Xiangzi asked Amei to help him bring him a notebook and a ballpoint pen, only to see him thinking while drawing on the notebook, drawing page after page, everyone curiously gathered around the side and watched quietly, only Uncle Hai sat on the suitcase with a hookah in his mouth, with a smug look on his face. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After touching the work of a meal, Shoko finished painting, let out a sigh and said, "Okay, I haven't forgotten it yet." ”

The little fat hand is fast, snatched the notebook, flipped through it, and suddenly smiled, and patted Xiangzi's shoulder: "Young man, okay, the real person doesn't show up, there are two times, I didn't expect you to have this hand, saved the fat brother." ”

Shoko smiled shyly.

Zhang Meng snatched the notebook in Xiaopang's hand, and Lao Zhang and I leaned over to look at it together, only to see that there were dots and lines outlined on it, and each point was marked with the name of the place that Zhang Meng's father helped translate, which was the route map to the ancient city of the sun depicted by the Loulan handscroll.

"Fortunately, Xiangzi, I've heard before that you and Amei have special abilities, Amei can see things that ordinary people can't see, your memory is super strong, and it's true." Zhang Meng and Lao Zhang and I looked at the road map of the ancient city of the sun drawn by Xiangzi from memory, and we were amazed and couldn't help but praise.

Uncle Hai said proudly: "That is, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and I Honghai don't have rice buckets under my hands, so I have to have two hits." ”

Lao Zhang hurriedly picked up the fart: "Yes, yes, thank you for taking Xiangzi and Amei, these two children are really capable, otherwise we will be really troublesome this time, or you always have vision and foresight." ”

Uncle Hai smoked a hookah, squinted his eyes, and listened to everyone praise him and his subordinates, which was very useful.

We had dinner and discussed the matter of entering the desert for a while. After gossiping for a while, it was not too early, and they went to rest. According to Ame, she no longer felt that there was anything unclean in the house, but just in case, a few of us young people took turns to be on duty all night.

The next morning, the sun was just outcropping. We got up, everyone sorted out, left the mansion with luggage and belongings, and went to the west of the village to meet the old man Su Ziwu.

When I left the house, I looked back and remembered the experience of the past two days, and I was very emotional, not only happy that I had eliminated the corpse locusts and helped the villagers get rid of the disasters for many years, but also felt sorry for the wife of Su Ziwen, the corpse keeper outside the fortress, the woman in red who lay in the coffin and did not decompose.

When we arrived at the west end of the village. The old man Su Ziwu had already set up a carriage waiting for us there, we greeted the old man, Zhang Meng and Lao Zhang had also met Su Ziwu, and they were polite to each other, and I introduced Su Ziwu to Uncle Hai, Xiangzi and Amei, Xiangzi and Amei met Su Ziwu very politely, only Uncle Hai, eight hundred looked down upon. Holding his stomach and pouting. With a seal beard, he just snorted through his nose and eyes. In the eyes of a giant tycoon like Uncle Hai, except for people who are richer than him, there is no other person who does business that he can afford. But Su Ziwu is not like Lao Zhang, seeing that Uncle Hai is not polite to him. didn't pay much attention to Uncle Hai.

Su Ziwu asked us to put our things on the carriage, and when everyone got into the carriage, he raised his whip and drove the carriage to the melon market.

On the way, Su Ziwu told us what we had to buy when we entered the desert. The most important thing is two things, one is water and the other is camel. According to him, although this place is called "Natenremu", that is, "looking at the sea of death", but in fact there is still some distance from the real desert, although it is also very arid here, but it is not very short of water, the use of qanats, ordinary people and livestock drinking and agricultural irrigation is not a problem, but in the real desert it is different, especially this Taklamakan Desert, which can really be called the sea of death, if you lose water, it is basically equivalent to being sentenced to death, Although he knows several oases and blisters in the desert, due to the impermanence of the landform in the desert, coupled with the rapid evaporation, these oases and blisters will disappear at any time, so be sure to prepare sufficient drinking water.

