Chapter 586 The Secret in the Song

Stars shone in the night sky, and bonfires illuminated the earth. In the garrison camp, the battalion commander Pimon summoned dozens of personal guards to hold a welcome dinner for the Kingdom expedition team that came from afar.

There were large pots of black bean paste and baskets of corn cakes. In addition, there were rich tropical fruits, delicious fish soup with spices, and a special treatment for the leaders, a roasted deer.

Everyone ate big pieces of cake and drank soup in big gulps, so happy. Pimon told the story of His Majesty's invincibility since the Eastern Expedition. Puapu also boasted about what he saw when exploring the northern continent. The two were in high spirits, talked about half of the world, drank a jar of fruit wine, and sang songs from their hometown when they were drunk.

"Oh, oh, oh! The water goddess, She is the mother of the lake!

Her milk fell, and in the vast Lake Patzcuaro, delicious fish were bred~"

"Oh, oh, oh! The water goddess, She is the mother of the sky!

Wandering alone in silence, looking for flying children until dawn~"

"Oh, oh, oh! The water goddess, She is the mother of the Purépecha people!

She never distinguishes, does not care about the appearance of children, no matter where they are~"

When the two sang to this point, the cheerful singing echoed in the military camp. All the Purépecha warriors smiled sincerely, even the old militia who had been silent all the time, also smiled. Everyone responded loudly, singing the song of the Patzcuaro Lake in their memories.

".Oh, oh, oh! That is the light of the mother goddess, shining on our feet and our faces. She is our mother, no matter what we are! Sweat, dust, or blood~"

The simple and generous banquet reached its climax. Pimon stood up drunkenly, waved his hands happily, and shouted loudly.

"Bring them up, bring them all up! Two warriors each! Two captains, four each! I, Pimon, will treat you, there will definitely be enough!"

Before he finished speaking, a team of graceful Tlaxcala ladies, topless, were brought in by the guards. The small wooden barracks were immediately filled. The swaying feminine breath came to the face, making the young warriors with blood and blood straighten their eyes and react instantly.

Seeing this, Pimon laughed "haha". He stretched out his big hand, made a perfect demonstration, and shouted again.

"Come on, eagles of Purpecha! Stretch out your claws, grab the noble ladies of the snake race, and sing on their slippery bodies! "

"Huh! This is going to kill me."

After a while, the old militiaman Chihuaco struggled to get out of the barracks, looked at the stars in the sky, and sighed faintly. He turned sideways, looked at the swaying bonfire, listened to the passionate and rapid cry of the eagle, and shook his head helplessly.

"I can't keep him, I really can't keep him! I'd better slip away early."

The old militiaman walked slowly through the chaotic military camp, walked through the dead market town, stepped on the stars in the water, and boarded the long ship for a long journey. His eyes became deep, looking at the boundless and bright night sky, like an old goat looking up alone.

However, there are no goats in this era. Chivaco looked around the bow and saw only the young dark snake huddled in the corner of the deck. Dark Snake was wearing a sailor's short robe, hugging his legs, looking up at the stars in the sky. Well, like a little snake curled up and raised his head.

Chivaco was silent for a while, straightened his clothes, and sat next to Dark Snake. Dark Snake shrank nervously until he saw the appearance of the person coming clearly, and then relaxed a little. He could keenly feel that the old captain opposite was a trustworthy person.

"Perhaps, he is the only one who can be trusted on the entire ship."

"Have you eaten?"

Chivaco spoke softly, his eyes always looking at the sky. The Milky Way in the tropical plateau is so prosperous that you can see thousands of stars, even more than people on the ground.

"I have eaten."

Anshe answered softly. He has been reluctant to go ashore, and he dared not go ashore. Fortunately, the old captain acquiesced to him and stayed on the ship.

"What did you eat?"

"I ate bread."

The conversation came to an end. The old and the young did not speak. After a while, Chivaco stood up, took out two pottery jars from the cabin, filled them with fruit wine, and sat back. According to the instructions of His Majesty, the Kingdom's expedition fleet has been carrying a large amount of light wine to replace fresh water.

"Drink it."

"Yeah."

