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Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

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Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie
Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie
Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

Gongbao Zab gave his five horses nice names—flames with white cores, untouched snowflakes, yellow satin worn by lamas, as if there were also hooves bubbling from Mars stones, corn.

These were his five horses: flames, snowflakes, yellow satin, stones, and corn. The names of these five horses were given by Gongbao Zabu, but the horses were someone else's horses. He was the horseman, responsible for driving the horses from Quiten to the general Yamen of UriaSutai. Who are these horses? Hailong said (Gongbao Zhabu was Hailong's great-grandfather), there were Gyatso Lamas, Chinese Shanxi merchants, hunter Susen's, a total of five horses. They put these horses to the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

At that time—and Hailong said it was 1921 or 1926—Tuva was still called Tangnu Ulianghai, and it was put under the control of the Great Qing, and the General Yamen of Uria Sutai was established. In those years, the Russian White Army came and the Red Army fought. Tuva was not a russian or Soviet territory at the time, and the Soviet Union annexed Tuva in 1944.

The White Army and the Red Army fought, but it was not fierce, and they ran away when they fought. The fierce battle was that they slaughtered the Qing defenders. The White Army and the Red Army killed all the Qing defenders, and General Ulya Sutai committed suicide by poisoning. Tuva was independent, but whoever came to fight was in charge.

Gongbao Zabu did not know these things, and he herded these horses in the Kuiten Steppe and raised enough to rush to the general Yamen. Quiten is the hometown of Gongbao Zhab, on the left bank of the Yenisei River. This place is well grassed. Whether the grass is good or not, people do not know. Man only sees that the grass is not tall, not green. This does not work, the cattle, horses and sheep know what is called good grass.

Delicious grass, clicking and chewing up flowing green foam. The foam is the saliva of the livestock, and the grass is so delicious that the saliva of the horse cannot be finished. The horse ate the good grass and rolled the melon round, and the fur was like butter. The horses are brave in breeding, also because the grass is good. The horse ran 500 versts a day and ate good grass. Eating broken grass and running 200 versts is boring. With that said, people understand that Quiten is a good place.

In addition to the good grass, the man is also strong. Gongbao Zabu came over, and the grass stepped out of one pit after another, and spring water came out of the pit. His neck was as thick as the neck of a wild boar, and the strength was all in his neck. While sleeping, his arms were exposed from the quilt, which others thought were legs. His eyes were buried in thick eyelids, fierce, and his forehead was a mess of wrinkles. The epic poem "Jianger" says that warriors are as invincible as wild boars, and Gongbao Zhabu is such a person.

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

Next up comes the horses. Yes, Gongbao Zab is still a singer, and the songs he wrote are still sung. Gongbao Zabu depicts the appearance of a horse with song, which no one can compare.

He sings:

"The mane of a horse flutters like a flame

The horse's eyes are like the clear waters of the lake alas

Horses run farther than horses in petroglyphs

It was quiet like a tree

The tree walked along

The scent of flowers takes it to heaven

Horses practice in the world with patience and bravery

Its hoof prints are like scriptures."

The Quiten steppe belongs to the basin along the Yenisei River, and the fist-sized wildflowers dangle in the wind. Behind the blades of grass, the blue Yenisei River seemed to be flowing, its water was too much, and the gunboat-like clouds filled the riverbed.

One morning, a small boat drifted over the river. The men on board got ashore and threw a bomb into the boat, "Boom—" The men lay on the ground and covered their ears with their hands. Water jets and broken planks soar into the sky. Gongbao Zabu was shocked, is there such a person in the world? They came by boat and blew up the boat again, how did they get back? Gombozab guessed that they were Russians, and that Russians were reckless. The men slowly climbed up the hill and walked toward this side. Gongbao Zabu sat on a square stone sniffing snuff while five horses grazed down the hill.

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

They approached, four men in all, ragged. Two men carried rifles with bayonets on their shoulders and one carried a cavalry sabre. The front hem of their torn coats was about to fall off. A man with glasses took off his hat and waved it, they were all Russians.

Gongbao Zab jumped from the stone.

"Comrade!" The bespectacled man said he was wearing a black tweed coat with double-breasted brass buttons. "We are your brothers, the Red Army."

Gongbao Zab did not speak.

