The other selected sacrifice was very excited when he was selected. Suddenly, everyone was stupid to see this scene. Bai Liu calmly stepped into the room in a daze, and bowed slightly to the sacrifices of the North Plains who had died. Bowed.
The old servant said indifferently the other two had never reacted. The child bowed to the sacrifices in these shrines: "Salute you to the predecessors of the Kitahara family."
When the two children walked from the shrine, their faces were in a trance, and their shoulders were shaking.
This is not the same as they imagined the life of a superior master.
The old servant didn't seem to see the two children suddenly change their expressions. He bowed his body and continued to make small steps, and walked forward very quickly: "The sacrifices live in the northernmost part of Beiyuan's home."
"That place is also the place closest to the shrine. You will see Luming's shrine together every morning, and it is also the place where you will sacrifice to you."
"There are beautiful bodies of evil gods in the shrines. We can't disturb them often. Only during the hottest and coldest seasons of winter and summer, the county will hold a grand evil god festival, and the shrine will be open to the public."
"The houseboats and the sacrifices in the various families will go to the shrine to worship the evil god, but the evil god lives in the shrine, and only enough painful tears of the sacrifice can make him open his eyes and wake up."
"On weekdays, people of sacrifices should not run up the mountain. The evil gods are sleeping and do not like to be babbled. The gates of the shrines are always locked, and there is no need to do daily prayers."
Bai Liu's eyes moved slightly: "The shrine is locked, whose key is the shrine? Is it in the hands of the people from Kitahara?"
The old servant paused, and he squinted at Bai Liu: "Yes."
"The key to the shrine is in the hands of most taxpayers every year. The year before last was at the Mifune's house, and this year it was at the Kitahara's house."
The old servant took Bai Liu and the others to a relatively remote and wide attic, bent over and raised his hands respectfully and stepped aside: "This is the residence of the sacrifices."
"Although I think you are very curious about this place when the sacrifices have just arrived at Beiyuan's house, it's already late in the sky. I kindly recommend that you don't run around."
The old servant raised his head slightly, "showing" a pair of old and muddy eyes: "The Beiyuan family is very dangerous after nightfall. If the sacrifices themselves die in the hands of some resentful spirit, the corpse will not even be able to enter the Beiyuan family shrine. "
Bai Liu noticed that Cang and the other two children were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and immediately responded, "Yes!"
The old servant's eyes turned to Bai Liu: "Where are the Bai Liu?"
Bai Liu looked down slowly, with a submissive tone: "I will be here to worship the evil gods."
The old servant withdrew his gaze slightly satisfied, bent over, pulled the door and bowed and left: "We'll help send you things in the houseboat in a while, please rest early."
The Beiyuan family moved extremely fast, saying that it was a moment or a moment. Less than ten minutes after Bai Liu and the others stayed in the attic, they hesitated and the reticent servant brought in Bai Liu and his luggage.
Cang saw the little black cat in the cage, his eyes lit up, and when he opened it, he just wanted to hug him. As a result, the little black cat twisted his butt and got out of the cage. With a loud voice, he ran to Bailiu sitting by the attic window. .
Bai Liu gently stroked the two cats gathered at his feet with the back of his two fingers, his eyes pushed through the window, through the fading yellow and dark night, and landed in the Luming Shrine in the depths of the jungle.
Cang walked to Bai Liu's side and asked in a low voice, "Is Bai Liu's lover the evil god who lives in that shrine?"
"Not live." Bai Liu retracted his gaze, his eyes fell on the little white cat in his arms, "I was trapped in that shrine."
"So I'm going to take him."
"... Just now you asked for the key to the shrine." Cang swallowed nervously, "Bai Liu, are you going to steal the key at night?"
Bai Liu said flatly.
Cang instantly tightened: "But the old servant said that there will be resentful spirits at Beiyuan's house at night, Bai Liu, you don't know where the key is at Beiyuan's house, it's a risk!"
