Chapter 95: Sacrifice to the God of Water
Xiao Hanako also looked confused: "What? ”
The confusion on my face was even heavier: "Who do you say teach the years of the Red Lotus Night, and the two places know each other?" ”
Hanako suddenly realized that she had said something wrong and hurriedly stopped her mouth.
That's right!
He is a young man named Hanako, and he has been a beggar since he was abducted and sold when he was a child, and he has been until now. How could he know Jiang Kui's poems?
Fertile water flows eastward for an endless period. At the beginning, it was not compatible with lovesickness. In the dream, I didn't see Danqing, and I was secretly frightened by the mountain birds.
Spring is not green, and the temples are silky. Don't be sad for a long time in the world. Who teaches the year of the red lotus night, the two places know each other.
This poem was written by Jiang Kui's Yuan Xi dream, remembering his deceased wife.
It's not too difficult, right?
Other poems such as the bright moonlight in front of the bed, suspected of frost on the ground, looking up at the bright moon, bowing your head and thinking of your hometown, this kind of word-of-mouth verse is forgotten, but it is this poem that is not so commonly sung.
How could a young man named Hanako, who had never gone to school in the past, write such a meaningful poem and chant it casually?
I was about to ask a question, but I heard a shout from the high slope.
"He Shao?"
When I heard He Shao screaming so badly, I suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly told Xiao Huazi to drive the boat back: "Let's go and see." ”
Hanako couldn't ask for it, so she hurriedly rowed the boat back.
After all, the birthdates of the white cloths in the water have been registered, just waiting for the lights to let them soar up the sky and get out of the water, and then follow me to make a super altar, and they can go to the underworld to report.
Who knew that when they arrived on the high slope, He Shaozheng and her girlfriend were talking about me.
The scream just now is probably an indescribable scream.
When we went up, He Shaozheng was in the car with his girlfriend, and he was still flustered when he saw me: "Xiao.... Xiao Tianshi, why did you come up? ”
Burst!
I hurriedly turned around.
Xiao Hanako complained about him: "I heard you screaming, and I thought you had something." I didn't expect you to be so affectionate?! Let me ask you, are the lights all out? ”
He Shao hurriedly got out of the car: "It's over, it's over, all the birthdays are written on the sky lanterns, and there is no one left." ”
I nodded, and I was done.
At this moment, a thin-skinned beauty dressed like a fairy daughter, with white skin and beautiful skin, got out of the car, her posture was very gentle, and her voice was soft: "Honey, who? ”
Young Master He hurriedly pointed at me and explained, "It's Xiao Tianshi." ”
"Oops!"
The fairy daughter suddenly exclaimed: "I didn't expect Xiao Tianshi to be a little girl, much stronger than the old men we saw last time, it's really better than the blue." ”
I looked embarrassed: "I'm sorry to disturb you." ”
Then hurriedly pulled up the little flower child and Lin Zhu and left, after all, on the night of Qixi Festival, what kind of light bulb is there here?
Walking out of the distance, I heard the fairy daughter laughing softly: "Xiao Tianshi is shy." ”
We went down the high slope and came to the resort by the river, and when we saw that it was getting late, we went to the resort to sleep.
Before dawn the next day, I heard the sound of ghosts crying and howling wolves throughout the resort, and I didn't know that I thought that the spirits of the third world had invaded.
Who knew that when I ran out, it was the parents who wanted to summon their children's spirits by the river last night.
One by one, they cried to death: "Woo woo! Last night I dreamed about our baby. ”
"yes, yes! I dreamed it too! ”
"So are we, babies say they've gotten overdose now."
"Yes, yes, they also said that it was Xiao Tianshi who helped them."
"Isn't that her?"
I don't know which parent saw me standing on the side: "The baby told me when he left, the person who saved them is called Xiao Kunning, and this young lady is it!" ”
A group of people quickly gathered around, all of them grateful to me, and apologized that they shouldn't have treated me like that yesterday.
