Xia Xun has been observing the people in this village all the way. Most of them have deep eye sockets, high nose bridges, and hair that ranges from black to yellow. Going further, there are more adults, and there are women drying fish.
, there are men who are whittling furniture out of poplar wood... Except for pots, almost all the utensils they use every day are made of poplar wood, so everyone has learned to whittle wooden household items since they were young.
These adult men and women are dressed in the same simple clothes, but they are all upright and handsome in appearance. However, the adult women are also tall and strong. The original beauties with figures as delicate as willows are not found here. Baidu Jinyi Night Post Bar
These adults were probably not as curious as children about these two strangers, probably because they had often seen them during their travels. They greeted Suleiman enthusiastically, and some just asked casually and said
No one came to watch. Through the words and attitudes of these people, Xia Xun felt that Suleiman still had a high status in this village.
After walking for a while, Gu Zaili arrived at her home and politely said goodbye to the two guests. Suleiman smiled and translated her farewell words for her, and joked to her: "Remember, wait until I see you off."
Since I have traveled far away, I will go to your house to propose marriage."
Gu Zaili "escaped" with a red face, and Suleiman laughed and led Xia Xun and Liu Yujue to continue walking forward.
Suleiman's house arrived. It was also made of tamarisk fences, but his house was a very beautiful wooden house. Compared with most houses that were only built with reeds and could only be used as firewood huts in the past, they were obviously higher-end. Their family background
It was indeed better than most other houses. After entering the courtyard, Suleiman stopped and asked Xia Xun and Liu Yujue to come into the house first.
Xia Xun thought to himself: "It must be a rule of the Luobu people that guests come first." So he didn't ask any more questions. He just nodded politely to Suleiman and entered the room.
In the house, a wooden pit occupies nearly half of the area. It is covered with thick blankets. A young woman is teasing a child who has just learned to crawl on the bed when she sees two strange Han guests coming in.
, couldn't help but stood up in surprise. Suleiman then walked in and said something loudly to her. The woman looked relieved, nodded in agreement and walked out.
Suleiman said to Xia Xun and Liu Yujue: "You guys sit down first, I'll ask her to get you some food."
Xia Xun and Liu Yujue hurriedly thanked him and sat down by the kang. Suleiman also sat down and shouted to the little guy crawling around on the kang: "Come on, my Arslang, let dad give me a hug!"
"
The little guy was beaming with joy, and crawled towards him with glistening saliva. Suleiman held his son in his arms with a smile, and started talking to Xia Xun. This time he asked more carefully.
Xun's answer was naturally flawless. Suleiman, who had no ulterior motive to begin with, nodded repeatedly and expressed sympathy for their plight.
After a while, the woman brought two cups of tea. Suleiman introduced that this was his second wife. The first wife had gone back to visit relatives in another village half a day's ride away.
, that village was also built around Luobu Lake. The lake is as big as an ocean, and there are many small villages like this around it.
The two cups of tea were different from the original tea leaves, but Apocynum tea. The Apocyam people lived by the water, wore Apocynum clothes, drank Apocynum tea, and ate Apocynum powder. This kind of crop was what they had besides fish.
The most important life dependence. Although the taste of the tea is not as fragrant as the original tea, the Apocyamus people are in good health and live a long life precisely because they drink this tea made from Apocynum leaves and flowers all year round.
Of course, Xia Xun and Liu Yujue didn't know the miraculous effects of this apocynum. Although they felt the taste was worse, this hot tea was a hundred times more delicious than the horse blood and ice water they drank along the way. The two of them held the hot tea in their hands.
Chatting with old man Suleiman over tea.
Suleiman's wife quickly cleaned up the fresh fish, found some dry red willow branches and grilled them without any seasoning. After the grilling was done, she sprinkled a seasoning called Puhuang on the table. Then
Then he brought milk and a plate of pickled crispy white rhizomes. Suleiman said that these were the rhizomes of reeds. Pull them out when they are just growing and pick out the white and tender parts, which are very delicious.
Xia Xun and Liu Yujue thanked them again and started chewing. The fish was grilled crispy and tender. Although no oil or salt was added, it still had the fragrance of fish meat. The two of them devoured the fish, which weighed three kilograms.
After almost eating two of them, they put down the grilled fish, chewed the tender reed roots and drank rob tea. It was not yet time for dinner, but Suleiman was not hungry, so he just smiled and let them eat.
When the two of them had filled their stomachs, Suleiman smiled and said: "My second son went back to his parents' house with his mother. His house is vacant. I will take you there in a while. You can stay in the village first!"
Xia Xun thanked him and said: "Uncle Suleiman, you said there is a place in front of you that is dedicated to receiving merchants. Now there are some merchants from the sandbank living there. I don't know... who are they? The two of us
I... also know a few business friends over there at Shazhou, maybe I can borrow their help to return to Shazhou!"
After hearing this, Suleiman said: "Oh, I really don't know much about this, because merchants often pass by here, so I built some guesthouses in front to entertain the guests, but the business over there is not that clear.
