Later that night, in the early hours of the morning, after seeing that we were all asleep, Aza untied his camel, took water and food, and left on his own.
The journey went smoothly for the first two days, but something happened on the night of the third day.
He was sleeping in the middle of the night when he suddenly heard the cry of a camel. Camels generally do not bark unless they see wild animals that are dangerous to themselves. There are no lions in the Alxa Desert, but there are also some other wild animals living there.
Animals often appear at night, such as wild dogs (not hyenas), sand lizards, rattlesnakes, etc.
Aza woke up from his sleep and ran out in a panic to see if there were wild dogs or something nearby. As a result, he saw a bonfire in the distance. The bonfire was burning very brightly, and it seemed that people could be heard following the sound of the wind.
The noise of talking.
At first Aza thought it was Touhou and the others who were chasing him, but then he realized that it might not be the case. As he got closer, he found that it was a group of people cooking meat around a campfire.
The people he met were the same as we met. Aza said that this group of people was another group of indigenous tribes living in the Alxa desert, called the Kayak tribe. Those people were all Kayak people. It is said that Alxa is deep in the
The Kayak people here migrated from Taklimakan over hundreds of years.
Regarding the Keya people, Aza, a native of Yinchuan who has lived at the foot of the Helan Mountains since childhood, knew that the Keya people were much later than the Hute people. About twenty or thirty years ago, in the 1970s and 1980s, a foreigner
A very famous explorer came to Alxa for exploration. He lost his way due to a sandstorm and had no water or food. The foreign explorer was rescued by the Kayak people when he was dying. At this point, the locals in Yinchuan knew that there was actually another place in Alxa.
Such a tribe, a tribe they don't know yet.
A few decades ago, the Kayak people were very scattered. Some houses were separated by more than 20 kilometers. It sometimes took a week to ride a camel to visit one house. Time entered the last century.
After the 1990s, this group of Kayak people realized that it was inconvenient to live like this, so they began to gather together to build villages in the desert. From this, the Kayak people slowly gathered from all directions and developed into a real Kayak tribe.
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The Kayak tribe has their own language, culture and god worship. Aza told me that the Kayak people worship the sacred tree the most. The sacred tree he mentioned is the bottle tree I smashed. It is said that the ancestors of the Kayak people brought saplings from Taklimakan.
And after planting, it took hundreds of years for the bottle tree to grow to this size.
There are no doctors in the Kayak tribe. In their belief, the sap of the sacred tree can cure all diseases and pain. If someone is sick, the Kayak people will bring sacrifices to hold a ceremony. After the grand worship ceremony, the Kayak people will use
Gently scratch the bottle tree with a knife, use a small cup to catch a little sap, and then smooth the small opening with Populus euphratica gum, praying that the bottle tree will heal the wound soon.
Zhao Xuanxuan and I smashed the pale white tree sap, which is regarded as sacred water in the Kayak culture, with stones, drank to our fill, and took away five large homemade flat pots made of dried cactus.
Bottle, so people are anxious with me.
Later, Aza, this bad boy, was captured by the Kayak people because of a verbal conflict. He didn't meet us until just now.
He continued: "You two destroyed the sacred tree of the Kayak people. Do you know the nature of this matter? It is like a devout Buddhist who one day has the Buddha statue he has worshiped for his entire life being smashed.
If you put yourself in their shoes, what would you do if it were you?"
I was dissatisfied and said: "What else can I do? I smashed the bottle tree they planted, but I am also willing to apologize and compensate. How dare they kill people in broad daylight."
"You're so cool," Aza taunted me, "You'll find out later in the evening. I heard a little bit just now that they were discussing setting you two on fire under the sacred tree. I'm afraid they weren't going to use it as a sacrifice.
Contribute your products to the sacred tree."
I immediately asked: "Do you understand the language of the Kayaks?" As for what he said that the Kayaks would burn Zhao Xuanxuan and me to death at night, I didn't believe it at all. I thought he wanted to see that I was afraid of making a fool of myself.
I don't believe it. I didn't chop down their sacred tree. I just smashed it a little bit, so it won't be like that.
Aza replied: "The pronunciation of Keya language is somewhat similar to that of Qiang language. I can understand part of the meaning, but I can't speak it. I know you don't believe what I just said. By tonight you will know whether what I said is true or false."
Already."
After that, Aza leaned against the wall, closed his eyes, and stopped talking.
It was getting dark, and we stayed there until about eleven o'clock in the evening, when torches were lit outside the door and there was a lot of noise.
The door was pushed open, and the young girl with earrings walked in with four or five big men. They were holding two thick poplar tree sticks with hemp rope tied to one end.
