Chapter 28 Section five

Xia Mingruo continued to scream: "Oh—nope..." "What's wrong?" Chu Haiyang became more nervous. "The Yin soldiers are gone..." The uncle lowered his head weakly, "You called the Yin soldiers away..." "Huh? Yin Soldier? What?" Chu Haiyang raised his head and thought for a long time, then clapped his hands suddenly, "Oh! That Yin Soldier! It's not because I don't have it, it's because of the wind." Xia Mingruo knelt and wiped his tears, feeling extremely wronged: "Fuck you bastard Chu Haiyang, I won't talk to you anymore..."

Chu Haiyang shouted: "It's not me anymore!" He angrily stood up the two people in front of him, Xia Mingruo drooped his head like a rag, Chu Haiyang turned his head and asked the uncle: "What kind of Yin soldiers?" The uncle chattered and gesticulated up and down, saying that he was riding a tall camel, wearing a small white hat, where he had a knife hanging on his body, and where he was wrapped in fur. Chu Haiyang nodded repeatedly and said, "Oh... um... then It's Turkic attire." He said to Xia Mingruo: "Master, I have explained everything to you. It is Turkic, and there are also Dunhuang murals. When I go back, can I accompany you to see enough? Can you calm down?"

Xia Mingruo pointed at the uncle, gritted his teeth, and cursed silently: "Traitor! Make it up, make it up for me, how can you see it so clearly? Who are you helping? You are stepping down the steps for that kid." The uncle shook his messy hair and looked up at the sky: "Huh!" Chu Haiyang patted the sand on his clothes, but just as he patted it clean, another gust of wind poured the sand down his head. He smiled wryly: "Let's go back to the camp." "That can't be done," said the uncle. "Going back to the camp is going against the wind, and I can't stand it with a little strength. Our guide said that there is a black dragon hidden in this storm. If it is swept away by it, it will never be found. .”

"There is nothing to do if there is a tornado. The guide said just now," Chu Haiyang squatted beside him, still patting himself unwillingly and in vain, "This wind will blow for at least four hours, and it will be dark in four hours. If you don't return Everyone in the camp would be frozen to death outside. That’s why I came out in a hurry to find you, who knew you were hiding here watching Liaozhai.” The uncle said: "You don't believe in Yin soldiers?" Chu Haiyang lazily said: "Believe me, I still have a large pile of materials. It is said that in the Northeast during the Anti-Japanese War, the people of a certain village heard Guan Yu leading the army to fight against the devils every night. It was so lively... Don't believe it! Where are you going? "

Xia Mingruo was physically exhausted and bled again, and he was no longer a threat. He limped and walked a few steps, resisting the burning pain in his throat and said: "You two, you must trust me this time as a scientific worker. the intuition of the reader." Chu Haiyang said: "I think this gust of wind is going to pass soon, don't believe it, we have to take advantage of this gap to leave quickly." The uncle also felt that the sky was much brighter than before, so he couldn't help but feel happy: "Great! Let's go." Xia Mingruo waved his hand and said wait, then actually walked towards the depths of Yadan.He stopped and looked at the gap where the Yin soldiers passed by just now, and walked more than ten meters. The strong wind blew his army coat rattling, and finally he turned around with a smile and opened his arms: "Comrades, I have made a meritorious service."

Chu Haiyang ran over to pull him away from the wind, but he was also surprised by the scene in front of him: "This is..." "Red Willow!" The uncle who followed him cheered, "It's Red Willow! There's water under here! Our camel is saved!" The sparse red willow forest spread beyond the sight range, and the relentless ravages of the sandstorm knocked it down, but the shrubs were still struggling and alive. "Back to the camp! Bring the camels!" Chu Haiyang's joy was beyond words. After all, whether it was for camels or people, the water source at this time was very precious.

Xia Mingruo smiled all over his face, and kept emphasizing: "I have made meritorious service, I have made meritorious service." Chu Haiyang pulled him up and ran wildly, followed by the uncle. Just as the three of them jumped into the windbreak built by the scientific expedition team with salt shell assaults, a new black storm came back. The team members who were huddled in the tent almost strangled the two of them to death. Qian Dabeard said to Xia Mingruo with red eyes: "If something happens to you, how can I explain to your father? Xia Xiubai must cut me down, and he It's not that I don't have the guts..."

Xia Mingruo was still out of breath, hugged Lao Huang with one arm, and Da Huzi Qian with the other to comfort him, and finally remembered the matter of Red Willow Cong.Another real guide shook his head in ignorance and said that he had never been to the Yadan group, because the scientific expedition team was passing the edge of the Yadan group, and usually chose to detour rather than traverse the maze.But the discovery of desert plants still made everyone very happy. In fact, the condition of the camels was very worrying. One or two were almost extremely weak. Their rich fat had been consumed during the long journey and they were becoming skinny.

