Hunter of the Forbidden Region Chapter 16: Dragon King Festival
That night, Lin Shuo, who hadn't closed his eyes for several days, lay in his clothes and fell asleep.
The Lin family has a secret method that can keep the descendants from sleeping after entering the mountain. However, this method is more detrimental to the body.
Make sure that the surrounding area is safe, and Lin Shuo will never be polite when sleeping.
I was asleep, and the sound of firecrackers outside the house awakened Lin Shuo.
Opening my eyes and looking out the window, the sky is still dark.
The two women on the bed sat up all at once:
"What time is it?"
"Four thirty."
"It's too wicked to set off firecrackers so early. I thought I was back to the barracks again." Liu Qing muttered, and began to dress up, "You stay asleep, I'll go out to take a look. "
"Don't sleep." Lin Shuo listened to the movement outside and said softly, "The Dragon King's messenger is here."
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When the four of them got up and got out of the house, they found that the old man's family was dark and silent, and they were no longer at home.
In the direction of the village entrance less than a hundred meters away from the old man's house, after the sound of firecrackers, there was another sound of gongs and drums.
The four people followed the sound and turned around an alley entrance. Only then did they see the crowds in the direction of the village entrance, which had already surrounded the inner and outer three floors.
The villagers are very quiet, standing around the huge snake statue at the entrance of the village, mostly holding torches, illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.
In the innermost part of the crowd, there was a burst of humming that didn't look like singing or chanting.
Not far from the crowd, there is a red-skinned spruce that is more than ten meters high and looks very sturdy.
Next to the red spruce, there is a gray donkey tied to it.
There is a bucket of beans in front of this donkey. It is crunching and no one is around. The four of Lin Shuo came over, it just looked up, and then continued to stick its head into the bucket.
Lin Shuo walked around the donkey, got up the tree in twos or twos, found a branch to settle down, and leaned his back on the trunk.
The two women, Liu Qing and Anne, also climbed up, with dexterous hands and feet, especially Anne, who came directly to Lin Shuo.
On the contrary, it was Yang Tuo, the big master, who didn't come up after a try. He walked around the bottom of the tree in a slightly embarrassing way, and then simply sat down against the trunk.
Lin Shuo pulled away the branches that blocked the view, and finally saw the scene in the crowd.
Beside the huge snake statue, sits an elderly man in his fifties.
The old man was wearing a black lab coat, a blue-gray melon cap on his head, a gray goatee, and a shamisen in his hand.
Looking at his costume, he seems to be a traditional Chinese rap artist. At this moment, he was humming and he was really singing something.
However, Lin Shuo has never heard of this kind of singing in China. The voice is low and hoarse, just the few tones that come and come. At first it sounds monotonous, but after listening for a long time, it will feel quite interesting.
As Lin Shuo, he naturally knows a lot of strange people and things in the world. Lin Shuo is no stranger to this kind of rap artist.
Lin Shuo has never heard of this kind of singing in China, but he knows that this kind of monotonous rap style is often used for narration.
The tune is not important, and the instrument in your hand is even less valuable. What is sold is just the words in the mouth.
Lin Shuo listened carefully and slowly understood.
The words in the old man’s mouth are actually telling a series of stories.
The hero of the story is the black water dragon king.
How it was born, how it gained power, how it became the dragon **** in the sky, how did it go down to the earth because of something, why it appeared here, and how it helped people here.
The old man’s physical strength is really good. This passage takes more than an hour to sing.
Lin Shuo listened, really listening.
When the old man finished singing, it was already bright, and the torches in the hands of the villagers had already been extinguished.
"Mr. Lin." Anne saw the old man finally finished singing, and asked softly, "Do you think what the old man sang is true?"
"It's done well." Lin Shuo nodded, "This old man has some ability."
"Huh? Has he finally finished singing?" Liu Qing shook his head, "I heard that I fell asleep."
After the old man in the crowd finished singing, he took a sip of tea from the villagers, then slowly stood up and said:
"Look, the big guys, Lord Long, I'm not happy recently. The group of outsiders on the other side of the river offended the old man.
