Yu Qiaoshan and three others squeezed into the yard and stood in front of Li Xiu'e and her son.
When Yu Hanshan saw them, he felt relieved and called out, "Big Brother, Second Brother."
"Qiaoshan, what do you mean by this?" Chen Gensheng, the person in charge, stepped forward and said loudly, "The girl of Li Xiu'e was chosen by the lottery. This is God's will. The river god has taken a fancy to this little girl. Are you trying to anger the river god by not letting her go? He wants to flood our village and kill all the men, women and children in the village?"
When the villagers around heard this, they all glared at the three brothers of the Yu family. They didn't want to die. The last time it rained and they offered sacrifices to the river god, the rain stopped, which proved that the sacrifice was useful.
Now that the rain is so heavy, the Qingshui River has risen sharply and the water is about to overflow. It may be because they have not worshipped the river god in the past few years, which has angered him. Today, they must offer human sacrifices to the river god and ask this god to appease his anger.
"You all have children, how can you bear to use your children as human sacrifices?" Yu Qiaoshan looked at the neighbors he had lived with for many years, trying to persuade them with emotion and reason. "If you really do something so rude and immoral, even if the rain stops, can you live in peace in the future? Look at this little girl, how old is she? What did she do to kill people and set fire to the gods? Do you want to take her to death?"
Li Xiu'e hugged her daughter, sobbing and kneeling in the mud, kowtowed to the crowd, "Please let my daughter go, please, my husband passed away early, and he left me these two children, please have pity on me and let my daughter live."
The villagers, who were very kind in the past, had cold expressions on their faces at this moment, staring at Li Xiu'e and her daughter indifferently.
They all forgot how nervous and fearful they were when Chen Gensheng drew the lots just a moment ago, worrying that he might pick their own children.
The knife did not cut them, they had forgotten their fear and became the ones holding the knife.
Chen Gensheng sneered, "It's your daughter's blessing to be able to serve as a tribute to accompany the Lord River God. Widow Li, you should think more positively. Anyway, you are married, so you can just have another child in the future!"
He glanced at Yu Qiaoshan and the others, "Chen family boss, don't be ignorant. If you anger the river god and endanger the lives of our villagers, can you afford it? A child in exchange for the safety of the whole village, which is more important? Let this little girl go and let all the young and old in the village die? Get out of the way!"
There was a loud rumbling sound, accompanied by lightning that broke through the sky, and the rain fell even more frighteningly. All the villagers were getting anxious, and someone shouted, "If they don't move out of the way, we'll just grab it! We can't delay any longer!"
A group of people rushed into the yard and tried to snatch the little girl from Li Xiu'e's arms.
Li Xiu'e cried miserably. Her son, who she had asked to hide in the house, could no longer hold back when he saw this. He ran out crying, waving his arms and legs vigorously, shouting, "Get out of the way! Don't touch my mother! Don't grab my sister!"
He was too weak to do so and could only bite with his mouth, but the adult, feeling the pain, slapped him to the ground. He climbed up again, but was finally knocked to the ground and fell into the mud. He had no strength to get up and cried helplessly, still shouting hoarsely, "Don't grab my sister, don't grab my sister..."
Yu Hanshan waved the shovel in his hand, and Yu Qiaoshan, Yu Mengshan, Yu Zhixing and Yu Zhizhou stood tightly in front of Li Xiu'e and her son, resisting the hands and feet reaching out from all directions.
It was not known who started the fight first, but Yu Hanshan wrestled with the man and the shovel in his hand had already been snatched away by the man who pounced on him.
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