The dust settles

Chapter 13

12. Guests
The three underground cells in Guanzhai were converted into two warehouses.One was filled with silver, and the other was filled with new guns bought by Commissioner Huang from the military government in the province.

Commissioner Huang took away a large amount of opium, leaving a few soldiers to drill our soldiers.The land outside Guanzhai, which can sow eight hundred buckets of wheat seeds, has become a playground.The whole winter shouted and shook the ground, and the dust was flying.In the last battle, our soldiers practiced formation and shooting according to the formal drills.This time it was more presentable.The chieftain also recruited many tailors to make uniform eyewear for the soldiers: black Yigong wool robes, red, yellow and blue cross-embroidered trims, red silk belts, and bayonets that can be attached to guns.The trim for junior officers is leather, and for senior officers is leopard.The highest rank is my elder brother Danzhen Gonpo, who is the commander-in-chief, and his clothes are trimmed with a whole Bengal tiger skin.In history, all chieftains have never had such a well-equipped and well-equipped team.

The new year is approaching, and the dust on the temporary training ground has just settled down.

As the snow melted, new streams of people appeared on the road.

They were the adjacent chieftains, with a long line of servants and guards.

Dolma asked me to guess what they were doing.I said, they came to visit relatives.She said, why didn't relatives come here in previous years if they wanted to leave.

The Maggie family had to send their servants far away.In this way, when the uninvited guest arrives, he has time to prepare the ceremonial guard, and has time to spread the best carpet from upstairs to downstairs, and then spread the inferior carpet from the stairway to the outside of the yard, pass through the gate, and reach the chain on the square. Before the horse post.The little house slaves were waiting there with bows, ready to act as steps for the guests to dismount at any time.

When the chieftains arrive, they always bring a team of horses with them. They are still in the invisible mountain pavilion, and the tinkling of the bells around the horses’ necks can be heard clearly from the cold and transparent air.At this time, the toast family asked the servants to bring warm butter tea to the house, and sipped it carefully, one bowl, two bowls, three bowls.In this way, when the Maiqi Tusi family appeared in front of the guests, their faces were always red and shiny, in sharp contrast to the gray faces of the guests because of the fatigue and cold of the journey.Those chieftains who came from afar have lost their prestige at this point.At first, we were very polite to the guests, and my father especially warned people not to say that the Maggie family looked like a nouveau riche.But the guests just want to make us feel superior.They came here with their own requests, which can be summed up in two ways.

A very straightforward request to get the seeds of the magic plant that makes Mai Qi rich quickly.

One is to marry one's younger sister or daughter to the son of chief magi, of course the purpose is still that kind.

The only thing they did was to make the McGee family, who wanted to be humble, very proud.We all agreed to all proposals.The elder brother said very happily: "If my brother and I share equally, each of us will have three or four."

Father said, "Duh!"

Brother smiled and went to find a place to play with his two favorite things: guns and women.

And those two things liked him too.The girls all regard it as the greatest honor to be close to him.The same goes for guns.The common people have a saying that the gun is the extended hand of the young master of the Maiqi family, the long gun is the long hand, and the short gun is the short hand.And that goes hand in hand with the fact that people think I can't shoot a gun and don't understand the beauty of women.

In this happy winter, the Maiqi family turned all the neighbors who came to the Tusi into enemies.Because none of them got the magic poppy seeds.

So, a saying spread like lightning, from east to west, from south to north.Although every chieftain was conferred by the Chinese emperor, now they say that Maggie has defected to the Chinese.The Maiqi family became traitors to the Tibetans overnight.

Our family, father, mother, elder brother, three smart people, plus me, a fool, had a discussion about giving magical seeds to our toast neighbors.They are normal people with normal brains, so they are unanimously opposed to giving anyone a seed.And I said, it's not silver.They say, duh, isn't that just silver?

In fact, I didn't mean that, they didn't ask me to finish the sentence.I mean, that thing grows in the wild, not in the basement of Maiqi's official village like silver.

