Chapter 437

"You will live here from now on." Yu Chuan turned and left without looking back, "Tomorrow morning at 7:30, you and the priests will go to the big clans in Luming County together. "

"Give me a clean look, I don't want to see any inappropriate attire or behavior."

After the imperial boat left, the [attendants] stared blankly at the rusty cages, and soon a man in dusty attendant clothes came out of the boathouse exhaustedly, holding a scrawny little boy in his arms. The dog skillfully pushed open the cage and got in, turned around and poured part of the leftovers from a plastic bag of offerings into the dog bowl, and ate the other part by itself.

The dogs got out of the cage, and eagerly buried their heads in the cage to eat the dirty leftovers. After eating, they retracted their heads, and one person and one dog huddled in the narrow cage to hug each other. Just sleep like that.

Cang Tai almost looked silly.

Soon, many attendants came out of the houseboat, and they also gave the leftovers to their pets, and ate the other part by themselves, and curled up in various postures in the cage to keep each other warm. ‌‌.

Some of the new [attendant] children backed away shaking their heads in fear, while the other seemed to have accepted the situation, desperately stepped forward and pushed open the cage door.

These old attendants took a look at these new attendants, and someone asked:

"Are you new squires this year?"

"What is the character of this batch of sacrificial adults?"

The other children didn't know how to answer, so Cang Tai hesitated to answer:

"They all have pretty good personalities..."

A servant who turned his back to everyone sneered: "The sacrificial person has a bad temper. Whether he will torture us servants or not, how to tell now will depend on the assessment after half a year."

Cang Tai was stunned, and the other attendants said to him in a low voice: "During the assessment in the first half of this year, he fell from the sacrificial offering to the position of an attendant because he suffered no more than his own attendant."

"His attendant killed his own kitten, held the dead body and cried for a whole week, and successfully passed the assessment to be promoted to a sacrifice, and he was pushed down."

"But I think he can come back in the second half of the year." The attendant glanced at the attendant behind him, "Because it is said that he and his attendant are friends, and he never made sacrifices. Let his servant and his servant's cat live in a cage, eat leftovers, and eat and live with him."

"However, his servant seems to have a soft temper. The first thing he did when he was offered a sacrifice was to drive him and his dog to live in a cage here."

Cang Tai was a little surprised: "Can the attendant live with the sacrifice?"

The attendant nodded: "As long as the priest is willing, you can still live with him, but..."

"Very few sacrificial adults are willing to do so."

Cang Tai was a little confused: "What?"

The attendant didn't have time to open it, and the attendant over there shrank into the cage with his back to everyone, and replied in a cold voice: "The sacrifice has paid so much pain to get a houseboat, and I can let the attendant live there casually." ‌, it is simply a disrespect for the great pain I have paid."

The attendant next to him added in a low voice: "This is what this man's attendant told him after he took over the position. He said that if he was allowed to easily live in the same room as himself, he would be completely sorry. kitten."

Cang Tai was speechless for a moment, he didn't know what to say.

Seeing Cang Tai's frightened face turned pale, the attendant sighed and comforted himself: "Being an attendant is not as scary as you think, we are the servants at the bottom, and we have a lot of treatment compared to others." Our squire."

"Tomorrow, you should be brought to the big families together with the sacrifice adults for them to choose. If you are selected by the adults in the big family and given the surname of the big family, the adults in the big family will give you ‌ Rent a room on a houseboat, and you don’t need to live in a cage.”

Cang Tai was a little confused when he heard this: "Big family? Why should we be brought into the big family's selection?"

The attendant was a little surprised: "Don't you know the rules of offering sacrifices to evil gods in Luming County?"

"The evil god sacrifices here are held twice a year, divided into winter festivals and summer festivals, held in August and January every year."

"One month after the end of the winter festival, Mifune-sama, that is, the head of Luming County, will start to buy a new round of sacrifices and start training. After half a year, around June and July, you Even if these sacrifices are semi-ripe, they can be sacrificed to the evil gods on stage, if your pain reaches the standard at this time, the sacrifice will be successful, if the pain is not up to the standard, the sacrifice will fail."

The attendant recalled: "However, from the beginning of the evil god sacrifice to the present, at least half a year of sacrifices can reach the standard, and most of them have to wait for another half a year to wait until the winter festival before offering sacrifices."

"Generally speaking, the probability of a batch of sacrifices being successful in winter sacrifices is much higher than that in summer sacrifices, and if any of the sacrifices in this batch fail to sacrifice successfully, they will enter the next batch of sacrifices. The summer festival of the year, continue to offer sacrifices."

The attendant shrugged: "But generally, if the sacrifice is not successful in the first year, it will be difficult to make a successful sacrifice in the future."

"Of course it won't be successful again." The attendant who turned his back to everyone had a hoarse voice, "No matter how severe the pain lasts for a year, people will still be numb."

