Xiao Han [Shooting Condor]

At dusk, the two of them returned home together, unsurprisingly, they were nagged by Wu Rizhuzhan again.Tianshu was giggling while listening to Wu Rizhu and Xie Yao.Xie Yao only answered yes with his head buried in his head, promising never to commit another crime again.Wu Rizhuzhan talked for a while, and he couldn't help laughing. He pressed Xie Yao on the stool and said, "Okay, wash your hands and eat."

At the dinner table, the three of them chatted and laughed around the table, enjoying themselves happily.Xie Yao talked about the gray horse's new name while serving the meal, and said, "Mom, do you think this name is strange?"

Tianshu hurriedly retorted: "It's strange, reed, reed, what a nice name." Ever since Tianshu arrived, Wu Rizhuzhan had been looking at her, and of course nodded at this time: "Son, the name Luwei is comparable to Muren and Ba. It sounds much nicer." She said, straightening Tianshu's sleeves again, and said, "Book, does this dress fit you well?"

Tianshu nodded: "Thank you auntie, I like it very much."

Wu Rizhuzhan couldn't help but patted the back of her hand lovingly, and said: "My good boy, Han people's clothes are simple and easy to make. I'll make you another one tomorrow."

Xie Yao couldn't help smiling when he saw the two of them talking. Seeing that the first month was approaching, he suddenly remembered something, quickly put down the bowl and said, "Mom, the third day of the first month is your 50th birthday. Do one."

"What kind of ostentation does Mom need? I'm afraid others don't know that I have a good son?" Even so, she couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing, "With you and Shu'er to accompany me during the White Festival, let's spend it happily Chagan Sari is already good."

Xie Yao and Tianshu glanced at each other, both thinking about how to give Wu Rizhu this birthday.

Time flies by like a white horse, and the green grassland turns into a withered yellow in a blink of an eye.In the twelfth lunar month, Xie Yao could completely abandon his crutches. Although he could not exercise vigorously, riding a reed for several miles was no longer a problem.

The twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month is the "Zhulasa Day" fire festival, which is equivalent to the prelude to the Spring Festival.The three of them got up early and made busy preparations for it.Wu Rizhuzhan was making beef buns in the kitchen when she heard a noise on the roof. She didn't have time to wash her hands, and ran out with white flour on her hands. She saw Xie Yao crawling on the high tent, Replace the yurt with a new felt.

"Xiao Yao! You... When did you climb up? Come down for me!" Wuri Zhuzhan was startled and frightened, and hurriedly called out.

Hearing the movement, Tianshu ran out of the house with a broom, glanced at Xie Yao, and said to Wu Rizhu, "Auntie, it's okay, I see his leg has been healed."

Xie Yao turned around and said, "Yes, Mom, go and wrap your buns quickly, and I'll come down when I finish the roof." Wu Rizhuzhan was dumb for a moment, and he changed his tone and pretended to be angry: "If you don't come down, Mom will come up!" Xie Yao didn't dare to stay any longer when he heard this, he took a breath, shook his arms, somersaulted in the air, and stood firmly in front of Wu Rizhuzhan.Seeing his series of actions, Wu Rizhu almost fainted from fright, staring for a long while speechless.

At this time, a shout from Tianshu came from the kitchen: "Auntie, the water is boiling, should you throw all these buns down and cook?"

Wu Rizhu took the time to recover, reached out and knocked Xie Yao on the head, told him to go into the house to have a good rest, and then ran to the kitchen: "Book, that's for steaming..."

Xie Yao "escaped a catastrophe", couldn't help laughing, turned around and lifted the blanket, and went into the room to put on a new wall curtain.

In the evening, the sky has completely darkened, and the fire sacrifice at night begins.Many people on the grassland have already lit bonfires, and the light is bright everywhere.

