Great Power Army Reclamation

Chapter 2650 Luobu Village

As early as the Neolithic Age, there were human activities in the Peacock River Basin.

During the Qin and Han Dynasties, there were 36 countries in the southern route of the Tianshan Mountains. KEL City was located in the border of Quli State. The ancient Quli State was northwest of Qiemo, north of Jingjue (now MF County), southwest of Yuli (now the area from Tashdian to the south of Bosten Lake), west of Shan State (now northeast of Tieganlik, WL County), and southeast of Wulei (now Cedaya, LT County). Its scope is equivalent to the current KEL City and part of the northwest of WL County and the southeast of LT County.

Looking at the pictures and objects in the museum, Ye Yuze's mind flashed with the scenes of people living here thousands of years ago, and he couldn't help but yearn for it.

Especially for the Luobu village, his heart was full of yearning.

Originally, I came out to walk around. Although I was full of yearning for the ancient city of Loulan, it was a long time ago.

He didn't like relics very much, and he really had no interest in places where a few sections of earth walls and some bricks and tiles could become attractions.

So, after looking at the map, he decided to go there.

The Luobu Village is located in Dunkuotan Township, WL County, BYGLMGzhizhou, Uygur Autonomous Region, adjacent to the Taklimakan Desert in the south, 28 kilometers away from the county seat, with a total area of ​​134 square kilometers.

Ye Yuze drove all the way here and found that it was obviously different from the Junken City.

Although there is snow here, it is obviously much smaller, and there are exposed black Gobi deserts everywhere.

Pieces of snow dotted in between, forming another kind of scenery.

Compared with the white expanse of Junken City, the scenery is relatively rich.

Populus euphratica forests can be seen everywhere here. The poplar trees that have lost all their leaves in winter show a kind of vigorous beauty. Every branch is full of power, as if fighting with nature.

Occasionally, you can see the dried-up poplar trees, which are not as decadent and withered as other tree species. Although there is no bark, the cracked trunks are like bulging muscles, showing their indomitable spirit.

Ye Yuze couldn't help but stop the car and walked closer to watch. The rough trunks were like files, trying to leave scars on his palms.

Looking at these withered poplar trees, Ye Yuze's decadent body and mind suddenly gave birth to a force. He was thinking, is it right to give up like this?

After wandering in the poplar forest for a while, he continued to drive forward. Soon the Luobu village arrived.

What Ye Yuze felt sorry for was that this place is now being developed, and the original residents have begun to evacuate. So there are only a few houses demolished in the village here.

The Luobu village is close to the Taklimakan Desert, and the edge of the desert is the Tarim River. The endless yellow sand and the blue river water complement each other, which is magical no matter how you look at it.

Originally, the desert and the river were two completely unrelated things, but here they are perfectly integrated.

An old man drove his sheep out of the poplar forest, and the sheep kept stopping to nibble on the dried lophatherum.

This plant was later sold everywhere, called lophatherum tea, and it is said to have many medicinal values, but here it can only be used as fodder for sheep, and the locals do not eat it.

Ye Yuze stepped forward and said hello, and the old man responded enthusiastically:

"Friends from afar, now is not the season for tourism, are you here to see the snow in the desert?"

Ye Yuze smiled and took out a bottle of sorghum: "I am here to visit friends from afar, Adasi, are you not welcome?"

The old man took the bottle of wine in his hand, looked at it for a few times and smiled.

"How can people in northern Xinjiang not welcome friends? Let's go to the house to kill sheep and have a good drink."

Ye Yuze smiled and got into the car and followed the old man home. Although he didn't ask how old he was, looking at the wrinkles on his face, he knew that he would not be less than 80 years old.

The old man's family only has his wife and a granddaughter, who is about 17 or 18 years old and very beautiful. In terms of appearance, Uyghur girls can be ranked in the top three in the whole of China.

The girl's name is Guli. Seeing the guests coming, she was very enthusiastic and quickly poured milk tea and took out some dried fruits.

The Luobu people here are actually Uyghurs, but they are not so devout in their religious beliefs. Instead, they have a stronger sense of awe for the heaven, earth and nature.

This may be related to the fact that they have always lived in a place with a harsh environment.

The people here farm, fish, and graze. The living environment is relatively closed. After the government built a road for them, communication with the outside world became smooth.

