All the way, the only green you can see is the cactus that can dance and run. Now when you get to the Elba oasis, you can finally see the trees pointing straight to the sky.
I thought that the living environment in the desert of Kenya was so cruel that the country's population and economy should be very backward. But when I came here, I saw a busy market with people coming and going.
Yellow is the main color of buildings in the Elba oasis. Each building has thick mud walls, rough and uneven appearance, and few and small windows. It is a building that pays attention to practicality at the expense of beauty.
This kind of building can reduce the heat input from the sun during the day, and prevent the heat from rapidly losing at night. It is most suitable for building in the desert.
The Yellow buildings on the periphery of the oasis are scattered, gradually converging inward. The higher the center of the oasis, the higher the storey height and density of the buildings. In the center of the oasis, a palace stands out.
There is a special place in the Elba oasis for travelers and businessmen to raise armored cattle, but there is a certain fee every day.
Luo fostered the cattle to the merchants, paid a considerable deposit, and then walked into the busy market with Lin Nie.
"Where are you going next?" Luo looked at the passing crowd and asked.
Lin Nie said: "to meet an old friend."
Luo nodded and didn't ask much.
The more you go inside, the narrower the street between the buildings and the more people there are. On both sides of the street, there are almost all kinds of shops selling all kinds of goods. A curtain will be pulled up on each shop to block the hot sun.
"Come and have a look. The Red Monkey Butt fruit is juicy and delicious. It can relieve the heat!"
"Dry fried insect pot fresh out, scorpion, sand insects, ants, sesame snake mix sale, one or two as long as 998, as long as 998!"
"To heat and detoxify the rock turtle eggs, one only needs ten thousand nuns!"
The sound of business owners always reverberates in their ears, weaving a prosperous street view.
There are people standing outside every shop, some of them are local residents, some are foreigners, and most of these foreigners are adventurers and businessmen who come to seek gold. Pure travelers like Luo account for a very small number.
There are also various kinds of special food and snacks in the desert, which are too unique. Many of them are made of insects.
Whenever you pass a snack stand, you can always smell an attractive aroma. It is the smell of local spices, which arouses buhala's greedy insects and makes him keep looking at the food in the shops or stalls.
After walking several streets, they finally stopped in front of a shop in front of a small house. It was an old man in his 60s and 70s who looked at the shop. His mind covered his body smoothly.
The goods sold in the shop are some snacks made by things such as scorpions.
The scorpion is red in black, the sand worm is fat and tender, the beetle is colorful, and the snake is long with two fingers
These local snacks are almost the same in appearance, and the way they are supposed to be done is not much worse. But the snacks sold in the old man's shop are different from those sold outside, that is, aroma.
The snacks of other families are rich and heavy in aroma, while the snacks of the old man's family are weak in aroma, but they sell better than a few points in appearance.
The old man sat on the low stool beside the door, holding a leaf fan in his hand, with his head down. He seemed to be dozing, and he was not afraid that the snacks on the stall would be followed.
Lin Nie went to the old man, picked up his walking stick and knocked on the ground. The dull sound made the old man's body shake slightly.
"Who's the goddamn Niu wa'er who's bothering your grandfather's dream and is tired of living, isn't he?"
The old man woke up, and before he could see who was coming, he yelled.
Luo and buhala were speechless. With this attitude, it's no wonder that this shop has no customers.
Lin Nie listened to the old man's curse, and his face was still expressionless.
At this time, the old man looked up and saw Lin Nie in front of him. His angry face was suddenly stunned.
"You are..."
The old portrait sees something incredible and his eyes are wide open.
"It's me." Lin Nie calms down.
The old portrait instantly confirmed a certain fact, opened his mouth, his face looked like overturning a Chinese medicine bottle, mixed with all kinds of flavors, and thought of the dirty words just now, and immediately felt as if he had eaten stool.
"Nie Jie, I, just now, that was an accident, absolutely an accident!"
For some reason, the old man laughed awkwardly, shed tears inexplicably, and finally showed a happy smile. The expression of the conversion between the number of interest seemed to have changed in 50 years.
"Where's sarin?" Looking at the old man like a lost child, Lin Nie's turbid old eyes show the color of nostalgia.
"She."
The old man's eyelids drooped and said in a tone hard to let go: "it's long gone."
"Really..." Lin Nie said in a low voice, "she finally went there."
"Well, I can't stop it. I really can't stop it." The old man held out his hands and stroked his forehead. The tears from his withered eyes were either happy for Lin Nie's arrival or sad for the man named SA Ling.Lin Nie was silent for a moment. He directly changed the topic and said, "I will stay here for a while with two younger generations. Is there enough spare room in your house?"
"Enough, sure enough!" The old man jumped up from the bench and asked eagerly, "sister Nie, how long will you stay here?"
Lin Nie looked back at Yan Luo and bu ha La and said faintly, "it's been a long time."
As soon as the voice fell, she was scrambling for the guests and walking into the shop.
The old man watched Lin Nie drive into the store. His mood was very complicated. He hadn't seen him for decades. He could recognize Lin Nie at a glance, and Lin Nie could recognize him at a glance. But they had really changed a lot.
"Uncle, then we'll go in too." Luo looked inside the shop and said.
"What old man? You call me that old? It's sago The old man wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes, and his eyes glared. Let alone, he was quite powerful.
Luo mouth slightly smoke, again said: "sago, can we go in?"
"Follow me." Sago nodded with satisfaction, then walked into the shop.
"Sago, can I have these?" Bukhara stayed where he was and pointed to the snacks on the stall.
Sago glanced back at Bukhara and said, "sago is happy today. You can eat whatever you like. You are here to help me watch the stall."
"Good!" Bukhara nodded abruptly.
Luo heart micro jump, said: "this is not good?"
"I'm in charge of my territory."
Sago said, head also don't return to inside, he still have to clean the room for Lin Nie, as for Luo their room, he won't wait.
Luomu took sago up the stairs, looked back at Bukhara and said, "take it easy."
Then he followed sago up the stairs.
At the beginning, buhala just wanted to taste it. He caught a scorpion which was black and red and threw it into his mouth. When he ate it, he couldn't stop.
Sago's house covers a small area, but it has three floors, with shops at the bottom and rooms on the second and third floors. He cleans Lin Nie's room and asks Luo to clean his room on the third floor.
Luo is not clear about the relationship between sago and Lin Nie, but from sago's performance, Lin Nie should be a very important person for him.
To clean the room, Luo won't complain. When he walks into the room full of sundries on the third floor, white smoke font suddenly has a reaction.
"Well?"
Luo suddenly looked at the debris piled on the stone bed. Is there any treasure in it?
After a pause, without hesitation, he began to carry the debris piled up on the bed.
Half an hour later, a rough female voice came from outside the house.
"Sarao'er, your shop has been robbed!"
When sago heard the sound, he told Lin Nie about it. He ran to the bottom floor and saw that all the snacks on the stall were empty. He was immediately dumbfounded.
Bukhara sat on the ground with a satisfied face, and outside the shop stood an aunt who had the same tonnage as Bukhara.
Sago suddenly looked at Bukhara sitting on the ground and asked, "don't you want to watch?"
"I'm looking." Bukhara's face was puzzled.
Sago pointed to the empty booth and asked, "what about these? Sold out? "
Bukhara shook his head and said, "I've eaten it all."
"You've eaten up!" Sago cried out.
On the third floor, Luo poked his head out of the small window and yelled to Bukhara, "take it easy. You've eaten it up!"
Buhala heard the voice, looked up at it and said wrongly, "but sago asked me to eat anything."
“…” Sago.