Chapter 100: I will sacrifice myself to the gods
The snow fell heavily.
The green mountains are covered in silver.
There is a family living in a few tiled houses in the middle of the village, and the snow is piled on their roof, which is very beautiful.
They lived here for many years, and they opened a large piece of wasteland in front of and behind the house, and planted food and crops.
The male and female hosts are orphans and have no relatives, so they are very afraid that their children have no relatives, and they are very willing to have more children, and now they have four children, and the youngest girl will walk, and the eldest is almost ten years old, and is a half-sized child.
The children were feeding a flock of geese, and the child's father said that when the Chinese New Year came, he would kill the geese for them to eat.
The children are very serious about feeding the geese, and the geese grow very fat.
The weather was very cold, and the children kept the geese in the goose pen, and the goose pen was built very strongly, and they were afraid that the fox Shiba Dog on the mountain would go down the mountain and steal food because it was too cold and hungry, and if they stole their own goose, they would be busy for the year.
"There are eight geese in total, and we sell two of them during the Chinese New Year, and sell a knife to the second child, and the second child can't take a step when he looks at the knives in the blacksmith shop; he sells a whistle to the third child, which blows very loudly, and sells a flower dress to the little sister; I also want to buy a hoe." I also have to kill two to eat for the New Year, keep four, and wait for the eggs to be fed next spring. ”
The child looked at the goose and was full of happiness. Others looked at the goose as a goose, but what he saw was his brother's knife and whistle, his sister's new clothes, and the reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve.
The snow outside was heavy, and he added a handful of straw to the goose pen.
The younger siblings are shouting for him to come out and build a snowman, and the snow today is particularly good, perfect for building a snowman.
The mother was sewing clothes for the children in the house and was still preparing to find some snacks, after all, the Chinese New Year was not long ago. It was difficult to work in the fields on a snowy day, so the child's father was chopping firewood in the firewood room, and he brewed a large pot of wine, which he was going to steam when it was sunny in a few days.
He listened to the sound of the children playing and making trouble, and listened to the voice of his woman shouting that he was doing this and that, and felt that everything in life was very good and beautiful.
There is hope for everything.
He pondered building a few more houses in two years, after all, the eldest son was not young, and he was ready to marry his daughter-in-law.
The child is already ten years old, and it won't be many years before he can hold his grandson.
I heard that the demon wolf is a demon over there, and there are great khans and generals to resist it, and the demon wolf can't come here, it's very safe here.
The Great Khan and the Great General have worked hard with the soldiers, the Great Khan and the Great General are all good, and the soldiers they brought out have done nothing to our people, and even opened a road for everyone to enter and exit.
He is looking forward to the child growing up, the eldest likes to do farm work, sensible, and when he grows up, let him serve the crops with him, he must be a good hand; the second child likes to play with knives and swords, and that day he saw a few Terran soldiers who couldn't walk, so let him follow the Great Khan and the Great General to make contributions; the man who looked like a big official among the soldiers who passed by that day said that the children of the Terran should enter the school palace, and should be able to read and write and hyphenate, so let the third child go to the school palace; the daughter is well-behaved and clever, and she will definitely be able to find a good mother-in-law.
Thinking about it, this honest man couldn't help grinning.
Although the days are hard, there is hope for everything!
"Daddy, Daddy!" the children suddenly shouted, "Daddy, Daddy, come on!"
The children were in a hurry.
He didn't know what had happened to the children, so he hurriedly rushed out with a woodcutter.
He saw several eagle owls appear in the sky, and they swooped down from the sky and circled around the goose pen.
"Come, Dad, this big bird wants to steal our goose!"
The children shouted, but the eagle was not afraid at all, and still circled around the goose pen.
The goose, which is usually very bold, trembles with fright.
The man was taken aback.
This carving is really big, is it the demon wolf's Hai Dongqing?
He hurriedly dropped the axe, hurriedly grabbed his two small ones one by one, and then said to the two big ones, "Hurry up and go home and hide." ”
The children don't know what their father is afraid of in their minds, isn't it just a few big birds, why is Dad so afraid.
"Daddy, Daddy, the big bird is breaking down the goose pen. The youngest girl cried, "They're going to eat our geese!"
"Shut up, don't make a fuss!" the father whispered to his daughter.
The daughter closed her mouth aggrievedly.
"This is Hai Dongqing, don't talk about a goose, even one person can take it away!" The father couldn't bear to see his daughter's aggrieved look, explained, and then pulled them back quickly.
