smuggler

Chapter 130 The Living Sacrifice
"Little girl, little girl!"

I opened my eyes abruptly, sat up from the chair, and saw Granny Liu looking at me in astonishment, already drenched in cold sweat, a little sticky.

Grandma Liu looked at my expression and said, "You actually fell asleep when I was doing paper-cutting. Hey, you can't sleep. Just stay up at night. It's fine if you get over it, but you really shouldn't come to this place." .”

At this time, my spirit has improved a lot.

Thinking of the weirdness of this village, it might take several days, so I cheered up and said to Granny Liu: "Grandma, can I stay with you for a few days, and I will give you the money for food and accommodation before I leave, can you see it?" ?”

Grandma Liu chuckled, and said nonchalantly, "The village doesn't allow visitors to stay overnight. As for those who don't have money, we don't have shops in front of the village or behind the village. Even if we have money, we don't have land to spend it now!"

When I heard this, I also thought it was true. In this barren mountain and an isolated island, money is like waste paper.

"Grandma, please help me!"

Granny Liu nodded with a smile: "My daughter lives in the room next to you, but the room is simple, if you don't dislike it, you can live there!"

I quickly thank you gratefully.

Granny Liu had a bitter smile on her wrinkled face: "We are destined to meet each other, and seeing you reminds me of my girl!"

Speaking of this, Granny Liu's expression darkened a bit, and her smile froze.

I comforted Grandma Liu, changed the subject, and casually asked how the Dragon King painting pasted on the shrine came about.

Grandma Liu said it was given by the snake lady, and told her to pray devoutly and burn incense to the Dragon King every day.

It wasn't until early in the morning that the sky outside seemed to be dawning soon, and Grandma Liu asked me to go back to the house to have a rest.

I stood up and was about to enter the side room, when Granny Liu suddenly thought of something and said, "By the way, since you've come to Hualong Village, there are some rules in our village, you must abide by them."

The folk culture of each place is different, so it is not uncommon for villages to have village rules.

After seeing me nodding, Granny Liu said: "Hualong Village respects and respects snakes for generations. If you see a snake in the village, you can't beat it or step on it. If you encounter it on the road, you should treat it as if you didn't see it. The snake belongs to the Dragon King." Future generations, if you beat them, you will be punished."

Snakes are small dragons, and there is a Dragon King Temple on this island. Since it is called Hualong Village, I don't think there is anything strange about the village rules.

I didn't answer, and listened quietly to the village rules that Granny Liu said next.

"The village is not peaceful, don't go out after dark, and no matter what time, you have to wait for others to turn around before talking, and never talk with your back to others."

Hearing this, I frowned slightly, this rule made me feel something was wrong.

"There are many puppets in our village. If you find these puppets, send them to the Dragon King Temple. In addition, there are no people in white clothes and red clothes in the village. If you meet them, no matter what they say, don't believe it. You can Go to the snake woman, she will help you."

When mentioning puppets, it reminds me of the villagers who were turned into puppets by the Shuang Sheng in Grandma Liu's story.

But since entering the village, I haven't seen any puppets in this village!
"Are you listening carefully?" Grandma Liu asked me, looking at me in a daze.

I came back to my senses, nodded and said, "I heard it!"

Only then did Granny Liu breathe a sigh of relief: "That's good, you must remember what I said."

When Grandma Liu said these rules, I was completely at a loss, but I firmly remembered these village rules in my heart.

"By the way, the villagers of Hualong Village don't like to visit the door. After dark, no matter who knocks on the door at night, don't open it, and don't respond in any way."

"The other thing is the puppets in the village. Puppets don't know how to eat. If you see a puppet eating, don't talk or meddle in your own business. Just pretend you didn't see it."

I was a little astonished, and I was stunned. When Grandma Liu mentioned the puppet twice in a row, I saw the flash of fear in her eyes.
Granny Liu instructed earnestly: "You must remember what I said, those who do not obey the rules in the village, the Dragon King will come to look for them, and if they are taken away by the Dragon King, they will not come back."

The village rules that Granny Liu mentioned were not complicated, but apart from the first one, every one of them was weird.

I swallowed, suppressed the doubts in my heart, nodded to her and said, "Don't worry, I will keep it in my heart."

Seeing me nodding in agreement, Granny Liu said with a weary look: "It's almost dawn, let's go to sleep."

Since I came to Hualong Village, I have been tossing around for a whole day, and I didn't sleep all night. I was really tired, so I went into the room where Granny Liu's former daughter lived.

The wall made of loess is full of pits and hollows, and the branches of trees can be vaguely seen inside.

The furnishing of the room is very simple, only an old table and wooden bed, on the table is a very old-fashioned kettle.

But it's obvious that the room has been tidied up, and it can be seen that Grandma Liu has always been unable to let go of her daughter.

It was getting bright outside, and I thought of Chu Yuan. I didn't know what happened to him the whole night.

Tiredness overwhelmed me, and before the sky was completely bright, I lay on the bed and began to doze off.

My eyes changed from hazy to clear, and in a trance, I saw a river, hundreds of villagers gathered by the river, and countless noisy voices came from my ears.

Dark clouds covered the sun, the rolling river came wave after wave, accompanied by the deafening thunder from the sky, the atmosphere was extremely depressing, and the villagers wearing masks made of wild animal skins were hitting drumsticks hard on the drum surface superior.

"Dong dong!"

The voice overwhelmed a woman's hoarse crying and screaming. It was a young girl in a black wedding dress.

The villagers around her looked at each other, covered the woman's mouth with their hands, found hemp rope and tied her up, forcing her to watch the whole ceremony in a kneeling position.

At this time, the tall and thin snake woman standing in the front, wearing a ragged cotton jacket and wearing bottles and cans, slowly opened her eyes, and she put on a dragon-shaped mask on her face.

The few hemp ropes tied on the coarse cloth cuffs were blown up by the wind. She held the rattle up high and kept shaking it, flipping her mouth up and down as she muttered words to the river. The villagers knelt down one by one, praying for the protection of the Dragon King with the snake woman .

Only the woman kept whining from her throat, her eyes widened and she couldn't break free from the hemp rope, and praying for good weather sounded more like a death talisman to her.

The woman bound by the thick hemp rope was even more agitated, and even squirmed forward like a worm on the ground to escape. Before she could move forward a few steps, she was pulled back by the ankles by others, and tied her in the Bamboo chair.

"Cui Lan, don't be ignorant, it is your blessing to be a sacrifice to the Dragon King."

"Yes, it is your honor to enter the Dragon Palace to serve the Dragon King well!"

"Please, you should do your best. You can go to accompany the Dragon King, so that we can change the safety of our village."

(End of this chapter)