"Tengger" Mongolian means sky, Tengger Desert, which means the vast quicksand is like the boundless sky, which shows the size of the desert, its internal sand dunes, lakes, basins, mountains and plains are intertwined, and there are hundreds of original ecological lakes that have survived for tens of millions of years.

And the terminus of this train is Hulustai, which takes a day and a night.

I sat with Lin Zi, it is now August and September, there are not many people on the train, for this time to go to the desert, Lin Zi is still very agreeable, one is that the temperature is not hot or cold, it is a good time for travel and recreation, generally at this time, Tengger will become unusually quiet, so there will be no very bad weather, and the second is that if you miss this quarter, you have to wait for more than half a year.

According to the information I checked, it was best for us to go to Yinchuan by car, because the market there was large, and we could buy the necessities of going to the desert, because we didn't know how long we were going to stay there, but Lin Zi disagreed, saying that he had been in Tengger for several years and knew a little about the situation there.

If we get off the train in Yinchuan, the biggest disadvantage is that we can't find the uncle, Yinchuan is a big city, and if you want to find someone in a big city by relying on a photo, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, it is better to find a familiar place, and wait to stabilize and look for it slowly, anyway, there is no hurry, and looking at the background of the photo, it does not look like it is in the urban area.

In the end, I listened to Lin Zi and bought a train ticket to Hulustai.

The most troublesome thing on the train is nothing more than what to use to pass this boring time, watching the scenery outside the window speeding by, it didn't take long for me to get tired, I pestered Lin Zifei to ask him to tell me his story in Tengger, Lin Zi couldn't resist me, so he told me.

More than ten years ago, Lin Zi was still a little kid at that time, and he was at an ignorant age when he had just gotten out of school, and that year, a young man named Shi in the village made a fortune.

When he went out to work, Shi stepped on the southbound train like everyone else, and this time he went for five years, but unlike others, he never came back once in these five years, and when he returned five years later, he wore a suit and leather shoes, and drove a Hongqi car.

Because no one in the village has ever seen a car, so this incident caused a sensation in the whole village, the men, women and children in the village surrounded the car in three layers and three layers outside, what "the stone has a ...... of interest", "the stone has a long ability", "I want to introduce the daughter of a relative's family to the stone......" and so on, anyway, all kinds of praise words are endless, the stone is full of red light while busy giving everyone a cigarette, while happily politely said: "My stone can come to this point, it is thanks to the care of the villagers, let's ************** In the future, if it is useful to me, I will do my best to help if I can, despite the squeak...... Hehe...... Heh......"

In the crowd of onlookers, there are also Lin Zi's parents, who knows that they are unintentional to listen to the intention, since then Lin Zi's mother has been on this sentence, maybe it was Lin Zi's mother who was obsessed with money at that time, maybe she hoped that her son could get out of the poor and backward small mountain village, so she ran to the stone's house every once in a while, and finally another day, Lin Zi's mother came back with a smile, because the stone agreed to her request, to take Lin Zi out to make a fortune.

Now think about it, how can there be such a good thing in the world, a young man can buy a Hongqi car in just five years?

Haven't you heard people say, if pies fall from the sky, the light ones will be smashed to the ground, and the heavy ones will be smashed into concussions.

At that time, there were not a few people in the village who wanted to go out with the stone, but only two or three of them finally decided to take the stone with him, so this was still a supreme honor at that time.

Before leaving, Lin Zi's father also invited Shi Shi to drink a meal, one is to ask him to take care of his son, what should be beaten and scolded, and he must not be soft and wait for these irrelevant words of concern, and the second is to probe his tone, at least he must know what his son is doing with him and where to do it.

From their conversation, Lin Zi vaguely heard Shi mention Xinjiang, and also heard him say that the conditions were relatively difficult, and he didn't know if the child could stand these words.

Lin Zi's father kept praising his son, saying that his son was sun-dried and planted in the ground, and he was not afraid of storms and rains, etc., for fear that his son would not be able to go.

In fact, this matter is put aside now, his son ran to Xinjiang, and no one was at ease with his parents, but it was different at that time, under the leadership of Chairman Mao, the people all over the country were simple, and there were not so many bad things such as petty theft, child abduction, organ smuggling, etc., so Lin Zi got on his long-favorite Hongqi car the next day.

The car went all the way to the west, heading straight for Xinjiang, and sitting in the car, the stone told the three of them what they were going to do when they arrived in Xinjiang, and they ran so far just to see the gate.

At that time, the road conditions were not good, many highways did not lead to Xinjiang, and even the railway, some sections of the road were still under construction, so they walked for two days and two nights, except for eating and refueling and resting at a fixed point, they almost all spent time in the car.

Two days later, the road ahead had changed, and the wind outside the window had become more and more desolate, and it was almost impossible to see that it was a road except against the trees on either side.

A gust of wind blew, raising up a sky full of smoke and dust, and it seemed like a hazy yellow mist all around, and the wind cleared the fog, leaving only the dust of a car window.

At this point, Lin Zi stopped.

I was listening to it with great interest, and suddenly I was stopped, and I was really reluctant, "Huh? What's wrong? I asked him.

"If it weren't for this road, I wouldn't have come to Tengger, and if we had a little bit of geography at that time, we wouldn't have ended up like this," Lin Zi fell into the memories of the past.

At that time, they did not know that the wind was blowing sand, because they lacked knowledge of this society, and because there were car windows to cover it, they did not have any doubts about the stone.

In Lin Zi's heart, the road they took was the road to Xinjiang, but they didn't know that the car had already deviated from Xinjiang along the way, and in the heart of the stone, the Tengger Desert in the Alxa Left Banner was his final destination.

I didn't tell them this secret stone, and I kept it from them for more than half a year, until one time, a worker accidentally said that he leaked his mouth, and Lin Zi found out that he had been fooled, of course, this is an afterthought.

When they arrived in the town of Alxa Zuoqi, Shi found the supply and marketing cooperative, where they dialed the landline of the village chief's house, reported safety to his parents, and listened to his parents' nagging words, and Lin Zi reluctantly hung up the phone.