God's offering

Lu Yinbai went back to the room with a lot of worries, but after the fifth uncle blurted out that sentence, he refused to say anything, but let them go first with an ugly face. In desperation, Lu Yinbai had no choice but to send Su Yinxiu back to the room. For more than ten minutes, Lu Yinbai's mind was very chaotic. For a while, it was the silver knife, and for a while it was the things he saw in the altar, and finally it was all fixed on Tang Ao's blood-stained appearance.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Lu Qi standing in front of the desk like frost, looking down at something, when he heard the door opening, Lu Qi didn't even lift his head, and said coldly: "Is this how you deal with me?"

Lu Yinbai followed his line of sight to look at the desk, and saw that the box he threw was on the desk, with some wet water stains on it. Obviously, someone saw the box in the sink and scooped it up. Coming up, the worst thing is that this person is Lu Qi.

But now Lu Yinbai doesn't care how he will be scolded by Lu Qi. If this thing is in the room, then Tang Ao will definitely have an attack again. Lu Yinbai looked around, but he didn't see anything abnormal. According to Tang Ao's appearance No matter where you hide, there should be bloodstains, but now the room is clean, even the pool of blood in the corner of the wall has been cleaned up.

Seeing him looking around, Lu Qi didn't care about his responsibility, and suddenly became more angry, and slapped the table heavily, "Lu Yinbai!"

Lu Yinbai had no choice but to look away, turned to his father, and stood upright, "I didn't pay attention at the moment."

His expression looks very sincere, but the content is completely different. Lu Qi hates his appearance the most, and he refuses to do a good job of perfunctory. He has to let people understand that he doesn't want to talk to you at all.

Lu Qi took a deep breath, and didn't scold as usual, which surprised Lu Yinbai, but he was a little more serious, Lu Qi said: "This thing is very important, the reason why I give it to you is to see you I have been to the sacrificial room, and Lao Wu also told me that although this level is the saddest among our sacrificial ceremonies, you will come into contact with it one day, so I won’t say much, you have to remember, you I have been a member of Morning Star Island all my life."

This last sentence seemed to be filled with infinite chill and oppression. Lu Yinbai knew that his father was used to being the patriarch of a feudal family, and he was quite dignified, but he had never seen such a father, even the matter between him and Tang Ao a few years ago. when exposed.

This deterrence made Lu Yinbai miss the opportunity to refuse, and by the time he reacted, Lu Qi had already left.Lu Yinbai wiped his cold sweat belatedly, his eyes fell on the red wooden box, what kind of ceremony was involved in this knife, and why did his father attach so much importance to it.

Lu Yinbai stood in a daze for a while, then suddenly remembered Tang Ao, and quickly searched inside and out, but he couldn't find it. He stood blankly in the middle of the room, and suddenly had a suspicion that what he saw Tang Ao, is it just his hallucination, or is it the mental effect caused by his longing and anxiety over the past few years because he returned to the hometown where the two grew up together.

The more he thought about it, the more afraid he felt, whether it was Tang Ao's kiss or hug, if all of this was nothing more than illusion, how could he accept the fact that Tang Ao was not there?

"Abai?" Tang Ao's face appeared in front of him with doubts. Lu Yinbai opened his eyes and looked at the familiar face in front of him without blinking, until there were bursts of stabbing pain and physiological tears in his eyes. He only moved when his vision was blurred, first he touched Tang Ao's face, kneaded it repeatedly, his hands were so strong that Tang Ao couldn't help baring his teeth, but he felt that Lu Yinbai was abnormal, so he remained motionless. Let him move.

After a while, Lu Yinbai slowly relaxed. He breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Tang Ao who was staring at him eagerly, and slapped him without hesitation, "Where did you die?"

Tang Ao covered his head and said with an apologetic smile: "I was mopping the floor, but I saw Uncle Lu coming from the window, and then while Uncle Lu was fishing for boxes there, I wanted to find a place to hide, so I came from behind. The window was thrown out."

Lu Yinbai said dubiously, "I've searched all over the place just now, why didn't I see you? Didn't you hear me?"

Tang Ao looked miserable, and he dragged Lu Yinbai to the back of the house. Behind Lu Yinbai's room was another small courtyard, unoccupied, with a small flower bed overgrown with weeds, and a locust tree with slanted branches , grow very lush.

Tang Ao pointed him to the bottom of the locust tree, and said: "There is a hole here... I don't know who dug it. I just wanted to go up the tree to hide, but I stepped on the air and fell down, and I was depressed. , I just woke up, and I jumped out after a while."

Lu Yinbai glanced inside. There were too many weeds to see clearly, but it seemed that there was indeed a big hole. Although he wondered how deep the hole was, he had always been a bit of a clean freak, and he didn't want to get into such a big hole. After checking in the weeds, he said to Tang Ao angrily, "Why are you so stupid."

