1novels Chapter 483 Mountain God Sacrifice
Chapter 483 Mountain God Sacrifice
"My lord, let's take a look at this. This is a handicraft handed down from the family." A person greeted enthusiastically, "Look at this color, this pattern, you will never find a second one in other places."
Yuan Qingzhi stood in front of Yuan Manshuo, looking warily at the middle-aged man who was trying hard to sell. The clothes on his body were just ordinary, and it seemed that he just wanted to make a fortune. There were many items on the stall behind him. The mask with strong colors and a lot of beaded hairpin toys beside it are indeed not in line with the popular style of Heianjing as he said.
"How much is this?" Yuan Manshuo pointed to the fox mask with red eye tails and asked with interest.
The middle-aged man rolled his eyes and looked Yuan Manshuo up and down, intending to quote a high price, but Yuan Qingzhi's cold and stern eyes kept poking at him, and he always felt that if he did anything strange, the young man would He could rush up and beat him up, so he pondered for a while, and in the end he just said a slightly higher price.
"Qingzhi, pay the money." Yuan Manshuo took the mask, weighed it twice in his hand, and instructed Yuan Qingzhi.
"Master... my lord, this kind of thing of unknown origin..." Yuan Qingzhi swallowed the first two words, frowning and wanting to stop it.
"It's okay, it's a 'festival' after all." Yuan Manshuo's relaxed tone seemed to have a bit of meaning, "Let's take advantage of this moment to play."
The streets at the foot of the mountain are surprisingly lively. Even though the environment is relatively simple, they still put in their best efforts and enthusiasm, moving out the best things at home from door to door, and displaying all the things that they are reluctant to eat on weekdays, but the most common ones are Clay statues that can be seen everywhere.
Some are so simple that they are just a little native, and then use branches and stones to barely carve out the facial features on them, and some are more vivid, not only the face is clear, but even the body is wrapped with colorful cloth strips embroidered with exquisite patterns , there are some strange things enshrined in front: bird feathers, beautiful stones... In short, they are very "local characteristics".
"It's rare enough to hold festivals at this time of year." Yuan Manshuo saw that many people refused to stay in the house even though they were shivering from the cold. .He listened roughly, and they were all prayers to pray to the mountain god not to be angry, and to hope that the weather would be good in the coming year, "Sacrificing to the mountain god?"
"Wait? Festival?" Nagasaki Wild Rose looked around suspiciously. In her cognition, the festival should be particularly grand, solemn or cheerful, and there would be fireworks at night, and this In such a crude place, people seem to have no food to eat and no warmth to wear. Is it really necessary to waste so much effort to hold a festival?
"This situation doesn't look right at first glance. They must not simply come to participate in the festival." Jianren Qihai's expression changed slightly. Although it was thousands of years away, he had a deep impression of similar situations. After all, Haibara Xiong is... "Faith, legend... the places where there are such things are the easiest to produce curse spirits."
"Indeed." Gojo Satoru raised a finger and complained, "One winter I wiped out five snow girls! Five! Sometimes I really hope that their imaginations are lacking."
"Please don't make trouble, Mr. Gojo." Jianren Nanami calmly pushed the goggles with his hand, "We are not interested in what you get rid of."
"Qi Hai Hai is really boring."
Looking at the scene in front of him, Su Nuo on both sides seemed to be recalling something, and a ferocious and excited smile suddenly appeared on his face. Zenyuan Hui noticed it with sharp eyes, and suddenly a sense of ominous premonition rose in his heart.
Shouldn't...
"My lord, how about we..." "Send the bride into the mountains!"
Yuan Qingzhi's words were interrupted as soon as he spoke, and the people around got out of the way one after another when they heard the shout, and looked towards the center with fanaticism and weird madness. Yuan Manshuo and Yuan Qingzhi also followed the crowd turned around.
I saw a rough "sedan chair" made of cut down trees and rattan staggeringly moved over, four people were supporting it with their hands, and a girl who seemed to be only eight or nine years old was sitting on it. , looked a little uneasy, but still maintained a serious look on his face, as if he was about to complete some important mission.
This is...the bride?It must be a sacrifice!Yuan Qingzhi's complexion sank, and he said to Yuan Manshuo in a low voice, "Are they crazy?"
"Isn't this something you've known for a long time?" Yuan Manshuo was not surprised at all, this in itself was one of the purposes of their coming here.
There have been frequent disappearances in this area, but because there have been too many natural and man-made disasters in recent years, they have not attracted attention. Until some time ago, a small caravan also disappeared. Ben was still the daughter of the aristocratic Gongqing family who sneaked out yearning for freedom, so things went wrong like this.
So when encountering such a thing, shouldn't it be normal to check how the person lost it?I know you are "unrestrained", but are you really going to strengthen the strength of the guards?Yuan Manshuo felt extremely tired when he thought of the guy who had tacitly agreed that he would not come back, and started urgently discussing what to do with the agreed marriage contract and the exchange of benefits.
