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Chapter 7 You Are Different
When the dark horse passed through the birch forest, the vision suddenly became bright and wide.
There is a flat grassland in front of you, and you can see the blue water of Hanas Lake from a distance.
Cows bask in the sun lazily on the grass, and the occasional bird circles the sky.
"Can you stop and let me take a picture?" Ning You asked.
"No." A voice without any room for negotiation sounded behind him, "I'm in a hurry."
Ning You looked at her watch subconsciously, it was not yet nine o'clock in the morning.
As far as he knows, people in Xinjiang don't start their day's work until ten o'clock. Could it be that the nature of the work of forest rangers is rather special?
The black horse continued down the hillside and soon came to a peaceful village.
There is an asphalt road at the entrance of the village, which extends to the outside of the scenic spot, and next to the entrance to the village is the convenient police station and fire center. All this makes Ning You feel that going down the mountain is the right choice.
"Wait for me here."
The dark horse finally stopped in front of the gate of an elementary school. Li Mu tied the dark horse and walked into the elementary school with two buckets of warm milk.
Earlier, Li Mu had said that the milk should be taken down the mountain for disposal, but Ning You did not know why he brought the milk to the primary school. He looked inside and found that the primary school was very small, and the playground was not even as big as the yard of his villa.
Focusing on Li Mu again, his back finally disappeared into a large wooden house in the corner.
There are signs in two languages ββon the door of the wooden house, one means "canteen" in Chinese, and the other Ning You does not know, but he believes it also means canteen.
Looking back, he found that the plaque at the school gate also had two languages ββon it.
Uighur looks like Arabic with some twists and turns, while the language on the plaque is more like Tibetan, with a thick vertical line running through it.
There may be a difference between print and handwriting.
Ning You was doing unprofessional analysis idly, when a young voice suddenly sounded not far away: "It's brother Li Mu's horse!"
Another equally immature voice said, "Brother Li Mu is here to deliver milk!"
The two children ran past Ning You and rushed into the school. Just as Li Mu came out of the cafeteria, two people rushed to his left and the other to his right, hugging his waist tightly and refusing to let go.
"Did you brush your teeth well in the morning?" Li Mu asked the two children hanging on him with a smile.
"Yes!" "I'm cleaner than him!" "I'm cleaner!"
The two children bared their teeth for Li Mu to examine, Li Mu rubbed their heads and said, "Good boy, let's have breakfast."
Ning You by the gate looked at Li Mu intently - he was not mistaken, Li Mu was really smiling.
Emotions are also a personal attribute of a person. Ning You never noticed that Li Mu would also have emotions. All he paid attention to was external things, such as Li Mu's appearance and his living habits.
People who can say that "the premise of a highly developed culture is social stability" are probably not just plain rough people, right?
Ning You suddenly became a little curious about Li Mu.
But this thought flashed in his mind, because he and Li Mu wouldn't be around for long, and they were going to part soon.
"Let's go." Li Mu came out of the school, "I'll take you to where you live."
Ning You glanced at the dark horse tied to the door, followed Li Mu's footsteps, and asked, "Will the horse not be taken away?"
"Wait for it to be here." After Li Mu finished speaking, the two came to a fork in the road. He turned to the right and said to Ning You, "This way."
As the two walked into the village, the face of the village was gradually revealed in front of Ning You.
The houses inhabited by the Tuva people are all wooden houses. Rows of wooden houses are neatly located on both sides of the road. In the middle of each row of wooden houses is a courtyard surrounded by wooden fences. Some raise cattle, some feed horses, and others There were large dogs of unspeakable breeds walking through the courtyards.
At this time, most of the villagers have not started a new day, and the village is so quiet that they can only hear the sound of the wind blowing in their ears.
Ning You took a deep breath of the fresh air that surrounded her, and chatted with Li Mu, "Did you contract the milk for the primary school here?"
The salary of forest rangers is definitely not high, and it is a good choice to sell milk to subsidize the family.
"Let's not call it a contract." Li Mu said, "I can't finish drinking too much, they will help me deal with it, and I will leave it to them."
