Wang Tianlun walked alone in the desert under the sun that had begun to set westward, and everywhere he saw were endless sand dunes, as if they were endless, which made people feel hopeless.

However, Wang Tianlun is not an ordinary person, he has traveled through a larger desert than this in his previous life, and even visited a planet where all of them are deserts, and this 800-kilometer-deep desert is nothing in his eyes.

After about an hour of walking, the desert started to be windy, at first it was just a light breeze, but in the blink of an eye, the wind was fierce, and the wind became more and more fierce. The sand grains blown by the wind flew all over the sky, and the outline of the ground became blurred, and the sand beneath his feet seemed to be dancing.

The sand hit Wang Tianlun's legs and arms, spinning rapidly around his body, flying non-stop, getting into his neck for a while, and into his mouth and nose for a while. The sand slammed into his face with the wind and captivated his eyes.

Despite this, Wang Tianlun did not dare to stop and lie on the ground to avoid the wind, because he knew that as soon as he stopped and lay on the ground, the sand would quickly gather around his body, and it would not be long before he would be deeply buried by the sand. Therefore, he can only stubbornly bury his head forward against the strong wind, and must not stop, fortunately, this is not a terrifying sandstorm, as long as it does not stop, there will be no danger.

Wang Tianlun kept walking forward with his head stuffy, and he didn't know how long he had walked or how long he had walked, but the wind suddenly stopped, came and went suddenly, like a convulsion.

Wang Tianlun wiped away the thick layer of sand and dust that stuck to his face with his hands, then opened his eyes and looked around, he couldn't help but be stunned, he actually came to a mixed land of sand and gravel, the flat ground was scattered with a layer of brown gravel, and the cracks of the gravel were filled with yellow sand grains.

Wang Tianlun raised his eyes and looked ahead, and some stone piles appeared on the ground in front of him, which were some huge boulders, disorganized, and crumblingly piled up in the east and west, and the ravines formed by the stones made the flat surface of the earth unrecognizable.

Suddenly, Wang Tianlun saw a strange scene, more than a dozen camels appeared at the base of a huge brown gravel, and puffs of blue smoke came out of the circle surrounded by the dozen camels.

It is not surprising that a group of camels appeared in the desert at a depth of 800 kilometers, known as the Great Desert of Terror and Devils, perhaps a group of wild camels living in this desert, but it is different when there is smoke, wild camels do not use fire and dare not light fire, only humans use fire, which shows that there should be people over there.

It is a good thing to have people, especially in this vast and boundless desert, because there is great strength in numbers, and there are more people who can help each other and support each other, and a little difficulty can be easily overcome.

But it's not all good, what if you encounter some murderous bandits hiding in the desert who specialize in plundering the belongings of passing merchants? However, this is not within Wang Tianlun's consideration, with Wang Tianlun's current strength, ordinary bandits must not rob him of anything? It would be nice if he didn't rob them.

Wang Tianlun walked towards the place where there were camels and smoke, the place didn't seem too far, but it wasn't too close, and Wang Tianlun's footsteps were half a galaxy away.

When I got closer, I saw that there were six people in a circle of more than a dozen camels, and an old man who looked to be sixty years old was kneeling on the ground with five young people praying.

Two of the five young men looked to be about thirty years old, two looked to be twenty years old, and one looked to be at most twelve or thirteen years old.

Although these six people were different in age, they all wore the same clothes, all of them were dressed in white robes embroidered with beautiful patterns, they all wore the same red belt around their waists, they all wore a small white hat embroidered with beautiful patterns on their heads, and they all wore a pair of high-barreled leather boots made of some kind of leather on their feet.

People were praying, and Wang Tianlun was inconvenient to go over and disturb him, so he stood outside the circle surrounded by camels and watched quietly, and from the words Allah and Muhammad that were muttered from several people, Wang Tianlun guessed that these people should be descendants of the ancient Arabs.

About ten minutes later, the six men had finished praying, and before Wang Tianlun could come forward to speak, the old man walked out of the circle surrounded by camels, and saw him put one hand on his chest and bowed to Wang Tianlun and said warmly: "Allah bless you." Distinguished guests, welcome to dinner with us. ”

Wang Tianlun couldn't help but be stunned, and said in his heart: "These people are too hospitable, as soon as they meet, they invite people to eat with them, this is in the devil's desert 800 kilometers deep, water and food are very precious, how can they be so willing to enjoy it with a person who meets in Pingshui?" ”

Wang Tianlun hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, no, I just saw the camels and smoke here from a distance, so I ran over to take a look when I was curious. ”

The old man smiled and said: "How can it be regarded as a meeting in Pingshui, we met in this desert of 800 kilometers, which shows that we are destined, people say that it is a hundred years to cultivate the same boat, and a thousand years to sleep together." Maybe we were a family hundreds of years ago, how do you think we met in the water, right? ”

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Wang Tianlun was speechless by what the old man said.

