Lumian just felt distressed out of habit and did not stop his sister.

When Ava, Raymond and others turned around and walked towards the nearby building, he deliberately landed at the end and whispered to Aurore:

"If Novel Weekly calls you back, call me right away."

"Don't worry, I won't be careless in this kind of thing." Aurore gave Lumian a look that said "Don't worry when I do the work."

With celebration and joy, the blessing parade was filled with songs and kept knocking on the doors of the villagers in Kordu Village.

Finally, they arrived at the executive mansion.

This was renovated from a castle during the Sauron royal period. It is located on the hill on the edge of Kordu village. It is dark in color and has two towers.

The outer wall surrounding the building had long been demolished, and Lumian and others passed through the garden specially opened by the Beosts and arrived at the door.

The double gates are four to five meters high, the color of brown and green trees, and they look very heavy at first sight.

However, it is divided into upper and lower parts. It does not need to be fully opened to welcome distinguished guests. Only the lower two-meter-high part needs to be opened.

The "Spring Spirit" is the embodiment of spring, the messenger of harvest, and naturally deserves the most noble treatment. At this time, the heavy double door has been completely opened to the back. Mrs. Pualis stood in a light green waist dress.

There.

Her maid Cassie stood to the side, half a step behind, holding a basket made of branches.

Ava walked over and sang a blessing song.

Mrs. Pualis listened quietly with a smile on her lips, looking noble and reserved, which made the young people who followed the "Spring Elf" want to see but dare not see.

Lumian, who had "observed" the other party doing dirty things with the priest, said "ha" in his heart when he saw this.

When the song came to an end, Ava exchanged tree seeds for a basket of eggs.

At this point, the blessing parade ended, and Lumian, Raymond and other young people gathered around "Spring Elf" Ava and headed for the mountain river not far outside the village.

Next comes the second part of Lent:

Waterside ceremony.

Arriving at the place where she usually grazes geese, Ava got close to the clear river water, danced a simple dance, and repeated the previous song, while Lumian and other young people all stayed put, seven or eight meters away from the "Spring Spirit".

After doing this, Ava took out the cut turnips given by a villager from the basket at her feet and threw them into the river.

While throwing it, she sang:

"Harvest! Harvest!"

After Ava finished throwing it, Lumian stepped on it and ran over in a few steps. He bent down and fished out the cut turnips from the basket and threw them into the river.

"Harvest! Harvest!"

he shouted loudly.

The remaining young people reacted a full beat or more slower than him. They could only crowd each other and run to Ava as if they were afraid of falling behind. They took out turnip cubes, radish cubes and other not-too-precious things from the basket.

, threw them into different places in the river, and shouted "Good Harvest".

Raymond didn't get the upper hand, and he couldn't compete with others, so he was the last one to complete the ceremony.

The next second, he saw the malicious smiles of Lumian, Little Guillaume and others.

These young people swarmed up and lifted Raymond up.

They threw Raymond into the water while shouting "good harvest".

With a splash, Raymond fell into the water, and his clothes and hair were instantly soaked.

People on the shore also picked up soil and branches and threw them around him.

This is the fixed process of the waterside ceremony: the person who finishes the prayer last will be thrown into the river and is not allowed to go ashore. He can only swim some distance further down, quietly return to the village, hide in his home, and cannot go out until dark. .

Raymond wiped the water droplets from his face, flopped for a few seconds, and headed downstream.

The blessing parade then surrounded Ava and walked towards the "Eternal Sun" church on the edge of Kordu Village Square.

At this time, it was almost noon, and most of the villagers had gathered here, including Lumian's sister Aurore.

Compared with "colleagues" in the city, this church is not grand, with a maximum height of only eleven or twelve meters.

Its dome is in the shape of an arc. From the outside, it looks like it is holding an onion. When you look up from the inside, you will see the magnificent sun mural.

The entire church is dominated by gold and looks very bright. This is also the common style of all churches in "Eternal Sun".

The altar is located on the east side, with various sunflowers surrounding a huge holy emblem.

On the surface of the holy symbol, the golden sphere and the lines representing light form a symbol with a very mystical meaning.

This is the symbol of the "eternal burning sun".

Behind the altar, high on the wall, there are two pure glass windows inlaid with some gold foil. When the sun rises every day, the light will shine on the holy symbol from here.

