Wu Ruo, who was carrying it back, was very guilty. She felt that she was really crazy just now, so she wanted to poke Hei Xuanyi's face with her fingers, and she didn't know if Hei Xuanyi was angry.
He waited for half a stick of incense, but he didn't wait until Hei Xuanyi scolded him, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief. In fact, he was quite curious why Hei Xuanyi wore fake skin on his face. He was afraid that someone would discover his real identity, or he was wearing fake leather because he was too good-looking and didn't like people staring at him, or there might be other reasons.
Wu Ruo fell asleep after thinking about it.
As soon as the hour of the morning arrived, Hei Xuanyi opened his eyes on time, got up and dressed lightly.
In her sleep, Wu Ruo vaguely sensed that the people around her got up, and asked in a daze, "What time is it?"
"Mao time." Hei Xuanyi replied while dressing.
Wu Ruo squinted for a while, and waited for the people to leave before getting up and asking Shi Yuan to come in to wait for him to wash and change his clothes. Then, he went to the lobby of the front yard to have breakfast with Hei Xuanyi and the others.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw Numu sitting at the dining table in a gorgeous costume unique to the Wu tribe. The patterns on the clothes were complicated and exquisite. Wearing an exquisite big silver collar and a big silver bracelet, with light makeup on her face, she looked like she was going to attend a grand ceremony, Wu Ruo was stunned for a moment.
"Master, what are you going to do with your full attire?"
Nu Mu smiled and said: "The day after tomorrow is the winter festival. According to the custom of our Wu people, we also have to sacrifice like you. In order not to mix up with your sacrifices in Gaoling City, I will complete the sacrifice two days in advance."
Wu Ruo asked: "Then where are you going to sacrifice?"
"I have set up an altar in the compound before, and you can watch me offer sacrifices later. It's getting late, Heixin, bring me the breakfast I cooked this morning."
Nu Mu ordered Heixin.
Heixin left the hall with a strange expression on his face, and soon came in with a corpse servant carrying a food box, and then took out the breakfast in the food box and put it on the table.
Wu Ruo looked at all kinds of bugs, and widened her eyes: "Is this breakfast?"
Hei Xuanyi watched the little feet of the bugs in the dish still twitching, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but twitched twice.
Nu Mu explained: "We Wu people eat this during the winter festival."
Wu Ruo: "..."
Can he not eat
Nu Mu seemed to have heard his heart, and said: "Xiao Ruo, you have worms in your body, you should not eat this."
Wu Ruo gloated and smiled: "Really? What a pity, Xuan Yi, you have to eat more for me."
"..." Hei Xuanyi didn't see where he felt sorry.
"When I saw these worms, I knew they were very healthy. Xuan Yi, you are too thin. Your waistline is not half the size of mine. You should supplement more." Wu Ruo picked up the spoon and scooped up a spoonful of fried rice. Put the grasshopper into Hei Xuanyi's bowl: "Eat slowly, if you can't finish it, you can eat it at night."
Heixin silently glanced at Wu Ruo's waist, and thought to himself, if the master's waist is half the size of yours, it's better to be thinner.
Hei Xuanyi: "..."
Nu Mu nodded: "Don't look at these dishes as difficult to eat, but they actually taste very good. Hei boy, try it, you will be satisfied with the taste."
Hei Xuanyi looked at the moving insects, no matter how good the taste was, there was no taste to eat them, but being watched by two pairs of expectant eyes, it was hard to refute their good intentions, so he frowned and said, "We will eat after the sacrifice."
Wu Ruo pouted a smile, picked up the steamed stuffed bun sent by the servants and put it in her mouth.
Nu Mu also knew that ordinary people couldn't stand these insect dishes, so he didn't force him to blacken Xuanyi. After breakfast, he took his people to the compound to sacrifice.
After Numu lit the torches around the altar, ten Wu men who were dressed similarly to Numu slapped the drums around their waists and danced a prayer dance around the altar in the snow. The bells on their bodies followed They danced and made a crisp and pleasant 'ring bell' sound.
Nu Mu stood on the altar and recited the congratulations in the language of the Wu tribe to the rhythm of the drums, as if an ancient god appeared, and the scene was very solemn.
Hei Xuanyi and Wu Ruo stood at the entrance of the hall and watched.
Wu Ruo whispered: "When our Wu family sacrifices, there are some gods who show their spirits. I don't know what will happen to the Wu family's sacrifices."
In his last life, although he knew that Nu Mu was from the Wu clan, he had never seen Nu Mu offer sacrifices.
Hei Xuanyi glanced around: "There will be bugs."
"Ah?" Wu Ruo was taken aback for a moment, and then saw all kinds of bugs rushing out from all directions, crawling towards the altar, and his scalp was numb. If he was not too big and too heavy to jump up, I really want to climb on other people and avoid the bugs crawling under my feet.
Outside the black mansion, there were screams from many people. Everyone was very scared when they suddenly saw so many insects.
Soon, the Wu family who maintained the law and order of Gaoling City came to inquire about the situation, and learned that someone was offering sacrifices, and saw Numu and the others put all the bugs in the city into the big pot they brought, so they did not interrupt Numu and the others.
Before leaving, the members of the Wu family warned: "The winter festival the day after tomorrow, our Wu family will also offer sacrifices, so don't make any trouble like today."
Hearing this, Wu Ruo couldn't help but think back to the situation when the Wu family sacrificed in the last life, his eyes moved slightly, and he pulled Hei Xuanyi's sleeve and said: "The Wu family will sacrifice at Xiangpu Temple the day after tomorrow, let's go and see how it is ?”
