Chapter 466: Another Village
A piece of water, the smoke and waves are vast, like an endless sea. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Fish leaping between the waves, water birds flying low, and birds chirping, making the world seem more empty and quiet. A canoe rowed across the mirror-like water, waving beautiful and soft ripples like silk, and the fisherman was about fifty years old, his beard was already a little gray, but his skin was ruddy and tight, and his eyes showed vitality like that of a sturdy man of thirty years old, who stood barefoot on the canoe and was singing merrily, and the old songs were melodious and bold. In the reeds on the shore, wild ducks, yellow ducks, and other waterfowl flew up in fright as their songs gradually approached the shore, and fled in a daze. On the shore, rows of poplars and red willows contrast with the clear blue water, jointly constructing a beautiful picture like a fairyland. There was a basket beside the fisherman, and there were five or six big fat fish in it, and they were still fluttering and jumping. The Lop Nur people who live in Lop Nur make a living by fishing, they don't need to sell fish, and no one buys fish here, so as long as they catch enough food for their families every day, they will return by boat, in a sense, the people who live here are really enjoying life. A slender and slender girl with brown and yellow hair, wearing a tube skirt of Luo Bu linen, draped over her shoulders a draped mantle of simple patterns dyed with grass sap, a playful and lovely felt hat with two goose feathers inserted in the felt hat, a pair of fur turned shoes at her feet, a basket made of cattail grass and sagebrush, a simple hunting bow on her shoulder, and a pot of arrows made of red willow branches, walked lightly on a path between the reeds and poplar trees.
"Hey, Xiaoli!"
When the fisherman saw the girl, he greeted her with a smile in the Rob language, and the girl saw him, and she moved her bow and arrow, and politely replied, "Uncle Ata!"
Ah Ta laughed: "Don't call it that, there are a lot of generous guests from my house, give me a few cows and sheep, and I plan to propose to your family when I turn around and marry you to be my woman!" In the local area, people not only live a long life, but also the old man in his eighties and nineties can still dance and sing like young people, go to the sea to fish, and do all kinds of manual work, so it is not uncommon for a man who is still a groom at the age of 100. Hearing his words, Xiaoli's face with a touch of health and blush turned even redder, she made a mischievous grimace at Ah Tao, wrinkled her nose and said, "Ignore you!" After saying that, she was about to run away. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hooves in front of the road, and Miss Xiaoli turned her head to look at it, and couldn't help but open her mouth wide in shock.
Two wild asses were rumbling and galloping, and on each wild ass was a man riding on it, and the wild ass was tossed like a rag shaking in the wind. You should see the cowboy riding the bullfight, and the two people on the back of the wild donkey are even more embarrassed than that.
Obviously, they saw the girl standing in front, and one of the wild donkey riders was surprised to pull the reins, and the reins were broken very simply with a "snap", so this person screamed "ah", and flew out with his teeth and claws, and flew over the top of Xiaoli's head, and threw himself into the lake, and smashed in front of the boat, "banging" to stir up a puff of lake water, splashing Ah Ta all over the face, and frightened Ah Ta into a daze, and the canoe shook violently, almost throwing him down. Then the other knight exclaimed, "Sir!" and rolled off the donkey's back, and rolled through the reeds for a few turns before stopping, and the two wild asses suddenly became free, and with a few joyful screams, they suddenly left the road and ran into the poplar forest. The man who rolled off the donkey's back stood up and tried to stand up, but he was so dizzy that as soon as he stood up, he retched.
The man who fell headlong into the water came out of the water and exclaimed, "It's so bitter and salty!
Then he shouted: "It's cold, it's cold!
A Ah Ta on the ship, and a little Li on the shore, are all people who have lived here all their lives, except for the merchants of the Western Regions who occasionally pass by and stop here, they have hardly any contact with the outside world, how have they ever seen such a strange scene? They looked at this pair of strange-looking people blankly, and they couldn't react at all.
These two donkey riders are naturally Guo Jia and Xing Tian.
They finally found water and a large number of wild animals in the mountains, and it took them two days to regain their strength and hunt some animals, and accumulate some jerky, and when they were ready to stop, they filled up the water bags and decided to leave the mountains.
Although the mountains are no longer deserts, but they are large walls, at least as far as the eye can see the edge, the two do not know if they can walk out, so they want to catch two yaks to walk, but the wild yak is infinitely powerful, two people fell to the nose and face swollen and could not surrender, is helpless, they saw a group of wild donkeys again.
The two of them suddenly changed their minds, and in their minds, a donkey should have less strength and run faster than an ox. But the process of two people subduing the wild donkey was also miserable. Compared with the small donkey raised in the house, the wild donkey can be regarded as a tall donkey, the adult wild donkey is more than two meters long, weighs 800 catties, and the wild donkey is timid, so the alertness is particularly high.
