(13)
"What an unparalleled talent!" Every witness could not help but sigh from the bottom of their hearts.
When admiring the saint's figure, the hearts and souls of everyone present were affected as never before. No matter how vulgar the worldly things were, it seemed that with the fragrance and the breeze, they were instantly washed into the most holy and unpretentious things in the world. wish.
When both material and spiritual resources are extremely scarce, people will feel that their future is bleak and life is a sea of suffering with no end in sight. Even if they occasionally look up and face the bright world, they will only feel that the road ahead is unclear and directionless.
If an absolute leader can stand up at this moment, lead the way for everyone, and relieve everyone's worries, then the most primitive divine worship will be born.
A person who is crazy about power is worshiped like this, but after a while, he will start to become extravagant and lustful, but Murong Yan has never thought about it like this, and there has never been any content about herself in the wishes she made.
This is not because she has great love in her heart, but she thinks that the people in front of her who cannot see the future clearly may need words of prayer more than herself.
She's always been this way, she's never changed.
After the ceremony was over, the saint walked down the altar accompanied by four little blond girls, and they walked together to the path back to the tree house. Bai Feng and Shen Qiongzhi, who were hiding in the dark, saw this and returned to the house early to wait, arranging everything to make it feel like they had never left.
But seeing that Murong Yan looked extremely tired, she took off the veil of her coat as soon as she entered the door, took off the hairpin on her head, wore only single clothes, and found a comfortable place to sit down.
The four younger sisters who followed Murong Yan competed to take turns serving her, but Murong Yan politely refused.
"You guys don't have to take care of me anymore, just let me rest alone." She leaned on a stone that was entangled with tree roots so that its shape could not be seen, and leaned half of her body on it, looking exhausted. appearance.
When Bai Feng saw that she was so tired, she also stood by and said, "Ladies, Ruyun, Ruyue? And Xiao Linzi, Xiao Caiqi? You can leave for a while, the Holy Lady is as tired as she was just now." The victims who have fled the disaster need to rest most at this time."
The four little girls didn't understand what Bai Feng was saying, but they were actually mocking the fact that life in the Holy Land was too difficult and boring for Murong Yan.
"Okay, sister, let's go. Since the oracle has spoken, we have to listen." Ruyun shrugged her shoulders, and the double-ringed bun on her head shook.
"But this is not a place to rest!" Ruyue immediately replied: "If you rest here, you will get in trouble."
"Sister, let's go." Caiqi unconsciously touched the marks on her neck, still very fearful when she looked at Bai Feng.
"Let's go, let's go! We can rest today." Xiao Linzi played with a few colored marbles in her hand, crushing one of them like a childlike child, and smearing the colored powder on her hand onto the faces of others. He went up and sneered: "This is the debt you owed me yesterday!"
Xiao Caiqi was so frightened that she wiped her face with her hands and exclaimed: "I can't wipe it off! What are you doing!"
"If you can't erase it, just draw it on the other side. It will look better!" Xiao Linzi continued: "It was agreed in advance that whoever comes first will be punished."
"Woooooooooo..." After hearing this, Xiao Caiqi whimpered a few times, stood there and let Xiao Linzi draw another stroke. The sisters all laughed heartily as if they had found a treasure.
Seeing that her sisters were still so disrespectful in front of the real saint and the oracle, Shen Qiongzhi couldn't help scolding: "Have you had enough fun? Get out quickly. If the saint's body does not recover well, I will tell you Mother-in-law, let all four of you be punished!"
After hearing this, the four little girls were so frightened that they ran away.
"Oracle, Lady Saint, my four sisters usually have no contact with outsiders, so once a stranger comes to visit, they will behave like this... I hope you two will not blame them."
Before Shen Qiongzhi finished speaking, Bai Feng imitated the laughter of the girls just now and answered her question: "I think this is good. Outside, there are wars and chaos every year, and no matter how young a child is, they may be forced to Support the whole family in advance. It is rare for girls like Ms. Shen’s four sisters to still retain their innocence at such an age.”
