God's offering

The Lu family used to take a nap, and Lu Yinbai's return made the Lu family's parents postpone the nap time. When Lu Yinbai finished packing his luggage, the whole house was quiet and silent.

He has been away for many years, often studying materials in the middle of the night, sleep is no habit for him at all, taking advantage of this time, he wandered out slowly, found Su Yinxiu, and the two went out through the main entrance carelessly.

Su Yinxiu left the house, her voice was still very soft when she spoke, and she kept looking around, Lu Yinbai glanced at her and said, "What did you steal from my house?"

Su Yinxiu was startled, "I didn't touch the vase in the room!"

Lu Yinbai looked at her speechlessly, and Su Yinxiu looked at him for a moment, realizing that the senior was just mocking her for being sneaky, so she touched her ponytail and said embarrassedly: "I always feel that the senior's house is too quiet. I can't speak out loud."

Lu Yinbai shrugged, "It's always been like this at home, and you won't be able to live there for a few days. Get used to it."

The two entered the village down the long stairs. The whole village is not big, and the layout is simple and clear, which can be seen clearly at a glance.The width of the two main roads crossing in a cross shape is only about three or four people running in parallel, and the small alleys between the other houses can only allow about one person to pass through.

The houses are all white walls and black tiles, the walls are mottled to reveal the mossy bricks inside, Su Yinxiu kept taking pictures while walking, Lu Yinbai walked beside her casually, occasionally giving a hand, this The girl was busy taking pictures without looking at the road under her feet.

I don’t know if it’s because of Lu Yinbai’s return. Most people in the village didn’t go out to sea, and many people greeted Lu Yinbai. Su Yinxiu noticed that the younger generation is still good, while the older ones have different attitudes towards Lu Yinbai. With some respect, including myself, I can often receive polite greetings.

Su Yinxiu tugged at Lu Yinbai's sleeve, and asked in a low voice, Lu Yinbai seemed to be asked for the first time, his face was blank for a while, and then he realized, touched his chin, and said, "Probably I am Must be more handsome."

Su Yinxiu looked at him for a while with an indescribable expression, and then silently praised the senior's narcissism. To be honest, Lu Yinbai looks very good. There are many girls in the foreign language department like a cloud of beauties who like him, but no matter what Su Yinxiu thinks, she thinks that this person with "life is so tiring and empty" written all over his face is not handsome at all.

But in terms of folklore, it is really good, Su Yinxiu thought for a while, and then added two points back to the senior.

The two of them walked for a while, and soon reached the end of the village. Su Yinxiu was about to turn around, but found that Lu Yinbai had stood still. She followed Lu Yinbai's line of sight to the village not far away, and saw the village In addition, there is actually a house in an inconspicuous corner, which looks very lonely from a distance.

"Where is it?" Su Yinxiu asked.

Lu Yinbai withdrew his gaze, and the look on his face made Su Yinxiu's heart tense for a moment, but the look was like ripples on the lake, and soon disappeared. Lu Yinbai rubbed his hair, "It's nothing. Let's go."

As soon as Lu Yinbai turned around, someone stopped him, "Sir."

Su Yinxiu was startled, but she didn't react for a while, but Lu Yinbai stopped.

He didn't turn around, so Su Yinxiu could only turn around and smile politely at the person who came. The person calling to stop Lu Yinbai was a woman in the middle of her age, who could vaguely see her youthful beauty. The woman was surprised when she saw her, but Soon he smiled apologetically at her.

She whispered to Lu Yinbai: "Sir, I beg you to talk to Mr. Lu again, can you send someone to look for it in the mountains again? That child, Abao, the bones..."

Lu Yinbai interrupted her suddenly, "Aunt Tang, I'm not a husband yet, and my father will definitely not agree."

Aunt Tang may not have heard such an answer for the first time, but her tears fell quickly. She covered her mouth, shook her head, turned and left without saying anything.

Su Yinxiu couldn't help sympathizing, so she wanted to ask Lu Yinbai what was the matter, but when she saw Lu Yinbai's face, she froze for a moment. The classic Danfeng's eyes have a faint glint of water, but the eyelashes are hanging down to cover it up, making it hard to see clearly.

Su Yinxiu closed her mouth, she silently followed behind Lu Yinbai, pondered for a while, and suddenly thought, Ah Bao... Isn't this the nickname of Senior Tang?

Senior Tang’s name is Tang Ao, and he and Lu Yinbai were from Chenxing Island. They heard that they were childhood sweethearts, and they had such a good relationship that they almost slept in the same bed. Tang Ao was not from the Department of Chinese. Occasionally, I heard Lu Yinbai call Tang senior A Bao jokingly, but Su Yinxiu didn't dare to confirm whether this A Bao was the other A Bao. The reason why she was so abnormal after returning to school that year.

