Chapter 8: Blood Sacrifice
As soon as she clapped her hands, a maid dressed in pale yellow clothes walked up slowly with a moon-white bottle and put the bottle on the high platform beside her.
The style of the bottle is very peculiar, unlike the various styles commonly used by people today, and there is a faint light circulating on the bottle.
Jing Xin stood far away in the crowd, and she keenly felt that there was a powerful spiritual power fluctuation on this bottle, and she was afraid that it would have a great future. She instantly sharpened, and her intuition told her that today's things might not be easy.
Everyone didn't know why, and there were already many people chatting in the audience.
Zhao walked to the front of the stage, with a proud look on his face, and said slowly: "This jar has been handed down for tens of thousands of years, and it is the sacrificial bottle used in the god ceremony when the moon god Niangniang first ascended the god throne. ”
The conversation in the audience is getting louder and louder, some are skeptical, some are directly disbelieving, and some are half-convinced.
Zhao smiled slightly, and did not refute. She slowly raised her head and looked at the full moon above the nine heavens, like the moon shining softly on her body, her eyes were indescribably sacred.
There was only a silver moon in the sky, and light clouds hung around the moon like a thin veil. At this moment, she is like the embodiment of the moon god.
She said slowly: "A thousand years ago, when our ancestors were still in the age of ignorance, they used living people to sacrifice to the moon god, and today, we are not so cruel. However, only blood can express our admiration for the moon god. ”
Someone immediately asked, "Why?" Why use Blood Sacrifice? Lotus Town hasn't used a Blood Sacrifice for thousands of years! ”
"Do you want us to die?"
Zhao didn't respond to them, but the yellow-clothed maid stepped forward and said, "Everyone be quiet, this time it's just a little bit of blood for each of us, and use a little blood to exchange the moon god for good weather in the future, why not?" ”
Another humane: "Didn't you never use blood sacrifices before, isn't the town still good?" ”
The maid in yellow said: "This year is different from previous years, the blood sacrifice tradition is different from the usual sacrifice, only one jiazi can be held once, and it is possible that you have not heard of it." The man was still puzzled, but said nothing more.
Seeing that no one asked any more questions, the maidservant retreated behind Zhao.
Zhao didn't speak, but when he saw this, he picked up the dagger on the table, put his left hand on top of the bottle, and cut it on his wrist.
The moment the dazzling blood dripped into the bottle, the blood-colored light burst from the bottle, and the whole bottle turned from a pale yellow to a dazzling red. The light was accompanied by an unbearable humming sound, like countless wasps flapping their wings together, but in an instant, the sound disappeared again.
The audience was silent at this time, most of the girls were already pale, and a few of the younger ones were already trembling.
Arou hugged Axue and covered her ears tightly, and she didn't look away, not daring to look again.
The crimson light reflected on Zhao's face, and the originally beautiful and soft face instantly looked a little hideous. The light flashed and immediately dimmed, but the color did not disappear.
The surrounding mothers-in-law and maids all knelt down silently, buried their heads on the ground, and did not get up for a long time. An old woman exclaimed: "Yes, it is the moon god Niangniang who has appeared!" The sound echoed in the vast fields outside the city, and it did not disappear for a long time.
After about ten seconds, Zhao withdrew his hand, and the maid hurriedly sent a handkerchief to help bandage her wounds.
The maid in yellow stepped forward again and said, "Madame has already demonstrated to you, please come forward, girls!" She raised an eyebrow and looked at the crowd.
It was very quiet for a while.
After a while, seeing that no one had stepped forward yet, the purple-clothed girl sneered at first: "It's just a little blood, what can't we do for the sake of the town?" After saying that, he took the lead and stepped forward.
She picked up the dagger, carefully wiped it clean with a handkerchief, and then slashed it mercilessly towards her wrist. Blood dripped into the bottle, and this time there was no more of the glaring red light of the previous one, the bottle only lit up slightly.
Because someone took the lead, after a while, a few bold girls stepped forward and completed the blood sacrifice ceremony.
But with just a few people, the scene fell into embarrassment again.
Zhao sat on the chaise longue on the side, and when he saw this, his face turned cold, and he waved his hand to the strong mother-in-law on the side.
The two mothers-in-law walked to the middle of the crowd, found a random girl and pulled her to the stage, no matter how she struggled, she would not let go, and took the dagger and slashed it into her hand, and she did not know how heavy it was.
The girl Arou knew that she was the daughter of the Lin family next door, and she had known her since she was a child, and the two often played together. Ah Rou was trying to stop it, but her hand was clutched by Ah Xue.
The girls around were taken aback, and no one thought of helping her for a while, for fear that it would be their turn next.
The girl was so frightened that her face turned pale and her voice was thin, so naturally she couldn't compare to her mother-in-law, who was used to farm work, so she could only be slaughtered. After the bloodletting, he didn't come back to his senses, and sat on the ground and sobbed softly.
After the bloodletting, the girl was pulled aside and drugged. Zhao slowly got up, looked down at his nails painted with Kodan and said, "If you don't want to, you can only be like her." Stretched out his hand and pointed at Miss Lin, who was sobbing on the side, and raised her head again, "Of course, if you are too young, less than twelve, you don't need it." ”
When he sat down, he saw that no one moved, so he waved his hand again, and the two mothers-in-law stepped forward again, making a gesture to arrest someone.
The girls finally reluctantly stepped forward and formed a long line in front of the bottles.
Ah Rou put Ah Xue aside and told her not to move around, and then lined up in front of the bottle with the crowd.
Zhao estimated that when he saw that everyone was still cooperating, he also sent three maidservants to help them bleed, and the team was lined up in three. And those who have already bled are helping to apply medicine and bandage on the side, and the atmosphere is quite harmonious for the time being.
Just when it was Arou's turn, a woman in white suddenly appeared next to her and pulled her out of the group.
Jing Xin said to her, "You can't give them blood. ”
Ah Rou looked at the visitor suspiciously, and wondered, "Who are you?" Why can't I go? ”
"This blood sacrifice is definitely not simple!"
"How do you know?" Arou broke away from the hand she was holding and asked, "Why do you say that?" ”
It's not simple, it's for sure, anyone with a discerning eye can see it, but everyone else has gone to bleed, so it shouldn't be a big deal to go by yourself, right? Arou thought so.
"You don't want to go!" Jing Xin pulled her further away from the crowd.
Although she didn't know the real purpose of tonight's blood sacrifice, she had ulterior motives, she couldn't persuade others, and she didn't need to persuade others, but she really didn't want Arou to have an accident.
It's like there might be a hunter's trap in a meadow, and a group of people are walking towards it, because she wasn't sure if there was a trap, so she couldn't warn anyone, but she didn't want Arou to take the risk. She also planned it, if there was really something, she would not let go of so many people present.
But for her, Arou helped her, and she was different from others.