Lumian just habitually felt distressed and didn't stop his sister.
When Ava, Raymond and others turned around and walked towards the nearby buildings, he deliberately fell to the end and whispered to Aurore:
"If "Novel Weekly" calls back, hurry up and call me."
"Don't worry, I won't be negligent in this kind of thing." Aurore gave Lumian a look of "Don't worry, I'll do my business."
With festivity and joy, the blessing parade was full of singing and kept knocking on the doors of the villagers in Kordu Village.
Finally, they arrived at the Administrator's residence.
This is a castle converted from the royal period of Sauron, located on a hill on the edge of the village of Kordu, dark in color and towering with two towers.
The façade surrounding the building had long since been demolished, and Lumian and the others walked through the garden specially opened by the Beost couple and arrived at the door.
The door was four or five meters high, brownish-green in the color of a tree, and looked very heavy at first glance.
However, it is divided into two sections, not to welcome distinguished guests, not to open it completely, only to open the lower two-meter-high part.
The "spring elf" is the embodiment of spring, the messenger of the harvest, and naturally deserves the most honorable treatment, at this time, the heavy door in the opposite side is completely open back, and Madame Pualis stands there in a light green tunic.
Her maid, Cassie, stood to the side with a basket made of branches, half a step behind.
Ava walked over and sang a song of blessings.
Mrs. Pualis smiled at the corner of her mouth and listened quietly, looking noble and reserved, which made the young people who followed the "Spring Elf" want to see it but dare not see it.
Lumian, who had "observed" the other party and the priest of the parish, saw this and said "huh" in his heart.
The song came to an end, and Ava exchanged the seeds of the tree for a basket of eggs.
At this point, the blessing parade ended, and Lumian, Raymond and other young people surrounded the "spring elf" Ava and headed for the mountain river not far from the village.
Next comes the second part of Lent:
Waterside ritual.
When she came to the place where she usually herded geese, Ava approached the clear river, danced a simple dance, and repeated the previous song, while Lumian and other young people all stood still, seven or eight meters away from the "Spring Elf".
After doing this, Ava took out the cut turnips given by a villager from the basket at her feet and threw them into the river.
As she threw it, she sang:
"Harvest! Harvest!"
When Ava finished throwing it, Lumian stepped on the soles of his feet, ran over in a few steps, bent down to fish out the cut turnips from the basket, and smashed them into the river.
"Harvest! Harvest!"
He shouted loudly.
The remaining young people were a beat slower than he was, so they could only run towards Ava in a crowded crowd as if they were falling behind, took out turnip cubes, radish cubes and other not too precious things from the basket, threw them at different places in the river, and shouted "Good harvest".
Raymond didn't take the lead, and he couldn't take anyone else, so he was the last one to complete the ceremony.
The next second, he saw the maliciously smiles of Lumian, little Guillaume and others.
These young people rushed up and lifted Raymond up.
They shouted "Harvest" as they threw Raymond into the water.
Plop, Raymond fell into the water, his clothes and hair instantly soaked.
And the people on the shore also picked up dirt and branches and threw them around him.
This is the fixed flow of waterside rituals: the last person to complete the prayer is thrown into the river and not allowed to go ashore, he can only swim a little further down, quietly return to the village, hide at home, and cannot go out until dark.
Raymond wiped the water droplets on his face, fluttered for a few seconds, and headed downstream.
The blessing procession then surrounded Ava and walked towards the "Eternal Sun" church on the edge of the square in Kordu Village.
At this time, it was almost noon, and most of the villagers gathered here, including Lumian's sister Auror.
Compared with the "colleagues" in the city, this church is not magnificent, and the highest is only eleven or twelve meters.
Its dome is arc-shaped, and from the outside, it looks like an onion, and when you look up from the inside, you will see a magnificent sun mural.
The whole church is based on gold, which looks very bright, which is also the common style of all churches in the "Eternal Sun".
The altar is located on the east side, and various sunflowers surround a huge emblem.
On the surface of the emblem, the golden sphere and the lines representing the light form a very mystical symbol.
This is a symbol of the "eternal sun".
Behind the altar, high on the wall, there were two pure glass windows inlaid with a little gold leaf, from which the light shone on the emblem every day when the sun rose.
In this corresponding location, there are two similar glass windows on the west side of the church to catch the glow of the setting sun.
Since this was not a formal church ceremony, but a folk traditional celebration, the parish priest Guillaume Guillaume Benet did not appear and was presided over by the administrator Beoster.
Ava, who was still dressed as a "spring elf", stood next to him, and the sound of flutes, lyres and other musical instruments sounded, and the villagers sang songs praising spring and praying for a good harvest.
They have not rehearsed, their singing voices are not neat, and some people even sing and dance, making the scene very lively.
