Chapter 13 An Unexpected Meeting
"It should be enough," I counted, no more or less, and there were five cactus flat pots filled in total.
Thirsty is much more uncomfortable than hunger. We rested on the bottle tree until the sun sets, and we took the kettle to prepare to set off.
Climbing up the sand slope, Xiaoxuan turned her head and looked around and asked me, "Are we going west or east?"
"It's better to go west, my intuition tells me that we should go west."
I patted the cactus kettle hanging on my body and said, "With these, we have enough water for two or three or four days, but we have to pay attention. This is our fate."
"Xiaoxuan, why are you stunned? Have you listened to me?"
She seemed to have not heard me speak, and she stared straight ahead with her eyes blankly, and suddenly said excitedly: "People! Someone! That's someone!"
"Human! Who is there?" I looked in the direction of her finger.
I saw two or three small dots appearing a few hundred meters away, moving towards us.
What a human being! Could it be that they have found their heads?
"Hello!"
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"Hey! We're here! Here!" I shouted and waved to the other side.
The people in the distance paused for dozens of seconds and should have noticed that we were speeding up and rushing towards us.
I only saw it clearly when I got closer.
It’s not about holding the head, and these people are not from our camel caravan. The other party has three men and one woman. The clothes they wear are not like modern people, and they look a bit like some nomadic people in Tibet. The two men have shaved heads and small braids on their temples, the woman has blue cloth strips tied to their heads and big earrings on their left ears. The two men and women are carrying small baskets in their hands, and cloth covers them, and they can’t see what’s inside.
Are these people Hute people? This is my first idea.
"Hello you guys!" I ran forward and gestured, "We came from a big city and got lost in the desert. We want to find the Hute tribe. Are you Hute?"
The two men and one woman looked at each other and said a lot. I couldn't understand what they were talking. They were not speaking local Yinchuan dialect, nor Mandarin.
After a few minutes, the girl with big earrings pointed at me, pointed at the sand slope, reached out to gesture in the air, and tried to communicate with me.
I thought about her gestures and suddenly realized, "Miss, you are a tree just now!"
"That's right!" I pointed to the sand slope and gestured, "There is a big tree underneath, a bottle tree! That tree can get water, so are you here to get water?"
After saying that, I took off my homemade cactus kettle and handed it to her.
The girl couldn't understand what I was saying, so she took the kettle with confusion on her face, dipped her fingers in her mouth and tasted it.
I smiled and said, "How is it? Isn't it delicious and has a scent?"
Her face suddenly changed drastically, and she chatted with her fellow men, and her expression became more and more excited, and her face turned red.
After hearing this, the two men suddenly stepped forward and grabbed my shoulders with anger. They were strong and strong, and they forced me down.
"What are you doing! What are you doing!"
"Let me go!"
"Where are you going to take me?" At this time, I realized something was wrong. Zhao Xuanxuan was the same. She was grabbed by the girl with earrings and dragged her downhill.
When I arrived at the bottle tree, these people found the wound on the bark. The wound was smashed by me with stones on the ground.
"Puu!" One of them suddenly knelt down at the bottle tree, kept muttering words in his mouth, listening to the tone, looking at the expression on his face, I realized something at this time.
Zhao Xuanxuan and I may have been in trouble
The big bottle tree in front of me is likely planted by them!
The man stood up angrily from the ground and raised his hands to hit me!
At this time, the girl with earrings grabbed his hand, looked at him and shook her head, and whispered a few words I couldn't understand, as if she was persuading her.
The basket they brought contained air-dried meat, white cloth strips, and paper money. The girl signaled me not to move around, tied my hands with the white cloth strips, and pushed me, meaning that I would let me go by myself.
The same was true for Zhao Xuanxuan, who was tied up and pushed away with her hands.
"Yunfeng, where are these people going to bring us?"
"How do I know? I've taken one step at a time."
"Why don't you resist? You're a man."
"I haven't eaten for a few days, so how can I have the strength?" I said with a bitter face, "Are you talking about looking at the arms of those two men? The arms are almost overwhelming your thighs. There may be a chance one-on-one, but they are many."
"Xiaoxuan, don't be afraid. There are misunderstandings in this. See where they are going to take us."
In this way, I was escorted away for nearly two hours and a small village appeared on the sand in front of me.
There were more than a dozen sheep running outside the small village. A little boy with a round face rancid and was driving the sheep with a rattan.
When we saw us, the little boy ran back to the small village yelled. Not long after, a few older people came out of the village.
The girl talked to the old man, and from time to time turned around and looked at me and pointed.
The old man in the lead also had a bald braid. As he listened, his face gradually became gloomy.
Then Zhao Xuanxuan and I were pushed into a dirt house. We were afraid that we would run away, so we were tied up with thick rattans.
"It's you!" Someone suddenly spoke behind him.
"It's you!" I turned around and saw that he was here too!
It's Aza! Aza who steals our camels and water!
Aza is now tied with her feet and is leaning against the corner of the wall and looking at Zhao Xuanxuan and me in surprise.
"Damn it!" I recalled the hardships of the past few days. If I hadn't found the bottle tree by chance, I would have been dead now!
I was angry and wanted to rush over, but because my feet were tied with a rattan rope, I fell down with a thud.
Seeing this, Aza's face was a bit of abusive look. He looked like a dead pig and was not afraid of boiling water. He spoke, "Hey, we three are now grasshoppers on the same rope."
"How about it? Do you want to settle the old and new disputes with me now, or wait until we escape before we get out?"
"Don't panic, you don't know the details of the people you caught, but I know, how do I tell you?"
"Pooh!"
I spitted at him and cursed: "I am still a friend of you and I! That's how you treat your friends! If I had known that you were so bad-minded, I should have thrown you into the mine and waited to die!"
"Tsk," Aza said indifferently: "Isn't it just taking a little water from you to take away two camels?"
"A little bit?! How much have you taken away!"
"You guy is talking about it!" Hearing his words lightly, I became more and more angry the more I thought about it. It was probably because they were suffering because they were not water! They were all left overnight by this coward!
Seeing that I was about to get angry again, Zhao Xuanxuan interrupted and said, "Don't panic Yunfeng first, listen to what this person said. There is one thing he said right. The most urgent thing is to figure out what's going on. We can't be tied up like this all the time, right?"
"Tsk tsk, this beauty is still sensible, and she can tell the priority."
Chapter completed!