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Long ago, in the days when horses still had short tails

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there lived a strange man.

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He often lied on the hill facing downwards.

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A huge tree pierced his chest right through to his back.

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The top of the tree pointed up to the sky.

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Because a century before he had drunk from the spring of long life

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he lived for a full hundred years.

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But his wife and his family all left this world long before him.

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So the strange man lived an unhappy life.

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He tried to kill himself by impaling his body onto a tree.

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But the tree was nurtured by the water from the spring of long life.

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He ended up living for a hundred years with the tree stuck in his body.

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He sprinkled the water from the spring of long life onto the forest

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and let the plants grow forever.

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My uncle once said that if you put your hand into a hole in a tree

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you can feel the tree's heart beating just like that of a lamb,

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bringing you comfort.

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Lying like this relaxes me.

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I can feel the plants bouncing about around me.

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Khader.

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Tokpas.

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Arsin Khazer.

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Sultan Khazer.

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Zair Khazer.

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Orman Khazer.

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Abdul Khazer.

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I looked for ages but couldn't find my name.

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I could only find my grandfather's grandfather's name.

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Perhaps from my grandfather's generation onwards

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our names became too small to be shown on the tree.

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I would have to use a microscope to see my generation.

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- Bring the milk in. - Okay.

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This is my uncle, Yerken Bek.

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He taught me all I know about plant collecting.

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He'd often jokingly call me "the botanist".

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He once told me

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that a Frenchman called Rousseau stood amongst his sheep and told him

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that even someone who doesn't know the name of a single plant

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can become an accomplished botanist.

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Be gone, be gone!

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All bad things be gone.

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My name is Arsin Abdul Khazer.

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I'm Kazakh.

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I'm 13 years old.

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I'm 1.55 metres tall.

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I weigh 41 kilos.

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I'm blood type A.

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I live on the northern grasslands of Xinjiang.

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My grandfather was from the Kerait tribe.

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If you look at a map you'll see

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this place is only five kilometres away from Kazakhstan

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in the most northwesterly corner of China.

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Ringing in your ears is the laughter two leaves make

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as they rub against each other in the wind.

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Each leaf represents different people’s lives.

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When a child is born

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a new leaf grows.

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If a leaf turn yellow and wilts

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it means someone must be in trouble.

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Three winters ago

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my uncle disappeared in the mountains around my village.

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We had a lot of snow that year.

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The snow was higher than I am now.

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Our family still haven't found my uncle.

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Some people say he must have frozen to death.

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But I don't believe that.

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Maybe he found the spring of long life and didn't want to come back.

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Or he got lost on purpose.

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Inspired by my grandfather

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Uncle Yerken temporarily became the village doctor in his youth.

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He later fell in love with a girl from the village.

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My grandfather was against it but he wouldn't listen.

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My uncle and the girl went to live in the forest for a long time.

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Until one day my uncle returned alone from the forest.

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From then on he lived here alone.

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Can you help me out?

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Your hand.

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Hey, Nurbul.

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How are you, dude?

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Did you see the photo of the sheep I sent you?

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You never call me. Up to no good as usual?

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You'd be better off back here.

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We'd watch over hundreds of sheep like wolves.

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For sure.

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Of course it's good money.

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Hello?

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Hello?

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Our sheep are getting mixed up with the others.

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Brother!

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The sheep!

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Watch your sheep!

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Don't chase them over there.

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Get your sheep out of here!

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That's my brother.

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He's also my grandmother's son.

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It's Kazakh tradition to give your firstborn to his grandparents.

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But I don't like calling him Uncle.

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Because that just reminds me of my Uncle Yerken Bek.

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What did you just call me?

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Brother.

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What am I to you?

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My brother.

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My uncle.

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Uncle.

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My uncle told me that lambs eat different types of grasses

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as they make their way up the mountain.

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You can't let them retrace their steps.

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So that in the following year

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the lambs can eat the grass that grows in those places in the next year.

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The natural gas produced by the company will be transported to inland provinces and regions.

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by-products such as tar, middle distillates, and naphtha can also be produced.

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It will be able to become the world's largest single-unit coal-based natural gas enterprise.

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Relying on high-quality coal resources, Xinjiang is focusing on coal bases such as Yili and Zhundong

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to create a modern coal chemical industry cluster.

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accelerating the process of converting resource advantages into economic advantages.

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Give it back.

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Stealing again!

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Come on.

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My mum says no tabs.

