Chapter 2180 Being a Guest
Two soldiers immediately rushed in, and Lieutenant Nie casually pointed, "Drag the man outside and chop him up, don't let the tent get dirty."
"yes!"
General Nie followed him outside.
The person who was dragged out looked at him with a sneer on his face, "You're just putting on an act. If you want to kill him, just kill him inside. Why did you choose to kill him outside?"
Lieutenant Nie glanced at him, then calmly stepped forward to stop Manbao and his men as they were about to search for their luggage. He saluted Manbao and said, "Master Zhou, these bandits refuse to confess. It's too inconvenient to keep them with us. It's better to kill them."
Manbao was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Then kill him."
General Nie turned around to look at the captured bandit, waved his hand, and the two soldiers dragged him out. They found a secluded place and chopped off his head. In order not to scare people, they prepared a tattered piece of clothing in advance and wrapped the head with it and took it away.
"What about the body?"
"Put it there for now, and ask the adults later if we should bury it."
"We still have to dig a hole, there's no need to bury it, right? Isn't it said that people on the grasslands love sky burials? Wolves and eagles will peck at the food."
"Stop talking nonsense and return with the head."
When the two of them came back with their bags, Manbao and the others hadn't left yet. Lieutenant Nie moved slightly, blocking their view and said, "If you have something to do, go ahead and do it. Leave this to me."
Manbao glanced behind him, his expression didn't change much, he nodded and left.
However, Bai Erlang, Yin Huo and Liu Huan looked a little pale, and even Bai Shan's face looked a little stiff.
Zhou Liru also saw the blood on her clothes, but her expression didn't change much. She just felt a little disappointed. She couldn't help but ask, "Aunt, can the head be sewn back together?"
Manbao nodded, "Okay, but there's no point in sewing him back together if he's already dead, right?"
"Is it because of excessive blood loss?" Zhou Liru thought for a moment and then asked, "Is it because of the blood vessels in the neck? If there is a way to stop the bleeding before beheading, can we reattach the head and circulate the blood? Will he survive that way?"
Manbao: "...The brain also needs blood supply to survive. If you cut off the blood supply, the brain will die, right? If a person loses consciousness, it is brain death, which is basically the same as death."
Zhou Liru lamented, "What if we use external blood supply, suturing, and then restoring blood supply?"
Manbao said, "I asked the same question when I was a kid... I've thought about it. Although this method may not be used in the end, it's theoretically possible to sew the head back together or replace it with a new one if it falls off."
In Mr. Mo's time, it was not only possible in theory, but also possible in practice.
Unfortunately, this project requires too many instruments and techniques. Even if she has the brain to learn it, she has no place to use it, because not only does she need a complete set of equipment, but she also needs a lot of assistants to help.
And that whole set of things, including the technology tax, may not be available even if you sell it.
Manbao shook his head, temporarily putting this idea behind him, and said to Zhou Liru: "When you go to his tower, get along well with the people there. Check their health when you have nothing to do and build good relationships with them..."
Bai Shan was so scared when she saw her shaking her head so hard that she almost reached out to hold it back. It was too scary, wasn't it? They had just finished talking about the topic of head falling off...
Yin or the others hadn't expected the aunt and nephew to be so bold, and their focus... was so strange, they were all silent for a moment.
In order to get his help, Manbao found several kinds of pills as gifts for Zhou Liru. "They are all useful pills, for fever, cough, cold..."
Zhou Liru asked: "Then what should we do?"
"We'll just buy herbs when we get to the next town." As long as they have herbs, what can't they make?
Zhou Liru thought so too.
So he packed all the medicine bottles that Manbao had picked out.
They brought a lot of ready-made medicines with them before going out. In addition to medicines for injuries, the most common things were pills for various common illnesses.
Manbao and Baishan send them to his tower.
The people of the Ta tribe have already driven their cattle and sheep to graze. They plan to stay here for half a month. After half a month, when the grass here is almost eaten up, they will move to the next place.
So their camping location did not change, the clan leader and many clan members were there. When he heard that the government troops five miles away from them were coming again, he frowned, but when he thought of the medicinal herbs they delivered last night, he got up and went out.
After the two sides met, Manbao presented generous gifts. In addition to the bottles and jars of medicine, there were also tea, some selected porcelain, and two ingots of gold weighing ten taels each.
The gold was shiny and very big, and one hand could only hold one.
Because it is the most intuitive, the patriarch couldn't take his eyes off it once it was presented.
Manbao smiled and said, "Chief Ta, my husband is a scholar and is very interested in how the herders live and graze. So he wants to stay in your tribe and experience it. These two gold bars can be used as their food and lodging here. I wonder if Chief Ta would be willing to accommodate this."
The chief of his tower tribe shifted his gaze for a moment, glanced at the gold, then looked away, then looked back again...
Bullshit, if it wasn't to hide from the horse thieves in the mountains, would they send people here?
but……
His gaze shifted back again. Others were afraid of them, but he was not.
There are more and more horse thieves in the mountains. In two years, even tribes like theirs will have to send supplies over there, otherwise they might not be able to graze properly in this area...
The tribe leader smiled and nodded, saying, "We in the Tata tribe are very hospitable. You are government officials, so it would be a great honor for us to stay here for a year or two, not just a few days."
The patriarch smiled and glanced at his son who was standing beside him in a daze, and motioned him to put the things away.
His son was so stunned by the gifts that he didn't notice his father's look for a moment. However, the clan leader's wife noticed it and immediately stepped forward with a smile to take the tray from Zhou Liru's hand. After handing the gifts to her daughter, she took Zhou Liru's hand and said to Manbao, "Don't worry, sir. Your husband and niece will be fine staying with us. We will treat them as honored guests."
Manbao laughed and pointed at Yin Huo and Liu Huan and said, "These are my two classmates. They are staying here too."
The patriarch's wife nodded repeatedly, indicating that there was no problem.
Two gold bars are enough for them to stay for a few days, not to mention a year.
The grain merchants in Liangzhou City did not like to take their cattle, sheep, or furs. They needed to exchange them for money to buy corn and flour, but in autumn and winter, the prices of cattle, sheep, and furs were severely suppressed.
With two gold bars they could buy a lot of corn and flour.
The clan leader naturally thought of this, so his attitude towards Zhou Man and the others softened, but he didn't feel much about the porcelain and medicine bottles that were sent with them.
Later, when they used the medicine in the bottle, they were surprised to find that this was a good stuff. Although they could buy it with money, it was so far away from Liangzhou City that they could not buy it in time.
See you at 6pm
(End of this chapter)
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