In fact, before entering the village, I had learned about some of the deeds of the village chief in Qingyang Town, so I thought that I must not come nonsense, in case this village chief was unreasonable and tied me up with Liu Shiyi, it would not be cost-effective.

The village chief saw that I was a college student, and began to entertain me and Liu Shiyi, and when I entered this remote town and village in the west, I found that it was particularly poor, and the residents were still wearing the kind of clothes of the primitive tribe, sewing clothes made of animal skins and some coarse cloth clothes, and the village chief actually slaughtered a pig and a sheep to entertain us, and killed a chicken in front of me and Liu Shiyi, and drank it in front of me.

Liu Shiyi looked a little nervous, only I was comforting her......

Originally, I thought that since I would go to this village to teach, and then look for the ruins of Loulan, I didn't expect the village chief to drink chicken blood and say to me: "Are you a college student?" Intellectuals, come and teach us? ”

Liu Sandao was a little confused and distrustful, originally I wanted to find an excuse to explain that I was really here to teach, but I didn't expect that I just said one word: "This ......"

He waved his hand and said, "Don't say it, you must have come here to hunt for treasures, see?" My leg was bitten by a wild ghost, and this ......"

Liu Sandao suddenly showed his calf to me, when he lifted his calf up, there was no human flesh on it, but silver-white bones, the whole meat seemed to have been dug up, I thought no, this wild ghost really bit him, looking at this Liu Shiyi a little vomited, I gently said to Liu Shiyi: "Shh, you don't have to look at it." ”

In 1995, as a newly graduated man and woman, it was the first time to come to the wilderness to see this kind of scene, of course, I was extremely surprised, especially when a piece of flesh on his leg was dug out, revealing only white bones.

"What's going on with this?" I asked him, in fact, I just wanted to know that this is the site of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and what does it have to do with wild ghosts?

"Haha, then you don't know, when my grandfather was the head of the village here, that is, in Guangxu 1907, the Russian royal expedition team came here, ready to dig treasures here, but when the expedition team was digging in the lake, suddenly the water surface was red, the expedition team was killed a lot, and those who escaped were bitten all over the body, and I didn't want to dig up those treasures and ruins, but we encountered a drought here a few years ago, and we didn't have to eat, so I thought of doing this business, and we were bitten like this as soon as we enteredI was the only one who ran out, and the other brothers died. As soon as Liu Sandao said this, I became nervous, thinking that if there were really wild ghosts, I would eat him together, and I would definitely not just bite him, and the ancient city of Loulan would have been more than 1,000 years away from now, if there were really wild ghosts, I am afraid that these wild ghosts would have become fine a long time ago, and they would definitely not just bite people so easily.

At this time, Liu Shiyi gently patted me on the shoulder and said: "Brother Bullet, let's get out of here, go to the United States to work with me, and after I go back, I will give you 2 children, a boy and a girl, although the country has not liberalized the two-child policy, but we can give birth to one in China, and then give birth to one in the United States, and then get a U.S. hukou, okay?" ”

After listening to Liu Shiyi's words, I know that she is scared now, she begins to yearn for that kind of comfortable and peaceful life, compared to this terrifying life now, she really hopes that I can leave here, leave this great west full of magic, and no longer have to look for the Buddha beads of the Western Regions as a gift to her.

I took Liu Shiyi's hand, then turned around, and whispered in her ear with Liu Sandao, the village chief, on my back: "Are you scared? ”

Liu Shiyi muttered: "No, I just don't think it's appropriate for us here, okay with me?" ”

When Liu Shiyi said this, I could obviously feel her body trembling slightly, but I thought that I couldn't leave here anyway, since I was a child, I told Liu Shiyi the legendary story of the ancient kingdom of the Western Regions, and now we have studied Dunhuang studies in college, and we have a clear understanding of the archaeology and culture of the Western Regions, as well as history, not to mention that I now have this book "Dunhuang Middle Ages" inherited from my grandfather, and completing this matter may be an important purpose of my life.

"Shiyi, I can't leave here, I'll send you back tomorrow, okay?" I thought that since she was scared to stay here, I might as well send her back now, lest she live a life of fear, which would be a sign of my love for her.

"No need, I'm not going to leave here, I'm going to accompany you, I was joking with you just now." When Shiyi said this, I felt even more sorry for her, obviously she said that she didn't want to leave here and wanted to accompany me, it must be false, but for me, she really decided to do it, which I remember in my heart.

At this time, the village chief or tribal patriarch Liu Sandao said with a smile: "Hehe, if you really want to leave here, I won't stop it, it's really dangerous to stay here, I advise you to leave here early, and I read your letter of introduction, we don't lack teachers here, and we have very poor conditions here, and there are often wild ghosts and beasts at night." ”

Hearing Liu Sandao say this, I was still anxious at the time, I was very interested in these, but I was worried that Shiyi was afraid.

"We have decided to stay, since there is no school in your village, you can't become a teacher, we will change careers." Liu Shiyi suddenly turned around and said this to the village chief, and it seemed that she was already standing with me in her tone, but she didn't know if she had really forgotten to be afraid in her heart?

"You're all college graduates, and you're assigned jobs, what are you doing instead?" The village chief asked us, and at this time he took a bite of raw chicken, and his mouth was covered with blood, and it seemed that he was used to eating raw meat.

I thought that since he should eat raw meat now, this means that the wild ghost bit him, it must be evil, and it is not light, I have seen it in this book "Dunhuang Middle Ages" before, some corpses that have just died, because the temperature in the grave rises, when it reaches about 37 degrees, the corpse fungus on the surface of the corpse begins to sprout, and then constantly provides new things inside, prompting the corpse to come back to life, this kind of corpse is called corpse fungus, and then including hair, nails will grow, so that abnormal changes occur, but under normal circumstances, This is rare, because it is important to maintain a temperature of 37 degrees inside the tomb, unless there is a lava flow of the kind underneath that would cause a volcanic eruption, and then there is a hot spring that feeds the corpses.

"Let's change our careers to be a scientific expedition team, you can take us there!" When Liu Shiyi said this, she was laughed at by the village chief: "Just the two of you are the scientific expedition team?" ”