Chapter 5 Yun Chu Was Transformed From a Stone Baby
Sailaima took a sip of wild vegetable soup from a 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, the doll was sleeping on the ground, so pitiful and lonely. I wanted to take it home, but I couldn't move it... The doll was very big and not soft at all, it was as hard as a stone."
Yunchu's body stiffened for a moment, scooped a spoonful of wild vegetable soup from the pottery pot and added it to her, and smiled: "As a result, the doll became smaller with a whoosh, got into your belly, and gave birth to me nine months later?
Okay, you have told this story countless times."
Sailaima's eyes began to flicker as she looked at Yunchu, she seemed to have something very important to say. From her expression, it can be seen that the sentence is very, very difficult to say.
Yunchu certainly knows what she wants to say!
Even if I told them that I suddenly turned into a baby and appeared at the foot of the Son of the Earth statue, no one would believe it, not to mention that when Selama picked me up like a thief and put me in his arms, the huge Son of the Earth statue disappeared for no reason.
Rather than saying that, it would be better to say that I was the product of Selama's nine-month pregnancy.
The reason why Selama felt it was difficult to say this was that she was worried that Yunchu would abandon her and look for her biological parents once she knew that she was not her biological child.
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 still sleeping with snot bubbles, and Selama had already gotten up and took the flock of sheep to drink water.
Yunchu went to the hill not far away to chop firewood.
Although the conversation last night was short, a consensus had been reached.
The Huihe people who were accustomed to grassland life actually didn't like to use firewood very much.
They are the only family in the tribe that really uses firewood for heating all year round. Other families prefer to use cow dung and camel dung.
If it was on the grassland where firewood could not be found, Yun Chu could still understand it, but this is at the foot of Tianshan Mountain, and firewood is not hard to find.
They prefer to smash the dry, broken, and wet cow dung they have collected, mix it with water, make it into cakes, and then carefully stick them one by one on the wall and the rock wall to wait for drying.
When sticking it on the wall, the size should be consistent and neat and beautiful.
They treat cow dung not as ordinary people treat fuel, but have a different feeling for cow dung and cow dung fire. When making butter tea or cooking, dry cow dung is easy to ignite. When smelling the fragrance of green grass emitted when the dry cow dung burns, watching the orange-red flames licking the pottery or iron pot, at this time, the jumping flames and the gurgling sound in the pot will bring them joy, auspiciousness, safety and warmth.
Since Yun Chu's family was six years old and could get their own firewood and make charcoal, they stopped using cow dung.
They didn't dislike the fragrance of the so-called green grass, but the parasites in it. Sun exposure is not enough to kill the parasites in cow dung. As long as the parasites see a little water, they will hatch immediately and crawl all over the tent. There is no such concern for charcoal and dry firewood.
For this reason, Sailema was wronged for a long time because their family didn't have dry cow dung to decorate the tent, and they were laughed at and said that their family was poor!
Not only this, the difference between Yun Chu's family and other herders' families is that their family members are fanatically fond of taking a bath!
Ordinary herders only take a bath three times in their lifetime, but Yun Chu's family basically takes a bath every three days, and they must wash their feet every day!
If Selaima didn't want to, Yunchu would pour the precious hot water into the big wooden barrel that he bought with two breeding sheep, and force Selaima to take a bath with a stubborn look. As for Naha, who didn't like to take a bath, Yunchu usually used the most brutal means to strip her naked and throw her into the wooden barrel, and then use plant ash to clean her hair and body vigorously while she was howling.
Shepherds and lice are almost lifelong good companions. Even Khan and Khatun have a lot of these things. Maybe because their bodies are not lacking in nutrition, the lice on their bodies will grow bigger!
However, only Yunchu's family does not have this good partner. Whether it is Selaima, Naha, or Yunchu, they don't have such a fat good partner as lice!
The fur coats of their family members are always the original color of the fur coats, and there will never be any grease deliberately wiped on when eating meat. Most importantly, the boots worn by their family of three are always the kind of boots with foot shapes. They will never wrap the cowhide on their feet casually like other herdsmen, and step on a footprint that is almost the same as a big cow hoof.
And what makes the Yunchu family stand apart from other herdsmen is food!
The herdsmen's families all eat wild vegetables, but only the Yunchu family will cook and chop the wild vegetables, add wild onions, wild leeks, salt, squeeze a little sour plum juice, and then pour melted marmot oil on them before eating.
