Autumn.

The grass is turning yellow, and the horses and sheep are kept in captivity by industrious Kazakh herdsmen.

The sun was sinking like naan, Ah Mo was holding the lamb, and he heard Xiu'er's cry from a distance, and his nose was sour.

Ah Mo knew that Old Man Ji was by Xiu'er's side to comfort her, and he also knew that Suluk kicked Xiu'er, because Suluk's eldest son and wife were killed by robbers looking for Ah Xiu.

After shepherding the sheep, Ah Mo lay on the straw bale and listened to the singing of the Tianling bird.

The old man said that the Tianling bird was changed after the stars in the sky were broken, and Mo remembered that Ah Xiu's mother came, and Ah Xiu's mother became a star, but what about his own mother! Where is she? Will she become a star?

Amo helps the old man shepherd sheep and cook rice, and the old man can make wine and treat sheep, and the Kazakhs need him. Ah Mo and Xiu'er are afraid to go to the tribe of the Kazakhs, they hate the Han people, and they also hate Ah Mo and Xiu'er.

Xiu'er often said that she dreamed that the peach blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River were blooming, and she turned into a light swallow and flew from the Kazakh steppe to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River, and saw her parents in a big house.

One day, Xiu'er and Ah Mo were sitting on straw bales.

"In Jiangnan, Xiu'er often catches fireflies? Fireflies are so beautiful!"

Xiu'er looked at the blue sky, the stars flickered, very good-looking, Xiu'er wanted to reach out and grab it, but the stars were so far away, how could she catch it?

A pale yellow Tianling bird swooped down from the blue sky, and the Tianling bird gently combed its feathers with its sharp beak, Xiu'er stood up and shouted happily: "It's Tianling Bird!"

Xiu'er ran towards the Tianling Bird, and the Tianling Bird sang gracefully, flapping its wings and flying away.

The Tianling bird flew for a while and then pounced on the grassland to forage for food, as if waiting for Xiu'er, and after Xiu'er chased it, the Tianling bird flew up again. As soon as they fell together, Xiu'er had already followed Tianling Bird for a long distance.

Ah Mo chased after Xiu'er and shouted anxiously: "Xiu'er, Xiu'er, you're going to the Kazakh tribe, come back quickly! ”

Xiu'er's eyes sparkled with starlight. She looked fondly at the celestial birds foraging in the grassland.

She crawled and gently approached the Tianling Bird, she wanted to stroke it gently, but before Xiu'er approached, the Tianling Bird fluttered its wings and flew away, Xiu'er hurriedly shouted: "Bird, bird, come back quickly, come back quickly." Xiu'er wants to play with you!"

The bird burrowed into the lush dead grass, "cooing" let out several sorrowful sounds, and a black dustpan quickly fell to cover the bird, and the bird fluttered its wings in the dustpan, trying to fly into the blue sky.

A Kazakh boy jumped out of the dead grass and clapped his hands in joy and shouted, "Haha! Catch you!"

"Who are you? Why do you catch birds? ”

Xiu'er was both surprised and angry. The boy stood majestically on the grassland, and he was half a head taller than Ah Mo. is also stronger than Ah Mo, who ran from a distance like a little lamb and shouted anxiously: "Xiu'er, Xiu'er." ”

Xiu'er ignored Ah Mo, she looked at the good-looking boy in front of her, and had forgotten that Ah Mo was hurt for her.

The boy rudely pulled the bird out of his shirt. He scratched his head with his fingers and said with a smile, "I'll catch a bird to play!"

Xiu'er took half a step back, shook her head in fear, and begged softly: "Is it okay for you to let it go, it's so pitiful!"

The boy stood under the blue sky. Looking at Xiu'er in amazement, the starry sky of the grassland made Xiu'er more and more beautiful, and the boy slapped the Tianling bird that was about to fly and said: "I used a short stick to prop up a bamboo basket and scatter the grain, the Tianling bird ate my grain, I caught it, it ate my grain, do I still want to let it go?"

"Supu, Supu, that's Xiu'er's mother, I beg you to let it go! I'll give you a horse to ride, please let go of the bird. ”

Su Pu laughed, pushed Ah Mo to the ground fiercely, and said: "You are a Han and a villain, I don't want to talk to you, and I don't want you to be my horse, my Abba will break your legs when he sees you." ”

Su Pu turned his bright eyes to look at Xiu'er, only to think that she was very good-looking, and said with a smile: "Can you exchange things with me?"

