The red-mailed girl glared at Ding Ning hatefully and turned her head away in a fit of pique. She said impatiently, "I did lose but you didn't agree to the bet either, did you? There was no bet at all, so how can you go back on your word? "
Ding Ning was at a loss for words. He did not expect her to be waiting for him here. However, given the situation at that time, even if he was a hundred percent confident, he would never use his woman and child as a wager. That was the moral bottom line of a man.
"Hmph! Since you're not willing to tell us, we'll just kill you. Even if Linglong finds out about this later, she can't blame us. "
Kong Lei's expression was cold and murderous as she spoke.
Ding Ning glanced at her in surprise. When he saw that she was secretly signaling him with her eyes, he suddenly realized something and secretly scolded himself for being so stupid. The red-mole girl was not willing to tell him, but Qing Yu was obviously a coward who was afraid of death. In order to save her life, she would definitely tell him on her own.
He immediately nodded cooperatively, "Since they don't want to live, we'll just kill them all."
"Don't, Junior Sister Qing Meng. Why are you still so stubborn at this critical juncture?"
Qing Yu wailed in grief. When she saw that the red-mole girl had turned her head away and was not even looking at her, and Zi Que'er was walking towards her ferociously with a knife in her hand, the fear in her heart made her disregard everything else. She yelled out loudly, "Don't kill me! If she doesn't want to tell me, I will tell her! She is Ye Linglong's mother!"
"What?"
Ding Ning was instantly stunned. He had always suspected that the red-mailed girl was Ye Linglong's Master but he did not expect her to be Ye Linglong's mother. He was shocked.
However, he immediately felt that something was wrong. He stared at Qing Yu and said coldly, "Are you lying to me? Ye Linglong obviously has the bloodline of the Sacred Lady Tribe and has a bloodline curse. She is not even a member of the Sacred Lady Tribe. How can she be Linglong's mother? "
"Senior Sister Qing Yu, shut up."
The red-mailed girl was both embarrassed and angry as she shouted loudly.
However, Qing Yu was at a critical moment and Kong Lei would not allow her to interrupt. She waved her hand and sealed all the meridians in her body so that she could not even speak. She could only stare fiercely at Qing Yu and use her eyes to make her shut up.
Unfortunately, Qing Yu did not look at her. In order to save her own life, she recounted everything that had happened.
It turned out that the red mole girl's name was Ye Qing Meng and she was indeed not a member of the Sacred Maiden Tribe. She was an orphan brought back by the Old Matriarch of the Sacred Maiden Tribe two hundred years ago.
When Ye Qing Meng was still young, she had already displayed an extraordinary innate talent in the Dao of Arrays. The old clan leader took her in as his last disciple and treated her and Qing Yu, these outstanding disciples, as the foundation of the clan to be heavily nurtured.
The marriage system of the Sacred Maiden Tribe was extremely inhumane. Not to mention that if a man wanted to marry a Sacred Maiden, he must marry into the tribe. Once the tribe members got married, they would give birth to a boy and send him to live in the secular world. Only girls could stay in the tribe to receive the inheritance of the tribe.
But this was not absolute. The Sacred Maiden Tribe also had a very small quota every year. They could allow some people with special identities or who had made great contributions to the tribe to stay in the tribe after giving birth to a boy.
It was just that the boys left behind had an extremely low status in the Sacred Maiden Tribe. They lived in a fixed servant area and were responsible for farming, manufacturing, cooking, breeding, construction, herding, brewing, and so on. They were like servants.
But even so, this quota was still fought over every year. After all, even if they could not recognize each other, being able to see their children from afar was also a kind of comfort to these tribesmen.
And the Old Matriarch's son Ye Ling Han was one of these people. Although Ye Qing Meng was not a member of the Sacred Maiden Tribe, but when she had some small achievements in cultivation, the Old Matriarch intentionally or unintentionally created opportunities for them to interact. Ye Qing Meng gradually fell in love with the intelligent and quick-witted Ye Ling Han.
