Seeing that everyone was very excited when they first got on the camel, talking and laughing, and no one paid attention to our side, I walked up to Su Ziwu and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Su, is there anything wrong? Why do you look at me like that?"

Su Ziwu frowned and said, "Young man, have you felt anything unwell recently?"

"Do you mean I'm physical? No, I don't feel any discomfort. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Actually, I didn't tell the truth, the purpose of my venture into the desert to find the ancient city of the sun this time was because I had been hit by the "ghost handprint" of the corpse puppet ghost in Fenghuangtai Village before , Although I don't know what it is, but the red mark like a handprint attacks on my shoulder from time to time, and it is more and more serious every time, I have also been to several large hospitals to see a doctor to treat, but there is no effect, there is really no way, I can only try to find Bai Niedan according to the method Hu Qi said, but for these situations, except for Xiaopang and Zhang Meng, I don't want other outsiders to know.

"Well, young man, it may be that I am thinking too much, you also heard what the butcher said in the slaughterhouse before, although I don't believe him very much, but it is better to pay more attention to the wind and waves. ”

I nodded: "You're right, I also think that the butcher is unlikely to be blatantly deceived in front of so many people, maybe there is something deep in what he said." You ask me if there is anything wrong with my body, do you suspect that I am the one who smelled of death as the butcher said?"

Su Ziwu hurriedly waved his hand again and again, shook his head and said: "I didn't mean that, I just think that the butcher doesn't know us, and it is unlikely that he will talk nonsense against us, although his words cannot be fully believed, it may not be as serious as he said." But I'm afraid that there are some intricacies in it, so it's better to be careful. I just saw that you chose a few camels, and those camels are very repulsive to you and won't let you ride on them, you don't know, we have a saying in this place. ”

"What's that?"

"Locals say there are two kinds of people who can't ride on camels until they enter the desert. Camels are a gift from God, they can save people's lives in the desert, they have the ability to foresee, so the people who are going to lose their lives in the desert cannot control them, because they can't bear to take these people to the desert to die, this is one kind of people, the other is the kind of people they can't carry, this kind of human life is said to be too hard. Ordinary camels can't carry this kind of person, because they know that carrying this person into the desert will die because of this person, and their lives will be exchanged for this person's life, so this kind of hard-lived person can't ride a camel into the desert. ”

"What kind of person do you think I look like?" I didn't believe in the superstitious claims of the locals, but I did try a few camels but didn't get on them, and there must be some reason for this.

Su Ziwu frowned again, and subconsciously touched his chest. I noticed that in the shop in Retennamu, Su Ziwu always touched his chest when he talked to us. It seems that he is carrying something in his arms, but he has not taken it out, and he doesn't know what he is carrying, Su Ziwu seemed to see that I was paying attention to his movements, and hurriedly took his hand down, and said, "Hmm." Young man, I believe you are the latter kind of person, it seems that these ordinary camels cannot carry you, only one kind of camel may be able to do it, and this kind of camel is called 'Snow Peak' by the locals. This is not an ordinary camel, it is said that this kind of camel is the king of camels, they are not afraid of people who are hard-hitting, but they don't know if there is one in this place, so they can only inquire. ”

I nodded, asked Su Ziwu to help inquire about whether there was such a camel called "Snow Peak" in this place, and turned to everyone and said Wait a while, these camels are not willing to carry me, for fear that I will go to the desert to make trouble for them, and see if there is a live Lei Feng camel called Snow Peak, only this kind of camel is willing to carry me.

Su Ziwu went to the market to inquire about the camel sellers, and came back after a while, saying that there is really a family with this kind of snow-peaked camel, only one, the asking price is very high, it is said that the price of the three-peaked camel, Uncle Hai is the investor, the money is all from him, I briefly talked to Uncle Hai that maybe I can't ride ordinary camels, I can only ride this relatively expensive snow-peaked camel, Uncle Hai is anxious to go to the desert to find the ethereal immortality, plus he does have money, and he doesn't care, as long as he doesn't delay, don't talk about the three-peaked camel money, and then come to the ten peaks, and readily agreed。

Su Ziwu led an ordinary camel, and when he went to the merchant, he added the money of two camels in exchange for a camel, and when he brought this camel, we were all taken aback and praised.

A good peak of golden-eyed white-haired camels, this camel is obviously different from other camels, I saw that this camel is one size bigger than ordinary camels, two humps stand tall, four camel paws are buckled on the ground like four small bowls, the head is held high, the coat color is white, the two eyes are golden, standing among the other camels is like standing out from the crowd.

Uncle Hai couldn't help but praise it, saying that the money was not spent in vain, and when he came back from the desert, the other camels would be disposed of, and this camel would be kept as a pet. I secretly laughed when I heard it, rich people are different, some take ponies as pets, some take alpacas as pets, Uncle Hai wants to take camels as pets, it's really ingenious, really "tall, big, up".

