Chapter 6 Section VI
Battalion Commander Ma is younger than everyone else, everyone listens to him and regards him as their leader.They sang the song "Sorrowful Flowers on the Loess Dry Plateau": "Flowers are the words of the heart, and if you don't sing, you can't help yourself (yourself); use a knife to cut off the head, and you will return to this singing method if you don't die."
The melody of ancient songs flits across the loess, sand, grass, and wind, the surging Yellow River and the boundless blue sky, with ups and downs, presenting a simple and vivid beauty.
Battalion Commander Ma said: "It's only the hard-fated man who sings flowers, and if I work with Ma Zhongying, he will bleed and lose his head."
The brothers piled their hands on his, so many hands piled together like battlements.The brothers said: "You are our Commander Ga, we will fight with you."
That's how Commander Ga was called.
In the spring of that year, Yuanshang's son, Doll, could smell the fragrance of his own bones.The old people shouted: The dolls are going to be reversed.
In the spring of that year, the girl dolls on the plateau showed the beauty of a girl at a young age.The river ice has just dissipated, the willow branches are still black, the weeds are still withered and yellow, and the girl doll is as beautiful as a peach.When they were very young, their parents decided to betroth others.They are masters.
In the spring of that year, the son's baby's bones grew hard, like grained ears of wheat, showing the sharpness of a steel knife; his eyebrows grew into a knife, and the corner of his mouth grew into a knife. Peach dreamy.
The father told his daughter: "I should have waited until you were sixteen before sending you to your husband's house. If your man wants to kill you, you have to go through the door in advance."
The girl was silent, she was fourteen years old and sensible.The mother neatly tidied up the dowry.The father said: "Don't dodge when your man uses a knife to you. You are his wife, and your blood belongs to him. If he drinks your blood with a knife, he will live with you forever." The chest was bulging like a flower bud.The father said: "When a man kills you, you have to look at him. Those who can pull out a knife under the watchful eyes of their wives are bloody men." The father said: "Remember it!" The girl said: "Remember." Clapping hands to bask in the sun outside the kiln is like finishing an easy job.
In the spring of that year, the sons and dolls put on black clothes and black trousers and went to the father-in-law's house to give a big gift.After getting engaged, they have to visit their father-in-law and mother-in-law every year, and only meet their fiancée when they pay a big gift.The girl served the tea and stared at each other when handing it to her fiancé. The other's appearance was judged by this brief moment.
The happiness of this life is as fast as lightning, and both parties use all the understanding of life to interpret this short moment.
On the way home, the young man and his parents listened attentively.If there is no song on the plateau, a man's life will inevitably be desolate.Because the girl failed to fulfill her wish, it was her father's order to marry him, and the sorrow and resentment belonged to two people.The husband's steel knife is fast but not soft, and it will break in two at any time when fighting with an opponent.The husband can only use half of the steel knife to fight bloody battles.That half of the steel knife is the man's incomplete life.
On the way home, the parents would throw their son in the ditch and tell him to wait.Parents are experienced people and know that flowers are the life of the wilderness.The flowers linger and float, and the son's life is bright.
What most men experience is loneliness.There is nothing on the ditch beams except the cold wind whizzing by, not to mention the woman as gorgeous as a peach blossom.If you can't win a woman's singing, you can only blame yourself.You suffer from loneliness while taking care of the steed and the steel sword.A rider without a woman's love is a stone among stones.They have no spring of life, and they are often the first to fall when the formation is broken.They take their damaged lives to break the formation, and the enemy's weapon will give him a fatal blow from the damaged place.This is how the singers sang them: no fragrance no sleep the fire in the air burns my home the ravens sweeping the fire silently roll across the desert the camels shed ancient tears the sound of blood and the sound of the fire dying this old song was the first without words .Singers have sung for centuries, unable to sing certain words to relieve the rider's loneliness and pathos.It was a real loneliness, God gave him a woman, but he was powerless to extract that rib from his body.He charged at the enemy line without armor, he fought with his back open; he was so vulnerable.A rider without a woman's love is as easy to break as an untempered steel knife.A woman is water from heaven to a rider.The rider did not drink water, but he had to cross the Great Gobi, so his blood was reduced by half; others are blood, he must be blood clots.
