mountain god dance

Baigu was only five years old, and while eating cakes, he waited for the grandmother to offer incense and wine in front of the mountain god tree, sacrifice cattle and sheep, and shouted and muttered, always long and difficult to understand, vague and boring.The sacrifice lasted from day to night, it was too late and too tired for the child, he rubbed his eyes just to wait for that scene.

The scene started with burning, and suddenly a dozen black-clothed men surrounded them, holding huge masks that could fit the lower half of their bodies. The waves of wheat are swaying.They chanted and jumped to the tree, twisted and exaggerated with their hips sideways, and set all the sacrifices on fire.

The altar was suddenly as hot as a volcano, using meat as charcoal, and the red flame filled the air.The crowd was also chattering loudly, the drums were beating loudly and rapidly, and the heat was blowing and people were shaking, and the whole village was like rising and boiling steam.

Look at these ten or so giant monsters gathered together to form a small hill, shaking their bodies, pretending to be blowing in the wind and rain, the mountain looks depressed, weird and frightening; With a high-pitched sound, the trembling masked man gradually moved away from the center.Behind the people stood a girl in colorful clothes and silver ornaments, and cast a glance at the crowd with beautiful eyes.

When Baigu heard the crowd around him immediately became restless: "Wow - is this the girl invited from the neighboring village?"

"It really is a fairy!"

He also cried out: "Wow, fairy!"

As soon as the girl came out, it heralded a year of good weather. She had a gorgeous body and a beautiful dance skirt. When she jumped up, her legs were almost like swallows, like a light sickle, crushing a dozen masked people. , a silver dress ignited in the flames, and five or six girls were drinking "Yi" and "Ya" beside them, rising and falling with the drums and dancers' footsteps.

Behind it came out a painted winding dragon, who was holding it, it was unclear who was holding it, and it leaped faintly from the burning smoke, wandering around the girl, and a night ghost that could breathe fire at her, and she also The gods are shining brightly, and they return to the gathering with their wings together, and the disaster will be driven back.Secretive and glamorous alternately alternate, sometimes soft and coquettish, sometimes like going to the enemy's field.

The smoke is rising, the fire is burning, the neon clothes are whirling, and the appearance is like flying electricity.

Baigu saw it, and jumped excitedly, the cake crumbs fell to the ground, and was about to get closer, when a hand came out from behind and patted him on the head: "I'm not going home yet!"

Father is very kind to Baigu, every day he looks at him with a smile on his face, giving him what he wants, only one thing is always unaccommodating.

Bai Gu was slapped dumbfounded, and Bai Gu took him away from the crowd honestly, "Those people are crazy, Bai Gu should not learn from them."

"why."

The child will only ask why: "I think it looks good. Why isn't there a beauty in our village?"

Adults will only repeat the rules: "You must be obedient."

When a festival that everyone celebrates becomes taboo in one's own home, confusion and rebellion can arise.

More than all kinds of doubts, it is the lively atmosphere and friendly neighbors that attract Xiao Xiaoerlang.He was born cute and juicy, and his pockets were full of minced meat pastries and sweet and sour candies that were stuffed into his pockets, as if they were rewards for adventure.Baigu became more confident when he was mischievous, so he slipped out a few times under his father's nose. During the long festival and feast, he gradually got to know all the dance moves of young men and women, and kept them firmly in his mind.For many days to come, he danced more beautifully than others, and the more he praised him, the less he took his father's words to heart.

When he was in elementary school, he dared to go out secretly to dance on the stage alone, looking beautiful and beautiful, and Brother Jiuzhen clapped his hands vigorously underneath and booed, and the villagers also praised him: "Bai Gu has grown up, and the green is out of the blue!"

Baigu hadn't grown up yet, he was very satisfied and proud, his tail was up to the sky, and as soon as he entered the house, he was immediately whipped by the cane.

"disobedient!"

Bai Wo asked him to look outside the garden: "It's dark and you don't pick the leaves. What do you eat when the flooded insects bite you? Why don't you pick them when you grow hands and wait for the mountain god to pick them for you? Be honest. Hard-working people, don't be lazy!"

Baigu couldn't make sense with his father and was about to make a fuss, and was beaten even worse, threw himself on the bed and started crying.Seeing the red marks on my thighs, I felt even more wronged, crying more and more fiercely, louder than a goose, waking up the little girl who had just fallen asleep.

After a while his father saw that he was still crying, he was really sad, so he relaxed a little.

He wiped away his son's endless tears with his palm, and said to him, "Oh, why don't you listen, the mountain god is fake. Dad has never seen it before, you are just fooling around."

Baigu stared at him with red eyes: "But I have seen it! You come back so late every time you look for mushrooms. It is the mountain god who steamed the meat and fried rice for me so that I am not hungry. drink milk!"

"…………"

Bai Wo seemed to be choked, and wanted to refute the child's whimsy, but after thinking about Daye's meddling temper, he was indeed capable of doing this.

But Dad wanted to save face, so he smiled at him: "Ah, it turns out that someone who is so kind, who can cook must be a stove master."

Baigu wiped away his tears and pointed to the hazy sky outside the window: "He himself said he was a mountain god, so he just looked at me there."

Bai Wo knocked on his forehead: "No, how can the mountain god be so clumsy that he can cook. Tell me, does he have two eyes and one mouth?"

Baigu nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes."

Bai Wo said affirmatively, "That's Lord Stove Fire. He's the one who looks after the house for the little one when the adults are away. He sees that you like mountain gods, so he just makes you happy."

Baigu opened his eyes wide and dubious: "But others say there are."

"Others still say you don't have a mother." Bai Wo said vaguely, "If you want to dance, just dance, even if you have a good body."

Ask him again: "How many times has that person been here?"