Xiu'er touched her pocket, and said with a slightly red face: "I, I didn't ...... I'll make you a purse full of flowers next time and put it on you, okay?"

Seeing that Xiu'er was wearing a green bracelet on her fair wrist, Su Pu shone softly, and said, "Give me that bracelet, and I will give you the bird." ”

Xiu'er lowered her eyes and thought for a long time, and said sadly: "This is left by my mother to Xiu'er, but the bird is so pitiful, it wants to fly into the blue sky." ”

Xiu'er said as she took off the bracelet and handed it to Su Pu, who took the bracelet and looked at the starlight, and saw that the bracelet was shining beautifully, and handed the Tianling Bird in her hand to Xiu'er.

"Birds, birds, next time don't be greedy, fly fast, fly higher. ”

Xiu'er's two fingers as white as jade, gently stroked the fluff of the Tianling Bird, she carefully opened her palm, the Tianling Bird combed its wings, sang happily, and flew towards the blue sky.

Su Pu looked at Xiu'er in surprise and asked, "Don't you want it to play?"

Xiu'er looked at the blue sky, her eyes flashed with joy, and said, "How good it is to fly so freely and sing happily to us!"

Ah Mo looked at the emerald green bracelet in Su Pu's hand, and the young heart was inexplicably sad.

Jiangnan women's hands are small and flexible.

Xiu'er has been pestering a lonely old woman in Kazakhstan to teach him how to make needlework these days, and the old grandmother smiled and said: "Xiu'er, why do you want to make a purse, do you want to give it to your sweetheart?"

Xiu'er just laughed and didn't answer, he thought of Su Pulai who caught the Tianling bird under the night sky, and she secretly thought in her heart, I want to make a purse for him after all.

Ah Mo sat alone on the mountain bag, blown by the cold wind, he looked at Xiu'er's happy smile, Xiu'er sewed the purse with her small and delicate fingers, so attentive and serious.

"Brother Mo, when Xiu'er finishes Supu's purse, I'll make one for you, okay?"

Ah Mo thought that Xiu'er would never say this to him, and the more Mo thought about it, the more sad he became, and hugged a sheep eating grass. Shed hot tears.

Ah Mo knew that the purse made by Xiu'er would definitely look good, because he thought in his heart that the purse made by Xiu'er was the most beautiful in the world, but he was not worthy of wearing it, and only Supu, the bravest Kazakh, was worthy of Xiu'er's embroidered purse.

On the night when Xiu'er finished embroidering the purse and gave it to Supu, there was a knock on the door of the straw hut. Su Pu stood in front of the door, hid his hand behind his back, took out two Tianling birds as if by magic, and handed them to Xiu'er with a smile and said, "Xiu'er, Xiu'er, I haven't slept for half the night, I'll catch it for you." ”

Xiu'er doesn't like Su Pu to catch the Tianling bird, but she still looks forward to the time when Su Pu gives Xiu'er the bird. Xiu'er's face was as red as an apple, and after Su Pu left, Xiu'er quietly released the two Tianling birds into the blue sky, she didn't tell Su Pu about it, and she and Su Pu became the best friends.

Gradually, only Ah Mo was lying on the hill alone and listening to the Tianling bird singing, he knew that Xiu'er and Su Pu had gone to the distant hill to tell the story, his heart was very sad for some reason, very sad, and he cried with tears.

The autumn wind is blowing, and the dead grass is whizzing.

"Brother Amo. You should go back early!"

After shepherding the sheep, Xiu'er ran towards the hill in the distance, and Mo knew that Su Pu was waiting for her there. What about himself? I can only go back to the grass hut with the sheep, and Xiu'er is no longer willing to walk home with him smiling.

Su Pu likes the stories Xiu'er tells herself, those stories are told to her by Xiu'er's parents, and some of them are told by her pestering the old man.

"And then, Ma Jiajun killed the herdsmen?" asked Supu.

Xiu'er shook her head and said, "He is a good person, and he can't bear to kill the herdsmen." ”。

Su Pu stood up, as if he had expected it, "His master is going to kill him." If I don't obey my Abba, my Abba will beat me, it's the same thing. ”

Xiu'er shook her head, every time the old man talked about this, he didn't want to talk about it anymore.

Su Pu and Xiu'er sat next to each other on the mountain bag. Looking at the meandering stream under the grassy knoll, suddenly a big wolf came from the back of Supu, a big wolf that had been starved in the autumn, and it bit Xiu'er.

