Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 66
Sacrifice me, sacrificial coffin?
What does sacrificial coffin mean?It wouldn't be what I thought, would my life be sacrificed to this coffin? !
In the past, I only heard that Xiangmiao people like to hold sacrifices, offering sacrifices to ancestors, offering sacrifices to seasons, and offering sacrifices to their own gods.But this group of people in Wujiazhai wants to sacrifice a coffin with a living person like me, who knows what's going on?

I didn't dare to think about it anymore. The women had tied their arms with hemp ropes. I could only raise my legs and try to resist. I didn't care about the image and shouted: "Are you crazy? This is not a sacrifice, this is blatant murder!"

"Hmph, who cares so much about you, in my Wujiazhai, you have to abide by the rules of our Wujiazhai." The leader frowned coldly, looking at me as if he was looking at an enemy, "Now the coffin mother is angry, Lan The old lady has turned evil, if you don’t take you as a sacrifice to the coffin, our entire village will suffer! Only when you are sent to the coffin woman, she will let the old lady Lan’s soul come back. Anyway, you caused it yourself, and you Don't blame us."

"That's right! They, outsiders, can do sabotage and kill people! Sacrifice the coffin, you must use her as a sacrificial coffin!"

"That's right! It's unreasonable not to use her as a sacrificial coffin, let alone old lady Lan and Congzi!"

"Sacrifice to the coffin! Take her to sacrifice to the coffin!"

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The surrounding villagers also echoed, and the farm tools in their hands were pounded on the ground, making a harsh noise.The old lady's family members were all emotional. While asking me to return their relatives, they hugged each other and wept bitterly.

The deserted and solemn ancestral hall became chaotic and noisy. The women beside me had already tied my hands and feet together. They supported me to keep me standing. Then a woman walked into the mourning hall and searched for a while, and came out At that time, I had a pair of red scissors in my hand.

The woman held the scissors and walked towards me step by step. The sharp points of the scissors were so sharp that I don't know how painful it was.

The pupils of my eyes contracted suddenly as she approached, and all the blood on my face lost all color in an instant. Seeing the woman and the scissors were close at hand, I raised my head and looked behind in panic, my teeth trembling. The place tremblingly called the name of the snake: "Liu Wangzhi... Liu Wangzhi help!"

Liu Wangzhi didn't know what he was thinking, a pair of peach blossom eyes looked over the crowd and stared directly at the red wooden coffin in the middle of the mourning hall, his white jade face was cold and unruffled, as if all his thoughts were entangled in the blood coffin, and he didn't pay attention to the development of the surrounding situation at all.

Hearing my voice coming from the chaos, he suddenly came back to his senses, slowly turned his eyes, followed the direction of the voice, and glanced at me with drooping eyelashes.

There was no emotion in those clear eyes, and there was indifference in the eyes, as if looking at an insignificant stranger.

My panicked and helpless eyes froze instantly, and my body, which was struggling fiercely, also froze in place following his eyes.

With a "click", a strand of hair on the temple was cut off by the woman with scissors.

The messy image of people in front of me was frozen, only my mind was full of surprises rushing around, and the blood that was boiling with the excitement, followed his indifference, and gradually cooled down bit by bit.

The woman gave the strand of hair to an old woman, who held my hair and turned around to enter the mourning hall, took the white candle handed by the young man, and burned my hair on the spot in front of the bloody coffin.

I didn't feel any discomfort, I just heard the old woman say "The coffin lady has taken it", and then those women pushed me, and sent me to a small room next to the mourning hall amidst the chaos and hustle and bustle around .

They were really not polite to me at all, they pushed me to the ground rudely, gave me a "pooh", then turned and closed the door.

I saw Liu Juanzhi's figure through the door that was closing more and more. He stood tall and straight in the crowd, and his face remained indifferent until the last moment when the door was locked. , remains unchanged.

The sound outside gradually died down, and the people also dispersed one by one.

I stared blankly at the closed wooden door with my eyes open, and my mind was full of Liu Wangzhi's gaze, which lingered in my mind like a demon.

Obviously the snake was protecting me just now, but in a moment, when he looked at me, there was almost no warmth in his eyes.I am too familiar with that look, as if saying - "what to do with me".

So at that moment, I was completely stunned, and I clearly understood in my heart that he meant to give up on me.

I originally thought that I was his companion. At this time, he would at least take me out of the predicament.But he didn't. Instead, he decided to stand by without thinking deeply, and let these villagers do whatever they wanted for me.

I don't know what he was thinking, and why he suddenly changed his attitude.

Could it be because seeing the blood coffin reminded me of the loss of last night, so I was in a bad mood, and I didn't even want it anymore?
Or, he didn't take me seriously, as long as he encountered difficult troubles, in order not to affect himself, he could even let me go easily?
Snake, it's too difficult to understand.

No matter how close I was, I would never guess him.

I slowly slid to the ground with my back against the wall, raised my head and closed my eyes, as if my whole body was numb, a little indescribably sad.

In the evening, the door opened, and two middle-aged women came in from the outside.

Each of them carried a bucket-style lunch box. After opening it, they took out the soup and water inside and placed them on the ground one by one.

I smelled the aroma, and slowly turned my head to take a look. The delicious dishes were still steaming. For me who hadn't eaten all day, they were delicious.

A woman brought plain rice and ordered some vegetables. The rice and meat slices were brought to my mouth, and she persuaded: "Eat, it's the last meal. When you are full, you can go to the coffin."

I watched her blankly, ignoring the food she brought to my mouth.

Another woman had just finished serving the soup, she signaled the woman next to her to put her chopsticks away, took a spoonful of pork bone soup with a ceramic spoon, blew it, carefully handed it to my mouth, and coaxed with a smile: "Don't be stubborn, Meituo , you angered the coffin woman, there is no way to sacrifice your coffin. The ceremony will start soon, if you don't eat something, you can only be a wretched ghost when the time comes, how pitiful it will be Here."

The rich bone broth was right next to my mouth, I suppressed my hunger and swallowed the saliva that kept coming out of my mouth, looked directly at her and said, "What is the coffin woman, why are you afraid of angering her?"

The woman took back the spoon and said to me, "The coffin woman is the god who guards the red coffin. Only by offering sacrifices to the red coffin to make the coffin woman happy can our deceased relatives get her blessing and come back to us."

"Immortal?" I had never heard of such an immortal before, so I couldn't help frowning slightly, "Then, does anyone in your village know what the coffin woman looks like?"

The two women looked at each other and shook their heads.

"I haven't seen it before. Both the coffin woman and the red coffin were passed down from our ancestors. We only know that the red coffin will resurrect our relatives if we please the coffin woman."

Hearing this, my brows gradually tightened.

So this so-called coffin woman is actually a god conceived by themselves, but a belief and legend in their local folk culture.

But the role of the blood coffin may be real, so that they believe that the "coffin woman" really exists, and she is alive, and even angry, and I must be used as a living person to sacrifice, in order to solve Old Lady Lan The problem of becoming evil.

Right now without Liu Wangzhi's help, the only thing I need to think about is how to prevent them from binding me to the sacrificial coffin.

I was still thinking about how to prove that there was something wrong with the coffin, not because I broke the so-called rules and angered their coffin mothers. I faintly heard the sound of reeds and gongs in the distance outside the door.

The two women looked outside, then got together and whispered for a while, and suddenly helped me up from the ground.

I looked at them vigilantly and asked, "What are you doing, I haven't eaten yet."

Two women held my arms, one on the left and the other on the right, and led me out.

"It's fine if you don't eat, let's go, when the time comes, we will go to Liao to sacrifice the coffin."

(End of this chapter)