But at that time, she did not know that he was the son of her Master.
Not only her, other than a very small number of higher ups who were in charge of the registration of identity information, most of the tribesmen did not know that Ye Ling Han was the Old Matriarch's son.
Ye Qing Meng, such an outstanding talent, actually fell in love with a lowly servant, which caused a huge storm at that time. Fortunately, with the strong support of the Old Matriarch, the two finally got married.
Once these servant-like men were chosen as husbands by the tribesmen, their status would also increase. Although they were still not as noble as the women in the tribe, but they did not need to do those manual labor anymore.
Their days were relatively better, but they still did not have freedom. They could only move around in the servant area and near their own homes. All the areas where the women lived were forbidden to enter.
Of course, because the Sacred Maiden Tribe had more women than men, these men also shouldered another responsibility, which was to become the tool of the female tribesmen under specific conditions.
In other words, if a female tribesman took a fancy to a man, as long as the man's wife agreed, the female tribesmen could sleep in the same bed with the man until she was pregnant with a child.
Ye Ling Han could be fancied by Ye Qing Meng, so his looks were naturally not ordinary. Although those female tribesmen looked down on the people in the servant area, but they were still very interested in the "breeding pig" whose status had been raised.
Thus, Ye Qing Meng's trouble came. Many female tribesmen came to her door, wanting to borrow her man.
Ye Qing Meng truly loved Ye Ling Han, so naturally she was unwilling. But this kind of thing was strongly supported by the tribe. If she rejected too many, it would cause the dissatisfaction of the tribesmen. They would mock and ridicule her, hiding needles in silk floss, and said that she was extremely unbearable.
Ye Qing Meng happened to be pregnant at that time and was annoyed by these people. In a fit of anger, she announced that she would go into seclusion. If she wanted to borrow his seed, she went to discuss with Ye Ling Han. As long as he agreed, she had no objections.
This was great. She had escaped and left, but had left the pitiful Ye Ling Han to deal with those women alone.
It was because she had confidence in Ye Ling Han that she made such a move to escape, but she had neglected one point. Men, in the Sacred Maiden Tribe, had an extremely low status.
Ye Ling Han temporarily lost her backing, how could he withstand the coercion and temptation of those women. Very soon, he refused none of them and sank into the absurd life of having fun every night.
When Ye Qing Meng gave birth to the child and came out of seclusion, she found out that her man had become the famous "seeding machine" in the tribe. Angry and disappointed, she quarreled with Ye Ling Han and arranged for the child according to the tribe rules, she directly divorced Ye Ling Han and went into seclusion.
In the Sacred Maiden Tribe where women were superior to men, women had the right to divorce their husbands and there were many tribesmen like her who did so.
All the men who were divorced would have a more miserable fate. They would be sent back to the slave area as punishment, doing the heaviest and most tiring hard work, and would be beaten and scolded at every turn. Their status was even lower than ordinary slaves.
The Old Patriarch usually wouldn't ask about such matters but Ye Qing Meng didn't know that Ye Ling Han was her own son but her heart was as clear as a mirror. How could she bear to let her own son suffer like this.
So, the Old Clan Leader took the initiative to find Ye Qing Meng who was in seclusion and opened up about her and Ye Ling Han's mother-son relationship, moving her emotions and reasoning, hoping that she would be able to retract her orders. Even if they hated each other, could she give her face and use her man's name to ensure his safety for the rest of his life?
Ye Qing Meng was an orphan adopted by the old clan leader and regarded her as a benefactor. Besides, she and Ye Ling Han had true feelings for each other and it was also a decision made under a moment of impulse. She had long regretted it in her heart but she couldn't bring herself to reconcile with him.
Now that the Patriarch had come to beg her, it was equivalent to giving her a way out, so she immediately agreed.
But she didn't care.
