Noticing Yang Jinyu's gaze, Jian Ning shook his head slightly. With so many people in the room, it was inconvenient to discuss the details. After midnight, Jian Ning asked Cao to send the children who were accompanying the bride to their rooms to rest, citing the need to get up early. Only then did he tell Yang Jinyu about Ah Man's changes.
Jian Ning only said that Ah Man's personality changed drastically because of Huo Jincheng's death, and did not tell him about Ding Youtian's dream or Ah Man's words. Yang Jinyu was anxious, "Master, Ah Man will not take out her anger on you because of Jincheng's death, and plant the seeds of resentment in her heart, right?"
"No." Jian Ning sighed softly, "Man'er is different from ordinary people. When she was seven years old, she went with me to rescue Xiaomai. At that time, she could communicate with Brother Qiu using ventriloquism. I just thought she was smart or gifted. But in fact, she is not. Man'er's mother is the saint of the Ganao tribe. Her mother must have cast some kind of witchcraft on her. Perhaps Jincheng's death stimulated her and awakened the witchcraft power in her body."
"In short, Man'er is a good child. She just has a different temperament than before."
Yang Jinyu had also witnessed the power of wizards and sorcerers on the battlefield, so when she heard Jian Ning say that A'man's mother had cast a spell on her, she felt that this was possible.
Jane Ning's guess was right. Ah Man slept on the same bed with Da Niu tonight. After Da Niu fell asleep, she held the slug pendant in her hand, tears streaming down her face.
Ever since Ah Man could remember, the only person who poured all his love into her without reservation was her father Huo Jincheng.
At one point, she thought that apart from her master Wei Dong, the most powerful person in the world was her father!
For a teenage girl, without her mother, her father was her whole world! Huo Jincheng's death was like a bolt from the blue for her. When she was seriously ill and on the verge of death, a voice suddenly rang in her mind. The voice was extremely soft. It was her mother Hua Rou speaking to her.
Ah Man's mother is a saint. The Ganao people believe in Goddess Bai Ze all their lives. The saints of all generations have sworn an oath in blood in front of the statue of Goddess Bai Ze, never betraying the tribe and never marrying men from other tribes. If they break their oath, not only they themselves but also the men they marry will be punished by heaven!
However, when Hua Rou rejected the marriage proposal of Li Shang, Nanuo Shen's master, Li Shang blamed the Ganao people for their evil ways and instigated Pei Xiyuan's father to decree the extermination of the Ganao people. Hua Rou led the people in resistance, but how could a tribe of a thousand people be a match for the tens of thousands of elite soldiers led by a wizard?
In times of crisis, Lady Bai Ze failed to appear and protect them, and in that battle, the Ganao tribe was nearly wiped out. To preserve the Ganao bloodline, Hua Rou fought tooth and nail to stop Li Shang, ordering several elders to send her brother and a group of children away. Finally, when she was left alone, she turned and jumped off a cliff.
But Hua Rou did not die. When she jumped, she startled a goshawk that was perched on a cliff and happened to fall on the hawk's back. The hawk was frightened and flew around, and finally dropped her on the grass. She thus saved her life!
After many treks, Hua Rou returned to the sacred land of her Ganao people. Li Shang had already withdrawn his troops, leaving the sacred land in a bloody mess and a dead place. Only Qiu Ge, who had managed to escape during the battle, remained alive. Hua Rou tearfully buried her people and, in a fit of rage, destroyed the statue of Bai Ze Niangniang. Then, she and Qiu Ge left the sacred land to search for her brother and the children of the tribe.
However, the elders and a group of children were chased and killed by the Moon Soldiers. In order to preserve their bloodline, the elders fled with the children. Later, Hua Xinzi was rescued by Wu Yunzhu and brought back to Yunwu Mountain.
Hua Rou released the poisonous insect and started her journey to look for her younger brother and the children of the tribe. Because everyone had scattered, she first followed the poisonous insect to the Western Regions. She searched for more than ten years until Wu Yunzhu traveled through time and Feng Qingzi and his two brothers went down the mountain and parted ways. She was exhausted and took Brother Qiu back to the holy land for a while.