"Huh? Lord Stovefire, several times. Sometimes I call on the stove and a bowl of porridge comes out."

Baigu covered his head with the quilt, and felt a little ashamed for not keeping his oath: "He won't ask me to tell you, or you will drive him away... Will you drive him away?"

"……Won't."

Baigu's sobs are still there, with a smile on his face: "Well, let him stay at home."

The son fell asleep peacefully, and Bai Wo put on his smock and walked out of this narrow shelter in the world, where he bought the land and built it brick by brick. He raised his head and saw the dark blue distance leading to the bright moon within reach.The silver glow is reflecting the high mountains, the clouds stop the road, and the smoke is collected in the evening, and there is no rain at all.

He must have learned to cook somewhere.

"Thank you for taking care of him." Bai Wo whispered.

Since then, Bai Wo has stopped avoiding things related to mountain gods as before. Sometimes when he takes Baigu to fish by the river, he also tells stories about the water gods in the past.Seeing that his father knew more than Grandma Wu, Baigu didn't often run out.

"There are so many gods."

Baigu was swimming in the river, looking at the stretch of green hills, trees and rocks: "Aren't I afraid of nowhere anymore?"

However, there were too many terrible things. When he really grew up, was busy with a boring life, was bullied by a high-ranking person, and returned from Luoyang crying, he plunged into his father's arms, crying like Childhood is generally fragile and sad.

"...Obviously promised to let me go, but after eating their farewell meal, I didn't know anything. When I woke up, I was locked in a box, and I heard people arguing outside. Someone wanted to cut off my tongue Let me stay in Luoyang, the other one wants to sell me to Yangzhou..."

Bai Wo listened to his son slowly talk about his experiences, filled with grief and indignation, privately took out the original spiritual practice to bring disaster to Luoyang, destroyed high-rise buildings overnight, and suffocated all those who had fun on the son of the gods to death in a pouring rain Among them, it became another treacherous death case in the royal capital.

A father will avenge his son.

But it is also unacceptable for him to leave him again.

Bai Wo once shelved Baigu's original destiny and hid it under wraps. Unexpectedly, he still wanted to touch the border of chaos, personally touch the realm of the gods, and be on the golden stage of celebrating the sky.

The adopted daughter is safe at home, and Baigu left for her.

Will Daye tell him the truth, will his son blame him for his choices?He is too young, has fantasies and attachments to the distant place, and does not change his will easily.It’s better for this stupid mountain god not to say anything, and take the child to freshen up on the snow mountain for two days, and then send him back to the stove when he’s had enough fun, and he should go to relax and heal. "The warm energy.

Bai Wo suppressed his temperament of getting angry at any time, watched people make new clothes for Baigu, and gave him some low-key manners, and felt even more annoyed, so he dawdled to send him to the ferry.

The water was huge and the waves were fierce, Bai Wo didn't know whether it was because He Bo sealed the water, or he wanted to make the water stronger.

Just like that, he watched and called his son, who was finally born after a hundred years, boarded the boat, drifted farther and farther, bumped and swayed, and fell into the domain of other gods.The child is about to uncover all the mysteries, and he will use his short life experience to make a choice. Maybe that choice will make their father and son go on different paths from now on.

His heart was too confused, and when the boat left, he realized that he had forgotten to let Baigu take away his baggage, so Bai Wo jumped into the rapid water to send it over, and when he dived out of the water again, the boat was already farther away.He wiped the water from his eyelashes, and there was no one in sight, and the restless rushing sound of the big river and river drowned his son's cries.

He felt very lonely and his days were numbered.

…………

The demon threw the son whom others cared for into the same river.

Baigu was first spun around wildly with the heart of the water, and then pressed into a deeper river bed by evil hands, exhaling all his breath, he watched his own life keep moving away like bubbles floating up one after another, and his body sank.

The evil spirit stopped staring at Baigu, he withdrew his eyes of love and hatred, and let the love disappear.

Hundreds of grains are swaying, like a migrating snail shell, the body that was cherished by everyone in the past is buried with the river sand, soaked in the dark area that no one knows.

Quietly, as firm as an iron prison.

Waiting for this opportunity, a god sent thousands of hectares of waves like golden meteors to shake the bottom of the river, rolling up the corpses of Baigu, and clouds of nine lights in the sky penetrated into the tide of the river, and the sky wind swayed, pouring down the fairy house. spring.

Baigu suddenly spit out a mouthful of water in his chest, and the blockage in the air cavity disappeared, causing him to wake up hastily, his eyes and nose were sore, and he saw that he was still rippling in the river.

But the water under the river is clear and transparent, and the breathing is orderly. If you look up in it, you are as stable as a swaddling baby. There is the brilliance of the golden temple reflected from the river surface, and the waves are like glass.

A god rushed to him in front of him, his long hair and clothes were scattered in the tide, his brows were slightly frowned, his face was holy and beautiful, and the traces of dust disappeared.

Baigu instinctively reached out to him for help, and moved his hand to his eyes, only to find that he was also glowing.The spirit of the mountain god protects him, connects with Bai Wo's breath, and gives Baigu a second life.

He didn't know that it was his father, but he felt the newborn hunger and fatigue depressedly.At this moment, he remembered all the past, he was released, and the soul of Daye made him find everything he lost, even remembering the things when he was a child.

When you grow up, you will suffer, and only children have the privilege.

Sometimes Xiao Baigu would come to the kitchen when he was hungry, pay respects to the cooker, and even ask his sister to come and pay respects, but after a certain day, no one brought him food, and if he didn’t come once or twice, he gradually lost his temper. Forget about this habit.

Oh, Baigu thought: Master Zaohuo hasn't delivered me food for ten years, is he still at my house?

He once said that he would learn to cook for me, but he broke his promise.

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I hope the good people in this world can stay with us for a while longer