Supu's legs trembled, and he was terrified, but in front of this weak little girl, Supu resolutely grabbed the dagger and stabbed at the big wolf, and the big wolf jumped away and pounced on Supu, holding down Supu with a pair of front paws to block its dagger.

The big wolf was too heavy, Su Pu's arm gradually weakened, he felt that he was going to die, Xiu'er puffed up his cheeks, and his pink little hands grabbed the tail of the big wolf fiercely, and the big wolf was moved back a few inches by Xiu'er, and his sharp claws cut out a ravine on the grassland.

Supp's arm was bleeding, and in a daze, he stabbed the wolf with a dagger, which stabbed right in the soft abdomen of the wolf, and the wolf rolled down the hill and died after a few convulsions.

Xiu'er ran towards Supu and cried out in fear: "Supu, Supu, the big wolf has caught you badly, you have shed a lot of blood, you have shed a lot of blood. ”

Su Pu looked at the wolf corpse at his feet, happily hugged Xiu'er and shouted: "I killed the big wolf, Xiu'er, you see, I killed the big wolf, I am a hero of the Kazakh tribe." ”

After the excitement, Su Pu cried in pain, and Xiu'er coaxed him and helped him bandage his wounds with a handkerchief.

Four or five horses came running in the distance, and it was Suluk who flipped off his horse, looked at Xiu'er coldly and shouted, "Supu, what are you doing here?"

"Dad, I killed the big wolf, I killed the big wolf. Su Pu wiped his tears and smiled, dragged the big wolf, and said happily.

Suluk looked at Xiu'er and said coldly: "Your brother and grandmother both died at the hands of the Han, have you forgotten? The Han are the villains punished by Allah, don't you know?"

Suluk snapped and the whip hit Supu's body, Xiu'er was so anxious that she cried and rushed forward to hit Suluk, Suluk was furious, picked up the whip and hit Xiu'er.

Ah Mo ran into the distance, he saw Xiu'er being beaten, pounced forward, hugged Suluk's calf and begged: "Uncle Suluk, I beg you, I beg you to stop beating Xiu'er, you hit me, please don't beat Xiu'er......"

Suluk was furious, and whipped Ah Mo a few times, beating him all over his body with scaly wounds and blurred flesh and blood, before holding Su Pu and dragging the big wolf away.

Xiu'er wiped her tears and chased after Suluk's horse, and the horses ran farther and farther, and Xiu'er tripped over a stone, fell to the ground and cried.

Ah Mo was lying on the mountain bag alone, he thought that only Grandpa Ji cared about me, but Xiu'er, Xiu'er, she was very good to me, but Xiu'er was too good, he only liked brave people like Su Pu, she said that she didn't like others to catch Tianling birds, so why did Su Pu catch Tianling birds for her, she was very happy!

After coming back to the grass hut, Xiu'er had a high fever and said a lot of nonsense, all of which were old people taking care of her.

Autumn goes to winter, the cold winter gradually passes, the snow on the mountains begins to melt, the snow on the mountains and rivers converges into a stream flowing through the grassland, the nourishment of the snow water makes the grassland fresh green grass rise, and the whole grassland exudes the smell of fragrant grass.

When the old man was treating the sheep in Suluk's sheepfold, he saw Xiu'er's embroidered purse on the ground, which was dirty, without any brilliance, and wrapped in mud.

When Xiu'er was shepherding sheep, she always liked to look at the yurt where Su Pu lived, and her words gradually became fewer, and gradually became less.

It was a spring morning, and Mo got up early to shepherd the sheep, and he saw a wolf skin at the door, and Xiu'er happily carried the wolf skin into the grass shed.

On the night Xiu'er received the wolf skin, Ah Mo was lying alone on the mountain bag looking at the stars, he felt that the wind was so cold, so cold, how he wished that a wolf could take him away.

That night, Xiu'er secretly ran out with a wolf's skin, and Ah Mo waited for Xiu'er on the mountain bag for a long time, but he didn't see Xiu'er come back for a long time, the more Mo thought about it, the more scared he became, he was afraid that Xiu'er would be taken away by the big wolf.

He went to look for Xiu'er, but he went farther and farther, more and more deviant, and gradually lost his way, he walked into the desert, there was a big sandstorm in the desert that night, and the old man looked for a long time, and he thought that Ah Mo was probably dead. (To be continued.) )