At six or seven o'clock in the morning of the second day, Dong Tong asked people to send the purchased things by car. I looked at the big bags and small bags, seven or eight. And that's not even counting each person's respective luggage. Due to the tight schedule, we set off a day in advance, intending to allow time for a break.

I took the hair ball and sorted out a big backpack, which contained "Maoshan Secrets", "Maoshan Secret Mental Method", "Falling Star Investigation", Grandpa's Diary, Shenxiao Five Thunder Talismans, Heavenly Master Bronze Seal, Black Dog Suo, a pile of yellow rune paper, cinnabar, compass and brushes and other things. Plus a couple of changes of clothes. Wear a camouflage military uniform with you, light hiking shoes on your feet, fully armed, and a small backpack!

Li Dazui carried a carry-on mountaineering bag, and Zhengyang carried a bag similar to ancient times, which was extremely light. There is not much baggage in the bald head. Dong Tong changed into a loose sportswear, put on hiking boots, and she alone brought more than a dozen bags, large and small! I laughed when I saw it!

"Miss Dong, bring so many things? Are you going on vacation? ”

"Aren't there still you?" Dong Tong's face was full of disdain. I thought to myself, "I'm rubbing!" It's not like you're going to use us as cattle and horses, is it? ”

"Miss Dong, there is no traffic in the desert, isn't this a blockage for yourself?"

"So, it's all lost?"

"Xiao Xia, it's not heavy for each of us to share one or two, and besides, there are camels in the desert!" Li Dazui was afraid that Dong Tong would turn his face, so he hurriedly came out of the round. "Isn't that all there is to it?" Dong Tong smiled slightly, covered his mouth and said, "I'm teasing you, these are my luggage in Rongcheng, and I plan to ask Li Gen to take them back to Hukou Village!" ”

As soon as I heard this, my face turned green, and I felt that this chick was teasing me, and people should not be good-looking!

Dong Tong picked out a backpack from it and said, "Time waits for no one, let's set off at eight o'clock!" The wheels are flowing away, and it is expected to rest for a day in Minfeng County after three days. ”

"You ride in my car!" Dong Tong pointed at me! Anyway, I don't have a car, whose seat is not the same?

We were expected to drive two cars, but Dong Tong insisted on driving by himself, so we split into three cars. Dong Tong and I still have a hair ball. Zhengyang and Li Dazui one. The bald head drives a car on his own. Later, the bald head forcibly deposited the car halfway and got into Li Dazui's car. Our car was non-stop, and the two of them took turns to rest, and finally it took three days and three nights to arrive in Minfeng County.

It was already morning when the car arrived in Minfeng County, which has a total population of 34,000 people, which is not too big. We found a random hotel to stay in, which was much more modest than the mainland.

We rested in three rooms, one for Zhengyang and I, one for Li Dazui and Bald Qiang, and one for Dong Tong and herself.

After a journey of more than 4,000 kilometers, we walked day and night for three days, and we were really physically exhausted, so we stayed in the hotel and slept with our heads covered. I didn't even bother to eat lunch, and when I got up, it was already seven or eight o'clock at night, we went to the Grand Bazaar for dinner at night, and then returned to the hotel, and the group went straight to Dong Tong's room.

We sat around the wool dumplings, each with a cup of mare's milk tea beside us, and cut half of the roasted naan.

"Our destination this time is the Nine-Story Corpse Tower, not the Eye of the Desert. Therefore, after inspecting Niya and Loulan along the way, we will take a detour to the ancient city of Spear to find the ruins of Qule Kingdom! ”

I was shocked, where did she know about the Nine-Story Corpse Tower? Such a powerful woman, not to be underestimated!

"Then you're not going to Eye of the Desert?" Li Dazui's stupid guy didn't seem to know anything.

Dong Tong glanced at him and said sternly: "I will talk about this in the future." Don't worry! When I went to study in the UK, I found a sealed file in 1992 in the Stein secret room of the British Museum, which contained a record of Li Pimple! ”

There is a "Stein Secret Room" in the British Museum in London. When Stein's Dunhuang treasures arrived in England, some of the documents were stored in the Indian section of the British Library, while silk paintings and silk fabrics were stored in the Stein Vault of the British Museum. The Stein Vault, a mysterious treasury with a great reputation, but few explorers. The secret room is only open to scholars who study the Silk Road, and even celebrities and even former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Prince Charles have to consciously stop when they walk to the door.

"The Dong family is really not simple!" I'm sure everyone here thinks the same way, except for the hair ball.

"According to the records inside, after Li Pimple left the West Lord's Tomb in the Eye of the Desert, he and an old man named Xia Youfang lurked in the area of the ancient city of Niya, and then disappeared! On this file, there are signs of local herdsmen bought by Soviet spies. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the archives belonged to the British Museum, and because they were related to the exploration of Central Asia, they were hidden in this secret room! ”

"Xia Ji, I heard that Xia Youfang is your grandfather, isn't this right?" I nodded, there's nothing to say about this.

"You are a descendant of Old Man Xia, and you must be familiar with the history of Central Asia, why don't you tell Stein's story while there is still some time?" Stein is a thief of antiquities in the Western Regions and a famous archaeologist. I've been involved in this history for a certain period of time, so I know something.

"What does it have to do with my actions?" I asked rhetorically.