"What a great thing it is that we have come from the province of Yenisei, which has overthrown the rule of the Tsar. Call me Sasha. ”

Gongbao Zab said slowly, "My flame mara." Pulled out three tsars, which were stones that appeared when eating rhubarb. ”

"Hahaha," the men laughed at each other. Sasha slapped Gongbao Zhabu the shoulder. Gongbao Zabu felt that it was not as strong as a woman's hand.

"This is our comrade!" Sasha said, "Introduce you, Sergei, Chubak, Maslovsky, you can call him a donkey." ”

What are they here to do? In the vast wilderness of Siberia, no outsiders came. They were not missionaries and did not wear the black robes of the Orthodox Church. It's not like a businessman, I didn't bring any goods. They are like beggars who ask for food, but what do they do with guns?

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

"Comrade" Sasha undressed and sat on the grass like a plate of cow dung. "The fire of revolution has burned to the east, Siberia is no longer silent, and the wrath of the oppressed nations will ignite this primeval forest and turn it into black charcoal."

"What do you say, why do you make a tree charcoal?" Gongbao Zabu asked.

"This is a metaphor," explains the man called the donkey, who was tied around his neck with a red strip of cloth, pale, and malnourished at first glance. He pointed at Sasha and said, "The commissar preaches the revolutionary doctrine to you, and he comes to liberate you." ”

"What are you bombing ships for?" Gongbao Zabu asked.

That stopped them. They looked at each other, and Sasha said slowly, "Brother Oriental, we have an important matter to inform you. ”

"Call me Gongbao Zabu."

"Comrade Gongbao Zab, we are going to requisition your horse," Sasha took out of his pocket a large piece of abacus paper with a stone print in Russian letters and a blue square seal. He said, "This is a revolutionary conscription order issued by the Soviet power. ”

Gongbao Zabu said, "I don't know how to read, what is the collection for?" ”

The donkey said, "For the sake of the revolution, you have to take out your things and give them to the Soviets." ”

"Are the Soviets coming?" Gongbao Zabu asked.

They laughed, and Sasha said, "Brother Oriental, you are too simple. The Soviet was not a man, without a nose or eyes. It is a regime that gives hope to all of humanity. ”

"You take a piece of paper and shake it, and you take the horse away?"

"We only requisitioned your horse, and you were liberated."

"What is the horse for?"

"Grain from horses, sent to the province of Yenisei, where the revolution is in a sea of blood and the Red Army is starving."

"Where's the grain?" Gongbao Zabu asked.

"Grain?" Sasha rolled her eyes at the sky, "The grain cannot be in heaven, I can only say that it is in a sack, no matter whose sack it is, in short, in a sack." ”

"Are you going to buy it?"

They laughed en masse, and the donkey hugged Gongbao Zabu's shoulder and kissed him on the cheek, "Gongbao Zabu, you are dumber than a bear." Where we have money, we are people with nothing in the world, and this is in material terms, and we have in our hearts an even more expensive gem – the truth " Donkey patting his chest.

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

"Truth?" Gong Bao had never heard the word, and he looked at the donkey's parched chest, where the truth grew.

"When man has the truth, he has what he wants." The gloomy bearded man wiped his rifle bayonet in his pants.

Gongbao Zabu understood one thing, they were going to take the horses. He said, "I am not the owner of the horse, I am the horse, and I give the horse to others." ”

Sasha patted Gongbao Zhab's neck, "It's okay, tell your master that the horses are gone with the revolutionary troops, and they are going crazy with joy." ”

Gongbao Zabu couldn't help but laugh, which was more amusing than the joke, and said, "The master of the horse asked me to give the horse pier three months first, and rush to the yamen of General Uria Sutai in the autumn." ”

"What does Uriasutai do?" What general? ”

"Chinese General."

"Oh, feudal general. Brothers of the East, there has been a revolution in China, and the emperor has been overthrown. How can you be willing to be enslaved by them? In the autumn you can say that you have given the horse to the general. ”

Gongbao Zabu slammed his fist on the ground, "How can I say that I didn't send it?" I don't do it. ”

Sasha stood up, touched her body up and down, and took out a fountain pen, "Give this to you as a souvenir." ”

"Swap this for five horses?" But I can't write. ”

Thinking with his fist against his chin, Sasha untied the belt around his waist, took the holster and a pistol, and handed it to Gongbao Zabu. "It's always okay, gun, for you."