Hei Xuanyi glanced into the distance, then turned to look at Wu Ruo.
Wu Ruo asked anxiously, "What happened?"
Heixin behind him coughed lightly, and kindly reminded him: "Madam, Xiangpu Temple is on the highest mountain outside Gaoling City."
Under the words, Yi Wuruo's physical condition is impossible to climb up the mountain at all. Even if someone lifts him, it will be difficult to go up the mountain in this heavy snow weather.
Wu Ruo naturally understood the meaning of Heixin's words, but she couldn't help but go.
He struggled in his heart for a while, and cheekily flattered Hei Xuanyi and said: "Hei Xuanyi, you are so powerful, you must have a way to get me up there, right?"
Seeing that Wu Ruo trusted their master so much, Heixin smiled and stopped talking.
When Hei Xuanyi heard his wife praise him, he had to do it even if he couldn't: "I will arrange it."
Wu Ruo smiled happily, and turned her gaze to Nu Mu and the others, but she no longer wanted to look at the sacrifice.
He felt that it was really bad for him to always rely on Hei Xuanyi like this. He was most afraid that one day Hei Xuanyi would treat him like Ruan Zhizheng, so he had better recover his spiritual power quickly, the only way to protect himself.
After Nu Mu sacrificed, he took the worms they caught to refine Gu.
On the day of the Winter Festival, before dawn, Wu Ruo was dug up from the warm bed by Hei Xuanyi, like making rice dumplings, wrapped in layer after layer of outer robes, and then put on The thick cloak went to the hall to have breakfast, and then followed Hei Xuanyi in a carriage to go out of the city.
Five miles away from Gaoling City, the carriage stopped suddenly.
Wu Ruo frowned: "Why did you stop?"
Hei Xuanyi glanced at him lazily.
Suddenly, Wu Ruo felt the carriage go up, and then the carriage started to run again, faster than before, but he didn't hear the sound of the horse's hooves.
Soon, Heigan who was sitting outside said, "Master, we're here."
Wu Ruo showed surprise: "Are you there? Where are you going? At the foot of the mountain at Xiangpu Temple?"
Hei Gan directly opened the curtain.
When Wu Ruo got out of the carriage, he saw three big characters on the gate of Xiangpu Temple, indicating that he had come to Xiangpu Temple.
He asked curiously, "How did we get here?"
Heigan didn't answer him.
Wu Ruo guessed that the ghost beside Hei Xuanyi carried them up the mountain.
The welcoming monk from Xiangpu Temple came over and said, "Welcome the almsgiver to come to Xiangpu Temple."
Wu Ruo asked: "Have the people from the Wu family arrived?"
The welcoming monk replied: "The benefactors of the Wu family have already walked halfway up the mountain, and they still need two sticks of incense to reach the top of the mountain."
Wu Ruo was a little chilled by the cold wind, pulled his robe and said, "Then let's walk around by ourselves."
"Okay." After the welcoming monk left, the people who went up the mountain to see the sacrifices of the Wu family came to the mountain one after another, and the wide temple was quickly crowded with many people. This is the busiest time in Xiangpu Temple since the heavy snowfall. one day.
The people first burned incense in the temple, and then went outside to wait for the Wu family members.
Not long after, Wu Bufang led the descendants of the Wu family to the Xiangpu Temple in a mighty manner, and everyone cheered to welcome them.
Wu Ruo saw Wu Qianqing and the others, and walked over with Hei Xuanyi: "Father, mother, big brother, Xiaoxi."
Wu Qianqing asked in surprise, "Xiao Ruo, why are you and Xuan Yi here?"
"Xuan Yi didn't see Wu's priest, so he brought him here."
Wu Xi asked curiously: "Second brother, how did you climb up?"
She felt exhausted after arriving, and it was even more impossible for her second brother to have the strength to climb to the top of the mountain.
Wu Ruo smiled mysteriously: "I won't tell you."
"Second brother is really bad."
Wu Qianqing glanced at the Wu family members who were walking away, and asked in a low voice: "Xiao Ruo, have you found the person who forged the magic weapon?"
Wu Ruo looked at Hei Xuanyi and nodded, "I found it."
"Then when are you going to start refining magic weapons?"
Wu Ruo narrowed her eyes: "We need to wait."
He can't use the material yet.
"Well, as long as you know it in your heart, I won't ask about it in the future."
Wu Qianqing led Wu Zhu and the others into the temple, and stood in formation as usual.
Wu Ruo is considered a married person, it doesn't matter whether she participates or not, so she, Hei Xuanyi and the others will watch from the sidelines.
Wu family sacrifices are not like Nu Mu's Wu people who need to dance prayers, but the process is very long.
As the head of the clan, Wu Bufang first paid homage to the gods in the temple, then stood on the altar and recited a long sacrificial speech, and then led all his descendants to visit the gods of the four directions, and then recited the sacrificial speech to pray for blessings.
During this period, no one could make a sound, including the onlookers, so the atmosphere was very serious and solemn.
Finally, Ubud needs to ask the gods to ask the gods whether the situation next year is safe or not.
This is a very important link. Everyone held their breaths. Ordinary people can't feel the existence of gods. Even Ubu Fang who invited the gods can only vaguely feel the presence of gods.
After asking God respectfully, Wu Bufang put the three sticks of incense in his hand into the furnace, and looked at the three sticks of incense that were still burning, finally showing a smile on his serious face.
Suddenly, with a 'pop', all three sticks of incense were broken.
Everyone's face changed drastically.