Chapter 15 Bad Boy – Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

There was a constant stream of Kya coming up the road, a couple of little boys with angry faces throwing rocks at me and us in the face, and Azza was unlucky enough to get red hanging out of the corner of his eye from a rock.

Aziza kept yelling and yelling, but the showman couldn’t be reasoned with, and before long we were carried to the bottle tree.

It was only now that I realized wholeheartedly why the bottle tree was solid earth here instead of yellow sand, and the rows of rocks piled up under the tree, which were deliberately made by the Kya people for the purpose of sacrificing to protect their tribal sacred tree.

They found tumbleweeds and rotten wood that could be burned and piled up three fires, and all the Kea people lay down on the ground and raised their hands above their heads and kowtowed reverently to the bottle tree. After kowtowing, an elderly Kya old man took the lead to get up, accompanied by his mouth chanting for a while, the fire was lit.

Three or five Kya held hands and danced in circles around the bottle tree, a dance that probably lasted close to ten minutes.

When they finished dancing, Azza was the first to be pushed toward the fire, so close that the heat burned my face.

“Holy shit grandma!” Azza cracked.

Xiao Xuan closed her eyes in fear, she didn’t dare to look, soon the next one would be the turn of the two of us.

Azza was lifted up with his stick, and just as he was about to be thrown into the fire, a sudden sharp cry came from behind him.

“Baggerk! Stop!”

A girl with glasses dressed in modern clothes, holding a torch in one hand, ran panting.

Why her?

I know this girl in a hurry, just arrived in Yinchuan when we went to see the Gan reporter, Gan reporter at that time, there is a girl with glasses next to her colleague, said this girl is that person.

The man who was called Baggerk blushed and reached out to touch the girl with the glasses.

The girl with the glasses said a bunch of things in Kya language angrily, and those Kya people’s faces clouded over as they listened.

The girl untied me.

She spoke standard Mandarin and said with an apologetic face, “Sorry everyone, I apologize to you on behalf of the Keya tribe. We’ve met before, I’m a fellow Gan reporter, so you guys can call me Huia.”

“You Kea tribe? You’re a Kya!” This sudden hijacking made me react a bit.

She nodded, “I am indeed a Kya, and the first Kya to go out of the tribe to go to school, no one else knew about it except for the Gan reporter, so don’t be offended, the God Tree is the spiritual support of our Kya, and it’s time to call it quits when things get like this.”

I was busy saying, “It was our fault in the first place, because we didn’t understand your tribal beliefs and got into trouble, we are willing to give some financial compensation.”

The girl laughed and said that money was useless to them Kya people, they were self-sufficient in food and clothing, and they wouldn’t go to the hospital if they were sick, so they usually didn’t use money at all.

“Thank you so much beautiful!” Azza had just stepped on the edge of the ghost gate, and was now in a state of hijacking.

On the way back to the tribe, the few strong men of the Kya people seemed to respect the girl, and from time to time, some of them came up to offer their services.

“Beauty, are we okay to go?” Azza asked.

“You can’t leave just yet, although I can talk my way around the tribe, I still have to convince the patriarch to drop your punishment, and the old patriarch of our Khojas has a lot of prestige in the tribe, so I’ll need a day or two.”

Probably afraid that we were worried, she added: “Don’t worry, I can guarantee your safety during this period, and food and drink will be sent to you at regular intervals.”

After spending a day and a half in the village, the girl named Huia did keep her promise, she convinced the old patriarch that the Kya ministry promised to spare our lives, but with one precondition, he demanded that the three of us had to sincerely kowtow to the bottle tree and apologize as a way of praying for forgiveness from the sacred tree.