When the time of parting was finally coming, the Chen team paid me my wages and drove me to the big post station in a carriage, and Abidan also came, brought me some food, and told me to contact me more in the future.

I waved goodbye to them and boarded the caravan for the next stop.

Recalling the experience in LL and XH, as well as Abidan, I was more or less reluctant.

Who said: "Persuade you to drink a glass of wine, and there is no one in Yangguan in the west?" ”

After a long, long camel ride, I finally arrived in the city.

In addition to Cave M, I have also heard of other places in D City, such as the famous "pun intendre", which happens to have a little money in my pocket, and I also want to experience the feeling of going out of Yangguan, although in essence I have already been out.

So I didn't rush to Jinshi to report, but first found an inn in the city to stay, and planned to stay here for two days before starting a new job.

The front desk of the inn was very enthusiastic, and introduced me to a few distinctive restaurants, telling me that I could take a donkey cart to Shashan for travel in the city, and I could only charter a camel to play on the west line.

I took some money and put it on my body, and hid the rest of the money, so I went out and went to the restaurant of donkey meat yellow noodles recommended by the front desk, and ordered noodles for one night, and half a catty of donkey meat. Half a pound of donkey meat was added later, why? It's not that the noodles are not enough, I'm already half-full after eating the yellow noodles, the main reason is that the donkey meat is too fragrant, and I was deeply impressed by it for the first time when I grew up with this thing.

The boss was a middle-aged man, and when he saw that I was so good at eating, he gave me a bottle of rice wine and asked me, "Young man, where are you from?" Don't you come to travel? It's good to come in this off-season, there are not many people. ”

"Thank you, thank you, I'm from the south, and I'm here to work."

The smile on his face instantly turned incredulous: "Southerners? At most, you only come to travel, why did you come to work with us? ”

"I'm studying Jinshi, I'm here in the northwest to see the world, don't you have an M cave, I'm going somewhere."

"Oh, are you going to fix the mural?"

"Pretty much."

He gave me a thumbs up, looked at me with a very simple and sincere look and said, "Okay, I'm going to have this meal."

"Hey, hey, this can't work, where can I eat your stuff for nothing?" I was embarrassed to say, thinking to myself what was going on, I hadn't met a shopkeeper to invite me to dinner.

"Hey, don't be polite, our family all believe in Buddhism, and it is merit for you to repair the murals. Besides, the tourism of D city also depends on the M cave, and our business is good when the tourism is good, so you also helped us. ”

Having said that, it was a bit disrespectful to refuse, I had to thank the boss after eating, and then sneaked out of the door, there was a feeling of eating a bully meal, but who made the family so enthusiastic.

It was still early before dark, so I inquired about the way and took a donkey cart to Shashan. Actually, Sand Mountain is nothing to me, and I've been in all the places like that in Province X.

But to be honest, the tooth spring is more peculiar, "the first spring in the desert", "desert oasis", "the ancient sand does not fill the spring, the spring does not dry up", "one of the scenery outside the plug" these names are by no means in vain, to give an inappropriate example, a bay of spring water in a desert, like a little sheep in the wolf pack, and it has lived for so many years, I have read few books, in my opinion it can also be regarded as a geographical unsolved mystery.

After the tour, I found a camel cart and went back to the inn. But fortunately, I took a camel cart, and talked to the coachman about going to Yangguan tomorrow, and set a fixed price, and played around the two ancient levels.

After living here for a while, I have already adapted to the jet lag here, and at nine o'clock in the morning, we got out of the camel cart under the white belly of the fish belly in the east and headed west.

If it was the first time I came, I would have been shocked by the vast Gobi on both sides, but obviously I didn't, and even the groom felt that I was calm and abnormal, and asked me: "Are you really a southerner?" Other tourists come either to get off the camel to see the scenery, or to shout, why do you want to doze off? ”

I wanted to say that I was going crazy watching this on the way to LBP, but I was embarrassed and said, "I just came from Province X, and I've seen it before, otherwise I'm excited."

He nodded, and then said to me: "It's good for you to travel this season, it's convenient to get off the camel or what to do, as long as you are not afraid of the cold, it's okay to go farther." When you come in the summer, you should pay attention, this August, there was just a death here. ”

"Human life?"

"Yes, it's also a male school student, he came by himself, but he is short-sighted, he got off the camel to relieve his hands, and he was embarrassed to stand on the side of the road, more than forty degrees outside, our colleague who drove the camel cart asked him to bring two bottles of water down, and went around to the back of a Yadan, as a result, he didn't come back for two hours, and his colleague found that something was wrong and went to the yamen, but you know what's going on?"