The old man smiled again, stretched out his hand, and led him into the circle of camels.

In the middle of the circle are three wooden sticks more than a meter high that are more than one meter long in a triangle of arm thickness, and a black metal kettle hangs from the bottom of the sticks. There was some dried camel dung burning underneath the kettle, and the water in the kettle was already rattling, and the water was about to boil.

Next to the kettle was a stove made of rubble blocks, and on the stove was a large metal pot with a diameter of one meter, in which a pot of rice mixed with some dried meat of an unknown beast was boiling. The rice should be almost cooked, and the aroma of dried meat and rice is already emitting from the outside.

There was also a pile of dried camel manure burning in the stove below the pot.

Camel dung is dried and has a high ignition point, which is also easy to collect, and is the best fuel for merchants who walk the desert.

When the five young men saw Wang Tianlun coming into the circle, they all bowed to Wang Tianlun with one hand over their hearts, and then said in unison: "Allah bless you." ”

Wang Tianlun followed their example and replied, "Allah bless you." ”

It seems that these six people are a family, the old man is the head of the family, the old man pulled Wang Tianlun to the front of the big metal pot, there were more than a dozen broken stones around the big metal pot, and the old man pulled Wang Tianlun to sit down on the two largest stones.

After the two of them sat down, the five young men came over and sat down. Then a young man took out seven large porcelain bowls from a backpack, and with this thickness, even if they fell from a distance of several meters onto the stone, the porcelain bowl would not be broken.

Then they served rice in porcelain bowls one by one, and gave it to the old man first, but the old man handed the bowl of rice to Wang Tianlun first, and it seemed that they really treated Wang Tianlun as a distinguished guest.

Wang Tianlun understands the etiquette of some nationalities, and he can't show a very polite appearance on this occasion, otherwise he will be mistaken by others for looking down on others.

Therefore, Wang Tianlun did not refuse, thanked him, and took the bowl of rice. Of course, although he took the first bowl of rice, he knew that he could not be the first to eat.

When everyone had received their meal, they heard the old man mutter: "Thank Allah." ”

Then he raised the bowl in his hand and gestured to Wang Tianlun before eating.

Then the five young men began to eat as well.

Wang Tianlun also wanted to eat, but he didn't know how to eat it, because they only gave him a bowl of rice, but they didn't give him the tools to eat, such as chopsticks and spoons.

But when Wang Tianlun saw people eating, he realized that they didn't eat with utensils, and their hands were their utensils.

Wang Tianlun found another problem from their meals, that is, they all use their right hands to eat in the bowl, even if the rice is very hot and their hands are burned, they would rather eat after cooling their hands than use their left hand to go to the bowl to eat. Although he was curious about it, out of politeness he held back the curious question and didn't ask it.

(But then he figured out what was going on from a folklorist, who was the left hand that they used to wipe their cheeks when it was convenient for them, because they never used paper or anything else when it was convenient.) ）

Wang Tianlun couldn't understand how there was such a backward nation in the era of such advanced science and technology.

Seeing that everyone eats like that, Wang Tianlun had no choice but to follow the customs, he took out a bottle of water from his backpack and washed his hands, he couldn't do it if he didn't wash it, and he had a thick layer of sand on his hands and didn't wash it.

Seeing Wang Tianlun washing his hands with water, the five young people looked at it curiously, but the old man didn't look at it, I don't know if it was out of politeness or being well-informed.

Seeing the five young people watching him wash his hands, Wang Tianlun smiled and said, "Wash your hands if they are too dirty." ”

With that, he handed the water bottle to the five young men, and said, "Wash it too." ”

The five young men shook their heads hurriedly, and then they all began to eat again.

Then Wang Tianlun also ate it, the rice was very fragrant, especially the jerky mixed in the rice, but the shredded meat was quite thick, like camel jerky.

After eating, everyone sat around the big metal kettle and drank tea, it turned out that the big metal kettle was boiling tea, the color of the tea was very dark and strong, it should be Pu'er tea.

Wang Tianlun knows that drinking tea is the core content of people living in the desert. Some desert peoples, who often sit around campfires for hours on end, raise their bowls and drink them down, shouting: "In the name of Allah, thank Allah!" It is no less enthusiastic than the shouting of whisky drinkers in ancient England. ”

Desert peoples are inseparable from tea, drinking tea can give them almost superhuman endurance, without tea, they may become incurable sick men.