When Aaron woke up, he saw that his hands and feet were tied, and he was so frightened that he was about to scream, but found that his mouth was also gagged.

Fortunately, Mu Ying was right next to him, holding down Aaron, who was constantly struggling, and whispered: "What you saw just now was just a white rabbit, and it's still an old hunter......

"......" Arondon's face was hot.

"Don't worry, our people are so angry that even if there are ghosts, we don't dare to approach." The soldiers on the side laughed quietly.

"Yes, you won't see a ghost next to us." Mu Ying nodded, and said to him again: "Can you promise not to make a fuss again, I will let you go, can you?" ”

Aaron nodded hurriedly.

Mu Ying waved his hand, and the soldiers untied the rope.

Aaron pulled out the rags on his mouth and saw that it was actually his own headscarf, and said that it was no wonder it was so big.

Thinking of his startled performance just now, he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into.

Before he could adjust his mood, Mu Ying pulled him to his side, pointed to the front and asked, "What are they doing?" ”

If he hadn't asked him something, he wouldn't have let him go now.

"......" Aaron calmed down, only to find that he was on the flat-topped mountain, just one step away from the fort wall.

He was nervous for a while, and subconsciously wanted to shrink his body back, but Mu Ying held him down and said, "Don't worry, it's backlit here, we can see them, they can't see us." ”

Only then did Aaron stabilize his mind and carefully look at the swaying figures on the castle.

I saw the torches shining in the sky on the head of the city, and an old man with a ghost face was dressed upside down, dressed backwards, holding a short sword and a long sword, shouting along the city wall.

Behind him were several men, smearing their faces and hands and feet, cloaking them upside down, leading sheep and dogs, holding straw men and horses, and jumping as they walked......

Seeing this scene at night is indeed infiltrating enough. No wonder Hou Ye called him up and asked.

"This is in 'Shallow Dede', in Chinese it means to drive away evil spirits," Ah Long really recognized it, and explained in a low voice: "The one wielding the sword in front is Bi Mo of the Puding Department." The man in the back was holding a sacrificial sacrifice in his arms, that is, black and white chickens, white male dogs, male goats, etc., as well as straw men and grass horses. ”

"They shouted and shouted around the stockade, jumping as they went, and circled around the stockade until they were outside the gate." Aron went on to explain:

"When they arrive at the gate of the village, they will cut off the heads, claws, and wings of those sacrificial sacrifices, tie them upside down on ropes, and hang them horizontally on the gate of the village, so that they can guard the village, and do not let demons, demons, plague gods, hungry ghosts, disaster gods, etc., enter the village and enter the house to make trouble."

"Why is this ceremony happening all of a sudden?" Mu Ying asked, "Do you have anything to talk about?" ”

"Didn't you tell Master Hou on the way, this month is the ghost month of our Luo Luo people." Aaron said: "The ghost king will open the ghost door and let the ghosts who have been hungry for a year come to the world to beg for food. Normal ancestral spirits naturally have nothing to fear, they are afraid of those who are killed alive, expelled from the family, and lonely souls and wild ghosts who die with resentment, and these ghosts will also come out. When they have no place to go, and they are full of resentment, they will harm people everywhere. ”

"It's about the same as our mid-year festival." Mu Ying nodded, he had already discovered that the cultural customs of the Luo Luo people were basically the ones borrowed from the Han people, and then changed their faces to say that they were handed down by their ancestors.

However, the barbarians of all directions are like this, and there is nothing to blame.

~~

And they continued to observe quietly in the shadows, and when they saw the mad men at the head of the city, when they turned to the gate of the wall, they began to kill the animals, cut off their heads and feet, cut off their hairs, and put their heads and feet with hard hairs on the thorny poles.

While chanting the scriptures, Nabimo instructed his people to hang the sacrificial tree poles above the gate of the village.

According to Aaron's explanation, the gate of the village will become the dividing line between the human world and the ghost world, and ghosts will not be able to enter the village.

At this time, the city returned to quiet, and Mu Ying asked, "Such a ceremony once a year?" ”

"Our villages are like this in other places, but Puding Fort is different, it is built on the ghost gate." Aaron said, "Ghosts are a hundred times heavier than elsewhere. Twenty years ago, when Darima was still the envoy of Qujing in the Yuan Dynasty, he advocated the construction of Puding Fort here, and also had a conflict with the previous governor of Puding Road, that is, Shierta's father. ”

"But his arm couldn't reach his thigh, Darima grabbed Shi'er, forced the old manager to comply, and finally the Puding Department moved here." Aaron deliberately said: "Because of this old grudge, my grandfather didn't expect that Shier's slut would take refuge in Darima." My grandfather liked to think of the good in people, but he wasn't stupid. ”

"Uh-oh." Mu Ying nodded perfunctorily and said, "Don't go off-topic, get down to business." ”

"In short, for this reason, their ceremony is extraordinarily grand, and it will be done for seven days in a row, until after the ghost gate is closed." Aaron had no choice but to sneer.

Mu Ying's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Today is the first day?" ”

"The ghost door will be opened in three days, and the ghost door will be closed after one day of opening, so today should be the third day." Aaron was sure.

"Good boy, you have made a meritorious service!" Mu Ying patted him on the shoulder and whispered excitedly, "Let's go, let's go back." ”

~~

Returning to the cave where he was hiding, Mu Ying reported the situation he had detected and the information provided by Ah Long to His Highness, and explained his plan and plan.

"Since it's the Ghost Moon, this is the Ghost Gate, and the people of Fort Puding are so afraid of ghosts, we might as well give them a 'What are you afraid of'! The time and place are right, and there is no reason! ”

"You mean, pretend to be a ghost to scare them?" Lao Liu understands as soon as he listens.

"Yes." Mu Ying nodded heavily and said, "When walking the night road, a rabbit came out, and it could scare the old hunter who made the mountains and forests his home out of his body. As long as we look like each other, we're sure to scare the hell out of them! Then we will take the opportunity to attack the city, and we can fight it! ”

"What do you think, old hunter?" Zhu Zhen asked Aaron.

Aaron blushed again when he heard this, which became a stain on his life. Zhu Zhen asked again, and he came back to his senses and said: "If you can make them believe that it is really a ghost, you will definitely be able to scare them back into the house and hide, and no one dares to stand at the head of the city." ”

"But the people of the Puding tribe are not stupid, no matter how scary we are, the result is still on the ground, and people will not believe it." Aaron was not optimistic and said: "In our cognition, ghosts must be floating in the sky, and those walking on the ground may be demons, but they must not be ghosts." ”

"That's right." Mu Ying nodded and said: "This is really a problem, people are in the city, and we can't scare people if we pretend to be ghosts below." ”

"It's not a big problem, this king is an expert in pretending to be a ghost." Zhu Zhen had an idea, and asked Ah Long with a smile: "Have you heard of Kong Ming Lantern?" ”

"No, no." Aaron thought for a moment and shook his head.

"That's going to be easy." Zhu Zhen smiled. Mu Ying also smiled, obviously understanding.

(End of chapter)