The sunshine in Dunhuang is relatively long, the night comes relatively late, we live in a Han family, and now five people are lying on the slightly sloping eaves, with their hands on their heads, looking at the sunset ahead. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

None of the big guys spoke, and they watched like this for a long time, until a black curtain covered the earth.

"Come with me to a place...... "Surprisingly, the first of us to speak was the little Taoist.

I was shocked, the old ancestor didn't think about it, Baocai changed his posture, he leaned on the eaves, and asked, "Besides Shanshanguo, is there any other place to go?"

The little Taoist priest looked at the stars in the sky and said lightly: "Go to the old site of Loulan and look for treasures......"

"What?" Bao Cai was very entangled when he heard that he was going to find the treasure, on the one hand, he was afraid, and on the other hand, he really had no resistance to the word "treasure".

In my heart, the little Taoist priest is the kind of person who regards money as dung, and he must have his reason for going to find the treasure of Loulan.

Sure enough, he took out the military badge of the Black Mountain Army from his bosom and handed it to us, and my ancestor and I sat up, although this wooden card is the same as the one of "Black Mountain Changhu", but it is actually slightly different. On the back of this piece is the sentence of the Yellow Turban Uprising, but it should be the place where the name of the person is written, but it is written as a "hidden", and then at the lower right end of the wooden card, a small "three" is written.

I didn't see that it was the name of the little Taoist, so I breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What does this mean?"

The old ancestor snatched the words and said: "This means a lot, Liu Siniang's people, except for a group of guys you have seen, most of them are assigned to various government offices to inquire about local information and do some secret things for us. I may not know these people, only when needed, they will appear, show their gold brand, and their name tags are replaced by 'hidden'......"

The explanation of the ancestor made me understand at once that although the shape of this military card is exactly the same as that of "Black Mountain Changhu", but because its owner is the person who secretly collects information for the Black Mountain Army, so "hidden" is used instead of the name, and the number should be a code name. In other words, the master of the little Taoist priest is a member of the Black Mountain Army.

During the day, the conversation between the little Taoist priest and Gu Xi circulated in my mind, and I basically figured out what happened back then. However, what we didn't expect was that the little Taoist priest told us what happened without reservation.

The little Taoist master's name is Yu Muye, he has followed him since he was a child, and he has traveled around, but he does not know that his master is an important general of the Montenegrin Army and is responsible for the uprising.

Two years ago, Yu Muye received a letter from Gu Xi, and he didn't sleep for several nights, and the little Taoist priest asked him what was wrong? He said that he was going to Yanze (Lop Nur), where the Loulan people used to live, to spend his soul, and the little Taoist priest believed his words and followed him to Shanshanguo. However, Yu Muye left him in Shanshan for various reasons, and he went to the old site where the Loulan people lived.

He waited day after day, and I don't know how long he waited, Yu Muye appeared. He looked old, his face dusty, his hair sticking together, his lips chapped to the point of being chapped. And when he lifted the cloak he was wearing outside, his clothes and flesh were glued together, and it was shocking to see people's hairs stand on end. The little Taoist priest was distressed and wanted to tear off those clothes and give him medicine, but he couldn't pull it at all, his master's flesh had already suppurated and rotted.

Yu Muye looked at the little Taoist priest and smiled reluctantly, saying that he could never take him to various places to see in his life, and before he died, he handed over a wooden card to the little Taoist priest.

The little Taoist priest has been immersed in the grief of his master's death for the past two years, although he felt strange about the content on this wooden card, but he didn't think much about it, until he met Wang Bajian in the wine shop. What Wang Bajian said made the little Taoist priest understand that the "wooden plaque" was not a relic left to him by his master before he died, but a kind of hope.

In order to confirm this speculation, he traveled thousands of miles to Dunhuang, found Guxi, and learned the truth of the matter. As expected, Yu Muye's real intention in giving him this wooden plaque back then, like those wandering spirits, was to hope that the little Taoist priest could find the Black Mountain Army and bring the news to them. It's just that his master didn't explain the matter clearly in the end, and left......

Everything seems to be destined in the dark, if he doesn't meet Wang Bajian, maybe Yu Muye's dying entrustment, the little Taoist priest will not know at all, since it is fate, he will definitely fulfill the master's wish before his death.

He had planned to find the Black Mountain Army and tell them about the treasure of Loulan. It's just that he also thought that the wandering spirits that Wang Bajian saw were not complete, and his powerful master did not die because of the long journey, that is to say, they all encountered something terrible.

If he told the news to the Black Mountain Army, and then the gang went and died inexplicably, then his master's wish would never be fulfilled. So he planned to go to Shiozawa (Lop Nur) alone to find out what was going on, and then find the exact location of the treasure and depict it.

After listening to this, we were stunned, and we could also understand Yu Muye's mind at that time, he did not let the little Taoist priest go to Yanze (Lop Nur) because he did not want the little Taoist priest to be involved. He was able to get out of the barren desert with serious injuries, and in addition to his firm faith, the most important thing was to see his apprentice for the last time.

