Chapter 5 Preparing for Departure-The Northern School Tomb Raider’s Notes

Lunch at the dry goods store lunch, Lao Gan with glasses youngest daughter named Gan Xuan, working in the local Yinchuan magazine, just graduated not yet transferred, Gan Xuan mind want to prove their own ability, so they can overcome the difficulties of interviewing the Hutt chief, with this performance, she can almost after the year into the system to become the establishment staff.

“Why did Youth Geography come to Yinchuan without saying hello? Where’s your interview car?” Gan Xuan stopped her chopsticks and asked me.

I was prepared for this question, so I lied: “Our journal is recently short of manpower, and the society would like to publish a serialized series of journals centered on ancient Western Xia.”

She frowned, “This kind of involves a history specialty, you can go to the Western Xia history researchers there in the Ningxia Museum, those people are all from the science class, what do you want me, a college student graduated from the journalism department, to do?”

I nodded and said, “Gan reporter you are right, of course, to find, but we do this series to face the main audience object is young people, the story of the fun and legend is more important to us, I heard that Gan reporter has been deep into the desert to interview the Hutt chief, as a colleague in the industry, I do not know if you can point out one or two, of course, periodicals will be for you to sign your name. “

When she heard the word “byline,” it was clear from her expression that the reporter was attracted to National Geographic’s size and visibility, not to mention the right to sign the issue.

She didn’t make a request to see my papers, so she got up and nodded with a smile, “I did gather some information, let’s make an appointment for this afternoon, how about at the Little Boiled Cafe?”

I nodded yes, please.

Small cooking cafe was very famous at that time, the local people are not used to drinking coffee, come here to consume are some affordable petty people, Starbucks only opened its seventh branch this year, far from covering such a small place as Yinchuan.

“Sugar and milk or creamer?” When we arrived at the Café Café, Mr. Gan asked me and Bean Sprout Boy.

I hadn’t had any coffee either, and I wanted to play hard to get myself, so I said, “No, I usually drink it plain.”

Beanpole followed my lead, “I’ll, like, have a cup of plain coffee.”

Reporter Gan nodded and greeted the waiter with his order.

The original coffee I drank at that time was really bitter, like some imported espresso, bitter to his grandma’s house, more bitter than drinking herbs, and what’s worse is that I didn’t add any sugar.

Bean Sprout Boy end up drinking a mouthful of it and then put it down and did not move, look at Bean Sprout Boy face ugly, Gan reporter puzzled and asked what is wrong with you?

Bean Sprout held back strongly and said that the coffee was good and tasted authentic.

Getting down to business, Reporter Gan pulls out an envelope from her bag, which she opens and it’s filled with photos.

The man in the photo is dressed strangely, with a mixture of a grass fur coat and an animal skin coat, and has white paint on his face, and is evasive to the camera.

I flipped through two of them and asked, “This is the Hutt tribe that lives in the desert? What part of the world was this taken?”

She said, “That’s right, the people in the photos are the Hutts, this set of photos was taken by me last year, the location is in the desert, the Hutts have no fixed residence, every time a sandstorm comes the Hutts will migrate deeper into the desert ahead of time, at that time, we were about to give up when we ran out of water, and it was a stroke of luck that we were able to find them.”

Beanpole feigned stirring his coffee and said, “What if we wanted to hire you this time, to lead us to the Hutt tribe.”

“Invite me?”

Gan reporter laughed: “Usually it is possible, but not now, I just took over the interview task of the Helan Mountain Breeding Base, I don’t have the time to accompany you guys to go to the desert to explore for the time being, and I’ll be honest, even if you guys invite me the effect is not very big, I’ll give a few of you to recommend a person, and you guys will go to find him to take a look at it.”

When she finished speaking she asked the waiter for a pen and paper and wrote an address, “Yixi Camelot, Shang Guanmin.”

“You go to this man named Shang, who has experienced old guides in his camel caravan,” laughed Reporter Gan, as he finished, “and if I’m done with my newspaper work before you set out, I might be able to set out in company.”