Chapter 2 Chapter two
In this way, Li Wenxiu lived in Old Man Ji's house, helping him shepherd the sheep and cook. The two of them were like a grandpa and a granddaughter.At night, Li Wenxiu sometimes woke up from her dream, listened to the singing of the sky bell bird, and returned to her dream in the song of the sky bell bird.In her dream, there are willows and peach blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River, her father's embrace, and her mother's smiling face...
After autumn and winter, Li Wenxiu lived a peaceful life. She learned the Kazakh language and many things on the grassland.
Old man Ji can brew fragrant and strong wine, and Kazakh men love to drink fragrant and strong wine.Old man Ji can treat the diseases of cattle, sheep and horses, and the Kazakhs often cure the livestock that cannot be cured by him.Cattle, sheep and horses are the lives of the Kazakhs. Although they don't like the Han people, they have nothing to do without him, so they had to exchange the cattle and sheep for his fragrant and strong wine, and invited him to treat the animals.
Kazakh tents migrate from east to west, north to south, on the steppe.Old man Ji sometimes moved with them, sometimes he stayed in the hut, waiting for them to come back.
One night, Li Wenxiu heard the song of the sky bell bird again, but it sang farther and farther away, faintly, drifting a little with the wind, and then couldn't hear it again.Li Wenxiu got dressed quietly, and led the white horse outside the house, fearing to wake up old man Ji, she pulled the white horse far away, then got on the horse, and followed the singing.
At night on the grassland, the sky is high and blue, the stars are bright, and the grass and small flowers are fragrant.
The singing voice is very clear, and the singing is tactful and charming.Li Wenxiu's heart was ecstatic with the singing, and she gently stepped off the horse's back, allowing the white horse to chew the green grass freely.She lay on her back on the grass, intoxicated by the singing.
That day the bellbird sang for a while, and then flew a few feet away.Li Wenxiu crawled underground to follow, she heard the sound of a bird flapping its wings, and saw this little light yellow bird, pecking at the ground.It pecked a few mouthfuls, flew forward for a while, and found food again.
The sky bell bird was eating very happily, suddenly there was a snap, and a dark object flew up from the long grass, covering the sky bell bird.
Li Wenxiu's exclamation was mixed with the cheers of a boy, and a Kazakh boy jumped out of the long grass, shouting triumphantly: "Catch it, catch it!" The child's panicked cry came out through the coat depressingly.
Li Wenxiu was surprised and angry at the same time, and shouted: "What are you doing?" The boy said: "I'm catching the bell bird. Do you want to catch it too?" Li Wenxiu said: "Why catch it? Let it be happy Isn’t it good to sing?” The boy smiled and said, “Catch and play.” He put his right hand into his coat, and when he stretched out again, he was already holding the pale yellow bird in his hand.The sky bell bird couldn't help flapping its wings, but how could it fly under the boy's control?
Li Wenxiu said: "Let it go, you see how pitiful it is?" The boy said: "I sowed wheat all the way to attract this bird. Who told it to eat my wheat? Haha!"
Li Wenxiu was stunned. For the first time in this world, she understood the meaning of "trap".People knew that the little bird wanted to eat wheat, so they scattered wheat, leading it into a dead end.She was still young, so she didn't know that for thousands of years, people have been saying the words "man dies for money, bird dies for food".She only vaguely felt the horror of the plot, and the irresistible "seduction".Of course, she only felt some very vague shadows, and couldn't figure out the truth hidden in them.
The boy played with the skybell, making it make some painful noises.Li Wenxiu said: "You gave me the little bird, okay?" The boy said: "Then what will you give me?" , said: "Come on tomorrow, I will sew you a beautiful purse and hang it on your body." The boy smiled and said: "I won't be fooled by this. Tomorrow you will be resigned." Li Wenxiu blushed , said: "I told you, I will give it to you, why should you rely on it?" The boy shook his head and said, "I don't believe it." Under the moonlight, he saw a jade bracelet on Li Wenxiu's left wrist, emitting a crystal clear and soft light , casually said: "Unless you give this to me."
The jade bracelet was given by my mother. Apart from this jade bracelet, there is nothing left to commemorate my mother.She was very reluctant, but seeing Bellbird's pitiful appearance that day, she finally took off the jade bracelet and said, "Here you are!"
The boy didn't expect that she would be willing, took the jade bracelet, and said: "You won't want it back?" Li Wenxiu said: "No!" The boy said: "Okay!" Then he handed the jade bracelet to her .Li Wenxiu clasped the bird with both hands, felt its soft body in the palm of his hand, and felt its rapid and weak heartbeat.She lightly stroked the feathers on the bird's back with the three fingers of her right hand, opened her palms, and said, "Go! Be careful next time, and don't be caught again." The sky bell bird spread its wings and flew into the In the grass.The boy was very strange, and asked: "Why did you release the bird? Didn't you trade it for the jade bracelet?" He held onto the bracelet tightly, fearing that Li Wenxiu would ask him for it again.Li Wenxiu said: "The sky bell bird is flying and singing again, isn't it very happy?"
The boy looked at her sideways for a while, and asked: "Who are you?" Li Wenxiu said: "My name is Li Wenxiu, what about you?" The boy said: "My name is Su Pu." There was a loud cry in the throat.
Su Pu was two years older than her, tall and mighty standing on the grass.Li Wenxiu said: "You are very strong, aren't you?" Su Pu was very happy, the little girl just said something casually, which hit the point of which he was most proud of.He pulled out a short knife from his waist and said, "Last month, I hacked a wolf with this knife and nearly killed it, but it escaped."
