Chapter 1371 Lin Dahu
Several paddle boats that were urgently dispatched from Naha Port picked up Prince Wende from Cape Chinian and sailed to Kudaka Island in the east.
Every one on board had a solemn look on his face, even the lowly oarsman's face was full of excitement, as if he were about to go on a pilgrimage.
According to Ryukyu Shinto, the Emperor of Heaven ordered the goddess Amamiku to descend on Kudaka Island and create the Ryukyu Islands. Therefore, Kudaka Island has become the most sacred place for the Ryukyu people. Before a new king ascends the throne, he must be accompanied by Montoku-no-Kuni to pay homage to the island and obtain the approval of the gods before he can officially ascend the throne.
Prince Wende himself had only been to the island once nine years ago, when he succeeded Prince Wende. Since then, he has been worshipping from afar at the temple to avoid disturbing the goddess.
So after the galley brought her to the shore, it quickly rowed away and waited to be summoned by the prince to pick her up.
It was heard that the prince was walking on the soft beach, supported by two senior nuns. Her steps were extremely light, as if she was afraid of disturbing the gods.
On the white beach, there stood a vermilion torii gate. After hearing the king kneel down devoutly, he passed through the torii gate and looked around the path, muttering to himself:
"Jiugao Island, Phoenix Forest; Jiugao Island, Phoenix Forest..."
Suddenly her eyes lit up and she saw the mangrove forest.
"Go there!" Hearing the prince pointing at the mangroves, he was about to walk over quickly.
"My Lord, don't enter the forest..." An elderly senior nun said nervously, "Oh no, I mean, be careful."
"Don't talk nonsense, this is the Island of Gods, how could there be danger?" The prince said sternly.
"Yes." The woman lowered her head helplessly and sighed secretly. When she took office, she heard that the great king died of an acute illness and had not had time to train a successor. As a result, many truths were not passed on to the next generation. Although she knew some things, she dared not say anything, otherwise she would be silenced by the great king...
Therefore, it is truly unusual that the prince, who has been in power for nine years, still firmly believes in the existence of gods.
"Alas, will Ryukyu Shinto be ruined?" the old lady was worried.
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"Boss, someone is coming!" The woman who was on lookout ran into the mangroves and reported to Lin Feng in a low voice.
"Is it Lord Wen?" Lin Feng suddenly became alert and asked in a deep voice.
"That should be the case. She is dressed so gorgeously, like a queen on the stage." The woman said with some envy: "And she looks so young and beautiful. I thought she was an old witch..."
"Haha, I told you, the plan works!" Lin Feng rubbed his hands excitedly and said to the women, "Hide quickly, I'm going to continue to act according to the plan!"
"We still have to protect you!" said the big-eyed little black girl anxiously.
"What a joke." Lin Feng said with a proud smile: "I, Lin Ah Feng, still need someone to protect me? The person who can hurt me has not been born yet."
As he spoke, he pricked up his ears and quickly waved his hand, "Come on, here they come!"
Then a few women pulled the little black girl, who kept looking back every three steps, and hid in the mangroves.
Lin Feng looked around and saw messy footprints all over the ground. She would definitely be exposed if she stayed here. So she quickly changed her location and found a silver leaf tree about five or six meters high. She climbed up with her hands and feet, adjusted herself to a leisurely posture, took out a conch from her bosom and started to blow it.
Kudaka Island is very small, and the sound of the conch shells quickly spread throughout the island.
The women hiding deep in the mangroves couldn't help but whisper, "What tune is the boss playing?"
“It sounds like a fart, so ugly…” The little black girl with big eyes pouted.
"Puchi..." The more she said this, the more it sounded like it. The girls couldn't help laughing, but they had to hold it back desperately, not daring to laugh out loud.
"You guys laugh alike." The little black girl was very unhappy that the head of the family didn't bring her along. She was dissatisfied with everything she saw and heard.
However, the prince trembled when he heard the sound, and excitedly grabbed his left and right and said, "Listen, the sound of the conch!"
The two women also showed shocked expressions, and the three of them chanted a hymn in the ancient Ryukyuan language:
"The sea song echoing in the conch shell and the soft singing of the goddess of prayer awakened the sleeping gods and their messengers..."
"God, it really showed up!" Upon hearing this, the prince could no longer care about anything else. He left his left and right and ran towards the sound.
As she ran, she looked up and looked around, and she saw the jade-like young man in snow-white clothes on the silver-leaf tree that stood out from the crowd.
Upon hearing this, the prince's eyes suddenly filled with tears and he stammered, unable to utter a word.
"Your Majesty, please watch your step!" The two maidens hurriedly caught up with her skirts and reminded her in a low voice.
She couldn't stop her momentum and was tripped by the mangrove roots that were stuck on the ground, and fell forward.
In front of me is a Sumac tree covered with thorns. If I hit it, I will be disfigured and may even go blind.
Just as she was panicking, she saw a graceful white figure descending from the sky, hugging her light body around the waist, turning around twice on the spot, and completely removing all the force from her forward rush.
Hearing this, the prince felt dizzy, his hands and feet went limp in the arms of the young man in white, and when he tried to get up he felt he had no strength at all, he felt as light as a feather, as if he was riding on clouds.
"How dare you! Let our prince go!" A nun saw the holy Prince Wende being carried in the arms of a man like a princess, and she subconsciously shouted.
