The money secretly given to the village chief, and the money to buy the new wedding dress, had already used up all the small savings in the family. Now she is in a bad mood, and her son has been making trouble all the time. Even the one who loves him the most can't stand it.
Viciously picking up the little boy, the peasant woman slapped her directly and scolded, "You make trouble again! I will send you to the mountains and let the mountain god eat you!"
Such a threat had an immediate effect.
The little boy froze, his expression a little frightened. But the next second, he shouted in disbelief.
"Liar! You lie! Dad said that after dedicating Xiao Ai to the Mountain God, the Mountain God will not come to eat me! Xiao Ai has already replaced me! The Mountain God will not eat me!"
"You just don't want to buy me clothes, you just lie to me... woo woo woo... You buy new clothes for Xiao Ai, but not me... woo woo... You are partial! You are partial! She's going to die , and wearing such beautiful new clothes... woo woo woo... you waste money! You are biased! woo woo woo..."
The little boy covered his face and cried aggrieved again.
However, the crying of the little boy made the girl outside the door froze.
She stood blankly in the darkness outside the door, listening to the noise and crying in the room, her expression a little dull.
In the story she knew, it was the mountain god who needed a virgin, so the adults in the village decided to cast lots. In the end, she was unfortunately selected and had to wear a new wedding dress bought by her uncle and aunt into the mountain.
Because she was selected, her aunt, who always hated her, cared for her rarely, and even cooked several delicious meals for her. The uncle also sighed several times, complaining about his incompetence, saying that he failed to protect his second brother's daughter, and he felt very guilty.
The girl at that time suddenly discovered that although the uncle's family did not treat her well on weekdays, they really regarded her as a family member. After she encountered such a thing, it was her uncle and aunt that she disliked the best on weekdays.
So after Lord Shanshen let her back, she was so happy that she wanted to run home and share her joy with her uncle and aunt.
If my uncle and aunt knew about her surviving, they would be very happy too, right
—She originally thought so.
But now I hear something completely different.
The girl's expression was a little stiff.
She began to think about the things before. After being selected, her uncle and aunt began to treat her kindly and treat her well...
Are all those caring, those caring, all false? Everything they did was to trick her into being a scapegoat
Because the chosen one is not her at all? But the uncle's son
So her uncle and aunt who had always hated her suddenly changed their attitude
The girl's expression became frightened and desperate.
After hearing these words, the door in front of her no longer felt the slightest sense of intimacy. Instead, it was as terrifying as the door closed by a ghost gate. At any time, a ghost might jump out and grab her.
The loud cries and cries that kept ringing inside the door were no longer warm, and became like howlings of evil spirits in hell. She felt cold all over and her face was sad.
It's not like this... It's not like this... Don't become like this...
The girl's hands were tightly clasped in front of her chest, she kept retreating, shaking her head desperately.
She even had an urge to run away and escape from here.
But where can I run...
The girl is desperate.
Her mother has passed away, her father's whereabouts are unknown, and now she is the only relative and only place to stay in the world, only the hut in front of her.
But the people in this room actually tricked her into being a scapegoat...
woo...
The girl's heart was filled with grief.
And at this moment, a shaky footstep sounded behind her, and someone was approaching here.
The girl with a dull expression turned her head subconsciously and saw the person behind her.
It was a lame drunk, with a wobbly figure and a face full of stubble—it was her uncle, her father's eldest brother.
Ai lame...
At the same time as the girl turned her head, a blazing white lightning flashed across the night sky, and the pale light shone on the ground and on the girl's face, reflecting her despairing little face pale.
At that moment, the drunken man behind the girl clearly saw this strange scene.
Because one leg was lame, the man called Ai Lame by the villagers widened his eyes in horror.
Then there was a piercing scream.
"Ghost ah ah ah ah!!!"
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A quarter of an hour later, the girl tied up by the villagers was escorted to the door of the village chief's house.
There was still lightning and thunder in the night sky, and the howling wind blew everything in the small mountain village.
All the young and strong men in the village have gathered here, forming a circle around the village chief's house.
