Beiyuan’s home is on the mountain, and the group of people climbed the mountain path for a long time, or the steps, barely able to see the magnificent buildings hidden in the dense jungle.
The huge eaves are looming in the densely enclosed forest. I look up and look hard. I can see that there is another slightly smaller but more dignified wooden building at a higher place behind Beiyuan’s house, and The mahogany torii gates are built one after another.
"Closer to us, this is the address of Kitahara's house." Mifune looked up at the cornice building behind the torii gate, and bowed respectfully. ."
The sacrifices and attendants also bowed and bowed, imitating Mifune's movements.
Further up, a regular rocky path appeared, winding the gate leading to Beiyuan's house. Two stone lanterns stood beside the gate. Bai Liu took a rest and glanced at it, and found that the stone lantern is very new and looks nothing but new. For a year or so, the lantern head was carved into a simple and honest Shiba Inu shape with a tongue out.
Mifune knocked on the door of Kitahara's house.
The door slowly opened, and an old servant with gray hair and a steady posture stuck out his head. He and the knocking Mifune looked at each other, then glanced at the sacrifices that followed Mifune again, bowed his head and retracted his gaze. Bend down and opened the door: "Master Mifune, Patriarch has been waiting for you for a long time, please come in."
Mifune hummed an unexplainable um from his nose and walked in without squinting.
Bailiu followed behind the ship and walked in. What he saw was an elegant and luxurious Japanese-style courtyard scene with rugged rocks on both sides.
The clear spring water on these rocks is lively and interesting. The spring water should be drawn from the mountain. However, in this season, the spring water on the mountain should have been frozen and will not flow, but this Beiyuan home is still used. The stone furnace heats the spring water pipe, forcibly allowing the spring water to flow steamingly on the man-made mountains, rocks, and vegetation in this cold weather.
Bai Liu briefly glanced at this kind of stone furnace used to heat spring water, keep the courtyard beautiful and integrated with the courtyard, and calculated it slightly in his heart, and felt that there should be nearly a hundred.
Seeing this scene, Mrs. Cang couldn't help but leaned in Bai Liu's ear and whispered: "Last night so many attendants and animals almost froze to death in the rain. Even if these stone furnaces are divided into one third, they will not As for that..."
The old servant on the side heard Cangtai's broken thoughts. He turned his eyes, glanced at Cangtai condescendingly, and said:
"As the sacrifices and attendants who have just arrived here, what you want to think about is to work hard and be selected by the adults of the Kitahara family to enjoy the beautiful courtyard composed of these stone furnaces, rather than to sympathize with those who have the ability to even see these stone furnaces. No, I am willing to fall into a caged inferior animal."
"The stone furnace is for the sacrificial adults who can endure pain, sacrifice to the evil god, and bring more value to Luming County, not for the attendants to keep warm."
"In Luming County, these are not painful enough. They can only live in cages. They are animals that cannot produce more value and should not consume any resources to live."
Cang Tai shrank her head in terror by the look of the old servant's eyes, lowered her head and answered with a trembling voice, she stopped talking.
The old servant withdrew his gaze indifferently, bent down and walked forward in shreds, and walked to the front of the team, leading the sacrifices through the solid wood corridors one after another.
When you turn your head, you can see the scene in the courtyard. The gurgling spring water flows, the birds and the flowers fragrant in the courtyard, and the bamboos hit the stone jars, and the petals that flow down from the inside merge together in the lake in the courtyard. Fresh and elegant.
Everyone is constantly admiring the exquisiteness and beauty of the courtyard. Whether it is a sacrifice or an attendant, you can see from their eyes that they all have a yearning for this place.
Cang Tai, who was walking at the end, lowered his head and clenched the umbrella in his hand. An unspeakable dullness and gloom developed in his heart. He secretly raised his head and glanced at Bai Liu, who was walking beside him, with a pale expression on his side. Startled.
Bai Liu also wants to be selected by the Beiyuan family... Is he the same as these sacrifices
Will he... also agree with this old servant's statement
"If you have anything you want to ask, you can just say it." Bai Liu looked forward and calmly said, "You have been staring at me for more than ten minutes."
"I'm sorry!" Cang Tai lowered his head in a panic, then slowly raised it, and asked lightly, "Bai Liu, do you think that the old servant was right?"
"Stone furnaces are used to admire the sacrifices, more important than to keep the attendants warm?"
Bai Liu replied: "The right or wrong of each person's words should be seen from the other side's standpoint."
"From the perspective of sacrificing these people, from the perspective of the servants of the Kitahara family, and from the perspective of those who exploit other people's vested interests at the upper end of the food chain, they naturally feel that they are right."
"The stone stove warms the attendants and they can't get anything, but it is indeed what they can see and get the benefits every day to watch them here."
Cang Tai gathered up his courage: "What about Bai Liu's point of view? Do you think they are right, too?"
Bai Liu turned his head, he glanced at Cang Tai quietly, and that glance made Cang Tai uncontrollably hold his breath, the umbrella in his hand was clenched so that his palm turned white.