Li Wenxiu was very surprised, and said: "You are so powerful?" Su Pu was even more proud, and said: "Two wolves came to bite my sheep in the middle of the night, and my father was not at home, so I went out with a knife to chase the wolves. The big wolf saw the torch Then I ran away, and I slashed the other end." Li Wenxiu said: "Did you slash the smaller one?" Su Pu was a little embarrassed, nodded, but then added: "If the big wolf doesn't run away , I’ll kill it with one blow.” Even though he said so, he was really not sure.But Li Wenxiu was convinced, and said: "If the wolf comes to bite the lamb, it should be killed. Next time you kill a wolf, come and let me see it, okay?" Su Pu said happily, "Okay! Wait until I kill it. I will peel off the wolf skin and give it to you." Li Wenxiu said: "Thank you, then I will make a wolf skin mat for grandpa. His own one has already been given to me." Su Pu said: "No! I gave it to you, you use it yourself. You just return it to grandpa." Li Wenxiu nodded and said, "That's fine too."
In two little hearts, the unfulfilled hopes of the future are not so different from the past facts.They thought of killing the wolf, as if the wolf had really been killed.
In this way, the two children became friends.The boldness of the Kazakh men and the gentleness and kindness of the Han women get along very harmoniously.
A few days later, Li Wenxiu made a small purse, filled it with wheat candy, and gave it to Su Pu.This gift surprised the little boy. He exchanged the little bird for the jade bracelet, and he already felt that he had taken advantage of it.The inherent integrity of the Kazakhs made him think that there should be some compensation, so he stayed up all night, caught two skybells on the grassland, and gave them to Li Wenxiu the next day.Such a generous act could have been misunderstood.It took Li Wenxiu a lot of words to make the boy understand that what she likes is to let the sky bell bird be free, not to catch it and make it suffer.Su Pu finally understood, but in his heart, he always felt that her kindness was a little silly, weird and ridiculous.
As the days passed, in Li Wenxiu's dreams, her parents appeared less and less often, and the tears on her pillow also gradually decreased.There are more smiles on her face and more singing in her mouth.When she and Su Pu were herding sheep together, love songs of young men and women in the distance often wafted from the grassland.Li Wenxiu felt that these sentimental and lingering songs were very pleasant to listen to, and after listening to them a lot, she could hum them casually.Of course, she still doesn't understand the meaning of the song, why would a man be so upside down to a girl?Why should a girl fall in love with a man so much?Why does the sound of a lover's footsteps make the heart beat violently?Why does the slim body make people unable to sleep all night?It's just that she sang crisply and melodiously, and everyone who heard it said, "This little girl can sing really well. Isn't that like a skybell bird on the grassland?" In the cold winter, the Tianlingbird flew to the warmer places in the south, but on the grassland, Li Wenxiu’s song still rang: "Ah, dear shepherd boy, How old are you? You walk alone in the desert in the middle of the night, Would you like me to be your companion? " The singing paused here, and everyone who heard it said in their hearts: "Listening to such a beautiful song, who wouldn't want to have you as a companion?" Then the singing sounded again: "Oh, dear, don't be angry, It's hard to know who is good and who is bad. To turn the Gobi desert into a garden, All it takes is a good couple to get together. " A flower bloomed in the hearts of everyone who heard the singing, even the coldest and most desolate heart, also rose with warmth: "If a couple of good people get together, the Gobi Desert will naturally become a garden, and who will be reborn?" Are you angry?" The old man was twenty years younger, and the young man was filled with joy.But Li Wenxiu, who sang a love song, didn't understand the meaning of the song. The one who listened to her singing the most was Su Pu.He also didn't understand the meaning of these love songs on the grassland, until one day, they met a wolf in the snow.
This wolf came very suddenly.Su Pu and Li Wenxiu were sitting side by side on a small hill, looking at the flock of sheep scattered on the grassland. Like usual, Li Wenxiu told him stories.Some of these stories were told by my mother in the past, some by Old Man Ji, and others were made up by herself.Su Pu liked listening to the thrilling stories of old man Ji’s life and death the most, and disapproved of Li Wenxiu’s own childish female stories. But after telling a thrilling story several times, it became neither scary nor dangerous, so he had to be patient. Listen carefully: how the white rabbit can't find its mother, and how the little flower dog can help it find it.Suddenly, Li Wenxiu let out an "ah" and fell backwards, a big bad wolf's sharp teeth bit her throat. The wolf came silently from behind, and neither of the two children noticed.Li Wenxiu had learned some martial arts from her mother, so she naturally turned her head to one side to avoid the wolf's bite aimed at her throat.Seeing the size of this wolf, Su Pu was so frightened that his legs went limp, but he immediately thought: "I must save her!" Pulling out a short knife from his waist, he rushed forward and stabbed the big bad wolf in the back. The gray wolf's bones were very hard, and the dagger slipped from its back, only wounding some flesh.But the gray wolf also sensed the danger, let go of Li Wenxiu, opened its mouth wide open, suddenly jumped up, put its feet on Su Pu's shoulders, and bit down on his face. Surprised, Su Pu fell backwards.The gray wolf was coming like lightning, and pressed down with both feet, its white fangs had already touched Su Pu's cheek.Li Wenxiu was extremely frightened, but still mustered up his courage, grabbed the gray wolf's tail and pulled it back forcefully.The big bad wolf took a step back under her tug, but it was so hungry that its hind legs firmly planted itself on the ground, telling Li Wenxiu to pull it no longer, and then bit down again. Su Pu yelled loudly, the wolf had already bit his left shoulder.Li Wenxiu was so startled that she almost