Chapter 21 Chapter 20 The Mongols in Badain Jaran

On the provincial highway S218, the Gobi Desert was pitch black in the night, even the occasional crossing vehicles could not see the sturdy appearance of Xiaolong.Li Cu's strategy of setting off overnight was correct, otherwise such a car would be easily stopped by the military and police for questioning. An hour later, they arrived in Chahar Sumu, got out of the car, bought bottled water and instant noodles, and set off again after urinating. The three of Li Cu were used to playing games in the Internet cafe all night, and they didn't feel tired at all. Liang Wan leaned on the passenger seat and fell asleep early.Su Wan said: "Boss Yali, why don't we just throw this girl out of the car and run away." Li Cu sneered and said, "You are responsible for being caught by wolves. You think this is Beijing."

Near Hattu Tolgoi, Jilantai town, they took a fork in the northwest direction.It was dawn, and the sunrise in the Gobi was very magnificent. Li Cuo stopped the car and squatted on the side of the road, watching the sun illuminate the whole plain in the cold. "It's so beautiful." Liang Wan woke up and saw that she was wearing Li Cuo's coat. She turned her head and saw the golden glow of the sunrise, illuminating the entire field in a golden and green way. After washing up and eating a bucket of instant noodles, large vehicles began to appear on the road.Li Cu jumped into the back seat and sang to Su Wan who was sleeping like a dead pig: "Good luck!!" Woke him up, and he and Yang Hao lay down in the back seat, leaning head to head and squinting.

When he woke up again, it was already past 10 o'clock in the morning, and he saw Liang Wan driving, and Su Wan was snoring in the passenger seat with his clothes on. Looking around, the scenery is still exactly the same, only a few more rocky mountains appear at the end of the Gobi, could it be Helan Mountain?Turning from Bayannuo to S312, he had no strength to deal with moths, and the magnificence of the desert had turned into a boring and single scenery. He drove until the end of the route pointed by the GPS, and it had been 12 hours since they set off. As soon as it got dark, the four of them got out of the car and collapsed on the sand pile on the side of the road. This place is no longer completely Gobi, and you can see patches of sand dunes.There is also a Haizi and Populus euphratica forest in the distance. Li Cuo and the others always thought that the Populus euphratica forest was dead. They never thought that a living Populus euphratica forest is more beautiful than a dead one.

Life is always better than death. It will not go any further, S312 is a big U-turn, turn back to S218. "There are several entrances in this desert, and this one was given to us by Wu Xiebiao. This car can be driven in directly, but after entering, there will be absolutely no supplies." Li Cuo said, "Do you think we should get it from a fellow villager?" A few camels are more reliable." "You drive well, Camel?" Liang Wan lit a cigarette and made a distrustful expression. It's too dangerous to drive into the desert at night. I checked the information before, and the Grand Cherokee and Japanese cars don't have enough horsepower in the desert. If the car is heavy, push the car every day.The best desert car is the Beijing 212 Jeep. Driving in the desert is like surfing. The biggest advantage is not enough horsepower, but light weight.

Xiaolong's tire width and horsepower are sufficient, but I don't know how much air the tires need to be inflated, which can't be seen at night.This car is too heavy, and once it gets stuck in a bunker, it cannot be pushed out. So, they could only continue to drive forward to find a place where the yurts gathered.The yurts here receive tourists, bargain, and live in after killing the head sheep. Liang Wan was indeed not as good at tossing around as these brats, she went to bed early, the smell in the yurt was very strong, and she was not a hypocritical Beijing girl. After Li Cu ate the mutton, he felt very irritable, his face was flushed with internal fire, and he couldn't sleep at all. He thought that the sheep had been slaughtered just after it came into heat, why did he really want to go wrestling in the field now.The water here is very precious, so he had to wash his face with sand, and asked the owner of the yurt about Gutongjing.

