10. Get in touch with Xinjiang

The next morning, Ah Hui, Ah Jing, and Ah Qing arrived one after another, they didn't catch the flight last night, so they had to take the earliest flight today, and Ah Jian also arrived at about three o'clock in the afternoon, he rushed to Harbin after receiving my call yesterday, and he didn't catch the flight that night. Today I also took the earliest flight to come, and the relationship between them and me, except that they were not born to an old lady, can be said to be closer than brothers. I've had a life-and-death relationship.

Maimaiti arrived almost in the evening, and after receiving my call yesterday, he rushed to Urumqi that night, because there is no direct flight from Urumqi to this city, so he flew from Urumqi to Xi'an early this morning, and then flew here from Xi'an. Mamat is a Uyghur, and I have a strange relationship with him as brothers.

A few years ago, Maimaiti made a living in the city where I lived, selling cake cuts on the street. It is the kind of candy that is made of kernels, raisins, sesame seeds, dates, etc., and is sold on a pedal tricycle. Maimaiti did not let the chengguan take it, and the two sides did not let each other quarrel. I happened to pass by there at the time, and when I saw the excitement, I went in to see, and I saw two Uighurs, one large and one small, holding tricycles in their hands to prevent the chengguan from pushing them away. The big Uyghur youth was chattering excitedly.

Since I was a child, I have had sympathy for ethnic minorities and feel that they are socially disadvantaged, and Uyghurs look similar to Pakistanis, and Pakistan has good relations with our country, so I have a good impression of Uyghurs who look like Pakistanis.

A car and a little sugar are their livelihood, and I somehow sympathize with the two Uyghurs who came, and a leader-like chengguan instructed his subordinates to do things. And I looked at it, and that guy turned out to be a very good friend of mine. He was born on the same farm as me, but not on the same farm, and since we are all farmers and come here far from home, we have a very good relationship, and we usually interact very casually.

"These two people are a little familiar with me, you give face and I'll let them go. I walked over and pulled him aside.

"It's going to happen, so many people are looking at it, how can it happen?" replied the boy.

"This sesame big thing can't lose your official, just educate it. I replied.

The boy walked over and beckoned to his subordinates: "Forget it, don't accept it, just educate it." Then he said to the big Uyghur youth: "You are selling indiscriminately like this, affecting the traffic, and the masses have opinions, so you can't occupy the road and stop selling," After speaking, he drove away with his subordinates.

The Uyghur youth glanced at me, no squeak, after my friend led the team away, the vendors and onlookers who slipped away and came back You said, I said that the city management, I have nothing to do, standing and watching the excitement, suddenly felt the back trouser pocket moved, I knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly returned my hand and touched it "empty". I saw a young man hurriedly picking up the crowd and walking out, I reacted and hurriedly chased after the young man, the thief half ran and half walked and ran forward, I didn't know that I caught up, when I was about to catch up, someone behind shouted "He is catching up, he is catching up." ”

The thief was just about to speed up, but I grabbed him by the collar, and I raised my fist and said to the thief, "Will you give me back?"

The three thieves in the back rushed over with dagger-shaped knives, pushed me and said, "What do you want to do? Do you want to find death?" I pushed them back, and the three thieves waved their knives at me and slashed, how could I deal with four people with three knives with my empty hands and feet, and hurriedly dodged around to find wooden sticks and bricks or something, but I didn't see it, the other party was pressing step by step, the knife was dancing, and I said in my heart: Today is over.

At the critical moment, the Nawei young man held a Xinjiang long knife, rushed over with a strange scream in his mouth, and raised the knife to slash at the four thieves. The thief worked four against one and the Uyghur youth, I couldn't help empty-handed, so anxious to stomp my feet to look for a guy, I saw a small shop selling umbrellas not far away, so I rushed over and took two umbrellas and rushed back, only to see the four thieves were chased by the Uyghur youth with a knife and fled around, the Uyghur youth chased more than 100 meters and did not catch up and came back, the blade was stained with blood, it is estimated that the thief was hit, but it is not too serious.

Since then, Maimaiti and I have become brothers, and from time to time we will call him to ask him to go to a Muslim restaurant to get a meal of mutton. I have a friend who is in the cantaloupe and pear business, and every year he goes to Kashi County and Korla in Kashgar City, Xinjiang to buy cantaloupe and pears. He had the heart to find a trustworthy local person to help, I introduced Maimaiti to him, my friend took Maimaiti for a period of time, saw that Maimaiti is sincere, and can bear hardships and stand hard work, so he gave 10% of the shares to Maimaiti, let Maimaiti be responsible for the purchase of melons and fruits on the top, and he himself received and sold the goods below, and occasionally went up. More than two years ago, a boss who was in the jade business in Hotan, Xinjiang, asked me to go to Hotan to do some work, and after doing the work, Maimaiti made a special trip to Hotan to pick me up and go to Kashgar for a few days. Kashgar is a city with a strong Uyghur style, which is many times stronger than Altay, Karamay and other cities in northern Xinjiang. What surprised me was that there was a tall statue of Chairman Mao between the old city and the new city.

Xinjiang is a place with vast landscapes, grasslands, deserts, mountains, lakes, snow-capped mountains, many ethnic minorities, simple and warm folk customs, and it is a place worth visiting. Maimaiti knew that I liked to travel, and wanted to visit friends in various parts of Xinjiang, so he specially found an off-road vehicle to take me from Kashgar back to Hotan and then to Korla, Turpan, Urumqi, Yining, Karamay, Tacheng, Altay and other places to play around, and also fulfilled my wish to visit friends. From Minfeng County near Hotan to Luntai County near Korla, there is a desert highway that crosses the entire Taklamakan Desert, the car travels on the desert road, as if sailing in the sea of sand, the large and small sand dunes on both sides of the highway are as vast as the sea, as far as the eye can see, the desert is constantly moving under the influence of the wind, and the fire-like desert keeps changing colors, from light yellow to dark yellow and then to purple and red and other colors are very beautiful.

The person stood up and stretched his body out of the sunroof of the car, and the scenery outside the window quickly slid backwards, and the person felt like he was flying. Maimaiti and I have traveled more than 3,000 kilometers from southern Xinjiang to northern Xinjiang, and the rugged and magnificent beauty of the Taklamakan Desert, the mysterious and tranquil beauty of Kanas Lake, and the fairyland-like Tianchi are all unforgettable. Standing on the edge of the crystal clear Sailim Lake, looking at the Kazakh herdsmen's yurts and horses and sheep scattered in the grass by the lake, the eyes are like a famous landscape painting that makes people crushed, lying in the grass of the Nalati steppe, breathing the fresh air and looking at the white clouds in the blue sky, the feeling is really comfortable and relaxed, this trip made me deeply appreciate the beauty of Xinjiang.