Chapter 13: The Gadfly (II)

Ding Sitian had already led three horses out, and when he heard Lao Ni's words, he said to him: "You are too worried, the cattle will not run into the desert, at most they will go around in circles on the grassland, and the cattle will come in groups no matter how they run, there are not many wolves in the Barun Left Banner, and a few grassland wolves dare not fight their ideas, there should be no other accidents, we will definitely be able to complete the task and chase the cattle back one by one." ”

I saw that she led three horses, so I asked Ding Sitian why do you want to go with us to the west to chase the cattle? It's said to be dangerous, so don't go. Ding Sitian said stubbornly: "Although you claim to dare to go to the moon for nine days, you can go down to the five seas to catch turtles, but you have never even ridden a horse, how can you chase cattle if you can't ride a horse?" Besides, I am an educated youth in this pastoral area, and I am also responsible for what happens in the pastoral area, so of course I have to go. After saying that, she went to bring a few pairs of saddle horses, and the fat man and I couldn't ride horses at all, so we had to approve and let her lead.

At this time, the "old sheepskin" came over hesitantly, and even three educated youths could venture to approach the "Hundred Eyes Cave" for the pastoral area, and it was at this time, what else could this old bone not get out of? And the most important thing is that not only the cattle are not recovered, but the educated youth has another accident, then there is no way to explain, he finally made up his mind to let his son and daughter-in-law find a few other groups of cattle that ran away, and then stay to take care of the "Chief Ni", and repair the cattle and sheepfolds, and he himself went with the three of us to chase cattle in the direction of the "Hundred Eyes Cave".

We didn't dare to slack off, in another yurt that was not trampled by the herd, we found some emergency things to carry, and everyone hurriedly set off, riding a horse by hand does require a familiar process, but the fat man and I are born with strong adaptability to this kind of thing, plus with the guidance of Ding Sitian and the "old sheepskin", we have basically mastered the essentials within a few miles.

The key to riding a horse is not to compete with the horse, when the horse walks fast and runs, the calf knee and the inner thigh clamp the horse hard, lean forward, and the saddle to maintain a feeling of touching the ground, and follow the horse's running rhythm ups and downs, must not let their body stiff, four people urge the horse to gallop on the grassland, as if gliding in the sea of grass against the wind, I and the fat man are very happy, thinking that this time is really enough horse addiction, just rush this, it is not in vain to chase the cattle.

The herd of cattle will not stop running, and just a delay for a while, can not catch up for a while, fortunately along the way obvious traces, but do not worry about the chase, "old sheepskin" worried that I and the fat man played too much, and did not wear riding boots, once from the horse falling, falling stirrups is not a joke, only let us run a ride, then gradually slowed down.

I took this opportunity to ask "Old Sheepskin", the name of the "Hundred Eyes Cave" is so strange, but why did it get its name? "Old sheepskin" said that he didn't know very well, but he had heard that there were many holes in the grassland nearby, and the holes were surprisingly large, all of them were dry water eyes, and the holes were one after another, probably because there were many holes, so it was called "Hundred Eyes Cave", because there were too many missing people and animals there, so no one approached for many years, and it was not clear whether this was really the case.

"Old Sheepskin" has always been afraid of the black dragon that haunts near the "Hundred Eyes Cave", I think it is probably due to the disappearance of his brother back then, which casts a shadow on his heart, and there is a knot in his heart that cannot be solved, I don't know how to persuade him, so I have to comfort him that there is no such thing as a "dragon" in the world, it is just a totem created by the ancients.

Speaking of this, I suddenly remembered the remnant book of my family biography "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", which seems to have many chapters that mention the relevant "dragon", this broken book is the only property left by my family, I have always carried it with me, and I haven't read it very carefully at the time, so I took it out and flipped through it a few times on horseback, and sure enough, there is a "dragon hunting trick", which says: "The mountains and rivers stop the ups and downs for the dragon, and the terrain stretches and condenses into the dragon." "It seems that the dragon is also a symbol of the mountain, and the book does not say that the dragon is alive.

The fat man had always been displeased with my broken book, and when he saw me talking about it again, he immediately sarcastically said, "Why haven't you thrown away this old book?" This kind of nonsense is poisonous, you have been poisoning my comrades for a long time, and you dare to show it to others, wanting to instill low-grade tastes in the poor middle peasants and revolutionary comrades-in-arms? ”

I retorted: "You know a bastard, you are, nonsense is reasonable, low-level fun is not guilty, not to mention that I always look at it with a critical eye......" As he was talking, the "old sheepskin" suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse and told us that the three educated youths, the end of the meadow is the Hundred Eyes Cave, and he dared to swear to the immortal heaven, he was the demon dragon he saw there, and he could not forget the terrible situation until he died.

At that time, the red sun was in the sky, we rode on horses, hand on the pergola to look west, the silent prairie yellow grass even the sky, a vast, undulating grass at the end of the sea, there is a raised hill, it seems that several isolated islands on the sea of grass, that is to let the "old sheepskin" talk about the tiger's color change of the hundred eyes cave, it seems that the cattle are rushing over there, do not find the cattle back can not explain, it seems that whether it is Longtan Tiger's Den, you have to go over to explore.

"Old sheepskin" brought a Mongolian knife out, that is a veritable Kangxi treasure knife, was given to a Mongolian prince back then, and later broke the four olds, the descendants of the prince asked the old sheepskin to help secretly throw the knife, the old sheepskin knew that this knife was a treasure knife, at that time the consciousness did not improve for a while, and felt that it was a pity to throw it, so he hid it in his own house, his family's composition was low, and no one paid attention to him at all, so he kept it.

He felt that the Kangxi treasure knife could exorcise evil spirits, so he took it out with him, maybe this time he didn't plan to go back alive, it looked very tragic, at this time, he was about to approach the "Hundred Eyes Cave", the "old sheepskin" brushed the ground and pulled the knife out of the sheath, and roared in his mouth to give himself and the educated youth courage, roaring while urging the horse forward, only to hear his gong-like voice roar like singing: "Zhao Zilong, hey......" This sentence Qin cavity blurted out, roaring high-pitched and excited, sad and inexplicable.

We were "old sheepskin" this touching voice, roaring scalp numb, although I haven't heard the real Qin dialect taste, but I feel that his broken voice is too authentic, at this time we really need to sing the gallant Zhao Zilong to cheer everyone up, just wanted to cheer for him, but he suddenly stopped roaring, his eyes were firmly staring at the traces of being trampled by the cattle on the ground, it turned out that after the cattle ran here, the angle of the rush deviated slightly, no longer pointing directly to the direction of the "Hundred Eyes Cave", "old sheepskin" Immediately overjoyed, thanks to Changshengtian, these cattle ancestors did not enter the "Hundred Eyes Cave". But we didn't be happy for long, we followed the trail and chased all the way, and after a few miles, the footprints of more than 100 cattle on the grassland disappeared out of thin air, and the chaotic hoof prints of cattle stopped in one place. Everyone was stunned, could it be that they were blown away by a tornado? But there was no sign of wind at all, what happened to the place where the cattle disappeared?