Chapter 810: Lively

"Offer the livestock!"

The missing-tooth priest shouted with a broken voice, hot sweat soaking through his thin neck.

The big hammer beat the drum surface, smashing out thin water mist.

Dong dong dong!

It was still drizzling in early July, the sky was overcast and rainy, and the heavy drum beats fell into the heart like muffled thunder. Ten thousand villagers bathed in the drizzle, watching silently.

Iron chains swung, and water beasts boarded the stage.

Sharp knives pierced through.

The hot blood from the heart sprayed out, and the rolling fishy wind rushed to his face!

The young children hugged their parents' thighs in fear.

But the parents were fearless, with a few more traces of excitement on their faces, and their mouths were watering.

Meat!

Good meat!

The idlers who ran dozens of miles early in the morning to join in the fun and wait for meat saw with their own eyes the water beast lose its vitality, and their pupils were full of shock.

The Four Barriers, Galloping Horse, and Wolf Smoke of martial artists were too far and too blurry for ordinary people, but the water beast, which was much larger than a person, was placed in front of them. A turn could crush a mud house, and a tail flick was like the earth dragon turning over. Just touching the edge, the sunlight was completely blocked, and they couldn't even breathe in their chests.

The chain binding it was as thick as a thigh, shining with blue light. A small half of the iron ring hit the ground, and it hit a concave pit the size of a human head. And it just died like that?

Yixing River God Festival.

A big festival once a year, no one in the towns within a hundred miles doesn't know, doesn't know, and after five or six years of persistence, it has long become a grand festival known far and near.

After the Ghost Mother Sect matter, the common people gathered from all places gathered together, inevitably giving birth to contradictions.

The entire Yixing Town, under the infection of this atmosphere of the River God Festival, even if they were newcomers and didn't understand the customs, they integrated into it smoothly after living for a year or two, rejoicing for it, encouraged by it, and twisted into a rope extremely quickly!

In the crowd.

The outsiders who came for the first time sniffed the blood, still feeling dreamy.

"Master of Ceremonies, go!"

The ochre-colored big robe fluttered, and the heroic youth stepped up the stairs.

Whoosh!

The long sleeves vibrated.

The clear wine in the goblet fell and sprinkled into the big river, mixed with rain and blood, rippling layers of ripples.

【Sacrificing to the Huai River, River Favor Degree +1.5221】

【River Favor Degree: 13.2064】

The horse-head walls were staggered.

On the roof ridge of the Liang Residence, the ridge beasts bathed in the rain, standing tall and looking at the sky.

Green silk danced, lotus skirt swayed,

Long Eying stood on the main ridge, quietly looking at the figure on the high platform.

The figure fell, and she also fell.

"Eh~"

Long Yao dragged her tone, hugged her shoulders, and shivered in the summer as if it were severe cold, "Elder and Sister Eying are really cheesy. Those who know it went out for half a day to hold a big festival, those who don't know it think the Elder was sent to the Northern Court by the Imperial Court, working as a coolie for more than half a year."

"Exactly, exactly." Long Li nodded in agreement, "Their eyes are pulling silk. If the Elder doesn't raise our monthly money, I think this family can't stay!"

"Raise ten taels!"

"Too little, at least twenty taels!"

Long Yao and Long Li sang in harmony.

Otter Otter heard about raising monthly money, also pricked up his ears, and counted with his claws.

"No big, no small!" Long Eying was annoyed, raised her hand to condense a thin ice pick, and walked forward slowly, "Raise what monthly money, I think it's because the Elder treats you two too well on weekdays, your bones are loose, just need family law to serve, hit once and it will be fine."

"Liar, when did the Elder set up family law?"

"I just set it up."

"Ah! Sister Eying, you are serious?"

"Killing each other in the same clan, I want to tell the Third Elder! Ah!"

"Fortunately, I caught up."

Liang Qu put down the wine goblet and stepped off the high platform.

Just as expected.

He was away, and the Yixing Town River God Festival naturally postponed, from early June to early July.

It was as if this sacrifice was not prepared for the River God, but for him. If it were placed five or six years ago for the village elders to know, they would definitely curse, but now it was calm and calm, and no villagers felt anything wrong.

And although Liang Qu didn't give special instructions, the fat catfish and other beasts still prepared the three sacrifices for the sacrifice according to the usual practice of previous years.

