Ye Xiaotian said blankly: "Godfather, what godfather?"
Seeing that he didn't understand the Miao language, Ge Duo guessed that he didn't understand the customs of the Miao people either, so he explained it to him with a smile.
It turns out that the seedlings here have to be named three times in their life, which are very important ceremonies. The first time is a nickname. On the morning of the third day after the child is born, a wizard should be invited to perform rituals, and the parents or grandparents will name the child.
After the child grows up, the character Mi is removed, and the father's or mother's surname is added. It is customary that the first name comes first and the surname follows to form his new name. When he gets old, he will change his name again according to his status and identity, so as to symbolize the three important stages of life: youth, adulthood and old age.
It is very unlucky for a child to cry and fuss on the morning of the third day after birth, and the wizard will not do anything for him at this time. According to the custom of the tribe, the elders of the family will go to ambush by the small bridge in the village and wait until the baby is born. The first person who passed the bridge without knowing it was the godfather of the child chosen by God Gu. He wanted to invite him home and let him comfort the child until the child stopped crying and named him.
Ye Xiaotian heard what Geduo said, and then he understood the reason. He couldn't walk around, so it was nothing to help others. Besides, he heard that this Miao man was the leader of the tribe, so he was even more moved, or You can go his way and leave.
So Ye Xiaotian readily agreed and said, "Okay, where is your home, I'll go with you!"
Gedu was very happy and said with a smile: "My son is in the temple, please come with me."
When Ye Xiaotian heard that his son was in the temple, he felt surprised, and then suddenly realized: "Ordinary villagers have given birth to a child, and they need to ask the wizard to bless him and do things for him. Of course, the identity of the son of the tribal leader is also different. Please serve the venerable god." Blessing is just what it should be.”
Ye Xiaotian was very curious about this mysterious Lord Samurai, and thought that if he could get close to the Lord Samurai, or ask him to let him go, this time he must go.
Mao Wenzhi and Hua Yunfei followed, but because they were going to the temple, Egedol regretfully refused them to go with them, so Ye Xiaotian let them go back to the village first, and then left with Gedold.
If you want to go to the temple, you can go around the mountains on both sides, but if you do that, you will have to go too far. Gedoldo and his family warmly invited the godfather of the newborn to the lake, boarded a bamboo raft, and rowed on the bamboo raft. The green and long lake, as if breaking through the flat mirror surface, swayed soft and soft ripples like silk, sailed into the misty lake, and sailed towards the tall and majestic temple.
The bamboo raft landed at the end of the lake, and the sound of the rumbling waterfall rang in my ears. In front of my eyes was a winding stone staircase. Ye Xiaotian followed them up hundreds of stone stairs before arriving at the solemn temple. At the foot, the temple is built on the cliff, towering and towering. Looking up at it, people will have a suffocating sense of oppression. Even Ye Xiaotian feels unusually solemn and sacred when he is under it. The degree of awe can be imagined.
When they got here, Gedu and his family stopped talking, and their expressions became solemn. They led Ye Xiaotian up to the gate of the temple. Under the huge stone pillars that are more than ten feet long, no one can be seen coming in or out.
Gedole whispered to Ye Xiaotian: "Here, after entering the temple, don't talk nonsense, and after coaxing the child to stop crying, you step aside and wait for the venerable servant to bless the child. Choose another name for the child, and I'll buy you a drink when I go back."
Ye Xiaotian wondered: "Ah... I'm not very good at coaxing children."
Geduol said in a low voice: "It doesn't matter, if you stay up until he is tired, he will naturally stop crying and making noise."
Ye Xiaotian: "..."
Stepping into the high threshold of the hall, one can see that inside is a very magnificent hall. On the dome are portraits of a flying goddess and a god of war holding a spear. The stone walls on both sides are statues of giants as high as ten feet high. The nose is concave, the hair is curly, and some have a pair of white wings behind them. Those who walk among them are like dwarves who have stepped into the kingdom of giants.
"It's not right, this temple must have something to do with foreign devils!"
Ye Xiaotian, who once attended a mass in a Western missionary church out of curiosity, immediately made a judgment, his heart was pounding, it was too weird, this ancient temple standing in the deep mountains and old forests was full of weirdness, If he hadn't been in a hurry to leave, he would have explored it carefully.
In the hall, a woman is holding a baby, the baby is crying loudly, the woman looks at a loss, at the end of the hall, there is a huge stone throne, the throne is empty, but there are more than ten people standing under the throne A beautiful woman with a graceful figure and a charming face covered her shame with only inches of wisps.
Gedole said to Ye Xiaotian in a low voice: "Don't stare at them, they are concubines."
Ye Xiaotian wondered: "God concubine? Gu God wants to marry a concubine?"
Ge Duolao said: "Of course, they are all beauties selected by various tribes. They volunteered to serve the Gu God for the rest of their lives, and the venerable servant of the God will replace the Gu God to behave like men and women with them. Their status is respected and should not be desecrated."
"This venerable servant of the gods must be a god stick and a prostitute, ah! I don't know how old he is, and he still possesses so many beauties, it's really outrageous! I'm so envious of my family..."