I finished the second half of the sentence: "The wind will blow them over, too."

But no one listened to me, or rather, they pretended not to hear my truth.The maid Dolma ticked my hand and told me to shut up, then ticked my hand again, and I went out with her.She said, "Fool, no one will listen to you."

I said, "Such a small seed, even the wings of a bird will carry a few seeds to the neighbor's land."

While speaking, she lifted her skirt by the bed.The bed began to creak and shake, Zhuoma followed the rhythm and kept calling me, idiot, idiot, idiot... melon... I don't know if I am a idiot, but this makes me feel happy.After I finished, I felt much better.I said to Dolma: "You scratched me."

She suddenly knelt down in front of me and said, "Master, the silversmith has proposed to me."

Tears flowed out of my eyes, and I heard myself say in a ridiculous tone: "But I can't bear you."

They are normal people struggling with seeds in the conference room.I lay between Dolma's two breasts for most of the day.She said, although I am a fool, it is enough for me to shed tears after one serving.She also said, I hate her just because I have never had another woman.You will have a new valet, she said.At this time, I was like her son, sobbing and saying: "But I can't bear you."

She stroked my head and said, she can't be with me forever, and when I really understand women, I don't want her anymore.She said: "I have already taken a fancy to a girl, she is the most suitable match for you."

The next day, I told my mother that it was time for Dolma to get married.

My mother asked me if it was something that bitch said to me.My heart was empty, but I said indifferently, like my brother when he talked about women: "I want to change to a woman who is similar to me."

The mother immediately burst into tears and said, "My silly son, you finally understand women."

13. Woman
Sangji Drolma was right, they immediately found a personal maid for me.A girl with a small body, a small face, small eyes, and small hands and feet.She stood in front of me with her hands down, neither crying nor smiling.She doesn't smell like Sangye Drolma.I told Dolma about this discovery.

The maid who was about to leave office said: "Wait a minute, I'll have it with you for a while. That smell is given by a man."

I said, "I don't like her."

My mother told me the girl's name was Tana.I thought about it seriously, and felt that if these two characters were the name of a girl, it shouldn't be the one in front of me.Fortunately, she is only my personal maid, not my official wife, so I don't need to be too picky.I asked the little girl if her name was Tana.She spoke suddenly.Although her voice was trembling with tension, she finally spoke.She said: "Everyone says my name is a bit weird, do you think it's weird?"

Her voice is very low, but I dare say it can be heard from any distance.A well-trained maid would have such a voice.And she was just the daughter of a groom, and she lived in a low house before entering the palace.Her mother's eyes were troubled by the smoke from the firepit.When she was seven or eight years old, she got up in the middle of the night to add grass to the animals.It wasn't until one day that the housekeeper walked into their house with a crooked leg, she went to the hot spring to take a bath, put on brand new clothes and came to me like a dream.I only had time to ask her such a sentence, and someone came to take her to take a bath and change clothes.

I went to see Dolma when I had time.

My girl, her heart has flown away.I saw her heart had flown away.

She was sitting upstairs behind the railing, embroidering flowers, humming in a low voice.Her songs have nothing to do with love but her heart is full of love.Her song is a passage from a long narrative poem:
Her flesh, the birds ate, creak, creak, her blood, the rain drank, cluck; cluck, her bones, the bear gnawed, crunch, crunch, her hair, the wind blown away, strands, strands .

She sang those onomatopoeias representing birds eating, rain drinking, bears gnawing, and wind blowing so vividly, so meaningfully, and so affectionately.As she sang, the silversmith's hammer struck a nice rhythm.Mai Qi's family has so much silver, silversmiths have plenty of work.Everyone said that the work of the silversmith was getting better and better.Toast Maiqi likes this ingenious guy.So when he heard that the maid Dolma wanted to marry the silversmith, he said: "You have followed us in vain, you have a good eye, you have a good eye!"

