It had been a long time since I left home, and I wrote a letter to my mother in the inn to say that I was safe.

There was really nothing to play in this small county town, so after another day of rest and some supplies, the Chen team rode a camel and led me to the XH cemetery.

The road conditions here are very poor, and it is very bumpy, climbing up and down, and compared to the saline sand of LBP, it is a real desert. Fortunately, Team Chen is a living map-like person, so we don't have to worry about getting lost, as long as the camel doesn't get sick. No matter how slow we walk, sooner or later we will be able to get to the place.

On the way, Team Chen asked me, "Have you ever learned XH Cemetery in the academy?"

I said, "Haven't you commented on the top ten golden stone discoveries in the country before?"

Team Chen nodded: "Yes, that time it was a team led by a certain director, they dug here for three months, but they only dug three layers, and there may be still at the bottom." The director that Team Chen said has a very long name.

"Is he a foreigner?" Hearing the name, I was a little curious.

"No, he's a Uyghur, and I'm ashamed to say that his full name is too long, and I don't remember it. However, his knowledge of gold and stone and the awareness of cultural relics protection are very advanced, and he also has a set of ways to deal with the environment in the desert, and he also solves various problems of making gold and stone in this barren land. ”

I asked him, "How did you find out that there is such a necropolis in the desert?"

Team Chen said: "Ahem, we didn't find it, we found it with reference to the information of an explorer, he explored the LBP area of X Province, in fact, he came to hunt for treasure, and under the guidance of Uncle Aldeck, he walked along the tributary of the Peacock River, and finally arrived at this ancient tomb group with a thousand coffins in his mouth, the name XH was also given by the explorer, and the XH cemetery was also named after it." He also said that this cemetery gives people the most gloomy and terrible and unbelievable feeling! ”

"Huh? Because of what, because of the dry corpse? "I can't help but think it's a little funny, can a person who is engaged in a gold-stone expedition be afraid of corpses?

Team Chen shook his head and said, "I don't know, he didn't elaborate." But did you know that this Aldecker is also a legendary old man, and he was the one who led another explorer to discover LL before? So these two ruins were actually discovered by him first, but the credit goes to the two explorers. ”

"It's not much better than the guy who sells scriptures in Cave M, who works for tomb robbers under the guise of exploration."

Team Chen shook his head and said, "Actually, we don't need to say that, they have no ability to stop it." Besides, LL and XH found out at the time that not many people cared about things in this desert. When he brought people in, it was nothing more than a mixed meal. ”

I said in my heart that this is quite like Mr. Shen's evaluation of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, if it is really a brother, it seems that Shiguan was taught by a teacher.

Team Chen continued: "Strange to say, the records of the explorers mention that when they went deep into the heart of the desert to find the XH cemetery, Aldeck had a dream that countless demons hindered him from advancing towards the XH cemetery, and later after going out, he was a very tough person, but he became blind not long after, and died within two years."

In the past, I would only laugh when I heard such a story, but now, I can't help but have some doubts. Team Chen seemed to see my thoughts and said to me, "Don't worry, it happened many years ago, and now it shouldn't be so mysterious."

I nodded.

After another few days and nights, we finally advanced into the Jinshi camp in the XH cemetery, surrounded by dozens of tents under the light, which looked stronger than the yurts we had seen in the grassland at that time. Unfortunately, it was getting late, and I couldn't see anything around me clearly, but I could only vaguely see a dirt bag in the direction he pointed out to me.

After entering the tent, Team Chen found that the large army had not yet arrived, and there were only a few people from the vanguard team who were standing in front of me, so they introduced me one by one, and after a little light meal, we went to rest.

When I woke up the next day, it was almost noon, and it seemed that yesterday's trip was too much of a toss-up. After lunch, I couldn't wait to get out of the tent and look at the XH cemetery, let's put it this way, the whole cemetery is like a big steamed bun full of short chopsticks, and there are more than 100 wooden stakes of different shapes standing densely on the sand hill of the cemetery.

When Team Chen saw me coming out, he also came out and introduced me: "The cemetery here as a whole is composed of several layers of tombs and other relics stacked on top of each other, and the sand mountain is more than ten meters above the surface. The poplar stakes are wooden fences, many of which have been cut into 7 to 11 ridges, and I don't know if they have a special meaning, but they divide the whole cemetery into several districts like a demarcation. ”

I looked closely, and the way it looked now, if you were a layman, you wouldn't be able to tell that this was a necropolis at all.