The singers can only sing some intermittent tunes, and no one can capture the content of the tunes.
In the spring of that year, Commander Ga went to pay a grand ceremony. When he saw his fiancée, he was secretly surprised, and the "White Peony Order" suddenly sounded in his heart: white peonies are like Xueli; red peonies are red.
The melons on the plateau are really sweet, and the peonies blooming on the Gobi; thinking about it, sister Ga feels sour, it’s pitiful to live alone!When the parents left him in the ditch when they returned home, the mother was full of confidence in her son, "My son will not be lonely."
The parents left with confidence.A linnet landed on a tree. Commander Ga waved his hand to fly a stone, and the linnet fell, stained with blood, like a brilliant peach blossom.A woman's singing came from Yuan: Since you left that day, you have lost your soul.
When I see others and see you, I turn my back and weep.
Sleeping on the side and listening on the back, I heard my brother's camel bell.
Hearing the sound of camel bells on the road, sweeping the kang and laying felts to change clothes.
If you want to eat long noodles, my sister will roll it for you, and if you want to drink glutinous tea, my sister will serve it for you.
If you can't do it well, you can't do it badly. My sister will make you a pair of comfortable shoes.
Commander Ga turned over the plateau and saw a pair of new shoes and socks on the stones by the roadside.No matter how courageous a daughter-in-law who has never been married, she will never meet her man.As soon as Commander Ga rushed back to the original road, he heard a woman singing on the other side of the plateau. The tune painted the deep loess ditch into a quiet and brilliant: burnt chopsticks muddy the bowl, I don’t mind my sister if I’m right.
It is better to call him the emperor, and the country is in chaos, than to break the relationship between the two of us.
With a human head in my arms and a knife in my arms, I will sacrifice my life to hand it over to you.
If you die, I will tear you apart, and if you don't die, you won't be lonely.
A few days after the woman passed the door, Commander Ga pulled up his team and wandered around.The sound of cannons reverberated in her heart for a long time, the sound of horseshoes shouting and killing, and the melodious bugle often came out of nowhere from dreams, and she woke up in the darkness again and again, her whole body was frozen cold.The cold air in Beiyuan was heavy, her blood was rushing, and she didn't even sneeze.
The sound of the guns disappeared, and there was no news of her husband.To be precise, her husband never sent her any news.
The hearts of Hezhou men are harder than iron.All I heard was the news of Ma Zhongying's death.She didn't believe in this kind of death at all, and she told everyone in a firm tone: those are rumors, don't believe the rumors.The family calmed down from the panic.It is wisest for them not to believe in disasters.Soon the war broke out again in the distance, and Commander Ga came back to life.
Her judgment was confirmed.Believing in an eternal life is a form of fidelity from a wife to her husband.
A few years later, her uncle took her to a distant place to meet her husband, rode a little donkey for several days, and came to the end of Qilian Mountain.The husband is training the army here, preparing for an expedition to Xinjiang.Only then did she understand her uncle's good intentions.How many people fought back in ancient times.The uncle asked the nephew to leave some flesh and blood for the Ma family.That trip was as tragic as Meng Jiangnv's journey to find her husband.
This tough man spent a week with her, and then he was gone forever.They both understood this meaning, and the long life was condensed into six or seven days, and the life showed a strange brilliance.Outside the window is Yanzhi Mountain, which was sung repeatedly by the ancient Huns, and it is a large grassland where domestic animals thrive.For a week, she remembered everything about her husband, his voice and smile, and his galloping majesty with a woman's care and passion.Another new life, another shadow of her husband will be born on her body!This is a vow of life!It is confirmed by the majestic mountain peak in front of the window.Her heart was filled with sea-like waves, but her voice was very soft. She asked her husband in a low voice, "What kind of mountain is that?"
"Qilian Mountain, connected to the sky, is called Qilian Mountain, and it is also connected to Taizi Mountain in our Hezhou."
She wants to prove this mountain, she must prove this mountain!She asked the people around her husband, and it was a Han man with a gentle face, and it seemed that he was a man of great learning.The husband said: "Let him talk to you. He came back from studying in Russia and has a lot of knowledge." The man with great knowledge told her: This is the hometown of the Huns in ancient times. , drove the Huns to Europe, and the Roman Empire, the oldest empire in Europe, was crushed by the Huns. "This is called the dog chasing the rabbit."