Although it is true that he will not come back.Yuan Manshuo thought of the pearl hairpins on the booth, the colorful brocades with patterns on the clay statues... things of this size should not appear in this kind of place at all, it seems that they have probably been swallowed up.
"Let's go, let's follow." Yuan Manshuo said, the two quietly left the crowd and walked towards the direction where the sedan chair disappeared.
A somewhat rugged path appeared in front of their eyes. After years of trampling on it, it has become very compact. However, Yuan Manshuo stopped at this time and turned around slowly, as if he had expected it long ago. General calmly said: "When are you going to follow?"
Several figures flashed out from behind the tree, and the leader was the middle-aged man who sold him the mask. At this time, greed, distortion and fear coexisted in his expression. He watched Yuan Manshuo instructing the people behind him. : "It's him! He wants to fight against the mountain god, so that you will not have a good life in the coming year! Hurry up and do it!"
"I don't know what to say!" Yuan Qingzhi's expression turned cold, he took a step forward, and after hearing Yuan Manshuo's faint words of "keep alive", he nodded slightly and disappeared in place in an instant.
Following a few screams, the middle-aged man's knees softened and he fell to the ground, backing up again and again. He looked at Yuan Qingzhi who hadn't even changed his breathing in horror. Even a fool would know that he kicked the iron today. It's on the board.
"You're not from this village, are you?" Yuan Manshuo noticed something wrong from the very beginning. Although his attire was similar to that of others, his ruddy complexion showed no trace of his thin body, nor his appearance. When he saw him, he took the initiative to meet him, which was in stark contrast to the other people's shrinking or vigilant expressions. All kinds of ailments were as conspicuous as the light in the dark night. "The leader? Huh?"
"What are you trying to do?! Lord Mountain God will punish you!" the middle-aged man shouted sternly, as if trying to let others hear and come to rescue him.
"Is it the curse spirit?" Yuan Manshuo said a little tiredly. He was not very comfortable at all, and his body was cold in winter. What's more, he had already guessed the matter, so he didn't bother to talk nonsense, "Forget it Alright, let's get rid of it."
"Wait..." Blood splattered, and the middle-aged man's eyes widened. He was still thinking about how to escape, but he didn't expect that Yuan Manshuo would not even give him time to talk. Could it be that he didn't want to know the reason for all this? what?However, there is no possibility of expressing all kinds of thoughts, and the middle-aged man can only fall down on his back with full of doubts and unwillingness, losing his voice.
"It's nothing more than using spells to lure people into enjoying rights, making up reasons like 'sacrifice' and 'bride', and in the end they accidentally offend someone who can't afford it... so you don't need to know the details." Yuan Man Shuo looked down at the corpses of several people, and said calmly, "Just kill them."
And the fact is just as Yuan Manshuo said, the middle-aged man once accidentally discovered the "mountain god" curse spirit born out of the belief of the villagers. He was terrified at first, but he found that the curse spirit seemed to have nothing to do with him. As terrifying as he imagined, out of a momentary greed, he made up the identity of an "angel envoy" to pretend to be a ghost, and search for property from the villagers.Later, the curse became more and more powerful. In order not to expose the fact that he was an envoy in disguise, and on the grounds that the mountain god needed sacrifices, he asked these villagers to attract passers-by to rest in the village, and then killed them at night to provide blood. Feed to the curse spirit.
As a result, a few days ago, they happened to meet a small caravan resting on their feet, so he sacrificed them all to the curse spirit as usual, but he never thought that there was a noble girl who "run away from home" among them.When he saw the things later, he realized that something was wrong. There must be someone with a problematic identity, so he pretended to appease everyone, but in fact, he had already planned to escape secretly.
Just because the curse spirit became more powerful, the animals in the mountain were also affected. Originally, some prey could be caught in winter, but now the village has not harvested for several days, so he pretended that the mountain god was not satisfied with their sacrifice. If you want to have a good weather in the coming year, you need to make a big deal and dedicate a "bride" to the mountain god. He is going to make another fortune at the end, so there is today's "mountain god sacrifice", but he never expected to see something like Yuan Manshuo, an aristocrat who was alone and lost his way, had only one "guard" by his side, so he suddenly had bad intentions.
"Really... don't trouble me in winter." Yuan Manshuo rolled up his sleeves and walked up the mountain along the path, "'Mountain God'...should be just a first-level curse spirit, solve it as soon as possible..."
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Yuan Manshuo raised his head abruptly, a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes, what is this spell power... what's going on? !
"Master Patriarch!" Yuan Qingzhi stretched out her arms to block Yuan Manshuo's face, and looked forward warily.
The sound of footsteps approaching them unhurriedly, gradually seemed to ring in their ears, completely overlapping with the sound of heartbeat.A tall figure with folded arms appeared in front of them, and the evil and huge mantra power even blurred Yuan Qingzhi's perception for a moment, making him unable to tell whether it was a human or a mantra: "' Mountain God'?"
"No." Yuan Manshuo vetoed Yuan Qingzhi's idea. He looked at the person and said slowly, "He's a troublesome guy."