After a five-hour flight, the plane reached the Xinjiang region.

After getting off the plane, everyone took a shuttle bus non-stop and bumped all the way to Minfeng County, located in the northwest of Xinjiang.

When the four of Yuan Haochen walked off the train, night had already fallen, and the moon with a golden ring had also risen into the air.

The night sky in Xinjiang is indeed different, the night sky is like a navy blue curtain, dotted with twinkling stars, and the moonlight is like flowing water, as if it is everywhere.

This night makes people intoxicated.

That night, the four of them stayed at the county guest house in Minfeng County, which was simple but clean and hygienic.

Except for Chen Xi's slight complaints, the other three all felt that it was okay, after all, they were not out to travel.

After the four of them settled down, Yuan Haochen asked everyone to discuss tomorrow's plan of action.

"This particular black treasure green meteorite was found by a local Uyghur villager in the ruins of a small stone house five kilometers northwest of the Niya site." Yuan Haochen was the first to open his mouth to introduce the basic situation of the meteorite to everyone, "There are still some pottery shards found in the same period. ”

"Isn't it a meteorite? How did you turn into an unearthed artifact? Lu Qinglian asked curiously.

"Yes, maybe the villagers thought it was an unearthed artifact, such as jade or something. Later, it was found that it was not a precious object, so it was handed over to the cultural relics unit of Minfeng County. Yuan Haochen explained with a smile.

"Then I changed a pennant and Wu Baiyuan reward." Lin Feng took over the conversation and continued. "Hahaha~" Everyone laughed knowingly.

"Later, after the identification of the local cultural relics department, this black treasure green stone turned out to be a meteorite." Yuan Haochen continued, "I just heard that our research project was collecting meteorite samples, and the local cultural relics department handed over this meteorite to us. “

"From an astronomical research point of view, of course we would like to see the first scene of a meteorite falling, but this meteorite may have reached Earth a long time ago. We now need to figure out where he came from, and it would be great if we could find other meteorite samples that fell during the same period. Yuan Haochen paused for a moment and continued.

"So how are we going to arrange our work tomorrow?" Chen Xi, who had been silent, suddenly asked.

"We will divide into two groups tomorrow, some of us will go to the county cultural relics museum to check other items found with the meteorite, and the other part will go to the Uyghur villager to learn the details of the discovery of the meteorite." Yuan Haochen said what he thought.

"Then I'll go to the museum." After listening to Yuan Haochen's words, Chen Xi immediately expressed his will.

"Inspecting the unearthed cultural relics is my specialty, so I'll go with Chen Xi." Lin Feng glanced at Chen Xi and said.

"Okay, this arrangement is indeed more suitable, then I will go with Senior Sister Qinglian to talk to the villagers." Yuan Haochen naturally has no opinion on such an arrangement.

After the division of labor was clear, the four of them did not continue to idle and went to rest

The next morning, the four of them split up in twos and twos.

Yuan and Lu Qinglian took a ride to a small village on the outskirts of Minfeng County, where the Uighur villager who discovered the meteorite lived.

The Uyghur villager who discovered the meteorite was a middle-aged man, nearly fifty years old, named Kurban, whose weather-beaten skin looked dark and rough, and his emaciated face looked angular, but his two eyes looked very vigorous, and he had two mustaches at the corners of his mouth, and he was very playful when he spoke.

"Uncle Kurban, hello, we are members of the research team from Beijing" Yuan Haochen first expressed his intention to Uncle Kurban and expressed his gratitude for the discovery of the meteorite.

"Hmm, Yaxi, Yaxi. I found that stone in the desert ruins last year. It's good to be useful to you," Uncle Kurban said excitedly in Uyghur-style Mandarin after listening to Yuan Chen's words.

Maybe it was very interesting to hear Uncle Kurban's mouthful of Xinjiang-style Mandarin, and Lu Qinglian, who was nervous, also began to imitate Uncle Kurban's speech.

"Thank you so much, Yakesi, so much that we came from Beijing to hear how you found this stone." Lu Qinglian immediately chatted with Uncle Kurban with great interest.