I didn't expect him to sell at this time, pretending to be very curious and asking, "Huh? What's going on? ”

"The first thing I found was the Western glasses that he stepped on, and then I found out that he had gone far away by himself and died in the Gobi, and the two water bottles in the hands of the corpse were filled with sand, I don't know if the heat was confused or what."

I can't help but feel a little sorry, people are sometimes so fragile, myopic and without glasses, it's not a strange thing to get lost in that harsh environment, it's a pity that it's that young life.

The groom took me to Yuguan first, to be honest, worse than LL, but I definitely can't see it in the northwest place. I went to the Sun Pass again, most of the Sun Pass is already a man-made attraction, only the Sun Beacon stands there alone, forming a scene of its own under the blue sky and white clouds.

Around Fengsui, I heard the groom say that it is an antique beach, and legend has it that many people have picked up antiques here. I thought to myself, it can't be an ancient city ruin, right? But when I looked at it myself, I couldn't see anything, maybe it was all buried in the ground by the wind and sand.

But to say the most coincidental thing, I entered the Sun Pass Collection, and a docent came up to me, and I was actually an alumnus of the school! There weren't many people in the off-season, so she showed me around this little collection.

How to say it, it is very characteristic of Bian X Province here, there are many weapons, and there are camels and horses, all of which are related to battles. The alumni said that this was found during the excavation of the city wall, and there was no other tomb for a child, which may be a way for people to deal with children who died young.

I looked at him, and I couldn't help but think of the shocking things in the XH cemetery, and my scalp tingled. Maybe I was scared, and the alumni asked me, "Are you still afraid of this?"

"Is it making trouble?" I don't know if I asked such a sentence for no reason in my brain, and the alumni were obviously taken aback, and I regretted it at the time.

But what I didn't expect the most was that she said with a serious face: "How do you know?"

In my heart, there may be 10,000 question marks when I count them, and I will know what they are.

She looked around and whispered to me, "I don't believe this, but according to the old staff here, I often hear the crying of children on the night shift, and the closer people get closer, the more miserable they cry, and in the end no one dares to come closer." Later, I learned that the fence around the collection hall had been repaired, and I also had a dog, so I was not allowed to patrol the night shift anymore. ”

I looked at her, and she looked straight at her: "No kidding. ”

She looked at the suspicion on my face and said, "I really don't lie to you, until now, there is a rule, this child can't watch at night."

"What would it be like at night?"

She looked serious, a little more nervous than she seemed to be just now: "They say that people will die." So I had to lock the door every night. ”

After saying goodbye to the alumni, I stepped on the camel cart back to the city, and the groom asked me how I was doing, if I was happy, to be honest, happy was a bit of a misnomer, after all, it was not listening to music, but there was still physical and mental pleasure.

Along the way, the groom kept showing me what the Great Wall ruins were here, and which country was the tomb group of the sixteen countries.

I was a little impressed and asked him, "How do you know so well, expert?"

"Ahem, I don't know what to do here. Would you like to go down and have a look? ”

"Haha, no need." I said in my heart, the Great Wall ruins, to say ugly, now there is only a half-person-high earthen wall, not to mention the tombs, that is, a lot of earthen bags, have been enclosed and protected, and there is nothing to see, I am an "insider", but not only know the tourist who sees the scenic spots.

However, the biggest adventure along the way was seeing a group of wild horses in the sunset. This time I asked the groom to stop the camels.

On both sides of the road, there are many small lakes, and wild horses are eating dry grass by a small lake, and their vigorous bodies and horse's mane fluttering in the wind, although they are brown, they shine golden in the setting sun.

Then the groom also came out of his camel, and after looking at it for a while, he asked me, "Do you want to see them run?"

I looked at him, and I like, what do you mean?

A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "Look at me!" He roared so loudly that I was startled, and I looked at the wild horses, which were also frightened, and began to gallop away from the road, or toward the sunset.

I watched them disappear into the horizon in silence, and looked back and smiled and beckoned to the groom, "Let's go."

I never expected that looking at some nearly middle-aged grooms, he would also show such a young and frivolous side, maybe he used to tease wild horses like this.

When I came back and looked at the map of the inn, I realized that the west of D City was actually the West Lake Nature Reserve, where wild camels lived. Although I didn't see a wild camel, it was very rare to see a wild horse.