Chapter 264: Mountain Sacrifice Ceremony
No one can say exactly when this tradition of mountain worship began and how it developed. Why do you want unmarried girls by name, isn't it okay for young women? After all, they are all women, can the king of the mountains tell the difference?
The simple villagers feel that it is worth taking a risk!
If it fails, it's a big deal to send the widow's daughter to make amends. If it succeeds, then it will be okay in the future, after all, the difference between a woman and a girl is very different in terms of the odds of survival.
No one knows what the mountain king looks like. Those girls who were lucky enough not to die came back and said at most "monsters", and then asked about the rest, she couldn't describe it at all, after all, the soul was like the walking dead, and it was impossible to let her soberly say what she saw and heard.
The villagers sent the widow to the mountain king cave on the sixth day of the lunar month, and on the morning of the seventh day of the lunar month, it was supposed to be good to pick up the widow early in the morning, but things were a little wrong.
The widow has no immediate family members in the village except for a daughter, as for the in-laws, they hate them to death, because the lives of one big and one small are hard, one Kefu, one Kefu, one Kefu, and his own son is alive and dead, so can they not be jealous?
Because there were no relatives and no reason, so the next morning, the villagers did not get up in a hurry, and they all slept lazily, did not get up early in the morning to pick up, but waited for the sun to come out, and then lazily cleaned up, and beat gongs and drums to pick up people under the leadership of the village chief.
The reason why I want to beat the gong and drum is actually to remind the Lord of the Mountain, don't be greedy for pleasure and forget to avoid it, if this is a collision with the villagers, it will be a bad thing, the people who have seen the Lord of the Mountain, except for the girl who sacrificed to the mountain, none of them can come back alive.
For hundreds of years, it is not without courage, nor is it without heroes, but without exception, as long as you dare to fight the idea of the Mountain King's Cave, the consequences must be extremely miserable.
So the villagers made some noise, just to let the mountain king quickly avoid it.
The Sanwang Cave is halfway up the mountain, the entrance of the cave is facing the sky, and it stretches diagonally to the belly of the mountain.
It stands to reason that after sending people down, if there is no one to pick them up, it is quite difficult to climb out.
Maybe the herb pickers in the village can do it, but ordinary people who walk the mountains can't do this.
When the villagers came to the entrance of the mountain king's cave, they were all dumbfounded.
There was actually a large pool of blood at the entrance of the Mountain King's Cave, and there was also a trail of dragging.
The Lord of the Mountain is angry? The villagers were scared to pee. There has never been such a bloody situation before!
Whose blood is it? Is it a widow's? How did it appear at the entrance of the cave?
The panicked villagers had no idea and looked at the village chief.
The village chief was quite calm, and the soldiers divided into two routes, taking the guys all the way to check what was going on according to the blood stains that had been dragged on the ground. The other way according to the old rules, pick up people!
In the past, picking up people was done by the respected elders in the village, and when they did it, they had to wear a black hat, a red cloth strip around their waists, a blue cotton jacket, and a pink and red face.
The reason why I dress up like this is because the king of the mountain recognizes this!
As soon as I saw a "dead man", I knew that he had come to collect people.
Otherwise, if you enter the Mountain King's Cave without permission, the consequence will be that there will be no bones, and all the people who come down will be sacrificed to the Mountain King.
But this time the matter is evil, and the seventh master who was originally arranged to pick up people is also a little leg beating, and his liver trembles. said nothing, and the village chief persuaded him for half an hour without any result.
In the end, the village chief became angry, and he didn't care whether the seventh master was the seventh master or not, he scolded his mother, and then asked the seventh master to take off his clothes and pants, he changed them and wanted to go into battle in person.
When the seven masters heard this, it was as if the death row prisoner had been pardoned, and the one who took off was called a fast, if it wasn't for someone next to him, eighty percent of the pants were handed over to the village chief.
The village chief changed his costume, but it was almost the white powder and blush on his face. These two things are used by the old ladies in the village, and this matter of picking up people is the work of the old men, where can I get these two things?
If you go back to the village to get it, it will take a long time to go back and forth, and it will be a little delayed, and after noon, the village chief will not dare to go down.
After being so frightened just now, the seventh master secreted too much adrenaline, and his brain became bright, and he took the initiative to step forward and want to "roll" with the village chief!
