Chapter 1175 Local Customs
When we arrived at the aunt's house, she was busy preparing fresh milk and brick tea. She pumped a bucket of water from the well in the yard and made milk tea for Lin Mumu.
The aunt spoke good Mandarin and liked to chat. She soon started chatting with Lin Mumu.
No wonder Yun Ting came here. Their village is located in the southeast of Western Xinjiang Province. It is a place with a relatively hot climate. It is quite far away from the provincial capital Wumu City. It can be said that the emperor is far away.
Originally, their Ha ethnic group was one of the ethnic minorities in Western Xinjiang Province. Their number was much smaller than that of the Dong Turks, but they also lived in this place for generations and lived on nomadic life.
In recent years, the country has policies to help Western Xinjiang Province develop agriculture. Technicians have come down to provide guidance and reclaimed a piece of arable land outside their village, mainly planting wheat and fruits.
For example, the aunt's family has a group of cattle and sheep. Her husband and eldest son are herding them, and she usually manages the orchard.
This orchard is different from cattle and sheep. The orchard is contracted. The fruit trees are not hers. She can grow them for one year if she pays a certain amount of money. If the village redistributes them.
The same is true for wheat and fruit farmers. The land is all there, some are fertile and some are lean. The management fee is about the same. Everyone wants better land, so they often send things to the village head's house.
"Are there no Han people in your village? You speak Chinese very well." Lin Mumu also praised the aunt.
"Why not? Every year, Han technicians come. The teachers in the school are also Han. My youngest son is studying and wants to learn Chinese, so I learn with him.
If you learn Chinese, you can communicate with the technicians and grow better fruits. Do the technicians come to teach us every year? If you don't speak Chinese, you can't understand."
It really keeps pace with the times.
Even in a small mountain village, an ordinary peasant woman is thinking about progress.
At this time, the Ha ethnic aunt had brought the milk tea over, and poured a bowl of milk tea for Lin Mumu and Yun Ting in a flowery porcelain bowl, and put a small piece of butter in each of their bowls.
"Butter milk tea, only distinguished guests of our Ha ethnic group can drink it, you try it."
"Really? The milk tea I drank in Wumu City didn't have butter." Lin Mumu curiously brought it over and wanted to drink it.
Unfortunately, it was too hot, and it had to be cooled down a little before drinking.
Seeing that it was noon, the Ha ethnic aunt was busy cooking, saying that her youngest son wanted to eat after school, and after the little guy had eaten, he had to go to herd his father and eldest brother to deliver food.
Lin Mumu had nothing to do, so after drinking milk tea, she simply sat in the aunt's yard and ate crabapples. She bought a kilogram, which was enough for a while.
The aunt likes to chat with people. While cooking, she even chatted with Lin Mumu:
"I heard that someone buried explosives in Wumu City again. I can't understand why those officials and rich people like to cause trouble so much.
I think the Han people are good. They are cultured and knowledgeable. If the Han people hadn't come, our village would still be very poor. We live in tents and rely on the cattle and sheep to make a living.
Look at the Han technicians. They plant fruit trees for us, teach us how to prevent pests and apply fertilizers, and give classes to the children.
For example, the pressure well at home was also taught by the Han people. It was very troublesome for us to drink water before. We had to carry a bucket and fetch water from the foot of the mountain far away.
The water we fetched was not clean. If it was stepped on by cattle and sheep, there was nothing we could do.
Look at how good this pressure well is. Water comes out as soon as it is pressed. It is clear and bright."