Chapter 25: Batur's Confession I

"My father was a truck driver who often traveled back and forth between Turpan and some farming villages in the Gobi Desert to help them deliver fruits and vegetables. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAnd because I don't have a mother, I can only follow my father all year round.

That year, I was eight years old and Maisha was four years old. I remember it was the hottest day of the year, and I begged my dad to buy me a bottle of cold Coke. The Coke was so cold that I was reluctant to drink it, so I held it in my hand until it was hot. We bumped all the way to Moonlight Village. My father went to deliver things to the families, and I walked around the village. Ma Yisha was still young at the time, and somehow she ran outside to play by herself, and there was no one around. I thought to myself, it is too dangerous for such a weak girl to be unaccompanied. So he went up and talked to Maisha.

That day, Mayisha sent me to the entrance of the village, and I gave Mayisha Coke. We became friends.

I was eight years old and already a little sensible. Because I didn't have a mother, I was often ridiculed by some children in Turpan, who threw stones at me and made up nursery rhymes to humiliate me. I couldn't tell my father, because for adults these things might be trivial, but I was always very sad in my heart. Once, my father bumped into me being stoned by a group of children, and after driving the group away, he led me back to the truck. He carried a sack of brown rice in one hand and held me in the other. I followed him. He is a man who has been eroded by the wind and sand of the Western Regions, and he has been widowed for many years, coupled with the hard work of running around all year round, he has shown his old state. I felt even more sad in my heart, and I coquettishly asked him to hug me. My father couldn't get around me, so he had to use his other hand to carry me on his other shoulder.

When we arrived at Moonlight Village, I saw Mayisha far away. She was a small person, standing in front of the stone monument at the entrance of the village, looking soft and weak. As my father's car approached, I could finally see her smile. At that moment, I secretly swore in my heart that when I grew up, I would marry Maisha. ”

Speaking of this, Batur fell into a long silence, and Batur kept his head drooping, as if reminiscing about the good past and repenting of the present Mayisha. He didn't dare to look up, and he couldn't. There was still a trace of Mayisha's smile in his heart. If he looked up and met Mayisha's indifferent gaze, he was afraid that he would not be able to support it.

"My father went to deliver things as usual, and I played around the village with Mayisa. Moonlight Village is such a big village, and there is only one child, Mayisa, which is really strange when I think about it now. But at that time, I was too young to think about it at all. When the two of us were tired of playing, we lay down on the wide and flat stone pier to rest. I told Mayisha about all kinds of fun things in Turpan, and of course, I was bullied in Turpan. Maisha shrugged and told me in a particularly clear voice that she didn't have a mother either, but she still had a father and a grandfather. Maisha smiled at the sky, Mayisha's laughter was always contagious, she smiled and laughed, and I laughed with it......"

Yu Yue secretly looked at Ma Yisha, Ma Yisha's eyes were slightly red, and she forced herself to pin her face out of the window.

Batur secretly glanced at Mayisha and continued, "My friendship with Mayisha only lasted for more than half a year. When I reappeared in Yueguang Village, the villagers told me that Mayisha had been taken away by her father and had left Xinjiang. I was very sad and I started to stumble from then on.

I don't know where Maisha went, and no one knows where they went. I searched all over Xinjiang because I didn't believe that Maisha had really left Xinjiang. I tried to remember the last time I saw her, over and over again, hoping to find a clue. Even in that case, Maisha didn't tell me where she had gone, at least, perhaps, maybe I had omitted her words, implying a goodbye. But the Mayisha in the memories is still the same as usual.

You won't even say goodbye to me......" Batur choked up. Maisha was facing out the window, and in the bright light, her expression could not be seen.

"I started to hate her, and I started to give up on myself. One day, I was walking down the street and the group of children surrounded me and started laughing at me and even throwing stones at me, I was angry and I was going to resist, I didn't care about anything, I was going to resist. Batur grinned, but in Yu Yue's opinion, the smile was so lonely, "I won against them, I was seriously injured, but I beat them away." I was lying on the side of the street, staring at the blue sky motionlessly, and people passing by thought I had been beaten to death and came to see me. But I don't care, I know I'm so happy in my heart, I feel for the first time that I'm so awesome. Later, I began to fight with some thugs everywhere, and I would fight whoever was unhappy, and if I won him, I would lie on the stone pier in Moonlight Village, and watch the sky motionless.

