Chapter 342 Sacrifice
First, the original residents of Baoyun Village lost a granddaughter, and then someone lost a grandson.
It was Xin Lao who first discovered that something was wrong. He took the village head at that time to rescue his granddaughter and caught the person in the village who had killed the child because he was starving.
After the man was killed, Xin Lao also came to the sight of the village head at that time. He even married his widowed eldest daughter because he saved his granddaughter.
But there was so much rain that year that all the crops in the village were soaked to death.
The food supply has run out and new crops cannot grow in the fields. I am afraid that it will not be long before cannibalism occurs again.
It was at this time that the new and old people proposed human sacrifice.
He came up with this idea when he saw the elderly people in the village being abused by their families, unable to afford food and on the verge of starving to death in the village.
At that time, animals were much more precious than people. Even now, many people think that animals are more precious than people.
The new and old people at that time had a simple idea. The old people in the village would die of old age and starvation if they stayed in the village anyway, so it would be better for them to do something for Baoyun Village before they died.
Especially at that time, Baoyunzhuang was so desperate, everyone was like a walking corpse, they had to have a hope.
The Dragon God is the hope created by the old and the new for the entire Baoyun Manor.
Sending the dying old man to the mountain to "serve" the Dragon God not only reduced the burden on Baoyun Manor, but also provided comfort to the young people who could not support the elderly.
The most important thing is that after the old and new people started arranging sacrifices, the rain really became less and less, and the original village head was the last person to be sacrificed in Baoyun Village in that natural disaster.
After he was sacrificed, the sun finally appeared in the sky of Baoyun Manor the next day. The Dragon God finally favored them, and Xin Lao became the new head of Baoyun Manor.
There may not be many natural disasters or man-made disasters that occur in twenty years, but they do exist.
In particular, the people of Haizhou are relatively tough, and there are too many fights with farmers in neighboring villages over water, land, and various other reasons.
Therefore, in peaceful years, Baoyun Manor would only sacrifice two people every year. When faced with natural disasters or man-made disasters, it would not just be the elderly who would be sacrificed.
Besides, the older the elders, the fewer sacrifices are offered. Female elders are offered first, followed by male elders.
When the old men in the village had almost finished offering sacrifices, they could only turn their attention to the women who were not so old, and then gradually to all the women.
This is also the reason why after Zhou Yunshu and his group arrived at Baoyun Manor, they found that there were almost no elderly people and very few women in the entire Baoyun Manor.
"Baoyun Manor has been able to get to where it is today because of me. This time, the plague broke out in Yuncheng and people are in panic. If we want to calm people down, we can only sacrifice the Yin family."
“Bang!”
Yin Qing took the teacup on the table beside him and smashed it on the head of Xin Lao. When he wanted to jump up and beat Xin Lao, he was restrained by the guards next to him, and Ji Yan beside him was also controlled by someone.
Xinlao's head was hit by the cup thrown by Yin Qing and it was bleeding. He covered his head and looked at Zhou Yunshu, and continued: "The barbarians in the mountains are really ignorant of education and have no rules at all."
"Enough of the natives of Zhuangzi have died, so if we want to offer sacrifices, we must offer sacrifices to outsiders, especially those like the Yin family who pretend to be gods and deceive the people with their lies."
Yin Qing was amused by what Xin Lao said. Wasn't he the one who had been playing tricks and misleading people?
After the Yin family came, the woman from the Yin family treated several families in the village. Her medical skills gradually became apparent and her reputation in the village became higher and higher.
There was nothing the old and new could do. The Yin family was disobedient and their power was growing stronger, so he had no choice but to take action against them.
The old and new first blamed the death of the people in the village on Yin Qing's mother, and then they used witchcraft to harm people, which made the Dragon God furious.
The plague in Yuncheng was spread by both the old and the new.
The Dragon God has accumulated power in Baoyun Manor for a long time, and almost no one would doubt what the new and old said. The Yin family had indeed killed someone, and the sacrifice was about to begin. As outsiders, the Yin family was powerless, and the people in the manor also hoped that the Dragon God would show his power to protect the manor from being harmed by the plague, so the Yin family was naturally forced to be sacrificed.
The people in Zhuangzi knew very well that if they did not offer sacrifice to the Yin family, the quota for sacrifice would fall on their own family.
Therefore, when faced with life-and-death situations, they naturally hope that someone can die for themselves and their families.
The Yin family is the perfect fit.
However, when the old and new team attacked and captured people, Yin Qing ran away, and the brat Ji Yan also ran away with him.
The old and new people were not very worried about Yin Qing's escape. The Yin family was still quite harmonious. As long as they sacrificed the Yin couple, they were not worried that Yin Qing would not run away on his own.
It doesn't matter even if he doesn't run away. A child in his early teens can't make any waves, not to mention that he is a slave.
The old man and the new man thought they could still defeat a child, so they used Yin Qing's parents as bait to lure him out.
However, the appearance of Zhou Yunshu and her group was beyond Yin Qing's expectations, as well as the expectations of the new and old people.
Facts have proved that in the face of absolute strength, most of the methods used by monsters and demons are useless.
Just like now, Zhou Yunshu watched him talk from beginning to end, and the expression on his face never changed.
Neither the new nor the old could figure out Zhou Yunshu's thoughts. Although she looked young, her thoughts were very deep.
Xin Lao had given himself a lot of righteousness in his story, just to make Zhou Yunshu pay more attention to him, but...
Zhou Yunshu looked at the old man and said, "Since it started with you, let's end with you."
It was completely dark outside at this time, but Zhou Yunshu mobilized all his men, lit torches, and gathered all the people from Baoyunzhuang to the open space.
The people at Baoyun Manor were a little confused. They didn't know what the owner was going to do and were very nervous.
After everyone gathered, Zhou Yunshu sat on a chair, and the old and new people opposite her were tied high on the pile of firewood.
This was the most commonly used method of sacrifice in Baoyun Manor. The Yin family members were hung alive on the hanging pole and tortured to death just to lure out Yin Qing. Most people were burned to death on Longwang Mountain.
The people of Baoyun Manor were not particularly surprised when they saw the old man on the firewood pile. Instead, they said, "The old man is old, and it is indeed his turn to be sacrificed."
"It's time for him to be the one who was sacrificed. The one from the old Liu family who was much younger than the new one was sacrificed."
"But if the old and new are sacrificed, there will be no old people left in our village. The next sacrifice..."
"Don't look at my wife. She's not even 20 yet and she's still going to give birth to babies for my brothers!"
"Who should be sacrificed then?"
"You see there's an old man beside the master. Can we keep him and sacrifice him?"
"Good idea, they're not from our village anyway!"
"That's right, the master should keep us safe!"
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