It has been taken care of by my eldest son since the year before last. I only heard him casually mention where the guests who are staying there are from. I don’t know the details yet.
It's a long way from here, so hurry up tomorrow. I'll go and inquire for you tomorrow, but... young man, I advise you to stay in the village first. You can escape from the horse thieves.
Crossing the desert again, you are lucky, but luck will not always be on your side. There are only two of you. It is too dangerous to cross such a long desert and return to the sandbank. There is no guide who is familiar with the road to follow.
It’s easy to get lost, starve to death, or die of thirst in the desert. Even if you know the way and are alone, you can easily run into horse thieves.”
Xia Xun said: "Thank you, uncle, for reminding me. We don't have to leave right away, but if we really have any acquaintances, I can say hello in advance and someone will take care of me. In addition..., uncle will help me find out where the merchants are coming from."
, don’t tell us first..."
"Oh, why is that?"
Uncle Suleiman became slightly alert, and Liu Yujue smiled bitterly and said: "Uncle, we businessmen are not like the people here, who are carefree and carefree. In the shopping mall, we have friends and enemies, some
It’s really a fight to the death. If it happens to be our enemy, although it won’t add insult to injury, it will still make them laugh at you..."
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Suleiman laughed heartily: "You people outside, you are right. When I walked to Shazhou, the wealthy families and merchants over there were really scheming and scheming. It's up to you. I'll help you."
You go and inquire about the news secretly!" As he said this, he blinked at Xia Xun and Liu Yujue with a childlike innocence, as if he thought it was very interesting to do this secretly.
The two sides chatted for a while, and Suleiman led the two of them to his second son's residence. It was also a wooden house with red willow branches in front of the fence. There were no bolts or locks on the door. It was like a paradise in this world.
Here, only the people in the village live, so there is no need for such things. Open the courtyard door and you can enter the house.
When the sun set, a hunter came back from the village. It was Gu Zaili's father and brother. They hunted a yellow sheep. The whole village was as happy as if they had encountered a great happy event. Xia Xia, who had to wander in the village,
Xun and Liu Yujue were baffled. It seemed that in this quiet place, some very ordinary things could be celebrated as a big happy event.
It wasn't until dinner that they understood why the whole village was so happy, because Gu Zaili went door-to-door and invited the whole village to taste roasted whole lamb. Here, although the property is privately owned, to a large extent they still
Some of the habits of primitive tribes have been retained, and some good things are customarily shared with the villagers.
In the square in the center of the village, the villagers worked together to pile up a pile of Populus euphratica branches. After the branches were burned into charcoal, they dug a big hole in the middle and buried the whole sheep in it. Immediately afterwards, the people in the village named the sheep.
I brought all kinds of food, tables and chairs to hold a big dinner. The chairs are made of poplar wood, the table is a larger poplar wood block, and the cups, bowls, and plates are all made of poplar wood. The variety of food is actually lackluster.
The main dish is still fish prepared in various ways, and the drink is fresh milk.
When the roasted lamb, which was charred on the outside and tender on the inside, was dug out, torn into pieces and served on a wooden plate, and served in front of everyone, the feast arrived. Someone played the tempura made of white birch wood and wore dyed clothes.
The girl in the flower skirt danced heartily to the music, and soon the men joined in. Not only the young men, but also many old people with gray beards also danced flexibly.
Although Xia Xun and Liu Yujue were brought back as ragged as beggars, they were still regarded as honored guests by the simple villagers and sat on the chairman's chair. Liu Yujue looked at everything in front of him and was infected by the happy mood of the villagers. He was fascinated by everything.
He sighed: "Brother, I think this is the paradise on earth. I really want to live here and never leave!"
"perhaps!"
Xia Xun smiled, but his eyes were extremely clear: "Perhaps, this is the paradise on earth. But you have only seen their happy side, but not the hardships of their lives here. If they see the original prosperity, why not
Will you yearn for it? Everyone thinks that others live better than themselves, but in fact everyone has his own luck and misfortune. We have our own life and our own responsibilities!"
Xia Xun turned his face, and the blazing fire reflected half-light on his face. Behind his shoulders, firewood and sparks blown by the wind were flying in the night sky, as if they were more distant existences than the stars in the sky.
Xia Xun said word by word, very seriously: "We have something we want to protect, so we can't give up! Hardship and torture can't change us! Temptation can't change us either!"
"yes!"
Liu Yujue looked at Xia Xun with admiration and even admiration. In his heart, his brother Yang's will was as firm as a rock. With him around, he would always have a backbone and would never have to worry about losing his way!
In another camping place, in front of the campfire, Ying Zhan smiled fondly at his beloved wife Miao Yi, who was lazily nestled in his arms: "Haha, I said it's boring in the desert, but you insist on coming here, how about it?
, are you feeling bored now?”
He stroked his beard and said: "We'll have another day's rest tomorrow, and then we'll continue on the road. Let's do this. I'll ask a few people to accompany you tomorrow to visit the village of the Rob people. The small village here is actually