Chapter 188: Grimace of Death
"Who the hell are you? Are you stalking me? Seeing his expression and listening to what he said, I asked reflexively.
"Tracking? Hahaha...... We're all in the same boat! I can't say if it's a track! ”
The old man's voice was very low, but I could hear every word clearly.
I didn't know what to ask for a while, so I hesitated for a moment and hurriedly asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
"Sacrifice to the river! Ask for forgiveness from the goddess of the Yellow River! The old man bowed his head, but answered me anyway.
I, Chen Xiaozhen, have lived on the edge of the Yellow River since I was a child, and it is only fifty or sixty miles away from Laomiao Village, but I have never heard of any goddess of the Yellow River!
At that time, the so-called goddesses in our minds were all film and television actors such as Zhao Yazhi and Liu Xiaoqing, and many people had their posters at home, as for the goddess of the Yellow River, I heard this name for the first time.
"The goddess of the Yellow River? Could it be this wooden statue? I asked, pointing to the wooden statue in the center of the crowd.
The thin old man smiled coldly, but pointed to the huge bronze statue in front of him, and said: "Where is there a bigger one, I have long expected that there will be today, the goddess of the Yellow River has finally seen the light of day!" ”
After saying that, he snorted a few more times, and I faintly felt that there was evil in his eyes.
At this time, the old man at the head shouted something, and then everyone stood up again and walked towards the bronze statue.
The thin old man ignored me and walked forward with the crowd. At this time, my gaze naturally swept to the face of the little boy who had been following the old man closely, and this look frightened my cold hairs stood on end.
This boy really doesn't have black eyes! I also noticed when I saw him in the car for the first time, but at that time, it was far away, and I only glanced at it, and I didn't really go to my heart, I didn't see it so closely, and I couldn't believe it, how could a living person not have black eyes?
I heard Zhang Kailong say that only once a person dies, the black eyeballs will slowly dissipate until they disappear, and we usually say "there are eyes but no beads" when we scold people, but I didn't expect that there are living people in the world who have "eyes but no beads".
The little boy was still very tightly wrapped, but he followed the old man closely, and did not react to everything that happened around him.
At that moment, a thought came to my mind: Isn't this child alive? Or was it a very powerful Gu that was laid down?
Linked to Gu worms, it's not that I made something out of nothing, we have seen the power of Gu worms in Ningxia before, even to a very evil level, and I have heard grandma say some examples of various types of Gu poison, don't underestimate a small worm, the person who is under the Gu is using this little worm to control another person's spirit and thoughts, and even make him worse than dead.
Another reason why I thought that he might have been tricked by someone was that when I saw him these few times, the spirit snake in my stomach had a reaction, and through this time of getting along, I was gradually able to understand the spirit snake's thoughts, and when I saw this strange child, it actually sent out a signal to call for companions.
Soon the crowd reached the giant bronze statue and knelt on the ground again.
At this time, the four people carrying the wooden statue slowly walked to the front, and then gently lowered the wooden statue to the ground.
When the cloth on the wooden statue was removed, I saw another almost identical river woman, like a pirated copy of the huge bronze next to it.
At this moment I suddenly understood why when they saw this bronze statue, they suddenly knelt on the ground, and then kowtowed very reverently, the thin old man was right! In Chen Laosan's mouth, the very vicious and evil river woman turned out to be the goddess of the Yellow River who was very noble in the hearts of this group of people.
I think something must have happened before, and these people also knew that there was such a squatting bronze statue sleeping in the depths of the Yellow River. I even suspect that the wooden statue of the goddess they brought was made from this huge bronze statue, otherwise how could it be so similar?
The statue of the river god was placed, and everyone consciously surrounded the two sculptures, and then writhed while muttering something, the willow sticks, shovels, and pickaxes in their hands seemed to be waving, which was very strange and very weird.
The three of us unconsciously took a few steps back, keeping a certain distance from these people.
"It's some kind of ritual to worship the gods!" Zhang Kailong whispered.
"I guess so! The old man told me just now that this is a tribute to the goddess of the Yellow River, that is, the river woman......"
Before I could finish speaking, I was interrupted by Chen Laosan.
"Strange! How strange! ”
Chen Laosan said to himself, as if he had seen a very incomprehensible scene.
"You're saying these guys have weird stuff?" I asked hurriedly.
"It's not...... Sort of! I've seen this happen a few times! ”
This time it was my turn to be stunned with Zhang Kailong, this is our estuary area! Both of us grew up on the edge of the Yellow River, and we have never seen this kind of god-like worship activity, how can he have seen it from Ningxia, which is thousands of miles away?
Zhang Kailong hurriedly asked: "Third brother, you can't be wrong, right?" Maybe it just looks similar......"
"That's not right! Wrong! That's right, this seems to be a kind of sacrificial Gu ritual of the Miao people! ”
As soon as I heard the word Miao, I felt that I was electrocuted.
Speaking of which, I also have half Miao blood, but there are all Han people within a radius of hundreds of miles, so why is there a memorial ceremony for the Miao people? But I absolutely believed what Chen Laosan said, because at this time, the spirit snake in my body also began to move with the rhythm of the crowd's dance.
At this time, I heard the sound of dragons and tigers roaring from the Yellow River not far away, and the sound was high and low, as if there were huge creatures hidden under the water. I suddenly had a terrible thought: it can't be the giant snake that is more than ten meters long to scream again, right?
Thinking about it again, it should be impossible for the ancient legend that Chen Laosan said to be at least tens of thousands of years ago, and at the end of this legend, the evil snake that made waves was also suppressed by Dayu.
As far as I know, there are no large snakes exceeding 10 meters in our country, and even in the primeval jungles of the Americas and Africa, large snakes exceeding 10 meters are rare.
Later, after a drunken experience, Zhang Kailong revealed a shocking secret to me.
He said in the clean-up of the north. In an imperial cemetery in the capital, a hundred-meter-long giant snake rushed out of a bottomless cave, like a train. The snake bit and injured many people, and later the military stepped in and used mortars and bombs to eliminate the behemoth.
I doubt the authenticity of what Zhang Kailong said, according to his character, he will not talk nonsense if he is not sure, and at that time he had not yet recovered from the army, several comrades-in-arms participated in this secret operation, but it is said that none of the people who participated in this secret operation could die well, and they were either transferred to Yunnan, Tibet and other border areas or sent abroad.
Dressed? What's wrong with this, you're still naked without clothes...... Halfway through my thoughts, I stopped, and my eyes turned to Yu Lina's "squirting" chest. I felt a soft hand reach into the hem of my garment, stroking back and forth. Yanli saw that I was only wearing a small triangle, pouted, and still leaned down to help me translate the words in the book