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Chapter 573 A working team came to Lama Banner (I)

In the late autumn season of the 56th year of Qianlong, the Khalkha grassland has come to a colorful day again. The sun shines on the golden branches swayed by the wind, and the air is filled with the fragrance of pine trees. If you stand on the hill and look into the distance, there is the autumn scenery of Hang Ai Mountain covering the sky. From the grassland to the forest, from the distant mountains to the horizon, the surroundings are quiet, as if you can hear the sound of the growth of thousands of trees.

On such an oil painting-like morning, more than thirty horsemen in dark green uniforms came from the northeast of the Sabra River. When they arrived on a small hill, they all turned their horses and looked southwest. They saw that at the hill on the north bank of the intersection of the Sabra River and the Ulyasutai River, there were more than a dozen yurts of different sizes and black appearances scattered under the hill on the north bank of the intersection of the Sabra River and the Ulyasutai River, with five snow-white and brand new yurts as the center.

"Company Commander, look, that's my home!" Mongolian recruit Tiemur pointed at the yurt in the distance with a horse whip and introduced excitedly to the people around him. "It's so delicious when you get home and ask Abu to make milk tea!"

"Haha, let's go!" Company Commander Wang, who was leading the team, waved his horse whip, and the group immediately rushed down the hillside.

The grassland in the early morning was particularly quiet, and wild birds were walking around the wilderness, as if the grassland had not yet woken up from a dream. When the horse team passed by a sparse birch forest, the creaking sound of the ox cart walking slowly came from a distance.

Hearing this sound, everyone couldn't help but slow down their horses. Timur explained: "It should be a ox cart that pulls water."

To him, all the scenery and sounds in his hometown were so friendly.

Sure enough, a woman in rags drove a water truck and walked over from the river bank to the south. Tiemur hurriedly rushed forward and made a fuss. He was confident that anyone here knew him.

"hello!"

"Okay, hello?"

The woman driving the car seemed to be frightened by a bird. She stopped and covered her face with the horn of a turban, revealing only two large and deep eyes.

Timur did not recognize who the other party was. He felt that he should have married after being summoned to fight.

"I'll ask if Siqin's home still lives nearby?"

"What did you say? Who?" the woman raised her head carefully and fearfully, and then quickly lowered her head.

"Siqin is the girl nicknamed 'Swallow'."

The woman held the cow's chew, and did not move at all. She stared at a grass less than three feet away from her feet. Tiemur felt strange and pushed the dark green felt velvet military cap that was lowered from her head to protect her ears, and strands of heat came up from her broad forehead.

The woman looked up and glanced at him, then her shoulders started to twitch violently, and tears also covered her eyes. She screamed "ah", threw the water truck, ran wildly towards the hill in the distance, and fell down before running for a while, but soon got up and ran. On the grass where she fell, a few strips of rags were tearing off from her long gown, shaking gently in the wind.

Tiemur scratched his head and thought to himself who is this? He wanted to chase her, but then he thought that the other party might be a lunatic. Besides, he was not back alone, and there were dozens of companions. It would be too unreasonable if someone saw dozens of big men chasing a woman all over the mountains. So he came back from a horse and explained to Company Commander Wang a few words. No one took it seriously and continued on his way.

After walking for about a mile, she saw a dilapidated yurt not far ahead. There was a hand-post crutch standing in front of the bag door. The thin old lady, whose lips shrank due to falling teeth, kept squirming, as if she was praying. After a while, she used all her strength, finally moved her steps, and walked around the yurt from left to right.

Company Commander Wang asked in a deep voice: "Who is this?"

Timur explained in stammering Mandarin: "Company Commander, this is the old lady Ganggai. She couldn't see her eyes. She had been asking for food for half her life and could not walk anymore. She lived here a few years ago. She went to marry and sell her daughter, got some bride gifts, and recited scriptures every day and circled around."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Timur suddenly felt heartbroken. The words Mislang, the deputy captain of the "Complaints", echoed in his ears: "Those lamas ask you to pray, let you obey and seek liberation in the next life, but can this save the poor on the grassland?"

"No!" Tiemur suddenly shouted out loudly, like a ignited shell burst out! The loud sound even scared himself and his companions around him. The horse under his crotch also raised his ears straight and sniffed constantly.