Xie Yao knew that Tianshu was afraid of fire, so he asked her to stay in the felt tent and not go, but Tianshu hummed at him, picked up the box containing snacks, herbs, tea leaves, and dried red dates, and followed Wu Rizhuzhan.The three of them came to a flat place. Xie Yao lit the firewood prepared in the morning with flint, and took out the sacrifices one by one. The boiled goat breastbone, multicolored cloth strips, cream porridge, kumiss...waited for the firewood. When the fire was extinguished, Wu Rizhuzhan used a broom to clear away the ashes in the fire support, lit a new fire, and four Buddha lamps were lit around, Wu Rizhuzhan asked the two to kneel on the ground, facing the new fire and reciting fire sacrifices, At the same time the offering is slowly lowered into the burning fire.

After the fire ceremony was over, Wu Ri Zhuzhan stood up, took Xie Yao and Tianshu from left to right, and said with a smile, "The God of Fire will keep my children safe."

Xie Yao shook her rough palm with his backhand, and said firmly, "Vulcan will also bless my mother."

Tuo Lei and Hua Zheng visited Xie Yao once after the fire festival and brought a lot of delicious and fun things.The two of them are distinguished, and near the end of the year, there are a lot of affairs in the clan. After staying for a while, they left in a hurry, but before leaving, Tuo Lei praised Xie Yao for his fast recovery, and mentioned the matter of training soldiers, but they were only accepted. Xie Yao made a haha ​​to prevaricate.

As soon as Tuo Lei left, Wu Rizhuzhan and Tianshu entered the room hand in hand, just in time to watch Xie Yao frown, with a pensive look on his face.

"Son, why aren't you happy during the festival?" Wu Rizhuzhan handed the lantern to Tianshu and asked her to stand the lantern pole outside the door.

Xie Yao looked at Wu Rizhuzhan, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Mom, I have something to tell you." Seeing his serious expression, Wu Rizhuzhan stepped forward and asked, "What's the matter?"

It's Mongolia's wind and frost urging Baiwu Rizhuzhan's hair on the temples. She has lived here for nearly half her life, and now she wants to go back to the unfamiliar Central Plains with her. Without familiar neighbors and friends, Xie Yao can't open her mouth.

"Auntie, are you willing to go back to the Central Plains with us and settle down?" Tianshu listened outside the door for a while, feeling that Xie Yao was too slow, and then entered the room and said loudly.

Wu Rizhuzhan exclaimed "Ah", turned to look at Xie Yao, and asked, "Son, is Mongolia not good? Why do you want to go back to the Central Plains?" After she finished speaking, she suddenly murmured: "Yes, you are Han people, you should go back to your hometown..." Seeing her misunderstanding, Xie Yao hurriedly said: "Mom, I didn't mean that. A few days ago, Tuo Lei came to me to discuss something..."

He was about to tell the story of Tuo Lei, and finally said: "If there is no such thing, I would have a hundred wishes with you in Mongolia in my life. Although I love the vastness of Mongolia, it is not my wish to make contributions. This place not only embarrasses Tuolei, me, but also you."

Hearing what he said, Wu Rizhuzhan was relieved from the previous sadness, and she nodded, "So that's the case, it's okay if you tell mom earlier. But...do you have to go back to the Central Plains?"

Xie Yao was taken aback when he heard the words, and suddenly remembered that he was hunted down by the beggar gang, and Ouyang Feng was also his enemy, so it might be inappropriate to rush back to the Central Plains.Obviously Tianshu also thought of something with him. Before Xie Yao could speak, Tianshu said with a smile: "Then we won't go to the Central Plains, Auntie. Let's go to Dali, Xixia, and Tubo. Dali is like spring all the year round, Xixia people are simple, and Tubo The Tianshan Mountains are shrouded in clouds and mist, and the world is so big, where can I not go?"

"Ah, is it?"

Wu Rizhuzhan had been in Mongolia for half of her life, and she couldn't help being moved when she heard Tianshu. She pulled Xie Yao and Tianshu, sat on a chair, and said with a smile: "Before my husband was alive, he loved to tell me about Tianshan. According to the story, he said that the Tiandu Peak there is the road from the world to the heaven. There is a mountain god living on Tiandu Peak. As long as the people encounter difficulties, the mountain god will help them. Every problem encountered by the people It’s all one story, so many stories are born, and I can’t finish telling them in a month.”

