Siheyuan starts to eat the old man

Chapter 254Chapter 253 Comrade, where did you come from?
After Little Batu was determined to be the tour guide for this trip, Bilge came over with two small Mongolian horses, and said with a smile: "Your car can't drive very far on the grassland, you can ride a horse and let Batu take you." Let’s have fun on the grassland.”

Riding a horse is a piece of cake for the Mongolian people who grew up on horseback, but for young people like Li Pingan and Ding Qiunan who don’t see a horse twice a year, they want to ride a horse in the big city. Galloping on the grassland is indeed a bit embarrassing.

Li Ping'an was okay with horseback riding in the grasslands, but Ding Qiunan was a little embarrassed. Ding Qiunan turned to look at Bileg who was leading the horse: "Uncle Bileg, I have never ridden a horse before. Is this horse obedient?"

"Comrade Ding, don't worry, I found this horse specially for you. They are all docile mares. I guarantee that you will be able to ride this horse without worry after learning it for a while." Bileg assured Ding Qiunan, patting his chest. .

Things have come to this point, even if Ding Qiunan is a little scared, he can only bite the bullet and learn how to ride a horse.

After Li Pingan and the two got on the horse, Bileg carefully taught them the precautions for riding a horse. After the explanation, he led the horse and walked forward slowly.

Li Pingan is still very interested in riding horses. After the mare started to move around, Li Pingan didn't feel scared, but found it very interesting. The prairie is crisscrossed.

Compared to Li Ping'an, Ding Qiunan's performance was a bit poor. When the horse started to walk, Ding Qiunan was startled. He closed his eyes and hugged the saddle tightly, not daring to let go. After walking for a while, this Get used to the feeling on horseback.

After Ding Qiunan got used to it completely, Bileg gave the two of them a few words, then loosened the horse rope, and let the two of them try simple riding.

Under Bileg's two hours of teaching, Li Pingan made rapid progress, and he was almost able to run wildly on the grassland. Bileg kept praising Li Pingan's amazing talent in horseback riding.

Although Ding Qiunan couldn't run wildly on the horse, he could barely run on the grassland on the horse. If you look at the speed of the car, you can barely run thirty or forty yards.

Seeing that the two of them were able to ride on horses proficiently, Bilge said to Batu next to him: "Batu, you take these two guests to our tribe for two days, let Sijiucheng come Comrade, feel the enthusiasm of our grassland staff"

Li Pingan and Ding Qiunan were very excited when they heard that they were going to the Mongolian tribe. They rode to the side of the jeep, put the supplies that needed to be carried on the horse's back, and then rode the horse to the depths of the grassland with Little Batu and go.

Li Pingan just took away the keys of the jeep, and left the jeep where it was. Li Pingan is not worried about the safety of the jeep at all. Now that there are few cars, there are not many people who can drive in Forty-Nine City, let alone this large city. The prairie is up.

Not to mention taking the keys away, even if the keys were inserted into the jeeps, the Bileger family would not be able to drive the two jeeps away.

Little Batu led the way on a group of ponies, and Li Pingan and Ding Qiunan followed at a leisurely pace. They soon reached the depths of the grassland, and the road behind them could no longer be seen.

Feeling the breath of the grassland, the young couple speeded up to catch up with the little Batu in front, and the three of them walked side by side into the herdsmen's tribe.

When it was almost evening, the three of them finally came to the location of Batu and their tribe. This tribe is not big, consisting of dozens of yurts, and there are faint signs of herdsmen's activities inside.

"This is our tribe, let's go in, it's just in time for dinner, we can go to my uncle's place for dinner." Seeing his tribe, Little Batu was very excited, pointing to the location of the tribe and excitedly said to Li Pingan .

The three of them rode horses to the herdsmen's gathering area. There should be few Han people in the gathering area. A group of men, women and children in Mongolian costumes all looked at Li Pingan and the two curiously.From time to time, someone would say something to little Batu in Mongolian, and little Batu would reply in Mongolian with a smile.

"Comrade, where did you come from?"

When Li Pingan led the horse and followed Xiao Batu forward, he suddenly heard a standard Central Plains dialect from the crowd. Li Pingan was stunned for a moment, stopped walking, and turned to look at the crowd.

