Chapter 7: Funeral of the Uighurs

The Uighur people are still in the ignorant stage of understanding medicine. Whenever a Uighur person gets sick, the first person to come to the scene 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 person in front of them. The more important the person's status was, the bigger and longer the wounds they cut on their faces would be, and the more blood they would bleed.

As for the unimportant ordinary shepherds, the witches can at most provide hospice care and tell them that they will arrive directly in Tengger's arms during this trip without cutting their faces. After all, they only have one face, and no one can get sick. To make yourself bleed.

Yunchu believed that all the above-mentioned symptoms of Caowu poisoning should have appeared on Gesalu's body, but they were ignored by this strong Uighur.

A powerful and mighty Uighur warrior will die unless his head falls off. Otherwise, everything else is a trivial matter. If possible, drinking a little scalding hot wine will solve all problems.

A place like the Western Region is really amazing. In such a vast area, there are not many highly venomous snakes. The venomous snakes here are generally no more than one meter long. They are slender and timid. There are only a few unlucky ones. Poisonous snakes have infested the area, which has led to people in the Western Regions having a poor understanding of poisons.

Senior Uighurs like Porun Khan may have some knowledge of poisons because they have many friends. In addition, some tribal Khans were lucky enough to marry Tang princesses, so they may have tried or seen the power of poisons.

After all, whenever a Princess of the Tang Dynasty arrived in the tribe, a large number of relatives of the khans such as Ketun, princes, and special agents would die, and all of them died inexplicably.

Even if other Uighurs were poisoned, they would directly and crudely attribute his death to illness or divine punishment.

Gesalu's body may be really strong. He should have had a toxic reaction after taking poison, but he didn't.

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

Now, we have to see whether Gesalu's powerful body defeated the poison, or the poison defeated Gesalu.

Yun Chu is more optimistic about the latter.

After grilling another handful of mutton skewers, Naha sobbed while eating her own mutton, while looking at Da Apo in the distance who was eating her food with hatred.

Selema ate three skewers of roasted mutton in one go and said to Yun Chu happily: "If you can avoid conflict with Da Abo, then don't have any conflict."

Yunchu also glanced at Gesalu and whispered: "Don't worry, there won't be any conflicts in the future."

Killing Gesalu is almost not difficult for people like Yunchu. Whether it is an ambush or an assassination, there is a high possibility of success. The difficulty is that killing Gesalu cannot bring Selema and Selema Any troubles Naha has can't even affect the process of the two of them entering Jiesga's tent.

His existence has caused Selema a lot of trouble. For Yunchu, Selema postponed entering Jiesga's tent for six years.

It's time to politely leave.

The weather in Tianshan in May is like a child's face. It changes at any time. 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 heavy snow flakes. Finally, the heavy snow flakes turned into about one centimeter of crystal clear ice flakes. These things fell vertically from a high altitude and were evenly inserted into the mud. He was instantly melted by the warm earth.

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

He didn't say it, but Yun Chu had to say that it was a sin for two people who love each other not to be together because of him.

Of course, this is a noble statement, but a despicable statement is that Yun Chu wants to return to the Tang Dynasty, and these two people are his burden.

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

There are many, many things on the human table.

Food is definitely not the star of the show.

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

The more capable a person is, the richer the variety of things on his table will be.

Yunchu's dining table should not only have Selema, Naha, cattle, sheep, and pasture, but there should also be more and more things.

After being reborn, Yunchu found that his ambition had become so big that even the vast area of ​​the Western Region could not 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 quickly condensed into ice when it fell on the ground.

The newly grown goose-yellow grass is wrapped in ice, so crystal clear that it makes people feel distressed.

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

The water is so cold!

Yunchu put all the warm things in the house on Selema's body, and little Naha hid in Selema's robe.

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

If Yunchu hadn't kept heating the sand in clay pots and surrounded Selema and Naha, and kept feeding them hot broth, this even colder night would have killed them.

The thin cowhide tent could not withstand such cold, especially when the temperature suddenly dropped after the weather turned warmer, which would make people feel even more unbearable.

