A man and a woman were busy until the sun set, and seemed to be still unsatisfied. Until the sky was so dim that it was difficult to see things, she packed up her clothes by the river beach and left in a hurry.

"Do you want to keep up with them?" a female voice asked in a low voice, her eyes finally leaving the telescope that could hardly see anything.

"No, I'll come tomorrow." The male voice next to him was quite tired. He slowly turned over, moved his already sore shoulders, looked up at the gradually darkening sky, and felt quite gloomy.

Another night came, and I had been in this vast place north of Yunlun for half a month. From Dingbian to Urat Front Banner, from Baiyun to Chahar rear Banner, from Zhuozi to Tumote Left Banner, and from Tumote Left Banner to the Fourth Prince Banner. After a series of twists and turns, I ran three zigzag round-trip, without a thousand miles, and it was not much different.

The man was Xu Wen, and the woman was naturally Shen Yingjie. They were lying in a grass nest a thousand meters away from the river beach, staring at the busy couple just now, and staring at the whole day. As soon as the grassland was at night, the temperature dropped sharply. Although the two were ready, they were too cold to bear it, so they cleaned up and left quickly.

Shen Yingjie made a mistake in Li Tianqiu in eastern Guangdong and was very emotionally depressed. After being investigated, he should have returned to the National Security Department of Xishan Province. The instructor was worried about his situation and simply transferred her to the special operations team. On the one hand, it was for protection, and on the other hand, it was because he was his own student and knew the truth.

Because it was a temporary transfer, she didn't even have time to handle the procedures and did not participate in the short and hasty special training. She received the instructions on the way and met Xu Wen. She was briefly cramming about the Zhang family and this task, and listened to Xu Wen's oral statement.

Shen Yingjie unexpectedly encountered the most confusing and unorganized task with Xu Wen this time. He looked for a ruin called "Eereqi". What does the ruin look like? Is it an ancient city? an ancient tomb? or something else? The instructor did not explain it, and it is very likely that he had not figured it out at all.

The only information in Xu Wen's hand was almost negligible. There was an ancient painting burned in his mobile phone, a restored ancient map that the instructor thought was self-righteous, and there was also a picture of the back of an antique, like a jade slip, or a large ring. There was a pocket portrait on the raised side of the ring, which could be seen clearly with a magnifying glass. It was a ferocious beast's head.

This head is lifelike and has a natural murderous aura, giving people infinite pressure. The red eyes are as big as peach eggs, with a hidden edge in it. The dark texture of the left eye is extremely complex. It seems to be composed of countless runes. Unfortunately, it has been enlarged to the limit and is still unrecognizable. There is a gray picture in the right eye, like a world, which looks very gloomy and desolate against the background of the blood-red eyeballs.

The ferocious beast's long fangs are also blood-colored, and it is very obstructive and outward. It is easy to remind people of the terrifying tearing feeling when stabbed into the opponent's body. The ferocious beast's nose is the most uncharacteristic and simplest part of the facial features. There are only two small black holes. If you look closely, there seems to be a bright spot in the center of the black, but it has also been enlarged to the limit and still cannot be seen clearly.

With Xu Wen's own knowledge and reading a lot of information, he could not find any information related to the ferocious beast. In other words, this thing should not exist in the current world, and he could only guess out of thin air. It was an ancient creature that once existed, it was just a totem in a racial belief, or a beast in an extraterritorial space. In short, there was no clue, and it was impossible to guess what the ferocious beast's avatar meant. It was only used as a backup in the mobile phone.

What really works is the map given to him by the instructor, which is purely hand-painted, and even the scale scales are hand-filmed. This is what the instructor uses based on some of the information he found in the Zhang Family Ancestral Hall, combined with the background in the incomplete ancient painting as a sample, and then compared countless electronic map models and finally determined the approximate direction.

The reason for hand-painting is that more than two hundred years have passed, the geographical scenery has changed greatly, and many land names have also disappeared or changed in the long river of history. The most useful landmark, the Erna River, has also been diverted. It can be said that many places have been beyond recognition.

