The pattern on the ground was very peculiar, Ye Qiu restored her according to the appearance of the candlestick, and a woman without a head held up the tray with both hands, knelt on her knees...... "Go, go back with me!" ”

After that, Cha Wenbin turned his head and walked back, the fat man saw that he was so anxious, thinking that Cha Wenbin was going to the hole, but this time he was very happy, and gave Ye Qiu a thumbs up and said: "It's still your cow, just take a branch and toss it on the ground twice to get him." ”

What exactly are these two patterns?

Cha Wenbin didn't understand the first picture, but the second candlestick also understood at a glance, and that thing was called "Harlequin"

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So where did he go when he turned back?

Is it really what the fat man thinks, what disappointed the fat man was that he went straight to Lao Xia's house.

As soon as he entered the door, Cha Wenbin asked: "Sixth uncle, I heard you talk about it before, and people often come to ask for rain in our area, right?" ”

"Yes, in previous years, during the great drought, there would be people from other places who came to ask for rain, and dozens of people came from Anhui, so why do you ask this?"

"Do you know any of them?"

"Not really."

Xia Laoliu recalled those who begged for rain, but he knew that these people seemed to be from Anhui, as for where they came from, and what kind of people they were, everyone didn't know, Xia Laoliu continued: "This is said to be last year, wasn't it a big drought last summer, and a group of people came, and we could explain it when our old man was still there." Those people were all shirtless, and a young man at the front carried a wine jug on his back, and I heard that he walked on foot from the place where he begged for rain, and walked until he walked to the back of Longtan inside......"

The people who came to Hong Village to pray for rain were all from the same place, no one knew where they came from, and there was a lot of speculation that they might be the former aborigines of Hong Village.

They sang songs that no one could understand, all kinds of offerings, all kinds of bunting, they didn't talk to passers-by, and they never stayed overnight.

After arriving at that location, the tedious ritual began, the highlight was to drop a rooster into the deep pool, Xia Lao Liu described the voice: "You want to know this, I can take you to find Lao Lu inside, he has the best water nature, in previous years, those who begged for rain came to drop the rooster and finally were taken away by him and eaten back." ”

"Eventually, that gourd will be filled with water."

Lao Lu is also an interesting person, he likes to drink, Cha Wenbin specially took two bottles of wine to chat with him, he didn't know which ones were true and which ones were fake when he opened the chatterbox, patted Cha Wenbin's arm and said: "Little brother, have you never seen it with your own eyes, the gourd was placed on the shore, they chanted, I saw with my own eyes that the water in the waterhole slowly climbed up the gourd, until the gourd was full of those people and went down the mountain." The strong man who carried the gourd was strangled on his shoulders, and it was difficult to walk, and he heard that the gourd was filled with the rain that the dragon lord gave them, as long as he could carry it to his home and pour out the water inside, it would rain immediately, and it was very spiritual. ”

"Is there really such a god?"

Lao Lu looked at the fat man with disdain and said, "Hey, you young man, don't you come here every year?" That guy can really endure hardship, walking barefoot, not eating or drinking, and a woman wearing a white veil was carried by them, and I don't know how the girl could stand it. ”

"Women?"

This information was very important to Cha Wenbin, and he hurriedly asked, "What happened to the uncle after seeing those women?" ”

Lao Lu gestured: "I don't know, don't let me see it, some of them are stopped outside, the gods are chattering, very fierce." ”

After resigning from Lao Lu and bidding farewell to Lao Xia, Cha Wenbin went home full of concerns.

Now it's the fat man's turn to be in a hurry, what are you doing...... I'm taking my pants off, and you're going to show me this?

No, the fat man ran to Cha Wenbin and stopped him: "Cha Ye, you should give you an instruction, when will we go down?" ”

Cha Wenbin looked at the fat man angrily and said, "If you go down now, you are looking for death!" If Ye Qiu hadn't been here that day, do you think you would have been able to come back? You know that if you don't know what that stuff is, you dare to go down, Qiu'er told you that there is danger, you don't listen, you must find out who is asking for rain, otherwise you may not be able to get out if you go in rashly. ”

The fat man was puzzled: "What does this have to do with those people?" ”

"Do you know what that candlestick you pressed is called? That's called a clown! I kind of understood why the girl we met that day had been dead for so many years, and that she had been treated as a sacrifice to the priests. ”

What is Harlequin?

Cha Wenbin is familiar with ancient books, and it is recorded in the overseas Western Classic of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas": The corpse of the ugly woman was born and killed in ten days.

In the north of his husband, he covered his face with his right hand.

Ten days on top, and the harlequin on the mountain.

What does that mean?

It is said that there was once an unknown small country called the Husband Country between the mountains and the sea, and on the top of the mountain in the north of it was imprisoned the corpse of the harlequin, who was the witch of that country, and she covered her face with the sleeve of her right hand all day long to block the sun above her head.

