Chapter 15: The Water Cave

When the second uncle saw that the soil in Alia's hand seemed to have water, he shoveled the shovel back and forth under the dry stump a few times, but he still didn't count, and the others saw that there seemed to be water there, and they were all puzzled and excited, but they didn't expect that after so long, there was really water here, but it was not a water cave as Alia said. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Aria threw the black dirt and said to us, "A few more people to help!" ”

Abu and the crow did not hesitate when they heard this, and hurried over with a shovel, and dug like this, and for a few minutes, I exchanged breaths with them, but I felt that my mouth was dry, and if I didn't see clean water again, I would really go crazy, and with such a high temperature, it was really uncomfortable.

When we dug down more than a meter deep, we suddenly saw that there seemed to be a change below, the stump was no longer black wet soil, and gradually there was a silhouette, and this outline seemed to be very standardized, we even threw the shovel away, and stared blankly at the edge of the outline, there were continuous blisters coming out of it.

We were so excited when we saw it, we couldn't hold back this excitement, so we directly planed it with our hands, and after a while, we saw that there were a few stone slabs underneath, which were covered by wet soil.

Alia looked at it and said affirmatively, "This is the water cave." ”

I have long heard that there are some underground rivers in the Lop Nur area that will never dry up, and there are deep wells and the like, but today I finally believed it, saying that it is a relief for us to see water in this dry desert, and we don't have much water left, so it is even better.

When the second uncle saw the stone slab, he was surprised and said, "This is not like a natural water cave, but like a man-made well!" ”

We all glanced at the slate pressed by the black earth, and shaved the wet soil on the slate, and then saw that there were some grooves in the slate, like carvings sunken into the slate, and these carvings seemed to be some kind of writing.

I was stunned when I saw it, and exclaimed: "Isn't this Lu Wen, how can there be on this slate!" ”

Alia was surprised to hear us say this, and asked me, "How do you know about Lu Wen, you know the script of the ancient kingdom of Loulan?" ”

Anyway, Alia didn't know what we did, and at her age, she might not be able to tell that we were upside down, but he had walked in this desert for so many years, so he naturally knew a lot about things in the desert, and I didn't know how to explain it, so I just replied: "I've seen some information about this in books!" Then Alia didn't ask.

But I asked, "Miss Arria, how did you know that this was the cave?" ”

Alia laughed twice, not at all as shy as a little girl, and explained: "Because I remember that stump, I have been here since the oasis dried up, and the water hole under the stump was also discovered by me, at that time it was only a thin layer of sand on top of it, and now I don't know how many layers of sand are covered, so it has become like this, every time I come here to find water, I have to dig for most of the day!" As he spoke, he pointed to the carving of the text on the stone slab, and continued: "This Lu script is the script used by the ancient people of our Xinjiang before, but I don't know what the meaning of the stone slab is, it should be the origin of this well!" ”

The old lady listened to Aria say this, and she was also surprised: "It seems that the age of this well is very old!" But he didn't say a word, and just looked at what was under the slate.

After we have cleaned all the soil, we have to prepare the slate, which is completely overlapped with the mouth of the cave, just like the manhole cover of the sewer, the water below can seep out of the cracks, but the sediment on the surface cannot fall into the hole, so it seems that the water in the cave should be completely clean.

When the stone slab was suddenly revealed, water miraculously gushed out of it, directly soaking the clothes of the second uncle and Abu, and Abu also called out suspiciously: "I'm a mother, this cave is full!" ”

Alia also responded: "It seems to be full all the time, and the water in it can't be finished, as long as you finish it's full, and I don't know where the water comes from, and the soil is wet with water seeping out of it." ”

I sighed and sighed, "It seems that there is a river under this water cave, maybe it is connected to which mountain!" ”

When they heard me say this, they all nodded hurriedly and said, "Makes sense!" Reasonable! ”

Anyway, we didn't bother to speak, and we didn't think much about it except that there was indeed a river under this water cave that constantly provided water for this water cave, but the second uncle was there at this time and called us: "Don't grind and chirp, quickly bring all the tools for holding water, fill them and go on the road." "We each handed over all the tools for holding water, and let the second uncle fill them up.

This didn't take long to fill the kettle, and some of the camel's water holding tools were also hit by us slowly, and I didn't care about the need for it, looking at this clear water, I even wanted to take a bath next to it, and I wasn't afraid of polluting this water cave, anyway, the water in it was constantly renewed, but when I thought of so many people here, just think about it, we each washed our faces and left, followed by drinking a happy water.

Then Alia ran to the back and said that she would feed the camels some water, and we would think that it would be okay to wait for the camels to finish drinking the water before moving on.

Suddenly, the old lady and Zhang Yuntian looked around the oasis, as if they were looking for something, and pulled out the ancient book in their arms to take a look, and they didn't know what was on the ancient book, it was all text, not a map or anything, I thought to myself, can I still see anything, so I didn't care.

At this time, the old lady and Zhang Yuntian looked at the ancient book and seemed to have found something, and said to us: "I don't think we need to go, next to this oasis is the tomb." ”

When the second uncle and my father heard this, they no longer cared about drinking water, and hurriedly ran to the old lady's side, and when Mrs. Tiger handed them the ancient book, the ancient book had almost turned to the last few pages, and suddenly the second uncle was surprised: "This is a text map?" Aria was stunned.

And after that, Zhang Yuntian, the old lady, my second uncle and my father all looked at the north of the oasis fixedly, the junction of the line of sight and the yellow sand did not seem to be very far, and the ancient book in the old lady's hand seemed to record the location of the tomb, plus they had been here in the early years, perhaps the text map in the second uncle's mouth was an important information to record the location of the tomb.

But I glanced back at Xiao Ye again, and saw Xiao Ye standing aside with his Tianlong single ear halberd, stepping on a dry wooden stake with one foot, his hair fluttering with the breeze, revealing that handsome face.

The master stood aside alone, and then I realized that the master had already looked north before the old lady and them.