The chieftain asked someone to tell the silversmith that even if the master liked him, if he wanted the maid Dolma, he would change from a free man to a slave.The silversmith said, "What's the difference between a slave and a free man? You haven't worked in this yard all your life."

As soon as they are united, Dolma will change from a fragrant maid to a cook who often has ashes on her face, but she said: "That is my fate."

Therefore, it should be said that these few days are the best days for the maid Dolma, my teacher of men and women.At this point, Mrs. Toast shows the greatest kindness that a woman can show to another woman.Dolma was anxious to go downstairs.The wife told her that in the future, there will be plenty of time to be with a man, but there will be no such days to be married.

Mrs. Toast found some things, handed them to her, and said, "It's all yours. You can embroider whatever you want."

Every day in the courtyard, the silversmith beat the silver, and as soon as the sound of processing silverware sounded, Zhuoma went to the corridor to sit, sing and embroider.The silversmith's hammer rang so loudly that she didn't even have the time to look back at me.I thought in my foolish mind, so women are not good things, they forget you very easily.My new maid, Tana, was twiddling her slender fingers behind my back.And I coughed behind Dolma who was singing, but she didn't even turn her head, she was still singing there.

What crunching, what gurgling, endless.It wasn't until one day that the silversmith left that she turned around, blushed, and said with a smile, "Your new woman is more pleasant than me, isn't it?"

I said I hadn't touched her yet.

She took a special look at Tana's appearance to be sure that I was not lying. Although I love to lie, I didn't in this matter.Her tears flowed down, and she said, "Master, I'm leaving tomorrow, and the silversmith has borrowed a horse."

She also said, "In the future, you have to take care of me!"

I nodded.

The next morning, while I was still in my dream, I heard Dolma's singing cry.I went out and saw that it was the silversmith who had changed into new clothes and came upstairs.Sangye Dolma cried and fell at his wife's feet.What she said was the same two sentences she said to me yesterday.The eye circles that were too hot were also red, and he said loudly: "Anyone who dares to make trouble with you, just go upstairs and tell me."

Mrs. Tusi turned around and told the servants: "From now on, Zhuoma wants to come upstairs to see me and the young master, no one is allowed to stop me!"

The servants replied in unison: "Hey!"

The silversmith bowed, and Dolma lay on his back.I saw them go down one flight of stairs.The two male servants held the dowry from the chieftain, and the two maids held the gift from the chieftain's wife.In the eyes of the servants, Sangji Zhuolma is really favored.

The silversmith put his woman on the back of the horse, turned over and rode on it himself, and ran out of the courtyard gate on the dirt road outside, leaving a trail of yellow dust that became higher and higher and thinner in the clear winter sky. .They turned around the mountain and disappeared.The servants in the yard yelled.I could hear the meaning in their strange calls.A new couple is going to go out where no one else can see, and do that kind of thing in the sun.I heard that a skilled person can do that on horseback.I saw my two boys also mixed in with the crowd.Solan Zelang opened his big mouth and hooted loudly.Xiao Eryi stood a little far away from the crowd, at the execution post where his father often tortured people in the upper left corner of the square, looking very lonely and pitiful.As everyone knows, my Dolma was carried away by a horse, and my heart was just as lonely and desolate.I waved to Xiao Eryi, but he looked at the direction where the horse disappeared, so focused, he didn't know that there was a man in fox fur and light fur on the upper floor who was more pitiful than him.Where the horse disappeared, the sun fell on the dry grass between the cypress trees, and it was empty.My heart was just as empty.

The horse finally reappeared from where it had disappeared.

Once again the crowd erupted in cheers.

The silversmith took his charming bride off the horse and carried her into the dark and smelly small room at the bottom of the official village.In the yard, the servants began to sing.

They sang and lived.The silversmith also came out of the house and set to work.The sound of the hammer is crisp and loud, Ding bang!Shake, shake, ding, bang!
Tana, who has small hands and feet and a soft voice, said behind me: "I will also go downstairs like this in the future. At that time, will I be so decent?"

Before I could answer, she said again: "At that time, will the young master feel so sad?"