burst into tears, mustering all the strength in her life to pull.The gray wolf felt the pain and opened its mouth to howl, but loosened its teeth on Su Pu's shoulder.In a daze, Su Pu sent out a knife, which just hit the soft part of Gray Wolf's belly, and the knife didn't reach the handle.He wanted to draw out his knife and stab again, but the gray wolf jumped up suddenly, rolled several times in the snow, and died on his back. The gray wolf's roll caused Li Wenxiu to fall a few somersaults, but she still held on to the gray wolf's tail and never let go.Su Pu struggled to stand up. Seeing such a huge gray wolf dying in the snow, he couldn't help being stunned. After a long while, he happily shouted: "I killed the big wolf, I killed the big wolf. Big wolf!" Stretching out his hand to support Li Wenxiu, he proudly said: "Axiu, look, I killed big wolf!" Satisfied, even though the blood flowed from his shoulder, he didn't feel any pain for a while.Li Wenxiu saw that the left side of his sheepskin jacket was stained with blood, quickly opened his leather jacket, took out a handkerchief from his bosom, held down the blood that kept flowing from his wound, and asked, "Does it hurt?" Su Pu Ruo was alone and cried out in pain a long time ago, but now he was full of heroism in his heart, shook his head and said, "I am not afraid of pain!" Suddenly a person behind him said: "Apu, what are you doing?" They turned their heads and saw a big man with a beard on his horse. Su Pu shouted: "Father, look, I killed a big wolf." The big man was overjoyed and got off his horse, only to see his son's face was splattered with blood, his eyes passed Li Wenxiu's face again, and he asked Su Pu: "You were bitten by a wolf?" Su Pu said, "I was listening to Axiu's story here, and suddenly this wolf came to bite her..." Suddenly, a shadow was cast on the face of the big man, looking at Li Wenxiu He said coldly: "Are you that Han girl who was punished by Allah?" At this moment Li Wenxiu recognized him, that was Su Luke who had kicked her.She remembered Old Man Ji's words: "His wife and eldest son were killed overnight by Han robbers, so he hated the Han people very much." The robbers." Before he could finish his words, there was a sudden swipe, and a long red mark appeared on Su Pu's face, which was caused by his father's whipping. Su Luke shouted: "I told you to hate Han people for generations, you forgot what I said, and went to play with Han girls and bleed desperately for Han girls!" He whipped his son again. Su Pu didn't dodge, but just stared blankly at Li Wenxiu, and asked, "Is she a Han who was punished by Allah?" Su Luke shouted, "Isn't it?" face.Li Wenxiu took two steps back, stretched out her hand and pressed her face.Su Pu was seriously injured after being bitten by the gray wolf, and then he was severely whipped twice, unable to hold on any longer, his body swayed, and he fell to the ground. Seeing that his eyes were closed and he passed out, Su Luke was also taken aback. He hurriedly jumped off the horse, picked up his son, followed him up, and landed on the horse's back. With the head and neck of the dead wolf, the horse can go as soon as it holds its legs.The dead wolf dragged along in the snow, and there was a long bloodstain between the two rows of hoofprints in the snow.Su Luke galloped for more than ten feet, and turned his head to give Li Wenxiu a vicious look, as if saying in his eyes: "Next time you bump into my hand, see if I don't give you a good beating." Li Wenxiu was not afraid of this wink, but felt empty in her heart, knowing that from now on Su Pu would never be her friend, would never come to hear her sing or tell her stories.I just feel that Shuo Feng is more uncomfortable from the cold, and the whip wound on his face throbs with the beating of his pulse, and the pain becomes more severe. She drove the flock home in a daze.Old man Ji saw a lot of blood on her clothes and a welt swollen on her face, he was shocked and hurriedly asked her what was the matter.Li Wenxiu just said indifferently: "I accidentally dropped it." Old Man Ji certainly didn't believe it.But after repeated inquiries, Li Wenxiu only answered in this way, and when she asked urgently, she burst into tears and refused to say a word. That night, Li Wenxiu had a high fever, her little face was red with blood, and she said a lot of nonsense, such as "big bad wolf!" "Su Pu, Su Pu, save me!" After guessing a few points, I was very anxious.Fortunately, by dawn, her fever subsided and she fell into a deep sleep. This illness lasted for more than a month. By the time she woke up, the cold winter had passed, the white snow on the Tianshan Mountains had begun to melt, and streams of snow water flowed onto the grassland.Traces of tender grass have sprung up in the field. On this day, Li Wenxiu got up early in the morning, opened the gate, and wanted to drive the sheep out to graze, but there was a big wolf skin outside the gate, which looked like a mat.Li Wenxiu was taken aback, seeing the color of the wolf fur, it was exactly the big bad wolf that bit her in the snow that day.She bent down and saw a knife hole in the belly of the wolf skin.Her heart was pounding, she knew that Su Pu had not forgotten her, nor had he forgotten what he had said, and secretly put the wolf skin in front of her door in the middle of the night.She kept the wolf skin in her room, and without telling old man Ji, she drove the sheep away, and went to wait for him at the place where she used to meet Su Pu. But she waited until sunset, and Su Pu never came.She recognized the flock of sheep in Su Pu's house, but this day a young man of seventeen or eighteen was herding them.Li Wenxiu thought: "Could it be that Su Pu's injury hasn't healed yet? Why did he give me the wolf skin again?" She really wanted to visit him in his tent, but then she thought of Su Luke's whip. In the middle of the night, she finally mustered up the courage to go behind Su Pu's tent.She didn't know why she wanted to go, but she wanted to say "Thank you for the wolf fur"?In order to see if his injury is healed?She couldn't tell herself.She hid behind a tent.Su Pu's sheepdog recognized her, came over and sniffed her a few times, then walked away without barking.The candlelight of the tallow candle was still burning in the tent, and Su Luke's thick