Chapter 15 Chapter Twelve

The father who woke up found himself lying on Li Nima's bed, and there was no one else in the blockhouse except him.The doors and windows are all open, and the dawn scenery is swaying outside the narrow doors and windows. The vast grasslands and rolling snow-capped mountains are condensed and rushing in a white jade-like sunshine.Father took a deep breath of the grassy and mellow air, sat up suddenly, put on his shoes, and went outside the door excitedly. Under the stone steps outside the door of the fortress, director Baima Ujin and Li Nima were talking about something, and in front of the stables not far from them, two soldiers stood there leading three horses.

Father said: Why am I sleeping here?I'm leaving, I have to go to the monastery to see the seven grandma's children and Gangriseng, and the big black mastiff that day.Director Bai grabbed him hard and said: You can no longer go to the monastery, you must leave the Xijie Ancient Grassland today.Father was stunned, and it took him a while to remember Director Bai's conversation yesterday.He looked at the two soldiers with guns in front of the stables and said: What if I don't leave?Director Bai said: Then we will tie you up and escort you to the headquarters of Duoji.The father sighed and said in compromise: I have to say goodbye, right?I have been recuperating in the monastery for so long, and I didn’t even say hello when I left. People would say that we Han people don’t show any friendship at all.Director Bai said: After you leave, I will personally go to the monastery to express my gratitude to Tenzin Rinpoche on behalf of the West Working Committee.My father said shamelessly: Even if I agree to leave the Xijiegu Grassland, I still have to have breakfast.Director Bai said: They brought a lot of food on the road, including tsampa, ghee, and milk skin, which is enough for you.The father lost his mind and said loudly: I think your attitude towards me is wrong.Director Bai said: Let me tell you, if this happened to me, I would not leave, but if it happened to someone else, I must send him away, because I must be responsible for the safety of everyone who comes here, Guaranteed that nothing will happen to them.My father said: I am a Han Bodhisattva, what can happen?Director Bai said: What if?You have been involved in tribal conflicts, who can guarantee that no one will hate you?After all, he waved to the two soldiers with guns in front of the stables and said, hurry up, be careful on the road, and when you arrive at Duoji, you must hand him over to the leader of the headquarters.

When the sun comes out, the snow-capped mountains in the east turn into golden mountains, and the snow-capped mountains in the west appear whiter.The grassland is also half golden grass and half silver grass. The golden grass and the silver grass compete with each other, like silk in the wind, floating endlessly. My father was riding on a big gray horse, followed by two soldiers, all of whom rode bay red horses.Claret horses are military horses brought by the working committee when they entered the Xijie Ancient Grassland.The big gray horse is a prairie horse, which was borrowed from the tribe to send his father away.Suolang Wangdui, the leader of the Yeluhe Tribe, heard that his father, the Bodhisattva Hanzha Xihan, wanted to ride a horse, so he picked a more honest one from his mount and gave it to Li Nima who came to borrow the horse. Said: It’s not a matter of borrowing or not. Han Zhaxi’s horse was killed that day by the big black mastiff of Xijiegu’s territory dog. Xijiegu Grassland should pay for it. Let him keep this horse, don’t return it. Yes, don't pay it back.Li Nima didn't tell his father this, so his father didn't know that he was riding a good horse that Suolangwangdutou had ridden.He's just a little curious: How come all the territory dogs he meets along the way have enough respect for the big gray?If it sees it from afar, it will come galloping, standing ten steps away respectfully wagging its tail.Seeing the big gray horse go away, seven or eight of the large group of territorial dogs followed like bodyguards under the leadership of a tiger-headed snow mastiff.Yes, they are bodyguards, they are escorting them.They know better than people and horses that on the lonely grassland, behind any grass dam, there is a beast that attacks people, a wolf, a bear, or a leopard.

My father didn't know at the time that the leading tiger-headed snow mastiff escorting them was the mastiff king of Xijiegu Grassland, and he didn't even know that the reason why the mastiff king wanted to escort them himself instead of letting other territorial dogs do routine work was to respect the head of the dog. In addition to respecting the headman's mount, the big gray horse, there is another reason that it wants to know the whereabouts of Gangrisenger.Last night it took the gray husband mastiff and the big black mastiff Guori to the ancient temple of Xijie. Unexpectedly, they didn't smell Gangriseng anywhere in the temple.They expanded the scope of their search, and found that there was no trace of Gangriseng in the entire Diaofang Mountain.Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff is a bit strange, even more strange when I saw my father this morning, he actually rode on the big gray horse of Suolangwangduitou.What was he going to do on the big gray horse of Suolangwangduitou?He is almost the master of Gangrisenger, has he lost it, and is he going to find it?Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff instinctively thought that he might be able to find Gangriseng if he followed his father.It told its companions with firm steps: This person must be protected, this person is our only clue to find Gangriseng.From my father's point of view, Tibetan Mastiffs respected the big gray horse, and naturally they also respected the rider. It was the job of a territorial dog to protect him diligently.

