Outside the cave, the atmosphere was even more tense.
Yuan Ni and Ruan Zeqiu were punished to kneel in front of the holy fla. There was no other way around it. Last night, when they returned to the cave, they were greeted by a really furious Chief Xie. As soon as she saw the two of them, she twisted their ears and gave them an earful. What was even more infuriating was that the Priestess didn’t even glance at her precious and only grandson before announcing that they should be punished in the sa manner as soone who had broken the rules and gone against the orders that were passed down.
And if this was not humiliating enough, the clearing was full of won. The elders, warriors and scouts – they were all watching them with interest. So low-ranking scouts even let out a titter or two as they looked at the two of them kneeling in front of the holy flas like they were so naughty children.
"Grandma!" Yuan Ni exclaid when he heard soone laugh at him once again. He said to Priestess Yuan, "I said I was sorry; can you forgive ? Please?"
Priestess Yuan didn’t feel any pity for her grandson; in fact, she felt that his punishnt was not enough. This brat was getting more and more atrocious. He even dared to throw caution to the wind and brought Ruan Chanchan to the small mountains. She spoke in a calm and resonant voice, "Yuan Ni, do you even know what you have done? You have endangered Ruan Chanchan’s life. If sothing were to have happened to her yesterday, what would you have done? Have you forgotten that she is blessed by the beast goddess? If sothing had happened to her, then even ten of you wouldn’t have been able to make up for the loss!"
Yuan Ni pursed his lips. He said to his grandmother, "I was just fulfilling the request that she made. It’s not like I did it willingly."
"Silence!"
"You need to understand that there are so things that you cannot do even if Ruan Chanchan asks you to do them. She has lived all her life in the tribe; she doesn’t know the reality, the risks and the dangers of going outside the tribe, but you and Zeqiu do understand them, right? How can you agree to her request when you know what might be waiting for you all outside?"
Priestess Yuan didn’t think that Yuan Ni and Ruan Zeqiu were as innocent as they made themselves out to be. They might have brought Ruan Chanchan out of the tribe just because she asked them, but that didn’t an they had to. These two brats must have had so hidden intentions that they were not telling her. She knew her grandson. Given that he was getting chummy with Ruan Chanchan, it was no surprise that the r was acting up in front of her.
Surely, he wanted to show off in front of her.
As for Ruan Zeqiu, she didn’t have any idea about what this r was after, but she knew that there had to be sothing. When she thought about how these two rs caused such chaos just because they wanted to get sothing in return. Just this matter alone made Priestess Yuan grit her teeth in anger. She wished she could make the bottoms of these two brats bloom like a red flower.
"You both will be punished for your mistake."
Priestess Yuan snorted angrily. "Don’t think that you will be able to escape the punishnt just because you gave it your all to protect her. It was you two who caused the trouble to begin with!"
After she finished speaking, she was about to leave, but before she could do that, one of the elders stepped forward. She looked at the two rs and then spoke in a loud, commanding voice, "Is that it? Are you going to leave the two of them alone just after making them kneel?"
With a twist of her waist, she said to the priestess, "I an... look at them; they brought unnecessary dangers and risks to Ruan Chanchan’s head. You are forgetting that the woman is the one who can bring salt to the tribe in case of ergency, and she is the one who also brought those blessed things given by what—" She turned to look at the rest of the elders. "What did she say when she said that she handed those blessed instant noodles to us?"
"She said that it ca from a sacred land called capitalism."
"That’s right. She is the one who brought these blessed things from the sacred lands called capitalism. If sothing had happened to her, what do you think would have happened to our tribe?" The elders had long understood that there was no point in trying to go against Ruan Chanchan. Her influence, thanks to the blessing of the beast goddess, was getting more and more widespread. Even if they tried to go against it, there was no way they could suppress her.
So instead of suppressing her, they decided to try to control her. Restraining her activities and making sure that she was forced to listen to them.
She turned to look at Yuan Ni and Ruan Zeqiu before saying to them, "I am not being harsh, but they need to be punished properly, even if one of them is the brother of the blessed one and the other is the priest of the tribe. If we don’t deal with them today, then I am worried that the next ti soone will think that it is fine to make things difficult for the blessed Holy One. I think so harsh punishnt will be better."
With a wicked smile on her lips, she said to Priestess Yuan, "I think punishing Ruan Zeqiu to be confined to periter duty for a month and not entering the inner tribe...as well as banning him from seeing the blessed one, is a much better punishnt?"
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