Chapter 1130 Old Town
Zhou Zhi was scooping up a can of diced tomatoes in the passenger seat and couldn't help but feel a little startled after hearing this.
In my last life, I had heard that some local governments would send people to greet important guests at the intersections at the boundaries of their jurisdictions. When sending people off, they would also send cars to follow them to the boundaries of their governance areas.
But he never thought that one day he would receive such treatment.
Xia Mili seemed to know the driver very well. He drove directly to the side of the Cherokee and rolled down the window: "Salam!! Adili, long time no see!"
"Salam!!" The opposite car window also closed: "Deputy Secretary Ai Yijie asked me to wait for you here! The weather is too cold, I can only hide in the car, which has air conditioning!"
" "Salam" means "Hello" or "Hey buddy!" The two of them talked in Uyghur, and Xu's father was translating in a low voice for Zhuzi.
"Afraid of asking for directions and getting lost!" Xia Mili seemed to have added a Uyghur proverb. Fortunately, Xu's father translated it for him: "With you here, we can't get lost."< br>
Adili smiled and said: "Come with me!"
Hotian was upgraded from a county to a city in the 1980s, becoming the capital of a special administrative plan in our country - a "region".
Hotan area includes one city and seven counties, including Minfeng, Yutian and Cele.
The current location is HT City. HT City is located at the intersection of two rivers flowing from the Kunlun Mountains, the Yulong Kashgar River and the Karakash River.
The upper reaches of the two rivers, the vast area sandwiched between the rivers and the Kunlun Mountains and the Karakoram Mountains, is the scope of Hotan County. After the two rivers meet, the river downstream of HT City is It is called "Hotan River".
The Hotan River crosses the Taklimakan Desert from south to north and then flows into the Tarim River. It is the only river that passes through the hinterland of the Taklimakan Desert. The Yulong Kashgar River and Karakash River in the upper reaches have higher sediment content. There are pebbles all over the river valley, and there are many jade materials mixed in them. The most famous one is Hetian jade, which is as white as mutton fat.
The administrative unit of the region is inherited from the previous "Administrative Office". Zhouzhi is not unfamiliar at all, because Manzhou belonged to the "Yizhou Administrative Office" at the earliest, and later the "Yizhou Administrative Office" became It became the "Yizhou Region" and was later separated into Yizhou City and Manzhou City, one producing Wuliangye and the other producing Laojiao.
The population of HT City is very small, only about the same as that of Jiachuan. In addition, the place is large and the weather is cold. The roads are sparse, with few cars and few people.
It wasn’t until entering the urban area that the population barely increased.
The large-scale construction of Chinese cities has not yet begun, especially in Hotan, located in the northwest border of the motherland. Many buildings still retain the style of the 1960s and 1970s, or even older.
Zhou Zhi enjoys seeing this exotic place. There are actually many houses with earthen walls in the urban area. Such a sight is already rare in municipal administrative units in the mainland. Saw it.
In addition to special houses with earthen walls and flat roofs, there are also various restaurants, bazaars, mosques and other buildings with white painted walls and round or semicircular windows on the top and rectangular windows on the bottom. Some houses have external wooden ladders that can go up to the second and third floors. The wooden ladders use beautiful flower purlins as guardrails and are painted with colorful paint. They are completely different from the decoration style in the mainland.
Zhou Zhi even thinks that such an old city should be preserved as an immovable cultural relic. In twenty years, it will definitely become a tourist attraction that attracts tourists. However, he also knew in his heart that this was unlikely. The preservation of any cultural heritage could not be an obstacle to the development of local people's lives. People-oriented was not an empty talk.
Many locals have social activities in these places. Some go to the market, some gather together to drink tea, smoke with a strange style of large pipe, and some chat around the barbecue stalls. of...
They generally have high noses and deep eyes, and are dressed in plain clothes. Most of the people wearing ethnic clothing are women and the elderly. Men under fifty are more likely to wear Chinese tunic suits, or similar Northeastern cotton jackets and cotton trousers, like people in the mainland in earlier years. The only difference is that the heads of women are all Wearing a knitted wool scarf, and on the men's heads, there are various small hats of different colors.
Generally speaking, the development of the Hotan area seems to have started relatively slowly, and is still at the level of inland cities for more than eight years.
The Administrative Office Building is actually a landmark building. It is a brick building like the Grand Mosque that I passed before. I don’t know the year it was built, but the side facing the street is all neatly decorated with large windows with round tops and bottoms. Around the corner, the buildings follow suit. It is turned into an arc shape, with beautiful columns, supporting the balcony on the second floor, and forming a beautiful corridor on the ground floor.
The structure of the second floor is the same. There is a curved corridor on the street side. The upper floor is a large flat roof with a cap badge-shaped decorative wall in the middle. In the center of the wall is a huge red five-star. There is also a big five-star red flag flying on the top.
This two-story corner building has ethnic minority characteristics and is full of modern flavor. As soon as Zhou Zhi got off the car, he couldn’t help but raise his camera and take a picture of this building.
Adili also got out of the car, came over to shake hands with everyone, and then invited everyone into the building.
The building has heating. Adili led everyone to a room on the second floor. The door here has been opened. A middle-aged man is standing at the door, wearing a white shirt and a flower hat on his head. When he saw Xu's father, he smiled and said: "Old Xu, we haven't seen you for a long time. Why didn't you bring Ayiguli and Gangzi? The old people at home miss them very much."
"It's really too far. It's so uncomfortable to be squeezed into a car." Xu's father smiled sheepishly: "Besides, this trip is a business trip and we are going in a hurry, so I won't take them to suffer."
< br>"I would say that young people need to suffer a little, which will help their growth." The middle-aged man smiled and said: "This is the little one." Comrade Zhou? Look, the same classmate as Gangzi is here! This is a young and promising person, Xiao Zhou, welcome!"
"You must be the one! Ayiguli's uncle." Zhou Zhi smiled and held the hand extended by the other party: "I often hear Gangzi mention you. Follow Ayiguli and Gangzi and call them uncle. This big holiday will keep you from resting and cause you trouble."
"That kid doesn't necessarily speak well of me." Uncle laughed. Said: "Let's go into the house and say, you are not causing trouble to me, but a timely rain for us!"
Zhou Zhi couldn't help but laugh. To be honest, when Xu Gang mentioned this "wife-in-law uncle", he really didn't have anything nice to say, but the words coming out of his mouth were different from those coming out of Xu Gang's mouth: "Gangzi said that you treat him The requirements are strict. When I was young, I was ignorant and didn’t understand your hard work.”
"Now that he has gone to college, he realizes that without your constant supervision and guidance, he has no choice but to go to college. But now he admires and is grateful to you!"
"Hahahaha..." The uncle was very happy: "Although what you said makes me happy, but... you are designated to cover for him!"
(End of this chapter)