Chapter 274 Numbness
"Oh? She doesn't know either, just like I always thought I was a blue-armored man when I was a child?" Tie Hongyan asked.
"A bit like that. But the consequences of her true identity being confirmed are much more tragic than yours. You thought you were a Blue-Armored person, and you were confirmed to be the young patriarch of the Tiecang tribe, so you wouldn't have to worry about your life at all. But the fact that her nails turned blue proved that she was a Blue-Armored person, and she had no choice but to die. In fact, this is not her fault at all. She was bought by an elderly Tiecang person when she was still a baby. The old man had no children, so he raised her as his granddaughter, which made her think that she was also a Tiecang person since she was a child. Before the old man passed away, he told her that she was bought, but she still had no way of knowing that she was a Blue-Armored person. Maybe the old man who bought her didn't know that she was a Blue-Armored person himself. When she entered the Tiecang court to work, she reported her identity as a Tiecang person, and others always thought she really was. If she had reported herself as a Blue-Armored person, then the work she was asked to do would have been much more difficult, and in that case, she might not have lived to this year." Tie Jinjue said in a low voice.
"Uncle, are you very familiar with her?" Tie Hongyan asked in Tie Jinjue's ear.
"Not familiar. She told me all this after the incident." Tie Jinjue said.
"Uncle, you haven't answered my other question yet. Did Master Fei rescue her?" Tie Hongyan continued to whisper to him.
Tie Jinjue shook his head helplessly and said, "I just took her away on the road to prevent her from being thrown into the ditch...but she still couldn't escape death..."
"You mean...she...is dead?" Tie Hongyan was stunned and asked.
"When Master Fei took her away, she had already been fed poisoned wine."
Tie Hongyan's heart was hurt again. She said, "But she is innocent. She didn't know anything about it. This is unreasonable and unfair!"
"Haven't you seen enough unfair things in Tiecang Court? It doesn't seem new to you anymore, does it?" Tie Jinjue said.
"Yeah. It's nothing new. I've seen a lot more cruel things than this. But...just hearing this still makes me feel sad..."
Tie Jinjue said earnestly, "You are still sad, which is a good thing. Some people have seen too many cruel things and become numb. They no longer react when they see them again. They have seen too much darkness and forget about light. They think darkness is normal, or even should be, just because they are used to it. They are like zombies, facing countless cruel facts all day long and staring blankly. Their hearts are not touched. Even if they can reduce the darkness in this world by a little effort, they have no feeling and naturally are unwilling to do anything. What's more, because they have seen too much darkness, they think that people who yearn for light are childish and ridiculous. Not only are they numb, but they also regard numbness as a sign of a person's maturity, and use it to laugh at the naivety of those who have ideals."
Tie Hongyan listened quietly to Tie Jinjue's words. Although she could not fully understand the meaning of his words, she understood some of them and said, "Being used to it does not mean it should be so."
"That's right! It's great that you think this way now! You are still young, and I hope that when you grow up you won't become muddled by habit like those people. Uncle believes that you won't be like that!"
(End of this chapter)
