I'm full of rebellion against fate

Chapter 435: Unfading Beauty

Chang Ningchen, rubbing his waist, looked at Dongfang He very unhappily. This guy was like a wolf and a tiger at night, and he could not stand it anymore!

Dongfang He also knew that he had gone a little too far that night, so he quickly went to massage his shoulders and back, looking like a bootlicker.

Seeing how good the relationship between the two was, other people thought it was just a friendship between young people, and that it was nice for the two to go back to their rooms to read at night, so they didn't take it too seriously.

That night, Chang Ningchen took a shower and went to bed quickly. Dongfang He entered the room, locked the door and turned off the lights. When the man was about to get into Chang Ningchen's bed, he was kicked by Dongfang He.

Chang Ningchen said unhappily: "Go back to your bed and sleep. I want to rest alone today!"

Dongfang He did not give up after hearing what Chang Ningchen said. Instead, he said to Chang Ningchen, "I'll take you to see Fu Hao's tomb next time."

Chang Ningchen replied: "I don't want to watch it."

Dongfang He then asked, "What about Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum?"

Chang Ningchen said, "Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng jointly selected the site for her tomb. Huang Chao led his men to dig for over a hundred days, but they dug up half the mountain and still couldn't find it. Do you know the exact location of the underground palace?"

Dongfang He thought about it and really didn't know, so he changed the question and said, "Then where do you want to see it?"

Chang Ningchen thought for a moment and said, "Look at Princess Xiaohe."

Now it was Dongfang He's turn to be unhappy. The Xiaohe Princess had only a few hundred wooden coffins buried in the desert. Although it had a history of more than 3800 years, its civilization was relatively backward. It was obvious that Chang Ningchen was going for her beauty!

Seeing that Dongfang He was unhappy, Chang Ningchen pulled him aside and said, "After seeing the wet corpse, why don't you go see the dried corpse?"

Dongfang He replied: "You can watch Yingpan Beauty, Zhang Xiong, and the couple of Jingjue Ancient City. If you can't watch it, go to Xiangxi and it will move."

Chang Ningchen tilted his head, thought for a moment, and said, "In the end, that was corpse driving, not mummification!"

Dongfang He had already brought the two people closer through chatting, and started his nightlife with his arms around her.

Of course, since the food is already in your mouth, your partner’s wish should still be satisfied. Otherwise, if you promise to pull up your pants and then forget about it, you are a scumbag.

Chang Ningchen was very emotional looking at the sky full of yellow sand. It was worthy of being called the "Sea of Death". There was no mobile phone signal here, and the sand dunes were changing every day due to the wind. Standing in this desert, he felt very small.

Dongfang He hugged Chang Ningchen and said, "The government's efforts in combating desertification are very impressive. Desertification has been halted in many places, and forests have been planted in large tracts. If this kind of project continues for generations, the desert will disappear in the future."

They followed the archaeological team all the way. Although Chang Ningchen didn't know the direction, the archaeological team members already had a direction.

In 1934, Bergman, a native of the Nordic snow country of Sweden, announced his amazing discovery to the world.

As a member of the Northwest Joint Expedition organized by Sven Hedin, Bergman discovered an ancient tomb with "a thousand coffins" in the "Sea of Death" and named it the Xiaohe Cemetery.

During this period, due to military reasons, the "Sea of Death" was no longer open to the public.

70 years later, archaeologists from China finally found this site after searching for a long time in the "Sea of Death" based on the description in Bergman's book. A female mummy was excavated at this small river site. Although it had been four thousand years old, the mummy was well preserved and the smile on her face was clearly visible.

Archaeologists marveled at its beauty and integrity, and after discovering it at the Xiaohe site, they named it "Xiaohe Princess." This is the origin of the name Xiaohe Princess.

It also has another name called the Tomb of the Sun.

On the sand dunes not far away, there are many pillars made of poplar trees. There is a pillar in front of each coffin in the Xiaohe Cemetery. From a distance, it looks like a dead poplar forest.

The pillars differ depending on the gender of the deceased: males have paddle-shaped pillars, while females have oval-shaped tops.

Chang Ningchen looked at the family cemetery that looked like a poplar forest, and remembered what his teacher told him when he was a child: "Poplars live for a thousand years without dying, die for a thousand years without falling, and fall for a thousand years without decay."

The poplar trees on the sand dunes are like an ancient book, recording the vicissitudes and changes of the years. They are the backbone of the desert, the symbol of tenacity, and the wordless tombstones of the Xiaohe family cemetery. They stand in this place, withstanding four thousand years of time for this family.

There are probably hundreds of pillars taller than humans, and they have to deal with these pillars before they can explore the tomb.

After the archaeological team cleared the sandbags, they dug out the "ship coffin" from the sand. The coffin looks like a ship, but it is not a real ship.

After the archaeological team's research on the "ship coffin", it was found that it was made of two poplar trees processed into a pair of "bracket" shaped wooden strips, which became the side panels of the coffin, and the coffin lid was made of more than ten small baffles.

Then the mourners will slaughter a live cow on the spot and skin it immediately. The entire coffin will be wrapped with fresh cowhide, which will tighten when it dries. This coffin has no bottom, so it can accelerate the loss of water from the body. Burying it in the sand can dehydrate it and prevent it from rotting.

Chang Ningchen watched the expedition members tear off the cowhide outside the coffin. The sound of the leather peeling off was quite relaxing.

Soon, a young woman's face appeared in front of everyone. She was pale and serene. Compared with the mummies that were as black as dead tree bark and the skulls with sinister smiles, this mummy's face was truly beautiful.

He has big eyes, a high nose bridge, and wears a pointed felt hat. He looks like he has European and American ancestry.

Dongfang He gazed into the distance and said, "More than 160 kilometers from here is the ancient kingdom of Loulan, but this Xiaohe cemetery is even older than Loulan."

Looking at this beautiful face, Chang Ningchen couldn't help but sigh that time had paused on Princess Xiaohe's appearance. Then he turned his head and saw that Dongfang He seemed a little jealous.

He quickly returned to Dongfang He and said, "I saw her in the museum before and she didn't look like the photo, so I wanted to see the one at the excavation site."

Dongfang He said: "After being excavated, the body will still decompose, so it is normal to see some differences."

Chang Ningchen nodded and asked again, "They all say she died of a difficult childbirth. Is that true?"

Dongfang He replied: "Looking at the information, the medical school did a CT scan on her and she's not pregnant."

Chang Ningchen suddenly remembered something and asked, "I remember Bergman mentioned the Little River Princess in his book. So he must have opened a boat coffin and seen a Little River Princess."

Dongfang He thought for a moment and replied, "Perhaps the young women in the Xiaohe Tomb were all very beautiful, just like every young woman in Reba's family is as beautiful as Reba. And a thousand years ago, this place wasn't necessarily all desert; there could have been lakes and rivers."

What you said makes a lot of sense. Chang Ningchen looked at the rolling sand dunes. The world has changed dramatically, and only the boat coffin and the wooden oars are still telling the outside world that this place was once full of vitality.