As soon as they entered, they quickly closed the door, and the father beckoned the child to be silent.
I heard that when Hai Dongqing was extremely hungry, not to mention geese, even people ate them.
Hai Dongqing was in the goose shed, and the children were in a hurry, and the father and mother grabbed the children to prevent them from causing trouble.
The goose cried out in horror.
The second child suddenly broke free of his father's hand, he grabbed a kitchen knife and threw it through the window at Hai Dongqing, who was hovering in the sky.
A Hai Dongqing grabbed the kitchen knife on its paw with contempt, and it held back its eyes and saw the child who dared to throw the knife at them from the window.
The child was very stubborn, and he even glared at Hai Dongqing.
Hai Dongqing dived and smashed the window open.
The father was in a hurry, and he rushed over with his bare hands, protecting the child behind him. Hai Dongqing fanned its wings, and the wind from its wings blew the simple furniture in the house to the ground, and it made a threatening cry, threatening.
"Brute!" The child's father was originally an honest farmer, but now he doesn't know where the courage came from, he directly faced Hai Dongqing.
"Hehehe. Hai Dongqing let out a cry like mockery, and it fanned its wings directly at the child's father, and the child's father was instigated by Hai Dongqing's wings and flew out.
"Dad!" The children and women were so frightened that they couldn't even move, only the second child screamed, he jumped and rushed towards Hai Dongqing like a little leopard, and smashed his fist on Hai Dongqing.
It's a pity that his strength is too small, Hai Dongqing didn't even shake it, Hai Dongqing stretched out his claws proudly, grabbed him directly, and then threw it out like a stone.
Hai Dongqing let him go and approached the poor father step by step.
"Hehehehehe. Hai Dongqing looked proudly at the father who fell to the ground, and then looked around, looking at this group of frightened children and women, it seemed to be laughing.
Laughing in contempt.
It lowered its head and looked at its father, who had fallen to the ground.
The father also looked at Hai Dongqing in horror.
"Poof!"
Haidong Qingchick pecked twice in a row like rice, directly pecked off his father's two eyeballs, and then spit out the eyeballs on the ground, and the bloody eyeballs were still spinning in the bones.
"Daddy!" the little boy couldn't hold back any longer, he stood up, rushed to his father, and took him in his arms.
"Daddy!" he cried out, heartbreaking.
In my father's hollow eyes, blood kept coming out.
"Daddy!" the child cried out as he put his hands on his father's eye sockets.
Hai Dongqing looked around with contempt, looking at them like a swarm of insects.
The boss's body was trembling, but he still blocked his little brother and sister behind him, and he didn't dare to look at Hai Dongqing. The mother knelt on the ground, her tears flowing, her mouth squirming, but she could not make a sound, and her face was pale.
Only the second child was shouting.
"Huh. ”
Hai Dongqing let out a mocking cry again.
It spread its wings, clawed at the crying child, and pecked at its father, who had fallen to the ground, and the father let out a scream and stopped abruptly, and a pile of white brains appeared in the blood all over the ground. Hai Dongqing slammed open the door and flew out directly.
"Let go of my brother!" the boss finally couldn't help himself, he was out of his mind, no longer afraid, no longer trembling, he rushed out, shouting to the sky.
Hai Dongqing ignored him, it spread its wings and flew high, throwing the child into the sky.
The dick fell in the sky.
"No!" the boss closed his eyes in despair.
It was cold, and he felt his face suddenly feel like a fire.
It was blood, splattered on his face.
"Brother!" he cried and screamed, and his brother fell from a great height and smashed into the snow.
Flesh and blood splattered and stained the snow red.
"Brother!" he couldn't care about it anymore, hugging his brother's body.
The younger brother has changed beyond recognition, and the younger brother's body is getting harder and colder.
"Brother, brother!" he was still shouting for his brother.
"Brother, open your eyes! open your eyes!" he yelled like crazy, but his brother could not respond to him.
Blood stained the hem of his clothes, and he buried his face in his brother's body, crying.
"Brute, damn brute!" he was no longer afraid, no longer crying.
He hugged his brother and screamed at the sky.
Hai Dongqing was still hovering in the sky, ignoring him at all.
War, too cruel, too cruel.
What was supposed to be a good and promising family has now become like this.
Hai Dongqing looked at this heart-rending crying little boy with contempt, in their eyes, these people were no different from the geese they fed.
The corpse was cold, and the blood was cold.
"Cub, go home. The mother staggered out and pulled him by the way.
The dead die, but the living have to live.
