Chapter 119 Chapter 119
"Merciful and great God, we are here today to offer you our sacrifices. Please accept them." People sang, spun, and danced.
Their faces gradually showed a frenzy, their eyes revealed excitement, their voices became louder, and their movements became more and more intense.
It looked like the last struggle of a dying patient, or like a helpless escaper who was watching his body petrify. It even looked like a group of wild beasts with green eyes, helpless, biting their companions to death and tearing their bodies apart, with blood splattering all over their faces.
The group of people continued to sing and dance for a while, and suddenly there was a loud rumble in the sky, and thunder struck. The sky, which had a little light, suddenly darkened, and it was pitch black in all directions. Then a terrible white lightning flashed.
At that moment, everyone's eyes were black and white.
Before they could react, heavy rain fell, bang, bang, bang, the ground was full of mud, even the branches were beaten to the ground, and many fresh leaves were beaten by the rain and scattered on the ground, like the footprints of plants suddenly moving.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, with ecstatic expressions on their faces. They congratulated each other loudly, quickly packed up their things, and pulled each other down the mountain. In that heavy rain, they didn't even have half an umbrella. It seemed that being wet by raindrops was a blessing from God.
But Li Qingshan was left behind.
He was still lying on the long black table, with fresh flowers and fruits around him. Not far away was an incense burner that had been soaked by rain, and farther away were candles that had been extinguished by rain. Some candles were not only extinguished, but also knocked crookedly to the ground by the rain, rolling twice before stopping, and were quickly wrapped in mud and water, looking no different from the surroundings.
The rain was so heavy that Li Qingshan couldn't open his eyes, so he closed them. He could still feel the rain hitting his eyeballs through his eyelids, as if it wanted to dig his eyes out and throw them aside.
He closed his eyes and thought for a while. If he didn't leave now, he might not be able to leave. Besides, there was no one else around. It was the best time to escape. He couldn't hesitate any longer.
He tried to pull his hand out of the rope as quickly as possible. His wrist was dislocated, his skin was rubbed red, and his whole arm was a little sore and numb, but he could still use it after shaking it. He squinted his eyes and put his dislocated hand back in, untied the whole rope on his body, threw it aside, and immediately got off the table and prepared to leave.
Although he was absent-minded when he came here, and his attention was on the people around him, he was not completely oblivious to the way he came. If he could get here by following the way he came, then he should be able to leave from here and return to the mountain village by following that road.
He planned to follow this road and leave the village entrance while no one was paying attention.
He still had no strength and almost fell to his knees when he stood on the ground, but he held on to the table and managed not to roll on the ground. He stood up again, tried to stomp his feet, confirmed his current strength, and took a step forward.
But at this moment, he felt something in front of him, it was an invisible aura. He raised his head and looked forward, and a huge green vertical pupil beast eye appeared in front of him.
He felt his whole body stiffen, and he fell backwards with a thud, hitting the ground. Before he fell, the back of his head hit a sharp corner of the table, which was extremely painful.
He felt that eye approaching him, looking down at him, like a hungry wolf looking at food within reach. The rain poured into his eyes, and he couldn't help but close his eyes, and immediately felt his throat tighten.
It was like something stepped on him and bit his neck. He felt that he couldn't breathe. At this time, he wanted to open his eyes and take another look, but it was too late. He was not sure if he opened his eyes. He could only be sure that everything was in darkness.
It was as dark as a swamp. He was even more breathless. His neck seemed to be completely broken. His head rolled to one side. His eyes were accidentally opened. He saw white light, rain curtains all over the sky, and huge stone statues with long hair feasting on his body like wolves.
Maybe he saw it wrongly.
Isn't it normal to have hallucinations before dying?
He closed his eyes.
He was sure that he was dead, but then he could feel a new vitality of life. He opened his eyes and found that his body was intact. He was holding a gift box tied with a red bow in his hand and standing in front of a wooden door. Footsteps came from inside the door.
He was stunned for a moment, and immediately remembered that this time should be the first time he had a strange dream. The situation in the dream was also the beginning of his being sent to the mountain to die.
