Mountain and Sea Treasures

Chapter 5 Xinjiang Frontline
The fourth girl glanced at me, then patted Si Yuyan's head with her palm, and a green jade cicada came out of Si Yuyan's mouth immediately.

He put the jade cicada under the moonlight, as if looking at the color.

Then I wiped it clean and put it in my pocket with satisfaction, and led me back home.

From the beginning to the end, there was no expression on his face, but when I looked at the trembling head, he said: Don't be afraid.

As soon as we arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw my father waiting in the cold wind with a kerosene lamp from a distance, and my heart was sore again.

Seeing finally waiting for us, my father looked eagerly at the fourth girl, who nodded, and then looked at me: "Boy, since you have the Nine Dragon tattoo on your back, you are the Liu family's new generation of tomb keeper. You must guard the ancient tombs in the world for 30 years. Otherwise, you will be punished by God."

I nodded half-understood, and saw Miss Si take out the booklet from my arms and hand it to me.

"Fourth Miss, this is too precious..." Father was a little surprised.

The fourth girl waved her hand: "Liu Gensheng, I paid off the favor I owed you today. This "Star Official Essentials" originally belonged to your old Liu family. I didn't give it to you because you didn't deserve it, but your son deserves it." , let’s return it to the original owner now! Kid, see you by fate.”

As he said that, he ignored his father's persuasion and left in the dark.

After the fourth girl left, life returned to calm. Just because I couldn't touch the funeral objects, my father still made a living by eating dead human flesh and robbing graves.

I advised him to change his career, but he said that he had expected this day when he ate the first bite of dead human flesh, and now that he has half his foot in the coffin, he might as well fulfill his father's responsibilities now and give me Save money to marry a wife.

My father and I lived like this for five years, and he still couldn’t hold on. Before he died, he kept holding my hand with tears in his eyes and chattered a lot. Forgive me for not understanding a word, but I know he You can't let me go!
Only later did I know that my father entrusted me to an old friend.

This friend is the company commander of the army. He said that his father had saved his life before, so he attached great importance to his father's last entrustment, and rushed over the second day after his father left.

With the help of Company Commander Chen, I buried my father in Jiangjunling. This was also my father's last wish. He said that he had supported me all his life by being buried here, so he should atone for his sins after death.

Afterwards, I packed up some clothes, carefully wrapped "Star Official Secrets", and left the village where I had lived for 14 years.

Company Commander Chen lived in the barracks for a long time, so in order to take care of me, he took me into the army.

Company Commander Chen's troops are stationed in a place called Bayingoleng in Xinjiang, which is close to Lop Nur. The sky is full of yellow sand and the karst landform makes everything look like a sense of vicissitudes!

This force is mainly responsible for the transportation of medicines, vegetables and other materials to border defense stations on several branch lines in northern Xinjiang. It usually runs once every half a month and usually trains in the camp.

When I first came here, I was very curious about everything here. After running a few times and eating a mouth full of sand, the novelty also subsided.

Fortunately, the people in the army saw that I was young and that I was brought by Company Commander Chen, so they took good care of me. Occasionally they would ask me to have a tooth festival when they got a few boxes of canned meat.

Three years passed in a flash, and I felt that my life would probably be like this. When I was old enough to be demobilized and return to the countryside, I could see the end of my life by marrying a wife with the money my father had saved.

But everything was disrupted by a mysterious person who suddenly visited. I can still recall the scene of that day to this day!

That morning, the new supplies had just arrived, and the comrades who had gnawed hard steamed buns for a few days were all excited to practice for a few more kilometers. The atmosphere in the army was very lively.

At this moment, a middle-aged man entered the barracks accompanied by Company Commander Chen nodding and bowing.

This man was out of tune with the troops, and all his comrades were attracted to him for a while.I saw him wearing a crumpled black suit, a briefcase with a piece of leather missing under his armpit, and a peaked cap on his head, matching the stubble circle and the half-smoked red plum card in his mouth Cigarettes made him look sloppy.

We were all curious about the identity of the man in the suit, but Company Commander Chen's attitude was not as lively as usual, he glared at us and headed into his tent with this man.

When I am not on a transportation mission, I usually stand outside the tent and watch. I see Company Commander Chen calling in the model soldiers who have performed well on weekdays one by one. I don’t know what to do?
Curiously, I peeked into the crack of the tent, and saw the man in the suit frowning with a cigarette in his hand, asking those model soldiers questions one by one.

These questions are very strange, not what do you need to bring to survive in the desert?How to rescue the lost comrades in the deep desert?Finally, he pointed to a few pieces of paper and asked them if they recognized the plants in the desert.

Are you looking for a guide?
I rubbed my head, thinking that the man in the suit should be going into the desert.Pity!If he asked those model soldiers what kind of gun was powerful and how to hit the enemy, they would answer clearly, but they didn't know all the ways in the desert.

Although the place not far from our camp is Lop Nur, we hardly have any dealings with it. Knowing one or two emergency methods in the desert is not bad.

As the model soldiers were kicked out of the tent one by one, the man in the suit frowned more and more, and looked at his watch in a panic from time to time, as if he was in a hurry, and the cigarettes in his hand were changed more and more frequently, and the whole tent was filled with smoke.

Seeing this situation, I couldn't help muttering in a low voice: This question is too simple, and no one knows it.

"Who is whispering outside?" the hoarse voice asked impatiently.

I was startled, and before I could react, I heard Company Commander Chen roar: "You little bastard, get out of here!"

I rubbed my nose and walked in resignedly. The man in the suit looked at me mockingly and asked, did I just say these questions were simple.

I was young and energetic, and I couldn't see his contemptuous appearance, so it was easy to say these things with a straight neck.

"How to tell the direction in the desert? What kind of instrument do you use?"

"Look at the sun during the day and the stars at night. No instrument is used, which is easily affected by magnetic field factors."

"How much water should I bring to the depths of the desert?"

"It should not be too much. You should look for water sources in the desert."

"How to find it?"

"A lot, it can be based on terrain, traces of animal activities and vegetation."

……

The man in the suit asked and answered with me, his eyes lit up every time I answered a question, and finally he slapped the table excitedly: "It's you!"

I was a little puzzled, and he didn't explain, so he named four more people among the model soldiers. I glanced at them casually and found that he didn't choose this person randomly. Although the age and appearance of each model soldier are very different, but They all have the same specialties!
For example, one of them was tall and thin. Everyone called him Hawkeye, because his eyes were as sharp as an eagle. He was the strongest scout in the battalion, and he couldn't hide some details from him.

Another example is a little short man next to him who just turned 20 years old. He is a well-known sharpshooter in the camp and has the ability to shoot through Yang with a hundred steps.

The other two also have their own housekeeping skills.

"Okay, you guys go back and get ready. You will enter Lop Nur this afternoon." After choosing someone, the man in the suit patted the soot on his body and signaled us to go out.

Lop Nur?
I am a little excited, and I have often heard some rumors about Lop Nur in the past few years in the army. I am both yearning and in awe of this place, and I am naturally excited to be able to go now.

Just why did you go here? Could it be that there is some secret mission?
(End of this chapter)