The god Cave was killed, and the witches came to rescue him, but in the end he failed to succeed and died.

The harlequin, who is a witch, annoys the god who killed the stalk, and invites ten days to come out.

Ten suns were shining hot in the sky, surrounding the top of the sacrificial mountain, the harlequin was physically exhausted, and gradually died, and the body could not leave all year round, so she hid her face and stayed on the top of the mountain to wait for ten days to leave.

Many of the records of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" sound absurd, but the harlequin has a lot to do with a very important priestly activity of praying for rain among the people.

Cha Wenbin once saw a very peculiar record of praying for rain, which was also found in a pile of ancient books by Ma Sufeng, which said that there was a very cruel priestly ritual in a very secret small country in the dynasty.

When the weather is dry and rainy, there will be a clown in that place to come out to ask for rain, and the process is very terrifying.

These harlequins were all selected by the patriarch at a very young age, and these women had to be beautiful women, and after being selected, they were all locked in a dark, windowless room, lit by rat oil lamps, and fed with rice from the sacrifice of the mountain gods.

It must be raised enough to be thirteen years old, and when it is time for the sacrifice, at three o'clock in the night, he blindfolds his eyes with a red cloth and takes him to the secret altar, and the sorcerer strips the woman naked, leaving only an eye patch, and smears the woman's body with centipede blood, and the centipede blood gradually coagulates, and pulls the skin tightly, which is very painful.

The wizard then uses an adult beetle snake to put into the woman's lower body, this snake is so yin that it will suck up the woman's virgin blood, and when it comes out, the whole body is blue, and the woman will also faint in pain.

The sorcerer then used heavenly water to wake up the woman, and carved a kind of "Shi Yu Jue" on the woman's body with bamboo strips

The incantation was applied to it with sulfur and secret medicine, and it was over.

When the scorching sun is at noon the next day, the woman's blindfold will be opened at a very fast speed, and the eyeball will be instantly broken, and the blood in the eye will be left behind, and the sulfur, centipede blood and secret medicine on the body will react, and the woman will be burned alive.

When she was about to die, she cut open the woman's abdomen, sewed the beetle snake into the back, put on green clothes, and then put the woman into a special locust wood coffin engraved with a spell, and the coffin was "death door" in the direction of the eight doors

Bury and slaughter nine cows and nine deer here, and chant mantras for three days before you can begin to pray for rain.

This is a record of an ancient book, and Ling Zhengyang also marked it when he collected these things, and each book would tell them where they came from, but this book that recorded all kinds of cruel witchcraft did not find the source.

At first, Cha Wenbin read this kind of book as a story, until one day when he went to Hongcun to study in primary school, he personally saw a wave of people begging for rain, and the children at that time hid on both sides of the road to see the strange, at that time he gradually understood that the stories recorded in the ancient books evolved into the current rituals, and those overly bloody parts may be simplified, but it does not mean that they have disappeared.

Therefore, when Ye Qiu drew the candlestick, Cha Wenbin's first reaction was an ugly girl, and then he thought of the rain begging team he had seen when he was a child, and immediately went to find Xia Lao Liu.

That night Cha Wenbin did not go home but went to the town, he sent a telegram to Gu Qinghe in the United States, and the telegram was sent back early the next morning, asking him to go to the provincial capital to find the teacher surnamed Leng, where Cha Wenbin got some legends about her husband's country.

Leng Lao introduced: "The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" in the record described in the husband country has not been clear, in the historiography for its existence is their own opinions, some people according to the "Han and Tang Dynasty Geography Copy" edited in the "Gu Di Zhi" record found such a passage: Emperor Yin Dawu made Wang Meng collect medicine in the Queen Mother of the West, to this starvation, eat wood, clothing and veneer, lifeless wife, and give birth to two sons, from the back, is for the husband country. Go to Yumen for 20,000 miles. It is said that in the era of Yin Shang, the king sent Wang Meng to the Queen Mother of the West to collect the elixir of immortality, and later ran out of food, trapped in the middle of the road, could only eat the fruits of the tree, wear the bark, and live in the barren mountains. He had no wife all his life, and the Emperor of Heaven took pity on him and had no offspring, and two sons jumped out of his back in his sleep. After the birth of his son, Wang Meng died. His son also gave birth to the next generation in this way. And the offspring were all men, and gradually there were more and more men in this place, and the husband kingdom was formed. This husband country was more than 20,000 miles away from Yumen at that time, so according to the Qin and Han dynasties, one mile was about 400 meters, at least 8,000 kilometers, which has exceeded our modern territory, but the ancients said that it was mostly exaggerated, and there was no ability to accurately calculate the long distance, so the controversy in the historical circles at that time was that one of the northwest's present-day Xinjiang was in the northwest, and the other was the Zhejiang-Anhui region in the south. ”