He heard the footsteps getting closer and closer, and his scalp felt numb. He took a step back, and suddenly the world spun around, and he couldn't stand up and fell to the ground. The box in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.
The footsteps paused, and he immediately rushed over and opened the door. The door opened to reveal the familiar and serious face of his uncle, who frowned and looked a little nervous. He looked around and saw him. There was a flash of surprise in his eyes, and then he stretched out his hand to pull him up from the ground.
He felt even more dizzy, but the other party was very strong, as if he wanted to pull his arms off. He actually stood up with that strength, and even held the box in his hand.
He looked down and realized that he had not had time to throw it away. The box seemed to be stuck to his hand.
He couldn't help but frown, feeling disgusted, as if he had not thrown away the garbage he had planned to throw away when he left the house after walking for a long time.
Li Qingshan shook his hands.
It was not known whether his uncle saw it or pretended not to see it. He smiled and pulled him to the living room. One hand pulled his arm like a pliers, and the other hand took the red gift box from his hand and put it aside. The box stopped on the white shoe cabinet.
Everything seemed to be no different from the last time.
But the various uncomfortable reactions in his body clearly told Li Qingshan that this was not the last time, this was another time, everything was new, and you could do other things, such as things you wanted to do but didn't do, and things you did but didn't accomplish.
Li Qingshan was pressed down on the sofa in the living room by everyone, but fortunately the sofa was soft, so he didn't feel any discomfort when sitting.
He gradually came to his senses, poured himself a glass of water, and drank it.
His second aunt, who was about to pour him some water, was stunned for a moment when she saw this, then slowly withdrew her hand that was hanging in the air, wiped it on her knees, and said with a smile: "You haven't been back for so long, and you have adapted to the situation here so well?"
Li Qingshan nodded and looked at everyone around him. Only then did he realize that these people's faces were different from last time. He didn't recognize these people's faces last time, but this time, these people's faces were exactly the faces of the passengers on the bus.
He was startled, and his original idea of forcing the process to be accelerated changed. He lowered his eyes, and began to be soft-hearted with them, pretending to be pitiful and said: "It's true that I haven't been back for a long time. The road is not good, and the car is rotten. It has been bumpy for a while. Now I feel pain all over my body, and my bones seem to be falling apart. I think I need to rest. Can you give me an empty room? I want to take a nap."
The second aunt was stunned for a moment, frowned, and was annoyed that the process was disrupted. She pretended to be gentle and advised him: "Eat first, and then go to bed, otherwise you will sleep too late. "I don't know when I will wake up, but I can't get up to eat in the middle of the day, or I will be too hungry!"
Li Qingshan shook his head and said firmly: "I want to go to bed now. If I can't sleep now, I can't do anything! We can talk about eating later. I won't starve to death if I skip a meal. But if I don't sleep now, I can't guarantee that I will eat something and kill myself. I can't take the risk!"
He nodded like a chicken pecking at rice while speaking, his eyes only opened a slit, his eyelids trembling violently, and he looked very sleepy, but still trying to speak.
People around saw him like this, and if they really didn't want to persuade him to eat, it wouldn't seem to be for his own good, but forcing him to do something he didn't want to do, and they were afraid of arousing his suspicion, so they kept silent.
After all, if something is not good for the person involved, it may be good for the person who persuaded him.
Although Li Qingshan looked sleepy, hungry and tired, he had not completely lost his ability to think and act. If they really bet that Li Qingshan would not be able to figure out that there was something wrong with them, they would not be able to afford the price if they lost the bet.
Then they could not blame Li Qingshan entirely.
After a long while, the second aunt reluctantly said, "Then you should go to sleep first."
Li Qingshan pulled the corners of his mouth, stood up with a fake smile, "Thank you, everyone, I'm going to sleep."
He turned around, pushed open the nearest door, staggered in, slammed the door, locked it, and lay down on the bed with a bang. He turned around and pressed the bed to make it creak. He wrapped himself in a quilt, rested his head on the pillow, lay on it with his eyes closed, and quickly rested.
