Xia Xun has been observing the people in this village all the way, most of them have deep eye sockets, high nose bridges, and black and yellow hair.
Further on, there were more adults, women drying fishing nets, men cutting furniture from poplar wood, and almost all of the utensils they used were made of poplar wood, except for pots, so that everyone learned to cut wood from an early age.
Look at these adult men and women, the clothes are also plain, but the appearance is very handsome, but the adult women are also very tall and strong, and the beauty of the Central Plains with a delicate body like a willow cannot be seen here.
The adults, probably because they often saw the travels, did not have the same curiosity about the two strangers as children, and they greeted Suleiman warmly, and some of them only asked casually, and no one came up to watch.
Through the words and attitudes of these people, Xia Xun felt that this Suleiman still had a very high status in this village.
A little further on, when Gu Zaili's house arrived, he politely said goodbye to the two guests, and Suleiman smiled and translated the farewell words for her, and quipped to her: "Remember, when I have sent off the trip from afar, I will go to your house to propose marriage." ” Gu Zaili blushed and "escaped", so Su Laiman laughed and led Xia Xun and Liu Yujue to continue walking.
When Suleiman's house arrived, it was also a fence wall made of red willow, but his house was a very beautiful wooden house, which was obviously more advanced than most houses that were only made of reeds and had to be used as firewood and grass houses in the Central Plains, and the family was indeed better than most people's homes.
After entering the courtyard, Suleiman stopped and invited Xia Xun and Liu Yujue to enter the house.
Xia Xun said in his heart: "The guests are advanced, it must be a rule of the Luobu people."
So he didn't ask any more questions, only nodded politely to Suleiman, and stepped into the room.
In the house, a wooden pit occupies nearly half of the area, with a thick blanket on it, a middle-aged woman is teasing a child who has just learned to crawl on the kang on the bed, and when she sees two strange Han guests coming in, she can't help but stand up in surprise, Suleiman then walked in and said something out loud to her, and the woman looked relieved, nodded and walked out.
Suleiman said to Xia Xun and Liu Yujue: "You sit down first, I will ask her to get you something to eat." ” Xia Xun and Liu Yujue hurriedly thanked them, sat down by the kang, Suleiman also sat down, and shouted to the little guy crawling around on the kang: "Come on, my Arslang, call Abba Hug" The little guy smiled happily, dragging the shiny saliva to climb towards him, Suleiman smiled and hugged his son in his arms, and talked to Xia Xun and the two, this time he asked more carefully, Xia Xun naturally had no flaws in his answer, Suleiman had no wit, nodded again and again, and sympathized with their experience.
After a while, the woman came up with two cups of tea, and heard Suleiman's introduction that this was his second wife, and that the first wife had gone back to visit her family, and that her mother's house was in another village half a mile away, and that village was also built around this Lobu Lake.
The lake is so big that it is like an ocean, and there are many such small farms around it.
The two cups of tea are different from the tea leaves of the Central Plains, but Luobu hemp tea, the Luobu people live by water, wear Luobu hemp clothes, drink Luobu hemp tea, and eat Luobu hemp powder, this crop is their main life dependence in addition to fish.
Although the taste of that tea is not as fragrant as the tea in the Central Plains, the Luobu people are healthy and especially live a long life, because they drink this tea made from Luobu hemp leaves and flowers all year round.
Of course, Xia Xun and Liu Yujue didn't know the miraculous effect of this Luo Buma, although they felt that the taste was worse, but this hot tea was a hundred times more delicious than the horse blood and ice water they drank all the way, and the two of them held the hot tea and chatted with the old man Suleiman.
Suleiman's wife quickly cleaned up the fresh fish, found some dried red willow branches and roasted them without any seasoning, and only when they were cooked and served with a spice called puhuang.
Then the milk was served, and a plate of pickled, crisp white rhizomes.
Suleiman said that it was the rhizome of the reed, which was plucked when it was just growing and the white and tender part was taken from it, which was very delicious.
Xia Xun and Liu Yujue thanked them again, and then opened their mouths to chew on, the fish was roasted crispy and tender, although there was no oil and salt, but there was another kind of fish meat, two people devoured it, there were three catties of fat fish, one person almost gnawed two, and then put down the grilled fish, chewed the tender reed root and drank Luo Bu tea.
Before it was time to eat, Suleiman was not hungry, but just smiled and watched them eat.
When the two of them had filled their stomachs, Suleiman smiled and said, "My second boy went back to his mother's house with his mother, his house is empty, I will take you over in a while, let's stay in the village first."
Xia Xun thanked him, and said: "Uncle Suleiman, you said that there is a special place to receive merchants in front of you, and now there are some merchants from the sandbank, I don't know who they are, the two of us also know a few business friends on the sandbank, maybe we can borrow their help and return to the sandbank."
