Chapter 7: Arria
This girl didn't say anything for most of the day, if it weren't for a few words of persuasion from this shopkeeper, it would be really cold, I am now worried that this girl is a woman like Qianyu, and now I am far away from Qianyu, she is so terrible, she will give me an ear shave at every turn. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, I saw the shopkeeper walk up to the girl, hurriedly pulled the girl's hand, pulled it over, and said it in her ear, only to see her mouth moving, but she didn't know what she was saying, I asked the crow: "Brother Crow, what are they talking about, so mysterious!" ”
"I don't know, it seems to be their local language, I can't understand it, the Uyghur language in Xinjiang is very similar to the Kazakh language, but I don't know it!" The crows also looked helpless, I also forgot that the Xinjiang people themselves speak the local language many times, so it is not surprising to think about it, they speak to their own people, of course, it is easier to communicate in their own language, only when they meet outsiders, they will use that awkward Chinese to communicate, and the accent is very strange.
Since we didn't know what they were talking about, we had to sit and wait, but the girl, after listening to the shopkeeper's whisper, walked up to us and said, "Speak! Where do you want? She didn't care what we were going to do, she just glanced at the backpacks that were still on the ground around us and made a thoughtful look.
When the old lady heard this, she stood up and replied, "Lop Nur! ”
"It's a long place, it's close to us, but it's a few days away, have you figured it out? You may not be able to get out if you go in! The girl patted the dust that was still on her body when she first entered the house, and said indifferently, more as if to test us.
The old lady thought for a while and said firmly: "You have to go, you can give as much money as you want!" "In fact, the old lady listened to the girl's words just now, and knew that she was testing our desire to go to Lop Nur, so that if we insisted on going, she would take advantage of the trend to raise the price, and then at that time, if it was a person with no capital, she could basically only retreat, or she could only go into the desert by herself, but that was just a suicide.
"Really? How much money is available? The girl didn't believe it very much, but it seemed that the shopkeeper had told her something just now, and then the shopkeeper patted the money in the pocket next to the girl, and the girl had no doubts, and the lion opened her mouth and said, "Then I want 50,000 yuan, can you take it?" ”
The old lady laughed when she heard it, and the entourage also laughed behind her, and we also secretly laughed, only the Zhang Yuntian and Qianyu remained silent, and the girl still looked at the old lady blankly, seeing the old lady's reaction, the girl may be thinking about whether the amount would be too big, but she saw her expression stiffened, and hurriedly said: "Can't take it out?" It's okay, there's always 30,000 yuan! Couldn't go any lower! ”
The old lady shook her head, indicating that this was not the case, the girl was not happy at the moment, her eyebrows were raised, and she said a little coquettishly: "Then I won't go, you gave the store 10,000 yuan just now, why can't you take it out at this time." ”
"Little girl, that's not what the old lady meant!" At this time, the second uncle smiled at the girl.
"What does that mean, 30,000 yuan is not a high price, otherwise I risked my life to take you into the desert, and I didn't go in for nothing, and besides, it costs money to rent a camel, and the money will also belong to me, so I won't make much money." The girl grumbled.
The old lady stepped forward, patted the girl's shoulder, waved her hand again, and motioned to the entourage behind her to take out three wads of money, handed it to the girl, and said with a smile: "Little girl, the 30,000 yuan will be given to you first, and it will be regarded as a deposit, and after you bring us back, I will give you another 200,000 yuan, is this okay?" ”
The girl was immediately stunned, as if she had never seen so much money, and as soon as the old lady's golden mouth opened, it directly doubled six or seven times, the girl looked at the old lady sluggishly, paused for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Okay, good!" Then she stared at the money in her hand a few times, without blinking, it seemed that she was really excited, it was only thirty or fifty thousand just now, and the old lady directly gave him six or seven times the price, and now she was relieved.
After the girl put the money in a pocket hanging from her body, she felt that she had lost her temper again, and hurriedly turned back and said, "Then let's leave tomorrow!" I'm going to feed the camels well, and you're going to get your stuff ready, and remember, you have to bring plenty of water, or we'll not go far, and we'll see you at the door!" ”
"By the way, little girl, what's your name, we can't keep calling you to feed!" Abu interjected.
"Well, you know, you can just call me Arya!" The girl happily replied, without the previous cold state, and told us to go back to the store and rest for another night, saying that she would go into the desert tomorrow, and that she would lead the camel outside the door to wait for us the next day, and after saying that, she walked out of the store, and her hand was tightly held in her pocket.
But then we heard from the shopkeeper that there were some changes in Alia's family, her parents were sick at home, and she needed a lot of medical expenses, and there was a younger brother and a younger sister in the family in addition to her parents, and Alia could only rely on the very unstable job of a guide to earn some money to support her family, basically the whole family was supported by her, and if it was in the off-season, there was basically no business, let alone taking people into the desert, and no one paid attention to her at that time. Because there are so few people who go to the desert in the off-season.
And the reason why this girl loves money so much is because of the changes in the family, in addition to taking people into the desert, she will find some other work to do, but she can only earn a small amount of medical expenses and food money, which does not play a big role.
Listening to what the shopkeeper said, we all felt that we had misunderstood this girl, she didn't love money, but loved her family, and we didn't linger on this matter, after all, there is no free lunch in the world.
We first bought some tools that we didn't bring with us in the market, hoes and the like, and some strange things, I haven't heard of them, anyway, the second uncle said that these things can be used in the desert, so I didn't care about it, just accompanied them to carry the things back.
After coming back, I was tired enough, I took a shower in the store and went to bed early, this tomorrow is busy, we went back to the room, and did not mention much about the desert, but the danger of the desert has a number in our hearts, anyway, just wait for the girl to take us into the desert, this tomorrow's matter has to be said tomorrow, and at this time the next conclusion is impossible.
I fell asleep in my bed, and the next day Abu came to wake me up, and when we packed up and went out, Alia was waiting for us outside with a long line of camels.
Today's Alia is completely different from yesterday, with a veil wrapped on her head, saying that she needs to use it in the desert, and she also prepared a piece for each of us, in addition to windproof goggles and a hat, the second uncle saw these things, patted his head, and said with a smile: "If this little girl hadn't prepared, we would have really forgotten to prepare these things." ”
"You're welcome, I'm just afraid that you'll forget, so I've prepared more." Alia replied with a grin.
"Alright, then thank you Miss Aralia, let's go!" At this time, Zhang Yuntian shook off the black robe, walked to the camel, and said to us.
Our eyes all turned to the desert not far from Ruoqiang County, and that distant place may be where the Lop Nur depression is located.