It's just getting dark, but we're already busy. Of course, the woman standing next to me now is already Shen Yu.

The sunrise here is more than two hours later than Weiyang, and the sunrise in Weiyang is about four and three minutes, while here it is nearly seven o'clock.

So when I arrived in Xinjiang, although the time on the watch was Beijing time, people still had to live and work according to the living conditions of the father-in-law, otherwise there would be a situation where they would go to work in the middle of the night and get off work at noon.

But we still maintain the biological clock in the mainland, just because it is cool to work in the desert in the morning, and when the sun is exposed to the sun at noon, it is basically impossible to work.

I used to be too excited along the way, but now that I started working, I found an important problem.

That is, there is not a single person with an archaeological background in the whole team!

As soon as I told Shen Yu about this, she also looked at me coldly.

"Your head is as slow as a sloth in South America, and you will be pricked on Monday and screamed on Saturday."

"Then you won't remind me?"

"Did they say they were here for archaeology? They're just talking about expeditions – don't tell me, you can't figure out the difference between the two. ”

I saw Qin Yafu and Bai Ya'er directing the workers, they were divided into two groups, holding a few detectors, moving little by little in the ruins. Whenever they find something unusual, they stop to see what is going on.

I ran over to find Wen Tingxu out of breath.

"Old Wen, what are you going to do? Not even an archaeological expert?! ”

He smiled and pointed to the machines that several other migrant workers had moved out of the tents and said: "This is a variety of survey and survey instruments that I spent more than 20 million yuan to import from the United States. ”

"And what are you looking for?"

"I'm not looking for anything, I'm just restoring the truth about what happened to the archaeological team back then."

As he was talking to me, he heard Qin Yafu shouting below.

"Mr. Wen!"

Wen Tingxu pulled out his legs and ran over there, and I followed closely.

"What's wrong?"

"Look, it's like the ruins of a palace."

I followed, and saw the detector beep, already scanning around a ruin.

It has a display screen that clearly shows the size and dimensions of the ruins, and also outlines its structure, and even simulates the original appearance of the palace.

There is also a line of English text underneath the instrument.

"Tang Western Regions Qiuzi Style Palace Architecture."

"Can this be detected?" I asked, surprised.

"That's it! Money buys everything, including expertise. Wen Tingxu said to me triumphantly.

Zhang Xiangchun also came over, he pointed to the pillar covered with white bones and said: "Mr. Wen, I always think it's a little strange there, what are they doing with this kind of crooked, not square and not round pillar." ”

I thought to myself, you're a layman, it's not a pillar, it's just a finger of a huge statue.

Wen Tingxu was obviously not interested in the pillars, he pointed to the ruins of the palace and asked Qin Yafu to move another instrument over and scan it carefully.

Qin Yafu instructed the workers to drag over a bulky instrument with a large screen that looked like an arcade machine used to play games when he was a child.

Two workers were asked to remove four small machines from under the machines and place them on the four corners of the site – in fact, only two corners could be seen, and the other two corners were analyzed by the scanner.

"Get out of the way, everybody!" Qin Yafu put on his headphones and waved his hand at us.

Wen Tingxu took me back and back, he turned his head to look at Shen Yu in the distance, she was walking and stopping alone, not knowing what she was looking for.

"What is Shen doing?" He asked me.

I shook my head: "I don't know, she's always been a loner, and it's the same when dealing with the police." ”

"Amazing woman." He sighed, and he didn't know whether to praise or degrade.

As soon as the words fell, I heard a sudden screeching noise from Qin Yafu's side. Fortunately, the desert is empty, and there is basically no echo, otherwise the sound would have made people's brains noisy.

"The ultrasonic detector can detect the space and objects underground, so that you can clearly know where and what is buried." Wen Tingxu explained to me.

"But this wave is not super, I can hear the sound, what kind of ultrasound is it?"

"All you hear is the roar of the machine." Wen Tingxu patted me on the shoulder and said.

At this time, Bai Ya'er also made a new discovery, she didn't wave her hand, but shouted with a walkie-talkie: "Mr. Wen, come over and take a look, something important has been found here!" ”

Wen Tingxu and I ran over there again, and when I passed by Qin Yafu's machine, I was almost dizzy from the roaring noise, no wonder he hurriedly put on his headphones.

The place where Bai Ya'er is located seems to be the site of a temple. Like Qin Yafu's scanner machine, her screen also shows the structure of the temple and the original appearance of the project.

"It's supposed to be a Buddhist temple, but the instruments show it's not ruins, it's been demolished before—but look at this."

Bai Ya'er took half of the square brick and handed it to Wen Tingxu.

I looked down and saw some characters vaguely carved on the bricks, both Chinese characters and some strange characters.

"This is Sogdian." I say.

The Sogdians were an ancient people in Central Asia and one of the most important middlemen on the Silk Road. A large number of Sogdians once settled in Xinjiang, especially in Shule.

The ancient Shule Kingdom is now Kashgar, and Yecheng County is a county under the trusteeship of Kashgar, so it is very normal to find Sogdian things on the site of the Western Night.

The buildings of the Western Regions generally use rammed earth to build walls, and some of the four corners are made of bricks and stones, and this brick is the foundation brick of the corner.

Wen Tingxu handed me the brick, and I looked at it carefully for a long time before I could distinguish the four words on it - "West...... Combine...... Great Temple".

"This is probably the meaning of a certain temple in Nishiyokohe." I say.

"Look, I'm right, this is the ruins of the Western Night Kingdom!" Wen Tingxu became excited again.

I pointed there and asked, "Are there any bricks?" ”

Bai Ya'er shook her head: "No." This brick may have been left behind because it was damaged, and since the temple was demolished, the other bricks must have been used for other purposes. ”

"Keep looking!" Wen Tingxu said.

Zhang Xiangchun didn't know when he stood behind us.

"Mr. Wen, when will that soil pillar be checked?"

Wen Tingxu pointed to Qin Yafu, meaning to let him go and discuss with Qin Yafu. I looked up at Shen Yu at this time, and saw that she was no longer under the broken wall at some point.

Looking around, she was still nowhere to be seen.

I was shocked, so I hurriedly said goodbye to Wen Tingxu and ran briskly over there.