At this moment, Billier sat on the top seat, and I sat at both ends with Zhen Rui and others, and there was mare's milk wine on the table. Translator Ouyang Xuan is a very young and eye-catching girl, different from the mature and gentle beauty of Gu Da Beauty, she is very lively, her eyes are shining with intelligence and innocence, and her soft hair is tied into two small braids, which is very cute.

She was communicating with the old man Bilier in Mongolian, and I whispered to him, and I said, "How is it?" ”

Zhen Rui said: "He is reluctant to mention that period of the past, I hope he can take us to find the place where the Yaofang ruins appeared, he also disagrees, Xiaoxuan is negotiating." It can be seen that the old man Bilier is very persistent in this matter, and keeps shaking his head, and after a while, Ouyang Xuan seems to be out of line, looking at Zhen Rui in embarrassment.

Zhen Rui gave Zhong Gong a look, Zhong Gong on the side took out a tablet, and then walked to Billier, because Zhong Gong stood opposite me, I couldn't see what was in the tablet, but the old man Billier was excited, his lips trembled, he took the tablet, and stared at it without blinking.

Ouyang Xuan struck while the iron was hot, and immediately began to persuade the old man again, although I couldn't understand the specific conversation between them, but I could see that the old man had already loosened his mouth a little. After a while, he put down the tablet and communicated with Ouyang Xuan in the Mongolian language for a while, as if he had reached some agreement.

Ouyang Xuan listened and nodded, and said to us: "Great, he promised to tell us about the situation back then, but ...... He said he couldn't take us there. ”

Zhen Rui said: "Don't be reluctant, first ask what was going on at that time." ”

Next, it was the exchange time between Ouyang Xuan and the old man Billier, and it was only then that I realized that the tablet was impressively displayed with the old photo that Zhen Rui had shown me.

This period of time was a little long, and the other five of us waited patiently, while Ouyang Xuan communicated with the old man Bilier. On my left-hand side sat the man named Zhang Wen, about forty years old, with gold-rimmed glasses, and a courteous manner, who no one would associate with a dealer in antiquities, as if he were a cultivated scholar. I said a few words to him, and since I was not a subordinate of Yuanrui, but a partner, I was very polite to me.

The other one, nicknamed Jack of Trades, was a young man, younger than all of us, estimated to be twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a very refined figure, it was April, and the night in the north was still cold, but he wore only a black vest, and he was not afraid of the cold. However, he seems to be a bit xenophobic, and so far he and I have only met and nodded, and have not officially said a word.

After being silent for a while, in the yurt, Bilier's family went to bed early, only the daughter-in-law was still sorting out the sheepskin not far away, and there were only the voices of Bilier and Ouyang Xuan in the yurt, for about half an hour, Ouyang Xuan showed gratitude, helped the old man Bilier to stand up, greeted the woman who was tying the sheepskin, and then lifted the curtain and helped the old man to rest. After a while, she came out, squinted her eyes with a smile, and said to Zhen Rui: "Master, I have found out, this is the first time I have heard of such a strange thing." Then she relayed to us what Billier had just said.

It was the spring of 1968, and Inner Mongolia attracted the first batch of educated youth.

At that time, Bilier was only thirteen years old, but the children who grew up on the grassland, at the age of thirteen, could already hold up half a day, riding horses and grazing, chasing wolves and rabbits, and there was no difficulty for him. When the first batch of educated youths came, they were warmly entertained, although Inner Mongolia is remote, but because the population density is not large, so the products are quite rich, in that era when most people can't eat enough, the group of educated youths to the grassland, just like wolves to the yellow sheep's den, that night, eat a mouth full of oil.

A young intellectual, who was called Santunzi, later said: "I thought that I was placed in Inner Mongolia to suffer crimes, but now I find out that I am going to enjoy happiness, and I can eat meat at least two ends in three days." "At that time in China, ordinary people could only eat a meal of meat during the New Year's holidays.

Xue An, who was good friends with the three stunned children, was assigned to live in various herdsmen's homes, and began to learn to live a nomadic life, herding sheep for the herdsmen, threshing grass, gradually learning Mongolian, and gradually integrating into the local culture. In Bilier's eyes, these educated youths from the city revealed freshness and difference everywhere, whether it was the language, accent or the clothes they wore, they all made people want to find out, so at that time, they were about the same age as Bilier, and they liked to spend their leisure time with the educated youth, listening to them describe the outside world in stammering Mongolian.

