Chapter 3: The Strange Hourglass
Without saying anything all the way, Qin Xiuwu came to the Utra Zhongqi, where he taught. Utra Zhongqi is located in the northeast of Bayanzhuor City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a place that many people may not know.
Geographically speaking, it is the upper part of the Yellow River, the area north of the Hetao Plain. It borders Mongolia in the north and has a national border of 184 kilometers.
The place where Qin Xiuwu taught was only twenty or thirty miles away from the national border, an area where you could truly experience the Mongolian style.
He taught in a small Mongolian nomadic tribe. A tribe is actually a village, with a population of only a few hundred. The entire tribe was all Mongols, and he was the only Han Chinese.
He is the only teacher in the school, there are only a dozen students, and the content of learning is only the curriculum of primary and secondary school students. Since he was a nomadic herder, he had to move around with the tribe and only attend classes when he settled down.
Every day, with the migration of the Mongols, the hardships of the Lele car are not enough for outsiders. If he hadn't seen those eager to learn eyes, he wouldn't have been able to stand to leave here. Fortunately, all this was not without reward, at least he won the respect of the tribe.
The children are the hope of the future of the tribe, and Qin Xiuwu can give up a good working environment and work hard to educate them. How can you not let the people of the tribe respect.
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At the bus station in Haituliu Town, Qin Xiuwu looked at the person in front of him and asked differently, "Uncle Batu, why are you here to pick me up?" ”
Although he told the tribesmen the news of his early return, he did not expect that Uncle Batu would come to pick him up in person. Uncle Batu is the leader of the tribe and one of his closest people in the tribe. When he first arrived, he had a bad cold, and he didn't want to move, but thanks to Uncle Batu's care, he survived.
Even if there are many things that Uncle Batu will help him deal with in the future, Uncle Batu will help take care of his sheep here this time. He was regarded as the best one in the tribe, and when he came back this time, he saw him for the first time, how could he not move Qin Xiuwu.
"Oh, I'm fine today, I've driven the sheep to sell, and I'll pick you up on the way. Come on, I'll help you get your luggage. ”
As he spoke, he reached out and helped him put his luggage on horseback.
Qin Xiuwu thanked Uncle Batu, and the two of them rode towards the tribe. When he was on the way, Uncle Batu suddenly said to Qin Xiuwu, "By the way, Xiao Qin, you came back at the right time, your border herd just got off the cub yesterday, and I came back just to take a look." ”
A border collie is a border collie. When he first came here to teach, the tribesmen were afraid that he would be lonely, so they gave him two small border herdsmen. Later, he has been accompanied by two border herders, but he did not expect to give birth to cubs now.
This made Qin Xiuwu a little surprised. "Really, that's great."
"Of course it's true, I'm a good baby with my experience."
Mentioning the border herd Qin Xiuwu was a little excited, since he started raising dogs, these two border herds have never left him, this time he heard about the little cub, so he didn't feel a little missed. As if knowing his thoughts, the speed of the horses under his crotch unconsciously increased.
Seeing the excitement in his eyes, Uncle Batu shook his head with a smile and led him towards the tribe.
After returning to the tribe, Qin Xiuwu and Uncle Batu said goodbye and walked towards his tent. After coming here for two years, two border herds and dozens of goats, this is all Qin Xiuwu's property. As for the tent and the lele cart, they belonged to the tribe and would be returned to the tribe when he left.
Now the goats are still with Uncle Batu, and only the border herd is still in his tent. When he wasn't there, his neighbors fed him.
Suddenly, several children dressed in Mongolian costumes ran out from the corner of the yurt, led by Uncle Tuba's son Amur, who was the oldest and most naughty of Qin Xiuwu's students. He shouted happily, "Teacher, teacher." Did you bring me a gift when you came back? ”
Several people stopped chattering beside Qin Xiuwu, with a bright smile on their faces.
Qin Xiuwu lovingly touched Amur's head, put his hand into the package, and said, "Yes." Look what it is. ”
"Wow, candy. Teacher, give it to me, give it to me. Amur said, snatched the candy and put it in his arms, ran to the side and did not give it to his friends, but looked at Qin Xiuwu provocatively. This kid is good at everything, but he is a little protective of food, and as long as anything is in his hands, don't think about taking it out again.
