In addition to these people, there were two eighteen-year-old lads.

One of them, Xiao Wolfzi, was a man who had wandered into the village a few years ago, he was a mute man who usually lived under the big mill in the village, and made a stutter by doing odd jobs for people.

No one can tell where he came from - at that time, there were often people who begged for food to live, and this kind of turnover was quite normal.

The other person is called Yunjiang. His mother was an educated youth who came to Yatur Farm from Urumqi in her early years. At that time, he called on the intellectual youth to combine with the poor middle peasants, and his mother married a villager, and after giving birth to him, the Cultural Revolution ended, and the educated youth returned to their hometowns. His mother ruthlessly left him and returned to Urumqi, never to return.

These are the ten people who were selected for the archaeological team at that time.

Back then, Wen Mushan and Fei Tang gave them simple training in Kalaya Tur, and then they took supplies and set out into the desert.

Of course, in addition to these ten people, there is another special person who lives in the farm of Yatul.

His name is Zhang Xiangyang, and he is the herdsman who first discovered the ruins of the West Night Kingdom.

It is probably an exaggeration to call him a herdsman, because he was only fifteen years old at the time, and he was still a sheep herder. It is precisely because Zhang Xiangyang refuses to go into the desert as a guide again, so the archaeological team can only choose the Yatur people who are closer to the desert and are more familiar with the local area as a migrant worker and guide.

Zhang Xiangyang has been tight-lipped since then, refusing to reveal too much information about the time he discovered the ruins, and not quite saying why he is reluctant to be a guide.

After Wen Mushan disappeared, Captain Garlic approached Zhang Xiangyang and persuaded him to reveal some information about the West Night Ruins.

But Zhang Xiangyang waved his hand vigorously, but just said vigorously: "That place is too evil, I almost died there, and I don't want to go again!" ”

Then he shut himself up in a house on the farm, and no one called him to come out again. When the matter had settled, he left the farm of Yatul. He went to Kashgar to look at the warehouse of a state-owned factory, but then the factory collapsed, and he never got married and had children, and he still lives in Kashgar.

For more than 20 years, Captain Garlic has been trying to inquire about why Zhang Xiangyang is reluctant to return to the desert through various means.

The hard work pays off, he has a relative in Kashgar, who also happens to work in that state-owned factory, and is a small leader, who happens to be in charge of Zhang Xiangyang. Because he is also a fellow villager in Yecheng, he takes care of him very much.

One year, during the holidays, Captain Garlic's relatives invited Zhang Xiangyang to dinner, and that time Zhang Xiangyang drank too much, so he talked about himself.

"Xiao Zhang, you're not too young, why don't you find a partner. If you are frightened, my uncle will introduce you to him, the Xiao Wu who is in charge of the treasury is about the same age as you, and he has always been single......"

Who knew that Zhang Xiangyang shook his head vigorously, he raised his neck, poured a glass of wine, and then said, "Uncle, I understand your kindness." Who doesn't want to start a family, but I'm a person who can't get married. ”

"What is that?" Captain Garlic's relatives are inexplicable.

"Alas, blame me for not paying attention when I was a kid and being cursed."

"Cursed?" Captain Garlic's relatives were unhappy, "Xiangyang, if you don't want to deal with the object, forget it, why do you say such a thing?" ”

Zhang Xiangyang saw that the leader was angry and panicked.

"Uncle, I didn't mean that, I never told anyone about it. When I was a child, I used to show sheep on the farm, and once the sheep ran away, and I went into the desert to look for it, but I got lost and encountered a strong wind and sand.

"The wind and sand are really overwhelming, I have nowhere to hide, nowhere to hide, I think I must be there. I found a place, huddled in a ball, and squatted hard, trying to wait for the wind and sand to pass. Who knew that when the strong wind passed, instead of burying me, it blew out an ancient city! ”

The leader smiled: "Isn't it a common thing to blow a ruin wall in the desert?" ”

The leader is actually right, the Taklamakan Desert has been expanding in history, it has swallowed many places where humans have lived, and some oases have also turned into a sea of sand, so it is not unusual to find ruins in the desert.

Who knew that Zhang Xiangyang smiled bitterly, and he said: "The ancient city I found is not the same as the ruins and broken walls. It was not very large, and the rammed earth walls had collapsed. At that time, the wind and sand stopped, and I wandered around it, wanting to see if I could pick up any cultural relics, and I could make a lot of money by handing them over to the state, right?

"Alas, blame me, and blame me for being greedy. I walked around the city, and I saw a white flower in a corner, and I thought it was jade or a chest, so I pulled it out.

"I don't know if I don't look at it, I was shocked when I saw it, where is it a cultural relic antique, it is a person's skull!

"I was so frightened that I threw my skull and ran away, who knew that after running a few steps, I felt that the soles of my feet were empty, and then I only heard a 'boom', and I had fallen into a huge cellar!"

When Zhang Xiangyang said this, his face was already pale, and he drank two sips of liquor in a row, as if he was shocking himself.

"And after that?" The leader had already listened to it at this time, and hurriedly asked.

"Alas, the roof of that cellar has collapsed into a big hole. I quickly sat up, looked around, and was so scared that I almost couldn't find my soul! Around the cellar were stacks of things, all of them reflecting the light in white flowers—all human skulls!

"Leader, you have never experienced that kind of scene, in the gloomy cellar, through the sunlight that shines through, you see hundreds of skulls, they are densely arranged, and they are staring at you with black holes...... Just recalling, I get goosebumps all over my body! ”

Captain Garlic's relatives were also stunned.

"And then? How did you get out of the cellar? ”

"Alas!" Zhang Xiangyang sighed, there was no trace of blood on his face, "The cellar was very high, I was so scared at the time, I just wanted to escape as soon as possible, I endured my fear, and looked around in the cellar, looking for something to step on."

"I vaguely saw something in a corner deep in, so I quickly walked over and touched it. It was hard to the touch, and it should have been made of copper and iron. I took great pains to move it to the bottom of the hole, and when I looked closer, I saw that it was a movable stove.

"There was a row of holes in the stove, and in each hole was an iron pot that was not too big or small. Probably because of the age, the iron pot is rusty, and it is connected to the stove.

"There are lids on the iron pots, you know, people are a little voyeuristic, they want to open the locked door when they see it, and they want to open it when they see the closed drawer.

"I was also heartbroken, and I saw that these pots were covered with lids, and the lids were rusted with the pots. My curiosity sparked to see what the ancients were doing in this pot – so I took the lid and lifted it ......."