Volume 7, Chapter 8

Qingwen's mommy nodded, this time, she was convinced, indeed, what Qingwen said was everything that happened to her.

Qingwen continued: "At that time, I had to negotiate with the village chief, and I said that the village chief, now for the orphans and widows of our family, I still hope that the villagers will see that my father was an old hunter before his death.

However, the attitude of the village chief was very resolute, saying that no, no, no, we can't continue to be so appeased, if this continues, our entire village will be destroyed in the hands of your mother, the black widow.

I can see that the village chief is not relenting today, and he must drive us away, and he will never give up.

So I continued to think of a way, often, the village chief came for a purpose, and he had already controlled the villagers' brains, and when he looked at the expressions of the surrounding villagers, he knew that he already hated our family of mourners, so I fell into an isolated and helpless situation.

I can't stop there, because if I give up, on the way out of the village, our family will be sick and unfed, and we will definitely end up in a worse situation, and I must now be cheeky and bargain with the village chief.

So, I said, "Do you have any rules in our village?" If you do something wrong, you can make up for it with practical actions.

The village chief looked at me and couldn't help but say in surprise, hehe, I didn't expect your father to be a successor, although you are a female baby, but I saw your father's shadow from you, you know, I watched your father grow up, if this guy hadn't married a wife of a dead star, and married my daughter, he would definitely still be fighting leopards in the mountains now.

The village chief thought about it and said to me, yes, I forgot that you are your father's successor, not at all like your vixen's mother, but I can't change for you, because I am the village chief and our whole village is watching me.

I nodded, pretending to agree with the village chief.

After a while, the village chief said, by the way, I remembered, every ten years, our village will sacrifice virgins and girls in order to worship the mountain god, and this year is this ten-year period, because the male children in our village are too rare, so this year, I will recommend you to be this virgin, and sacrifice you to the mountain god. In this case, I will erase the calamities and threats that your mother has brought to the people around us and to the village.

At this time, I finally understood, it turned out that the village chief was making excuses for mobilizing the people today, and he was using this excuse to incite the villagers, so as to take the opportunity to achieve his own goals.

My mother suddenly raised her eyes at this time and stared at me blankly, and I immediately understood that my mother meant that she would not agree.

However, I had to make some sacrifices in order for our orphaned and widowed family to be able to gain a foothold in this village, and for the villagers to be able to accept our family again.

By the way, I understand that this sacrifice is not a small sacrifice, but a big sacrifice, a sacrifice that costs one's life.

I heard my father tell me that the villagers were very afraid of the mountain god at the beginning, this mountain god can not only call the wind and rain, but also be able to subdue demons and eliminate monsters, and there are many supernatural abilities.

My father said that it is understandable to worship the mountain gods, but sacrificing boys and girls is a rotten custom and is not necessary at all.

I had the impression that this mountain god was so hateful that he ate children, and then he promised to bless the village.

Now, I understand that the village chief was in a hurry that there were no boys and girls to worship, so he came to my house and asked my mother Xingshi for my sin, for me. That is, the drunkard does not mean to drink, and uses the excuse of crusading against my mother to suppress our family in exchange for me.

However, at this time, although I understood the intentions of the village chief, I did not have the strength to resist the exchange of conditions.

At least, sacrificing me alone can save the whole family from gaining a foothold in this village, and it also clears the brand that was planted on my mother, so I have no choice but to accept this matter.

I didn't delay, and once I realized that this sacrifice was the root cause, I relaxed a lot, and I came to understand all of this. So, I volunteered and said, "Well, let's make one condition, I can be sacrificed to the mountain god as a virgin, but you must agree that my mother has permanent residence in this village."

The village chief pretended to discuss with several elderly villagers around him, and then looked at me with that old face, and at the moment he looked at me, the village chief was no longer the sharp look of chasing other people's sins and criticizing them just now, but changed his expression, very kind and empathetic.

I gritted my teeth, and at the moment, I couldn't say anything I regretted, but the idea flashed through my mind that I was about to be eaten by the mountain god.

I heard this story a lot when I was a child, when I was naughty, and I was scared by my father or my mother and said:

Don't make trouble, don't make trouble, if you keep making trouble, the mountain god will come to eat children. Now that I think back to this passage, somehow, my heart is sour, yes, my father is quite relaxed, and as soon as he leaves, he will no longer care about these earthly things. The orphans and widows were left in this village.

I can't take care of it anymore, that is to say, I know in my heart that I have no choice at all, this is my life, and my life is to be eaten.

What kind of big brother who sells oil, what is the dream of embroidering to be a girl's bride, these are all thrown out of the sky by me at this moment, because these can't save my mother, can't save my younger brothers and sisters.

I don't know if it was because my mind was distracted, or because the villagers listened to the village chief's reply and then dispersed, I stood at the stall where I was, and only my mother and the village chief were left in the courtyard.

The village chief said, don't forget, a week later, we will go up the mountain and sacrifice you to the mountain god, and at that time, the mourning star brought by your mother will be driven away, and our village will always accept you, a mother with a heroic daughter.

I think that this village chief has taken my lifeblood, and my lifeblood is the whole family composed of my mother and my younger siblings, and the village chief knows that I will do whatever it takes to protect this family and every member of the family, so he will use such a means to force me to automatically propose such a solution.

However, I have no regrets about my choice now.