Chapter 1047 is a headache!
In less than five minutes, Ah Qing finished the whole bowl of meat porridge.
"Bloody!" Ah Qing touched his round belly and burped.
"Okay, okay, after you finish eating, go out with mother to help." Asu urged.
"Ah, it's bad luck. When you were away during the day, a few wild beasts broke in and wreaked havoc on the tribe."
"But fortunately, no one was injured or killed. The wild beasts just passed by this tribe and quickly ran away."
"But many houses have been damaged, and the chief is now planning to gather the tribesmen to help rebuild them."
"I understand, mother." Ah Qing nodded silently.
He was so excited when he just came back that he ignored the collapsed houses.
"That's great. I'll give these herbs to the clan leader as well."
After saying that, Ah Qing picked up the woven basket again and followed Ah Su out of the house.
The two came to the center of the tribe.
At this moment, a stone statue more than five meters high stands in the center of the tribe, surrounded by a large number of bonfires.
This stone statue is lifelike and looks like a leopard, with an upright and majestic posture.
The most eye-catching thing is the crescent mark carved on the forehead of the stone statue. Its lines are smooth and natural, just like the light from the bright moon hanging high in the night sky, emitting charming glow.
This is the patron saint of the tribe.
There is also a similar mark on Ah Qing's forehead.
Not only Ah Qing, but all the members of the tribe have the same crescent-shaped mark engraved on their foreheads.
This mark is the special rune engraved for them by the guardian angel.
Around the stone statue, Ah Qing saw a large number of tribesmen gathered there, laughing and talking to each other.
When they saw Ah Qing and Ah Su coming, they greeted them warmly.
In the crowd, just below the stone statue, sat a middle-aged man wearing white animal skins.
The middle-aged man had a rough face, but had extremely dark and smooth long black hair, which looked very incongruous.
Beside him, there were several tribesmen with extremely respectful expressions.
It is not difficult to guess the identity of this middle-aged man. He is the tribe’s patriarch, Mo Shan.
Seeing Ah Qing, Mo Shan's stern face also showed a smile.
"Ah Qing, I heard that you collected a lot of herbs in Yaoshan today?"
"Look, chief!" Ah Qing couldn't wait to hand the woven basket to Mo Shan.
"These are the herbs I collected today."
Mo Shan took the basket and looked at it, then nodded with great satisfaction: "Yes, it's good, there are indeed a lot of herbs."
"At least I can get hundreds of kilograms of beast meat."
"Tomorrow, I will ask others to take these herbs to the market to sell them and see if we can exchange them for more animal meat."
"Ah Qing, you did a good job."
"Hehe, thank you for the compliment, Patriarch." Ah Qing smiled embarrassedly.
"Chief, with these herbs, will the tribe's sacrifice be enough this time?"
"Oh." Mo Shan heard this, smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"It's my fault that I'm useless as the clan leader. The sacrifice this time is far from enough."
"Otherwise, I wouldn't let you youngsters risk your lives to go to Yaoshan to collect herbs."
After these words were spoken, Ah Qing and other tribesmen present became anxious.
"Chief, please don't say that. This is what we should do." Ah Qing said anxiously.
"Yes, Chief, this is not just your problem. It's also because our tribesmen are too weak and don't have enough strength to hunt wild beasts."
"This is definitely not your fault, Patriarch."
Seeing this, everyone rushed forward to comfort Mo Shan.
For a while, voices of concern came one after another, but this did not improve Mo Shan's mood at all.
After a long while, Mo Shan finally raised his hand and signaled everyone to stop.
He slowly raised his head, and his originally dull eyes became extremely deep as he looked straight at the tall and solemn stone statue.
Then, he slowly opened his lips and said in a slightly guilty and self-blaming tone:
"Ah, in the end, we are the ones who are sorry to the guardian angel."
He let out a long sigh, as if he wanted to let out all the troubles in his heart.
"We don't have enough offerings to provide to the guardian god, causing his power to continue to weaken."
"If this continues..."
Having said this, Mo Shan suddenly paused, a trace of worry appearing on his face.
At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly shouted indignantly:
"Even if the power of the guardian god has weakened, so what? For us, it has not provided any substantial help at all!"
As soon as this person finished speaking, he was immediately echoed by the people around him.
Another person immediately said, "That's right! The power given to us by the guardian god can't help us hunt wild beasts at all. So where can we get so many sacrifices to offer to it?"
"Yeah, it's really not our fault."
Mo Shan was shocked when he heard this: "Shut up! It is our honor that the guardian god chose our weak tribe. Don't say that again!"
His voice exploded in everyone's ears like thunder. For a moment, everyone was frightened and silent, not daring to say another word.
Seeing this, Mo Shan knelt on his knees without hesitation, and turned back to shout to the crowd behind him: "Everyone, kneel down quickly, sincerely apologize to the guardian god, and pray for its forgiveness and pardon!"
Before he finished speaking, Mo Shan was the first to bow his head, muttering something, with an extremely pious and respectful attitude.
Seeing this, the others followed suit, kneeling on the ground in unison, and shouting in unison: "Master Guardian, please calm down, please forgive our ignorance and offense..."
"Guardian God is above."
"I'm sorry for offending you just now, please don't take it to heart, Guardian God."
"We have absolutely no second thoughts and are completely devoted to the Lord Guardian."
"We will definitely try our best to gather the offerings, please don't blame us, Lord Guardian."
After saying this, Mo Shan led everyone in kowtowing continuously.
During the whole process, the stone statue did not react at all and just stood there quietly.
However, Mo Shan knew that the guardian angel should have forgiven them.
After bowing, he and everyone stood up again.
"Well, the guardian god has been magnanimous and has forgiven us."
"Remember, if anyone makes a statement like today again, leave this tribe immediately!"
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone responded immediately.
In this cruel world full of wild beasts, the tribe is home, and the tribe with a patron saint is a safe haven.
If they were expelled, they would definitely not survive for long.
Although I have been forgiven by the patron saint, the problem still exists.
The strength of their tribe is too weak, and the problem of sacrifice has not been solved, which is really a headache.
