Chapter 1 Prairie Naadam
"Woo woo woo-" The horn sounded one after another, and the colorful flags fluttering on the green grassland were crowded, which was the grassland holding a new Naadam conference. Wrestling, horse racing, archery, Saiburu, horse setting, Mongolian chess. Naadam's classic game is a back-to-back match.
In the past, the Naadam conference was held in July and August, when the livestock were fat, and the herders gathered to celebrate a good harvest this year. It's only the beginning of March, the spring is cold, the harsh winter has just ended, and it was not a good time to hold the Naadam conference. But this year's Naadam conference was held earlier.
Just a month ago, the steppe men defeated the murderous Japanese invaders with their horses and scimitars; Genghis Khan's direct descendant, Sichinbari, returned to the steppe; General Ren Laifeng, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Anti-Japanese guerrillas, came to the Mongolian steppe, fought side by side with the steppe warriors, and worked together to defeat the Japanese invaders and achieved that brilliant victory!
Three great events have taken place at the same time on the grassland that have been quiet for too long, and the herdsmen can only express their joy in their hearts with a Naadam conference.
The vast grassland is the playing field, and the thick sheepskin is the luxurious seats. Ren Laifeng and Si Chin Bazhi sat cross-legged on two whole sheepskins, and in front of each of them was a large plate of fat lamb stewed and fragrant, plus a jar of mare's milk wine. Ren Laifeng watched the game with a telescope, and talked to Sichinbari from time to time.
He has seen wrestling and horse racing, and although he has never seen archery before, Ren Laifeng thinks he knows what archery is all about. Isn't it just a matter of holding a bow and shooting a slender arrow at the target? The bow and arrow used in war have long been replaced by the more powerful and easy-to-handle muskets, and archery has completely degenerated into a sport, or performance, in modern terms.
This kind of sport is not so much practical as it is spectacle. Ren Laifeng also watched the archery competition with the psychology of watching the excitement. However, when he really saw the Naadam archery competition, Ren Laifeng was still taken aback.
The visual impact of hundreds of Mongolian men standing in a row and shooting arrows at the same time is absolutely shocking.
"Buzz! Airplanes! Airplanes! "Hundreds of people shoot arrows at the same time, and the arrows are not swishing, but buzzing. After the three arrows are shot, someone counts the number of arrows for each person, and then changes to the next group of players. The archery competition at the Naadam Congress was conducted in three rounds and nine arrows. That is, each person shoots three arrows each time, a total of three rounds, and the one who hits more targets wins.
There are no restrictions on the nationality, age, and religion of the contestants, and many officers and men of the Flying Tiger Battalion who were invited to participate in the rally have signed up for the competition. Archery was originally a men's event, but Yu Xiaoqian actually disguised herself as a man to participate in the archery competition, and Feng Wenying, who has always been known for her martial arts, actually signed up for a women's song and dance performance.
In this regard, in addition to being dumbfounded, Ren Laifeng can only sigh that the current woman is changing too fast! He wouldn't be on the field anyway to participate in this kind of archery competition. He has never practiced, and if he gets on the field, he can't hit the target with nine arrows and one arrow, isn't that ugly?
Cut a piece of fat mutton and chew it in your mouth, then take a sip of sweet and sour mare's milk wine, and revel in it with your eyes closed for a few seconds. Mare's milk wine with boiled mutton is really a perfect match, this is the life he likes.
Cheers suddenly rang out, presumably the archery competition had already produced a winner, right? Ren Laifeng picked up the binoculars and looked at it, but he didn't recognize who the winner was. A familiar figure suddenly appeared in front of him, Yu Xiaoqian!
Seeing that the little woman had a large bow of exaggerated size hanging from her shoulder, and was running like a fawn, and laughing like a silver bell, the woman was now more and more cheerful. Since the two of them did that the night before, Yu Xiaoqian seemed to be a different person, and the previous shadow finally left her.
A little woman who combines the liveliness of a girl and the charm of a young woman has an irresistible allure for a man. And Ren Laifeng is precisely a young man with strong male hormones.
Yu Xiaoqian ran to him with a grin, Ren Laifeng hurriedly poured a bowl of mare's milk wine and handed it over, watching Yu Xiaoqian holding the bowl and drinking happily, Ren Laifeng couldn't help but swallow his saliva. Because he drank too quickly, a drop of wine slid down the corner of his mouth, down his neck and down his chest.
"Drink slowly, you drink slowly." couldn't stop persuading, and when the wine bowl was put down, Ren Laifeng stretched out his hand and affectionately wiped the wine stains from the corners of her mouth, neck, and chest. Yu Xiaoqian's face turned red for a moment, and she stomped her feet coquettishly, and her red face made people feel the urge to pounce and kiss hard.
"You don't ask people how the results of the competition are, just mess around, hmph, see if I come back and don't tell Sister Wen Ying!"
Yu Xiaoqian's coquettish voice made him feel even more comfortable when he heard Ren Laifeng's ears, "Hahaha, I forgot to ask when I saw you happy, Xiaoqian is not strange." How did you do in the competition? How many places did you win? ”
"Hmph, everyone is a young man who has been practicing archery since childhood, how can a novice who has only shot a few arrows before the competition starts? However, I shot three rounds of nine arrows and all of them were on target! A lot of people who shoot arrows make mistakes. ”
"All on target? Oops, the little lady is really amazing! General Ren has this virtuous help, and he will definitely be a man of the year in the future! Congratulations. "Congratulations on the winning streak that Schinbarge has made up next to him.
Yu Xiaoqian raised her eyebrows. This sentence of the little lady made her look at this Mongolian-colored old man a lot more pleasing to her eyes. Old Siqin was almost sixty years old, and when he sat here drinking, he was surrounded by two beautiful girls who were about the same age as his grandson, and it was not wrong to say that he was an old Mongolian man.
Ren Laifeng didn't know what Yu Xiaoqian was thinking, the two women around him, one came back and the other? "Old Siqin, when will the singing and dancing competition start?"
"Want to see singing and dancing? Hehe, that's going to have to happen after the game is all over. Does General Ren want to see our beautiful Mongolian women? Haha, you'll definitely be satisfied when the time comes. If you like whichever one you like, you can tell my brother, no matter which girl it is, I can help you ask for it! ”
This old guy can't spit ivory out of his mouth! Ren Laifeng scolded secretly, but thinking about what Lao Siqin said, he was really a little moved.
"By the way, after the archery competition, it's a horse race. Is General Ren interested in participating? ”