1 00:00:41,826 --> 00:00:45,618 Long ago, in the days when horses still had short tails 2 00:00:46,201 --> 00:00:48,493 there lived a strange man. 3 00:00:49,076 --> 00:00:53,076 He often lied on the hill facing downwards. 4 00:00:53,701 --> 00:00:58,076 A huge tree pierced his chest right through to his back. 5 00:00:58,451 --> 00:01:00,326 The top of the tree pointed up to the sky. 6 00:01:00,826 --> 00:01:04,951 Because a century before he had drunk from the spring of long life 7 00:01:05,326 --> 00:01:09,451 he lived for a full hundred years. 8 00:01:14,118 --> 00:01:21,201 But his wife and his family all left this world long before him. 9 00:01:21,826 --> 00:01:25,826 So the strange man lived an unhappy life. 10 00:01:26,326 --> 00:01:31,701 He tried to kill himself by impaling his body onto a tree. 11 00:01:32,201 --> 00:01:40,493 But the tree was nurtured by the water from the spring of long life. 12 00:01:41,576 --> 00:01:47,868 He ended up living for a hundred years with the tree stuck in his body. 13 00:01:51,451 --> 00:01:57,368 He sprinkled the water from the spring of long life onto the forest 14 00:01:58,576 --> 00:02:03,535 and let the plants grow forever. 15 00:04:53,201 --> 00:04:57,243 My uncle once said that if you put your hand into a hole in a tree 16 00:04:58,576 --> 00:05:02,451 you can feel the tree's heart beating just like that of a lamb, 17 00:05:03,035 --> 00:05:04,868 bringing you comfort. 18 00:05:06,326 --> 00:05:09,493 Lying like this relaxes me. 19 00:05:09,868 --> 00:05:13,285 I can feel the plants bouncing about around me. 20 00:06:55,826 --> 00:06:56,701 Khader. 21 00:06:57,201 --> 00:06:58,451 Tokpas. 22 00:06:59,451 --> 00:07:00,743 Arsin Khazer. 23 00:07:01,743 --> 00:07:03,326 Sultan Khazer. 24 00:07:03,951 --> 00:07:05,701 Zair Khazer. 25 00:07:06,201 --> 00:07:07,951 Orman Khazer. 26 00:07:08,326 --> 00:07:10,076 Abdul Khazer. 27 00:07:13,368 --> 00:07:16,451 I looked for ages but couldn't find my name. 28 00:07:17,451 --> 00:07:20,576 I could only find my grandfather's grandfather's name. 29 00:07:20,826 --> 00:07:23,243 Perhaps from my grandfather's generation onwards 30 00:07:23,576 --> 00:07:26,826 our names became too small to be shown on the tree. 31 00:07:27,076 --> 00:07:33,118 I would have to use a microscope to see my generation. 32 00:07:56,451 --> 00:08:01,201 - Bring the milk in. - Okay. 33 00:08:44,076 --> 00:08:46,201 This is my uncle, Yerken Bek. 34 00:08:46,368 --> 00:08:50,368 He taught me all I know about plant collecting. 35 00:08:50,868 --> 00:08:54,576 He'd often jokingly call me "the botanist". 36 00:08:55,868 --> 00:08:56,993 He once told me 37 00:08:57,076 --> 00:09:01,201 that a Frenchman called Rousseau stood amongst his sheep and told him 38 00:09:01,326 --> 00:09:04,701 that even someone who doesn't know the name of a single plant 39 00:09:05,118 --> 00:09:09,826 can become an accomplished botanist. 40 00:11:15,368 --> 00:11:18,493 Be gone, be gone! 41 00:11:18,701 --> 00:11:21,076 All bad things be gone. 42 00:11:37,451 --> 00:11:40,076 My name is Arsin Abdul Khazer. 43 00:11:40,326 --> 00:11:42,076 I'm Kazakh. 44 00:11:42,368 --> 00:11:44,326 I'm 13 years old. 45 00:11:44,701 --> 00:11:47,576 I'm 1.55 metres tall. 46 00:11:47,826 --> 00:11:49,493 I weigh 41 kilos. 47 00:11:49,826 --> 00:11:51,201 I'm blood type A. 48 00:11:56,076 --> 00:11:59,076 I live on the northern grasslands of Xinjiang. 49 00:11:59,701 --> 00:12:01,868 My grandfather was from the Kerait tribe. 50 00:12:02,243 --> 00:12:04,201 If you look at a map you'll see 51 00:12:04,451 --> 00:12:08,326 this place is only five kilometres away from Kazakhstan 52 00:12:08,951 --> 00:12:13,451 in the most northwesterly corner of China. 