Ye Xiaotian was thinking wildly in his mind, and then secretly glanced at those beautiful and charming concubines, then lowered his eyes, Gedold touched his arm lightly, and whispered: "Go and coax the child, wait He stopped crying, so I went to ask the Venerable God Attendant to pray for him."
Ye Xiaotian didn't understand their rules either, so he just walked forward according to what Geduo said, the woman in Miao costume was probably the baby's biological mother, and when she saw her husband coming in with a young Han man, she knew it was for the baby. The godfather the child found, he smiled gratefully at Ye Xiaotian and handed the child to him.
Ye Xiaotian hugged the baby clumsily, and coaxed him: "Oh! Don't cry, baby. If you don't cry, I'll let you ride Fuwa later. Fuwa is simple, with a big round head and a short fluffy tail. Very cute."
As Ye Xiaotian said, he made faces at the little doll. The little doll was a little boy with a red dot between his eyebrows. I don't know if it was because of Ye Xiaotian's language style that was very different from theirs, or because of Ye Xiaotian's grimaces. His interest was aroused, and the little baby cried a few more times, then stopped crying with sobs.
He stared at Ye Xiaotian with eyes as black as lacquer, and suddenly stretched out his fat little arms like lotus root joints, touched Ye Xiaotian's face, and grinned.
His mother glanced at her husband with joy, and the Gedole said happily: "God Gu's old man's will cannot be disobeyed, this man is indeed the child's destined godfather. I will invite the Venerable Serving God."
Gedole walked up to the steps in front of the throne, bowed to a concubine, and said something in a low voice. The young concubine smiled sweetly, turned around and walked gracefully. The clothes with cicada wings that only cover the vitals can't stop the spring light coming out of the pink curved jade thighs, which makes people's hearts sway.
Ye Xiaotian teased the little guy, the little guy became more and more happy, no longer crying, just staring at Ye Xiaotian's expression with a pair of clear big eyes, from time to time he grinned and laughed silently, and tied his two little hands together A bundle.
Suddenly, someone said something very respectfully in Miao language, everyone in the hall immediately knelt down on one knee and saluted reverently, Ye Xiaotian was pulled by the mother of the child, reacted, and hurriedly hugged the child and knelt on one knee ground, and then secretly looked up.
I saw an old man in white robes, wearing a golden crown on his head, and leaning on a golden staff, slowly walking up to the throne. This old man is very old, and his face is covered with age spots. The white robe he wears is trimmed with gold, and the neckline has three red and gold lines. It seems that he is not tall and his figure is a little weak, but Walking is very majestic.
The old man sat down on the throne, and immediately a graceful concubine took over his staff, the old man raised his eyes and glanced down the steps, and met the peeping Ye Xiaotian's eyes, The old man couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly, as if he was a little surprised that someone dared to look directly at him.
Ye Xiaotian saw that the old man's face was full of wrinkles, like an apple that had been stored for a long time, it had lost too much water, only his eyes were still full of life, especially when he raised his eyebrows, it even gave people a humorous and interesting look. a feeling of.
The Venerable God Attendant stared at Ye Xiaotian carefully, and suddenly said in Chinese: "Are you a Han Chinese or a young chief of a certain tribe?"
As soon as Ye Xiaotian heard that he could speak Chinese, he quickly followed up his words and said: "Ah! Respected Venerable God Attendant, I am a Han. I came here to track down two thieves who kidnapped people, but you Master Gargamel under his command... oh, Grand Wizard Gargamel said I was a spy and forbade me to leave, and asked your lord to let me go, I am in a hurry to save people."
Gedu was so anxious that he couldn't stop winking at Ye Xiaotian, but Ye Xiaotian ignored him, it was rare to have such a good opportunity, and seeing the old venerable's easy-going manner, Ye Xiaotian would certainly seize the opportunity.
The Venerable God Attendant smiled, leaned slowly on the back of the chair, gently stroked his white beard with one hand, and said to Ye Xiaotian, "Do you also believe in the supreme Gu God?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "I..."
He was just about to say that if I want to believe, I can only believe in the Taishang Laojun, but suddenly his heart moved, and he blurted out: "Dear Servant of the God, what I believe in... is the Almighty God!"
When Ye Xiaotian said this, he was paying attention to the expression of the Venerable God, and the Venerable God said in surprise: "God? You are a Confucian disciple, and you believe in Haotian God?"
Ye Xiaotian suddenly came to his senses: "It's broken! I heard what the foreign devils and priests said, it seemed that they wanted to make us Ming people understand, so they borrowed the names of the gods worshiped by our ancestors to call their supreme gods." , their god is not actually called God, this time there is no unexpected effect... "
It turns out that the word "God" was originally a title in ancient China. Confucianism inherited the ritual system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it also inherited the belief in this supreme god, that is, God. Confucian classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics have mentioned God. Of course, the God respected by Confucianism is not as specific as the supreme god believed in by other religions. In fact, the God they refer to refers to heaven.
Ye Xiaotian hastened to make amends: "Your Majesty misunderstood. The god I'm talking about is officially called... Gao!"
The Venerable God Attendant said in astonishment, "Tall?"
Ye Xiaotian said: "Yes, tall."