After coming out of elementary school, Li Mu's pace has been unhurried. It can be seen that the "rush" he just said was to deliver milk to the elementary school.
Ning You originally thought that this was also one of Li Mu's jobs, but now it seems that it will take some time to process the milk, and Li Mu wants to let the children drink milk before class.
"Did you not charge them?" Ning You asked purely curiously.
"No need." Li Mu said.
If it were Ning You, he wouldn't care about this small amount of money, but he always felt that it was strange to put this on Li Mu.
Then a large yellow cow produces dozens of catties of fresh milk every day, and basically gives it to others.
Even if Li Mu doesn't usually need money, is this a bit too generous?
"It's here." Li Mu stopped in front of a courtyard, pushed open the door of the wooden fence, and said to Ning You, "This is Zhang's home, and he will take good care of you."
"Wait." Ning You grabbed Li Mu in surprise and interrupted his movements, "Why did you come to Chang Lin's house?"
The forest chief is the person in charge of a forest, and the official is much bigger than the village chief.
Ning You heard that this village was a scenic spot, and subconsciously thought that there would be a hostel or an inn here specially used to receive guests, but he never thought that the place Li Mu wanted to send him to was someone else's home.
"I'm familiar with Lin Chang, you live with him." Li Mu said.
"No," Ning You frowned, "But I'm not familiar with Chang Lin?"
"Don't worry, he is very nice." Li Mu said, "His wife and daughter are also very hospitable."
It was still a family, and Ning You just wanted to run away.
He doesn't have any opinion on the Lin family, but he really doesn't want to live in a stranger's house, because it will be very embarrassing.
What is he talking about?
Does he need to help others?
It's fine for Li Mu to live in a log cabin alone, Ning You won't feel any embarrassment, but if he is asked to face his family, he really doesn't know what to do, whether to blend in or keep a distance?
"But the Tuva people still have some particulars." Li Mu continued, "When the master cooks, don't touch their tableware at will, and don't refuse what they entertain you. My horse is called Hari, in Mongolian. It means black, they think black is unlucky, so I left Hari out..."
"So much attention?" Ning You couldn't help interrupting Li Mu.
When he travels, he is most afraid of not understanding the local customs. For example, in India, he nods to express his disagreement. If he does not know these things in advance, he may get into trouble.
"After all, they are different ethnic groups, you have to respect them." Li Mu said.
Ning You didn't say disrespect, he just didn't know how to deal with it. "Do they communicate in Mandarin?" he asked.
"Their official languages ββare Chinese and Mongolian." Li Mu said.
"I thought it was Tibetan." Ning You raised his forehead.
He had no idea about the local customs here, and thinking about it now, how lucky he was to meet Li Mu in the woods.
Taking a deep breath to adjust her mood, Ning You asked Li Mu while doing psychological construction, "Have you already told Chief Lin that I'm going to borrow it?"
If others have already agreed, it would be bad for him not to go. Just like what Li Mu said, he believed that Lin Chang's family would be very enthusiastic, and he didn't want to be unfriendly and let people down.
"Not yet." Li Mu said, "Go now."
"Don't!" Ning You suddenly saw hope, and grabbed Li Mu's sleeve tightly, "Li Mu, can you take me in, I don't want to go to someone else's house."
"Are you sure?" Li Mu asked in confusion, "You have to sleep on the floor in my house."
"I can."
Compared with the physical torment and the psychological torment, Ning You would rather choose the former.
At this time, Li Mu also found that Ning You's attitude had changed 180 degrees, and asked inexplicably, "Why don't you want to live here suddenly?"
"You said to send me down the mountain, I thought there was a hotel." Ning You said, "I don't want to disturb others, it's embarrassing."
Li Mu couldn't help but feel amused: "If you disturb me, you will be fine."
"You are different." Ning You said.
"Let's go ahead and talk about it." Li Mu was about to push away the wooden fence, but the hand holding his sleeve just wouldn't let him go forward.
He turned around and saw Ning You looking at him quietly again, all his thoughts were written on his face: I don't want to go.
Li Mu let out a sigh of relief and said, "Go ahead and have a look, you really don't want to live, I'll take you back."