Chapter 229 Extra: Ancient Past (2)
The young man looked at her strangely, his eyes less fierce than before.
Why don't they put him in a cage full of thorns and keep him under strict supervision?
"If you don't know how to calculate, why do you send people to ask about my affairs?" He ate the antidote.
"I'm not a god. I can calculate everyone's experience in detail."
Yuxin sat down at the low table, picked up a piece of slip,
"You can be like my attendant here, not a Qiang person."
"Aren't you afraid that I will run away? The high priest in the palace is very worried." The young man smiled softly.
"Do you want to run?" Yuxin looked up calmly.
She had already seen that the boy didn't want to run away at all, he just wanted revenge or death.
The young man looked at her in silence for a long time, and finally asked,
"You said you can decide between life and death. I'm a little curious. What is my destiny?"
"When I finish carving this piece, I can help you do the math." Yuxin said.
The children on the side were stunned and raised their hands to scratch their heads.
Adults don't easily tell people's fortunes. She often said that it takes a lot of energy to read, but it doesn't matter. The fate is already determined.
Why are you willing to make predictions for a humble Qiang man today?
Could it be that this person's destiny is very special?
It is indeed special and related to the national destiny of Yu State.
Therefore, the moment of this slip is half a month.
She kept her promise. As long as the Qiang youth did not cause trouble, they would have considerable freedom here and their daily meals would be the same as those of other attendants.
The young man looked at the endless mountains with an expressionless face, and he was moved by the vastness of the world that he had not seen for a long time.
There are no painful and desperate cries of the Qiang people here. In the royal palace and the homes of ordinary nobles, the Qiang people are no different from animals, not even human beings.
And here, the twelve-year-old female attendant was once a Qiang, and her whole family was dead. Four years ago, the priest Yuxin said she had talent, so he brought her back from a noble family and asked her to follow him surname.
He was a little envious, but he had no right to be envious.
Yu Xin will grow herbs and fruits with everyone, and teach them medical skills.
The high priest in the palace would not treat these people so kindly, let alone teach them anything.
She was even willing to teach him how to read again, let him help carve slips, and teach him stargazing and mountains and terrain.
Said to let him see his own destiny.
He understood the theory, but he couldn't see it, couldn't even feel the secret of heaven.
Every time at this time, she would look at him with regret.
It is useless to have no talent for practice, good memory, and quick learning.
He thought that this might be a blessed place where spiritual energy gathered. The peach trees, apricot trees, and melons she planted all grew very well.
At this moment, Yu Xin and several younger attendants were standing by the stone, chewing melons.
The attendants' eyes lit up a bit, "It's so sweet!"
"I'm not familiar with this." The little girl Guanyun, who had two pigtails tied with red rope, said.
The slightly older attendant gave her a piece and said, "Eat this, it's cooked."
Yuxin saw the young man not far away and pointed at the melon in the lacquer plate. "Would you like something to eat?"
She is from Yu country, the young man thought.
But standing there, looking at the sunlight falling on her body, bright and soft, she finally couldn't help it and walked over.
The sweet fruity aroma spreads into the nose along the air and pours into the deathly silent chest.
It was indeed very sweet. He had never tasted anything so sweet.
"How about it? If you want to stay here, I can help you." Yuxin smiled gently.
The young man's eyes were filled with emotions. His mother died after giving birth to him, and his mother-in-law took care of him when he grew up. The children of his father's other wife sometimes bullied him.
They weren't doing well.
But after that day, his father's head was chopped off, and his mother-in-law, who had been taking care of him, also died. His brother, who had been strong since he was a child, wanted to resist and was thrown into the cauldron.
Such a small cauldron had to hold so many people. He would never forget that sight.
The remaining tribesmen became prisoners of war and the lowest slaves in the Yu Kingdom.
He watched everyone around him disappear in front of him, until only him remained.
If none of these things existed, he would.
But, there is no if.
Yuxin looked at his expression and said, "I know, it will take some time to repair the mountain god statue, please think about it again."
She had already calculated the boy's fate while stargazing a few days ago.
They got along like this for another two months. The young man became very skilled at carving inscriptions and writing slips, and he did most of the work for him.
He also asked, wouldn't it be blasphemous to let the lowly Qiang people do these things?
She just smiled and said that she had never seen God, but a glimpse of the secret told her that in the eyes of God, there is no difference between people in the world.
The God she was talking about was the elusive and invisible destiny and rules in the sky.
"What are you doing these days? You haven't seen her yet."
After hesitating for a long time, he couldn't help but ask, just acting as if he thought of it accidentally.
Most of Yu Xin's attendants were little girls, and the person in question was still a little afraid of this young man.
He entered the palace with a dagger and wanted to assassinate the Lord.
"No, I don't know. The priest said that she is busy these days, so we should not disturb her."
The young man responded, his dark eyes looking a little downcast.
He guessed that he was about to die, but he couldn't help but want to spend more time with her.
Haven't seen him for three days.
It was evening when the two met again. Yuxin sat under the flickering candlelight, with bloodshot eyes, talking about the results of her calculations,
"You left here, launched a rebellion, and killed the king and princes of Yu State, but the destiny is not on you, and you cannot replace it,
On the contrary, the chaos that lasted for several years began, and tens of thousands of civilians were implicated. I will comply with the destiny and stand on the side of the Yu Kingdom. You can't win."
Yu Xin did not say any more.
After torture, his limbs and head would be chopped off and his body would be exposed in the wilderness.
For three whole days, Yu Xin calculated over and over again, trying to find a glimmer of hope.
But there is no life in life.
No wonder, she couldn't calculate her own destiny. She understood the destiny of the world and never interfered. When she crossed the river, she also calculated that the fortune of the Yu Kingdom was in full swing, and she had room to follow the trend.
If death was inevitable, she would not intervene.
But this time, she wanted to try.
"As long as there is a trace of destiny in you, I will help you."
Yuxin closed her eyes. She also wanted to change the human sacrifice system, but this was a dead end.
If she forced herself to go against the will of heaven and help him rebel and change the fate of the Yu Kingdom, fate would kill her before she could succeed.
In the end, we have to return to the starting point. Without her, there are other priests in the Yu Kingdom. There is no one behind him, and destiny prevents him from winning.
"You stay here and you can live." This is what she can do.
Hearing this, the young man raised his eyes, looked at her deeply, and spoke in a very soft voice.
"All my people died in the Yu Kingdom, and there was a blood feud. I don't deserve to forget everything and live on my own."
Over the years, whenever he closed his eyes, he would see what they looked like when they were still alive. How could he forget them, even though he had never received much honor since he was a child.
Even if he can't win the destiny, he should die together with his tribe.
This chapter was stuck all night and I finally finished it! The length will be a little longer at 2k6 hundred words. I will come back to the details that need to be revised after I take a break~
It has been revised (because when this chapter was changed, the length increased by 1,500 words, and I was afraid that it would affect the viewing, so I divided it into a chapter (I was too sleepy before and the details were not handled well~))