"Don't talk nonsense, I found Yu Chi Wan'er's record in Stein's notes, you must be interested." Yu Chi Wan'er is the name on the marriage contract. I was horrified: "She's not good!" "I guess the old man told her, she just wants to bluff me with this!" ”

"There are so many Stein Notes on the market!"

"Do you have a copy of the manuscript?"

To be honest, I just read a few e-books on the computer, and the high-level things like manuscript photocopies are not at all something I can see, and I can't understand this kind of English blindness! Therefore, I don't want to do more nonsense!

"Oh well! I only learned about Stein from "Stein's Notes on Chinese Exploration", so I'll briefly introduce it! So, according to Stein's four expeditions, I briefly introduced it.

In 1889, British Second Lieutenant Bauer found an ancient Sanskrit book written in Brahmi script in the ruins of the ancient city of Kuqa in Xinjiang because of the pursuit of the desert thief Dade, mainly recording witchcraft and other contents. This manuscript attracted Stein's attention, which prompted him to explore Xinjiang.

In 1901, Stein carried out large-scale excavations around the old road of the Niya River and recovered about 660 cultural relics, most of which were Zolu and Chinese slips. Since then, he has also excavated the Andeyue site and obtained about 100 cultural relics. The ruins of the Lavak Cave were also discovered, and many art relics were obtained.

"The ancient city of Niya, in fact, is one of the exquisite ancient cities of the 36 countries in the Western Regions, with only more than 30,000 people, known as the ancient city of Pompeii in the East, and has extremely high archaeological value." I emphasize this sentence emphatically.

"Alas! The exquisite tomb has long been robbed by Hu Bayi, and we still stole a fart tomb! Li Dazui sighed.

This is really good, my dad and Hu Bayi have a relationship, that fat Wang Kaixuan, blowing the exquisite ancient city, my dad also took this thing as fun to coax us to sleep! My father was an archaeologist, and he said that there were 30,000 subjects in the exquisite ancient city, and such a magnificent mausoleum would never be built.

In 1906, Stein embarked on a second two-year expedition to Central Asia. Stein and his entourage arrived in the Luobu Desert and began to investigate the Loulan ruins, obtaining more than 500 precious cultural relics. The following year, Stein arrived in Dunhuang and used the cheap to defraud a large number of scripture treasures from the hands of the royal Taoist.

"Alas! This Wang Taoist priest is really going to be cut with a thousand knives! The treasures in Stein's Chamber of Secrets can't be bought cheaply this time, right? Li's mouth pursed his teeth, as if his heart had been stabbed.

"That's right! Wang Taoist priest is also excusable, at that time Dunhuang was extremely dilapidated, Wang Taoist priest went around for repair. When the cave was discovered, he also reported to the yamen for the first time, but the yamen did not pay attention to it, and it was not until Stein bought the scriptures that Wang Taoist had the money to repair the Buddhist shrines in Dunhuang, and then the government sent people to take away the remaining scriptures. This can't be completely blamed on the Taoist priests, the decline of the country and the stupidity of the people, and the tragedy of the times! I sighed and shook my head.

In 1913, Stein embarked on his third expedition in three years. He revisited the ruins of Niya, Loulan, and Dunhuang, and once again swept away a large number of cultural relics. In his frenzy, he stripped off all the exquisite murals that he had not been able to take away from the second expedition, took away 11 pieces, and completely destroyed the walls. Fortunately, his fourth expedition was stopped by the Nationalist Government in time, so the damage caused was not large.

"I heard that Zhang Daqian also peeled off the murals in Dunhuang! How different is that from Stein's? Li Dazui couldn't help but be poor. I didn't bother to talk to him, thinking to myself, "I'll rub it!" Fifty steps to laugh at a hundred steps? These of us are going to fight this time, how can we be more upright than others? ”

"Hmmm! Judging from Stein's many exploration routes, the places he went to were all in ancient Khotan, right? Zhengyang didn't speak all the time, and then he finally spoke! Dong Tong smiled and nodded in agreement.

"The Taoist chief is right, Niya near Minfeng, Andil is the last place where Li Pimple and their figures appear. They have traveled all over Shanpura, Karadun, Yotgan, Dandan Urik, Akspil, Mazatag, Old Damagou, Majianlek! I smiled and expressed my suspicion that "they were nothing more than "enemies of the people" at that time, how could they attract the attention of Soviet spies? I can't figure it out yet. ”

"Are you suspicious of this file? Belch! That can only show how superficial your understanding of Old Man Xia and Li Pimple is. Forget it, I don't think you understand anything! Dong Tong smiled scornfully.

Seriously, since I met Mr. Li, strange incidents have been happening. I really didn't dare to look through my grandfather's diary again. What kind of person is my grandfather, there is another big question mark in my heart!

Later, I learned that everyone, including Bald Qiang, Li Dazui, and Dong Tong, was willing to risk their lives to help me because of the three words "Old Man Xia" from my grandfather. From some words, I probably heard the power of "Old Man Xia", he is a very prestigious person in the Zhengyang sect!

Dong Tong showed the momentum of a domineering female president at this time, and said to us very unceremoniously!

"It's up to me to decide the route! Now, let me announce the route plan! Dong Tong saw that everyone didn't speak, and then said, "Let's go to the ancient poplar forest in Alar City first!" "It is 700 kilometers from Alar City to Minfeng County, and we have to take a detour, and we don't know what kind of medicine is sold in Dong Tong's gourd. But as soon as we heard about the ancient poplar forest in the city of Aral, we broke out in a cold sweat. A few of us were so scared that we almost fell to the ground!