I asked Team Chen, "What can you dig up from digging here?" ”

He said: "The excavations here are quite peculiar, do you remember what you saw in the LL Collection?" The style is almost the same, but here is nearly a thousand years earlier than LL, in addition to dried corpses, felt cat hats, bull heads, wood carved human faces, wooden people, skins, and jade, but they are all burial goods, all of which were cleaned out of the tomb, and the scattered outside were also stirred up by those who had previously explored foreign countries and robbed tombs. That's why I said the excavation was very simple, there were no traces of life here, only tombs, as long as the tombs here would be cleaned. ”

I thought to myself, anyway, this desert should not be able to see the strata, in other words, the era has been determined, or the strata, or the stratum, is not that important.

As he said that, he took me a few steps to the cemetery, and I saw that a long slide-like thing had been erected next to the big earthen bag, and I couldn't help but feel funny, and I asked Team Chen: "Is this the one they installed to play with the slide?" ”

Team Chen also smiled and said, "Where can I do this, I have nothing to do to run to such a deep desert center, just to find a dirt bag slide?" ”

"Then what are you doing with such a guy?" I really can't think of it for a while.

"Transporting soil, ah no, transporting sand. This cemetery is all sand, it's very fluid, and if you don't transport the sand down there, it will cover it up again, you know? ”

I nodded, thinking to myself that this was a good invention adapted to local conditions.

We were about to get any closer, when I saw dust rising in the distance, and it was getting higher and higher, and I looked at Team Chen and asked him if he knew what was going on.

He stood on tiptoe and looked at it and said, "It seems that our large army is coming, let's go back first, and then we will have the opportunity to take a slow look." I nodded, and we walked back.

Sure enough, on the way, we saw a camel convoy composed of dozens of camels coming towards us, and the most dusty were the last few large camel carts, which looked like they were loaded with supplies. We ran into them when we arrived at the camp.

At last the camel cart stopped, and from it came a groom, who looked very young. I couldn't help but admire in my heart, how could there be such a young woman in such a place? It stands to reason that at most one or two aunts were pulled over to cook. I subconsciously looked at her again, alas, she looks pretty good, this face has a nose and a bony nose, she is a Uyghur girl, right? She looked unusually white among this group of charcoal-black gentlemen.

She got off her camel and waved at us, and I politely replied, though I didn't know each other.

Later, I also confirmed that my surprise was correct, she was the only woman who came down, and a big girl couldn't stay well in the city, why did she go to such a place to suffer? I actually have some thoughts of pity and cherishment.

Team Chen and I used to help move supplies, most of which were for food and drink, after all, the most important thing is to solve the rigid needs in this kind of place. The woman was not idle, but carried things up and down her camel, and her strength was not inferior to that of a man.

When they were all done, everyone went back to the tent to rest, and the woman was very familiar with Team Chen, and asked, "Team Yo Chen, you have a new face there?"

Team Chen introduced me with a smile: "This is Abidan A, it is a coincidence, Abidan is the meaning of historical sites in the Uyghur people, and she also learned gold and stone science in the school, and she will come back to work after graduation."

Abidan stretched out her hand enthusiastically, I shook hands with her, and introduced myself: "My name is Zhou Hua, I just graduated this year, and I will learn more from you in the future."

She smiled happily, she had only heard of a lot of ethnic minority beauties of this generation before, but today I saw that the Uyghur girl was really smiling, it was really very beautiful, full of exotic customs.

Abidan asked me, "How old are you, Xiao Zhou?"

“23。”

"Oh, even though I'm two years older than you, you're going to call me sister in the future." After saying that, she smiled happily again, and I said in my heart, how did she learn this set of teasing the younger brother in our school so thoroughly?

Today, because more than 20 members of the entire Jinshi team have arrived, and there is no wind outside in the evening, we will set up a guy outside and have a barbecue. Several Uyghur brothers in the team took turns to fight, as if the skewers were their talent, and Abidan was also on the back, and he looked very skilled. After it was baked, it was the first to be sent to my rice bowl, and I don't know if it was to take care of me, a "newcomer".

It was in this middle of this desert that we spent our first night of cumin and rice wine.