53 00:12:34,701 --> 00:12:37,826 Ringing in your ears is the laughter two leaves make 54 00:12:38,076 --> 00:12:40,701 as they rub against each other in the wind. 55 00:12:41,201 --> 00:12:45,493 Each leaf represents different people’s lives. 56 00:12:47,493 --> 00:12:50,326 When a child is born 57 00:12:51,118 --> 00:12:53,076 a new leaf grows. 58 00:12:54,326 --> 00:12:56,118 If a leaf turn yellow and wilts 59 00:12:56,743 --> 00:12:59,326 it means someone must be in trouble. 60 00:13:03,951 --> 00:13:06,160 Three winters ago 61 00:13:06,576 --> 00:13:10,701 my uncle disappeared in the mountains around my village. 62 00:13:11,576 --> 00:13:13,951 We had a lot of snow that year. 63 00:13:14,326 --> 00:13:17,035 The snow was higher than I am now. 64 00:13:20,076 --> 00:13:22,701 Our family still haven't found my uncle. 65 00:13:23,201 --> 00:13:26,118 Some people say he must have frozen to death. 66 00:13:27,868 --> 00:13:29,701 But I don't believe that. 67 00:13:30,451 --> 00:13:35,576 Maybe he found the spring of long life and didn't want to come back. 68 00:13:36,201 --> 00:13:40,576 Or he got lost on purpose. 69 00:14:46,951 --> 00:14:48,368 Inspired by my grandfather 70 00:14:48,701 --> 00:14:52,618 Uncle Yerken temporarily became the village doctor in his youth. 71 00:14:53,451 --> 00:14:56,451 He later fell in love with a girl from the village. 72 00:14:56,826 --> 00:14:59,826 My grandfather was against it but he wouldn't listen. 73 00:15:00,618 --> 00:15:05,576 My uncle and the girl went to live in the forest for a long time. 74 00:15:06,743 --> 00:15:10,951 Until one day my uncle returned alone from the forest. 75 00:15:11,701 --> 00:15:17,201 From then on he lived here alone. 76 00:16:34,326 --> 00:16:37,326 Can you help me out? 77 00:16:53,326 --> 00:16:53,993 Your hand. 78 00:18:05,576 --> 00:18:06,951 Hey, Nurbul. 79 00:18:07,201 --> 00:18:08,951 How are you, dude? 80 00:18:09,076 --> 00:18:12,076 Did you see the photo of the sheep I sent you? 81 00:18:14,951 --> 00:18:18,701 You never call me. Up to no good as usual? 82 00:18:27,701 --> 00:18:29,326 You'd be better off back here. 83 00:18:29,451 --> 00:18:31,826 We'd watch over hundreds of sheep like wolves. 84 00:18:32,701 --> 00:18:33,451 For sure. 85 00:18:34,743 --> 00:18:36,201 Of course it's good money. 86 00:18:36,993 --> 00:18:37,826 Hello? 87 00:18:39,576 --> 00:18:40,368 Hello? 88 00:18:52,951 --> 00:18:55,618 Our sheep are getting mixed up with the others. 89 00:18:56,826 --> 00:18:57,951 Brother! 90 00:19:00,243 --> 00:19:01,326 The sheep! 91 00:19:10,576 --> 00:19:11,701 Watch your sheep! 92 00:19:32,076 --> 00:19:33,368 Don't chase them over there. 93 00:19:45,535 --> 00:19:47,243 Get your sheep out of here! 94 00:19:54,201 --> 00:19:55,493 That's my brother. 95 00:19:56,243 --> 00:19:58,201 He's also my grandmother's son. 96 00:19:58,451 --> 00:20:02,993 It's Kazakh tradition to give your firstborn to his grandparents. 97 00:20:03,576 --> 00:20:05,451 But I don't like calling him Uncle. 98 00:20:06,201 --> 00:20:09,785 Because that just reminds me of my Uncle Yerken Bek. 99 00:20:12,826 --> 00:20:14,701 What did you just call me? 100 00:20:15,326 --> 00:20:16,326 Brother. 101 00:20:17,743 --> 00:20:18,951 What am I to you? 102 00:20:21,118 --> 00:20:22,451 My brother. 103 00:20:25,243 --> 00:20:26,243 My uncle. 104 00:20:26,451 --> 00:20:27,451 Uncle. 105 00:20:36,493 --> 00:20:40,118 My uncle told me that lambs eat different types of grasses 106 00:20:40,326 --> 00:20:42,451 as they make their way up the mountain. 107 00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:46,493 You can't let them retrace their steps. 108 00:20:46,743 --> 00:20:49,076 So that in the following year 109 00:20:49,243 --> 00:20:54,076 the lambs can eat the grass that grows in those places in the next year. 110 00:21:09,201 --> 00:21:14,368 The natural gas produced by the company will be transported to inland provinces and regions. 