Xie Yao said in a low voice: "This is just the story of those common people. The mountain god himself has guarded the Tianshan Mountain for hundreds of thousands of years. Who knows his story."

Wu Rizhuzhan patted his hand, raised his eyes and asked, "Son, how about we go to Tubo? You accompany mother to see Tianshan Mountain and the mountain god."

"Mom...you agreed?" Xie Yao couldn't believe it, and stepped forward to hold her hands.

Wu Rizhu looked at her eyes and said peacefully: "My good boy, how can mother make things difficult for you, it's just...how about we leave after the White Festival?" Tianshu couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not urgent, I'll wait for your auntie's birthday." After that, let's hire a bullock cart and walk slowly!"

The day before the White Festival is called "Guotwen", which means "the day of closure", and it is also the day of reunion.

Xie Yao drove the livestock back to the pen early in the morning, while Tianshu wiped all kinds of tools clean, packed up sewing utensils and materials and put them in boxes.In the evening, Wu Rizhuzhan led Xie Yao and Tianshu to kowtow in the direction of the fire, praying that the spirit of the ancestors in the sky would bless the whole family in the new year.Back home, Wu Rizhuzhan picked up two baskets of big steamed stuffed buns, and served the whole sheep's head. The three of them had a happy reunion dinner together.

"Zhu Zhan, let your son and daughter-in-law come out and see." Someone shouted outside the door, and opened the curtain, but saw Li Ping outside the door, smiling happily.

"Didn't you celebrate the festival with Tuo Lei and the others?" Wu Rizhu took the time to talk to her in surprise.

Xie Yao and Tianshu put down their bowls and chopsticks together, feeling embarrassed when they heard this name.

Xie Yao glanced at the heavenly book, and was about to apologize, but when he heard the heavenly book, he said coldly and mockingly: "Let you take advantage of a verbal advantage." For some reason, Xie Yao thought of joking, deliberately sandwiched a piece of beef for her, and said happily "Daughter-in-law, eat." Tianshu glared at him angrily when he heard the words, but he didn't know that the bright lights made her eyes look watery and pretty.

"Xiao Yao, Shu'er, come out and read quickly." Wu Rizhuzhan also hurriedly waved to the two of them.

Xie Yao and Tianshu walked outside, and saw a huge bonfire burning on the grassland, and the flames rose ten feet high.Next to it, Mongolian folk artists were invited to rap and sing "Uliger", and many young men and women gathered together to sing and dance.Tuo Lei and Hua Zheng were also among them. The two of them saw Xie Yao at a glance, and hurried forward and said: "You are recovering from illness, come and dance together!"

"I won't, just watch you dance."

Tianshu said coldly at the side: "Hand in hand, circle around the fire, you don't even know how?"

Xie Yao couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he heard the words: "You know how, then you go dance." He knew that Tianshu is afraid of fire, so he deliberately teased her with these words.Unexpectedly, the inversion annoyed Tianshu, she waved her sleeves and said: "Go!" Seeing this, Tuo Lei laughed loudly, dragged Xie Yao up, and said: "Go, don't be silly!"

Xie Yao felt helpless, and was really afraid that Tianshu would be burnt by the fire. He walked up to her and grabbed her hand, "Tell me when you're going to faint." Tianshu wanted to scold him, but turned to look at Xie Yao's face. , Can't even jump out half a word.

While talking and laughing, Wu Rizhuzhan and Li Ping looked at the children dancing hand in hand and couldn't help sighing: "Hey, I wonder if we can see this scene again in the future."

Li Ping asked in surprise, "What's the matter? It happens every year."

Wu Rizhuzhan immediately told Li Ping that he was going to Tubo with Xie Yao. After all, Li Ping was also a Han Chinese, so of course he understood the twists and turns, and agreed: "When Jing'er comes back, I will also talk to him about it. , when you come back to the Central Plains, we will still be neighbors." Wu Rizhuzhan couldn't help being overjoyed when he heard this, and the two hurriedly found a place to sit down and hold hands to talk.