Uncle took a sip of tea and said unhurriedly: "I was a little surprised when I first saw this scroll, although this is an imitation, but its content is very famous, as early as when I was in college, I heard my tutor tell me the story about this scroll." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Then tell us about it. ”

"Well, you see", the uncle said, pointing to the pattern of the Pisces: "This pattern is the totem of the ancient Loulan country, and the location of the ancient city of Loulan is the white dragon pile of Lop Nur." ”

"Lop Nur? That's a mysterious place. Chubby interjected.

"That's right, Lop Nur, as the name suggests, is a lake, and it was once the second largest inland lake in our country. However, in the mid-to-late 20th century, due to the decrease in the flow of the Tarim River into the lake, Lop Nur became seriously desertified and dried up rapidly, and by the end of the 70s it had completely dried up. The uncle continued: "It used to be an oasis of life with herds of cattle and horses, green forests, and clear rivers. Now it has become an endless Gobi desert, without a single grass, not a single stream, and the summer temperature is as high as 71C. There is not a single bird in the sky, and no bird dares to cross it. ”

"Lop Nur itself is mysterious, similar to the Bermuda Triangle on land, where many people and expeditions have mysteriously disappeared. Chubby added: "In addition, Lop Nur will move before it dries up, and the lake will sometimes be southern, sometimes northerly, constantly swinging, for this, many scientists and explorers have given their own opinions, but there is a lack of reliable evidence, and the mystery of Lop Nur will move is still unsolved." Then there is the shape of Lop Nur which is a human ear, which is taken on the photo of Lop Nur taken by the Earth Resources Satellite launched by NASA. Lop Nur resembles one of the ears of a human being, and what is frightening is that this ear is similar not only to the outline, but also to the details. There are not only ear wheels, ear holes, but even earlobes. ”

Zhang Meng stared at the two big eyes and listened intently, and when he heard Xiaopang say that Lop Nur was like a terrifying ear, Zhang Meng was a little unconvinced, and interjected: "Fat guy, is it really fake?

Xiaopang said: "If you don't believe it, you can search Google Earth, the weird horror of Lop Nur's big ears." It can be said that it is unique in the world. That's one of the reasons why the U.S. is particularly interested here. The explanation of domestic experts and professors for this is. The shape of the big ears in the photo is actually the different color outlines of the lakeside salt crust accumulated by Lop Nur in different stagnant water periods in the sun. ”

"Those bird experts and professors in China never do their jobs, they must be Hu Le......" Zhang Meng said this, remembering that he missed his mouth, and his own father was also one of these experts and professors. I looked at my uncle. Stuck out his tongue.

Uncle glared at Zhang Meng fiercely. said: "This fat classmate is right, Lop Nur does have these mysteries, but the biggest mystery is the mysterious disappearance of the ancient city of Loulan. The Kingdom of Loulan occupies an extremely important position on the ancient Silk Road. Silk and tea in the interior of our country. Horses, grapes, and jewels in the Western Regions were first traded through Loulan. The ancient kingdom of Loulan was founded before 176 B.C., but suddenly and mysteriously disappeared in 630 A.D., leaving only a piece of ruins standing quietly in the desert, which caused a lot of reverie for future generations. ”

"Why did the ancient kingdom of Loulan mysteriously disappear, and did future generations discover it?" I asked.

"There are many opinions in the academic community about the sudden disappearance of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, but there is no consensus so far, but the ancient city of Loulan was discovered by the Swede Sven Hedin as early as the beginning of the 19th century. The discovery of the ancient city of Loulan was quite dramatic. When Hedin and his party arrived on the north bank of Lop Nur, they came to a place where fresh water seemed to be available, and when they decided to dig a well to get water, they found that the only shovel was missing, and a guide was sent back to find it. Unexpectedly, the wind was fierce on the road, and the wind and sand in the sky made him hungry and unable to move forward. After the sandstorm, tall mud towers and cascading houses suddenly appeared before his eyes, and an ancient city miraculously revealed its face. The guide reported on the discovery. Sven Hedin came here at once. When he found a few beautiful wood carvings from the ruins, he was extremely excited and concluded that this was a very important ancient city site. Hedin later recalled: 'How fortunate the shovel was, otherwise I would never have returned to that ancient city, and made this important discovery, which seemed to have a certain number, and brought new light to the ancient history of Central Asia that had never been foreseen!'"

Uncle spoke with relish, as if he had witnessed the discovery of the ancient city of Loulan, and we could also listen to it.

"So, this handscroll is the geographical map of the ancient city of Loulan, and the totem at the end of the handscroll indicates the location of the ancient city of Loulan?" asked Xiaopang.

Zhang Meng and I also had the same idea as Xiaopang, guessing that this handscroll was the location map that marked the ancient city of Loulan, but my uncle shook his head and said: "This handscroll is indeed called 'Loulan handscroll', but it does not mark the location of the ancient city of Loulan." ”

Uncle's answer was very unexpected to us, Zhang Meng said: "Dad, you have been talking about the ancient city of Loulan for a long time, it is all in vain, this handscroll is not the mark of the ancient city of Loulan, why do you talk about it? Isn't this a waste of feelings?"