111 00:21:14,368 --> 00:21:18,660 by-products such as tar, middle distillates, and naphtha can also be produced. 112 00:21:18,660 --> 00:21:23,243 It will be able to become the world's largest single-unit coal-based natural gas enterprise. 113 00:21:23,243 --> 00:21:27,660 Relying on high-quality coal resources, Xinjiang is focusing on coal bases such as Yili and Zhundong 114 00:21:27,660 --> 00:21:30,285 to create a modern coal chemical industry cluster. 115 00:21:30,285 --> 00:21:33,743 accelerating the process of converting resource advantages into economic advantages. 116 00:22:11,951 --> 00:22:12,576 Give it back. 117 00:22:13,118 --> 00:22:14,076 Stealing again! 118 00:22:14,743 --> 00:22:15,451 Come on. 119 00:22:29,576 --> 00:22:30,868 My mum says no tabs. 120 00:22:31,576 --> 00:22:32,451 Call your dad. 121 00:22:32,451 --> 00:22:34,493 He does what my mum says. 122 00:22:36,285 --> 00:22:38,243 You're a feisty one. 123 00:22:45,701 --> 00:22:46,701 How much? 124 00:22:46,826 --> 00:22:47,951 One yuan. 125 00:23:18,451 --> 00:23:20,035 Arsin. 126 00:23:20,826 --> 00:23:21,993 Thanks for last time. 127 00:23:22,118 --> 00:23:23,826 This is on the house. 128 00:23:29,951 --> 00:23:32,076 Let me take you somewhere. 129 00:25:07,076 --> 00:25:08,660 Here. 130 00:25:25,410 --> 00:25:27,535 It tastes really nice. 131 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:41,285 Look. 132 00:25:44,701 --> 00:25:45,826 Well done! 133 00:26:36,785 --> 00:26:38,701 It's true. 134 00:26:39,451 --> 00:26:40,910 She may be Han Chinese. 135 00:26:42,326 --> 00:26:44,451 But so what? 136 00:27:27,451 --> 00:27:28,451 Grandma? 137 00:27:31,868 --> 00:27:32,826 Grandma? 138 00:27:37,701 --> 00:27:38,618 Grandma? 139 00:27:47,826 --> 00:27:51,826 Tell your uncle to come and eat. 140 00:27:53,576 --> 00:27:55,201 You mean my brother? 141 00:27:55,326 --> 00:27:57,451 No, I mean your uncle. 142 00:28:13,076 --> 00:28:14,951 Grandma says it's time to eat, Brother. 143 00:28:15,326 --> 00:28:16,701 You go on ahead. 144 00:28:33,243 --> 00:28:35,618 Let's go home then. 145 00:28:39,326 --> 00:28:41,201 I'll go without you then. 146 00:29:19,368 --> 00:29:21,326 Come and play, Arsin. 147 00:30:29,118 --> 00:30:32,118 It's too small. And there's a crack in it. 148 00:30:32,951 --> 00:30:34,951 It's not worth anything. 149 00:30:35,618 --> 00:30:38,493 Bigger stones are better. 150 00:30:39,368 --> 00:30:40,201 Where's it from? 151 00:30:40,368 --> 00:30:40,826 The canal. 152 00:30:40,951 --> 00:30:41,576 Hey, boss! 153 00:30:41,701 --> 00:30:42,201 Yep? 154 00:30:42,243 --> 00:30:43,576 Let's go! Bazaar's closing. 155 00:30:43,785 --> 00:30:45,368 Let's go. I'm coming. 156 00:30:45,493 --> 00:30:47,326 I've got to go now. 157 00:30:50,118 --> 00:30:52,535 Lock the door, Meiyu. 158 00:30:52,743 --> 00:30:53,368 Okay. 159 00:33:22,576 --> 00:33:23,993 Hey, did you know? 160 00:33:24,326 --> 00:33:25,826 there was once a scholar 161 00:33:26,201 --> 00:33:30,451 who heard that praying mantises used a leaf to make themselves invisible. 162 00:33:30,826 --> 00:33:33,118 One day he managed to find such a leaf. 163 00:33:33,618 --> 00:33:35,826 He went around with the leaf over his eyes 164 00:33:36,326 --> 00:33:37,451 stealing from people. 165 00:33:37,743 --> 00:33:39,118 But he was found out. 166 00:33:39,576 --> 00:33:41,035 Do you know why? 167 00:33:43,826 --> 00:33:46,951 The leaf was over his eyes and he couldn't see anyone. 