A middle-aged black-faced man wearing national costume squeezed out from the opposite crowd, came to Li Pingan and Ding Qiunan with a smile, stretched out his right hand to Li Pingan, and said with a smile: "Comrade, you are so good, I It’s from Xinxiang, so where did you come from?”

In a gathering place of ethnic minorities, he unexpectedly met a Han man with an authentic Central Plains accent. Li Pingan had a feeling of encountering an old acquaintance in a foreign land, and quickly stretched out his right hand to hold the black-faced man together, and said happily: "Comrade Hello, my name is Li Pingan and I am from Sijiu City, this is my wife Ding Qiunan"

"Yeah, yeah, my brother is still a distinguished guest from the capital. My name is Zhang Dalei. If you call me Lao Zhang, you will be hit. Let's go and have dinner at home. In the evening, let's eat roasted whole lamb." Zhang Dalei probably hasn't seen it for a long time. Seeing the Han people, seeing Li Pingan and his wife, the first time they met, they dragged Li Pingan to eat at home, and served them with roasted whole lamb.

Regarding Zhang Dalei's enthusiasm, Li Pingan quickly waved his hand: "Brother Zhang, let's go to another day, today I came with Batu, and another day will definitely come to bother you."

"Don't wait for another day. Like this, I'll go back to prepare now. After you finish your meal tonight, I'll come to drink with you and drink at home. Don't refuse. I haven't seen anyone in the pass for a long time. Let's have a good chat." Zhang Dalei saw Glancing at Little Batu, after speaking with a smile, without waiting for Li Pingan to refuse, he turned around and hurried back to his tent, preparing to serve Li Pingan's appetizers at night.

Looking at Zhang Dalei's back, Li Pingan could only swallow his refusal, shook his head with a smile, and continued to follow Xiao Batu to the center of the gathering place.

On the way, Li Pingan asked Xiao Batu about Zhang Dalei.

"I don't know about this, but I heard from Abu that he came before the liberation, and has been settled in our tribe since then." Little Batu was still young, and he was not born before the liberation. For Zhang Dalei I can't tell why.

After listening to what Little Batu said, Li Pingan nodded, and did not continue to ask. How could Little Batu know about the things before liberation, it is better to ask him directly at night.

After a short walk, I came to Uncle Little Batu's yurt. Little Batu jumped into the yurt, and a man in his 30s wearing Tibetan costumes came out of it after a while.

Batu's uncle is a Mongolian man named Bate, who can't speak Chinese. After he came out, he said a Mongolian sentence to Li Pingan and the others, which seemed to mean welcome.

"My uncle said that you are welcome to come to our house as guests." After seeing Li Pingan's confused face, Little Batu reacted and quickly helped with the translation.

The meal at night is much better than what I ate at Bileg at noon. The host has put his heart into it. Although the meat is air-dried meat, at least there is the staple food made of highland barley noodles. There is no shortage of meat on the grassland. , but there is still a shortage of materials such as rice noodles.

I don't understand Chinese here, and Li Pingan and Ding Qiunan have nothing to talk about. After dinner at Uncle Batu's place, Little Batu talked to Li Pingan about the night's accommodation: "The yurt next to my uncle just came to me. Auntie has already cleaned up, and you will live in that yurt during the time you are on the grassland."

Li Pingan nodded to Batu, took out some national food stamps and money from his pocket, put them on the table, and said to Batu: "Please help me tell your uncle that these food stamps are ours. Please be sure to accept the food expenses from your place for a while, otherwise we will go out and eat the food we brought.”

After Batu talked with his uncle, his uncle's reaction was very strong, and he spoke a lot of Mongolian in succession.

"My uncle said, you are guests, and you are here as guests. We should entertain you, and we can't charge you money. If you charge money, it will make people laugh at you," Little Batu explained to Li Pingan.

After listening to Batu's translation, when Li Pingan wanted to continue, Ding Qiunan grabbed his arm.

Ding Qiunan looked at Batu and said, "Little Batu, you tell your uncle to thank him for his hospitality, and we won't give you the food stamps."

After little Batu translated again, Bart showed a smile on his face, and said a lot to Li Pingan and his wife enthusiastically, and little Batu translated.

After chatting for a while, the yurt was opened from the outside, and Zhang Dalei walked in. He first greeted Bart with a smile in Mongolian, and then said to Li Pingan and his wife: "Brother, brother and sister, let's go, let's go!" Let me drink some, I just fried some peanuts, let's have a drink tonight."

