Great Power Reclamation

Chapter 2650: Rob Village

As early as the Neolithic Age, human activities have been recorded in the Peacock River Basin.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were 36 states in the southern route of the Tianshan Mountains. KEL City was located on the border of Quli State. The ancient Quli State was located in the northwest of Qiemo, north of Jingjue (now MF County), southwest of Yuli (now the area from Tashdian to the south of Bosteng Lake), west of Shanguo (now the northeast of Tieganlik in WL County), and southeast of Wulei (now Cedaya in LT County). Its scope was equivalent to the current borders of KEL City and part of the northwest of WL County and the southeast of LT County.

Looking at the pictures and objects in the museum, Ye Yuze's mind flashed with scenes of how people lived here thousands of years ago, and he couldn't help but be fascinated.

In particular, I was filled with longing for the Lobu village.

The original purpose of coming out was to travel around. Although I was full of yearning for the ancient city of Loulan, that was a long time ago.

He doesn't like ruins very much, and he really has no interest in places that can become tourist attractions with just a few earthen walls and some bricks and tiles.

So, after looking at the map, I decided to go there.

The Luobu people's village is located in Dunkoutan Township, Beiping County, Beijing Uygur Autonomous Region, bordering the Taklimakan Desert to the south, 28 kilometers away from the county seat, with a total area of ​​134 square kilometers.

As Ye Yuze drove all the way here, he discovered obvious differences from the Junken City.

Although there is snow here, it is obviously much smaller, and the black Gobi desert is exposed everywhere.

Pieces of snow dotted in between create another kind of scenery.

Compared to the vast expanse of white in Junken City, the scenery is relatively richer.

Poplar forests can be seen everywhere here. The poplar trees that have lost all their leaves in winter show a vigorous beauty. Every branch is full of strength, as if fighting against nature.

Occasionally you can see poplar trees that have already dried up, but they are not as decadent and withered as other tree species. Although they even have no bark, their cracked trunks are like bulging muscles, showing their indomitable spirit.

Ye Yuze couldn't help but stop the car and walked closer to take a look. The rough tree trunk was like a file, trying to leave scars on his palm.

Looking at these withered poplar trees, Ye Yuze's already decadent body and mind suddenly felt a surge of strength. He wondered if he was doing the right thing by giving up like this.

After wandering in the poplar forest for a while, we continued driving forward and soon arrived at the Luobu village.

What Ye Yuze felt sorry for was that the area was being developed and the original residents had already started to evacuate. Therefore, there were only a few houses left in the village.

The Luobu people's village is close to the Taklamakan Desert, and on the edge of the desert is the Tarim River. The endless yellow sand and the blue river water complement each other, making it look magical no matter how you look at it.

Originally, the desert and the river are two completely unrelated things, but here they are perfectly integrated.

An old man was driving sheep out of the poplar forest. The sheep kept stopping to nibble on the dried ramie.

This plant was later sold everywhere and was called Lophatherum gracile tea. It was said to have many medicinal values, but here it can only be used as fodder for sheep and the locals do not eat it.

Ye Yuze stepped forward and greeted him, and the old man responded enthusiastically:

"My friend from afar, this is not the season for traveling. Are you here to see the snow in the desert?"

Ye Yuze smiled and took out a bottle of sorghum: "I am here to visit my friends from afar, Adasi, are you not welcome?"

The old man took the bottle from him, looked at it for a few seconds and then smiled.

"How can people from the northern border not welcome friends? Let's go inside the house, kill a sheep, and have a nice drink."

Ye Yuze smiled and got into the car and followed the old man home. Although he didn't ask him how old he was, but looking at the wrinkles on his face, he knew that he was no less than 80 years old.

The old man's family only has his wife and a granddaughter, who is about 17 or 18 years old and very beautiful. In terms of appearance, Uyghur girls can be ranked among the top three in the whole of China.

The girl's name was Guli. When she saw the guests coming, she was very enthusiastic. She quickly poured milk tea and took out some dried fruits.

The Lobu people here are actually Uyghurs, but they are not so devout in their religious beliefs. Instead, they have a stronger sense of awe for the heavens, the earth and nature.

This may be related to the fact that they have been living in harsh environments.

The people here farm, fish and herd, and their living environment is relatively isolated. Only after the government built roads for them did their communication with the outside world become smooth.

