Seeing that his boss attached so much importance to him, Xiao Ke was excited. It took him less than seven days to return from Sichuan to Yinchuan. Judging from the speed of the transportation at that time, the speed was so fast that it could not be faster.

When he came back to Yinchuan again, Xiaoke spent money to expand his manpower this time. He found more than 20 local farmers who grew crops and promised to give everyone half a day of money (the silver dollar issuance will take a few years later).

The honest farmers didn't know anything. After collecting the money, they just followed the command to dig soil and sand. This time they expanded the scope of exploration and expanded the surrounding area for more than ten miles on the two underground palaces they had originally dug. Three new buried underground palaces were discovered.

Xiaoke may have inferred at that time that there were too many treasures in Heishui City, Xixia. Because the Mongols came in a hurry and were in urgent need of time, they had no time to store and organize, but they were just scattered and buried around them.

The problem is here.

Did he dig the ruins of the main city of Heishui City 800 years ago?

Regarding this point, there are two statements.

One was to dig Hei Shui City under the sand, and the other was to not dig it. He only found the treasure underground palace scattered near the ruins.

Xiaoke was born in 1863 and died in 1935. He lived in his seventies. Due to the special requirements of the Royal Geographical Society, he did not leave any autobiographical books. The few books he can find now were not written by him.

Jae Tou believes more in the latter statement. That is, the group of people he led did not find the main city of Heishui City. Jae Tou's judgment was based on this, because the second dig lasted less than three months in total. If he digs Heishui City, it would be impossible to clean it up in two or three months. Two or three years are almost the same.

From 1900 to 2001, it was exactly a century and a year. It was possible that the stone carving board dug by Uncle Aji came from a building in Hei Shui City...

After eating mutton that night, the old patriarch went back to rest early because he was old and was in poor health.

After the guide Lao Zhang was sent, the rest of us were all our own people. At this time, Douyazai said happily: "I've sent it, I've sent it. Are we going to send it? When we dig into Hei Shui City, I'm the first to get the treasure!"

He shook his head, not very happy, but was a little worried. Qin Xingping was the same, smoking a dull face.

Dou Yazai asked in confusion: "What's wrong with you? You're not happy with your face hanging down. Could it be that I'm saying something wrong again?" Dou Yazai pointed at himself as he said something.

"Hey..." He sighed, then said, "Yazi, at first I was the same as you, I was very happy. Later, I realized that we were going a step aside."

"What does it mean to put your head?" Douyazai scratched his head and asked, "We haven't set off yet, why did we go astray?"

He rubbed his head and said, Yunfeng, you can say it.

I nodded, looked at Dou Yazai and said, "Yazai, why are you so stupid? You forgot why we came from Handan to Yinchuan?"

"I haven't forgotten, how could I forget it?" Dou Yazai pointed at Qin Xingping and said, "Brother Qin said that there might be a large Xixia tomb in Yinchuan, wait... tomb..." Dou Yazai only reacted at this time.

"That's right..." I glanced at him and said, "Our original plan was to find a tomb, a underground palace where the treasures were hidden, not a main city of Heishui City. For example, it was like we were looking for sesame seeds that fell on the way, but the sesame seeds were gone and others swept away. There was a watermelon on the road in front of us. Isn't this a deviation?"

Digging and robbing tombs and digging soil to find cities are two different concepts. If you decide to do it and have bad luck, you will rely on our men. Maybe you will dig it for ten years...

"Forget it, it's very late today, don't think about it now," he said, "I'm going to think carefully about this matter to see if there is any feasible solution in the end. Let's go to bed first. The old patriarch asked Aji to prepare the room for you."

It was said that the room was actually a cave. Douyazai and I lived in the same house, and Xiaoxuan lived in the same house as Qin Xing. Because it was inconvenient for Xiaoxuan to be a girl, she lived in the same house by herself.

An interesting thing happened that night.

Because the sand was wading in the first few hurdles, the big men were fine, but Xiaoxuan was uncomfortable. She clamored to wash her body and asked Aji to help find water.

Aji said in embarrassment, "No, I haven't taken water these two days. We usually use sand to wash our faces and hands."

Xiaoxuan widened her eyes and said, "How to take a bath with sand? Do you just rub it with sand?"

I thought I was telling a joke, but Aji nodded and said, "Yes, use dry sand to scrape it and rub it back and forth, and the mud on his body will fall off and be clean."

"Scrape and scrape? Haha," Douyazai said with a laugh. It turns out that this is "scrape and scrape".

Xiaoxuan was so angry that she said there was no water, so I would wash it myself.

Aji pointed to the distance and said, "There is a small pool in the poplar forest in the crescent oasis."

After hearing this, Xiaoxuan's eyes rolled and suddenly said to me: "I'm afraid of going alone tonight. Yunfeng, please accompany me."

I said it's okay, let me see you off.

After taking the things for washing up, I set off at 10 o'clock in the evening and headed to the woods.

It takes about half an hour to walk from the Hute Cave to the Crescent Oasis Grove. I arrived at the place I 20:30. At this time, the sky was full of stars and the moon was also very good. The moonlight shone the grove very brightly.

The water in the small pool is rainwater, and the water is very clear after it settles. At this time, Xiaoxuan said, "Please watch me, I'll wash it first, and you'll wash it when I finish washing."

I said yes, you can wash it, I will help you watch some people.

She walked over with a towel and then suddenly turned around and said, "You are not allowed to peek."

I said again, you should wash it and never peek.

After five minutes, the sound of taking off my clothes came from behind me, and then a slight sound of water entering the water came.

I strictly warn myself not to have bad thoughts. If you have bad thoughts, you are not a human being, but a dog.

At first I did a good job, but I didn't look at it. I was like a human-shaped poplar tree standing there and didn't dare to move.

But it didn't work later.

The mosquitoes in the desert have a long survival period, and there are many mosquitoes in the woods, and they are still very large. In less than ten minutes, I was still on my neck and arm and bit my seven big bags.

What to do? I can't bite it without moving, so I walked back and forth like a crab.

I never expected that I suddenly heard a scream from behind me!

In desperation, I turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiaoxuan jumped out of the pool in fright. She pointed at the pool and shouted: "Snake! There are snakes in the water!"

"snake!"

I hurriedly ran over there and looked around. After watching for a long time, I realized that it was a false alarm.

It turns out that the bottom of the water is not a snake, but the branches of poplar trees, but the water surface is sparkling, and it looks like a snake due to the refraction of the moonlight.

But... I not only saw the branches at the bottom of the water, but also other things...

Very white.

Now that I think of this little thing, I have a different idea again.

Was it possible that she deliberately called the branch a snake?

A woman's heart is under the sea.

It's hard to say...
Chapter completed!