It can be said that the hospitable elderly family entertained Chen Rui and his party as honored guests.

You know, because the Bedouins live in the desert and live a nomadic life, they are poor in material and lack of food, so they only use meat and coffee

On festivals or entertaining distinguished guests.

Chen Rui thanked the elders and the hospitable hostess with Islamic etiquette.

Li Wanhao and the other four also followed Chen Rui's example and thanked the elders and hospitable hostesses with Islamic etiquette.

The five men picked up the camel meat and began to eat it.

The taste of camel meat, how to put it, is a bit unpalatable, because camel meat has been lacking for a long time, the meat is too dry, too hard, the muscle texture is thicker, the muscle content is higher, and there is a salty feeling.

Chen Rui ate a few pieces of camel meat and didn't eat it.

Li Wanhao and the other four people, like Chen Rui, ate a few pieces and didn't eat them.

However, the pancakes taste good, and when eaten with camel milk, they have a different desert flavor.

While eating the pancakes, Chen Rui's eyes looked at the furnishings in the room.

Some information about the Bedouins that I had consulted before coming to Egypt came to mind.

In Egypt, there are more than tens of thousands of Bedouins.

The Egyptian government also tried to 'pull' them into modern urban life, but the vast majority of Bedouins "refused", and they still chose a free and unfettered nomadic life.

The Bedouins do not recognize any laws other than tribal traditions, do not obey any regime except the chiefs of their own tribes, and do not recognize any political system.

In fact, this part of the Bedouins is not identity, despite living in Egypt, but. They are not Egyptians in name. It is not subject to the jurisdiction of the government or government of Egypt. The laws of Egypt did not govern them, only the traditions of the tribes, the customs of their predecessors, and the teachings of Islam.

Although the Bedouins here choose an unfettered nomadic life.

But, apparently, the Bedouins here still have some modern influences.

Although this tribe has no water and electricity, Chen Rui can see some modern daily necessities in this house, such as: Iron pots, towels, lighters, dishes, embroidered quilts, etc. On the only bed in the room, there are some delicate woven handicrafts, tapestries.

Every once in a while, a few months, or half a year, the Bedouins would reach the nearest city with a caravan of guò. Exchange with the civilized world for what they need.

Suddenly, Chen Rui's eyes fixed on a wood carving in the corner.

The carved wood is from date palm wood, known as 'Mother and Aunt of the Arabs'.

Maybe this wood carving is very old. The wood carvings are a little worn and dark, and the wood is a little grooved.

What attracted Chen Rui's attention was not the value of this wood carving.

In fact, this wood carving is really worthless, the carving is ordinary, the wood used is the common date palm wood in the desert, and there is no cultural or historical value on the wood carving.

This ordinary wood carving attracted Chen Rui's attention because of the shape of the wood carving.

The shape of the wood carving is a strange worm.

The worm is a bit like a large intestine, with a short tail and an open mouth like a sucker with four tentacles on the edge of the sucker-like mouth.

What kind of bug is this! It looked a little hideous and terrifying, and Chen Rui was very curious.

Chen Rui finished eating the pancakes in his hand, stood up, walked over, picked up the wood carving, held it in his hand, and looked at it carefully.

At this time, a middle-aged man pushed the door and walked in, calling the elder, and the hospitable hostess shouted.

"Sharp." The elder said a 'sharp' pronunciation, and then gestured to the middle-aged man a few times.

Chen Rui quickly understood.

The relationship between the elderly and the middle-aged is that of father and son.

Another surprise to Chen Rui is that the middle-aged man can speak some simple English. "Welcome, guests from afar." The middle-aged man, like the elder and the hospitable hostess, was very warm and hospitable, and greeted Chen Rui and the five with a smile, "My name is Kalam. Every six months, I would take the weaving handicrafts and tapestries from the village to Gala, hundreds of kilometers away, to exchange the things that the village needed. ”

Camels are the most effective means of transport, and the trade routes taken by camels cover the entire desert area, and a large male camel can carry 800 kilograms of goods at a time.

The only connection between the Bedouins and civilization here is the small camel caravans of Kalam.

It is no wonder that the elders have great prestige in the village.

The Gala mentioned in Karam's mouth, Chen Rui knew that before coming to Egypt, he checked some information, and the mysterious pyramid was in the triangle area between the three points of Gala, West Dubairani, and Zawiyah um Raimham, so Chen Rui knew a little more about Gala.

Gala is an oasis city deep in the Egyptian desert, with a population of about 100,000 people.

If ancient Egypt arose from the Nile.

Then Gala arose from the caraoasis lake.

The CAraoasis lake provides an abundant source of water for the hundreds of thousands of inhabitants living in Gala, and the water of the caraoasis lake is nourished and irrigated, forming an oasis around the caraoasis lake, a green in the vast desert. "Hello, Kalam, thank you for your hospitality." Chen Rui said.

At this time, Kalam suddenly noticed the wood carving in Chen Rui's hand and said to Chen Rui, "Rui, you are very interested in this wood carving. ”

At this time, Li Wanhao and the four also noticed the wood carving in Chen Rui's hand.

"Brother Chen, can you let me take a look?" Li Wanhao said to Chen Rui.

Chen Rui nodded, handed the wood carving to Li Wanhao, turned his head and said, "Indeed, can you tell me about this wood carving?" "Absolutely." "I don't know how long this wood carving has existed, I don't know how long it has been, I just know that I saw this wood carving when I was a child, and the wood carving is a legendary monster of the desert, we call it 'Kaenrik', 'Kaenrik' means desert devil, desert demon in our local language, and of course, it has another more feared name, the death bug." ”

"Death Bugs.!"

"Yes, the Death Bug is a huge blood-red poisonous insect that lives in the desert, with a strange shape, like a blood intestine, it is so huge that people will feel very small when they stand in front of it.

The Death Bug usually lurks in the sand, but once the camel caravan gets close to it, the Death Bug, sensing the shaking of the ground, will suddenly burrow out of the sand and attack the camel caravan.

Not only is the Death Worm able to swallow a person alive through its guò mouth like a sucker, but it can also spew venom and discharge electricity, even from a few meters away, electrocuting a person or a camel! For the camel caravans that often walk in the desert, encountering it is a nightmare! (To be continued......)