hotmtlnovel Chapter 585 The Beginning of Dragon God Sacrifice
Chapter 585 The Beginning of Dragon God Sacrifice
"The tribute hasn't been prepared yet, has it?"
After all, the prompt on the panel has not appeared yet, which proves that this thing is not over yet.
Pei Yan nodded: "Indeed, I guess the preparation of the tribute will not be truly completed until the young girl is sacrificed."
Gu Zhaoxi stood up from the ground and sighed helplessly: "Let's go back and look for Doctor Zhao."
The matter of tribute can be discussed in the afternoon. Although they participated in the preparation of tribute, it was not a large amount. As long as they helped to finish the last bit in the afternoon, it would be considered completed.
So, the group started walking outside again.
Violet looked in the direction the man had just left, a little worried: “If we just let him go, won’t something happen?”
Gu Zhaoxi shook his head: "No."
That person knew nothing at all, and everything he did was just taught by others.
It was just that he was too extreme in the matter of Zhou Zhaozhao, so that's why such a thing happened.
They came out of the cave and the sun was shining brightly outside.
Gu Chaoxi raised his hand to cover his forehead, sighed deeply, and felt a little regretful.
This village is still too backward, otherwise such a thing would not have happened. But now that things have come to this point, whose fault is it and who can be blamed?
When we arrived at Dr. Zhao's house, his door was open, as was the gate to the yard.
So everyone went straight in through the fence gate.
I heard footsteps outside and the person inside came out with a book in his hand.
"You guys? What are you going to do?" Seeing so many people coming over at once really made him feel a little confused.
Gu Chaoxi's eyes fell on the book in his hand and he smiled.
Pei Yan took out the page that Zhou Zhaozhao had torn off from his pocket, unfolded it, walked to Dr. Zhao and shook it in front of his eyes: "You should be familiar with this, right?"
He just took a quick glance and recognized it immediately.
Of course he was familiar with it. He had read that book countless times.
"Why is this thing in your hands?"
It seems that Dr. Zhao also knows that the paper is with Zhou Zhaozhao.
Pei Yan pursed his lips and smiled, put the paper in Dr. Zhao's hand, and turned sideways.
"So, you knew. Zhou Zhaozhao died at the hands of your brother. You must feel guilty about it, right?"
Zhou Zhaozhao is a boy. He is not an object of dragon god worship, nor is he Dr. Zhao’s enemy. There is no need for him to kill him.
Hearing this, he was shocked at first and took two steps back.
Looking at the group of people staring at him, Dr. Zhao knew that even if he wanted to escape, where could he escape to?
He lowered his head, as if he had finally put down the burden on his shoulders, and gave everyone a miserable smile.
Then, he walked into the house and said, "If you don't mind, come in and sit down and talk."
He had now lost all his strength and didn't know how to deal with it.
After entering the room, everyone sat down and listened to Dr. Zhao's explanation.
To some extent, he does have to bear part of the responsibility for Zhou Zhaozhao's death.
"Zhou Zhaozhao, did he take you to that place?"
He had clearly agreed with Zhou Zhaozhao not to tell anyone else about the cave.
But Zhou Zhaozhao broke her promise.
Dr. Zhao can still recall the scene when he met Zhou Zhaozhao when he was with his brother.
His younger brother had stayed in the cave for too long, so he took him out to get some fresh air.
It was already very late at that time, and according to the usual time, everyone in the village should have gone to bed.
So, he never expected that anyone would come to this place.
While his younger brother climbed up the tree to play, he sat on the ground and read a book, thinking that maybe one day he could cure his younger brother's muteness and then teach him to speak.
Sometimes, Dr. Zhao is also grateful for the backwardness of this village.
If it weren't for this, he and his brother probably wouldn't have such a leisurely life, nor would they have to endure other people's contempt.
"Psychological disorder." Gu Chaoxi looked at him coldly.
It was obviously because of his backwardness that his parents chose to give up treating his younger brother and threw him away.
He actually felt grateful for the backwardness of this village.
Doctor Zhao smiled bitterly and continued his story.
The dragon god worship in Xianxi Village has a long history, but in fact, it goes back a long way to trace its roots.
At the beginning, it was not that the Dragon God needed sacrifice, but that someone wanted to escape from the village.
The girls in Xianxi Village are not allowed to marry outside the village, and they are not allowed to go out. They stay in this small village forever.
No matter how fast the outside world develops, this place is surrounded by mountains and can always trap people.
Therefore, the person who first proposed the sacrifice just wanted to give his daughter away.
"Are they your ancestors?" Pei Yan asked.
Dr. Zhao nodded.
Indeed, it was their own ancestors.
At that time, in order to send their daughter away, Dr. Zhao's ancestors proposed to offer sacrifices to the Dragon God, asking the Dragon God to bless them with good weather and good harvests, and were even willing to sacrifice their own daughter.
So he asked the villagers to prepare tributes and build a raft.
Afterwards, on the day of the sacrifice, the daughter was dressed up as a bride and placed on a raft, surrounded by offerings, and the raft was allowed to float to the pavilion in the middle of the lake, waiting for the dragon god to take her away.
In order not to disturb the Dragon God from coming out to greet the bride, he told everyone to go to bed early and not disturb the Dragon God's bridal chamber.
People at that time believed in things like gods without a doubt.
Taking advantage of the night, the man took his daughter away from the pavilion in the middle of the lake, sent her out of the cave in a small boat along the river, and told his daughter never to come back.
Coincidentally, Xianxi Village had good weather and good harvests that year.
Everyone in the village felt that it was because of the worship of the Dragon God that the village was blessed.
This custom was continued in the second year.
The man was still in the village, so it is possible that he just wanted to send his daughter away at that time.
There was no other way, he could only perform the sacrifice to the Dragon God and send a young girl to the pavilion in the center of the lake according to the same method as last time.
At midnight, he came to find the girl.
In order to prevent the girl from revealing his fake sacrifice, he knocked her out, took her to a cave, and then put her on a boat and sent her away.
The person who left never came back, and the man knew that his secret was kept.
And every time he selects people, he will deliberately choose those who don't want to be oppressed by their families and want to escape.
As usual, knock the person unconscious and then send him away.
Those who have been sent away, looking at the vast world, have no intention of returning to this village.
Gradually, the worship of the Dragon God was passed down.
"If that's the case, he shouldn't be considered your ancestor, after all, he sent his daughter away."
Gu Chaoxi raised questions.
Doctor Zhao smiled and said that it was indeed not the case. After all, his ancestor was just a person who discovered secrets, kept secrets, and even helped to complete them.