Chapter 23 Gadfly (above)
Do not need to elaborate, Ding Si-Tian’s look has told me, the frightened cattle are running towards us, the grassland cattle have always been gentle, but once they are frightened of the herd, the formation of cluster impact, than the momentum of the wild horses off the reins is even more ferocious, a few hundred head of cattle initiated the nature of the rush over simply can not be stopped, and even the car can be stepped on into the tin.
I do not care to inquire about why the herd of cattle bombed the group, leapt up from the ground, a kick to wake up the fat man, but the “chief” Lao Ni yesterday drank too much, how to kick can not wake up, in a hurry, I had to lift him and the fat man, fortunately, is wearing clothes to sleep, all the belongings of the left this line of work, only to grab the military satchel will be with the Dinsitian snatched out of the tent.
Outside the day has dawned, only to see the dust in the east of the sky, chaotic hooves stampede sound and herd of cattle in the herd of sad screams mixed together, pouncing on the sky surging towards our side, there are a few faithful sheepdogs rushed over to the frenzied herd of fierce barking, want to assist the owner to stop the herd of cattle, but at this time, the herd of cattle has been red-eyed, running wildly the momentum of the momentum of not stopping at all, and in a moment they will be a few dogs stepped on the grass, stepped into the mud.
Where would I have thought of this kind of situation, see the cattle rampage, want to meander to the side to avoid the cattle stampede stampede has been too late, but wait in the distance, immediately will be trampled by the hooves of the cattle, we were horrified, a little bit of a moment of concentration of so much effort, even the sound of the talk was drowned out, in the confusion, dingsi sweet tugging on my arm, desperately running to the back of the yurt.
I am fully aware of the two meat legs simply can not run scared cattle, there is no way to ask Ding Si-Shuang why she ran that way, although I am worried that she was scared out of her wits, but still with the fat man across the old Ni followed her to run over, no need to turn around, from the sound alone can be heard, behind the herd has been getting closer and closer, just stayed in the yurt has been trampled flat, within a dozen paces, it will certainly be trampled by the hooves of the dead.
In despair, I found a few steps ahead is a dry river ditch, this ditch weathered for a long time, has been dry for hundreds of years, the river ditch is also increasingly sandy grass erosion, now only left more than a meter deep, more than half a meter wide gully remnants, such as green fluffy carpet of grass on the birth of a crack, which is the grassland on a number of natural firebreaks one of them, I only then understand the intentions of Ding Sistern, she led us to run this way, is to let the guys She led us to run this way because she wanted us to jump into the ditch to avoid the rush of the frightened cows.
Fatty and I moved “Ni head”, with Ding Si-Sweet with all its strength from the prick, four people almost rolled into the dry earth ditch, just into the earth ditch, the top of the head will be dark, mud and sand and grass clippings have fallen, deafening hoofbeats shocked the heart trembling, we tightly cover our ears, I do not know how long it has been, howling screaming cows before the ditch is completely over.
“Chief” Lao Ni was finally tossed awake, sitting in the ditch, looking at the three of us, at a loss, just what happened? At this time, “old sheepskin” and his son and daughter-in-law rushed over, they do not care about chasing the cattle, first see Lao Ni is fine before sighing with relief, respectively, we pulled out of the ditch, people talk about just now, it turned out that almost everyone was drunk last night, I do not know who was leading a horse to fall down the fence of the cattle enclosure, Baren left the banner of the largest cattle herd! All in this, fortunately there are loyal sheepdogs, around the cattle so that they did not get lost, cattle in the circle outside the grass to chew grass, to the morning has not happened.
In the morning, the “old sheepskin” woke up, found that the cattle are out of the circle, this often happens, not to make a fuss, so he greeted his son and daughter-in-law out to help drive the cattle, they have just turned to the back of the herd, there was a sudden and unexpected thing, I do not know where a big gadfly, bit a herd of cows hard.
The cow’s tail usually swings around, mainly used to hit the gadfly or mosquito flies in the grass, the gadfly is a kind of bug, it is actually divided into two categories of meat-eating and vegetarian, the male gadfly is only sucking the grass juice, the female gadfly is specialized in sucking the blood of livestock, the body of the gray-black, transparent wings, compared to the mosquito flies, gadflies, especially let the cow fear, the gadfly probably dodged the blow of the cow’s tail whip, a mouthful of death bit the cow’s sensitive parts, and the pain was so severe that the cow was scared to death. Sensitive parts, the pain of the cattle then jumped out of the high, the rest of the cattle are scared to blow up the herd, and headless flies like crashed out, rushing to the yurt over, Ding Sitian found the cattle blew up the herd, did not run away on their own, and risked to save the three people who are still sleeping, otherwise now even with the tent all into the turf.
Cattle frightened no one can stop, because the sound is too fierce, even the horses were scared four legs soft, do not dare to chase after, only to let them in the grassland hair wildly, finally until the exhaustion of the time will stop, and then only shepherds can rush up to the cattle to chase back.
Lao Ni listen to understand the ins and outs of the matter, scared almost no soul, if there is no youths to save their lives, may be dead in their sleep still do not know how they died, grateful to shake hands with us, I and fat man what kind of chiefs have not seen? Of course, not like ordinary herdsmen like to take the old Ni this small cadre as a matter of fact, but he felt that this person is more easy-going and friendly, and to save people’s lives is a matter of course, but also did not how to take credit for self-promotion.
“Chief Ni” said to the crowd: “Even Chairman Mao said – a small globe, there are a few flies touching the wall. I see a few gadflies on the grassland is not a big deal, just to run back as soon as possible to run loose cattle is good, I’m going back to report on the exemplary deeds of your pastoral area, the higher-ups also want to call on all the pastoral area forest area like you learn, so this time do not make any mistakes.” Finished looking at the two eyes straight “old sheepskin”, asked why he is still not fast to go after those cattle?
“The old sheepskin’s wrinkled old face was colorless, with a disoriented expression, after the cattle crossed the ditch, they were divided into several groups and ran away, one of them ran wildly in the direction of “Hundred Eyes Cave” deep in the prairie, and it was fine to run elsewhere, but as soon as he mentioned that place. “Old sheepskin” heart a burst of fear, of course, this reason he did not dare to tell Lao Ni directly.
I can see the side of the understanding, know “old sheepskin” suffering, I do not believe that the depth of the grassland will have what “demon dragon”, immediately stood up to the old Ni said, to the west of the cattle, I am responsible for going to chase back, the league out of a model pastoral area is not easy, this matter can not first do not publicize, otherwise “old Ni” heart a burst of fear, of course, the reason he did not dare to speak directly to the old Ni. This is not an easy task for the league to come up with a model pastoral area, so can we keep this matter quiet for the time being, or else the “old sheepskin” will become a lagging typical advanced model.
Lao Ni nodded and said: “It’s good for the youths to go there to catch up with the cattle, but you have to be careful, after Mobei is the national border, if the cattle run to Mongolia, it’s troublesome to get them back, it’s an international incident, which will make the national property suffer a huge loss, I’ll do my best to suppress this matter for the time being, and wait for you to come back here, and then report to the higher level after counting the number of losses. After that, I’ll go back and report to my superiors, the cattle have trampled to death quite a few calves when they ran away, I think we must find a way to minimize the losses.”