Jinyi Night Walk

Xia Xun has been observing the people in this village all the way. Most of them have deep eye sockets, a high nose, and black and yellow hair.Going further, there are more adults, there are women who are drying fishing nets, and men who are cutting furniture from Populus euphratica... Almost all of their daily utensils are made of Populus euphratica except pots. So everyone learns to whittle wooden furniture from an early age.

Looking at these adult men and women, their clothes are equally simple, but they are all handsome and handsome, but the adult women are also tall and strong. You can't see the beauties in the Central Plains who are as delicate as willows here. [baidu Jinyi night travel stickers]

These adults are probably not as curious about these two strangers as children because they often see the past travelers. They greeted Suleiman warmly, and some of them just asked a casual question and said nothing. No one came up to watch.Through the words and attitudes of these people, Xia Xun felt that this Suleiman still had a lot of status in this village.

Going forward for a while, Gu Zaili's home arrived, and he said goodbye to the two guests politely. Suleiman translated the farewell words for her with a smile, and joked to her: "Remember, wait until I see you off." After traveling far away, I will go to your house to propose marriage."

Gu Zaili "fleeed" with a blushing face, and Suleiman laughed haha, leading Xia Xun and Liu Yujue to move forward.

Suleiman's house has arrived, and the fence wall is also made of red willow, but his house is a very beautiful wooden house, which is obviously more advanced than most houses that are only made of reeds and have to be firewood houses in the Central Plains. The family situation is indeed better than most others.After entering the courtyard, Suleiman stopped and asked Xia Xun and Liu Yujue to enter the house.

Xia Xun thought to himself: "It must be a custom of the Rob people for the guests to come first." So he didn't ask any more questions, but nodded politely to Suleiman, and walked into the room.

In the room, a wooden pit occupies nearly half of the area, covered with thick blankets. A middle-aged woman is teasing a child who has just learned to crawl on the kang on the bed. The guest couldn't help standing up in surprise, Suleiman then walked in, said something loudly to her, the woman looked relieved, nodded in agreement and walked out.

Suleiman said to Xia Xun and Liu Yujue, "Sit down first, I'll ask her to get you something to eat."

Xia Xun and Liu Yujue quickly thanked them, sat down on the edge of the kang, Suleiman also sat down, and called out to the little guy who was crawling around on the kang: "Come on, my Arslang, ask Dad to give you a hug! "

The little guy was smiling, and crawled towards him with glistening saliva. Suleiman smiled and hugged his son in his arms, and then started talking to Xia Xun. This time he asked more carefully, Xia Xun Xun's answer was naturally flawless. Suleiman had no scheming in the first place, so he nodded and expressed sympathy for their experience.

After a while, the woman brought two cups of tea. According to Suleiman's introduction, this was his second wife. The first wife had gone back to visit relatives at her natal home, which was in another village half a day's drive away. , that village was also built around this Lob Lake.The lake is as big as an ocean, and there are many small Zhuangzi around it.

Those two cups of tea are different from the tea leaves in the Central Plains, but apocynum tea. The Apocynum people live by water, wear apocynum clothes, drink apocynum tea, and eat apocynum powder. The most important kind of life dependence.Although the taste of the tea is not as fragrant as the tea from the Central Plains, the Luobu people are healthy and live a long life because they drink this kind of tea made from Apocynum leaves and flowers all the year round.

Of course, Xia Xun and Liu Yujue didn't know the miraculous effect of this apocynum. Although the taste was not good, the hot tea was a hundred times more delicious than the horse blood and ice water they drank all the way. Cha chatted with old man Suleiman.

Suleiman's wife quickly cleaned up the fresh fish, found some dried red willow branches, and roasted them without any seasoning. After roasting, they sprinkled a seasoning called cattail on the table.Then came the milk, and a dish of crispy white roots pickled.Suleiman said it was the rhizome of the reed, which was pulled out when it was just growing, and the white and tender part was taken, which was very delicious.

Xia Xun and Liu Yujue thanked each other again, and began to chew. The fish was grilled crispy and tender. Although no oil and salt were added, it had a fishy fragrance. The man gnawed almost two pieces before putting down the grilled fish, chewing on the tender reed roots and drinking rob tea.At this time, it was not time for meal, Suleiman was not hungry, just watched them eat with a smile.

When the two of them were full, Suleiman smiled and said, "My second boy went back to his mother's house with his mother. His house is empty. I'll take you there in a while and stay in the village first!"

Xia Xun thanked him, and then said: "Uncle Suleiman, you said that there is a place in front of you that is specially used to receive businessmen. Now there are some merchants from Shazhou living there. I don't know... who are they? The two of us A... I also know a few business friends on the sandbar, maybe I can use their help to return to the sandbar!"

