Chapter 517: Life and Death
Chuan Ruoshi burped, the horn cup just now is not small, a cup is quite thirst-quenching, although this wine has no alcohol content, but four or five catties of water can be drunk to fill a full water first.
Mu Yuan walked all the way inside under the guidance of the clansmen, surrounded by Miao men and women singing and dancing. There are various wooden houses on both sides of the road, and at the end is a majestic and imposing stilted building. There were more than a dozen dressed old men and middle-aged people standing at the door, and more than a dozen Miao women standing on both sides, with respectful faces. At the front is a man and a woman, the man has a delicate face and a polite quality, like a very learned person, but compared to the woman next to him, it seems a little ordinary.
With just a simple glance, Mu Yuan guessed the identity of this woman, because her eyebrows and eyes were somewhat similar to Hongli and Long Ling'er, and she must be Long Ling'er's mother. Looking at her appearance, she is only thirty years old, gentle and elegant, neither as naughty as Long Ling'er, nor as indifferent as Hongli. She wore a pleated skirt with a red base, silver crowns, silver japs, collars, shawls, necklaces, toothpicks, hairpins, earrings, bracelets, and rings.
"Riea, Gee!" Long Ling'er called out and threw herself into the woman's arms.
The woman stroked Long Ling'er's hair affectionately, but looked at Mu Yuan with a smile.
"Uncle, aunt!" Mu Yuan bowed his hand respectfully, and he was about to bow down, and he followed closely behind, and he also had to make a big bow.
This kind of etiquette has long disappeared in contemporary times, but Mu Yuan and Luo Ruoshi are both from the Xuanyi Gate, Mu Yuan's etiquette in this regard is relatively light, and Luo Ruoshi has been nurtured since childhood. Whether it is as Hongli's only daughter and son-in-law, or as Long Ling'er's parents, and in this Miao Village, which particularly respects etiquette, when they meet for the first time, Mu Yuan and Zhuo Ruoshi should give a big gift.
"Alright, alright!" Long Ling'er's father, Long Haochen, greeted him, stretched out his hand and grabbed Mu Yuan and Zhuo Ruoshi, what was surprising was that he actually spoke standard Mandarin, "It's time to get home, don't talk about those old customs!" ”
After a few words of greeting, Long Haochen let a few people into the building. Hongli was in the middle of the hall, she still looked cold, and when she saw Muyuan and a few people coming in, she just nodded slightly, and walked down a few steps from the steps.
"Auntie!" Mu Yuan and Lu Ruoshi walked up a few steps and bowed to the ground.
Hongli didn't stretch out her hand to stop her, but when Xingtian and Zhao Ren stepped forward to salute, she only let the two of them make a concession and raised her hand to arch. Although Xingtian and Zhao Ren are also juniors, they are guests, and the courtesy is also very appropriate as a humble etiquette between guests.
"Alright, alright!" Long Ling'er jumped over, "It's long-winded, hurry up and eat something delicious!" ”
"Hmm!" Hongli glared, sat down on the rattan chair opposite, and said in a weird manner, "Okay?" I don't think there's one left! ”
"Poof", the people next to him were unoccupied, and they all laughed.
"Humph!" Long Ling'er pouted, walked to the center of the main hall helplessly, called Master in a dignified manner, and kowtowed to Hongli three times.
"Get up, pay attention to etiquette in the future!" Hongli nodded in satisfaction, but the lesson was endless.
"Senior sister, I don't know how you spent your childhood!" Long Ling'er pursed her mouth and said angrily at her mother.
When Long Ling'er's mother heard this, she glared back, but unfortunately Long Ling'er was not afraid, because her eyes were full of doting looks.
Everyone sat down, and after a few words of conversation, a sumptuous meal was served, and the chicken head was placed on the front plate. Xingtian didn't think much about it, and he wanted to eat it when he picked it up under the persuasion of others, but he was held down by Mu Yuan, who was quick with his eyes.
When you are a guest at a Miao family, remember not to eat chicken heads. According to the traditional etiquette of the Miao people, the head of the chicken is to be given to the elderly. In order to show the highest respect to the guests, the host often makes an exception for the chicken head, at which time the polite guest should take the chicken head with both hands and then present it to the elderly or elders present.
