Kayaks kept coming on the road, and a few little boys threw stones at our faces with angry faces. Aza was unlucky, and the corners of his eyes turned red after being hit by stones.
Aza kept shouting and yelling, but the scholar could not explain clearly when he met the soldiers. Without much effort, we were carried to the bottle tree.
Now I finally understand why the bottle tree is made of solid soil instead of yellow sand, and the rows of stones piled under the tree were deliberately made by the Kayak people to worship and protect their tribal sacred tree.
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They found burnt tumbleweeds and rotten wood and built three fires. All the Kayak people lay on the ground and raised their hands above their heads, kowtowing devoutly to the bottle tree. After kowtowing, an elderly Kayak man took the lead.
He stood up, and as he muttered something for a while, the fire was lit.
Three or five Kayaks held hands and danced in circles around the bottle tree. The dance probably lasted for nearly ten minutes.
After they finished dancing, Aza was the first to be pushed towards the fire. He was so close that the heat wave made my face hurt.
"I drafted grandma!" Aza yelled.
Xiaoxuan closed her eyes in fear. She didn't dare to look. It would be my turn next.
Azalian was lifted up with a stick, and just when he was about to be thrown into the fire, a sharp shout suddenly came from behind him.
"Bagok! Stop!"
A girl with glasses and modern clothes, holding a torch in one hand, ran over panting.
Why is it her?
I know this girl who came in a hurry. When we first arrived in Yinchuan, we went to see reporter Gan. At that time, there was a girl with glasses next to reporter Gan. He said he was her colleague, and this girl was that person.
The man who was called Bageck became happy and reached out to touch the girl with glasses.
The bespectacled girl angrily said a lot of words in Kayak language, and the Kayak people looked gloomy and uncertain after hearing this.
The girl helped me loosen my ties.
She spoke standard Mandarin and said with an apologetic look: "I'm sorry everyone, I apologize to you on behalf of the Keya tribe. We have met before. I am a colleague of reporter Gan. Please call me Huiya."
"You are a Kayak tribe? You are a Kayak!" This sudden aftermath made me unable to react.
She nodded, "I am indeed a Keya, and I am also the first Keya to leave the tribe to go to school. No one else knows about it except reporter Gan. Don't take it off. The sacred tree is the spiritual sustenance of us Keya people. What happened
In this case, it’s time to stop.”
I quickly said: "We were at fault in the first place. We caused trouble because we didn't understand your tribe's beliefs. We are willing to give you some financial compensation."
The girl smiled and said that money is of no use to the Kayak people. They are self-sufficient in food and clothing. They don't go to the hospital when they are sick. They don't need money at all.
"Thank you so much, beauty!" Aza just stepped on the edge of the gate of hell, and now he is in the state of surviving the disaster.
On the way back to the tribe, the strong Kayak men seemed to respect the girl very much, and from time to time someone came up to show her courtesy.
"Beauty, are we okay and can we leave?" Aza asked.
"You can't leave just yet. Although I can speak in the tribe, I still have to convince the patriarch to give up the punishment on you. Our old patriarch of the Kayak people has a high prestige in the tribe. I need a day or two."
Perhaps she was worried that we would be worried, so she added: "Don't worry, I can ensure your safety during this period, and I will send food and drink to you regularly."
After staying in the village for a day and a half, the girl named Hui Ya definitely kept her promise. She convinced the old patriarch that Keya promised to spare our lives, but there was a precondition. He asked the three of us to treat the bottle sincerely.
The tree kowtowed and apologized, asking the sacred tree for forgiveness.
Your life is in someone's hands, so just kowtow, it's better than death. In the end, the three of us did it.
Before leaving the Keya Department, I asked Huiyagan why the reporter was not here.
She smiled and said: "Actually, I didn't know you were arrested. I rescued you this time by accident. I came back to see my mother. Gan Xuan is still in Yinchuan. I was with you two days ago.
You are not familiar with each other, so you hid your true identity. Are you not looking for the Special Forces Department? Why are you here?"
I smiled bitterly and told Huiya that I got lost in a sandstorm a few days ago, and asked her how to find the Hute Department. I couldn't contact the camel team and got separated from it.
Huiya said: "There is someone in the tribe who can take you there, but he is very prejudiced against you. It took me a lot of effort to get this thing."
As she spoke, she handed me a small sheepskin map. The map was as big as two palms, with several stronghold-type scenic spots marked on it with charcoal.
Huiya pointed to the map and said: "You are here now. The Hute people are probably active in this area. I can only help you so much. I wish you good luck on your journey."
Thanks to Huiya, we left the Keya tribe that afternoon with a little water and a map.
"Hey! Why are you following us?" After leaving Keya, Aza followed Xiaoxuan and me from a distance. He was carrying the backpack and kept a distance of forty or fifty meters from us.
He shouted from the air: "Who is following you! The Alxa Desert is not your back garden, I'm just walking normally."
"Shameless..." Xiaoxuan muttered to me: "Yunfeng, we have to be careful these two nights. This guy is a bad guy and his sailor's feet are not clean. He might want to steal something from us again."
We don't have sleeping bags on us now, so we choose to camp under a poplar tree to rest at night. Aza sat down from a distance, ate dry food, and waved to greet us.
I asked Xiaoxuan to go to bed first.
I lit a fire and stayed by the fire until late at night, just looking at that boy. I stared at him for most of the night. Anyway, I wouldn't sleep if he didn't sleep.
Aza couldn't stand this, so he took the lead and shouted: "Hey, Yunfeng, let's make up, there's no need for this, it's so uncomfortable."
I sneered and replied: "Reconciliation? Are you kidding? Reconciliation, wait until we fall asleep so that you can steal our things?"
He suddenly stood up and walked step by step, smiling as he walked: "Look at what you said, Yunfeng, do you really not know why I am following you? Or are you pretending to be confused because you understand?"
"I saw it all that night, when I was looking for water."
The smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and he squinted and said, "A young geography researcher, right? Oh, that's so strange. Which researcher brings Luoyang to shovel rats??"
"I do not understand what you are saying."
"You still don't admit it?"
Aza picked his ears with his hands. He put down his hands and squinted and said, "I'm not a child. I knew what you were doing when I saw those things at the first sight. You still pretend to be a young geography researcher with me, and I don't care about you."
If you want to find any treasure in Alxa, count me in."
I stood up and looked at him and said coldly: "I said what if I don't take you with me."
"Don't you want to play with me?"
"Tsk, tsk, that's hard to say."
"Yunfeng, you don't know. There's been something wrong with my mouth recently. I can't close it tightly. I'm always thinking about saying something to others..."
"Look, if some things are said out loud, it might not be good for everyone."
