In the dark, Ke Xun and Yue Cen couldn't understand why these "audiences" suddenly became noisy: some "people" seemed to want to leave, while some "people" wanted to finish the show.
Ke Xun felt that he was gradually able to understand some voices. A child sitting not far from him said shrilly, "...I'm afraid of that voice." - The previous ones didn't quite understand it, but these few Zi Ke Xun could hear clearly - I was afraid of that sound.
The child's mother coaxed: "That's a play, it's fake! Acting is a lunatic, watching a play is a fool, if you are fascinated, you will become a fool! Are you a fool?"
The child seemed to have made a cruel ideological struggle, and finally seemed to hold back tears and said, "I'm not a fool."
"Okay! Let's watch it next, there are delicious food after the play! There are corn, beans, and peanuts! Your favorite peanut!" The child's mother seemed to be emboldening herself as she said these words.
Hearing that there will be peanuts to eat in a while, the children will stop making noise, and the surroundings gradually return to quiet, as if the whole scene was comforted by the mother.
After listening for a while, Ke Xun suddenly understood something, and he couldn't help but be a little worried: "Sister Cen, can you hear what those people just said?"
"I don't understand, it seems that something terrible is going to happen." Yue Cen was still clutching Ke Xun's cuff in the dark, for fear that if the two stayed in the dark for a long time, they would gradually lose sight of each other, "I think , out of instinct, they should be afraid of the cat that is about to appear."
"I seem to be able to hear clearly just now." Ke Xun didn't know whether this "can hear clearly" was a good thing or a bad thing. Ke Xun never believed that he could suddenly understand a different language without doing anything.
Yue Cen also felt that things were beginning to develop in a bad place, but he couldn't think of a solution for a while: "We have to find a way to isolate ourselves from these things, but..."
As the sound of the music accelerated, the two looked up and saw that the marriage team of the mice on the stage was a little chaotic. This chaos was not panic disorder, but... The mice seemed to be attracted by something.
The first to be attracted by that thing was the mouse groom who just appeared from the other side of the stage—as Yue Cen said, this groom was riding on a bright green toad, and was driving the toad to rush towards the thing. , as if this matter is 1,000 times more important than his marriage to a wife.
The other rats scrambled to charge at the thing.
"What is that?" Ke Xun looked at the thing that appeared on the side of the stage - the pointed mound, was it a loess mound
Just like a solitary grave.
The mice happily rushed towards the "lone grave", burying their heads in the soil of the grave and not coming out, their pointed tails waving contentedly.
Just when Ke Xun finally understood what this solitary tomb was, Yue Cen's voice suddenly became tense: "The mice have started stealing food, and soon the cats will be attracted. We can't be sure of our identity now, it's best Still hiding."
Just when Yue Cen couldn't do anything about the boundless and breathless darkness, he suddenly felt that Ke Xun came over and whispered, "Sister Cen, can you squat down with your legs, you can sit on the ground if you can't. "
Yue Cen didn't understand what Ke Xun meant: "You mean, let me get out of the wheelchair?"
"Yes, if we want to be barely separated from the outside world, the only thing we can use at present is this wheelchair."
Although Ke Xun can't see it, by touching it, it can basically be concluded that the wheelchair has become something more in line with the age in the painting after entering the painting. First of all, the wheel of the wheelchair has become a wooden wheel, and the body and armrest of the wheelchair have also changed. It was made of wood, and its volume was larger than before.
Yue Cen had already left the wheelchair with the help of Ke Xun, and squatted on the ground temporarily. Then he felt that the cool wind around him had decreased, as if there was a wall in the air separating the wind. When he reached out and touched it, it was his own. The seat of the wheelchair was buckled like a small wooden house, and it was Ke Xun who was supporting the small wooden house.
Yue Cen wasn't sure how heavy the wheelchair was, so he reached out his hand to help support it, but heard Ke Xun next to him say, "No, this thing is very light."
"The main bunkers are on my side, is your side exposed?"