In the past, many people never left the village until they died.

But their village is also large, and there may be only one village within a radius of hundreds of miles.

After all, no one wants to survive in the desert, although the Tarim River is here, because there is too little land to cultivate.

The old man's name is Yusuf. When he said he was 102 years old, Ye Yuze was shocked. He asked a few more questions, but Yusuf was immediately unhappy and took out his ID card to show him.

Ye Yuze was stunned after seeing it. He was really 102 years old.

Ye Yuze had seen long-lived old people, but those were basically unable to take care of themselves, but Yusuf could still herd sheep.

You should know that the flock of sheep is not so honest. Herding sheep is not just walking behind the flock. Not only do you have to drive the sheep, but you also have to chase those sheep that are disobedient and always want to leave the flock.

But the old man didn't even have a dog. He was completely herding the sheep by himself. Even if the flock was not large, there were more than 20 sheep. How did he do it?

After being praised by Ye Yuze, Yusuf laughed proudly and said that his wife was his third wife, who was only over 60 years old this year.

Okay, Ye Yuze believed this. They didn't lie about their age, and it's not worth lying about.

After chatting for a while, I found out that the Lobu people didn't have sheep and didn't know how to farm. Their most primitive life was just fishing and hunting.

Because there weren't many prey in the desert, they caught the most Hash birds. They caught this kind of bird not just for meat, but also for their feathers.

In fact, all this can be found in historical materials. The Lobu people were recorded in ancient books such as "Wei Shu Tuyuhun" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, "Huijiang Zhi" in the Qing Dynasty, "Xiyu Wenjian Lu", and "Lanzhou Jilue".

The Lobu people are a branch of the Xinjiang Uyghur ethnic group. They speak the Lobu dialect and live in the rivers and lakes in the desert. They live a life of "not growing grains, not raising livestock, only fishing in small boats for food, or picking wild hemp, or catching Hash birds and skinning them for clothes, and not knowing the wind and worship." They are living fossils of the ancient residents of the Lop Nur area.

Facing such an ethnic group, how could Ye Yuze be willing to ask him to kill sheep? He said loudly that he wanted to eat grilled fish.

Yusuf immediately agreed and asked him and his granddaughter to go fishing in the river together.

There were many fish in the river. After just a few nets, more than a dozen fish were caught.

Yusuf would always put the small fish back into the river, only picking up a few big ones, and then the three of them went ashore.

The boat was made of poplar wood, which is not easy to rot.

Guli was busy processing and slaughtering fish, while Yusuf collected some dry red willow branches and lit them in his own barbecue pit.

Their pit was not dug on the ground, but was piled up with soil half a person high, and there were vents, similar to a large barbecue stove.

After the fire was lit, Guli finished processing the fish, strung the fish with red willow branches, and inserted them on the side of the oven.

Because the fish was not smoked directly on the fire, it would not be smoked black, but this method would definitely be slower, anyway, there was no rush to eat.

As the aroma of grilled fish slowly spread, the sun began to set. Some people in the village slowly gathered. After discovering Ye Yuze, everyone was very happy and took out some food to entertain him.

Ye Yuze naturally knew the habits of the people in northern Xinjiang. No matter who had a guest in a village, he was everyone's guest, and they had to take out the good things to share together.

Ye Yuze was naturally not stingy, and took out a few more bottles of wine. What surprised Ye Yuze was that most of the people who came out were elderly people.

When asked about their age, they were all over 80 years old, and there were two people of the same age as Yusuf. The people in their 80s were their juniors.

Ye Yuze had always regarded himself as an old man in recent years, but he was ashamed in front of these people!

The Luobu people basically had no horses because they believed that horses would destroy vegetation. They had camels, but they would not tie them up at ordinary times, but let them forage freely.

The food gathered by several families had everything, but there were no vegetables. It seemed that vegetables were a luxury for them.

Guli and her grandmother were making a kind of naan, which was called Kumaixi. They rolled the dough into two thin pancakes and put mutton stuffing in the middle.

The mutton stuffing was not chopped, but cut into particles with a knife and put salt on it.

The most amazing thing was their way of grilling. They shoveled out the ash from the oven, spread it on the ground, and then put Kumaixi in. Then they buried it.

