Chapter 105: 105
Life in the mountain village is outrageous, because the village is not developed enough, and there is no field to cultivate.
Chu Yin works with the villagers during the day, and occasionally spends some points at night to go up the mountain to find Chi Yan.
Footsteps, as if the abyss in front of him, one step forward will be shattered.
As for these ordinary-looking villagers, although they felt that Chu Yin had no chance to leave the village, they always kept a deep vigilance against her as an outsider.
The red moon turned into a white moon, and the white moon turned into a red moon seven times, and Chu Yin was woken up by the system sound early in the morning
[July 7th is a big day for the devil to get angry, please get up early and prepare for it]
Chu Yin glanced at the watch hidden in her sleeve. After entering the illusion, she adjusted the time according to the changing law of the red moon. Now it happened to be the third hour of the red moon.
Usually in this case, the villagers in the village are sleeping peacefully.
The village is very quiet today, only the sound of birds and insects.
Wait a minute, something does seem different in the village.
Chu Yin exchanged an invisibility cloak for herself and gently opened the curtain to peep out.
When she saw the scene outside, she opened her eyes slightly. The houses were still those houses, but the whole village had undergone earth-shaking changes.
There were no normal green plants in this village. The plants that can survive around the magma all grow strangely. The wood has a high ignition point and is as hard as a stone.
But now, the light green to dark green moss living in the mottled brick walls came into Chu Yin's eyes first, followed by the dwarf bushes, poplars and willows everywhere in her world.
In front of Grandma Yang's house, there is a large open space. This place is used for drying stones, but now this open space has become a pond.
The pond is not big, about six or seven square meters. Looking from her direction, you can see the sparkling waves under the moonlight. Most of the water surface is occupied by algae. The light green and dark green algae completely blocked the underwater scenery. Chu Yin knew a lot about plants, and even saw water chestnuts and small heart-shaped leaves crowded together, which looked very cute. .
They are all crops that are so common that they can no longer be common. At such times, they appear in such villages. But it makes people unconsciously creepy, and suddenly feels very strange.
Chu Yin glanced at the sky subconsciously, the sky was still very dark, there were no stars, only a lonely moon, and it was bright red, even brighter than the previous blood moon, like a When the chickens and ducks were slaughtered, the blood that they spurted out at that moment was a bit dazzling.
Chu Yin walked around the village, and then walked outside in the usual direction.
In the mouths of the villagers, this day is the day when the devil is angry, and the magma will continue to boil.
But in Chu Yin's eyes, the river flowing with magma turned into an ordinary river overnight.
It is rainy in July, probably because it just rained, the river looks a little turbid, and the location along the rocks is particularly muddy, while the other section is a clear color that can be clearly reflected Out of the shadows.
Chu Yin was wearing an invisibility cloak, and there was nothing on the river, only vaguely saw the reflections of flowers and plants and villages on both sides of the river.
This village is like any ordinary village she has been to.
About four or five o'clock, when the sun was about to rise, Chu Yin heard the long-lost rooster crowing.
Oh oh oh, after that, the whole village roared.
She looked up at the sky subconsciously, and a blood moon was still hanging in the air.
After the rooster crowed, there were people in the village.
Chu Yin did not go to the village to do farm work in this world, but she still understands basic common sense.
The sun will be very sunny at noon, whether it is an old man who is easily awakened or a farmer who is going to work in the fields, he will get up early.
Chickens and ducks or something, plant a little green vegetables and peppers.
In addition to these small ones, there are paddy fields, a large area of green rice seedlings, neatly planted in the paddy fields.
Chu Yin's temporary residence, the old woman got up early, at this point in the morning.
She was not at all like the villagers said, she prepared early and hid under the bottom, but took a porcelain bowl with a gap, and some millet in it.
The old man walked to a corner of the yard and shouted skillfully: "Gugugu, come to eat."
These scenes are warm and beautiful, but Chu Yin's eyes stay on the old man's clothes.
The clothes she originally wore were the more ancient gowns, which were not too different from those in TV costume dramas, but now, the clothes and gowns on these people have become comparative Modern style, at least the fabric is the product of modern industry.
When I wake up, I feel that time has passed by two hundred years.
"This is influenced by the red banquet."
It can be inferred that at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the ghosts were several hundred years old, and the residents in the memory of the young ghost Chiyan were all modern.
It's just that the village is close to the mountains and water, so it is not easy to go out. There are no modern tools in the village, not even electricity, and kerosene lamps are used.
An extremely poor, closed and backward village.
When it was normal, Chu Yin folded back again and opened the curtain.
"Morning."
"Good morning." The old lady took out an enamel basin, a snow-white basin filled with black things.
"Boiled water chestnut, do you want to eat it?"
She asked very naturally, as if this water chestnut had always grown outside the house.
Chu Yin shook her head, and before the old lady changed her face, she explained two more words: "I don't like this thing, it's too hard to peel."
The old lady's stiff face returned to normal for a moment: "That's right, you kids in the city are very picky."
She no longer bothered with Chu Yin about such trivial matters, and soon became busy again.
Because the village returned to "normal", there were some foods that Chu Yin was very familiar with.
There is only one person in the house, but the old lady has been busy since the morning and seems to be preparing a very rich meal.
Is there a guest at her house? The old lady's husband left early, and then he had no family and no children.
Because of her sturdy body, she lived for a long time, and she literally boiled all her blood relatives to death, so she had no relatives and friends to move around.