Gongbao Zabu pushed away, "I don't, I won't use a gun." ”

The man who hadn't spoken had spoken anymore, and his name was Chubaik. "Commissar, don't talk to him again, stupid people don't understand the reason."

Chubaik lifted the rifle on his knee, pressed a bullet, and aimed it at the eagle circling above their heads, with its long black wings. "Uh-huh—" The gun rang out, and the eagle instantly contracted its wings, like a rat falling from the sky.

Chubaik poked Gongbao Zab's boots with a gun, "The horse is ours, go." ”

They got up and went down the hill and galloped off their horses.

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

Isn't this a robber? Gombozab had heard that there was a Red Army in Russia, fighting the Tsar's White Army, and that the people of Siberia had a good feeling for the Red Army because the Tuvans and Buryats hated the Tsarist government. But these people are not the Red Army, they are horse thieves who pretend to be the Red Army.

As they walked, their clothes wet from the river and their boots stained with mud. Gongbao Zabu followed them. The eagle lay on the grass, like its neck pinned to its back, bleeding profusely.

The horse grazed by the river, and the red horse, called Flame, raised its head and shook its mane. The crooks walked up to the horses, pulled up the reins and rode on them.

Gongbao Zab stopped them. "You can't take the horses."

Sasha rode on the red horse, a kind smile on his face, and said, "What if we just go like this?" ”

Gongbao Zabra tightened the reins of his horse.

Sasha kicked the horse's belly with her boots, and the horse spun out, but the reins were in Gongbao Zhabu's hand, and the horse spun around in place.

"Loosen the reins."

"This is my horse." Gongbao Zab said.

The three men rode around on horseback.

Sasha took the gun from the holster and pointed it at The Forehead of Gongbao Zabu "Say it again and loosen the reins." ”

Gongbao Zabu does not let go.

Sasha suddenly turned around and fired a shot at corn, a yellow horse that no one was riding behind him, hitting it in the nose. Corn jumped up in pain. Sasha fired a second and a third shot at its ribs.

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

Corn fell to the ground, a large clump of blood bubbles coming out of its nose, and it shaved the ground with its hooves, trying to stand up but falling sideways, its limbs twitching.

Gongbao Zab pulled Sasha off his horse and grabbed him by the neck with his arm. Gongbao Zabu wanted to kill him, but resisted.

The three men came on horseback and pointed their guns at Gongbao Zabu. Sasha couldn't say what he wanted to say, and Gongbao Zab let go a little. Sasha said, "No, don't shoot the Oriental Brothers." ”

"Let them throw their guns on the ground."

Sasha motioned for them to do so. Two rifles were thrown to the ground. Gongbao Zabu put his right hand around Sasha's neck, walked over, picked up his rifle and threw it into the Yenisei River along with Sasha's pistol. Gongbao Zabu felt that at this time, he had no problem dealing with the four of them alone.

Gongbao Zab said, "You killed my horse, you should have strangled you, but you go, you let them get off their horses, you go." ”

Chubaik, riding the black horse "Stone," took a pistol from his boots, pointed it at Stone's neck, and said, "I'm going to kill this horse now." ”

Gongbao Zabu was about to cry, and just now he wanted to cry when he saw the corn four hooves planing the soil, but he didn't want them to think he was afraid.

Gongbao Zab bowed his head.

Sasha said, "You go with us, we will carry the grain to yenisei province, and we will return the horse to you." ”

Gongbao Zabu didn't know what to do, so he had to do it. He looked back at the corn, which was still twitching. The horse looked at Gongbao Zabu with clear eyes, as if to ask him what was wrong. Gongbao Zab's tears fell in a hurry. He gritted his teeth and said to Chubak, "Shoot it in the heart again." ”

Chubak dismounted, drew a circle with the barrel of the gun near the front leg of the corn, and "snapped" the gun. Corn straightened his whole body, but his eyes were not closed, staring at the sky.

Gongbao Zab stepped onto the red horse, which was the "flame with a white core," and the purple-red fur was mixed with gray spots. Gongbao Zabu shook the reins and stopped looking back at the corn. He followed them north along the river to the ghostly place called Yenisei Province. The wind blew away the tears on Gongbao Zabu's face like rainwater blowing away from the glass. He narrowed his eyes, and many tears poured from his nose into his mouth, and he swallowed it salty, like blood.

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

Corn is the colt of the Gyatso Lama's horse conch, its coat is like a corn that has been sunburned for a winter, its black mane is blacktail, its eyes are as bright as grapes, and its nose is as good as singing. How could this sasha, who called himself a "Bolshevik", turn around and shoot it? It was enough for the four of them to have four horses, and they blew up the boat. This bunch of bastards.

It was dark, and it was as dark as a cave. They stopped and camped and put together a pile of fires. The Russians took out bread and wine, and Gongbao Zab resigned their invitation to go alone in the night to find something to eat. After a while, he caught two hedgehogs and wild honey in birch bark. He put the hedgehog on the mud and threw it into the fire, and in a moment the scent came out. He peeled off the hedgehog's mud shell and thorns, smeared honey on the white flesh and ate it. The Russians were hungry, but embarrassed to ask for it.

"How did you find hedgehogs and honey in such a dark night?" Sasha asked.

"I didn't look for it, they were looking for me." Gongbao Zab said. He noticed that the Russians had several guns, pistols pinned to their boots, and axes in the bags of Chubaik and donkeys. Cossacks cut people with long-handled axes.

Gongbao Zabu got up to look at the horses. The four horses nibbled swiftly at the grass on the ground with their heads bowed. Gongbao Zabu brushes their necks and backs with a brush. Snowflake is an iron blue horse with white hair on both ribs, like snowflakes. The stone black head is square. There was no stray hair on the yellow satin, and the yellow one resembled a ferret. Flames held their heads high like heroes.

Gongbao Zabu put his arms around the horse's neck and then the horse's neck. Poor corn, still lying under the stars, eyes fixed on the endless deep hole in the night sky. Gongbao Zabu squinted on the horse's back and woke up suddenly. Watching the three of them sleeping, Chubaik with a pistol in front of the fire read a book. Gongbao Zabu slept again, and when he woke up, he saw a donkey sitting by the fire, with a gun in his hand.

At dawn, the Russians crouched together to study the map, talked for half a day, and then hurried on the road. Gongbao Zabu rode in front of the flames, the donkey walked, and Sasha rode on the yellow satin that the donkey rode yesterday. They walked along the river, and gradually the mountain road appeared. Gongbao Zabu rode ahead, the mountain standing like a wall on the left, and the right side of the road was the river. The river channel tightens, and the water flows rapidly and turbid.

Gongbao Zhabu suddenly jumped into the river on horseback. The river bank was probably as high as the warp pole, and the horses whizzed into the river with the flames. Gongbao Zabu hugged the horse's neck tightly, he couldn't swim, but the flames wouldn't leave him behind. The horse crossed the rapids diagonally and went up to the opposite shore. Gongbao Zab looked back, and three other horses also came ashore, the back of the stone was shiny, and the Sergei who rode it was washed away by the river, which was 100 meters wide. Sasha and Chubaik rolled over and dismounted. Sasha squatted on the ground coughing and choking on water. Chubak pulled out his gun and aimed it at Gongbao Zhab's horse. "Why did you jump into the river?"

"I didn't jump into the river, the horse jumped into the river."

"Why?" Sasha looked pale and pointed to the other side. "Donkey, still on the other side."

Gongbao Zabu said, "A snake appeared on the road, standing two feet high, and the horse was frightened." ”

Chubaik said, "You ride across the river on horseback and go to the other side and pick up the donkey." ”

"I don't dare, I'm afraid of drowning," Gomberzab said.

The donkey waved to this side on the cliff on the opposite bank.

"Can donkeys swim?" Sasha asked Chubaik.

Chubaik said, "Where he can swim, he is a coal miner in Donbass." Such a fast river, can not swim. Horses are more watery than people, and I ride my horse to pick up the donkey. ”

Chubaik rides snowflakes to the river, and the snowflakes can't survive. Chubak shouted, "Maslowski, donkey, take care, long live the revolution!" He raised his gun and fired two shots into the air. The donkey also fired two shots into the sky on the other side to say goodbye.

Sasha covered her eyes and cried. Chubaik asked, "Comrade Commissar, the revolution is cruel, please retract your tears, and I promise in the name of the sailors of the Cruiser Aurora that we will be victorious." ”

Sasha snothed and said, "We left the donkey on the left bank of the Yenisei River, and this is a mistake that should not be made." Sergey was washed away. Do you know? How brave he was in attacking the fortress of Sevaltupov, he had never had a full meal. You Tuvan ghost. ”

Sasha fingers Gongbao Zabu.