"In Hezhou we don't call dogs to chase rabbits, but horses to chase rabbits."
"Is my daughter-in-law good? Knowing that horses chase rabbits, let me tell you foreign students. When I was twelve years old, I rode a big horse. No one in Hezhou could beat me in chasing rabbits and pheasants. I won every year until I was ten years old." At the age of seven, he pulled a team to beat Feng Yuxiang."
That was when the sun was setting, and Mount Qilian was bathed in a sea of blood.The neighing of a full herd of horses came from the distant mountains.
She whispered, "It's hard for the Huns to leave Qilian Mountain."
The foreign students chanted an old ballad casually: Losing my Rouge Mountain makes my women colorless!Losing my Qilian Mountains will prevent my animals from multiplying.
She returned to her hometown in Hezhou, and soon she became pregnant, and the glory days of women came.She carefully raised her husband's flesh and blood, and the child looked like a little Ga commander.A lovely child, a capable woman, the whole house is full of prosperity and vitality.Muslim women don't show their faces.From the conversations of the old people, she knew that Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing became a high-ranking official and made a fortune, which was the greatest wealth in the six hundred years since Huihui of Hezhou.People talk about Ma Buqing's East Mansion and Ma Bufang's house as they talk about the palace in Beijing.
It is said that after Ma Bufang became the governor of Qinghai, he returned to his hometown in fine clothes and beat Ma Zhongying's house.Ma Zhongying's house is not high or big, but it is very neat and tidy. There is an aura in the bricks, wood, earth and stones that cannot be underestimated. Green smoke rises from the chimney on the roof, and the straight smoke goes straight to the sky.Ma Bufang couldn't help shouting: "The chimneys of their house are still smoking!" The soldiers under his hand rushed over, "Sir, take the cannon and kill him, he killed us." Suppressing his emotions, he said calmly, "Who do you think I am? How can I bully the widow? I'm not Yuan Shikai."
People in Hezhou said that Commander Ga had a strong blood and a strong chimney, which blackened Ma Bufang.
Whether it is the East Mansion or the West Mansion, no matter how tall the gatehouse is, the smoke in the chimney is not as high.
After several years, a group of soldiers of Commander Ga escaped from Xinjiang, and all the Huihui Han people in Hezhou City ran to the city wall, and ran to the ancient bridge of the thousand-year-old ferry by the Daxia River to see it.On the avenue in the west of the city, smoke and dust rose high, and the sound of horseshoes became more and more broken.War horses, a group of war horses, are all prairie horses from the Western Regions, Yanqi horses, and Yili horses, carrying a group of ragged men to the ancient city of Hezhou.
The horses in foreign lands cannot be underestimated by their owners. They raised their front hooves, made an extremely elegant grunt, and then walked gently into the city gate.The dazed Hezhou people woke up like a dream and shouted to find their sons, brothers and relatives.
I drank hot tea from Three Paotai.These veterans woke up and said over and over again, "The desert is so big, the largest desert in the world. Old Weizi said that the desert can't get in or out. Our 36th Division has gone in and out several times. Lao Maozi The plane is like an old crow, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, rattling overhead, machine gun bullets thicker than a stick, like a carrot, rattling, tanks, armored vehicles, and Sheng Shicai's northeast cavalry chasing and intercepting them from all directions. , Cannonballs and bullets are like white rain, rattling, we just ran out of the desert, ran into the Altun Mountains, and ran along the Qilian Mountains, the long Qilian Mountains, for 20 years."
These scarred veterans returned to Hezhou with all their brilliance.In the consciousness of Hezhou people, a man must live such a glorious life in his whole life.Like coals of fire, like the sun in the sky.Commander Ga's soldiers have changed the glory that has been deeply rooted in people's minds for hundreds of years.In the past, the man in Hezhou always walked around with bare hands. For ten or eight years, he rode a tall horse and brought back many things. Everyone regarded him as a hero.
People's eyes widened, they were too surprised to speak, their hearts were filled with blood like a sea, and their mouths were so clumsy that they couldn't even speak.The children are so clever, the children broke off a shiny piece of metal from the veteran's shoulder blade: "My grandpa, the gold lump is buried in the bone!"