Not only did Yunchu and his family of three huddle in the tent and dare not come out, but the rest of the herdsmen did the same.

The hungry cattle and sheep were mooing and bleating outside, and they could not stop for a moment.

The cattle and sheep were the life of the herdsmen, but at this time, even the most diligent herdsmen were unwilling to leave the tent to take care of the cattle and sheep.

The herdsmen were not afraid of snow, because the snow would be isolated outside by the fur coat and would fall off after shaking.

The herdsmen were not afraid of rain either, because the rain would at most wet the outer layer of the fur coat, and as long as they were willing to move more, they would not die.

Only this kind of ice rain was the most terrible... This thing would immediately turn into an ice shell to wrap people, cattle and sheep when it fell on people, cattle and sheep...

Therefore, patience became the only choice for the herdsmen.

Yunchu did not like this behavior, which was later called tenacity by scholars.

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

On the third day, the sun came out. As soon as it came out, it made people's skin painful. Although it was still cold, people felt like they were locked in a huge microwave. They couldn't feel the heat, but they wanted to cut open their chests to get some light.

The drastic change in the weather was very unfriendly to people with lung disease. Big Awa Gesalu began to cough violently. When it was almost dawn, he could no longer cough. His face turned red, and his strong hands kept tearing his chest.

First, the clothes were torn, and then the skin. Seeing how he grabbed his chest and made it bloody, everyone who witnessed this situation felt that Gesalu wanted to grab his heart out.

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

No one doubted why this big Awa died.

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

When ordinary herders died, they were thrown far away and left to be devoured by wild beasts and birds. Sometimes, in order to facilitate the wild beasts to bite, they would strip the clothes off the dead.

After Da Apo died, there was naturally a set of rituals for the dead.

The witches cut their cheeks and smeared the blood on Gesa Lu's face, hoping to get Tengger's mercy.

It was tossing until dawn, and Gesa Lu's body gradually became cold. The witches then told everyone that Da Apo had been summoned by Tengger and went back.

People placed the dead Gesa Lu in a tent, and everyone rode horses around the tent seven times. Gesa Lu's eldest son Mengsaka came to the entrance of the tent, cut his face with a knife, and lay on the muddy ground wailing.

After a while, the wailing stopped. The witch tried his breath and found that Mengsaka was too sad and followed his dear father to Tenger's arms.

Everyone praised Mengsaka's loyalty. He would rather give up his life and follow his father to heaven to serve Tenger.

There were two bodies lying in the same tent at the same time, and Gesalu's relatives had an extra trouble. They needed to ride around the tent seven times, find someone who was closest to the two dead people to lift the curtain, and cut their faces twice.

After this process was completed, they put the bodies of the two dead people, their clothes and saddles on the fire.

The relatives who had cuts on their faces were worried that they would also be summoned by Gesalu, so they only cut a little oil skin and shed a little blood, so they were very much looking forward to completing this Huihe funeral for two people as soon as possible.

After the people and the items were turned into ashes, they put the two piles of ashes in a sheepskin bag and hung them in the tent. When the new wild grass turned yellow, they would find a place to dig a pit and bury them.

Da Apo died, and the people in the two hundred tents had to come out to mourn. Yun Chu carried Naha on his back and took Selaima to participate in the final silence ceremony.

Yun Chu saw Jie Siga in the crowd of people who were mourning. Although Jie Siga looked very sad at this time, Yun Chu could tell from his gestures that he changed from eagle claws to tiger claws from time to time that this guy must be very happy and excited at this time.

If the Huihe people died in spring and summer, they could only be buried when the grass and trees were yellow that year. If they died in autumn and winter, they had to wait until the grass and trees were lush before burying them.

When burying, they had to cut their faces with a knife to bleed, which showed that their mourning for the deceased was the same as when they just died. It was very painful and troublesome.

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

When a person dies, there is nothing left, just like when the great Apo Gesalu died, his influence in the tribe was gone immediately.

Yunchu did everything he could do. If Jie Siga still couldn't take advantage of this opportunity to get promoted, Yunchu would have no other options. It could only prove that Jie Siga was not suitable for being an official and was a real goody-goody.