voice was roaring loudly. "Which girl did you give your wolf skin to? Good boy, at such a young age, he also knows how to give his first prey to the girl he loves." Every time he yelled, Li Wenxiu's heart throbbed violently. Take a jump.She heard Su Pu mention the custom of the Kazakhs when telling stories, every young man's most precious first-time prey is always given to his beloved girl as a token of affection.At this time, when she heard Su Luke shouting and asking, her little face blushed, and she felt proud in her heart.Both of them are still young and don't know what true love is, but vaguely, they also tasted the sweetness and bitterness of first love. "You must have given it to that Han girl who was punished by Allah, that bastard named Li, right? Well, don't tell me, is it you or your father's whip?" Only the sound of brushing, brushing, and a few whips hitting the flesh can be heard.Kazakhs like Su Luke have always believed that only the whip can produce a strong and good man, and gentle methods cannot be used to discipline their sons.His grandfather whipped his father in this way, his father whipped him in this way, and he himself whipped his son in this way, and the love between father and son is not weakened by this.A man fights a man with fists and whips to friends and relatives, and daggers and long swords to enemies.But for Li Wenxiu, her parents didn't even say a word of harsh words to her since she was a child. As long as there is no smile on her face and some caresses, it is a painful punishment.At this time, every whip was as painful as hitting her body. "Su Pu's father must hate me very much. His own son beat him so viciously. Would he kill him?" "Okay! You don't answer! Are you going to answer? I guess you must have given it to that Han girl." The whip kept lashing down.At first Su Pu gritted his teeth and endured it, but finally he cried out: "Father, don't hit, don't hit, I hurt, I hurt!" Su Luke said: "Then tell me, should you send the wolf skin to me?" To that Han girl? Your mother died at the hands of Han bandits, and your brother was killed by Han bandits, do you know? They call me the number one warrior in Kazakhstan, but my wife and son were killed by Han bandits, you know I don't know? Why was I not at home that day? Why can't I always find these robbers, so that I can avenge your mother and brother?" Su Luke's whip at this time was no longer used to discipline his son, but to vent the fury in his heart.Every time he whipped down, he seemed to be whipping the enemy, "Why didn't that dog bandit come to fight me to the death with open swords and guns? Would you say it? Could it be that I, Su Luke, is the number one warrior in Kazakhstan, and I can't beat a few Han people?" Thief..." The child he killed by Huo Yuanlong and Chen Dahai was his most beloved eldest son, and the wife who was insulted to death by them was his lover who grew up with him since childhood.As for himself, for more than 20 years, everyone has called him the number one warrior of the Kazakh nationality. No matter in competition, boxing, fighting strength, or horse racing, he has never lost to anyone. Li Wenxiu only felt that it was pitiful for Su Pu to be beaten by his father, and it was also pitiful for Su Luke to yell like this while crying. "He beats him so hard, he will never love Su Pu again. He has no son, and Su Pu has no father. It's all my fault, and it's all fault of me, a Han girl punished by Allah!" Suddenly , she also felt sorry for herself. She couldn't hear Su Pu crying like this anymore, so she went back to Old Man Ji's house, took out the wolf skin from under the quilt, and looked at it for a long time.There were more than two miles between her and Su Pu's tent, but she seemed to hear Su Pu's crying faintly, and heard Su Luke's whip cracking.Although she liked this wolf fur very much, she couldn't have it. "If I want this wolf skin, Su Pu will be beaten to death by his father. Only Kazakh girls, their Islamic girls, can ask for this big wolf skin. Among the many girls in Kazakhstan, which one is the most beautiful? ? I like this wolf skin very much. It was the wolf that Su Pu killed. He sacrificed his own life to save me. Su Pu gave it to me, but... but his father wanted to kill him... ..."
The next morning, Su Luke came out of the tent with eyes full of red silk, only to hear Che Erku humming a folk song loudly, singing over.He turned his head and looked at Su Luke, with a strange look on his face, a smile, and kindness in his eyes.Che Erku is also a well-known warrior among the Kazakhs. People thousands of miles away know his ability to tame wild horses.He ran so fast that some people said that within a mile, no horse could catch up with him. Even if he lost to that horse a mile away, the difference was only one nose.When the herdsmen chatted around the fire, many said that if Che Erku's nose hadn't been so flat, then he would have won. Su Luke and Che Erku never had a good relationship.Su Luke's reputation was great, and his sword and boxing skills were invincible. Che Erku was secretly jealous.He is six years younger than Su Luke.Once when the two of them had a knife competition, Che Erku lost, and a long scar was cut on his shoulder.He said: "I lost today, but five years later, ten years later, let's wait and see." Su Luke said: "In another twenty years, my brothers will compete again. Will be as light as this!" Today, there was no hostility in Che Erku's smile.The anger in Su Luke's heart still persisted, and he gave him a hard look.Che Erku said with a smile: "Old Su, your son is very discerning!" Su Luke said, "You mean Su Pu?" You laughed at my son for giving wolf skins to Han girls." Che Erku's words were already on the verge of his mouth: "If it's not Su Pu, do you have another son?" But he didn't say that, he just smiled and said: "Of course it's Su Pu! Poor, he is quite capable, and I like him very much." The father couldn't help being happy when he heard others praise his son, but he and Che Erku had always quarreled, and said, "Are you hot-eyed? It's a pity that you Can't give birth to a son." Che Erku didn't get angry, and said with a smile: "My daughter Aman is not bad, otherwise why would your son have taken a fancy to her?" Su Luke let out a "bah", and said, "Don't be smug, who said my son has a crush on Aman?" Che