Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 50
In the evening, we arrived at the most remote town.

The van's fuel was almost exhausted, so we cursed bad luck, so we had to abandon the car and walk.

Lao Luo said: "It's okay, anyway, we won't need a car for the rest of the journey!"

It is said to be a small town, but it is actually an earthen village called Saibei Fort. It is a bit old. It is said that it was built in the Ming Dynasty. It is a fortress used to garrison troops.After passing Saibei Fort, you can enter the Lop Nur Desert, so Saibei Fort can be regarded as the last barrier. In ancient times, it was regarded as a frontier defense project to resist the intrusion of nomadic peoples in the Western Regions.

Saibei Fort covers an area of ​​about [-] to [-] mu. It is located in a mountain depression, with towering mountains on both sides. The geographical location is quite important, so it is no wonder that it will become a military stronghold.All the buildings in the castle are made of local materials, using the loess that can be found everywhere in the northwest region. This kind of loess is very viscous and easy to build. Many local people directly use this loess to build houses.

Due to the fact that it is too old, no one has lived here, and it has been abandoned for a long time. Many houses have been dilapidated, leaving mottled traces under the baptism of years.

The setting sun hangs lazily on the top of the mountain, sprinkled a blush, Saibeibao presents an ancient vicissitudes of beauty.

Lao Luo said, "Let's settle down here tonight!"

We wandered into Saibei Fort, and when we entered the fort, we saw an earthen city wall, estimated to be more than ten meters high, with some arrow stacks lined up on it, but many of them were rotten.There is an arched city gate under the city wall, and the three characters "Saibei Fort" engraved on the top of the city gate can be faintly seen.

Walking to a relatively well-preserved house, Lao Luo said that this house was the former General's Mansion and also a military command center.

This is a simple courtyard with three houses arranged in a zigzag shape.Under the baptism of wind and frost, many walls have been peeled off, showing a sense of desolation and desolation.

When we entered the central room, Lao Luo asked us to pile up our backpacks to the door, line them up end to end, like a city wall blocking the door.Lao Luo said that the wind and sand in Saibei are very strong. At night, the yellow sand blows all over the sky. These backpacks can block a lot of wind and sand for us. Otherwise, when we wake up tomorrow morning, half of our bodies may be buried in the sand.

We looked around and found that there was indeed a layer of yellow sand on the ground. Fortunately, we had cashmere blankets. We took out the blankets and put them together. Everyone sat on the blankets. It was warm and did not feel the sand underneath. Ass.

The temperature difference between day and night in Saibei is huge. During the day it is hot enough to make people sweat profusely, but at night it can make people squawk and scream.As soon as the sun went down, the wind started to pick up. The wind outside was blowing, and the temperature plummeted.We cut two salix plants outside the house and built a fire. Everyone sat around the fire, eating a simple dinner and chatting wildly.

Lao Luo wiped his mouth, took out the bong, added some shredded tobacco, knocked it on the ground, and habitually held it in his mouth, and started to smoke it in a rattling manner.He squinted his eyes, and the smoke was lingering on his face, only to hear him say slowly: "Actually Saibeibao was a very prosperous frontier fortress before. It is located at the throat of the Silk Road. Businessmen from all over the world, or foreign businessmen from Persia in the Western Regions, have to pass through Saibeibao. Multi-ethnic cultures are widely exchanged here, and this place once prospered. Later... Later, do you know why this place fell?" Old Luo It's sold out.

"If the Silk Road is gone, this place will also be gone!" I replied as a matter of course.

"Hehe, your thinking is really too simple! Then why is there no one living here in the end?" Lao Luo continued to ask.

"Uh... Maybe it's because of environmental problems. The environment here is too harsh, and a lot of yellow sand in the Lop Nur desert is blowing here!" Gu Meidi analyzed.

"The ancestors have lived here for so long, and they have long been used to the washing of yellow sand, so why are they suddenly not used to it?" Lao Luo shook his head, "I also heard from the older generation that the reason why Saibei Fort is It will become an empty city because there is a story in it!" After a pause, Lao Luo emphasized his tone, and said sadly, "A horrible story!"

Anyway, everyone had nothing to do around the fire, and since Lao Luo wanted to tell a story, everyone listened carefully to him.

In fact, the decline of Saibei Fort was not many years ago. It is said that during the period of the Republic of China, Saibei Fort was occupied by a local warlord. Although it has lost its former prosperity, there are still many people living there.At that time, the warlord was surnamed Cao, called Cao Hui, and had 3000 people under his command, entrenched in the frontier area, and was very powerful.

Cao Hui's face was ugly, and there was a sarcoma on his forehead. When he got angry, he was hideous and terrifying.The uglier people are, the more lustful they are. Relying on his power and power, Cao Hui occupied many women from good families, including six concubines in the back room.

On the day of Cao Hui's [-]th birthday, he invited a troupe to sing babble for two or three days. Saibei Castle was decorated with lanterns and festoons, making it even more lively than during the Spring Festival.

