Regarding the climax of the annual harvest season - "tail rice", there was a slightly sad legend in Dayanhe Village.

More than 1,800 years ago, the distant ancestor Mingjing, his fourth generation of descendants named Gengqiu, was the village chief of Dayanhe Village at that time, after the autumn thunder, Gengqiu began to arrange the autumn harvest.

Just as the rice harvest went smoothly and only the last tuft of rice remained in the paddy field, the sky darkened in an instant.

The rice customers put away their sickles and raised their heads to see what was going on in the sky.

The black clouds in the distance rolled and moved, with an oppressive aura, making the rice customers watching so nervous that they couldn't breathe.

The black clouds gradually approached, making a brushing sound, and it turned out that they were wings flapping in unison, black wings

A flock of crows is covering the sun and killing the generals......

The crows circled over Ganhua Creek for a long time, croaking and croaking, frightening the children in the village to tears, and even the calmest old man in the village was embarrassed.

Finally, the Raven King, the shiny-coated, menacing black crow, swooped down and plunged into the last tuft of rice in the rice field......

Geng Qiu hurriedly blocked it with his body, and the Black Crow King hit Geng Qiu's chest, and then, it fell into the rice field, flipped over a few times, and then flew away with a flutter.

A moment later, four more crows rushed down......

Geng Qiu grabbed the last rice cluster, and shouted to the crow king in the crow flock in the sky: "There is a new child in the clan, and every grain of rice is the help of Jiuyou to the human race, so that the human race can survive, and it is also the ration that can only be obtained after a year of hard work by the human race......

"The cold winter is coming, the long night is endless, and the crows should continue to cross the ...... south"

Black crows, like ice wolves and silver fir trees, are creatures that survived Quaternary glaciers...... A flock of crows comes for a cluster of rice, and must not be reckless to drive them away.

A moment later, a ray of sunlight shone on the last cluster of rice, and the four black crows that came rushing to the rice saw the Raven King appear, and quickly withdrew......

In the sky, the white-eared and black-feathered duck king, surrounded by crows, glanced at the golden rice on the land in a kingly manner, and then looked at a few babies on the ridge, and then turned his gaze to Gengqiu, and said to Gengqiu in the crow language: "Quack, this year's tail rice will be left to your people." I'm going to come back next year, and it's the underage babies who will take the tail rice from our mouths......"

The crow king couldn't help but say, picked up Gengqiu and left, and the crows echoed and shouted: "Lead me to the south, lead me to the south......"

Geng Qiu is a reasonable person, since he persuaded the crows to grab food, he should also help them, he flew away under the wings of the crow king, overlooking the childish babies on the ridge, reluctantly, and read: "The mission of the clansmen depends on you......"

He threw the last cluster of rice in his hand into the rice stack, and the last cluster of rice was indeed left in the hands of the people of Dayanhe Village as Geng Qiu and the Raven King had discussed.

As soon as the autumn thunder passed in the second year, the crow king arrived with a flock of crows as scheduled.

However, I don't know why, although the villagers look forward to it year after year, the village chief Geng Qiu never returned.

......

In the first tail rice competition, the last cluster of rice was obtained by the Terran baby Leng Yang. The crows watched the children's game, kept their promise, and never came to the idea of beating the tail rice again.

In order to cherish the memory of Gengqiu, the clan has continued the tail rice competition from generation to generation. And left a small piece of rice on the south bank of Ganhua Creek as a backup when the crows returned.

Since the first end of the rice competition, the crows have not come again, and the piece of rice left for the crows has become a sacrificial tribute rice.

......

This legend is that the children who grew up in Dayanhe Village have listened to their parents since they were children, and they were once scared by their mother at night when they were crying, "If you are disobedient, let the Crow King take you away".

Why are all the birds in the forest on the other side of the Ganhua Creek no longer chirping and playing?! Why is it that the sunset is still early, and there is no sound to be heard except for the sound of the running water in the Ganhua Creek?

The more Shaoyi thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body.

"Isn't it going to rain?", he glanced up in the direction of the lonely mountain.

"This ...... This ...... What is this?" asked Shaoyi, pointing in the direction of the Lonely Mountain.

Tian Li casually looked in the direction of one less finger, and soon, he frowned, and involuntarily reached out to rub the sparse beard on his chin, subconsciously repeating himself, unable to stop.

Tian Liao stared at the direction of Gushan and sighed to He Xiangu: "Year after year, it's really fast......

The sky was getting darker and darker, and Baili Xi also followed the big guy to look in the direction of the lonely mountain and saw a group of black crows that were bigger than ordinary black crows.

The crows, which have not appeared for many years, are now flapping their wings in unison like dark clouds rolling, silently and blackly, and before they know it, they have opened their mouths less......

"Click-" There was a loud bang, the sound of a thunderbolt rumbling and exploding in the distance.

Cold open-air, baby face. The rainstorm was coming soon with the thunder just now, and everyone was anxious.

At this time, everyone is rushing to work.

Since Shaoyi also joined the team of "rescue" rice, he no longer had time to care about the changes in the sky. However, curiosity killed the cat, and the work of passing the rice in his hands was not broken, but his eyes still couldn't help but look at the sky.

The sudden thunderclaps obviously brought a lot of trouble to the unprepared crows, and they vaguely saw that the big black crow that rushed to the front was trying to turn the direction of the entire crow.

As Tanari said, now is the time to carry out the annual Odana festival ceremony that has been agreed with the crow flock.

However, for the Terrans, the biggest threat at hand is the raindrops that will fall at any time after the autumn thunder.

If the rice piled up on the ridges and waiting to be threshed is not moved to a rain-free place as soon as possible, the hard work of the rice customers this season will be in vain.

The freshly harvested rice is already full of moisture, and if it is drenched by rain, it is easy to mildew, which may cause every household to "fry".

Does frying dried rice solve the problem?

Hey, hey, far from it.

Frying rice? That's not an easy job, and it's not something that a man running around in the wilderness can handle.

If the rice is tragically rained, it will not only increase the heavy housework of frying rice for the aunts and grandmothers in the village. Moreover, even if you have to re-fry the moist rice pot by pot, it is a pity that the dried rice can only be used for grinding flour and can no longer be used as new rice.

At the moment, the people who rushed to harvest had to ignore the annual tail rice festival ceremony, which was cheaper than the crows who came to grab the rice this year.