The village chief still wonders, he has heard of "rolling" the kang, why does he still have a "rolling" face?
How do you "roll" this face?
The seventh master bared a mouthful of big yellow teeth and said to the village chief, this "rolling" face is to stick the face together, from one side to the other, isn't this equivalent to putting on makeup!
Only then did the village chief understand that this is a fucking "roll" face!
There is no other way, so "get out"!
Sticking to the old face of the seventh master, the village chief suddenly felt a burst of stickiness, and dared to be frightened and frightened just now, and the seventh master even came out with cold sweat and false sweat, originally there was powder paste on his face, and it was not very obvious, this thing is not BB cream, and it is not permeable to water or breathable.
After such a "roll", the slimy sweat was "pressed" out, and then such a "roll" was completely reconciled with the mud.
The village chief not only did not succeed in transferring the white powder and blush on the face of the seventh master to his own face, but also stuck a face of stinky sweat and rouge powder, and the body odor of the seventh master and the fragrance of the rouge powder were mixed together, so that the village chief could vomit.
The three and two handfuls rubbed the things on their faces with their sleeves, and the village chief took a breath.
The people next to him were scared and couldn't help laughing, and someone came up with an idea and said to the village chief: "Anyway, your face is white enough, and if you don't wipe the rouge, it's better to get it like this." ”
The village chief also thought about it, and his whiteness was well-known in the village, whiter than most old ladies, and he didn't rub powder. But how do you fix this blush? If you don't put this thing on it, it's not solid in your heart after all.
The seven masters who had made a bad move just now came over again and offered another plan to the village chief: The red ready-made, isn't it on the ground?
The village chief looked down and saw a pool of red blood on the ground, these seven masters were ready to wipe blood on their faces!
Originally, he was taking a risk for this old thing, but he turned out to be so good that he came up with such a bad idea for himself. The more the village chief thought about it, the more angry he became, and with an old fist, he directly slapped the face of the seventh master, and smashed the seventh master back several steps, and the nose was like a pot, and even the snot and blood all came down.
The village chief beckoned to the guy next to him and asked him to wipe the nose of the seventh master. The guy didn't have a tissue, so he went up with his sleeve and "smacked", so he wiped off the snot and blood.
But the bleeding couldn't be stopped, and the village chief walked over and stretched out his hand again.
was so frightened that the Seventh Master jumped back, but after all, he was still not as fast as the village chief, wiped it on the Seventh Uncle's beard, stained it with a little blood, and wiped it directly on his face.
I hate it, but there's really no other way. I wanted to go back and clean up this old guy again, but I didn't expect a burst of fog to rise under the old man's feet, and the people around him were shocked, I grass, this old man is a fairy?!
That's absolutely impossible, the seventh master was scared to pee by the village chief, and the coaxing urine rose from the old man's feet, and at the same time, it was still a dripping liquid, flowing down the seventh master's trouser legs......
Seeing this, the village chief yelled: "Old immortal, you are wetting your shoes!" ”
It is said that this shoe is not the village chief, he is so excited to do a six? That's because I really forgot about these shoes when I changed my outfit just now. The seven masters are wearing a pair of paper shoes worn at the funeral, which is the same as the blue cotton jacket, black hat and red cloth strips, which is the old order!
No one who was busy chattering just now didn't pay attention to this, and now the seventh master was scared to pee, only to find out that he forgot to change his shoes!
The village chief was stunned for a long time, and he didn't know whether to rejoice or get angry.
Fortunately, there are two points, one is that fortunately I didn't change my shoes to the Seventh Master, otherwise this soaked old urine, would the shoes be gone? He's wearing an authentic military hook!
Another point, fortunately, the seventh master urinated, otherwise he would have really ignored the matter of shoes.
At the same time, the village chief also held his breath, it was originally a papier-mâché shoe, how could he wear such a pee? Don't say whether it's dirty or not, the key is that the paper must be soaked in water!
Not to mention that people can always burst out with incredible abilities at critical moments, the village chief rushed up with an arrow, and Dabie Zi directly put the seventh master to the ground, this is to change the flow trajectory of the liquid, don't really soak urine and waste the shoes.
Then he shrunk his hand in his sleeve, and carefully took off the paper shoes of the seventh master through the padded jacket.
