I looked out the window, and there was no end in sight to the wasteland. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info no voices, no dog barking, only the sound of the engine suddenly sounded. The darkness seemed to swallow the whole world, and only the bits white light in the bus made my panic a little less. Wang Linshuo cast me an inquiring look, I nodded to Hu San, returned to sit beside him, and handed him the phone.

He read the text on his phone, his eyes flashing with surprise. I lowered my head and asked in a mosquito-like voice, "How did they get off here, it seems that Korla is still some distance from here, right?" ”

He shook his head, turned on the elimination and changed the subject: "It is said that the pears of Korla are delicious, aren't they?" ”

After an hour and a half of sleepless nights, we finally got off the bus. I looked at the lights of thousands of homes in Korla and asked, "Where can we find Uncle Lu?" ”

Hu San smiled slightly, did not answer, and only cared about leading the way in front. I followed him as I walked around and looked at the streetscape, it was ten o'clock in the evening, and the streets were very sparsely populated, except for the occasional man or two who were hooked on his shoulders and spewed alcohol as they walked past the steel monster standing in the night, the construction site. Zhang Siyuan hugged his shoulders, wrapped his clothes tightly and said: "It turns out that the construction of cities in China is much the same, only the cold night wind reminds me that this is Korla. ”

Wang Zhen suddenly stopped, stared at us with straight eyes, smelled the fragrance of the barbecue stall and said, "Do you want to buy something and go back?" ”

I looked at the stall owner's expectant eyes and the bubbling lamb skewers, walked over briskly and said, "Sixty lamb skewers." ”

Hu San nodded, and said to himself: "It's good to eat more now, anyway, you can't eat anything when you get there." ”

After buying supper, he led us into a narrow alley, pointed to the inn with the lights shining at the end, and said, "One room for two, accommodation at your own expense." ”

I was about to complain when I saw a man in a black trench coat standing under the street lamp. I couldn't be more familiar with his figure, my nose was sour, my heart was full of mixed feelings, and I trotted over and shouted, "Uncle Lu! ”

He turned his head and smiled as the wrinkles on his face cleared. I stared at his rough and dark skin and much thinner body, and let out a long sigh, all kinds of emotions exploded in my heart, and it took me a long time to hold back a sentence: "I thought you were dead." ”

He laughed, patted me on the shoulder and said, "How can I die so easily, just a village can't help me." His tone changed suddenly, "On the contrary, your fourth uncle's condition is not very good, and the doctor said that he may be in danger of blindness." ”

I didn't know what to say to comfort him, but Wang Zhen persuaded, "There won't be anything, maybe we can find herbs for eye diseases in the desert." ”

The group went through the formalities and entered the room with a smile, Zhang Siyuan closed the door, turned his head and said with a wicked smile: "That girl at the front desk is very good-looking." ”

Wang Zhennu said, "You can go and ask for a phone." ”

He shook his hand and smiled: "Forget it, I don't want to delay people, what if she takes a fancy to me and insists on waiting for me to come out of the desert, and has to let me stay here and marry her?" ”

Wang Linshuo and I sneered in unison, rolled our huge eyes, pushed him out of the room, and slammed the door shut.

I slept soundly that night, and there were no harassing phone calls, and no one asked me to go to his room in the middle of the night to discuss secrets. I dressed and washed up, packed my things, and felt the gun and detonator in my bag without any abnormality, and then knocked on Hu San's door. Zhang Siyuan, who was in the next room, suddenly poked his head out and said, "Don't knock, they're not here." Early in the morning they went out on errands. ”

I was a little puzzled, and I was about to ask, when I suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps behind me, and then Uncle Lu's voice came: "Hurry up and pack your things, let's go." ”

Zhang Siyuan touched his hair and screamed, "Wait a while, I haven't washed my face yet." ”

Finally, when everyone was packed, I walked out of the hotel door with my heavy bag on my back, and a Jinbei was honking at me. The owner of the car was a middle-aged woman, she was wide and fat, and her two small eyes were almost squeezed out of fat. She urged impatiently in a thick voice, "Hurry up, it's time to miss the meal in a while." ”

Hu San winked at me and whispered, "No one wants to go to Taklamakan anymore, we asked almost all the taxis, and they all said that it was too far and too far away. This fat girl is going to visit relatives in the surrounding villages, and we can take a ride. ”

After the driver waited for us to settle down, he breathed a sigh of relief, kicked the accelerator, and the car jumped out like a wild horse. Zhang Siyuan was lowering his head to sort out his clothes at that time, and his inertia made him suddenly load the seat of the person in front of him. He screamed, covered his head and shouted, "Eldest sister, can you drive steadily?" ”

She didn't show weakness at all: "If you hadn't delayed for more than twenty minutes in vain, would I have been in such a hurry?" ”

Zhang Siyuan rolled his eyes helplessly, put on an expression that he didn't want to talk to you anymore, rubbed his head and leaned back in the chair, staring out the window.

After about five or six hours, when the trees outside the window gradually changed from camphor to poplar, and when the car was speeding for more than half an hour without seeing a single person, I looked at the yellow sand and knew that the Taklamakan Desert had arrived.

The driver stopped at the fork in the road with a brake and said, "Three kilometers further to the right is the Taklamakan Desert, I will take the road on the left, let's go our separate ways." She paused and sighed, "Why are you doing bad, why do you have to travel so far to die?" Wouldn't it be nice to find a livelihood at home? ”

Wang Zhen explained while handing over the money: "Eldest sister, we are not here to explore, my friend has a strange disease, and we are going to the desert to find herbs." ”

She frowned, stared at us with blind eyes like mung beans, and thought, "When I was a child, I heard my grandmother say that in the deepest part of the desert, there is a very strange plant. It is white all over the body, and it can cure all diseases. Is that what you're looking for? ”

Uncle Lu nodded again and again, leaned out and said eagerly, "Do you know where it is?" ”

The driver bit her lip and looked very hesitant, and I became anxious and looked eagerly into her eyes, really wanting to get into her brain to see what she was hesitating.

After a long hour, she sighed, "I don't know, but my brother knows." He was particularly interested in herbs, and he counted the names of so many herbs on his fingers. ”

I was overjoyed and hurriedly asked, "Where is he?" We wanted to see him and ask where it was. ”

As soon as these words came out, his expression was even more unpredictable. After a long time, she said in embarrassment: "He can't tell the specific location, so he can only let him take it to that place." ”

I immediately understood where her embarrassed expression came from. She was afraid that we would ask her brother to be our guide and take us to the barren land, and at the same time we would have to tell us the truth. Hu San pursed his lips, pondered for a while and asked, "Can you let us meet him?" ”

The eldest sister waved her hand again and again, shouting, "Don't! He is a very abnormal person, always wanting to explore in the desert, but he can't move without companions and equipment. When you see him, you will surely ask him to be your guide, and when the boy hears this, he will not be pleased, and he will go with you? ”

Wang Zhen and I looked at each other, and we couldn't imagine that he had such a hobby. Uncle Lu, who had been silent, suddenly pulled out his backpack and put it on his lap, opened the zipper to signal him to look, and persuaded: "Our equipment is all first-class and good, and it is no problem to live in the desert for a week with them." My only concern was that I couldn't find a guide, and if there was someone who knew the desert like that, I could guarantee that we would get out of the way! Eldest sister, you can't always suppress your brother's interest, right? If he had been impulsive that day and had run away into the desert by himself, wouldn't it be the end of it? ”

She cursed and asked repeatedly, "Are you really well-equipped for your expedition, and do you have anything to defend yourself?" In recent years, the desert has not been as peaceful as before. ”

Hu San blinked and said with a smile: "Everything you need." Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed. ”

She gritted her teeth, turned the car, kicked the accelerator, and the car roared forward. I couldn't help myself, my heart really helped me, with the blessing of such a guide, even if I couldn't find the herbs, it would be impossible. After the car drove along the loess road for more than ten minutes, villages and roadside markets gradually appeared in front of me. The eldest sister calmly bypassed the rampaging children, passed through the crooked houses, stumbled and bumped along the rough road, stopped in front of a small imposing brick house, and shouted, "Katsuko, come out!" ”