The owner of the yurt is a 30-year-old herdsman, Erut, Mongolian, who has raised a lot of big dogs, and gave himself a Chinese name, Che.He asked Li Cuo and the others to call him Che Galiba.He said to Li Cu: "Gutongjing, one car won't work, there is no care, at least three cars, and one car is full of water." "Isn't this place full of Haizi?" Yang Hao came back after urinating, tore a piece of meat from the leg of lamb and continued to eat: "I think the water is very clean, better than our Beijing water." "It's salty water. It's salty and astringent. I can't drink it." Che Galiba said, "Camels don't often drink it. If there are only a few of you, it's better to ride a camel. I have a camel."

The camel is in the circle on one side and can be seen from a distance.Li Cuo had always been worried about driving into the desert. Che Galiba said that he had finally made a decision. Camels are more reliable. The last time he went into the desert, he rode camels. Taking advantage of the situation, Li Cuo asked Che Galiba how much it cost to take them to Gutongjing, and the profiteer rolled his eyes, "One week, 10 sheep, let's enter the desert happily, and return to Yinchuan safely." One sheep is 900, and ten is 9000. The money Wu Xie gave is really not too much, so it will be gone in an instant, but there is no other way now. After the negotiation is settled, I will give 4500 first.Che Gali Balisuo ordered it again, but he was not necessarily very excited. It seemed that this was not the first time he had discussed this kind of business.

Li Cu asked curiously, "Are there many people going to that place?" "Is it Gutongjing?" Che Galiba threw a sheep bone to the dog, "You want to see where it is in Gutongjing." Li Cu still wanted to ask more questions, but Che Galiba couldn't speak the language clearly, so he would know when he arrived.There was a bit of cunning in his eyes, but not the kind that calculated them. It seemed that Che Galiba felt that city people like them were ignorant, and it would be useless to talk to them. Maybe he regarded us as ordinary tourists, Li Cuoxin said, well, I don’t know what to ask, if he utters a few Mongolian words in one breath, I really don’t understand, so let’s play by ear along the way. There are plenty of opportunities to chat in the desert.

At night, the three men ate too much and slept very restlessly.Su Wan had a sensitive stomach and went to the toilet 800 times, while Li Cu woke up before seven o'clock in the morning. When he got up, he saw that Su Wanyi hadn't slept much at night and was looking at a table next to the yurt. It was a stone table, a flat stone slab, which is hard to see in a yurt in Inner Mongolia.This kind of stone slab is estimated to weigh several hundred catties, and it cannot be taken away when it is migrated. Judging by the degree of wear and tear, it is estimated to be more than a hundred years old. If you look closely, you can find that it is actually an ancient monument.

There were reliefs on the stone slab, and Li Cuo exclaimed after only one glance.He saw buildings of various colors carved on the reliefs, and at the far end of these buildings, they saw three sun-like things. Li Cuo didn't think they were suns, but they looked like three huge Haizi. They called Che Galiba, and they also attracted Liang Wan, who got up early to watch the sunrise by the edge of Populus euphratica forest. Che Galiba told them that the relief stele was picked up and found at the bottom of a lake after it dried up. He put it on a sand cart and pulled it back with camels, and planned to sell it to tourists.The lake is more than two kilometers away from here, and it is almost completely dry. "Do you want it?" Che Galiba asked.

"This is a relief in Yancheng, the ancient residence." Liang Wan said after looking at it, "This is a part of a decorative relief, usually used in temples, and these three Haizi should indeed be the ancient Tongjing. It seems that the ancient There is a connection between Juyan City and Gutongjing.” "I heard from Wu Xie before that this place was a relatively taboo place at that time, and there was considerable religious worship." Li Cuo decided to go to that Haizi to have a look, and get to know the camels by the way.Che Galiba took them for an hour to learn how to ride. Li Cu had learned it but was still a little rusty. Liang Wan was almost able to go up. Su Wan finally invented the hug riding style to sit firmly.