Wen Tingxu said that he did not actually come up with the idea of "recreating history" before. However, when he frequently traveled to Xinjiang to search for the truth about the disappearance of the archaeological team, a vendor who drove a tricycle to the market provided him with information.

The peddler's name is Yu Sufu, and he lives in Zepu County, and his hometown is in a village in the easternmost part of the county, which is called Kutqilek.

If the village of Kalayatul is on the edge of the desert, then Kutčlek is located in the heart of the desert. If you stand on the roof of Kutqi Village and look at it from the four directions of east, west, north and south, all you can see is the endless yellow sand.

Actually, it turned out that this was not the case. When the peddlers were small, a small river came from the west, flowed through Kutchi, and finally disappeared into the desert. Along the banks of this creek is a narrow oasis that acts like an umbilical cord that connects the village to the outside world.

Later, as the river dried up and the oasis disappeared, Kutqi was no longer inhabitable for humans, and the villagers slowly moved away.

If there are still a few families left in the hollow village of Kalaya Tur, then there is really not a single resident left in Kutqi. Yu Sufu's family also moved to Zepu County, but like Zhang Xiangchun, they still have an old house in Kuteqi.

In the old mansion of Yu Sufu's family, a secret has been hidden for twenty years.

At that time, Yu Sufu was still young, only seven or eight years old. Kutchi is a small village, and because of the severe desertification, its hollowing process came earlier than other villages.

Yu Sufu's parents sold goods in Zepu County, and he, his sister and grandfather stayed in Kuteqi to look after the family. He still remembers that it was autumn, the desert was cold and cold, and there were many old people and children in Kutqi Village, so they usually rested early.

As soon as the sun set, the wind picked up outside. Grandpa closed the courtyard door, tied the door of the house, and sent the two children to sleep first. However, in the dead of night, Yu Sufu was woken up by the sound of a dog barking outside.

"Grandpa, there seems to be a knock on the door outside."

Grandpa Yu Sufu was startled, he sat up, listened carefully for a while, and scolded Yu Sufu: "Don't talk nonsense, that's the sound of sand blowing on the door!" Kut has no village or shop, and he is so poor that he clangs and clangs, who will knock on the door in the middle of the night! Go to bed! ”

was scolded by his grandfather, Yu Sufu had to close his eyes and pretend to be asleep. But he tossed and turned, and could not sleep, because he always heard the movement of the yard, and occasionally the dog barked—because the wind was too strong, and the dog was too lazy to come out on duty.

Yu Sufu was in a daze, and he didn't know when he fell asleep. The next day when the wind stopped, he got up early, pushed open the door of the house, and found that it was really just like what his grandfather said, there was a layer of sand at the door, and the yard was also covered with yellow sand, and there was no one at all, not even footprints.

At lunch that day, his parents, who were doing business in the county seat, came back quietly.

There were very few phone calls at the time, so even if people wanted to come back, there was no way to give advance notice. Yu Sufu and his sister were very happy to see their parents.

My parents came to pick everyone up to the county seat this time, because they had a fall vacation and no farming at home, so they wanted to take the elderly and children to Zepu for ten days and a half to have a good time and go around. So after lunch that day, the whole family sat in the tractor bucket, facing the wind and sand, and went to the county seat with a smile.

This is twenty days. Twenty days later, the grandfather returned to Kuteqi Village with Yu Sufu and his sister. The yard of the house is covered with yellow sand, and it seems that the sand has been quite strong recently.

Grandpa took his two children and wanted to clean the house and yard, but when he pushed open the tool shed and got the broom, he found a body that had been dried.

The body was a woman, presumably wounded, who probably first hid in a tool shed for the night, then fell asleep and never woke up. The desert area has a dry climate, coupled with strong winds and sunshine, so the moisture of the corpse evaporates quickly, and it does not decay and fester.

The corpse was well preserved. Yu Sufu always remembered what it looked like. Judging by the face, this should be a gentle and beautiful woman, and even though she is dead, that serene appearance should be better than any woman he has ever seen.

The discovery of a dead man in the house is an inexplicable thing after all. Kutqi Village is remote and remote, completely far away from the Tiangao Emperor, so Grandpa found a few wooden planks and secretly ordered a simple coffin.

He ran into the desert at night, packed the body and the back of his body into a coffin, and buried it deep in the desert. Yu Sufu only remembered that the location was directly east of the largest poplar tree at the end of the village.

More than twenty years later, when Yu Sufu and Wen Tingxu found the poplar tree, the oasis where it used to be had become a desert, and it was lonely in the quicksand, half of its branches and leaves had withered.

Yu Sufu later told Lao Wen that he said that the year after Wen Tingxu removed his mother's body, the poplar tree had completely died.

"The poplar forests are all patches, but the old tree lives alone in the desert, in fact, to protect a wisp of my aunt's soul." He said this over the phone.

……

Wen Tingxu repeated Yu Sufu's words, and his face was already full of tears.

"I am a sinner, and my mother had a shabby tomb, but I moved her out and resettled her on the ruins of Zihe City. She sat under that ruined wall for two years......

But there is no way, she and her father are both scolded, and even if they are in the ground, there is no way to be at peace. They are all strong people, upright and noble, and have a habit of moral purity, if they die with a stigma on their backs like this, they will definitely not be willing even under Jiuquan. ”

"Alas, the dead are long gone, and the living disturb themselves. It's not so much that they're unwilling and uneasy, it's that you'll never be able to accept these things. When you find your mother's body, why don't you just call the police? If you call the police, the suspicion of her and your father can be cleared up a lot, right? ”

"Do you think I can still trust the police?" Wen Tingxu lowered his head, fiddled with the leftover meat on the plate with a fork and said, "And with just one notebook, you can't convict that group of villains who forget their righteousness for the sake of wealth - even if the case is retried and the lawsuit is restarted, it will take the first and second trials, and it will take a long time."

"God knows what the judicial officers who have already convicted my parents will think. Will they be afraid of losing the black yarn hat, so they will keep this old case down?

"Also, I don't know the true face of those migrant workers. Therefore, I have to strike quickly and accurately, and I must beat them to death with a rod so that they don't have a chance to turn over again......"

"You did—but why do you have to take me and Shen Yu with you?"

"Because you two are professional people, you are both on the side of the police, but you do not fully belong to the police, so you are the most powerful witnesses, and what you two say is also the most authoritative.

"Actually, you've seen with your own eyes that human nature is vulnerable in the face of huge interests - how about it, old classmate, are you satisfied now? If I have any sin, arrest me. ”

"No, not at all." I say it categorically.