Chapter 927 Have you heard of the Kongming Lantern?
When Along woke up, he saw that his hands and feet were tied. He was so frightened that when he was about to scream, he found that his mouth was also blocked.
Fortunately, Mu Ying was right next to him, holding down Aaron who was struggling, and whispered: "What you just saw was just a white rabbit, and it was an old hunter..."
"..." Aaron's face suddenly became hot.
"Don't worry, we people are so evil that even if there are ghosts, we won't dare to approach." The soldier on the side laughed softly.
"That's right, you won't encounter ghosts around us." Mu Ying nodded and said to him: "If you promise not to make a fuss, I will let you go, okay?"
Aaron nodded quickly.
Mu Ying put down her hand, and the soldiers untied the rope.
Aaron pulled out the rag that was covering his mouth and saw that it was actually his own headscarf. He thought to himself, no wonder it smelled so bad.
Thinking of his startled performance just now, he wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl in.
Before he had time to adjust his mood, Mu Ying pulled him to her side, pointed to the front and asked, "What are they doing?"
If I didn't have something to ask him, I wouldn't let him go now.
"..." Aaron calmed down and realized that he was on the flat-topped mountain, only one step away from the fortress wall.
He was nervous for a while, and subconsciously wanted to shrink back, but Mu Ying held him down and said, "Don't worry, the backlight here means we can see them, but they can't see us."
Only then did Aaron regain his composure and look carefully at the figures shaking on the castle.
I saw a torch shining in the sky on top of the city, and an old man with a ghost face, wearing a raincoat upside down and clothes inside out, holding a short sword and a long sword, yelling along the city wall.
There were several men behind him, their faces and hands and feet blackened, wearing raincoats upside down, leading sheep and dogs, holding straw men and horses, walking and dancing...
Seeing this scene so late at night was really impressive. No wonder the Marquis would wake him up and ask.
"This is 'Qian De De', which in Chinese means exorcising evil spirits from the village," Aaron recognized it and explained in a low voice: "The one wielding the sword in the front is Bimo from the Puding Department. The man in the back is holding a
There are sacrifices, such as black and white chickens, white male dogs, male goats, and straw men and horses."
"They just yelled around the stockade, walked and jumped, and circled around the stockade until they were outside the gate of the stockade." Alon then explained:
"When they arrive at the gate of the village, they will cut off the heads, claws, and wings of the sacrifices, tie them upside down on ropes, and hang them across the gate of the village, so that they can guard the village and not allow monsters, ghosts, plagues, hungry ghosts, or disasters.
Gods and the like enter the village and become members of the Chou tribe."
"Why is this ceremony suddenly held?" Mu Ying asked: "Is there any speech?"
"Didn't I tell Lord Marquis on the way that this month is the ghost month for us Luoluo people?" Aaron said: "The ghost king will open the ghost gate and let the ghosts who have been hungry for a year come to the human world to beg for food. Normal ancestor spirits are naturally nothing.
I'm so scared. I'm afraid that those ghosts who were killed alive, expelled from their families, and those who died with resentment will follow them. If they have no place to go and are full of resentment, they will
Harming people everywhere.”
"It's similar to our Hungry Ghost Festival." Mu Ying nodded. He had already discovered that the cultural customs of the Luo Luo people were basically borrowed from the Han people, and then changed their appearance and said they were passed down from their ancestors.
However, barbarians from all over the world are like this, so there is nothing to blame.
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They continued to observe quietly in the shadows, and sure enough they saw the crazy group of people on the top of the city. When they turned to the entrance of the village, they began to kill the animals, cut off their heads and feet, remove their hair and disembowel them, and insert the hard hairs on their heads and feet.
On a tree trunk covered with thorns.
While chanting sutras, Nabimo directed the tribesmen to hang the tree poles filled with sacrifices above the village gate.
According to Alon's explanation, the village gate will become the dividing line between the human world and the ghost world, and ghosts will not be able to enter the village.
At this time, the city was quiet again, and Mu Ying asked: "Is this a ceremony once a year?"
"Our other villages are like this, but Puding Fort is different. It is built on the ghost gate." Aaron said: "The ghosts are a hundred times more serious than elsewhere. Twenty years ago, Dalima was still the capital of Qu Jingxuan of the Yuan Dynasty.
When I was consoling the envoy, I strongly advocated building Puding Fort here, and I even had a conflict with the incoming general manager of Puding Road, Shi Er’s father.”
"But his arms couldn't hold his thighs, so Dalima grabbed Shi'er and forced the old manager to submit. In the end, the Puding Department moved here." Alon said specifically: "Because of this old grudge, my grandfather didn't think of Shi'er.
That bitch will take refuge in Dalima. My grandfather likes to think the best of people, but he is not stupid."
"Oh." Mu Ying nodded perfunctorily and said, "Don't go off topic, let's get down to business."
"Anyway, for this reason, their ceremony is particularly grand. It has to be done for seven consecutive days until the gate of hell is closed." Aaron could only say sadly.
Mu Ying's eyes lit up when she heard this, "What day is today?"
"The gate of hell will open in three days, and it will close after one day, so today should be the third day." Aaron said with certainty.
"Good boy, you have done a great job!" Mu Ying patted his shoulder and whispered excitedly: "Let's go, we'll talk about it when we get back."
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Returning to the cave where she was hiding, Mu Ying reported the detected situation and the information provided by Alon to His Highness, and then revealed her plan in full.
"Since it is the Ghost Month, this is the Ghost Gate, and the people in Pudingbao are so afraid of ghosts, we might as well give them a 'whatever they are afraid of will come to them'! The right time, place, and people are all right!"
"You mean, pretend to be a ghost to scare them?" Lao Liu understood immediately.
"Yes." Mu Ying nodded heavily and said: "When walking at night, a rabbit escaping out can scare the old hunters who call the mountains home. As long as we pretend to be similar enough, we will definitely scare them.
What a waste! Then we take the opportunity to attack the city, and then we can decide in one battle!"
"What do you think, old hunter?" Zhu Zhen asked Alon.
Aaron blushed again after hearing this, which became a stain on his life. Zhu Zhen asked again before he came back to his senses and said: "If we can make them believe that it is really a ghost, we will definitely scare them and run back."
Hiding in the house, no one dares to stand at the top of the city."
"But the people of the Puding tribe are not fools. No matter how scary we pretend to be, people won't believe us if we are still on the ground." Aaron was not optimistic and said: "In our understanding, ghosts must be floating in the sky.
Yes, those walking on the ground may be monsters, but they are definitely not ghosts."
"That's true." Mu Ying nodded and said, "This is really a problem. They are at the top of the city. We can't scare them no matter how much we pretend to be magic down below."
"It's not a big problem. I am an expert in pretending to be a ghost." Zhu Zhen had an idea and asked Alon with a smile: "Have you ever heard of the Kongming Lantern?"
"No, no." Aaron thought about it and shook his head.
"That's easy." Zhu Zhen smiled. Mu Ying also laughed, obviously understanding.