It was a piece of shrapnel, a memento left behind by a bomb from a Soviet plane.People shouted.The kids plucked thick bullets out of the veteran's gills and butts, the size of the kids' dicks.
"What is this? Is this a bullet?"
Veterans say: "It's a Soviet water-linked rifle bullet."
Everyone laughed, "The Soviets made the bullet so big just for you!"
Veterans thus became heroes.The most eye-catching are those horses from the Western Regions, running in the mountains and rivers of Hezhou, with long manes fluttering and melodious calls, the old people couldn't help shouting: "This is the Tianma that the emperor of the Han Dynasty is looking for."
The soldiers of Ma Bufang and Ma Buqing saw these horses, they stood at a distance, bowed their heads, they were all soldiers in military uniforms and carrying steel guns, it was so interesting to treat them as soldiers.
Ma Bufang has also seen Yili horses several times, and she is extremely envious.Later, the Kazakhs who fled from Xinjiang to Qinghai brought him a famous Ili horse;
"Ma Zhongying who is under the blanket, your son has played with his prestige all his life."
Ma Bufang spit a few mouthfuls of dry saliva, and went back to the office to check the map. The one-fifty-thousandth military map drawn by the Japanese had a panoramic view of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.The dream of the Prancing Horse Tianshan can only be kept in the head, and the white gloves are patted gently in the hands.
Commander Ga's news was brought back by the guards.Only one guard came back, without a horse, and he was leaning on a jujube stick, which was a fork of a date tree in the desert.He walked to the Daxia River, where no one was around, and went down to wash his body naked, as if he had peeled off a layer of skin, and a brand new person came out of the river.Sitting on the ground looking at the sky, watching the time of a meal, as if eating the clouds in the sky.Satisfied, he shook off the sheepskin bag and put on a new military uniform, a clean and neat guard of Commander Ga, with a strange pistol pinned to his waist.He went straight to Commander Ga's house.
Commander Ga's wife stayed in the back room, and she could hear clearly through the door curtain: her husband went to the Soviet Union, whereabouts are unknown, and the team was broken up.The guard was only talking to the old man, but he didn't see the person behind the curtain in the back room.The guard said: "Soviet people are worried, and Commander Ga may not survive." The guard handed the old man something, said a few words of comfort, and left.
She didn't know how she got out.The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law glanced at each other, then unwrapped the thing, wrapped in sheepskin layer by layer, the sheepskin was as soft as silk and satin, and the last layer was indeed silk and satin, a precious silk and satin produced in Hotan; when the silk and satin were untied, there was a jade pendant inside. , Like a ball of moonlight, like a moon spirit drawn from the heart of the moon, it can shine brightly in broad daylight.The mother-in-law said: "This is the jade from Hotan, the treasure left by your man. You can accept it." The old man was as calm as water, and the moonlight jade from Hotan hit the old man's face with light. No one can do anything about the pre-determined matter, leaving such a treasure is also our longing."
She started to pack things, and at night, the whole family had food and drink, and she told the old man her idea: "Mother, let me go, I have settled the house, I can't greet you old man, I kowtow to you old man .”
She knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the old man, "I will leave the affairs in the house to the third daughter-in-law."
The old man was too surprised to speak, the daughter-in-law had to do too much, and the old man knew what the daughter-in-law was going to do, so the old man was still very surprised.
The daughter-in-law is calm and generous, like a general, "I know my man. My man is not dead. I will look for him. If Meng Jiangnu can find the Great Wall, I can find Kunlun Mountain."
"Baby, from ancient times to the present, people who go out of Yangguan and go to the Western Regions are men among men." The old man grabbed the veil and covered his face, "Baby, your men's guards are back. Do not understand?"
The daughter-in-law does not speak, and the daughter-in-law breastfeeds the child.The child is two years old and weaned early. The child still has such a pair of hot nipples in his memory. The child bites his mother's hot nipples. I don't know what happened in the world. I look at my mother's with round eyes. Face.
The daughter-in-law sat with the child like this all night, and the child slept soundly.The sky is bright, and the sky is approaching from the east bit by bit, going west.She put the sleeping child under the covers.Before the sun set, she swept the yard clean, sprinkled it with clean water, made breakfast, greeted the old man, packed a small bag and went out.
