The Lonely Lamp in the Desert Chapter 14: The Legend of the Magic Lamp (I)
The vivid metaphor of "Whitebeard" gave me a general understanding of the power of the black sandstorm, but I didn't dare to continue to ask, for fear of learning more about the situation of the black sandstorm. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
However, I still have a question in my heart, that is, whether there is a "desert magic lamp", I mentioned this "desert magic lamp" to him just now, and his attitude is obviously wrong, he should know something, or he will not have such a big reaction. And now it's different, we're colleagues now, and the common goal is to find the magic lamp, even if he doesn't want to tell me now, there will be Li Yong and Lu Yubo to ask him next, if you don't tell me, you have to tell them!
It just so happened that the door of our carriage opened at this time, and I habitually glanced at the direction of the door, and found that it was Li Yongyi and Lu Yubo who walked in. Seeing that they were coming, I quickly stood up and introduced them to each other, and after they were all familiar with each other, Li Yongyi and Lu Yubo sat on the horse za prepared in the carriage, ready to test the "strength" of this "white beard".
After listening to my previous introduction, they also knew that "Whitebeard" was a local person next to the desert, and he knew the desert well, so there was no need to say much, and the main purpose of their visit this time was to talk about wages and find out about the magic lamp, after all, the starting point of everything was centered on the magic lamp, and if "Whitebeard" really knew about the magic lamp, I think his salary could be doubled.
Li Yong decided to use 10,000 yuan to hire "Whitebeard", and then use an extra 10,000 yuan to rent his camel, that is, the salary of "Whitebeard" is roughly the same as me and Mazi, but my and Mazi's wages will be determined with whether to find the magic lamp or not, and "Whitebeard's" salary is fixed, no matter what, it is 20,000 yuan, but it is also very cost-effective to think about it, the magic lamp is difficult to find, at least I think so, and after renting the camel, the camel is still "Whitebeard", which is equal"Whitebeard" made an extra 10,000 yuan out of thin air, which is not an exaggeration.
"Whitebeard" heard that Li Yong inquired about the magic lamp, and his face became gray again, but as Li Yong took out the 5,000 yuan deposit wrapped in newspaper from his bag, "Whitebeard"'s face gradually improved, and his mouth muttered, "How embarrassing is this", but he still reached out and took the 5,000 yuan, and carefully withdrew it into his cloth pocket.
"Oh, you rich people from other places, you don't want to enjoy so much money, you have to go to this great desert to endure hardships and find magic lamps for what!" "Whitebeard" put the five thousand dollars steady, sighed, and looked at a few of us with a frown.
The meaning of what he said was very obvious, although he did not explicitly say that he knew the existence of the magic lamp, but normal people could hear that this magic lamp should exist, and it must be very dangerous to find this magic lamp, and it was necessary to enter the desert, as for what dangers were in the desert, "Whitebeard" did not say, but depending on the degree of his frowning, it was also dangerous to think about it.
Lu Yubo can be said to be Wang Ba's iron heart, no matter how dangerous it is, he has to go into this desert, and when he heard that there may indeed be a magic lamp, he was even more excited, and shouted loudly: "This uncle, have you ever seen a magic lamp?" ”
"Whitebeard" originally stared at me, but now he moved to Lu Yubo, shook his head and said, "Where have I seen any magic lamps!" At most, I've heard of it. ”
"It's better to hear than not to know!" Lu Yubo twisted his head towards me intentionally or unintentionally, gave me a blank look, but unfortunately I happened to see it, and hurriedly twisted his head back: "Uncle, tell us a few about the magic lamp you know!" ”
"Whitebeard" rolled his eyes, his lips twitched slightly, and he looked at us staring at him with several pairs of eyes, thinking that it was not good to refuse our proposal, so he shook his lips a few more times, turned his head out the window, and looked at the blue sky: "That should have been twenty years ago!" Twenty years ago, it was about this time, the desert entered the wind season earlier than usual, and in those years, there happened to be a rumor that there was a lot of gold in the desert, and for a while, no matter how credible the rumor was, people began to follow this gold rush into the desert, and I was as big as the two of you at that time! "Whitebeard" pointed to me and the pockmarked man lying beside me and said: "I am also very interested in this gold, gold is money, if you can find a piece, then you will be rich, but I also know the danger of entering the desert during the wind season, after thinking twice, I still gave up the original idea of panning for gold." People around the desert know what it means to enter the desert during the wind season, but in the face of gold, it seems that all problems have become insignificant. And the locals feel that as long as they follow the camel herd, walk in a team of three or five people, led by camels and experienced people, even if they enter the desert during the wind season, there should not be much mistake. At that time, my second uncle joined one of the camel teams, the camels of the camel team were composed of camel team members pulling their own camels, the leader was an old man who knew the desert very well, the old man was very opposed to the reckless move of entering the desert in the wind season, but helplessly, his son also had a strong interest in gold panning, no way, for the safety of his son, the old man also had to go with the camel team, and served as the team leader. At first, the group was full of confidence in the gold panning, as if with their rich experience in the desert, a large area of gold glittering gold was in front of them. But with the advancement of time, several people found that things are not so simple, their understanding of the desert is already very in place, but this time into the desert is to find gold, not to explore, and gold will not let you pick it up on the bright side, even if there is really gold, it must be buried under the yellow sand, there is no knowledge of minerals, just like the endless yellow sand, want to find a piece of gold, comparable to climbing to the sky. Several people thought that this problem was already the second day of entering the desert, and the water they brought was only enough for two days, and these two days also included the time to go back, in other words, the farthest could only go forward for half a day. According to the old man's meaning, take advantage of the black sandstorm, hurry back, everything is not too late, if you continue to go forward, the gold can not be found, and then encounter the black sandstorm, but it is really worth the loss. The old man said very reasonably, but such words for a few people in their forties who have an extreme desire for gold, it doesn't seem to have much effect, the most taboo thing in the desert operation is nothing more than to leave the camel team or act alone, the team members are unwilling to go back, no matter how the old man says the big truth, it is useless, it is estimated that he can go for another half a day, so several people discussed, if you can't find gold after half a day, turn back immediately, and it shouldn't be too late by then! ”