Erku put his arms around his arm, and said with a smile, "Come with me, I'll show you One thing." Su Luke felt strange and walked side by side with him.Che Erku said: "Your son killed a big bad wolf some time ago. Little boy, it's amazing. When he grows up, he won't be like me? Father is a hero." Su Luke didn't answer, and decided he was Is there some kind of trap set up, I want to be fooled by myself, thinking to myself: "Everything must be carefully cared about." After walking for more than three miles on the grassland, they arrived in front of Che Erku's tent.From a distance, Su Luke saw a big wolf skin hanging outside the tent.He ran a few steps closer, hey, what was the skin of the gray wolf that Su Pu killed?This was the first beast his son had killed in his life, and he recognized it clearly.There was confusion in his heart, and then he was happy and confused at the same time: "I wronged Apu, I beat him up so hard last night, it turned out that he gave the wolf skin to Oman, but not to the Han man Girl. Damn it, why didn't he say it? The child has a delicate face, so there is nothing to say. If his mother was alive, she would persuade me. Oh, if the child has something on his mind, he will definitely tell his mother..." Che Erku patted his shoulder with his thick palm and said, "Go and drink a bowl of wine." Che Erku's tent was neatly tidied up, woolen blankets woven with red flowers and green grass were hung around.A slender girl came out with a bottle of wine.Che Erku smiled and said: "Aman, this is Su Pu's father. Are you afraid of him? This beard is very fierce!" Aman's blushing face became more beautiful, and his eyes flashed with a smile, as if Said: "I'm not afraid." Su Luke laughed and said with a smile: "Old Che, I heard people say that you have a daughter who is a walking flower on the grassland. Yes, a flower A flower that can walk, that's a really good saying." The two men who had been arguing for more than ten years suddenly became intimate.You toast me a bowl of wine, and I toast you a bowl of wine.Su Luke finally got drunk, squinted his eyes and leaned on the horse's back, and returned home. A few days later, Che Erku sent two exquisite woolen blankets.He said: "This is woven by Oman, one for the old and one for the young." A big man was woven on a blanket, holding a long knife and beheading a leopard. In the distance, a leopard was running away with its tail in its arms.Another rug had a boy stabbing a wolf to death.The two of them, one big and one small, were both majestic and heroic.Su Luke was overjoyed when he saw it, and praised repeatedly: "Good workmanship, good workmanship!" It turned out that there were very few leopards in Huijiang, but two came from nowhere that year, harming people and animals.Back then, Su Luke bravely chased into the snow-capped mountains, hacked to death one big leopard, and escaped from the other wounded.At this time, he was very happy to see Oman weaving his most proud heroic deeds on the blanket. This time, it was Che Erku who got drunk and went home on horseback.Su Luke asked his son to send him back.In Che Erku's tent, Su Pu saw his own wolf skin.He was puzzled, and Aman was blushing and thanking him.Su Pu muttered a few words, but he didn't know what to say. He didn't dare to ask why this wolf skin got into Oman's hands.The next day, he went to the hill where the wolf was killed early in the morning, hoping to see Li Wenxiu and ask her a question.But Li Wenxiu did not come. He waited for two days, all in vain.On the third day, I finally mustered up the courage to go to Old Man Ji's house.Li Wenxiu came out to open the door, saw him, and said, "I don't want to see you from now on." Then the door slammed shut.Su Pu stayed there for a while, and returned to his home inexplicably, feeling a sense of melancholy in his heart: "Oh, Han girl, what is she thinking?" Naturally, he would not know that Li Wenxiu was hiding behind the board door and crying.I have been crying for a long time since then.She really liked to play with Su Pu again and tell him stories, but she knew that if his father found out, he would have to be whipped severely, and his father might beat him to death.
As the days passed, in Li Wenxiu's dreams, her parents appeared less and less often, and the tears on her pillow also gradually decreased.There are more smiles on her face and more singing in her mouth.When she and Su Pu were herding sheep together, love songs of young men and women in the distance often wafted from the grassland.Li Wenxiu felt that these sentimental and lingering songs were very pleasant to listen to, and after listening to them a lot, she could hum them casually.Of course, she still doesn't understand the meaning of the song, why would a man be so upside down to a girl?Why should a girl fall in love with a man so much?Why does the sound of a lover's footsteps make the heart beat violently?Why does the slim body make people unable to sleep all night?It's just that she sang crisply and melodiously, and everyone who heard it said, "This little girl can sing really well. Isn't that like a skybell bird on the grassland?" In the cold winter, the Tianlingbird flew to the warmer places in the south, but on the grassland, Li Wenxiu’s song still rang: "Ah, dear shepherd boy, How old are you? You walk alone in the desert in the middle of the night, Would you like me to be your companion? " The singing paused here, and everyone who heard it said in their hearts: "Listening to such a beautiful song, who wouldn't want to have you as a companion?" Then the singing sounded again: "Oh, dear, don't be angry, It's hard to know who is good and who is bad. To turn the Gobi desert into a garden, All it takes is a good couple to get together. " A flower bloomed in the hearts of everyone who heard the singing, even the coldest and most desolate heart, also rose with warmth: "If a couple of good people get together, the Gobi Desert will naturally become a garden, and who will be reborn?" Are you angry?" The old man was twenty years younger, and the young man was filled with joy.But Li Wenxiu, who sang a love song, didn't understand the meaning of the song. The one who listened to her singing the most was Su Pu.He also didn't understand the meaning of these love songs on the grassland, until one day, they met a wolf in the snow.