What kind of guests are there? It's worth her trouble.
Chu Yin didn't dare to think about it, the more she thought about it, the more terrifying she became.
Focus on the old lady, obviously can't get enough clues.
Chu Yin took the umbrella produced by the system to go out. In case of sulfuric acid rain one day, this umbrella can block her and give her a buffer time.
Sure enough, not only the old lady, but every household is busy, as if preparing for the grand ceremony.
"What's a good day today?"
Chu Yin casually caught a young woman with a big mouth and easy to rhetoric.
The other party came into the house holding the food basket: "What day is it? It's a good day for sacrifices. To prepare sacrifices for the mountain gods, you must be careful."
In such a village without electricity and modern entertainment, there is always a need for some activities to appease people's hearts.
Sacrifices are not uncommon, in fact, in another aspect, the altar of the village has always existed.
Even if the altar is washed away by magma and the altar collapses, after the order is restored, the first building that the village chief leads the villagers to build is the altar.
The buildings and people in the village have changed a lot, but the strange symbols of sacrifice have not changed at all.
The weather gradually began to get hot, and the seedlings that had grown well in the rice fields began to wither, from energetic, to slack, and then to completely withered.
The water is almost dry and the ground is starting to crack.
Small ponds don't know what has been drained, and crops that like wet water are even less likely to survive.
Although the house has not changed to what it was when Chu Yin first arrived, around ten o'clock, the village has a little bit of the smell of when Chu Yin first arrived.
Dry, hot, and lifeless, the faces of the villagers were very ugly.
Children picked up a lot of smooth pebbles to go home, they usually love to play, but in order to save water, no matter how active children are, they are ordered to stay at home as much as possible, reduce exercise, avoid Unnecessary moisture loss.
Chu Yin looked at the village chief, the weathered man smoking a cigarette, his brows furrowed.
"Natural disasters, absolutely natural disasters, we haven't experienced such disasters in many years."
Although the village is located in a ravine, but there is such a river, unless there is a flood, their life is very good.
In such a remote place, no one would travel through mountains and rivers to collect taxes, and the place where everyone lives is very small, which means that the head of a village has a very high majesty in the village.
."
"But if it goes on like this, what are we going to give to God?"
Many crops died because of the drought.
The wild beasts on the mountain could not drink water, so they all gnawed at trees and fruits, and the fruits in the depths were ruined.
Those beasts that are particularly powerful, like big bears, tigers, wild boars, etc., can kill many of them if they fall down.
A tiger kills a dozen people, but it is the most capable one. How many people are enough to add to the tiger's mouth, the key is to kill animals, and it is not realistic to drink the blood of animals.
"We still have to beg for God's mercy." The old village chief said, "It's not that there are no sacrifices, there are sacrifices, the gods will like it."
Some gods like live chickens and ducks, while others like live pigs.
"Mountain gods will like smart and beautiful children, go back and think about who to choose for the sacrifice this time."
Adults generally do not become sacrifices to the gods, because they marry, have children, and their eyes turn from clear to filthy.
Only clean, pure children can be favored by God.
Poor and remote places are usually very ignorant. The way they please God is to kill the child in a so-called sacrifice.
When Chu Yin heard the village chief's words, her heart was hit.
She has already guessed that the child who was used as a sacrifice and given to the gods must be Chi Yan.
The child who was born in the fire died in the fire.
The village that sacrificed his life for God's mercy, finally died at the hands of a vengeful demon from hell.
This place is not a memory, but a dream, but the dream alludes to a part of the truth.
Judging from the changing scenery in the village, Chu Yin knew that something extremely vicious in human nature had already happened.
She couldn't change what had happened, but a strange emotion washed over her heart, Chu Yin still wanted to do something.
She watched some of the more prestigious people in the village go back to discuss the sacrifice.
"You must choose beautiful children as sacrifices, and those who are too ugly should not be given."
The powerful parents in the family are definitely not willing: "We only have such a child in our family. If we want to send you to death, we must not send it to my family's big treasure/Nini."
These words sounded in every family, Chu Yin walked through every house wearing an invisibility cloak, and it was easy to see the various expressions here.
After discussion, the people in the village finally came up with a suitable candidate.
It was an unattended child, a boy picked up from the mountain by a quirky old man in the village.
"Will that child be a little older? Is it a teenager? Can it be considered a boy or girl?"
Because the family is so poor, no matter if you want to sell your daughter for a daughter-in-law, or if you feel bad for your daughter, it is impossible to marry your child to such a person.
But I don't know if it is because there is no adult guidance, this child is also relatively late.
There was a little widow in the village who hooked up with him, but he was only half dead by this popularity.
Of course, it may also be that this boy is high-spirited, has a face that is more handsome than a woman, and doesn't look down on the women in their village.
In order to verify what they said and avoid angering the gods by finding an unclean sacrifice, these adults also specially found an opportunity to find people.
Chu Yin looked at this face, which was Chi Yan's face in her memory, young, immature, with clear and clean eyes.
"Ahuo, do you want to marry a wife?"
The child who was picked up did not have the name Chiyan at this time.
The handsome young boy blushed, then shook his head: "I don't want to."
The daughter of the village chief's family is not good-looking at all, so he doesn't want to marry it.
There is an old woman who specializes in this industry watching, a pair of sharp eyes staring all over the boy's body like hooks.
Several adults nodded in satisfaction and it was done.
The author has something to say: Send another one tomorrow, the third update, good night