Chapter 20: The One-Horn
The days have passed peacefully, and these days of recuperation, Qisheng has successively obtained a lot of information about this world from Duniang, although there are still many gaps and doubts, but he roughly knows several powerful countries, ethnic religions, races, and the existence of the most strange forces in this world...... Mirrorless ruins.
On that day, Duniang sat by the bonfire to sew clothes for Qisheng, Qisheng's original leather jacket was bitten by wolves, and it couldn't be worn.
A few days ago, at the market, she tore two pieces of cloth and planned to make a new set of clothes for Qisheng.
"Seven lives, hand me that pine horn. Duniang said, the pine horn was polished by Duniang for several days, ready to be made into a charm, and hung in the clothes of Qisheng to keep safe.
"According to the custom of our unicorn tribe, we must wear pine horns to underage children to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and keep them safe. ”
"My mother is also a one-horned person. Qisheng Dao, as long as Dad drinks a little wine, he will talk to her about her mother's affairs, and her ears are calloused, so although she has never seen her mother, she is no stranger to her mother's affairs.
"You're also a one-horn, where's your horn?" Duniang said with some excitement, immediately put down the needlework in her hand, and stroked Qisheng's smooth forehead with her hand.
"You are already five years old, the children of the unicorn clan will grow horns at the age of three, you have unicorn blood, but you don't have horns?" A trace of loss flashed in Duniang's eyes, it seems that the unicorn blood in this child has been diluted to the point that it can't grow horns, and if it goes on like this, the unicorn clan may really become a legend.
But then think about it, it's not a good thing to live in such a world and not grow horns.
"You don't have horns, you can hide your identity, and as long as no one reveals you, you don't have to be enslaved. ”
Then he grabbed Qisheng's shoulders as if he remembered something, and said solemnly and sternly: "Qisheng, you must remember that you don't tell anyone that you have a one-horned mother at any time." ”
Qisheng's shoulder was a little painful when she grabbed it, and it was the first time she had seen Duniang look so serious.
"Duniang, why does everyone hate the unicorn so much, why is it born as a slave as long as it is a unicorn?" Qisheng asked, she had seen many enslaved unicorns when she was on the farm.
They often do the hardest and most tiring work, but they have to live in the cowshed, eat the worst food, and are whipped like animals...
The unicorn is a special existence, the appearance is no different from ordinary people, but there are horns on the forehead, tall and strong, many people think that the unicorn is not a real person at all, so it has become a half-human and half-animal existence, known as the most despicable race in the world, and the status is even inferior to livestock.
"The single horn is a slave? No, the single horn is the !! of the gods," Duniang said solemnly.
Duniang told a story to Qisheng, a very long story.
According to legend, the unicorn clan was originally a holy domain god clan, and because it violated the way of heaven, it was punished to the mortal world. is also because of the relationship between the former gods, the one-horned man is strong, and the women are all beautiful.
Such legends are only circulated between the horns, and most of them are made up by the horns themselves, and there must be suspicions of self-promotion.
"The one-horned man was relegated to mortal hell and suffered from reincarnation purgatory, and the man was physically strong but could not resist the loose whip held by the mortal, and the pain of piercing the skin and burrowing into the bone marrow made them slaves for life. The woman was born with a beautiful skin, and she was possessed by a disaster, fell into the land of fireworks, and was a maid and a concubine for life. Even if you give birth to a noble heir, you are destined to not be recognized and die a good death. Speaking of the fate of the one-horned clan, Duniang couldn't hide the pain in her heart and clenched her fists.
The easiest way to tell a single horn is the horn on their forehead.
After several generations of intermarriage with mortals, there are also some unicorns who are born without horns, as is the case with the seven lives, but this does not mean that they can be exempted from slavery.
The identity of the unicorn adheres to the "one drop of blood principle", as long as one person is a single horn in the bloodline, then its descendants are unicorn no matter how many generations have passed, and they are born slaves.
Descendants who do not have horns will be more lucky, and they will be lucky enough to escape from the crowd and leave their homeland, but they may also live like ordinary people.
But for those horned one-horned, it is impossible to avoid the fate of lifelong slavery and servant, men can only do the most rough work or be recruited as male favorites to survive, and women are mostly prostitutes or maidservants for fun.
Naturally, there are many humiliating unicorns who abscond, but all unicorns will be collected from the day they are born, and those who know a little about Taoism can find them with a compass, and what awaits them will be the most cruel capital punishment.
Compared with those who were born slaves, Duniang is undoubtedly one of the lucky few.
She grew up at the foot of the Mirrorless Ruins, the most peaceful place in the world, where even a single horn could be treated kindly.
Duniang's talent is mediocre, and although she has been practicing diligently, she has never passed the assessment.
Her parents wanted her daughter to become a phoenix, so they dragged her into the famous sub-punishment workshop, and after several years of rigorous training, she finally passed the entrance examination of Wujingxu at the age of 15.
If she hadn't met him, her life would have been a different story.
The master is extremely strict with his disciples, except for the time to eat and sleep, they are all practicing, and the slightest slack will be punished, the only mother lives under high pressure all the year round, and her heart longs for freedom and yearns for a plain life.
Because she passed the assessment of the mirrorless ruins, the master gave her half a month of leave to reunite with her parents.
At the Lantern Festival, Duniang met him who came to worship.
At the age of 15, she was in her cardamom years, her spring heart was budding, and the other party was also a handsome young man and talented, so the two made a private decision for life.
At that time, the only mother seemed to be crazy, and there was nothing else in her mind except that person, so she ran away from home despite her parents' hindrance, and was later expelled from the master by the master, missing the opportunity to enter the mirrorless ruins to practice......
The young man said that he wanted to take Duniang back to his hometown, and the simple Duniang agreed without the slightest hesitation, but after arriving in the North Mo country, everything changed.
The young man had to marry the woman he dreamed of, and she could only be reduced to a concubine, and even so, the only lady who was blinded by her feelings followed him without regrets.
Half a year after the young man married his wife, he died of a serious illness.
At that time, Duniang was close to giving birth, and she was stimulated to have a difficult birth, she was originally a cultivation disciple, and the magic energy on her body was refined.
The wife knew that she couldn't touch her normally, so she poured soul exorcism grass on her when her magic ability was the weakest, and she had to disperse her cultivation in order to save the fetus.
Although the child was born, she was unable to protect her child after losing her cultivation, and was drowned by her wife shortly after birth, and she was also cut off her nose and sold as a slave.
The only mother lost her magic energy, her appearance was ruined, and everyone betrayed her relatives and left her ...... Since he has no shame to find his parents and masters, he can only survive in this world.