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Call your dad.

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He does what my mum says.

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You're a feisty one.

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How much?

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One yuan.

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Arsin.

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Thanks for last time.

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This is on the house.

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Let me take you somewhere.

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Here.

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It tastes really nice.

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Look.

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Well done!

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It's true.

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She may be Han Chinese.

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But so what?

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Grandma?

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Grandma?

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Grandma?

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Tell your uncle to come and eat.

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You mean my brother?

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No, I mean your uncle.

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Grandma says it's time to eat, Brother.

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You go on ahead.

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Let's go home then.

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I'll go without you then.

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Come and play, Arsin.

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It's too small. And there's a crack in it.

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It's not worth anything.

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Bigger stones are better.

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Where's it from?

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The canal.

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Hey, boss!

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Yep?

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Let's go! Bazaar's closing.

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Let's go. I'm coming.

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I've got to go now.

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Lock the door, Meiyu.

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Okay.

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Hey, did you know?

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there was once a scholar

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who heard that praying mantises used a leaf to make themselves invisible.

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One day he managed to find such a leaf.

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He went around with the leaf over his eyes

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stealing from people.

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But he was found out.

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Do you know why?

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The leaf was over his eyes and he couldn't see anyone.

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But he thought people couldn't see him.

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Maybe there really is such a leaf

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and your uncle found it.

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And he's hiding behind it.

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It would have to be a really big leaf to hide him completely.

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If we're lucky

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maybe we can find one.

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Brother?

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What did you say?

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Brother.

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- Be thorough. Pick all the wool up. - Okay.

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Have some grapes.

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Okay.

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Is that your friend?

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Call him over.

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Mum, are you home?

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I'm here.

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How are you?

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I'm fine.

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In good health?

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Yes.

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I brought you some tea, vegetables and fruit.

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Just a few things.

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Lovely.

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Who else's home?

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Arsin.

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Long time no see, Arsin. How are you?

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You're so tall now.

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You best take these things inside.

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I’ll help Grandma.

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What are you cooking?

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Naan bread.

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You need to add a log to the stove.

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- I need to take this call, Mum. - Okay.

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Hello?

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It's been checked. Do we have to check it again?

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Does it have to be today?

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I'm back at my mother's house.

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It's a hassle to go back now.

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It's all on my desktop.

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Okay. I'll go back then.

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- Mum? - Yes?

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My boss wants me to go back to the office to hand in some paperwork.

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I have to go.

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Have some tea first.

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Next time.

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I'll visit another time.

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Take care!

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Eat up.

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Cold naan bread isn't very nice.

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I made too many.

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Five.

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Four.

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Three.

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Two.

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One.

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Meiyu gave me a plant.

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She said that 30 million years ago

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this plant lived at the bottom of the ocean

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and that this place was once a vast sea.

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The wind strokes the surface of the sea.

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The waves lap the shore.

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Ready?

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I'm opening my eyes.

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Arsin?

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Arsin?

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You're scaring me.

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How are you, my boy?

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I just came from the place where your uncle lives.

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What are you on about? Where's my uncle?

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He's drinking tea in his yurt.

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Arsin?

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He can't be.

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If you don't believe me I'll recite a poem.

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You're scaring me, Arsin.

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My friend!

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When the cold rain falls from the sky above

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Please follow the river to seek what you find.

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-The air drifts across the plains. - I'm going.

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Like ripples from a spring.

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You will learn to breathe.

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You will...

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Go away.

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What's up with you?

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Looks like your head is in the clouds.

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I'm trying to find a leaf that can make people invisible.

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What rubbish. You sound like your brother.

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Did you ever find your uncle?

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I remember it was your uncle

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who taught us to wrestle.

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But I beat him.

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That was just once.

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Your uncle's girlfriend was looking for him or something.

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I know where your uncle's ex-girlfriend lives.

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No way! Where does she live?

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If you agree to a rematch

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I'll tell you.

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Forget it.

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No wonder your head is in the clouds.

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Is that the best you can do?

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By 2015, 2.6 million tons of coal-based urea, 800,000 tons of coal-based dimethyl ether

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100 billion cubic meters of coal-based natural gas

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and 1 million tons of coal-based ethylene glycol will be produced...

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Hey, boy.

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Hang on.

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Help me check this camera.

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Move to the left.

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Now to the right.

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More to the right.

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Now to the left.

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Stand back a little.

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Move forward a little.

