Savage Addiction

The moment the black horse passed through the birch forest, the field of vision suddenly became open and bright.

There is a flat grassland in front of you, and you can see the blue water of Hanas Lake from a distance.

Cows lazily bask in the sun on the grass, and occasionally birds circle in the sky.

"Can you stop and let me take a picture?" Ning You asked.

"No." A voice without room for negotiation sounded behind him, "I'm in a hurry."

Ning You subconsciously looked at her watch, 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 quiet village.

There is an asphalt road at the entrance of the village, which extends all the way to the outside of the scenic spot, and next to the entrance to the village is a police station and a fire center. All this makes Ning You feel that going down the mountain is the right choice.

"Wait for me here."

The black horse finally stopped in front of the gate of an elementary school. Li Mu tied up the black horse and walked into the elementary school with two buckets of warm milk.

Earlier Li Mu said that he would take the milk down the mountain for disposal, but Ning You didn't know why he brought the milk to the elementary school.He looked inside and found that the elementary 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 big wooden house in the corner.

There are signs in two languages ​​hanging on the door of the wooden house, one is Chinese for "canteen", and the other Ning You doesn't know, but he believes it also means canteen.

Looking back, he found that there were also two languages ​​on the plaque at the gate of the school, and the other language was the same as the one hanging in the cafeteria. It really wasn't the Uighur language he was used to along the way.

The Uighur language 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 childish 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 the milk!"

Two children ran past Ning You and rushed into the school.Just when Li Mu came out of the cafeteria, two people rushed to his left, one to his right, hugged his waist tightly and refused to let go.

"Did you brush your teeth well this morning?" Li Mu smiled and asked the two children hanging on him.

"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, "Hey, let's go have breakfast."

Ning You by the gate stared at Li Mu intently - he was not mistaken, Li Mu was really smiling.

Emotions are also a person's private attribute. Ning You has never noticed that Li Mu will also have emotions, all he pays attention to are external things, such as Li Mu's appearance and his living habits.

The person who can say that "the prerequisite for a highly developed culture is social stability" is probably not just a simple wilderness?

Ning You was suddenly a little curious about Li Mu.

But this idea flashed in his mind, because he and Li Mu couldn't stay together for long, and they would part soon.

"Let's go." Li Mu came out of the school, "Take you to where you live."

Ning You glanced at the black horse tied by the door, followed Li Mu's pace, and asked, "Aren't you taking the horse away?"

"Wait for it to be here." After Li Mu finished speaking, the two reached a fork in the road. He turned to the right and said to Ning You, "This way."

As the two walked towards the interior of the village, the appearance of the village was revealed to Ning You bit by bit.

The houses that Tuva people live in are all wooden houses. Rows of wooden houses are neatly located on both sides of the road. There is a courtyard surrounded by wooden fences in the middle of each row of wooden houses. Some of them raise cattle, some feed horses, and There are big dogs of unidentifiable breeds walking between the courtyards.

At this time, most of the villagers have not started a new day of life, and the village is extremely quiet, only the sound of the wind blowing by their ears can be heard.

Ning You took a deep breath of the fresh air surrounding her, and chatted with Li Mu: "Did you contract the milk for the primary school here?"

The salary of the forest rangers is definitely not high, and selling milk to subsidize the family is a good choice.

"Don't call it a contract." Li Mudao, "I can't finish drinking too much, they will help me deal with it, and I will leave it to them."

After leaving elementary school, Li Mu's pace has been unhurried. It can be seen that what he just said "in a hurry" 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.

"Didn't you charge them money?" Ning You asked purely curiously.

"No need." Li Mu said.

If it was Ning You, he wouldn't care about this small amount of money, but he always felt that it was strange to put this matter on Li Mu.

Then a large yellow cow produces dozens of catties of fresh milk every day, and basically all of it is given to others.

Even if Li Mu usually doesn't need much money, isn't this a little too generous?

"Here we are." Li Mu stopped in front of a courtyard, pushed open the wooden fence door, and said to Ning You, "This is Zhang's home, he will take good care of you."

"Wait." Ning You grabbed Li Mu in surprise and interrupted his movements, "Why did you come to Chief Lin's house?"

The head of the forest is the person in charge of a forest, and the official is much bigger than the village head.

When Ning You heard that this village was a scenic spot, he subconsciously thought that there would be a guest house or an inn, which was specially used to receive guests. He never thought that the place Li Mu was going to send him to was someone else's home.

"I'm familiar with Chang Lin, so you live here with him." Li Mu said.

"No," Ning You frowned, "But I'm not familiar with Chief Lin?"

"Don't worry, he is very nice." Li Mu said, "His wife and daughter are also very hospitable."

It turned out to be a family, Ning You almost wanted to run away.

He didn't have any complaints about Lin Chang's family, but he really didn't want to live in a stranger's house, because it would be very embarrassing.

What is he talking about?

Does he need to help others with work?

It's fine for Li Mu to live alone in the cabin, and Ning You won't feel any embarrassment, but if he wants to face his family, he really doesn't know what to do, should he blend in with them or keep a distance?

"However, the Tuva people still have some particularities." Li Mu continued, "When the master is cooking, don't touch their tableware casually, 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 outside..."

"So much attention?" Ning You couldn't help interrupting Li Mudao.

What he is most afraid of when traveling is not knowing the local customs, like in India, nodding to express disagreement, if he is not clear about these in advance, he may get into trouble.

"After all, they are different nationalities, 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 ​​are Chinese and Mongolian." Li Mu said.

"I thought it was Tibetan." Ning You rubbed his forehead.

He didn't know the local customs here at all, now that he thought about it, 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 training: "Have you told Chief Lin that I'm going to borrow?"

If others have already agreed, it would be bad for him not to go.Just like what Li Mu said, he believed that Mr. Lin's family would be very enthusiastic, and he didn't want to be unfriendly and disappoint them.

"Not yet." Li Mu said, "Go now."

"Don't!" Ning You suddenly saw hope, and firmly grabbed Li Mu's sleeve, "Li Mu, can you take me in, I don't want to go to someone else's house."

"Are you sure?" Li Mu asked puzzled, "In my house you have to sleep on the floor."

"I can."

Compared with physical suffering and psychological suffering, 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 suddenly want to live here?"

"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 so embarrassing."

Li Mu couldn't help feeling amused: "It's okay to bother me."

"You are different." Ning You said.

"Let's go in first." Li Mu said as he was about to push the wooden fence, but the hand holding his sleeve refused to let him go forward.

He turned his head and saw Ning You was looking at him quietly again, with all the thoughts in his heart written on his face: I don't want to go.

Li Mu exhaled recklessly, and said, "Go ahead and have a look, if you really don't want to live, I'll take you back."