It was really eventful, and Shandan's little heart was once again deeply stimulated.

The black tiger in the family was given away.

The black tiger is a mastiff that Shandan and a grassland herdsman asked for from their home.

It accompanied the childhood of Shandan and Erlian. How much childhood joy was given by the Black Tiger?!

It was a cold winter, and when Shandan heard from her father that a nomadic Mongolian mastiff was about to give birth in the meadow, she decided to walk dozens of miles to find someone to raise.

At that time, Shandan had just entered junior high school, and she was very fond of dogs, especially the kind of shepherd dogs or mastiffs with wide palates, fat noses, fat heads and big ears.

Early that morning, Shandan carried the dry food prepared by his mother, put on a sheepskin coat, a pair of indigo on his feet, a silver fox fur hat that his father wore when he was herding sheep, a pair of wolf skin gloves, and a piece of brick tea prepared by his mother and set off.

The girl on the grassland raises the same as the child, although Shandan has been weak and sickly since childhood, but the parents are careful to care for her at the same time, but there is no restriction on her hobbies and innocence, and the grassland people raise children like raising cattle and sheep - free-range. So in order to fulfill his wish - to hold a mastiff to raise, Shandan had to walk dozens of miles to hold the dog cub on a snowy day, and the parents did not stop him, but packed the child and sent her away.

In the steppe, the nature of the child is not even wild in the slightest.

It's the coldest winter of the year, counting the days of thirty-nine.

The people of the steppe also made up a slip for nine days:

"The nineteenth and twenty-ninth gates are called dogs,

Thirty-nine, forty-nine frozen and rotten mortars,

59, 69 elimination wellhead,

Seventy-nine, ** along the river to see the willows,

Ninety-nine and nineteen, ploughs and oxen are everywhere. ”

The winter temperature changes in the Saibei grassland are vividly described.

On the 19th and 29th, I went out to ask the dog to feed, it was too cold outside, and I didn't go out, so cold that I only stretched out my head to call the dog home to eat.

At 39 and 49 o'clock, the stone mortar used for mixing rice is frozen and rotten, so you can imagine how cold it is! Counting 39 is the coldest weather of the year in the grassland, and the so-called outright cold is the weather of 39.

At 59 and 69 o'clock, the weather began to warm, the temperature rose, and the ice accumulated in the winter at the wellhead began to melt.

Seventy-nine, ** new willows sprout, catkins are all over the sky, you can see the graceful weeping willows along the river.

Ninety-nine and nineteen ploughs and oxen walked everywhere, and people began to be busy with spring ploughing after a winter of hibernation.

Shandan went out on the coldest day and walked 30 miles to hug the puppies.

The grassland is covered with snow, and on the snow it stands tall and whimpering in the cold north wind. The sound of "woo" is like a melodious flute, accompanied by flying snowflakes, which is beautiful.

Fan Lian wiped the frost and snow from the corners of her eyelashes and mouth with wolf skin gloves, looked at the curling white air she exhaled, and walked forward while playing.

The flat grassland, as far as the eye can see, is the home of the herdsman Uncle Shu Riluo.

The wolf skin gloves are still the grandfather when he was a child, the second grandfather hunted, and the brothers got a pair of them, and they were good after decades of use, and the wolf skin gloves could ensure that the hands were not frostbitten no matter how cold the weather was.

Fox fur hats are also an effective piece of equipment to protect ears from frostbite.

The sheepskin was wrapped from head to toe, and Fan Lian felt that her back was beginning to sweat. Each family has a few pieces of sheepskin wool, the warmer is made of sheepskin wool in late autumn, and the more light and beautiful women's wool is made of lamb belt wool of the year, which is very warm.

After cooking, scraping, cutting, and sewing, it takes a month for the old cobbler to make a decent and beautiful coat.

Shandan remembers that when he went out, his mother kept telling him: "Don't let go of your clothes, shoes and hats when you sweat when it's hot, because if you're not careful, you'll get frostbite." ”

It is also a necessary armament for Mongolian steppe people to deal with the cold winter, the outside is a layer of cow hair felt, sandwiched with a layer of wool, the inside is a layer of lamb wool felt, and the bottom is thickened cow hair felt.