She didn't expect that although Ye Ling Han grew up in a lowly slave village, he was extremely arrogant deep in his bones. After being divorced by Ye Qing Meng, he had nothing left to live for and in a fit of anger, he actually committed suicide.
By the time Ye Qing Meng arrived, Ye Ling Han had already become a cold corpse. The Old Clan Leader threw himself on his corpse and wept bitterly. Ye Qing Meng also felt as if she had been struck by lightning, crying her heart out.
Unfortunately, a big mistake had been made and everything was already irreversible. Ye Qing Meng from then on had a pure heart and few desires to concentrate on martial arts. The Old Clan Leader loved the house and accepted his own granddaughter Ye Ling Long as his disciple.
After her cultivation was successful, she took the initiative to enter the Demon Subduing Cave to suppress the eye of the array and never appeared again.
Ding Ning and the others sighed endlessly. They didn't expect Ye Ling Long's background to be so complicated. It was all because of the Sacred Maiden Tribe's damn rules that led to this tragedy.
Ye Qing Meng's face was already full of tears as she cried silently. Even if the matter had passed for decades, the old scars were once again reopened, revealing the bloody wounds inside, still made her heart ache as if it was being cut by a knife.
"They are all pitiful people, how could the Sacred Maiden Tribe have such abnormal clan rules."
He Ling Er's heart softened as she muttered with red eyes.
"The Sacred Maiden Tribe has been a matriarchal society since ancient times. Even if it has been passed down to this day, it still retains the ancient tradition. But as far as I know, even in ancient times, the Sacred Maiden Tribe's idea of women being superior to men was not so serious. I guess that the previous Sacred Maiden Tribe Patriarchs should have suffered from emotional pain and hated men very much, so they changed the clan rules beyond recognition, in order to retaliate against men."
Ding Ning touched his chin as he speculated with great wisdom.
"Young Hero is indeed wise and farsighted. The 137th Sacred Maiden Tribe Patriarch met a man by chance when she left the mountain to travel, but she didn't expect that she would be cheated of her money and sex by that man before he left. The former Patriarch was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy. She personally strangled him to death and then focused on martial arts without any distractions. She stood out among the many competitors and became the Sacred Maiden Tribe Patriarch. The first thing she did after taking office was to go out of the mountain alone with a sword to seek revenge on that heartless man. After capturing him back to the tribe, he was sentenced to death by a thousand cuts, but she used elixirs to keep him alive. No matter how he wailed and cried, he was exposed to the wind and sun for a total of 49 days before he was finally killed. This clan rule was changed when she was in office."
Qing Yu shamelessly flattered Ding Ning, but the past events she told made everyone shudder with fear. How twisted and perverted was the mentality of the one hundred and thirty-seventh chieftain of the Sacred Goddess Tribe? Not only did she torture a heartless person, she even strangled her own flesh and blood to death. How cruel and merciless was she to do such an inhumane thing? Qing Yu thought to herself.
"Even a vicious tiger won't eat its cubs. Your former Patriarch is too … abnormal."
He Ling 'er's little face was pale as she muttered in disgust.
"If she wasn't abnormal, why would the Sacred Maiden Tribe have such an abnormal clan rule?"
Kong Lei clenched her fists tightly as she spoke coldly. She wished that she was born in that era so that she could kill this cruel and merciless woman with her own hands.
"She's lucky. If she could live until now, I would definitely kill her with one slash."
Zi Que 'er said indignantly.
Qing Yu glanced at them in confusion, as if she could not understand why they were filled with righteous indignation. Were the clan rules that abnormal? She didn't think so.
Ding Ning could see the doubts in her heart and could not help but shake his head with a bitter smile.
Although they were already two to three hundred years old, they were usually either staying in the tribe or cultivating in seclusion. They had long been out of touch with society. How would they know what equality between men and women was, what a harmonious society was, what human rights were, what right and wrong were …
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