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Chapter 229: Ancient Events (2)

The boy looked at her strangely, his eyes less fierce than before.

Why not have him locked up in a cage full of thorns and kept under strict guard?

"Since you can calculate, why did you send people to investigate?" He ate the detoxifying grass.

"I'm not a god who can calculate every detail of everyone's experience."

Yun Xin sat down at the low table and picked up a piece of bamboo slips.
"You can be like my attendants here, instead of Qiang people."

"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?" Yun Xin looked up calmly.

She had already seen that the boy had no intention of running away, he only wanted revenge or death.

The boy looked at her in silence for a long time, and finally asked,

"You said you can tell life and death. I'm a little curious, what is my destiny?"

"I can help you calculate after I finish carving this piece." said Yun Xin.

The boy next to him was stunned and scratched his head.

Adults will not easily help people read their fortunes. She often says that it is a waste of her own energy. What's the point of reading it because the fortune is already determined.

Why today, I am willing to tell fortunes for a lowly Qiang man.

Could it be that this person's fate is very special?

It is indeed special and is related to the destiny of the State of Yu.

Therefore, one moment of this bamboo slip written by Xun Xin represents half a moon.

She did what she said. As long as the Qiang youth did not cause trouble, he would be given considerable freedom here and his daily meals would be the same as those of other servants.

The young man looked at the endless mountains expressionlessly. He was moved by the vast world he had not seen for a long time.

There were no cries of pain and despair from the Qiang people here. In the royal palace and the homes of ordinary nobles, the Qiang people were no different from livestock and were not even considered human beings.

And here, the twelve-year-old female servant was once a Qiang. Her whole family died. Four years ago, the priest Yunshen said that she had talent, so he brought her back from a noble family and let her take his surname.

He was a little envious, but he had no right to be envious.

Yun Xin would 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 to read again, let him help carve bamboo slips, and teach him to observe the stars and the terrain of mountains and rivers.

Tell him to look at his own destiny.

He understood the theory, but he couldn't see it, and couldn't even feel the slightest bit of the secret.

Every time this happened, she would look at him with regret.

It is useless to have a good memory or learn things quickly if you have no talent for study.

He thought that this might really be a blessed land where spiritual energy gathered. The peach trees, apricot trees, and melons she planted were all growing well.

At this moment, Yun Xin and several younger servants were standing by the stone eating melons.

The attendants' eyes lit up a little, "How sweet!"

"Mine is not cooked yet." said Yunyun, a little girl with two pigtails tied with red rope.

The slightly older attendant gave her another piece and said, "Eat this one, it's cooked."

Yun Xin saw the boy not far away and pointed at the melon in the lacquer plate. "Do you want to eat some?"

She is from Yu, the young man thought.

But standing there, looking at the sunlight falling on her, bright and soft, in the end I couldn't help it and walked over.

The sweet fruity fragrance flowed into the nostrils through the air and poured into the dead silent chest.

It was indeed very sweet, he had never tasted anything so sweet.

"What do you think? If you want to stay here, I can help you." Yun Xin smiled gently.

The boy's eyes were filled with emotion. His mother died after giving birth to him, and it was his mother's mother-in-law who took care of him when he was growing up. The children born to his father's other wife sometimes bullied him.

They weren't having a good time.

But after that day, his father's head was chopped off, his mother-in-law who had always taken care of him also died, and his brother, who had been strong since childhood, wanted to resist and was thrown into the cauldron.

Such a small tripod had to hold so many people. He would never forget that scene.

The remaining members of the tribe became prisoners of war and the lowest class of slaves in the State of Yu.

He watched everyone around him disappear in front of him, until he was the only one left.

He would be willing if none of these things happened.

But, there is no if.

Yun Xin looked at his expression and said, "I understand. It will take some time for the mountain god statue to be repaired. Think about it again."

She was the marquis of Youdi and a priest revered by the people of Yu. It was both easy and difficult for her to save her life.

She had calculated the boy's fate when she was observing the stars a few days ago.

They spent another two months together like this. The young man had become very skilled in carving oracle inscriptions and writing bamboo slips, and most of the work was done by him.

He also asked, wouldn't it be blasphemy to let the lowly Qiang people do these things?
Yun Xin 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 above the sky.

"What have you been doing these days, sir? I haven't seen her for a long time."

After hesitating for a long time, the boy couldn't help but ask, but he acted as if he just thought of it casually.

Most of Yunxin's attendants were young girls, and those who were asked were still a little afraid of this young man.

He entered the palace with a dagger and intended to assassinate you.

"No, I don't know. The priest said that she has something to do these days and asked us not to disturb her."

The young man responded, his dark eyes revealing a hint of depression.

He guessed that his life was coming to an end, but he couldn't help wanting to spend more time with her.

Haven't seen you for three days.

It was night when the two met again. Xin sat under the flickering candlelight, with bloodshot eyes, and talked about the results of her calculations.

"You left here, started a rebellion, and killed the king and princes of Yu, but the destiny is not in your hands, and you cannot replace them.
On the contrary, a years-long chaos has begun, and tens of thousands of civilians have been implicated. I will obey the will of heaven and stand on the side of the Yu State. You cannot win."

Yun Xin didn't say anything else.

After being tortured, his limbs and head would be chopped off and his body would be left exposed in the wilderness.

For three whole days, Yun Xin calculated again and again, trying to find a glimmer of hope.
But there is no life in destiny.

No wonder she couldn't calculate her own destiny. She knew the fate of everyone in the world and never interfered. When she crossed the river, she also calculated that the Yu State was in its heyday and there was room for it to go with the flow.

If death was inevitable, she would not intervene.

But this time, she wanted to give it a try.

"As long as there is a trace of destiny in you, I will help you."

Yun Xin closed her eyes. She also wanted to change the human sacrifice system.

But if she tried to go against the will of heaven and help him rebel and change the fate of the State of Yu, heaven would take her life before she succeeded.

Without her, there were other priests in the State of Yu, but there was no one behind him.

"If you stay here, you can live."

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. There is a deep blood feud. I am not worthy of forgetting everything and living on my own."

Even if he couldn't defeat destiny, he should die with his people.

I was stuck on this chapter all night, and finally finished it all night! It will be a little longer, about 2k6 words. I will come back to the details after I take a break~
It has been revised (because when this chapter was revised, the length increased by 1,500 words, and I was afraid that it would affect the reading, so I divided it into a chapter (I was too sleepy before, and didn’t handle the details well~))