Chapter 2154 Sacrifice
The two lambs also disappeared in front of Bai Shan. Although he had seen it many times, he still couldn't help but marvel in his heart, and then... he was extremely well-behaved. He neither held Man Bao's hand nor bumped her with his shoulder as usual.
After waiting for a long time, he asked, "Has Uncle Zhou left?"
Manbao reached out and held his hand, saying happily, "Let's go."
Bai Shan then took her hand and shook it. He looked around and found that the scenery here was quite good. There were some yellow flowers blooming on the large grass in front of him. They were only as big as a little finger, but there were many of them. It looked quite nice from this perspective.
So he pulled her to sit on the grass and let the wind blow. "I heard that the grassland is more beautiful in autumn. The grass is taller than the lambs then, and when the wind blows it looks like it's dancing..."
Manbao's eyes sparkled, "We'll come and see when the time comes."
Bai Shan smiled and nodded.
When Bai Erlang and his companions came to find them on horseback, they saw the two of them leaning their heads against each other, and no one knew what they were talking about. Zhou Man looked up to the sky and laughed out loud.
Bai Erlang curled his lips in disgust, but still slowed down. Liu Huan accidentally passed him and ran ahead. He shouted, "Bai Shan, Zhou Man——"
The two people sitting side by side on the hill looked back together.
Yin Huo: ...
He heard Zhou Liru muttering quietly, "How stupid!"
Yin Huo couldn't help but turn his head to look at her. Zhou Liru noticed his gaze, turned his head and looked over. When he met his gaze, he raised a well-behaved smile, then pulled the horse and lagged behind him half a step.
Yin Huo couldn't help laughing again, not even knowing why he was laughing.
Bai Erlang jumped off his horse and looked around. "I heard they caught three antelopes. Where are they?"
Liu Huan: "We were just talking about how we didn't enjoy the roast lamb last time."
Manbao: “…let it go.”
Even Yin Huo and Zhou Liru, who were slowly turning around from behind, couldn't help but look over in surprise, "Why?"
Manbao said seriously, "A ewe with two such small lambs, a family of three that looks so pitiful, how could you bear to eat them?"
Bai Erlang: "...How do you know they're a family of three? Are the herders so skilled that they can target an entire family?"
How did Manbao know? After all, it was a ewe and two lambs, so it was definitely a family of three.
Bai Shan asked, "Why are you here?"
Bai Erlang gestured for him to look at the bright sun in the sky. "We were all waiting for you to have lunch, but you didn't come back. Mr. Zhuang and the others had already eaten, so we came out to look for you. We brought the food with us."
Daji and several guards of the Yin family were standing on horseback at the back. When they saw the young master waving at them, they rode forward and took down the food boxes in their hands.
In addition to the food box, there was also a guard carrying a roasted leg of lamb.
Manbao and Baishan were shocked.
Yin Huo then said, "The Tutu tribe is very hospitable. They slaughtered two sheep at noon and reserved this leg for us."
Even though they raise cattle and sheep, they cannot kill them at will. Herders usually eat corn and goat's milk. It is said that they eat a lot of meat, but that is relative to ordinary people in the Central Plains.
It was spring now, and people would not kill sheep easily, so being able to kill two sheep was already a great honor for Zhou Man and the others.
Manbao was indeed touched, moved by the sight of the steaming lamb leg.
The guards cut the lamb legs for them.
It's not like the capital, so there are not many formalities here. Everyone just sits cross-legged on the grass. Daji and the others opened the lunch boxes, so there were no blankets, no cushions, no brewed hot tea, not even bowls, only chopsticks. There were noodles and two dishes in the lunch boxes, not even soup.
Everyone ate the bread with their not-so-clean hands, gathered around it, but even Yin Huo thought the meal was delicious.
Bai Erlang ate a piece of mutton and nodded. "Strange, it tastes better than what we had in the tent just now. Does roasted mutton need to be aired first to make it more flavorful?"
Yin Huo couldn't help laughing out loud.
Bai Shan said: "Yes, there is not only sand in the wind, but also..."
Manbao picked up a piece of meat with chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth, "Shut up, we're eating."
Bai Shan just ate the meat and stopped talking.
Zhou Liru, having eaten and drunk his fill, could not help but lean back with his hands, half-looking up at the blue sky, and exclaimed, "It's so beautiful."
Everyone raised their heads and leaned back so that they could feel the wind more closely, and looking up at the sky, it seemed that the sky was even bluer.
“It’s very beautiful.”
Yin Huo couldn't help wanting to stay here for a few more days. He turned around and asked Man Bao, "How many days should we stay here?"
Manbao looked at Zhou Liru.
Zhou Liru said, "Ayina is very smart. She already has some sense. Even though she can't feel the pulse yet, she remembers the symptoms of smallpox very clearly. She's much better than the other three."
Despite her constant repetition, the other three only remembered a few things and forgot them after a while.
She knew this feeling; she felt the same way when she memorized textbooks and medical books, except they forgot them faster than she did.
Manbao nodded and said, "It's just one symptom. It doesn't matter if you forget it today. It's the same knowledge points every day anyway, so just memorize them repeatedly. As for the pulse, let's stay for three more days. If they can feel it, it's good. If not, let them write it down and figure it out later."
However, she estimated that with Aina's intelligence, she should be able to get the hang of it in four days, and she would just need to remember this one symptom.
but……
Manbao lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then turned around and asked Bai Shan, "You said Ayi Na made a mistake, what mistake did she make?"
Bai Shancai was full and feeling a little sleepy. He squinted his eyes and looked at the blue sky, just in time to see an eagle flap its wings twice, then straighten its wings and fly towards them.
He said in a calm voice, "I heard from the herders that many people in their tribe died during the first month of this year. The witch consulted the gods, and the gods left a decree, believing that the subjects were not sincere in their service to the gods, so they punished the grassland. Then, to show their sincerity, the Tutu tribe offered a boy to serve the gods."
Everyone was stunned after hearing this, and it took a while for them to come back to their senses, "How do we serve?"
Bai Shan then withdrew his gaze from the sky, looked at them and said, "Only the gods know this, but the way they send people to the gods is cremation. They set up an altar, tie the person to the altar and sacrifice him to the gods."
Manbao and others: "!"
"It wasn't just the Tutu tribe. There was also a Tute tribe living nearby. A girl was born in their tribe, and both tribes sacrificed her together," Bai Shan said. "The herders said that the Tutu and Tute tribes had the same ancestor, so they had a close relationship and were brothers. The boy sacrificed by the Tutu tribe was also Ayina's brother. She opposed the sacrifice and even tried to secretly let her brother go at night, but he didn't get far before he was chased back."
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