The old man is compassionate, and he didn't do anything to the group of outsiders, just rushed to the other side of the river.
It is clear to the elderly, you are different from them, so you are not to blame.
But, Lord Dragon loves us, we can't be heartless.
In addition to erecting a statue of his old man, tomorrow, you will prepare some sacrifices and go to the riverside to honor his old man. This matter is also over.
Everyone relaxes their minds and makes a living. The Dragon Lord will protect us. "
After these words, the villagers all smiled.
"Holy Dragon Lord!"
"This group of outsiders, I have long been displeased. But at any rate, there are so many lives. If they were killed, they would have committed crimes."
"It's great for Lord Dragon to do this!"
"Long Lord is kind!"
"I didn't say, tomorrow's sacrifice, our family will have a goat."
"We have five chickens!"
"Our family has a whole pig!"
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Along with a loud cry, firecrackers ignited next to the crowd.
The villagers spread out, leaving a larger space in the middle, the gongs and drums began to beat, and the Yangko also twisted.
The joyous atmosphere is just like Lin Shuo's Chinese New Year when he was a child.
The people here, in fact, the tradition of celebration is very similar to the south of Heilongjiang.
It's just that more than half a century after leaving their homeland, there is one more item in their tradition, and that is the Dragon King Festival.
The envoy of the Dragon King in black shirt and blue hat, after the villagers were full of excitement, presided over another ceremony.
After reciting a long prayer in front of the snake statue, he led the villagers to kowtow to the huge snake statue.
Hundreds of villagers kneeled at the entrance of the village, kowtow willingly, their movements were neat and uniform, and they were very religious.
The solemn sense of ceremony is shocking.
After doing this, the villagers nearby set off another string of firecrackers. This ritual, which has been slowly established in the past 100 years, seems to be over. The original solemn expression on the face of the Dragon King's messenger also relaxed.
The people on the empty ground at the entrance of the village began to disperse gradually.
The old man took a bag of corn flour from the villagers and waved his hand again, seeming to have declined something.
He walked out of the crowd with the small bag of flour and walked towards the red spruce where Lin Shuo was.
When he got closer, he saw Yang Tuo sitting under the tree. He was taken aback and didn't say anything. Instead, he hung the flour bag in his hand on the donkey.
Then he took off his coat and put it in the bag on the donkey, and took out a black short suit from the bag and put it on.
His lower body was originally wearing trousers and cloth shoes. After changing into a top, his whole body became compact and neat~ IndoMTL.com~ After he changed his clothes, the dragon king envoy looked up at Lin Shuo on the tree with a look. As usual, untie the donkey and walk outside the village.
Lin Shuo found that there were four bags of flour on the donkey he was traveling with. It seemed that this village was not the first stop of his trip, and it should not be the last stop.
As soon as Lin Shuo made a gesture, the four of them got under the tree, stood up, and hung far behind the Dragon King messenger.
The old man's donkey is only used for camel stuff, he doesn't sit on it himself. But the old man's legs and feet are much faster than ordinary people.
Following him over a hill, the others of the four were fine. Yang Tuo, who was a scholar, was already out of breath.
Liu Qing took out the walkie-talkie in the backpack and got in touch with Wei Xingshan on the mountain. Lin Shuo saw that this woman had been arranged, and she was simply abducted into the dense forest alone.
That huge recurve bow, Chasing the Lord, has been separated from Lin Shuo for a whole day, and it was originally taken care of by Xiaoba and Wei Xingshan.
Now Liu Qing is contacting Wei Xingshan to cut people off, and he wants to return to the temporary camp immediately and bring the chase master.
As soon as I entered the mountains, I was surrounded by Master Chase and Xiao Ba, so I felt more at ease.
In the temporary camp on the mountain, I received Xiao Ba and Chai Ye, and then returned to the mountain road, Lin Shuo heard a noise from the front.
Listening to the movement, the Dragon King's envoy who was walking fast on the mountain road has been stopped by Wei Xingshan with mercenaries.
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