The attendant sighed: "However, if this kind of sacrifice that lasts for a long time can transcend the pain of numbness and become more painful, then it will be successfully sacrificed by a certain evil god sacrifice." It is said that the kind of pain will make Lord Evil God very happy, and the quality of wish fulfillment will be greatly improved, so now many big families will deliberately stock up on this kind of sacrifice, and will not let this kind of sacrifice in the first year Go to the altar."

"Beiyuan Xiaokui from the Beiyuan family is such a sacrifice."

"The sacrifices and attendants bought every year will be distributed in Luming County according to the contributions everyone made to the county in the previous year. The top eight big families in the county who pay taxes can first choose two sacrifices or attendants they like in order. .”

"As for the remaining offerings that are selected, they will be made as gifts for everyone the day before the evil god's sacrifice, and will be randomly distributed to the public on the [Boat Palace Night Festival]."

"Usually the remaining sacrifices are inferior products with less determination, and it is not easy to make a successful sacrifice, and most of them will commit suicide in the follow-up [Painful Practice], even if the sacrifice is successful Well, the desire to trade that kind of pain from the hands of the evil god is not a superior wish, so it is looked down upon by the big family."

The attendant looked up at Cang Tai: "The family that pays the most tax this year is the Beiyuan family, because their family sacrificed a young boy who had matured in pain for a year and a half at the winter festival last year. I heard that It’s like Kitahara Xiaokui’s younger brother, so they successfully made a high-quality wish every year.”

"What is the specific wish of the Beiyuan family? Those of us who are servants don't know. In short, it is to let the Beiyuan family expand rapidly within a year, surpassing the Royal Boat Family, which was originally the first taxpayer, and become a success." ‌The number one big family in Luming County."

"You don't want to be caged, think of a way to be selected by the adults of the Beiyuan family tomorrow."

While the two parties were talking, a group of adults in long coats came in. The group of people held a cage covered with black cloth in their hands, and threw it casually in front of Cangtai and the others, indifferently. Said: "Some of your pets are not cured, and some are still alive. Take them out by yourself."

Cang Tai hurriedly stepped forward, and one by one opened the black cages, and finally found his dying little black cat in a black cloth cage that had been thrown against the corner.

Not only did the little black cat not receive any treatment, but it became even weaker. It was lying in Cangtai’s arms and could not bleed out. Its buttocks were full of blood. Other animals were bitten.

"[Cang Tai]!" Cang Tai looked at the blood on the little black cat's buttocks, and the other's rising and falling chest, his face was frightened, and tears fell down immediately, "How could this happen!"

Other children's pets are not much better than the little black cat, they all emit more air and less air in.

Suddenly, the entire backyard was filled with the cry of children.

The attendants lying in the cage seemed a bit unbearable, the attendant who was chatting with Cang Tai and the others stuck his head out, and told them with mixed feelings: "It's going to rain outside today, you guys Don’t take the cubs in the cage, it will freeze.”

"If you are in contact with the priest now, you should beg them to take you in."

A group of children seemed to have found their way, and their eyes lit up:

"That's right, I told him at the beginning that the two of us were bound as a pair, and I would be his attendant first, and he made sacrifices to me, and if he fell from the sacrifices, then , I will treat him as a sacrifice, so that we can all receive the treatment of sacrifices!"

"Me too! I'm looking for her right now!"

The children ran to the front yard with their pets as if they had grasped at straws.

Hearing these words, the attendant's eyes were complicated, and he looked at the attendant behind him without hesitation.

The attendant in the cage behind him with his back turned to him suddenly laughed nervously: "That's what I told him at the beginning."

"I said I couldn't bear it anymore and didn't want to suffer. He said that he would suffer for me and make a sacrifice for him to protect me. What happened?"

The man hugged a motionless, frozen dog tightly, and laughed hoarsely and intermittently: "My dog ​​is freezing outside, didn't he open the door for me?"

The children who had run away did not hear this, they knocked on the doors of the sacrifices excitedly.

The sacrifices opened the door. Most of them were wearing comfortable bathrobes, holding a wooden basin that had obviously just soaked in the hot spring, and the heat was emitting from all over their bodies. There was no food on the ground inside the door. The finished hot soup pot and deep-fried lobster are very rich at first glance.

The pets were dressed in delicate and warm clothes, lying leisurely on the plush black blankets, stretching their waists and sleeping soundly and comfortably.

And the sacrifice standing outside the door was extremely sloppy, with tattered clothes, exuding a stench of rotten food, because of a little rain, muddy and dirty water like oil dripped from the edge of his hair, and He hugged a shivering dirty little animal tightly in his arms, and there was blood dripping from the little animal's body.

The moment the door opened, whether it was the sacrifices inside or the attendants outside, the expressions and movements on their faces froze for a few seconds.

——It’s just a few hours apart, and everyone seems to be people from two worlds.