The vast majority of people in villages in southern Xinjiang do not speak Chinese, and their ancestors have been speaking Uyghur for generations.

Even after the liberation of Xinjiang in New China, the Uyghur language has been retained to this day.

In order to highlight the status of the Uyghur language, the state has listed both Uyghur and Chinese as the official languages of Xinjiang.

In the vigorous national literacy campaign launched in the last century, southern Xinjiang was remote and not completely swept away.

Therefore, there are still many illiterate people who cannot write or read, let alone learn Chinese.

Since the 80s and 90s, the state's guidance of Xinjiang's cultural subjects has gradually weakened on the whole, and the main focus has been on the big cities, and the vast rural areas of southern Xinjiang have been neglected intentionally or unintentionally.

In addition, the dominant position of the Uyghur language in Xinjiang has risen, and all kinds of news media are basically Uyghur, and Chinese media have rarely paid attention to it except for the needs of the party and government.

Naturally, the peasant masses in the vast rural areas do not care about current political news that has no vital interest in them, so they do not need to get in touch with news from the outside world, let alone learn Chinese.

Even though the education department requires students to learn Chinese, it is not mandatory in southern Xinjiang.

Students are reluctant to increase the burden of learning another language, and there are no Chinese teachers in the school, so that even if students go to the ninth grade of junior high school, their Chinese proficiency is quite low, and basic reading and writing are problems.

Not to mention, some schools simply do not have the will and ability to teach Chinese, and the number of times they actually take Chinese classes in a semester can be counted in a single slap.

The older generation can't learn Chinese, and the younger generation is unwilling to learn it, and no one teaches it, which directly leads to Uyghur becoming the only main language in the south, and Chinese has become a foreign language that is not in demand.

In schools in cities and towns, junior high school students can actually learn Chinese several times a semester, but in the vast rural areas, there is no way to learn Chinese, so that people who do not know Uyghur can hardly move into the villages of southern Xinjiang.

But fortunately, Zhang Wei: Not no one in their team understands Uyghur.

Zou Yitian is a veteran for many years, and although he can't speak Uyghur, he can still understand it, which is much better than not understanding it at all.

As soon as they entered the village, they were spotted by the villagers who lived at the entrance of the village.

Seeing the sudden appearance of armed policemen with loaded guns, they were startled, and they seemed to be a little panicked, so they went home directly and closed the door.

It was the summer vacation of August, the school had not yet opened, and there were many children playing in the village, and when they saw the arrival of the armed police, they just stood there and forgot the game they were playing.

They were very curious about the guns in the hands of the armed police, and the equipment also attracted their full attention.

They watched the armed police soldiers walk in front of them in a daze, forgetting to speak, forgetting to fight, and forgetting that they were there.

With an anxious shout, the children woke up like a dream, scattered in a hurry, and ran home in three steps and one turn.

The village fell silent for a moment, and all other sounds seemed to have disappeared except for the screams of the knowing.

"Squad leader, why did they run away when they saw us?"

Zou Yitian didn't know what he was thinking, he didn't speak.

"Treat us as outsiders and be afraid of us." Zhang Ning said as he looked around.

"Southern Xinjiang is different from Wushi, where we are not welcome. They are more reluctant to have anything to do with us than the three forces, especially in such traditional villages. ”

Zou Yitian seemed to come back to his senses and explained a little to the players.

"When you enter the village, you must be very careful, try not to have conflicts with the villagers, otherwise there will be ** annoyance."

"They've closed the door, how are we going to search?"

"Every village has a village chief, and without the help of the village chief, it would be difficult for us to act in this village on our own."

"We don't know who the village chief is, and when we find the village chief, I'm afraid the extremist criminals will run away long ago."

"Then you'll have to find it."

Zou Yitian knew very well that without the village chief, they would not have been able to search, let alone know whether the extremist criminals had come.

In the event of a forcible search, clashes are likely to erupt.

Because there are weapons in old villages like this, homemade earthen guns in many parts of southern Xinjiang and guns imported from abroad in the last century have not been collected

A group of nine people was divided into two groups, Zou Yitian and Zhang Ning each led one group, and looked for the village chief separately.

In this kind of village with ancient traditions, the village head is generally a person of high moral integrity, and at the same time, a person who has a certain amount of property in the village, and the family conditions are bound to be not bad.

It is easier to find the village chief, and from the outside, the dilapidated houses are directly excluded.

In addition, the village chief has to deal with people who are officials in the township, and he also has to contact people from other villages, such as merchants who come to the village to buy dried fruits, fruits and other fruits and vegetables, etc., Chinese is a necessary skill for the village chief.

Since there are very few people in the whole village who know Chinese, it is inevitable that the village chief will come forward to negotiate business with foreign merchants.

All foreign affairs are in charge of the village chief, and in the long run, the prestige of the village chief in the village will only increase.

Only when outsiders enter the village, ordinary villagers cannot communicate with them, and the first thing that comes to mind is naturally the village chief.

Therefore, the first reaction of the villagers when they see outsiders entering the village is not to come forward to talk, but to ignore it, or even avoid it, and then go to notify the village chief.

Zou Yitian and his team members searched in the village for a few minutes, and when they saw a few decent houses, they tried to communicate outside the house.

He used Chinese, and none of them responded.

The situation on Zhang Ning's side is not much better, no matter how they shout, they just can't hear each other's voice, and occasionally there is a sentence or two, which is also a Uyghur language that they can't understand, and they don't know what the other party is saying at all.

Zhang Ning even suspected that the other party was scolding them, but he didn't understand it, and there was no evidence.

After finding nothing, he ran a few more and asked a few households, but still couldn't get a response, which made Zhang Ning very frustrated.

It feels like looking for a living creature in an uninhabited village, and you can't see any life as far as the eye can see.

If you don't know the situation here, you look at the empty village and think that something has happened to this village, and all the people living here have suddenly disappeared, or they have been captured by aliens.

The villagers hid from the people's soldiers like a plague.

This makes it difficult for recruits like Zhang Wei and Lei Zengrong to accept, and this should not be the treatment that armed police soldiers should have.

The irritability in my heart, coupled with the scorching sun above my head, and the cold in my heart, made people want to escape from this village impatiently.

But they can't go, because they carry a mission.