Chapter 20 forbidden zone (next)
Just after discussing this matter, “Lele car” stopped to the grassland in front of two yurts, only to see Ding Sisian wearing a Mongolian robe, head tied a piece of scarf, is milking goat, see her I almost did not recognize, attire change is too big, not to look carefully thought it was a Mongolian girl, Ding Sisian did not expect me and Fatty back to suddenly come to visit her. Suddenly came to visit her, stunned half a day before coming back to God, rushed over with us to embrace together, excited choked up difficult to speak, comrades reunited after a long time, there are endless words want to say, but the heart of the past a thousand things, and do not know where to start.
This pasture is located in the northernmost area of Balen Left Banner, there are only three or four herdsmen, including the young people who came to insert the right, the whole piece of pasture, adding up to no more than fifteen or sixteen people, Ting Sishen is settled in the herdsman “old sheepskin” home, usually in addition to the “old sheepskin” family of three, even a person who can talk to the people are In addition to “Old Sheepskin’s” family of three, she usually had no one to talk to, so she couldn’t help but cry with joy when she suddenly saw her comrades from the year of the Great Crosstalk.
I comforted Ding Si sweet a few words, the fat man and I did not become a soldier, but also to the Xing’anmeng inserted into the things she briefly said, Ding Si sweet sighed, seems extremely sorry for us, but she then picked up the spirit and said: “Now we are also quite good, look at our grassland scenery has a much more magnificent, the blue sky as a quilt ground as a bed, the yellow sand mixed with rice is delicious, the grassland life is the most tempered, you come to play a few more days, you have to play a few more days, you have to play a few more days, you have to play a few more days. You came to play a few more days, tomorrow I will take you to ride a horse.”
Grassland herders on the horse is extremely important, will never let outsiders ride their own mounts, if the horse was ridden by outsiders, or horse lost, the herdsmen are inauspicious, and the horses here are not much, so I thought there is no chance to ride a horse, also do not hold this thought, but I can not imagine Ding Sistern told us that the herdsman here, “the old sheepskin” is not a Mongol, he is not a Mongol. “is not Mongolian, he was before the liberation of the mouth from outside the escape to the grasslands over half a lifetime, after the liberation of the pastoralists, those taboos on the prairie is also not very important to mix with him, riding his horse he is not angry.
I know that behind the optimistic attitude of Ding Si sweet, more of a helplessness of fate, yellow sand dress up rice how to smell it? However, I still do not mention those words to spoil the fun is, so she introduced us to the herdsman “old sheepskin” a family, “old sheepskin” in the grassland life for half a lifetime, but it is difficult to change the accent, there is a very strong Northwest accent, he said that you really came at the right time, and tonight it is just to slaughter cattle and kill sheep. Tonight just to slaughter cows and sheep, to entertain guests from afar, at dusk nearby herdsmen and youths will come.
Fatty and I heard the news, then even happy mouth can not close, the grassland herdsmen are really hospitable, before is heard of not seen, this time to see is really convinced, we just came to slaughter cattle, but also to kill the sheep, how can this be good? Too much, not to mention that we are still empty-handed to come, I should have known to bring some souvenirs as a gift, but we have long heard of the great name of the hand handle mutton, that today can be cheeky not to see the foreign, usually we are this is what time to open the meal?
Dingsi sweet in the side laughed: “You do not take themselves as outsiders, today slaughter sheep because this pasture this year, several natural disasters, but because the herdsmen sacrifice their lives to protect the collective property, did not make the collective property suffered any losses, the alliance said that we are to support the agricultural study of the typical Dazhai, because the Inner Mongolia grasslands close to the border, to take the military control, so the upper side of the The Revolutionary Committee sent a cadre to take pictures of us here, to report on the herdsmen’s exemplary heroics, slaughtering sheep is to entertain him, you guys just happened to catch up, otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to treat you to fresh mutton.”
I just heard what is going on, white happy half a day, the original so grand is to entertain other people, and said what the pastoral area is to support agriculture to learn the typical Dazhai, Dazhai with the pastoral area can be compared? However, since they want to catch the typical, we are not qualified to ask, under the sky I have no I do not matter, followed by rubbing a meal of mutton should be quite contented.