168 00:33:47,076 --> 00:33:48,701 But he thought people couldn't see him. 169 00:33:49,743 --> 00:33:51,451 Maybe there really is such a leaf 170 00:33:51,951 --> 00:33:53,701 and your uncle found it. 171 00:33:54,076 --> 00:33:55,826 And he's hiding behind it. 172 00:33:58,951 --> 00:34:02,451 It would have to be a really big leaf to hide him completely. 173 00:34:02,951 --> 00:34:04,326 If we're lucky 174 00:34:04,451 --> 00:34:06,035 maybe we can find one. 175 00:34:38,201 --> 00:34:38,951 Brother? 176 00:34:40,701 --> 00:34:41,576 What did you say? 177 00:34:43,910 --> 00:34:44,576 Brother. 178 00:35:23,118 --> 00:35:25,701 - Be thorough. Pick all the wool up. - Okay. 179 00:35:32,701 --> 00:35:34,576 Have some grapes. 180 00:35:34,951 --> 00:35:35,368 Okay. 181 00:36:38,451 --> 00:36:39,993 Is that your friend? 182 00:36:40,326 --> 00:36:41,285 Call him over. 183 00:37:18,243 --> 00:37:20,951 Mum, are you home? 184 00:37:21,451 --> 00:37:22,951 I'm here. 185 00:37:23,576 --> 00:37:25,451 How are you? 186 00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:26,993 I'm fine. 187 00:37:28,951 --> 00:37:30,701 In good health? 188 00:37:30,951 --> 00:37:32,201 Yes. 189 00:37:33,451 --> 00:37:36,743 I brought you some tea, vegetables and fruit. 190 00:37:37,201 --> 00:37:38,451 Just a few things. 191 00:37:38,618 --> 00:37:39,076 Lovely. 192 00:37:39,243 --> 00:37:40,118 Who else's home? 193 00:37:40,326 --> 00:37:41,451 Arsin. 194 00:37:41,618 --> 00:37:44,118 Long time no see, Arsin. How are you? 195 00:37:44,743 --> 00:37:46,035 You're so tall now. 196 00:37:46,410 --> 00:37:48,785 You best take these things inside. 197 00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:52,035 I’ll help Grandma. 198 00:37:54,076 --> 00:37:55,160 What are you cooking? 199 00:37:55,285 --> 00:37:55,951 Naan bread. 200 00:37:56,326 --> 00:37:58,493 You need to add a log to the stove. 201 00:38:10,910 --> 00:38:13,951 - I need to take this call, Mum. - Okay. 202 00:38:14,326 --> 00:38:15,743 Hello? 203 00:38:17,118 --> 00:38:20,076 It's been checked. Do we have to check it again? 204 00:38:21,076 --> 00:38:23,368 Does it have to be today? 205 00:38:24,576 --> 00:38:27,951 I'm back at my mother's house. 206 00:38:28,576 --> 00:38:30,576 It's a hassle to go back now. 207 00:38:33,201 --> 00:38:35,910 It's all on my desktop. 208 00:38:38,451 --> 00:38:40,701 Okay. I'll go back then. 209 00:38:51,243 --> 00:38:52,993 - Mum? - Yes? 210 00:38:53,201 --> 00:38:57,160 My boss wants me to go back to the office to hand in some paperwork. 211 00:38:58,076 --> 00:38:59,576 I have to go. 212 00:38:59,826 --> 00:39:01,576 Have some tea first. 213 00:39:01,826 --> 00:39:02,451 Next time. 214 00:39:02,576 --> 00:39:04,201 I'll visit another time. 215 00:39:04,326 --> 00:39:05,493 Take care! 216 00:39:20,701 --> 00:39:22,076 Eat up. 217 00:39:22,826 --> 00:39:24,826 Cold naan bread isn't very nice. 218 00:39:25,368 --> 00:39:26,826 I made too many. 219 00:39:45,076 --> 00:39:45,701 Five. 220 00:39:46,618 --> 00:39:47,326 Four. 221 00:39:47,618 --> 00:39:48,201 Three. 222 00:39:48,618 --> 00:39:49,201 Two. 223 00:39:49,451 --> 00:39:50,035 One. 224 00:40:46,826 --> 00:40:49,243 Meiyu gave me a plant. 225 00:40:50,326 --> 00:40:52,451 She said that 30 million years ago 226 00:40:53,326 --> 00:40:56,701 this plant lived at the bottom of the ocean 227 00:40:57,451 --> 00:41:00,118 and that this place was once a vast sea. 228 00:41:00,701 --> 00:41:03,368 The wind strokes the surface of the sea. 229 00:41:03,951 --> 00:41:07,076 The waves lap the shore. 230 00:42:23,076 --> 00:42:24,243 Ready? 231 00:42:25,576 --> 00:42:26,951 I'm opening my eyes. 232 00:42:38,201 --> 00:42:39,576 Arsin? 233 00:42:44,076 --> 00:42:45,493 Arsin? 234 00:42:46,576 --> 00:42:48,160 You're scaring me. 235 00:43:10,118 --> 00:43:11,576 How are you, my boy? 236 00:43:12,285 --> 00:43:14,285 I just came from the place where your uncle lives. 