"Don't be rude, this is a god!" Hearing this, the prince shouted. "Kneel down and greet him!"
The two women had no choice but to kneel on the ground.
"I'm not a god." The man said to Wen De Dajun in a pleasant voice: "Besides, woman, how long do you plan to let me hold you?"
"Oh, sorry." Hearing this, the prince hurriedly stepped back, feeling disappointed. Then he knelt down excitedly and said, "God, you finally responded to your servant!"
"I told you, I'm not a god." The man smiled and said, "My name is Lin Feng, and I'm from Chaozhou Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty."
"Look, my lord, he is not a god..." The girl who had been shouting at first raised her head.
"Shut up!" Unexpectedly, the prince was not disappointed at all. Instead, he became more excited and said, "Jiugao Island, Fengqilin! Fengqilin means the phoenix in the forest, the forest phoenix!"
As she spoke, she announced loudly, "He is the man who answered the oracle!"
"Your Majesty, first ask him how he got on the island. Doesn't he know that it is a capital crime for mortals to go to the God's Island?!" another nun said cautiously.
"God's Island? I didn't come here on my own initiative. I was sent here by a goddess." Lin Feng said with a wronged look on his face: "I also want to ask you, where is this place?"
"What? You asked the goddess to send it here?" the ladies asked in surprise.
"Yes, didn't I tell you that I am from Chaozhou Prefecture? A few days ago, a typhoon hit and I was on a boat out to sea. I was blown up into the sky by the strong wind. I thought I was dead." Lin Feng scratched his head and said, "You may not believe it... I was saved by a beautiful goddess. When I calmed down, I found myself in a magnificent palace in heaven."
"The goddess in heaven? Amamiku!" The prince was so excited that he almost fainted. "What did the goddess say?"
"I quickly kowtowed to the goddess to thank her. She said if you want to repay me, do one thing for me. She told me that she created a small island called Ryukyu in the distant sea, and now the people on the island are in trouble, so she asked me to go there on her behalf and guide them out of danger." Lin Feng said, pointing to her sleeves, "The goddess also gave me three magic bags, asking me to open them when I am in doubt, and I can help them out of danger. Then I was sent here."
"By the way, you haven't told me where this is?" he asked Wen De Da Jun who was looking at him infatuatedly.
"This is Kudaka Island, the place where Amamiku, the mother goddess of Ryukyu, descended. It is the stairway to the heavenly palace..." Hearing the great prince's words, he knelt down devoutly and said, "The servant of God, Menan, respectfully welcomes the envoy of God. Please save the people of God from the water and fire!"
"Oh, so we've already reached Ryukyu." Lin Feng said in shock, "The power is truly limitless."
"Of course, the Mother Goddess was ordered by the Emperor of Heaven to bring soil, stone, grass and wood from the Heavenly Palace to create countless islands in Ryukyu. The Mother Goddess also gave birth to five sons and planted grains, which gave us everything we have!" Upon hearing this, the Great Prince Mei Nan was first full of piety, and then very ashamed, saying: "Tens of thousands of years have passed, and the people still make the Mother Goddess worry. It is really a great sin."
"It doesn't matter. A mother will never blame her child." Lin Feng smiled and stretched out his hand, touching her head proudly.
Being pious is good, what’s terrible is not being pious.
Menan had never been touched on the top of her head before, but she did not feel it was rude at all. Instead, she shed tears of happiness.
"It is not easy to stay in the holy land for long. Please follow me back to the palace, angel of God?" After thanking the Mother Goddess again, she respectfully extended the invitation.
"That's fine. I have nowhere to go anyway." Lin Feng nodded and smiled, "Besides, I have to complete the goddess's mission, right?"
"Great, please come this way!" Mei Nan hurriedly invited respectfully.
"My Lord, we can't take him back!" The two nuns were going crazy. What the hell was going on?
But in the holy land, they dare not say anything like there is no oracle or goddess. Wouldn't that be destroying their own rice bowl?
"There have always been women who serve God. How can we explain to the people if we bring back a male messenger?" The two had to remind the confused Wen De Dajun from the side. How could a man become a messenger of God? This violates the basic law of this religion!
"This..." Mei Nan finally became a little worried and didn't know how to explain it to the people below.
"Oh, this is easy." Lin Feng smiled and said, "The omniscient goddess has already thought of this problem, so she gave me a talisman before coming here..."
As he said this, he pointed at the girl who was dancing the most happily and said, "You, take off your clothes for me."
"What do you want to do?" Ms. Zhu blushed immediately. Although she is so old, she is still a deputy director.
"This is an order." Lin Feng said lightly.
"Take it off." Menan ordered immediately, saying sternly, "Are you going to break your promise to dedicate your body and soul to God in this land of God?"
Hearing that the prince held the power of life and death over Zhu, Zhu had no choice but to do as he said, even though she was extremely reluctant...
Fortunately, Lin Feng was still a gentleman. He turned behind the silver-leaf tree and didn't see everything.
When Mei Nan brought the neatly folded priestess robe behind the tree, Lin Feng asked her to go out and wait.
After a while of rustling, the three of them saw a beautiful woman with long hair coming out from behind the tree. She had a stunning appearance and a heroic spirit, making it impossible to look at her directly.
(End of this chapter)