Leopard proposed to celebrate, and happily took out a bottle of Erguotou, the savior, from the bag.Xia Mingruo and the uncle howled almost at the same time, and then joined forces to throw the leopard out of the tent, allowing it to suffer the damage of the sandstorm head-on and not allowing anyone to rescue it. Xia Mingruo's nosebleed finally stopped, but his abused nose was unconscious, as if it had grown on someone else's face.Chu Haiyang violated the water regulations and brought him mouthwash. The water was too precious. Xia Mingruo didn't want to spit it out and swallowed it. Suddenly he stuck out his tongue and asked, "What did you give me?"

"The great savior Erguotou." Chu Haiyang said, "63°, sorghum special brew, just in time to be sterilized." "Hey—" Xia Mingruo fell backwards with a bang, unconscious. Chu Haiyang hugged Erguotou tightly in satisfaction: "Subduing demons and conquering demons, this is indeed a treasure." In the evening, the black storm finally stopped, the desert looked quiet and gentle, a few scattered snowdrops fell from the sky, and the temperature dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius.Xia Mingruo was shivering while wrapped in a whole wolf fur, and everyone who passed by would give him a twist on the head: "Little wolf cub."

Qian Dabeard leaned close to a frail female camel, patted its bony back pityingly, and decided to brave the severe cold and march forward. The cold is like an awl, but you can get comfort by looking up, because there is the bright moon of the Western Regions there.Archaeologists often cross sand seas, dense forests, snow-capped mountains, and Gobi under such moonlight... The long road is long but the steps become firmer, and there are many difficulties and dangers without changing their original intentions. The camel bells were playing, and the bearded man Qian swayed left and right on the camel, and suddenly sang a Turpan love song: Girl under the vine, don't, don't sing any more, Your heart will burst out of your breast, like a nightingale you took it, tied it to the end of your braid... After singing, he asked Xia Mingruo: "Does it sound good?" Xia Mingruo sniffled and said, "That's very nice, you have another one." Someone in the line responded: "Beard! Come one——! Beard! Come one!" Qian Dahuzi immediately got excited, took out his tambourine and slapped it: "Then let's make something more popular! "Remembering Comrades"" "Oh!" The players cheered. The tambourine sounded, Qian Dahuzi's thick and deep voice echoed in the night, and when the song ended, Huzi shouted to Xia Mingruo: "Amier! Go!" Xia Mingruo laughed loudly, and rushed to the front of the line with his legs clamped on the camel's belly. He waved his little hand and yelled boldly: "The canyon is ahead! Comrades——! Come with me!" The team members booed immediately: "Oh, oh! Instructor——! Keep up!" "Be careful!" the bearded man shouted while laughing, "Xia Mingruo, don't fall! Be careful of the sandy cliffs! Don't lift Lao Huang up! It's dangerous!...don't throw Lao Huang!" "Hey, you said that child," the uncle asked Chu Haiyang secretly, "could it be a monster who changed? You didn't see how much blood he bleeds at noon, and his lips were all white." "I can't explain it clearly," Chu Haiyang said in a low voice, "I have the impression that his father has a bit of a monster." "Don't talk about it," the uncle shivered, "I'm the least timid. I'm afraid of these monsters. I'll scare the zombies for a long time when I see them." Chu Haiyang said, "Have you ever seen a zombie?" "I've seen several." Uncle and Chu Haiyang walked side by side, "One in Jiangxi, one in Hubei...Unfortunately, Uncle, I'm timid, and I'm a fool, so I ran away after touching things, and I didn't dare to take a good look at them." Chu Haiyang laughed while listening: "Tell me, what is a zombie like?" The uncle stroked the mustache on his chin: "Mr. Li told me that the so-called zombies are actually the mummy in your mouth, the kind that lasts for thousands of years. Let me tell you the one that I can see most clearly. When did it come?" ?” He scratched his head: “I can’t remember clearly, anyway, it was those few years, you know about the suppression of counter-revolutionaries, three anti-five anti-revolutionaries, right?” Chu Haiyang said, "How could you not know." "A lot of people died, and a lot of people died unjustly, so let's not talk about that." The uncle waved his hand, "Let's talk about a landlord who was killed in a fight in a certain village. This old thing deserves what he deserves. He once forced the girl of a tenant family to death. The girl is only seventeen years old, and she will be married in two months." "There was nothing the old landlord could do when he died. The villagers just found a place to bury him. But it was summer, and they were afraid that the corpse would rot and spread diseases. The villagers sprinkled a lot of lime in the burial pit. You know, lime absorbs water. Yes, so it didn't take long for the old landlord to become a mummy." "But the villagers didn't know that a few years later, in the sunny spring, the commune opened the river. At that time, there was no way to use bombs, and the river was opened entirely by manpower. I was dragged into the excavation team when I was living here. There were three commune members in the same group as me. , and there is a strong man named Lao Lei." "Old Lei is short and muscular, full of tendons, and he is a good hand at work." "One day after work, everyone dispersed. Lao Lei and I were going to go to the production team leader's house for dinner, but Lao Lei said he wanted to wash