Chapter 66: The Gift of Teeth
Di Rong slowly recalled: "When I was thirteen years old, I came home and saw the patriarch's grandfather teaching my brother a lesson. โ
"Your grandfather is the patriarch of the Biz people, then you are the princess of the Biz tribe! Why did the patriarch teach your brother?"
"Grandfather is the great hero of our Biz tribe, and I will tell you about my grandfather's heroic deeds later. My grandfather hated and whipped my brother a few thorny whips that day, and the flesh on my brother's body was opened, so I went up to my grandfather and asked him why he was beating him. My grandfather was usually very kind and rarely hit people in anger, so I think my brother must have made a big mistake. โ
"Grandfather said angrily, 'This little brute hit Abaha today!'"
Chen Xunu said: "Does Abaha have a very high status in your tribe?
At that time, Baha was only fourteen years old, not that Baha had a very high status, but that Abaha's father Baha was also a great hero of the tribe and had done a lot of good things for the tribe, so everyone in the tribe respected and loved the Baha family, and because Baha came to the Biz tribe from the outside world, he was abused by the tribe when he first came. My brother violated the clan rules and beat the son of the big hero's family!"
"What did Baha do for the Biz tribe, how did he become a great hero?"
"I'll tell Sister Shenjun the story of Abaha's father Baha later, Sister Shenjun, don't you want to know why my brother is beating Abaha?"
"Why?"
"That day, my brother and Abaha were arguing about who was the best in the world in martial arts, and my brother proudly said that the patriarch's grandfather was the most powerful, and his grandfather's white witchcraft and tribal light were invincible in the world. Abaha was not convinced, he said that his grandfather was the emperor, and he should be the first ...... in the world to control the life and death of the people in the world."
"Emperor, which country and which emperor is Abaha's grandfather?" Chen Xunu couldn't help but be shocked when she heard that Abaha's ancestor was actually the emperor, although she didn't listen to anything outside the window and only read medical books, but she still knew a few countries and emperors in this world, but she had never heard of the emperor hiding in Wuling Mountain.
"Actually, I didn't know what the emperor Abaha was talking about, and then I came to the outside world to know that the emperor was really the biggest in the world, much more powerful than my grandfather's patriarch, when there are constant disputes today, there are Jin, Qin, Wei, Zhao, Yan and other countries in the world, as for Abaha's grandfather is the emperor of which country, I don't know, maybe Abaha in order to win my brother, deliberately exaggerated, nonsense. โ
"Benjun also thinks that Abaha is bragging, how can the royal nobles look like him!" Chen Xunu saw Abaha's appearance and concluded that he was not a descendant of the royal family.
Di Rong smiled: "Abaha not only likes to brag, but also has a very small guts, he is ...... That is, his father has a good martial arts" In the Biz tribe, they all call their father Abba, Di Rong was afraid that Chen Xunu would not understand, so she explained. "After teaching for a few years, Abaha didn't even learn a little bit of fur, and he was able to learn peerless martial arts every day to win against my brother, my brother has been practicing martial arts with his grandfather since he was three years old, Abaha is my brother's opponent, every time he wrestles, he has the upper hand......"
Di Rong said again: "That day, Abaha boasted that his grandfather was the most powerful, and he made the first move, and was finally taught a lesson by my brother's hatred. After my grandfather beat my brother, he asked him to apologize to Abaha, but my brother was so stubborn that he would rather be beaten to death than apologize to Abaha. I was afraid that my grandfather would break my brother, so I went to apologize to Abaha on my behalf. โ
"So I went to the house of the emperor, the complaint is what the Han people mean by the aunt, I saw Abaha covering his face that was bruised and purple and crying, 'Obviously the emperor's grandfather is the head of the world, it must be the most powerful time, Ah Ke has to say that his grandfather is the first in the world'" Ah Ke is the meaning of the elder brother in the Bizi language, because the Bizi tribe does not have a surname, so Ake is also a personal name.
"Do you call Abaha's mother Auntie?" asked Chen.
Dirong replied, "Yes, Abaha's pinch....... That's what my mother means, and his pinch is my aunt. โ
"My aunt kindly applied painkillers to Abaha, and said, 'Silly boy, Ah Ke's grandfather is Ah Fang's father, that is, your maternal grandfather, what is there to fight about your grandfather!'" Di Rong was afraid that Chen Xunu would not understand, so she mixed Bizi and Chinese when relaying her aunt's tone.
"Baha stubbornly said, 'How can a grandfather be the same as a grandfather!'"
"Haha, a maternal grandfather and a biological grandfather, this Baha is also very clear!" Chen Xunu smiled.
"But no, when my aunt heard this, she was so angry that she didn't apply medicine to Abaha, and when she saw me coming, she was angry. I went up to give Abaha the medicine as soon as I entered the door, and I first counted my brother Akor and explained the purpose of the apology, but Abahar did not accept Akha's apology at all. โ
"I saw that Abahar would never forgive my brother Akko, so I had to say that I had something to give him, but it was difficult to give it to my aunt, so I had to ask him to play on the haystack at the edge of the rice field. โ
Although Bahรก's father was already a big hero in the tribe, there were no friends in the tribe who were willing to play with Abaha, so Abaha's personality was also withdrawn. When Abaha heard that I was going to ask him out to play, he was immediately happy, so he took my hand and ran to the haystack, he pulled me around the haystack, I ran in front, Abaha chased around behind, at ease, carefree, very happy......" Speaking of this, Di Rong suddenly became sad.