I don't know if it's because of what Su Ziwu said, I rode up the snow peak without any effort. After riding this camel, it is like sitting on a small hill, with an extremely wide field of vision, and it is very stable and comfortable.

After everyone was ready to stop, Su Ziwu drove the carriage, led the camel team, and went out of the melon set. According to the route in the Loulan handscroll, we need to follow the Peacock River from Natenremu to Lop Nur, so we went back the same way, and because the camels were moving slowly, we only returned to Natenremu at about four o'clock in the afternoon.

After returning to Natenremu, we took a short rest, and Su Ziwu entrusted the carriage to a neighbor. We wanted to strike while the iron was hot, everyone was very energetic, we didn't spend the night in that Tengremu, we went directly through the village, and walked about ten miles, Su Ziwu pointed to the front and said, that is the course of the Peacock River.

We looked in the direction he was pointing, and sure enough, there was a river channel in front of us, and there was very little water in it, only some small streams. According to Su Ziwu, the source of the Peacock River is Bosten Lake, which is a river without tributaries, which is very rare in Xinjiang, and it is said that during the Han Dynasty, Ban Chao led people and horses to drink water in this river, so the Peacock River is also called the Drinking Horse River. The Peacock River is a very large and beautiful river when it flows through the city of Korla, but after flowing through the Daxihaizi Reservoir, it stops seasonally, and there is almost no water when it reaches this place, and when it reaches Lop Nur, only the dry riverbed remains.

We walked along the course of the Peacock River, at first, there were still some barren grasses, dwarf trees and shrubs, and the further we went, the more barren they became, and the Gobi scenery gradually appeared all around.

We walked for about three or four hours, the sun gradually sank in the west, in the Gobi, the sunset was very late, look at the watch, it was more than eight o'clock in the evening, the sky was not yet dark.

Su Ziwu told us that most explorers and tourists enter Lop Nur on the side of Ruoqiang County, and the road of the Peacock River is almost not walked, and even the locals rarely come here, on the one hand, because it is more convenient for Ruoqiang County to enter Lop Nur along the Tarim River, and the route is relatively mature, which has been explored by many explorers, and it is relatively safe, on the other hand, there is an important reason inside.

Su Ziwu just wanted to say something, but he heard Zhang Meng on the camel in front of him shouting excitedly: "Look, look ahead." ”

We looked ahead and saw a strange picture in front of us. In front is a huge sandstone area, all kinds of sandstone strange shapes, some like towering hills, some like knife cut sections, and some like a gate, one by one sandstone stands in the Gobi, just in time for the sunset, under the reflection of the sun's afterglow, the sandstone is inlaid with a golden edge, the gravel on the Gobi is rendered blood-red, and the blue sky forms a strong contrast, the scene is really beautiful.

Those of us living in the interior have never seen such a strange scene in the Gobi Desert, and we are all shocked by the strange and beautiful scene in front of us.

"It's so beautiful!" exclaimed in unison.

Everyone was very excited to see this kind of beauty, only Su Ziwu didn't react, this is not surprising, Su Ziwu grew up on the edge of the desert since he was a child, and he may be used to this kind of scene, but I don't know why, Su Ziwu seems to be preoccupied.

"We'll spend the night in there tonight. Su Ziwu said.

"Old Su, how do I think you have something on your mind, what's wrong?" Xiaopang also noticed that Su Ziwu seemed to have something on his mind.

"Oh...... It's nothing, I just think we are in a hurry, just walked to this place for the night, although the sun in the Gobi fell late, but it fell quickly, it was about to get dark, and there was no other way but to spend the night in it. ”

"When you say spend the night in it, do you mean that there is sandstone?" asked Lao Zhang.

Su Ziwu nodded.

"What's the wrong thing about spending the night in there?"

"Well, if it weren't for the impossible, the locals would definitely not spend the night there. ”

"Why? Is there a man-eating beast in it? It's okay, there's a fat man, don't talk about beasts, zombies, and zongzi don't have to be afraid. Chubby said dismissively.

Su Ziwu shook his head: "Do you know what the name of that place is?"

"Such a beautiful place, it must be called 'Zhaojun Jump'. Zhang Meng said.

"What's the mess, what does 'Zhaojun jump' mean?" I asked.

"It means that Zhaojun, one of the four beauties of China, passed by this place, and when she saw that this place was so beautiful, she jumped up and blurted out 'Wow, so beautiful', so later generations said 'Zhaojun out of the stopper', and the word 'wow' came from that, in order to commemorate Zhaojun at that time in this place, he jumped up and blurted out of the stopper, so this place is called 'Zhaojun jumped'. ”

As soon as I heard it, Zhang Meng was all about it, more nonsense than Chubby.

"No kidding, Mr. Su, what is this place called?" I asked.

"This place is called 'Devil's Valley'. (To be continued.) )