Chapter - 368 East And West are Forever APart Like Orion And Antares (2) (1/2)
”Taj-kis?” Zhao Min wondered, ”Is that Mrs. Han? How come her name is so strange?”
”She is a Persian,” Xie Xun said, ”That is a Persian name.”
Zhang Wuji, Zhao Min and Zhou Zhiruo were stunned; ”She is a Persian?” they asked almost simultaneously.
”Can't you all see?” Xie Xun was surprised, ”She was born of a mixed marriage between a Chinese and a Persian. Her hair and eyes are black, but her nose is high and her eyes deep; her skin is as white as snow; greatly different from the women of the Central Plains. It is so easy to distinguish.”
”No, no!” Zhao Min said, ”Her nose is low, her eyes are like a pair of slits on her face; completely different from your description. Zhang Gongzi, isn't that right?”
”That's right,” Zhang Wuji said, ”Could it be that she is like Ku Toutuo, deliberately destroying her own face?”
”Who is Ku Toutuo?” Xie Xun asked.
”He is the Ming Cult's Guang Ming You Shi [right emissary of the brightness], Fan Yao,” Zhang Wuji replied. Thereupon he briefly told him how Fan Yao had destroyed his face and entered the RuyangPalace as a spy.
Xie Xun sighed, ”This act by Fan Xiong [brother Fan], done in pain and suffering, was a great merit to our Cult; not everybody is capable of doing that. Ay, part of it was also because of Mrs. Han's affair.”
”Laoye Zi,” Zhao Min said, ”Please don't keep us in suspense. Why don't you tell us everything from beginning to the end?”
”Hmm,” Xie Xun raised his head up and was lost in thought for half a day before he slowly said, ”Twenty some years ago, the Ming Cult was quite prosperous under Yang Jiaozhu's leadership. One particular day three Persian foreigners suddenly appeared at the BrightnessPeak, to deliver the personal letter of the Persian Central Cult's Jiaozhu addressed to Yang Jiaozhu. The letter said that the Persian Central Cult had a Jing Shan Shizhe [lit. clean and virtuous emissary], who was Chinese. He had lived in Persia for a long time; joined the Ming Cult, and rendered quite a few meritorious services. He married a Persian woman and had a daughter. This Jing Shan Shizhe passed away a year ago. On his deathbed he remembered his native land and wished his daughter be sent to China. The Central Cult's Jiaozhu honored his wish and thus dispatched some people to escort his daughter to the BrightnessPeak; hoping that the Central Earth's Ming Cult would look after her.
Yang Jiaozhu readily agreed and invited the daughter to come in. As that young woman entered the main hall, immediately it was as if the hall was filled with a glorious light; nothing could describe her glaring beauty. As she knelt down to pay her respects toward Yang Jiaozhu, there wasn't any one who was not shaken among everybody in that hall, including the Left and Right Brightness Emissaries, the three Protector Kings, the Five Wanderers and the Five-Element Flags.