The Wuman people do not have their own writing or calendar, so important things are passed down through oral tradition.
And some unimportant things will not be paid too much attention to.
Just like in the Wuman tribe, most of the elderly people have already forgotten how old they are.
The ghost master's age is also a mystery. Everyone only knows that he has been a ghost master for many years, but even he can't remember exactly how many years it is.
He had many children in his life, and if you include those who died in infancy, there would be more than thirty.
However, within the Wuman tribe, there is no hereditary inheritance system.
Every child in the clan will receive the blessing of the ghost master on the day of birth and coming-of-age ceremony. The ghost master will also use divination to determine the child's witchcraft power, and finally select the person with the highest witchcraft power as his heir.
Jia Lin has the highest witchcraft power among his peers, but he just happens to be the youngest son of the ghost master.
In addition to Jia Lin, there were three other people who were originally confirmed to have talent and were sent to the ghost master to be trained as heirs - Kuncheng, Jin Zheng and Qian Erjie.
These three people are all older than Jia Lin. Kuncheng, the eldest among them, is only two years younger than Jia Lin.
The person closest in age to Jia Lin is Qian Erjie. They are about three or four years apart.
When Jia Lin was born, Kuncheng and Jin Zheng were already studying with the ghost master.
When he almost started to remember, Qian Erjie was sent over.
Shen Tianshu suddenly remembered something and said: "Qi Fei seemed to have said before that if your legs become disabled, you will not be able to be a ghost master, and you will be dead, because the person who succeeds you as a ghost master will not let you go. ,What does it mean?
Does this mean that other people who are qualified to be the heirs of the Ghost Lord are suspects in this matter? "
"Is that what Qi Fei said?" Jia Lin suddenly seemed a little sad. He lowered his head and sighed, "Oh, a foreigner can see clearly better than me."
"Qi Fei warned me a long time ago, but instead of taking it seriously, I even blamed him for not bringing Da Qi's intrigues into our clan.
"He never said anything similar to me again, but he was always on guard for me."
Jialin grew up under the watch of Kuncheng and Jin Zheng, while he and Qian Erjie were friends who grew up together.
The three of them are even more familiar to him than his biological brothers, and they have always cared for him. It can be said that they are like father and brother.
Now that the suspect was suddenly identified among the three of them, Jialin couldn't accept it emotionally.
If these words were said by Qi Fei today, he might still brush them off without taking them seriously.
But even Li Zian and Shen Tianshu said this, which forced him to think about it and admit that what they said made sense.
Jia Lin felt a lot of emotion in his heart and was very tangled and struggling. Finally he took a breath and said: "Thank you very much for this matter, but you are outsiders after all and it is not convenient for you to participate. I will go to the great elder to discuss this matter." .”
Li Zian frowned and asked, "Is the Great Elder reliable? Recently, I think he is the one taking the lead in making trouble."
"Don't worry, the Great Elder has only been temporarily deceived. After knowing the truth, he will not be obsessed with it."
What Jia Lin said was very certain, because every ghost master would sign a blood contract with the chief elder of the clan, and they had a life-and-death relationship in which they would both prosper and suffer.
But this is a secret among the clan, so there is no need to tell outsiders.
Li Zian didn't know what was going on, but seeing how confident he looked, he didn't ask too much. He just said, "I hope so. We don't intend to get involved in your clan's affairs. We just hope you can get well as soon as possible." Get up and release our people so that we can return to Daqi as soon as possible."
"I'm really sorry for causing you trouble." Jia Lin felt a little embarrassed, and then asked Shen Tianshu, "Ms. Tong, do you have a way to detoxify my father's body?"
Shen Tianshu shook his head and said: "I can only roughly judge that the ghost master's life is not in danger. He just fell asleep after taking medicine. But what exactly he ate should be some herbs in your mountains. I can't judge the details."
Jia Lin frowned slightly. In this case, wouldn't it mean that he didn't even know when the ghost master would wake up?
But he still politely thanked Shen Tianshu and asked the elder to come over immediately to discuss matters.
The great elder refused to leave the ghost master, so as a last resort, Jia Lin had to have someone prepare a stretcher and carry him to the ghost master's room.
The great elder and Jia Lin closed the door and talked for a long time. No one knew what they talked about in the room.
It wasn't until evening that the elder came out of the room with a serious face, asked someone to send Jialin back to take medicine, and then closed the door again and returned to the inner room.
The Ghost Lord, who was originally lying on the bed unconscious, suddenly opened his eyes, sat up and said, "I told you, this kid Jialin is still very smart."
The Great Elder nodded and said: "I used to think that he was too simple and could only see the side of everything that the light shines on. Unexpectedly, his escape from death has made him more thoughtful.
"Before, there were people spreading rumors and instigating relationships behind my back. I had already vaguely felt that something was wrong. I didn't expect that they would start planning so early in order to achieve their own goals. Not only had they tampered with Jialin's leg injury long ago, , and now they dare to drug the ghost master, these people are simply crazy!"
The ghost master said in a deep voice: "The Xie family has occupied Juzhou City for a hundred years and has never interfered with us. That kid Jialin is simple and generous by nature. I have always been puzzled before. Why did he suddenly become so big?" conflict.
"Now it seems that there may be someone behind this who is adding fuel to the flames."
"Ghost Lord Holy Ming!" The Great Elder became more frightened as he thought about it, breaking into a cold sweat. "If the Ghost Lord hadn't seen through these villains' schemes, I might have fallen into their trap in anger."
Having just heard the news that the ghost master had fainted, the elder was shocked and frightened. The first thought that came to his mind was that Jialin was getting better day by day. Sure enough, it was by absorbing the ghost master's witchcraft power that he was now better. It was almost done, and the ghost master had already fainted.
If he hadn't secretly pinched him when he went to check on the ghost master, he might have actually asked someone to kill the witch Tong Niangzi.
When Lady Tong dies, the ghost master wakes up, and if something happens to Jialin's leg injury, it will become more and more clear that Lady Tong is a witch.
And if this happens, not only will he fall out with Da Qi's gang, but it will also delay Jialin's leg injury.
This man's scheming was so deep that if he hadn't just heard the analysis from Ghost Master and Jia Lin, the Great Elder would not have believed that there would be such a person in the clan.
"You stay here with me these two days. I want to see who is causing trouble behind the scenes."
"yes!"
