Yanzi said that the fat man and I were dung beetles and had a cold war - stinking Se, just two days after settling down, he wanted to go to the grassland of Kelenzuo Banner to play with monster moths again. But we had already decided to go. After receiving the letter

I couldn't sit still anymore, and it was better to catch the sun than to catch it. It happened to be the next morning, at the lower reaches of the Chahagan River in the forest farm, there was the last small train delivering wood to the mountains. The only way to go out was to catch this train.

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Since I was going out for fun instead of doing serious business, I was too embarrassed to ask for leave from the party secretary in person, so I entrusted the matter to Yanzi. The price was to promise to bring her a lot of delicious food that she had never tasted before when she came back from the grassland.

For food, the fat man and I didn’t have much luggage to pack, because there was nothing at all. We were completely proletarian and bachelor. We put on our dog-skin hats and a broken military school bag and ran out of the village.

After walking in the mountains all night, we arrived at a small railway station dedicated to transporting wood in the early morning.

The work of loading lumber onto the truck was all done by people in the village the night before. When we arrived, the train had already started, wheezing and steaming. The old man looking at the station wasn't paying attention, and the fat man and I climbed aboard.

After getting on the last train, I quietly lay down on the stacked logs and waited quietly for departure.

According to regulations, this kind of small train only transports wood to big stations outside the mountains. No one is allowed to take the train secretly. If we are discovered by the old man guarding the station before driving, we will be kicked off even if we tell the truth.

, and we might even be labeled as taking advantage of the public and held in a review meeting, so the risk was actually quite high, so the fat man and I had no choice but to lurk like two spies, for fear of being discovered.

Although we were careful, we still exposed our target. Two days ago when I was wearing a yellow leather jacket in the mountains, I started to have a runny nose. The barefoot doctor in the village gave me the nickname "Mixianzi" because he was a relatively "secondary" country boy.

The doctor can cure diseases of both humans and animals. He prescribed some herbal medicine for me, but I didn’t feel better after drinking it. At this moment, I couldn’t bear it anymore and sneezed. I quickly covered my mouth with my hands, but I was still looked at at the station.

The old man found out.

The old man heard the commotion and saw someone sneaking onto the train. It was not a big deal. He immediately rushed over, blowing his beard and staring, trying to grab me and the fat man from the train. But at this moment, with a burst of noise,

Shaking, the train started rumbling, the front of the car gradually accelerated, turning from slow to fast, and the trees on both sides of the railway retreated one after another. Seeing that the old man looking at the station could no longer catch up with us, the fat man and I immediately no longer cared about being discovered by him.

How is it? He took off his dog-skin hat at the same time with a smile on his face, waved his hat to the old man in a graceful manner, and shouted: "Farewell, Stuart..."

The speed of the small train we took was simply not comparable to that of a regular train, and it was shaking and bumping very violently. On the train, we felt like we had no roots under our feet, and there was wind in our ears. We were so shaken that we had no time to go back.

Appreciate the scenery of the primeval forest with towering ancient trees along the way, wrap up your coat and hat tightly, and huddle under the trees in a place leeward from the wind. Even so, it is better than walking out of the mountain on a mountain road. Such a journey is really too far.

We went through many twists and turns along the way, which I won’t list here. It took only one day for Fatty and I to finally set foot on the grassland of Karen Zuo Banner. If the map of China is viewed as a rooster’s

In shape, this prairie is right on the back of the rooster's neck. It is part of the Hulunbuir Prairie. It is under the jurisdiction of the Hulunbuir League and is adjacent to the Xing'an League. It has a vast territory, including forest areas, pastoral areas, and agricultural reclamation areas.

Kelunzuo Banner is cut off by several dry rivers left over from ancient riverbeds. Transportation is inconvenient, and the land is vast and sparsely populated. I first went to the educated youth spot in the peripheral agricultural reclamation area to find out the location of the pasture where Ding Sitian settled, and then I took a ride on the road.

"Lele cart" enters the grassland. "Lele cart" is a unique means of transportation on the grassland. The wheels of the cart made of birch, elm and other miscellaneous wood are very large, with a diameter of more than one meter. The herdsmen driving the cart shout "Lele Lele..."

Come and drive the livestock.

This is the first time we have been to the Mongolian prairie. When we were there, we discovered that it was very different from what we imagined. The so-called grasslands are all sparsely rooted in the sand dunes and distributed very unevenly. The grass is all in clusters.

Yes, the autumn grass is growing, and almost every cluster is knee-deep. Although the grass looks sparse and long up close, when you look far away, the boundless grassland turns into a yellow-green ocean, endless and continuous.

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In our ears we listened to the desolate songs of the Mongolian herdsmen. Our bodies sitting on the shaft of the cart were bumping and rising. The autumn grassland was freezing cold, with floating clouds and weeds, the cold wind blowing against our faces, and the geese in the sky whining away. According to local herdsmen, before

Snow has begun to fall on the grasslands in the past few days, but the snow has not started to fall. It is estimated that winter will come early this year. Just like in the mountains, we must start in advance to prepare for the winter famine.