"There are solutions to these." Bai Liu raised his eyes and glanced at Cang, "As long as Cang you are willing to help me."
Cang Yi stayed: "How can I help you?"
Bai Liu: "Look for Beiyuan Xiaokui here."
After nightfall, the sky in the courtyard of the Beiyuan family was dark, the vegetation reflected unknown shadows on the corridor, and the stone stove next to the rockery worked day and night, flickering faintly, like a wildfire, and a thick, moist, hot steam steamed from the air. .
Taking advantage of the night's "color" running, bowing his head and running fast on the corridor, did not dare to look up at the surrounding scene, and quickly silently recited Bai Liu's account of his affairs—
— Kitahara Xiaokui, as the first sacrifice of the Kitahara family, and her brother were bought by the Kitahara family during the first year of the Cthulhu Festival.
Last year, Kitahara Xiaokui's brother was sacrificed.
This younger brother was deliberately raised by the Beiyuan family, and he was burdened with a share of pain for more than a year or nearly two years. A "sex" sacrifice in exchange for a desire directly made the Beiyuan family the first in Luming County, enough to see the younger brother Xiaokui in the past two years. How painful it was to live at Beiyuan's house.
Not to mention the value of Xiaokui to the Beiyuan family after three years of suffering. This is definitely one of the most important sacrifices of the Beiyuan family. It is no wonder that they were caught back when they fled.
Bai Liu raised his eyelids and looked up at Cang: "The key to the shrine should be with Kitahara Xiaokui, or Kitahara Xiaokui's brother."
Cang was stunned, full of "confusion" and "confusion": "Eh?! Isn't the key to the shrine very expensive? Why does the Kitahara family put the key on the sacrifice?!"
"Because they are the closest people to the gods." Bailiu Wangcang, "This is a family who thinks that the closer they are to the gods, they built the house in a place where the gods can look up, and they built our attic to overlook the shrine. They were right Cthulhu has a kind of extreme yearning and worship, so the probability of closing the key of the god will also be placed on the family of Beiyuan closest to the god, that is, the sacrifice."
Cang still hesitated: "But even if it is on the sacrifice, why is Bai Liu so sure about Xiaokui and his brother? Beiyuan's sacrifices are not limited to these few..."
"It's more than these." Bai Liu said calmly. "But the most memorable contribution to the Beiyuan family is that they have two brothers and sisters."
"If I didn't guess wrong, Beiyuan Xiaokui and her brother should be the first pair of [Servants] and [Sacrifices] in the Beiyuan family."
"They are the first pair to represent the Kitahara family to enter the shrine to offer sacrifices."
Cang couldn't forget now that he felt like goose bumps when he heard Bai Liu's judgment.
He is now walking in the warm night "color", the flowers are blooming in the courtyard on the right hand side, and the water is flowing. He takes a deep breath. It is full of richness and warmth and fragrance, but Cang feels that the fragrance is like a sacrifice while screaming in pain. Raising things is warm, but in fact it is bitterly cold.
Bai Liu said that Beiyuan Xiaokui, as the most expensive and valuable, has three years of painful maturity, and must live in Beiyuan’s home, in the attic closest to the gods.
Cang used all kinds of borrowings to run around their residence two times, and finally saw that there was a special loft in the attic where they lived.
There is only one room in this attic, and there are empty wooden frames under it like a beacon tower. There is only one ladder leading down from the attic door, and the entrance of the ladder is guarded by two servants.
Cang secretly concealed himself in the grass and trees, looked at the two guards, and then looked up to see that the doors and windows were closed tightly. The luxuriously built wooden attic was surrounded by flowers.
Beiyuan Xiaokui lives there.
"It's almost like a princess's residence." Cang whispered in a daze, "but it's actually just a sacrifice..."
After speaking, Cang squatted down in the grass and waited patiently.
After nightfall, these servants should leave the guard, because there are resentful spirits wandering in the courtyard, they should return to their place of residence, or live in the side room nearby to guard Xiaokui.
