Chapter 117 Chapter 5 Children

The kid ignored me after he finished talking, he was just playing on the sidelines, and the driver uncle led me to dinner.Although I traveled for a day and a night, after arriving in Bayi Town, my body recovered a lot and the altitude sickness was relieved.The altitude in Nyingchi is much lower than that in Lhasa. After arriving in Medog, the altitude is only more than 1,000 meters. This is simply the south of the Yangtze River in Tibet.I wanted to ask the driver's brother's name, but I couldn't understand what he said after thinking about it, so I had to give up. Dinner is finally about to start, and I can't wait to have a big meal because I'm hungry, but I still have to be more reserved because of face.At this moment, I finally understood the pain of not knowing the language. For example, if I want to ask where the toilet is, I can’t do it, so I can only endure it.The driver brother put out the bowls and chopsticks, but what surprised me was that their bowls were not the ceramic bowls of today, but exquisite wooden bowls.These wooden bowls are mainly orange-red, giving people a bright and gorgeous feeling. Seeing the driver brother pour butter tea into the wooden bowl, I asked curiously: "Do you not use porcelain bowls? These wooden bowls It’s so beautiful, it’s a pity to use it.”

"We all use wooden bowls, it's traditional." The driver's wife came out of the back room and said in Chinese. "You can speak Chinese?" I asked in surprise. "I'm a Han Chinese, and I settled down here because I came to work in Nyingchi." The driver's wife stopped shyly at this point. It seems that she was working here and fell in love with the driver. "By the way, call me Xiaolin." The driver's wife said with a smile, "He can't speak Chinese. If you have anything you don't understand, ask me, and I'll be your interpreter."

"Kobayashi? Is this appropriate?" I said awkwardly. "There is nothing suitable or not. I am about the same age as you. I just came here to do civil affairs work, so I will stay here." Xiao Lin said sweetly. After finally meeting a person who is fluent in Chinese, I feel like I was released from a prison cell, and I can finally speak freely.Kobayashi said that dinner will be ready in a little while, and told me to wait a little longer.I saw on TV that Tibetans eat large pieces of meat, and I couldn’t help swallowing my saliva when I thought about it. After waiting for a long time, Xiao Lin brought a stone pot with only a small amount of meat in it, and most of the rest were vegetables.Then, Xiaolin brought another wooden bowl, which contained a paste made of salt, milk dregs and chili noodles.I am ashamed to say that I was very disappointed, so I had to bite the bullet and eat it.Xiao Lin said that his husband didn't often eat rice, and they ate the vegetables in the stone pot mixed with the chili paste in the wooden bowl while drinking.This is really a very special way of eating, I am not used to it at all, but fortunately Xiao Lin is Han Chinese, she brought me a bowl of hot rice, so I got used to it a little bit.The chili in the wooden bowl was so hot that my mouth almost turned over. It was even hotter than Hunan chili.

"I didn't expect Tibetans to eat like this." I said to Xiao Lin. "Who told you that my husband is a Tibetan, and many people in Linzhi area are Monba people?" Xiao Lin said with a smile. "Menba people? That's right, this is Lin Zhi." I suddenly realized. When we were in school, we all had to be familiar with the customs of various ethnic groups, so that we could be proficient in archeology in various places.There are fifty-six ethnic groups in China, and I am a lazy person. I have almost read the ethnic groups with a small number of people, and I don’t have a deep understanding of them.At that time, there was also an introduction in the book, but when I saw that the Moinba tribe lived in a remote place in Tibet, and there were only 7,475 people, I gave up the idea of ​​continuing to read.For such a small nation, what archaeological discoveries can be made, it seems that it can only be a waste of time.Therefore, I closed the book at that time and left the Monba tribe aside.However, archeology is a subject that requires memorization. Generally, people who persist in learning have a very good memory. Although I only read it once, I still remembered some content.

Just like wooden bowls, that is the characteristic of Monba people, whose wooden bowls are famous all over the world.According to Tibetan historical records, the ancestors of the Moinba ethnic group multiplied and multiplied in the Himalayas in southern Tibet very early, while the galloping Yarlung Zangbo River turned southward in Nyingchi and Medog, forming a fertile valley area with a mild climate and abundant rainfall. Evergreen, known as the Jiangnan of Qinghai-Tibet.The virgin forest here is very dense, but the terrain here is difficult and dangerous, so it has always maintained its original appearance.Most of Bayi Town and Medog County are inhabited by Menba people. Because they have always lived a primitive way of life, they are called "fossils of ancient culture".I can't recall the specifics. Anyway, I went to Medog not to deal with the Monba people, but to follow Lin Yue.If Lin Yue is going to Medog, she should apply for a border permit in Bayi Town, and she can meet again at that time.

