Chapter 479: Auspicious Turtle and Crane
Chapter 479: Auspicious Turtle and Crane
The crowd was full of people.
The white bird hovered in the air, anxiously flying across the sky, flying several miles away, and landed in a secluded place. It looked around nervously, its breast heaving violently.
The scorching sun created streaks of fire, but even hiding in the shadows there was still no coolness.
The Taiping jar was filled with cool water, in which the scorching sunlight was reflected, flashing brightly, and then gradually returning to calm as the noisy breath outside the courtyard died down.
a long time.
A circle of ripples spread out from the edge of the tank and gathered towards the center.
Gather to one point in the center, jump up slightly, and spread out again.
Before hitting the cylinder wall, the second ripple arose and collided with the previous ripple, covering and annihilating it.
Soon, the third, the fourth...
The ripples in the Taiping tank vibrated rapidly, with continuous collisions and large splashes of water!
Outside the hospital.
The shirtless man's face was red as he pounded the drum and the music reached the sky!
A few miles away, the water birds heard the noise in panic and flapped their wings to flee.
Wu Long pounced onto the roof, but his claws missed and he fell to the ground.
crackle.
Two tiles shattered.
"Present the sacrifice!"
The young and powerful shout resounded throughout the town and echoed in everyone's mind.
The shirtless man gasped, lowered his head, and the sound of the drum stopped abruptly.
There was a buzzing sound in their ears, and before anyone could come to their senses, three ferocious beasts tied with iron chains slowly appeared.
Leading the group was a giant buffalo lying on the ground, its muscles knotted, tendons twitching, and its eyes flashing with ferocity, making it hard for people to breathe.
The timid people turned their eyes away, not daring to look him in the face.
"prick!"
Xiang Fangsu looked calm, remembering the steps of the sacrifice, and stood on the small pillar platform and shouted loudly.
The white knife goes in, the red knife comes out.
The sharp knife pierced the heart, scarlet waterfall splashed and washed away, and the thick blood quickly filled the pine barrel.
The strong smell of blood added a sense of frenzy to the damp and stuffy pier, stimulating everyone's senses.
I witnessed with my own eyes a giant beast several meters long die in front of me.
The faces of hundreds of thousands of villagers flushed, their hearts beat violently, and they even temporarily forgot the scorching heat of summer.
Wow!
The pine barrel fell over, blood flowed, dyeing the river surface red.
Red foam floated, and large schools of white fish jumped and vied with each other, scrambling to filter food and bathing in the bloody water.
The shamans stood on both sides of the altar, wearing short straw raincoats on their shoulders and performing a bizarre dance.
Hundreds of thousands of people were excited, but they were sunburned and felt dizzy, their lips were chapped, and salty sweat flowed down their foreheads, irritating their eyes.
The aroma of mung beans is still lingering around my teeth, but no matter who I am, I can't ask for a bowl of mung bean to drink right now.
The dance was halfway through.
Liang Qu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he stood upright.
"Officiant, OK!"
The shadow of the eaves fell on the ground, as sharp as a knife.
Nine gongs sounded.
Liang Qu stepped out and walked from the shadows towards the vast white land.
The blurry and dazzling white light climbed up from the bottom.
Hula la.
Banner hunting.
Crossing the line of intertwined light and shadow, he stepped onto the ground, and drizzle fell on the villagers.
A few villagers looked up at the sky.
Second step implementation.
The drizzle was pulled into threads, fell to the ground and evaporated in the blink of an eye.
Three steps.
four steps...
Before I even stepped onto the stage, a deep coolness came over me.
The rain was not heavy, just maintaining the balance between evaporation on the ground and accumulation into a pond, but it gave people a unique sense of peace.
The scorching heat seems to evaporate from the body through the pores, bringing a sense of relief like a big fish entering a river after it has dried up!
On the small high platform, Xiang Fangsu picked up a drop of rain and rubbed it on his fingertips, then looked up at the sky.
Clear skies.
Sunny day with rain?
The villagers couldn't stop whispering and talking.
"This... Rain, it's raining!"
"Rain in sunny weather?"
"Wasn't it Carp Spot last night..."
Although rain on a sunny day is rare, it is not too unusual in midsummer, it is just a coincidence in timing.
Just as Liang Qu came on stage, the discussions among the crowd gradually died down.
