"Human sacrifice?" Yu Qizhe asked, "We need to use living people for sacrifice?"
Yu Mengshan nodded, "They said they would choose a boy from a nearby village." He sighed, "What a sin..."
The Yu family no longer has any young children, so they have nothing to do with this matter. But for those families with children, who can watch their own flesh and blood die?
Song came in with ginger soup and took over the conversation, "It's ok to sacrifice chickens, ducks, cows and sheep, but how can you sacrifice human lives? What you are offering is only an evil god."
She handed a bowl of ginger soup to Yu Qizhe and knocked on the door of the second room. "Meng girl, change your clothes and come out to drink a bowl of ginger soup."
Yu Jiao responded, put on her jacket, opened the door and went to the outer room. She drank a bowl of hot ginger soup, and her whole body warmed up.
She looked at the rainwater accumulated in the yard and said to Yu Mengshan, "Uncle, let's use cotton paper to cover the food at home. The rain is too heavy and we don't know if it will flood."
Yu Mengshan stood up and went to get the cotton paper brushed with tung oil. "Okay, there is some water leaking in the corner of the room where the grain is stored. Although it was caught in a wooden bucket, it splashed all over the room. My brain is not as smart as Meng girl, so I didn't think about this at all."
A few people held umbrellas and carried oil-cotton paper to the grain storage house next to Fangshan. It was raining heavily. They walked only a few steps with umbrellas and their bodies were soaked by the slanting rain.
Song went to get some paste, pasted the oil cotton paper together, made a big bundle, and covered the grain bag with it.
Yu Mengshan saw that the leaking wooden barrel in the house was full of water, so he quickly changed the barrel and poured out the water.
As they were busy, Yu Qiaoshan's anxious voice came from outside, "Oh no! They have chosen Li Xiu'e's daughter and are going to arrest her in the third brother's yard."
Yu Qiaoshan came back from outside, the water on his raincoat dripping down his feet. He didn't even bother to take off his bamboo hat, and asked Yu Ruhai, "Dad, what should we do?"
Yu Ruhai's face changed. "Didn't they say we were going to draw lots? How could they choose Widow Li's child?"
"It was drawn by drawing lots. I was watching when the names were being written. I don't know how it was such a coincidence that the one drawn was the little girl from Li Xiu'e's family!" Yu Qiaoshan said anxiously.
"You and the second brother take Zhixing and Zhizhou over to take a look." Yu Ruhai said in a deep voice.
Yu Ruhai didn't believe that he just happened to catch the name of Li Xiu'e's daughter. The third son went out and married a young widow. The Chen family didn't come to make trouble. It's hard to say how angry they were with the Yu family. At this time, it must be Chen Gensheng who was doing bad things.
"If they arrest people, should we stop them?" Yu Qiaoshan asked uncertainly.
Yu Ruhai didn't care so much about the life or death of the young widow's daughter, but the third brother had already married her into the family, and it was obvious that Chen Gensheng wanted to control their Yu family.
"It depends on what the third brother is going to do." Yu Ruhai said.
If the third brother had died to protect Liu Xiu'e and her daughter, he would not have allowed Chen Gensheng to sacrifice them as animals.
Yu Qiaoshan and his companions walked quickly towards Yu Hanshan's yard. As soon as they got closer, they saw chaos in the yard. Chen Gensheng led a group of villagers to block the gate of the yard. Li Xiu'e knelt on the ground, hugging her daughter tightly. Someone was trying to snatch her daughter away.
The little girl was crying miserably, and Yu Hanshan was holding a shovel in his hand, confronting someone with a red face and a thick neck.
The Zhao mother and her two sons stood aside and watched coldly.
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