"Well, instead of shouting and killing all day long, it's better to talk and laugh." Murong Yan, who was lying on the side to rest, raised her eyes and looked at Shen Qiongzhi, expressing that she didn't mind.
"Then, Qiongzhi will leave first. If there is anything important, please be sure to inform me. You are not familiar with this place and you still need me to guide you."
After Shen Qiongzhi finished speaking, he immediately resigned.
Seeing others leaving one after another, Murong Yan suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed, "When will the war end?"
"It will be soon, as long as we finish this journey." Bai Feng pondered for a moment, and then wiped Murong Yan's face with the warm water gauze brought by the four sisters just now.
"I joined the army at the age of fifteen and returned home at the age of eighty." Murong Yan also mused: "I saw the wishes of many people under the sacred tree. Most of them got married when they were fifteen, and it didn't take long for their husbands to Some people are sent to the battlefield due to signs. Some people wait and wait until all their teeth fall out and have not yet waited for their husbands to come back. Some people spend half their lives waiting for nothing more than a handful of ashes. Ignorant children have never seen their father. I only know that my father was taken away by the war..."
Seeing that the other party was still half asleep, Bai Feng said calmly: "Yan'er, you are tired."
"Let me sleep next to you for a while..."
It was night, and there were no lights in the house because Bai Feng was reluctant to disturb Murong Yan's dream. The only light came from the dim fireflies outside the house and the moonlight peeking out of the funnel on the roof of the cave.
After a while, a man came walking through the night with a lamp on. Bai Feng took a closer look and found that it was indeed Dugu Qi.
When Dugu Qi entered the door, he moved very lightly and made almost no sound when he stepped on the floor. However, Murong Yan still woke up unconsciously and greeted the other two before she could: "Grandma Saint! Why are you here? Did I do something bad today and you came here to blame me?"
"No, Lady Saint, you brought back memories of decades ago to the Holy Land and the Sacred Tree." Dugu Qi found a place to sit down and continued: "At that time, the line of Saint Lady was still strong, and everyone was united. Let’s work together to preserve the prosperity of the Bei people and the surrounding people. Until later, we were brutally persecuted to this point, and now, I’m afraid there is only one lineage left - and that’s you, Lady Saint!”
"I...I always feel that I haven't done a good job. I failed to tell them - where are their husbands? Where are their children? Where is their future?" Murong Yan said with great frustration, her voice getting louder and louder. The lower the voice, "In the end, I still can't do anything but warn them to continue to have hope..."
"Hahaha..." Dugu Qi suddenly laughed loudly and said: "My child, I understand your worries. Today's sacrifice is just for you to show up a little. In a few days, I will call all the people around Wuchuan Town to come Holy Land. I will tell them that the Holy Lady is back! By then, the Zhao family’s plan in Yuyi Town can be implemented as a matter of course, and no one will question you."
"Really?" Murong Yan was so excited that she wanted to jump up, but the inherent doubts in her heart still made her calm down a little: "Are we just waiting here for the opportunity?"
"Of course not." Dugu prayed: "Before that, you and the Oracle must complete the ceremony under the sacred tree and give birth to the Holy Son. According to legend, the Oracle will become the Holy Lord and lead us to a bright future. "
After hearing this, Bai Feng and Murong Yan looked at each other, both of them were filled with embarrassment and asked: "Giving birth to...a holy son?"
"But, we are not getting married. This is not etiquette!" Murong Yan smiled but did not smile. She nodded and lowered her eyebrows, like a flower bud waiting to bloom. She lowered her head slightly, with a slight flush on her face.
"You're not married?" Dugu Qi looked at the two people in front of him in disbelief and replied, "Then let me decide on this marriage!"
"Senior Dugu, are you trying to make us happy?" Bai Feng looked at the other side, but no longer intersected with Murong Yan's eyes anyway. He knew very well that it was not because he was unwilling, but because he felt that things happened suddenly and it was difficult for him to be completely convinced.
"You are no longer children. You are coy and coy here. You don't say anything and I don't say anything. Are you willing to continue like this until one day you have to separate from each other?"
The two were silent for a moment, looking at each other for a moment, and then nodded, agreeing to Dugu Qi's decision.
