Chen Laohan was obviously moved by their words, but he was a little embarrassed, "But I'm leaving, Lord Gao, you and your wife don't know the road...... Besides, my son is in the willow pasture, then we are a family, how can we leave you and go back by yourself! ”

Gao Bei said, "Just because it is a family, how can I rest assured that you can leave the sick old man and run to Tibet?" ”

He said, we have a map, as long as we follow the map, we can come back if we can't go to Tibet. www.biquge.info But the old man is different, maybe waiting for you to take the money back for treatment.

The guide said, "Then you have to go further and pass the White Dragon Pile before there is anyone." ”

When it was dark again, Gao Jun and Fan Ying saw what the old man said about what the white dragon pile looked like.

They came into the darkness and into the great labyrinth! Everywhere there were strange-shaped earth cliffs, some like woods, some like earth cities, and some like fierce beasts lying on the ground, and they walked through the gaps between the earth cliffs one or two feet high.

A fierce night wind howled from far northeast and pushed them forward. Fan Ying was a little nervous, and leaned her camel tightly against Gao Jun. Chen Laohan said, "Mrs. Fan, don't be surprised, don't talk about any wild beasts here, even grass doesn't grow. ”

In the past, Fan Ying must have asked unconvincingly, am I afraid? But this time she didn't squeak.

Chen Laohan has walked through here a lot, and he is very familiar with the path, he took the two of them to find a leeward place, the earth cliff is as tall as a city wall, "Let's spend the night here." ”

The three men came down, led the camels and horses to the bottom of the earthen cliff, tied the reins of the three cattle together, and lay down on the leeward side.

Chen Laohan took off the bag containing the feed from the mule's back, opened it on the ground for the mule to eat, and poured the drinking water in the bag into his hand for it to drink, and then took out the dry food and ate it himself, "The camels are just here, and waiting for them to eat and drink saves a lot of energy." ”

The night in the desert, or more precisely, the night alone with her brother in the desert made Fan Ying very excited.

She busily unfolded the sleeping bag of yak skin from the hunchback, the outside of which was ordinary yellow cowhide, and the inside was warm and soft yak velvet felt, sewn tightly on three sides.

Fan Ying got into it first, only exposing her head, she enjoyed Gao Jun handing her dry food, handing her the water bag, and then lifting the lid of the sleeping bag to cover her from the scattered wind and sand, and waited very thoughtfully.

Listening to them talk to each other makes it even more interesting.

The old man said that this Bailongdui is four or five hundred miles in circumference, and it was originally a large oasis in the lower reaches of the Peacock River. The sediment washed down from the upper reaches of the Peacock River has accumulated in this depression of thousands of miles.

I heard the old man say that in the past, there was a dense population here, there was the ancient city of Loulan, there was a king, there were many villages outside the city, there were many donkeys, horses, camels, reeds, willows, tung trees, and white grass by the lake. People are fishing and grazing, not to mention how nourishing their lives are.

"As early as the Han Dynasty, the Silk Road passed through the ancient city of Loulan. When Li Guangli and Dawan passed through here, he left hundreds of soldiers in Tuntian. During the Jin Dynasty, Loulan City still had a long history of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, and the number of people in Tuntian was also larger, and most of the people in Liuzhong County, Jiaohe County and Puchang County were the descendants of these Tuntian people! ”

The two of them imagined the old man's old scene, and the more they looked at the dark and scattered earth cliffs in front of them, the sound of the wind was like a cry of resentment, full of mystery.

It's just that more than 150 years ago, the water of the Peacock River could not flow here.

The Peacock River is a river that Gao Jun and Fan Ying encountered on the way to Kangli City, and it used to flow here. "But why is it so scary again?" Fan Ying asked.

The old man said, it's all because there is no water! The two of them thought, such a large area, the west is the Green Mountains, the south is the Kunlun Mountains, the Altun Mountains, the northwest is the Tianshan Mountains, and only the northeast is the valley and sand leading to Yangguan and Yumen Pass, and the wind blows in from there all the year round!

He said that not far to the east of Bailongdui, when he was a child, it was still a big lake that could not be seen, and the old people said that it was called "Yanze", and it was also called "Puchanghai", with a radius of more than 900 miles. It's just that since there was no river water to fill in, and it was blown by the northeast wind for many months, it has only been seven or eight years, and there is not a drop of water in that lake.

The night breeze is also gradually fierce, and the clothes are cool.

The old man went to uncover his mule's back, and it turned out to be a bag. cloth, but lined with sheepskin. He got inside, tied the straps tightly, and in a short time there was no movement, and the sound was muffled by the wind.

Gao Jun finally checked the three animals, and they were lying quietly, their belongings and big coats firmly tied to their hunchbacks. The mule was sandwiched between two camels, presumably for warmth.

He lifted his sleeping bag and slipped into it little by little. Fan Ying leaned to the side to make room for him, his arm touched her body, Fan Ying didn't squeak, but her breathing became a little short.

When the lid of the sleeping bag is fastened from the inside, the howling night breeze outside is cut off.

The two of them happened to lie inside, but there was not much room for movement, and Fan Ying could only pill on one of his arms.

The sleeping bag was sealed and comfortable, and as soon as Gao Jun set himself up, he leaned over in the dark to sniff her hair, rub her cheeks, and then find her mouth, and ate with relish. Fan Ying didn't squeak, didn't resist, took the opportunity to taste the taste in his mouth, and then hugged him.

Then he didn't get up honest with his hands, first through his clothes, and then somehow got into her clothes, up and down his hands but not rude, Fan Ying gradually couldn't suppress a soft snort.

But Gao Jun stopped and whispered to her, "Liu Yuru didn't have a good heart, and it made me uncomfortable, the more I thought, the more uncomfortable it became!" I can't move! ”

At this time, Fan Ying couldn't help laughing, "What else do you want, I don't know the hearts of good people, I want to sue you when I go back, and thank Sister Liu for making us so warm...... It's not wide and it's not narrow, it's just right. ”

She felt that Gao Jun's anger had calmed down for a long time, so she drilled into his arms again, and both of them slept.

In the second half of the night, the wind was blowing outside the sleeping bag, and Fan Ying woke up for a moment, listening to the rustling sound of sand splashing on the cowhide surface of the sleeping bag like rain.

The wind roared, and she felt that her senior brother's breathing and the sound of the wind were two extremes, and there was no exaggerated sound in the past. She thought he was still awake, so she reached for a steady and powerful heartbeat on his chest, and then went to sleep again.

When they woke up in the morning, Chen Laohan was squatting on the ground with tears in his eyes.

His mule let the wind blow away in the night. The reins were tied in one place, and the camel was still lying honestly, but it ran away, which was a rare and important property in his family. And the things tied up on it were lost, and he was left with only a sleeping bag.

Fan Ying comforted, it's okay, forget it if you can't find it, it's a big deal to let the senior brother find a way for you.

She untied the things from her camel and carefully tied it to Gao Jun's camel, "Uncle, let's hurry up and find a place to write a letter for you to take back." ”

She rode a camel with Gao Jun, and the old man rode one, and there was no trace of a mule along the way.

At dusk, they saw a village.