Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1128 Old Town
Zhou Zhi was scooping out a can of diced tomatoes in the passenger seat and couldn't help but feel a little startled when he heard this.

I had heard in my previous life that some local governments would send people to greet important guests at the intersections at the boundaries of their jurisdiction. When seeing off guests, they would also send cars to follow them to the boundaries of their jurisdiction.

But he never thought that one day he would receive such treatment.

Xia Mili seemed to know the driver very well. He drove directly to the side of the Cherokee and rolled down the window: "Salam!! Adili, long time no see!"

"Salam!!" The opposite car window also closed: "Deputy Secretary Ai Yijie asked me to wait for you here! The weather is too cold, I can only hide in the car, which has air conditioning!"

"Salam" means something like "Hello" or "Hey buddy!" The two of them were talking in Uyghur, and Xu's father was translating in a low voice for Jiuzi.

"Afraid of asking for directions and getting lost!" Xia Mili seemed to have added a Uyghur proverb. Fortunately, Xu's father translated it for Jiuzi: "With you here, we can't get lost."

Adili smiled and said: "Come with me!"

Hotan was upgraded from a county to a city in the [-]s and became the capital of a special administrative planning in my country - a "region".

Hotan area includes one city and seven counties, including Minfeng, Yutian and Cele.

The current place is HT City. HT City is located at the intersection of two rivers flowing from the Kunlun Mountains, and the Yulong Kashgar River and the Karakash River.

The upper reaches of the two rivers, the vast area sandwiched between the river and the Kunlun Mountains and Karakoram Mountains, is the scope of Hotan County. After the intersection of the two rivers, the river downstream of HT City is called the "Hotian River" .

The Hotan River crosses the Taklimakan Desert from south to north and then flows into the Tarim River. It is the only river that passes through the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert. The Yulongkashg River and Karakash River in the upper reaches have higher sediment content and the river valleys are full of pebbles. There are many jade materials mixed in, the most famous one is Hetian jade, which is as white as mutton fat.

The administrative unit of the region was inherited from the previous "Administrative Office". Zhouzhi is not unfamiliar at all, because Manzhou belonged to the "Yizhou Administrative Office" at the earliest, and later the "Yizhou Administrative Office" became the "Yizhou District" ", and later they were separated into Yizhou City and Manzhou City, one producing Wuliangye and the other producing Laojiao.

The population of HT City is very small, only about the same as that of Jiachuan. In addition, the place is large and the weather is cold. The roads are sparse, with few cars and few people.

It was not until entering the urban area that the population barely increased.

Large-scale construction of Chinese cities has not yet begun, especially in Hotan, located in the northwest border of the motherland. Many buildings still retain the style of the 70s and [-]s, or even older.

Zhou Zhi enjoys seeing this exotic place. There are actually many houses with earthen walls in the urban area. Such a sight is rarely seen in municipal administrative units in the mainland.

In addition to special houses with earthen walls and flat roofs, there are also various restaurants, bazaars, mosques and other buildings with white painted walls and round or semicircular windows on the top and rectangular windows on the bottom. Some houses have wooden exteriors. The ladder can go up to the second and third floors. The wooden ladder uses beautiful flower purlins as guardrails and is painted with colored paint. It is completely different from the decoration style in the mainland.

Zhou Zhi even thinks that such an old city should be preserved as an immovable cultural relic. In 20 years, it will definitely become a tourist attraction that tourists flock to.However, he also knew in his heart that this was unlikely. The preservation of any cultural heritage could not be an obstacle to the development of local people's lives. People-oriented was not an empty talk.

Many locals carry out social activities in these places, some go to the market, some gather to drink tea, smoke with strange-style large pipes, and some chat around the barbecue stalls...

They generally have high noses and deep eyes. Most of them are women and the elderly wearing pure ethnic costumes. Most of the men under fifty are the same as people in the mainland in the early years. They wear Chinese tunic suits or cotton-padded jackets and trousers similar to Northeast China. The only difference is that the women's heads are covered with a knitted wool scarf, while the men's heads are covered with various small hats of different colors.

Generally speaking, the development of the Hotan area seems to have started relatively slowly, and is still at the level of mainland cities for more than eight years.

The Administrative Office Building is actually a landmark building. It is a brick building like the Grand Mosque that I passed before. I don’t know the year it was built, but the side facing the street is all neatly decorated with large windows with round tops and bottoms. Around the corner, the buildings follow suit. It is turned into an arc shape, with beautiful columns, supporting the balcony on the second floor, and forming a beautiful corridor on the ground floor.

The structure of the second floor is the same. The side facing the street is a curved corridor. The upper floor is a large flat roof. There is a cap badge-shaped decorative wall in the middle. In the center of the wall is a huge red five-star. There is also a large flying star on the top of the wall. five-star red flag.

This two-story corner building has ethnic minority characteristics and is full of modern flavor. As soon as Zhou Zhi got out of the car, he couldn't help but raise his camera and take a picture of this building.

Adili also got out of the car, came over to shake hands with everyone, and then invited everyone into the building.

There was heating in the building. Adili led everyone to a room on the second floor. The door here had been opened. A middle-aged man was standing at the door, wearing a white shirt and a flower hat on his head. When he saw Xu's father, he He smiled and said, "Old Xu, I haven't seen you for a long time. Why didn't you bring Ayiguli and Gangzi? I miss them so much."

"It's really too far. It's so uncomfortable to be squeezed into a car." Xu's father smiled a little embarrassedly: "Besides, this trip is a business trip and we are going in a hurry, so I won't take them to suffer."

"I would say that young people need to suffer a little, which is helpful for their growth." The middle-aged man smiled and said: "This is Comrade Xiao Zhou, right? Look, isn't the classmate who is just the same age as Gangzi coming here? ! This is what makes a young person extraordinary. Classmate Xiao Zhou, welcome!"

"You must be Ayiguli's uncle." Zhou Zhi smiled and held the hand that the other party extended: "I often hear Gangzi mention you, so I will follow Ayiguli and Gangzi and call them uncle. This is a big festival. It keeps you from resting and causes you trouble."

"The boy didn't necessarily speak kindly of me when he mentioned me." The uncle laughed and said, "We went into the house and said, you are not causing trouble for me, but are our timely help!"

Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh. To be honest, when Xu Gang mentioned this "daughter-in-law and uncle", he really didn't have anything nice to say, but the words coming out of his mouth were different from those coming out of Xu Gang's mouth: "Gangzi said you were strict with him when you were a child. That’s because I’m ignorant and don’t understand your painstaking efforts.”

"Now that he has gone to college, he realizes that without your constant supervision and guidance, he has no choice but to go to college. But now he admires and is grateful to you!"

"Hahahaha..." The uncle was very happy: "Although your words make people happy, but... you are designated to cover for him!"

(End of this chapter)