Chapter Twenty-Three: Owed Nine Children
"Hehe, if you don't say it, I won't let people go." The man's face was light.
"Well, I said. We are members of the national archaeological team, and we are here to archaeology. ”
"Is that all?"
"And what else do you want to hear? We're the archaeologists. ”
"And where do you live, and what are you doing here?"
"We came to hunt in the forest and stayed at the house of an old woman in the village of strangers. The old woman's family had no food for us to eat, so we had to come hunting. ”
The man grinned and said, "I wouldn't have let you two go earlier." ”
I snorted and didn't speak again. But the monkey shouted, "Then you don't let us go quickly, tie me up, and I'm about to die of suffocation." ”
The man, stretching out his hand to untie the rope between the monkey and me, said, "For your sake, for the sake of your stay in my mother's house, let you go." ”
"What do you say? That old woman will be your mother. ”
"Yes, that's my mother, and I'm going to bring her food these two days."
"That's great, we've met a nobleman." The monkey almost jumped for joy.
"Yes, we are lost, we really met a noble person when we met you, big brother, then please take us back with you."
"Okay, you don't have to call me big brother, just call me owed."
It's a weird name, maybe it's the weird name that the Tibetans have.
"It turns out that you are the son of an old woman's family, and I said that your voice is a little familiar." I looked at the owe and said.
He was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Yes, even my lover said that I spoke like my mother." ”
"Your love? Also here? The monkey asked.
"You two don't want to be old to you, I'm not older than you, I'm twenty-five years old, but I'm a little anxious."
I was a little surprised, this person looked like he was twenty-five years old from the outside, but he looked like he was in his thirties. It's a long one, and I'm a little too anxious.
"And what is your birthday?" I asked him, after all, we were the same age.
"My January."
"That's when you're older." I say.
The monkey stopped doing it: "Don't be long-winded, I'm dying of hunger." No matter who is older, I'm going to call this big brother. Hurry up and get me something to eat. ”
"Alright, the house, get you two something to eat." Ya'er shouted into the house.
"Got it." A woman's nice voice came out. I was stunned, this voice is so familiar, what's wrong with this now? Why is it familiar to everyone you listen to?
Just this sound can hook people's souls, and it will definitely look like a flower and jade, I thought to myself, just like looking twice in a room.
"Let's go, let's go into the house." As she spoke, she got out of the way and told us to go into the house.
This room is also the same as the mother-in-law's house, with three main thatched houses, but it is more spacious and bright than the mother-in-law's house.
There is nothing decent in the house, but it is neat and clean and clean.
We entered the east room and sat down on the side of the earthen kang.
The earthen kang, like the old tradition left over from the old generation in ancient China, is built by the south window.
On the back wall of the ground floor are supplies such as a table, a rack for hanging clothes, and a small cupboard.
This little cabinet is very good-looking. I don't know what kind of wood it is made of, and it is painted with fuchsia paint.
There are a lot of flowers and birds painted on it.
This carpenter should be amazing. This painting of flowers and birds is lifelike. It was as if the two little birds were flying, playing and chirping.
And the flower seems to be in its heyday. The large corolla of flowers is like a graceful and luxurious lady, so beautiful and amazing.
When the girl saw me staring at the small cabinet, she said, "This little cabinet is my mother's dowry, and it was made in the early years." Isn't it pretty? ”
I withdrew my eyes and said, "Well, it's pretty good." ”
At this moment, the curtain of the door was lifted, and a young woman entered, but this woman had a white veil over her face, and only two eyes were visible.
She carried a purple teapot on a tray in her hand, and three porcelain cups of the same color, which looked antique at first glance.
Woman, put down the tray, looked up at me and the monkey, and then lowered her head and poured water.
When he got to three glasses of water, he put them in front of the three of us and said, "Drink some water, and the meal will be ready immediately." ”
This time I heard her face to face, not like just across the room.
