The Blessed (Book 5)

941 - 956

941. The Wusun Tribe; The Past (2)
Translator: Guy Gone Bad

The old man held his breath to say so much and couldn't help coughing violently again. Ling Jingxuan stood up and gently helped him pat his back to smoothen his breath for him. Yan Shengrui also silently poured him another bowl of water. The old man moistened his throat and raised his hand to stop them, saying, "No, don't worry about me. Let me finish first. The reason why the Wusun tribe is the largest tribe in Nanjiang is totally because the founding emperor that year went out from our Wusun tribe.

Many people are now unaware of this, but the secret wall that only every leader knows about is clearly recorded what's happened in histories. It is a sad story. The founding emperor was the eldest son of the clan leader, with outstanding abilities and strength. However, he cannot inherit the position as the clan leader because he did not have the red eyes that symbolized the clan leader. The succession of each Wusun tribe leader is not based on their abilities or whether he is the legitimate son or not like you people, but relying on a pair of red eyes. Each clan leader would have a red-eyed child. If there are two or more, it will be considered ominous, and the red-eyed child born later would be burned alive.

The eldest son of the clan leader was a capable and ambitious person who quietly left Wusun tribe when he reached adulthood. Later, it was learned that he had led people from other tribes to capture Nanjiang city, which is the current Enan City, and then married his beloved girl. And the old clan leader at that time no longer sent people to search for him.

Years later, he unified the central plains and created a prosperous era of the Qing Kingdom. The old clan leader left a will before his death, stating that the Wusun tribe and the Yan imperial family are the same lineage and could never be enemies forever! The successive leaders and elders of Wusun tribe are all aware of this, and when necessary, we need to assist the King of Nanjiang in maintaining peace between Nanjiang and the court. In this way, until the later leaders kept passing away, the Wusun tribe gradually forgot about the emperor's thing. People of the Wusun tribe have no connections from the outside world, and apart from going out of the mountains to exchange medicinal herbs and fur for some food, they rarely go out. For generations, we have lived a self-sufficient life.

Unexpectedly, this kind of peaceful life was lost to the lies of the Jiang family. After I was harmed by the Jiang family, two elders also died after sending me here. Without the red-eyes that symbolizes my identity, and I also lost both my legs. I could only rely on my familiarity with medicinal herbs and settled down in Shanhai Tribe. It was not that I had never thought about to notify our Wusun tribe, but I really couldn't. Shanhai Tribe is the deepest tribe in the deep mountains of the entire Nanjiang. Many people are not even aware of their existence, and they do not usually go out of the mountains, so my message cannot be sent out at all.

About twenty years ago, I lost to loneliness and despair, and married an ugly woman who couldn't get even find a second man who would marry her, then gave birth to Jinghong, and I thought I might end up my life in here. Unexpectedly, just over three years ago, Jinghong gave birth to a daughter with the red eyes. At that moment, it was like a slap in the face, and I finally remembered my identity and responsibility. But people in the here think that red eyes are an ominous sign. They tried to burn her. My wife died when trying to protect the child, and my daughter-in-law also suffered brain damage due to that child. In the end, we had to leave the tribe and move to this col that could be submerged by the sea at any time. Even so, people of Shanhai Tribe still feel uneasy and come to force us occasionally. And the little ambition that I regained after the birth of the child gradually faded away..."

At the end of his words, the old man's eyes were filled with milky white liquid. A pair of red eyes was a symbol of absolute power in Wusun tribe, but here Shanhai tribe, they were the incarnation of demons and ghosts.