Chen Xunu couldn't help but recall the time when she was a teenager, and said sadly: "At least you still have playmates, you can move around at will, Benjun can only stay in the high walls and deep palaces all day long with medical classics as a companion, and the door does not go out of the door, I don't know what happiness is......" and said: "You said so much, does it have anything to do with the teeth on your necklace?"
Di Rong said: "We were tired of running around the haystack, so we sat on the haystack and chatted looking at the rice fields in the distance. I took off the necklace around my neck and gave it to Abaha, hoping that Baha would accept my gift and forgive him. โ
"Is this chain expensive, and does Abaha accept it?"
"This chain is made of red coral, not that Abaha thinks the gift is expensive, he thinks this is a girl's necklace and don't want it, I don't know that this red coral is not easy to come by, I heard my grandmother say, coral is a thing in the sea, a long time ago the whole Wuling Mountain is a vast ocean, and then the sun god exerted his magic power, and turned the ocean into a piece of land. It became a mountain, and then there were the Biz people, who dug up red coral deep in the rocks of the mountains, which was given to the Biz tribe by the sun god, so it was very rare, and only my grandmother and aunt had the whole tribe, and the coral necklace around my neck was given to me by my deceased grandmother. โ
Chen Xunu played with the red coral necklace that was still on Di Rong's neck, and couldn't put it down: "Red coral is the legendary ruby, the first time Benjun has seen such a beautiful ruby, the stubborn Abaha doesn't want it, how about my sister give it to Benjun?"
Di Rong took back the red coral necklace from Chen Xunu's hand and said, "When Sister Shenjun saves Abaha, I will thank you for this red coral necklace!"
"A good word is a decision! We high-five and swear!" Chen Xunu was afraid that Di Rong would be reluctant to accept the red coral necklace, so when the time came, she stretched out her hand to fight Di Rong three times, and her heart was already happy.
Di Rong continued: "Baha refused to accept the red coral necklace worn by the girl, I thought that I would always send something to Abaha, and my heart was relieved, and I couldn't think of anything more valuable for a while, and suddenly one of my teeth was loose, and that tooth was about to be replaced with a new tooth, I thought it might have been accidentally touched while running just now, but fortunately it was pulled out." โ
"The sound of tooth pulling startled Abaha, and I said, 'Abaha, since you don't want my red coral necklace, how about I give you my teeth?'"
"Baha snatched his tooth and said happily, 'I want the tooth from Di Rong!', only to see him wipe his teeth on himself again and again, and pulled out his waist knife and carved two small characters in Biz script on his teeth. I don't know how to write, but I still know it, those two words are my name 'Dirong', in the past, the Biz tribe only had language, no writing, and later Baha gave the Biz tribe a Bizi script that can be easily written. I pierced the tooth again, and hung it on the necklace of other bone teeth for Abaha, in the Biz tribe, the white tiger is the god of the ancestral god of the 'Papu Papa' that the tribe believes, so the tiger tooth can only be worn by the patriarch alone, representing the embodiment of God and power, and the other more valuable is the wolf's tooth, and it is a common custom of the tribe to give animal teeth as gifts, but I am afraid that I am still the first to give human teeth. Di Rong chuckled.
"When Abaha saw that I had given him a tooth, and according to custom, he wanted to give me a gift in return, but he couldn't think of anything in return, so he took a stone and knocked off one of his good teeth and gave it to me!"
"What a fool, you gave him the teeth that were supposed to be replaced, but he knocked out the teeth that were already good!"
"But no, when I saw him take out his teeth from a mouth full of blood, I was very frightened! I hurriedly covered his mouth, found a bunch of clean straw stalks, and wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth, but he cracked his bloody mouth and smiled, 'Di Rong is a woman who is not afraid of pain when she extracts her teeth, but I am a manly husband who is very afraid!'"
"Baha looked at the tooth I had hung on his neck, and at the tooth he had just knocked out, which was still covered with blood and had broken roots, and thought that it was a stump tooth, and that he would throw it away if he didn't want to give it to me again, but fortunately I stopped him, otherwise Baha would have to keep knocking out a tooth until he had removed a whole tooth. โ
Chen Xunu: "Abaha dares to knock out his big teeth alive, but he is not cowardly. โ
"I took Abaha's tooth and asked him to engrave his name on it, and I saw that Baha had engraved his name in Biz, and engraved a few words that I could not read, so I asked him what the word was, and he said that it was also his name, but it was their old language, and I did not know what his old language was, so I did not ask. โ
"Isn't this engraved tooth hanging around your neck, let me see what country this old language is. Chen Xunu said that, she touched the engraved tooth along Di Rong's neck again, and opened her eyes wide, but she couldn't see the engraved content in the dark night.
"Sister Shenjun, don't worry, when we go back, I will remove the tooth from the necklace for you to take a good look. โ