With this pitiful thing, Xu Wen and Shen Yingjie embarked on an unknown journey. The two of them put on makeup and became little couples in Xitianhadi. They signed up for a group of hikers from the desert and grasslands, heading towards the legendary "Eereqi" monument.

However, the map developed by the instructor is quite unreliable. First, it is large and the range is too large, so large that it is endless. When we arrived at the first stop of Yulin, Xu Wen started to feel dizzy. It is completely different to watching the map and reaching the actual place. Second, there are only suspected points and no core points in the map. To put it bluntly, it is uncertain about the specific location. This is the most exciting place.

The Baiyun Mining Area is 600 kilometers north of Yulin. This is the northern limit in the map. Such a north-south range is already very large, but the east-west range is even larger, almost spanning Bayannur, Ike Showa and Ulanqab, and there is also an east-west Yinshan Mountain Range in the middle.

According to the five key areas defined by the instructor, except Dingbian County in the north of Yulin, the first is the westernmost end. The Urat Front Banner in Bayannur is also the northern military town of Woye Town in the Wei and Jin Dynasties; the second is Guyang County east of the Urat Front Banner. Coincidentally, it is also the historical town Huaishuo on the east side; the third is Wuchuan County located between the left and right banners of Tumot, and the last is the Four Princes Banner 70 kilometers northeast of Wuchuan. The Tuchengzi in the southeast is also a famous military town in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Fuming Town.

There are two of the five key areas north of Daqing Mountain. Coincidentally, they were all important military towns in the north of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. There were four of the so-called northern six towns of the Northern Wei Dynasty. This indicates that it is hard to say. The instructor once studied the history of the Wei and Jin Dynasties seriously, especially the Six Towns Uprisings. Although they read it very interestingly, they did not find out the reason. The key is that they could not find any connection between the two dynasties in the long river of history that was separated by 1,500 years from the Northern Wei to the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

The above analysis is naturally not something Xu Wen can imagine. He doesn't even know how much information the instructor stole from the Zhang family ancestral hall, nor does he know what the instructor's gun is like to change his career as a pen. Anyway, he just needs to do things according to what the instructor has figured out.

But the instructor is not a geography and archaeology after all, and is very unprofessional, so he couldn't find it and simply threw it to Xu Wen, who was even more unprofessional. He looked like a hand-off manager. Xu Wen was also very unwilling to accept it while swearing to do one, two, three, and four.

Xu Wen and Shen Yingjie made a simple discussion and decided to focus on the key points. They didn't even think about the range of thousands of kilometers. That would really drown people. They only spent their time targeting five key areas and used the elimination method to defeat them. Otherwise, it would be a dream to find such a place that is not recorded in history books.

The two of them stayed with the hikers in Dingbian for more than a day, and found excuses to go out to inquire about "Eereqi". This should be Mongolian, but no one has heard of it. It doesn't look like a place name, but it looks a bit like the title "Eeqi". The translation means a beautiful sister. Xu Wen was confused when he heard it, but Shen Yingjie laughed.

When a group of silly children returned to their accommodation without help during the day, they did not plan to return to Yulin, but planned to explore the Mu Usu Desert and set out to set off early the next morning. Xu Wen said he was feeling unwell and left the army with Shen Yingjie.

The area is too big and there are five key areas. Time is quite tight, so Xu Wen naturally cannot stay in Dingbian for too long. If there is no result at night, he will set off for Jingbian early the next morning because he had heard from the instructor that the ancestors of the Zhang family led troops to garrison in the Liushujian area of ​​Jingbian 200 years ago. It is very likely that the secret origin of the Zhang family was the secret place of origin. Why did the instructor not list this place as a key area? Xu Wen did not understand, but he still felt that it was safe to go there.

The two signed up to participate in the tour group and followed a group of old men and ladies to participate in the one-day tour of the Red Tour. Jingbian is an old revolutionary base, with the old site where older generations of revolutionaries lived and fought, as well as the ruins of the ancient Great Wall. There are many short-distance groups, which are lively and convenient.

