Yang Jin Enters Beijing

After the Rinca Festival, the weather is completely hot.

The wound on my back was scabbed, and no matter how hard I sweated, it felt like ten thousand ants were crawling on it, but I couldn't rest at home because the yamen was busy.

Tubo and Tianyu are indeed going to open and close their markets. Master Basang wants to select some Han merchants with good integrity to cooperate with them. Therefore, there are many Han merchants in Basang's yamen to negotiate with each other every day.

Because I have a good memory, Basang asked me to take notes on the sidelines, recording the prices said by the Han merchants, the good conditions promised, and so on, and then compared them later to avoid any omissions.

When these Han merchants visit, they often bring some gifts.If it is valuable money, Basang will not accept it at all, and will return it back. But if it is a courtesy gift, such as good tea from a certain place, good wine from a certain cellar, Basang will accept it, and then They will return gifts with Hada or Tianzhu, which represent auspiciousness and wealth.

On this day, the weather was extremely hot, and a Han merchant came to Basang, and what he brought to Basang was a whole basket of pears from the Central Plains chilled in ice.

I have never seen pears for sale in the market here, and I don’t know how much it costs to transport it from the Central Plains to Tubo, but it has a watery color, a clear fragrance, and the The cool water vapor from the ice cubes coming out of the basket made me unable to keep looking over.

Lord Basang saw my gluttony, and after the Han merchant left, he took out some rewards from the basket and gave them to me: "Eat."

I touched and touched, smelled and smelled, and decided to take it home to eat with Dawa and Mei Duo.

In summer, the sun rises in the sky for a long time. When I get off work and return to my home outside the city, it is still dark, and my eldest brother has not come back to help with the work in the village. All kinds of helpers are not paid, and if they do not do well, they will be whipped, but Basang people are very nice and give me wages. Qiangba feels that in such a good family, he should not lose his master, so he looks for work in the village every day and often from morning to night.) Tsering and Gyatso drove the cattle to graze, but they haven’t come back yet. Because of the hot weather, they also brought Dawa and Mei Duo with them.The grazing place is by the Jiqu River, where it is cooler.

I left two pears for Danzhu and Qiangba who hadn’t come back, and carrying the other pears, I rode on a horse and searched down the Jiqu River.

'Jiqu' means joy and happiness.The Jiqu River has a wide bed and abundant water. The Jiqu River is the largest river in Tubo.It gallops for thousands of miles, flows down the plateau, and after flowing into the Central Plains, it was renamed Nujiang by the Han people.

The Jiqu River is very important to Luoxie. All the drinking water for people and animals in and outside the city is drawn from the Jiqu River.It can be said that Luoxie City was built here because of the Jiqu River.

Due to the nourishment of the Jiqu River, the land on both sides is extremely fertile, not only the grass grows extremely lush, but also there are stretches of forests.

I found Tsering, Gyatso, and the children beside a walnut grove.

On the thick green grass mat, Gyatso is teaching Dawadi Udo.Tsering was using twigs to tie eagle feathers to make arrows, while Mei Duo was running around them picking flowers.Only the mastiff, Gesanghua, guards the flock conscientiously.

Seeing me, Gesanghua ran over and stuck out her tongue at me.I patted it on the head, and it turned its belly and rolled on the straw mat happily.

Mei Duo also ran to meet her, and showed me a bunch of small yellow and purple flowers: "Abba Yangjin, are these flowers beautiful?"

"Pretty, as pretty as Meadow." I scratched her little nose.

"Give this to Jeb, do you think he'll like it?" Meadow asked me.

"Jeb?" I was taken aback, "Jeb is here again?"

"Jeblai also gave me this." Mei Duo pulled her braid hanging behind her head to her chest, and a pink silk veil was tied at the end of the braid, "Abba Yangjin, is it better than me?" So that one is still pretty?"

"Yes, yes." In fact, I didn't think the veil on the braids was more beautiful, but I felt that Mei Duo's face shone with a different brilliance than before, making her more beautiful.

Mei Duo's big eyes were also bright, she put the pear I gave her in front of her nose and sniffed it, then stuffed it into her bosom, "When Jeb comes tomorrow, I'll eat it with him." After finishing speaking, go on Picked her flowers.

"Couldn't Mei Duo be..., is she still too young?" I murmured.

"Actually, it's not too young." Tsering said with a smile, "Dan Zhu married into our family when she was as big as Mei Duo."

I know that in group marriages in Tubo there are small married brides, but I am not willing to let my Mei Duo be such a bride. "However, it will take another seven or eight years for Mei Duo to marry her."

"You don't have to worry, that young master Jebu didn't want to marry Mei Duo. He came to Zhuangzi because General Dongga came to pick Chaba. He came to see the fun, so he can take a look at Mei Duo." Da Gyatso said He smiled and said, looked at me again, and said, "Yang Jin, you are also a 16-year-old man, but I have never seen you peeping at a woman. You look serious like a clay bodhisattva in a Buddhist altar in a temple."

Tsering also nodded greatly, "When I was thirteen, I was already carrying Danzhu to make children in the wild."

"Hey." I smiled and turned the topic elsewhere: "General Dongga has come to pick Chaba?"

Gyatso's smile dimmed, and he said to me: "Chaiba, who was selected, was issued a soldier, and followed General Dongga to the barracks. Don't mention how majestic he is."

Hearing Gyatso mention this, Tsering also stopped with his hands tied to the arrow, "Yangjin, it's not easy for us Chaba to have a chance to join the army. Why did you reject Master Basang so suddenly?"

"I know that with the skills of the second and third brothers, he will definitely be selected by General Dongga, but have you forgotten what the elder brother said last time, the Rongdi people are very powerful, we can't win, we just go to die." I said, "If the second and third brothers die, what will my eldest brother and I do?"

We Tibetans seldom live long. We usually die around the age of 40, and our parents all died at this age.Big brother Jamba is already in his early thirties, and I...

"My health has not been very good. I'm afraid I won't be able to live long. What will happen to Danzhu and the children?" As I said that, my throat was itchy. I didn't hold back this time, and coughed hard. .

Tsering looked at me and shook his head, then nodded again, "Yang Jin is right, we brothers will not be separated."

Gyatso patted me on the back, "Yang Jin will not die, Yang Jin is the Goddess of Tianyin."

"I am a man, Gyatso, I repeat, I am a man." I clenched my fists and emphasized.

"Then why doesn't Yangjin like women?" Gyatso grinned at me.

I firmly refused to admit that I didn't like women. Just a few days later, someone told me that he wanted to marry me, so I agreed straight away.