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Old Tashi, a Tibetan herdsman in his 50s, was happy like a child. He excitedly stroked the head and horns of a mighty giant wild yak. The wild yak looked up and held old Tashi high on top of the cow's head. Old Tashi touched the horns of the cows, shouted at the cattle, at the plateau desert: My big horn king is back...
★ Five years ago, old Tashi met a newborn baby yak
Old Tashi is a descendant of herders who graze yaks in Sanjiangyuan, so he has a deep affection for yaks.
The yaks here and the wild yaks on the mountain have had the custom of "intermarriage" since ancient times. The bulls in those wild yak herds often sneak down the mountain in search of a mate in the domestic yak herd.
Wild yaks are individually strong, with a high meat yield and good meat quality. Herders love that male wild yaks come down the mountain to breed their cows. Wild calves are more robust. But the bull's charm is too strong, and they often turn domestic cows up the mountain. These cows are "happy", which in turn makes the herders very distressed.
Five years ago, four cows of old Tashi were abducted by wild yaks. He knew that the wild bull had taken his four cows up the wild yak mountain. The mountain is very tall and large, and there are several wild yak herds around. He wanted to see which herd his cows had been abducted into? Can you get them back?
Just after entering the bush, a few low yak "pig cries" caught his attention. He hurriedly approached to see a wild yak trembling as it gave birth, eyes looking at him prayerfully. Suddenly, the calf landed on the ground, and the cow shook twice and fell to the ground, convulsing and breathless. The cowboy and the ground around it were covered in blood.
He suddenly understood that the female bison was begging him to take care of her calf before she died, so he did not hesitate to pick up the filthy calf and return to the tent.
★ Three years later, the wild calves grew into large yaks
Old Tashi could not forget the look in the eyes of the female bison before she died, so she was very careful with the wild calf, personally feeding it during the day and taking it into the tent at night, lest it be frightened by wild beasts and bullied by the yak.
Soon, wild calves were taller than domestic calves of the same age. It was very naughty, it was a little bully, and often pushed other calves to the ground. It was very pleasing to old Tashi, and it was like a cattle dog that always circled around him. As soon as he shouted a wild calf, it would immediately run to his side, sometimes staring at him with wide eyes, waiting for his command, and sometimes rubbing his body with its head, like a child on his knees. Old Tashi sometimes went out, and he would follow him like a dog, and he couldn't go back.
At the age of two, wild calves outnumbered cows. It was born wild, and dared to challenge the bull king, the black bull, so angry that the black bull often rubbed its hooves and horns on it, and the bull's eyes rolled wildly. If it weren't for old Tashi watching closely, the black bull really wanted to pick it up to the sky with a horn.
At the age of three, wild calves outnumbered black bulls. At this time, the black bull saw that the wild calf's eyes were full of hostility, and the old man would have wide eyes, open nostrils, and spew rough breath. The wild calves will look at the black bull quietly, with a disdainful look - just like you, you deserve to be the cow king?! Even Old Tashi understood that aura. But old Tashi often scolded the black bull, so that it must know how to make big and small. To the wild calf, he patted his head and warned it: You are still young, only three years old, and you are not allowed to come!
★ At the age of four, the wild calf became the "Big Horn king"
When the wild calf was four years old, the individual far surpassed the Black Bull King, and the horns grew thick and long. So, old Tashi simply called it "Big Horn King". The name seemed to be understood by the black bull, so that whenever he shouted "The King of the Big Horns," it would loudly "pig bark" in protest, and raise its rough horns down, and then lower and show off again.
Old Tashi laughed and scolded the black bull: You are also jealous of this?! As soon as the Big Horned King was happy, he lowered his head and bent his horn from behind Old Tashi to his knee, and Old Tashi couldn't help but sit on the bull's head of the Bighorn King. The BigHorn King slowly raised his head and walked steadily among the cattle against old Tashi.
The BigHorn King was originally tall and held his head high, so that Old Tashi had a feeling of "seeing the cattle and small cows". This made the black bull even more jealous, and he also wanted to offer his courtesy in front of the old master. Once, taking advantage of the fact that Old Tashi was not paying attention, he suddenly picked him up with a horn from behind, but he did not expect to scare Old Tashi a lot...
Since then, the cows in the herd have begun to communicate with the big horned king. The BigHorn King also began to show his might to the cows. Heavenly Way is like this. Old Tashi was willing to let the Bighorn King replace the Black Bull. Inevitably, the Bighorn King and the Black Bull became love enemies.
★ At the age of five, the Bighorn King ran away from home on four more cows
Just as Old Tashi looked at the Bighorn King and the Black Bull in a dilemma. The Bighorn King ran away from home at night with his favorite four cows of the same age.
Early in the morning, old Tashi saw the broken fence, and then looked at the black bull's self-satisfied appearance and immediately understood: The big horned king was gone. Raise unripe wild calves! He yelled helplessly. This situation is more and more.