This wolf came very suddenly.Su Pu and Li Wenxiu were sitting side by side on a small hill, looking at the flock of sheep scattered on the grassland. Like usual, Li Wenxiu told him stories.Some of these stories were told by my mother in the past, some by Old Man Ji, and others were made up by herself.Su Pu liked listening to the thrilling stories of old man Ji’s life and death the most, and disapproved of Li Wenxiu’s own childish female stories. But after telling a thrilling story several times, it became neither scary nor dangerous, so he had to be patient. Listen carefully: how the white rabbit can't find its mother, and how the little flower dog can help it find it.Suddenly, Li Wenxiu let out an "ah" and fell backwards, a big bad wolf's sharp teeth bit her throat. The wolf came silently from behind, and neither of the two children noticed.Li Wenxiu had learned some martial arts from her mother, so she naturally turned her head to one side to avoid the wolf's bite aimed at her throat.Seeing the size of this wolf, Su Pu was so frightened that his legs went limp, but he immediately thought: "I must save her!" Pulling out a short knife from his waist, he rushed forward and stabbed the big bad wolf in the back. The gray wolf's bones were very hard, and the dagger slipped from its back, only wounding some flesh.But the gray wolf also sensed the danger, let go of Li Wenxiu, opened its mouth wide open, suddenly jumped up, put its feet on Su Pu's shoulders, and bit down on his face. Surprised, Su Pu fell backwards.The gray wolf was coming like lightning, and pressed down with both feet, its white fangs had already touched Su Pu's cheek.Li Wenxiu was extremely frightened, but still mustered up his courage, grabbed the gray wolf's tail and pulled it back forcefully.The big bad wolf took a step back under her tug, but it was so hungry that its hind legs firmly planted itself on the ground, telling Li Wenxiu to pull it no longer, and then bit down again. Su Pu yelled loudly, the wolf had already bit his left shoulder.Li Wenxiu was so startled that she almost burst into tears, mustering all the strength in her life to pull.The gray wolf felt the pain and opened its mouth to howl, but loosened its teeth on Su Pu's shoulder.In a daze, Su Pu sent out a knife, which just hit the soft part of Gray Wolf's belly, and the knife didn't reach the handle.He wanted to draw out his knife and stab again, but the gray wolf jumped up suddenly, rolled several times in the snow, and died on his back. The gray wolf's roll caused Li Wenxiu to fall a few somersaults, but she still held on to the gray wolf's tail and never let go.Su Pu struggled to stand up. Seeing such a huge gray wolf dying in the snow, he couldn't help being stunned. After a long while, he happily shouted: "I killed the big wolf, I killed the big wolf. Big wolf!" Stretching out his hand to support Li Wenxiu, he proudly said: "Axiu, look, I killed big wolf!" Satisfied, even though the blood flowed from his shoulder, he didn't feel any pain for a while.Li Wenxiu saw that the left side of his sheepskin jacket was stained with blood, quickly opened his leather jacket, took out a handkerchief from his bosom, held down the blood that kept flowing from his wound, and asked, "Does it hurt?" Su Pu Ruo was alone and cried out in pain a long time ago, but now he was full of heroism in his heart, shook his head and said, "I am not afraid of pain!" Suddenly a person behind him said: "Apu, what are you doing?" They turned their heads and saw a big man with a beard on his horse. Su Pu shouted: "Father, look, I killed a big wolf." The big man was overjoyed and got off his horse, only to see his son's face was splattered with blood, his eyes passed Li Wenxiu's face again, and he asked Su Pu: "You were bitten by a wolf?" Su Pu said, "I was listening to Axiu's story here, and suddenly this wolf came to bite her..." Suddenly, a shadow was cast on the face of the big man, looking at Li Wenxiu He said coldly: "Are you that Han girl who was punished by Allah?" At this moment Li Wenxiu recognized him, that was Su Luke who had kicked her.She remembered Old Man Ji's words: "His wife and eldest son were killed overnight by Han robbers, so he hated the Han people very much." The robbers." Before he could finish his words, there was a sudden swipe, and a long red mark appeared on Su Pu's face, which was caused by his father's whipping. Su Luke shouted: "I told you to hate Han people for generations, you forgot what I said, and went to play with Han girls and bleed desperately for Han girls!" He whipped his son again. Su Pu didn't dodge, but just stared blankly at Li Wenxiu, and asked, "Is she a Han who was punished by Allah?" Su Luke shouted, "Isn't it?" face.Li Wenxiu took two steps back, stretched out her hand and pressed her face.Su Pu was seriously injured after being bitten by the gray wolf, and then he was severely whipped twice, unable to hold on any longer, his body swayed, and he fell to the ground. Seeing that his eyes were closed and he passed out, Su Luke was also taken aback. He hurriedly jumped off the horse, picked up his son, followed him up, and landed on the horse's back. With the head and neck of the dead wolf, the horse can go as soon as it holds its legs.The dead wolf dragged along in the snow, and there was a long bloodstain between the two rows of hoofprints in the snow.Su Luke galloped for more than ten feet, and turned his head to give Li Wenxiu a vicious look, as if saying in his eyes: "Next time you bump into my hand, see if I don't give you a good beating." Li Wenxiu was not afraid of this wink, but felt empty in her heart, knowing that from now on Su Pu would never be her friend, would never come to hear her sing or tell her stories.I just feel that Shuo Feng is more uncomfortable from the cold, and the whip wound on his face throbs with the beating of his pulse, and the pain becomes more severe. She drove the flock home in a daze.Old man Ji saw a lot of blood on her clothes and a welt swollen on her face, he was shocked and hurriedly asked her what was the matter.Li Wenxiu just said indifferently: "I accidentally dropped it." Old Man Ji certainly didn't believe it.But after repeated inquiries, Li Wenxiu only answered in this way, and when she asked urgently, she burst into tears and refused to say a word. That