Nie Canjun looked at the sun, reached out to stop the team, and asked everyone to stop and rest.
Man Bao got out of the car and twisted his waist, feeling pretty good.
Bai Shan got out of the car behind her, put the veiled cap on her, looked up and looked around, and sighed: "It's really hot, we have to wear cloaks when we set off tomorrow morning, and now we even wear jackets It's gone."
Man Bao nodded, kicked the sand under his feet and said, "It's because of them."
Looking around, the world is vast, and it seems that they are the only group of people. At first, they didn't feel that, after a night and walking for half a day, everyone's mood was a little affected.
Man Bao leaned on the carriage, looked into the distance and said: "If you stay in such a place for a long time, you will indeed feel lonely."
This is different from the grassland. The grassland is also vast. It may take a long time to meet a herdsman, but the grassland is green. There are wild sheep, wild wolves, wild rabbits, wild roe deer, all kinds of wild animals, and there are also eagles in the sky. But the desert is different. Except for one or two small reptiles that I saw after searching carefully, it seems that there is no living thing in the world.
The steward checked the drinking water and came up to report: "Master, Miss Man, we only have enough drinking water for tomorrow."
Man Bao came back to his senses and asked, "Didn't you say that there will be an oasis more than a hundred miles further down? Why haven't we seen it yet?"
Bai Shan also felt that they had walked for a long time, but Nie Canjun beside him said, "We haven't walked a hundred miles yet."
Bai Shan couldn't believe it, "Are we so slow?"
Nie Canjun said: "The carriage is slow in the desert, my lord, when we get to Yumen Pass, we may have to buy a few more camels."
Both Man Bao and Ke Ke cheered up, then nodded reservedly and said: "Tim!"
Bai Shan saw her suppressed happiness, and said to Nie Canjun, "Let's talk about it when we get to Yumen Pass. We'll go buy it then."
Nie Canjun is already used to it. These young masters and ladies seem to be very interested in everything, and they like to do things they have never done before, and things they have never seen before.
Zhou Liru became worried, "Then can we get there before nightfall? We can't walk a hundred miles in a day and a half, isn't that too slow?"
She was a little flustered, so she asked Man Bao in a low voice, "Sister-in-law, are we not going to get lost?" She looked terrified.
Bai Erlang and Liu Huan happened to hear it, and they were shocked. They all looked at Man Bao, and their faces turned a little pale.
Man Bao: "... Bai Er, what miscellaneous books did you show Li Ru again?"
Bai Erlang shivered, "It's nothing, it's a miscellaneous talk about western travel written by a traveler, and it's about the stories he heard along the way. Eight out of ten stories are about how people who got lost in the desert died, or about How did you discover new oases and gemstone mines, but... still a lot of people died."
Liu Huan also watched, "Some people fell directly into the scorpion pit and were gnawed to the bone."
Even Bai Shan was taken aback, and hurriedly went to see Nie Canjun, "Nie Canjun, we should not get lost, right?"
Nie Canjun didn't want to talk to them anymore, but he still said: "Master Bai, there is only one road in this desert, how can you get lost?"
Bai Shan pondered: "There are no ruts on the road, how can we be sure that the road we are walking on is the road?"
Nie Canjun: ...
The soldier on the side couldn't help but said happily: "Don't worry, Mr. Bai, we can still recognize the road, don't look at it, it seems to be all the same, but the road you walked is not sandy. It’s different, if you don’t believe it, if you stomp your feet here and then stomp your feet further down, the sand you enter will be different.”
Even Mr. You came to comfort them, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, adults, there are many people passing this road. The desert here is not big, it's just this one. If you go further, you will leave the boundary of Suzhou and enter the sandbar. There are more Gobi and grasslands over there, but less deserts. So this road is still obvious, and you can’t go wrong.”
He said with experience: "Only in that kind of big desert, it is possible to get lost after going deep."
He paused and said: "Adults are going to the Western Regions, and they will definitely have to cross the desert at that time, so you have to be careful at that time. It's best to ask two guides to take them with you."
Man Bao and Bai Shan looked at each other and remembered it in their hearts.
Everyone took a short break and continued after drinking water.
Because they wanted to rush to the oasis, everyone speeded up after getting in the car.
The convoy walked through two sand dunes in a row, and when they reached the highest point of a sand dune, a town suddenly appeared in front of them, and even the soldiers cheered in low voices.
Man Bao opened the curtain and looked out, pleasantly surprised, "It's really an oasis!"
Bai Shan squeezed over to watch, and the two of them immediately dropped the chess that was only halfway through, and ran over by themselves after asking for a horse with Daji.
When Nie Canjun saw that they took a few guards and ran away first, he twitched the corners of his mouth and said nothing, and continued to push the convoy forward slowly without any complaints.
Even Yin Ru rode a horse to walk with them, and it looked very close, but after they got down the hill, they still ran for two quarters of an hour to reach the place.
This is a big lake with green grass on the lake, dense woods on one side, and rows of houses on the other.
There are no city walls, and naturally there are no city gates. The convoy can enter from any side.
But after entering, they could only walk around the lake. Bai Shan and the others reined in their horses when they got close, and finally chose the side with the densest houses to enter.
The streets inside are all muddy, but they are very flat. As soon as they entered, they saw someone setting up a stall, and the people inside looked up at them almost immediately.
A young man's eyes lit up, he dropped the things in his hands and rushed forward before the others, "Is your guest staying? My house has a yard, the big yard—"
There were also people who were similar to him rushing forward, including women, who stopped in front of the horse and recommended their house.
Not only Man Bao and others, but also their horses stomped several times in fright.
Daji immediately stepped forward with his guards to stop them.
Man Bao was still in shock, looked at the stretching street, and asked, "Don't you have an inn here?"
"No!" All the people around said in unison, and a young man said loudly: "Miss, there is no inn like Zhongyuan, but in fact our house is an inn, and they are all for guests to live in. They are very clean. If you don't believe me, go and see them."
Man Bao doesn't believe it, there are inns even on the road, this oasis looks like a transit place, how can there be no inns
However, she glanced back and saw that the convoy was still far away, so she was not in a hurry to make a decision, so she exchanged a glance with Bai Shan and simply dismounted, and said to the people who came up: "Don't worry, it's still early, we Don't rush to sleep, by the way, is this a city or a town?"