Her voice startled me, Ice. She's not going to be ice, is she?
My heart was a little excited, and I couldn't help but look at you and her a few more times.
Looking at the silhouette of the body, it looks like ice, and that kind of charm will not be wrong.
"Ice." I screamed involuntarily.
She shook her head, then looked up at me and said, "Brother, did you recognize the wrong person?" ”
"I don't, I think you're just ice."
"Haha, huh?" Yao'er said with a smile. "Then you take off the scarf and let our brothers see if you are cold ice."
"Okay." The woman slowly removed the scarf, and the face of an extremely ugly woman appeared in front of me.
Her face was covered with red beans, and it was very large, and her mouth was a little crooked, as if she had facial paralysis.
"Okay, you go get busy." It seems that the owe doesn't want this ugly woman to stay in front of us for a minute longer.
The woman agreed, covered her white scarf, and walked out.
"Her name is Jiu'er, my mother's goddaughter, she was raised in my family since she was a child, she has no relatives, and we only got married last year."
"Oh, I'm being reckless!" I sighed, feeling a sense of loss.
"Who are you talking about? It can't be your wife, right? When Yao'er asked me this, she looked at me with scrutinizing eyes.
I wondered why he was looking at me like that.
"No, it's him who has a crush on someone, and I still have a crush, so that's it." The monkey interjected on the side.
"Hahaha, crush, it's interesting." The owe smiled.
At this time, Na Jiu'er walked in, holding a wooden basin in his hand, and inside was steaming hand-handled meat.
She seemed to hear what she had just said, she looked up at us, and then put the wooden basin in her hand on the small table on the kang.
"Hungry, eat quickly, we don't have anything else to eat."
"Wow, there's meat, I haven't eaten meat for a long time, it's too hearty!" The monkey rolled up his sleeves and picked it up, and the knife inserted into the piece of meat cut a large piece and put it in his mouth and chewed it.
"Look at your eating appearance, then we're welcome, we're really hungry." I also cut a piece and put it in my mouth, and when I chewed it, it was really fragrant.
Hand-handled meat is a characteristic of Inner Mongolia, and I didn't expect it to be eaten here. Tibetan folks, do they often eat this? I asked the owe while eating.
"I don't eat this either, and now I can only eat this when raising sheep here, and there is no other food."
"This is already so good, it is our dream to eat meat every day!"
The monkey and I were so full that we couldn't walk anymore before we put down the knife in our hands.
"Thank you so much, brother." The monkey said as he rubbed his hands.
"You're welcome! We are all destined to eat at the same table. ”
"yes, yes!." I said, "Brother, then I'll go back tomorrow, or they'll be in a hurry if they can't find us." Besides, there is no food to eat at home, and I don't know how they will spend the next few days. If you have a lot of sheep, can you kill a few more and bring us something to eat? We can pay you some money. ”
"It's easy to say that money is not rich, then let's go and kill sheep and bring it tomorrow."
"That's great, thank you so much."
The three of us walked out of the room and into his fold.
His sheepfold was large, with more than 200 sheep in it.
Around the sheepfold, there are several stone troughs.
What struck me as strange was that the front of those sheep troughs was engraved with some number formulas.
It seems that these stone troughs are the products of ancient times, so how can they put the formula here?
I silently read it a few times, then wrote it down and ran. After all, I am the Lord who never forgets.
"Wow, that's so many sheep!" The monkey screamed in surprise.
"Catch it, pick the big one and catch it, there will be a lot of meat."
In fact, you don't need to say that we are two, but also pick the big one. In the afternoon we killed five or six sheep. I think it's still a little less, but I don't have enough time.
Yao'er said: "After killing a few heads, you don't need to peel the skin, bring it, it will be enough for you to eat for a few days." ”
The monkey and I were simply pleasantly surprised and grateful.
Early the next morning, he got into the carriage, and we sat down and headed straight for the strange village.