Chapter 480: Buried in the Sand (18)
The scene that catches your eye is a bustling street full of bustling crowds and vendors busy starting their day's work.
The women and pedestrians carrying the flat shoulders were all in a hurry, and if it weren't for the sudden appearance of three strangers in strange costumes on the street, they would not have looked at each other at all.
The architectural style here is completely out of touch with the modern world, and it is also clearly different from the ancient buildings in various costume dramas. Most of the buildings along the street are bamboo houses with more than three floors, and the roofs are cone-shaped, which is quite like the architectural style of a tropical coastal town.
The sun is scorching, the sun is particularly shining, July, Han Qingxin, and Jiang Er Ye are like animals being raised in the zoo, being admired and admired by passers-by and vendors, and they are looking at them with strange and strange eyes.
Ragged and shabby clothes, half-wet and half-dry, messy hair.
Faced with a pair of puzzled eyes, the three of them were completely strangers and confused.
There are more and more crowds of people gathering on the street, and all of them are dressed in inexplicable ancient costumes, and a woman at the forefront is wearing a plain white brocade-style long skirt, a light purple open gauze on the outside, and a milky white jade bracelet on her hand, holding a child and looking at the three curiously. The child, in particular, stared at July's dusty clothes.
Looking at the other side, a white-faced scholar-like figure is holding a small fan with a light Luo fan, and the slender waist is wrapped in a jade belt, which roughly represents the common dress of men here.
No one would have thought that the first thing they would see when they woke up would be a group of people watching them like animals.
July is still in the memory before waking up, the quiet and comfortable white light, the whole person seems to be lying in the white clouds, infinitely close to the sky, all kinds of feelings and consciousness are telling themselves that life is losing step by step, and even the last drop of hope for life is beginning to give up.
After that, the world went blank, and thousands of years passed in a trance. The mind can clearly feel the drastic changes in the sea of this land.
The crops in the fields are barren, the rivers are surging for thousands of years, and the rivers are dry up after a thousand years, and the cities are abandoned in an instant.
The ancient battlefield was full of corpses, vultures and wild dogs were vying to eat the flesh of rotting corpses, and the smoke of gunpowder was confused in the sky above the smoking land, and there was no soil for the existence of living creatures.
Mountains, rivers and forests grow day and night, and then decay in the blink of an eye, and the evolution of history is like a miniature version of reality restored in memory.
"Mom! Mom! Who are they, and the clothes they wear are so dirty. ”
"My hair is messy too."
The two children tugged at their mother's skirt and instructed the three to dress, and the crowd of onlookers gathered in a circle and spoke unknown language.
Seeing this scene, Han Qingxin instantly collapsed, like a down-and-out beggar suddenly appearing on the lively streets of an international metropolis, and was pointed at by others with mocking eyes, which was quite devastating.
She glared and said, "What do you see, are we so strange?" ”
The moment he saw this scene, Jiang Erye couldn't accept being watched, especially on weekdays, he was a high-ranking figure, and the identity gap here was so strong, he was muffled and his eyes were extremely unfriendly and guarded against the people on the side.
Gu Language! July recognized the language when the child spoke. There are more and more questions in my heart, first of all, I can't be sure whether the current location of the three of them is whether they came to a certain place through the giant mechanism in the square, or whether this is the afterlife at all.
For a while, the people around were just onlookers, and there was no excessive behavior.
Han Qingxin's intimidating expression frightened away the crowd that was getting tighter and tighter, and her language was estimated to be basically impossible for the people here to understand, and she shook her head and said to Qiyue: "Where are we here, I feel like it's been a long time since my mind was clouded. ”
Everyone who has experienced the upheaval in the square has similar feelings, and has experienced the scene of a moment of death.
Jiang Erye looked at the aborigines beside him attentively and analyzed: "This should be the ancient city buried in the sand. "For some reason, it is said that it is a city that has been dead for many years, but now it is the scene of the city's most prosperous moment, with vendors, shops, and pedestrians all showing the prosperity of the city to this group of outsiders.
He was a little confused, and there was a big difference between the information he had gathered.
Han Qingxin said: "According to what you say, if you really came to the ancient city of Shaburi, the ancient buildings that survived thousands of years ago, and the isolated life, I am afraid that it would have been abandoned long ago." ”
The three of them were all uneasy, and they couldn't figure out the current situation of the ancient city they were in.
A city is not only inhabited, but also the army is necessary, realizing this, Han Qingxin was panicked, and there were more and more people around him, and if it continued like this, it would attract troops sooner or later.
"We'll study where this is later, there are too many people here, our goal is too conspicuous, let's leave first." Staring at a gap in the crowd, Han Qingxin struggled to squeeze through the crowd and fled through a secluded path.