Suleiman listened and said: "Ouch, I really don't know much about this, because the merchants who come and go here often pass by, so I have set up some houses and guest houses in front of them to entertain the guests, but the affairs over there have been handed over to my eldest son since the beginning of the previous year, and I have only heard him mention in passing where the guests who live there now come from, and I don't know the details."
From here, there has to be a way, catch Ming'er, Ming'er, I'll go to inquire for you, but young man, I advise you to live in the village first, you can escape from the horse thief, and cross the desert, lucky, but luck will not always be on your side, you are just two people, want to cross such a long desert wall back to the sandbank, it's too dangerous, no guide who is familiar with the road to follow, it is easy to get lost, starve to death, thirst to death in the desert, even if you know the road, people are lonely, It's easy to run into horse thieves again. ” Xia Xun said: "Thank you uncle for reminding us, we don't have to leave immediately, but if you really have any acquaintances, say hello in advance, and you can also have a response."
Besides, when my uncle asks me about the merchants, don't tell us first."
"Oh, why is that" Uncle Suleiman was a little more alert, and Liu Yujue smiled bitterly: "Uncle, we businessmen are not like you here, we are carefree and carefree.
In the mall, we have friends and enemies, and some of them are really fighting to the death, if it is our enemy, although it will not fall into the ground, but let them laugh and laugh, but also" "Oooh" Suleiman laughed heartily: "You people outside, that's right, when I went to the sandbank, the wealthy families and businessmen over there were indeed intrigues, so good, it's up to you, I'll help you secretly inquire about the news" As he spoke, he also winked at Xia Xun and Liu Yujue in a childlike manner, as if he thought it was a very interesting thing to sneak up like this.
After a little more chatter, Suleiman led the two to his second son's house, which was also a wooden house, with a fence of red willow branches in front of it, and no bolt or lock on the door.
Push open the courtyard door, and you can enter the house.
When the sun set, a hunter came back from the village, it was the father and brother of Gu Zaili, they hunted a yellow sheep, the whole village was elated as if they had encountered a great happy event, Xia Xun and Liu Yujue who were wandering in the village were inexplicable, it seemed that in this quiet place, some very ordinary things could be celebrated as a big happy event.
It was not until dinner that they understood why the whole village was so happy, because Gu Zaili invited the whole village to taste the roasted whole sheep together, and here, although the property was private, they still retained some of the habits of the primitive tribe to a large extent, and some good things were used to sharing with the villagers.
In the square in the center of the village, the villagers worked together to pile up a pile of poplar branches, and when the branches were burned to charcoal, they dug a large hole in the middle and buried the whole sheep in it.
Immediately afterwards, the people of the whole village brought all kinds of food, tables and chairs to hold a conference meal.
The chairs are poplar mounds, the tables are larger poplar mounds, the cups, bowls, and dishes are all made of poplar wood, and the variety of food is actually lackluster, mainly fish of various preparations, and the drink is fresh milk.
When the roast lamb was dug up, torn into pieces and served on a wooden plate, and brought to everyone, the feast came, and some people played the dombra made of birch, and the girls in dyed dresses danced to the music, and soon the men joined in, not only the young men, but also the old men with gray beards.
Although Xia Xun and Liu Yujue were brought back, their clothes were ragged like flowers, but they were still treated as guests by the simple villagers and sat in the chairman, Liu Yujue looked at everything in front of him, and was infected by the happy emotions of the villagers, he sighed with infinite fascination: "Big brother, I think this is the paradise of the world, I really want to live here, and I will never leave for the rest of my life."
"Maybe" 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, why don't they yearn for it, everyone thinks that others live better than themselves, in fact, everyone has their own luck and misfortune, we have our own life, we also have our own responsibility" Xia Xun turned his face, the blazing firelight reflected his face half bright and half dark, behind his shoulder, along with the wind blowing up the firewood and sparks flying in the night sky, as if it was a more distant existence 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 the hardships and torments can't change our temptation, the same can't" "Yes" Liu Yujue looked at Xia Xun with admiration and even some admiration, in his heart, his big brother Yang's will is as firm as a rock, with him, he will always have the backbone, and he will never have to be afraid of losing his way In another camping place, in front of the campfire, Ying Zhan smiled dotingly at his beloved wife Miaoyi, who was lazily nestled in his arms: "Hehe, I said that the desert is very boring, you want to come along, how about it, now I'm bored."
He stroked his beard and said, "Tomorrow we will rest for another day, and we will continue on our road."
Well, tomorrow I'll ask a few people to accompany you to the village of the Lobu people, the little village here is actually quite interesting. ” To be continued: