Phoenix Feather

The pale moonlight silently illuminated the dark night, and a strange team came at the end of the long bluestone road.

Wearing a red veil on the head, red clothes and red trousers on the body, and red shoes on the feet, they are all women. There are about three to forty people.These strange women who appeared in the middle of the night carried a pair of red coffins covered with red silk cloth.The women cried as they walked, and their lifeless cries sounded hard, without the slightest sadness in them.

Moonlit night, women, coffins...indescribably eerie and strange.

Xuanxuan and Yueyu glanced at each other, feeling a chill down their spines.

The team gradually approached, then gradually distanced, and finally disappeared at the bend of the road.

Suddenly someone knocked on the door, "Master."

Xuanxuan opened the door, and saw Yi Bubu and the others standing outside the door, apparently awakened by the crying.

"Master, did you see it?"

Xuan Xuan nodded.

Ibubu said, "In the middle of the night, what do these women do?"

Yue Yu said: "It's like a funeral."

Ibubu said, "Shouldn't one wear white clothes for a funeral? Why are they dressed so red? Those who don't know think they are getting married."

Zhan Huanchen said: "Who is married and carries the coffin?"

Xuan Xuan said: "Ask Shen Yang tomorrow, he is from here, maybe he will know."

Everyone went back to the room to sleep.

After Xuanxuan lay down, Yueyu helped him pull the quilt, seeing that he was frowning lightly, as if he didn't understand something, Xuanxuan asked: "What's wrong?"

Yue Yu said: "I don't know if I heard it wrong, just now, when those women passed by carrying the coffin, I seemed to hear a noise inside the coffin."

Xuan Xuan turned over and lay on Yue Yu's body, "How about—"

Yueyu immediately understood: "Xiaoyue wants to follow along?"

Xuan Xuan smiled, "You are so smart."

Yue Yu smiled: "Do we have a good understanding?"

The windows are ordinary wooden windows, not tightly welded with iron branches like in the city today.

The two put on their clothes and climbed out of the window directly.

Little Phoenix and Little Qilin wanted to follow, but Xuan Xuan stuffed them back into the bed: "Don't follow, just warm our bed obediently."

After finishing speaking, he and Yue Yu went out through the window.

The night wind blows in gusts, carrying the chill of the night.

In the wind, faint cries could be heard.

Xuanxuan and Yueyu followed in the direction of the crying sound.

After chasing for about 10 minutes, they caught up with the group of women. Xuanxuan and the others did not dare to get too close, and followed from a distance.

The women in red carried the coffin and walked forward for about half an hour before stopping in front of a ancestral hall.

The women started throwing paper money, blood red paper money.

The red paper all over the sky fluttered down, landed on the coffin, and landed on the ground.

After distributing the paper money, the four women carrying the coffin carried the coffin into the ancestral hall, and the rest of the women knelt down in the open space in front of the ancestral hall, kowtowed respectfully to the coffin inside three times, and then lay down on the ground not moving.

After about ten minutes, the women got up and scattered away.

Everything returned to silence.

Xuanxuan and Yueyu were puzzled, completely unable to understand what these women were doing.

After waiting patiently for half an hour, making sure no one would show up, Xuanxuan and Yueyu came out from the dark.

Xuanxuan picked up a piece of red paper money on the ground and looked at it, and found a sun pattern drawn with gold paint on it.

Passing the paper money to Yue Yu, Xuan Xuan said, "What do you think this means?"

Yue Yu shook her head, indicating that she didn't know.

Walking into the ancestral hall, you can see the red lacquered coffin placed in the center.

As they approached, the two saw a sun pattern painted on the red silk covering the coffin, which was exactly the same as the paper money.

Yue Yu lifted the red silk, and saw that there was also a sun pattern on the coffin lid.

Yue Yu pointed to the coffin lid, do you want to open it and have a look?

Xuan Xuan hesitated, if there was a dead person inside, opening the lid of the coffin seemed a little disrespectful to the dead, but the behavior of those women in red was really weird, Xuan Xuan was really curious about what was in the coffin, and always felt that it could not be a dead person.

open to take a look.In the end, curiosity prevailed.

The coffin lid was not crucified, Xuanxuan carefully moved a crack, waited for a while, but there was no movement, then moved it a little further, still there was no movement, turned on the flashlight, went up to take a photo inside the coffin——

Yue Yu who was next to him saw a very strange expression on Xuan Xuan's face, and leaned over to take a look——

Inside the coffin lay a woman, a woman in a red dress, with a sun pattern on her chest.

