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Chapter 6 Yunchu was transformed from a stone baby
Selema took a sip of wild vegetable soup from the wooden bowl, looked into Yunchu's eyes and said, "I saw a huge doll, a huge doll as big as a mountain. At that time, that doll was sleeping on the ground, so It's so pitiful, so lonely, I want to take him home, but I can't move it... That doll is very big, and it's not soft at all, it's as hard as a rock."

Yun Chu's body stiffened for a moment, and he took a spoonful of wild vegetable soup from the pottery pot to add to her, and said with a smile, "In the end, that doll shrank and got into your stomach, and gave birth nine months later." Get off me?
Well, you've told this story countless times. "

Selema looked at Yunchu with flickering eyes, as if she had something very important to say.It could be seen from her expression that those words were very, very difficult to say.

Of course Yunchu knew what she wanted to say!

Even if I said that I suddenly turned into a baby and appeared at the feet of the Son of the Earth sculpture, no one would believe it, let alone when Selema picked him up like a thief and put him in his arms, the huge Son of the Earth The statue disappeared for no reason.

Rather than saying this, it would be better to say that I am the product of Selema's nine-month pregnancy.

The reason why Sailaima found it difficult to say this was because she was worried that once Yunchu knew that he was not her biological child, he would leave her to find his biological parents.

She was reluctant to give up such a good son... Which parent would be willing to give up such a good son?

At dawn, Naha was blowing her nose while she was still sleeping, while Selema got up early and took the herd of breeding sheep to drink water.

Yunchu went to a hill not far away to cut firewood.

Although the conversation last night was brief, a consensus was reached.

Huihe people who are used to living in the grasslands actually don't like to use firewood very much.

They are the only family in the tribe who really use firewood for heating all year round. Others prefer to use cow dung and camel dung.

If it was on the grassland where no firewood could be found, Yunchu would still understand, but since this is at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, it's not that firewood cannot be found.

They prefer to break up the collected, dry, broken, and wet cow dung, mix them with water, make them into cakes, and carefully stick them on the wall one by one, waiting to dry on the rock wall.

When pasting it on the wall, it should be the same size, neat and beautiful.

They don't treat cow dung like ordinary people treat fuel, but they have a different feeling for cow dung and cow dung fire.When burning buttered tea or cooking, the dry cow dung that is easy to ignite, smelling the fragrance of green grass when the dried cow dung is burning, watching the orange-red flame licking the clay pot or iron pot, at this time, the dancing flame And the gurgling sound in the pot will bring them joy, auspiciousness, safety and warm emotions.

Yunchu's family stopped using cow dung when he was able to get firewood and make charcoal by himself when he was six years old.

It’s not that I dislike the so-called fragrance of green grass, but I dislike the parasites in this thing. Exposure to the sun is not enough to kill the parasites in cow dung. As long as the thing sees a little water, it will hatch immediately, and then crawl all over the tent. Yes, charcoal and dry firewood do not have such concerns.

For this reason, Selema was wronged for a long time, because their family did not have dried cow dung to decorate their tents, and they were joked that their family was poor!
Not only this, the difference between Yunchu's family and other shepherd's families is that their family loves bathing fanatically!
Ordinary herdsmen only bathe three times in a lifetime, but Yunchu's family basically bathes once every three days, and they must also wash their feet every day!
If Selema didn't want to, Yunchu would pour the precious hot water into the big wooden bucket that cost two breeding sheep, and force Selema to take a bath with his stubborn eyes. As for Naha who doesn't like to take a bath, Yun Chu usually used the most brutal means to strip her naked and throw her into a wooden barrel, and then use plant ash to clean her hair and body vigorously while she was crying.

Shepherds and lice are almost lifelong good partners. Even Khan and Ketun have many of them. Perhaps because their bodies are not lacking in nutrients, the lice on their bodies will grow fatter!
However, only Yunchu's family doesn't have such a good partner. No matter whether it's Sailaima, Naha, or Yunchu, they don't have such a fat and good partner like Lice!

The leather robes of their family will always be the original color of the leather robes, and there will never be any grease wiped off deliberately when eating meat. Most importantly, the boots worn by the family of three will always be the kind of boots that have the shape of feet. Like other shepherds, they will not wrap cowhide on their feet at will, and step on a footprint, which is almost the same as a big cow's hoof.

And what separates Yunchu's family from other shepherds' families the most is food!

The shepherd's family eats wild vegetables, but Yunchu's family cooks and chops wild vegetables, adds wild onions, wild leeks, salt, squeezes a little sour plum juice, and pours burnt marmot oil on them before eating.

