Chapter 223: Prayer Tower
"Brother Hua Lian, do you know what this does?" Murong Qingmo picked up the ribbon hanging on the stall and asked curiously. The ribbon is made of five different colored ropes braided together, forming a very strange pattern, which is very beautiful.
"Qianyue, you know what?" Hua Lian habitually turned her head to ask Qian Scarlet Moon, who was a little slower behind her.
"Jiuqing." Qian Feiyue saw the corners of Murong Qingmo's mouth curled slightly, she pulled Qian Mo to the side of the stall, and simply let Jiuqing explain.
"Miss Mu, this is called the Wishing Power Rope, which is a custom in Liudu. It is said that holding this rope and praying to the goddess of the sea at the prayer tower will make the mother hear their wishes, and then manifest the spirit to make their wishes come true. ”
"Oh? So powerful? Qiao'er's face was full of disbelief.
"Hehe, if you believe it, you have it, if you don't believe it, you don't have it!" Jiuqing threw a few copper plates to the stall owner, and also picked one and handed it to the stone bridge, "These five colors represent people's joys, sorrows, sorrows, and sorrows, which are compiled by an ancient method that has been handed down from ancient times, and each wish rope can make a wish." Let's go, Shiqiao, Uncle Nine will take you to make a wish. ”
"Okay, okay, Uncle Nine, can you buy me a few more? I have so many wishes! ”
“…… Yes! So Jiuqing threw down a piece of broken silver, grabbed a handful of wishing ropes from a stall and handed it to Shiqiao, "Is it enough?" ”
"Uh-huh!" Shiqiao grinned and nodded desperately, and then followed Jiuqing in the direction of the stone tower.
"What a stupidity!" Jiuqing scolded with a smile and raised his heel.
"Yue'er, let's go too!" Qian Mo saw Jiuqing's movements, his eyes deepened, and he was about to take out the silver ingot in his arms, but was stopped by Qian Feiyue.
"Aren't you afraid to be as stupid as Ishibashi?" Qian Scarlet Moon smiled and took out the copper plate and bought two Wishing Ropes, one for each person.
Qianmo's eyes were bent, and she followed with a rope.
"Brother Hua Lian......" Murong Qingmo watched the interaction between the two, and her heart was filled with a trace of envy. She turned her head and looked at Hua Lian with his watery eyes.
"Brother, I don't have any money!" Hua Lian turned her head and looked pitifully at Hua Zhuo behind her.
Hua Zhuo shook his head helplessly, this younger brother is really ...... In order to avoid the princess, he even came up with such a trick: "Yun Yi." ”
"Yes!" Yun Yi bought one for one person, and even Qiao'er was not left behind.
"Thank you, Brother Hua!" Murong Qingmo politely blessed the blessing and thanked him. But everyone present could see the reluctance of her smiling face.
"Qianmo, you wait for me!" Hua Lian shouted and trotted after him.
"Hua ......" Murong Qingmo just shouted a word, and Hua Lian was already overwhelmed by the crowd, leaving only the red back that was fading away.
"It's too much to spend two less!" Qiao'er couldn't help but say a word, and was glared at by Murong Qingmo.
"Qiao'er!" She looked at Hua Zhuo with some apologies, "Brother Hua Lian is just more playful, Brother Hua, Brother Hua Lian has been spoiled by you!" ”
Hua Zhuo arched his hand: "Sister Qingmo taught me a lesson!" He knew that Hua Lian's disregard for Murong Qingmo several times had made her a little dissatisfied, but he could only pretend to be stupid.
The three of them, protected by Yoon-yi and Josie, also walked towards the prayer tower with the crowd.
The prayer tower, located on the twin peaks of Poseidon Island, is far away from the statue of Poseidon Niangniang. The whole body of the tower is built with large stones, and it is seven stories high. It was only when they squeezed into the gate of the first floor of the tower that they found that only one floor of the entire tower could be entered, and there was no staircase further up, and there was a layer of stone-paved roof between the first and second floors, which cut off all the floors above the second floor of the tower.
The first floor is nearly ten zhang in circumference, and although there are many people, they can still feel the emptiness at the bottom of the tower. There is only a round platform in the middle of the whole floor, and there is a white jade statue standing in the middle of the round platform, which is the statue of the sea god Niangniang meditating.
The round platform was surrounded by the same five-colored woven coarse wish rope one by one. On the circle of thick wish power ropes, hanging are the same thin wish power ropes as they hold in their hands.
Qian Scarlet Moon watched the people around him hold the Wishing Power Rope in front of their foreheads, kneeling in front of the statue of the sea god Niangniang and praying sincerely. When the prayer is finished, they will hang the Wishing Rope in their hand to the Wishing Rope around the round platform.
"Uncle Nine, help me, I'm going to hang on it!" Shiqiao pointed to the colorful hairpin on the head of the sea god Niangniang and shouted.
Jiuqing covered Shiqiao's mouth, this bear child, didn't he notice that there were unkind eyes around him? It would be troublesome for the people to mistakenly think that he was blaspheming their god of the sea.
"I can only hang here!" Jiuqing waited for Shiqiao to glance at him hatefully, and this guy didn't get into trouble for a day. He simply grabbed the dozens of Wishing Ropes in Shiqiao's hand and tied them to him. Save the one or two, and in the blink of an eye, he climbs up.
Qian Scarlet Moon, Qian Mo, and Hua Lian also prayed with the others and tied the rope of wish power to it.
As soon as they made their wishes, Hua Zhuo and Murong Qingmo also arrived. This time, Murong Qingmo didn't dislike the mess or anything, found an empty futon and knelt down reverently, prayed for blessings according to the people around him, and hung the wishing rope with his own hands.
"Brother Hua Lian, what wish do you have?"
"Huh! It doesn't work if you say it! Hua Lian turned her head to look at Qian Scarlet Moon, "That's right, Qianyue!" ”
Qian Scarlet Moon gave him a blank look, this guy who tirelessly uses himself as a shield!
"Yue'er, let's go!" Qian Mo took a step forward, blocked Hua Lian's sight, took Qian Scarlet Yue's hand in front of everyone, and pulled her out. He had a little bad premonition in his heart, and he couldn't say why, but he always felt as if he was being targeted by something.
"What's wrong with you?" Qian Scarlet Yue felt the nervousness of the people around her, and seemed to be on guard all over her body.
Qianmo shook his head: "It seems that something is staring at us, intuition!" ”
Qian Crimson also tightened her muscles, she trusted Qian Mo's instincts, which was the keen sixth sense he had cultivated in the forest for many years. She followed him out of the prayer tower, her eyes swept around, except for those who protected Murong Qingmo, she didn't seem to find anything abnormal.
"Who are they?" She meant those who were secretly watching them, but she denied her idea as soon as she asked, because this kind of "surveillance" had been around since they came to the island, and Qian Mo would not say it now.
This feeling intensified when Qianmo stepped out of the prayer tower. He vigilantly pulled Qian Scarlet Moon behind him, and his internal strength also quietly worked, and at the same time he made a gesture to Yun Yi and Josie behind him: Be careful.
Yun Yi and Josie also tensed up when they saw the gesture, and their hands invariably put on the saber at their sides. Hua Zhuo saw their posture and also stood in front of Murong Qingmo and Hua Lian.
Qian Scarlet Moon followed Qianmo step by step, her eyes were still sweeping around, and she was breathing as she swept over the statue of the sea god Niangniang on the opposite peak, "Wait! Worst! It's a mountain wind! ”