Chapter 41 The Great Evil
Tears welled up in Maguli's eyes. She shook off his hand and ran quickly towards the fire.
All the tribesmen widened their eyes.
Si Yan was also stunned by Maguli's courage.
This girl, is she really going to burn?!
The haystack is more than one person tall, and the flames are taller than two people.
As soon as Maguli ran in, she was engulfed by flames.
Si Yan's heart also began to wrench in her heart. Her intuition told her that Maguli was a good girl and she should not be burned to death by fire.
The high priest Magu threw away the bone staff in his hand and wanted to rush over to snatch Maguli out of the fire. However, he was stopped by several female savages nearby after taking just two steps.
The flames grew more and more intense.
The heat wave forced Kunbu and others to take a few steps back.
Si Yan couldn't help but look back at Kunbu. Wasn't this kid's heart a little too hard? After all, Maguli was also his childhood friend. How could he just watch her burn to death? Wasn't his heart made of flesh? When he exchanged items with her in the grocery store, didn't he say that Maguli gave him a bright lily of the valley and he was quite happy? People are about to burn to death, why don't you go ahead!
Kunbu looked at the blazing flames and silently asked himself in his heart, why didn't he want to believe Maguli?
Before this, he liked Maguli just as much as she liked him.
When he was nine years old, he followed the adult savages of the tribe into the mountains to hunt. He accidentally got lost and injured his leg. It was Maguli who climbed over two mountains in the dark before finding him.
That night he lay on Maguli's shoulder, looked at the moon in the sky and said solemnly: "Guli, when I become the chief, I will let you be my first woman, okay?"
Maguli nodded: "Okay."
Maguli carried him on her back for the entire night. After she carried him back, her waist became a little hunched and her body always leaned to one side when she walked.
The female savages in the tribe all laughed at her.
Even the little savages liked to play tricks on her and throw mud on her.
But Maguli has some talents that other savages don't have, such as catching fish, picking mushrooms, identifying stars in the sky, and tanning animal skins...
These innate abilities made her more valuable than other female savages in the tribe.
So even though she was a little hunchbacked, she was still the most desired wife by the savage men in the tribe.
Gongga has always been thinking about Maguli.
While the tribesmen were worshipping the Moon God, he dragged Maguli behind the haystack...
The haystack was burning fiercely, completely engulfing Maguli's figure.
The fire lit up the night sky red.
Kunbu thought of the words he said to Maguli when he was lying on her shoulder that night, as well as every moment he had spent with Maguli over the years. A trace of pain finally welled up in his dull heart.
"Guli."
He rushed toward the fire.
The high priest Magu suddenly stretched out his bone staff to block Kunbu's way, and said in a cold tone: "Guli has been taken away by Lord Moon God. Lord Chief, what's the point of you going there now?"
Kunbu stopped, the pain in his heart gradually became stronger: "Guli..."
Seeing this, Si Yan wanted to give him a hard slap on the head.
Belated affection is cheaper than grass.
What's the point of feeling sad when people are almost burned to death?
What did you do before?
Why didn't you trust Maguli just once? She risked her life to save you, she dreamed of being your wife, and you obviously liked her, why didn't you trust her just once? Why can a male savage marry several female savages, but a female savage must give her first time to her husband?
The more Si Yan thought about it, the more she felt unfair for the female savage Maguli.
She walked to the fire and unexpectedly found that the blazing fire looked scary, but she did not feel any burning pain when she got closer.
Si Yan squatted down in front of Maguli.
Maguli was surprised to find a cool and soft air flow wrapping around her in the flames.
Not only did she not feel any pain, but she even felt unprecedented comfort.
She opened her eyes and saw a face that was exquisitely beautiful, sacred and inviolable through the flickering flames.
Maguli's voice trembled with excitement: "Yue, Lord Moon God?"
"Guli." Si Yan called her name softly: "You are a good girl."
