Chapter 265: Oh Mom
I've seen this before!
It was the high priest who had shown the prototype in the cave in the west of Xiaohe Village before, and the hollowness of his eyes and the coldness of his face made people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.
The two zombies looked exactly like the original high priest.
The Miao women who followed me here were stunned for a moment, whether they were young people in their twenties or old women in their fifties, I probably had never seen such a scene.
Women are naturally timid, no matter how arrogant they are......
I glanced around the monkeys again, and found that in addition to the monkey king, there were more than a dozen injured, and I knew that I had just experienced a fierce battle.
The costumes on the two zombies have long been rotten and have become a piece of flesh and skin, but it can be seen that they are robes, which should not be the clothes of contemporary people, that is, these two zombies are not recently formed.
When I appeared, the zombies seemed to sense it.
As soon as I saw this scene, I took it as a matter of course, and rushed up with a wave of dust. When the Monkey King saw me, a smile flashed across his face and he whistled at me.
Rushing to the side of the Monkey King, I realized that it was not me that the two zombies sensed, but the dust in my hand.
I first recited a paragraph of "Ghost People in Yellow River Town", and the zombies in the circle seemed to react slightly, so I then recited a paragraph of "Exorcism Heart Sutra", and then looked, the two zombies actually danced.
There's a door! I was pleasantly surprised. I suddenly thought of the method commonly used by my uncle to draw Taoist talismans, in fact, my senior brother had also taught me, but at that time I thought it was just a trick to play tricks, and then I left it behind.
At this time, I really hated myself, why didn't I study hard in the first place!
In fact, even if I learned it at the beginning, I can't use it now, because there is no pen and paper!
After reciting the "Exorcism Heart Sutra" several times in a row, the two zombies in front of him slowly lay on the ground. If the Mahogany Sword is there, as long as the sword stabs the center of the zombie's eyebrows, it will completely destroy them, but unfortunately......
But there is another way to exorcise demons with dust, I only remember a rough idea, just a dead horse as a live horse doctor! So I was busy working for a while.
I was relieved to see that the zombies had become dead corpses again, and at this time, there were continuous wails from the monkey group - it hurt! It is estimated that he was holding his breath just now, in order not to fall behind in momentum.
The Miao woman looked at it for a long time before she carefully leaned over, first looked at the zombies lying on the ground, and then helped the monkeys bandage their wounds.
The question of what to do with two zombies stumped us. Dig up the soil and bury it, right? Fear that he will come back to life again, throw it into the water! There is also concern about polluting water resources.
I propose to burn it, which is actually equivalent to what we often call cremation.
At this time, one of the big butlers came over, and after she looked at the zombie, she frowned, and said, "This thing hasn't appeared for forty years......"
Obedient and obedient, what the big butler means by this is: Forty years ago, there were also zombies.
She also agreed to burn the two zombies, saying that "forty years ago" did just that.
At that time, I was very puzzled and wanted to get to the bottom of it, but I was forced by the time constraint at that time, so I had to hold back first.
The forest is the territory of the monkeys, under the command of the monkey king, they soon found a pile of dry firewood like a hill, the women did not dare to touch the zombies, the monkeys seemed to be very afraid, needless to say, just now on these two zombies suffered a lot.
The Monkey King was a good leader, and he understood his men, so he stuck his tongue out at me, and we threw the two zombies into the firewood.
The raging fire emitted red flames, and everyone held their breath, fearing that the two zombies would suddenly wake up and jump out of the fire......
The fire burned for more than half an hour, and the flame gradually extinguished, and at this moment everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing that the sun was setting, the chief steward asked the Miao women to hurry back to the village to prepare for the last ceremony of the autumn Tibetan month, and after asking for my opinion, she also left, because she had to prepare for the next day's "rent collection".
Most of the monkeys were also instructed by the Monkey King to do other things, and in the end, only me and the Monkey King remained.
I knew that the reason why the Monkey King stayed was because he wanted to accompany me and protect me, he valued love and righteousness, and he knew that I was a vulnerable group in this forest.
When the last flame was extinguished, I found a two-meter-long branch and leaned in.
There were black ashes left on the ground, and there were still shadows of zombies, and it was then that I took a deep breath.
Just as I was about to turn away, my eyes suddenly lit up with something, and after I "played" it twice according to the action I had just turned around, I saw what was reflective - it turned out to be a dark green pendant, half in the ashes, half exposed.
Yes! Could it be that these two zombies are carrying them? Thinking about it, I picked out the pendant with a wooden stick, and when I held it in my hand, I gasped directly - this turned out to be a jade pendant, the same as the old man surnamed Wei gave me at Jinan Railway Station before!
Is there such a coincidence? Suddenly, my heart felt like I had broken the miscellaneous bottle, and my mind was instantly confused.