He Shao didn't know if he was woken up by crying like us, and came around: "Yo! Xiao Tianshi, got up so early? ”
When I saw that he was in good spirits, I quipped, "That's right! Otherwise, how can I catch the river demon for you? ”
He Shao's expression suddenly chuckled: "River demon? ”
It is said to be a river demon, but it is actually the thing that killed children under the water.
Last night, when they were children, they said that it was a kind of thing similar to a water monkey that came down from the mountain, but I don't know what it is for the time being, and the gentlemen of yin and yang who came before have claimed that the river demon is a haunter, so they are temporarily called the river demon.
When He Shao heard this, he wished that I would catch this thing as soon as possible, so that Lianhe could be peaceful.
In this way, he can develop the Lianhe River and make a lot of money.
The parents were even more vengeful, begging me to catch it and help their children avenge it.
I didn't ink either, so I prepared my things and took my little name Hanako and Lin Zhu to set off on the other side of the Lian River. After all, yesterday's children's ghosts said that the murderer came from the mountains on the other side of the Lian River.
After we passed, we walked for an unknown amount of time.
Although I don't know where I went, the verdant mountains and pines everywhere are quite a bit cloudy and I don't know where to go, but I can still see the Lianhe River from afar, and I know that I haven't crossed the boundary.
The clouds loomed in the spot, and there seemed to be a village.
I was about to go up to the village to inquire, but I saw a group of people, men, women, old and young, carrying a huge pig cage from the road below us, and went down the mountain.
Those people also played flutes and drums, and they all wore very festive clothes.
I don't know which family I think is married.
But whoever gets married will put the bridegroom in a pig cage.
For I saw in the coop a young man, about sixteen or seventeen years of age, bound in the cage. Wearing a bright red gown and bridal gown, with a big happy word and groom flowers on his chest.
Where is someone married like this, it's like chasing ducks to the shelves.
Forget it, put your hands and feet in a pig cage.
Do you want to get married, or do you want to soak in the pig cage?
The groom, who was tied up in the pig cage, was gagged and seemed to faint from crying, and his face still had this tear stain on his face. But the people in the group were all beaming, with a smile on their faces that something good was coming, and their faces were about to laugh.
I wondered, what's going on?
Hurriedly told Xiao Huazi and Lin Zhu that we should follow and have a look.
Lin Zhu listened: "Aren't you looking for the monsters in the lotus river?" ”
I pointed to the festive procession in front of me: "Now there is something more urgent than the Lianhe Water Monster, you see that team is so weird, everyone is happy, the groom seems to be forced." Let's keep up and find out. ”
Xiao Hanako thought it was true, and she also felt that it was greasy.
It turned out that my conjecture was correct.
The group carried the bridegroom down the mountain and went straight to the edge of the Lian River.
A huge altar had been erected, and a group of people dressed in strange clothes, with bird feathers on their heads, and oil paint painted on their faces, were singing and dancing on the altar.
As soon as they saw that the bridegroom had been brought in, they all withdrew from the stage.
A man in the form of a high priest stood on the altar and pretended to be a ghost, then looked at the heavens, pointed to the pig cage where the bridegroom was kept, and said, "The hour has come!" ”
A group of people carried the pig cage and walked up the lotus river.
The high priest saw that the "bridegroom" was about to be thrown into the river, knelt on the altar with a long feather tail in both hands, and said loudly: "The hour has come!" I respectfully invite the water god to accept the gift and welcome the groom back to the water house! ”
After saying that, the person carrying the pig cage made a gesture, and those people made a gesture to throw the bridegroom into the river.
I can see it.
This ritual is called sacrificing to the god of water, and it is similar to the method of curing the floods of the Yellow River in Ximen Leopard, to throw the living into the water, and the beautiful name says: Marry the god of water!
Is this still a human thing?
Seeing that the unconscious bridegroom was about to be thrown into the lotus river, I hurriedly rushed out and shouted, "Wait a minute! ”