Along the way, Xu Wen asked the tour guide about the historical scenery of Jingbian. The tour guide was chatty, but his understanding of history was only general and could not give an answer. He could not know Er'er's Eqi, so he recommended revolutionary attractions such as Jingbian River and Tianci Bay to Xu Wen.

Xu Wen understood that the tour guide could not be as familiar with the county annals as professionals, and it was even more impossible to understand that the Qing army had once had a garrison, so he had to chat casually. Shen Yingjie, who was beside him, chatted with the old lady in the seat opposite him, but after a long time of struggle, he did not get any useful news.

When he arrived at the county town, Xu Wen did not take the instructor's warning to heart. He left the tour group and went directly to the county annals office of the county government. Although Shen Yingjie did not agree with his approach, the task was urgent, and it was very confusing to move around like a headless fly, so he did not deliberately stop him.

Xu Wen once had the identity of a reporter, which came in handy at this time. He made up a reasonable reason when he entered the door. An old man in the office was lukewarm and cold. He looked left and right at the ID for a long time before he called for instructions. Not long after, he was taken to the reception room by a young staff member.

The young man was quite enthusiastic and talkative, and could answer most of Xu Wen's questions in detail, but he didn't know the key things. He studied history and politics and knew the county agendas well, but he was not sure about the garrison troops in Jingbian during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, let alone Er'er's.

Xu Wen was disappointed, but the young man next told a historical story about Zhenjingbao, which talked about the largest horse gang Qingyun business in the area from Zhenjingbao to Liushujian in the late Qing Dynasty. Zhang Songlin, the chief shopkeeper, was a famous figure at that time. He not only had several large tea and horse caravans, but also his own special escorts. He had armed guards from south to north, and his business was very large, almost monopolizing the tea salt, porcelain, and cloth business in the Yunlong area. It can be said that Mr. Zhang stomped his feet, and the entire Yunlong was shaking three times. Later, it was spread to the next generation. The Zhang family began to decline, and the business became a bandit and businessman, which was suppressed by the Beiyang military government at that time. Later, the Zhang family was divided and most of them moved south.

Zhenjing Fort is a county town in the Guangxu Yearbook Jingbian, not a new castle in the Qianlong period. Xu Wen also roughly heard from the instructors about this history, but when asked about Zhang Songlin's ancestors, the young man couldn't explain it clearly, and it seemed that the file was cut invisibly.

Fearing that Xu Wen would not believe it, the young man turned around and went out and soon brought a magazine, which was a 1991 local chronicle yearbook. There was an article dedicated to studying the history of bandits and the horse gangs on the Jingbian road. It was very long, but the deviation was too far. I didn't say much about Jingbian, but I just talked a lot about other counties.

The article analyzes the emergence of modern horse gangs to the civil uprisings that broke out in the northwest of the late Qing Dynasty, and elaborated on the relationship between horse gangs and bandits. There is only a short paragraph in the middle that mentions Zhang Songlin and Qingyun Shop, saying that his ancestors came from the capital and were in good terms with Fan Qiwei, the garrison of Huaiyuan Prefecture, and passed by a short sentence. After a long period of history, there was no word about the Zhang family again. On the contrary, during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the emergence of the Ma family army occupied a large amount of space, until the decline and division of the Zhang family were submerged in the mud and sand of history.

Xu Wen gritted his teeth and read the awkward article twice, and finally he sighed to the sky. After thanking the young man very much, the two said goodbye.

Xu Wen was depressed along the way. Dingbian County had little hope and no gains were reasonable, but Jingbian had no progress, which made him very upset. If it weren't for Shen Yingjie's reminder, he wouldn't be able to get up all afternoon. The young man once mentioned that the former site of the Qingyun Business Company should be near the Jingbian River. Because he had not had any verification, he also heard from an old man who had passed away and could not be true.

Xu Wen suddenly felt energetic and slapped his head and scolded him for being brainless. On the tour bus, he had also heard the tour guide introduce this attraction. He drove a small distance away from the tour group and was just in time to rush over.
Chapter completed!