Chapter 455: Origin
Translator: Lonelytree
Xiao Yi couldn’t help but feel a little anxious. “Grandma, it’s true. The bad woman kidnapped Master Qi and used the others to force him to do bad things. The bad woman drugged him because she liked Master Qi and wanted to be with him. Master Qi didn’t agree, so Sister Xing had to kidnap that woman to bring her back with us.”
He sumd it up in a few words.
Grandmother looked at and sighed softly.
I thought for a mont. “How do you know my mother? She and my father died when I was six years old. I had a brain injury from the accident. I don’t have any previous mories, so I don’t rember my parents at all. Can you tell about them?”
My grandmother looked at tenderly. “I don’t know your father. When I t your mother, she was only eighteen or nineteen years old. She was young and full of vigor, but she was also hot-blooded. I was lucky to be her friend. However, after we were separated by fate, I lost contact with her. She was my only friend outside of the tribe.”
I was a little surprised. I didn’t expect her to have such a deep relationship with my mother.
She sighed again. “Do you know what is the origin of forget--not?”
Xiao Yi and I shook our heads.
Grandma’s gaze beca blurry, and her voice was soft. I needed to concentrate to hear her voice. “Where I ca from, there were many tribes and thus conflict. When tribal relationships are good, there’d be intermarriages. However, when there is conflict, the couples will suffer. Either the couples ran away together, or they beca mortal enemies.”
Scenes of fights appeared in my mind.
“Soone ca up with a way to cent intermarriages. They thought to combine witchcraft and herbs. The couples would take the drink together, a wedding ceremony of sorts. It ant that they would live and die together. If they separated due to tribal reasons or sothing else, then the couple would die a horrible death with blood oozing out of all their orifices.”
The gore made my heart tremble.
Xiao Yi asked, “But why would they choose such a drastic asure?”
His grandmother and I looked at each other. We knew the answer. Humans were often extremists. They wanted to be loyal to the tribe and also loyal to love. Since they couldn’t have both, they would destroy everything.
“Was there already a distance limit then?” I ignored Xiao Yi and asked the question in my heart.
Grandma shook her head. “No, even if husband and wife live together, it’s hard to keep them within 100 ters of each other. The dicine back then was more like a ceremonial oath. So might not even face the pain in their lives because their tribes might not have conflicts for generations. It was due to a stubborn priestess and her fear of betrayal that the dicine beca forget--not.”
“Did the poison stop her from being betrayed?” I asked.
Grandma smiled sadly, “Of course not. Once you worry about betrayal in a relationship, the relationship will end in a betrayal.. From the mont you have that thought, the ending is already destined.”
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