"No." He replied lightly, "I don't think they are right."
Cangtai let out a sigh of relief, and his eyes widened: "But Bai Liu is now also a sacrifice and a vested interest. Why don't you think they are right?"
Bai Liu looked at him with dark pupils and shaky eyes, and the hair on his forehead was scattered in the light wind to cover his eyes: "At the top of the food chain built by these people, there is an old evil god who should have exploited everyone. ."
"But because he chose not to exploit these people, he is now being tortured and exploited by everyone."
"That old evil god, that person is my lover."
Cangtai was completely stunned.
Bai Liu retracted his eyes and looked at the old man walking in the forefront of the sacrifice. There was no emotion in his voice:
"I came here to deal with these people who profited from him, and to remove the food web built on him."
"Then I will tell him." Bailiu paused, "No matter what happened afterwards, his original choice was not wrong."
Cangtai didn’t know why his eyes were a little hot. He had a lot of things to say, and he also had a lot of questions to ask. In the end, he gave a heavy hum, and said in a crying voice: "My Lord Cthulhu is not wrong with you. ."
"Sacrifice over there." Mifune, who was walking in the front, turned back and urged impatiently, "What are you chatting about? Hurry up! I'm going to the living room to pick out the sacrifices!"
"Okay!" Cang Tai hurriedly pulled Bai Liu to run, "Here we are!"
The meeting room of the Beiyuan family is also very large, and the door is very open. Because it is too big, it looks even a bit like the main venue of the gym. The ground is covered with soft silk cloth. There are a few kneelings sitting on the front. The servant behind the table sat in the center with a traditional goldfish haircut with a shaved bun on the back of his head and shaved in the center of his forehead.
The man's eyebrows were slanted and wrinkled, and his body was as strong as a man in his 40s or 50s. However, the corners of his eyes, forehead, and chin were wrinkled, and he looked old as if he was sixty or so, and his expression was tight and gloomy.
He lowered his head and glanced at the sacrificial album in front of him, flipped through it, then raised his head and gloomily swept past the sacrificial offerings who were kneeling in front of him, and then on Bai Liu who walked in last. Pause.
"There is a child named Bai Liu?" He said in a dark voice, "Look up and let me have a look."
Bai Liu slowly raised his head and looked at the other side impartially.
The Patriarch Kitahara nodded with satisfaction: "It is a sign of appearance, very willpower, and can be trained for a long time."
"For this child, his attendants will stay with him."
In the end, Beiyuan chose Bailiu and another sacrifice, and left their attendants. Soon a servant came to offer them new wooden plaques with the words Beiyuan Bailiu and Beiyuan Cangtai.
The Patriarch stood up and glanced at them: "Since I am the sacrificial lord of the Beiyuan family, I will stay at the Beiyuan family from now on."
"I will send someone to bring your pets and luggage over at the houseboat. First let me let you familiarize yourself with the environment, know where you can go and where you can't go, and stay at Beiyuan home and enjoy what Beiyuan home gives you. Everything needs to be done for the Beiyuan family."
As he said, Patriarch Kitahara raised his head and nodded the old servant who led the way in: "Take them to familiarize yourself."
The old servant nodded respectfully, turned around and said to Bai Liu and the others: "Adults, please come here."
"First of all, I wish you all, from now on the adults will live in this happy, tax-paying family house."
The servant’s footsteps were broken and fast, like a swimming snake, swiftly through the wooden cloister shrouded in the shade of the trees. On the corridor, there are broken red maple leaves that have just fallen for less than half an hour, and they tremble under the footsteps of the servant. Was shaken down in the water pavilion beside the corridor, drifting outside the house.
The water vapor floats in the air warm and sultry, sticking to human skin in such cold weather, but it is not pleasant at all.
It is a beautiful, bright, gloomy and dark place.
"In the Kitahara family, the sacrificial elders are the highest existence. The reason why the Kitahara family has grown to its current scale depends on the great dedication of the sacrificial elders from generation to generation. Without their pain, there would be no such thing as today's Kitahara. Beautiful courtyard."
"So the first thing anyone who enters the Kitahara Clan must do is to sacrifice to these sacrificial adults who have undertaken the supreme suffering for the development and growth of the Kitahara Clan."
The old servant stopped in front of a well-built room. He clasped his hands together and clapped his hands, bent over and bowed, and then reached out and pushed open the door of the room.
When Mrs. Cang saw the situation in the room, she couldn't help taking a breath.
A huge wooden shelf was posted in the room, with cornices on both sides, and a shrine-style costume was made. On the wooden shelf, dozens of shrines were placed from high to low, and each shrine was filled with black-and-white photos. The people in these black-and-white photos seem to be only teenagers or even a few years old.
The old servant held his hands and let go, and lowered his eyelids: "These are the sacrificial adults who have been purchased by the Kitahara family over the past three years, but have not persisted until the end. They are enshrined here because of the painful suicide of the sacrificial adults."
"If you don't persist in committing suicide, you will also be enshrined here."
"Four adults, please come in and salute them."
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