Chapter 24: Gadfly (below)

Ding Sitian had already led three horses out, and when she heard Lao Ni’s words she said to him, “You are too much worried, the cattle won’t run into the desert, at most they will be circling around in the grassland, and the grazing cattle are in groups no matter how they run, there aren’t too many wolves in Balun Left Banner, and a few prairie wolves don’t dare to hit them, there shouldn’t be any other accidents, we will surely be able to complete the task and bring back the grazing cattle one by one, no less. of them back.”

I saw that she was holding three horses, so I asked Dinsitian how come you also want to go with us to the west to chase the cattle? It is said that it is very dangerous there, so you’d better not go. Dinsitian stubbornly said: “Although you claim that you dare to go up to the nine heavens to catch the moon, can go down to the five oceans to catch turtles, but you have not even ridden a horse, can not ride a horse and how to go after cattle? Besides, I’m a youth in this pastoral area, and I’m responsible for what happened in the pastoral area, so of course I have to go.” Said she went to move a few pairs of saddles and stirrups, fat man and I do not know how to ride a horse, had to recognize, led by her.

At this time, the “old sheepskin” hesitantly came over, even the three youths can for the pastoral risk close to the “hundred eyes cave”, have come to this time, this old bones and what can not give up? And the main thing is, if not only the cattle did not come back, but also the youths had an accident, it would be even more impossible to explain, he finally made up his mind, let his son and daughter-in-law go to look for a few other groups of cattle, and then stayed behind to take care of the “Ni head”, and to repair the cattle pen and sheep pens, and he went with the three of us to the “Hundred Eyes Grotto”. He himself went with us to chase the cattle in the direction of the “Hundred Eyes Cave”.

We do not dare to be slow, in another yurt was not trampled down by the cattle, to find some emergency things to carry, the people will be hurriedly set off, novice horseback riding does need a familiarization process, but I and fat man was born to this kind of thing adaptability, coupled with DingShiShuang and the “old sheepskin” guidance, not out of a few miles, we have basically mastered the essentials, we have to go to the “100 eyes cave” direction, we have to go to the “100 eyes cave”. We have basically mastered the essentials.

The key to horseback riding is not to compete with the horse, the horse fast walking and fast running, calf knee and thigh inner force clamp horse, body leaning forward, and the saddle to maintain a kind of seemingly touching non-touching feeling, and with the horse’s running rhythm of the ups and downs, can not let their bodies hard, four people urged the horse galloped across the grassland, as in the sea of grass, the wind skating, I and the fat man in the heart of the great joy, thought this time can really fucking over the full! Horse addiction, just for this, it is not in vain to chase the cattle.

Fried group of cattle running up will not stop, and just now a delay, a moment and a half can not catch up, well along the trail is obvious, but do not have to worry about chasing lost, “old sheepskin” worried about me and fat man played over the head, and did not wear boots, once from the horse fell off the fall of the stirrups is not a joke, only to let us run a course of the horse, and gradually slowed down. Gradually slowed down the speed.

I took this opportunity to ask the “old sheepskin”, that “hundred eyes cave” is a strange name, but why the name? “The old sheepskin” said he was not too clear, only heard that there are many holes in the grassland nearby, the hole is surprisingly large, are dry water eyes, hole after hole, may be because of the number of holes, so it is called “Hundred Eyes Grottoes”, because of missing people and animals there are too many, so for many years no one has ever seen a hole in the grassland. Because there are too many missing people and animals over there, no one has been close to it for many years, and it’s not clear if that’s really the case.

“Old Sheepskin was always afraid of the black dragons near the Hundred Eyes Cave. I think it was probably due to the disappearance of his brother that cast a layer of shadow on his heart, and there was a knot in his heart that he could not untie, so I didn’t know how to persuade him, and I could only comfort him that there were no dragons in the world. There is no “dragon” that kind of creature, that is only a kind of totem created by the ancients.