"Brother, what's wrong with you?" asked a friend with concern.

"It's okay." Timur shook his head, then jumped off his horse, walked to the old man and shouted: "Hello, Gang Guyji!"

The old lady stopped and answered in a very light voice, but Tiemur didn't hear it clearly. When he asked again, the old man muttered a spell and continued to circle. Every time she took a step, she had to explore the way with a crutch made of birch wood.

As soon as he returned to his hometown, he met these two people first. Tiemur was a little surprised. The crazy woman just now and the old lady in front of him appeared alternately in his mind.

In fact, in his heart, there was a girl standing on the bank of the Ulyasutai River that was shining and wearing a pink turban, which was Siqin whom he missed day and night.

At this moment, the horse that Captain Wang was riding suddenly was frightened. While neighing, he suddenly jumped to the side of the road, almost knocking him down. Tiemur came back to his senses and calmed down. He saw a child's body crossing on the road, half of his body buried in the soil and half of his body exposed outside.

After everyone dismounted and buried the child's body again, and inserted a branch to mark it, they had no joy of riding a horse just now. The group simply led the horse and walked, and in less than twenty minutes, they arrived in front of a yurt with gray smoke.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Before Timur could walk to the door of the bag, he shouted loudly: "Abu! Eji! I'm back!"

An elderly man with wrinkles on his face lifted the worn curtain and walked out. He was carrying a tea bucket in his hand. It was obvious that he had just cooked tea and poured the tea into the bucket. When he saw Tiemur, the tea bucket in his hand fell to the ground, and the hot tea water sprinkled all over the ground.

"Ah! Timur..."

Immediately afterwards, a woman with wrinkles on her face rushed out of her yurt. After seeing Tiemur, she immediately sat on the ground with her legs limp and covered her mouth and cried: "They, they said you were dead in battle... Bless by Lord Buddha!"

Tiemur's father walked up and stroked his son's strong shoulders with his trembling hands. His red face instantly flowed out of his dry eye sockets.

An hour later, there were laughter and joy inside and outside the yurt. Because there were too many people coming, Company Commander Wang simply proposed to sit outside, so everyone sat on the ground outside the bag of Timur's house. Timur's parents poured the cooked milk tea one bucket after another for everyone, and were very busy. Because the tea was hot and they were sweating profusely, everyone took off their military uniforms outside, only wore grass-green sweaters, and they were still wiping their sweat while drinking.

Tiemur drank the milk tea at home with a full meal and told his parents about his experience over the past year. The two old men were shocked. When he was about to ask Siqin about it, he heard the sound of horse hooves coming from behind him. He saw a guy wearing a dark blue satin robe looking at him in surprise. Behind him, there were seven or eight servants who were also riding horses.

"Gonguel?"

"Temur? You are not dead? Oh! Since you went to war with the general, we all hoped that you would come back soon. Today, it was really happy! Tiemur, you must know that in such a rainy and rainy year, people hope that heroes and heroes will be by their side. Isn't it?"

Timur was really not used to Mr. Gongguer's unusual attentiveness and compliment. You should know that Mr. Gongguer, who is always on this grassland, has never been so peaceful and close to the poor.

The comrades around him came over and asked, "Temur, who is this?"

"Gongguer, the nephew of the local lama banner merchant Zhuotba."

During the Qing Dynasty, there were seven Lama banners in the Khalkha Mongolia region. Specifically for the Saini Nuoyan tribe where Ulya Sutai is located, there were five Lama banner fiefs. The village of Timurta belongs to the "Naru Panchen Hutuktu Banner" and is the poorest among all Lama banners.

How poor are you? There is only one temple, with more than forty horses, more than thirty camels, less than seventy cattle, and more than one thousand sheep.

Nalu Panchen Lama originated in India and was later introduced to Tibet. In the 38th year of Kangxi, the first Nalu Panchen Lama in Mongolia was born in the Khalkha Sanyin Noyan tribe, and was named "Nu Panchen Lama Hutuktu" by Kangxi. It is currently passed down to the second generation, and its name is Nawang Choidegdan Gengmucha.

The banner has a territory of 120 miles from east to west and 30 miles from north to south. Historically, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were only 150 households, less than a thousand people. Just a few people were divided into 12 divisions, each with 16 households, each with a leader's management.

