Chapter 2160 Heart Disease
At daybreak, Manbao and his crew had already packed up their convoy. Aina and Agugu followed the chief and the witch and escorted them to the official road.
As soon as they left, the people of the Tutu tribe also had to leave here and continue their migration.
After this separation, we may never see each other again in the future.
So Aina didn't leave immediately, but stayed with Agugu for a while, watching their convoy disappear before turning back.
They rode their horses to chase the tribe leader and witch in front of them. Agugu suddenly called her. Aina reined in her horse and looked back in confusion, "What's wrong?"
Aguya was a little excited, and his expression was a little complicated. "I thought you would leave with Miss Zhou. Are you staying because of me?"
Ayi Na was slightly stunned. "Did you hear that?"
Aguya nodded, "I just heard one sentence, and I've been afraid..."
Ayi Na smiled and said, "It's for you, but it's not just for you."
Agugu didn't believe it. After all, her relationship with the tribe was not harmonious. He once thought that she would run away secretly.
Ayi Na looked at the rolling hillside ahead, and Wu and the others who had already climbed up the hillside. "There are still many people I care about here. I don't want to leave, and I can't leave."
Agugu was puzzled. Aina's parents had passed away long ago, and her younger brother also died. The closest people to her now were her uncle's family, but they were not very nice to Aina either.
He was a little worried, "Ayi Na, do you hate Wu?"
Ayi Na said nothing and rode away on horseback.
Do you resent him?
She doesn't know herself.
He taught her many skills. Without him, she and her brother might have frozen to death years earlier.
However, his brother's death was also due to him, but it was not solely due to him.
Manbao was sitting in the car and looked back in the direction of Tutu tribe.
Bai Shan was reciting a lesson to Mr. Zhuang. He had just finished reciting a passage when he glanced out the window and asked, "What's wrong?"
Mr. Zhuang also looked at Manbao.
Manbao hesitated for a moment and then said, "Ayi Na slept in my tent last night. She had a lot of questions, and I don't understand them either, sir."
She said, "Ayi Na said she was in great pain and suffering every day. She asked me if there was any medicine that could cure her."
Mr. Zhuang said, "This is a heart disease. Heart disease requires heart medicine. What is her heart disease?"
"She feels very confused," Manbao thought of Ayi Na who had just stood by the road to see them off, and he felt a little down. "She and her brother have been dependent on each other since they were young. She said that if it weren't for the witch, they would have frozen to death when they were very young. Many of her skills were taught by the witch."
"But Wu sacrificed her brother." Manbao said, "But she knew that Gulu didn't believe that the gods could cure smallpox, nor did she think that the gods would bless them after offering sacrifices, but Gulu still sacrificed."
"She felt some resentment towards Gulu, but he told her that he was a witch and that he had to ensure the stability of the tribe. This was his responsibility as a witch. The sacrifice didn't necessarily have to be her brother, but if her brother drew something, then it was his. Everyone's life was the same. Even if she and her brother were pitiful, they couldn't let someone else take her brother's place."
"So she felt she couldn't resent Gulu, but she couldn't resent her tribe members either." Manbao said, "After she let her brother go and he was captured, some people resented and blamed her, but there were also people who helped and pitied her. However, these people were the reason her brother was sacrificed, and she herself didn't know whether she should resent them."
Mr. Zhuang was shocked. He didn't expect that the little girl had such a story, and... it was so complicated.
Bai Shan was also shocked, "She stayed here to seek revenge, didn't she?"
Manbao shook his head, "No, she wants to be a witch."
She still remembered the tone of Ayi Na's voice when she whispered these words last night. Her voice was small but firm.
Because it was dark, she couldn't see her expression, but Manbao could imagine that she must be very determined. "I don't know whether I should resent them. I feel very uncomfortable. I want to hate them, but it seems that I love them at the same time. But I know that no matter whether I resent or love them, I don't want what happened to my brother to happen again. So, I want to become a witch."
"Only by becoming a witch can I prevent such things."
But Manbao thought otherwise, "Sir, can she really stop something like this by becoming a witch?"
Mr. Zhuang was silent for a moment before saying, "If she's not civilized, she won't be able to stop it on her own."
He said, "If she can't comply with public opinion, then the Tutu tribe can replace her with a witch. A witch may seem inviolable, but that's only if she has enough support. If not, she's just an ordinary person."
Bai Shan said, "Since Gu Lu knows the truth, why doesn't he enlighten his people?"
Mr. Zhuang sighed, "Because the masses are ignorant, civilizing them requires a tremendous amount of manpower, material resources, and mental effort. They can't even afford to feed themselves, so how can we talk about civilizing them?"
An idea suddenly flashed through Manbao's mind, as if he had read it in a book somewhere. "So enlightenment may not necessarily be a good thing for them?"
Bai Shan disagreed, "But it's not necessarily a bad thing. What's wrong with being smart? Even if it means more disputes, being smart means you can earn more resources, be more likely to have enough food and clothing, and your descendants will live better."
"The enlightenment and intelligence of a few individuals will bring prosperity to those individuals, but the enlightenment of the group will bring prosperity and strength to the group." Bai Shan has seen many books that others have not read from Manbao. Some of these books have not even been seen by Mr. Zhuang and Bai Erlang. He thinks that the underworld must be a special world where the people not only have special abilities but are also very smart.
That wasn't just a few people, it was the entire world that was smarter than the people here. So, "If everyone in the world could be enlightened, the entire world would take a step forward and become more powerful than it is now."
Mr. Zhuang blinked and asked, "What does the world look like when it takes a step forward?"
Bai Shan said, "At least you won't have any problems with food and clothing, right?"
Manbao tilted his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Since everyone is civilized, that means everyone has read books, and everyone can read."
Mr. Zhuang laughed and said, "How difficult it is! Nowadays, there is only one literate household among a hundred households. If we want everyone to be literate, we must first ensure that every household has a literate person. That would be a hundred times better than it is now. If we want everyone to be literate, I wonder how many times better it would be than it is now."
He said, "Now the Great Jin is a rare and powerful nation. The surrounding vassal states all regard Your Majesty as the Heavenly Khan. Throughout history, there has never been a more powerful time than now."
So how can it be so easy to become a hundred times stronger than we are now?
Bai Shan and Man Bao thought so too. They nodded and sighed, "It's difficult."
Then Manbao asked, "How can we cure Ayi Na's heart disease?"
Mr. Zhuang said sympathetically, "That's up to her. If she can figure it out and find a way out, that would be best. If she can't, then she'll just continue to suffer and be confused. I just hope she stays true to her original intention and just remains confused, and doesn't become truly resentful. That would hurt not only others but herself as well."
See you at 10pm
This chapter was so hard to write
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