Chapter 9: Wu Zu

The place to welcome Wuzu was by the waterhole that Wu Mian saw before he arrived at Miao Village. When Wu Mian and the three arrived, the local area was already crowded. Thousands of Miao men gathered around the edge of the waterhole, and thousands of Miao women sat on the periphery, pointing and laughing at the men in front of them.

Lin Huo had some prestige among these people, and after he arrived, several Miao men sitting on the edge of the waterhole got up one after another, and after a few words of conversation in Miao, they actually gave up their places one after another. Lin Huo pushed a few times, but was pressed down by several other Miao men, and those people did it instead.

Wu Mian, Lin Huo, and Lin Huo's nephew Yang Xiao sat together, and Lin Huo was afraid that Wu Mian would not understand Miao and be restrained, so he spoke with him without saying a word. As everyone knows, the more this is the case, the more bored Wu Mian feels in his heart.

After a while, it slowly darkened. The originally noisy sound became quiet, and only the sound of the waterfall could be heard. It was pitch black, and no one was lighting a candle. After another half an hour, suddenly, there was a commotion in the crowd, and then I saw a faint light from the waterfall rushing down.

After the waterfall falls into the pool, the entire pool emits a layer of fluorescence that seems to be absent. As the glowing waterfall continued to flow into the waterhole, the fluorescence became more and more obvious, reflecting the faces of the people sitting in the front row. Except for Wu Mian, all the people here have seen such a scene more than once. No one was surprised at the moment.

Seeing that the light emitted by the pool was getting brighter and brighter, at this moment, a layer of ripples suddenly appeared in the center of the pool, which was originally as calm as a mirror. Slowly, in the center of the ripples, splashes kept coming, like boiling a pot, and the splashes became more and more dense. At this moment, a man slowly emerged from under the water, and after a while, he stood on the surface of the water, shouting a Miao language to the crowd at the edge of the pool.

This sentence lit up the emotions of all the Miao people around, except for Wu Mian, who was sitting on the spot and squinting at the people who came from the bottom of the water, including Lin Huo and Yang Xiao, everyone jumped up from the ground and shouted something at the people standing on the water.

At this time, Wu Mian could already see clearly that the person standing on the water was sixty or seventy years old, and his whole body had been soaked with water, emitting the same fluorescence as the pool water. The old man standing on the water should be tonight's protagonist - Wu Zu. I saw that he stretched out his hands and pressed them a few times, and the shouts of the crowd stopped in an instant.

Wu Zu said a few Miao words to everyone, and the faces of all the Miao people on the periphery of the waterhole changed color. Wu Mian really didn't understand what was going on, and when he went to ask Lin Huo, Lin Huo was already standing on the spot like a log, and he couldn't hear Wu Mian's question at all, just kept repeating what Wu Zu said, and finally Yang Xiao could also say a few official words, and answered Wu Mian's question for his uncle: "Wu Zu, you want to choose an heir......

It's no wonder why the Miao people are crazy, just when Wu Mian was bored and was about to leave, Wu Zu on the water said a few words one after another. When his words fell, twenty or thirty old men came out from behind the crowd. These old men all held more than 100 incense sticks in their hands, and when they saw the Miao man, it was like giving him one of the incense sticks in their hands.

After a while, all the Miao men at the edge of the waterhole, including Wu Mian, each had a fine incense stick in their hands. The people in the back began to move closer to the waterhole, seeing that more and more people were gathering, and the people in the front row had already squeezed their calves soaked in the waterhole.

Wu Zu on the water folded his hands, and after a while, when he spread his hands again, a blue flame appeared in the palm of his hand. Wu Zu slowly walked towards the crowd with this flame in his hand, and the people who had already been squeezed into the waterhole scattered one after another, making way for Wu Zu.

After Wu Zu walked out of the pool, he said something. The Miao people around him began to consciously form a formation, walked in front of Wu Zu in order, and lit their own incense with the blue fire ball in his hand.

"What do you mean by this?" Wu Mian didn't understand what the situation was, but he couldn't count on Lin Huo to answer, Wu Mian didn't pay attention, Lin Huo had already held the incense row to the front. This question is still answered by Yang Xiao for his uncle: "Borrow the holy flame of Wu Zu to light their own incense in their hands, whoever burns the incense the latest, the next Wu Zu will be who's."

Wu Mian smiled playfully, and said to himself: "Then Wu Zu still needs to choose? Who is the one standing last, he is the next Wu Zu" Fortunately, the people around him couldn't understand what he said, Yang Xiao pretended not to hear, and also mixed into the large army of incense and moved forward step by step.

Wu Mian originally wanted to throw the incense and leave, but looking at the mighty incense lighting team, he walked to the end of the team with a thought, and walked forward slowly.

The Miao people who lit the incense stood or sat around, staring at the incense head carefully, and they didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere, for fear that because of their own breath, they would speed up the burning process of their own incense. After most of the day, Wu Mian finally arrived at the last place.

After seeing Wu Mian's appearance up close, Wu Zu was stunned for a moment. Taking advantage of his efforts to light incense, Wu Zu whispered something in Miao language, but unfortunately Wu Mian didn't know what he was talking about, and after nodding at Wu Zu with a big grin, he turned around and left.

It's just that he hasn't walked a few steps before he sees a sudden fire in his hand, and the long incense in his hand is like a gunpowder twist after a dry year, and the fire burns clean in a flash. Just when Wu Mian was stunned, the old man who had just delivered incense came over behind him, pointing to the outside of the waterhole and talking about something. This didn't need a translator to know that it was for him to leave here, and among the thousands of people who chose Wu Zu, Wu Mian was the first to be eliminated. In the laughter of the Miao people, Wu Mian inexplicably left the waterhole, leaving a Wu Ancestor who was also inexplicable as him, looking at Wu Mian's back with an incredible look.

Wu Mian didn't expect such a result, according to his thoughts just now, with his qualifications, even if he can't be the next Wu Ancestor, he can still attract the attention of this Wu Ancestor. Wu Zu has been passed down through countless generations, and it shouldn't be difficult to find out the location on the map from his mouth, but who would have thought that he would be the first to be out......

After returning to his bamboo building, Wu Mian finally couldn't understand why he was the first to be eliminated. Could it be that it was because he didn't have the blood of the Miao people? Just when Wu Mian was thinking wildly, a noisy sound sounded outside. Looking out of the window of the bamboo building, the lights were bright outside, and the forest fire was surrounded by everyone and returned to the village, seeing that he was smiling so much that his mouth couldn't close together, Wu Mian immediately guessed who the next Wu Ancestor would be.

It's midnight, but no one wants to rest. The elders of the village Zhang Luo slaughtered pigs and steamed rice, and began to give Zhang Luo, the next Wu Ancestor, in the middle of the night. By the light of the torches, the people set up tables in the open space of the village, and after the wine and meat were arranged, a long table feast began. At this time, naturally no one thought of Wu Mian, who was the first to be eliminated just now.

This is the first Wu Ancestor in the village, and it is impossible for such a happy event not to get drunk. The feast lasted until dawn, when no one was left to get up from the table. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wu Mian came out of his bamboo building, walked to the drunken cat-like forest fire, and gave him a pulse.

After a while, the expression on Wu Mian's face became surprised, let go of Lin Huo's hand, looked at his red face, and said: "I can't see it, you are so similar to me......" When he spoke, a small porcelain bottle appeared in Wu Mian's palm, he played with the porcelain bottle, and continued to say to himself: "Do you dare to take this risk?"

Tomorrow is Father's Day and the birthday of the old man in the family, and there is only one watch