"Master Gongguer, I'm just coming home now. What do you mean by calling me a 'hero hero'? What kind of hero am I? I just asked you to be a archer and be punished for a year!"

After hearing this, Gong Guer smiled treacherously. He was like a hunter standing on the post to look for clues to wild animals. He believed that with his alert eyes, he could see the other party's bones in a few glances. However, when he glanced at Timur and the people around him, a chill suddenly appeared on the back of his neck, because he suddenly felt that he was more like a prey targeted by a hunter.

When he looked carefully, cold sweat came out. He suddenly noticed that among the people present, except Timur's father, everyone else had small buzz cuts that were almost bald and had no braids at all!

"You, you, have you joined the thief?" Gong Guer said with courage, his teeth in a cold war.

"You're talking nonsense! They are not robbers, they are the Northern Navy!" Tiemur stared at the other party and said word by word.

"Yes, yes! It's the Northern Navy! The Northern Navy!" Gong Guer suddenly smiled and bowed to Company Commander Wang. He had already seen that this person was the leader.

"I dare to ask what the Jun Ye is here?"

Company Commander Wang walked to Gong Guer and said with a stern face: "We are a working team sent by the North Navy's 'South Detachment'. This time, we are here to make friends with the Mongolian villagers."

"Team team? Make friends?" Gonguer hadn't thought about it for a long time.

"Yes, visit the herdsmen and talk to everyone. Our Northern Navy is not the monsters and ghosts mentioned by the Qing Dynasty. We are here to reduce the burden on the herdsmen, and there will be no more entrusted servants in the future."

Tiemur added casually, and said, "Everyone in the world will be equal in the future!"

"Everyone is equal?! Uh, equality is good, equality is good!"

Gong Guer was stunned for a moment, and suddenly smiled and stroked his beard. To him, Company Commander Wang's sudden appearance and his aggressive attitude seemed to constitute an unsolvable mystery!

It seems that Timur is no longer the stupid boy from a year ago! As the saying goes, I don’t know how deep the river is, so I can’t get into the water easily. So Gongguer said kindly: “Oh! Sorry, I was wrong just now. Lord Wang, you and your subordinates have a good rest. I will treat you to dinner tonight. I really want to hear about the situation of the Northern Navy.”

After saying that, he led a few servants away.

While they were talking, because of Timur's rude and rude words, their parents, who were sweating all over, turned around and shook their heads a little blame-like.

The lost Siqin still pulled the water truck back. She felt like she had a serious illness and was exhausted. As soon as she removed the ox that was pulling the truck, she took heavy steps and walked towards her broken and black yurt. After walking two steps, she suddenly heard someone in the bag where her master lived, shouting: "Take the dust and pour it down."

She had no choice but to turn back and walk into the snow-white bag. Gonguer's eldest wife scolded: "Why did you take a cart of water for so long? Did the wolf bit your heel, or did the breeding cattle flirt with you? The smelly woman doesn't look at you, you don't look at your poor look!"

Siqin, who was used to being verbally scolded, bent down and took out the dust box and poured it on the mound of dust not far from the yurt. At this time, he saw Gongguer and his servant who had just gone out to hunt, and returned halfway. Gongguer's face was as gloomy and terrifying as the sky before the heavy rain! After dismounting, he threw the reins into the servant's hand and quickly walked into the yurt where his father lived.

"Abu! Abu! The North Pirates are here! Timur is back!"

After hearing this, Siqin, who was outside the bag, suddenly felt her heart pounding. She had some courage from somewhere that prompted her to get closer to the yurt and eavesdrop.

"What? Why are you anxious! Tell me slowly."

"It's not a big deal! I don't think he knows about Siqin yet... let's just take... or let's run away?"

Due to excessive fear and tension, Siqin only heard a few words intermittently. She felt dizzy in her head, and she shivered all over her body, and she almost collapsed! She gritted her teeth and erected her hard. As soon as she walked into the bag door where she lived, she fell on the ground covered with hay. She grabbed a handful of hay with her hands, and sparks appeared in front of her eyes. There seemed to be a fire in her chest, her mouth was dry, and she wanted to drink water...
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