In addition, camels are also an important guarantee for entering the desert, especially when it comes to going deep into the unknown areas of the desert, which is the so-called untouched area, and camels are much more insured than off-road vehicles. Although there are often off-road convoys into the desert to explore, there are also convoys across the desert, but those are under the premise of known demarcation routes, those routes are how many people have explored at the cost of their lives before, and the convoy needs to be large enough, personnel and materials are sufficient to can, but if you want to use off-road vehicles to enter the uninhabited area, it is full of danger, the most common danger in the desert is puncture and lack of oil, the climate in the desert is hot, the Gobi is also covered with gravel, it is easy to burst a tire, If there is not enough spare tire, you lose the ability to move; In addition, some areas in the desert will cause the GPS to fail for unknown reasons and lose its direction, resulting in a lack of gasoline, so a flat tire and lack of fuel in the desert will be life-threatening.

The use of camels is different, camels are called desert ships for a reason, on the one hand, camels are thirsty and hungry, unlike cars, they need to replenish gasoline, and they can persist without eating or drinking for even twenty days after a full meal, in addition, camels can also be used as shelter when sandstorms come, and camels can be surrounded in a circle to resist sandstorms, and most importantly, camels can identify directions, in many reports, there are accounts of camels helping their owners find oases in the desert or return to the place of departure, This is essential for those who venture into uncharted territory.

We walked and talked all the way, and arrived at the melon market at almost ten o'clock.

After arriving at the melon market, we saw that what Su Ziwu said was true, this is really a big market, the market is bustling, there are all kinds of stalls everywhere, horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, and small trucks are crowded all over the place, the sound of selling and music is endless, and the big market in some towns and stores in the mainland is no different, the only difference is that the goods sold here are all items with local Uygur characteristics and some local specialties. I didn't expect that Retenam was so remote, but there was such a prosperous market more than seventy miles away from it, if it wasn't for Su Ziwu as a guide, we wouldn't have known that there was such a place.

According to Su Ziwu, this place is rich in melons, and in the past, this market was mainly wholesale and selling melons, and over time. There were more and more vendors, and more and more people sold other things, and gradually a large bazaar was formed, which was the largest within a radius of several hundred miles, and in this bazaar, as long as there was money, almost anything could be bought.

Chubby smiled: "Then you can be regarded as bringing us to the right place." Seeing that this old man didn't "Little Fat pointed at Uncle Hai: "This is a big boss, don't be afraid of anything else, I'm afraid that the money can't be spent, rich, too rich, that's really rich and rivals the country, don't say anything else, just Uncle Hai's mansion is magnanimous, and the goldfish pond at home is bigger than Kunming Lake." You just hit the north gate of Uncle Hai's house and go south, walk it for a few weeks, and hit the south wall, and ask whose land is Uncle Hai's land. Uncle Hai is not only rich, but also very benevolent and righteous, everyone is called Haida Shan Ren, and the porridge field is opened on the fifteenth day of the new year. Every New Year's Day, he is a frequent visitor to the charity party. In my mind, Uncle Hai's image is glorious and irreplaceable, right, Uncle Hai. ”

As soon as I heard it, damn, Xiaopang ran here to say that cross talk is coming.

Uncle Hai really eats chubby. When Xiaopang said something, Uncle Hai said the most: "Where, where, young man, exaggerate." "But you can see it. It's already so beautiful in my heart that I can't find the north, so I don't need to say more, Uncle Hai covers all the necessary expenses, let the old man Su Ziwu just open the list, buy what you need, look at this, don't talk about camels, even if you need bombers, you can buy ten or eight.

Su Ziwu looked at it, and he didn't need to be polite, and listed all kinds of materials needed to enter the desert on the list, including camels, drinking water, dry food, medicines, and various supplies necessary in the desert and just in case, etc., and listed a full page.

We calculated the money according to the things listed on the list, and the ten-peaked camel alone needed more than 200,000 yuan, plus other things, etc., a total of 300,000 yuan. After calculating the money, he handed the list to Uncle Hai, who glanced at it and pouted: "How much did I think, that's all?" As he spoke, he took out a card from his bosom and asked Shoko to withdraw the money. I said in my heart, Uncle Hai is really willing to give up his book for the so-called immortality, but who knows whether those things from hearsay are true or false.