In fact, there are many records of the treasure of Loulan, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Loulan people still lived on the shore of Yanze Lake (Luobu Lake), the Loulan people were still a small race, they were often harassed by the Huns, so they were very sensitive, and they were used to hiding their belongings in the cellar.

After the Han army marched westward and defeated the Xiongnu, the people of Loulan got a few years of peace. However, soon after, the Xiongnu invaded again, and in order to get rid of their endless fighting and looting, the Han monarch let the new king of Loulan move south to his new homeland, Shanshan. In the language of the Loulan people, Shanshan means new water.

Leaving Yanze (Lop Nur), where they depended, was a sad thing for the people of Loulan, who silently vowed to return to their homeland when the fighting subsided. So before leaving, they buried their belongings day and night near Yanzawa (Lop Nur). However, the people of Loulan never expected that after leaving the home where they grew up, the god of Loulan seemed to know that he had been abandoned, and the land became barren and lifeless.

Legend has it that someone who wanted to spy on the buried treasures of Shiozawa (Lop Nur), even if it was a small thing, would be cursed by the gods and die there and become a part of it. If you humanize this "god", I think it's pitiful, it's abandoned, it's lonely all the year round, so it loses its temper and starts to discipline the people who go there. However, some people say that it has always been there to protect the treasures of the Loulan people, but it has waited too long and too long, so it has grown old and withered over the years......

Time has passed, and the people of Loulan have not returned to the place where their ancestors lived. If Yu Muye and the Wandering Soul gang were looking for that batch of treasures, then when they died, they shouldn't have lost arms and legs, and their bodies were full of injuries.

The saying that the god of Loulan cursed adds a mythological color. The ancestors believed that there might be even greater treasures in that mysterious land, for example, they had no way to take them with them - the burial grounds of their ancestors.

"Such a dangerous place, you originally planned to go alone, you didn't even think about coming back alive, right?" the old ancestor asked the little Taoist.

The little Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and my heart twitched.

Bao Cai said: "Then your master's last wish is not and cannot be fulfilled?"

The little Taoist priest looked at the wooden sign and said sadly: "I should have died when I was very young, and I was able to live until now thanks to the master who accepted me." So after he died, I didn't have any thoughts of living...... I thought that after figuring out the truth of the matter, I would find the treasure place that Master had found and draw a map......" He paused and said with a little bitterness: "I thought that if I wanted to come out of there alive, I would fulfill his wish." If you die, follow him......"

I heard that he didn't care about his life at all, and suddenly I felt very angry. He looked at us and said, "I didn't want you to wade into this troubled water......

The words "don't want us to wade into troubled waters" can actually see that the little Taoist priest has completely regarded us as friends.

When the old ancestor heard this, he smiled and said: "I love to wade in muddy waters, and I have said it, you are the one who touched the Golden Gate by me, and I, as the boss, naturally will not let you run alone." Don't worry, whether it's a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, I'll be with you!"

The little Taoist priest looked up at the moon, how much sadness and the past were melted away in the words of the old ancestor, and he smiled faintly.

The old ancestor half-propped his body, watching the knot in the little Taoist's heart slowly unraveling, like an elder brother to a younger brother's tone, and said: "Your master has left, but in the dark, he has tied your thread to us, and you don't have to live alone in the future." After speaking, he suddenly stood up, dusted the dust off his buttocks, and said, "When will you go?"

All of a sudden, the fine sand fell on my face and Baocai's face with the wind, and he was finished, and we were offended, and I looked at my ancestor depressedly, and wanted to complain, but I was afraid that he would not bless me in the future.

The little Taoist priest said, "The day after tomorrow, we need to prepare things to enter the sand sea." ”

Hearing this, Baocai took out a mouthful of sand and muttered, "I heard that the most difficult way to walk on the Silk Road is to go to Loulana." We have to cross the vast Gobi, and there are people who have no way to return, or we will be swallowed by sand, or we will die of thirst, sunburn, and all kinds of deaths! Do we have to go? Just give people wooden signs and let them suffer this crime, won't it be okay!"

Wang Bajian said: "Brother Liu, you will complain, it means that you have accepted the fact of going there in your heart!" As he spoke, he stood up like his ancestor and patted the dust, Baocai and I really couldn't stand the two people behind him, and scolded a few words angrily. The two knew that they were in trouble, so they ran away.

Now the three of us are still lying on the eaves, think about it, in fact, what Baocai said is not unreasonable, I have traveled to Mingsha Mountain, it is not a big desert, but standing on the top of the sand, looking at the sand dunes stretching behind, it is really endless, and the sand is easy to wrap around the feet, it is more difficult to walk, and I don't know if I am a person born in the south of the Yangtze River, can adapt to this harsh environment.

And I really want to tell the little Taoist priest that the Black Mountain Army was wiped out by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao not long after the uprising, so even if they find the treasure, it will be useless for them. (To be continued.) )