to remind himself of what happened twenty years ago.
Qian Cangyi looked at Shi Jingfu quietly, trying to see something different from his ordinary face.
After about ten seconds, Shi Jingfu retracted his gaze, turned his head to look at Qian Cangyi, and said: "It seems that a lot of people died that time, everyone hid in their rooms and didn't dare to go out, the sky was black, there was no sun, and the entire Yuxi Village was shrouded in a yin wind, and I don't have any impression of what happened later." I'm sorry, I can only think of this, after all, it's been too long, and the adults seem to have discussed it, so they keep silent, and I don't know the rest. ”
After listening to Shi Jingfu's narration, the haze in Qian Cangyi's heart became heavier.
"Well, thank you, I'll go back first, and we'll talk next time." Qian Cang said goodbye together.
After Qian Cangyi left, the solemnity on Shi Jingfu's face did not dissipate, as if the memories of the past evoked some past events that he had always wanted to escape.
On the way back to Shi Xi's house, Qian Cangyi combined Shi Jingfu's words to once again consider what happened to the death sacrifice twenty years ago.
In Shi Jingfu's narrative, that scene is very similar to the scene of the end of the world described in the film and television drama, at least for this village, but the question is, does this kind of thing happen every time the death sacrifice happens, or does the death sacrifice not take place? If it's the former, why don't you leave Yuxi Village, like Shi Haimin, etc., I remember that Shi Haimin didn't want to go back to Yuxi Village, because of the fear of the Death Sacrifice, he even left his mother at home alone, but he came back in the end, so it's funny, the Death Sacrifice seems to be irresistible to everyone in Yuxi Village, as if all the Yuxi villagers are manipulated by the Death Sacrifice, no matter how far they flee, in the reincarnation every twenty years, they will return here. If it's the latter, why not hold a death offering? If holding a death festival has no effect, then why try not to hold it, and if holding a death festival has a big impact on Yuxi Village, then what is the impact exactly? ”
There were many questions in his mind, and Qian Cangyi did not have a definite answer, which also strengthened his idea of going to the place where the Death Sacrifice was held in the afternoon.
After lunch, Hawkeye came to find Qian Cangyi, and the two walked towards the place of the death sacrifice ceremony.
After walking for about an hour, the two walked through the dense forest to the death sacrifice ceremony halfway up the mountainside, which is an open space of about 200 square meters, in the middle of the clearing, there is a two-person high stone stele, the stone tablet is engraved with incomprehensible words and symbols, after the baptism of the years, the stone tablet has a sense of vicissitudes of history.
Around the stele, there are many yellowed bronze coins, the words engraved on the copper coins are the same as those on the stele, and it is not known what they mean, in addition to the surrounding dense forest, there are many red strings tied between the trees, I don't know what they are used for.