Zhang Er suddenly stopped, staring at a small clump of cacti on the right side of his front, few plants can grow in arid places like the desert, and even if there are, they are often those that only appear in the rainy season and disappear after the rainy season, but cacti are often the only exceptions, so the plants that grow the most in the desert are like this.

"What's wrong? We don't have water? ”

Seeing Zhang Er stop suddenly, Long Chao walked to his side, took the kettle that he hung on his waist, shook his head, and found that there was indeed not much water in it. It is a good thing to encounter cacti in the desert, because cacti often contain good water, and they can definitely save people's lives under special circumstances.

Zhang Er stopped at this time and stared at the cactus, so Long Chao guessed that there was no water.

Shaking his head, Zhang Er said, "No." ”

"Oh? Why is that? Let's hurry up, those guys are just a little too good to run. ”

Long Chao looked at Zhang Er incomprehensibly, if it wasn't for a lack of water, then why did he stop? You know, this is chasing people now!

"No, we can't catch up."

Zhang Er smiled bitterly and pointed to the cactus not far away, and then said: "I have seen this cactus three times, the last time I saw it, I felt a little familiar, but I couldn't recognize it for a while. ”

"Seen three times? How is this possible? Are you mistaken? We ......"

As he spoke, Long Chao's eyes widened suddenly, looked at Zhang Er, and said, "This...... This ......"

"Yes, that's right, we've walked this place three times!"

Zhang Er sighed secretly in his heart, a place like the desert is full of sand or sand dunes, and it is the easiest place to get lost, because it looks almost the same everywhere, plus he patronized the people in front of him before, so he didn't notice that he had taken the same path.

"Are we lost, or are we being led by the nose?"

Long Chao was not an ordinary person after all, and he quickly calmed down.

Looking around, Zhang Er thought about it again, and finally said: "It should be that we were led by the nose, and those people not only discovered us, but also deliberately led us to run in circles." ”

"Then their purpose

What the? Why? ”

Shaking his head, Zhang Er said, "I don't know, but no matter what, we can't chase anymore, go, go back!" “

Zhang Er made a decision very simply, in a place like the desert, he is naturally a real master, the funny thing is that he and Long Chao actually wanted to teach others a lesson, but now they were slapped in the face, and he and Long Chao were still chasing each other with interest!

"Good!"

Long Chao immediately nodded in agreement with Zhang Er's opinion, he also saw the danger here, so he simply turned around and left quickly with Zhang Er.

Standing on the top of a sand dune, Fang Ming and the others couldn't help but shake their heads as they watched Zhang Er and the others quickly disappear into the distance, and said, "These stupid people, I only realize now that they are really too stupid. ”

"Count them lucky, if they don't find out again, follow two more laps, and they won't think about going back."

Zhao Zhuzi sneered, the most important thing in the desert is water, when he left the oasis, he brought a lot, and even sacrificed some food to increase the water, so it seemed to be sufficient, and even if he drank it all, it was possible to find water with Niu Ping, an "old desert man", by his side.

But the other party is not necessarily, if you follow it, the water will definitely not be enough, and if there is no water, then everything will be stopped.

"Well, yes, but forget it, since they're gone, forget it, let's go back."

Since you don't want the other party's life, then since the other party is gone, forget it. Fang Ming looked at Niu Ping and said, "Grandpa Niu, since that's the case, then let's go back." ”

Niu Ping looked around, and suddenly smiled and said, "I didn't expect to come here, since that's the case, then we might as well try our luck." ”

"Oh?"

Fang Ming's curiosity was suddenly aroused, Niu Ping said that it was obviously a good thing.

"There is a river nearby, and the water is not big, but I heard that there is jade in it."

Niu Ping pointed in the northwest direction and said, "Go in this direction, about five miles." ”

"Youyu?!"

Fang Mingle was happy, "This time I left Ningdong City but came out to look for antiques, and now I haven't caught anything, hurry, let's go quickly, see if we can find something good, or it's too much of a loss!" ”

"I've heard of that place too, and I must have had it before

Jade, or I wouldn't have brought that river to the river, but this was also many years ago. Now, even if there is jade, there are very few of them. So Lao Niu is right, we are just trying our luck when we go, don't get too much hope. ”

Zhao Matie also laughed, he and Niu Ping are old partners, in fact, when they were young, they even came to this river together many times, although they also found one or two small jade, but the value was not too high, and then they simply stopped coming.

