The death of Gu Qingxi left Zhang Xiaowu in a daze for a whole day. He always felt that the person was just asleep, but her body was breathless. Zhang Long, Zhao Hu, and Ma Han didn’t know how to comfort him, but the temperature in the tent was high, Zhang
Long suggested that the body should be placed outdoors, and Zhang Xiaowu agreed.
That night, Zhang Xiaowu thought about a lot of things. He felt that he could not live with a woman, otherwise the people around him would be very unfortunate. After thinking about it, he prepared to send Gu Qingxi's body back to Youzhou. This trip to Youzhou cost 3,000 yuan.
Inside, Zhang Long and the four others were stunned after hearing this. Zhao Hu asked: "Sir, do you have to go back to Shenghan to bury your wife? If you walk, you will have to walk for at least a month, and it is winter now, I'm afraid it will take a long time."
Walk for three months and then return from Youzhou, which will take at least half a year."
Zhang Xiaowu smiled slightly, with firm eyes.
Zhao Hu said: "Why don't we go with you?"
"No, I'm just going back for the burial. You have just gotten married, so it's not suitable." Zhang Xiaowu said, how could he let the newlyweds accompany him back to the Central Plains for who knows how many months?
Chao Chao asked: "Do you plan to go back secretly?"
Zhang Xiaowu said: "No, I will inform the Sardinians. This does not need to be kept secret."
Mahan said: "I guess they won't let you go. I think the Sardinian centurion is very fond of you."
Zhang Xiaowu smiled faintly: "You guys buy some wooden boards from the timber merchant and help me nail a coffin. The dead people in Saibei don't use coffins. It's really troublesome."
"Yes, sir."
The custom of the Tartar people in Saibei is that after death, people are buried naked in the ground, which means that they come to the world naked and leave the world naked. They will use stones to build tombs, but they will not bury them in coffins. The funeral habit of the Sardinians is to use
The body is wrapped in white cloth and buried on the ground, and then a tree or a tree is planted where the body is buried. They believe that they are the spirits of the forest and will return to the forest after death.
There was no coffin at the timber merchant's place, so Zhang Longhe bought some wooden boards and brought them back. The timber merchant thought they were preparing to make wooden doors for tents, and even said, "If you buy so many wooden boards, you can make ten doors."
While Ding Ding was being used as a coffin, the surrounding neighbors also learned that Heigl Azari’s wife had died of illness. Since Zhang Xiaowu was very kind to his neighbors and was the police chief of the area, everyone came to pay their respects.
Anwuriqi said that you can bury her in the desert temporarily, plant a tree on her grave next year, and we will help you dig the soil. Zhang Xiaowu shook his head and said that he would take the body back to Youzhou in the Central Plains for burial according to her last wish. Anwu
Li Qi was surprised and said that the journey from Saibei to Youzhou in the Central Plains was too long. Did you carry the body so far?
Zhang Xiaowu explained the Han people's tradition of returning fallen leaves to their roots. Gu Qingxi was the Zhang family's daughter-in-law and must return to the Zhang family's grave for burial.
"So you're going to be away for a few months?" Andu asked.
Zhang Xiaowu nodded and said, "Maybe longer."
Andu's wife said enviously: "You Han people are so kind to your wives." After Andu returned home, he beat his wife severely...
After the coffin was laid, Zhang Xiaowu placed Gu Qingxi in the coffin and placed the coffin on the horse sledge. The four of them modified the sledge and added a wooden frame. If they were resting, they could use sheepskin felt to hold the sledge over.
After covering it, it became a simple tent. After temporarily placing the coffin outside, the simple tent could accommodate Lao Ma and him.
"This is quite creative." Zhang Xiaowu praised Zhang Longdao.
Liu Xiong, who came to pay his respects, reminded: "You are now an official of the Sardinians. If you leave for a few months, you need the centurion's approval, otherwise he will think you have defected."
Zhang Xiaowu came to the military camp and asked Solda for a few months' leave. Solda asked: "Haigel, can you guarantee that you will come back?"
Zhang Xiaowu nodded and said: "Yes."
But Solda shook his head and said with distrust on his face: "Really? I don't believe it."
Zhang Xiaowu said in his heart that you are fucking possessed by Lu Yu? He asked: "How can you believe it?"
Solda said seriously: "It's very simple, you just need to marry a Sardinian woman as your wife."
Zhang Xiaowu frowned: "My wife passed away only three days ago."
Solda pulled him to sit on a chair and was served milk tea. Zhang Xiaowu couldn't get used to this kind of hot milk tea. Solda took a nice sip of the salty milk tea and said, "Even though you are a Sardinian now."
You are the Sheriff who governs the west side of the ghost town for the Sardinians, but you are not a real Sardinian yet, so I can't trust you."
"In other words, as long as I marry a Sardinian woman as my wife, will I be considered a true Sardinian? Will you believe me and let me go?"
Solda said: "I know that you love your wife very much, so I believe that even if you have a second wife, you will love her deeply, and even if this woman is a Sardinian, you will protect her."
Zhang Xiaowu shook his head: "What the hell logic."
Solda said: "Okay, my friend, I know you are a very powerful soldier. I don't want you to become my enemy, so you must become one of ours, that is, become a Sardinian, so that I can
Let you go. Otherwise, how can I trust you to leave? If one day you lead an army to attack Sardinia, few people will be able to stop you, right?"
Zhang Xiaowu frowned and looked at him, wondering where he could see it?
Solda smiled and said: "You were right? I guessed it at first! You don't have to doubt that I have investigated you, because your ability does not require investigation at all! When you held a sports meeting for your wife, it was easy
You mobilized thousands of people in the ghost town and even spoke calmly in front of thousands of people. I guessed that you must be a conductor.
A general with more than ten thousand troops. In fact, I am still looking forward to fighting you, but I can't take risks, I can't fail! The Sardinians will not allow me to fail. Heigl, I guess you may be a general who was defeated because of rebellion.
He may be a general who was squeezed out by the Holy Han court, but in short, I will never let someone as powerful as you become my opponent."
Zhang Xiaowu smiled bitterly and shook his head, thinking that I was neither of those, I was just tired of the internal fighting.
"You have to believe me, I will help you find the most beautiful girl in Sardinia to become your new wife." Solda winked and said, "She must be the most beautiful, even more beautiful than the queen."
"That's not the point!" Zhang Xiaowu couldn't laugh or cry, "I'm not a womanizer. Three days after my deceased wife passed away, I couldn't marry someone else immediately. This goes against my morals."
"Think about it carefully." Solda didn't listen to him at all and turned around and said, "Geha, please persuade him. He is a stubborn person and it is really a headache."
Geha is Liu Xiong's Sardinian name. He came to Zhang Xiaowu's house in the afternoon with wine and meat, and asked: "Can I have a drink with you?"
Zhang Xiaowu asked the slave girl to prepare dinner. Zhang Long and others wanted to stay, but he drove them home.
Liu Xiong drank wine and persuaded: "The deceased has passed away. Don't be too sad, sir. Madam I definitely hope that you can live a happier life instead of sadness, right?"
"You don't need to persuade me." Zhang Xiaowu said, "I will not marry anyone else."
Liu Xiong said: "Sir, you are confused. The Sardinians asked you to marry them, so you just married them for show. Do you really think of Sardinian women as your wives? Dog-barbarian women are not as good as Han concubines."
Zhang Xiaowu looked at Liu Xiong in surprise and said to himself: Brother, you are a dog for Quanyi, why do you look down on foreigners now?