Anshe sipped the wine in small sips, and his face soon flushed. He turned his head and looked at Chivaco carefully. The other party looked at the starry sky, his old face was slightly drunk, and he seemed to be muttering something in a low voice. Seeing this, Dark Snake moved a little closer, and could barely hear clearly.

"Blind God! When a deer puts on wolf skin, it becomes a real wolf and eats people."

"Is this still a warrior of Repecha? In the old kingdom, the masters were also fierce to the weed-like civilians, but in fact they were just deer eating grass. Now, after they followed the Mexica, they are different from before, even their bones have changed, and their eyes are glowing red"

"Ha! I can understand their words and recognize their faces, but I always feel that in this kingdom that looks like the fierce Mexica, there are more and more Mexica people in their bones! They are all wolves."

"It's good to be a wolf! There are wolves everywhere in this world. Either I eat you, or you eat me. Eating others is naturally better than being eaten! But I don't want to be a wolf"

"? Wolf? Eat?"

Dark Snake opened his eyes wide and listened hard. Unfortunately, he couldn't understand the dialect of the old militia, and could only feel the other party's emotions. Well, this feeling is like the stars, high and far away, empty and spacious, and still shining.

"Don't you want to listen to some music?"

"Um?"

Hearing this, Chihuaco was stunned. He drank wine, his face flushed, turned his head, looked at the young man for a while, and then asked curiously.

"What song is it?"

"The song of the stars. It was sung by the priests of the Holy City. It's very nice. It's a very old song. I heard it when I was a child and remember it."

Dark Snake pursed his lips, memories appearing on his face. The holy city he mentioned naturally refers to the city of Cholula.

"This song talks about a star, the Origin Star. A year in the solar calendar has 365 days, which is the cycle of changes in the sun. A year in the sacred calendar has 260 days. In fact, this is also the number of days in a star. Period. It’s just that that star suddenly disappeared a long, long time ago.”

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The old militiaman didn't understand what Dark Snake said. He just looked at the young man's serious face for a while, smiled and nodded.

"good!"

Dark Snake cleared his throat, looked at the position between Mars and Jupiter in the night sky, and sang leisurely.

".You are the origin of the gods, floating in the desolate and ancient star realm for 37 million years."

Thirty-seven million years? How much is this? The old militiaman thought about it for a while, but he couldn't figure it out and didn't care. He just listened quietly, drinking and smiling.

".The jaguar in the astral realm, stepping on the footsteps of the wind. He came to the boundless river, the tree of life, and sat on the withered treetops, looking at the star of origin like a seed."

In Mayan mythology, the Milky Way is a sacred tree of life. The stars of the Milky Way are located in different corners of the tree. The Astral Jaguar is one of the four gods of creation in Mayan records. In astronomy, it represents Mars. The position of the origin star in the poem is opposite to Mars.

The city of Cholula has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years, and many of their myths, like the Mayans, originated from the ancient Olmec era.

"The seeds sprouted in the sea of ​​stars and gave birth to the gods in the sky. The star world is a beautiful garden, and the gods walk under the trees. Everything is so beautiful until the darkness of death rushes from the deep shadows like lightning falling from the sky. , shattered the home of the gods!"

When Dark Snake sang this, tears flowed from his eyes for some unknown reason. There were tears on his face, and there was sadness in his singing.

".Everything collapsed, the sacred tree overturned. The star of origin fell, the gods died in the darkness, and the floods surged across the stars!"

"Many years later, the remaining people built tall towers. They prayed, they offered sacrifices, and they waited on the earth for the return of the gods~"

Chihuaco pursed his lips and his eyes softened. He didn't know what the boy was singing, he didn't know the origin of the stars, and he didn't care about the shocking secrets that might be hidden in this poem.

"Phew! He is also a miserable child."

The old militiaman sighed. He could understand the boy's thoughts. It was a time when wolves were swarming, a foreign noble, even a descendant of a god, who lost his home, his relatives, all his status, and became a humble captive.

After the oratorio, the boat was silent again, except for the rushing water. An old man and a young man sat close together and said nothing. They look at the Milky Way in the sky and think of someone far away. Their thoughts are far away, but their hearts are very close.