Suleiman heard this and said: "Oh, I really don't know much about this, because merchants often pass by here, so I built some guest houses in front of me to entertain the guests, but the business over there is more complicated. It was handed over to my eldest son to take care of it from the year before last, and I just heard him mention where the guests who live there now come from, and I don't know the details yet.

It takes a long way to go from here, hurry up tomorrow, I will go to you tomorrow to inquire, but...young man, I advise you to live in the village first, if you can escape from the horse thief, then Good luck crossing the desert, but luck will not always be on your side. It is just two of you, and it is too dangerous to cross such a long desert wall and return to the sandbar. Without a guide who is familiar with the road, it is very difficult. It's easy to get lost, starve to death, or die of thirst in the desert. Even if you know the way, you are alone and lonely, and you are easy to run into horse thieves again. "

Xia Xun said: "Thank you uncle for reminding us that we don't have to leave immediately, but if we really have any acquaintances, we can take care of them if we say hello in advance. In addition... when uncle helped me find out the origin of those merchants , don’t mention us first..."

"Oh, why is that?"

Uncle Suleiman became a little more alert, Liu Yujue said with a wry smile: "Uncle, we businessmen are not like the people here. We are aloof from the world and carefree. In the mall, we have friends and enemies, and some It's really a life-and-death fight, if it's our enemy, although it won't make people fall into trouble, but let them ridicule and ridicule, but also..."

"Oh oh!"

Suleiman laughed heartily: "You people outside, it's true. When I walked to the sandbar, the wealthy families and merchants on your side were really intriguing. Well, I'll do it for you. I will help you." Go and find out the news secretly!" He said, winking at Xia Xun and Liu Yujue with a childlike innocence, as if he thought it was very interesting to be sneaky like this.

After chatting for a while, Suleiman led them to his second son's residence. The reason is that only these people live in the village, and there is no need for such things at all.Push open the courtyard door, and you can enter the hall.

When the sun was setting, a hunter came back from the village. It was Gu Zaili's father and elder brother. They hunted a gazelle. Xia Xun and Liu Yujue were baffled. It seemed that in this peaceful place, some very ordinary things could be celebrated as a big happy event.

They didn't understand why the whole village was so happy until dinner time, because Gu Zaili invited the whole village to taste roasted whole lamb from door to door. Some habits of primitive tribes are preserved, and some good things are customary to share with the villagers.

On the square in the center of the village, the villagers worked together to pile up a pile of Populus euphratica branches. After the branches were burned into charcoal, they dug a big hole in the middle and buried the whole sheep in it.Immediately afterwards, all the people in the village moved all kinds of food, tables and chairs to their own homes to hold a big dinner.The chairs are made of poplar wood, the table is made of larger poplar wood, and the cups, bowls, and plates are all made of poplar wood. milk.

When the delicious roast lamb was scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, it was dug out, torn into pieces and served on a wooden plate, and when it was served in front of everyone, the feast came. Someone played a dobra made of birch wood, dressed in dyed The girl in the floral skirt danced heartily to the music, and soon, the men joined in, not only the young men, but also many old men with gray beards dancing flexibly.

Although Xia Xun and Liu Yujue were brought back in ragged clothes like beggars, they were still treated as guests of honor by the simple villagers and sat in the chair. Liu Yujue looked at everything in front of him and was infected by the happy emotions of the villagers. He was fascinated by it He sighed deeply: "Brother, I think this is the paradise on earth. I really want to live here and never leave for the rest of my life!"

"perhaps!"

Xia Xun smiled, but his eyes were extremely clear: "Perhaps, this is a paradise on earth. But you only see their happy side, but you don't see the hardships of their life here. If they see the prosperity of the Central Plains, and Why don’t you yearn for it? Everyone thinks that others live better than themselves, but in fact, everyone has their own luck and misfortune. We have our own lives and our own responsibilities!”

Xia Xun turned his face, the raging fire reflected his face half-dark, behind his shoulders, the firewood and sparks blown by the wind danced in the night sky, as if they were more distant than the stars in the sky , Xia Xun said word by word, very seriously: "We have something we want to protect, so we can't give up! Suffering and suffering can't change us! Temptation, neither!"

"Yes!"

Liu Yujue looked at Xia Xun with admiration and even admiration. In his heart, his Brother Yang's will was as firm as a rock. With him around, he would always have the backbone, and he would never have to be afraid of losing his way!

In another camping place, in front of the bonfire, Ying Zhan smiled dotingly at his beloved wife Miao Yi who was lazily snuggling in his arms: "Hehe, I said that the desert is very boring, so you just want to come, how about it?" , are you bored now?"

He stroked his beard and said again: "Tomorrow we will take another day off, and we will continue on our way. In this way, tomorrow I will ask a few people to accompany you and go to the village of the Rob people. In fact, the small village here is still Quite interesting."