The book is picked up again
Before we knew it, we were already talking until dark, and of course we were completely exhausted. All but us were gone. Enhyuk's tour guide said to drop us off at the hotel, and then he drove home and made an appointment to pick us up at noon the next day.
Although it was August, the temperature plummeted at night. We can also wear short sleeves in the morning, and in the evening we both wear light coats. I had an ominous premonition: the clothes we brought were not thick enough, and if we went north to the Russian-Mongolian border, would we have enough clothes?
Of course, we didn't think about it at the time. As it turned out later, we were really the "head iron" and almost paid a huge price!
We and the Enhyuk tour guide got up and left
On the way, the tour guide Enhe found a gas station to refuel. At this time, a little Mongolian girl came over and looked at us, and Lao Feng gave her a few Russian chocolates that she bought in the morning. The little girl was very happy and took the initiative to shake hands with us, and Lao Feng immediately asked me to take a photo.
A group photo of Lao Feng and the little girl
But as soon as the photo was taken, the relatives of the little girl next to us immediately scolded us and told the little girl to go back. At that moment, we felt very melancholy.
We heard the pronunciation of "Khitdayi" (Китай in Russian) in the rebuke of the little girl's relatives, which is supposed to refer to China.
I immediately asked the tour guide Enhyuk to know what they said.
Looking at the photo of Lao Feng and the little Mongolian girl, the tour guide Enhe smiled wryly. He hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm sorry, this passage is very hurtful to translate, forget it, don't worry about them." And I suggest you take fewer photos of people and more of the natural scenery and the cityscape!"
Back in our rooms, the two of us took a shower and planned to enjoy the legendary "Ulaanbaatar Nights"!
But disappointingly, the night scene in Ulaanbaatar is really dark, and you can't see anything outside.
When we took the photo, we used the MP4 we carried with us to play "Night in Ulaanbaatar". A construction site near the hotel, according to Enhe's tour guide, was also contracted by a Chinese company. We tried to shoot the nearby scenery, but the light was too dark, our shooting skills were not good, and the camera was just a regular Sony card digital camera, and we didn't shoot anything.
To the accompaniment of the song "Night in Ulaanbaatar", the two of us looked outside in a daze and then put away our cameras. We picked up the reference book Lonely Planet: Mongolia (there were no public reviews at the time, so we had to rely on this book as a reference) and see what we were going to eat tomorrow morning.
At this time, I heard a group of people shouting outside the window. We looked out the window and were amazed: downstairs there was a group of neo-Nazis under the banner!
Our first reaction was: they weren't going to get angry and want to take revenge on us!
We immediately turned off the lights in the room and closed the curtains in case they found out.
However, after waiting for more than ten minutes, we found that they were just drinking and singing there, and there was no other movement. We looked at it again, and it shouldn't be the same group of people in the morning (a replay of the episode can be found here).
The group was dressed like the news picture above, and we didn't dare to take the picture for safety
We still don't want to make a fuss, who knows what these guys are going to do!
Fortunately, in the end, he was unharmed.
Affected by this incident, the next day we were just driven around the city by Enhyuk.
One of our deepest impressions in Ulaanbaatar was that there was not a single Chinese character there, and the only Chinese characters were Japanese kanji (I heard that the situation is better in 2024).
We overlook the city of Ulaanbaatar from the vantage point
The most outrageous thing is that even the outside of the Chinese restaurant is in pinyin or English.
"On our side, except for Mongolian and English, any other national language needs to be registered. If you don't report it, you can't show up. ”
We don't fully agree with him, after all, there are construction sites everywhere in China, but Chinese restaurants can't have half a Chinese character. We see a lot of Japanese and Korean. In addition, since the Mongolian script in Outer Mongolia is also in the Cyrillic alphabet, we are not sure if the text we see is Russian.
When overlooking the city of Ulaanbaatar from the vantage point, Lao Feng asked him: "Do I need to report for Russian?"
When Enhe heard this, he was stunned for a moment before he said: "This, Mongolian and Russian both use the Cyrillic alphabet, and that, the text that uses the Mongolian alphabet does not need to be reported." ”
When Lao Feng heard this, he immediately seized on this point and retorted: "Then you said that foreign languages other than Mongolian and English need to be reported, this argument is completely untrue! Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and other places also use the Cyrillic alphabet, so their national languages can also not be reported?"
As a result, Enhyuk's face turned red all of a sudden, and he showed a displeased expression for the first time: "There is no need to worry about these, these are all Mongolian relatives letters, relatives letters ......"
I immediately took out the tugrik, pointed to the line on the obverse, and said, "Look, this is your currency, and on it is the head of Genghis Khan, and this is the old Mongolian script created in the Uighur script during the time of Genghis Khan, can you still understand it?"
Then, I took out a piece of RMB and showed it to him: "Look, there is also a Mongolian script on the RMB!"
Eun Hyuk suddenly opened his mouth, and finally had to say vaguely: "It's inconvenient, this text is inconvenient, you can only write vertically, you can't keep up with the times, you have to keep improving with the times!"
Lao Feng and I listened and smiled at each other, and Eun Hyuk could only laugh with him.
Of course, now that the Outer Mongolian authorities have announced that they will fully restore the use of the Uighur Mongolian language in 2025, this may not have been expected by the Enkh tour guide.
(To be continued, the story is more exciting, I hope to pay attention to support)