Lumian's mouth was open and closed, but he didn't make a sound, looking like "I'm perfunctory", but Aurore next to him sang very engaged, but it didn't seem like he wanted to pray for a good harvest, but took the opportunity to play and soar high notes.
Because it was just perfunctory, Lumian looked around very freely.
He didn't notice anything unusual about the villagers' performance, so he subconsciously looked up and looked at the golden sun mural on the dome.
Suddenly, Lumian knew why he always felt wrong.
Many people in the village haven't praised the sun for a long time!
For a village that mainly believes in the "Eternal Sun", words such as "praise the sun" and "my god my father" should often appear in daily life, but Lumian recalled this period and found that he rarely heard it!
As a pan-believer, he doesn't usually say similar things, and he has offended the priest of the parish, and he hasn't entered the church to participate in any activities for a long time, so he didn't think there was anything wrong before.
Immediately afterwards, the content of the letter of help he restored came to his mind:
"We need to get help as soon as possible.
"The people around me are getting weirder and weirder."
The people around him became more and more strange...... At this moment, Lumian had a deeper understanding and recognition of this sentence.
He looked around again, looking for Leah and the other foreigners.
But Lane and the others didn't seem to come to watch the Lenten celebrations.
"Really, don't show up when you should......" Lumian muttered in his heart.
He pretended not to notice anything, made a sound, and joined the chorus.
When the singing subsided and the celebration was over, he leaned into Aurore's ear and said in a low voice:
"Go home first, I'll have something to talk to you later."
As the person escorting the "Spring Elf" parade, he also had to participate in the final ring of the ceremony and could not leave early like the others.
He also did not intend to force his way out of the church, which would likely lead to an early outbreak of the abnormality.
Aurore nodded thoughtfully:
"Okay."
She didn't ask much and left the church with Madame Pualis and most of the villagers.
Before long, only the young people who had participated in the blessing parade and Ava, the incarnation of the "spring elf", remained here.
Except for those who were thrown into the river, all the offerings received before were placed next to Ava, as well as symbolic pastures, axes, shovels, whips, goose sticks and other items with symbolic meanings.
Next, Lumian and the others only need to wait for someone to come in from outside the church and announce that they will send the "Spring Elf" away, and then they can surround Ava and take off her laurel crown, necklace, branches, and leaves.
During this process, they need to leave a gap for the "Spring Elf" to break away from Ava's body.
In twenty or thirty seconds, there was a sound of footsteps at the church gate.
Lumian instinctively looked over and saw two people.
One was Pierre, a shepherd who had come back to attend Lent. Berry, thin, had slightly sunken eye sockets, a dark brown robe with a hood, a rope tied around his waist, and very new black leather shoes under his feet.
Unlike before, his greasy black hair seemed to have been washed, looking clean and smooth, and his messy beard had also been treated, not only not so long, but also much neat.
At this time, his blue eyes were as always with a faint smile.
The other is the parish priest Guillaume. Bennet, he is still wearing a white robe inlaid with gold thread representing the clergy, with light black hair, a slightly hooked nose, and a majestic temperament. Berry compared.
Priest of the parish...... How did he come in? Lumian was surprised and confused.
As a clergyman of the Church of the Eternal Sun, he should not be present at such a folk celebration without a "praise the sun" link.
Thinking that the priests were secretly planning something, and that he had offended him severely, Lumian came back to his senses and immediately retreated slowly, covertly, but resolutely to the stained glass on the side.
Because it was not yet the stage of surrounding the "Spring Elf" Ava, their group of young people were standing in different places, so his actions were not conspicuous.
Ava was also a little surprised to see the priest in the parish, but when she thought that he was the most prestigious person in the village, it was more appropriate for him to announce the end of the Lenten celebration than anyone else, and smiled again.
Soon, the parish priest Guillaume. Benet and the shepherd Pierre. Berry walked to Ava's side.
The former said in a deep voice:
"Send the 'Spring Elf' away."
Those outside Lumian began to prepare to rush towards Ava and surround her.
"Send the 'Spring Elf' away!" Shepherd Pierre. Berry shouted along and bent down with a smile.
Not good! Seeing this scene, Lumi moved with peace of mind, subconsciously stepped on his right foot and leaned forward.
Before everyone could react, Pierre. Berry picked up the axe in the pile of items, clenched his hands, straightened his body, and swung it hard!
With a pop, a large amount of blood erupted from Ava's neck, as if a thick crimson mist was rapidly forming there.
Plop.
Ava's head fell to the ground alone, rolled several times in the blood, and finally turned face up.
There was still obvious joy in her eyes.
Lumian, who had taken two steps in her direction, sank in his heart, and immediately turned around and ran to the stained glass on the side.
(End of this chapter)