Chapter 10: The River Sacrifice Ceremony
The golden sun rises from the east, and the golden sunlight drives the fog from the top of Mount Tai to disperse in all directions.
There is an ordinary town hundreds of miles away from Mount Tai, and the people in it work at sunrise and rest at sunset like most people, and most of the people in it have never left here in their lives.
It's such an ordinary town, but something strange happened half a month ago!
The town is called Yeosu, which has a long history dating back hundreds of years, and the people of the town believe in the river god, and everyone holds an ancient river festival on the Xingshui River every June.
It was one day in June, and the annual river festival began in full swing in Yeosu Town.
On that day, the sky was clear, the sun was blazing, and the golden sun hung high in the sky, spitting out a fiery breath.
The wild dog in the town, Ah Huang, kept sticking out his tongue in the shadow under the archway, and even the dog couldn't stand it in this hot weather.
A high-pitched suona sound can be heard from the street, followed by festive music played by drums and gongs.
A group of people walked all the way from the center of the town to the entrance of the town.
Walking in the front is a group of red-clothed musicians, knocking and beating all the way, and the leader shouts from time to time: "Get out of the way!" The people behind immediately shouted "Alas~"
Walking in the middle is a group of shirtless bearers, they carry five animals, namely oxen, dogs, sheep, pigs, chickens, in the middle is four people carrying a wooden board on the clay statue of the god, these people are bowing their heads and hurrying, silent.
At the end, the ordinary villagers who participated in the ceremony were men and women, some talking and laughing, and it was not lively.
At ten o'clock at noon, the group had arrived at the bank of the Xingshui River, everyone stood in accordance with the prescribed position, and several old men with gray beards walked to the front under the support of everyone, lined up.
The gray-robed old man standing in the middle walked to the front with a mahogany cane, facing the rolling starry river.
Everyone closed their mouths and looked at the gray-robed old man silently, with awe and piety in their eyes.
I saw the gray-robed old man tremblingly raise his mahogany cane, and shouted loudly in a long voice with a long voice: "Sacrifice to the river god~"
The voice dragged on longer and longer, until his body trembled violently, the gray-robed old man blushed, and his raised hand fell violently, and the sound stopped.
Then there was an overwhelming hail of ancient sayings behind him!
Everyone shouted loudly at the top of their voices! Everyone's face was full of solemnity!
In this high-pitched singing, the old men standing at the front all knelt down tremblingly, and began to pray to the rippling Xingshui River with a reverent face!
After a long time of singing, the old man coughed solemnly, then slowly stood up, turned to the crowd and shouted, "Offering!"
As soon as the words fell, the shirtless bearers carried the struggling five animals to the river, shouted the trumpet, and threw the five animals into the Xingshui River.
The five animals neighed and struggled to sink to the bottom of the river.
Seeing this, the gray-robed old man's face was calm, and the mahogany cane stood lightly, shouting, "Please river god!"
Suddenly music began to play, and the clay statue was carried to the river by the porters in a joyful sound.
The old man walked to the statue tremblingly, closed his eyes and whispered, and after a while, the old man's eyes opened violently, and his eyes were full of determination.
After taking a few steps back, he shouted: "Please water" Just as the bearer was about to throw the idol into the water, a mutation protruded.
A thunderclap sounded on the ground, and an incomparably explosive lightning tore through the sky, and the sound shook the universe.
Everyone looked at the sky in horror, and then quickly knelt on the ground, and kept pleading.
It seemed that their pleas had really been heard by the river god, and the originally calm Xingshui River rippled one after another.
"Run, run, the river god is angry!" I don't know who shouted in horror, but no one paid attention to him, because they saw something terrible.
The waves, the huge waves that obscured the sky and the sun, came to them, and without prayer, all of them were in a mess, screaming and running backwards.
In an instant, the waves had swallowed them up, and there was no more music or prayer, only screams and the roar of angry waters.
"Brother Tiger!Tell the truth!Are you a fairy?" a white and pure young man sat on an ox cart, teasing the old cow and nibbling on a bright red apple.
The ox cart was covered with a thick layer of straw, and a tall man lay on it with a tired face, and when he heard the young man's words, he pounced his head speechlessly, turned around and changed to a comfortable position and ignored him. He didn't know how many times he'd heard this question along the way.
With a soft click, the young man took a bite of the apple and said, "Brother Tiger, if you don't speak! I'll admit it to you!" Brother Tiger, can you teach me some spells? Like any stone into gold, you can sprinkle beans into soldiers, you know I don't pick it! Hehe!" said the young man smiled stupidly and took another bite on the apple.
"It's not an immortal, it doesn't know how to spell!" Dahan turned around and replied lightly.
"Brother Tiger, this is not interesting, I saw it with my own eyes, when I saw you on the top of Mount Tai that day, your whole body flew in the sky and glowed with green light, is this not a fairy or a monster?"
The originally peaceful and helpless eyes of the strong man lying on the ox cart stared suddenly, looking at the figure of the young man, his eyes showed a little killing intent.
This person was Hushan Jun, when the bones of his body were almost all shattered, unable to move, when his life was hanging by a thread, he used all his spiritual power to summon a card, and it was this card that saved his life.
Jaco, the spirit of the forest.
When he woke up, he met this fanatical immortal cultivator...... Wang Jiuchen
This master kept asking all kinds of questions along the way, such as whether there was a toilet in the sky, whether the gods would marry a wife, and so on, if it weren't for the fact that his body hadn't recovered......
"Brother Tiger, aren't the immortals boring? Wouldn't it be boring to live for so long?" Wang Jiuchen took the last bite of the apple, threw the apple core in his hand to the ground, and turned around and asked seriously.
The killing intent in Hushanjun's eyes slowly disappeared, boring? Who knows? He has also just transformed, and he doesn't know anything about this world except for the book in his impression.
"Since you're afraid of being bored, why do you want to cultivate immortals?" Hushanjun sighed lightly and asked.
Wang Jiuchen smiled, tilted his head and said: "It's better to be bored than to die!" And I heard that all the fairies in the sky are very beautiful, if you can marry one and go home, hehe...... "Wang Jiuchen showed a lewd expression on his face, looking like a pig brother.
Hushanjun glanced at him speechlessly and ignored him anymore.