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After setting the goal, Yiyi and I started to prepare with enthusiasm.

Complaining to the property, applying for annual leave, handing over work, making strategies, consulting tour group information, purchasing equipment... everything is carried out in an orderly manner.There are just two things that make me laugh and cry.

One is that when we went to the outdoor store to buy equipment, the boss heard that we were going to Badain Jaran and immediately dissuaded us.The desert weather in this season is changeable and very dry. There are very few tourist groups arriving there, even the club travel friends are very few.The boss said that in this season, the temperature in Inner Mongolia is occasionally below zero, Haizi is still frozen, Populus splendens has not grown up, and the scenery is far less beautiful than Xiaqiu.

Yiyi and I hesitated, and finally decided to go by drawing lots. What would the barren sand in spring be like?What will the unmelted Haizi and dry Populus euphratica look like?Another kind of scenery may also be very nice!

The second thing is that Qingming is unwilling to stay in the pet hospital.Airplanes and trains are not allowed to bring pets, so I had no choice but to threaten it a little angrily: "If you do this again, I won't want you anymore."

I was just whining and didn't expect a cat to understand me.Unexpectedly, Qingming blinked his glasses at me, rubbed me obediently, then got into my backpack, poked out a small head, and meowed at me.

Is this what it wants me to carry in a backpack?

I sighed, Qingming is probably a monster.

……

"Where do you want to go, Xiaoyang?"

"west."

I was at a loss: "Xinjiang?"

"more or less."

"Why? People are crowding north, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, but you're fine. Don't take advantage of the favorable conditions, and just run there. What are you doing there? Do you eat sand?"

Xiaoyang smiled: "Respond to the call of the motherland and build the great northwest of the motherland."

"Please, brother, what year is this? This is 2014! Just say no..."

Li Xiaoyang put his index finger to his lips, and made a shh gesture: "I heard that the meat over there is delicious, and I heard that the girls over there are generally beautiful."

I kicked him hard, but he didn't dodge, but took it with a smile.

"Just kidding, they are not as good-looking as you. Weiwei, have you ever heard of the legend of the Pisces jade pendant?"

"No, next one."

"Ah, according to legend, someone found a large number of unknown devices in the ruins of an ancient city in Lop Nur. In order to test the functions of these devices, someone used biological experiments. When using fish for testing, it was found that it could replicate another fish that was exactly the same , researchers think it is a mirror fish, so this device is called the Pisces Jade Pendant, and it is said that it is a time machine."

"Time Machine?"

"There are also legends that there are unknown creatures that humans cannot understand. It is said that there is radiation there that can mutate creatures. There is also a saying about two bombs..."

Li Xiaoyang blinked, and I probably understood what he meant.

"Really, really? Can you copy fish? Can you mutate?" Fear of the unknown and endless curiosity dominated me at the same time.

"I don't know. I heard that the disappearance of botanist Peng Jiamu is also related to this."

"Didn't he say he was killed?"

"I've heard it too. This legend is not credible. Besides, even if this kind of thing is true, it is impossible to leak it. Otherwise, people's hearts will be turbulent and society will be unstable."

"Then where did this statement come from?"

"It is said that a researcher from that year wrote a novel, and the novel and that person's ID never appeared again."

I was silent for a long time, then raised my head and asked him, "What does this have to do with your going to Xinjiang? Are you going to Lop Nur?"

"no."

"Then what are you talking about?"

"Come on, don't you think it's amazing?"

"what?"

"I want to travel to that area to see the legends. Go to Inner Mongolia, Yinchuan, Ningxia, and then Xinjiang, from Ngari to Tibet, from Aba to the Hengduan Mountains, and finally to Sichuan."

His finger drew a line in the air, as if there was really a map in front of him.

I kicked him again and started hammering him.

"It made me worry about you. You just want to travel. Do you dare to speak clearly next time?"

During the frolicking, he hugged me, and I couldn't move, so I had to stare at him.

"Badain Jaran."

"what!"

"Starting from Badain Jaran, I will take you through these places. In Tibet, after the pilgrimage, I propose to you."

I turned my head in embarrassment: "You are still on pilgrimage, you believe in Buddhism."

"Just seek to be innocent, and don't ask ghosts and gods."

When he said this, he was serious.At this time, he has a kind of magical power, as if as long as he looks at you so firmly, he will be able to achieve any goal in his mouth.

"Weiwei, I heard that the starry sky on the grasslands and deserts is very beautiful. Let's go see together, shall we?"

I remember it was an evening, when he was just admitted to graduate school.

The sun is very subtle and warm, and the refreshing taste of lemon soda is the whole summer in my memory.

Just like him.

……

I opened my eyes and looked at the sunlight outside the car window. It was a bit dazzling, and it was also a grand evening weather.

The road traffic radio was playing in the car, intermittently, like the green fences outside the window, leaving us as quickly as possible.

"Weiwei, you're awake!" Yiyi poked her head out from the co-pilot.

"Where have we been?"

"We are now taking the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, and we have already arrived in Inner Mongolia."

Qingming climbed onto my lap with noble steps and meowed.

It turns out that there are not only grasslands in Inner Mongolia.

But why didn't I see the yurt and the horse?