Chapter 21: Kerenzo Banner at Night (above)

Follow the herdsman “old sheepskin” finger, I can not help but look up to the sky, heavy clouds from the top of the head has been piled up to the edge of the sky, my heart repeatedly echoed his last sentence, the “dragon” is in the sky.

After saying this, “Old Sheepskin” didn’t continue to say anything, and went to one side to slaughter the sheep, I looked at the sky for a long time, and I was still skeptical about his words, but at this time, the pasture started to be busy, and all the people were helping to prepare for the banquet in the evening, so I couldn’t ask any further questions, and I turned around and went back to the youths’ group. I could not ask any more questions and turned around to return to the group of young intellectuals.

There are many taboos against slaughtering livestock in the pasture area, for example, after killing them, one should never say words such as “it’s a pity” or “it would be better not to kill them”, because once such words are spoken, the souls of the animals will stay behind to haunt them, and the oxen or horses that are ridden, the animals that have helped their owners, the animals that have given birth and given milk, and the animals that have given birth and given milk to their mothers, will all be killed in the pasture area. And riding cows or horses, livestock that have helped the owner, give birth to a lot of milk female animals, etc. can not be killed, because the young Zhiqing are outsiders, herders are seldom willing to let these people to help slaughter livestock, skinning and cooking also try to not let the young Zhiqing close to the front.

So we know a few young people in the cattle and horses back to the circle will have nothing to do, can only dry waiting for dinner, the night finally came down, the sky is like a dome, covering the four fields, the grassland herdsman’s tent in front of the ten billions of fires, herdsmen one after another to bring up a large plate of a big plate of food with a Mongolian flavor, opened the whole sheep seat, with the like what blood sausage, tripe and so on, we’ve never eaten, smelled in the night sky is filled with dairy products The unique sweet smell, constantly swallowing saliva.

I and the fat man at noon did not eat, see this many delicious, can not help but eat, the fat man just want to reach out and want to grab a piece of meat to eat, will be “old sheepskin” with a pot of tobacco his hand knocked back, the original but also to ask the cadres from afar to give a few words to the group.

Speaking, but also nothing more than the rally is popular nowadays the same old story, the cadre surnamed Ni thirty years old, thin face with depth of myopia glasses, stayed lopsided cadres, in fact, he is not a leading cadre, just a clerical staff, was sent down to the superiors to write a pastoral exemplary deeds of the report, could not imagine that the grasslands by such a high degree of courtesy, herdsmen have never seen what! The herders have never seen any leadership, he was called “chief”, really flattered, and must be called “Ni”.

Mongolians to the west for the big, long for the honor, asked the old Ni sat in the west of the most prestigious position, an older herdsman holding a horn cup, first sang a few toasts, Ding Sishen in the grasslands more than half a year, has learned a little bit of the Mongolian language, to me, said the translation, sung: wine, ah, is the crystallization of the five grains, the Mongolian people offer guests wine on behalf of the welcome and respect … … …

Fatty and I have no interest in the content of the toast, staring blearily at the roasted leg of lamb straight oil, and hope that the old man to hurry up and finish singing, and so on Lao Ni to say a few words to cope with the scene of nonsense, we can start to eat.

Lao Ni in accordance with local custom, to ring finger dipped in wine, each to the sky, earth, fire popped, and lips dipped some wine, which began to speak, first read a few sentences of the highest instructions, and praised a few sentences of the pastoral area of the good situation, and finally did not forget to mention the young people here, said that knowledge of young people in the grasslands have been a lot of exercise, support for agriculture, support for animal husbandry and the promotion of production of the revolution at the same time, we must also strengthen the political study, to often hold life review meetings, and timely report on the ideological review of the pastoral area, and to ensure that the young people have a lot of exercise. Hold a life review meeting, timely reporting of thoughts, timely criticism and self-criticism ……

The old Ni cartwheel like speech can have twenty minutes, may say even he felt hungry, this is a wave of the hand, let the group eat, Mongolians drink wine and drink cold water like, all with a big bowl, the amount of small see this situation can be scared, this time herdsmen have to give the head of the toast, the old Ni not competent to fight not half a circle, it was dunked unconscious, so that the people across the tent to carry into the room.

Youth inside there is no amount of people, do not dare to drink with those herdsmen bowl after bowl, simply grabbed some food, in addition to light up a pile of small ten billions of fires, to the side to eat, herdsmen know that the amount of young people from the mainland is shallow, no one chased us to fight wine, they are also happy to have no outsiders to interfere with the herdsmen drink too much to like to sing, eat half of the time, I do not know who’s horse-head zither whimpering and whimpering, the zither as miserable as a complaint, the sound of the piano, the sound of the piano as miserable as a complaint. The sound of the piano, such as poignant as complaining, and exceptionally cool and majestic, timbre strong, potential to move the heavens.

We eleven youths sitting around another pile of ten billions of fires, experiencing the fire baked chest warm, wind blowing behind the cold grassland life, listening to the horse-head qin listened to the God, I want to go over there to see who is pulling the horse-head qin pulling so well, Ding Sishen said: “do not need to see also know that it must be the old sheepskin grandpa’s qin, although he is a Northwest outsider, not only the Qinqiang, albatross sung well in the prairie life for decades, pulling the qin, and the sound is very good. Grassland life for decades, pull up the horse head qin also deep charm, I think Tengri must be the Klinzuo Banner grassland the most beautiful tones, are given to the old sheepskin grandfather this horse head qin.” She finished standing up and danced a solo dance to the sound of the horse-head qin.

Ding Si-Tsiang before is the backbone of literature and art, dancing and singing without color, always want to enter the army’s cultural troupe, but due to the family has overseas relations did not wish, the grasslands of the Mongolian dance she learned, jumping up more than the Mongolians and Mongolians, the Mongolian dance form beautiful, not fast-paced, mostly body language to praise the vast beauty of the grasslands, as well as the performance of eagles flying, steeds galloping gesture.

We look at the dance of Ding Si sweet look as if intoxicated, forget where we are, until the sound of the piano stops, but also immersed in it, but did not think to applaud and applaud. As the saying goes, “Everything is better than a cup in the hand, a lifetime of a few see the moon in the head.” Grassland sky high moonlight, burning fire in front of the crowd of songs and dances, wine and joy, a lifetime may not have a few such opportunities, the young people settled in the various flags in various districts, usually rare to see each other, are extraordinarily cherish this party, one after another performed a program, either singing or dancing.

Finally Ding Si-Tian dragged Fatty and me up from the ground and said to the group, “Let’s all welcome the eighty-first and Triumph from Xing’anmeng to come one.” Several men and women sitting in the intellectual youths applauded, I and Fatty looked at each other, this can be a little difficult, we inserted that place seems to have jumped God, but not like the grasslands so dance, singing and dancing have not learned, this is not to let our brother and sister present eye?