Ordinary people in the world of Uncle Nine

Chapter 212 Mountain God Festival

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"What's the situation! Why can't they see us?"

The man opened his mouth and asked Li Mu. Just now he subconsciously followed what Li Mu said, but it was too late when he realized it. When he tried his best to not let his sister be caught back, he found that these people actually ignored him. took them.

To know that the person closest to them was only one step away at that time, but they could not be found, these were beyond their cognition.

"That's just a trick to hide you temporarily with the help of today's night. It's not safe here. They will definitely come back when they can't find you. Let's leave here first."

Li Mu took back the talisman papers on the two of them, looked back at the fire in the distance, and didn't think this place was a place for conversation.

"Come with me, I know a place!"

The man wiped the sweat from his head. The sweat and mud on his face looked very embarrassed, but they still didn't dare to relax too much after the disaster, and led Li Mu back the same way cautiously.

Soon a brightly lit village appeared in Li Mu's sight, and Li Mu couldn't help but look at them in surprise.

"Isn't your village going to arrest you? Why are you returning?"

Just now, Li Mu learned something on the road, such as the relationship between the two of them and who was chasing them.

The man's name is Wang Heyuan, and the woman's name is also Wang Heyuan. There is no doubt that they are brother and sister, and they are also twins!What surprised Li Mu was that those who were chasing them were all from the same village.

"We don't go into the village. We go around a long-abandoned house at the back of the village. Few people usually go there. We can go there. They will never think that we will turn back!"

Wang Heyuan pointed to the dark corner behind the village and explained to Li Mu that he originally wanted to take his sister to hide there, but he was discovered halfway, so he was forced to run this way.

Behind the village is an abandoned house, which is nearly a hundred meters away from the village. It looks out of place with the village alone, and judging from the thriving weeds on the ground, it is true that few people come here.

"Tell me, is your sister going to marry? And why are the people in the village trying to arrest you? Fleeing marriage?"

After several people entered the room, Li Mu asked them curiously, and looking at Wang Heyuan's wedding dress, Li Mu also imagined a bloody plot of a strong matchmaker.

A pair of brother and sister are isolated and helpless in the village, and then the powerful people in the village take a fancy to their younger sister, and then marry them forcibly, but the elder brother tries every means to rescue the younger sister, and then flees in a hurry after being discovered, these are Li Mu's own imagination However, Wang Heyuan's words made Li Mu furious.

"They want to marry my sister to the mountain god as a sacrifice!"

According to Wang Heyuan's description, there are many villages here, and they are surrounded by mountains and rivers. In addition to farming, the villagers can also go hunting in the mountains, and their lives are decent.

But I don't know when it started, but the crops planted on the ground in the village always die for no reason. Even if there are some that survive, the harvest is less than [-]%.

In this way, in order to have enough food, people had to aim for the mountains, but most of these people who went hunting in the mountains never returned. Even those who came out of the mountains alive were frightened and crazy, saying There is a troll in it.

For a while, the gloomy people in the surrounding villages were in panic all day long. There was no food from farming, and people would lose their lives when hunting. So it was spread that the mountain god was punished to punish the villagers because the villagers had angered the mountain god by hunting wild animals without restraint.

At this time, a person who claimed to be a priest came from nowhere, said that he could communicate with the gods, and claimed that what they met in the mountain before was not a mountain demon, but a mountain god who guarded the mountain.

In the past, they were punished by the gods because they alarmed the mountain gods. To obtain the understanding of the mountain gods, they had to build mountain temples to offer incense offerings to the mountain gods.

In this regard, the villagers turned to the priest for help as if they had grasped a life-saving straw, but when the priest said the sacrifice, everyone was shocked.

"Every three years, in addition to offering livestock to the mountain god, a girl who has not been out of the cabinet will be offered to the mountain god to serve the mountain god in the mountain."

"After those three years, can this person come back?"

Some people asked the priests, if the sender can return safely after three years, then they are not unacceptable.

"Presumptuous! People who only supply the mountain gods don't belong to your village anymore. They are the people of the mountain gods. How dare you ask the mountain gods to give them back to you?"

Who would have thought that the priest's face would change drastically upon hearing this man's words, and he would reprimand him harshly.

It is also because of this that many people have retreated in their hearts. Although they are still in the era of patriarchy, they are still in a state of doubt. Asking them to send their daughters as sacrifices, they still cannot accept it. .

Some people even questioned that the priest wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make money. There was no such thing as a mountain god, but the person who questioned the mountain god was found dead at home in a strange manner not long after.

This scared the villagers who were still hesitating and obeyed the priest's words.

The mountain temple is built in the middle of the mountain. When the three-year deadline comes, the priests will come down from the mountain to choose suitable candidates. In order to prevent the priests from picking their own children, the villagers with family background will secretly bribe the priests, and Families with no money and school-age daughters began to fear that their children would be selected.

Because of this, many people secretly fled this place with their families. It has been more than ten years now, and no one has dared to resist this system.

The Wang Heyuan siblings were helpless in the village because their parents died of illness early on. The two siblings could barely support themselves on the land left by their parents, and they had no money left to bribe the priests. This year, Wang Heyuan just reached the age of marriage. Before Wang Heyuan could think of a way, he was notified that his sister had been selected.

So in order to prevent them from escaping, the people in the village took Wang Heyuan away and put them under control. On the day when the sacrifice was about to start, after dressing Wang Heyuan as a bride, maybe the sacrifice was about to start, so the guards were relaxed and Wang Heyuan had a chance Get my sister out.

What happened next was what Li Mu saw. The two were chased by the villagers, and then met him.

"So, no one has ever seen the existence of the mountain god?"

Hearing this, Li Mu suddenly discovered a blind spot, which is what the mountain god looks like!
If the ghosts in the mountains become spirits, unlike ghosts, the ghosts are tangible, and so many villagers have not seen its true colors?
"There is one, the man who came out of the mountain alive back then, but he was crazy after he came out, and he couldn't communicate at all."

　a bit awkward
　　
　
(End of this chapter)