Instead of picking it off and stuffing it directly into the mouth like other shepherds.

Even the beef and mutton that herdsmen have eaten for thousands of years is the best made by Yunchu's family!

Especially the mutton boiled by Yunchu in white water, dipped in the leek flowers that they had marinated with salt, and served in the mouth together, as long as anyone who has eaten it, no one said it was not good.

In particular, the marmot of Yunchu Shao has long been praised by the shepherds who are lucky enough to taste it as a delicacy that only gods deserve to enjoy.

Therefore, the marmots that Yunchu's family ate most of the time were not tricked by Yunchu from Da Fei, but more than two marmots were caught by the tribesmen and given to Yunchu. When there was only a marmot, his one was also burned by the way.

When Yunchu came back from the hill with a bundle of high firewood on his back, Selema had finished feeding the breeding sheep, and the breeding sheep were also invited to their flock by the shepherds who needed breeding. Well, in the next ten days, Yunchu doesn't have to go out to herd sheep.

Naha has already woken up, and is sitting on the old sheepskin at the entrance of the tent, grabbing stones and playing with them. If you look carefully, you can see that the stones Naha is playing with are all crystal clear, and they are as white as solidified suet. Flowing moist luster.

Selema is weaving a cowhide horsewhip beside a wooden post at the entrance of the tent.

This whip is very long, a full two meters in length. It was custom-made by Bi Su Teqin at Yunchu's house. As long as this long whip can be handled, their family will not have to hand over the sheep to the tribe this year.

Yunchu piled up the firewood, washed his hands, and then took the leather whip from Selema and continued weaving. Selema's strength was not strong enough, and the strength was not evenly applied, so the weaving whip was a bit loose.

This is how Cypriots work, not only crude but also ugly.

Yun Chu rolled up the leather rope and started weaving again.

This thing is very precious. In the entire tribe, or in other words, among the tribes with such a large radius, Yunchu is the only one who can weave a really good leather rope. The whip is inlaid with various precious gems, and then the mouth is made of gold, and the anti-slip point on the handle is made of ruby ​​or sapphire.

All Huihe nobles are proud to have such a whip.

This is also one of the reasons why Da Aboge Salu dared not to kill Yunchu, and it is also one of the reasons why Bisu Teqin deliberately protected him. As for Bisu Teqin's words that he is optimistic about Yunchu, no one believes Just fools.

It's sad to say that the Huihe people have been nomadic for many years, but they can't even do things like weaving cowhide ropes.

They are still in the original era of three-strand weaving with 1 pressing 2, 3 pressing 2, and infinite loops. Yunchu has already entered the era of super weaving such as four-strand flat weaving, five-strand flat weaving, and magic weaving. Looking at the hundreds of small tribes around , only he can weave a strong and round cowhide whip.

When Yunchu was busy working, Naha got tired of playing with white stones, so she kept climbing up Yunchu's back. She liked to blow air into her brother's ears, and even more liked to bite with her mouth that lacked two teeth. The back of my brother's neck.

According to the customs of the Cypriots, Yunchu was already 13 years old, so he naturally became the owner of the tent they lived in.

That's right, to be precise, everyone who lives in this tent belongs to Yunchu alone, including Sailaima and Naha.

If Yunchu becomes a real Tiele man, then Selema will become Yunchu's wife... no matter whether Yunchu was born of Selema or not!
In fact, a son marrying his mother does not mean that a son can marry his own mother. However, some Tiele people don't seem to care much. Later, it seems that there are not many people who enforce this prohibition, and later, no one cares.

The living habits that Yun Chu had developed early on did not allow him to do this kind of thing, and he couldn't even think about it. Even if the slightest thought of this kind of thought appeared in his head, Yun Chu thought that he was no longer a human being.

This is why Yunchu wanted Seraima to take Naha to the Jiesijia tent. Once the tribe suffered a major population loss, Khan would not hesitate to give Seraima to other Huihe people The child, Naha, will also be sent to the tent of the great Aboga Salu, and when the child is eight years old, he will be able to serve men.

Fortunately, Jie Siga has always regarded Neha as his daughter. In fact, Yunchu also knew that Jie Siga was Naha's real father!

More than once, Selema's face was pink, and she ran out of the weeds out of breath, which was seen by Yunchu. After a while, Jie Siga would come out of the same weeds while wearing a belt.

It's not that he didn't think about taking the mother and daughter with him to trek thousands of miles back to the Tang Dynasty... It's a pity that this is an impossible thing to do.

(End of this chapter)