Chapter Fifty-Seven: Releasing the River Lantern
My heart sank, knowing that Xue Liangui was definitely not lying, he was really worried.
The day has been set for the release of the river lanterns, and it will be tomorrow night.
After the news spread, the whole village suddenly became nervous, and the big guy began to stay up late to origami the paper boat according to the method taught by Xue Liangui, and I also began to draw patterns on the paper at the request of Xue Liangui.
These patterns are very strange, according to Xue Liangui, this is a psychic boat, imitating the bottomless boat in the ten treasures of the Yin Division, this thing was called a lantern ship in ancient times, and it is said that it can carry people's souls to the netherworld.
It is recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period, when everyone is in the Midyear Festival, they will light the river lantern, help the lonely soul, and even send away the disaster, seek good fortune and avoid evil, and there is a saying that 'the paper boat is burning in the sky' is popular in the world.
This is indeed a good method, and it is best to use it in the Midyear Festival to send away the Yin soldiers.
It's a pity that my painting strength is very poor, about six or seven sheets a minute, and the fastest is Cui Yingying, almost sketched with one stroke, even Shen Moying is faster than me.
I also know that my hands and feet are not flexible, and I don't care about these, anyway, as long as I am faster than Zhang Mo.
For a whole day and a night, everyone slept for almost three or four hours, working overtime to fold out nearly 30,000 paper boats.
This amount is too small, but Xue Liangui doesn't care, saying that it will take seven days to send the Yin Soul, so everyone should continue to work hard.
In the evening of the next day, Lao Jiu Ye collected all the folded paper boats and handed them all over to me and Xue Liangui.
Xue Liangui asked people to tie a bamboo raft, this bamboo raft was very large, and there was no problem with more than a dozen people going up.
When it was approaching dark, Xue Liangui's expression became solemn, and even Sister Feng's expression gradually began to be solemn.
Everyone knows that tonight is too important, and whether it can be done overnight depends on tonight.
The water of the Wang Chuan River is very calm, and the sound of the rattling is also extremely beautiful.
I watched the sky getting darker and darker, and my heart became more and more nervous, but what should come will still come, Xue Liangui took a group of us to Wang Chuanhe when it was close to ten o'clock in the night.
"Put down the raft, load the paper boat, and ......go," Xue Liangui said in a deep voice.
Zhang Mo and I hurriedly pulled the raft, moved the paper boats up, and stepped on the bamboo raft in everyone's eyes.
There are a total of six people, in addition to Xue Liangui and Sister Feng, there are also me and Zhang Mo, as well as Cui Yingying and Shen Moying. This was all personally selected by Xue Liangui, and I know that he deliberately chose these people, because Zhang Mo once specifically mentioned that these people were all unreal to him.
The bamboo raft swung open, and my heart suddenly tensed.
At this time, the wind of Wang Chuanhe was blowing, with a fishy smell and a little cold.
The bamboo raft swept open the water and rowed to the middle of the river, and Xue Liangui gave the order to let people drop the anchor.
The raft stopped, and several people stared intently at the river in the distance, their eyes unblinking.
"It's coming!" When it was close to midnight, Xue Liangui suddenly spoke.
I immediately looked up and saw that Wang Chuanhe had become foggy, and even the stockade dozens of meters away was a little unclear.
The sound of the river rattling increased, and the moonlight in the sky became strange, with a touch of red.
Xue Liangui's face changed, "Blood Moon, what is in this river?" How can there be a Blood Moon? ”
I also wanted to ask him what the blood moon was, but I saw that Sister Feng's face suddenly turned pale, "The Yin Soldier has appeared......"
I looked up and saw that in the middle of the river, the Seven Killings Monument had slowly risen, and the blood-colored characters on the monument were also exposed to the water.
In the river, there seemed to be a whining cry, and the corpses in the river struggled and began to flood. The main thing is that near the Seven Killings Monument, soldiers in armor began to appear, these soldiers were white and frightening, with rusty spears in their hands, and their eyes were hollow, as if they were about to peek out of the river.
Yin Soldier! This is the Yin Soldier?
"Put on the lights!" Xue Liangui said in a deep voice.
I hurriedly lit a river lamp, and then put it into the water, the paper boat fluttered, down the river, and when I passed by the Seven Killings Monument, the flame on the candle turned a miserable green little by little.
"Release!" Xue Liangui hurriedly spoke, and he also moved his hands, lit the river lantern one after another, and threw it to the water.
On the surface of the water, you can see a layer of red and yellow intersecting light flowing downstream, and when you reach the Seven Killings Monument, it turns into a green flame. These miserable green flames did not go out, but drifted past the Seven Killings Monument and gradually disappeared into the mist.
The six of us moved quickly, lighting one after another, and sending them to the river one after another.
The paper boats swayed along the river, and the struggling corpses in the river, like crazy, squeaked like they were fighting for river lamps to hold their souls.
Whoa...... With a sound, the river rolled upside down, making the bamboo raft flutter for a while, and the Seven Kills Monument rose again, revealing the word 'kill' again.