Fortunately, the terrain of the valley is special, and the two finally succeeded in catching the two wild asses after several twists and turns, but the donkey is stubborn, coupled with the untamable nature, the process of the two people riding the donkey all the way out of the valley can really be said to be more miserable than the process of chasing and killing the Timur cavalry, so they have a strong desire to survive so that they persevered.
Compared with the barren land of the desert, some low plants and water sources began to appear, and the two men ran in one direction for a few days, and gradually they could see some poplar trees, reeds, and red willows, but there were still no people, and when they were feeling hopeless, they suddenly found a beacon tower.
Although this beacon tower was invaded by wind and frost, it has gradually lost its original appearance, but it can still be vaguely recognized, although the beacon tower built with rammed earth and red willow and poplar branches is half collapsed, but it can still be recognized that this is a human building, and then the careful Guo Jia found that the poplar trees here are basically equal whether they are dead or alive, and they are arranged in rows, which are very regular, which is obviously an artificial forest. Guo Jiadeng was in high spirits, although looking at this appearance, I don't know how long it has been abandoned here, but since the ancestors of hundreds of thousands of years ago were able to garrison here, then there must be a place where humans live nearby. Even if it is abandoned because of the deterioration of the environment or other reasons, at least the area suitable for human habitation should not be far away. The two of them ran all the way down the obviously artificially planted poplar forest, until they saw the water source and the little girl, and the two of them were finally convinced: they had seen people! Walking alone in the desert, looking at the environment where no one was around, they could almost torture people crazy, and I believe that even if they saw the pursuers who wanted to kill them, they would have a sense of relief and joy in their hearts, let alone see these aborigines of Luo Bu Naoer.
Guo Jia was also dizzy by the wild donkey, and he couldn't swim out top-heavy after falling into the salt water lake, so he shouted for help. Ah Tao, who came to his senses, hurriedly smoothed the penny into the water, asked Guo Jia to grab the penny, and carried him onto the boat.
The canoe is made of a whole poplar tree, hollowed out in the middle and slightly decorated, with Guo Jia riding on the bow of the boat, holding the side of the boat firmly with both hands, and there is a feeling of soaring through the clouds.
When the boat came to shore, Miss Lili looked at them blankly and asked, "Who are you?"
Guo Jia and Xing Tian were a little sober, but they couldn't understand a word of this Xiaoli girl's Luo Bu dialect. Guo Jia asked rhetorically: "Where is this, may I ask the girl, who are you?"
Xiaoli let out an "oh" and said to Ah Tao: "Listen to their accents, it should be someone from the sandbank, I can't say their words well, Uncle Suleiman, you tell him." ”
Ah Tao had already jumped up to the shore, his movements were really vigorous like a young man, Guo Jia's words he had heard, so he said to Xiao Li: "These are two Han people!" said in a slightly stiff Chinese to Guo Jia and Xing Tian and said: "Two young people, hello! My name is Ah Ta, this girl's name is Xiao Li, we are Luo Bu Naoer, are you from Shazhou?"
"Rob Naoer?"
Guo Jia traveled west this time and carefully studied the geography of the Western Regions, so he naturally knew about Luo Bu Naoer, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard it: "Our blind man and blind horse all the way actually ran to Luo Bu Naoer?
Thinking in his heart, he said in his mouth: "Yes, uncle, we are a business trip to Shazhou, we were originally going to Beishu Bali to do business, but we met a horse thief on the way, and the goods were lost, and we fled for our lives in a panic, and finally escaped here!"
Ah Ta laughed, looked them up and down a few times, and said in a friendly manner: "I see, looking at your appearance, this is the first time you have gone out to do business, right? When others go out to do business, they all assemble several large caravans, and the soldiers and horses are strong before they go on the road, and you look like you don't look like a person who is used to taking the business road. ”
Guo Jia nodded again and again: "Yes, it's because I don't understand it that I suffered a big loss." Uncle, can you take us back, let us rest for a while, and get something to eat, although my goods have been robbed, there are still some jade ornaments, gold ornaments and other valuable things on my body, which can be used to repay you!"
This answer, and then looking at the expressions of the man and the woman, Guo Jia has determined that they are indeed simple and kind local people, and they will not suddenly become robbers, and if they really want to rob, with Xing Tian's ability, they are really not particularly worried, so they boldly asked the other party for help, and revealed that they were still carrying property. Ah Ta puffed his beard a little angrily when he heard this, and said: "As long as we have a pair of hard-working hands, we can have a happy life, you are in distress, it is right to help you, how can I ask you for payment, this will be punished by heaven and earth! Come with me, go to my house, I will get you some food first!" Guo Jia and Xing Tian expressed their gratitude one after another, and followed Ah Tao and Xiaoli towards their village.