Jiang Erye's reaction speed was also extremely fast, but the means were a lot, sweeping down the row of people in front of him and following Han Qingxin's steps.
"July, hurry up, here." Han Qingxin beckoned at the intersection of the path.
Sure enough, there were many sturdy young people in uniform at the end of the downtown area, and the uniform-style clothing and weapons crashed into the crowd in a majestic manner.
The resident pointed in the direction where the three of them left, and the guard chief followed the direction, which happened to collide with Han Qingxin's cold eyes.
Han Qingxin said: Walk towards the path and avoid what they are saying.
There are many forks in the main road of the city, and one circle after another is like a labyrinth, and I don't know how many bends are around before the pursuers behind can dodge.
The three of them are extremely embarrassed at the moment, this is a secluded place in the corner of the city, there are very few buildings around, and it is a little more lonely than the bustling street, like an abandoned corner.
A small courtyard surrounded by a row of fences, with wooden shelves and many local costumes, is only a low-rise bamboo house, which looks to have been abandoned for a long time.
Clothes that are dried carry a lot of dust.
Jiang Erye didn't say a word, moved open the fence gate and walked to the courtyard, began to take off his clothes, and said to the two of them while taking off: "Don't change your clothes yet, our clothes are like a bull's-eye in the crowd, look at one at a time." ”
Untie your clothes and throw them aside, quickly tear off the clothes on the wooden rack and put them on.
July and Han Qingxin decisively took off a suitable dress and flashed into the house.
After a while, the three of them changed their clothes, or at least they looked closer to the locals on the outside.
After some costume changes, the three of them decided to go to the streets to find clues, first to find out the situation of the city they are in, and then to find out the whereabouts of the rest of their teammates.
The city is unexpectedly big, and after walking back and forth for a long time, I finally came to the main road, and because of the clothes, I will not be visited as casually as before.
Due to the language barrier, they try to avoid talking to people around them so as not to reveal their identity.
I don't know what special day it is today, this long street looks like it should be the traffic artery in and out of the city, and the flow of people gathered is not a little bit, and the scene of rubbing shoulders almost drowns the three of them in the sea of people, but also thanks to the fact that they are mixed in the crowd, safety is still guaranteed.
A long line of soldiers in costumes stood at either end of the street to block the flow of people, as if waiting for the arrival of distinguished guests, and the line of soldiers stretched to the other end of the street.
The city's inhabitants stood behind the soldiers and happily participated in the welcoming ceremony.
With the roar of several cannon salutes that resounded through the sky, several tall horses with pure white coats could be vaguely seen on the ancient road in the distance, carrying distinguished guests towards this end.
The unexplained inhabitants of the city, as well as July, are curious about the identities of the visitors, and it is worth greeting them with such high etiquette.
Han Qingxin said in a low voice: "What a big shelf, in this era, people are nothing more than some kind of noble people." ”
Jiang Erye said calmly: "I'm afraid it's not as simple as ordinary big people, you can just look at their dress." ”
Dressed up, it is surprising that the noble clan nobles in the city are dressed differently from ordinary people.
The two women's eyesight was obviously not enough to catch up with the old man, and after nearly thirty minutes of slow crawling demonstration, the horse team finally stepped into their field of vision.
"Oh my God!" Shichima couldn't believe his eyes, and at the forefront was an official wearing an official uniform in the style of the ancient city, and under his guidance, the second place was naturally one of the important people they were going to greet on this trip. The second pure white high-headed horse sits firmly on a black-faced man, wearing a big crown of martial arts, wearing a crown uniform, and wearing a group ribbon on the outside of the robe, and the bright yellow colored ribbon shows the noble and incomparable identity of the general.
July's surprise was not that this person's status was high, but that his outfit had obvious dynastic marks, and anyone who was slightly familiar with the style of ancient official uniforms could see that this was the traditional clothing of military generals during the Han Dynasty.
Han Qingxin said sluggishly: "Could it be that we have crossed?" Came to the Han Dynasty? ”
The team that slowly crossed the ancient road and entered the city, judging from the horse pendants and the wears of the personnel, all showed that they were a team of envoys from the Han Dynasty, and the composition of the personnel was not low. Combined with the national strength of the Han Dynasty, it is not surprising to match such a scale of reception.
Jiang Erye calculated and analyzed in his heart: Could it be that this city is one of the many small countries in the Western Regions? So is there any record of this Han Dynasty visit in history? In the process of Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, he basically traveled to the 36 countries of the Western Regions. The only thing that is certain is that they crossed the barrier of time and returned to the past, witnessing the grand occasion of exchanges between the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions.