"What's inside?" the leader also asked anxiously.

"It's something particularly disgusting and terrifying."

The leader thought for a while and asked, "Is it a head?"

"It's even more shocking than that... how to say it, because the pot is cooked with young bones..." After Zhang Xiangyang said this, he lay on the table like a pool of mud.

The leader was also shocked. He wanted to ask anything else, but Zhang Xiangyang was probably drunk and unconscious. He vomited on the table for a long time, but in the end he couldn't even get rid of himself. The leader had to carry him on his own and drive him home.

Zhang Xiangyang rented a small house alone. The house faced north. When he stood at the door, he smelled a musty smell, and even the locks outside seemed to be rusted. The leader wanted to wake up Zhang Xiangyang, but he had been drunk for a long time and was indifferent to the call.

The leader had no choice but to take out a bunch of keys from his pocket and tried several times before opening the lock.

As soon as I opened the door, I felt a cold breeze blowing on my face. The room was dark and wet, and it felt sticky everywhere. The room was full of rat, women, and worms crawling around. It was simply not a place for human survival.

The leader put Zhang Xiangyang on the cold bed. When he first entered the door, he touched the door frame and accidentally pinched a bug to death. Looking at the green insect liquid in his palm, he suddenly felt nauseous in his stomach. He found the bathroom in the room, then turned on the light, trying to wash his hands before leaving.

He turned on the faucet, took a piece of soap, washed the insect stains on his hands, and then turned off the faucet. Just as he was about to leave, he accidentally glanced at the mirror hanging above the basin.

"Ah!" the leader screamed in dismay.

Because a face reflected in the mirror, it was both his own face and not his own face!

Compared to himself, the face in the mirror looked like paper, with white eyes, purple lips, and black Yin Tang - the strange face that makes people tremble all over when they look at it!

The leader screamed again, and he rushed out of the bathroom without any choice, then opened the door and rushed out.

...

This is what Captain Garlic learned about Zhang Xiangyang's information. Later, he wanted to continue to touch Zhang Xiangyang's background through his relatives. But this time it was not Zhang Xiangyang who rejected him, but that relative.

"Do you want me to live for a few more years?" a relative begged Captain Garlic.

Captain Garlic had no choice but to give up further tracking of Zhang Xiangyang's line. Zhang Xiangyang continued to live his own life. He went out late and returned early, and did not go out on weekends, as if he was guarding something at home.

Captain Garlic paused after talking about Zhang Xiangyang, saying, "Later I asked many people, some said that he was raising a little ghost in this situation, so he could not get married or go out."

"Ah? Little Devil?" Hua Yan almost stood up excitedly, "Where is such a strange thing? I want to catch someone to play!"

I pulled her back to the spot.

Captain Garlic looked at Hua Yan and his face changed. My heart trembled. Just as I was about to find a way to explain, I suddenly burst into laughter when I heard him laugh.

"There is a poem called 'Today, the long tassels are in your hand, when will the Canglong be bound?' I think Teacher Shen has this courage! He has good appetite and courage!"

Hua Yan had never been praised like this before, he giggled.

A stone fell to the ground in my heart. It seems that although Hualang occasionally gets nervous, it does not arouse others' suspicion, because in this society and in this era, there are not too many people who get nervous.

"What I want to tell you next is about the Yarkand Ranch."

"Yardang Ranch? Is it the place where the archaeological team discovered the suspected Wen Mushan couple after they disappeared?"

"Yes, the place name Yecheng is actually the abbreviation of Yerkang City. The Yarkang River is the source of the Tarim River and the river of life of Takramakan. It originates in the Karakoram Mountains, and then cuts across the Kunlun Mountains to form a narrow river valley, and then flows to Yecheng.

"So, if you want to go west from Yecheng to Tashkurgan County, you must go north to Kashgar. If you want to take the road from Yecheng to go west, you must go west along the river valley.

"But the terrain of the Yarkand Valley is complex, and if you take a shortcut, you can only hike, but the hike takes a long time, so it is not that easy to cross the Kunlun Mountains.

"So the time it takes to hike through Kunlun is several times that of the North detour route. Therefore, this so-called shortcut is just a theoretical shortcut. In normal times, except for herders, there are few people at the sight of the journey."

"But if Wen Mushan really kills and escapes, he may choose this path. Because there are no checkpoints along the way, and there are no villages, it is very easy to cover up people." I said.

Captain Garlic nodded.

"So, when the herder on the riverside ranch provided clues and found two men one tall and one short, our first reaction was to judge that they were Wen Mushan and his wife dressed up in disguise.

"Because if Wen Mushan and his wife want to sneak across the border, then they will go west along the Yarkand Valley and reach Tashkurgan County, and then continue to travel west soon, the border line between China and Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"But the border defense was limited at that time, and only the Hongqilafu Port had garrison guards, so you could choose any small mountain pass from this border line and you could cross the border in a swagger.

"In fact, the earliest villagers of Kalayatur who fled to the Soviet Union were along this road and crossing the Sarekole Ridge and going abroad from the Kolemai Pass on the current Sino-Taman border..."

Before Captain Garlic could finish speaking, I was excited.

"What? Sarekole Ridge? Kolemai Pass?"

"My good guy!" Hua Yan also sighed in some dialect, "Shen Yu is right. It really touches the whole body. A Xiye Kingdom has linked everything together!"

"Teacher Shen, why do you call your own name..." Captain Sugar was inexplicably again.

"Oh haha, I'm used to Lao Wang selling melons and boasting about it." Hua Yan pretended to be embarrassed and grabbed his curly hair hard and smiled.

"She is crazy." I continued to get the final shot.

Captain Garlic did not go into it any further, nor did he ask me why I was so sensitive to Sarekole. He was still immersed in the atmosphere of self-telling.

"In short, the clues provided by the herdsman were one of the important evidence when the Wen couple was judged to kill and seize treasures and smuggle and treason. However, when I visited him later, I found something completely different..."

"What? Is the herdsmen doing perjury?"

"No, the herdsman did not lie, but he did not say it completely. The person who went to the ranch to ask for food and drink was indeed two people, one fat and one thin. But the herdsman did not tell the situation completely. Later, I found him and he told me that the two of them were eating in the ranch and said, "Don't eat all of them, leave some meat and bring them there'."
Chapter completed!