The old man really couldn't move her legs. The old man knew that the baby had walked up that slope, and knew that the baby had climbed that ditch. The deep ravines in Hezhou can be walked by men, and so can women.The small figure of the daughter-in-law fell together, and Hezhou City was far away, but the old man's ears became clearer, and the old man vaguely heard a woman's voice whirling around on the gutter beams. Even good girls in Hezhou can sing such a tune : Hold the head in your arms, hold the knife in your hand, and give your life to you.
If you die, I will tear you apart, and if you don't die, you won't be lonely.
The woman wearing the Moonlight Jade went through many hardships and went all the way to Hetian, where the jade was produced, and lived in a small village between the Kunlun Mountains and the Taklamakan Desert, alone, guarding a clean and tidy yellow mud house.No one knows her identity.The local old people only remember that she was a beautiful woman who came here empty-handed, twisted wool for others, made shoes and hats for a living, and later bought a house.A single woman who strictly abides by women's morals, beautiful and ruddy, until she is old, her charm is still there. The local Uighurs, Han people, and Hui Hui all say that she is a person with a god in her heart.People also know that her husband is alive, in a distant foreign country, and cannot return to his hometown due to various reasons.A woman who loves her husband so much is easily respected by Hotan people.When people imagined her husband, he must be a man's man, a man of great strength.
Her accent is Hezhou accent, Hotan people are very familiar with the distant Hezhou, Xinjiang since the Republic of China, from Yang Zengxin to Jin Shuren to Ma Zhongying all came from Hezhou, but no one would think that she and Ma Zhongying would go together.
She smiled and let everyone guess.There are two people living in her body, this is where her happiness lies, and it is also the difference between her and everyone else.She also occasionally talked about Hezhou, saying that it was her natal home, and a woman’s memory of her natal home is always limited. After a good woman gets married, like a river flowing into the sea, she always slowly blends into her husband’s life.
"You are from Hotan."
"I have lived in Hotan for decades, and I must be from Hotan because my husband is from Hotan."
"What does your husband do?"
"He's an amazing craftsman."
She was taken aback. The all-powerful Commander Ga suddenly turned into a craftsman who picked jade, just like gold diggers and packers who run business, men who walk to the west entrance all have this role.She believed that her husband must have been moved by the beautiful mountains when he found Moonlight Jade.In the tall Kunlun Mountains, there is no grass, covered with ice and snow, and the rolling mountains only produce beautiful jade and peace. Bloody men will feel at ease when they come here.Hotan people are so peaceful, no matter men, women, old or young, there is a rare tranquility in their eyes, and the cool moonlight flows under the sun. This is Hotan people.Those who crossed the sea of death came here, they could not help but yearn for the night of moonlight, longing for the baptism of moonlight.In Taklamakan, there are footprints of eminent monks and Islamic saints.The beautiful jade is shining on the top of the mountains, and even the sun has to restrain its light, floating over the desert like a sleeping baby.
My husband has longed for the sea in the desert all his life, and the sea is here.The bloody men who rushed from the Hezhou plateau rushed all the way for such a peaceful and peaceful land.
She sang a song "White Peony Order". In the dreams of women in Hezhou, women's love will become peonies on the Gobi.She must be the first woman in Hezhou to come to the Gobi Desert. After she sang "White Peony Order", she was no longer from Hezhou, and she began to live in Hotan.In the houses of Hotan people, there are tall poplars and fiery red roses.When she saw the roses for the first time, she couldn't help tightening her hijab, such a cluster of red flowers blooming in full bloom under the sun, without concealing their beauty!With the carefulness of a woman, she felt that this was the hometown of the loess. The rough loess was thousands of feet long, and it was also blown by the strong wind from under the Kunlun Mountains.Take a look at the roses growing in the sand, what a wonderful combination of pungent roses and quiet jade!My husband, I sing to you the rose of Hetian.She sang very authentic Southern Xinjiang folk songs, and the serenity and mystery of the Loess Plateau were mixed with the enthusiasm of Uyghur songs. She even sang about Qilian Mountain; there are also roses in Qilian Mountain, which she never dreamed of.
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