Adi's Sacrifice

There has been a drought in the whole village for three years, and the goddess said that I would use my newly one-month-old brother to pray for rain. That night when my parents nodded with red eyes, I sneaked into the house of the goddess. But I heard her murmuring in her sleep: "Damn old man, you finally got your revenge for tricking me into drinking talisman water and making me a fool..." My whole body was cold and I was about to run away when she suddenly grabbed my wrist. She grinned in the darkness: "My dear granddaughter, what would happen if the whole village knew that it was your parents who voluntarily exchanged their sons for food?"