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Now to the left.

281
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Okay. Thank you!

282
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The goat's inside. Chase it out.

283
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Nine.

284
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Eight.

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Seven.

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Six.

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Five.

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Four.

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Three.

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Two.

291
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One.

292
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How are you, Batar?

293
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,200
You never call me.

294
00:51:36,330 --> 00:51:38,740
I hear you're making big bucks in the city.

295
00:51:41,330 --> 00:51:43,370
Don't you plan to come back?

296
00:51:44,660 --> 00:51:47,080
Okay. Enjoy the good life!

297
00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:17,620
My brother once looked after horses for someone in Beijing.

298
00:52:18,490 --> 00:52:21,990
One day he and his flatmate were using the washing machine

299
00:52:22,370 --> 00:52:24,740
and they got into an argument.

300
00:52:25,330 --> 00:52:27,330
My brother hit his flatmate.

301
00:52:27,990 --> 00:52:29,910
He thought he'd get turned in to the police.

302
00:52:30,620 --> 00:52:33,950
So he put his wet clothes in his suitcase and left Beijing.

303
00:52:35,290 --> 00:52:37,700
He carried his drenched suitcase

304
00:52:38,330 --> 00:52:40,080
all the way back home.

305
00:52:40,950 --> 00:52:46,080
As he got home he felt more relaxed.

306
00:52:46,990 --> 00:52:48,910
When he saw the grasslands

307
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from the bus window he started to cry.

308
00:53:27,700 --> 00:53:29,870
When I went to Shanghai

309
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,990
I met a girl in a restaurant.

310
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I doubt that.

311
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You're drunk.

312
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,450
We talked all night on the streets of Shanghai.

313
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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
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But guess what?

316
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:55,080
Later I found out

317
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she was from Uliya Village down the road.

318
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From the fourth house on lane 18 in the east of the village.

319
00:54:02,990 --> 00:54:05,870
Her house door was blue.

320
00:54:11,620 --> 00:54:14,370
Is Shanghai really that fun?

321
00:54:16,580 --> 00:54:18,200
Shanghai's nice enough.

322
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But it's too remote.

323
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:44,910
Brother?

324
00:54:46,660 --> 00:54:47,950
Brother?

325
00:55:11,370 --> 00:55:13,450
Shining like a star.

326
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Roaring like the waves.

327
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Oh, life!

328
00:55:21,410 --> 00:55:23,490
Let me kickstart my life!

329
00:55:23,910 --> 00:55:26,580
With an indominable spirit!

330
00:55:27,620 --> 00:55:30,120
Let me fire up my life!

331
00:55:30,950 --> 00:55:34,830
There are so many twists and turns ahead.

332
00:55:35,580 --> 00:55:39,290
And so few people to guide me.

333
00:55:39,830 --> 00:55:44,160
But my precious dreams have always been kept alive.

334
00:55:45,580 --> 00:55:49,200
They are bound to come true in the bright of dawn.

335
00:55:49,950 --> 00:55:53,200
Life is a long journey!

336
00:55:54,950 --> 00:55:57,830
Life is a long journey!

337
00:55:59,950 --> 00:56:02,830
Life is a long journey!

338
00:56:11,490 --> 00:56:13,580
People envy you when you succeed.

339
00:56:14,080 --> 00:56:16,790
But no one cares if you fail.

340
00:56:17,950 --> 00:56:20,200
Oh, life of illusions!

341
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:23,370
You cannot embrace goodwill.

342
00:56:23,950 --> 00:56:26,370
Or stop yourself from failing.

343
00:56:27,620 --> 00:56:30,080
Oh, unfortunate life!

344
00:56:30,700 --> 00:56:33,830
There are so many twists and turns ahead…

345
00:57:26,870 --> 00:57:28,370
After he got to the village

346
00:57:28,580 --> 00:57:31,450
my brother was constantly on edge.

347
00:57:31,870 --> 00:57:34,450
He worried his boss in Beijing would send someone

348
00:57:34,740 --> 00:57:37,740
to find him or make him pay compensation.

349
00:57:39,830 --> 00:57:41,120
But no one ever came.

350
00:57:41,370 --> 00:57:42,790
No one even called him.

351
00:57:43,660 --> 00:57:45,620
It was like he'd never left the village.

352
00:57:46,620 --> 00:57:49,700
He simply stayed in the village.

353
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:26,450
Did you just fart?