The old man was worried that he would freeze his feet by wearing paper shoes in the past ten winters, so he deliberately made the paper shoes two sizes larger, then stuffed them with cotton, and wore a cotton sock cover himself, so that the thin paper shoes were transformed into two cotton shoes by him, at least not so moving.
If everything goes well, then this little invention of the Seven Masters will be a meritorious service. However, something went wrong, how much water absorption does this cotton have? All of a sudden, it was inseparable from paper shoes.
You can't peel it off, and a peel will inevitably tear the paper shoes. So how to fix it? I can only wear it hard!
The village chief hesitated again and again, and finally gave up the pair of steaming cotton socks that Guan Qi asked him for, and was ruthless, and stuffed his feet into the paper shoes.
Not to mention, it was still hot when I first entered, and if I didn't think about where the heat came from, the village chief still felt that it felt good, but I couldn't think about it carefully, and it was easy to vomit when I thought about it deeply.
When everything was ready, the rope was put on the body, and a shorter nine-strand hemp rope was taken in his hand, which was to tie the widow to the body.
With a squeak, a few strong guys led the village chief to the mountain king's cave.
This is the first time the village chief has gone down to the Sanwang Cave, and he has always heard the older generation say that the Sanwang Cave is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is a treasure land. This time he experienced it himself, not to mention, it was indeed warmer than on the ground.
Moreover, the inside of the Sanwang Cave was extremely dry, which made the village chief feel a little uncomfortable, and he was panting and his throat was raised.
There are two taboos in the cave of the mountain king, one is not allowed to make loud noises, and the other is not allowed to bring any lighting tools, especially fire!
Normally, after entering, you can see a little light from the entrance of the cave, but today is late, the sun has risen quite high, and the angle is wrong, so the light is a little nervous.
Again, I heard from the people who took over the people from the older generation that the people who were going to pick them up would generally be near the entrance of the cave. Life or death, there are no exceptions, so even if you can't see clearly, you can still come across it if you crawl on the ground like a crab after entering the hole.
So the village chief posed as a crab and slowly rubbed it into the hole!
The more he rubbed his heart, the more bottomless he became, what they did this time was wrong, and he looked at the "blindfold" on it, and then rubbed it in, in case he ran into the mountain king who was in a bad mood, wouldn't he explain it?
Thinking of this, the village chief pulled the rope sleeve tied to his body, greeted the above, and asked the people above to drag him up.
When the people above saw that the rope had moved, they thought that the village chief had found someone, so they hurriedly competed together, and dragged the village chief up directly.
As soon as the village chief showed his head, the villagers looked at it and said, "Good fellow, this little face is whiter, but what about the widow?"
As soon as he asked, the village chief shook his head and said that there was no one below at all, and eighty percent of the widows let the mountain king eat it, and the blood at the entrance of the cave might really be a widow!
This can be blown up, the villagers who came to pick up people were all dumbfounded, and two of the daughters who were ready to tie up the widow on the spot hurriedly sent an apology to the lord of the mountain king, but they were stopped by the village chief, saying that they would wait until the group of people who went out to check the blood stains came back.
At this time, someone reminded the village chief that he had been tossing for so long just now, and the village chief had to go in and out for more than an hour, why didn't they have any news at all?
When the village chief heard this, it was indeed strange, the successive situations made his brain feel like a short circuit, not to mention why the gang had not come back, even the shoes on their feet were wet...... Oops, yes, take off these shoes quickly, it's not warm when the breeze blows, it's biting cold!
Throwing away the socks together, the village chief put his military hook back on. Only then did he command the villagers who stayed behind to pick up the people, and together they went to find another group of villagers along the bloodstains to see what they were doing!
The bloodstains were particularly conspicuous on the mountain road, and it didn't take long for the village chief and them to find the group of villagers who were gone, all of them were circling around an old tree, and everyone's faces looked very anxious, but it was as if they couldn't see the village chief.
When the village chief saw this situation, he understood on the spot what was going on, this is a ghost hitting the wall, this tree is going to eat people!
So he opened his mouth and scolded, and this scolding, those people who were going around in circles stopped all of a sudden, looked around blankly, and after seeing the village chief and them, everyone showed ecstasy.
The village chief immediately ordered the hairy boys in their twenties who came with him to line up, unbutton their pants, and pee on the big tree.
This tree is too evil, and the boy's urine is heavy with yang energy, so they can go down the mountain safely!