After driving all night, the sky was already dark, and there was a lonely pasture in front of meadow, and there was only one family, or a broken wooden house with wind on all sides, and there were two thin horses in the horse pen on the side. It is also common to see such places along the way, and there are often a few families who do not go to the village and do not go to the store, but it is very rare to have only one household, and it is very suitable to rest in this kind of people's house.

So Da Zhuang stepped forward and knocked on the door, and the person who opened the door was a man in his fifties, who was still a Han man, and later learned that this person had not yet reached the age of not being confused, but he was dark and thin, his eyes were deeply sunken into his sockets, and he looked tired and looked very vicissitudes.

Da Zhuang said to him that we are here to stay, he was a little vigilant, glanced at our horses, or squeezed out a little enthusiasm, maybe because of the same Han people, after a few words of greetings actually felt very close, he asked us to call him Lao Ga, said that his hometown is in Chang'an, come to the Western Regions to do business, now he is alone here, we are happy to have friends from afar! Crispy scones were also brought out for us to eat.

Da Zhuang ate four sheets in a row, and asked people what kind of cake this is so delicious. Lao Ga said that this is a unique food in the Western Regions, and the wine is made by himself.

After drinking some rough wine, the atmosphere was surprisingly warm. During these days, the strings were too tight, and it was inevitable to indulge in indulgence when he relaxed, and Hua Bo also changed his previous elegance, praised the Western Regions for producing fine wine since ancient times, and sang a paragraph of 'King Mu Travels to the West to find the fragrance of wine'.

Xia Ti was thoughtful, she stabbed me a few times, I saw that I was chatting hot, so I forced Lao Ga to give a few taels of silver, and asked: "Brother Lao Ga, legend has it that King Mu entered Kunlun Mountain from the Western Regions this week, and it is said that there is a secret road to ancient Kunlun, have you ever heard of it?" ”

Hearing my question, Lao Ga frowned, and his facial features twisted in an extremely complicated way, but they quickly returned to their original state, and I immediately realized that there must be an article in it, so I took out five taels of silver and stuffed it to him. Everyone else also stopped laughing and stared at us with concern, Lao Ga did not take the silver two, but asked seriously: "What are you asking for?" ”

The sudden silence in the room was very embarrassing, and Da Zhuang said: "Brother Lao Ga, we are Tulangzhong, and we are going to Gukunlun Mountain to pick some herbs." ”

Lao Ga was skeptical, and only after a while did he say, "Oh...... I heard that there is such an ancient road through Qaidam and enter there, but it is very dangerous to cross a desert, and I have not heard of anyone who dares to go anywhere. ”

This sounded like a door, and Da Zhuang hurriedly asked, "Just bring it to us, do you know where to go?" ”

Lao Ga shook his head, "I don't know, but there is a man named Batu in the last village, he is a living map here, maybe he can find that way, but this person is not easy to get along with, the key is how to convince him to take you there." ”

"Let's give him silver!"

"This Batu doesn't love money, but the herdsmen here only like horses, and I see that your mounts are all high-quality war horses, if you are willing to cut love, maybe there will be discussions."

Da Zhuang hoarded his wine glasses and said: "This is no problem, anyway, you can get this thing anywhere, it's a big deal to buy a few horses from Fang Xian, Xian, now." ”

As soon as the words came out, Xia Ti immediately glared at him, and Da Zhuang also realized that he had missed his mouth, so he immediately lowered his head and stopped talking, Lao Ga kept his head down, as if he didn't care too much.

After they had eaten and drunk, they slept for a few hours, and did not move during the day, until it was just dark, and then they went to Batu in the place that Lao Ga had said.

Entering the village, according to Lao Ga, the household with the most livestock in the horse pen is Batu's house, and there is a burly Uyghur man in his thirties in the yard feeding the horses.

"Brother Tai is Brother Batu?" I walked into the courtyard and asked, clenching my fists.

The other man nodded.

The man in the Western Regions has a straightforward personality, so I said directly: "We are going to Gu Kunlun, I want to ask my brother to lead the way, as for the price, it is easy to say." ”

When Batu heard this, he pulled out his waist knife, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he said in pure Chinese: "Where can you contemptible people go, get out, get out!" Beware that I don't have long eyes. ”

This man was really hot-tempered, and I smiled, "Oh, forget it, we still want to buy a few good horses, the price, it's easy to say." ”

"Get out!"

At this moment, Xia Ti had already walked to the stable and looked at it, turned to me and said, "Brother Yang Zi, forget it, he doesn't have any good horses." ”

"You dare to say that my horse is bad?" Batu said angrily.

Xia Ti pointed to a black horse and said, "Am I wrong, this Wuya horse is a good horse, but it is older, I'm afraid it can't run anymore." ”

"You ......" Batu's face was very ugly, Xia Ti should have talked about his sore spot, he never thought that a girl would be so knowledgeable, and he didn't know what to say.