I used to ask the people of Moonlight Village where Mayisha was, and everyone in the village knew me, but the people in Moonlight Village were very alienated from outsiders and never took the initiative to greet me. At first, I thought it was because I had a bad reputation and people were afraid of me. Later, I realized that the people in Moonlight Village didn't know what I had done in Turpan. When I knew this, I breathed a long sigh of relief.

Mayisa, I know you won't forgive me. However, before I saw you, I really hated you to the core, why did I hate you and leave me without saying a word. Maybe in your mind, I'm nothing. I'm only an occasional kid from your village, and I'll play with you for a while. What am I...... I've been struggling like this for years. Finally, one day, I slept on the stone pier in Moonlight Village, and when I woke up, it was already late at night. At that time, I had already heard that the people of Moonlight Village were slowly moving away, but I didn't know the reason for the move, and I didn't care. So, when I heard a few people moving things late at night, I didn't pay much attention to it at first. When I came to my senses, I suddenly had an idea, was Maisha the first to move away? If so, follow them and I can find Mayitha.

As you can imagine, I didn't find Mayisha. However, I discovered a big secret about them.

Ayding Lake, also known as Moonlight Lake in Uyghur language. Probably no one ever suspected that Moonlight Lake was actually another lake. This lake, which only appears during the full moon, appears on the low Gobi on the west side of Lake Aydin. Of course, how is this possible? I searched through the books afterwards, but I couldn't find any record of this lake, because how could there be a record, a large area there is the Gobi Desert, and few people usually appear there, let alone on the night of a full moon. At that time, when I saw this large lake, the sparkling white water was like moonlight. I immediately understood that compared to Aydin Lake, which died at night, this lake was the real Moonlight Lake. ”

"Are you ......" Yu Yue suddenly realized, "Ni Ming is you?" Yu Yue looked at Batur and then at Mayisha. The others were silent, and Yu Yue couldn't continue to ask.

After a moment of silence, Batur continued, "That day, I followed a few villagers from Moonlight Village out of the village and walked for a long time. The field was empty, and I couldn't follow them too closely, so I could only follow them from a distance. As they walked, they found that they had come to the lake. In this Gobi, there is only one lake, Ayding Lake. At first, I thought it was Lake Aydin, but when I looked closely, I realized that the water was flowing and glowing like white jade. I stayed for a moment, and when I came back to my senses, I found that the villagers were gone. I hurried to find that it was already the edge of the lake, and the water was not deep, and by the moonlight I could see the transparent bottom of the water, and the qanats were suddenly gushing out like a spring. I couldn't believe my eyes, there was water in the qanats, but the amount of water was so large that I couldn't believe it. I looked at it for a while, and suddenly I noticed that there was also a well at the edge of the lake, but the well seemed to be dry, and no water came out of it. I think it's strange that the qanats under the ground are connected to each other in all directions, and there can't be qanats without water. I was very curious, so I went to the well to look, but when I looked, I saw that there was light at the bottom of the well......"

When Ah Shen heard this, he couldn't hold back, and leaned over to the high priest who was sitting next to him, "Let you choose such an unhidden entrance." ”

The High Priest smiled meaningfully as if he hadn't heard.

Then I jumped down the well. But after jumping down, the well was very dark, and there was only a little fire in front of it. I could only chase the faint light of the fire. But after all, I was in the dark, and I couldn't see the way at all, so after walking for a while, I couldn't keep up with them, and I fell into the darkness. I groped my way in the darkness for a while, and when I realized that it was impossible to go any further, I began to be afraid, and for the first time I felt that I would not dare to take a step no matter what the road ahead. So that night, I staggered to the exit. When I arrived at the wellhead, I found that there was a wooden ladder that led from the wellhead to the bottom of the well. The moonlight was cast into the bottom of the well, and I was immediately relieved.

I climbed out of the well and sat on the Gobi for a long time before I remembered that it was about to dawn and that I should go back. When I got up and was about to walk back, I saw that the lake had become small. It may be that the water has returned to the qanats, and the Gobi has evaporated quickly, so the land under the lake does not look like it has been flooded at all.

I returned to Turpan and began to look for all kinds of information about the lake and the qanats, and I searched for more than half a month, but I found nothing. I also went to the Gobi near Ayding Lake to look for the qanats with wooden ladders, but I couldn't find them. Just as I was about to give up, I suddenly realized that in a few days it would be a full moon again. So I decided to go to Moonlight Village again. ”