The fat man had never been to the Northeast. He thought it was incredible that it snowed so early in the mountains and grasslands. He wondered why the climate was abnormal. Winter came early, which probably meant that spring was not far away. I said to the fat man: "The ancients said nonsense.

It snows in October, and Hu Di refers to the territory of the Hu people outside the Great Wall. I think we have entered Hu Di..."

We sat in the Lele car and chatted about the distant scenery of the highlands that day. As we talked, the topic shifted to our comrade Ding Sitian, who was about to meet again. Back then, she was wearing two braided bras and a military hat on the train.

The image of her dancing the Zhongzi dance and teaching tourists to sing revolutionary songs once shocked Fatty and I. We thought she was so beautiful and talented. At that time, she probably had some awareness of her first love.

However, the social atmosphere was there, and I didn't say it directly at the time. Maybe I didn't think about it at all. It was only a long time later, as the years passed, that I realized that I might have this awareness.

Now that we are about to meet again, I feel that my heartbeat is a little faster. Can we take the revolutionary friendship between our close comrades a step further? Then I will stay on the grassland and not return to Daxinganling. I immediately discussed with the fat man and asked him to help

I asked Ding Sitian, what is my position in her mind?

The fat man immediately shook his head: "Old Hu, can you please stop being so impure? I just wanted you to help me ask her about my weight in her mind. Why did you let me go for you first?"

I thought that you, the kid, also had such evil intentions, so I said to the fat man: "How the hell do I usually treat you? Tell your conscience. Comrade Lenin said that forgetting the past means betrayal."

The fat man showed his dopey face and replied: "Of course you are always nice to me. You treat me just like you treat your brother. So I think... once the critical moment comes, you will definitely take my place first."

Is this what we were thinking about? Isn’t it like this?” The two of us argued for a long time and were at a stalemate. Finally, we had to compromise and decided to ask Ding Sixian on behalf of the other party to see who would be more successful.

Just after discussing this matter, the "Lele Car" stopped in front of two yurts on the grassland. I saw Ding Sitian wearing a Mongolian robe and a scarf on her head, milking a goat. When I saw her, I

I almost didn’t recognize her. The change in her attire was so great. If I hadn’t looked carefully, I would have thought she was a Mongolian girl. Ding Sitian didn’t expect that Fatty and I would suddenly come to visit her. She was stunned for a long time before she came to her senses and rushed over to meet us.

Hugging each other, they were so excited that they couldn't speak. The comrades reunited after a long absence, and they all had endless things to say, but they had so many past events in their hearts that they didn't know where to start.

This pasture is located in the northernmost area of ​​the Barenzuo Banner. There are only three or four families of herders, including the educated youth who came to work for the right. The total number of people in the entire pasture does not exceed fifteen or six. Ding Sitian settled in the shepherd's "Laoyangpi"

"In our home, except for "Lao Yangpi" and his family of three, there was usually no one who could talk to him. Suddenly I saw my comrades from the great series, and I couldn't help crying with joy.

I comforted Ding Sitian for a few words, and briefly told her about the fact that Fatty and I failed to serve as soldiers and joined the team to settle in the Xing'an League. Ding Sitian sighed softly, as if she felt very sorry for us, but she immediately started to fight

Spirit said: "We are doing well now. Look at how magnificent the scenery of our grassland is. The blue sky is used as a quilt and the ground is used as a bed. The rice mixed with yellow sand is delicious. Life on the grassland is the most training. You can play more when you come.

God, I will take you to ride horses tomorrow."

The herdsmen on the grassland value horses very much and will never let outsiders ride their horses. If the horse is ridden by an outsider or the horse is lost, it will be very unlucky for the herdsmen, and the horses here are also very unlucky.

There weren’t many, so I thought there would be no chance of riding a horse, and I didn’t even think about it. Unexpectedly, Ding Sitian told us that the herdsman here, “Lao Yangpi,” was not Mongolian. He had fled from abroad before liberation.

After spending half his life on the grassland, he simply became a herdsman after liberation. He didn't pay much attention to the taboos on the grassland. After getting to know him well, he didn't get angry when riding his horse.

I know that behind Ding Sitian's optimistic attitude, it is more of a helplessness towards fate. How can the rice cooked with yellow sand taste delicious? But I still don't say those disappointing words, so I asked her to introduce us to the herdsmen."

The family of "Lao Yangpi", "Lao Yangpi" has lived on the grassland for half his life, but his local accent is hard to change, and he still has a strong northwest accent. He said that you have come at the right time. Tonight, the cows and sheep will be slaughtered to entertain the guests who have come from afar.

Guests, nearby herdsmen and educated youth will arrive at dusk.

When Fatty and I heard the news, we were so happy that we couldn't even close our mouths. The herdsmen on the grassland were so hospitable. We had never heard of it before, but this time we were convinced. As soon as we arrived,

Slaughtering a cow and a sheep, how can this be so embarrassing? It's too embarrassing, not to mention that we came here empty-handed. We should have brought some local specialties as gifts, but we have heard about the name of hand-made mutton for a long time, so today is not the end of the world.

