Chapter 3: A Warm Early Summer Morning

Back in the early summer five years ago.

Summer is the most beautiful season in the grassland, and it is also the favorite season of herdsmen. The spring lamb has already been picked up, and the little students are jumping around flexibly. The harvest of the new year is just around the corner, and every herdsman is thinking about the harvest of the year.

The harvest season for herders and farmers is different, with the farmer's harvest in autumn and the herder's harvest in summer. This is an important reason why most of the grassland "Naadam" is held in summer, not only because of the abundant water and grass in summer and the pleasant scenery, but also because the annual animal husbandry harvest comes to the grassland in summer.

Every time they arrive in Naadam, the herdsmen of the Peacock Ping Grassland are even more excited than the Chinese New Year. Almost the whole family went to the grassland to share the joy of the harvest and the beauty of the grassland.

The current season is just stepping into the threshold of summer, and there is still some time before Naadam is held. Matoya had already calculated in her heart that this year, Naadam's family would go, and she would bring her own dairy products and her own embroidered "royal embroidery" works, and sell them to save some money to buy a motorcycle for Agina.

The desire to "buy Agina a motorcycle" was made by Toya when she married Agina. At that time, the conditions of the two families were not very good, and Toya did not ask for a bride price and dowry like other girls. If she insisted at the beginning, her husband Bai Chaolu would buy a motorcycle even if he borrowed money. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the in-laws can't meet this requirement, Dad Ma Erdemutu will fulfill his daughter's dream by smashing the pot and selling iron. But at that time, Toya didn't say a word about the motorcycle, not even to Agina. She only secretly encouraged in her heart, and when she saved enough money, she would definitely buy one! Living at home is full of places to spend money, and it is difficult enough to save money.

Long story short. Time flies, and in a flash, his son Asgen is five years old, with big eyes, long eyelashes, and a tiger's head. "Asgen" translates to "integrity" in Chinese. A yellow dog that has just turned one year old has become a child's best playmate. The yellow dog is also strong and very obedient, and its owner named it "Xiri", which means "yellow" in Mongolian.

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One early summer morning, Matoya and White Agina got up much earlier than usual, and they were busy with their work while it was still dark.

Aginai is going back to the pastoral point, although there is a "neighbor" Huhelu to help take care of it, and he has been shaking his hands for several days, rest assured, but still a little embarrassed.

This time, Toya also went to live for a few days and helped to clean up the "home" of the pastoral site completely. His son Asgen heard some eyebrows on the first day, and clamored to follow, but was "vetoed" by Toya. The pastoral point is more than a hundred miles away from home, and the conditions are very difficult, and Toya doesn't want to take the child there, so she quietly prepares, planning to get up early in the morning and sneak away.

The moon had sunk in the west, the eastern sky was slightly brighter, and the outlines of the distant mountains and trees were gradually becoming clearer.

A rooster crows a few times arrogantly, because there is no other rooster to respond to it, and naturally there is no interest, and the rooster crows bored. There were a few thin clouds in the sky, which slowly became brighter, some like big birds fluttering, some like running dogs, some like swimming carp, and some like nothing, just floating there quietly to fill the number.

Because it's too early, the sparrows haven't come out of the nest yet, and the songworms may have slept too late to catch up on their sleep. Therefore, the village of Sarentai seems very quiet and quiet.

Ajina, a lean Mongolian man, has an inexhaustible strength hidden in every muscle, no matter how early he gets up, how tiring the work he does, and how much he suffers, and he never complains. He added sheaves of grass to the two horses, one red and one white, and went to inspect the family's rubber-tyred cart. The big yellow dog "West Ri" has been following him all the time.

Pressing the shriveled tire with his hand, Agina frowned. The tires were fine yesterday, how can you say that they are out of gas when they are out of gas?

Agina quickly turned on the flashlight and entered the warehouse, rummaging in a large old-fashioned wooden box for a long time, finding a pump and rubber and glue to prepare to stick the tires. Having just put the things away before returning to the wheel, Agina looked up at the east, and experience had told him that it was really getting daylight.

In the kitchen, Toya is boiling milk tea and preparing breakfast. The room was steaming, and the lights were a little dim.

Agina hurried into the house, and the big yellow dog was about to follow, and he glared back, and "Xiri" playfully withdrew his front paws to the threshold, and turned away.

Agina leaned into Toya's ear and said, "The tires of the rubber car are flat."

Toya was surprised and asked angrily: Huh? You didn't watch it yesterday?

Agina said: Didn't look at the tires. I just knew, and if I stick the tire now, I'm afraid it's too late.

Toya got a little angry, but not to the point of exploding, so she said, "You, you—let me say what are you doing?" Forget it, go see that Lele car, Dad still used it for the first two days, so let's put it on.

Agina nodded and left the house again, hurriedly returning the pump or something back to the original large wooden box, and carefully tied the cover on the rubber-tyred car to the Lehrer.

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Toya's parents, Maerdemutu and Naren Tuya, live in the West House, because in Mongolian customs, the West is the majority, and the elderly generally live in the West House. Now this concept has changed a lot, and the average family doesn't care much about which house is spacious and warm, and the elderly live in which house. Asgen was willing to live with his grandparents.

The old man had already woken up, and he was afraid of alarming his grandson Asgen, so the old couple did not get up. Erdemutu held back his cough and did not dare to make a loud noise. Even so, Naren Tuya stabbed him, meaning to say: Anyone like me who has a back of his ear hears you coughing, give me a little quiet.

Kitchen lights came in through the windows on the door. Toya looked into the bedroom, and her parents looked over to her, but didn't speak.

Asgen slept soundly......

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The small courtyard was a little bright. Agina found an old oil can, lubricated the axle of Lele's car, and hung the oil can on the car.

"Xiri" thought that the oil pot was hanging there quite a novelty, so he stretched out his paw to play with it, but the oil pot fell to the ground with a "bang".

Agina finally found a reason to shout: "West Ri"-

The thunderous shout scared away the "West Ri" and woke up the sleeping Asgen suddenly. Wearing a small belly pocket and a bare buttocks, he sat up and opened the curtains to look out.

Seeing that Dad was tinkering with the Lele car, Asgen was anxious and shouted with a crying voice: Dad-wait for me, I will also go to the pastoral point with you!

After shouting, Asgen didn't bother to put on clothes and shoes, and ran out after getting off the kang.

Erdemutu went up and grabbed a handful, but did not catch it.

Naren Tuya shouted: Asgen, come back, put on your clothes!

Toya complained to Agina and said, "What's the matter with you?" Can't you just be quiet? It's like a convulsion, and it's suddenly so loud! This time, it's okay, wake up Asgen, he's going to follow if he's not noisy, you can do it!