Chapter 13: The Gadfly (I)
Needless to say, Ding Sitian's expression has already told me, the frightened herd is rushing towards us, the cattle on the grassland have always been gentle, but once they startle the herd, form a cluster impact, more fierce than the wild horses that have escaped, hundreds of cattle can't stop them at all, and even the car can be trampled into iron sheets.
I didn't care to ask why the cattle blew up the herd, jumped up from the ground, and kicked the fat man awake, but the "chief" Lao Ni drank too much yesterday, no matter how he kicked it, he couldn't wake up, in a hurry, I had to carry him with the fat man, fortunately he slept in clothes, and all the belongings were left with this outfit, only grabbed the military satchel and rushed out of the tent with Ding Sitian.
Outside, the sky was already bright, and I saw the dust rising in the east, and the sound of the hooves running and the screams of the cattle in the herd were mixed together, and they rushed towards us, and a few faithful shepherd dogs rushed over and barked at the frenzied herd, trying to help their master stop the cattle, but at this time the cattle were already red-eyed, and the momentum of the wild run did not stop at all, and in an instant the dogs were trampled on the grass and trampled into meat puree.
Where would I have thought that there was such a formation, seeing the cattle rampant, it was too late to go back to the side to avoid the cattle's collision and trampling, but when we waited far away, we would be trampled by the cow's hooves, we were shocked, a little stunned for such a little effort, even the sound of talking was drowned out, in the chaos, Ding Sitian dragged my arm, desperately ran to the back of the yurt.
I completely know that I can't run away with two meat legs, and I can't ask Ding Sitian why she ran over there, although I was worried that she would be scared and lose her mind and run away, but I still ran with the fat man and Lao Ni and her, without looking back, I could hear from the sound alone, the herd behind me was getting closer and closer, and the yurt that I had just stayed in had been trampled on, and within a dozen steps, I would definitely be trampled to death.
In desperation, I found that a few steps ahead of me was a dry ditch, this ditch has been weathered for a long time, has been dry for hundreds of years, the ditch is also increasingly eroded by sand and grass, now only more than a meter deep, more than half a meter wide of the remains of the ravine, like a crack on the green velvet grass carpet, it is also one of several natural firebreaks on the grassland, I only knew Ding Sitian's intention, she led us to run this way, is to let everyone jump into the ditch, to avoid the collision of the frightened cattle.
The fat man and I carried the "Chief Ni", and Ding Sitian used all their strength to stab, and the four of them almost rolled into the dry soil ditch, and as soon as they entered the soil ditch, it was pitch black overhead, and the mud, sand and grass clippings fell one after another, and the deafening hoof sound shook people's hearts, and we covered our ears tightly, and I don't know how long it took for the howling and screaming herd to completely cross the ditch.
"Chief" Lao Ni finally woke up from the toss, sat in the ditch, looked at the three of us, and was at a loss, what happened just now? At this time, the "old sheepskin" and his son and daughter-in-law rushed over, they didn't care about chasing the herd, first saw that the old Ni was okay before they were relieved, respectively, dragged us out of the ditch, everyone talked about what happened just now, it turned out that almost everyone drank too much last night, I don't know who led the horse down the fence of the cattle pen when he left, the largest herd of cattle in the Barron Left Banner is here, fortunately there are loyal sheepdogs, surrounding the cattle so that they are not lost, the cattle are gnawing grass on the grass outside the circle, and nothing has happened in the morning.
When the "old sheepskin" woke up in the morning, he found that the cattle were out of the circle, which often happened, and he could not make a fuss, so he beckoned his son and daughter-in-law to come out to help drive the cattle, and as soon as they turned behind the herd, something unexpected suddenly happened, and out of nowhere a big gadfly appeared and bit a herding cow fiercely.
The tail of the cattle usually swings around, mainly used to hit the gadfly or mosquito flies in the grass, the gadfly is a kind of insect, it is actually divided into two categories of meat and vegetarian, the male only sucks the grass juice, the female gadfly is dedicated to sucking the blood of livestock, the body is gray and black, with transparent wings, compared to the mosquito and fly, the gadfly especially makes the cattle feel afraid, this big gadfly probably escaped the blow of the cow's tail whip, and bit the sensitive parts of the cow, and the pain was so high that the cow jumped out at that time, and the rest of the cattle were scared to blow up the herd. Ding Sitian found that the cattle had blown up the herd, and he did not run for his life, but took the risk to rescue the three people who were still sleeping, otherwise now even the people with the tent would be all turf.
When the herd was frightened, no one could stop them, because the momentum was so fierce that even the horses were so frightened that they did not dare to chase after them, and only allowed them to run wild on the steppe, and at last they would not stop until they were exhausted, and then the shepherds could catch up and chase the cattle back.
After Lao Ni heard the ins and outs of the matter, he was so frightened that he almost lost his soul, if there were no educated youths who sacrificed their lives to save them, they might die in their sleep and didn't know how they died, and they were so grateful that they shook hands with us, what kind of chief did I and the fat man never see? Of course, he doesn't take Lao Ni, a big little cadre, seriously, like ordinary herdsmen, but he thinks that he is more easy-going and amiable, and it is natural to save people, so he doesn't take much credit.
"Chief Ni" said to everyone again: "Even ** said - a small globe, there are a few flies hitting the wall." I see that it is not a big deal for a few gadflies to make trouble on the grassland, but it is good to try my best to recover the cattle that have run away, and I will report the exemplary deeds of your pastoral area when I go back, and the superiors will also call on all pastoral areas and forest areas to learn from you, so this should not go wrong. After saying that, he looked at the straight-eyed "old sheepskin" and asked him why he didn't hurry up and chase those cows.
"Old sheepskin" full of wrinkled old face without color, a look of lost soul, after the cattle crossed the ditch, divided into several groups and scattered, one of them rushed to the direction of the "Hundred Eyes Cave" in the depths of the grassland, running to other places It's okay to say, as soon as that place is mentioned, "Old sheepskin" was stunned for a while, of course, he didn't dare to tell Lao Ni directly about this reason.
I can see it clearly, knowing the hardships of the "old sheepskin", I don't believe that there will be any "demon dragon" in the depths of the grassland, and immediately stood up and said to Lao Ni, I am responsible for chasing back the cattle that ran west, and it is not easy to produce a model pastoral area in the league.
Lao Ni nodded and said: "It's okay for the educated youths to go over there to chase the cattle, but you have to be careful, after Mobei is the national border, if the cattle run to Outer Mongolia, it will be troublesome to get it back, it is an international event, and it will cause huge losses to the country's property, at the moment I will do my best to suppress this matter for the time being, wait for you to come back, and then go back to report to the superiors after counting the number of losses, the cattle have trampled a lot of calves to death when they fled, I think we must find a way to minimize the loss." ”