Everyone outside the door was stunned for a moment. They didn't expect that he was unwilling to say even a superfluous word. After he went in, they all stood up, walked to the door, and put their ears to the door to eavesdrop on the movement inside.
There was no movement inside.
Everyone frowned.
"A sleeping person should snore, right? I can't hear anything. Is he thinking about something in there? Should we open the door and force our way in?"
"If he figures out something, it will be terrible." "Maybe
he just fell asleep. It's normal that he didn't make any sound."
Everyone discussed in a low voice for a while, and felt that as long as they watched carefully, they would not let him escape. Gradually, they dispersed. Some ate, some chatted, and some took a walk.
Outside the door was empty.
Li Qingshan had almost rested. He carefully got up from the bed using all four limbs. He got off the bed and ran to the window. Looking out, the ground was densely packed with people, like ants, crowded together, as if a fireworks ceremony was going to be held tonight.
When he looked down, the people below also noticed him and looked up. Someone pointed at him and said a few words to the people next to him.
The group of people below all looked up at him, like a group of dark bats ready to suck blood, with a flickering hunger in their eyes.
Li Qingshan took two steps back and heard a knock on the door. "Have you rested well? Are you still in there? Are you awake? Come out for dinner!" The second aunt knocked on the door and said with a smile. There was still some impatience in her voice, but there was also a vague feeling of, I have control over you today, what can you do to me? It
doesn't matter . Li Qingshan frowned and didn't open the door immediately, and the knocking on the door became louder. Bang bang bang! It sounded as if the door was going to be removed immediately. The second aunt's voice was filled with undisguised anger: "You kid, if you are awake, you are awake, and if you are not awake, you are not awake. It's so loud, I don't believe you can't hear it, come out and eat!" The pretended gentleness that had always existed before disappeared, replaced by irritability. Li Qingshan didn't want to open the door even more, but then he thought, if he didn't open the door, he would have to stay in the room. Even if he tried to go out through the window, the people outside would find him and rush over. I think there would be no good result. It's not easy to run in this place, just change to another place. Everyone is deceiving each other. If you can deceive and run away, nothing else matters. The second aunt started banging on the door outside: "If you don't open the door, I will open it myself! Speak quickly!" Li Qingshan walked over and opened the door: "What's the hurry? Didn't you just wake up? I'm not awake yet, and you're knocking here. Do you not allow others to sleep because you don't sleep yourself?" The second aunt was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect him to open the door now, nor did she expect him to say these words after opening the door. She was speechless for a moment, and wanted to pretend to be gentle: "No, don't get me wrong, I didn't mean that. I was just anxious to call you for dinner. Already." Li Qingshan nodded: "Then when you are asleep, I will also be anxious to call you to eat. Don't close the door, otherwise I will rush in, and you can't be angry, because, you treat me like this, but I am not angry with you yet." The second aunt laughed embarrassedly: "You are really good at joking, hahaha." Li Qingshan said coldly: "I am not joking." The second aunt hurriedly looked at other people for help. Others came over with a smile, and advised him to be magnanimous, not to take trivial matters to heart, and to respect his elders. Li Qingshan walked to the sofa in the living room, sat down, picked up the ashtray and smashed it on the ground: "You sound like seven or eight hundred ducks gathered together. Have you really never felt that you are noisy? Don't you know or are you pretending not to know? You don't really want me to come? You just pretend to be warm and hospitable, hoping that I will stay so that you can continue to humiliate me?" He looked up at the people around him. The people around him were either stunned or didn't look at him. They looked guilty and didn't react, and didn't know how to explain. Li Qingshan snorted coldly: "Look at your expressions, I was right, right?" Everyone came to their senses and hurried to persuade him. "I didn't mean what you said, really!" "We just didn't expect you to think that way. We've been so good to you, how could you have such an idea? Don't think like that, I'm really sad that I didn't hear it."
"At worst, we won't ask you to eat when you're asleep. Why are you so angry? You're really making a fuss over nothing. You're so angry at such a young age. Is your liver not good? Let's go to the hospital for a check-up!" As
they said this, their expressions gradually turned into a very hypocritical smile, and their eyes revealed contempt and disdain.