In the past, many people never left the village until they died.

But their village is also big, and there may be only one village within a radius of hundreds of miles.

After all, no one wants to live in the desert, even though the Tarim River is here, because there is too little arable land.

The old man's name was Yusuf. When he said he was 102 years old, Ye Yuze was shocked. He asked a few more questions. Yusuf immediately became unhappy and took out his ID card to show him.

Ye Yuze was stunned after seeing it, it was really 102.

Ye Yuze had seen centenarians before, but most of them were unable to take care of themselves. However, Yusuf could still herd sheep.

You have to know that sheep are not so obedient, and herding sheep is not just about following the flock. Not only do you have to drive the sheep, but you also have to chase those disobedient sheep that always want to leave the flock.

But the old man didn’t even have a dog, and he had to graze all the sheep by himself. Even though the flock was not big, there were still more than 20 of them. How did he do it?
After being praised by Ye Yuze, Yusuf laughed proudly and said that his wife was his third wife, who was only in her 60s this year.

Okay, Ye Yuze believed this. His age was not fake, and it was not worth lying about.

After chatting for a while, I learned that the Lobu people originally had no sheep and did not know how to farm. Their most primitive way of life was just fishing and hunting.

Because there are not many prey in the desert, the most common bird they catch is the Hash bird. They catch this bird not only for its meat, but also for its feathers to use as clothes.

In fact, all of this can be found in historical materials. The Lobu people are recorded in ancient books such as "Book of Wei. Tuyuhun" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, "Records of Huijiang" in the Qing Dynasty, "Records of the Western Regions", and "Lanzhou Jilue".

The Lobu people are a branch of Xinjiang Uygur ethnic group. They speak the Lobu dialect, live in the rivers and lakes in the desert, and lead a life of "not planting grains, not raising livestock, only fishing in small boats for food, or picking wild hemp, or catching Hash birds and skinning them for clothing, and not knowing the rituals and worship." They are the living fossils of the ancient residents of the Lop Nur area.

Facing such a nationalist, how could Ye Yuze still be willing to ask him to kill the sheep? He said loudly that he wanted to eat grilled fish.

Yusuf immediately agreed and asked him and his granddaughter to go fishing in the river together.

There are a lot of fish in the river. After just a few casts of the net, more than a dozen fish were caught.

Yusuf would always put the small fish back into the river, pick up only a few big ones, and then the three of them would go ashore.

The boat was made of poplar wood, which is not easy to rot. Guli was busy slaughtering fish, while Yusuf collected some dry red willow branches and lit them in his barbecue pit.

Their pit was not dug on the ground, but was piled up with soil half a person's height and had ventilation holes, similar to a large barbecue grill.

After the fire was lit, Guli finished processing the fish. She pierced the fish with red willow twigs and inserted them on the side of the oven.

Since the fish is not smoked directly over the fire, it will not become blackened. However, this method will definitely be slower and there is no rush to eat anyway.

As the aroma of grilled fish slowly spread, the sun began to set. Some people in the village slowly gathered together. After discovering Ye Yuze, everyone was very happy and took out some food to treat him.

Ye Yuze naturally knew the habits of the people in northern Xinjiang. No matter whose house in a village had guests, they were everyone's guests, and the good things had to be taken out to share together.

Ye Yuze was naturally not stingy and took out a few more bottles of wine. What surprised Ye Yuze was that most of the people who came out were elderly people.

When asked about their ages, they all turned out to be over 80 years old, and there were two people of the same age as Yusuf. The people in their 80s were their juniors.

Ye Yuze has always treated himself as an elder in recent years, but now he feels ashamed in front of these people!

The Robe people basically have no horses because they believe that horses are animals that will destroy vegetation. They have camels, but they usually do not tie them up. Instead, they let them forage freely.

The food that several families gathered together had everything except vegetables. It seemed that vegetables were a luxury for them.

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Guli and her grandmother were making a kind of naan called Kumaisi, which is made by rolling the dough into two thin pancakes with mutton filling in the middle.

The mutton filling is not chopped, but cut into granules with a knife and then seasoned with salt.

The most amazing thing is the way they grill. They shovel out the ashes from the oven, spread them on the ground, and then put the Kumaisi in. Then they bury it.