They kept walking along the Wild Donkey River.The big gray horse kept wading into the water, letting his hot hooves feel comfortable in the cold water.As they walked, the Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff suddenly roared fiercely, telling the big gray horse to get ashore quickly, because it smelled conspiracy in the water.The proud gray horse didn't listen to him, and went on, and within a few steps, he hoofed into the otter's hole.It suddenly lost its balance, tilted its body, and threw the father into the river.Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff screamed, and was the first to rush over.Then the other Tibetan mastiffs also jumped into the river one after another, tearing up his father's clothes.The otter's burrow should have been on the bank, but when the water rose in summer, the burrow was flooded into the river.This is the most heinous trap for a horse on the prairie.Fortunately, the hole was not deep, and the horse's legs were not broken.The big gray horse pulled out its legs, stood up straight, and together with the Tibetan mastiffs, it tore his father's clothes with his teeth and dragged him to the opposite bank.My father was very moved. Although the river was not deep and he knew how to swim, he couldn't drown him, but he still felt that it saved his life.And the dog and the horse seem to think the same way. Although the water is not deep, it is fast. Once a person falls into the water, the stone falls into the water, and only sinks to the bottom, because they have never seen a duck that can swim in the grassland. people.Seven or eight Tibetan mastiffs and a horse panted happily and looked at their father with a smile, congratulating him on saving his life.

The two soldiers crossing the river behind their father were surprised, and one asked: Do you know these dogs?Father said: I don't know.Another asked: What about horses?have you ever ridden this horseThe father said: This is your horse. I have never ridden it before.The soldier said: This is not our horse, our horse is a military horse, and the military horses are all bay red horses, which are borrowed from the tribal leaders.Father understood: the big gray horse is a horse with intelligence, good endurance, and fast speed. Once it runs, the foreign military horses are definitely not its opponents.A thought entered my father's mind with the long neigh of the big gray horse: Can I escape on a fast horse?How about running back to Xijie Ancient Temple?I have to know how the seven grandma's children, Gangrisenger and the big black mastiff are doing now, right?

Father's bold idea came again, and once again continued his habit of acting on the idea.As he himself thinks, he is a Tibetan mastiff. It is not his instinct to look forward and backward. He is always going forward, just like the popular song at that time sang: forward, forward, forward, our team is facing the sun .Father was running towards the sun, and after running for about a quarter of an hour, he left two soldiers and seven or eight Tibetan mastiffs as bodyguards out of sight behind him.Then he turned the corner and galloped back, clinging to the foot of a grass beam, and soon reached the place where he had just fallen into the river.

My father was surprised to see that the Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff and its companions were waiting for him here, as if they were roundworms in his father's stomach and had known his father's tricks for a long time.In fact, this is the credit of the wind.Sometimes the wind in the grassland is not the east wind or the westerly wind, but the chaotic wind. The westerly wind blowing from the grass beams will become the east wind when it reaches the grass depressions.Winds from southeast to northwest can change directions at the same time.And the wind follows people, it blows wherever you go.The Tibetan mastiffs chasing my father stopped chasing after them, because the smell in the wind told them that my father was already on his way back.Only two soldiers were still chasing him until they thought his father was missing.

Father rode a big gray horse, surrounded by Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff and his companions, and returned the same way. After walking for less than an hour, he saw a group of men and horses coming from the south, galloping towards the distant snow-capped mountains.He wondered which tribe they belonged to, and what were they going to do?Not long after this brave man disappeared, a figure striding towards Kusashio Line was seen.He wondered what this person was doing, why was he exactly the same as Tiebang Lama Zang Tashi?My father went to meet the man, and when he got closer, he realized that he was Zang Tashi, but what he held in his hand was no longer the iron rod symbolizing the law of the grassland and the will of the monastery, but a wooden dog-beating stick for a homeless man.

Father jumped off his horse in surprise.Zang Tashi couldn't hide his sadness and took his father's hand and said: I finally saw you again, I knew I would see you, so I went all the way to find you. In fluent Chinese, he let his father know the whereabouts of the seven children who went to grandma, Gangrisenger and the big black mastiff that day, and said: The child who was called Ba'eqiuzhu by the Han girl Mei Duolam , has already told the secret of the seven Shangma's enemies in the Angla Snow Mountain to the bandit Jiamacuo of the Shepherd Crane Tribe.I'm sure that it won't be long before the seven grandma's children will fall into the hands of the horse-grazing crane tribe again.You brought these seven children to the Xijie Ancient Grassland, so you must not leave them alone.

Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff heard Zang Tashi's words, suddenly barked softly a few times. The father said: This Ba'eqiuzhu is simply a little devil, and everything is wrong with him. Zang Tashi said: Ba'e Qiuzhu wanted to avenge his relatives according to the rules of the prairie, but there was another rule of the prairie, that is, human life has a price and hatred has an end.The life price of a shepherd is 20 silver dollars. Two people in his family were beaten to death, adding up to 40 silver dollars.With so many silver dollars, a family can live a very good life.Why don't you want to have a good day, but want you to revenge to the death?Ba'e Qiuzhu is still a pauper after taking revenge, what good is that?Besides, chopping off the hands of the seven grandma's children was not considered revenge, because it was not the fathers of these seven children who killed Ba'e Qiuzhu's father and uncle.A benevolent person will drive away hungry ghosts when he is angry, and an evil person will attract hungry ghosts when he is angry. He intends to attract hungry ghosts.Hungry ghosts have no hands. When a hungry ghost's hand was cut off when he was begging for food, he had to cut off someone else's hand in order to find a substitute.You saw it just now, there is a group of riders galloping towards the west, where there are people possessed by hungry ghosts.They obeyed the orders of the big Gledou and the bandit Jamacuo to search the seven children of Shangma from the Angla Snow Mountain and capture them to Longbaoze Grassland, the grazing land of the Mahe Tribe. in the name of self-disposition.It must have been more ominous than good, as the children whose hands were chopped off would die one by one without the treatment of the Tibetan doctor Gayutuo.Fortunately, these riders didn't know me, and they even asked me if there was any convenient way to Angla Snow Mountain. If they knew me, my hands would no longer be on my arms. Father frowned and said, "Where is the king's law in the grassland?"Are they? Zang Tashi said: There is also Gangrisenge, can it heal its wounds in Angla Snow Mountain?After recovering from its injuries, can it prove itself to be a veritable snow mountain lion with ferocity and wisdom?I'm not sure of that, I don't know if it's going to die, I want to avoid all the fights that are bad for Gunriseng, but there's nothing I can do, I can't even save myself.To be honest, Hanzhaxi, I don't want to lose my hands. People who have no hands on the grassland are people who have committed crimes, and no one even pays attention to kowtow.Hanzashi, listen to me, you can't just leave like this, you have a way, you let Baima Ugin, the director of the work committee, stand up and stand up for the seven children of the mother and Gangrisenger Let me say a good word, and our fate will not be so miserable as it is now.Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff barked again inexplicably. Father said: I understand Zang Tashi, don't talk anymore, I have to go.I was going to Xijie Ancient Temple to see the seven grandma’s children, to see Gangrisenger and the big black mastiff, but now I’m not going, I’m going to Duoki Grassland, the sooner the better .Goodbye Zang Tashi, you have to take care, you'd better go far away, you'd better hide, don't let the tribal people catch you. Zang Tashi said: Don't rush away, I have to tell you one more thing, I saw the ghost sender Da Chi.This person has been hiding in Dangxiang Daxue Mountain for a long time, where he honed his black vow of revenge. No one knows what this black vow of poisonous vow will turn into in the end. All he knows is that he is about to turn his black vow of poisonous vow into action. .I'm very scared, it's not a good thing for him to suddenly appear in Xijiegu, you have to be careful of him. Father got on his horse, resolutely left Zang Tashi, a homeless man full of hope, and rode his horse towards the Duoji Grassland, and soon left behind the seven or eight Tibetan mastiffs who were still escorting him. Mastiff King Tiger Head Snow Mastiff led its companions, smelling his father's scent and tracking away.They didn't stop until they crossed the Langdao Gorge, and the tide of grass like a vast sea of ​​macadamia prairie rushed to the eyes one after another.According to the breath left by the urine stains left by the territorial dogs of the Rhesus grassland, they know that they have reached the border of an unfamiliar grassland, and it is not in line with their behavior to go any further.The ancient rules lurking in their memory firmly restrict them, so that they can never forget their duties as territorial dogs: to guard their own territory and not invade other people's territory.Unless the owner brings them in, just like the seven grandma's children brought Gangrisenger to the Xijie Ancient Grassland.And the father is not their master, he is just a guest who gets close to the master and is loved by the master in the Xijiegu Grassland. The Tibetan Mastiff as the territorial dog and the Tiger Head Snow Mastiff as the mastiff king fully understand this.