This sacrifice to the Dragon King is about the biggest day in Pearl Village.

Even for the New Year's holiday, there has never been such a triennial liveliness.

People who live by the sea always have to have some faith.

Most of the places next to it believe in Mazu Niangniang, who is also the queen of heaven.

However, the generation of Pearl Village is different, they are surrounded by abysses and trenches, so they say that there must be a long black dragon at the bottom of the trench. The pearl mussel in the trench is the essence of the sun, moon and heaven and earth revealed between the breath of this dragon king.

When the dragon roars, it is cloudy and rainy; When the dragon is angry, it is a huge wave; When the dragon is happy, it turns into calm; When the dragon is sleepy, it is the best time for pearl diving.

It sounds quite reasonable, although Chu Yue doesn't believe this, but she also thinks that folk rumors are always intriguing.

Sacrificing to the Dragon King is a triennial ceremony. No matter how poor this pearl village is, it will not dare to slack off at this ceremony.

The sacrifice to the dragon king is mainly divided into three parts: the first part, each family needs to slaughter a livestock, the rich families are mostly pigs and cattle, and the poorer ones must also have ducks, geese and geese. These poultry are not killed immediately, but tied to the bamboo raft and slowly let the blood go and then put the bamboo raft into the sea, so that these bamboo rafts slowly follow the waves into the sea, which is regarded as a sacrifice to the dragon king, praying for good weather in the next three years, and asking the dragon king to eat enough and be sleepy, so that he can have a free time for pearl diving.

The second part is the most important pearl diving competition.

In the center of the shallow sea of Pearl Village, there is an abyss, which, as the name suggests, is a shallow abyss.

There is an undercurrent in the abyss, but the water is not very strong. There are often pearl mussels in the sea that enter the abyss along the undercurrent, and there are many pearl mussels around the abyss because of the suitable temperature and food.

It can be said that this shallow area is the most valuable area in Pearl Village.

For the sake of fairness, the people of the village see this as a communal land. Whoever wins the pearl diving competition every three years will be given three years to the abyss.

This is a matter of self-interest, and everyone is naturally anchored to the victory of the pearl diving competition.

The rules of the pearl diving competition are also simple to say, because the grades of pearls are very different: among pearls, colored pearls are honored, followed by white.

Among the colored beads, black, purple, red, pink, and yellow are graded. Black is the most respectful, and yellow is the secondary. Among the white beads, milky white is respected, followed by pure white.

In addition, if two people harvest pearls of the same color, they are judged on the basis of size and luster. The village head, the shopkeeper of the pawnshop in the town, and the county magistrate of the yamen are the judges, which can be regarded as fair and just.

In the previous six years, the final winner of the competition was Xie Honghui, the eldest member of the Xie family. Not to mention next to him, pearl diving is really a good hand.

It's just that because the year is not as good as the year, most of the previous competitions are white pearls, and there are few colored pearls.

This time, if anyone can win a colored pearl, it will win.

On the eve of the competition, Chu Yue watched Xie An and Xie Siyun muttering together all day, and occasionally listened to one or two sentences, talking about Caizhu.

Chu Yue didn't want them to hurt their lives for the sake of the colored beads, after all, the vagaries in the sea were not something that could be controlled by humans.

But when talking about this, Xie Siyun was unprecedentedly firm: "This year...... It's a must-win. Otherwise, the mother was so sick and weak, and they only thought that there were a few more pairs of chopsticks in the third room. Mother's wish is that one day the third room can revive the demeanor of when my father was there, if I can't do it, I can't live with my mother. ”

In that tournament six years ago, it was Xie Siyun's father who won the final victory.

He picked a milky yellow pearl that year, and finally sold it for a high price of 100 taels, but it disappeared into the vast sea less than a year after the pearl was collected.

It's obviously a poor family, but it's clear in this kind of thing.

Chu Yue knew that if it continued like this, soon Xie Shen's illness would be out of medical expenses, could it be that Xie Siyun would have to rely on Xie Siyun to secretly go out to pearl diving to supplement the family?

In this way, sooner or later, it is not necessary to be discovered by the big house?

It can be regarded as a desperate fight, but Chu Yue doesn't have much hope for Xie An.

Seeing that the day of the Dragon King was approaching, Xie Shen's condition was getting better little by little.

It's just that she frowned all day, and she couldn't help but call Chu Yue and Xie Siyun to her sickbed: "Have you already thought about letting that Xie An go to the game?" ”

Xie Siyun nodded slightly and held Xie Shen's hand: "Mother, I know what you are thinking. But we can't go on like this. ”

"Hey—"

Xie Shen just sighed, and no longer shied away in front of Chu Yue: "Si Yun, do you know that after your father dies, I just want to take you to live in peace." Your father's death...... I don't know who did it. Now that you are in deep danger, how can you not worry me? ”