It was only a few years ago that he was abducted by a bull bison and four cows were taken away, he did not find it and actually picked up a wild calf, he was distressed about the wild calf for several years, he did not expect it to become the big horn king less than a year and left, and he abducted his four cows. I lost 9 cows in four years! Wild calves, good luck you Big Horned King, you are such a bad father!
In fact, old Tashi didn't seem to be as distressed as losing four cows for the first time, but he was very disappointed. You know, the King of The Great Horn can now sell a "breeding cow" at a sky-high price! There are also eight cows, plus "cows give birth to cows, two heads in three years", in these years, I should add at least a dozen cows! In this calculation, old Tashi was in pain and his teeth hurt.
★ The wolves besieged old Tashi's yak herd, and the BigHorn King led a team to drive away the wolves
This year's cold winter came prematurely in Sanjiangyuan.
After the "BigHorn King" abducted four cows, the black bull became more domineering, and seemed to be a little arrogant in front of the old master: Look! Or are we black bulls loyal to you! Wild calves are wild calves, and they can't become calves at any time!
Old Tashi understood the meaning of the black bull, thinking about it, he felt a little ashamed of the black bull, so he had to reach out and stroke the head of the black bull, and then took out a broom made of branches and swept the dust on the black bull hard, which made the black bull enjoy it. Because of this treatment, it only saw the wild calves of the past enjoyed.
One day, a dozen wolves suddenly surrounded the cattle. The black bull immediately took out the momentum of the bull king and continued to "pig bark", leading the strong cattle to form a yak circle array, encircling the old Tashi and the pregnant cow in the circle.
The yaks were in cahoots with their enemies, and their hooves and horns were used as weapons, so that the wolves did not dare to attack. But the wolves don't intend to make a quick decision. They came first in a protracted battle, exhausted the herd in less than an hour, and then surrounded them on all sides and immediately cut the herd into three parts. If you cut it again, you cut the calves and cows out.
Old Tashi shouted in a hurry, but there were too many wolves, and the chaotic bull array only had the defensive strength of cangjiao, and the wolves were more and more courageous.
At the moment of crisis, a "pig bark" sound came from the mountain. Then the hooves thundered, and a group of wild yaks, led by a mighty giant yak, rushed into the wolf pack like a torrent. Wild yaks are good at taking the initiative and chasing wild wolves head after head. Wild yaks are so powerful that no wolf is an enemy. Soon the wolves were washed away and the stars scattered.
★ The BigHorn King went straight to the frightened old Tashi
Old Tashi was like a dream. It was the first time he had experienced such a large wolf pack of cattle, and such a fierce wolf-cow war was also the first time he had experienced it. What's more, a group of wild yaks rushed down the mountain to help him drive away the wolves. Won't you come and kidnap my cow again!
Thinking of this, old Tashi even had the heart to cry. If you are abducted by a bison again, it is better to be eaten by a wolf, and the wolf eats at most two cows! He couldn't bear to watch his hard-earned cattle being robbed for the third time, so he had no choice but to find a rock and hide.
After a while, the yak herd was in chaos. Old Tashi guessed that the time for the wild yak to pick his wife had come again, so he had to bow his head, tears in his heart, and secretly endured. He sometimes wonders: You wild yak don't always kidnap all my cows, right?
Suddenly, the chaotic herd of cattle calmed down, and nearly a hundred cows looked up at him with their heads held high. A huge wild yak approached him step by step, and every time the cow's hooves landed on the ground, it was sonorous. After a while, the giant bull came to him, whispered a few "pig cries", rubbed his legs with his head and his waist, a feeling of déjà vu immediately surged into his heart, and then the giant bull skillfully used the horns to reach his knees, and he sat on the bull's head with his legs bent. The giant bull carefully lifted his head against him and raised it high.
★ The BigHorn King provoked old Tashi to demonstrate to all the wild yaks
A long-lost feeling came back to mind: Is it the BigHorn King? BigHorn King, you're back! The BigHorn King immediately roared and walked back and forth from the cattle with old Tashi, as if to say: This is my master, and no one should try to bully him!
Old Tashi saw that in the face of absolute strength, the proud black bull also bowed down.
The BigHorn King slowly walked among the cattle with Old Tashi, and Old Tashi found that the four cows that had been abducted by the Bighorn King had returned. ah! Even the four cows that were abducted five years ago have returned. How did the BigHorn King find it?
The BigHorn King happily "pig barked" a few times, meaning: All these cows are yours!
(About the author: Wang Tianxiang, senior journalist and writer, has published 42 monographs such as novels, written more than 200 TV series, created dozens of special TV films such as history, culture, scenery, and documentary, published hundreds of articles in various newspapers and periodicals, and published more than 1,000 online articles.) ）
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