While eating, I thought about the history of the Monba people, and suddenly I remembered an important thing.When I was in college, a classmate from Tibet told me that Monba people will poison people, because they think that if they poison someone to death, the luck of this person will turn to them, so it is best not to eat food and water from Monba people. Especially the three villages he passed after leaving Medog for 3, 4, and 5 hours. He said that there are very strange places, so don't stay if you can.But the Monba people are also very enthusiastic. Some Monba people on the way will bring a bucket of corn wine. If you are together, he will buy you a drink. This kind of wine is generally fine. If you want to be safe, you can wait for him to drink it before drinking it.Of course, it's fine if you drink too little, otherwise it's really dangerous to go over landslides in a daze.

Thinking of this, I quickly spit out the food from the bowl, then stared nervously at Xiao Lin and her husband.I panicked and thought, they...they must have been poisoned, no wonder the food is so strange.By the way, former students from Tibet said that if they are afraid of being poisoned, they should have a sip of wine or a bite of food first.However, Xiao Lin and her husband should be fine after eating for so long.However, when I recalled what my classmates said just now, I felt very uncomfortable, lost my appetite immediately, and always felt that something was wrong. Instead of continuing to eat, I prevaricated that I was full and went back to the living room to sit down.The driver brother seemed to want to chat with me, so he sat next to me and talked non-stop, while Xiao Lin acted as an interpreter.Xiao Lin said, her husband asked me, why did I go to Medog, and I didn't know the way, so I was not afraid to come out?

When I heard this, I thought this is not a black shop. Could it be that the old lamas are accomplices in human trafficking?This is too bad, I trust others so easily, whether I go to Medog or not has nothing to do with them.It's inconvenient for me to explain things clearly, so I said I just wanted to have fun.Although the driver brother can't speak Chinese, it can be seen that he doesn't believe my answer very much, and he looks suspicious, but it's just a flash, and he didn't doubt me all the time.While chatting, I still felt that something was wrong. I felt that something was wrong from the meal just now, but I still couldn't figure out what was wrong.Could it be that there is something wrong with those meals, or I am suspicious, and what the classmate said may not be true.

The older brother of the driver was still asking endless questions, but Xiao Lin was not bored, and she still patiently acted as our interpreter.The driver brother said that he would take me to apply for a border pass tomorrow, but if he wanted to enter Medog, he couldn’t take me with him. He had other things to do.I said it doesn't matter, just ask someone if you don't know the way.Xiao Lin burst out laughing after hearing this, she said that she would never meet people on the road to Medog, if she didn't meet wild animals, it would be considered hard, so don't expect to meet people.

As soon as I heard it, I became anxious. If I didn’t know the way, I would still go to Medog, so I might as well go home right away.The driver brother said a few more words, and Xiao Lin immediately translated, saying that I can enter Medog with other tourists, but whether I can meet tourists is a problem. There are not many people visiting here at this time.If not, then I can only go in alone.I said, isn't it open to traffic?Xiao Lin laughed again, she said that the road there was difficult to drive in. Although the road was repaired intermittently, it was already the end of October. If you enter from that road, you may be blocked in the middle, and you can't go forward or back.

I was discouraged when I heard it, so I just didn't go.But after thinking about it, it seems that the black shops are all saying some cruel words to scare the residents, maybe they also want to do this trick.Even so, Lin Yue can go as a woman, so what should I be afraid of as a grown man.Lin Yue didn't bring her companions this time. The big reason is that Medog is the only place in Tibet that is not open to foreign tourists. If she brings those companions, she might be imprisoned in the temple before entering Medog. . I chatted with the driver brother and Xiao Lin for a long time, and I felt sleepy, so I had the cheek to say that I wanted to rest.The driver brother was also refreshing, and immediately got up and called me to rest.I was very puzzled. I seldom spoke when I drove here, and I would chatter endlessly after eating. This feeling was really similar to what my classmates described.Suddenly, uneasy, I remembered an important thing.I used an excuse to go back to the place where I ate just now, and recalled the situation of the meal just now.At that time, there were only three bowls and three stools. How could there be three bowls? There should be four bowls!Because besides me, there are the driver brother, Xiao Lin, and their children!Calculated in this way, it should be four people having dinner together, but the child was never seen during the meal.The weirdest thing is that the children are gone, but the parents are not nervous at all. Instead, they are eating happily with the guests. Why is this? "Hello?" Xiao Lin patted me behind him, but it gave me a fright. I patted my chest and looked through the window at the dark scenery outside, it seemed that it was going to snow.I calmed down, took a breath and asked, "Where's your child, why didn't you see him during the meal? Isn't he hungry?" "Child? He and I have no children yet." Xiao Lin replied.