"Don't ask anymore, please don't ask anymore, just go away." The woman burst into tears, her knees weakened and she knelt down again.
There was a gleam in Xi Yue's eyes. She covered Xiao Nuo's mouth when she wanted to speak, and quickly left, disappearing into the darkness.
Of course, Unknown and the little red bird followed closely behind her. In the silence, not even a sound was made by the two of them and the bird.
The woman breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the tears from her face, and looked calmly in the direction where the voice came from.
But the woman didn't know that Xi Yue, who had just gone away, actually made a circle and returned to the side of the cottage.
The three people and the bird squatted on a huge tree, silently, as if blending into the dark night.
The voices were getting closer and closer, and the flickering light of fire allowed Xiyue to see clearly who was coming.
The leader was an old man who looked to be in his sixties or seventies, and behind him followed a group of young and middle-aged people.
The clothes they wore were similar to those of Xiaonuo and her daughter, some with facial coverings and some with fur, which looked rather crude. Some of the young men even had necklaces made of animal bones around their necks, which looked a bit primitive.
Different from what Xi Yue expected, when the old man arrived in front of the wooden house and saw the woman, he did not shout or kill. Instead, he knelt down with tears in his eyes. His hoarse voice sounded particularly sad in the darkness.
"Anu, just think of it as a request from your father. Take Xiaonuo and go back with your father!"
As the old man knelt down, the young men behind him also knelt down. Some of them had red eyes, with faces full of sadness and despair.
Xiyue on the tree said that this rhythm is a bit confusing!
When Xiao Nuo's mother saw everyone kneeling, she also knelt down as if she had collapsed, choking with sobs, "Father, I will go back with you and let me bear the sin, okay? But please consider it as your daughter begging you to let Xiao Nuo go. She is still so young and has never had a good day. Woo woo..."
As she spoke, the woman burst into tears. Xiao Nuo, who was hiding in the tree, also burst into tears.
The old man's eyes were red, but his attitude was firm. "Anu, it will be hard for your father to take Xiaonuo back! But, can you bear to watch everyone in the family die one by one?"
"Dad knows Xiao Nuo is pitiful, but this is her fate, this is the fate of our family!"
The woman cried and kept shaking her head. No matter how the old man and the people behind her tried to persuade her, she refused to compromise.
Someone behind the old man finally got angry and shouted, "In order for our Cangda tribe to survive and for the sick members of the tribe to escape the clutches of death, Xiao Nuo's sacrifice is necessary. Anyone who stops it will be a traitor to our entire Cangda tribe!"
As soon as this person shouted, the others immediately shouted excitedly as well.
They pushed aside the crying woman and rushed into the cabin, searching through every box and cabinet.
However, they even opened the bed and the cabinet, but there was no sign of the child.
The old man was trembling slightly. He looked at the tied-up woman kneeling on the ground and asked, "Where is Xiao Nuo? Where did you hide her?"
The woman closed her eyes with a relieved smile on her face, "Father, I said, if you want to offer a sacrifice, send me to see God. Xiao Nuo is gone and will never come back... She will live, live well, that's enough!"
Everyone who heard this showed angry and shocked expressions.
They insulted the woman in a strange dialect, and one even slapped her in the face. (To be continued)