The holy land was already desolate, so Hua Rou finally took Qiu Ge with her and set out again on a journey to search for Hua Xinzi and her tribe.
Setting out again, Hua Rou tried to head towards the Central Plains. She had initially held out hope, as the people of the Central Plains hated witchcraft and didn't believe in the White Ze Goddess. They, the Ganao people, usually didn't go there. But with nowhere else to go, she tried to release the Gu worm, but it didn't track down Feng Qingzi, who had already killed Hua Xinzi and still had the scent of Hua Xinzi on him.
Hua Rou then went to the valley and accidentally saved Duan Xinning.
When she was fighting with Feng Qingzi, the usually timid Qiu Ge hid again. It was also during that time that he was abducted by Feng Qingzi. At that time, Feng Qingzi had been poisoned by Hua Xinzi and cut off his own legs to save his life.
Although Brother Qiu is cowardly and timid, Hua Rou raised him when he was still a young snake. Hua Rou's lightness skills are superb, and his fighting skills are comparable to Li Shang. He is not inferior to Feng Qingzi's Central Plains cultivation skills. However, Feng Qingzi is accompanied by Rizhao, a traitor of the Ganao tribe, and a group of disciples.
In order to rescue Qiu Ge, Hua Rou clung to Feng Qingzi and followed him all the way to the capital. She took the opportunity when Feng Qingzi went to meet King Yong to sneak into the Taoist temple and rescued Qiu Ge.
It was during that time when she was being chased by Feng Qingzi's men that she met Huo Jincheng who was riding a horse back from the palace. It was late at night and the streets were deserted. When she heard the sound of horse hooves coming towards her and heard him shouting, Hua Rou signaled Qiu Ge to hide. She thought it was a soldier on night patrol and ran towards the sound of horse hooves, shouting for help.
Huo Jincheng was wearing the official uniform of the guard commander and had a sword on his waist. Feng Qingzi's men didn't dare to provoke him and turned around and ran away.
In this way, Hua Rou met Huo Jincheng. She looked weak and helpless, which immediately aroused Huo Jincheng's desire to protect her. However, because she already knew that Hua Xinzi died at the hands of Feng Qingzi, and the traitor Rizhao made her lose the desire to find her clan members, she followed Huo Jincheng wholeheartedly.
Hua Rou had originally thought she and Huo Jincheng would live happily ever after, but who knew that the day she stopped the Imperial Tutor from leaving court and announced her pregnancy with Huo Jincheng's child, she unexpectedly saw Xiao Shi, a eunuch-like figure resembling Hua Xinzi, dressed in eunuch uniform and speaking with a shrill voice. During their fight, Feng Qingzi had promised to send her to reunite with Hua Xinzi's family, leading Hua Rou to believe that her brother and his family had been killed by Feng Qingzi.
She didn't want her brother to die, but instead, Xiao Shi became a eunuch in the palace. She believed it was a punishment from the White Lady. She became depressed and haunted by nightmares, even the fact that she couldn't find Hua Xinzi was also a punishment from the White Lady.
If A'man was a boy, Hua Rou could still survive, because a girl born by a saint can only be a saint. If it was a boy, it meant that she was worrying too much and Queen Bai Ze did not punish her.
But as the months went by, she used witchcraft to sense that she was carrying a girl, shattering the last ray of hope in her heart!
When she was about to give birth, after being drugged by Yunniang, in order to prevent Ah Man from repeating her mistakes in the future and to apologize to Empress Bai Ze, she used her last bit of strength to transfer all her witchcraft into Ah Man's body.
After Huo Jincheng buried her, Qiu Ge, who had been hiding under a cave in the rockery in the garden, roamed out at night to look for her and fell into Feng Qingzi's hands again. He even became his mount for a while until he met A Man and was freed.
In the dark, everything seems to be destined.
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