Instead of picking them and stuffing them directly into their mouths like other herdsmen do.
Even the beef and mutton that the herdsmen have eaten for thousands of years are the most delicious made by the Yunchu family!
Especially the mutton boiled in plain water by the Yunchu family, dipped in the leek flowers pickled in salt by their family and put into the mouth together, as long as anyone who has eaten it, no one will say it is not delicious.
In particular, the marmot cooked by Yunchu has long been praised by the herdsmen who have had the honor of tasting it as a delicacy that only gods are worthy of enjoying.
So, the marmots that Yunchu's family ate most of the time were not the ones Yunchu cheated from Dafei, but the ones that the tribesmen caught two or more marmots and gave Yunchu one, hoping that he would burn his marmot when he burned their own marmot.
When Yunchu came back from the hills carrying a tall bundle of firewood, Selaima had already fed the breeding sheep with water, and the breeding sheep were invited to their flock by the shepherds who needed to breed. In the next ten days, Yunchu didn't have to go out to herd sheep.
Naha had already gotten up and was sitting on the old sheepskin at the entrance of the tent, playing with stones. If you look closely, you can see that the stones that Naha played with are crystal clear and white like solidified sheep fat, and the surface seems to be flowing with a warm luster.
Selaima was weaving a cowhide whip next to a wooden pillar at the entrance of the tent.
This whip is very long, a full two meters long. It was specially customized by Bisu Teqin at Yunchu's house. As long as they can get this long whip done, their family will not have to hand over sheep to the tribe this year.
Yunchu piled up the firewood, washed his hands, and took the whip from Selama to continue weaving. Selama's strength was not strong enough, and the strength was not evenly used, so the woven whip was a little loose.
This is how the Sai people work, not only simple but also ugly.
Yunchu rolled up the leather rope and started weaving again.
This thing is very precious. In the entire tribe, or in so many tribes around, only Yunchu can weave a really good leather rope. As long as it is a whip woven by him, the goldsmiths of the tribal court will inlay the whip with various precious gems, and then use gold as the mouthpiece, and use rubies or sapphires as anti-slip points on the handle.
Every Huihe noble is proud to own such a horse whip.
This is one of the reasons why Da Apo Gesalu 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 was optimistic about Yunchu, whoever believed it would be a fool.
It's miserable 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 primitive era of three-strand braiding with 1 on 2, 3 on 2, and infinite cycles, while Yunchu has long entered the super braiding era of four-strand braiding, five-strand flat braiding, magic braiding, etc. Looking at the hundreds of small tribes around, only he can weave a strong and round cowhide whip.
When Yunchu was busy working, Naha was tired of playing with white stones, so she kept climbing on Yunchu's back. She liked to blow into her brother's ears and eyes, and she liked to bite her brother's back neck with her mouth that was missing two teeth.
According to the customs of the Sai people, Yunchu was already thirteen years old, so he naturally became the owner of the tent they lived in.
That's right, to be precise, everyone living in this tent belongs to Yunchu alone, including Selaima and Naha.
If Yunchu becomes a real Tiele, then Selaima will become Yunchu's wife... no matter whether Yunchu is born by Selaima or not!
In fact, a son marrying his mother does not mean that the son can marry his biological mother, but some Tiele people don't seem to care much. Later, it seems that not many people enforce this ban, and later, no one cares.
Yunchu's long-established living habits do not allow him to do such a thing, or even think about it. Even if there is a trace of such an idea in his head, Yunchu thinks that he is no longer a human being.
This is why Yunchu wants Selaima to take Naha to the Jiesijia tent. Once the tribe suffers a major population loss, the Khan will not hesitate to send Selaima to other Huihe people to give birth to children, and Naha will naturally be sent to the tent of Da Abo Gesalu. When the child grows up to eight years old, he can serve men.
Fortunately, Jie Si Ka has always treated Na Ha as his daughter. In fact, Yun Chu also knew that Jie Si Ka was Na Ha's biological father!
Yun Chu had seen Sai Laima running out of the weeds with a rosy face and panting more than once. Wait a little longer, Jie Si Ka will come out of the same weeds while tying his belt.
He had thought about taking the mother and daughter with him on a journey of thousands of miles back to the Tang Dynasty... Unfortunately, this was something that was simply impossible to do.