Looking carefully, Yue Yu suddenly felt that something was wrong, he reached in and pressed the woman's face, then turned to Xuan Xuan and said, "It's a dummy."

The woman in the coffin was a clay statue, but it was so lifelike that it looked like a real person.

Xuanxuan was very puzzled, what was the purpose of carrying a clay statue in a coffin to the ancestral hall in the middle of the night?

The two walked around the ancestral hall, and saw the sun pattern painted on the walls of the ancestral hall.

Yue Yu said: "This is called Sun City, and the people here believe in the Sun Goddess. This ancestral hall may be the place where they worship their ancestors."

Xuanxuan said: "Where did the ancestor come from?"

There are no gods or people enshrined in the ancestral hall, except for the coffin parked in the center, the whole ancestral hall is empty and gloomy.

Yue Yu looked at the coffin, Xuan Xuan frowned: This is Zu?

Finding nothing special, the two left the ancestral hall and went back to Shen Yang's house along the same road.

next day

Everyone gathered around to have breakfast, Yi Bubu told what happened last night, and asked Shen Yang if he knew what was going on.

Shen Yang said: "This is the Empress Dowager."

"Send Yin Queen?" Xuan Xuan and the others found it very fresh.

Shen Yang said: "The Queen of Yin needs to send her off for three consecutive nights, and then she can invite the Sun Lady. The Queen of Yin is sent at night, and the Sun Lady is invited at noon during the day, and it is also three days in a row before she can worship the ancestors."

Xuanxuan and Yueyu glanced at each other, it was an oolong.

Su Fengliu asked Shen Yang: "When you worship your ancestors, do you worship your ancestors?"

Shen Yang shook his head: "No, it's the sun woman. Pure Sun City people, or Sun City people with half blood must participate in ancestor worship. Like me, my mother is a pure Sun City person. I My father is from Chongqing, so even if I have one-half blood, Xiao Liu's mother is from Zhejiang, so Xiao Liu doesn't have to come back to participate in the ancestor worship."

It was the first time Xia Ruohai heard Shen Yang talk about this matter, but he knew that Shen Yang would ask for leave every few days to come back to worship his ancestors. He used to think that he was offering sacrifices to his ancestors, but he didn't expect to sacrifice to the sun lady, so he asked: "Surely Do you want to come back to participate in the ancestor worship, what will happen if you don’t come back?”

Shen Yang paused the hand holding the chopsticks, and said, "Death."

Everyone was stunned.

Seeing the adults suddenly quiet down, Shen Liu and Wen Xiaojun were a little uneasy, Shen Liu pulled Shen Yang's sleeve and called out to his father.

Only then did everyone come to their senses, Shen Yang patted his son's head, and gave him a piece of red bean muffin.

After taking two mouthfuls of porridge, Xia Ruohai couldn't help but ask, "Is it really going to die?"

Xuan Xuan and the others all looked at Shen Yang, they all wanted to know the answer.

Shen Yang nodded, "Last year, one died."

Ibubu rubbed his arms and muttered, "If I were from Sun City, for the sake of future generations, I would definitely find a wife from out of town, and let my son and daughter marry or marry someone from out of town."

Shen Yang said: "Not everyone thinks this way, because being a member of Sun City has its advantages."

"What's the benefit?" Everyone asked.

"I will never be sick in my life."

Ibubu didn't believe it: "Real or fake? Don't you have a cold?"

Shen Yang said: "I don't know if it's true or not, but people here really don't get sick, so there are no doctors' clinics here, if I didn't meet you halfway, I can only take Xiao Liu out to see a doctor."

Everyone thought it was incredible, Zhan Huanchen was very impulsive to find a pure Sun City person to draw his blood for testing to see if it contained any special substances.

After breakfast, Xuanxuan and the others were about to go out for a stroll, when they suddenly heard a low bell ringing from outside. After ringing three times in a row, they paused for a while, and then continued ringing... After ringing three times in a row, the bell The sound stopped.

Shen Yang walked out of the house holding Shen Liu in his arms, with a look of surprise on his face.

Xuan Xuan asked him what happened, Shen Yang said: "I heard this bell once when I was a child, if I remember correctly, it should be that the sun lady died, this is a big deal."