Maguli's chest rose and fell violently, and an unprecedented hot emotion surged in her heart: "Lord Moon God, do you believe me? Am I really a good girl?"
Si Yan nodded seriously and reached out to touch her cheek: "Live well."
"Wow~"
Maguli couldn't bear such a surge of emotions in such a short period of time, and she burst into tears.
Her cries echoed through the raging flames and into the night sky.
The savages said.
"Look, the fire will burn her to ashes."
"You deserve it! This is what happens when you blaspheme the Moon Goddess!"
"I've been displeased with her for a long time, and I've been giving her troubles every day..."
"She is so skinny and weak, like a monkey, yet she still wants to be the chief's wife..."
The female savages felt particularly happy when they heard Maguli's loud crying.
It's just because of Maguli's intelligence that they look particularly stupid.
The wild people do not have rich and delicate emotions.
Kombu's sadness didn't last long.
He looked at the burning haystack and started thinking about where he should take his tribesmen to hunt tomorrow.
More food must be stored before the rainy season arrives.
The bows and spears of the tribe should be improved.
The last time he was hunting, he encountered a brown bear. He stabbed the bear several times, but not only did he fail to kill the bear, he also broke his spear.
When the brown bear knocked him to the ground, he suddenly remembered that Maguli had given him a wooden knife a few days ago.
Maguli said: "Kumbu, this knife is made of the hardest snakewood. I sharpened it for a long time, and I soaked the blade in the juice of Aconitum."
Konbu didn't care at the time.
What is snakewood? What is Aconitum?
Maguli always likes to give plants and trees some strange names, but no one cares what a blade of grass or a tree is called.
Kunbu saw that the knife was small and delicate, so he hung it around his waist as a decoration.
When Kombu was knocked to the ground by the brown bear and his life was in danger, he finally remembered the knife. He quickly pulled out the knife and stabbed the brown bear hard.
The brown bear died soon after.
Kumbu killed an adult brown bear by himself. When he returned to the tribe, the tribesmen praised him for his unparalleled bravery and said he was even braver than a great warrior.
Maguli stood behind the crowd and smiled shyly at him.
She was thin, with messy hair and black teeth showing when she smiled.
She liked him and valued him more than her own life.
He watched Maguli burn in the flames and heard her miserable cries, but the sadness in his heart did not last long.
When Kunbu came to his senses, he found that the haystack was almost burned out and the fire was dying down.
Maguli, who should have been burned to death, appeared in front of everyone unharmed.
The flames faded little by little from her hair, face, and arms.
It's like a new life.
Maguli's hair, which was originally messy and tangled, became smooth and shiny black.
Although her skin was still dark, it was much smoother than before.
After being calcined by the fierce fire, her whole body seemed to be glowing.
Kunbu ran forward with some surprise: "Guli, you are still alive!"
"Yes, Lady Moon Goddess said I was a good girl, and she told me to live well!"
Maguli used to like Kunbu very much and would rather exchange all the good luck in her life for the opportunity to marry Kunbu.
But now it's different.
She was enlightened by the Moon Goddess, and kelp was no longer enough to attract her.
In the days ahead, there will be very important things for her to do.
When Kunbu saw that Maguli was unharmed, he finally felt relieved.
He held Maguli with one hand and raised his arm with the other, shouting: "Lord Moon God has appeared. Maguli is innocent. She did not seduce Gongga, and she did not blaspheme Lord Moon God!"
"Lord Moon God has appeared!"
"Maguli is innocent!"
When the tribesmen wanted to capture Gong Ga and send him to the Cliff of Repentance, they found that Gong Ga had already escaped.
The next morning.
It's sunny.
Si Yan traveled through two different worlds in one night, and when he woke up on the small bed in the Si family grocery store, he was still full of energy.
She sat up and saw the gold and jade artifacts that filled half the room, and her head buzzed.
Can these things be used?
Could it be that they were like Si Yong and Li Xiuqin, who were possessed by evil spirits after using these things?