"I didn't expect him to be like this." Lin Shan sighed, "When I saw him in the Sarecole Ridge, his face was black, his teeth were white, and he liked to laugh very much. ”

"If you don't have a permanent job, let's do a little business around the bus station." In fact, the old bird had been petty thieves and not doing his job properly before he died, but when I looked at Lin Shan, I still couldn't bear to tell him the truth.

"What about the other three?" Shen Yu asked.

"This person has a little bit of a hero's meaning, but this face doesn't look like it." Lin Shan took Lu Xia's photo, he looked at it for a while, and then squinted his eyes, as if he was reminiscing. But when he opened his eyes, he shook his head again.

"It's strange, he doesn't look like a hero, but there is always a kind of hero's energy in his eyes."

"Is it—a facelift?" I said to myself.

"It's possible, his expression, this gaze, is too much like a hero. However, the hero's face is a little more than others, the bridge of the nose is not so high, and the eyes are not so big. ”

"It's easy to say, let Lin Ying ask the forensic doctor to see if there are any traces of plastic surgery."

"As for these two people," Lin Shan looked at the photo of Du Jiansheng and Shang Weimin, and didn't say anything for a while, "It's not very similar, the face is not like it, the eyes are not like it, I can't see it." ”

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and a young man with glasses pushed open the crack in the door and smiled at Lin Shan.

"What's wrong?" Lin Shan asked.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Han is looking for you for a meeting."

Shen Yu and I hurriedly stood up, and Lin Shan apologized to us embarrassedly.

"If you want to cast a bid, you have to keep an eye on the preliminary work - when will you two leave? If you have time, why don't we have dinner in the evening? I want to tell you about the Sarekole Ridge, there are actually a few strange things back then, and I have been holding it in my heart for many years. ”

Shen Yu and I glanced at each other, then nodded at him.

"Then it's settled, I'll pick you two up after work!" Lin Shan shook hands with us and said goodbye.

So after so many days, Shen Yu and I finally ushered in a day of relaxation. At noon, the two of us found an Internet celebrity restaurant, ate cold cakes and rice paste, and then visited the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

There is a fountain in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, there is also the bronze statue of Master Xuanzang, Master Xuanzang traveled thousands of miles in the year, went west to Tianzhu to learn scriptures, and after returning to Chang'an, he presided over the construction of this Big Wild Goose Pagoda to preserve the scriptures.

"Interestingly, when Xuanzang went west, the Tang Dynasty and the Turks were at war, and the border was very well controlled, so the master's departure was a smuggling. He traveled day and night, passing through the Western Regions, and made a great circle before reaching India. But when he returned to China, the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks had long ended, and he could already come back openly, so he took a shortcut. ”

"Really?" Maybe it's too hot, maybe it's something else on his mind, Shen Yu responded with little interest.

"This shortcut of his happens to connect a few places that you and I are familiar with." I said with a smile.

"Oh? Let's talk about it. "She's clearly in spirit.

We found a small café next to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and I asked for a large glass of cold American, and I talked to her about the past more than 1,000 years ago while drinking.

"Master Xuanzang's eastward return route was from present-day Pakistan to the north, first to Afghanistan, and then to the Wakhan Corridor in the Pamir Plateau to return to China. This Wakhan Corridor, called Wakhan Pamir in the Qing Dynasty, is one of the 'Eight Pa' on the plateau, and is a canyon that can cross the Pamir Plateau. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the British occupied Wakhan and later became the territory of Afghanistan.

"The Wakhan Corridor is a long valley in the middle of the snow-capped mountains, with abundant water and grass, but the narrowest area is only a few kilometers wide. The people of Sarekole said that one year when Master went south and never returned, they left the Gold Rush Valley and went south to find Master, and finally exchanged a handful of gold sand for dozens of sheep from the herdsmen. That place must be in the Wakhan Corridor. ”

"Oh? Such a coincidence? ”

"It's not a coincidence, it's because there is only one way to return home from the south through the Pamirs."

"You just said 'Bapa', what is 'Bapa'?"

"Well, the Pamir is a plateau, but this plateau is more special, other plateaus, are relatively high areas relative to the plains, although there are many mountains on it, but there are also many flat places, such as the Inner Mongolia Plateau is full of endless steppes.

"But the Pamirs are different in that they are almost entirely covered with mountains of all sizes, one hill after another, and there is not even a decent basin. However, there are also a few canyon corridors between the mountains, and this kind of canyon is called 'Pa'. During the Qing Dynasty, the whole of the Pamir was surveyed, and the eight relatively wide valleys were called 'Bapa'. The Wakhan where Master Xuanzang walked is one of them, and it is a slender canyon sandwiched between snow-capped mountains on both sides. Therefore, he had to come from the south, and he had to go from there.

"But where Master Xuanzang crossed the Pamir from the specific place and entered the Western Regions, different archaeologists have different theories. For a period of time, scholars represented by Feng Qiyong believed that Master Xuanzang directly passed through the Wakhan Corridor and entered the Western Regions from the Ming Iron Gaidaban at the Khunjerab Port on the current Sino-Pakistani border.

But later, according to Master Xuanzang's "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", people found that when he passed through the Wakhan Corridor, he actually took a different path.

"In the north of the Wakhan Corridor, there are actually two small forks, which lead to the Great Pamir Corridor and the Small Pamir Corridor in Bapa, among which the road leading to the Little Pamir Corridor, there is a lake called Oyikuli Lake, also called Chak Makitin Lake, the lake unfolds along the valley, Xuanzang said that it is 'fifty miles from north to south, three hundred miles from east to west', quite narrow and long, like a long dragon, so Xuanzang called it 'Big Dragon Lake'.

"Master Xuanzang passed through the Dalong Lake, then followed the river flowing out of the lake to the north, and finally entered the Little Pamir Corridor, he passed through the Little Pamir Corridor, entered the Langkuli Pamir in the 'Eight Papa', and finally returned to the Western Regions from the Kolemai-Karasu Pass."

"But what does this have to do with our case?" Shen Yu frowned.

"I'm not done yet. You must know that the Langkuli Pamir that Master Xuanzang passed through is on the west side of the Sarekole Ridge, that is, the area where the Middle Ta boundary was surveyed, and the only port for this place to enter the country is the Kolmai-Karasu Pass. This shows that the valley where the five people of Sarekole once lived is nearby! Moreover, the passage for the boundary survey team to enter and exit the Sarykole Ridge was also this mountain pass!

"Moreover, if the five of Sarekole go south to find Master, their route is exactly the opposite of the route of Master Xuanzang's return to the east, and they will also pass through the Dalong Lake, which stretches for hundreds of miles, and finally reach the Wakhan Corridor, where the grassland is luxuriant. However, from the report, it appears that the people of Sarekole did not mention the Great Lake! Isn't it strange, you say? ”