Sure enough, in a short while, the two servants climbed up to the attic and went to the side room to sleep one by one.
Cang Shu sighed, he dived in the grass, hung on the back of the ladder, gritted his teeth and climbed up one ladder after another.
"Xiaokui." Cang asked very softly, sticking to the window, "I am Cang, are you there?"
After a long, long time, Cang thought that Xiao Kui would not open the window. The window slowly opened from the inside. She was wearing a tight shirt and her face was haggard and pale. Xiao Kui appeared by the window, her voice indifferent: "What are you doing? Is it the Kitahara family playing a new trick to coax me to escape and catch it back, and then make me more painful?"
Cang Yi was stunned. Before he could open it, Beiyuan Xiaokui was about to close the window indifferently. He anxiously turned over and broke into Xiaokui’s room, shook his head while explaining, "No, I was caught by Beiyuan. The home chooses an attendant."
"I am here because I am a sacrificer, Bailiu, who wants the key to the shrine."
Cang looked at Xiaokui eagerly, and folded his hands together, begging: "He said you will help me. Is the key on you?"
Xiaokui said quietly: "Bai Liu, why did he ask you to ask me for the keys to the shrine?"
Cang scratched his head, thinking about it, or choosing to be honest: "He said that the evil god in the shrine is his lover, and he wants to elope with the right person."
Although Bai Liu didn't say it so directly, it was almost exactly what Cang meant.
Xiaokui's face changed and stared again, she seemed to have heard a good joke, and laughed. She laughed so much that she burst into tears: "Elopement with the evil god... Haha, hahaha!"
This scared Cang so much, he knelt forward and covered Xiaokui's mouth: "Don't laugh! If you wait for the servant to be hired, it will be over!"
"No." Xiao Kui lay on his back lazily, looking at the ceiling of the attic with his eyes out of focus, muttering to herself, "I often laugh like this crazy in the middle of the night, they don't care."
"They just need to make sure that I live, I am suffering, and that's it."
Cang's expression is complicated, and he is full of doubts: "What were you laughing at?"
"Xiao Bailiu casually made up a lie and you believe it." Xiao Kui lazily raised his hand and wiped the tears in the corner of his eyes, "He and the Cthulhu can't be lovers, let alone eloped with the Cthulhu."
Cang refused to accept, he retorted: "But when the six people of Bai six talked about the evil god, I think he is very serious!"
"Seriously..." Xiaokui suddenly whispered, "My brother is also a serious man, he once said that he would take me to escape from this place."
After a pause, he hesitated for a while, and then asked, "Are you and your brother also a pair of sacrifices and attendants?"
Xiao Kui closed her eyes: "Yeah."
"I am a sacrifice, he is an attendant."
"My brother is three years younger than me. He is ignorant of these things and can't understand the meaning of many things, so it is difficult to suffer from pain. Even if he was tortured by the Kitahara family, he was beaten to blood, but after a while he saw me again. She broke her tears into a smile, hugged me and called to my sister, and acted like a baby with me."
"He only understands pain, not suffering."
Tears slipped from the corners of Xiaokui's eyes tightly closed, and her voice became hoarse: "But when I see him like that, I am very scared, and I have always been in pain."
"Even if I was tortured in the same way, my pain was far better than him, as if he didn't understand that pain was transferred to me, so I have always been a sacrifice."
"I thought it would continue like this, and then when I was sacrificed one day, he would be exiled by the Kitahara family, and he might return to the houseboat to live a caged life. That's it. I think it's better than staying at the Kitahara family to make sacrifices. Good."
"Because he has always been in such an environment, I know that even if he is raised in a cage, he can live happily without suffering, because this is how he understands the world since he was a child and he doesn’t understand anything. ."
"He thought this is what the world is like, the world is so cruel."
"But one day." Xiaokui opened his hollow eyes, "The Kitahara family sent a teacher to my brother and me."