Xiang Fangsu took his place. The old priest who was standing under the eaves with the village elders took two steps forward, fell to his knees on the ground with a plop, and prostrated himself howling.
"The river god has appeared again!"
"Again?" Xiang Fangsu raised his eyebrows.
The local villagers in Yixing Town seemed to have suddenly awakened their memories.
Yes!
If there are carp spots in the sky, you don’t need to turn over the grain when drying it tomorrow.
It was clearly carp-fishing yesterday evening, why did it suddenly rain today?
Everyone immediately thought of the white fog rising last year and the rain falling at the right time this year. How could it be a coincidence!
River God!
It’s the river god appearing!
Crash.
The villagers resonated with each other, and in a moment a huge black wave formed, and they knelt on the ground one after another.
Many outsiders who were participating for the first time were puzzled, but were swept up by the wave and knelt down together, not daring to move.
In the shadow of the eaves.
The two "old masters" in Yixing Town, Tang Zutao and Lin Yao, looked at each other and bowed down immediately.
The new owner, Xu, didn't understand what was going on, but he didn't want to be the first to stand out, so he just followed the crowd and kept a close eye on others' actions.
Xiang Fangsu wanted to scratch his head, but felt that it was against etiquette.
They haven't been asked to bow yet, why are they all bowing one by one?
There is no mention of this in the sacrificial process...
What's the next step?
Xiang Fangsu had never presided over it himself. Usually he would be told to do things one step at a time. When it was his turn, he was interrupted and could not remember much, until he caught a glimpse of the incense burner in front of Liang Qu, and an idea flashed in his mind.
"Twist the incense!"
Long incense is put into the stove, and white smoke rises.
"Sacrifice wine!"
The wine shimmers with a soft amber glow.
"Ode, a sacrificial oration!"
The pages ripple in the river breeze.
"Jianghuai is above, and the people of Yixing respectfully offer sacrifices of sacrificial animals and wine to the sacred spirit of Jianghuai, and present this sacrificial text:
I humbly admire the vastness of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, which nourish all things and have great merits. From ancient times to the present, the people of my city have all relied on God's grace and lived and worked in peace.
It is summer now, so I have prepared a small gift to show my respect and pray for the river god’s blessing, good weather, good harvest, and good harvest…”
The river is vast and peaceful.
Lan Wei looked at the person reciting the sacrificial text on the altar.
"That's Liang Shuilang?"
"It can't be false. The chief priest is the one who recites the sacrificial text!"
"Who's that over there?"
"It's the priest!"
"Priest, chief priest..." Lan Kui pondered for a moment, "What's the difference?"
The red-scaled snake didn't bother to pay attention to Lan Viper and listened attentively to Liang Qu reciting the sacrificial text. When it reached the second half, it urged him repeatedly.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry, the reading will be finished soon, just in time! Send it off, send it off!"
The yellow-scaled snake stared at the big turtle in its hand. The red-crowned crane was holding its breath, and after threatening it, it let go of the snake's tail.
Wow!
Two splashes of water broke through the calm surface of the Jianghuai River.
A red-crowned crane shook off the water droplets on its wings, flew up to the sky, and circled endlessly.
A giant green turtle, over ten feet long, climbed ashore, its limbs like pillars, showing its plump appearance.
Some of the people who raised their heads cried out in astonishment and were inexplicably surprised.
Amid the noise, a look filled with suspicion fell on Liang Qu's back.
Liang Qu felt Xiang Fangsu's gaze from behind and was also confused, but he remained calm and recited the sacrificial text.
Until the end of the memorial.
The circling red-crowned crane landed on the ground and brought a precious ginseng with its long beak.
The turtle opened its mouth wide and spit out a piece of crystal grass.
"?"
Xiang Fangsu's suspicious gaze became more and more intense, burning like fire.
Liang Qu almost couldn't hold it together.
No.
what's the situation?
Who arranged it?
Liang Qu's heart sank and he unconsciously sped up his speech until he finished the last sentence.
Ze Ding trembled.
[Sacrifice to Huaijiang River, river favor +2.0028]
Almost at the same moment.
Several waves splashed up above the swamp, and a hundred-foot-long snake cut through the waves and came taking advantage of the momentum!
In the center is a huge red snake with a green lotus on its head, swimming towards you!
This time.
Xiang Fangsu was also confused.
(End of this chapter)