I was taken aback by her knowing-everything tone.I said, "I don't like it when you know that." She giggled, and said, "But I do."

I asked who taught her it, if it was her mother.

She said: "Will a blind man teach me this?" The tone was not talking about her own mother at all, but a servant in the tone of a master.In the evening, the servants are allowed to light a big fire in the yard, drink and dance.I leaned on the high railing and saw Dolma among the happy crowd.The night was getting darker and the stars were shining overhead.Below, people in the mortal world are having fun in suffering.At this time, they must be very hot, not like I can't stand the cold that hits my back and can't help shaking.When I got back to the house, the lights were off.The charcoal in the brazier was burning faintly.I warmed myself by the fire.Tana had already gone to sleep, her bare arms sticking out of the covers.I saw her smooth, thin neck and teeth.Her eyes opened.I saw her eyes again, shining faintly, like two fine gemstones.I was finally full of desire for her, and my body seemed to be on fire.I called out: "Tana." There was a special trembling feeling between the lips and teeth.

The little woman said, "I'm cold."

What rolled into my arms was a smooth, shiny, cool little person: a small waist, a small butt, and small breasts.In the past, I was completely trapped in Zhuoma's body, but now, she is completely covered by my body.I am fourteen years old and fifteen years old, and I have grown into a real man.I asked her if she was still cold.She giggled and said it was hot.Really, her body became scorching hot all of a sudden.In Sangye Drolma, I often went in and thought I was outside.On Tana, I just couldn't get in.As soon as she was about to go in, she screamed frightfully from this little hoof.

I was about to leave, but she hugged me tightly again with both hands.After going back and forth like this, the birds on the mountain, by the river, and on the trees all started chirping, and it was almost dawn.

Tana told me to leave her alone, so I went in with all my heart.I feel woman!
How I feel I fill a woman!The little lady is so nice!The little lady is so nice!I felt myself growing rapidly inside the little woman.The world expands infinitely.The earth is expanding, and the water is sliding downhill.The sky is expanding, and the stars are sliding sideways.Then, with a bang, the whole world collapsed.At this time, it was dawn.Tana pulled out a white silk scarf from under her body, with bright red blood stains on it, Tana shook it in front of me, I knew it was my credit, grinned, and fell asleep contentedly.And slept through the night.When I woke up, my mother was sitting on the head of my bed.Her smile shows that she admits that I am already a grown-up, a grown-up who understands the relationship between men and women.As everyone knows, before this, I was already.But honestly, this time it seemed real.

I pulled my hand out of the quilt: "Give me some water."

I heard my voice change overnight: rich, with enough resonance from my chest.

The mother did not put her hand on the son's head as usual.Instead, she turned to Tana and said, "He's awake, and he needs water. A light drink would be better for him."

Tana served the wine, and the feeling of the liquor down my throat was something I had never experienced before.The mother said to Tana again: "The young master is in your hands. You have to serve him well. Everyone says he is a fool. But he is not stupid."

Tana smiled sheepishly and replied in a low voice that everyone could hear, "Yes."

Mrs. Toast took out a string of necklaces from her bosom and hung them around her neck.After my mother left, I thought she would promise me that she would obey Mrs. Toast's orders and serve me well.But she buried her head in my chest and said, "From now on, you have to be nice to me."

I had no choice but to say: "I will treat you well in the future."

She raised her head and looked at me with a pair of eyes, with a look of hesitation.

I said, "I've already promised you. Do you have anything else to say?"

"Am I pretty?" she asked.

I don't know how to answer.To be honest, I don't know how to judge whether a woman is beautiful or not. If this is a fool, then I am a bit stupid.All I know is having a desire or not having a desire for a person.I only know the particular shape of certain parts of a woman's body, but I don't know what is beautiful and what is not beautiful.But I know I am the young master.I talk to her when I feel happy talking to her.Don't say it if you are unhappy.So, I didn't speak.

I decided to get up and have dinner with everyone.

(End of this chapter)