Chapter 19 Yalong River War (2)

Mei and Hu's first-generation descendants debated incessantly over who should own the crescent-shaped piece of land, no more than half a mile wide at its widest point. When they realized that this was going nowhere, they began to pray to the goddess Taf and her husband Bur to claim title to the land.Yet the couple could not come to an agreement on the matter, or rather they could not come to an agreement on anything.Bull supported the Huyi people. He told Guohu that her descendants would own the land and rule the city. This matter has been decided, even if the children become daughters.Tuff does have a sense of fair competition, but she really doesn't have any favors for the descendants of her husband's hundreds of illegitimate daughters, so she said that she lent May the cloak before Bull took possession of Hu, so Mei's rights are before Hu's, and this matter has been decided.

Bull took the advice of some of his granddaughters, who pointed out that the small piece of land west of the river had been part of Hu's father's family farm at least a century before Tave lent the cloak to May. Undoubtedly, they said, the cloak extended to Hu's father's farm, which was just a small oversight, and as long as Meiyuncheng offered some compensation, Hu Yicheng would be able to forgive him, on condition that he had sixty calves and ten bags of gold.One of the sacks of gold was to be beaten into gold leaf and covered over the altar of the temple of Bur in the city of Hui, so that the matter could be brought to an end.Tuff wasn't going to take anyone's advice.

She said she made no mistake when she said that the area covered by the cloak belonged to May. If the Meiyun wants to cover the Shining Taff altar in their city with gold leaf (which they already do), that's fine, but it won't have any effect on her decision, which is based on the immutable The facts are made, and as a god, you must not go back on your word. So both cities took up arms, and from this time on, Bull and Tave did not perform miracles again. Although people still believed in them, no matter how much the people of Meiyun and Huy prayed and pleaded, they still Did not show up.The two generations that followed were still feuding, and sometimes the Hui would send armed raiding parties across the river to the west bank they claimed.A section of the river itself, about a mile and a half long, is in dispute.