However, Mu Yuan is still quite embarrassed by this, there are too many old people here, and he doesn't know who to pay tribute to. Fortunately, Hongli gestured with his eyes, and Mu Yuan and several people held the head of the chicken with both hands and sent it to an old man with white hair, although his status was not as high as Hongli, but he was a veritable ancestor in the clan.
Seeing that Mu Yuan and the others knew etiquette so well, the people in the room became even more enthusiastic, and the sound of laughter came frequently, and it didn't take long to pour these people down.
At midnight, a figure slowly walked up the second floor of the attic to the long corridor of the guest room, and she looked up at the bright moon in front of her.
"Boy, do you know I'm coming?" Hongli asked softly.
There was a slight knock on the door, and Mu Yuan pushed open the door and walked out, and the fresh night breeze immediately added a hint of rich wine. He didn't answer Hongli's question, but just raised his hand and arched slightly.
"Old thing!" Hongli frowned and scolded, "Did he guess again?" ”
"During the Spring Festival, Master had a long conversation with me without telling Mu Yuan, and he just guessed that the appointment you proposed was for me, but he didn't say what it was!"
"Don't you have the slightest complaint?" Hongli asked, "All the disasters have to be repaid by you, from birth, to the second tribulation, and then to the upcoming third tribulation, you have been hiding in the dark jade pendant for many years, and have been refined by the fire; Even if you see the light of day, you have to hide in this quiet night, and you have to impersonate the identity of another person! ”
"Complaining? Yes, when I was very young, but that's my fate! Makino looked up at the smooth jade-like Haoyue, his eyes showed incomparable nostalgia, "Without Makihara, there would be no me, we are not mutually exclusive poles, but interdependent one!" Since I was a child, I have indeed endured, but what about Muyuan, when he encounters delicious food and fun, he has never forgotten me, and will always exchange souls for me to enjoy! I was afraid that I would be lonely and lonely, and I took in a cute and troublesome apprentice for me! ”
Speaking of this, Makino paused, a smile crossed the corner of his mouth, as if he thought of the silly and silly things about crayfish.
"We are a thousand-year-old puzzle, Mu Yuan is looking for answers for me, I am avoiding risks for Mu Yuan, I am content to have such an elder brother! Now that the catastrophe is approaching, if one of them must die, I will not let it; If neither of them survives, I have no hesitation in saving him! ”
"Alas! I hope that old thing's plan can be complete, and if it were me, I wouldn't want to give up any of it! ”
"Dare to ask my aunt what is the matter with me?"
"I want to ask you to promise me one thing, to keep my Miao Gu line!" When Hongli said this, he raised his wrist, and a dark poisonous snake crawled out of the cuff, with a red rope in the snake's mouth, which was woven with red thread and hair.
"I promise!" Makino said without hesitation.
"Do you know what this is?" Hongli was slightly surprised.
"I don't know!" Makino smiled and shook his head gently, "I believe that my aunt will not hurt Muyuan, on top of this, I am willing to do anything for Sister Ling'er, this is definitely Muyuan's choice!" ”
"It seems that Mu Yuan made a lot of money by giving your 'brother' to you!" Hongli twisted the red rope in his hand and muttered: "Thousands of miles of marriage are tied by a thread, and the night is depressed and lovesick." The lonely goose shadow looks at the moon alone, only envying the mandarin duck and not the immortal. ”
Thousands of miles of marriage are tied by a thread, and Tang Li replied to "Continuation of the Mystery Strange Record: Engagement Shop".
There was a literati named Wei Gu in the Tang Dynasty, who used to go to the river to play when he was a child, and one night, he saw a kind old man reading a letter in the moonlight, and while reading, he tied two stones together with a red thread rope. Wei Gu was very strange when he saw it, and asked casually, "Old uncle, what are you doing with stones?" The old man said, "I'm pulling the strings for the people who are married!" This pair of stones is a couple in the world! Wei Gu asked curiously, "Then who is my wife?" The old man said, "It's the girl who looks at the vegetable garden at the head of the village." ”
Wei Gu was very angry, thinking to himself, that girl is poor and ugly, I don't want it, it's better to kill her. The next day, he passed by the vegetable garden, saw that there was no one nearby, picked up a stone and threw it at the girl, the girl fell to the ground with a "plop", and Wei Gu was so frightened that he fled to a foreign country. If you want to chat with more like-minded people about "Trick Hunting", follow "Hot Network or rd444" on WeChat to chat about your favorite books with more book friends