From the Island Owner to the King

It can be said that the hospitable elderly family treated Chen Rui and his party as distinguished guests.

You must know that because the Bedouins live in the desert and live a nomadic life, the material is poor, the food is lacking, and only meat and coffee are used.

On festivals or entertaining distinguished guests.

Chen Rui thanked the elderly and the hospitable hostess with Islamic etiquette.

Li Wanhao and the other four also imitated Chen Rui and thanked the elders and the hospitable hostess with Islamic etiquette.

The five picked up the camel meat and started to eat it.

The taste of camel meat, how to say it, is a bit unpalatable, because camel meat has been lacking for a long time, the meat is too dry and too hard, the muscle texture is thicker, the salt content in the muscle is high, and there is a salty feeling.

Chen Rui ate a few pieces of camel meat and didn't eat it.

Like Chen Rui, Li Wanhao and the other four didn't eat after eating a few pieces.

However, the pancakes taste good, dipped in camel milk, and have a desert flavor.

When eating pancakes, Chen Rui looked at the furnishings in the room.

Some information about the Bedouin that I had consulted before coming to Egypt came to mind.

There are more than tens of thousands of Bedouins in Egypt.

The Egyptian government and government also tried to "pull" them into modern urban life, but they were "rejected" by the vast majority of Bedouins, who still chose a free and unfettered nomadic life.

The Bedouins do not recognize any laws other than tribal traditions, and they do not obey any regime and recognize any political system except the chief of the tribe.

In fact, this part of the Bedouin has no identity. Although they live in Egypt, they are not Egyptians in name. They are not under the jurisdiction of the Egyptian government or government, nor are they under the laws of Egypt. Only the traditions of the tribes, the habits of the predecessors, and the teachings of Islam can be controlled.

Although the Bedouins here choose to live unfettered nomadic life.

But, obviously. The Bedouins here still have some modern influences.

Although this tribe has no water or electricity, Chen Rui can see some modern daily necessities in this house, such as iron pots and towels. Lighters, dishes, embroidered quilts and more.

On the only bed in the house, there are some exquisite woven handicrafts, tapestries.

Bedouin will come every once in a while. A few months, or half a year, by caravan to the nearest city and exchange with the civilized world for what they need.

Suddenly, Chen Rui's eyes were fixed on a wooden sculpture in the corner.

The wood for the carved wood carvings is the date palm known as the 'Mother and Aunt of the Arabs'.

Maybe this woodcarving is very old, the woodcarving is a little worn, dark, and the wood has some grooves.

What attracted Chen Rui's attention was not the value of this woodcarving.

actually. This wood carving is really worthless, the carving is ordinary, and the wood used is date palm wood, which is common in the desert. There is also no cultural or historical value on the wood carvings.

What attracted Chen Rui's attention to this ordinary wood carving was the shape of the wood carving.

The shape of the wood carving is a strange worm.

The worm is somewhat like a large intestine, with a short tail, an open mouth like a sucker, and four tentacles around the edge of the sucker-like mouth.

What type of insect is this! It looked a little terrifying, and Chen Rui was very curious.

Chen Rui finished eating the pancake in his hand. Stand up and walk over. Picked up the wooden sculpture and held it in his hand. Look carefully.

At this time, a middle-aged man pushed the door and walked in, calling the elder, and the hospitable hostess shouted.

"Sharp." The elder said the pronunciation of "sharp", and then pointed at the middle-aged man and made a few gestures.

Chen Rui quickly understood.

Elders and middle-aged people have a father-son relationship.

Another surprise for Chen Rui is that middle-aged people can speak some simple English.

"Welcome, guests from far away." The middle-aged man was very warm and hospitable, just like the elders and the hospitable hostess. He smiled and said hello to the five Chen Rui. "My name is Karam Kesh, responsible for For the communication between the village and the outside world, every six months, I will take the weaving handicrafts and tapestries in the village to Gala, which is hundreds of kilometers away, every six months through the camel team to exchange what the village needs. This time I just came back from Gala.”

Camels are the most powerful means of transportation. The commercial routes that camels take cover the entire desert area. A big male can carry 800 kilograms of goods at a time.

The only link the Bedouins have with civilization here is the small camel caravan in Karam.

No wonder, the elders have great prestige in the village.

What Karam said about Gala, Chen Rui knew that before coming to Egypt, he checked some information, and the mysterious pyramid is located in the triangular area between the three points of Gala, Sidbarani, and Zawiya Um Raiham. , therefore, Chen Rui knew more about Gala.

Gala is an oasis city deep in the Egyptian desert with a population of about 100,000 people.

If ancient Egypt arose from the Nile River.

Then Gala arose because of lakes.

The lake provides sufficient water sources for the hundreds of thousands of residents living in Gala. Similarly, due to the moisture and irrigation of the lake, an oasis is formed around the lake, a piece of green in the boundless desert.

"Hello, Karam, thank you very much for your hospitality." Chen Rui said.

At this time, Karam suddenly noticed the wood carving in Chen Rui's hand, and said to Chen Rui, "Rui, you are very interested in this wood carving."

At this time, Li Wanhao and the four also noticed the wood carving in Chen Rui's hand.

"Brother Chen, can you let me take a look?" Li Wanhao said to Chen Rui.

Chen Rui nodded, handed the wood carving to Li Wanhao, turned to Karam and said, "Indeed, can you tell me about this wood carving?"

"Of course." Karam said, "This wood carving has existed for a very long time. I don't know how long. I only know that I have seen this wood carving when I was a child. The wood carving is a legendary monster in the desert. We call it 'Kaenrique', 'Kaenrique' means desert devil, desert devil in our local language, and of course it has another more feared name, the worm of death."

"Insect of death.!"

"Yes, the worm of death is a huge blood-red poisonous worm that lives in the desert. It has a strange shape, like a blood intestine. It is so huge that people will feel very small when standing in front of it.

The worm of death usually lurks in the sand. Once the camel caravan approaches it, the worm of death that senses the ground shaking will suddenly burrow out of the ground from the sand and attack the camel caravan.

The Death Worm can not only swallow a person alive through its sucker-like mouth, but also spray venom, discharge electricity, and even electrocute a person or a camel from a few meters away! For the camel caravans who often walk in the desert, it is a nightmare to encounter it! "(To be continued)