Chapter 210: Shamanic Duties
Chapter 210: Shamanic Duties
The two were very happy to hear it. Kent said: "I am both a person of rules, I can speak Chinese, I can write Chinese characters, as long as I wear Han clothes, I will be like Han people." β
Su Jien immediately decided to say: "Let's set off early tomorrow morning, and today you can get two Han horses and a few Han clothes." Now let's go out for lunch together, and then you prepare your bags, and I'll get two of your business documents, and it's convenient to stay along the way. β
After the meal, Kent and Su Jien went to prepare for tomorrow's departure, and Su Haier took her cousin Hu Qian into the medicinal herb market in the clouds. He thought that since they were merchants, they should be like merchants. He was going to buy all the money he was carrying into medicinal herbs and take them home to let his mother open a medical center.
Under Hu Qian's staff, they bought medicinal materials needed for common diseases such as licorice, astragalus, forsythia, bupleurum, etc., and a small number of valuable medicinal materials such as deer antler, ginseng, Suoyang, etc.
Early the next morning, four Han people dressed in Hanfu carried their own bags, four sleek Han horses, and bright saddles. After the saddle, he bundled the baled medicinal herbs, beat the horse out of Yunzhong County, and galloped south along the Han Straight Road.
In the second year after Su Wu returned, Hu Qian and Kent secretly beat horses to Chang'an, although they were also dressed as Han Chinese, but they did not have documents, and they did not dare to stay for fear of being questioned by the post station......
The one, despite the picturesque summer months, was not in the mood to look at the scenery along the road. This time, I will definitely take a look at the customs along the way.
After crossing the Yellow River, they looked at the cultivated land on the plains, and the green wheat seedlings stood stubbornly in the severe cold, remembering that the wind was howling and the snow was falling in the north, and it was a severe cold, and it would be nearly half a year......
It is still good in Handi, the climate is mild in winter, and the wind and snow are not big, no wonder the Hu people go to Han to loot grain......
Hai'er looked at her cousin in contemplation: "Brother, what do you think?"
"It's still a good climate!" Hu Qian sighed.
Su Haier thought, I must let Hu Di's family not go back to Chang'an, but also find a way to let them live in the Huhan borderland. "Brother, many things can only be done by finding opportunities
of!"
"You're right. β
The weather is nice these days, and although the nights are very cold, the sun is shining during the day. Two days later they arrived at the old hunter's house, where they rested for the night, and the next morning they crossed the mountains...... Three days later, they rushed to the post station north of Longshan.
Over Longshan, there is basically no mountain barrier, it is the mound area of the loess mound slope, densely populated, and the road is easy to walk. Su Jien looked at the tired party and said, "Let's rest here for a day, get up early the day after tomorrow and hurry, and strive to run out of the Longshan area in one day!"
Su Hai'er happily: "If we get there, we will rush home one day!"
As long as you have documents and money, there will be people who will manage the livestock for you, and you don't need to worry about food and grass. The next day, they slept until almost noon, got up and washed up and had lunch, and Su Jien took the three of them for a walk around.
They walked into the ravine next to the inn and suddenly found a big bad wolf running from the ravine with a child's back in its mouth. Someone in the back shouted, "The wolf has eaten the doll!"
Seeing this, Hai'er quickly drew the dagger from the side of the leather boot and threw it at the wolf's waist, the sharp dagger pierced into the wolf's waist and abdomen, and the wolf threw the child away in pain, and fell to the ground and howled after not running a few steps.
Hu Qian hurriedly jumped up and picked up the three or four-year-old child, and the doll cried wow. He hurriedly lifted the doll's cotton coat to check the wound, and there were several wolf tooth marks on the doll's small back, bleeding.
Haile rushed to the wolf, stepped on the wolf, pulled out the dagger, and stabbed the wolf twice in the neck, killing the wolf instantly
At this time, the grandparents of the doll stumbled and cried and ran out of the ravine, saw the doll, knelt down and kowtowed to them: "Thank you! Thank you for saving your life!"
It turned out that their family lived in a ravine, and today, the son and daughter-in-law went out to the market to see that the weather was good, and asked them to take care of the doll at home. The two of them played in front of the door with dolls. The doll squatted on the ground and, the old man went into the house to get a shovel, and a wolf pounced on the doll and ran away......
Su Jien and Kent hurriedly helped the two old men and comforted them, "The doll is fine!"
Hu Qian untied the small medicine skin bag he was carrying from his waist, took out a pill in it, chewed half of it into a paste, pasted it on the tooth wound of the doll that had been bitten by the wolf, handed the other half of the pill to the old man and said, "I'm sticking it to the doll tomorrow, and it'll be fine!"
"Thank you, thank you, benefactor!" the two old men hugged the doll and saluted.
Su Jien asked, "Old man, how many families are there where you live?"
"There are several families in the ditch. Our home is a mile from here. β
"I suggest that your family move out and live next to the inn, and there will be no danger!" he said.
"My son and daughter-in-law will go back to the market and sell the furs and game they have accumulated from hunting, and the silver will be about the same, and they will be ready to move out!" said the old man.
"That's right!" Su Jien said, "Next time, when I pass by here, I will definitely stay in your house!"
"Welcome benefactor!" the old man thanked him and went home with his grandson in his arms.
They looked at the sun in the west and carried the wolf back to the inn, and the manager of the inn said to them happily, "You are free of food and lodging." To-morrow I will bring you two days' worth of dry rations and food and grass for your livestock. β
They lay down on the big kang at the post station to rest. Su Haier asked Hu Qian: "Brother, why do you still carry a medicine bag with you?"
"The Hu shaman must take this with him when he goes out. One is to prevent oneself from getting sick, and the other is to relieve the pain of the patient. This is the duty of a shaman. Hu Qian looked at the roof and said.
"Soβbrother, would you like to practice medicine in Dahan?" he asked.
"My whole family is in Hudi, how easy is that?"
Yes, it's really not easy! Su Haier fell into deep thought......
Su Jien asked Kent: "Brother Kent, do you have a daughter-in-law in Hudi?"
Without Kent's answer, Hu Qian said, "Yes, his daughter-in-law is very beautiful!"
Kent said, "Don't hide it, brother, I'm already on good terms with the woman we talked about last time!"
"Are you all together?"
"Already living together. β
Hu Qian said happily: "If we go home in the spring, my sister-in-law will give us a little nephew."
Finish. β
"That's great!" Su Jien was also happy, "A man just has to have a woman and a doll, this is home!"
"You're right!" asked Kent, "did my brother and sister have a boy or a girl?"
"It's a female doll!"
"Congratulations brother, just right, a son and a daughter are very good!" Kent said sincerely.
The next day, they got up early in the morning, ate at the post station, and took dry food and water, and led their horses up the mountain from the west of Longshan to the east. They had to climb mountains and mountains, and walk 100 miles of mountain roads to get out of the mountains.