Chapter 4 Harrah’s Haupt-North School Tomb Raider’s Notes

Don’t look at Lao Wang is a dry restaurant cook, but the person is shrewd, Lao Qin used chopsticks to point to the ground and he understood.

He thought for a moment and whispered, “Old comrade, we have a legend here that has been passed down for hundreds of years, there are many who believe in it and many who don’t believe in it, I’ll tell it to you, you shouldn’t take it seriously, just listen to it as a story.”

The story Lao Wang tells is called General Black Burning the City to Bury the Treasure, and is set in Western Xia, in Harahot.

You can’t find Harahot on a map; the word translated in ancient Muslim means, “black water, pitch black water,” so Harahot has another big name.

“Blackwater City.”

The old king said that Heishui City used to be on the ancient Silk Road, in the deepest part of the Helan Mountain range. When the Mongols crossed the Yellow River for the sixth time, this time it was Genghis Khan’s imperial expedition, then more than 200,000 Mongolian soldiers to the Xingqingfu (the capital of Western Xia) besieged for more than three months, the Xingqingfu lack of soldiers and food, the soldiers were starving and skinny can only wait for death.

At that time, the reason why only surrounded not attack, the legend is Genghis Khan scorn Western Xia’s Iron Harrier women’s soldiers. Sounds a bit unbelievable, a generation of pride is afraid of women soldiers. Why is this?

According to local lore, there are two ways to describe the Iron Harrier.

A kind of said Iron Harrier all female soldiers, 4 horses tied together with chains, 4 female soldiers on horseback each holding a different length of the weapon, rushing to kill the enemy with each other skilfully, playing up to the mighty exception, invincible.

Genghis Khan’s army before the five times against the iron harrier full defeat, to his age at the time and body condition, this is the last attack on Western Xia, if not down, will give the future generations of children and grandchildren buried hidden dangers, so in order to be foolproof he decided to use siege tactics, forcing Western Xia to surrender.

The commander of the Iron Harrier army is a woman general in her forties. Legend has it that this female general has a mole on her right eye with dark skin, a girl with a male face is born with divine power, and her weapon is a seventy-odd kilograms chopping sword, which can cut down the horse’s head with one cut, and the Mongols gave her a nickname of Black General. This is the first version of the legend.

Another statement is mysterious, said the iron harrier in fact are not people, are after a special refining of the corpse, because the corpse will not ride a horse, so the four horses with an iron chain in a piece, which is to prevent the horse run amok. Refining Iron Harrier corpse is the Western Xia master of state, the man’s name is not known, there is a nickname called July climb, as to why called July climb no one can say clearly.

Iron Harrier ho no pain, only know to kill, general knife and arrow greeting to the body with nothing like a person, so the Mongolian soldiers can’t fight, ate several big losses.

The Mongols surrounded Xingqingfu, when the Iron Harrier happened to be stationed in Halahot, General Black knew that the situation was over, so he let go of all the people in the city, General Black will be the entire Halahot treasure collection, in order not to fall into the hands of the Mongols, secretly buried the treasure, and then ordered the Iron Harrier 10,000 horses to run to step on the sealing mound of earth, and finally a fire lit up the Blackwater City. Only left Genghis Khan a worthless dead city.

Finished the story, the old king put down the wine glass, laughed: “How old comrades, in the Helan Mountain area where the old man, are listening to the story of the black general grew up, Hala HaoTe has long been buried under the yellow sand, even if the story passed on by our local people is true, Liupan Mountain next to the Tengger Gobi Beach, the Gobi Beach is followed by the endless Alashan Desert, where to find the Hala HaoTe ah, everywhere is yellow sand and rocks, it is estimated to find a few hundred years can not be found. Halahot ah, everywhere is yellow sand and rocks, I guess looking for hundreds of years can not be found.”

See Qin Xingping is not moved, the old king said: “Old Qin, not old comrades I hit you, you can think of the way to get rich others must have thought of, or give up the idea before it is too early, unrealistic.”

Qin Xingping changed the topic and said, “Let’s not mention this first, to tell you the truth old comrade, I came here this time mainly to find the Hutt tribe, do you have any way?”

“The Hutt?”

Old Wang frowned: “Those people live in the desert, live in the county can not see once a year, this thing I can not help you, but you really want to find the Hutu people, you can go to Helan County’s Yintian Farmer’s Market to ask around, I heard that a boss there has a young daughter, his young daughter in the Yinchuan Daily Newspaper as a reporter, it seems to interview the Hutu people chief, you find that person to ask See.”

“Good, come on, full on full on, old comrade in arms you see we ate so much, a little meaning,” said the words, Qin Xingping pulled out two hundred dollars.

“What are you doing!” Old Wang annoyed, “Do not not treat me as a brother ah, give what money, quickly put away, in the give then I can with you anxious eyes ah.”

After eating and drinking we stayed overnight, Zhao Xuanxuan love clean, she borrowed a bath room to take a bath, Lao Wang’s Hui daughter-in-law also gave Zhao Xuanxuan a small vest worn by Hui women as a gift.

At dawn, a few of us got up early to say goodbye to Lao Wang’s family and drove to rush to Helan County.