Akinu's speech was very motivating. Perhaps this was a glorious tradition of the donkey praise people - talking big words, wishing to kill a horse with one bite. The teams of various tribes were excited by his speech, and Akinu again
It took a lot of effort to calm down the field.
According to what I have learned before, from the earliest written records, priests were not only in charge of various social activities, such as religion, but also managed a large number of economic activities.
They have to calculate the time of annual flooding, decide which crops to plant on which land each year, and also bear very important responsibilities of water conservancy and irrigation. But today I really opened my eyes. It turns out that reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.
The priest also organizes a beauty contest
Akinu turned around, looked around, and his eyes stayed on Qi Xue for two or three seconds. Then, he waved to a little priest, and the man stood up and walked to the center of the field.
Song Kui said, "It's begun!"
There were only twelve people who passed the pre-selection, and Qi Xue was among them. The little priest said "start", and three young men immediately ran up from outside the venue, each holding four small radish baskets and washbasins in their arms.
When passing each player, he put a basket at her feet, and then they walked off the field.
I don’t know what these donkey chanters are doing. The high priest Akinu stood up first. I noticed that he was holding a three-inch long dark red pod in his hand and walked towards the beauties on the field.
I know this kind of pod. A few days ago, when we were in the mangroves, we saw many of them, hanging in bunches on the branches of the mangroves, like beans.
Mangrove is a viviparous plant. Like other plants, it also blooms, pollinates, and sets seeds. However, the seeds of mangrove do not leave the mother body, but directly absorb nutrients and germinate on the mother body. What Akinu is holding now is not
Mangrove seeds, but saplings that have sprouted from seeds
I don’t know what he is doing with these on the stage. Is it a vote? Because the "judges" behind him also hold a handful of these things.
He walked up to the woman standing in the first place and looked her up and down like a horse. She was a woman in her twenties who looked like a green apple.
Under the gaze of the priest, he faced the other person's gaze calmly, with a smile in his eyes. However, he only stood for a moment before walking to the next person.
The second person was an equally young woman with a slightly darker complexion but a pair of bright eyes. She looked at Akinu and twisted her waist. Akinu walked over again.
The third one is Qi Xue. She is standing there, her grace is by no means comparable to these donkey songs. First of all, she is slightly taller than all the others by half a head, making her look slim and graceful. Secondly, Qi Xue's skin is better than other women.
white
When I first saw her at Xu Fu's place, I didn't feel how outstanding she was. Maybe it was because we had been wandering on the sea in a humid climate recently, and the roughness that was so obvious to people from the north on her body was gone at all.
In the past, when she was with Hua, Jiang Wanqing, Xiaoyue, Liujiao and the others, she was not public about it, and she was a little older. I really didn't realize that Qi Xue's beauty was also unique, and
The group of donkey chanting girls stood together, showing a kind of generous beauty without any pretense. Akinu stood in front of Qi Xue and did not touch the old boy for a long time. Was he planning to throw all his votes at Qi Xue's feet?
What about the basket on the side?
Qi Xue looked past Akinu and looked straight towards me. She also straightened her body. To be honest, she was indeed beautiful. It was a confident look, like a white mountain chrysanthemum blooming in the weeds.
However, Akinu walked down again, clutching the "ballot" tightly in his hand. I saw a trace of disappointment flash in Qi Xue's eyes. This Akinu has quite high standards.
Finally, he threw a handful of mangrove saplings into the basket of a donkey-song woman, turned back to his seat and sat down, almost making Song Kui's nose crooked, "What the hell are you looking at!"
I know that he is also grieving for Qi Xue
The second person to come up was a short, fat old man with a goatee. He didn't offend anyone. As soon as he came up, he threw a mangrove sapling into the basket of each of the first three people, and then passed Qi Xue empty.
Then, each person in the back received another one. I could already see that Qi Xue’s face was not very good. This was so disrespectful!
I really wanted to rush over, pick her up and leave. Maybe the aesthetics of Donkey Song people are different from those of us. What should we be surprised about?
In the end, all the judges' votes were cast, but Qi Xue's basket was still empty! Her face was swollen red, and her eyes almost shed tears. She had such a shameful face abroad - in front of her husband.
I was about to enter the field and wanted to drag her out, but Song Kui pulled my clothes and motioned me to look into the field. I saw the woman with a basket full of mangrove saplings bending down to lift the basket.
, walked off the field with some difficulty. There was no surprise after winning in his expression, but an expression of "What's the matter, I won't play with you anymore".
There were three women following her, and they each filled half a basket of mangrove saplings. Some people outside the farm were making noises. Song Si listened and said to me, "These people are shouting, go home and plant saplings."
Go home and plant saplings, and come back after they are planted.”
I looked at Song Kui and suddenly realized that the more votes, the better. Originally, I thought that the three people walking down were the worst among this group of contestants, and I secretly scolded Akinu for being blind.
Then didn’t our Qi Xue get the best result? Qi Xue seemed to have seen the trick on the court, and the shame on his face immediately receded.
There were three rounds of selection in total. After the priests voted, the generals of each tribe voted. After they voted, they walked down three more rounds carrying the basket of mangrove saplings.
The third round is "mass voting". The difference is that each person is only given one sapling. People line up in a long line, pass by them one by one, and put the saplings in their hands into the basket they have chosen.
, Qi Xue only saw a few mangrove saplings in her basket, but the others had at least half a basket!
There is absolutely no suspense, but I believe that this beauty pageant experience will definitely be remembered by Qi Xue for a lifetime.
She excitedly ran towards me directly from the field. It seemed that if a few donkey singers didn't rush to stop her, Qi Xue was ready to rush towards me and give me a big hug, maybe even a passionate kiss or something.
However, four or five soldiers from the Donkey Song Man surrounded Qi Xue and blocked Qi Xue's retreat. Akinu looked at Qi Xue with some confusion. He had not yet made an inspiring speech.
He stood up and walked to the field. After the surroundings calmed down, he shouted loudly to the outside world, "Fight for this beautiful woman!" There were cheers from all around. Damn it, you are using my woman to fool me. This is a small sum.