237 00:43:15,451 --> 00:43:17,493 What are you on about? Where's my uncle? 238 00:43:18,576 --> 00:43:20,576 He's drinking tea in his yurt. 239 00:43:20,701 --> 00:43:21,576 Arsin? 240 00:43:21,826 --> 00:43:22,576 He can't be. 241 00:43:22,951 --> 00:43:25,368 If you don't believe me I'll recite a poem. 242 00:43:26,951 --> 00:43:27,993 You're scaring me, Arsin. 243 00:43:28,118 --> 00:43:29,493 My friend! 244 00:43:30,285 --> 00:43:32,951 When the cold rain falls from the sky above 245 00:43:33,243 --> 00:43:35,576 Please follow the river to seek what you find. 246 00:43:36,410 --> 00:43:39,076 -The air drifts across the plains. - I'm going. 247 00:43:39,993 --> 00:43:41,285 Like ripples from a spring. 248 00:43:41,493 --> 00:43:42,410 You will learn to breathe. 249 00:43:42,785 --> 00:43:43,368 You will... 250 00:44:29,076 --> 00:44:30,118 Go away. 251 00:44:34,951 --> 00:44:37,076 What's up with you? 252 00:44:37,493 --> 00:44:39,576 Looks like your head is in the clouds. 253 00:44:41,576 --> 00:44:44,701 I'm trying to find a leaf that can make people invisible. 254 00:44:45,201 --> 00:44:47,826 What rubbish. You sound like your brother. 255 00:44:52,076 --> 00:44:54,576 Did you ever find your uncle? 256 00:44:57,618 --> 00:44:59,701 I remember it was your uncle 257 00:44:59,993 --> 00:45:02,118 who taught us to wrestle. 258 00:45:04,118 --> 00:45:06,201 But I beat him. 259 00:45:07,451 --> 00:45:10,076 That was just once. 260 00:45:10,493 --> 00:45:16,326 Your uncle's girlfriend was looking for him or something. 261 00:45:19,326 --> 00:45:22,326 I know where your uncle's ex-girlfriend lives. 262 00:45:24,868 --> 00:45:26,743 No way! Where does she live? 263 00:45:27,201 --> 00:45:28,743 If you agree to a rematch 264 00:45:28,951 --> 00:45:31,118 I'll tell you. 265 00:45:31,243 --> 00:45:33,076 Forget it. 266 00:45:57,618 --> 00:46:00,618 No wonder your head is in the clouds. 267 00:46:05,743 --> 00:46:08,576 Is that the best you can do? 268 00:46:26,576 --> 00:46:32,160 By 2015, 2.6 million tons of coal-based urea, 800,000 tons of coal-based dimethyl ether 269 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,410 100 billion cubic meters of coal-based natural gas 270 00:46:34,410 --> 00:46:37,785 and 1 million tons of coal-based ethylene glycol will be produced... 271 00:46:37,826 --> 00:46:38,576 Hey, boy. 272 00:46:38,701 --> 00:46:39,243 Hang on. 273 00:46:39,743 --> 00:46:41,326 Help me check this camera. 274 00:46:42,243 --> 00:46:43,826 Move to the left. 275 00:46:44,493 --> 00:46:45,618 Now to the right. 276 00:46:46,326 --> 00:46:47,451 More to the right. 277 00:46:49,076 --> 00:46:50,451 Now to the left. 278 00:46:51,618 --> 00:46:53,076 Stand back a little. 279 00:46:54,493 --> 00:46:56,243 Move forward a little. 280 00:46:57,076 --> 00:46:59,493 Now to the left. 281 00:47:01,826 --> 00:47:04,451 Okay. Thank you! 282 00:48:10,951 --> 00:48:12,618 The goat's inside. Chase it out. 283 00:50:54,493 --> 00:50:55,451 Nine. 284 00:50:56,076 --> 00:50:56,826 Eight. 285 00:50:57,451 --> 00:50:58,618 Seven. 286 00:50:58,993 --> 00:51:00,076 Six. 287 00:51:00,576 --> 00:51:01,451 Five. 288 00:51:02,118 --> 00:51:02,826 Four. 289 00:51:03,451 --> 00:51:04,326 Three. 290 00:51:04,951 --> 00:51:05,618 Two. 291 00:51:05,910 --> 00:51:06,576 One. 292 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:31,201 How are you, Batar? 293 00:51:33,035 --> 00:51:35,201 You never call me. 294 00:51:36,326 --> 00:51:38,743 I hear you're making big bucks in the city. 295 00:51:41,326 --> 00:51:43,368 Don't you plan to come back? 296 00:51:44,660 --> 00:51:47,076 Okay. Enjoy the good life! 297 00:52:14,243 --> 00:52:17,618 My brother once looked after horses for someone in Beijing. 