In return, these children will take the educated youth to integrate into the grassland faster, and in their spare time, they will ride horses and carry bows and arrows to hunt. At that time, the traffic was still extremely inconvenient, the grassland had not ushered in large-scale man-made destruction, there were many species living on the grassland, wolves, wild horses, rabbits, yellow sheep, sand foxes, ferrets, there were fish, shrimp, crabs and shellfish in the water, eagles, vultures, geese flying in the sky, the border between the desert and the grassland was also a good place, there was a clear lake, two rabbits were roasted by the lake, swimming to cool off and eat rabbit meat, not to mention how beautiful.

The grassland of cash can no longer see this scene, the animals on the grassland, except for small animals such as rabbits and gerbils, can also see accidents, wolves, red foxes and the like, have long been extinct. Therefore, at that time, when grazing, I always liked to go to the lake area.

It happened on an afternoon when the sun was falling, Xue An rode on a horse, took his flock back to the pen, and not long after, he saw a girl named Manzhu who said that when the three stunned people were grazing sheep by the lake, one of the sheep was lost in the sand, and the three stunned asked her to drive the other sheep back first, and she went to the sand to look for sheep. It's been more than an hour, but he hasn't come back yet, and Manzhu is worried about whether he has been bitten by a poisonous snake.

In the sand, there is nothing else to worry about, just poisonous snakes, poisonous scorpions and sand wolves, but sand wolves generally live in deeper deserts, so the locals are most worried about snakes when they enter the desert.

Seeing that the sun was getting late, Xue An drank enough water and said, "I'll go find it." He turned to Billier for his company, and the two rode their horses toward the direction of the lake.

There was no wind that day, so the footprints in the sand were not smoothed, and the two followed the footprints that appeared and disappeared, and soon they found a pool of blood in the sand.

Bigger yelled badly, and said: "It seems that it was left by three stunned people, if it was bitten by a snake, it would not have shed so much blood, and eighty percent of it was bitten by some large animal." "What is a big animal? The most common is the sand wolf. However, this area is the range of human activities, and sand wolves generally do not approach, so why do they come to this place to move?

Xue An was anxious, saying that he wanted to see people in life and corpses in death, and he must find the three stunned people. In those days, the loss of a sheep was a huge mistake, and it was very honorable to sacrifice to protect collective property. However, the situation at that time was that the sheep were gone, and the people were gone, so the situation was complicated, and it was not pleasing to die.

Fortunately, at that time, people grazed for a long time, so the horses would be hung with sleeping bags, bread and other things, plus the Mongols had the habit of matching waist knives, so they all carried waist knives, and Bilier's horses also hung bows and arrows.

The two decided to look for three stunned people nearby, the vast desert, the empty grassland, as the night approached, the visibility became lower and lower, for safety reasons, Xue An had to prepare to go back to the yurt first, and the anxiety on his face was overflowing.

At this moment, in the depths of the desert, there was a distant wolf howl, Xue An looked up, and suddenly remembered that today was the fifteenth, and there was a silver moon hanging in the sky, which was extremely bright. There was no shelter in the desert, and the sand was covered in a layer of silver glow, but it was not as dull as expected. At this moment, ghostly shadows suddenly appeared in the desert, and when you look closely, they are sand wolves.

Xue An had seen a lone wolf, and the wolves had seen it from afar, but he had never had close contact with so many wolves, so he was frightened for a while.

On the contrary, it was a little boy who had the brave and warlike blood of the Mongols in his bones, and he was not chaotic in the face of danger, and he pulled out his waist knife the moment he saw the wolves. But after all, he was young, and he was pounced on by a big wolf head-on and was knocked to the ground.

Xue An finally reacted from his fear, he didn't have a waist knife, and when he saw that the big wolf was about to bite Bilier's neck, he pounced with his bare hands, and violently knocked the big wolf away with his own weight, and rolled in the sand with the wolf who was fighting in the vanguard.

At this moment, the wolf bit Xue An on the shoulder, and Xue An screamed. This sound stimulated Bilier, who had a lot of courage, and got up from the sand with a roll, grabbed the waist knife that had fallen aside, and pounced towards the wolf that bit Xue An.

Wolves are companion animals, and when food is abundant, they will walk with their mates, and only when food is scarce, will they gather to form wolf packs. They usually hunt together, but the strange thing is that this wolf pack, when the pioneer wolf hunts, just looks from a distance and does not come up to help at all.

Just as Bilier grabbed the waist knife and stabbed Sharon in the neck, the sand wolf turned the wolf's head suddenly, the sharp wolf's mouth was bloody, and Bai Sensen's fangs were out, and a burst of green light suddenly flashed in his two eyes. The green light seemed to have a demagogic power, and Billier was confused for a moment, completely unaware of what had happened in the end.