Chapter 90: Migration
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Baekli told me that since his ancestors, their family has been running camel caravans, shuttling through Gurbantunggut all year round, transporting goods from the ancient Silk Road to other places.
At that time, they lived together as a large family, and every day was bustling and lively. Since he was a child, he has heard countless legends about this place, so he has a special affection for this desert.
With the discovery of society and the progress of human technology, the camel caravan gradually withdrew from the stage of history. But Baikeli still loves here, this desolate and vast desert carries Baikeli's memories and dreams.
Baekli told me that this is why he bought it in the end. He may never be able to re-enter the bosom of this desert in this life, but here he will feel closer to Gurbantungut.
I was a little shocked by Baikeli's words, I never thought that anyone would love such a barren land so much. In front of the infinite desert, the thin Baikeli is so small, but looking at the eyes of Baikeli looking at Gurbantunggut, I may understand his feelings, it is a kind of nostalgic look.
The two of us just sat here and looked into the distance, not speaking for a long time.
After a while, a question suddenly welled up in my mind, and I turned my head to look at Baikeli, "Uncle Baikeli, did you know that there is an ancient city in the Gurbantunggut Desert?" β
Baikeli smiled, "Ancient city? There are so many that I heard my grandfather say that if you go to the deepest part of the desert, you can see a lot of ancient city ruins. But," Baekli shook his head slightly, "my grandfather also told me never to go there, it is a forbidden area for humans, and if you go in, you can't come back." β
I paused for a moment, then said, "Of the ancient cities in this, I am referring to the most special one. β
"Special?" Baikeli groaned for a moment, and suddenly his eyes widened, "Ah, I see, you mean the Shan Huan Ancient Kingdom!" β
Seeing me nodding, Bai Keli continued: "I didn't expect you to know about the Shan Huan Ancient Kingdom. There are many legends about that place, but the most mysterious one is the legend of the Fountain of Life, which is said to have a spring in the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan, where people can get eternal life. Baikeli then smiled slightly, "Of course, it's just a legend, Gen."
No one has ever seen this so-called fountain of life. β
I smiled bitterly in my heart, have I seen it? But Nie Zhenyun once told me that the fountain of life we had seen should be fake. In this way, I should be considered to have never seen it, at best, I want to see it.
Probably seeing the change in my expression, Baekli thought I was touched by his words, and added, "This is probably the most mysterious legend here." β
When I think of the ancient country of Shan Huan and those previous experiences, I feel like my heart is numb.
I said lightly: "Uncle Baikeli, do you say that this Shan Huan Ancient Kingdom has really appeared?" β
"It has appeared," Baikeli said with certainty, "there is no doubt about this, the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan really existed in history." About 3,000 years ago, a group of people from the mountains in the southeast entered this desert to escape the war, and then established the ancient kingdom of Shanhuan. In its heyday, the ancient kingdom of Shanhuan almost unified the entire Western Regions. Later, the army of the Central Plains arrived, and there was a war with the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan, and later the army of the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan was defeated, and the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan began to decline from then on, and finally died out. β
What Baekli said is basically the same as what I know, and it seems that what we have learned is also correct.
However, I still have a little doubt about the Shan Huan Ancient Kingdom, so I asked Bai Keli, "So after the fall of the Shan Huan Ancient Kingdom, where did the people of the Shan Huan Ancient Kingdom go?" β
Baikeli thought for a while, and then sang two Uyghur songs, I spread my hands to show that I didn't understand, and he said in Chinese: "The fire burned for three days and three nights, and the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan has never been seen since." β
When I heard this, I was puzzled and asked him, "What does this mean?" β
Baekli said to me, "It's impossible to know exactly what happened so far ago. These two sentences are two lines from a chant and ballad I heard when I was a child, and this is probably the last record of the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan. β
I still didn't quite understand, so I asked Baekli again, "What do you mean that the fire burned for three days and three nights?" β
Baikeli told me that after the defeat and fall of the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan, the people of the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan set fire to the entire ancient city, and the huge smoke filled the entire sky of the desert, after which all the people of the ancient kingdom of Shan Huan left, and it is said that they migrated north. A small part of what is left
People also left the site of the ancient country of Shan Huan, went to the edge of the desert, and rebuilt a small country, which is still called Shan Huan. What Baikeli said was also handed down by this later Shan Huan country, with only a few words.
I think the Shan Huan country recorded in the Book of Han should be this country that was later rebuilt. And the real Shan Huan Kingdom has long been erased.
I really didn't expect that the people of the ancient country of Shan Huan were also very good at doing things, and set fire to the entire city, I think they were trying to hide the secrets under that ancient city.
Although there are still many doubts in this, Baikeli's words still tell me a new clue, that is, the people of the ancient country of Shan Huan did not stay here and slowly disappeared with the city, but migrated.
I took out my mobile phone, opened the map, and calculated the migration route of the ancestors of the ancient country of Shan Huan. According to Paradis, if they go north, they will be in the nomadic area.
I looked at it, and suddenly an idea popped into my mind. In this way, the ancestors of this group of Shan Huan ancient kingdoms went north, and a few years later, a new nation appeared there, called the Xiongnu!
When I saw these two words, my heart suddenly trembled. This is not the first time that the word Xiongnu has appeared in my experience, before when I was in the 100,000 mountains, I heard the second uncle and Yuan An talk about the incident of "Xiongnu south". In that incident, the Huns obviously went to the ruins of the underworld in the 100,000 mountains.
Even in the experience of the ancient tomb on the island, the Huns went directly to the location of the Eye of the Void.
I have long been puzzled by the traces of these Huns that have appeared, and I don't understand how I know these places as a nomadic people in the north? It seems that this is probably the reason for the matter.
Following this line of thought, I continued to think about it, and just now Baikeli said that according to legend, the people of the ancient country of Shan Huan first migrated from the mountains in the southeast. Speaking of the mountains in the southeast, I groaned a little, and immediately thought of a name - Qilian Mountain Range!
I suddenly had a feeling of empowerment, and now all the places and things were connected. What binds them together is the migration of the Hades.
So that's the case, I stood up suddenly, and Baikeli looked at me in surprise, "What's wrong with you?" β
I said to him, "I'm going to Karamay!" β
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