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Chapter 8 The Funeral of the Huihe People
The Uighur people's knowledge of medicine is still in the ignorant stage. Whenever the Uighur people get sick, the first person to come to the scene is definitely a witch who is said to have the power to fly sand and move stones.

They would cut their faces with knives and pray to Tengger to save the poor man in front of them. The more important the man's status, the bigger and longer the wounds they cut on their faces, and the more blood they bleed.

As for the unimportant ordinary shepherds, at most the witches will carry out hospice care and tell them that this trip will directly reach Tengger's arms without cutting their faces. To make yourself bleed.

Yunchu believed that the above-mentioned symptoms of Aconiti poisoning should have all appeared on Ge Salu's body, but they were ignored by this mountainous Uighur.

The mighty and mighty Uighur warriors would not die unless their heads fell off, otherwise, other things would be trivial. If possible, drinking a little hot wine would make all problems go away.

Places like the Western Regions are really amazing. In such a vast area, there are not many highly poisonous snakes. The poisonous snakes here are generally no more than one meter long. They are slender and timid. Only a few unlucky ones are killed. Poisonous snakes have been infested, which has led to the people in the Western Regions having little knowledge of poisons.

Senior Huihe people like Porun Khan may have some knowledge of poisons because they have a wide range of friends. In addition, some tribal khans were lucky enough to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, so they may have tried or seen the power of poisons.

After all, every time a princess of the Tang Dynasty arrived in the tribe, a large number of Khans' relatives, such as Ke Dun, princes, and secret agents, would die, and they all died inexplicably.

Even if other Huihe people were poisoned, they would directly and rudely attribute his death to disease or divine punishment.

Ge Salu's body may be really strong, and he should have had a poisonous reaction after taking the poison, but he didn't.

However, poison also exists, this thing is a precise knowledge, as long as you eat it, you will inevitably have a poisoning reaction.

Now, we can see whether Ge Salu's powerful body defeated the poison, or the poison defeated Ge Salu.

Yunchu is more optimistic about the latter.

After grilling another kebab, Naha sobbed and ate her own mutton, while looking at Da Abo in the distance who was eating the food that belonged to her with hatred eyes.

Selema ate three skewers of roast mutton in one go, and said to Yunchu in relief, "If you can't conflict with Da Abo, then don't conflict."

Yunchu also glanced at Ge Salu, and whispered: "Don't worry, there will be no more conflicts in the future."

Killing Ge Salu is hardly difficult for someone like Yunchu. Whether it is an ambush or an assassination, there is a great possibility of success. The difficulty is that killing Ge Salu cannot bring Selema and Any troubles in Naha can't even affect the process of the two of them entering the tent of Jaska.

Her own existence had already caused a lot of trouble for Selema, and because of Yunchu, Selema postponed her entry into Jaska's tent for six years.

It's time to politely leave.

The weather in Tianshan Mountains in May is like a child’s face. It changes as soon as it is said. The sun was shining just now, but as a dark cloud came over, snowflakes fell from the sky.

At the beginning, it was just some small snowflakes, and then it turned into big snow flakes, and finally the big snow flakes also turned into crystal clear ice flakes about one centimeter in length. In an instant, it was melted by the warm earth.

Jieska didn't talk to Yunchu about letting Selema and Naha into his tent until he left.

If he didn't say it, Yunchu couldn't help but say that two people who love each other can't be together because of him, it's a sin.

Of course, this is a noble way of saying it. The mean way of saying it is that Yunchu wants to go back to Datang, and these two people are his burdens.

Yunchu really didn't want to waste his precious second life on the grassland, wasting endless fighting and searching for food.

There are many, many things on the human table.

Food is definitely not the protagonist here.

The size of a person's heart is the size of his dining table.

How strong a person is, the variety of things on his table will be more abundant.

Yunchu's dining table can't just have Selema, Naha, cattle and sheep, and pastures, there should be more and more things.

After being reborn once, Yunchu realized that his ambitions had grown so large that even such a huge area as the Western Regions couldn't bear it.

The Tianshan Mountains, which had already entered the green grass period, snowed for another day because of a dark cloud. At night, the snow turned into rain again, and the rainwater fell on the ground and quickly condensed into ice.

The light-yellow green grass that had just grown was wrapped in ice, so crystal clear that it made people feel distressed.

The next day, what fell from the Tianshan Mountains was not snow, nor rain, nor hail, but a mixture of ice and water, which immediately turned into water when it landed on warm palms.

Such water is extremely cold!

Yunchu draped all the warm clothes at home on Selema's body, and the little Naha hid in Selema's robe.

The firepit in the tent was blazing, even so, Selema and Naha were still shivering from the cold, and the thin cowhide tent couldn't resist the cold outside at all.

