Chapter 5: Substitute Sacrifices
≈dquo;Mountain God Marries?≈rdquo;
Isn't this a TV series or a storyline in some kind of TV series? Why is this really happening?
≈dquo;No, I read it in the book.≈rdquo;I answered grandma.
≈dquo;Yesterday I went to our house downstairs to chat. Your grandma Li told me a strange custom in her hometown, saying that every ten years, I would choose a little girl under thirteen to marry the mountain god, saying that she could bless them with good weather and no illness or disaster.≈rdquo;
If it were before, I would definitely not believe what my grandma said and thought it was superstitious, but now I myself am a superstitious being, so I no longer deny this kind of thing. So I smiled and said to my grandma: "These are all natural weather. Even if it is a mountain god, it will rain and plague, so how can he control it?"
≈dquo;Yes, now that technology is developed, those who grow crops and raise ginseng, those who should make money make money, and those who should lose money are still losing money. In the past, they were backward and had no high-tech, and their families were poor and their children could not be raised. It was also a waste of planting to be given to the mountain god. Now every child is as expensive as gold, so who would want his children to die in vain?≈rdquo;
≈dquo;Then I won’t worship it anymore.≈rdquo;
≈dquo;It is impossible to give it to the mountain god. The mountain god gave the people in Grandma Li’s village a dream, saying that if they were not worshipped, the mountain god would have to leave their entire village apart. In the past, the village would raise money to buy a little girl from human traffickers and send it to the mountain to marry the mountain god. Now the human traffickers are being arrested strictly. They are about to go back tomorrow. You Grandma Li, but you are so worried about this matter.≈rdquo;
Originally, I just used this as a story, but when I heard my grandma say that when they were buying children from human traffickers in their village, they were so angry that they couldn't drink the porridge. They told my grandma how could there be such villagers and gods? These gods are all safe for people. He is better, and they will also harm human lives. Could it be that no one in that village asks anyone to deal with the mountain god?
≈dquo;I didn't dare to invite you before, but now your grandma Li revealed to me that the people in their village also had this idea, but I didn't know where to find someone. Then I remembered that you just offered sacrifices to immortals. I want to ask if you have any powerful immortal introductions and save Grandma Li and those little girls.≈rdquo;
When my grandma asked about this, it was really a bit difficult for me. The only people I have come into contact with are Ying Gu and Liu Longting, and I have to consider the identity of the other mountain god. Some of our horse immortals must not be able to fight him. However, I remember that Liu Longting seems to have some cultivation, and there are still many brothers and sisters in the family, so maybe he knows some masters or something.
I verbally agreed to my grandma and told her that I would go and ask what Liu Longting said first. If he had connections, he might be able to cure the mountain god.
When my grandmother heard what I said, the wrinkles on her face smiled even deeper, she praised me for being a good granddaughter, and then peeled me the eggs and asked me to eat more.
Seeing my grandma so happy, I felt warm and quickly ate breakfast. I immediately turned around and went to the incense hall, lit a few incense sticks for Liu Longting, and invited him out.
Now he is at home and there is no one else. Liu Longting turned into a white snake and slipped down from the incense platform. He was on the cushion of the chair and told me that he could actually deal with the mountain god without having to invite others. He just wanted to ask me if I had any ideas?
Originally, I was thinking about how to tell Liu Longting about this. After all, I am not very familiar with him now, so I must be humble to ask him for help. Unexpectedly, he answered the question I wanted to ask directly, which made me unable to help praise Liu Longting, he is so powerful.
When Liu Longting heard me say this, he raised his snake's head, got off the chair, wrapped it along my arm around my neck, looked at me with a pair of round eyes, and hummed: "I know most of the things you know, and we are just passing through a door that is not closed. If you talk to your grandma, I won't hear it?"
Not only why, looking at Liu Longting's white body, the look of lazily wrapped around my neck was really cute. He also listened to what he said just now, and he became cute in my eyes for a moment, so he leaned towards him with joy: "I thought you couldn't hear it, but the other party is a mountain god. Aren't mountain gods all very powerful? How do you deal with him?"
