Chapter 4 — Fisherman And Eighteen Billions

"I didn't expect that praying for good weather and wind was a lie, taking the opportunity to scoop up money was the real thing." "Could it be that our lives in the district's eyes are no different than trash?" "Let's go and report to the royal state? Let the emperor behead this dog official!" In the crowd, I don't know who shouted the last sentence. "That's right, we're going to the capital to report to the royal state, we're going to complain." The sisters' chests were heaving, their eyes red. Mom, what do you think?” Sister Thu Ngo asked me in a low voice. I gnawed on the pig's head in my hand, not having time to talk. I haven't eaten anything since last night, and my stomach is already hungry to the point of gurgling. I ate half of the pig's head, and my stomach was finally full. "If we go to the palace, the only person who will die will be us." I wiped the corner of my mouth and said. "Why is that?" Everyone didn't dare to believe it. "Because the officials covered each other up! The district commander's superior certainly knew what the district commander had done, but he didn't say anything." "So if we report to the governor, I'm afraid we'll be killed before we even meet the emperor." When I was locked in the room, the two maids outside the door made everything very clear. The reason why the district commander dared to do so was because there was someone protecting him from above. Of the money he was greedy for, half of it was given to others. "So should we just ignore it like that, not even a place to reason?" Sister Lan Nhi gritted her teeth and asked me. "Yes!" I finished thinking about it last night. If I don't die, I will definitely make those who harmed me pay. "What way?" The sisters turned their heads one by one. I waved my finger, letting everyone come a little closer. 12 On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, the god Ha Than was born. To prevent water and fire during the flood season, every house in the district and city all offered sacrifices. At noon that day, in the city, an old fisherman caught a red carp and offered it to the district commander. When feeding the fish, a district official discovered that there was a foreign object in the fish's stomach. Using chopsticks to pick it out, it was a brocade towel, written on it: Te Ha god, you need a sixteen year old boy to be able to keep a place safe. The district was shocked and immediately posted new notices throughout the district. "From this year onwards, the Doan Ngo and Dong Sol offerings to the Ha Than will change to a sixteen-year-old boy. Decided by lot!" Someone read the notice. "How can that be? My family only has a single sprout, if we sacrifice to the Ha Than, wouldn't our Ly family's incense fire be broken?" "If the incense fire has already been broken, why do we still need good weather and peace in one direction?" Tran Ba was so angry that he almost did it. tore up the notice. "How can the Ha Gent need our son, is the district magistrate mistaken?" "That's right, if you need a daughter, that's fine, the girl is not worth the money. If you need a son, then it's not okay!" "I don't care if this is what Ha Than said or not, who dares to touch my son, I'll risk my life with him." "Yes, risk my life with him." "Now let's go to the district to find the district magistrate and ask him for it." clear!” The more people talked, the angrier they became, so they marched aggressively to the district. Who would have thought that the district command didn't take them into account at all, and even ordered the maids to beat up the leading people causing trouble. "Tomorrow the lottery will start, whoever's house will be drawn will be that house." To prevent anyone from running away, the district command moved the lottery time to the front. We also registered all the right-aged teenagers in the district, in case they escaped. "This time, the Ha god personally ordered a sixteen-year-old teenager, that is our blessing." "In one year, there are only two children, you just consider him joining the army, isn't it the same?" On the day of drawing lots, the district commander said to the common people. But I didn't expect that the first person to be drawn would be my brother. Shouldn't he have become friends with Hoa Nuong? Why was he chosen? 13I hid at the bottom

After watching the river, it was bustling and slowly swimming into the mountain. On the way, I thought of my sister and also of my mother. When my sister was born, her father almost threw her away. The mother begged to keep it, saying that after all, she had an older child and could look after her younger brother in the future. My brother and I are twins, father originally planned not to need me. But I'm afraid that my brother and I will be born at the same time. Throwing me away won't be good for my brother. That's why you keep me here. Since childhood, my brother scolded me and my sister if we didn't hit them, we couldn't fight back, we could only endure. Mom boiled eggs for my brother to eat. When I squatted on the ground to pick up egg shells to eat, my brother kicked me fiercely from behind. That one kick left me in pain for two months. "Isn't it true that their family has already met with retribution? They let their daughter replace their daughter-in-law without going through the gate to sacrifice to the Ha God, and the daughter-in-law ran away." "Butcher Truong did compensate their family with a lot of money, but that boy depended on having money, his eyes were higher than his head, and he started to be picky." "In my opinion, he deserved it! The sky has eyes." I boldly disguised myself as a man and went ashore, ending up in the gossip of the neighbors. also understand everything clearly. Hoa Nuong knew that I was sacrificing to the god Ha on her behalf, and did not want to marry her brother. She ran away one night, no one knew where she went.