Therefore, on the "second day" of returning from the Imperial Capital, there was only time to rush to the River God Office to report, and Chen Zhaoan had already handled the River God Festival.

Favor is in hand.

The Jianghuai Great Marsh is calm.

"Did the Flood Dragon change its temper?" Liang Qu supported his chin.

Three days without beating, the roof tiles are uncovered.

The Three Saints have been beating it for two years, the Master has attained the Arhat fruit position, and the Flood Dragon hasn't recovered yet?

Evening.

The villagers of Yixing exchanged their sacrificial meat based on the number of blue ink marks on their wrists.

One line for participation, two lines for receiving meat, one has two, two has three.

The clerks of the Pingyang Prefecture government beat gongs and drums, taking advantage of the large number of people at the big festival, and reminded the curfew time of the Binghuo day this year back and forth.

"This line of yours is fake!" The martial artist who distributed the meat firmly grabbed the man's wrist, rubbed it hard, and the blue paint mixed with the scurf and rubbed it evenly, turning into a ball, sneering, "You dyed it with amaranth blue yourself, right? The paint drawn by the village elder can't be washed off, can't be rubbed off!"

"This this this..."

"Ran to Yixing Town to cheat and eat and drink!"

"Get out, don't get in the way!"

There was a lot of noise and indignation at the back of the team. The man who tried to fish in troubled waters didn't dare to quibble and ran away gray-faced.

Slept in late in the morning, and as a result, didn't catch up...

Before dark.

An old woman with gray hair came to the team, holding two seven- or eight-year-old children who loved to pick their noses in each hand.

It's a pity, there was no paint on her wrist.

After chatting for a few words, it turned out that her legs and feet were inconvenient, and she didn't catch up with the big sacrifice at noon. The martial artist asked the surrounding team and confirmed that she was from the neighboring Nanxun Town.

Lost her husband when she was young, had two sons and one daughter, the daughter married out, the eldest son didn't care, the youngest son died early, leaving two small grandsons, the grandsons' mother remarried early, relying on an acre of thin fields to survive.

Old without a wife is called a widower; old without a husband is called a widow; old without children is called alone; young without a father is called an orphan.

These four are the poor people of the world who have no one to tell.

There are also those who have sudden big illnesses in the family, and those who have disabilities.

The Liang Qu and Chen Qingjiang of the past were typical examples.

In big towns with slightly more population, every winter, a few would disappear silently.

If it weren't for Liang Qu breaking through Hunting Tiger, and the Imperial Court exempting the three-year field tax of Pingyang's attached county, the days would really be one step at a time.

The youth looked up: "Brother Songbao!"

Lin Songbao, who was lying on the long chair drinking mung bean soup, waved his hand.

"Okay!" The youth skillfully cut the meat and tied it with straw rope, "Three catties of fat and two catties of lean for those over sixty, two catties of fat and one and a half catties of lean for those over fifty, three catties of fat and lean for the local township, and half for the outsider.

According to the rules, you can't give if you don't come. Who let our Yixing Town be a place of prosperity? Grandma, your legs and feet are slow, and you are an outsider. One big and two small, three heads, so this time it counts as four catties for Grandma. Next time, remember to come early, don't miss the time again."

The old woman thanked him repeatedly.

"Next, next!"

Large-scale sacrificial activities, Yixing Town has experienced no less than seven or eight times, and has experience in all aspects.

Under the orange-red sunset, the team was long but not chaotic, people were moving, advancing in an orderly manner.

Liang Qu watched for a while, turned to the River God Office, and found Li Shoufu in the document room.

"Master Li, I didn't ask yesterday, where are Xu Tiling and the others?"

Liang Qu didn't see Xu Yuelong and Wei Lin in the government office when he reported yesterday. He thought it was a coincidence, but didn't expect it to be the same today.

"I don't know either." Li Shoufu shook his head, "They went out at the end of June and haven't returned yet. There should be something big."

Liang Qu understood.

Didn't bother to figure it out.

Guess he missed some excitement again.

"Okay, remember to tell me when they come back."

"My lord, don't worry."

River God Festival finished.

Binghuo day rises.

Two moons appeared in the sky, and the scorching fire line crossed the long sky.

At the same time.

Long Binglin leaped out of the pond: "Elder! The invitation is ready, we can go!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 811 =====