There is a young and beautiful Huadan in the theater troupe, named Xin'er, who is the foreman's biological daughter. She looks so watery, with a melon-seeded face, a small waist, and especially those slender legs. Eyes glowing.This Cao Hui was a lustful hungry ghost, and he didn't care about watching the show at all. His eyes darted across Xin'er's body, revealing a lewd smile from time to time.

That night, Cao Hui held a running water banquet and got very drunk. When passing by a row of wing rooms, he saw a graceful figure with long hair and a shawl reflected in the paper window of the back room.This row of wing rooms was where the theater troupe stayed. Cao Hui hiccupped it, put his finger in his mouth, dipped some saliva, and poked a hole in the paper window.

At that time, a red candle was lit in the room, and Xin'er took off her make-up and changed her clothes to get ready for bed. She felt a little tired after performing continuously for the past two days.She took off the outer veil skirt, revealing a small red douche, and her smooth back was facing the window. She never expected that a pair of eyes full of desire were staring at her greedily outside the window.

Xin'er blew out the candles and went to bed, and soon there was the sound of even breathing.

Cao Hui was burning with desire, like a beast inside his body, under the influence of alcohol, he broke into Xin'er's bedroom with his red eyes, and pounced on the sleeping Xin'er.Like a mad wolf, he threw off the quilt, tore off Xin'er's red bellyband, and then pressed his plump body onto it.

Xin'er was awakened, screaming and crying, but in front of Cao Hui, a wolf, she was just a lamb, no matter how hard she struggled, it was useless, the heart-piercing pain almost made her faint.

Xin'er's cries woke up the foreman in the next room. The foreman jumped out of bed and hurried into the room holding a candle. Seeing the scene in front of him, he almost fainted from anger.He threw himself at Cao Hui recklessly, cursing Cao Hui as a beast.

Cao Hui was in high spirits, and he seemed annoyed to be interrupted by the foreman, an old man. He didn't want to get up from Xin'er's delicate body. With his strength, he threw the foreman away with one arm, knocking his head on the table On the corner, blood flowed immediately.

"Bastard, I'll fight with you!" Blood stained the old man's face red, the old man screamed and got up, and threw a chair at Cao Hui.

boom!
The gunshot rang out suddenly, the old man's raised arm was still in the air, and a blood flower bloomed on his chest. The blood flower quickly became bigger and soon dyed the whole clothes red. After falling down, bloody foam gushed out of his mouth, and he cursed the word "beast" before losing his temper.

It turned out that Cao Hui was annoyed that the old man spoiled his interest. In a fit of anger, he pulled out the gun from his waist and killed the old foreman with one shot.

The rest of the theater troupe rushed over upon hearing the sound, just in time to see this scene, and then look at the guy smoking in Cao Hui's hand, no one dared to act rashly.They are all powerless ordinary people, whoever offends Cao Hui, a bastard warlord, will die. They succumbed to Cao Hui's despotic power and dispersed silently one by one.

Cao Hui's arrogant and satisfied laughter came from the room from time to time.

Seeing her father's tragic death in front of her eyes, Xin'er stopped crying and also stopped struggling.At this moment, her heart was dead, and her soul was gone. She was lying there like a wooden stake.

The next day, Cao Hui was still sound asleep, snoring like a pig. A lieutenant rushed into the room in a panic and woke Cao Hui up: "General, it's not good, it's not good, something serious has happened!"

Cao Hui scolded the lieutenant angrily: "What's the trouble, is the sky falling or is your mother dead?"

The deputy general swallowed hard, turned around and pointed to the courtyard outside, and said in a trembling voice: "Xin'er is dead! Xin'er is dead!"

"Who is Xin'er?" Cao Hui hadn't recovered from his drunkenness yet.

"That's... that girl who was lying in this room last night..." The lieutenant pointed to the wooden bed.

"Oh? That little girl!" Cao Hui smacked his lips and said disapprovingly, "Why did she die? I still want to marry her as the seventh concubine!"

He yawned, got up and put on a coat, "If you die, you'll die, just bury it, why are you panicking!"

"No! No!" The lieutenant shuddered, "Go and see, the girl's death... the death is a little scary..."

"What's so scary, you haven't seen a dead person, have you?" Cao Hui had just stepped out of the door, and the words that followed were stuck in his throat, and he couldn't swear.Because he saw Xin'er's body at a glance, the lieutenant general did not lie, even Cao Hui, a murderous and unblinking demon king, couldn't help shivering, and most of the drunkenness immediately woke up.

"Damn it!" Cao Hui's legs trembled twice, and if the lieutenant hadn't supported him, he might have fallen down.

Xin'er was hanged, wearing a bright red long dress, hanging like a kite on the jujube tree in the courtyard, and her body would sway when the wind blew.

The bright red skirt fluttered in the wind, and the two black eye sockets were full of resentment, and it seemed that Xin'er's strange singing came from the wind: "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

Cao Hui felt chills all over his body. He never thought that this weak little girl would choose such a tragic way to end her humiliated life.

"Bury her! Bury her for me!" Cao Hui yelled in horror.

(End of this chapter)