Chapter Forty-Nine: Encounters on the Prairie

At this time, the eldest grandson was lying carefree on the grassland with shallow weeds, watching the ever-changing sunset and the sunset about to set. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Half of the red sunset has fallen below the horizon, and the sun is also lazily sprinkled on Changsun Tang, who is as weak as Changsun Tang.

More than a month ago, Changsun Tang and his party of six people came to the grassland of Shanbei with horses and camels carrying 200 catties of inferior tea, but the desolation of the grassland in Shanbei made them feel cold, and they did not even find a single human hair for several days, which made Changsun Tang very injured.

But when the worst is over, the rest always goes on the bright side.

Lying on the grassland and waiting for almost half a day, the eldest grandson finally saw a flock of geese from the south passing by at sunset. It's like when a few people were about to return in despair, and finally met a migrating shepherd.

The shepherds move from their winter habitats to their spring grazing lands, and they are a family of more than a dozen people, young and old.

It is said that it is old and young, but it is mostly teenagers.

Natural disasters made it difficult for the old people on the grasslands to survive, and wars killed men in their prime.

But in order to survive, we still have to live strongly, this is the essence of life: to overcome all difficulties, just for the sake of the past few decades.

Take this family as an example, there are fourteen people, large and small, but there are only two men in the prime of life, four women, and children, not a single old man, and the last old man, who is about to turn fifty, did not survive the heavy snow last year.

Life on the prairie may be free, because here you can ride your horses freely, and if you ride well, you can close your eyes and sleep.

But life on the prairie is definitely not lazy.

When the day was dark, with the barking of the shepherd dogs, all the old and young got up.

Two men had to pack their bags and prepare to graze, and four children between the ages of eight and ten had to follow along.

The women took advantage of the glimmer of the morning light and began to milk and even have mare's milk to prepare breakfast.

A few girls and smaller ones carried a few badly damaged dustpans that could not be made to pick up animal droppings and carry them to a sunny place to dry and use as fuel.

Wang Tie Dan was practicing the Ge brothers, and the guide was talking and communicating with the woman.

Today, the eldest grandson has no exercise for the first time, and there is no problem with his body, he just doesn't want to.

Miss Wang followed one of the women to learn how to make milk tea from the milk skin.

Put the milked milk into a pot, use the dried cow dung as fuel, and when a large pot of milk boils, add a brick of tea the size of a fingernail to continue boiling.

The girl and the woman squeezed down, ran into the tent, took out a piece of tea, broke it and put it in the pot, stirring it constantly.

The woman next to her was haunted for a long time, and she didn't know what she was talking about.

Breakfast on the prairie is milk and hand-held meat.

Hand meat is to put the freshly killed mutton into the pot and boil it, add nothing, and remove a piece with a knife after it comes out of the pot, dip it in salt and eat it.

While preparing breakfast, Miss Wang saw that the eldest grandson was idle, so she ran over.

"Brother Changsun, you're really lazy, but the days on the grassland are really interesting." The moon-white scribe's uniform was full of mud spots, but she didn't care about it, who usually loves cleanliness.

"yes, that's interesting." The eldest grandson looked at Miss Wang and said like this.

"Oh, really, I don't believe you're going to try." Miss Wang blushed when she saw it, but she still grabbed the eldest grandson and dragged him up from the ground.

To tell the truth, the grassland in the morning is not very suitable for lying down, the dew has already wet Sun Tang's back, and his clothes are crumpled and stained with mud.

Miss Wang pushed the eldest grandson to the fire, patting the dirt on the eldest grandson's back as she walked.

"What do you need to do now?" The eldest grandson asked.

"Boiled mutton." Miss Wang replied.

"Oh, I always do." The eldest grandson scooped up the soup with a spoon and tasted it, there was no taste, looking at such a big pot and a full pot of mutton, he grabbed the salt next to him and went in half.

"#¥......&" The eldest grandson who was about to taste the taste was driven over by the woman, looking at the woman's red eyes, the eldest grandson was a little flustered.

"What's wrong with her?" The eldest grandson looked at Miss Wang.

Miss Wang said a few words to the woman, and the woman pointed to the salt, and then to the pot, and talked to Miss Wang.

This made Changsun Tang very surprised, this Wang girl actually learned the language of the grassland tribe in just a few days, which is a bit against the sky, why am I crossing, but I feel that the people around me are more like crossing, Changsun Tang shouted in his heart.

In Changsun Tang's impression, as a representative of the steppe language, he could speak a word of Mongolian, but even the Mongolians couldn't understand it, because his Mongolian sentence was like this: Umbrella Jingda Lajiao copied Yima Yao. If you don't understand, you can translate it again: three catties of large chili peppers fried a spoonful. Just pay more attention to the tone and emphasis.

"He said you were wasting salt." Miss Wang turned her head to the eldest grandson and said.

"The soup is not salty, I tried it." The eldest grandson is very innocent.

"I know, there is a shortage of salt here, and the salt you sprinkled just now is enough for this family to eat for seven or eight days, but you can solve it in one meal."

"Huh? Is there such a lack of salt here? The eldest grandson couldn't believe it.

"And how many packets of salt can this sheep get for that?" The eldest grandson asked.

Miss Wang muttered a few more words to the woman.

"Two sheep and one bag of salt, this is the price of last year, and the previous ones will be higher." Miss Wang was also a little incredulous, and confirmed it three times in a row before turning back and talking to the eldest grandson.

The eldest grandson felt a little guilty, so he planned to make up for it, but he only knew that the grassland thought that tea was needed to supplement vitamins and help digestion, which was a necessity of life, but he never knew that this salt was more popular than tea on the grassland.

So this time they brought not much salt, so they had to use ten catties of tea to make up for it, he came here to do business under the guise of doing business, could it be that he had to bring back to Wuyuan for more than ten dollars a pound of tea in Wuyuan.

"She didn't want it, saying it was too precious, we were guests, it didn't matter, she just felt that it was a pity that the salt was wasted." Miss Wang said to the eldest grandson.

In the end, the woman still did not accept the ten catties of tea from the eldest grandson.

The herding family has finally returned.

The family gathered together and started breakfast.

The middle-aged man saw that there was no salt near the meat in his hand, so he scolded loudly, and the woman carefully explained, and kept pointing to the eldest grandson.

The man didn't say anything in the end, just picked up the bowl, took a bowl from the mutton soup and drank it.

The eldest grandson felt even more guilty.

The freedom that we yearn for is shattered in this way, this feeling is very uncomfortable, but there is no need to be depressed, the process of growing up is such a process of continuous disillusionment, we have to face the reality when we grow up. (To be continued.) )