A few days after eating the roasted lamb, Mo Zuo pulled a dromedary camel with a bag of rice on one side.
The Yang family's rice comes in a sack of 120 kilograms, which is exactly one load of rice.
The grinder thought for a while, then put a tinplate bucket into the rack, which contained fifty kilograms of soybean oil. There were also several large bags of spices ground into powder to make thirteen incense.
Soaps, towels, toothbrushes, etc., stainless steel pots and pans are also bundled and brought with you.
The conditions for the father and daughter were too simple, and they could barely survive.
But no matter how difficult it is here, it is still better than back home. There is no harsh government rule, and there are no sweepers everywhere. There are also no Qiu Ba who come back from time to time to kill good people and take credit for their merits.
The old man kept refusing. This return gift was too heavy and they couldn't bear it. But he couldn't resist it, so in the end, he accepted it with a blushing face.
This was the lowest point in Mo Zuo's life, and it was also a rare period of leisure in his life. Here he found the warmth of neighbors, friends and home.
He often ran over from time to time to help the old man herd the sheep and chat with him. I hadn't heard the local accent in many years, but now he was so friendly.
Sometimes, he carried a pickaxe or a fire ax to help the girl chop firewood and dig the sheep pen.
The sheepfold needs to be cleaned frequently, which is a laborious job.
Sheep manure accumulated on the floor of the sheep pen, and in a short time it was more than a foot thick. After all, there were more than a hundred sheep.
The sheep dung needs to be dug out, dried in the sun, and piled up to be used as fuel for the year. More firewood should be saved for heating in the winter. The winter here is very cold.
The old man wants to herd the sheep, but the girl does not have the strength. The sheepfold has not been cleaned for many years.
The grinder took off his shirt and was bare-chested. He picked up a pickaxe and dug into the sheep dung, his muscles bulging. He dug up the sheep dung that had been trampled down and spread it all over the sky.
Before, there were only two people, father and daughter, and they didn't have the time or manpower to clean the sheep pen. The sheep dung was trampled firmly. It was more than two feet thick. There may not be anything else like a grinding table, but it takes as much strength as you need.
Under the strong sunshine on the plateau, I looked at the fleshy bumps all over the table, which gave off a man's unique masculine aura. The girl's face was red, and she was too shy to look at it, but she couldn't help but look at it secretly.
Sometimes, when the old man saw it, his eyes were full of smiles.
Every once in a while, Mo Zhui would come riding his dromedary camel with brown-red fur.
He brought some food and supplies to the father and daughter. He had table-grinding friends all over the world. Even though he was in trouble now, there were always passing car drivers who were entrusted by others to bring him various things.
The girl had never seen or eaten anything before. Especially the White Rabbit milk candies and fruit candies, which she liked very much. Candies can make people feel happy, especially those who live a hard life.
There are no dromedary camels here, only gray Bactrian camels.
The camel that grinds the table is fiery red, very tall and beautiful. The girl likes it very much. She often takes her to the lake to drink water, while stroking the camel's thick red fur with her hands.
Mo Zhui came here mainly to help the old man with his work and chat with him on the way.
He was alone and almost suffocated. Except for a few days when a train or truck passed by, there was not even a bird in his place. There were only scorpions and spiders in the sand, which bothered him endlessly.
Mo Zhui was never empty-handed, sometimes bringing a bottle of white wine, sometimes a bucket of tinplate cans of braised sea fish.
Although he was punished by his master, he still had many disciples and former officials, as well as many family members. Everyone was a human spirit, and his hard head had become a joke. He was the object of everyone's drinking and joking.
Everyone knows that it was the master who let the situation slip. The madam dared to fool her like this.
This grandson of Mo table will have to come back sooner or later.
Although he was assigned to maintain roads here, trucks often brought him various things. Even An Sanxi at the Jinshan front line and Wang Hao at Xining brought him various daily necessities and food.
He found that the girl often had a pair of dark circles under her eyes, and he found out the reason after asking. It turned out that there were only two of them, father and daughter. The father had to herd sheep during the day and had to get a good sleep. The girl could only squat in the sheep pen at night.
, holding a spear and keeping vigil at night.
If a wild wolf came to steal the sheep at night, they would beat the gong to wake up the father, and the father and daughter would frighten the wolf away with torches and weapons. Therefore, they often could not sleep all night.
Mo Zhui felt that even if he was young, he couldn't stand staying up so late, and his lifespan would definitely be shortened over time.
He has been to the grassland and knows that the women on the grassland come here like this and spend their lifespan early.
They get married when they are thirteen or fourteen years old, and then rush to have children. By the time they are in their thirties, they have exhausted their energy and died early. Those who can live to be more than forty are considered to have a long life.
Men are not much better, they live long in their fifties.
The owner of the grinding table asked the truck to bring a pair of black four-eyed Mongolian wolf-eating puppies. They gave them to the girl and asked her to keep them well.
After half a year, when the dog grows up, it can take over the guarding of the sheep at night for its owner. It will be alert immediately if there is any disturbance. The dog's hearing is hundreds of times that of a human.
In this way, the girl can sleep on hay in the sheepfold at night. If a wild wolf comes, the barking of the dog will wake her up.
When the girl saw the chubby little milk dogs, she liked them all. But she was worried that there was nothing to feed them. After all, people didn't have enough to eat, so how could there be food to feed the dogs?
Mo Zui told her that these Mongolian biting wolf dogs do not need to be fed. They will run out to catch marmots, mice, and all kinds of small animals to eat. Mo Zui brought an iron bucket of goat milk powder and a bag of it.
The dog food sold by Xincheng is said to be enough for them to grow up.
Unknowingly, three months had passed, and Mo Zuo and the old man and his daughter had become very familiar with each other. The girl was no longer shy and talked like a big brother. She even sewed a ermine robe for him.
On this day, it snowed. Winter finally came on the grassland, and the road became difficult to walk. The sheep were about to be penned. Fortunately, Mo Table helped them make enough hay. The lake is surrounded by high ground, which can block
The wind is a good place to spend the winter.
In order to replenish food, the old man took the two of them to shoot yellow sheep with big bows.
Now is the time for the yellow sheep to run over from Khalkha. Because the temperatures in the two places are different, Khalkha is colder. So the yellow sheep are coming to Monan and Gansu in large numbers. They are everywhere in the Alxa area.
Yellow sheep.
Mo table carried a revolver and an old sleeve rifle on his back. He also carried a spear. The old man carried a big bow on his back, a sword on his waist and a horse club in his hand. This kind of horse
When the stick is inserted into the handle of the knife, it becomes a simple knife.
The girl was also carrying a spear and pulling Mo Zuo's camel. The camel carried the living supplies for the three of them. Mo Zuo gave her a revolver. After all, hunting is very dangerous, in case of emergency.
The pistol reacts quickly and can be used for self-defense.