As I said this, I reached out and touched Liu Longting's white little head. Liu Longting did not hide, but instead put me tighter. However, it might be because I felt that it was inconvenient to talk to me, so I turned back to a human body, standing in front of me, looking out the window with my back.
≈dquo;Any god, especially the god of mountains and rivers, survives in the world because of human faith. The stronger the belief in him, the stronger his divine power; on the contrary, people say that he is a demon, and he is a demon. The villagers in that place have long lost their faith in the mountain god. The mountain god took off the cloak of God and had no support from faith. He is also a genius of cultivation like me. Since this is the case, we can give it a try.≈rdquo;
After all, it wasn't me who fought with that mountain god. I don't know how powerful Liu Longting is, so I didn't ask more details. I simply asked Liu Longting: "Then what is the chance of winning you can beat him?"
≈dquo;80% of it, after all, I have practiced for more than 700 years.≈rdquo;
When Liu Longting said this, he turned his eyes and looked at me. The sunlight that had just risen outside covered his body through the glass window. His face was white and handsome, just like a piece of white jade carved. The more he looked, the more he wanted to touch his face and ask him why his face looked so beautiful.
I feel relieved about this, but I still want to ask Liu Longting about something.
≈dquo;You came to me last night?≈rdquo;
≈dquo;So what? I want to ask what I did to you?≈rdquo;Liu Longting raised his eyebrows and answered neatly.
I, Cao! I just wanted to ask what Liu Longting did to me last night, but his answer was so righteous that I felt a little embarrassed to continue the words, so I told him that nothing was wrong, let's go back with Grandma Li tomorrow.
Liu Longting looked at the corner of my mouth and smiled, without saying anything, as a default, and then disappeared from the spot, leaving a trace of morning sun like gold.
I told my grandma the whole story. Grandma went to tell Grandma Li the good news from downstairs. Grandma Li came to my house with several boxes of gifts, saying that this time it was really troublesome. Yesterday, my grandma said that I have become a fairy family and she also had plans to invite me, but she was afraid that I would be a newcomer and could not deal with it, and she was afraid that I would involve me. Now I took the initiative to help her, and I was so sure that she really wanted to thank me for the dead girls and for the people in their village.
Grandma Li felt a little embarrassed to thank me. When she took a bus back to the village with her the next day, I asked Grandma Li why she had married long ago and was not considered a person in the village. Why did she still follow this rule?
It would be fine if I didn't ask, but when I asked me what I said, Grandma Li suddenly burst into tears: "I can't escape, I can't escape, everyone in our village grew up drinking his spring. He remembers that each of us, one of my sisters, was chosen to worship the mountain god when she was a child, and was dragged to the deep mountains by the adults, and starved to death in the mountain temple≈hp;≈hp;.≈rdquo;
I have never experienced such a thing, nor can I imagine that there are such backward and cruel things in the modern society in Ming Dynasty. Seeing Grandma Li crying so sadly, I didn’t know how to comfort her for a while.
Grandma Li’s hometown is so remote that it can’t be far away. We started taking a bus, changed trains, and buses. In the end, we had to take a mountain bike and walked a remote mountain road for more than ten miles before we arrived at the village, called Qipan Village. The back of the village was full of rolling tall mountains.
The village is as I thought. It is dilapidated and it is no longer a good thing. Those who stay in the village are all old people in their 80s and 90s. Most of the people in the village have moved out like Grandma Li. Now they are all rushing back because of a custom that cannot be violated.
The village chief was an old man, with several deep ravines blown by the mountain wind on his face, and he was holding a pipe in his hand. When Grandma Li told him that she found someone to deal with the mountain god, his expression was still numb, and he nodded, which was considered as agreeing.
The sacrifice lasted for a few days. After I settled down in Grandma Li’s hometown, I asked Liu Longting what method we had to deal with this mountain god?
Chapter completed!