The uncle took a sip of tea unhurriedly and explained: "Although the content of this handscroll is not the ancient city of Loulan itself, it has a lot to do with the ancient city of Loulan. ”

"Your foreshadowing is too long", Zhang Meng said with a wry smile, Xiaopang and Zhang Meng listened attentively when they heard my uncle talk about the topic. ”

"It was probably between 1957 and 1962, something happened in the northwest of China, it is said that at that time Lop Nur discovered the ruins of an ancient city, some young people wanted to go to find some antiquities, and then I don't know what happened there, those young people died, crazy crazy. It is said that those crazy people look like ghosts, but they are not. The lunatics were so active that they all died of exhaustion. These madmen have worn out their feet, which shows that they are unconscious, otherwise they would not have run tirelessly as their feet rot due to excessive friction. Even more shocking was the fact that they had brought back some rubbings and fragments of some ancient ornaments, as well as a scroll, on which some inadequate investigation had already begun. But then the Cultural Revolution broke out. The matter had to be put on hold. ”

We listened horribly.

"What these crazy young people brought back is the 'Loulan Handscroll'?" I asked.

Uncle nodded, and continued: "Until 1979, several Northeast archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb group on the north bank of the ancient channel of the Peacock River in Lop Nur, and there are dozens of ancient tombs in this ancient tomb group, each of which is a tomb of the deceased surrounded by a circular wooden stake in the middle, and 7 circles are surrounded by wooden stakes more than one foot high outside, and form a number of rays, in the shape of solar radiation, these ancient tombs are named Sun Tombs. According to carbon-14 measurements, the Sun Tomb is 3,800 years old. As a result, a new civilization was discovered in the Lop Nur region. Named Lop Nur Civilization, according to research, Lop Nur civilization is inextricably linked with the ancient country of Loulan, and the Lop Nur civilization is likely to be the mother civilization of the ancient country of Loulan. But the nearly 2,000-year rupture between the Lop Nur and Loulan civilizations is a blank. A lot of people believe it. During this interlude, there was also an ancient kingdom called the Ancient Kingdom of the Sun. Somewhere in Lop Nur there is a mysterious ancient city - Sun City, which is the birthplace of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and the ancient kingdom of Loulan is a branch of the ancient kingdom of the sun. This speculation was confirmed by the 'Loulan handscroll' brought back by those young people. ”

As he spoke, the uncle pointed to the water ripples on the Loulan handscroll, and the sun on it, and the totem of Pisces in the sun said: "The pattern of Pisces is the totem of Loulan Kingdom, and the pattern of the sun rising on the water surface is the totem of the Lop Nur civilization, and the combination of the two totems is the totem of the ancient kingdom of the sun, so the location marked in the handscroll is speculated to be the location of the ancient city of the sun." The Loulan handscroll was identified as a cultural relic of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the ancient kingdom of Loulan disappeared in the Tang Dynasty, which also confirms that the Loulan handscroll was the product of the blank period before the Loulan kingdom and after the Lop Nur civilization. ”

That's what it was, and that's when we know what the contents of this scroll are, but why did the guy in the newspaper decades ago go to such lengths to guide me to it? What was his purpose? I still don't understand why.

I only heard my uncle continue: "The academic community generally believes that the ancient country of the sun is a more mysterious civilization than the ancient country of Loulan, if you can find the ancient city of the sun, maybe you can not only solve the mystery of the mysterious disappearance of the ancient country of Loulan, but also solve many mysteries of the ancient civilization of the Western Regions, therefore, in 1980, the state organized an archaeological team, according to the location of the 'Loulan hand scroll' to investigate and find the ancient city of the sun, and the leader of this archaeological team was the famous scientist Peng Jiamu at that time. However, one day after the archaeological team entered Lop Nur, Pengamu mysteriously disappeared, along with the original work of the 'Loulan Handscroll', so the expedition ended in failure, and Pengamu's disappearance became a well-known unsolved case in the archaeological world. ”

"I've heard the name Pengamu?", Fatty said, "and there are many bizarre theories about the mystery of his disappearance. ”

Uncle nodded: "For the Loulan handscroll, that's all I know, I can help you translate the words marked on the handscroll, but you must not look for the Sun Ancient City according to the handscroll out of curiosity, that is an extremely dangerous thing." Saying that, the uncle glanced at Zhang Meng, which should mean that Zhang Meng should never be allowed to do such a stupid thing.

Zhang Meng hurriedly said: "Dad, don't worry, how can we, we will never do that kind of stupid thing, please help translate the text on the handscroll is also curious, no, this fat classmate is also very interested in history, he wants to study this handscroll before crying and shouting begging me to let you help translate." I promised my grandfather that he would never follow the label on the scroll to find the Ancient City of the Sun. ”

I really admire Zhang Meng, this is a casual thing, and when he lies, he can always keep his face changing and his heart beating.

Xiaopang is also enough, and hurriedly followed Zhang Meng and said: "Uncle, I have a strong desire for knowledge, if I can't figure out the ins and outs of this handscroll, and I can't sleep steadily, you can help." ”

As soon as I saw this Meng and Chubby singing and harmonizing, it was like rehearsing early, and I was secretly amused.

When the uncle heard Zhang Meng's assurance, he didn't care anymore, looked at Xiaopang again, nodded, found a blank piece of paper, and translated the words marked on the handscroll for us in turn.

"In addition, although this Loulan handscroll is an imitation, it is the only thing that can provide clues for the discovery of the ancient city of the sun so far, and it is of great academic value, and I advise you to donate it to the state. As he spoke, my uncle looked at me and Chubby, because this thing was ours, and my uncle couldn't force it, so he could only advise us.

Before I could speak, Xiaopang hurriedly said: "Don't worry, uncle, it's useless for us to keep this thing, we are very willing to make a modest contribution to the archaeological cause of the motherland, and we will donate this thing in a few days." As he spoke, he quickly put away the handscroll, put it back into the paper tube and put it in his bag. (To be continued.) )