Li Qingshan stood up: "I can't talk to you. I'm going home now!"
He rushed out from the crowd and pushed the door open to go out, but as soon as the door was opened, a group of people appeared outside. This group of people seemed to want to come in through the door, so they blocked the door on both sides.
Li Qingshan was stuck in a corner, but he still wanted to go out. He was held by countless people, unable to get away. He started to make a big noise: "I want to leave now! I want to go home now! Who do you think you are? Why don't you let me go?"
Someone handed him an apple, and someone immediately stuffed the apple into his mouth, making him unable to make a sound. Then, someone took out a rope and tied Li Qingshan up.
After that, they moved Li Qingshan to the sofa in the living room, and said to him earnestly, "We are all doing this for your own good." Then, they put a red wedding dress on Li Qingshan and hung a big red flower on his chest.
On that day, before it was completely dark, they set up tables and chairs in the open space, and put food and wine on the tables. When it was completely dark, they began to pull Li Qingshan and the young girls into the house and let them get married.
Li Qingshan was held down by them, bowed three times, and then stuffed into a coffin and covered with a lid. After that, they let go of him and went out to eat and drink.
Li Qingshan could still hear their voices in the coffin.
"This is really delicious!"
"Eat more quickly, or you won't have the strength to walk up the mountain later."
"Yeah, if you don't eat now, you won't be able to eat when you get on the road, so don't be polite. Anyway, it's a wedding now, there's plenty of food at the banquet, it's a waste not to eat!"
They chatted and ate while drinking and making fists. Li Qingshan listened for a while, and while they were not paying attention, he tried to climb out of the coffin, but as soon as he stuck his head out, he saw the young girl standing next to him and looking at him.
He was stunned for a moment, and then the young girl opened her mouth and let out a huge scream.
The people outside put down their chopsticks and ran in. Some people didn't even have time to wipe their mouths. They came in and saw that Li Qingshan had already risen from the coffin. They all frowned, rushed over and pushed him back in.
"Why are you so disobedient, kid?"
"Why don't you go to sleep and rest at this time? What else do you want to do?"
"We are eating, and you are still not quiet. What do you want? If you keep making trouble, don't blame us for being rude to you on the road later."
They pushed him back and complained.
Li Qingshan saw that he couldn't escape this time, so he had to lie down.
Those people covered the coffin again and went out to eat. When they were full and drunk, it was almost dawn. After a nap, they lifted the coffin and went up the mountain.
While they were lifting the coffin, they beat gongs and drums and sang songs. They lifted the coffin in front of the huge stone statue. After that, they didn't open the coffin, but put it down. After worshiping, they turned around and left.
The voices and singing gradually faded away, and the sound of rain fell.
Li Qingshan bumped up and opened the coffin lid. When he wanted to leave, a huge green vertical pupil flashed before his eyes, and he felt a headache and immediately fainted.
He felt his body gradually lose its breath and died.
After that, he opened his eyes and woke up. He looked around and found that he had returned to the time of his wedding. However, although he was wearing a wedding dress, he was still tied up.
The better thing about this time was that he was not in the coffin. The bad thing was the same as last time. The young girl was wearing a wedding dress and stood beside him, watching him like a surveillance.
The others held wine glasses in their hands and smiled and congratulated him.
"Congratulations on this time, you are finally married!"
"After getting married, you are an adult, so don't act like a child anymore."
"Don't treat other girls badly! What a beautiful girl! You will be married in the future! Have a few more drinks! By the way, I will also take some of your wedding candies home, because my kids at home like them."
"I heard that eating wedding candies will not cause tooth decay, but I wonder if it is true."
After eating and drinking, they once again let Li Qingshan marry a young girl. This time, Li Qingshan did not struggle too much because he wanted to save some energy for later use. You can't run away without strength. What's more, everyone around him had eaten and drunk enough, and he was still hungry. It was obvious that he would not be able to run away if he didn't have strength