Everyone said that without this tigress following us, we would be much more relaxed.
Soon, we arrived on the street and joined the grand priestly activities.
I didn't expect that the priestly activity of "Snake Lord Marrying a Wife" would be quite grand.
Men, women, and children in the village were all dressed in local costumes, holding torches and flowers in their hands, walking on the street.
Although it was in the middle of the night, it still had a special flavor, and I put the nightmare behind me.
I excitedly raised the video recorder with night vision function in my hand and started shooting.
Suddenly, someone shouted.
"The bride is here."
Then I saw everyone running over holding torches and throwing all the flowers in their hands onto the sedan chair.
I also ran over curiously, and along with the sound of blowing and beating, I saw a big red sedan chair slowly approaching, carried by eight strong men.
"Is there really a sedan? And it's the rumored eight-carriage sedan." I stepped forward even more happily and took a lot of photos.
When the sedan chair approached, I unexpectedly found a woman wearing a red wedding dress and a red hijab sitting inside.
Faintly, I could still hear the woman's low sobbing.
"Is this a living person?"
I was stunned immediately. This Snake Lord is getting married.
Soon, the red sedan chair passed by me.
"Yiyi, why are you so stunned? Follow up quickly?"
Sister Gao on the side stretched out her elbow and touched my arm.
I dragged Sister Gao to the side and whispered:
"Sister Gao, it seems that the bride is crying."
But Sister Gao told me not to talk nonsense and just focus on filming and not to worry about anything else. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, no one will be able to take the responsibility.
I clearly felt that there was something meaningful in Sister Gao's words.
Soon, I followed the crowd and stood in front of the Snake Temple.
At this time, the big red sedan chair was placed upright in front of the main entrance of the Snake Temple, and the torches in the hands of the villagers illuminated the entrance of the Snake Temple as if it were daytime.
I saw an old man with white hair, about sixty or seventy years old, standing in front of the temple door of the Snake Temple with a cane, shouting "kneel down" to everyone, and then all the villagers in the village knelt down and worshiped.
On the ground.
I was stunned on the spot, not knowing what this meant.
Sister Gao on the side pulled me down from behind and said in a low voice:
"Don't stand there stupidly, squat down quickly."
I asked Sister Gao what this meant?
Sister Gao told me to leave it alone, as this is local custom.
I half-crouched on the ground, but couldn't help but raise the camera and continue filming.
Then all the villagers bowed to the big red sedan chair.
After kowtowing three times, the villagers did not raise their heads and kept kneeling, looking very pious.
I don't know why, but at this time I was getting more and more panicked, and I always felt like something was not quite right here.
I couldn't help but look up secretly, and saw the bride slowly getting off the red sedan.
Suddenly a gust of cold wind blew, and I slightly lifted a corner of the red hijab, and the bride happened to look towards me, with tears on her face and a sad look on her face.
I felt as if I had been struck by lightning and stared at her blankly.
The red hijab fell again, and the bride slowly walked towards the Snake Temple with the support of Xi Po.
I can see that this woman seems unwilling to be the bride of this snake king.
Then I saw the eight strong men who had just arrived in the sedan chair rushed directly to the front of the Snake Temple and pulled the heavy door shut.
At this time, the bride's heartbreaking cry and the sound of banging on the door came from the house.
"Let me out, let me out, let me out."
"I don't want to be the snake king's bride, I don't want to be the snake king's bride."
"Please, let me out, I don't want to die."
Everyone present turned a deaf ear and watched helplessly as the strong man locked the door.
I was immediately a little surprised. This meant locking the bride inside.
I was about to get up, but I was grabbed by Sister Gao beside me and said:
"Don't cause trouble."
"Sister Gao, they..." I was about to say something when I suddenly heard:
"It's done, avoid it."
Then all the villagers stood up, turned around and left in a hurry.
"Sister Gao, are they locking up the bride?" I said anxiously, but I was dragged by Sister Gao to follow the crowd towards the village.
"Don't worry about it. Let's go back first."
"But..." I wanted to say something else, but Sister Gao glared at me fiercely and said:
"If you want to survive, just shut up."
I was so frightened that I immediately became obedient and did not dare to speak.
Soon, we returned to our residence, and everyone else had also returned, but everyone's faces were not very good.
Everyone sat in silence in front of the Eight Immortals table, and no one took the initiative to speak.
Finally, I couldn't bear it anymore, so I stood up and asked:
"Director, did those people just lock the bride in and ignore her?"
The tigress, who had always been domineering, spoke in an unusually calm manner this time:
"This is the girl's fate. Anyone who is chosen to be the bride of this Snake Lord will basically never come back."
"What?" I was shocked, that means,
So what is the difference between this and the ancient 'He Bo marriage'?
No wonder the girl cried so sadly.
At this time, I had mixed feelings in my heart. The little girl looked about the same size as me. It was a pity that she died like this at such an age.
"What they are doing is taking human life lightly, and it is against the law."
I suddenly spoke with some emotion.
"Yiyi, don't get excited, there is only the Snake Lord they fear."
Sister Gao on the side patted my slightly trembling shoulder from behind.
"Sister Gao, you, have you already known this?" I said slightly unhappy.
Sister Gao nodded helplessly and said:
"Actually, I have heard a little bit about their living sacrifice to Lord Snake before, but I never knew whether it was true or not. This time I saw it."
"What."
I was shocked and looked at my other colleagues. They all had expressions that I had heard about before.
So, I'm the only one who doesn't know.
I suddenly felt a surge of anger in my heart. I had never thought that highly educated people like them could be so ignorant and cold-blooded that they would not save anyone.
At this time, Sister Gao told everything she knew about the 'Snake Lord's Marriage'.
It turns out that this 'Snake Marriage' is not marrying some vulgar object like a paper doll.
And it must be a young virgin between fifteen and twenty years old.
Every year when the Snake King is sacrificed, the village will vote to select the bride to be sacrificed that year.
Every family that reaches the age and standard must participate, otherwise it will be considered disrespectful to the snake king and will be punished by being bitten by thousands of snakes.
And the selected woman's family will receive a large amount of wealth, which is an offering made by everyone in the village to Lord Snake, which is equivalent to today's red envelope.
However, the woman was sent to the Snake Temple at night, after the rooster crows the next day.
At that time, the villagers said that this woman would serve the Snake Lord forever and ever.
I suddenly felt a chill in my heart, which meant that those small mounds behind the Snake Temple were really tombs.
No wonder there are so many.
I'm afraid that the Snake King in the Snake Temple has eaten a lot of little girls over the years.
