Chapter 49: The Ancient Capital of Yanqi - Qucheng
When the second child saw someone explain this, it was like grabbing a life-saving straw, so he quickly agreed, saying that he thought the same way, but he didn't expect to be frightened by a shot by the fat man, and he didn't have time to explain at all. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
If the fat man believed it, he would be really stupid, and patted the second child on the shoulder: "What about you, just tell me this, what do you have to tell your owner, your owner believes it, and I have nothing to say." You looked at Da Chun, who was closing his eyes and chanting: "Old man, don't pretend to be fucking, you have also seen the fat man's marksmanship, to be honest, the master's marksmanship is not so accurate every time, maybe it will hit you somewhere." ”
When fighting, there are deserters in the troops that have undergone professional training, not to mention that we are a small team formed temporarily, Guanyin Bodhisattva has worked so hard to establish a team to learn scriptures from the West, and Zhu Bajie will break up and return to Gao Laozhuang at every turn. The second child is Li Guohua's person, he has him to teach him a lesson, Dachun is our guide in the desert this time, and I don't want to fall out with him at this time, the more I stop the fat man, let him stop talking.
I said to Dachun: "When we enter the desert, we have phoenix eggs to guide us, and we have escaped the siege of desert black scorpions and marching ants, and I think this must be the Buddha who blesses us in the dark." The Buddha still has the story of cutting meat to feed the eagle, you say that if the Buddha sees that there are some people in such a group of people who are blessed, who have bad thoughts, who run away from the battle, and abandon their teammates in embarrassment, will he have to test him alone? ”
Da Chun hurriedly said: "Of course the Buddha wants to test him for this kind of person, but we will definitely not have such a person here, and the Buddha will definitely continue to bless us." ”
There is a thrilling episode, the fat man walks all the way to pity the phoenix egg and the stone platform, and Emma is discussing with Gu Tong why there are so many headless bones in the ancient castle, and the atmosphere is much more relaxed. Seeing that Qucheng is not far away, who knows what strange and dangerous troubles will be waiting for us there, it is only right to find a way to organize them to continue walking, or to encourage Dachun to bypass the danger.
We were less than half a day's walk from Qucheng, the wind had stopped, and the fiery red sun hung high overhead, like a furnace chasing us. The most important thing in the desert is water, it is taboo to rush in the daytime under the big sun, we carry enough water, and we can replenish the water when we find the bottom water vein in Qucheng, although this half-day trip is difficult, but it is okay.
During the day, it really made people experience what is called the desert Gobi, the vast desert, the scorching sun, our group of more than 20 camels seems very small. If there is no water in the desert as far as the eye can see, it is better to live than to die when people enter here. The endless desert is full of undulating sand dunes, and if it weren't for the long trail of camels left behind them, I would have thought we were spinning in circles. It is enough to think about how terrible it is for ancient people to live in such a place without water sources and forests for a lifetime, and it is enough to think about it, and people like us will eventually have to return to the modern life of running water and light bulbs.
None of our group has really entered the desert, except for Emma and Li Mei, no one has ever thought that they will encounter this poisonous insect in the desert, and they are asked about the desert black scorpion and marching ants as they walk, Emma has never seen this thing, his grandfather has been a soldier in Xinjiang, and he has seen a big living person gnawed into white bones by the desert marching ants, and he was stung by the black scorpion and returned to the west within a few minutes.
Desert marching ants and desert black scorpions can be described as two completely different habits, the ant itself is a highly disciplined insect, and the desert marching ant is no exception, the difference is that the marching ant does not have a fixed residence, moves around, destructiveness, vitality is extremely strong, not at all ordinary ants can be compared. The desert black scorpion is completely different, it is inferior to the marching ant in terms of destructive ability, vitality, and discipline, but it is extremely poisonous.
As he walked, the road under his feet went up and down, and the undulating density was unprecedented, and the fat man said that there was nothing unusual, and the mobile desert was like this. Da Chun shook his head and said that these are all ancient cities, and such dense sand dunes will only form after being swallowed up by yellow sand. After walking a short distance, we climbed the highest sand mountain, Emma took the compass in her hand and looked at a large area of dilapidated city walls, castles, and buildings in the southwest direction, which was our first stop, the capital of the ancient Yan Qi Kingdom.
