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Apart from feeding him some food and water to ensure that he would not die of starvation and thirst, he was ignored at all.

When the Sand Pirates were resting, they directly tied him up like a rice dumpling with cowhide ropes, and he couldn't even move.In the eyes of Sand Pirates, Li Wangyou is just a "cargo".

This made Li Wangyou, who had prepared a lot of rhetoric and wanted to "fool" these sand robbers, felt aggrieved and uncomfortable because he had nowhere to use his strength.

The Sand Bandit team wandered around the desert for a few days and then returned to their lair.

Li Wangyou was still bound and thrown on the camel's back like cargo.When he crossed the top of the last sand dune, the scenery in front of him lifted Li Wangyou's spirit.

What a quiet and quiet desert lake!

Below the sand dunes, thousands of Malan flowers bloom around the lake in the wind. The lake is clear and clean. Wild ducks, gray cranes and swans are flying up and down on the lake, adding a bit of vitality.

There is a camp by the lake, which is obviously the lair of the sand robbers.

Li Wangyou cursed inwardly, it's a pity that such a magnificent desert lake is actually occupied by these damn sand robbers, it's really a waste of money.

Now Li Wangyou is too busy to take care of himself, but he can only say a few words of regret in his heart.What will happen next, he has no idea in his mind.

But as the saying goes, there is no book without a coincidence.

Li Wangyou didn't expect that in the sand bandit camp, he would run into the father and daughter who he and Su Zhangqing had rescued from the two unworthy sons of the warrior Xun when they were traveling through Lizhou.

And it was precisely this pair of father and daughter who temporarily saved Li Wangyou, preventing him from being sold to Persian merchants by Sand Pirates like Sa Luzi.

After the father and daughter left Lizhou, they took the twelve taels of gold that the warrior Xun gave them as compensation, and planned to go to relatives.

But their relative died unexpectedly. In desperation, the father and daughter simply ran to Dunhuang County, intending to make a living here.

Dunhuang County has become more and more prosperous since the establishment of trade transit, and there is an endless stream of people who come here to make a living.

As a result, before the father and daughter had time to settle down in Dunhuang County, they encountered sand robbers halfway.

The woman's name was Du Qing, she was pestered and harassed by the two sons of the warrior Xun, so she was naturally pretty.

Du Qing was taken seriously by the leader of the Sand Pirates, and he snatched it back directly, pretending to be his wife in the village.As a weak woman, Du Qing had no choice but to commit herself to the den of thieves in order to protect herself.

When Li Wangyou was taken back to his lair by sand bandits, Du Qing immediately recognized the benefactor who saved his father and daughter in Lizhou a few years ago.

So Du Qing lied that Li Wangyou was his younger brother, Li Wangyou followed suit, named himself Du Fu, and recognized this sister.

The leader of the sand bandits doted on the woman he had snatched, so he didn't continue to embarrass Li Wangyou, and let him stay in the sand bandit camp beside the Swan Lake.

Of course, even if Li Wangyou escaped the fate of being sold to Persia, his life in the sand bandit camp would still be difficult.

Those sand thieves completely regarded him as a servant, calling him around, ordering him to do things, and beating and scolding him at every turn.As for eating and drinking, they are leftovers, barely making ends meet.

Fortunately, Li Wangyou's brain is considered smart, after recovering from the injury in his ribs, he immediately asked Du Qing for help, trying to find a way to get him some distiller's yeast.

There are many wild grapes beside the Swan Lake, Li Wangyou picked some back and tried to brew them into wine.

After confirming that the taste of the brewed wine was good, Li Wangyou asked Du Qing to give the wine to the leader of the sand bandits to taste, saying that he knew how to make wine and was willing to brew these fine wines for the sand bandits.

Sand Pirates are naturally good at wine, and they are naturally overjoyed when they taste such good wine.

So Li Wangyou's life in the Sand Pirate's lair finally improved a few months after being captured.

The leader of the Sand Pirates specially ordered someone to prepare a house for him to live in and brew wine. At the same time, he didn't need to eat bran and swallow vegetables, so he could see some meat.

And those sand robbers no longer beat and kicked him frequently, Li Wangyou's personal safety was finally guaranteed.

But Li Wangyou is not willing to give up like this, he still misses his unborn child and his wife Su Changqing in his heart, all the time, his mind is not thinking about how to escape from the sand robbers.

In this matter, Du Qing can't help at all, and she herself has no freedom at all, but it's just a restraint played by the leader of the sand bandits.

And how easy is it to escape from more than 2000 sand robbers in the vast desert?

For Li Wangyou, this desert is an island prison from which there is nowhere to escape.Even if he risked his life to escape from the sand bandit camp, he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to cross the desert and find his way home.

In such desperation, Li Wangyou was trapped in the sand bandit's camp for more than a year.

It wasn't until one time he went out to collect wild grapes as usual and found something by chance that he finally found a ray of light to escape from the sand robber's lair...

1012 Just Out of the Wolf's Mouth, Then into the Tiger's Den

Li Wangyou didn't expect that in the sand bandit's lair, beside the Swan Lake, there is actually rubber grass.

In fact, he doesn't know rubber grass, after all, not many people in later generations have seen this kind of thing.Even the name rubber grass, Li Wangyou occasionally saw it while surfing the Internet.

It wasn't until that day that he finished collecting wild grapes and brought them back to the Sand Pirates camp to make wine, that he noticed that some milky white jelly-like substance had rubbed against the corner of his clothes at some point.

He tried to wipe it with his hands, but found that the gelatinous substance had solidified.

And this kind of elastic solid made a lightning flash in Li Wangyou's mind - natural rubber!

In the sand bandit camp, of course, natural rubber will not appear inexplicably.

The only possibility is that when he went out to collect wild grapes by the lake, his clothes rubbed against the glue from the rubber grass, which left this small piece of natural rubber after it solidified.

Thinking of this, Li Wangyou immediately rushed out of the sand bandit camp like a whirlwind, and ran to the area where the wild grapes were collected before.

After some careful searching, Li Wangyou finally found a plant that looked like a dandelion, one of the stem veins had been broken, and there was also a milky white elastic jelly on it.

Li Wangyou was overjoyed. After confirming the appearance of the rubber grass, he searched around again, but found a lot of rubber grass.

This unexpected joy immediately gave Li Wangyou hope of escape.

It has been a whole year since he was captured by the sand bandits, and his wife who is far away in Chang'an should have given birth to his child. The thought of going home is always stimulating him, almost driving him crazy.

Li Wangyou secretly collected a lot of saltpeter, sulfur and charcoal by making wine for the sand robbers, and made some explosives.

He even thought about using these explosives to threaten the sand bandit leader in exchange for his chance to escape.

It was only after he calmed down that he had no choice but to give up this idea of ​​almost courting death.

In any case, as long as he lives, there is hope of returning home.

The accidental discovery of rubber grass reminded Li Wangyou of the same means of transportation that he and Su Changqing had figured out for the army to cross the desert, and that was the sand boat.

When Su Changqing was traveling in North America, he once saw someone playing with this novelty called a sand boat in the desert.

In simple terms, a sand boat is like a sailboat sailing in the desert.

Its structure is also very simple. The lower part is a wooden board with four rubber wheels, and a sail supported by a movable mast is installed on it.

Driving a sand boat is like driving a sailboat, using the wind to drive the sand boat to move quickly on the desert.Driven by the wind, the sand boat can even run at a speed of nearly [-] kilometers per hour in the desert.

In the end, Li Wangyou didn't choose the sand boat as a tool for the army to cross the desert, just because he didn't have rubber tires, so he had to give up.