his feet in the river. I said: 'OK, I'll wait for you.'" "Lao Lei bent down and rolled up his trousers, and inserted the pickaxe in his hand into the ground. As a result, the old landlord Teng stood up straight from the ground, facing Lao Lei face to face." "It's a good guy, it's such a pity that he was scared to death like this!" The uncle sighed, "That foreign pick just happened to be inserted into the zombie's foot." Chu Haiyang asked, "What happened next?" The uncle said: "I didn't know later, but I left later." The old events made both of them silent for a while, seeing that Xia Mingruo and the others had entered the depths of Yadan, they hurriedly chased after them with whips. "It's here! Red willow!" Everyone scrambled to jump off the camels, set up a camp, and then dug close to the roots of the plants. After removing the sand more than two meters deep, they saw the permafrost layer, and then dug down. meters, water seeps out of the sand.Everyone cheered, Qian Dabeard couldn't wait to lick a mouthful, and spat it out in his mouth: "Bah! It's like brine!" "That is to say, if the camel can drink a little, people should bear it." "Would you like to neutralize it with a reagent?" While chattering, Chu Haiyang looked back at the camel, and found something strange: "Hey? How many camels do we have?" Gulim, the cook, said: "Twenty-six (twenty-six)!" Chu Haiyang counted again, and even drew a picture: "Where's the one with the white scab on the forehead? Gulim! It's the old camel that carries the cooking utensils for you, and you call it meat! Where did it go?" ?” Gulim was stunned: "Huh?" "Are you still 'ah'?" Chu Haiyang was annoyed and funny, raising his voice and asked, "Who is riding the meat?" "No one is riding. That old guy is almost exhausted. He has been tied to the back of the team for the past few days without even carrying his equipment." A team member replied. The leopard, who was on duty to take care of the livestock, was the first to get anxious, turned over and got on his mount: "I...I'll go find it!" It was Xia Mingruo with sharp eyes who pointed to the ground and said, "There are hoof prints, and they went deeper into this ditch." "Let's go together." Chu Haiyang also jumped on the camel, bent down and pulled Xia Mingruo up again, "Hold me tight, don't tickle me." Xia Mingruo handed Lao Huang to Gulim, and said with a smile, "Cut, who cares." Qian Dahuzi was quite worried, and told them: "It's fine if the camels are gone, and people have to come back as soon as possible. Have you brought water? Where's the compass? Bring a shotgun." "Don't worry, if you can't find us within two hours, you will return the same way." Chu Haiyang pulled the rein and nodded to Leopard, "Let's go!" The camels trotted along and soon left the camp behind.The hoofprints on the sand surface were very clear under the moonlight. The three of them followed the trail and unknowingly came out of the Yadan group. The open land did not extend for a long time, and another Yadan appeared in front of them. The leopard was very discouraged: " Going back? Today is the winding, and the moon will go down in a while." "The hoof prints are not very visible anymore." Chu Haiyang hesitated, turned around and scolded Xia Mingruo again: "I told you not to scratch you, and someday I will chop off your hand." Xia Mingruo couldn't stop laughing, and suddenly he was taken aback, pointing to the camel's feet and asking: "What is that?" Chu Haiyang followed his fingers and was also stunned. "... Reed?" He asked with great uncertainty. "That's right, it's reeds, dead reeds." Xia Mingruo rolled down from the camel, looked around in a hurry, and shouted, "We idiots! This is a river! Red willows, reeds, and the willows we saw just now , we've been walking along the dry riverbed! Ocean, look over there!" Chu Haiyang squinted his eyes and looked into the distance: "The alluvial river bank." "Leopard, let's move on." He held Xia Mingruo in front of him, pulled the rein with one hand, and pinched the back of the man's neck with the other.Xia Mingruo said: "You are not allowed to scratch me." Chu Haiyang urged the camel under his crotch to move forward, humming and sneering, "I can't scratch you to death." Leopard asked: "Is the animal still ahead?" "Well," Chu Haiyang said, "Camels are spiritual things, especially when they are old. There must be more abundant water ahead than before." After walking for about one kilometer, the gullies became denser, the ground was winding and rugged, and even small dry inlets appeared.The three of them hurried forward with their whips, skimming over broken reefs, salt blocks, and large reeds, and saw the crystal-clear ice lake under the moonlight. The old camel named Rouzi was standing by the lake, snorting irritably. Chu Haiyang suddenly remembered something, and tightened the reins: "Leopard! Get off the camel!" The leopard was galloping happily: "What—? What did you say—?" Chu Haiyang pulled Xia Mingruo down the ground, both of them fell badly, but immediately jumped up and shouted, "Get off the camel!" Leopard asked, "What did you say?" Before the words were finished, the world was spinning, and the leopard suddenly fell headlong on the ice, with the top of its head on the ground, and almost met Hades.It was not someone else who threw him, but the camel under him. The other two rushed over, Xia Mingruo pulled up the leopard and found that there was a trace of coldness in his nose, he was really frightened.Chu Haiyang didn't even think about it, he slapped his head and face, the leopard woke up with a jolt. "Why does my face hurt?" He asked lying on the ground.