If it wasn't for Yunchu's continuous use of clay pots to heat the sand around Sailaima and Naha, and to feed them hot broth, this colder night would have killed them.

Thin cowhide tents can't resist the cold, especially when the temperature suddenly drops after the weather gets warmer, it will make people feel even more unbearable.

Not only Yunchu's family of three huddled in the tent and did not dare to come out, but so did the rest of the shepherds.

Hungry cattle and sheep are mooing and bleating outside, without stopping for a moment.

Cattle and sheep are the life of a shepherd, but at this time, even the most diligent shepherd is unwilling to leave the tent to take care of the cattle and sheep.

When it snows, the shepherd is not afraid, because the snow will be blocked by the fur robe, and it will fall off after shaking.

The shepherd will not be afraid of rain, the rain will wet the outer layer of the leather robe at most, as long as he is willing to move more, he will not die.

Only this kind of ice rain is the most terrifying... When this thing falls on people, cattle and sheep, it will immediately turn into an ice shell to wrap people, cattle and sheep...

Therefore, patience has become the only choice for the shepherds.

Yunchu didn't like this kind of behavior called tenacity by later scholars at all.

Fortunately, this kind of weather usually doesn't last long, after all, it's already May, and the sun will come back.

On the third day, the sun came out. As soon as this thing came out, it made people's skin ache. Although it was still cold, people seemed to be locked in a huge microwave oven. They couldn't feel the heat, but they were anxious to cut Open up your chest.

The drastic changes in the weather are very unfriendly to people with lung diseases. The big Aboge Salu began to cough violently. When the sky was about to dawn, he could no longer cough and his face was flushed. Thick hands are constantly tearing at the chest.

First, the clothes were torn, and then the skin. Seeing how bloody his chest was scratched, everyone who witnessed this situation felt that Ge Salu wanted to grab his heart out.

Just when the sternum was looming, Ge Salu's convulsive body fell heavily into the pile of sheepskins, without making a sound.

No one doubted why this big Apo died.

Because, during this freezing rain, many people died, more cattle and sheep, and everyone was in a bad mood, so naturally no one paid attention to it.

When ordinary shepherds died, they would be thrown far away to be devoured by wild beasts and birds. Sometimes, in order to make it easier for wild beasts to bite, they would even strip off the dead man's clothes.

After the death of Da Apo, there will naturally be a set of rituals for the dead.

The witches cut their cheeks and smeared Ge Salu's face with their blood, hoping to gain Tengger's mercy.

After tossing until dawn, Ge Salu's body gradually became cold, and then the witches informed everyone that Big Abo was summoned by Tengger and went back.

People put the dead Gesalu in a tent, and they rode horses around the tent seven times. Gesalu's eldest son Mengsaka came to the entrance of the tent, cut his face with a knife, and lay on his face. It was the muddy ground where the wailing continued.

After a while, the wailing stopped, and the witch tested his breath, and found that Meng Saka followed her dear father to Tengger's arms because she was too sad.

Everyone is praising Mengsaka's loyalty, he would rather give up his own life, and follow his father to serve Tengger in heaven.

There were two corpses lying in one tent at the same time, and Ge Salu's relatives were in a lot of trouble. They needed to ride horses around the tent seven times, and find someone who was closest to the two dead people to open the door curtain. By the way, cut two knives on the face.

When this process was completed, they set the bodies of the two dead men on the fire, with their clothes and saddles.

The relative who cut his face was very worried that he would be summoned away by Ge Salu, so he only cut a little oily skin and bleed a little, so he was very much looking forward to completing the Huihe funeral belonging to two people as soon as possible.

After the people and objects are turned into ashes, put two piles of ashes in a sheepskin bag and hang them in the tent, and then find a place to dig a pit to bury them after the new weeds turn yellow this year.

When Big Apo died, the people in the two hundred tents had to come out to mourn in silence. Yunchu carried Naha on his back and took Selema to participate in the final ceremony of silence.

In the crowd of silent mourners, Yunchu saw Jieska. Although Jiesgar looked very sad at this time, Yunchu could tell from the gestures that he changed from eagle claws to tiger claws from time to time, this guy's mood at this time It must be very enjoyable and exciting.

If the Huihe people died in spring and summer, they could only be buried when the vegetation was withered and yellow. If they died in autumn and winter, they had to wait until the vegetation was verdant.

During the burial, a knife was used to cut the face and bleed, expressing condolences to the deceased, just like the death, which was very painful and troublesome.

This set of rituals was actually learned from the Turkic people, and the attitude of the Tiele people to use it is still very good.

When a person dies, there is nothing left, just like the death of the great Aboge Salu, his influence in the tribe immediately disappears.

Yunchu has done everything he can do, and if Jieska still can't take advantage of this opportunity to take the position, Yunchu has no choice but to prove that Jieska is not suitable to be an official and is a really bad person.

(End of this chapter)