night, Li Wenxiu had a high fever, her little face was red with blood, and she said a lot of nonsense, such as "big bad wolf!" "Su Pu, Su Pu, save me!" After guessing a few points, I was very anxious.Fortunately, by dawn, her fever subsided and she fell into a deep sleep. This illness lasted for more than a month. By the time she woke up, the cold winter had passed, the white snow on the Tianshan Mountains had begun to melt, and streams of snow water flowed onto the grassland.Traces of tender grass have sprung up in the field. On this day, Li Wenxiu got up early in the morning, opened the gate, and wanted to drive the sheep out to graze, but there was a big wolf skin outside the gate, which looked like a mat.Li Wenxiu was taken aback, seeing the color of the wolf fur, it was exactly the big bad wolf that bit her in the snow that day.She bent down and saw a knife hole in the belly of the wolf skin.Her heart was pounding, she knew that Su Pu had not forgotten her, nor had he forgotten what he had said, and secretly put the wolf skin in front of her door in the middle of the night.She kept the wolf skin in her room, and without telling old man Ji, she drove the sheep away, and went to wait for him at the place where she used to meet Su Pu. But she waited until sunset, and Su Pu never came.She recognized the flock of sheep in Su Pu's house, but this day a young man of seventeen or eighteen was herding them.Li Wenxiu thought: "Could it be that Su Pu's injury hasn't healed yet? Why did he give me the wolf skin again?" She really wanted to visit him in his tent, but then she thought of Su Luke's whip. In the middle of the night, she finally mustered up the courage to go behind Su Pu's tent.She didn't know why she wanted to go, but she wanted to say "Thank you for the wolf fur"?In order to see if his injury is healed?She couldn't tell herself.She hid behind a tent.Su Pu's sheepdog recognized her, came over and sniffed her a few times, then walked away without barking.The candlelight of the tallow candle was still burning in the tent, and Su Luke's thick voice was roaring loudly. "Which girl did you give your wolf skin to? Good boy, at such a young age, he also knows how to give his first prey to the girl he loves." Every time he yelled, Li Wenxiu's heart throbbed violently. Take a jump.She heard Su Pu mention the custom of the Kazakhs when telling stories, every young man's most precious first-time prey is always given to his beloved girl as a token of affection.At this time, when she heard Su Luke shouting and asking, her little face blushed, and she felt proud in her heart.Both of them are still young and don't know what true love is, but vaguely, they also tasted the sweetness and bitterness of first love. "You must have given it to that Han girl who was punished by Allah, that bastard named Li, right? Well, don't tell me, is it you or your father's whip?" Only the sound of brushing, brushing, and a few whips hitting the flesh can be heard.Kazakhs like Su Luke have always believed that only the whip can produce a strong and good man, and gentle methods cannot be used to discipline their sons.His grandfather whipped his father in this way, his father whipped him in this way, and he himself whipped his son in this way, and the love between father and son is not weakened by this.A man fights a man with fists and whips to friends and relatives, and daggers and long swords to enemies.But for Li Wenxiu, her parents didn't even say a word of harsh words to her since she was a child. As long as there is no smile on her face and some caresses, it is a painful punishment.At this time, every whip was as painful as hitting her body. "Su Pu's father must hate me very much. His own son beat him so viciously. Would he kill him?" "Okay! You don't answer! Are you going to answer? I guess you must have given it to that Han girl." The whip kept lashing down.At first Su Pu gritted his teeth and endured it, but finally he cried out: "Father, don't hit, don't hit, I hurt, I hurt!" Su Luke said: "Then tell me, should you send the wolf skin to me?" To that Han girl? Your mother died at the hands of Han bandits, and your brother was killed by Han bandits, do you know? They call me the number one warrior in Kazakhstan, but my wife and son were killed by Han bandits, you know I don't know? Why was I not at home that day? Why can't I always find these robbers, so that I can avenge your mother and brother?" Su Luke's whip at this time was no longer used to discipline his son, but to vent the fury in his heart.Every time he whipped down, he seemed to be whipping the enemy, "Why didn't that dog bandit come to fight me to the death with open swords and guns? Would you say it? Could it be that I, Su Luke, is the number one warrior in Kazakhstan, and I can't beat a few Han people?" Thief..." The child he killed by Huo Yuanlong and Chen Dahai was his most beloved eldest son, and the wife who was insulted to death by them was his lover who grew up with him since childhood.As for himself, for more than 20 years, everyone has called him the number one warrior of the Kazakh nationality. No matter in competition, boxing, fighting strength, or horse racing, he has never lost to anyone. Li Wenxiu only felt that it was pitiful for Su Pu to be beaten by his father, and it was also pitiful for Su Luke to yell like this while crying. "He beats him so hard, he will never love Su Pu again. He has no son, and Su Pu has no father. It's all my fault, and it's all fault of me, a Han girl punished by Allah!" Suddenly , she also felt sorry for herself. She couldn't hear Su Pu crying like this anymore, so she went back to Old Man Ji's house, took out the wolf skin from under the quilt, and looked at it for a long time.There were more than two miles between her and Su Pu's tent, but she seemed to hear Su Pu's crying faintly, and heard Su Luke's whip cracking.Although she liked this wolf fur very much, she couldn't have it. "If I want this wolf skin, Su Pu will be beaten to death by his father. Only Kazakh girls, their Islamic girls, can ask for this big wolf skin. Among the many girls in Kazakhstan, which one is the most beautiful? ? I like this wolf skin very much. It was the wolf that Su Pu killed. He sacrificed his own life to save me. Su Pu gave it to me, but... but his father wanted to kill him... ..."
