Chapter 211
When the two children saw so many of us riding camels, they were frightened and wanted to run away while chasing the sheep.
Dou Sprout rushed the fastest. He stopped the two children and said, "Don't panic, fellow! We don't mean any harm!"
I said, Yazai, go ahead. When did these two kids become your fellow villagers? If you say unreliable things, you will scare the children.
At this time, the guide Lao Zhang put one hand across his chest, bent slightly and made a strange movement. When the two little boys saw Lao Zhang doing this, they immediately returned the favor, which was quite polite.
Lao Zhang gained the trust of the sheep-herding children, and these two children took us to their tribe.
When I got there, I discovered that they all lived like this.
The houses that the Hute people live in are similar to the earthen cave dwellings in the north. There are no doors at the entrance of the cave dwellings. Some of the more luxurious ones have sheepskin rugs hung at the entrance as curtains. These cave dwellings are concentrated in rows.
Men here do not have pigtails like the Kayak people. On the contrary, the men of the Hute people all have the same hairstyle, a small crew cut, even the children. Women also dress very simply.
Douyazai even said half-jokingly, "What do you call the Hute tribe? It's awkward and hard to pronounce. It's better to call it the Flat-head tribe."
He kicked Douyazai in the head to tell him to stop talking. It is a local custom, do as the locals do and observe etiquette. Don't make others unhappy and cause trouble for yourself.
Because Lao Zhang had been here several times, he became friends with several Hute people in the tribe. These Hute people then found people in the tribe who could speak Mandarin to act as translators. While waiting for the translation, Lao Zhang introduced to me that there are many cave dwellings like these deep in the desert, and the Hute people move four or five times a year.
I asked Lao Zhanghute why people moved so frequently. Lao Zhang thought for a while and said, "Maybe this is a custom passed down by the Hute people. I don't know the specific reason. I haven't studied it before."
Qin Xing was happy when he saw the translator found from the tribe who could speak Mandarin.
The translator is a young man in his early twenties, with dark skin and a mixed-race appearance. Except that he is a bit darker, he is quite handsome. His facial features are three-dimensional, a bit like the African version of Ren Xianqi.
"Haha! Aji!"
"Finally found you!" Qin Xingping went over and gave him a hug.
He was the only young man in the Hute tribe who had gone to school. Aji also recognized Qin Xingping. After the accident, Aji smiled and said, why are you here? Do you want to get your phone back?
"Want a cell phone?"
"How can you not," Qin Xingping held Aji's right hand, shook it and said, "I came here this time for no other reason. Aji, let me introduce to you. These are my friends. They are young geographers." From the newspaper, does the newspaper know? These people want to ask you something for an interview."
Hearing that we were interviewing him, Aji happily said yes, what questions do you want to ask?
It was better to pretend to be professional. At this time, Tou Tou had already taken out his notebook and pen. Pretending to be very professional, he first asked Aji how many people there are in your tribe now, what are the medical and living conditions like, and have you encountered any difficulties? Caring people in society helped.
Aji answered the first question accurately.
Maybe he felt that the time was almost up, so he changed the topic and asked Aji: "Young man, didn't you sell Mr. Qin a stone sculpture before? I want to ask, where did you get that stone sculpture?"
Aji's expression was a little surprised. He probably didn't expect that his head would suddenly ask this question.
Qin Xingping also made insinuations, hoping to help get him out of trouble as soon as possible.
Aji was unprepared. He thought for a while and said: "That stone sculpture was dug up by an uncle in the tribe and brought back. I thought it might be an antique and could be exchanged for some money, so I brought it to the town. Come with me, the prince hasn't come back yet. , sit down and drink a glass of water first, and I’ll call that uncle over.”
"Prince? How come you still have a prince in your tribe?" I was startled and thought I heard wrongly.
"Aji, go find someone. Yunfeng and I can explain it," Qin Xingping waved his hand and asked Aji to find the uncle in the tribe.