Su Yinxiu was thinking wildly in the back, she didn't pay attention for a while, and bumped into Lu Yinbai's back, Lu Yinbai suddenly said: "Tang Ao is not dead."

Su Yinxiu couldn't understand how deep the emotion was in this sentence, she just felt her heart tighten a little bit, and finally suppressed her choked sobs, and let out a low "huh".

Now no one was in the mood to visit the village again, so the two walked around for a while before returning to the old house.

When I entered the door, I saw Lu's mother waiting at the door. Seeing the two of them coming back, she didn't say anything, but said: "Dinner is about to come, please tidy up and come to the dining room to eat."

The dining room of the Lu family is not big, but the layout is quite interesting. The carvings on the round table are not ordinary flowers and plants, but cats of various shapes. Su Yinxiu sat down in a regular manner, while observing curiously Sculpture.

There were only four people at the dinner table. Lu Qi still had a dark face. When he saw Lu Yinbai, he just let out a cold snort. The four of them finished their meal quietly in an oppressive atmosphere. Just as Lu Yinbai was about to get up and leave, Lu Qi stopped.

"What are your plans when you come back this time?" Lu Qi sat on the round stool and asked with a calm face.

Lu Yinbai stood still, seemed to be thinking for a while, before replying: "After completing a project, I will leave after staying for two days."

"Nonsense!" Lu Qi slammed the table down, Su Yinxiu was so frightened that she hid behind Lu Yinbai nervously.

Lu Yinbai lazily said: "Then what do you want?"

"The sacrificial ceremony will begin next month, and everyone is busy preparing now. As the son of Lu's eldest son, how decent are you at this time!" Lu Qi reprimanded, "You have already reached your age, it is time to study hard It's about the ceremony!"

Lu Yinbai was silent for a while, rubbed his hair listlessly, and said, "Is there any other choice? I'll listen to you."

"Slick tongue!" Lu Qi scolded again, but he finally left his son behind. Although he couldn't see it on his face, Lu's mother's expression was obviously relaxed.

"Is there anything else?" Lu Yinbai asked with his hands in his trouser pockets.

Lu Qi waved his hand, "I'm annoyed by the way you stand and don't look good, let's go!"

Lu Yinbai shrugged indifferently, and left the dining room with his follower Su Yinxiu. After walking a few steps, Lu's mother followed. It seemed that because the relationship between father and son had eased, Lu's mother no longer spoke so rigidly. She frowned and pulled Lu Yinbai and said: "You are really, what must you do against your father? After going out for so many years, you don't come back often. It's been two years, right? If you don't come back, your father will really be mad at you!"

Lu's mother babbled for a while, and when Su Yinxiu returned to the room, she asked Lu Yinbai in a low voice: "This girl is so handsome, but she looks a little silly. Is she...girlfriend?"

Lu Yinbai was angry and funny, "Of course not."

Hearing this, the disappointment and confusion on Lu's mother's face flashed, but she didn't say anything, she just gave a few words of advice and left.

Lu Yinbai exhaled slowly. He came back this time to collect materials for a thesis and to study the folk customs of his hometown, but in fact he had other purposes. In the past two years, he still did not believe that the man was dead. He would rather believe He couldn't bear the pressure, betrayed him and fled here, or couldn't contact him for some other reason, and couldn't accept the possibility that Tang Ao was no longer in this world.

Thinking of Aunt Tang's much older face, Lu Yinbai felt throbbing pain in his temples, he rubbed it for a while, then simply put on his clothes and lay down on the bed, planning to sleep for a while.

He had a dream.

Maybe it's because he didn't sleep soundly. As soon as the dream started, Lu Yinbai knew it was just a dream, so even though the room was full of disgusting bloody smell and dried blood could be seen everywhere, he wasn't too alarmed.

While studying folklore, Lu Yinbai knew very well that there might be unacceptable live sacrifices in isolated and remote areas. According to local customs, this type of sacrifice has many weird and bloody links. He has seen many similar photos , which is obviously a room related to this.

Lu Yinbai glanced around the room. The room is not very big. After removing the rectangular stone bed in the middle that may be the altar, there are many wooden shelves in the remaining space, and many identical pottery pots are placed on the wooden shelves. , the color of the clay pots was very similar to dried blood, which made Lu Yinbai not want to get close to these pots.

His eyes fell on the stone bed in the middle. There were four leather shackles on the stone bed, which seemed to be used to fix the sacrifices, but unexpectedly, the stone bed was different from other places in the room. It was very clean and there was no half blood.

Lu Yinbai felt strange, and couldn't help reaching out to touch it. As soon as his fingertips touched the cold stone, his eyes shook like double shadows. Lu Yinbai blinked uncomfortably, and his vision became clearer. In the middle of the night, he saw a familiar person covered in blood tied to the stone bed, and his blood was dripping from his fingertips.