Gongbao Zabu spread his hands, "Snake-"

"But," sasha said, "there is no road on the left bank of the Yenisei River to yenisei province. ”

"There is a bridge ahead," said Gomber zab, "and go another 15 versts." ”

They continued walking, with the stones following behind. The right bank of the river is wooded, walking in the forest, cold and whizzing. Sasha said, "I'm running a fever. ”

"Sing," Said Gongbao Zab, who sang.

"My white horse."

You have a conch pattern on your body

Did you hear that?

Whose footsteps came from the valley. ”

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

Gongbao Zabu's singing voice suddenly turned into a sharp high note, like a whistle. The four horses were restless, as if hiding from something.

"Wolf!" Chubaik with his fingers to the forest.

A pack of wolves was not far away from them, gray-yellow figures flashing among the leaves.

"You've brought in wolves," said Chubaik, "you oriental monkey who knows witchcraft."

"How could I recruit wolves?" We're all dead. Gongbao Zab said.

The horses spun around in place and did not go. They dismounted and hid behind the horse.

The wolf pack did not know how many wolves there were, and they surrounded them in a semicircle. Directly ahead, a large wolf sat on the ground. The wolves rushed east and west, sticking to their side. The horse hissed in horror. Wolves are performing hunting tactics, and people's physical strength and spirit will not work for a while. As soon as the wolf lost his mind, he immediately threw himself down, bit the tendon of the man's foot, and jumped on the man's back.

Chubaik pulled out two pistols and "snapped" at them, and the wolf ducked behind a tree, revealing his head for a moment. Sasha lay motionless on the ground. Chubaik fired a dozen shots, and the bullets ran out. Sasha took a revolver from his armpit and handed it to him, saying, "Aim and hit again." ”

A wolf charged straight at Chubaik, and he shot three times in a row without hitting. The wolf crawled obliquely behind the tree. A wolf bit Sasha's foot and dragged it backwards, Sasha shouted, Chubaik fired two shots at the wolf, he threw the gun into the wolf pack, said, "Wait for death, there are no bullets." ”

Sasha covered her heels, blood flowing from her fingers. He said, "Death hides in the body of a wolf, more abominable than the Tsar." ”

Chubaik said to Gongbao Zhab, "I regret not killing you, I have long wanted to kill you." You summoned wolves with screams. I can kill you without a bullet and feed the wolves with your fat pig carcass. ”

He drew a bayonet and walked over.

Gongbao Zab whistled sharply again, as if he were afraid. Chubaik was startled, and Sasha began to cry.

Gongbao zabu pointed to the woods and said, "What about wolves?" They went to find Sergey and the donkey. "The wolves disappeared into the forest with the big wolves.

Chubaik stabbed him with a knife, and Gongbao Zabu grabbed him by the wrist, snatched the knife and threw it away, saying, "I don't use the knife, do you want to hear the sound of your bones breaking?" ”

Gongbao Zabu twisted Chubak's wrist back to the back, twisted it to the back of his head, and with a click, his entire arm was knocked off his shoulder. Clicking on Gongbao Zhab, he used his knee to break Chubak's left elbow, picked him up, and leaned him against the tree. Chubak's arms drooped like broken branches, and he slid to the ground.

Sasha was lying face down on the ground, what was wrong? Gongbao Zab turned him over, and the commissar fainted in fright. He pinched Sasha's nose, and the man woke up.

"Brother Western," said Gomberzab, "did you sleep well?" ”

Sasha took off her glasses, held them in her hands, and said, "I'm a college student, I haven't done anything bad, for the sake of our lady, forgive me." ”

"Who killed the corn?"

"I killed the yellow horse, I repented, we lost two comrades, you and I are even."

"I haven't killed anyone, and I don't want to kill you today." Half a year later, your bones are crawling with ants. After a year, your skulls will be washed clean by the rain. The corn was still lying in the wilderness, and I was going back to bury it. ”

"I want to have a gun and break you down at once." Sasha said.

Gongbao Zabu nodded to Sasha, and Chubaik put his back against the pine tree, trying to stand up but falling. Gongbao Zab rode on the flames and walked in the direction of Quiteng.

The iron green horse with snowflakes, the black charcoal-like stone and the yellow satin followed him, and the red black yellow ponytail swung from side to side, sweeping over the white blue purple flowers...

Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie
Balgi Wilderness: Five good horses on the Quitern Prairie

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