298 00:52:18,493 --> 00:52:21,993 One day he and his flatmate were using the washing machine 299 00:52:22,368 --> 00:52:24,743 and they got into an argument. 300 00:52:25,326 --> 00:52:27,326 My brother hit his flatmate. 301 00:52:27,993 --> 00:52:29,910 He thought he'd get turned in to the police. 302 00:52:30,618 --> 00:52:33,951 So he put his wet clothes in his suitcase and left Beijing. 303 00:52:35,285 --> 00:52:37,701 He carried his drenched suitcase 304 00:52:38,326 --> 00:52:40,076 all the way back home. 305 00:52:40,951 --> 00:52:46,076 As he got home he felt more relaxed. 306 00:52:46,993 --> 00:52:48,910 When he saw the grasslands 307 00:52:49,326 --> 00:52:54,076 from the bus window he started to cry. 308 00:53:27,701 --> 00:53:29,868 When I went to Shanghai 309 00:53:31,118 --> 00:53:33,993 I met a girl in a restaurant. 310 00:53:35,076 --> 00:53:36,493 I doubt that. 311 00:53:36,701 --> 00:53:37,993 You're drunk. 312 00:53:39,076 --> 00:53:42,451 We talked all night on the streets of Shanghai. 313 00:53:44,118 --> 00:53:46,993 When the sun came up we even had coffee together. 314 00:53:47,660 --> 00:53:50,160 We lost track of time. 315 00:53:51,868 --> 00:53:53,951 But guess what? 316 00:53:54,118 --> 00:53:55,076 Later I found out 317 00:53:55,326 --> 00:53:57,576 she was from Uliya Village down the road. 318 00:53:58,951 --> 00:54:02,368 From the fourth house on lane 18 in the east of the village. 319 00:54:02,993 --> 00:54:05,868 Her house door was blue. 320 00:54:11,618 --> 00:54:14,368 Is Shanghai really that fun? 321 00:54:16,576 --> 00:54:18,201 Shanghai's nice enough. 322 00:54:18,701 --> 00:54:20,993 But it's too remote. 323 00:54:43,118 --> 00:54:44,910 Brother? 324 00:54:46,660 --> 00:54:47,951 Brother? 325 00:55:11,368 --> 00:55:13,451 Shining like a star. 326 00:55:13,951 --> 00:55:16,326 Roaring like the waves. 327 00:55:17,951 --> 00:55:19,451 Oh, life! 328 00:55:21,410 --> 00:55:23,493 Let me kickstart my life! 329 00:55:23,910 --> 00:55:26,576 With an indominable spirit! 330 00:55:27,618 --> 00:55:30,118 Let me fire up my life! 331 00:55:30,951 --> 00:55:34,826 There are so many twists and turns ahead. 332 00:55:35,576 --> 00:55:39,285 And so few people to guide me. 333 00:55:39,826 --> 00:55:44,160 But my precious dreams have always been kept alive. 334 00:55:45,576 --> 00:55:49,201 They are bound to come true in the bright of dawn. 335 00:55:49,951 --> 00:55:53,201 Life is a long journey! 336 00:55:54,951 --> 00:55:57,826 Life is a long journey! 337 00:55:59,951 --> 00:56:02,826 Life is a long journey! 338 00:56:11,493 --> 00:56:13,576 People envy you when you succeed. 339 00:56:14,076 --> 00:56:16,785 But no one cares if you fail. 340 00:56:17,951 --> 00:56:20,201 Oh, life of illusions! 341 00:56:21,201 --> 00:56:23,368 You cannot embrace goodwill. 342 00:56:23,951 --> 00:56:26,368 Or stop yourself from failing. 343 00:56:27,618 --> 00:56:30,076 Oh, unfortunate life! 344 00:56:30,701 --> 00:56:33,826 There are so many twists and turns ahead… 345 00:57:26,868 --> 00:57:28,368 After he got to the village 346 00:57:28,576 --> 00:57:31,451 my brother was constantly on edge. 347 00:57:31,868 --> 00:57:34,451 He worried his boss in Beijing would send someone 348 00:57:34,743 --> 00:57:37,743 to find him or make him pay compensation. 349 00:57:39,826 --> 00:57:41,118 But no one ever came. 350 00:57:41,368 --> 00:57:42,785 No one even called him. 351 00:57:43,660 --> 00:57:45,618 It was like he'd never left the village. 352 00:57:46,618 --> 00:57:49,701 He simply stayed in the village. 353 00:58:25,243 --> 00:58:26,451 Did you just fart? 354 00:58:42,743 --> 00:58:43,451 Stop farting. 355 00:58:43,826 --> 00:58:44,576 I want to. 356 00:58:49,076 --> 00:58:50,243 Stop it! 357 00:59:15,868 --> 00:59:19,368 That's your uncle's ex-lover. 