"Don't stop, speed up your movements......" Xue Liangui said wiping cold sweat.
At this time, the surface of the river began to roll, and a large phantom appeared on the Wang Chuan River, covering most of the blood moon.
The river god has appeared!
Xue Liangui's face was overjoyed, and he hurriedly said: "Hurry up, the river god is suppressing the Seven Killings Monument, let's hurry up and ......."
I quickened again, and one by one I was sent into the river, as if I were tireless.
The Seven Kills Monument was raised again, revealing the third word 'kill' one after another, and the river rolled even more.
Xue Liangui's face turned pale, "Let's hurry up, the river god can't suppress it!" ”
At this time, Sister Feng stepped out in one step, and threw out three paper runes in her hand, which were like streamers, falling on the phantom of the river god, making the river god's body shocked.
"Leave her alone, she is learning the Dao method of Zhengyi, and she has some relationship with Yin Si, speed up the time to release the river lantern!" Xue Liangui didn't even glance at Sister Feng.
We didn't even dare to breathe, and shot one after another, but no matter how much we suppressed, the Seven Kills Monument was still improving, and when the last 'kill' word was revealed, I heard Zhang Mo let out an exclamation, pointing to the Seven Kills Monument in the distance.
At this time, I had time to look up, and I was so frightened that the river lantern in my hand fell on the bamboo raft.
Under the Seven Killings Monument, a dilapidated building boat floated in, and this building boat was full of Yin soldiers with spears in hand, and one by one they looked at our bamboo raft with empty eyes.
"Leave him alone, hurry up and put the river lantern!" Xue Liangui wiped a cold sweat and hurriedly said.
At this time, no one had time to pay attention to it, and they sped up one by one, but after the first building ship appeared, the second followed out. And then the third...... Fourth......
More than a dozen building boats, mightily going upstream, have approached the bamboo raft.
Sure enough, it's 100,000 Yin Soldier Souls!
I felt that my breathing was a little suppressed, and when I looked up, I could see that on the lookout of the building ship, there was a ghost general with white hair. The ghost's face was pale, like hard pig iron, but mixed with white fur, his body was draped in armor, and his hand was pressed against the long knife, staring at the six of us.
"Don't care, this is the river lantern waiting for us, they can get out of the sea of suffering!" Xue Liangui said loudly.
I lowered my head and hurriedly sent the river lanterns, and the whole river turned green.
At this time, a chuckle came from behind him, as if with sarcasm.
"Yang Sheng, let's meet again......"
I looked back, my angry face was green, and Er Laizi didn't know when, rowing a broken iron boat, appeared upstream of us.
I hated it to the extreme, but I also knew that at this time, I didn't have time to care about him.
"Yang Sheng, the second uncle came back this time, in fact, there is nothing else, it is the little widow of the Chen family, the second uncle really likes it tightly, you are a college student, what kind of will you find in the future? Besides, this little widow is not worthy of you, it is better for you to treat her as the second uncle, and the second uncle will turn around and leave! Er Laizi grinned and said to me from a long distance.
I could clearly feel that Shen Moying's face darkened.
I hurriedly took her hand, shook my head at her, and motioned for her to ignore it.
"Yang Sheng, if you don't agree, then it's no wonder that the second uncle is unkind...... "Er Laizi grinned, and then said, "Look at what surprise the second uncle has brought you......"
My face changed suddenly, and I saw Er Laizi carry out a box more than a meter long from the broken boat. As soon as the box appeared, the river suddenly made a rattling sound.
"The door of the devil is wide open!" Xue Liangui immediately shouted.
I heard a bang, the river rolled, the raft swayed, and the struggling corpses in the river began to become manic, and one by one they reached out and grabbed the raft.
"Stop Erraizi!" Xue Liangui suddenly shouted.
Sister Feng had already jumped up, and the seven silver-white nails in her hand had already fallen.
As soon as the seven nails fell, Er Laizi quickly threw the small coffin into the water. The coffin fell into the water and immediately dived underwater, leaving seven silver-white nails missing.
"Damn it!" Sister Feng shouted and kicked at Er Laizi.
Er Laizi's eyes widened, with a crazy smile on his face, "Yang Sheng, for the sake of a little widow, you actually did it with the second uncle......"
With a bang, the river rolled upside down.
Xue Liangui's face changed suddenly, "What is in this coffin, such a big grudge, this is to make the corpses in the river riot......"
I opened my mouth wide and saw a dark shadow floating out from under the bamboo raft, and those bean-like eyes were staring at me.
This is the little monster who ate the brain marrow, and Er Laizi actually brought him!
I felt a chill chill over me, and my eyes suddenly blackened.
"Phew!" Xue Liangui made a move and grabbed the monster in the river.
At this time, the monster under the bamboo raft actually pursed its lips and smiled, and the smile was extremely eerie......
I immediately knew that it was not good, "don't touch him......"
It was late, and Xue Liangui's hand had already reached into the river.