Seeing this car, Yang Jing was really interested. When Yang Jing was a child, he remembered that he had ridden in such a car. At that time, his father drove such a small off-road vehicle. However, his father drove that car for less than two years and then changed it to a more advanced imported Mitsubishi Pajero.
Seeing Yang Jing's interest in the car, Liu Changchuan smiled and explained, "This is the bureau's car. We got it in 1984. Don't be fooled by its small size. It's really a good car, especially durable. When the bureau leader heard that you were going out with him this time, he asked me to drive this car along."
Yang Jing opened the car door and saw what was inside. Some memories from his childhood resurfaced.
Lada Niva is a small off-road vehicle. Compared with the huge bodies of other off-road vehicles, this car is really small and exquisite.
The three-meter-seven-meter-long body is really small compared to those off-road vehicles that are often four or five meters long, and the space inside the car is not very large, especially the back seat, which is so small that it is a bit horrible. People who are slightly taller will feel very uncomfortable sitting in the back seat.
However, this car is really durable. Compared with the Cherokee of the same period, although the Lada Niva is much smaller, it is definitely much stronger than the Cherokee.
The Cherokee of this era is of the type of "young lady's body and maid's legs and feet", with strong off-road performance, but the body is very weak and very easy to be damaged. However, the Lada Niva is different. In actual use, many car owners found that the body strength of the Russian Niva is much greater than that of the American Cherokee. After many extreme off-roads, the damage to the body of the Lada Niva is far less than that of the Cherokee.
So, although this car is small and exquisite, it is an extremely excellent off-road vehicle in this modern era.
The car was well maintained. Yang Jing also became interested and said with a smile, "How about I drive this car?"
Liu Changchuan naturally didn't say anything else in response to Yang Jing's request. He smiled and gave up the driver's seat.
Wang Changyou was not very tall, so he didn't feel crowded sitting in the back seat. However, the two of them put their luggage in the two Pajeros, and then squeezed into this car with Yang Jing.
Heading north along National Highway 315, we soon arrived in Lop. As a county under the jurisdiction of Hotan Prefecture, Lop is only about 20 kilometers away from Hotan.
However, arriving in Luopu is far from the destination. After the car left Luopu, it got off the national highway, turned onto a dirt road heading south, and drove towards the Kunlun Mountains.
At that time, the county seat of Luopu was still very small, and there were not so many oasis farmlands around it, so not far from Luopu, you would enter the Gobi Desert.
After walking along the bumpy dirt road for about ten kilometers, we arrived at a big river.
This river is indeed very big. Yang Jing doesn't know whether it is long or not, but it looks very wide now. The width of the river surface alone is definitely more than 100 meters. This is not the fertile eastern coastal area, this is the Gobi Desert. Such a turbulent river is rare in such a place.
Wang Changyou, who was sitting in the back seat, explained, "Mr. Smith, this river is the Aqik River. Although it looks wide and has plenty of water now, it will dry up in September. It is a seasonal inland river. Now is the beginning of spring, and the melting snow makes the river look spectacular, but in fact, the river will disappear if it flows downstream for a few dozen kilometers."
Yang Jing nodded. He also knew that there were many seasonal inland rivers at the foot of Kunlun Mountain and the foot of Tianshan Mountain. In spring and summer, the meltwater from the snow mountains provided sufficient water for these rivers, which made the rivers flow abundantly. Especially in summer, when the temperature was high, these rivers would even flood.
The Baiyu River and Moyu River in Hotan Prefecture are both in this situation. Otherwise, when Yang Jing proposed to clean the river and build levees for free a few days ago, Commissioner Zhu would not have agreed so readily.
Walking along the Aqik River, we soon entered the mountainous area. However, the Aqik River becomes very narrow in the mountainous area. The surging river water is even more ferocious in this narrow river channel, and the roaring sound can be heard from a long distance.
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