Chapter 5: The Decline of the Peace
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and the majesty is like a gentle person gently caressing everyone's face. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The long streets are bustling with people, dressed in various colors, walking side by side. Although children were crushed from time to time and many people's shoes were stepped on, they did not hear a word of complaint. There was a peaceful atmosphere everywhere.
The stalls on both sides of the street are filled with all kinds of strange knick-knacks, and the stall owners are calling out to the buyers at the top of their voices. When I saw someone come to buy it, I greeted it warmly, and it didn't matter if I didn't buy it, I still smiled sincerely. Behind the stalls are rows of shops, many of which have signboards hanging on the front eaves. The signboard keeps swinging under the movement of the Buddha in the wind, and at a glance, it is connected into a piece, like a colorful dragon.
At the end of the street is a large square with a large stage in the center. At this time, there were five or six people on the stage performing the show. They were all dressed in bright clothes, their faces were painted with colorful paint, and they were holding various weapons in their hands and doing all kinds of difficult movements, which caused bursts of applause from the crowd.
After the song, the actors lined up in a row and waved to the crowd before heading backstage. Then, a bald old man with a long beard led several middle-aged people dressed in yellow robes, with a tall body and a kind face, appeared. He looked at the crowd below the stands and gestured quietly.
The noisy atmosphere immediately turned into silence, and even the vendors put down their work and craned their necks to look there. An ignorant child refuses to give in and is still noisy. On the side, his mother hurriedly picked him up and coaxed him uncontrollably. It's just that the child's voice has drawn the eyes of the bearded old man.
The young mother hurriedly piled up a helpless expression on her face, and at the same time raised her hand to hit the child. But the old man reached out to stop him. He said calmly: "Such an active child will definitely grow into a brave warrior in the future, isn't this a blessing for my Da Xuan She people?
As soon as the words ended, there was a huge cheer from the audience, and the blushing face of the young mother was immediately hidden in the crowd. Immediately afterward, the two men lifted a long wooden pillar with a scale engraved on it to the center of the dance. There is a disc underneath the pillar, so it remains erect even though the pillar is lowered.
The bearded old man once again motioned for the people to be quiet, and then said loudly: "Great clansmen, the annual military election meeting is about to start again, welcome those who think they meet the requirements to come and measure, do not need to be discouraged if they do not meet the requirements, they will have a chance next year." Our ancestors will bless each of us to be great warriors!"
The voices in the audience were even worse, and even the dust was rolled up, but that only made people's emotions even higher.
"I'll come first. A young man couldn't hold back his excitement, squeezed a way out of the crowd and then jumped out on the stage and said loudly, followed by three friends of his age.
"What's the use of you going first, do you think you're qualified? Haha, don't wait for not meeting the standard to become a joke!" said the monkey-thin young man who followed him.
"You're not qualified, look at your dead appearance, like a bamboo pole, be careful that there will be a strong wind when it blows away, and we won't look for you. Said the man on stage. As he spoke, he leaned under the pillar and said again, "My lord, come and see how I am, I should go without saying that I can reach it, right?"
The old man stroked his beard and laughed, then raised a hand to him, holding out his thumb and forefinger. At this time, his two hands were only less than half an inch apart.
"Hahahaha......" Bamboo Pole couldn't help laughing loudly, his mouth opened wide, and he showed his white teeth and continued: "I've already told you, don't look at my thin body, but I'm tall enough." As he spoke, he was about to pull away the young man under the pillar with a look of disappointment, but a middle-aged man in a white robe stretched out his hand to stop him, and then said to the young man who was staying under the pillar: "You have passed the level, the lord is teasing you." ”
There was a burst of laughter at the scene, but the young man couldn't care so much anymore, he deformed his face with a smile as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, as if he had won the whole world, and kept jumping upward.
I don't know when it got darker, but no one cared, and their emotions were still high.
The bamboo pole pulled his face and walked towards the pillar as if he had not passed. Keep your head high and your waist straight. The white-robed middle-aged man immediately gave him a thumbs up. Still, he didn't seem happy. It wasn't until the old man looked at him that he released his long-suppressed emotions, and he jumped higher than the first young man.
"Huh...... Come one by one, don't worry, everything that should be passed will be passed. The bearded old man still spoke calmly, but his sonorous voice reached everyone's ears through the layers of chaos.
The gray clouds are getting thicker and thicker, and it seems that they are already turning to black. It was getting darker and a little windy, and it looked like it was going to rain. But people still have no intention of going home, after all, this is an annual event, and even if they don't have their own family or relatives to run, they are still happy, because when those young people grow up to be warriors, they will guard them like family.
But in any case, for the She people, there has been no war in their land for nearly 300 years. Three hundred years of recuperation and harmony, coupled with the deep understanding of the lords of the past, have created today's peace and prosperity.
There is nothing more important than living in the present, especially living happily in the present! This is the eternal pursuit of people from all walks of life.
The clouds grew darker and faster, surging down the streets. When they got closer, they could finally see that they were not clouds, but the formation of countless beetles gathered together, and they fluttered their wings in an orderly manner. The next moment, they suddenly scattered in all directions. The sky cleared up a bit, and then, again, it became dark. Countless beetles rushed towards the same central point at unprecedented speed. Suddenly, at that central point, huge beetles slowly sprouted.
It's just that the crowd has been carried away by the boiling atmosphere, and no one notices.
The beetle flapped its wings slightly, but when they realized that it was hindering their speed, they gathered it up and swooped down head-down with eight paws to the buildings and crowds below.
When the first beetle fell to the ground and smashed a house to pieces, people woke up from a dream, and the crowd was still smiling. Because everything was coming so fast, it would take a little time to change that expression. Some people couldn't even change, they just froze like that, even though the beetle's claws had pierced their bodies, they still kept smiling, and they had the same expressions until they died.
No one could accept it, they had been peaceful for three hundred years, the war had long been forgotten by them, and although they still knew about military training, it was just a cheerful ritual. So when the real war came, they suddenly forgot all the useless things they had learned before.
And the young man who had just sworn that he had met the requirements of the military selection woke up from his confusion and ran faster than anyone else.
The beetles continued to kill, their hard bodies combined with the speed of their dives would have been a brutal injury wherever they landed. Whenever they landed in the crowd, the sound would stir up a reddish mist that flew radioactively around the severed limbs and legs.