Coupled with a pair of wool socks, you won't feel cold in the weather of minus 30 degrees.

Wool socks are made by the mother to wash the sheared wool and then use a squeeze (a tool that can spin wool into thread, which is made of a leg of mutton with a hole in the middle and a bent wire hook, which is simple but easy to use. Twisted into a thread, the father then knitted into socks, the father's knitted socks are particularly fitting, never drop the heel, other people's socks are not easy to wear, the child's socks fall to the center of the foot at the end of the day.

Therefore, when he was busy in winter, his father always had endless socks waiting for him from relatives and friends in the neighborhood. People will also send more wool to their father in return, anyway, it is made of home-grown wool, which is worthless.

At that time, wool was not worth much, and cashmere was still worth a little.

In the mid-80s, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew into the Mongolian Plateau, and the confused nerves of the steppe people seemed to have been acupuncture - all of a sudden!

The price of wool has risen, from one or two pieces a pound to three or four pieces, and the Mongolian steppe people do not know where to learn the skills, so they add soil to the wool and sell it.

It turns out that Xiao Yang of the supply and marketing cooperatives is also a regular worker, turning a blind eye, everyone is an acquaintance, it is not good to be too picky, anyway, it is for the superiors to buy, and the matter of handing over the matter, I don't want to worry too much about everyone, and there are "southern barbarians" to grab business.

In the beginning, every day after the sheep went home, people would take a small basket, add one or two taels of soil to each sheep, and the wool itself had oil in it, and the soil that fell on it was stored in the zài wool, and when the sheep were sheared, it would increase a lot of weight.

At that time, the sheep were all local Mongolian sheep, with a particularly good coat color and long fine silk. After the market was liberalized, many people in the wool industry rushed to buy privately.

Later, because the grassland people increased the weight of soil on the sheep over time, before waiting for the season of shearing sheep, many sheep were overwhelmed and lay down on the herd, unable to keep up with the herd, and soon died of exhaustion.

So everyone has another strange trick: add soil to the sheared wool, and you can decide how much to add, so that the sheep will not be tired, and more will be added.

First spread the freshly sheared wool on the ground, add a layer of soil, then spray water mist on it, add another layer of soil, and then rub the wool with your hands to soak the soil into the wool, the surface is not visible, just the place where the hair roots, originally next to the sheepskin, cut down is snow-white, and then it also becomes soil.

Unfortunately, most of the wool buyers were outsiders, and the southerners did not understand the mystery and still received it.

After two or three years, no one came to the Mongolian steppes to buy wool.

It is said that the wool of the Mongolian steppe damaged the carding machines and other equipment of many factories, and since then, the reputation of the Mongolian plateau has been infamous for a long time.

However, the smart Mongolian steppe people naturally have a way to find a way to get rich first.

Everyone began to wash the wool with baking soda, and then tore it into a ball by hand, and with the goat ring hair, it became the cashmere that everyone rushed to buy. A few dollars a pound of sheep wool after a few handicrafts into dozens or hundreds of pieces of cashmere.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and it didn't take long for the other party to find out, and the government also strictly forbade not to do anything on wool and cashmere, otherwise the responsibility will be investigated, and the wind of counterfeiting will be stopped.

In the cold wind and snow, Shandan had been walking for hours, and she felt very thirsty, so sit down and rest for a while.

Reach out and grab a handful of snow on the snow and put it in your mouth, which is as sweet as a sweet spring. She couldn't help but eat a few more bites, the cool, clean, sweet, so that the tiredness of the body disappeared without a trace in an instant, and then ate a little bit of the mutton fat porphyry that her mother brought to her, a kind of pasta fried with milk, sugar, and eggs, which will not deteriorate for a long time.

She stood up and looked back at her home, where the smoke was still drifting, and the smoke was blown away by the wind in the blue sky.

In winter, the stove does not go out for a day, and the smoke in the chimney will naturally decorate the blue sky without stopping, making the cold sky paint with a stroke of Danqing ink.

Seeing that he was about to reach the pasture of Uncle Shuri's house, he heard the barking of dogs in the distance. Shandan quickened his pace, and his father had already told Uncle Shu Riluo that Shandan would be able to bring back a beautiful mastiff when he went.

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