said that it was 9 o'clock, and I arrived at 9:05, but He Qian and the others waited until 9:20, fortunately, I thought about this situation before that, and I didn't seriously think that everyone could arrive on time.

At the school gate, I couldn't find a bus to go to the tomb of the Xixia king, and the taxi was too expensive, so I had to choose a black car that occupied the road to collect passengers. After bargaining for half a day, an agreement was reached on the fare of 40 yuan, and the price was 50 at first.

Along the way, I passed through the Xixia Customs Garden, next to a certain military region, the scenery here is much better than the side where I entered the mountain two days ago, and there are a lot more street trees on the side of the road. The cobweb-like plastic water pipes on the green belt along the roadside are dotted and criss-crossed, providing drops of "blood transfusion" for these newly planted fragile trees. Let them flourish and survive in this harsh environment.

From seeing the royal tomb scenic spot surrounded by barbed wire, the car ran for a long time, and still didn't see the scenic spot, we knew that the Xixia royal tomb was much bigger than our school, and it was too big. Fortunately, most of it is bare, there are not so many buildings, of course I don't know if this underground is a different scene, after all, this is a royal tomb, not a royal palace.

When I arrived at the ticket office, even though the conductor told us many times that the scenic spot was very big, I was advised to buy a sightseeing ticket. But we resolutely refused. It doesn't matter to me that it's too tiring to walk and too much time to walk, after all, they are all young guys in their 20s, how can they take a sightseeing bus like an old man?

However, there are very few people here, young people, most of them are middle-aged and elderly people, even if the scenic spot is very close to our school, but most young people will not choose to come here, in their opinion, it is really boring, it is better to choose to go to the science and technology museum or the green expo park, even if the park is more attractive to those young people. Young people are more fond of some novel things or those places of wind and snow, for those in the past, can only say hehe!

Go, go, go, go, although everyone is smiling and grinning, taking pictures with their mobile phones, or chasing and playing under Lin Yin, I think everyone may be scolding their mother for selling batches in their hearts, because they have walked for more than ten minutes on the way, and they haven't seen the first sightseeing spot.

We even saw a few bud rice fields on the side of the road, smelling the aroma of corn, so we all talked about the experience of roasting corn when we were children, and after a while we saw the roasted bud rice seller near the museum, it seems that we have a great appetite, but unfortunately we ate too much breakfast in the morning, and now we can't eat it.

I saw some cultural relics in the museum, the country's costumes at the time, the northwest at that time, the famous hairstyle in the region, but unfortunately I didn't see the Xixia sword that is more famous in many novels and TV series.

After stopping for a long time beside the sand table map of the entire Xixia Tomb, I realized that there was also a river flowing at the foot of Helan Mountain. At that time, the vegetation in this vicinity must have been very lush, and the grass was high, just like my hometown, but unfortunately it has disappeared into the long river of history like that thriving dynasty, so that the locals do not know what it used to be like today.

And in the entire Western Xia Dynasty, only a few high mounds and a pile of historical materials that no one usually reads can prove that it once existed and was brilliant. Who made those palaces and thousands of rooms made soil, and the text was too complicated to pass down, anyway, I read the inscription for a long time, and I didn't understand a word. The trend of history is to simplify Chinese characters, but it does the opposite.

Looking at the broken porcelain and tools, I couldn't help but feel emotional, as if my mind had entered that era, and I didn't notice where the people who traveled with me had gone. When I came out of the venue, I found that the three were sitting on a stool next to the square at the door, holding their mobile phones and playing games with relish, I don't know how long they had been playing, and I looked at my watch, I should have been in it for half an hour.

I wanted to buy a bottle of drink, I asked the price, although I was ready to be slaughtered at the beginning, but the price that doubled several times, still scared me, you are the mineral water that several of us drink, we all feel cold and painful, and I just drank Master Kong Youyue out of the feeling of Coca-Cola.

When they arrived at the complex that restored the living conditions of the ancient people, they were somewhat interested. Curiously on that street, looking around. Take out your phone and take pictures of the statues, ask and check the various functions of those ancient tools, many of which are still in use today. Just like the stone mill and the Trojan horse, there were many of them in our village when I was a child, and they could be seen everywhere in the countryside before modern electronic devices were widely used. And now they can only be seen in museums and places like this, and it is estimated that in a few years, these things will also become antiques.

Walking through a long corridor, the long historical picture scroll briefly describes the rise and fall of the Western Xia Dynasty from the establishment of Li Yuanhao as emperor, hundreds of years of rise and fall, and by the way, the whole process under the Mongolian iron horse.

I went to the temple next to me and saw the statues of the monarchs of the Xixia Dynasty, to be honest. Well, when it comes to Tibetan square dance, it reminds me of the county lord, only Li Yuanhao, no one else has ever heard of it, and even how many monarchs there are in total, I don't know how many years this country has lasted, I am like this, let alone a few of them. They just came in and took a look, then ran outside to play on their phones and wait for me.

Finally, we are finally going to see the real royal tombs, then we will go to see the "double tombs" in the tomb of the Xixia king, which is relatively more complete and the largest.

According to the museum's profile, the tombs of the Tangut kings had been affected by the war and were devastated. After looking at the restored imaginary map, I feel that the scale was indeed quite large, but now there are only a few mounds of earth and some broken walls, and I can barely see the traces of the former city walls and those mausoleums.

It is said that there are hundreds of tombs buried here, including monarchs and princes and nobles of the time, but only a few of them can be seen today. The rest was turned to dirt, and the ground was overgrown with all sorts of wild weeds that grew wildly.

These large mounds still gave me a lot of shock, they are known as the mysterious pyramids of the East, and it feels like they are not too small or too completely destroyed, otherwise they feel no worse than the pyramids of Egypt. And this is just one of China's many dynasties, a small and small regional regime built a mausoleum. Think about the several burial pits of Qin Shi Huang, they have given us so many shocks, until now everyone still doesn't know what the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang looks like. One can only admire the creativity and wisdom of the ancients. And the ruler is extravagant and wasteful, and he is dead and buried in the earth, and so many manpower and material resources are wasted.

On the way back because there are no toilets nearby. A few of us huddled together behind a small mound in the middle of nowhere, soaking in the urine. At that time, he also joked: I don't know which prince's and nobleman's grave is below. As a result, we are now stepping on the soles of our feet and standing on them to pee.

Of course, it's just our bad taste, and I feel awkward, after all, it's uncivilized. But there is no way, we wander in this vast royal tomb, out of the tourist route of the sightseeing car, and the feeling is similar to walking in the Gobi Desert outside, but there are some more things buried under our feet.

This reminds me of a song I learned in junior high school, "Hillside Yangtong Caring for the Ancient":

The palace has made soil,

Xing, the people are bitter,

Death, the people suffer.

Although the lyricist composed this song in Chang'an, coincidentally, it happened to be the Mongols who established the Yuan Dynasty who destroyed the Western Xia Kingdom, and not long after, the Yuan Dynasty also perished.

Even if they have become dirt now, at least they have left a name in history and his deeds for us to learn and remember. And what about the four people who are walking side by side now, let alone leaving their names, it may not be a few years, and even others can't remember, and there has been such a person.