Wang Mopan was originally a slovenly man in his forties who ran away to beg for food. Because of his skills passed down from his ancestors, he became very popular in the Gaoli area. Later he married a beautiful woman from the Bai Miao tribe.
This girl, Xiao Wang Mopan, was nearly twenty years old at the time.
In return, Wang Mopan, his pigs, and the White Miao tribe succeeded repeatedly, and the amount of gold sand they dug in a year was thousands of times more than that of the Black Miao tribe.
Kuromiaobe was extremely jealous.
He said this was impossible, so he sent more than 80 people with knives to snatch Wang Mopan away from him.
Then happened the "Battle of Nujiang" between black and white seedlings
More than 80 people from Hei Miao came, which is equivalent to half of the men in the tribe. In order to protect Wang Mopan from being snatched away, Bai Miao also dispatched more than half of their troops. The two tribes killed each other in such a heavy way that the sky was dark and the ground was covered with heavy casualties and blood stains.
The river water turned red.
As a result, both sides suffer losses.
Finally, the two sides negotiated and agreed to build a Philosopher's Stone on the bank of the Nujiang River. The Philosopher's Stone was made entirely of gold. The two parties agreed that in order to reduce unnecessary casualties, a martial arts competition would be held at the Philosopher's Stone every year.
Among the six people, whoever wins will get the right to mine the gold sands next year. They can also bring Wang Mopan to their tribe and ask him to help find gold mines.
A few years passed, and sometimes this family won, sometimes that family won. Wang Mopan simply became a family in the Black Miao tribe again, and he married the youngest Black Miao beauty with the best figure.
This year he spent time with his wife here, and next year he went back to that place to spend time with his wife. Wang Mopan never tired of it and became the biggest winner.
Therefore, there is a proverb spread among the Black Miao tribe in Gaoli area.
"The water flows, Jinshasha, Wang Mopan, come to my house."
"Black seedlings are good, white seedlings are bad. Feed the golden pigs and they will grow."
After the reopening, Black Miao and White Miao suddenly disappeared into the vast mountains. Then a large number of explorers continued to go to Gongshan. Ye didn't know whether they wanted to find Black Miao and White Miao, or they wanted to find the "spot" used for martial arts competitions.
Gold and stone.”
After telling the short story, let’s talk about our experiences.
Dou Sprout threw the camel excrement, cursed that it made me sick, and then we continued on our way.
Tengger means god in Mongolian. The vast desert in Alxa Left Banner is called god, which shows its previous status in the hearts of local people. In addition, there are many small lakes in this sandy land. If you use
Looking at the topography of Tengger on the satellite map, these scattered small lakes are like colorful pearls, including white, blue and red. Douya Xiaoxuan and I found one last time.
If you go through Tengger and reach the Badain Jaran Desert, although it is close, there will be no such small lakes. The reason should be due to the influence of the Helan Mountains.
The Helan Mountains are more than 2,000 meters above sea level and have abundant precipitation all year round. The mountains have abundant precipitation and the deserts have less precipitation. This will create an atmospheric pressure difference and underground rivers will form under the Qilian Mountains. These groundwaters will flow into the desert to form small lakes.
Therefore, the water source of these lakes in Tengger comes from the ground instead of rain from the sky. Otherwise, the desert cannot get half a bowl of water in a year, so how could there be so many small lakes.
Because these lakes do not have the ability to circulate and discharge, and the temperature in the desert is so high, they will evaporate. Once the water dries up, salt will remain. Over time, more and more salt will be stored, and eventually a saltwater lake will be formed. This water ratio
Sea water is salty, and a sip of it can kill a person. Don’t underestimate these lakes. They can be used to make lake salt, which is quite expensive.
On about the eighth day, we found a saltwater lake. This small lake was actually red, and it was not completely red, but half red and half blue. The place where red and blue met was a white line. The lake was calm and it was so beautiful.
We don’t have much mineral water. When I saw this small lake, my first reaction was to get water. Last time we went into the desert, Aza stole the water. If we hadn’t encountered the bottle tree of the Kayak people, Xiaoxuan and I would have been thirsty.
After all, I encountered a saltwater lake one time, but I had to give up because I didn’t know how to fetch water.
Later, I asked Uncle Hulu once and he taught me a method. The Hute tribe has been living in the desert for generations. Uncle Hulu’s method was very useful.
There are two small spherical-shaped glass bottles in the bean sprouts buns. They were originally filled with sour plum soup. After drinking the sour plum soup, he kept the bottles, which are just in use now.
This method of distilling salt water can be used with or without fire, but it is slow and divided into three steps.
I brought two iron rice bowls.
The first step is to fill the basin with sand. One end of the sand should be higher and the other lower. Then fill one of the glass bottles with lake water. Do not fill too much lake water at one time. Make sure that the water cannot flow out when the glass bottle is placed flat.
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In the second step, after filling the water, match the mouth of another bottle that is not filled with water, make sure it is tightly aligned, and then wrap the joint with cloth.
The third step is to fill some water from the lake, pour it into the rice bowl containing the water bottle, and then light a fire to heat the rice bowl. When the sand is hot, the water will boil.
Because the two bottles are facing each other, when the water is boiled, a large amount of water vapor will be produced, which will expand with heat and shrink with cold. The negative air pressure will automatically collect the water vapor into the empty bottle at this end.
Wait until the water boils dry before pouring.
Eventually, drop by drop, the salt water gradually became more and more, and the salt water turned into fresh water that can be drank directly.