358 00:59:32,035 --> 00:59:33,826 Xinjiang is rich in mineral resources. 359 00:59:33,826 --> 00:59:34,576 Over the past 60 years 360 00:59:34,576 --> 00:59:37,368 especially since the Central Xinjiang Work Symposium. 361 00:59:37,368 --> 00:59:39,118 The situation of lack of oil and electricity and backwardness 362 00:59:39,118 --> 00:59:41,743 in resource development in Xinjiang has changed dramatically. 363 00:59:41,743 --> 00:59:44,910 The pattern of all-round development of various types of resources has gradually taken shape... 364 01:01:49,326 --> 01:01:53,951 Though no one knows the names of the plants that grow in the village 365 01:01:54,326 --> 01:01:58,826 that doesn't stop them from growing. 366 01:02:00,618 --> 01:02:02,368 I thought Meiyu and I 367 01:02:02,368 --> 01:02:04,826 would also grow up here. 368 01:02:05,618 --> 01:02:07,826 But today she told me 369 01:02:08,076 --> 01:02:09,826 she's going to Shanghai. 370 01:02:11,243 --> 01:02:15,201 Her mum has arranged for her to go to boarding school. 371 01:02:15,993 --> 01:02:19,660 She'll leave after the summer holidays. 372 01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:19,826 The distance from here to Shanghai is 4792km. 373 01:05:20,493 --> 01:05:22,993 If I were to walk to where Meiyu's going... 374 01:05:24,910 --> 01:05:26,076 I did the maths. 375 01:05:26,701 --> 01:05:31,576 It would take me 1657 hours and 20 minutes. 376 01:05:31,951 --> 01:05:33,993 That's around 69 days and nights. 377 01:05:36,493 --> 01:05:40,576 Maybe I'd get there in a month on horseback. 378 01:05:41,326 --> 01:05:44,076 It might be faster by bus. 379 01:05:44,451 --> 01:05:46,993 But I'd have to get a night bus to the city. 380 01:05:47,326 --> 01:05:50,493 Then take a night train to Urumqi. 381 01:05:51,451 --> 01:05:52,743 Then from Urumqi 382 01:05:52,951 --> 01:05:57,451 I'd have to get a train for two days and three nights to reach Shanghai. 383 01:06:06,076 --> 01:06:10,951 It wouldn't take me that long to get to Shanghai. 384 01:06:12,660 --> 01:06:13,826 Who on earth are you? 385 01:06:22,576 --> 01:06:25,451 I can get to Shanghai in a flash. 386 01:06:25,618 --> 01:06:27,826 Stop bragging. 387 01:06:30,785 --> 01:06:32,368 If you don't believe me 388 01:06:33,951 --> 01:06:36,076 close your eyes. 389 01:06:36,910 --> 01:06:38,868 When I count down to one, you can open them. 390 01:06:44,326 --> 01:06:45,076 Three. 391 01:06:45,660 --> 01:06:46,535 Two. 392 01:06:47,118 --> 01:06:47,868 One. 393 01:06:59,660 --> 01:07:00,368 Hello? 394 01:07:01,201 --> 01:07:01,951 Hello? 395 01:07:05,993 --> 01:07:06,868 Hi, babe. 396 01:07:06,951 --> 01:07:07,951 What are you doing? 397 01:07:10,493 --> 01:07:11,868 Miss me? 398 01:07:13,243 --> 01:07:15,410 Herding the sheep. What else? 399 01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:22,785 I need to get rich to take you out for hotpot. 400 01:07:24,535 --> 01:07:26,451 Who are you with? 401 01:07:28,618 --> 01:07:30,285 How about I meet you tonight? 402 01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,701 In my private jet of course. 403 01:07:52,118 --> 01:07:54,451 In order to prevent water from evaporating 404 01:07:54,951 --> 01:07:58,076 thistles convert their leaves into prickly thorns. 405 01:07:58,368 --> 01:08:01,326 This is a resilient strategy 406 01:08:02,326 --> 01:08:06,326 that this plant adopts to survive in specific conditions. 407 01:08:07,076 --> 01:08:12,826 I suppose I should be stronger like a thistle. 408 01:08:13,701 --> 01:08:17,701 But of course I don't want to hurt her with thorns. 409 01:08:37,868 --> 01:08:42,701 ACHNATERUM SPLENDENS: A LUCKY GRASS THAT CAN STOP PEOPLE FALLING FROM THEIR HORSE 410 01:09:15,951 --> 01:09:18,951 Who will you miss when you go to Shanghai? 