Speaking of which, I suddenly remembered my family’s book “sixteen characters of yin and yang feng shui secret art”, which seems to have a lot of references to the relevant “dragon” chapters, this book is the only property left in my family, I have always been with me, and at that time, I did not look at it carefully, and so I pulled it out, and flipped it over several times on the back of the horse, and it was true that the “dragon secret” was there. “Dragon secret”, which says: “mountains and rivers line ups and downs for the dragon, the terrain stretches condensation for the dragon.” It seems that the dragon is also a symbol of the mountain, this book does not say that the dragon is alive.

Fatty to my broken book has been looking at the eye, see me again take it to say things, immediately sarcastic I said: “How you have not thrown this four old reading material? This kind of nonsense book is toxic ah, you long-term look is to be poisoned my comrades, and you even dare to take it out to others to see, want to instill low-class taste to the poor and lower peasants and revolutionary comrades?”

I retorted: “You know a egg ah you, nonsense is justified, low-class interest is not guilty, not to mention that I always with a critical eye to see the ……” is talking, “old sheepskin” suddenly The old sheepskin” suddenly halted the horse, told us three youths, the end of the meadow is the hundred eyes cave, he dared to swear to the Everlasting Sky, he was there to see the demon dragon, the horror of the situation to death can not be forgotten.

At that time the red sun in the sky, we rode in the horse, hand on the pergola to the west, silent prairie yellow grass even the sky, a pale, undulating waves like the end of the sea of grass, there is a piece of uplifted hills, seems to be a few isolated islands on the sea of grass, that is to let the “old sheepskin” talk about the fear of the hundred-eyed grottoes, it seems that the cattle are running to that side of the past, do not find! The herd of cattle back to the group can not explain, it seems that no matter is a dragon pool and tiger cave, have to go over to explore on a probe.

“The old sheepskin” with a Mongolian knife out, that is a real mouth of the Kangxi sword, was given to a Mongolian prince, and then broke the four old times, the prince’s descendants let the old sheepskin to help the knife to secretly thrown, the old sheepskin know that the knife is a treasure knife, when the awareness of a moment did not raise up, think that thrown too bad, so the Hidden in his own home, his family’s composition is low, no one paid attention to him at all, so he kept it.

He felt that the Kangxi sword can seclude the evil and drive away the devil, then brought out with him, may be this time for him already is not going to go back alive, looks very sad, this time look close to the “hundred eyes cave”, “the old sheepskin” brushed the knife out of the sheath, mouth roar on the Qin cavity to himself and the youths. The Qin cavity to himself and the youths bold, while roaring side of the horse forward, only to hear his broken gong-like voice sang like a roar: “Zhao ZiLong ai ……” this sentence out of the mouth, roared high and passionate, sad and angry.

We were “old sheepskin” this touching voice, roaring scalp a burst of numbness, although I have not heard the real Qinqiang what flavor, but they feel that his broken voice is really too authentic, this time really need to sing that all the courage of Zhao ZiLong to the guys to encourage, just want to applaud him, he suddenly stopped not roar, his eyes firmly staring at the ground was oxen, the eyes of Zhao ZiLong, the eyes of Zhao ZiLong. Firmly staring at the ground was trampled by the cattle traces, it turned out that after the cattle ran here, running angle slightly deviated, no longer pointing directly to the direction of the “hundred-eyed cave”, “old sheepskin” suddenly rejoiced, thanks to the Everlasting Heaven, these cattle ancestors did not enter the “hundred-eyed cave”, “old sheepskin” suddenly rejoiced, thanks to the Everlasting Heaven, these cattle ancestors did not enter the “hundred-eyed cave”, the “hundred-eyed cave”. The cow ancestors did not enter the “hundred-eyed cave”. But we are not happy for too long, followed the trail and chased all the way down, line not a few miles, more than a hundred head of cattle in the grassland footprints, even disappeared in thin air, chaotic cattle hoofprints in a place to stop, is it a large group of cattle all evaporated in the grasslands? The crowd was dumbfounded, could it be that they were blown away by a tornado? But there is no sign of wind around, what happened in the place where the cattle disappeared?