Chapter 228 Extra: Ancient Past Events (1)
I don’t know if it’s because the shop is close to the historical site.
Shen You tossed and turned, listening to the sound of snow outside the window, feeling sleepy in the early morning.
In the dream, the perspective kept changing, and it was all chaotic fragments with no logic. Finally, my consciousness seemed to melt into it, and the fragments pieced together to form a picture
This was a period when clans, tribes and dynasties existed simultaneously.
Materials were scarce, and the clothing was dull and ancient. Black and red were the most popular, and jade with simple shapes was a common attire for nobles.
Great witch, priest status is revered.
At that time, Youyunguan in the North was not a bitterly cold place. Except for winter, the climate was suitable and it was regarded as a blessed place full of spiritual energy.
A very high-standard palace stands on the top of the mountain. Just looking at the surrounding mountains, you can tell that the feng shui is excellent.
It’s the time when spring is cold and cold.
In the hall, there are several irregularly shaped slippers made of bamboo slices placed on a low lacquered table.
Before the woman wearing a black silk dress with red patterns on the collar and cuffs stepped forward, a cold feeling came from behind her, and a bronze dagger was pointed directly at her heart.
The next second, the young man holding the knife's pupils paused slightly. Under his disbelieving eyes, his body collapsed and the knife in his hand fell to the ground.
The woman in front of me just smiled and said,
"When I got up early this morning, I did a fortune telling for myself, so I ordered someone to add something to your food."
As she spoke, she pointed to a few mushrooms placed in a pottery bowl on the table, which didn't look like they were edible.
"Don't worry, it's not very toxic." She asked the attendant to get a piece of grass. "Eating it will detoxify it."
The young man who collapsed on the ground struggled to hold himself up. His slightly messy black hair and awkward posture could not hide his extremely beautiful face.
She has a delicate face and a very handsome appearance, but there is no trace of femininity. The ends of her eyes are dyed red, and her black eyes are cold and stern, as if they have been tempered with poison.
Assassinating a priest was the first priest to have a fiefdom in the Yu Kingdom. One can imagine how cruel the punishment he would face would be.
Death is no longer a punishment.
There was no trace of panic on the young man's face. Instead, he laughed, full of self-deprecation, "It was you who gave the order to kill my entire clan for sacrifice."
"Who said that!"
No matter how dignified and mature she was, she was still only a nineteen-year-old woman. Yu Guo could not get married until he was twenty. When she heard this, she couldn't bear it and threw the unfinished slip on the table.
"I never said human sacrifice."
Having said this, Yu Xin lowered her eyes, her tone was gentle and helpless,
"They sacrifice the lives of others in exchange for their own wishes. There is no such thing in the world."
The young man looked slightly wary, as if he didn't expect such words to come from the mouth of the priest of the Yu Kingdom.
"You know it's useless. Those tribes who are unwilling to surrender to the Yu Kingdom still become human sacrifices."
He recalled that during the years when he lost his name and became a prisoner of war, he had heard many stories about the priest surnamed Yu from others.
She was born in Youdi. On that day, there was an auspicious sign in the Yu State. The tribes that had been unable to attack for a long time were defeated, and the heavy rain in the capital stopped for days.
She could predict good and bad luck at the age of three, became a priest at the age of five, and was made a marquis at the age of fifteen, with a respected status.
The high priest in the palace could only hold her own. It was because she didn't want to go to the palace that someone else took that position.
"I can't change things that have been ingrained for hundreds of years." Yu Xin said.
"I can predict good and bad luck, and decide between life and death, but I am just an ordinary person, and destiny is not on me."
Not on this boy either.
Even if you force your way in, the result will not change.
"Ten years ago, when I was nine years old and you were seven, the king led his troops to attack your clan. It was indeed my time that prevented the Yu army from crossing the river during the heavy rain. I do not deny what I did. Your clan It was not my order, and it cannot be blamed on me." "Even if the Yu army did not avoid the heavy rain, your clan would have lost, and the prisoners of war would have been sacrificed to the river."
The State of Yu believed that those who died in the river would never be able to escape, so they had to offer sacrifices to the gods to get them back.
She risked revealing the secret, thinking she could put an end to human sacrifice.
She was young at that time and her thinking was too simple. How could the entire Yu Kingdom's faith be easily shaken.
They were not sacrificed to the river, but were dedicated to the royal ancestors and gods two years later in a grander ceremony.
Yu Xin had lived in the fiefdom for a long time, and told the outside world that she was in seclusion in the mountains. She only went to the palace of King Yu once four years ago to treat the queen.
The deadline is approaching, and it is useless no matter how many people outside pray for blessings.
In fact, she can cure it, but if she goes against the will, she will have to bear the consequences, and it will be her own life that is wasted.
Of course, Yu Xin can't do it. If you save someone once, there will be another person.
Although she has a title, food and salary, she has no right to mobilize troops in the fiefdom, and Youdi is close to the capital.
Complying with destiny, doing what she should do, compiling mountains and terrains, stargazing slips and documents, this is what her life should be like.
This is the best way to avoid marrying into the palace.
But she happened to meet this boy, the youngest child of the former clan leader, now a Qiang man without a name.
Looking too good is not a good thing.
The whole family died on the altar, but he was left alive until now, and was fed and fed well, which was different from the treatment of other slaves.
Because he was considered to be the highest-grade human being, a special text was even created to record it.
The reason why she was sent to Youdi is also very simple. It is the closest place to the statue of the god that is about to be carved, and it is also her place where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathers.
The Yu State has always revered the mountain gods, and they sent the sacrifices here in advance to use the spiritual energy here to cleanse the turbid air, which shows that they are serious about the sacrifices.
Sun Xin took the grass that had just been dug out from the ground behind, with mud still on the roots, from the attendant boy's hand and handed it over.
"Poisoning is a good way to die for me." He smiled nonchalantly, with a hint of madness, "You said yes, but you calculated that my way of death shouldn't be like this?"
Yuxin took a deep breath and remained calm,
"You are thinking too much. This poison cannot kill people. It will only make people dizzy and may see hallucinations."
"It's okay if you don't detoxify. You'll be fine after one night."
It's not that she feels bad.
She was very sure that this person would not die here!
His fate is very strange.
Only then did Yuxin look at him seriously. He was indeed good-looking. She had never seen such a good-looking person before.
Yu Xin sent someone to inquire, and then she found out that the young man in front of her had sneaked out and killed the defenders a few days ago and incited the prisoners of war to rebel. If they hadn't been betrayed, they would have sneaked into the king's palace.
It's a good thing that he didn't go in and it was a sacrifice to the gods, otherwise he would have had his feet chopped off and thrown into the insect cave.
The old priest in the palace who specialized in presiding over sacrificial ceremonies was scared. If something went wrong in his hands, he would not be able to explain it.
Fortunately, the person was sent to Yu Xin.
"Sir, why don't you add some mushrooms to him every day?" The twelve or thirteen-year-old boy whispered and stood behind Sun Xin.
This person is so beautiful that he doesn't look like a human anymore.
Yu Xin shook her head and put the antidote grass into his hand.
It’s up to him to eat it or not.
It’s true that the language must have been older at that time, but my strength is limited, so please don’t bother with QAQ
Mushrooms are mushrooms~