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#159 - Mongol 1: The Blood Clot

The History of China

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Huylun and the Taiichiu'd

The leadership of the Taichu'd clan had made themselves clear. Huylun and her family were on their own, a sentence of exile that was virtually synonymous with death. The man secretly planned to move down the course of the Unon River to their summer ground the following day without informing the widows of Yeisige. As for Huylun, she took up her husband's horsehair spirit banner,. mounted for horse, and rode in a circle around the Taiichiu group, abandoning them. This action, and likely fear of invoking the spiritual wrath ofYeisige should they abandon his family in his very presence, managed to convince almost half of the departing families to return

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