The light of the torches swaying in the gale made people's expressions gloomy. And the little girl who was escorted and knelt in the crowd lowered her head in despair, her mouth was sealed with a cloth, and she couldn't even cry and defend herself.
In the house in front, lived the most authoritative old man in the village.
When a big incident happened in the village, everyone gathered here immediately and waited for the village chief's instructions. Before that, someone had already come over to inform the village chief of what happened.
So everyone didn't wait too long, and the door of the house was pushed open. .
Immediately afterwards, the village chief who was leaning on crutches was supported by his son and walked out.
Under the dim light of the torch, the old man walked slowly and finally came to the girl. While everyone was watching nervously, the old village chief lowered his head, looked at the girl in front of him, and frowned.
The little girl in front of her was wearing a red wedding dress, exactly the same as when she was sent up the mountain. But the skirt was full of mud, and the shoes were no longer in their original color. The dirty look was clearly escaping from the mountains.
After a few seconds of silence, the village chief looked up at the villagers in front of him and asked in a hoarse voice, "Where did you find her?"
The village chief asked, and everyone looked at the lame man in the crowd.
Being stared at by everyone, Lame Ai hurried out and told the village chief carefully, "I found it at the door of my house, village chief. I thought she was a ghost who came back to ask for her life, but I was startled. Fortunately, We found that she has a shadow, not a ghost, so we guessed that she escaped from the mountain secretly, and immediately caught her and brought her here."
"Then, after she was caught by you, does she have an excuse?" the village chief asked, but his eyes stayed on the little girl.
At this time, the little girl's face was pale and there were scars on her forehead. It seemed that the process of grabbing her by the villagers was not smooth.
Noticing the sight of the village chief, Ai Lame quickly defended, "When we caught her, she struggled desperately and said nonsense, saying that she didn't escape privately, but that Lord Mountain God let her back. She even bit people with her teeth. , in a hurry, we just... just... "
Speaking of the back, the voice of the lame Ai became smaller and smaller, because the village chief was staring at him with a very stern look.
After the lame Ai stopped talking, the old man paused the crutches in his hand and glared at him coldly, "Don't say it? Go ahead and tell me how you gave it to Lord Mountain God. The virgin was injured!"
The old man's angry questioning made a group of young men mute, silently bowing their heads, not daring to say a contradictory word.
Seeing them like this, the old man became even more angry.
He slammed the crutches in his hands, his hair and beard was covered with anger, "A bunch of pigs! Don't think about doing things at all!"
"Even if you want to arrest her, you can't hurt her! Why can't you think of such a simple thing? You have made her scarred and shriveled. Lord Shanshen doesn't like it, what if you want us to replace her? Take one of your children to donate? Or directly blame it, who can afford it?!"
The village chief yelled angrily, but everyone shrank their necks, listened obediently, and did not dare to contradict.
When the old man was almost scolding, everyone asked carefully, "The village chief, what should we do next?"
"That's right, village chief, what should we do? This little bitch escaped from the mountain privately, the Mountain God-sama won't be angry..."
Everyone was worried, afraid of angering the Mountain God.
But the old man shook his head and gave everyone a reassurance.
"If Lord Shanshen really wants to get angry, our village will be in trouble long ago. How can it be your turn to worry? There has been no movement so far. Perhaps his old man has not found out that this little bitch has escaped."
"So let's hurry up and send this little bitch back to the mountains now, maybe it's still too late. This time we send someone to guard, and we must not let this little bitch run away without permission."
Having said that, the village chief paused his crutches hard, looked at the people present sternly, and said, "Let's enter the mountain now!"
"If Lord Mountain God is really angry, our aquatic village will be completely over!"
Chapter 6 The Mountain God is angry
In the dark forest, the wind howled and the mountain road was rugged.
The villagers walking on the mountain road holding torches are very careful, for fear that they will fall off the cliff and die if they are not careful.
This section of the mountain road is very steep. Not only is the road narrow, but there are cliffs next to it. Even hunters who often enter the mountain on weekdays are a little scared to walk this road in the dark.
What's more, the cold feather mountain tonight is full of strangeness, making everyone frown and feel heavy.