411 01:09:25,951 --> 01:09:28,826 Do you really want to go? 412 01:10:56,993 --> 01:10:59,493 Where are you going this early? 413 01:11:00,243 --> 01:11:02,493 Don't be back too late. 414 01:11:20,368 --> 01:11:22,660 Come and play, Arsin. 415 01:11:51,993 --> 01:11:54,118 -What are you doing? -None of your business! 416 01:12:03,243 --> 01:12:04,618 The sheep got in! 417 01:12:24,868 --> 01:12:29,951 The total tax revenue provided to our county is expected to exceed 150 million yuan 418 01:12:29,951 --> 01:12:34,118 and local employment for the children of farmers and herders has reached 65 people. 419 01:13:45,576 --> 01:13:47,868 Go away. She doesn't want to hang out with you. 420 01:13:48,868 --> 01:13:51,076 Go away, you weirdo. 421 01:13:58,368 --> 01:14:00,201 Your uncle's a weirdo too. 422 01:14:00,826 --> 01:14:03,410 You uncle's a drunk who doesn't pay his debts. 423 01:16:05,993 --> 01:16:09,743 The woman said that when she started seeing her future husband 424 01:16:10,743 --> 01:16:13,618 because they lived far away from each other 425 01:16:14,493 --> 01:16:17,243 every evening they'd go to the top of the hill 426 01:16:17,535 --> 01:16:22,951 and wave a flashlight to show they cared for each other. 427 01:16:24,618 --> 01:16:25,618 But one day, 428 01:16:26,035 --> 01:16:29,368 the man went up the mountain with his sheep and never came back. 429 01:16:29,618 --> 01:16:31,910 But the woman continued to go to the hill 430 01:16:32,201 --> 01:16:34,535 and wave her flashlight, 431 01:16:34,910 --> 01:16:37,285 waiting for her lover to return. 432 01:16:53,785 --> 01:16:57,368 Do you know my uncle Yerken Bek, madam? 433 01:16:59,660 --> 01:17:01,993 No. 434 01:18:06,785 --> 01:18:08,743 Meiyu's leaving. 435 01:18:09,035 --> 01:18:12,493 She's going to get the night bus to the city. 436 01:18:13,118 --> 01:18:16,910 Then the night train to Urumqi. 437 01:18:17,535 --> 01:18:19,118 Then from Urumqi 438 01:18:19,368 --> 01:18:23,285 she'll get a train for two days and three nights to Shanghai. 439 01:18:26,618 --> 01:18:29,660 In Shanghai there's a Shanghai Station, 440 01:18:30,118 --> 01:18:32,118 a Shanghai South Station, 441 01:18:32,243 --> 01:18:34,035 a Shanghai Hongqiao Station, 442 01:18:34,535 --> 01:18:38,868 and a Shanghai West Station. 443 01:18:42,118 --> 01:18:46,618 I asked her which station in Shanghai she'd arrive at. 444 01:18:47,118 --> 01:18:49,660 But she said she didn't know. 445 01:19:04,243 --> 01:19:05,743 My uncle said everyone who leaves 446 01:19:06,660 --> 01:19:08,160 goes round in a circle. 447 01:19:09,285 --> 01:19:12,035 Eventually they all come back to the village. 448 01:20:23,868 --> 01:20:29,910 I keep telling myself I must remember all of this. 449 01:20:30,618 --> 01:20:32,368 If only all of this 450 01:20:32,618 --> 01:20:33,993 were a herbarium, 451 01:20:34,368 --> 01:20:39,160 it could be preserved intact forever. 452 01:22:51,993 --> 01:22:53,993 This is for you, buddy. 453 01:22:54,368 --> 01:22:56,618 I'm going to the autumn pastures. Take care. 454 01:23:03,285 --> 01:23:05,618 The grass is like our mother's hair. 455 01:23:05,701 --> 01:23:08,118 If you pick grass like that their heads will hurt. 456 01:23:30,618 --> 01:23:31,743 Hello? 457 01:24:18,785 --> 01:24:20,493 Where are you going, Brother? 458 01:24:21,035 --> 01:24:23,076 Beijing. 459 01:27:14,868 --> 01:27:19,410 Uncle Bek once told me a love story. 460 01:27:19,868 --> 01:27:22,243 After heaven and earth had been created 461 01:27:22,785 --> 01:27:24,785 the sun and moon fell in love. 462 01:27:25,493 --> 01:27:29,243 They were dying to get close to each other. 463 01:27:29,910 --> 01:27:32,826 But however hard they tried they simply couldn't.