"They started to teach us what the real world looks like."
"Every day and every day, we have to see many people who live happily than us, thousands, hundreds of millions, they will have a pair of parents who love themselves from the beginning of life, they will have very good friends, study normally, and have love. My own person, married each other, gave birth to children, and then continued to live so happily in this world."
"Those teachers will tell us that this is a normal life. Most people live a life. We are heterogeneous. We live an abnormal, lowly life. We have to be tortured to survive."
"Then the Kitahara family led us like this, while torturing us even more vigorously."
"For example, today I told our parents that they will love their children, and tomorrow we will invite our parents to see us being tortured, and then give them a lot of money."
"Today I told our family that we can play with the little animals I like. Tomorrow morning I will be together, and I will see the sunny day doll outside the window changing from a doll to my puppy."
"So Yang, my puppy hangs under the eaves, tongue spit out, I wear a collar around my neck and I sew small flowers for him, and flies surround him."
"When my brother and I were crying and laying down the puppy's body." Xiaokui wept numbly, "My brother finally understands."
"This world is not so cruel, it's just cruel to us."
"He said to me, sister, I must take you away from this place."
"He began to torture himself more vigorously, and he must become more painful than me. He wanted to be a sacrifice. He would find me when he was tortured madly. He cried and said, sister, as long as I sacrifice once, We can live a normal life."
"We will have a very happy life, and the evil gods will definitely be able to see our pain."
"As long as I sacrifice my pain to Him, after one sacrifice, let's run and escape from this place."
"He cried and said to me, we ran away and we saw those places in books and TV. We can raise a lot of puppies without being hanged, and we don’t need to be watched by our parents every day. Dog food."
"Sister, there must be people who love us very much. We have suffered so much because we have not met those happy things. There must be hope."
Xiao Kui took a deep trembling breath: "I know that those teachers who taught us this are to make us hopeful."
"Only when there is hope, torture and pain can last. We will not easily "suicide". We will continue to endure for the existence of that hope until the day of the sacrifice."
"My brother is a real sacrifice, but I changed his attendant."
"On the day he was sent to the shrine for sacrifice, I repeatedly confirmed with the Kitahara family that only one sacrifice for the Kitahara family’s pain, my brother can get a lot of money, and they will not restrict my brother’s actions. He You can leave Luming County at any time."
"I watched him walk into the shrine, and then heard the sound of the shrine loosening, and the people around were very excited, saying that the evil god had opened his eyes and walked off the shrine. I was also very excited at the time."
"Then my brother bowed his head and shook his hands from the shrine and walked away."
Xiao Kui turned her head and looked at the sky with a pair of tears, silent eyes, but the corner of her mouth was smiling, laughing wantonly, her voice hoarse:
"The rest of the Kitahara family were rushing to the shrine to make a wish. Only I stepped forward to support my younger brother who was about to fall. He raised his head and looked at me with a completely blank eyes, his hands were as cold as a corpse, speaking. It's just that the preface doesn't follow the words, and a piece of water drips down, but I still rely on years of tacit understanding with him to piece together what he wants to tell me."
"He said, sister, this is a hoax, a lie."
"If the sacrifice is painful and can't touch the evil god person, the evil god person will not open his eyes and walk down from the shrine to fulfill people's wishes, and the sacrifice cannot leave here."
"If the pain of the sacrifice can move the Cthulhu, and the Cthulhu opened his eyes, the sacrifice only needs to look at the Cthulhu's silver and blue "color" eyes, we will go crazy and "suicide"."
"We can't run away."
Xiao Kui laughed madly, and she burst into tears: "Then my brother hung up outside my roof and hanged to death after returning."
"—It's like a sunny doll."
"Tell me." Xiao Kui twisted and climbed up from the ground. She braced her arms, her messy hair slipped from her bloodless side face, and she smiled nervously, "Lian Kan I can't even look at the evil god—"
"How did Bai Liu fall in love with him and become a lover with him?"