"No, there is a simple device like a tarpaulin awning on this wheelchair. I can pull it down to cover myself."
Ke Xun held the wheelchair that was turned upside down with both hands, and curled up in this simple "small wooden tent".
In the darkness, I only felt that the heaven and the earth were trembling, and the terrified screams and the sound of the wind blowing paper seemed to become a noisy and powerless background music, and a low roar like a tiger descending the mountain ran through the whole world. In an instant, people feel that the mountains and rivers change color.
Ke Xunqing's hand holding the wheelchair couldn't help but trembled slightly. In the dark, he felt that Yue Cen's hand groped to his arm, and gradually moved up, so she covered his ears.
His ears were covered so tightly that Ke Xun felt as though his eardrums were being sucked, so he had to open his mouth to prevent his facial features from being stuffed at the same time.
For a while, I was a little worried about Yue Cen, and it was unbearable to hear the deafening roar. With her physical condition, how could she be better than herself
But Yue Cen's hand was very steady, as if she was not affected by the surroundings.
Just like that, Yue Cen covered Ke Xun's ears, and Ke Xun held the wheelchair with both hands, and the two of them held on silently in the dark.
After an unknown amount of time, Ke Xun felt that Yue Cen's hand was loosened.
It feels a little strange to suddenly restore hearing, but fortunately the surrounding is quiet, only a slight wind.
"It's time to put down the wheelchair." Yue Cen's voice was kind.
Ke Xun looked around and felt a little light.
The wheelchair was restored to its original state, and Yue Cen was supported by Ke Xun and sat back again, looking at the dark and empty surroundings, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Are you alright, you just blocked my ears." Ke Xun came to the back of the wheelchair and found the wooden handrail. It was indeed a very primitive wooden cart.
"I'm not affected. The cat's voice is still a dramatic effect to me, but it doesn't seem like that to you." Yue Cen said calmly in a wheelchair.
"When I can understand the words of those shadow puppet mice, I feel that something is not right." For Ke Xun, the most terrifying thing last night was not the terrifying cat, but the fact that he was almost killed by the shadow puppet mice. assimilation.
With the dim morning light, Ke Xun carefully looked at the ground under his feet. It was cold and hard ground in winter, and it felt no different from stepping on it last night.
But the "audiences" from last night were gone, and Ke Xun tried to find some "remains" of shadow puppets, but to no avail.
It's like being blown by a nameless gust of wind, and the world has been blown clean, and the group of shadow puppet mice that make "crashing" noises, the cat that can only scream in horror, and even disappeared. The brightly lit stage.
Everything last night was like a awakened dream, and when I closed my eyes, it seemed that there was still a fragment of that dream.
"Sister Cen, why haven't you been disturbed at all last night?" Ke Xun remembered the hands that covered his ears last night. Although he could feel his master's nervousness, it was a rare warmth and firmness.
"Maybe everyone's characteristics are different, just like electromagnetic waves with different wavelengths, the magnetic fields generated will also be different." Yue Cen sat in a wheelchair, holding the wooden handrail with one hand and his knee with the other, "Actually, I was panicking too, not because of the cats, not because of the mice, but because of the food."
"Food?" In Ke Xun's mind, the grain pile like a solitary grave on the stage appeared again.
"Yes, ever since the food appeared, my heart has been pulled, and I don't know if it's distressed or what, but I just think the food is very important. But I know in my heart that I can't do anything about it, that's the world in the play, I As an outsider, you can't interfere." Yue Cen looked at the cloth clothes on his body, which had changed after entering the painting, "The sound of those mice eating last night seemed to bite into my heart. It's hard to tell that feeling."
Ke Xun pushed Yue Cen and walked slowly forward, aimlessly at first, but as the sky became brighter, he gradually saw the surrounding environment—it was a very empty field, and the green trees and fields were all over the place. On the very far edge, like the other side that can never be reached.
A few short houses with round hats stood not far away, gray and lifeless.
