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The place where Dr. Ren took Zhuang Rui to deviate from the site that had been excavated, the vast Gobi Desert and the desert have always been forbidden areas for human beings, and they would not dare to enter these areas if they were not an old guide who was familiar with the terrain and was experienced. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the old Liu Tou in front of him, who has been living on this land since he was born, seems to outsiders to be a mysterious desert, in his eyes, it is commonplace, within a radius of 100 miles, the old Liu Tou has almost measured with his feet.

After Dr. Ren finished speaking, he suddenly saw a hesitant look on Uncle Liu's face, and couldn't help but ask strangely, "Hmm, Uncle Liu, what's wrong? This trip down is nothing to your old man, right?"

The old man shook his head, looked at Dr. Ren apologetically, waved his hand and said that he had interrupted Ren Chunqiang's words, and said, "If this was placed two years ago, it would really be nothing, but now...... Old Uncle Liu, little Qiangzi, don't put a high hat on your old Uncle Liu, I'm in my seventies, and I haven't been in again since last year, and my arms and legs won't work......"

The old man's face was also a little lost, in the last year, when Lao Liu Tou was leading a group, he encountered a desert storm, when a girl in the group did not hide next to the camel according to Lao Liutou's instructions, but shouted to shoot the landscape rolled up by the wild sand, when Lao Liu Tou was buried under the sand in order to save her, almost died.

Since that time, Lao Liu Tou's health has deteriorated, if it weren't for the nostalgia for this land where he lived since childhood, Lao Liu Tou would have gone to his son's house in the city to enjoy happiness.

Seeing Ren Chunqiang's disappointed look, Lao Liu Tou suddenly laughed and said: "I can't go, my son can go, your brother Mengzi is a famous desert guide within a radius of dozens of miles, but he took the group out, and he won't be able to come back until night, Xiao Qiangzi, you stay here for a day, and go early tomorrow morning......

"Hey, why did I forget about this?, let Brother Mengzi go in with us, the cost is easy to talk about......

After Dr. Ren heard Lao Liu's words, he was immediately overjoyed, they had to stay in the desert for several days this time, and with Uncle Liu's son following, they didn't have to consider the guide's physical exhaustion at all, and Mengzi was also one of the best guides in this area, not much worse than the old man.

"Okay, then let's say so, in the evening, Mengzi comes to talk to him yourself, I'll go kill the sheep, and let's eat the whole sheep banquet in the evening......"

Old Liu Tou is not hypocritical with Dr. Ren, being a guide is meant to make money, no matter how good the friendship is, he will not risk his life to take them through the desert, right?

But business belongs to business, favor to favor, guests come to the house, that must be entertained, Lao Liu Tou let a few people rest in the yard, and then went to catch sheep in a hurry, although they can't go deep into the desert, but these little things are done, Lao Liu Tou is still at ease.

"Brother Ren, what is the general cost of hiring a tour guide?" Sitting in the courtyard a little bored, Zhuang Rui and Ren Chunqiang chatted.

"This is not necessarily, sometimes a tour guide takes more than 10 people into the desert, if each person is 100 yuan, he can earn more than 1,000 a day, if there are fewer people, there are people willing to do it for a few hundred yuan, but Uncle Liu's son can be a famous guide from far and near, you kid don't be reluctant to spend money......"

Dr. Ren and Zhuang Rui joked, along the way, everyone had already spent 50,000 or 60,000 yuan on Zhuang Rui, and Ren Chunqiang also knew that Zhuang Rui didn't care about those little money.

"Well, then 2,000 yuan a day, please ask for five days first......"

Zhuang Rui nodded, from here to the North Gobi, there is almost a radius of 100 miles, which was originally inhabited, even if Zhuang Rui has the ability in his eyes, it is impossible to complete the survey of such a large place in a few days.

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Mengzi also lives in this town, but he lives separately from Lao Liutou, and at seven or eight o'clock in the evening, Mengzi came to Lao Liutou's house with his daughter-in-law and children.

Different from Lao Liu's dry and thin figure, Mengzi is very strong, about 1.8 meters tall, aged thirty-five or sixteen years old, speaks loudly, is very bold, and when he sees a guest at home, his butt is not even on the bench, so he immediately went to the house to kill a sheep and brought it over.

A bonfire was raised in the yard, two whole sheep were strung on iron bars, roasted on top of the bonfire, the flame licked the sheep, and kept making a "zizi" sound, Mengzi's daughter-in-law rolled the mutton back and forth, sprinkled with various spices on it, Mengzi's two children frolicked around the bonfire, Lao Liu squatted on the ground and smoked dry cigarettes, reprimanded the little grandson from time to time, but his face was full of happy smiles.

"Brother Mengzi, we have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, this time I asked you to be a guide......

Before Dr. Ren had time to say what he wanted to do just now, Mengzi ran to kill the sheep, and it wasn't until this time that he had the time to talk to Mengzi about asking him to be a guide.

Mengzi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then asked, "When? Can you be two days late?" When I came back today, I promised a guest that I would accompany him into ......the desert tomorrow and tomorrow."

"What, we're going into the desert tomorrow, Brother Mengzi, this ...... What should I do?"

Ren Chunqiang didn't expect that there was a beard in the middle, and he couldn't help but be a little anxious, if he waited for two days in this place where the bird didn't lay eggs, he would suffocate people to death.

Mengzi thought for a while, stood up, and said, "That's it, I won't confiscate his deposit anyway, I'll go to Erdan's house and say it, and let Erdan's go in with them......"

"Okay, okay, Brother Mengzi, how much money that person pays, let's give you double the ......" Dr. Ren is generous to Zhuang Rui, anyway, how much money is not his, and Zhuang Rui will not care.

"Well, that's not necessary, let's talk about it when we come back......" Mengzi waved his hand and walked straight out of the yard, this is a matter of business reputation, tell others as soon as possible, so that others can find another tour guide.

There are dozens of families in the town, and when it was only seven or eight minutes before and after, Mengzi turned around and entertained Zhuang Rui and others to eat and drink, but what made Zhuang Rui and others embarrassed was that the four of them had not been able to drink the old Liu and the two of them, and in the end they were all put to the ground, and they didn't know how they slept on the bed.

At five o'clock in the morning of the next day, Zhuang Rui and others were called up, and the fierce son led ten camels to the parking place, six of the ten camels were for people to ride, and the other four were for loading materials, and in case of emergency, they could also be used for riding.

It took more than half an hour to move the tents, sappers, shovels, drinking water and other materials on the three trucks to the baskets on both sides of the camel hump, which will be all their logistical supplies in the desert and the lifeline of several people in the desert.

Everyone's face, regardless of gender, is wrapped in a scarf and a hat, which is to prevent the sand and dust from blowing on the face, almost everyone in the desert is dressed like this, the locals have long been accustomed to it, only those foreign tourists look at Zhuang Rui and others are pointing.

"Let's ......"

With the rough shouting of the fierce son, the six people sat on the camel and walked towards the depths of the vast desert, and the crisp camel bells fluttered in the desert.

Unlike horseback riding, riding on a camel is very stable, the camel's feet have thick skin pads, which is very suitable for walking in the desert, the thick hair in the ears can block the wind and sand from entering, double eyelids and thick long eyelashes, but also prevent the wind and sand from entering the eyes, and even the nose can be closed freely.

These special "equipment" made the camels like fish in water in the desert, and seeing the camels walking smoothly on the sand, gradually Zhuang Rui and others became bolder, and the fierce son shouted, and more than a dozen camels suddenly trotted up, making the people riding on it scream.

After walking in the desert for nearly two hours, in the distance, there were rows of low city walls suddenly appeared, and after approaching, Zhuang Rui found that this dilapidated ruins covers an area that is really not small, and the layout of the streets and alleys of the past can be seen from the ruins of the buildings, and outside the ruins, there are still traces of the remnants of the ditches.

The soil here is not completely desertified, and the presence of soil can still be seen in some corners, and low plants grow tenaciously in the ruins, adding a touch of life to the remnant rock wall.

It is not very far from Qiujiawo, and it only takes four hours to go back and forth, so no one stays here to stay, Zhuang Rui and others are still the first tourists to arrive here today.

"Here, this is the ruins, Brother Qiangzi, do you want to come down and have a look?" Mengzi reached out and patted the neck of the camel under his crotch, and the camel was very docile and bowed down, just enough to make people's feet touch the ground.

Zhuang Rui also learned from the fierce son, patted the camel's neck, walked down from the camel, and said, "Let's come down and take a look......

Dr. Ren walked up to Zhuang Rui, looked at the place where he had worked, and said, "Zhuang Rui, the degree of desertification here is not deep, basically the broken walls of the houses are exposed, and they have basically been excavated back then......

"Well, the value of the excavation here is not very great, by the way, Brother Mengzi, you grew up here, have you heard of any other ruins around?"

Zhuang Rui walked around the ruins, sensed the underground with aura, and walked back to the camel with some disappointment, although there are still some ceramic clay pots with aura left in this half-sand and half-soil underground, but those objects are very ordinary, and there is no value for excavation.

After hearing Zhuang Rui's words, Mengzi thought hard for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "I haven't heard of the ruins, but I heard the old people in the town say that there seems to be a Buddhist temple near the North Gobi, and at the beginning of the last century, there were often monks and Taoists in Dunhuang who went there......"