If it weren't for the coincidence this time, I wouldn't have been to such a place.

"Okay, let's try our luck."

Fang Ming knew that Zhao Ma Tie was right, there must be more than one person who knew that there was jade in this river, and in an era like this, when everything was lighted, it was estimated that the river had already been turned over dozens or hundreds of times, and the possibility of being able to find jade was too small.

However, if you have already arrived here, then go and have a look, and it is good to have a long insight.

So, everyone followed Niu Ping and walked forward, and after a long time, when Fang Ming turned over a small sand dune, his eyes suddenly emptied, and an open area came out: in fact, it is not very accurate to say that the open area is, in fact, a river suddenly appeared between the huge sand dunes, and one after another sand dunes were connected to form a riverbank, and the shallow water was slowly flowing in it.

The previous oasis was already shocking enough, but when Fang Ming stood on the top of a sand dune and looked at the river in front of him, the impact on him was even greater!

The water is not deep, but it can't stand this is a flowing river, and it flows on the sand, so clear that it seems to be silver sand flowing up in the sun, which is easy to say, but you really have to see it to be able to appreciate how much impact such a scenery will have on a person who is accustomed to the environment in the desert.

After a while, Fang Ming, who came back to his senses, said: "Niu Lao, there is a river here, but this is a sand river, how can there be jade?" ”

To put it bluntly, jade is actually a kind of stone, and it is all sand here, where does the place produce jade?

"This section of the river is not only in front of me, its source is a small mountain, I went to investigate it with Lao Zhao when I was young. Of course, now that the source has dried up, only the river remains, and I think that if there is jade in the river, it must also come from the hill and be brought down by the water. ”

Niu Ping's explanation was tenable, Fang Ming and the others walked forward, and soon arrived at the river. At close range, the most watery part of the water was only knees, and the shallow place could only be that the feet were naked, and even to Fang Ming's surprise, there were fish in the water!

This place is amazing.

Fang Ming sighed secretly in his heart, and then simply took off his shoes and walked into the water.

"Silk!"

Fang Ming was so comfortable that he couldn't help but gasp, the temperature of this water was still relatively low, so it seemed that it should be from a local spring, in a place like the desert, there would be such a river, it could only make people sigh at the magic of nature.

"See, there are a lot of pits in this river, and there are also a lot of small sand dunes on both sides of the river, which are left by people who came to find jade."

Niu Ping also went into the water, and looking in the direction he pointed, Fang Ming found that there were indeed many sand pits on the riverbed around him, large or small, deep or shallow, it could be seen that they were dug by man, and there were also small sand dunes on both sides of the river that were about one person high, and the appearance with water marks could also be seen that they were dug up by people and piled there.

"Heh, it seems that there are really a lot of people who come here to find jade."

Zhao Matie nodded and said, "Yes, it's a little now, when we came here more than ten years ago, the river was almost full of people, and sometimes we didn't have a place to stay." ”

Fang Ming's eyes widened and said, "It's not so exaggerated, right?" Isn't this almost like gold panning? ”

"Don't say it, it's really a bit like gold panning, I remember the people in the river at that time, some people touched the sand with their bare hands, but more often they used a sieve to sift the sand, it really doesn't look much different from washing the sand in the sand."

Recalling what he saw back then, Niu Ping sighed and said: "There were indeed people who sifted jade in this river back then, and I received a palm-sized jade here, but after all, it was still a minority, so there were fewer and fewer people later." ”

"Hey, it looks like all the jade in this river has been dug up."

Although he was a little disappointed in his heart, Fang Ming didn't care too much, after all, such a thing was really hard to come by, and it was useless to find a piece of jade by himself, the key was to have it in this river. The problem is that there were many people looking for this river back then, and I'm afraid that every inch of the place has been touched, how can there be anything left?

"Not necessarily."

Zhao Matie shook his head and said: "According to ancient legends, this jade is spiritual, not that if there are more people looking for it, it will definitely be found or dug up, then there must be a fateful person." A person who is destined is not a person looking for jade, but a person who is looking for a jade, on the contrary, if a person does not have this fate, even if the jade is placed at his feet, then he will not see it. ”

"Hahaha!"

Fang Ming laughed out loud and said, "Is there really such a magical thing in this world? Hey, I seem to have stepped on something under my feet, it seems to be slippery, if what you said is true according to Grandpa Zhao, then maybe the piece I stepped on is jade, it is jade looking for me, I am destined to be a person! ”