Qin Xiuwu shook his head and smiled bitterly, looking at the remaining few poor children, he then took out a handful of candy and said, "Look at the one I still have in my hand, come and let us divide it, and don't give it to Brother Amur." ”
Wow, a few children suddenly became happy, wiped away the tears that were about to fall out, and happily competed for candy, and there was no longer the unhappiness just now. After whispering a few words to the children, I asked them if they were studying well when they were not there these days. Qin Xiuwu said goodbye to them, and returned to his tent amid the warm greetings of the herdsmen along the way.
After entering, the first thing Qin Xiuwu did was to go to see the border herd who gave birth, and the good guy gave off seven small border herds in one go, which really gave him a surprise. At this time, Xiao Bian Mu had not opened his eyes, and his furry body arched everywhere looking for milk to eat, which was very cute.
Qin Xiuwu comforted the excited big dog for a while, and lay on his back on the bed, the back-and-forth shifts in the past two days had tired him a lot, and now he was finally free. He thought for a moment and took out an hourglass from his suitcase, which was the same gift he had taken from Ruolan's stall. Before leaving, Qin Xiuwu didn't know why the god sent the ghost to pack the hourglass into the suitcase and bring it over.
Looking at the peculiar hourglass, Qin Xiuwu couldn't help but see a beautiful figure in front of him. Of course, this is not Ruolan who looks hot and naughty and cute, but is actually a poisonous woman. It's her sister's gentle and kind Ruoyu.
Although Qin Xiuwu knew that there was a big gap between the two and it was impossible for them to come together in the end, he unconsciously thought about her in his heart. When they first met, her costumes gave Qin Xiuwu a feeling of amazement, and he couldn't forget it for a long time.
Qin Xiuwu didn't look at this hourglass carefully when he bought it, and only now did he pay attention to its appearance. It consisted of two conical glass balls and a narrow connecting pipe, the glass balls looked like they were made of glass, but Qin Xiuwu didn't feel like they were made of glass, and he didn't know what they were made of. The upper cone contained half-filled sand, which had an eerie dark red color.
The exterior is supported by an unknown piece of wood, and the upper part is carved with twelve strange-looking creatures, and anyone who knows them will know them at a glance to see that they are the twelve gods and demons. The lower part is decorated with yin and yang gossip, and the middle two pillars are four kinds of figures: wind, fire, thunder and lightning.
The entire hourglass seems to have gone through thousands of years of history, revealing a sense of vicissitudes.
Qin Xiuwu looked at it for a long time, and not even a single dark red sand inside had fallen. Is it really bad? Qin Xiuwu was disappointed for a while, although he knew that the things given by Ruolan could not be very good, but he didn't expect that not even a single sand would leak down.
Suddenly, he noticed that in the middle of the hourglass, in the middle of the narrow pipe, was stuffed with a wooden stick the thickness of a human hair, and it was the stick that kept the sand from leaking.
But how do you get a stick? Qin Xiuwu observed for a long time and found that the two glass balls were separated, and as long as he took the glass balls below, he could make a wooden stick.
Qin Xiuwu was busy for a long time and finally got the wooden stick out, but when he put on the hourglass, he found that the hourglass was not working. Even without the sticks, the sand didn't leak down, as if there was something stuck in the middle.
But he had already poked something through the passage, and there was nothing in it at all. This made him so angry that he almost didn't drop the hourglass on the ground, and finally threw the hourglass on the table and ignored it. I want to see how long it will take for this hourglass to leak out.
Early the next morning, when Qin Xiuwu got up and was brushing his teeth and washing his face, he inadvertently found that none of the sand in the hourglass had fallen into the glass ball below. Instead, a drop of water somehow went into the glass ball below, shining brightly in the morning light.
This broken thing, Qin Xiuwu laughed a little, this hourglass could not be used normally, but it entered the water overnight. However, Qin Xiuwu still got the water droplets out and poured them on the ground inside the yurt.