Chapter 7: The Funeral of the Uighurs

As long as the Uighur people are sick, the first person to arrive is definitely a witch who is said to have the power to fly sand and stones.

They would cut their faces with knives and pray to Tengger to save the poor man in front of them, and the more important the person's position, the bigger and longer the wound on his face, and the more blood they shed.

As for the unimportant ordinary shepherds, the witches carried out hospice care at most, telling them that the trip would go directly to Tengger's arms, and there was no such thing as cutting their faces, after all, they only had one face, and they could not let themselves bleed if they were sick.

Yun Chu believed that the above-mentioned symptoms of grass black poisoning should have all appeared on Ge Salu's body, but they were ignored by this strong mountain-like Hui man.

The mighty and mighty Uighur warrior would not die until his head fell off, otherwise everything else was trivial, and if possible, a little hot wine would be no problem.

This kind of place in the Western Regions is really amazing, such a vast area, there is not much production of poisonous snakes, the poisonous snakes here are generally no more than one meter long, slender, and timid, only a few unlucky eggs have been infested by poisonous snakes, which leads to the people of the Western Regions for poisonous substances are very shallow.

Because of his extensive friends, a high-ranking Hui like Porun Khan may have some knowledge of poisons, and some tribal khans are fortunate enough to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, so they may have tried or seen the power of poison.

After all, every time a Tang princess arrives at the tribe, the Khats, the princes, and the special services will die in large numbers, and they all die inexplicably.

Even if the other Hui were poisoned, they would rudely classify his death as illness or divine punishment.

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

However, poison is also real, this thing is an accurate science, as long as you eat it, it will inevitably produce a poisoning reaction.

Now, it's up to Ge Salu's strong body to defeat the poison, or the poison to defeat Ge Salu.

Yun Chu is more optimistic about the latter.

After grilling another handful of lamb skewers, Naha sobbed and ate her own lamb as she looked at Big Apo in the distance who was eating the food that belonged to hers in the distance.

Selema ate three skewers of roast mutton in one go, and said to Yun Chu with relief: "If you can, don't have a conflict with Da Abo." ”

Yun Chu 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 people like Yun Chu, whether it is an ambush or an assassination, there is a great possibility of success, the difficult thing is that killing Ge Salu can't bring any trouble to Selema and Naha, and it can't even affect the process of the two of them entering the Kaska tent.

His presence had already caused a lot of trouble for Selema, and for the sake of Yun Chu, Selema had postponed his entry into the Kaska tent for six years.

It's time to leave politely.

The weather in the Tianshan Mountains in May is simply a child's face, saying that it will change, just now the sun is shining, as a dark cloud presses over, snowflakes fall from the sky.

At first, it was just a few small snowflakes, but then it turned into large snow flakes, and finally the big snow flakes also turned into crystal clear ice flakes of about a centimeter, which fell vertically from the sky, evenly inserted on the mud floor, and was instantly melted by the warm earth.

Karma didn't talk to Yun Chu about letting Selema and Naha into his tent until he left.

He didn't say it, Yun Chu couldn't help but say it, two people who love each other can't be together because of him, it's a sin.

Of course, this is a noble statement, and the despicable way of saying it is that Yun Chu wants to return to Datang, and these two people are a burden to him.

Yun Chu really didn't want to waste his precious second life on the grassland, wasting it in endless battles and searching for food.

There's many, many things on the human table.

Food is definitely not the protagonist of this.

How big a person's heart is, then how big his dining table will be.

The stronger a person's ability is, the richer the variety of things on his table.

Yun Chu's table should not only have Selema, Naha, cattle and sheep, pasture, but also more and more things.

Reborn once, Yun Chu found that his ambitions had become so great that he couldn't even carry such a huge area as the Western Regions.

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

The goose-yellow grass that has just grown is wrapped in ice, and it is crystal clear and distressing.

The next day, instead of snow, rain, or hail, it fell from the Tianshan Mountains, but a mixture of ice and water, which immediately turned into water when it fell on the warm palms of the hand.

This kind of water is extremely cold!

Yun Chu draped all the heating items in the house on Selema's body, and little Naha hid in Selema's robe.

The fire pit in the tent was blazing, and even so, Selema and Naha were still shivering with cold, and the thin cowhide tent could not withstand the cold outside.

If it weren't for Yun Chu's constant use of clay pots to heat the sand around Selema and Naha, and the constant feeding them hot broth, this even colder night would have killed them.

Thin cowhide tents can't withstand the cold, especially when the weather warms up and suddenly cools down, which can be even more unbearable.

Not only did Yun Chu's family of three shrink into the tent and didn't dare to come out, but the rest of the herdsmen did the same.

Hungry cows and sheep were mooing and bleating outside, and they could not stop for a moment.

Cattle and sheep are the life of a shepherd, but at this time, even the most diligent shepherd will not leave his tent to take care of the cattle and sheep.

When it rains, the shepherd is not afraid, because the snow will be kept out by the leather robe, and it will fall off after shaking.

When it rains, the shepherd will not be afraid, the rain will wet the outer layer of the leather robe at most, as long as you are willing to move more, you will not die.

Only this kind of ice rain is the most terrifying...... When this thing falls on the body of a person, the body of a cow or a sheep, it will immediately turn into an ice shell and wrap the person, the cattle and sheep......

Therefore, patience became the only option for the shepherds.

Yun Chu didn't like this kind of behavior at all, which later readers called tenacity.

Fortunately, this kind of weather generally does not last long, after all, it is already Mayday, and the sun will return.

On the third day, the sun came out, and as soon as this thing came out, it made people's skin ache, although it was still cold, but people were like being locked in a huge microwave oven, not feeling the heat, but irritable and wanting to cut their chests and open their eyes.

The drastic change in the weather was very unfriendly to people with lung diseases, and the big Apogasaro began to cough violently, and when it was almost dawn, he could no longer cough sound, his face flushed, and his thick hands kept tearing at his chest.

First his clothes were torn, then his skin, and looking at the way he scratched the flesh and blood on his chest, everyone who witnessed this felt that Ge Salu wanted to get his heart out.

Just when the sternum was looming, Ge Salu's spasmodic body fell heavily into the pile of sheepskin, and there was no more sound.

No one doubts why this Great Awa died.

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

When ordinary shepherds died, they were thrown away and left to be devoured by wild beasts and birds, and sometimes they would strip the dead of their clothes for the sake of the beasts' bites.

After the death of the Great Awa, there is naturally a set of rituals that belong to the deceased.

The witches slit their cheeks and smeared the blood on their faces, hoping to gain Tengger's mercy.

Tossing and turning until dawn, Ge Salu's body gradually cooled, and the witches informed everyone that the Great Awa had been summoned by Tengger and went back.

The people placed the dead Ge Salu in a tent, and everyone rode around the tent seven times, and Ge Salu's eldest son, Meng Saka, came to the tent, cut his face with a knife, and lay on the muddy ground and wailed.

After a while, when the wailing ceased, the witch tested his snort, and found that Monzaka, who had been overly grieved, had followed her dear father to Tengger's arms.

Everyone was praising Monzaka's loyalty, and he would rather give up his life than follow his father to serve Tengger in the kingdom of heaven.

With two bodies lying in a tent at the same time, Ge Salu's relatives had to run around the tent seven more times on horseback, find someone closest to the two dead men, open the door curtain, and slash twice in the face by the way.

When the process was done, they burned the bodies of the two dead men, along with their clothes and saddles.

The relatives who cut the wound on their faces were very worried that they would also be summoned away by Ge Salu, so they only scratched a little oily skin and shed a little blood, so they were very much looking forward to completing this funeral for the two of them as soon as possible.

After the people and their belongings have turned to ashes, they will use sheepskin bags to pack up two piles of ashes and hang them in the tent, and then find a place to dig a pit and bury them when the new weeds of this year have turned yellow.

When the Great Awa died, and the two hundred people in the tent were to come out to mourn in silence, Yun Chu carried Naha on his back and took Selema to participate in the final silent ceremony.

In the silent crowd, Yun Chu saw Karma, although Karma looked sad at this time, but Yun Chu could see from his gestures from the eagle's claw to the tiger's claw from time to time, this guy's mood must be very happy and excited at this time.

If the Uighurs died in spring and summer, they could only be buried when the grass and trees were yellow, and if they died in autumn and winter, they had to wait until the grass and trees were lush before being buried.

At the time of burial, the face is cut with a knife and the blood is shed, indicating that the mourning for the deceased is the same as when he just died, which is very painful and troublesome.

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

When a man dies, there is nothing, just as when the great Apogasalu dies, his influence in the tribe is immediately gone.

Yun Chu has done everything that can be done, if Karma Ska can't take advantage of this opportunity to take the position, Yun Chu has no choice, it can only prove that Karma is not suitable to be an official, and he is a really bad person.