I'm so shameless about not showing up anymore. What time do we usually have dinner?

Ding Sitian laughed and said: "Don't treat yourselves like outsiders. The sheep are being slaughtered today because there have been several natural disasters in this pasture this year. However, because the herdsmen risked their lives to protect the collective property, the collective property was not damaged.

If there is any loss, the league says that we are a model of supporting agriculture and learning from Dazhai. Because the Inner Mongolia grassland is close to the border and is under military control, the revolutionary committee above sent a cadre to our place to take pictures and report on the exemplary heroic deeds of the herdsmen.

The sheep are to entertain him, and you just happened to catch it, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to treat you to fresh mutton.”

Only then did I understand what was going on, and I was overjoyed for a long time. It turned out that the reason for being so grand was to entertain others, and that the pastoral area was a model for supporting agriculture and imitating Dazhai. Can Dazhai compare with the pastoral area? But since people want to capture the examples

, we are not qualified to ask, it doesn’t matter whether I am or not in the world, we should be quite content just eating mutton.

Before it gets dark, several families of herdsmen and educated youths from nearby have arrived one after another. Including us and Lao Yangpi, there are only about twenty people in total, half of whom are educated youths. Although we don’t know the rest of the educated youths, they are familiar with each other.

When it comes to the status of educated youths, they are all friends with brothers and sisters, which is similar to the feeling of being in the old society. The common destiny makes there no distance between them at all. It doesn't take a while to get to know each other, the grassland at dusk

It was the most beautiful time for the scenery to be seen thousands of miles away under the setting sun. Some educated youths went to borrow a camera from the cadre. They all took a photo together and happily waited for dinner to start in the evening.

Ding Sitian and I helped "Lao Sheeppi" catch the sheep that was about to be slaughtered from the pen. I felt that I had a great time today, and when I saw the mountains in the west rising under the blood-red sunset, I had the desire to go far away.

, I told "Lao Yangpi" that I would like to borrow some horses tomorrow and let Sitian take us to ride the horses to the depths of the grassland.

When "Lao Yangpi" heard this, his expression changed drastically. He told me that it was impossible to go there. The end of the grassland was the Mongolian Loess Plateau, which is the area connected to the Mongolian desert. There was a place deep in the grassland called "Hundred Years".

"Eye Cave", now that the Four Olds have been broken, there are some things I didn't dare to say, but because you are all friends of this girl Sitian, I dare to tell you clearly that there is a dark demon dragon hidden in the "Hundred Eyes Cave".

The herdsmen and livestock there were all devoured by the Dragon King and never returned. If it hadn't been for the winter famine this year and the herdsmen were worried that their livestock had not gained enough autumn fat, otherwise they would never have visited the "Hundred Eyes Cave" so close.

"There are grazing animals on this meadow, and you don't even ask, who dares to take even half a step deeper into the grassland? If we alarm the demonic dragon, I'm afraid the Immortal God won't be able to protect us."

I couldn't help but find it funny to see what "Old Sheepskin" said so seriously. This was so ridiculous. How could there be a dragon on the grassland? And it was a demonic dragon that could eat people and livestock. It might be easy to fool children with this kind of thing.

Can you believe me, Hu Bayi?

"Lao Yangpi" saw that I didn't believe me, so he told me about a personal experience. Decades ago, when he was shepherding sheep for "Bayan" on the grassland, he heard the legend about the Mobei Demon Dragon, which was extremely evil.

So much so that the grassland near the "Baiyan Cave" has become a restricted area tacitly recognized by local herdsmen. The animals are left there and no one dares to look for them. Anyway, whether they are humans or horses, they cannot come back after they are gone.

, once a group of people came from the northeastern mountainous area, carrying a large old box, which looked like a coffin, and they had no idea what was inside. This group of people arrested "Lao Sheepskin's" brother and took it.

Holding a gun and forcing him to lead the way to the "Baiyan Cave", "Lao Yangpi" followed quietly and wanted to save his brother, but when he got to the vicinity of the Baiyan Cave, he did not dare to go further inside and watched helplessly as he kissed

The younger brother led the group into it and has never come out since.

"Old Sheeppi" swore that when he saw the black demonic dragon with his own eyes, he was so frightened that he almost peed his pants. He really didn't dare to get any closer. From then on, he had nightmares every night and hated himself for being cowardly.

Cowardly, seeing his brother on the road to hell, but not having the courage to save him.

I saw that he was speaking with certainty and that his expression was not hypocritical. Naturally, I sympathized with his brother's plight. But how could I believe that there were dragons in the world? I shook my head and said to "Old Sheepskin": "Have you seen it?"

That... dragon, maybe I misjudged it, I guess it might be a giant black python? Some giant pythons are as thick as buckets, so it is indeed easy to be regarded as a dragon."

"Old Sheeppi" looked at me with a look that suddenly became solemn, and he pointed at the sky: "Young man, do you think that I, an old man like me, have been living like a dog for so many years and can't even tell the difference between a snake and a dragon? Or even
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