He was led by his mother and walked into the house like a walking corpse.
The wind, blowing in through the broken windows and doors, made the house as cold inside as it was outside.
The little brother and little sister were already frightened, they were huddled in the corner, and now their bodies were still shaking, and they didn't even dare to speak.
The mother took the two little children to the bed, covered them with a quilt and put them to sleep.
She asked her eldest son to join her in lifting the broken doors and windows and making them safe.
Her dead husband and second son should also be restrained. Her tears have dried, the dead are dead, and the living will live.
She regretted it very much, and regretted very much why she chose to settle down in this barren mountain in order to open up the wasteland.
But there is no regret medicine in the world.
It was getting dark, and the smell of blood could easily attract wild beasts to bury the dead.
She shoveled a few buckets of snow from the snow and put them in a cauldron for the boss to boil, and she wanted to boil a pot of hot water to bathe her dead relatives.
She found the hoe and dug a pit in the back of the house to bury the dead couple.
She lowered her head and burst into tears, but there was no way to stop being sad.
"Bird, big bird, big bird, don't eat me, don't eat my father, don't eat me, don't eat my father, don't eat my brother......" the youngest girl cried in her sleep.
She stopped, walked in, patted the baby in her arms, and then put her on the bed again.
"Where's the boss?" she suddenly noticed that the boss was gone.
She walked out of the door with great anxiety and saw a pair of small footprints on the ground, which stretched into the distance.
She wanted to rush out and get the boss back.
But she stopped, there were still two small ones in the house, she was gone, what should I do with these two little ones?
She thought her tears were dry, but they came down again, but she wiped them away.
He originally wanted to wipe off his husband and second son, but the eldest son was gone, and she couldn't do it anymore.
She only put straw in the pit, then dragged her husband's body in first, and then dragged the child's body and placed him next to him.
She began to fill in the soil.
She couldn't feel the cold anymore, and she couldn't shed tears.
"The two little ones will wake up hungry and have to cook for them. An idea came to her, she put down the hoe, then dragged the hoe into the door, put the hoe in the tool room, and suddenly found that the only wood knife in the house was missing.
"Did the boss take it?" she thought.
It's getting dark.
She made a pot of mush, she had no appetite at all, she didn't even have the desire to live. But she told herself that she had to live now, because she still had a pair of children by her side.
Her husband and second son died, the eldest son is gone, she is the support of this pair of children, she can't fall, no matter how sad she is, no matter how humiliated she is, she will survive, only if she survives, her children can survive.
The half-sized child walked forward step by step.
He had a wood knife in his hand, and he didn't walk fast, but he wasn't slow either.
It was very cold, it was dark, and he didn't stop, there were villages along the way, and he could have gone to the village to ask for a sip of hot water and rest for a while, but he didn't.
He's going to a place, and he just wants to go to one place now.
He wanted to go to the temple, the largest temple in the area, where the main god of Mount Olympus, Ares, was enshrined.
Late at night, he finally walked to the temple, and he knocked on the door of the temple.
An old priest opened the door.
The boy's eyes were very hollow.
"I will sacrifice myself to the gods. The boy saw the old priest of the temple, and when he had said this, he fell.
When he awoke, it was already dawn, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the old priest, who was feeding him hot water.
"I will sacrifice myself to the gods. He said.
The old priest touched his forehead and said kindly: "Child, the ancestors of the human race have an agreement with the gods, and the human race can sacrifice themselves to the gods, but it must be voluntary. ”
"I voluntarily sacrificed myself to the gods. The child said very calmly, "I am of my own free will, and the gods will accept my sacrifice." ”
"What do you want the gods to do for you? pray for your family, for the good deeds of the next life?" asked the old priest, still very kindly.
"When I sacrifice, I tell the gods what I want. "The child phenomenon is no longer like a child, he is very calm.
How can a child look down on his own life and death so lightly? How can he be so calm? What kind of wind and frost has he experienced to make a child so indifferent to himself?
He stood up and knelt down in front of the idol of the gods: "O great god, I will sacrifice my own blood, my own flesh, my own bones, my soul, and everything I have to you......."
The old priest closed his eyes, he didn't understand what was wrong with the child?
The gods had heard the child's prayers.
Nothing can be reversed.
In Qingshan City, the high priest got up early in the morning and sat in the temple.
His face suddenly turned a little pale.
A raven flew into the temple and then flew out again.
In the evening of that day, cranes from the city of God were chirping. The high priest closed his eyes with tears in them.