Chapter Forty-Eight: The Cabin by the Lake
We should have been happy to have a beautiful companion and a peerless beauty, but because the girl was held hostage by us, we never showed a smile on our faces. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Baocai and Wang Bajian used all means, jokes were told, and grimaces were played, but the girl would never have any other expressions except for the appearance of mourning relatives. It's no wonder that walking with a few men who don't know good or bad for a while, just a girl, really can't feel at ease.
We kept a certain distance from her so that she could sleep well, but the girl did not close her eyes for a long time, but stared at the starry sky at night. When we woke up the next morning, she was treating the little priest's wounds, and when she was done, she smiled. However, the little Taoist priest is a stone, and such a delicate goddess like a flower blooms for him, but he is unmoved. The girl's heart was extinguished by him at once, she was slightly disappointed, and looked pitifully at the back of the little Taoist priest leaving, Baocai and Wang Bajian were infatuated with Lishana, and it was not a taste in her heart at this time, she sighed a few times on the side, and then sighed and picked up her luggage, and went on the road again.
When we reached a high plateau, we looked far away and saw a reed thicket that was taller than us. Under the scorching sun, its reflection on the glossy water surface resembles a colorful fabric.
On the shore of the lake, the forests of Lop Nur, dry willow and poplar are lush and green, and the scenery is beautiful, which makes people exclaim, and I sigh in my heart: "It turns out that this is Lop Nur, which has not completely dried up, and we have finally arrived." ”
Bao Cai and I excitedly said "hey", and slid down the high ground with some fine sand, like a child who has never seen the sea in the mountains.
We sat down by the clear lake, and Bao Cai and Wang Bajian took advantage of the dawn and the temperature was not so low, and went into the water to take a bath. When Wang Bajian came up, he caught a few big fish, and almost all of them were vegetarian in the past few days.
Lishana said that the holy water is in Loulan City, and we walked along the tranquil lake and found some fine stone tools and sand pottery shards faintly visible on the ground, and if we were lucky, we could also pick up jasper.
It wasn't stealing the dead man's things in the cemetery, Baocai and Wang Bajian picked it all the way with peace of mind, but most of these things were broken, and only two pieces of jade could be exchanged for a good price.
Looking at these quaint and crude handicrafts, their existence is much earlier than Lishana's group of Loulan people, and it is not possible to be Neolithic. In our time, many people think that this country first appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, but in fact it existed earlier, and the reason for the existence of this misunderstanding is that it has almost no chapter in history, and it was not until the appearance of the "Hanshu and the Legend of the Western Regions" that its mystery was slowly lifted.
Along the ancient road, we saw the sparse abandoned wooden houses made of poplar wood, which were near the end point, and the land of holy water was about to arrive, the big guy wanted to rest well today, spend the night here, and go to the land of holy water tomorrow morning, and when the curse of the grass head sacrifice was solved, we could control the time to find the treasure of Loulan at will, and we didn't have to rush so much on the itinerary.
The wooden house was dilapidated, as if it had been badly damaged, and there were almost no trees in its place, only the trunks of the old poplar trees, which had died. There was a once-used bonfire on the ground, and there was a wooden shelf next to the fire, on which were a few burnt fish heads.
Bao Cai walked to the campfire and said, "It's strange, this fish doesn't look like it was from the early days, but like the recent ones, and it's only been a few months. ”
The little Taoist priest picked up a bag of bags, there were some small shovels and some jasper that looked valuable, generally no one would throw away such valuable things, unless they encountered something, just like the ancient Silk Road, in order to survive, the merchant traveler would throw away his luggage halfway to reduce the burden, but there is no desert here The environment is harsh, and there is no need for people here to leave the tools and belongings of life.
The little Taoist priest and I went together, and he said, "Something must have happened here, all the traces of people's existence are messy, like they are taking refuge. ”
Combined with the treasure and the doubts of the little Taoist, I stood up and looked at the waves on the surface of the lake, and a feeling of trepidation suddenly appeared in my heart.
When the old ancestor came back from the wild urine, he pinched his nose in disgust, walked past us without looking, and hurried towards the lake. I asked him what was wrong? He pinched his nose and said strangely, "It's too back, I've stepped on a huge, you can be careful, don't get hit!"
Wang Bajian also covered his mouth and nose at this time, and said with a disgusted face: "Ouch, it really stinks, how does this shit smell like rotten meat, and the smell in the cellar of the wine shop, disgusting to death." ”
Among them, I haven't taken a bath yet, and there is sand in my nose, so I didn't smell it, but after they reminded me, I smelled it carefully, and sure enough, there was a strange smell, and if you want to smell it up close, it is estimated that you will faint.
The little Taoist priest asked Lishana why the residents here left this place, and Lishana said with a slightly gloomy face: "They didn't leave this place, they stayed in their homeland." ”
"What do you mean?" I asked, feeling a little uneasy, worried.
Lishana glanced at me, lowered her eyes, and whispered, "I heard Daddy say that more than a hundred years ago, monsters appeared here, and they punished the fishermen who lived here, and then disappeared without a trace......
I turned pale and said, "Do you know what kind of monster it is?"
Lishana said timidly: "Daddy is afraid that I am afraid, so I don't say much, only that the monster can fly, it is a god, and if you respect it, it will not be harmed." ”
"Giant-monster-fly-" My heart was cold, and my brain suddenly hurt, what was that? Harpy Body, Pterodactyl? They're really gone?
At this time, we took the cage and carefully approached the wooden house, which was similar to the house of the riverside breeding base, with more than one meter of elevation below, and corridors on all sides. The main pillars of the wooden house seem to have been cut by something sharp, and the ditch is very deep.
I waved my hand and approached the roof, where several holes were broken inside, and there was silence inside, and a few white rays of light came in through the holes in the roof. Through the light, you can faintly see the cobwebs in the corners, as well as the wooden shelves scattered all over the ground and the baskets woven from cattail grass, which contain rotting food.
It's pretty shabby, but it's better than the wind blowing on all sides, and at night on the shores of Lake Shiozawa, it's dangerous, and we have to stay in this sheltered place on all sides, otherwise no one knows what will happen.
The little Taoist priest silently took out his cloak, placed a corner for Lishana to lie in, and said lightly: "You can sleep here and rest......"
Hearing this, Lishana nodded obediently, in this small space, I suddenly felt like a huge light bulb, this thought, I said: "The musty smell here is too strong, I'll go out to breathe." With that, he opened the door.
At this time, the unlucky trouble-making duo, Wang Bajian and Liu Baocai, lived up to their expectations and rushed straight towards the wooden house, shouting incoherently at us: "Dead man! Dead man! It's terrifying...... (to be continued). )