354
00:58:42,740 --> 00:58:43,450
Stop farting.

355
00:58:43,830 --> 00:58:44,580
I want to.

356
00:58:49,080 --> 00:58:50,240
Stop it!

357
00:59:15,870 --> 00:59:19,370
That's your uncle's ex-lover.

358
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:33,830
Xinjiang is rich in mineral resources.

359
00:59:33,830 --> 00:59:34,580
Over the past 60 years

360
00:59:34,580 --> 00:59:37,370
especially since the Central Xinjiang Work Symposium.

361
00:59:37,370 --> 00:59:39,120
The situation of lack of oil and electricity and backwardness

362
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:41,740
in resource development in Xinjiang has changed dramatically.

363
00:59:41,740 --> 00:59:44,910
The pattern of all-round development of various types of resources has gradually taken shape...

364
01:01:49,330 --> 01:01:53,950
Though no one knows the names of the plants that grow in the village

365
01:01:54,330 --> 01:01:58,830
that doesn't stop them from growing.

366
01:02:00,620 --> 01:02:02,370
I thought Meiyu and I

367
01:02:02,370 --> 01:02:04,830
would also grow up here.

368
01:02:05,620 --> 01:02:07,830
But today she told me

369
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:09,830
she's going to Shanghai.

370
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:15,200
Her mum has arranged for her to go to boarding school.

371
01:02:15,990 --> 01:02:19,660
She'll leave after the summer holidays.

372
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:19,830
The distance from here to Shanghai is 4792km.

373
01:05:20,490 --> 01:05:22,990
If I were to walk to where Meiyu's going...

374
01:05:24,910 --> 01:05:26,080
I did the maths.

375
01:05:26,700 --> 01:05:31,580
It would take me 1657 hours and 20 minutes.

376
01:05:31,950 --> 01:05:33,990
That's around 69 days and nights.

377
01:05:36,490 --> 01:05:40,580
Maybe I'd get there in a month on horseback.

378
01:05:41,330 --> 01:05:44,080
It might be faster by bus.

379
01:05:44,450 --> 01:05:46,990
But I'd have to get a night bus to the city.

380
01:05:47,330 --> 01:05:50,490
Then take a night train to Urumqi.

381
01:05:51,450 --> 01:05:52,740
Then from Urumqi

382
01:05:52,950 --> 01:05:57,450
I'd have to get a train for two days and three nights to reach Shanghai.

383
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:10,950
It wouldn't take me that long to get to Shanghai.

384
01:06:12,660 --> 01:06:13,830
Who on earth are you?

385
01:06:22,580 --> 01:06:25,450
I can get to Shanghai in a flash.

386
01:06:25,620 --> 01:06:27,830
Stop bragging.

387
01:06:30,790 --> 01:06:32,370
If you don't believe me

388
01:06:33,950 --> 01:06:36,080
close your eyes.

389
01:06:36,910 --> 01:06:38,870
When I count down to one, you can open them.

390
01:06:44,330 --> 01:06:45,080
Three.

391
01:06:45,660 --> 01:06:46,540
Two.

392
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:47,870
One.

393
01:06:59,660 --> 01:07:00,370
Hello?

394
01:07:01,200 --> 01:07:01,950
Hello?

395
01:07:05,990 --> 01:07:06,870
Hi, babe.

396
01:07:06,950 --> 01:07:07,950
What are you doing?

397
01:07:10,490 --> 01:07:11,870
Miss me?

398
01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,410
Herding the sheep. What else?

399
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:22,790
I need to get rich to take you out for hotpot.

400
01:07:24,540 --> 01:07:26,450
Who are you with?

401
01:07:28,620 --> 01:07:30,290
How about I meet you tonight?

402
01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:34,700
In my private jet of course.

403
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:54,450
In order to prevent water from evaporating

404
01:07:54,950 --> 01:07:58,080
thistles convert their leaves into prickly thorns.

405
01:07:58,370 --> 01:08:01,330
This is a resilient strategy

406
01:08:02,330 --> 01:08:06,330
that this plant adopts to survive in specific conditions.

407
01:08:07,080 --> 01:08:12,830
I suppose I should be stronger like a thistle.

408
01:08:13,700 --> 01:08:17,700
But of course I don't want to hurt her with thorns.

409
01:08:37,870 --> 01:08:42,700
ACHNATERUM SPLENDENS: A LUCKY GRASS THAT CAN STOP PEOPLE FALLING FROM THEIR HORSE

410
01:09:15,950 --> 01:09:18,950
Who will you miss when you go to Shanghai?

