"Dongdongdong! The divine sky, earth, coast and mountains are watching us together!...Dingle bell! This is the wedding blessed by the ancestors, the fusion of the longship tribe on the sea and us lakeside people!...Ah Young child! The god opens his eyes on the sea and laughs into a storm of joy!…”
The wedding, blessed by the ancestors, was held on the beach of the lake bay. According to the clan tradition of the Viyot people, the woman's family hosts the wedding, provides food, and entertains guests from all tribes. At this moment, hundreds of Wiyot tribesmen beat the heavy tuluwat drum and shake the wooden bells in celebration. They gathered in piles on the shore, singing and dancing to their heart's content.
The chief of the Huyuan Department, Tujing, stood on an ancient stone platform with a smile and told his wedding prayers. In front of the stone platform, there were family members of both parties on the left and right, and the newlyweds in the middle were getting married.
The young priest Sibee wears a white priest's robe and a gray windproof hat. There are two long heron feathers stuck on both ends of the hat, which are fluttering in the sea breeze. This is the ceremonial hat of the Wiyot tribe. From a distance, it looks like two reeds.
At this time, the young priest Xi Feng under the reed hat was motionless, standing blankly, seeming a little lost. His figure is not thin, but compared with the woman on the left, he is obviously smaller. The woman on the left is his newlywed wife, Tulan, the female head of the tribe. At the moment, the female-headed Tulan is wearing a bright blue cloth robe, beaming with joy, and shouting hello to the relatives and friends around her.
"Haha! The old chief is singing a sacrificial song! Tulan, wait a minute, you will have a husband again! Tsk tsk! You are still such a handsome little man!"
"Yes! Yes! The bears in the mountains are greedy and eat all the tender red fruits!..."
The crowd on the left, a dense mass of darkness, is the woman’s tribe and family members. Two stout female-headed men grinned and called to Tulan who was getting married in the middle. Tu Lan frowned and cursed in tribal language, ignoring the fact that the wedding was still going on.
"Go away! You two fat foxes who want to eat berries! This tender little red fruit is mine! Mine! If you look at it one more time, I will throw you both into the lake one by one! ... "
"Ahaha! Tulan is scolding her two sisters!... Where is her baby? Let her three babies go over and make trouble!..."
Weddings in Viyot are very joyful, without any serious rules, and the style is unrestrained and lively. The noisy tribesmen were making noises nearby, and after a while, three boys aged eight, nine, and ten were called over. Then, the three boys swarmed to the stone platform, touched and looked at the young priest Sibee carefully.
"Mom! Is this the new dad? He doesn't seem too strong? Can you please give birth to a brother soon!"
"No! I have two younger brothers. I want my younger sister, and I want to give birth to my younger sister!"
"I won't do it! You have a younger brother, but I don't! I want a younger brother to bully me!..."
"Ah?! Those three annoying little eels, get out and play outside! Don't crawl around here!"
Tu Lan, the female-headed man, stared at the three half-grown men who were deliberately making trouble, and anger arose in his heart. As a leader, she rows and fishes all year round, and leads the tribe to build huts. She is stronger than most tribesmen.
At this moment, she stretched out her thick and powerful arms and lifted her little son, who weighed fifty or sixty pounds. Then, with a low voice, the female-headed woman threw her little son against the sand like a log, five to six meters in one go.
"Go away!"
"Well!
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The skinniest son rolled five or six meters away and fell on the sand. He got up dizzy, wiped his dusty face, and ran away. As soon as this unique skill was revealed, the two sisters who were causing the most trouble also shrank their necks and did not dare to make any more noise.
"Tsk tsk! With Tulan's strength, no wonder he once caught such a big Vikni!..."
"No! She used to be able to run with two logs on her shoulders."
Seeing his wife's unique skill, even though he couldn't understand the tribesmen's words, priest Xi Feng still broke out in sweat on his forehead. He instantly realized that he would probably, no, definitely not be able to defeat these strong female-headed men, especially the leader among them, his wife Tulan.
"Lord God! I hope tonight...she can be...gentle...I...I still..."
"Haha! Our ancestors finally opened their eyes!"
Tulan next to him turned his head and looked at his new husband happily. That fair appearance is much more handsome than the dark fishermen in the tribe! Not only is he young and spirited, he also has an indescribable sense of wisdom, just like a shaman who knows a lot from various ministries. It just looks like he's not very good at work...
"It's nothing! If he can't work, I'll raise him! Who can catch fish and chop trees better than me! Well, I also made an agreement with the chief of the long boat, and I will take the tribe to live by the lake in the south. ! That’s our new home, the home of both of us! Hahaha!…”
Thinking of this, Tulan was delighted, and tenderly stretched out his hand to wipe the sweat from the face of Priest Xifeng. Then, she used strength in her arms to hold her new husband tighter.
"Blessed by the ancestors! The marriage blessed by the ancestors is concluded! You will build a family hut by the lake in the south. And your marriage, like the tribe's thatched hut, will still stand in the ancient hut even after experiencing storms and heavy rain. On the land!…”
The old chief Tujing finished singing the sacrificial song with a smile, and the surrounding crowd also prayed. At this moment, both the kingdom’s exploration fleet and the local chieftains were all praising the ship enthusiastically and loudly.
Although the two newcomers don't understand each other, they are ten years apart in age, and their hometowns are thousands of miles apart. One has three children, and the other has just grown up... However, in the eyes of everyone, and in the eyes of the leaders of both parties, this is a sacred, fitting, beautiful wedding, blessed by gods and ancestors!
"After all, this wedding, which has never happened before, officially symbolizes the beginning of the kingdom's expansion to the north and its assimilation with the tribe! And this is also the first time that the successors of the Jiao people on the plateau have merged with their brothers far away in the northern continent. The beginning of!”
Thinking of this, exploration captain Zuvalo was excited and his face was filled with a smile from the bottom of his heart. He was extremely sure that this sacred wedding would be recorded in the epic of the kingdom and in the scriptures of the Lord God, just like this exploration and development!
"Praise the Lord God! She sits high in the sky and watches us with mercy!"
"Boom boom boom!"
Exploration captain Zuvalo and hundreds of crew members prayed to the Lord God in unison. Then, with a wave of his hand, the kingdom's fleet fired salutes, revealing the majesty of the Lord God to the astonished Viyot people for the first time. And this is also the first time that hundreds of Viyot tribesmen know the name of the powerful thunder god from the south!
"This is the thunder of the Lord God, and it is also the song of the Lord God! She agrees with this wedding and wants to leave her name as a god in this distant land!"
"Praise to you! Huitzilopochtli! Praise to the Most High God!..."
"Vizzi! Lobo! Chitli!"
