Zong Tomb: Starting from Huangpizi Tomb

Chapter 148 Looking for a Guide

After everyone left Kunlun, they spent the night repairing in Jinchuan City, and then embarked on the journey to the Western Regions.

As we continue to go west, there is no green left on the road.

Finally, in late March, the archaeological team arrived at Niya Town, MF County, Hotan Region.

Speaking of which, Niya Town and Jingjue Ancient City are also closely related.

In January of the 1901th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1), the British Hungarian explorer Mr. Walter (actually supposed to be Stein) found the ancient city of Jingjue and named the site "NIYASITE". ).

The origin of this name is based on this town of Niya.

However, although this town is called a town, because it is located on the edge of the desert and usually sparsely populated, the actual permanent population is only more than a thousand people, which is even incomparable to some larger villages in the inland areas.

According to estimates, this place is already the closest residential area to Jingjue Ancient City around Jingjue Ancient City.

The archaeological team planned to spend two days in Niya Town, then find a guide, and then follow the contents of Mr. Walter's notebook to find the location of the ancient city of Jingjue.

In addition to finding and naming the ancient city of Jingjue in January of the 1901th year of Guangxu (1), Mr. Walter came here again later.

In the 1906nd year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (), Mr. Walter once again investigated and excavated the site.

A total of 53 ruined sites were excavated in these two times, and 721 wooden slips with exquisite writings were unearthed. In addition, there were also wooden slips in Chinese characters, several wooden tablets, weapons, musical instruments, woolen fabrics, silk fabrics, furniture, and architectural objects. , handicrafts and grain crops such as millet and millet.

At the same time, he also surveyed and mapped these sites.

After the results of his investigation were announced, they caused a sensation around the world.

The most important thing is that he recorded this mobile expedition in detail, even clearly recording the steps.

Therefore, although decades have passed, it is true that this notebook can indeed provide better help to everyone.

During the two days of repairs, Bai Jing and the others also discovered that although Niya Town is not big, there are still quite a lot of foreign friends coming here.

In recent years, due to the continuous advancement of reform and opening up, the tourism industry in the entire Western Region has developed vigorously. Many wealthy Chinese people like to pursue excitement, or some foreigners who like adventure and desert customs like to come here. After some repairs here, go to the destination.

And because this place is adjacent to Bosten Lake, many outsiders come to visit every summer.

As the largest freshwater lake inland, Bosten Lake is also the key source of the Kongque River water source for Bai Jing and his party's operation. Naturally, everyone attaches great importance to this.

But Bai Jing found out that with the passage of time, the water level of Bosten Lake has dropped by several meters. At the beginning of this century, the water level may have dropped by more than ten meters.

Therefore, the Kongque River Ancient Road is very likely to have dried up.

In this case, this operation will be very difficult.

After all, in the desert, apart from being careful about sandstorms, the biggest threat is the lack of water.

Therefore, they had no way to directly follow the route in Mr. Walter's notebook. After all, there was water on Mr. Walter's route back then, but there is no water now.

Finally, after discussion, everyone decided to find a local guide.

After asking around, I found out that many local people here have been living better and better lives over the years by serving as guides for outsiders.

Therefore, there are indeed several guides in the town at this time.

However, after Bai Jing and the others found several guides and communicated with them, they all failed to meet the requirements of the archaeological team.

Because the annual windy season was coming soon, the few guides we found did not dare to enter the desert at this time.

Guides are there to make money, not to risk their lives.

In the end, there was no other way. Professor Chen could only go to the town government with a letter of introduction and work certificate to find a job, hoping to ask them to help find out who the best guide in the town was.

The leaders in the town were also a little confused about the archaeological team's request.

But at this moment, the staff member next to the leader suddenly remembered something and said, "Section Chief Zhao, have you forgotten? An Liman."

Hearing this, the leader's eyes also lit up.

Everyone in the archaeological team is also very confused, who is this An Liman?
  The leader explained: "This Anliman is known as the living map in the desert. Everyone in the town knows that this old man is very magical and he also raises a good camel. Even the children in the town Everyone knows that if you want to enter the desert, you need to bring three things, water, camels and Anliman."

After hearing this, Fatty suddenly felt that this was the person he and others needed.

The fat man asked quickly: "Where is An Liman now? Where should we go to find him?"

Hearing the fat man's question, Section Chief Zhao seemed to be in a dilemma. He saw the staff next to him and explained: "This person is hard to find. Even we haven't seen him for almost half a month."

After listening to the staff's explanation, everyone understood that this person could not even be found among the locals. How could everyone on the archaeological team find him if he was not familiar with the place?
  However, no one was disappointed. At least there was a direction now, right? No one wanted to give up, so they saw Hu Bayi and asked again: "I want to ask, what is this person's name?"

Section Chief Zhao thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I'm not sure about this. Anyway, everyone calls him An Liman. This sentence means a living map in the desert in Uyghur."

Not only Section Chief Zhao, but also An Liman's name was not known among so many people present.

Shirley Yang finally heard of a reliable guide, so naturally she was unwilling to give up easily, and immediately asked: "Then where can we find this An Liman?"

Section Chief Zhao was a little embarrassed, but after thinking for a while he said: "How about you go to the police station and ask. Under normal circumstances, guides in the town must register at the police station before going out. After you go there, if An Liman comes back, the police station I definitely know."

Everyone thought it was reasonable, so they took the certificate issued by the town and went to the police station.

The director of this police station is named Wang Bawan. At this moment, Director Wang looked at the certificate handed over and said with some embarrassment: "At this time, it is useless for you to find anyone."

After hearing this, everyone present was confused. What is the explanation for this?

(End of this chapter)