Chapter 122: The Feast of the Clan

"When you know the whole truth, you'll know why I can't sympathize with what's happening......"

"It's so cruel, it's just inhuman......"

Thirty-eight years ago, Crazy Stone was not crazy, and he was still very young, but due to his natural weakness, coupled with the death of his parents, it was difficult for him to make a living as an adult, and he could only pick up some idle work in the village to do. I only go to a few familiar people's homes, and when it comes to the busy farming season, I will charge less wages. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Chiyang Village is a place that attaches great importance to tradition, especially in inviting gods to worship ancestors, and it is even more grand on the first day of the Lunar New Year, sweeping the tomb during the Qingming Festival, and opening the ghost door on the Midyear Festival; No matter how busy they are, every family will worship their ancestors on the first and fifteenth days of each month; Although there is no special ancestral hall in the village, in all corners of the hillside, you can find large and small Guanyin Temple, Land Temple, Guan Gong Temple, Fox Immortal Temple, etc., and the incense is all prosperous, if someone is sick at home, the first thing is not to ask a doctor, but to burn incense and worship the Buddha; During the New Year's holidays, the adults and children in the family can not buy new clothes, but the ancestral tomb must be repaired again, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful by the villagers......

No one doubts this, when all acts become a collective act, and are rooted in life itself, and become a convention, it becomes a necessity of life, and some interesting sacrifices even become one of the expectations of children, because it is not only fun, but also usually a snack to satisfy their cravings.

It wasn't until later that there was suddenly an extra family in the village, which was said to have been relocated because of a natural disaster in their hometown, although this was just an excuse on the surface, at that time TV had not yet been popularized, and the people of Shancheng did not know that there was a bloody plot that the rich man and the poor girl eloped because of great love, and it was generally a secret knot, so there was no more suspicion.

This is a pair of beautiful people, both of them are very young, but in their early twenties, the man is knowledgeable, can speak well, there is a deep dimple on the left cheek when he laughs, and soon he got a teaching job in the village school, and the woman is very beautiful, fair-skinned and the people in the village are like two different races, the people are also virtuous, the female red is good, and she can also grow vegetables, and the small life is very smooth, but she is weak and often coughs, and it is not difficult for the sharp-eyed people in the village to see that she suffers from tuberculosis, maybe it is still a disease brought out of the mother's womb.

Since the man has to teach during the day, and the woman will call the most idle mad stone in the village when she needs help, the young couple is very kind, and will often leave him for dinner, the woman can't stand the fumes, and the man is usually in charge, and the food is not very delicious, but the meal is still fine.

After two or three years of such calm days, on the night of the eclipse, the crystallization of the love of the two people was born, and the man named it "Yue'er", and let the crazy stone who came to help the next day recognize the identity of the godfather. Yue'er's appearance undoubtedly combines the strengths of the two, although it is not as beautiful as a woman, but it is more cute, and her temperament is very lively, and when others tease her a little, she will giggle, and the dimple on her left cheek is the same as that of a man. Crazy Stone likes Yue'er very much, and he spends more time here hanging around, and playing with Yue'er in his spare time is the most important thing in his life. He was most happy that Yue'er seemed to be healthy and had not inherited her mother's frailty and stubborn diseases.

It is also a coincidence that within three years after Yue'er was born, there were changes in the village. In the first year, due to a sudden locust plague, there was almost no harvest; In the second year, there was a great drought, not to mention the harvest in the fields, and even the well water was depleted; In the third year there was a flood, and after the flood there was a widespread outbreak of disease, and many people in the village died, and everyone lived very hard, so naturally there was some indignation, and they wanted to find a reason for everything that happened.

The situation of Yue'er's family is not good, especially the woman is already frail, affected by the epidemic, tuberculosis is more serious, and there is a faint danger of life, the man is very anxious, and he went out of the village overnight, saying that he wants to find a special medicine for the woman.

If the man hadn't left at that time, things might have taken a turn for the better with the popularity he had gradually gained in the village.

It's a pity that the stories are always interlocking, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many tragedies.

It was also that night that the old village chief invited several sorcerers in the clan to get together and jointly calculate the thirty-six hexagrams, and the results of the hexagrams showed that it was a man-made disaster, referring to yin, outside, and young. The most eligible for the birth date is undoubtedly the moon born on the night of the lunar eclipse.

After that, the village asked all the big families to send representatives, and in front of them, they divined the twelve hexagrams, and the result was exactly the same, if according to the hexagram, Yue'er was destined to bring disaster to the village, and was the source of all calamities.

The ancient books of Chiyang Village recorded: Every 300 years, when there is a calamity star, the clan feasts on it.

Clan feast is a ritual to sacrifice the ancestors, in previous years used live cattle and live sheep, after the ancestors enjoyed, the living people finished eating.

This time, it is no longer cattle and sheep that are used.

Mad Stone attacked on the spot, and was knocked unconscious by the villagers and tied to the cellar.

Other than that, no one spoke up.

Based on those customs that are rooted in the bone marrow, no one wants to question the conclusion of divination, and no one can afford one disaster after another, if sacrificing a small baby can save the whole village, let her sacrifice.

Under everyone's silence, several young men covered in black cloth broke into Yue'er's house and snatched Yue'er out of the woman's arms.

The woman did not know what was happening, but she knew that these people must be against her and her daughter, so she cried out for help, several times louder than usual, and then the whole village was as if it had fallen asleep, and not even a bark of dogs sounded, and no one came; The woman instantly understood her situation, and began to kneel down to say mercy to the masked man, bleeding from her forehead, begging them to return her daughter to her.

Yue'er has begun to be a little sensible, and when she saw her mother's reaction and tragic situation, she was so frightened that she cried.

The two cries, one big and one small, are so helpless and so sad, but people are already iron-hearted.

Yue'er was put into a sack, and no one looked back at the woman who had fainted.

Someone set a fire after that.

All to ashes.

The next day, everyone in the village was given a bowl of broth with a unique taste.

Even the mad stones, which were still held in the cellar, were poured into a bowl.

On the third day, the man returned and was told that the house had caught fire and that his wife and daughter had died.

The man knelt in silence in front of the pile of ashes for three days and three nights, rummaging through all the ashes, picking up the ashes that he could pick up bit by bit, and then leaving the village with the wooden box containing the ashes, no one knew where he went, but he never returned.

After the man left, the mad stone was released.

After that, he went "crazy".