Rooney has moved into Gila and Shen's tent.
This was agreed upon by Shen's mother and Rooney's parents. There are two brothers in his family. His older brother will take care of their side of the family, while Rooney will take care of this side of the family. It's a good division of labor between the two sides.
She knew her son's personality; since he had a wife in the city and she didn't want to return to the grasslands, he might not be able to come back either.
The two set up a tent next to Shen's mother's tent, and lived separately there, but still ate together.
Early in the morning, the cattle and sheep are let up the mountain to graze, while Jila makes tsampa at home. It's good to have men in the house; you don't have to exert yourself.
Jira filled the sheep intestines with sheep blood and cooked them. Shen's mother sewed clothes for Shen Shixun on the side.
When Jira saw this, she said, "Mom, my older brother doesn't know how to wear clothes anymore, he's grown up..."
Shen's mother was getting senile, but she couldn't help but fuss over the clothes he had worn.
"I wonder if my brother will miss rice? He's been in the city for so long, and everyone in the city eats rice."
Gila asked Shenmu, but Shenmu did not answer.
She was wearing a hat and sitting outside the tent, her son's clothes and needlework draped over her knees.
After a while, Chen Mu bit the thread with her teeth, mended the clothes, went back into the tent, took out a red bag, untied the knot on it, poured it into a basin, and white rice and black insects poured out together.
It's been too long since I've eaten it, and it's gotten infested with worms.
When Chen Mu reached the windy spot, where the sun was shining brightly, she reached out and picked out the insects from the rice and threw them into the wind.
Seeing this, Gila looked down at Rooney and said, "Mom hasn't been talking much these past few days, what's wrong with her?"
"I'm getting old."
People become more silent as they get older, and Rooney's mother was no exception.
Old Black and the other mastiff were busy watching over the cattle and sheep. They were intelligent and each sat on a hilltop, herding the cattle and sheep back when they wandered off.
The mastiff was mature and steady, standing on the hilltop like a sculpture.
Old Black basks in the sunlight, sticking out his tongue.
Although the sun was about to set and the temperature had dropped a bit, the mastiff stayed there guarding the cattle and sheep, with nowhere to drink water.
They didn't dare leave for fear the cattle and sheep would run away.
Old Hei's nose twitched, and suddenly he heard a man's voice, "Old Hei!"
As soon as Shen Shixun shouted, Lao Hei's eyes suddenly lit up, and he rushed down the hill in a flash, excitedly tumbling and scrambling over, directly knocking Shen Shixun, a tall man of 1.9 meters, to the ground.
The man was tired, so he lay down. Old Black rubbed against him here and there, whimpering beside him. The man stroked its head and said, "I'm back. Did you take good care of Mom?"
"Have the cattle and sheep at home run away?"
The mastiff howled twice more, and the man saw a bunch of lambs following behind their mothers, one group after another.
The ewe has given birth again.
"I'll give you meat later."
The mastiff looked at him, and Shen Shixun reached out and patted its head. The sun gradually set, and the thin mist of the mountains appeared and disappeared on a certain mountain peak, sometimes covering it and sometimes dissipating, but it did not stop him from resting.
With Lao Hei around, he could sleep well even outside. He suddenly said, "I'm going to sleep for a while. You keep a close eye on the cattle and sheep. You and Tie Ge should work well together."
The two mastiffs couldn't leave at the same time. Tie Ge was also howling on the hilltop, but he was afraid that the cattle and sheep would run away, so he couldn't go over to get close to Shen Shixun.
The family has two mastiffs, one named Tiege and the other Laohei. The two dogs are father and son. There used to be a female mastiff, but one day she went to look for lost cattle and sheep and never came back. She gave birth to Tiege and Laohei.
Old Hei is young and can be willful, but Brother Tie is really old, having lived for over ten years.
He breathed heavily as he guarded the cattle and sheep, while Lao Hei lay beside Shen Shixun, watching over him. The man used his backpack as a pillow and fell asleep while stroking the mastiff's head.
As he slept, he felt Lao Hei rubbing against him. For a moment, he had the illusion that Xiang Nanzhi was sleeping and moving around. He opened his eyes and saw the mastiff looking at him.
He was sent back; it was dangerous outside.
The man took the backpack, but the mastiff held onto the strap with its mouth, saying, "You don't need to carry it, I can do it myself."
A mastiff is stubborn; it will take it.
The man had no choice but to squat down and tie the backpack to its body, carrying it in his mouth.
Rooney rode up on horseback, carrying a hunting rifle. "Old Black!"
He shouted and whistled, "Old Black!"
Gila was extremely worried when he saw Tie Ge herding cattle and sheep back with only a dog. He was afraid that something had happened to Lao Hei, so he told him to hurry up and ride a horse to look for him. Rooney was fully equipped, with a hunting rifle and a knife.
"Old Black..."
Old Black didn't like Rooney and didn't respond. As darkness fell, Rooney felt two things approaching him. He cocked his rifle and pointed it at one of the dark figures.
He wondered, if there were two wolves, how could he take down one and then shoot the other when it pounced on him?
"Rooney!"
Shen Shixun shouted, which startled him.
"Sehun".
Rooney dismounted and saw Old Black walking behind him. "That startled me. Gila told me to come out and find Old Black."
"Didn't I say I was going to come back?"
"It's so late, I thought you were going to come tomorrow, Gila has already put away the blood sausage."
We'll eat when he gets back.
Rooney glanced at the clothes he was wearing, smiled, and said nothing. "Why didn't Snow Lotus come?"
Xiang Nanzhi was fair-skinned. She had been here once, and everyone knew her. They all praised her beauty in private and gave her the nickname "Snow Lotus".
With a hint of teasing and covetousness, Shen Shixun didn't like him calling him that.
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