It took about half an hour to dig out the ash and take out Kumaixi.

When it was just taken out, Ye Yuze couldn't bear to look at it directly. It was just a lump of earth.

But after people dusted off the ash on it, the Kumaixi was roasted brown, and the smell made Ye Yuze couldn't help sniffing his nose. It was so damn fragrant.

Although the fish on the oven began to turn brown and emit fragrance, to be honest, Ye Yuze didn't like to eat fish.

No matter how good the thing was, he felt it was fishy. He was not born to like fish. He couldn't help it.

For example, in Boston, there are a wide variety of seafood, and the fish we eat don't have bones, because foreigners don't pick fish bones.

If you stew Chinese carp for them to eat, they will choke themselves to death. There is no way, the fish bones can't be picked out at all.

Among the seafood, the only ones that Ye Yuze is interested in are abalone and lobster, because they taste similar to meat.

Ye Yuze can't wait to take the Kumaxi handed over by Guli, and then take a bite. He couldn't help but praise loudly.

It's so delicious, the fragrance is confusing. There is not only the fragrance of meat and wheat, but also the fragrance of wood ash.

These flavors are mixed together, so harmonious and perfect. People can't stop at all.

At this time, the grilled fish is also cooked, and everyone eats and drinks together. Originally, Ye Yuze didn't plan to drink. After all, his body is there. Even if he doesn't want to be treated, there is no need to seek death.

But he can't stand the enthusiasm of others. Any one of them is decades older than him, so how can he say he doesn't want to drink?

Guli handed him another grilled fish, which he didn't want at first because he really didn't want to eat it. But seeing the girl's expression of "you are praising me", he could only take a bite, and then he was stunned.

There are only a few kinds of barbecue ingredients in northern Xinjiang, cumin, fennel, chili powder and salt.

But this grilled fish has nothing but salt, but it has another taste, similar to the fragrance of flowers, and this taste just covers up the fishy smell of fish.

Ye Yuze asked Guli in confusion. Guli smiled and brought a seasoning, telling him that it was called Puhuang, which was made of pollen.

Ye Yuze couldn't help but sigh, this is really the land and water that nurture the people. If he didn't come here, he would never know this seasoning in his life.

Then something even more surprising happened. When he took out cigarettes and distributed them to everyone, several old people took a puff and pinched them off.

People complained that it was not easy to smoke, but you know that Ye Yuze gave Huazi!

He originally thought that the old people were used to smoking Mohe cigarettes like his father, but when he took the cigarettes they rolled, he found that they were the leaves of Lophatherum that could be seen everywhere on the ground.

Looking at the Lophatherum tea in the teapot and the Lophatherum cigarette in his hand, he realized that this thing was not only used to feed sheep.

Old man Yusuf told him that the people here are long-lived because they can't live without this Lophatherum.

Ye Yuze believed it for a while, after all, he studied medicine and was an atheist.

The environment here is so harsh, especially in ancient times. They don't eat fruits and vegetables, don't eat salt, lack medical care and medicine, not only rarely get sick, but also live so long.

This must be related to this plant. I have to tell my father about this. In fact, there is also Luobu Ma in Junken City, but no one pays attention to it.

After a meal of wine, the guests and hosts were happy, and Ye Yuze was also slightly drunk. He didn't drink for a while, and his alcohol tolerance seemed to have decreased.

The group of people didn't seem to have enough fun and started dancing. Guli told him that this is called lion dance, and there is also eating dance.

Several old men are light and healthy, even Yusuf has light steps, and those difficult movements are also smooth, which makes Ye Yuze admire.

Then he was pulled by Guli and started to turn around the fire.

It's not easy to dance well, but it's quite simple to learn. After a while, he took Guli's hand and danced skillfully!

It wasn't until the second half of the night that everyone was tired and went to rest.

Ye Yuze naturally lived in Yusuf's house. The winter in the desert was still very cold. Guli helped him cover himself with two layers of blankets before lying down beside him.

Ye Yuze asked again where the young people had gone, such as Guli's parents.

Guli told him that because this place was to be developed into a tourist attraction, the young people went to work elsewhere. Even the children went to school in the county.

Only the elderly were left to continue living here, which was also a kind of tourism project.

Here we go