Yang Jin Enters Beijing

As the sun was setting, Dan Zhu was pounding ghee outside our yurt.Dawa and Mei Duo are playing on the grass.

Danzhu is my wife, and Dawa and Mei Duo are my sons and daughters.In fact, it is correct to say that Danzhu is the common wife of our four brothers, and Dawa and Mei Duo are also the common children of our four brothers.

The marriage system in our Tubo is different from that in the Central Plains. A man can marry many wives by himself, and at the same time, several brothers can marry one wife.We call this group marriage.

Of course, a man who marries many wives is a 'headman', and a man who has several brothers who marry one wife is a 'chaba', or a 'heap poor'.

Seeing us coming, Dawa and Mei Duo jumped up like birds. The older brother Dawa hugged my neck to play on the swing, and the younger sister Mei Duo hugged my legs, not coming down like a monkey.

I laughed and let them jump up and down on me.Among the fathers, they like to cling to me the most, and I also like to play with them.

Dragging and hugging these two 'little monkeys' followed Jamba and Gyatso into the yurt,

Cow dung is burning in the middle of the yurt, and a copper pot is placed on the fire, and the butter tea in the copper pot is fragrant.Danzhu put butter tea in a bowl and served it to us.

I was getting a little hungry, so I blew on the heat of the tea and took a sip, the taste was very mild.

Gyatso also frowned while drinking, "Didn't you put any salt?"

"There's no more salt," Danzhu said.

Danzhu is one year older than Qiangba, but she looks much older than Qiangba, and her temples have gray hair.

Gyatso put down the tea bowl, and asked Qiangba the question that had not been answered just now: "How much will be added this year?"

Jampa silently stretched out four fingers.

My heart skipped a beat.

"We don't have so many newborn calves this year. We donated [-] yaks to Buddha for Yang Jin's treatment. How can we get so many?" Gyatso said.

What Gyatso said was for me to make an offering to the Buddha. Last winter, I was seriously ill. People here usually pick some herbs to eat when they are sick. If they are seriously ill, they have to ask the Buddha in the temple to heal them. At that time, I was very ill. Jamba donated [-] yaks to the monastery, and obtained the elixir that is said to contain the hair of the living Buddha, and brought me back to life.

"The two children are still so young, and Yang Jin's health is not good." Dan Zhu, who had been listening by the side, interjected at this moment, with a crying tone in his voice.

Sometimes Danzhu feels like a mother to me, worrying, working hard, and nagging: "The salt is gone, and the tea is almost gone."

Gyatso slapped his thigh and stood up, shouting loudly: "Why do we have to pay tribute to Rongdi? Rather than giving them all the cattle and sheep, and starving to death of my whole family, it is better to fight with them."

"What do you know?" Qiangba, who hadn't spoken for a long time, shouted, very majestic like a parent.

Gyatso snorted and had to sit down again.

Qiangba sighed, and said, "You didn't go last year, but Tsering and I went with Zanpu's army. When we reached the border, we saw Rongdi cavalry. Do you know what their cavalry looks like? Horses are all covered with iron armor, arrows can’t go in, knives can’t cut them, how can we fight them?” Qiangba’s back bent even lower, “I can’t beat them!”

Qiangba turned to Danzhu who was wiping away his tears, and said, "Tighten tight and you can get through." Putting his hands into the sleeves of his robe, he said in a voice like talking to himself, "I hope Tsering can catch more prey there." .Han merchants like those furs very much, and they can always exchange some salt and tea."

Tsering is my second elder brother. He is the best hunter under the Snow Mountain. He has a good body like steel, and he dares to fight horse bears with his bare hands.We all breathed a sigh of relief when we heard my elder brother mention my second brother. With my second brother around, we can still get by.

"Second brother and the others went hunting, are they coming back soon?" Drinking the tasteless butter tea, I missed my second brother very much.

……

The second brother came back that night, but he did not bring back the prey, and he did not come back on horseback, but was sent back on the horse of other hunters.

The second brother Tsering was injured.

His leg was scratched by the horse bear, and there was a ten-inch-long bloody gash that was deep enough to see the bones, and the blood covered half of his body.

"Brown bear, the bear has gone crazy, and it came out to bite people like crazy." Tsering lost so much blood that he was already dazed, and he kept mumbling like this.

The brown bear is a Tibetan brown bear, very strong and violent, but his main food is berries, and he also eats fish and other small animals, but he rarely aggressively attacks people.

I didn't care about how Ma Xiong went crazy, so I quickly cleaned Tsering's wound and put black plaster on his wound.

This black plaster was made by the monks in the monastery. More than a dozen kinds of medicinal materials were added to the bone glue boiled from yak bones, which can reduce inflammation, stop bleeding, and astringe.The most important thing is that it will form a film when it dries, like a layer of skin, which will bind the wound and prevent the wound from dehiscence.When I first saw it, I thought it was a good thing, and I thought it was not worth exchanging two hundred yaks for a few hairs, so when I came back from the monastery, I asked Lama Gyaltsen for some.Of course, I dare not say whether it is worth it or not. Donating money to the monastery in Tubo is a kind of merit, not a business, and you can’t use such a blasphemy as worth it. It’s just that two hundred yaks are almost half of my family’s property.

Tsering took medicine, the bleeding stopped, and he soon fell asleep.

The rest of us guarded him for a while, seeing that there should be no big problem, we all fell asleep one after another, but I couldn't fall asleep.Tsering was injured, and a major source of livelihood for the family was gone, which also meant that there was no salt and tea, and Tsering was seriously injured, and more nutrients were needed to restore his health.This winter, I don't know how difficult it will be.

When he couldn't fall asleep, he felt Gyatso move, then he turned over and sat up, and then he heard the sound of the curtain being lifted, and Gyatso walked out.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw his robes still lying by the fire.This guy is not afraid of catching a cold!Here we have a big temperature difference between day and night, even though it’s only September, it’s still very cold at night

I picked up his robe and followed him out.

Outside the yurt, Gyatso was sitting beside Gesanghua's kennel, with his head bowed, his body trembling and trembling, he didn't know what he was doing.

"What are you doing?" I walked over and put the clothes on his shoulders, but I startled him.He turned his head, his face was as red as a ripe wolfberry in autumn.

I was stunned, but as a man, I immediately knew what he was doing, "Why don't you go find Danzhu?"

Gyatso pouted, "Danzhu? I feel more and more like our mother." Gyatso was 20 years old, and Danzhu was 12 years older than him. It's no wonder Gyatso doesn't like to go to her. In fact, Danzhu can only be regarded as the wife of Qiangba and Tsering, but she has always been a sister-in-law to me and Gyatso.

"When we have more yaks, I will marry another wife for Gyatso." It is a gift for our 'chaba' to marry a wife, so we need a lot of yaks as a gift.

Hearing me say such bold words in such a difficult time, Gyatso just treated me like a child without worry, and didn't refute. He put his arms around my shoulders and asked me to sit with him, "Okay, we need to raise a lot of children. Yak."

Suddenly a gust of wind blew over from nowhere, rolled something thin and cool on my face, I stretched out my hand to touch it, and asked doubtfully, "Is it snowing?"

Gyatso suddenly jumped up from the ground like an electric shock, looked up at the sky, more shattered, cold things were blown down from the sky, "How could it come so early?"

The first snow just fell, a month or two earlier than usual.

I also finally know why brown bears are crazy. They realize that winter is coming early before us, and like us, they are not ready to survive this winter at all.