Mutated Tao Chapter 222: Leave

"Lion dance?" Li Huowang's mind never turned around, and the slowly approaching thing in the distance didn't look like the lion dance in his impression.

First of all, in his impression, the festive lion dance will not be covered with a large piece of dirty-looking thin white cloth, and this so-called lion dance has no head at all!

There is a hazy white light source inside the propped up white cloth, which illuminates everything around through the lower end of the white cloth, and what I see is the light below.

If it was just a piece of shiny white cloth, Li Huowangbing would not think it was evil. What is more permeating is the shriveled palm prints reflected on the white cloth

Under the illumination of the light source, the entire white cloth became a little transparent, clearly presenting the large or small palm prints on Li Huowang.

As the lion dance approached, Li Huowang saw more details on the white cloth. There were white ears, and there were many white ears on the cloth, just like the white ears on the spirit streamer that other mourners carried.

Li Huowang moved his eyes down to look at the lion's feet under the white cloth, and what caught his eyes were some bare feet covered with mud.

If the only thing that can match the lion dance is the feet under the white cloth, and the hands supporting the white cloth, as if there is a certain rhythm dancing at the same time.

Every time it dances and shakes, there will be some kind of sound of wooden poles knocking against each other inside the big cloth, as if it is an accompaniment.

"Brother Li, it's okay. I've seen this kind of thing since I was a child, and I was scared to cry at the time. After watching it a few times, I've gotten used to it." Sun Baolu tried to help Li Huowang dispel his worries.

Li Huowang vigilantly pulled the brass mask on his face with his hands, trying to cover his face as much as possible.

"Sometimes what you are used to may not necessarily be safe. Also, why does this lion have no head?"

"Because none of them are masters, they are all apprentices. Only master lion dancers are eligible to hang lion heads. These boys are just practicing at night when no one comes out."

After Sun Baolu explained to Li Huowang, he raised his head and yelled at the lion dancer next to him. Judging from the tone, it seems to be some encouraging words.

However, no one from the headless lion responded to Sun Baolu's words. Like a dead elephant lying on the ground, they walked slowly past Li Huowang with a special melody.

After a while, the lion dance finally left, leaving Li Huowang with a fading back.

"Senior Brother Li, look, there is nothing wrong. Qingqiu is different from other places, with the blessing of Changshengtian, those evil spirits dare not do anything wrong."

Li Huowang looked up at him with remaining vigilance, turned around and walked towards the inn. "You Changshengtian are so stingy? Just bless this one?"

"That's what my people say anyway."

"Are these lion dancers taught by masters and apprentices from generation to generation?"

"No, it's all inherited. There is a group of people in Qingqiu who specialize in teaching lion dance. I heard it's called Lion Dance Palace."

"Lion Dance Palace?" Li Huowang repeated the word to himself, he always felt that he had heard it somewhere, but now he couldn't remember it.

Suddenly when Li Huowang was thinking hard about this problem, the monk next to him, who was wringing his fingers, stamped his feet anxiously, and hurriedly said: "Taoist priest, something is wrong! Something is wrong with those lion head dancers!"

"Huh?" Li Huowang looked at the hallucination of the monk beside him in astonishment, "What's wrong?"

"You didn't count just now? The number doesn't match! The hands supporting the cloth are much more than the feet underneath! There are many hands and few feet, so it doesn't count right! There must be something wrong with those people!"

"Wait!" As Li Huowang recalled the scene just now, his body turned cold

If it wasn't for the monk's reminder, he almost didn't notice why the lion dancers compare their hands with their feet? !

"Brother Li?" Looking at Li Huowang who was standing there talking to himself, Sun Baolu took a few steps back with some fear.

Just when Sun Baolu was planning on the other party continuing to talk nonsense, then he would immediately go back and find someone else to come with chains, when he saw Senior Brother Li limping inside on crutches.

"Bao Lu, don't sleep today, the two of us keep watch!"

"Ah? Hey! Good, good!" Although he didn't know why he had to watch the night in the inn, Sun Baolu still complied.

On the third watch that night, Sun Baolu saw Senior Brother Li who hadn't blinked an eye, and suddenly stood up, telling himself and the others to start on their way.

Although other people were a little puzzled about why they rushed suddenly at night, they did so. They lost some gold and silver, and a few bags of barley were added to the carriage. and dozens of sheep.

"I'm good at this, I'm good at this! When I was begging for food when I was a child, I let go of sheep for a rich family for two years!" With Lu Zhuangyuan's volunteering, he was competent for the temporary position of shepherd.

They left Women's Mountain under the moonlight, and Li Huowang, who looked behind him from time to time, had a serious expression, coupled with his fatigue from not sleeping all night, his face was very ugly.

Seeing this face, everyone felt that something had happened, and everyone was not thinking about anything else, and the atmosphere seemed a bit depressed.

Public Chun Xiaoman came to Sun Baolu with a sword in his hand, and asked in a low voice: "What's wrong with Senior Brother Li? Isn't he always by your side? Before that, he went out to play with Junior Sister Bai, how come after one night?" , become this virtuous?"

Sun Baolu hesitated, and finally told Chun Xiaoman in a low voice. "I don't know, there's nothing wrong with it. Maybe"

Speaking of this, his voice lowered a bit, almost as small as a mosquito fly. "Maybe Senior Brother Li is sick again. Didn't he always say that someone was hurting him before?"

Xiao Man glanced at the nervous Li Huowang again, then turned around and went to Bai Lingmiao to understand the situation.

However, Chun Xiaoman was still at a loss when he rested by the river. He didn't know what happened.

"Set up the pot, light the collected sheep manure under the pot!"

Several people dispersed and started digging wild vegetables.

Gouwa's eyes suddenly lit up, and he clasped the two entangled grasshoppers with his hands. He carefully broke off the legs and wings of the grasshoppers with his fingers, and put them in his waist pouch.

"The land in Qingqiu is so fat, I can grab a hard dish after a while."

After tightening the cloth bag, he lay down on the ground again and continued to rummage in the grass.

Soon his attention came to a small clump of thorns. His fingernails covered with black dirt steadily cut off a young thorn, and tore off the barbed skin along the edge. Exposing the emerald green core inside.

Put the green core in his mouth and chew it. Gouwa showed a satisfied expression on his face. He has eaten this wild vegetable himself, and it tastes good, a bit like crispy celery.

Just when he was about to put these tender thorns in a pot, a basket that suddenly appeared in front of Gou Wa gave him a big jump.

He raised his head and found that it was Chun Xiaoman's basket. After the woman put down the basket, she turned and walked towards Li Huowang, whose expression remained unchanged.

"When you go back, help me take it back with you."