Su Ziwu told Xiangzi that there is a rural credit cooperative in the south of the market where you can withdraw money, and pointed out the direction to Xiangzi, Xiaopang said that he could suffer in the poor place of Retennamu, and he was either a biscuit or an instant noodle, so it was easy to come to this big market, regardless of whether he could enter the desert or not, he had to comfort himself first, and let Su Ziwu help find a larger restaurant, we waited in the restaurant, and Xiangzi took the card to withdraw the money.

Everyone really hasn't eaten anything good in the past few days, especially Uncle Hai, who has suffered this kind of suffering, let Su Ziwu help order food, just order the best and most expensive, Xiaopang and Zhang Meng helped on the side, ordered skewers, large plates of chicken, slivers, naan meat, grilled lamb chops, pilaf, etc., and ordered all kinds of freshly squeezed juices, because they wanted to enter the desert, so they didn't order beer. The effort was not big, the dishes were all ready, a large table was full, and everyone was waiting for Xiangzi while eating.

After a while, Shoko came back with the money and had dinner with everyone. After the meal, he was ready to be taken by Su Ziwu to buy things.

Xiao Fat picked his teeth while looking at Su Ziwu's list, looked at it for a while, frowned, and said to Su Ziwu: "I said Old Su, there seems to be something important on this list." ”

When everyone heard it, they didn't know what Xiaopang was referring to, Su Ziwu looked at the list again: "I have listed everything that should be listed, what is missing?" ”

Xiaopang said in a low voice: "Our trip is not an ordinary adventure tour, we may encounter something in those places we are going to, the most likely is to run into zongzi, by the way, maybe you don't understand the jargon, it's a zombie, why didn't you list this on this list?" As he spoke, Chubby gestured with his hand.

Su Ziwu didn't understand and shook his head. Xiaopang lowered his voice again and said, "Guns, are there any guns sold in this market?" ”

When Su Ziwu heard this, he shook his head again and again: "No, how can there be someone who sells that thing." ”

"Didn't you say that as long as you have money, you can buy anything in this bazaar?"

"That's what a point, you can't buy anything illegal."

When Xiaopang heard this, he made a difficulty, and sighed his teeth: "This is not easy to do, if you want to go to that kind of place, you can't do it without weapons, huh...... By the way, it's okay without this, but at least there must be that, and I won't go without that. ”

"Damn, you fat guy, you're really underbeaten, and you're selling off, what's this, that, to put it bluntly." Zhang Meng said on the side.

"Well, I mean, it's okay if you don't have a gun, but at least you have to have black donkey hooves, black donkey hooves are the most effective against zongzi, is there any black donkey hooves sold in this market?"

"Raw cooked?" Su Ziwu asked.

Xiaopang almost fainted when he heard it: ", brother, do you think you are making up for zombies, of course it is raw, and it is best to just chop it off." ”

"Well......" Su Ziwu thought for a while: "There is only one place to slaughter livestock in this market, and the people here don't eat donkey meat, and the main purpose of slaughtering donkeys is to take skins for medicine, I don't know if they have black donkey hooves...... Still, you can give it a try. ”

"Okay, let's go buy the black donkey's hooves first, we can't do without this thing." Chubby said.

Uncle Hai paid the money for the meal, and everyone went out of the restaurant and followed Su Ziwu to the place where the livestock were slaughtered to buy black donkey hooves. Passing through the bazaar, turning a few corners, there was a courtyard in front, and when we arrived at the gate of the courtyard, Su Ziwu said, "This is it" said, and led us inside.

At this moment, a person happened to come out of the courtyard, and after this person passed by us, he suddenly turned around and called out, and we didn't know what was going on, so we all stopped to look at this person. I saw that this person was about 50 years old, wearing a Uyghur hat on his head, and he looked like an ordinary local.

Xiaopang said to Su Ziwu: "Ask him what he asked us to do?" ”

Su Ziwu said a few words to the man in the local dialect, and then said to us, "He said...... This ......"

"How, what the hell did he say?" Chubby asked.

He said...... He said there was a dead man in us. (To be continued.) )