The sky is not yet dark, the nearby herdsmen of several households and young people have arrived, plus us and the old sheepskin, there are only a total of more than twenty people, knowledge of young people accounted for half of the rest of the young people, although we do not know, but each of them mentioned the identity of the young people, will be inserted into the brotherhood and sisterhood, and the old world to pay tribute to that kind of feeling is almost the same, a common destiny so that there is no distance, not used for a short while on the mixing of familiar! The dusk of the prairie sunset, a thousand miles, it is the most beautiful time of the scenery, a young man went to find the cadres borrowed a camera, the group took a picture together, happily waiting for the evening meal to eat a big meal.
Ding Sishen and I helped “old sheepskin” to catch the sheep to be slaughtered out of the circle, I felt that today I had a very enjoyable time, and saw the blood-red sunset, the west side of the rolling hills, it will give birth to the intention of a long-distance trip, and told “old sheepskin”, tomorrow I would like to borrow a couple of horses, so that the Sishen take us to ride horses. SiShitian took us on a horseback ride to the depths of the grassland to play.
“Old sheepskin” heard this, face changed greatly, he told me that there is no way to go, the end of the grassland is the Mongolian Loess Plateau, that is, the Mongolian Desert connected to the region, deep in the grassland there is a place called “hundred eyes cave”, now breaking the Four Olds, some of the words originally I don’t dare to say, but because you are all the girl’s friends, I dare to tell you clearly, “Hundred Eyes Cave” hides a black demon dragon, close to the herdsmen or livestock there, they are all swallowed by the Dragon King, and all of them have to go without return, if not for this year’s winter drought, the herdsmen worry that the livestock didn’t have enough fattening, or else they would never have come so close to the “Hundred Eyes Cave”. So close to the “Hundred Eyes Cave” this meadow grazing, you do not ask, who still dare to go deeper into the grassland half a step ah, if the alarm of the demon dragon, I’m afraid that the Everlasting Heaven can not bless us.
Look at the “old sheepskin” said seriously, I can not help but feel funny, this is too ridiculous, how can there be dragons in the grassland? And still will eat people and livestock of the demon dragon, this kind of thing bluffing children may be good, I Hu Bayi can believe it?
Seeing that I don’t believe it, “Old Sheepskin” told me about a personal experience. Decades ago, when he was shepherding the “Bayan” on the grassland, he heard the legend about the demon dragon in the north of the desert, and said that it was so evil that the grassland near the “Hundred Eyes Cave” has become a place where the “Hundred Eyes Cave” has become a place where the “Hundred Eyes Cave” is located. The grassland near the “Hundred Eyes Cave” has become a forbidden area by default by the local herdsmen, livestock lost over there, no one dares to look for, anyway, no matter whether it is a person or a horse, to go back, once from the northeast mountainous area came a group of people, carrying a big old box, look like a coffin, do not know what is loaded inside, this group of people captured “old” sheepskin “brother,” and the “old” sheepskin “brother,” the “old” sheepskin, the “old” sheepskin, the “old” sheepskin, the “old” sheepskin. Sheepskin” brother, with a gun on the top of the hard to lead him to the “hundred-eyed cave”, “old sheepskin” quietly followed the back to save his brother down, but followed to the hundred-eyed cave near the did not dare to go further inside, watched his own brother! He watched as his brother entered the cave with his gang, and never came out again.
“Old sheepskin” swore that he saw the black demon dragon, scared almost pissed his pants, really do not dare to get close to it, and since then every night nightmares, but also hate their own cowardice, saw his own brother on the road to the Yellow Springs, but did not have the courage to save him back.
I saw his words, look is not a fake, naturally very sympathetic to his brother’s encounter, but to say that there are dragons in the world, where I would believe, shaking his head to the “old sheepskin” said: “What …… dragons you see, afraid of! I guess maybe it’s a black python? Some pythons are as thick as a bucket of water, and are indeed easy to be seen as dragons.”
“The old sheepskin” looked at my eyes suddenly became heavy, reached out and pointed to the sky: “This young man, you think my old man so big a handful of years are living in the dog, even snakes and dragons can not distinguish? Even the python can go up to the sky? I personally saw that god god …… that god god is in the sky dragon in the sky.”
(Note: Bayan – Mongolian for rich)