That night I watched something I shouldn't have watched, and Xiaoxuan's face turned red. She turned around and scolded me for being a hooligan, but the problem was that I could still see her when she turned around.
I was so disturbed by this incident that I had no intention of taking a shower, so I just wiped my face randomly.
On the way back, neither of us spoke at first, but as we were approaching the tribe, Xiaoxuan suddenly turned to me and said, "You just saw it, you have to take responsibility."
I'm stupid, I admit it, I didn't see anything just now. Her hair was wet, and she kicked me angrily.
At that time, the word scumbag was not popular yet. If it was, I think I should be considered one.
After staying in the Hute tribe for a few days, we experienced the unique tribal customs of the Hute people. On the last day of every month, the Hute tribe holds a fire ceremony.
The fire ceremony is held in the open desert area. The Hute people will smash more than 300 wooden piles into the ground. Each wooden pile is more than one meter high, and a coal lamp will be placed on the top of the wooden pile.
The Hute people used ropes to connect all the wooden piles, and finally buried a poplar tree trunk in the heart to create a maze in which people could walk back and forth.
The old tree trunk at the end of the maze looked old at first glance, and some tribal symbols were painted on the trunk with red paint. I asked Aji what was painted on the old tree trunk, and Aji said that the pattern protected the Goat God of the Hute people.
On the last day of the month, Yazai Xiaoxuan and I participated in this event, but we didn’t know what to do. He had locked himself in his room these past few days and been studying the problems of Blackwater City.
We walked around the wooden pile maze and were always careful to touch the kerosene on the wooden piles. Aji walked in front of me, and Dou Sprout Xiaoxuan followed closely behind me.
After walking in circles for about ten minutes, we reached the heartland. Aji put his hand on the old tree trunk and said something. He said it twice, the first time in their language, and the second time in Mandarin to us.
, meaning let us do it.
What he said was: "If you touch Lao Gan, your waist and legs will not be sore. If you touch Lao Gan, the sheepfold will be full."
I thought it was quite interesting, so I followed the instructions and followed the local customs for good luck.
After participating in the fire festival, it was around nine o'clock in the evening when I returned home, so I gathered everyone together for a meeting.
"I have been researching for a few days," Tuo looked at us and held out a finger. "If we can find Heishui City in Xixia, I plan to set a time limit for us, just one week. If we can't find anything valuable after a week,
If we don’t have enough stuff, we’ll go back home.”
Qin Xingping nodded, "I think so too. It would be a pity not to check it out after we have come this far. It depends on our luck. By the way, how are we going to get rid of that guide? It's not that the Special Forces Department is looking for this for us, I'm talking about the old man
open."
After thinking about it, he said: "I will send Lao Zhang back tomorrow and tell me that we will stay in the tribe for a long time to do folklore research. And Yunfeng, how is the tool guy's inspection?"
"No problem. I've checked it. Everything I brought from Handan is there. Yesterday Yazai and I went to get water. We can leave at any time."
The next day I found Lao Zhang and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhang, please go back first. We have to stay in the special department for long-term interviews. It may take a month or two. You still have work. It's not good to keep delaying you like this."
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Lao Zhang thought for a while and said: "It actually takes so long. I thought you would stay in Yinchuan for a few days and then go back to Yinchuan. In that case, I will go back. I will tell the president about the camels when I go back. Please pay attention to your safety. You can't do it when you go back."
Let the clan leader send someone to deliver it."
"No problem," I shook hands with him, "We all agree on how much the camel fell into the mine, and we won't make it difficult for you, Uncle Zhang. Pay attention to safety on the road."
He left in the morning. More than two hours after Uncle Zhang left, we were ready to leave.
Hu Lu from Hute was our guide. Because Hu Shu couldn't speak Mandarin and couldn't communicate directly, he took Aji with him.
The place we are staying in has already entered the uninhabited land. Aji said that except for his tribe, few outsiders come here. From here, we ride camels and go deeper, and Alxa becomes even more desolate.
When he left, Aji also took his mobile phone with him. There were no power banks at that time, but the mobile phone had a long standby time. It could last ten and a half days without charging. Aji would take out his mobile phone to play games at night, including Thunderbolt 2000. Sometimes I watched
He was too good at coaching him. I told him that thunder and lightning doesn’t work that way. How can you hit the opponent’s aircraft if you can’t take bullets? But Aji often didn’t take it seriously and said that I didn’t take bullets on purpose and that I was practicing my skills.
That night, everyone fell asleep in the second half of the night. I was sleeping, and suddenly I heard a howl, like a wolf's cry.
I was so frightened that I immediately sat up and lost all sleep.
After I got up, I saw Uncle Hulu standing by the fire. He was looking around nervously.
At this time, Qin Xingping and Aji also came out. It seemed that they also heard the howling of wolves.
Uncle Hu Lu explained a few words with a gloomy face.
Aji nervously translated: "Uncle said this is a desert wolf. It is very dangerous. We must be careful."
I swallowed my saliva and asked Aji why there were still wolves in the desert.
Aji said of course. The desert wolf is a type of gray wolf. It is not as big as the prairie wolf and is only slightly larger than a fox. However, the desert gray wolf is more ferocious than the prairie wolf. In order to adapt to the desert environment, the desert wolf not only reduced its size
The body shape has also evolved into a pair of big ears, which can hear the wind and grass.
I glanced around nervously. Except for the fire, the surroundings were completely dark. I could only hear the whistling of the wind and sand.
He woke up Douyazai and Xiaoxuan and told them not to sleep, there were wolves around. Xiaoxuan was frightened when she heard the word wolf.
At this moment, Uncle Hu Lu suddenly picked up a stone from the ground and threw it forward.
Only then did we see several small green dots appearing one or two hundred meters away. Those were the eyes of the desert gray wolf.
Uncle Hulu brought a sheep-killing knife. He held the knife in his hand and turned to talk to us anxiously.
Aji nodded and translated: "Uncle, we all took out our weapons. Once the gray wolves target their prey, they are very difficult to deal with. They regard us as their prey."
I brought a knife, and Dou Sprout took two cyclone shovels and threw them to Qin Xingping. Everyone looked ahead with a heavy expression.
One or two hundred meters away, it was like green light bulbs were lighting up. What made people even more nervous was that those green eyes coming from all directions were slowly approaching us.
Those green eyes approached within fifty meters, and everyone who saw this scene took a breath and tightened their grip on their weapons.
A pack of wolves indeed.
These wolves were small, about the same size as dogs, and their fur was gray and they looked very thin. The leading ones were lowering their heads and sharpening their paws, making low growls.
The desert wolf attacks without warning and very quickly. While we are still thinking about each other, more than a dozen gray wolves are already running towards us!
Aji shouted: "Back up! Back up! Back to the fire!"
Desert wolves are afraid of fire. When we all gather at the fire, the wolves will stop running away. They disperse and circle around us.
But it was a night fire after all, and it wouldn't last long without adding more firewood. Seeing the fire gradually dwindling, Uncle Hu Lu unpacked the bean sprouts tent closest to him and threw the bedding and bedding on the fire.
The intensity of the fire increased instantly, scaring more than a dozen desert wolves to retreat. Everyone knew that if they really fought this beast, someone would definitely die, and maybe someone would be bitten to death.
None of us wanted to see that kind of result, so in desperation we could only find everything we could burn and throw it into the fire, keeping the fire burning brightly.