The next morning, Su Luke came out of the tent with eyes full of red silk, only to hear Che Erku humming a folk song loudly, singing over.He turned his head and looked at Su Luke, with a strange look on his face, a smile, and kindness in his eyes.Che Erku is also a well-known warrior among the Kazakhs. People thousands of miles away know his ability to tame wild horses.He ran so fast that some people said that within a mile, no horse could catch up with him. Even if he lost to that horse a mile away, the difference was only one nose.When the herdsmen chatted around the fire, many said that if Che Erku's nose hadn't been so flat, then he would have won. Su Luke and Che Erku never had a good relationship.Su Luke's reputation was great, and his sword and boxing skills were invincible. Che Erku was secretly jealous.He is six years younger than Su Luke.Once when the two of them had a knife competition, Che Erku lost, and a long scar was cut on his shoulder.He said: "I lost today, but five years later, ten years later, let's wait and see." Su Luke said: "In another twenty years, my brothers will compete again. Will be as light as this!" Today, there was no hostility in Che Erku's smile.The anger in Su Luke's heart still persisted, and he gave him a hard look.Che Erku said with a smile: "Old Su, your son is very discerning!" Su Luke said, "You mean Su Pu?" You laughed at my son for giving wolf skins to Han girls." Che Erku's words were already on the verge of his mouth: "If it's not Su Pu, do you have another son?" But he didn't say that, he just smiled and said: "Of course it's Su Pu! Poor, he is quite capable, and I like him very much." The father couldn't help being happy when he heard others praise his son, but he and Che Erku had always quarreled, and said, "Are you hot-eyed? It's a pity that you Can't give birth to a son." Che Erku didn't get angry, and said with a smile: "My daughter Aman is not bad, otherwise why would your son have taken a fancy to her?" Su Luke let out a "bah", and said, "Don't be smug, who said my son has a crush on Aman?" Che Erku put his arms around his arm, and said with a smile, "Come with me, I'll show you One thing." Su Luke felt strange and walked side by side with him.Che Erku said: "Your son killed a big bad wolf some time ago. Little boy, it's amazing. When he grows up, he won't be like me? Father is a hero." Su Luke didn't answer, and decided he was Is there some kind of trap set up, I want to be fooled by myself, thinking to myself: "Everything must be carefully cared about." After walking for more than three miles on the grassland, they arrived in front of Che Erku's tent.From a distance, Su Luke saw a big wolf skin hanging outside the tent.He ran a few steps closer, hey, what was the skin of the gray wolf that Su Pu killed?This was the first beast his son had killed in his life, and he recognized it clearly.There was confusion in his heart, and then he was happy and confused at the same time: "I wronged Apu, I beat him up so hard last night, it turned out that he gave the wolf skin to Oman, but not to the Han man Girl. Damn it, why didn't he say it? The child has a delicate face, so there is nothing to say. If his mother was alive, she would persuade me. Oh, if the child has something on his mind, he will definitely tell his mother..." Che Erku patted his shoulder with his thick palm and said, "Go and drink a bowl of wine." Che Erku's tent was neatly tidied up, woolen blankets woven with red flowers and green grass were hung around.A slender girl came out with a bottle of wine.Che Erku smiled and said: "Aman, this is Su Pu's father. Are you afraid of him? This beard is very fierce!" Aman's blushing face became more beautiful, and his eyes flashed with a smile, as if Said: "I'm not afraid." Su Luke laughed and said with a smile: "Old Che, I heard people say that you have a daughter who is a walking flower on the grassland. Yes, a flower A flower that can walk, that's a really good saying." The two men who had been arguing for more than ten years suddenly became intimate.You toast me a bowl of wine, and I toast you a bowl of wine.Su Luke finally got drunk, squinted his eyes and leaned on the horse's back, and returned home. A few days later, Che Erku sent two exquisite woolen blankets.He said: "This is woven by Oman, one for the old and one for the young." A big man was woven on a blanket, holding a long knife and beheading a leopard. In the distance, a leopard was running away with its tail in its arms.Another rug had a boy stabbing a wolf to death.The two of them, one big and one small, were both majestic and heroic.Su Luke was overjoyed when he saw it, and praised repeatedly: "Good workmanship, good workmanship!" It turned out that there were very few leopards in Huijiang, but two came from nowhere that year, harming people and animals.Back then, Su Luke bravely chased into the snow-capped mountains, hacked to death one big leopard, and escaped from the other wounded.At this time, he was very happy to see Oman weaving his most proud heroic deeds on the blanket. This time, it was Che Erku who got drunk and went home on horseback.Su Luke asked his son to send him back.In Che Erku's tent, Su Pu saw his own wolf skin.He was puzzled, and Aman was blushing and thanking him.Su Pu muttered a few words, but he didn't know what to say. He didn't dare to ask why this wolf skin got into Oman's hands.The next day, he went to the hill where the wolf was killed early in the morning, hoping to see Li Wenxiu and ask her a question.But Li Wenxiu did not come. He waited for two days, all in vain.On the third day, I finally mustered up the courage to go to Old Man Ji's house.Li Wenxiu came out to open the door, saw him, and said, "I don't want to see you from now on." Then the door slammed shut.Su Pu stayed there for a while, and returned to his home inexplicably, feeling a sense of melancholy in his heart: "Oh, Han girl, what is she thinking?" Naturally, he would not know that Li Wenxiu was hiding behind the board door and crying.I have been crying for a long time since then.She really liked to play with Su Pu again and tell him stories, but she knew that if his father found out, he would have to be whipped severely, and his father might beat him to death.