Ke Xun finally found the pocket of the clothes on his body, and took out his long-lost mobile phone from it. The strange thing was that he couldn't find it after touching it for a long time last night, as if the mobile phone had hidden itself.
At this time, the phone only had the function of displaying the time. Ke Xun looked at it and said, "It should have been timed since entering this world, and now it shows that 40 minutes have passed."
Yue Cen didn't speak, and after a while of silence, he said, "Let's go to those short houses to see. It seems that this is the only option at present."
After all, Ke Xun didn't know much about Yue Cen. He just felt that the other party's tone was a bit strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
According to the setting of the world in front of him, it seems that there are only a few strange short houses that can be "investigated", and maybe the woodblock fragments they are looking for are inside.
Ke Xun pushed Yue Cen and walked over. These low houses are very dilapidated, especially there are many black holes under the walls, like places where mice burrowed in.
The low house had no windows, only a small door. Ke Xun walked over and kicked it gently with his foot, and the door opened.
The house was dark and empty.
The same goes for the other low houses.
The two still found some clues in these rooms - there were some chaff on the ground, and bits and pieces remained at the base of the wall.
"If the judgment is correct, these should be granaries." Ke Xun said his conclusion, "But the food inside was eaten by the mice."
Yue Cen nodded, agreeing with Ke Xun's statement.
"I think there should be people in the granary. Why do these people let the mice dig holes and steal the grain?" Ke Xun was very puzzled, "I think this should have something to do with the shadow play of 'a mouse marrying a girl' last night. Relation, Sister Cen, you said last night that the most classic way of expressing 'The Rat Marrying a Girl' is the New Year's picture. It stands to reason that the New Year's painting usually has some blessings in it. In addition to being a little humorous, this 'Rat Marrying a Woman' also has Any other meaning?"
Yue Cen looked at the millet husks that Ke Xun had just put in his hand, and thoughtfully said, "'The mouse marrying a girl' is actually an ancient folk belief in my country. After hundreds of thousands of years of inheritance, it has gradually become the custom of the common people. It can even be said that the 'folk belief' is the belief of the peasant people. People pray for good weather and good crops, which are all folk beliefs. - As for 'Rat marrying a woman' is actually a 'rat worship' activity in folklore."
"Sacrificing rats?" Ke Xun, who grew up in a city, heard about such a strange sacrifice for the first time.
"Yes, mouse worship. This kind of activity is all held in the first month. The specific dates and methods of sacrifice vary across the country. Some are on the seventh day of the first lunar month, some are on the tenth day of the first lunar month, and some are on the sixteenth and twentieth of the first lunar month. 5. On the day of the rat worship, some areas in Shanxi will put food such as noodles and cakes at the base of the wall, saying it is 'celebrating the marriage of the rat'; in the suburbs of Shanghai, there are people who fry sesame candy on the 16th night of the first lunar month, saying it is ' The wedding candy for the daughter of the mouse; in the Xiaogan area, a sesame oil lamp will be lit under the bed, and a sesame oil lamp will be lit under the bed.
"I didn't expect that 'a mouse marrying a daughter' has so much to do." Ke Xun was about to ask something else, but he felt that something was wrong with Yue Cen, "Sister Cen, what's wrong with you?"
Yue Cen touched his knees and calf: "I seem to have lost consciousness from my left calf to my ankle. It's been wrong since dawn, and now it's getting worse." Yue Cen reached down and touched his calf. "It's cold and hard to the touch, like a stone." With a puzzled expression, he reached into his trousers and touched his ankles, then retracted his hands in an instant, his face pale.
The author has something to say:
Reader: I would like to know how the other groups are divided.
Baoyue: Little fairies, please be patient, each group will write it~
Reader: Well, who is on the order
Bao Yue: This must be kept secret~
Reader: The New Year's picture can't be written about the New Year in one stroke, right
Baoyue: Do you think this is in "Across the River During Qingming Festival"
Reader: "Across the River During Qingming Festival" is good, when will you let everyone play? Thank you to the little angel who voted for the king or irrigated the nutrient solution for me~