It took about half an hour to clear away the ashes and take Kumaisi out.

When he first took it out, Ye Yuze couldn't bear to look at it. It was simply a lump of dirt.

But after the dust was dusted off, the Kumaisi was roasted to a golden brown, and the smell it gave off made Ye Yuze couldn't help but sniff his nose. It was so damn fragrant.

Although the fish on the grill began to turn brown and emit a fragrant aroma, to be honest, Ye Yuze didn't like eating fish.

No matter how well it was cooked, he still felt it had a fishy smell. He was not born to like eating fish. He couldn't help it.

For example, in Boston, there is an abundance of seafood, and the fish we eat don’t have bones, because foreigners don’t pick out fish bones.

If you stew Chinese carp and feed them to eat, they will choke themselves to death. There is no way to get the fish bones out.

Among the seafood, the only ones that Ye Yuze was interested in were abalone and lobster, because they tasted similar to meat.

Ye Yuze couldn't wait to take the Kumaisi handed over by Guli, and then took a bite. He couldn't help but praise loudly.

It’s so delicious, and the aroma is intoxicating. It has the aroma of meat and wheat, as well as the fragrance of wood ash.

The combination of these flavors is so harmonious and perfect that you can't stop eating.

At this time, the grilled fish was cooked, and everyone started eating and drinking together. Ye Yuze didn't plan to drink at first. After all, his body was there. Even if he didn't want treatment, there was no need for him to seek death.

He just couldn't resist their enthusiasm. Every drink they took out was decades older than him. How could he say no?

Guli handed him another grilled fish, which he didn't want at first because he really didn't want to eat it. But seeing the girl's expression of "you are praising me", he could only take a bite, and then he was stunned.

There are only a few kinds of barbecue ingredients in northern Xinjiang: cumin, fennel, chili powder and salt.

However, this grilled fish, although nothing is added to it except salt, has another flavor, similar to the fragrance of flowers, and this flavor just covers up the fishy smell of the fish.

Ye Yuze asked Guli in confusion. Guli smiled and brought a seasoning and told him that it was called Puhuang, which was made from a kind of pollen.

Ye Yuze couldn't help but sigh, this is really the case that the land and water shape the people, if he hadn't come here, he would never have known this kind of seasoning in his life.

Then something even more surprising happened. When he took out cigarettes and distributed them to everyone, the elderly people took a puff and put them out.

People complain that it is not good to smoke, but you should know that it was Huazi that Ye Yuze gave it to them!

He originally thought that the old people were used to smoking Mohe cigarettes just like his father and his friends, but when he took the cigarettes they rolled, he found that they were made of the rhubarb leaves that were everywhere on the ground.

Looking at the Lobuma tea in the teapot and then looking at the Lobuma cigarette in my hand, I realized that this thing is not just for feeding sheep.

Old man Yusuf told him that the people here live long lives because they cannot live without Luobu Ma.

Ye Yuze believed it for a moment. After all, he studied medicine and was an atheist.

The environment here is so harsh, especially in ancient times. They don't eat fruits and vegetables, don't eat salt, lack medical care and medicine, not only rarely get sick, but also live so long.

This must be related to this plant. I have to tell my dad about this. In fact, there is also Luobu Ma in Junken City, but no one pays attention to it.

After the meal, both the host and the guests were in great joy. Ye Yuze was also a little tipsy. He hadn't drunk for a while, so his alcohol tolerance seemed to have decreased a bit.

The group of people didn't seem to be having fun and started dancing. Guli told him that this was called the lion dance and the eating dance.

The old men were all light and strong, and even Yusuf had light steps. He could do those difficult movements smoothly, which made Ye Yuze admire him.

Then he was pulled by Guli and started to turn around the fire.

It is not easy to dance folk dance well, but it is quite simple to learn it. After a while, he took Guli's hand and started dancing skillfully!
It was not until the second half of the night that everyone went to rest because they were tired.

Ye Yuze naturally lived in Yusuf's house. The winter in the desert was still very cold. Guli helped him cover himself with two layers of blankets and then lay down beside him.

Ye Yuze asked again where those young people had gone, such as Guli's parents.

Guli told him that because this place was to be developed into a tourist attraction, all the young people went to work in other places. Even the children went to school in the county.

Leaving only the elderly to continue living here can also be considered a kind of tourism project.

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