I took the binoculars and looked southwest, and there were dilapidated castle buildings everywhere, and there was an oasis in the central hinterland, like a jewel decorated in a gold platter, which was particularly eye-catching. Qucheng is relatively well preserved, after all, there is an oasis in the center of the city, and the people's living problems can still be solved to a certain extent, but the five dynasties and ten kingdoms are in turmoil, and Li Tang is already difficult to protect himself, where can he still care about a small country on the Silk Road, and most of the thirty-six countries in the entire Western Regions were destroyed in this war.
Thousands of years, erosion by wind and sand, only this dilapidated empty city is left here. The oasis in the desert empty city proves that there are underground veins that never dry up all year round, and it has also become an important supply point on the desert journey.
The camel caravan went down the sand mountain and slowly approached the oasis, Emma and Dachun said, we are resting here for a few more days in the depths of the desert, it is difficult to turn back when the place enters, not to mention people these days, the camels carry a lot of supplies, and they also need to rest, and they have to take care of their feet to get twice the result with half the effort when they set off.
This is exactly what I want, I wish I could rest for a few more days, and I can find an excuse to persuade them to go home, don't look for any ancient treasures, this place is originally an ancient city, and there must be a lot of priceless treasures buried below, and when the time comes, we will dig a little back underneath, and it will be worth the trip. Otherwise, if you go deeper into the desert, you will have to do something sooner or later, and when the time comes, you may not be as lucky as you are now.
We made up our minds, but in the end, we had to ask the big boss Li Guohua, urging the camel to lean towards Li Guohua: "Boss Li, let's enter Qucheng, how about we rest for three or five days before setting off?" Both Emma and Dachun said that the camel was tired from pulling so much supplies and equipment, and that we would have to walk back if they had enough rest. ”
Li Guohua looked at Li Mei, he could not believe other people's words, and the words of biological experts did not allow him to doubt, Li Mei saw Li Guohua looking at her, and immediately understood the meaning, nodded and said that the camel also had to rest, and he had been foaming at the mouth in order to avoid the black wind and sand, and then he was frightened, and he didn't let them rest again, and he couldn't tell when he would have to strike.
After speaking, taking advantage of Li Guohua's inattention, he smiled at me and nodded, I thought to myself that it seems that I didn't save this girl in vain. Li Guohua whispered a few words to Emma in private, and then turned to me and said, let's rest here first, Emma also wants to inspect this ancient city.
Ay... The hero is sad to pass the beauty level. What's more, it's a rich second generation. From the sand mountain, the oasis was always in our sight, but it took two or three hours to walk. As an ancient city about 2,000 years ago, the city walls are piled up with rammed earth, some places are more seriously weathered, some are still relatively well preserved, the soil and straw under the rammed earth layer are faintly visible, enough to see the architectural wisdom of two thousand years ago.
The oasis is located in the main city, and where there is a water source in the desert, there will definitely be living creatures, whether it is oil exploration workers, expeditions, geological exploration teams, they will stay here for the night. Of course, there are also some aggressive carnivores -- wolves, in the early days of Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places on the grassland to rise up to fight wolves, the grassland wolves in order to survive gradually want to migrate to the desert, the climate reasons starvation, thirst to death a lot, now there are still a lot of wild wolves in the desert, large-scale wolves have long been extinct, only a very small number of three or five together wolves, or lone wolves alone, we all carry guns, and there are so many people, there is no threat at all.
At this time, it was the windy season, and no one except us would choose to go into the desert at this time, find a relatively spacious place in the main city, light a campfire, eat and make tea.
Under the guidance of Da Chun, we found an ancient well, the dark river in the desert is flowing under the sand, and this well is said to have not dried up for thousands of years, Da Chun said that this is a resting place arranged by the Buddha for the ascetics, I am noncommittal. The well is very deep, we carry the rope down dozens of meters before I hear the sound of a bucket falling water, I tasted the water first, the water is cold and cold, refreshing, instantly the desert is sun-basking fire smoke dissipated, indescribable comfort.
The two dozen camels were placed in an old abandoned stable next to the well, and the water was poured into the tank of the stable, and some salt and bean cakes were taken out to feed and drink to their heart's content, and finally two buckets of water were carried back to the house where the expedition members rested.
We were busy all the time, and they were already exhausted and collapsed, and they had to take a rest, and they didn't have time to eat a bite, so they fell asleep on the ground. It's fine, I didn't alarm them, and the experience and ordeal of a few days were enough for them to bear, and I just hope that they will regret it when they wake up, so I don't bother to convince them anymore.
After boiling a pot of water, I sent the fat man to wake them up one by one, ran a hot water foot in a half-dream, and took out some disinfection potions from Tong Qin's medicine box, and briefly dealt with the broken skin on the feet one by one.