Kayaks kept coming on the road, and a few little boys threw stones at our faces with angry faces. Aza was unlucky, and the corners of his eyes turned red after being hit by stones.
Aza kept shouting and yelling, but the scholar could not explain clearly when he met the soldiers. Without much effort, we were carried to the bottle tree.
Now I finally understand why the bottle tree is made of solid soil instead of yellow sand, and the rows of stones piled under the tree were deliberately made by the Kayak people to worship and protect their tribal sacred tree.
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They found burnt tumbleweeds and rotten wood and built three fires. All the Kayak people lay on the ground and raised their hands above their heads, kowtowing devoutly to the bottle tree. After kowtowing, an elderly Kayak man took the lead.
He stood up, and as he muttered something for a while, the fire was lit.
Three or five Kayaks held hands and danced in circles around the bottle tree. The dance probably lasted for nearly ten minutes.
After they finished dancing, Aza was the first to be pushed towards the fire. He was so close that the heat wave made my face hurt.
Aza cursed loudly.
Xiaoxuan closed her eyes in fear. She didn't dare to look. It would be my turn next.
Azalian was lifted up with a stick, and just when he was about to be thrown into the fire, a sharp shout suddenly came from behind him.
"Bagok! Stop!"
A girl with glasses and modern clothes, holding a torch in one hand, ran over panting.
Why is it her?
I know this girl who came in a hurry. When we first arrived in Yinchuan, we went to see reporter Gan. At that time, there was a girl with glasses next to reporter Gan. He said he was her colleague, and this girl was that person.
The man who was called Bageck became happy and reached out to touch the girl with glasses.
The bespectacled girl angrily said a lot of words in Kayak language, and the Kayak people looked gloomy and uncertain after hearing this.
The girl helped me loosen my ties.
She spoke standard Mandarin and said with an apologetic look: "Sorry everyone, I apologize to you on behalf of the Keya tribe. We have met before. I am a colleague of reporter Gan, so you can call me Huiya."
"You are a Kayak tribe? You are a Kayak!" This sudden aftermath made me unable to react.
She nodded, "I am indeed a Kayak, and I am also the first Kayak to go to school from the tribe. No one else knows about it except reporter Gan. Don't be offended. The sacred tree is the spiritual sustenance of us Kayaks. What happened
In this case, it’s time to stop.”
I quickly said: "We were at fault in the first place. We caused trouble because we didn't understand your tribe's beliefs. We are willing to give you some financial compensation."
The girl smiled and said that money is of no use to the Kayak people. They are self-sufficient in food and clothing. They don't go to the hospital when they are sick. They don't need money at all.
"Thank you so much, beauty!" Aza just stepped on the edge of the gate of hell, and now he is in the state of surviving the disaster.
On the way back to the tribe, the strong Kayak men seemed to respect the girl very much, and from time to time someone came up to show her courtesy.
"Beauty, are we okay and can we leave?" Aza asked.
"You can't leave just yet. Although I can speak in the tribe, I still have to convince the patriarch to give up the punishment on you. Our old patriarch of the Kayak people has a high prestige in the tribe. I need a day or two."
Perhaps she was worried that we would be worried, so she added: "Don't worry, I can ensure your safety during this period, and I will send food and drink to you regularly."
After staying in the village for a day and a half, the girl named Hui Ya really kept her promise. She convinced the old patriarch that Ke Yabu promised to spare our lives, but there was a prerequisite. He asked the three of us to treat the bottle sincerely.
The tree kowtowed and apologized, asking the sacred tree for forgiveness.