Lightning flashed and silver snakes danced wildly in the night sky above them.
One after another, the huge lightning pierced the sky, and each time it reflected the earth in a pale white.
If the weather had been like this in the past, it would have been pouring rain long ago.
But tonight, there was thunder and no rain. There was lightning and thunder in the sky, but no raindrops fell. And the further they walked into the mountains, the villagers found that the thunder in the sky became denser.
It seems that somewhere in the Hanyu Mountain, something is hooking up the thunderclouds in the night sky...
After this terrifying conjecture emerged in people's hearts, it quickly turned into a whisper.
"Tonight's thunder is a little abnormal... Could it be that the mountain god is angry? Is it going to strike us with thunder?"
"Bah, bah! Wang Lao Liu, what nonsense are you talking about! How dare you talk nonsense like this?"
"That's right! Wang Laoliu, are you dying?"
"This thunderbolt is definitely not the anger of the Mountain God, and the Mountain God will definitely forgive us."
"That's right, we are not wrong, Lord Mountain God will definitely forgive us."
"If you want to blame it, blame this little bitch who is selfish and afraid of death! She had chosen her, but she ran out without permission... Isn't this intentional to harm us?"
"Yes, yes, it's all the fault of this little bitch."
The villagers talked a lot, and from time to time they turned their heads and glared at the girl in the middle of the team.
The girl in the red wedding dress was tied with her hands and feet, and then she used a long stick to pass through the knots on her hands and feet to carry it up, like a live pig to be carried to the market for sale, her appearance was quite miserable.
But none of the villagers expressed sympathy for her, instead they were full of resentment towards her. If it wasn't for the fear of hurting her flesh, the mountain gods didn't like it, the villagers would have been ruthlessly venting their anger on this damn little bitch.
The girl who was resented by the villagers had stopped resisting at this time.
She stared blankly at the sky above her head and at the huge lightning that appeared from time to time in the night sky. She was originally very afraid of thunder, but tonight she has no fear of these terrible thunder.
Obviously, he has already explained the situation to everyone, and it was obviously Lord Shanshen who let her come back, so why don't everyone just believe her? He even used those vicious words to scold her... It wasn't that she was afraid of dying and ran away, it was really Lord Mountain God who asked her to come back!
And on her way back, Lord Mountain God asked those monkeys to bring her food, fearing that she would be hungry. How could such a good mountain god be the man-eating monster everyone talks about!
The girl's heart was sad and angry, and she felt that the adults must have made a mistake.
At first she tried to justify it, but it doesn't matter now. No one would believe what she said anyway.
Even though she kept telling everyone that Lord Mountain God doesn't want sacrifices, Lord Mountain God doesn't eat people, and no one believed her, everyone thought she was lying, and even sealed her mouth.
Is this the adult in the village...
The girl stared blankly at the night sky with lightning flashes, her expression a little dazed.
Having grown up in the village since childhood, she is familiar with everyone around her at this time. In the past, everyone was amiable and amiable. Even if she occasionally got into trouble, the adults just shook their heads helplessly and forgave her a lot. She was really a very good person.
But today, the girl found that all changed.
All the adults who were always smiling gently and treated her well have all changed. No smiles could be seen on their faces, their once gentle expressions had become vicious, and their eyes were full of resentment. The familiar faces had now become extremely unfamiliar.
She seemed to have come to a strange village, surrounded by a group of strange people.
If only this were a dream...
The girl thought faintly, staring blankly at the sky above her head.
boom—
Huge thunder roared between heaven and earth.
And in the night sky, a huge thunder and lightning suddenly cut through the sky and the earth, and slashed viciously into the mountains ahead.
The scene of the huge thunder and lightning falling shocked the villagers on the mountain road.
Because that thunderbolt was too big, much thicker than ordinary thunderbolts, and it slashed directly into the mountains...
"That direction seems to be the mountain temple!"
Among the villagers, someone recognized the direction and let out a terrified cry.
This sentence made everyone's expressions become very bad.
In this strange weather of lightning and thunder, when the virgin who was offering sacrifices escaped privately, a thunder and lightning fell in the direction of the mountain temple...