Chapter Seventy-One: Visiting the Grave

"Yes, I'm going to the grave to see, and any of you can come with me if you're interested. Xiao Ruoshui invited expressionlessly.

Everyone was silent for a while, and Gu Lisha suddenly took a step forward, stood beside Xiao Ruoshui and whispered, "I'll go with you." Xiao Ruoshui still had no expression, but said in his heart: "Hey, why are you." After hesitating for a long time, the high priest and the elder took a step forward together and said, "We will go with you." The two of them stepped forward one by one, and all the guards hugged up, after all, they couldn't forget their duties, Xiao Ruoshui nodded, and said to everyone: "We leave one person on duty every hundred steps, I calculated, it will take about a thousand steps to get to the tomb, and we will place people from the road into the valley, all the way to the entrance of the tomb." This way I can calculate the approximate distance and bearing. They said yes, and went down the hill to the mouth of the valley. There was a stone tablet standing at the entrance of the valley with lines of Turkic characters on it, and Xiao Ruoshui asked the Great Elder, "What is written on this?"

The Great Elder looked at the stele and said, "The main thing is the name of the valley and the precautions for entering the valley. After all, this is also a sacred place for our tribe, and it is also a forbidden place, in order to prevent someone from breaking into the cute corpse and innocently losing their lives, so I wrote some precautions. ”

"It seems that your tribe is also very afraid of hurting the innocent. Xiao Ruoshui said in admiration, and couldn't help but have a good feeling towards the Hulun tribe.

As they talked, they housed the people, and the further they went, the less sunlight became, and after a while they reached the entrance of the tomb was basically the same as night. Everyone's whole body gradually became cold, on the one hand, there was no warmth of the sun. On the other hand, it is estimated that the whole body is chilled by the cute corpse that appeared today. They were also afraid that a cute corpse would suddenly jump out and scratch themselves to death, Xiao Ruoshui seemed to see everyone's worries, and he said: "Form a circle and walk forward slowly, so that you are not afraid of attack." The crowd formed a circle, and Gu Lisha was surrounded in the middle, with the elder, the high priest, and Xiao Ruoshui at the front. The three men walked with their heads to the grave of the old patriarch. It was getting darker and darker, and he couldn't see the road clearly, so Xiao Ruoshui took out a cloth ball and wrapped it on a lot of pine resin branches to make some torches. lit up and walked towards the grave. The entrance to the tomb of the old patriarch is a foyer-style building. Roughly equivalent to a place of worship, behind the foyer through a square-like flat ground is a tall tomb, the whole of which is sparsely covered with grass and trees, the most strange of which is the most strange. It was actually five pine trees growing in a circle. Swinging in the wind. Two pine trees in front. Two pine trees were behind, and the one in the middle seemed to be surrounded by four trees, Xiao Ruoshui stood in front of the foyer and stopped. He looked back at the valley and looked closely. He squinted for a while, opened his eyes for a while, and jumped from time to time, which made everyone strange, but they didn't dare to ask him why, they were afraid that their curiosity would alarm the cute corpse, and it would not be fun. Xiao Ruoshui jumped for a while, he clapped his hands, took the torch and walked towards the foyer. He was not afraid, but the crowd was getting colder and colder.

Walking into the foyer, Xiao Ruoshui stood in front of the altar and asked the Great Elder and the High Priest: "If Gu Lisha and I are treated as sacrifices, will we be tied to that position?

"Those who are used as sacrifices are generally tied to the altar and lie down, and you see, there are not eight rings on the altar, and they are used for binding and sacrifice. The festival usually begins during the day on the fifteenth, is performed early in the morning, and must end before noon. The high priest explained to him in detail.

"Every time you come back after the sacrifice, are the boys and girls still there, will they run away?" Xiao Ruoshui asked them.

"No way, all the valley roads were surrounded at the time of the sacrifice, and it will not end until ten days later, this time is the most important event in our clan, and it is also the most important activity, so it is impossible to escape. We will come back to check after each sacrifice, the two boys and girls will disappear, there is no tunnel to escape from this place, there are people guarding all around, so it is impossible to escape, only to be eaten by cute corpses. The High Priest affirmed.

"Then how did you eat it, none of you have ever seen it, since you ate it, what is there without a trace of blood?" Xiao Ruoshui asked strangely.

"We don't know what to do, we don't dare to explore the patriarch's grave, who has the guts?" said the Great Elder.

"The day after tomorrow is fifteen, so I'll be a sacrifice. Xiao Ruoshui walked through the front hall, approached the square, looked at the tall tomb and said.

"Xiao Shaoxia, don't laugh at the old man, Xiao Shaoxia's character and courage have made us admire along the way, and if you say this again, it will make the old man embarrassed. The Great Elder said with a look of shame.

"It's okay, if you can solve the problem of cute corpses, you can be regarded as doing a little thing for you. Xiao Ruoshui said with a relaxed face.

"How is it good that you are called an old man?" the Great Elder looked at Xiao Ruoshui and didn't know what to say.

"Alright, the grave visit is over, let's go back and see what is going on with those two heads. Xiao Ruoshui said with a relaxed face.

"Okay, let's get rid of those two heads first, and then we'll talk about the sacrifice. The high priest said in a circle.

The group returned to the Great Elder's meeting hall, and as soon as Xiao Ruoshui entered the door, the cowhide bag kept moving, and there was a sound of biting the cowhide inside, which made people shudder.

"It's strange, we haven't moved here just now, why did you move this cowhide bag as soon as you came in. A man said with a strange look at the cowhide bag.

All the eyes of everyone stared at Xiao Ruoshui and Gu Lisha, in fact, the meaning in it is very clear, you are the ones who alarmed the cute corpse.

Xiao Ruoshui ignored everyone's eyes, he withdrew from the room alone, the cowhide bag suddenly quieted down, Xiao Ruoshui looked at this strange phenomenon outside the door, and thought to himself Could it be that I provoked it, but it didn't make sense. But the iron-clad facts were in front of him, and he didn't know what was going on.

He stood outside the house in a daze, looking at the cowhide bag, at this time it was lying quietly on the table motionless, as soon as Xiao Ruoshui walked into the room, the cowhide bag kept moving, making an unbearable harsh sound of biting the cowhide, everyone's eyes definitely looked at Xiao Ruoshui, he touched his nose, was stared at by a group of people, he didn't know what to say, this iron-like fact made him difficult to distinguish. He thought to himself that he was really a candidate for sacrifice, and he actually picked me, it seems that it was really arranged by God.

Gu Lisha suddenly said: "This head seems to be controlled, like a puppet. Her words were not loud, but they were heard by Xiao Ruoshui, and he suddenly said, "I understand." The crowd was drawn to his words, and they all looked at him. (To be continued......)