"Hmm~ That's right. That day I went to the desert to find some poplar dead wood to make crafts. Suddenly, I found a small abandoned stone house. Uncle Kurban described, "There is only the wall left in the small stone house, so I went in and dug and pushed, and I found it." ”

Listening to Kurban's description, a few black lines instantly appeared on Lu Qinglian's face, Uncle Kurban's Mandarin is not very good, it seems that everyone may have some obstacles in language communication.

"Uncle Kurban, can you take us to the field to see it?" Yuan Haochen felt that since the language description was inconvenient, it was better to go directly to the field to investigate.

"Let's take a look, yes, yes." Uncle Kurban's mustache shook up and down smartly, and after thinking for a moment, he replied, "But we will have to leave early tomorrow morning, because the road is very long, and it is not good to drive the car in, and we will have to ride a camel." “

"Well, thank you so much, can you help us find the camels?" Yuan Haochen continued to ask.

"You can drop, you can drop, I'll go to Alimu in the village in the afternoon to borrow camels." Uncle Kurban said with both hands and feet, "Also, the one I gave me last time, the pennant, will there still be one?" ”

"Yes, yes, we have ten pennants for you, thank you so much. Yakesi, Yakesi. Lu Qinglian said with a smile while gesturing with exaggerated gestures.

Yuan Haochen was also infected by this atmosphere, and forced a smile on the side, giving a thumbs up to the enthusiastic and simple Uncle Kurban.

After agreeing on tomorrow's departure time and precautions, Yuan Haochen and Lu Qinglian said goodbye to Uncle Kurban

At dinner time, the four members of the scientific expedition team gathered at the dining table to summarize today's harvest.

First of all, Yuan Haochen explained to Lin Feng and the others the situation of meeting with Uncle Kurban today and the plan to go to the field tomorrow.

"Wow, such an interesting uncle, I'm going to ride a camel tomorrow." Lin Feng said with great interest after hearing this.

"yes, you'll know when you see him tomorrow." Speaking of this, Lu Qinglian became more interested.

"By the way, what did you get out of the museum today?" Yuan Haochen asked.

"I took a closer look at the pottery shards that were found with the meteorite. Combined with the location of the discovery, as well as the style of the pottery shards. I judge that these items are probably old objects from the ancient kingdom of Loulan 1700-2000 years ago. When Lin Feng heard Yuan Haochen's question, his face turned pale, and he immediately said his opinion seriously.

"I found on the pottery shards a few symbols of the Lu script, which was the local script used in the 36 countries of the Western Regions during the Han Empire." Lin Feng continued, "In recent decades, many similar items have been found in the Niya Ruins, and I have also compared them with other cultural relics in the Cultural Relics Museum. ”

In the research viewpoint of the archaeological community, the ruins of Niya are recognized as one of the exquisite ancient ruins of the 36 countries in the Western Regions.

It's just that later, this exquisite ancient country was destroyed by the Shanshan country, that is, the ancient country of Loulan, and it has long ceased to exist.

According to Lin Feng's judgment, the pottery shards and other cultural relics found together with the meteorite should be items from the Loulan period after the destruction of the Essence.

"With such a background, isn't the identity of the owner of the item very prominent." Lu Qinglian said excitedly after listening to Lin Feng's point of view.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, these items are extremely ordinary, both in terms of style and material." Lin Feng looked at Lu Qinglian's excited expression and explained with a smile, "A lot of items like this have been discovered over the years. Therefore, after obtaining these items, the museum did not go to the discovery site for further investigation, probably because it felt that it was not of much value. “

"Oh, by the way, although the owner of the item is unlikely to be a dignitary. But it can also be judged from the information of these items that the owner of this meteorite should be a woman. After thinking about it, Lin Feng added.

"Loulan beauty? It's mysterious! When Lu Qinglian heard this, she once again showed a yearning look.

"It's really hard work to dig up so much information." Yuan Haochen smiled and said to Lin Feng and Chen Xi, "Just wait for us to go to the field tomorrow to investigate, I believe there will be a harvest!" ”

"Okay, come on, come on." The energetic voices of four people rang out in the restaurant