Xia Ti shook his head and said, "This forage is not well fed, Brother Yang Zi, let's go!" With that, she pulled me out, leaving Batu standing dumbfounded.

At this time, Da Zhuang led our horses to the gate of the courtyard according to the prior arrangement, and we were about to get on the horse.

"Wait!" Batu rushed out, a pair of tricks hated to fall on the horse, his eyes lit up, and he reached out to touch it, "Is this the 'Jade Qilin', and the 'Red Rabbit'!" He couldn't hide his excitement anymore.

Da Zhuang led the horse and took two steps back, "Don't touch!" When our Kurban General was chased and killed, he rode this horse, and the enemy shot an eagle arrow and guess what, he didn't catch up with this horse, but he saved the general's life, such treasures, how can you touch a contemptible person. The last sentence he had just said was in Batu's tone.

Batu's hands were raised in the air, as if frozen, his eyes still fixed on the horse.

After a stalemate for a long time, Xia Ti said: "If you agree to our conditions, you will be divided into two horses." ”

As soon as Batu heard this, he slowly lowered his hand, lowered his head and said gloomily: "Forget it, it is the junction of heaven, earth and hell, and if you go, you will have no life and come back, I am a greedy horse, what should I do if I have no life?" ”

Seeing that he had already shown his hole cards, I said, "You don't have to go in, just help us find our way." ”

His eyes lit up again, and he clenched his fists and couldn't make up his mind, but his eyes glanced at the horses, and he said for a while: "I want all four, four horses!" ”

"Deal!"

Batu gritted his teeth, slapped himself heavily and said: "Okay, I can only take you through the desert and find the entrance to the ancient road, and you will have to walk by yourself in the future, and it has nothing to do with me whether you are dead or alive." ”

We answered, and at last we said that the good horses must follow us on the road, and that we could not pay them to Batu when we got to the place.

On the way back, Da Zhuang boasted to himself: "How is it? I'm okay with this, right? ”

Xia Ti said angrily: "Hmph, I haven't asked you yet? My father is a victorious general, and he has never lost a battle, when was he hunted down and killed? Yours clarified to me, and you can't catch up with the arrows, and you can't just make up nonsense. ”

Da Zhuang smiled flatteringly: "Well, that, I mainly want to say that this horse is the general's BMW, naturally I didn't think about it so much, I will definitely clarify this matter for you." ”

The vast sea of sand is endless, full of yellow, a few delicate poplar trees can be seen here at noon, here at noon can only dig a sand pit in the shade to enjoy the cool, it is said that the sand under the sun can quickly cook raw eggs, and at night the weather is surprisingly cold, the most terrifying thing is that there will be wolves at any time; Sometimes there are sandstorms, which can be extremely dangerous.

We walked in this environment for six days, and we must admit that Batu's golden sign did not disappoint us, he managed to avoid the sandstorm, and we were always able to find a source of water when there was a shortage of water. The only thing that bothered us was the old problem, the mouth was ulcerated due to dryness, but this time Hua Bo had already prepared, and before entering the desert, he made a lot of fresh watermelon rinds, took off the green clothes on it, and mixed it into cold dishes for everyone to eat, which worked very well.

After walking out of the desert, everyone was exhausted, but I always felt that the trip was so smooth that I couldn't believe it.

But along the way, I always felt like someone was following us, but no one else was noticing. After another whole day of walking out of the desert, we reached a mountain pass. Batu said that this is already the boundary of the Kunlun Mountains, and the Gobi Desert between the two mountains is the mountain pass, which is the scope of hell, and he can't enter it, if we can successfully pass through this Gobi, it will be the hinterland of ancient Kunlun.

The four of us replaced the four horses we bought, and paid the original four horses to Batu as agreed, and he danced with joy, just like his own children, and stroked the BMW he had obtained, and it was a good fate to hand over the horses to him.

Da Zhuang dropped a sentence, "This time the horse belongs to you, you can touch it as much as you want, it's okay to slaughter and eat meat, but I said it wrong that day." Batu waited for the following in a daze, and continued with a roll of his eyes: "General Kurban is riding this jade unicorn to chase and kill the enemy, and the enemy will flee when he sees him, and the general shoots an arrow with a 'whoosh', and guess what?" He rode forward and slashed off the enemy's head with a single sword, and the arrow was still behind him. ”

"Poof!" Xia Ti didn't let him laugh out loud.

Batu also laughed, "Hahaha, brother, I like you." As he spoke, he took off a wolf tooth from his neck and put it on Da Zhuang's neck, "This amulet will bless you, remember, you must fear the gods." ”

At the time of separation, he said that the old people had a saying, which in Chinese was to the effect that horses cannot be trusted in this road to hell, and even themselves cannot be trusted.