Agina grinned. Indeed, he sings very well, but he never sings when there are many people, and there are really few people who can hear him sing except Toya.

Asgen threw herself into her mother's arms and begged: Mom, you can sing one, sing one, good mother, please.

Toya smiled without answering, gently stroked her son's little head, and looked at the beautiful grassland with affectionate eyes.

Yes, this grassland is the most beautiful grassland and the grassland she loves the most. I remember that when I first walked into the Peacock Ping Grassland, I was no more than two years older than my son's current age, and there was no second brother Ma Suhe at that time. It was her father Ma Erdemutu who drove the Lele car, and her mother Naren Tuya was holding her eldest brother Ma Sud, who had just been able to walk, and she and her sister Ma Hongxia sat at the back of the car, hanging down their legs and kicking the tall and dense grass on the side of the road to play. Later, the two of them played tricks and began to kick the wildflowers blooming on the side of the road to see who could kick faster, more accurately, and more. Mother hurriedly stopped them and said, "Don't kick those flowers, it's so harmful?" Only when each flower bears seeds will there be many beautiful tweeds on the grassland next year.

The sisters, who were playing in Xingtou, did not listen to their mother.

After so many years, the grassland is indeed degraded compared to when Toya was a child, the grass is not as tall and dense as before, and there are not as many wildflowers as before. Could it really be related to the "kicking flowers" when I was a child?

Father Ma Erdemutu taught the sisters at that time: As the old saying goes, "Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains needs to raise the mountains", and we herdsmen are the same, relying on the grassland to eat the grassland, we also have to raise the grassland. If everyone doesn't care for it, and one day there will be no grass or flowers here, then it won't be a grassland, not even a meadow.

At that time, how young my father was, and he could speak well, and the words and proverbs in his stomach were a set, and people praised at that time: This old horse, he really knows how to speak, listen to his nagging, and cut his ears without knowing that it hurts.

Dad can also sing, and his favorite singing is of course the long-tune folk songs of the Mongolian people, one of which is "Noengiya", which is also his specialty.

"The old Ha river, long and long/The horse on the bank, dragging the reins/The beautiful girl, Noengiya/Married to a distant place/When I was by my parents' side/I made a new dress in silk and satin/...... Haiqing River, waves/Miss your parents' friendship/A horse as a bride price/Daughter marries far away to ......"

The melody is long and a little poignant, and Erdemutu's deep and rich voice sings not to mention how good it is, fascinating Hongxia and Toya. Maybe it's because the little girl's mind can better appreciate the deep meaning of the song, and it's easier to resonate.

Naren Tuya said: I said Lao Ma, this song should be sung by me, why did you sing it?

Erdemutu asked rhetorically: Could it be that marrying our old Ma family will make you suffer?

"You don't know if I'm suffering?"

Erdemutu only laughed and did not answer.

The years pass mercilessly, urging the children to grow up, but also taking away the youthfulness and beauty of their parents. Now, Matoya has become a mother herself, and she has a lovely son, but her parents' health is not very good, and her father can't sing anymore, which makes Toya happy or worried? Perhaps, life just goes with the flow.

What you can't go back to is your childhood, and what you can't forget is memories.

…………

Lele drove up a small hill, and the field of vision was broadened, and the beautiful panorama of the Peacock Ping grassland was displayed. The blue sky, the white clouds, and the occasional eagle passing by, as if you could hear a melodious pastoral song coming from afar, drawing people's eyes along the green carpet of grassland to the horizon.

Matoya couldn't help but sing:

The water of the Baoyin River is clear and long

The red steed is busy driving

Beautiful grassland, paradise in the heart

Happy family goes to distant places

Snuggle up next to your parents

Like a docile lamb

Frolic in the rich pastures

Thick love is longer than the river

……

Toya's voice is not only sweet, but also penetrating and infectious. The song climbs over the hills and travels far away, which is the charm of the Mongolian long tune. The rhythm of the long-key folk song is free and stretched, the melody is tactful and pleasant, and the melody is long and undulating. Someone once joked about why the Mongolian patriarch tune was born? That's because the horseback people gallop when grazing, the breath of singing will rise and fall with the horses, the grassland is vast, if you want to let the song spread farther, you have to let go of your throat to "shout" out of the dantian qi, so it produces a unique and charming long tune. Of course, whether this is the case remains to be verified by experts.

Toya sings the tune of "Noengia," an important folk song that her father has imprinted in her mind since she was a child. With the help of a school teacher, she changed the lyrics based on the original long-key words and added the content of her hometown. "Noengiya" is a folk song of Horqin, which describes the poignant story of the beautiful and kind Mongolian girl Noengiya marrying away from home, showing the long history and unique customs of the ancient grassland.

At the beginning, Toya married to Hualan Gacha, although it can't be said to be a "distant marriage", after all, she left her village. At that time, she would often hum the folk song "Noengiya" intentionally or unintentionally, imagining herself as a hard-working girl "Noengiya" who left her relatives and married into a foreign country.

Later, when she moved back to Sarentai Gacha and sang this long tune again, Toya didn't feel poignant. So, she tried to change the words, such as changing "Laoha River Water" to "Baoyin River Water" in her own grassland, etc., and asked a familiar school teacher to help polish and polish it, so that this long-tune folk song is more suitable for her mood.

"Baoyin" means "happiness" in Mongolian. Baoyin River is the mother river of the Peacock Ping grassland, and it is also the "happy river" of the grassland herdsmen. The nameless river on Toya and Agina's homestead is a tributary of the Bowyn River.

Agina and Asgen were silent, and even the screaming "Xiri" honestly followed Lehrer's car, and seemed to be listening attentively to the beautiful singing of the hostess.

Lele began to walk down the hill, and Toya continued to sing—

Peacock screen grassland, waves

The kindness of parents cannot be forgotten

Year after year

Not afraid of wind, frost, snow and rain

……

Both Agina and Asgen were intoxicated by the singing. Although five-year-old Asgen did not yet understand the meaning of the lyrics, the long melody penetrated his heart......

Turning a mountain beam, the singing gradually stopped, and the father and son were still immersed in Toya's melodious singing.

…………

Asgen said, "Mom, that's nice.

Toya caressed her son's head and said, "Your dad sings that is good."

Asgen went to beg Aginai again: Daddy, Daddy, do you want to sing one?

Agina just giggled and didn't answer.

Toya: I want your dad to sing, the Debaoyin River is flowing backwards.

Agina was still silent, just smiling. At this time, there was a "sudden" motor sound in the distance, and Agina's expression became solemn, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the mountain beam in front of him......