Correspondingly, there are two similar glass windows on the west side of the church to absorb the glow of the setting sun.

Since this was not a formal ceremony of the church, but a traditional folk celebration, the parish priest Guillaume Benet did not appear, and the administrator, Beost, presided over it.

Ava, still dressed as the "spring elf", stood next to him, and the sound of flutes, lyres and other musical instruments sounded, and the villagers sang songs praising spring and praying for a good harvest.

They had not rehearsed, and the singing was not uniform. Some people even sang and danced at the same time, making the scene very lively.

Lumian opened and closed his mouth, but made no sound. He looked like "I'm just perfunctory." However, Aurore beside him was singing very immersedly, but it seemed that he didn't want to pray for a good harvest, but took the opportunity to play. Once you play it, you can hit a high note.

Because it was just perfunctory, Lumian looked around leisurely.

He didn't notice anything unusual in the villagers' behavior, so he subconsciously raised his head and looked at the golden sun mural on the dome.

Suddenly, Lumian knew why he always felt something was wrong.

Many people in the village have not praised the sun for a long time!

For a village that mainly believes in the "Eternal Blazing Sun", words such as "Praise the Sun" and "My God, My Father" should often appear in daily life. But Lumian looked back on this period and found that he was very confused. Hear less!

As a general believer, he doesn't usually say similar things. In addition, he offended the priest and has not participated in any activities in the church for a while, so he didn't think there was any problem before. Until today, he was solemn and solemn in the church. , in the golden environment, I suddenly noticed something abnormal.

Immediately afterwards, the content of the request for help that he restored appeared in his mind:

"We need help as soon as possible.

"The people around me are getting weirder and weirder."

The people around him were getting weirder and weirder... At this moment, Lumian had a deeper understanding and recognition of this sentence.

He looked around again, trying to find Liya and other foreigners.

But Ryan and the others didn't seem to come to watch the Lenten celebrations.

"Really, you don't show up when you should show up..." Lumian muttered in his heart.

He pretended not to notice anything, made a sound and joined in the chorus.

When the singing subsided and the celebration was over, he leaned into Aurore's ear and said in a lowered voice:

"Go home first. I have something to talk to you about later."

As the person escorting the "Spring Spirit" parade, he also has to participate in the last part of the ceremony and cannot leave early like others.

He also did not intend to force his way out of the church, which might cause the abnormality to break out in advance.

Aurore nodded thoughtfully:

"good."

She didn't ask any questions and left the church together with Mrs. Pualis and most of the villagers.

Soon, only the young people who had participated in the blessing parade and Ava, the incarnation of the "Spring Spirit", were left here.

All the offerings received previously, except those thrown into the river, were placed next to Ava. In addition, there were also symbolic items such as grass, axes, shovels, whips, and goose sticks.

Next, Lumian and others only need to wait for someone to come in from outside the church and announce that the "Spring Spirit" is leaving, then they can surround Ava and take off her laurels, necklaces, branches, and leaves.

During this process, they need to leave a gap for the "spring spirit" to escape from Ava's body.

Within twenty or thirty seconds, there was a sound of footsteps at the church door.

Lumian Ben looked over and saw two people.

One is Pierre Berry, a shepherd who came back specially to participate in Lent. He is thin and has slightly sunken eye sockets. He wears a dark brown long coat with a hood, a rope tied around his waist, and very new shoes under his feet.

Black leather shoes.

The difference from before is that his greasy black hair seems to have been washed and looks relatively clean and smooth. His messy beard has also been processed. Not only is it not as long, but it is also much neater.

At this time, his blue eyes held a faint smile as always.

The other is the parish priest Guillaume Benet. He is still wearing a white robe with gold threads that represents the clergy. He has light black hair, a slightly hooked nose, and a majestic temperament. Even though he is not tall, he is barely 1.7 meters tall.

He still compared himself with Pierre Berry beside him.

The parish priest... why did he come in? Lumian was surprised and confused.

As a clergyman of the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun, he should not appear in such a folk celebration without the "Praise to the Sun" component.

Thinking that the priest and his group were planning something secretly, and that he had offended him severely, Lumian came to his senses and immediately retreated slowly, covertly but resolutely towards the stained glass on the side.

Because it was not yet the stage to surround "Spring Elf" Ava, they were young people standing in different places, so his actions were not conspicuous.
To be continued...