"Yes, yes, I also think I'm pretty stupid." Tang Ao smiled and sent his Lady Queen back to the house. Just as Lu Yinbai stepped into the room, he suddenly remembered the knife and stopped Tang Ao, " etc!"

Tang Ao stood outside the door, raising his eyebrows: "What's wrong?"

Seeing that he was fine, Lu Yinbai frowned and said, "The knife is in the room, are you okay?"

Tang Ao's complexion changed, and he groped around himself, "It seems...it's all right."

Lu Yinbai looked at the table, the box was still there, he walked over, opened the lid, and the silver knife that should have been on the velvet inside was gone.

Lu Yinbai breathed a sigh of relief. Even though he would be scolded bloody by his father, he still felt a lot more relieved in his heart. This was not only because of Tang Ao. The workmanship and accessories of this knife were all exquisite. Look, I'm afraid there are some people who often polish and cherish it. It is indeed a very good silver knife, but no matter how clean it is, Lu Yinbai always feels uncomfortable filthiness from it, as well as the faint smell , which made him very disgusted with this knife.

When Tang Ao saw the box, he frowned uncomfortably, "What did Uncle Lu leave this for you?"

Lu Yinbai stuffed the box into the desk casually, waved his hand and said, "Anyway, the knife is gone, don't worry, in two days time the island will send people out to buy some necessary things for the sacrifice, I reckon it should be Lin Yue. We'll go out with him sometime."

When Tang Ao heard about the elopement he had dreamed of, his eyes lit up immediately. Lu Yinbai pushed his approaching face away with disgust, and said, "So just these two days, you must be more honest."

Tang Ao nodded, and asked suddenly as if thinking of something: "Then do you still want to learn about ceremonies?"

Lu Yinbai said casually: "I'll deal with it for two days. I'll go to Fifth Uncle's place after lunch later. You stay well."

After lunch, Lu Yinbai brought Su Yinxiu to Lu Ming's yard, and Lu Ming was indeed watering the flowers in the yard.

It is said that Lu Ming likes to serve flowers and plants very much, but in Lu Yinbai's impression, since he was a child, Uncle Wu has only raised this potted flower, and this flower has no species, and it is listless and half-dead all day long. The day of the annual sacrifice is its flowering period. Lu Yinbai has seen that flower several times. It is very gorgeous and full of vitality, as if all the energy of the year is released during these few days of flowering.

Lu Yinbai didn't like this flower. He was also curious about the species of this flower. He checked it in the library at the university, but there was no relevant record. He didn't have a photo of the flower, so he had to give up.

This year's ceremony is about to be held, and the flowering period of this flower is coming again. Lu Ming finished watering, staring at the budding flowers, and suddenly said: "This flower is going to die."

Hearing this, Lu Yinbai looked at the flower again, Su Yinxiu also joined in the fun, the little girl stared at it for a long time, then whispered: "I think it's pretty good, there are so many flower bones, densely packed." Disgusted look.

Lu Yinbai glanced at her, "Are you talking about trysophobia again? Fifth Uncle treasures it, you restrain yourself."

Su Yinxiu stuck out her tongue in fright, but she really felt disgusted by the potted flower from the bottom of her heart, so she had to look away and say hello to Lu Ming who had put the kettle away.

Lu Ming sat down on the stone bench in the yard, motioned for them to sit down too, and said, "Did your father really give you that knife?"

Lu Yinbai nodded honestly, he hesitated for a moment, and said, "But I can't find it now."

Lu Ming narrowed his eyes, "Can't find it?"

Lu Yinbai talked about the disappearance of the knife, but did not mention Tang Ao's situation. Lu Yinbai still remembered that Tang Ao once said that Uncle Wu brought him to that room, even though he felt that it was unreliable in his heart. But still chose to hide.

Lu Ming was stunned for a long time, then sighed wearily and said, "If you lose it, just lose it. If your father asks, you can say that the Sea God took it away. Anyway, it's not just once or twice."

Before Lu Yinbai asked further questions, Lu Ming had already turned to Su Yinxiu. Seeing that the two were very involved in the conversation, Lu Yinbai felt that it was not easy to interrupt, so he could only wait on the sidelines.

It's just that before waiting for 2 minutes, an inexplicable tiredness surged up, he yawned, rubbed his eyes vigorously, but still couldn't hold on, fell asleep on the stone table.

Su Yinxiu was taken aback by his movement, and was about to push him, but was stopped by Lu Ming, who looked at the sleeping Lu Yinbai with a complicated expression, sighed silently, and said to Su Yinxiu: "I guess it's too late." I'm tired, let's talk softly."

The flowers under the courtyard wall not far away suddenly made a soft noise from the densely packed flower buds, and the first petals bloomed slowly.