411
01:09:25,950 --> 01:09:28,830
Do you really want to go?

412
01:10:56,990 --> 01:10:59,490
Where are you going this early?

413
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,490
Don't be back too late.

414
01:11:20,370 --> 01:11:22,660
Come and play, Arsin.

415
01:11:51,990 --> 01:11:54,120
-What are you doing? -None of your business!

416
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:04,620
The sheep got in!

417
01:12:24,870 --> 01:12:29,950
The total tax revenue provided to our county is expected to exceed 150 million yuan

418
01:12:29,950 --> 01:12:34,120
and local employment for the children of farmers and herders has reached 65 people.

419
01:13:45,580 --> 01:13:47,870
Go away. She doesn't want to hang out with you.

420
01:13:48,870 --> 01:13:51,080
Go away, you weirdo.

421
01:13:58,370 --> 01:14:00,200
Your uncle's a weirdo too.

422
01:14:00,830 --> 01:14:03,410
You uncle's a drunk who doesn't pay his debts.

423
01:16:05,990 --> 01:16:09,740
The woman said that when she started seeing her future husband

424
01:16:10,740 --> 01:16:13,620
because they lived far away from each other

425
01:16:14,490 --> 01:16:17,240
every evening they'd go to the top of the hill

426
01:16:17,540 --> 01:16:22,950
and wave a flashlight to show they cared for each other.

427
01:16:24,620 --> 01:16:25,620
But one day,

428
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:29,370
the man went up the mountain with his sheep and never came back.

429
01:16:29,620 --> 01:16:31,910
But the woman continued to go to the hill

430
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:34,540
and wave her flashlight,

431
01:16:34,910 --> 01:16:37,290
waiting for her lover to return.

432
01:16:53,790 --> 01:16:57,370
Do you know my uncle Yerken Bek, madam?

433
01:16:59,660 --> 01:17:01,990
No.

434
01:18:06,790 --> 01:18:08,740
Meiyu's leaving.

435
01:18:09,040 --> 01:18:12,490
She's going to get the night bus to the city.

436
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:16,910
Then the night train to Urumqi.

437
01:18:17,540 --> 01:18:19,120
Then from Urumqi

438
01:18:19,370 --> 01:18:23,290
she'll get a train for two days and three nights to Shanghai.

439
01:18:26,620 --> 01:18:29,660
In Shanghai there's a Shanghai Station,

440
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:32,120
a Shanghai South Station,

441
01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:34,040
a Shanghai Hongqiao Station,

442
01:18:34,540 --> 01:18:38,870
and a Shanghai West Station.

443
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:46,620
I asked her which station in Shanghai she'd arrive at.

444
01:18:47,120 --> 01:18:49,660
But she said she didn't know.

445
01:19:04,240 --> 01:19:05,740
My uncle said everyone who leaves

446
01:19:06,660 --> 01:19:08,160
goes round in a circle.

447
01:19:09,290 --> 01:19:12,040
Eventually they all come back to the village.

448
01:20:23,870 --> 01:20:29,910
I keep telling myself I must remember all of this.

449
01:20:30,620 --> 01:20:32,370
If only all of this

450
01:20:32,620 --> 01:20:33,990
were a herbarium,

451
01:20:34,370 --> 01:20:39,160
it could be preserved intact forever.

452
01:22:51,990 --> 01:22:53,990
This is for you, buddy.

453
01:22:54,370 --> 01:22:56,620
I'm going to the autumn pastures. Take care.

454
01:23:03,290 --> 01:23:05,620
The grass is like our mother's hair.

455
01:23:05,700 --> 01:23:08,120
If you pick grass like that their heads will hurt.

456
01:23:30,620 --> 01:23:31,740
Hello?

457
01:24:18,790 --> 01:24:20,490
Where are you going, Brother?

458
01:24:21,040 --> 01:24:23,080
Beijing.

459
01:27:14,870 --> 01:27:19,410
Uncle Bek once told me a love story.

460
01:27:19,870 --> 01:27:22,240
After heaven and earth had been created

461
01:27:22,790 --> 01:27:24,790
the sun and moon fell in love.

462
01:27:25,490 --> 01:27:29,240
They were dying to get close to each other.

463
01:27:29,910 --> 01:27:32,830
But however hard they tried they simply couldn't.