This is already the third identical jade pendant, my first reaction is: the Yellow River tomb next to the Jinan railway station has something to do with this valley, maybe there is another possibility, that is, the old man surnamed Wei in Jinan lied to me, this jade pendant he did not get at all in the ancient tomb under the Yellow River, but in Ningxia - he also came to Helan Mountain in Ningxia.
After returning to the village, it was already a little dark, and after the monkey king sent me to the entrance of the village, he ran away, probably worried about his own monkeys.
The ceremonial activities that night were similar to the previous night, and Chen Laosan secretly told me afterwards that the more he looked at these ceremonial activities in the Jade Girl Village, the same as those on the murals in the ancient tombs under the Yellow River before.
In fact, he still needs to say it! I can barely remember the contents of the frescoes in the tomb by heart, and I have long since realized that tonight's ritual is a reproduction of the contents of the murals.
Uncle Shi once explained that the murals in the ancient tomb are all descriptions and records of people's special life experiences in ancient times, to put it bluntly, they use graphics and symbols to record facts.
How can it be so similar? It cannot be explained by mere coincidence.
I have been thinking about this for a long time, and I can't figure it out, but one thing should be certain, these ritual activities have been passed down from generation to generation by the ancestors of the Miao people for thousands of years, so the ancestors of the Miao people must have something to do with the owner of the tomb under the Yellow River at that time.
After the ceremony, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and according to the village rules, after the autumn Tibetan moon event, I had to bathe and change clothes again.
I don't dare to describe the process of bathing and changing, naturally there are several people waiting, from the relationship we are originally "husband and wife", and through these few days of getting along, the sense of estrangement caused by time and space is gone.
When the little daughters-in-law were helping the old man bathe and change clothes, it was naturally a fragrant and frolicking scene, so I won't repeat it.
In order to truly implement the principle of "rain and dew are evenly wet", the last few Miao girls who were shy to answer that night were led into the Langfang by the chief steward......
The next day I was still asleep, and I was woken up by the knock of the chief steward:
"Little brother, you're ready to go!"
When I got up, I felt a little tired, and for the first time in a long time, I thought it was funny to think about the reason.
I left at a quarter past eight, and there were thirteen people who went to "collect rent", and the leader of the team was one of the chief stewards, and the rest were my "little daughter-in-law".
Just as I was about to leave, I suddenly heard a whimpering cry from the crowd.
Looking for prestige, I saw Yu Lina with tears on her face.
"Xiao Zhen, I'...... I also want to go in ...... Here I'm scared! ”
I looked at my grandmother embarrassedly.
After all, it was his own grandmother, and after sighing lightly, he pointed to the boat.
Yu Lina still burst into tears and smiled. Laughing like a child.
Just like me and the antique Li and a few of them left the Jade Girl Village before, they were still on a small boat, and grandma and they stood on the "pier" full of flowers to see them off, and then I noticed that the flowers at the outlet of the dark river always seemed to be so bright, probably what method did grandma and them use!
As soon as the boat drove away, I saw the "big earthworms" wriggling in the water, but they didn't get close to the hull.
I remember listening to Xiaoqing and grandma explain before, the things in this water were raised by them, I don't remember what the name is, anyway, it is a hybrid carnivorous poisonous insect.
There is a special medicinal powder on the boat in Miao Village, which is specially designed to restrain the "earthworms" in the water, so that these insects do not dare to approach, if there is no such medicinal powder, Gu Xiaoqing said, it will not take ten minutes, and the people on the boat will have no bones.
It's scary to think about it now! At the beginning, a few of us stumbled into this world by mistake, but fortunately Xiaoqing and Xiaobi greeted us at the end of this river, otherwise......
Strange to say, after less than ten minutes of boating, the color of the water suddenly changed, and the "big brother earthworm" in the water was gone.
Familiar river sections, familiar feelings, but the antique Li is no longer there, and until now, everything about him is still confusing.
Gradually, I heard a very loud splash, and I didn't have to think about it to know that I was about to reach the "Yellow River Eighteen Circles".
I was a little excited, but I didn't expect the chief steward to suddenly wave his hand to stop the boat.
"Little brother, there are people outside now, we have to wait for a while."
The chief steward walked up to me and whispered.
Someone out there? I suddenly remembered that my grandmother knew what happened near the eighteen rotations of the Yellow River by virtue of the Gu worms in the black house of the village, and the chief steward, as a loyal minister of Miao Village, naturally also had this ability.
My eleven Miao daughters-in-law are all very excited, and it is estimated that they usually don't have the opportunity to go out to see.
"Sister housekeeper, what are we going to collect from those five villages?" When I was idle, I asked casually.
When the chief steward heard me call her sister, she was taken aback, knelt down at once, and hurriedly said, "Little brother can't be called that...... Otherwise...... Otherwise, it will break my ...... You might as well just call me by name! My name is Aiya. ”
Aiya? My first reaction was to laugh, and the name is called, does she still have a sister named "Mom", which just makes up "Oh Mom".