Now that Zhang Dalei, a Han fellow, had come to invite him, Li Pingan and his wife got up and said something to Bart, and then left Bart's place with Zhang Dalei.

When they came to Zhang Dalei’s yurt, there was a Mongolian woman and two children who were about the same age as Xiao Batu. The three of them did not understand Chinese. After Zhang Dalei introduced each other, Ding Qiunan took some white rabbit toffee out of his satchel. The children each gave a few yuan, and the children who took the candy happily left the yurt with their mother.

The appetizers on the dinner table are very special. The meat is also cut into pieces with a knife. It is not the Mongolian cooking style at all. It seems that it should be specially prepared for Li Pingan.

"Brother Li, I really don't have Guannei baijiu here, only Mongolian kumiss. How about drinking kumiss?"

On the wine table, Zhang Dalei poured a full glass of kumiss into the pottery wine bowl in front of Li Pingan. Ding Qiunan didn't know how to drink, so Zhang Dalei didn't force him, so he didn't pour wine for Ding Qiunan.

Li Pingan picked up the bowl and took a look. The kumiss is indeed kumiss, and the color is milky white, but he doesn't know what it tastes like: "Brother Zhang, people say that when you follow the customs, we are not in the customs now. Besides, this horse I haven’t had milk wine yet, so I happened to try it at your place today.”

After speaking, he took the glass of wine with both hands and drank it down.How about the taste of kumiss, sweet and sour, and a bit fishy, ​​but the alcohol content does not seem to be very high.

Seeing Li Pingan's cheerful look, Zhang Dalei laughed, and also picked up the wine bowl in front of him and drank it down in one gulp.

After a glass of wine, the three of them started chatting. Zhang Dalei probably hadn't been back to the pass for many years, so he asked Li Pingan a lot about the situation in the pass.Li Pingan also took this opportunity to ask Zhang Dalei why he lived in a Mongolian tribe.

After Zhang Dalei heard it, he fell into silence, closed his eyes with a sad expression, and said in a sad tone: "Oh, it's a long story, when the little Japanese devils called, didn't that bastard Jiang Bald head dig the garden?" Well, my house was washed away by water, I was only eight or nine years old, and I ran away with my father."

"When I came to Hebei, my father died. Fortunately, I met a Mongolian who came to the customs to do business. They saw me as pitiful, so they took me to Mongolia to live. After so many years, I almost forgot I am a Han Chinese now."

After hearing Zhang Dalei's experience, the atmosphere in the room fell silent, and Li Pingan didn't know what to say for a while.

When the room fell silent, Little Batu walked into the tent anxiously, and said to Ding Qiunan, "Sister Ding, I remember you said you were a doctor, right?"

Ding Qiunan asked Batu suspiciously: "Little Batu, I'm a doctor, what's the matter?"

"I just went to see my friend. He has had a fever for a long time. Can you go and see him?" Little Batu looked at Ding Qiunan pleadingly.

Hearing that there was a patient, Ding Qiunan stood up from the stool with a serious face, and said directly: "Where is the patient, lead me there."

"Sister, come with me," Batu led Ding Qiunan and ran out.

Zhang Dalei also reacted at this time, wiped off the sad expression on his face, and said to Li Pingan with a shocked face: "Brother Li, I can't tell, are the brothers and sisters doctors?"

"That's right, a student who graduated from Zheng'er Eighth Medical College will work as a doctor in our factory."

"I know the child that Little Batu just mentioned. It is a child of the Battelle family. He has been ill for a while. There are no serious doctors on the grassland. Their family is already ready for the death of the child. Now I met you It's that child's luck," Zhang Dalei sighed.

There is a shortage of doctors now, but in the big city of Forty-Nine City, there is no shortage of excellent doctors.But in some small remote counties below, even a doctor of Ding Qiunan's level can operate on people in the hospital.

Before the Barefoot Doctor Manual came out, there was an even greater shortage of doctors in rural areas. In some places, there were no doctors in all the villages. If you get sick, you rely on the local methods passed down from generation to generation. There is almost no therapeutic effect at all. Can you cure the disease? , It all depends on the patient's physique.

(End of this chapter)