At 10:55 p.m. on the evening of October 31, Bai Song settled everything, and a group of four people were driven to the airport by colleagues from the criminal investigation detachment.

The policeman of the Criminal Investigation Bureau is called Xu Tao, three years older than Bai Song, and he is a criminal policeman who has just worked for two years, and the two policemen of the criminal investigation detachment are Deputy Captain Zhou Linwu and a middle-aged policeman named Wei Zixiang. They are all Bai Song's predecessors, because of these few, although it is the first time to go on a business trip, Bai Song is very down-to-earth.

The plane is a little late, so the ticket is only more than 800 yuan, plus it has to stop in Kunshi, southern Xinjiang Province, and it will be tomorrow morning to reach Chacheng.

This business trip is not a good errand, just look at this itinerary.

After getting on the plane, Team Zhou asked everyone to rest as much as possible, and if they could, they tried to sleep as much as possible.

This night, Bai Song slept in the waiting hall of Kunming Airport for two or three hours except when the plane was stopping, and basically kept in a state of confusion. With Bai Song's height, the economy class is indeed not big enough, and the legroom is not enough.

At eight o'clock the next morning, the plane landed at the airport in Chacheng on time, and the Zhou team led everyone to go to the hotel where they stayed to put down their things, and booked a time for three days, and then went to the Chacheng City Public Security Bureau to dock with the comrades who had been contacted here.

The tea town is not big, but it is still full of vitality, and the World Tourism Organization once called it "a poetic city, a place where even the air is full of poetry." ”

The fresh and sweet air shocked the white pine, who was accustomed to sand and haze, and was in quite good condition.

As one of the border cities in China, Tea City is adjacent to Jingna City in the south, Laos and Vietnam in the southeast, with dense forests and extremely rich animal and plant resources.

The comrades of the criminal investigation detachment who docked with Team Zhou were here, and everyone had a brief exchange and understood the situation of the problem.

2011 is an important year for the replacement of the country's second-generation ID card, after the 2010 census, Chacheng has been promoting this work, but it is far less easy to promote than areas like Tianhua City, because of the complex terrain, many ethnic groups, and poor roads.

Just two months ago, a natural disaster of mudslides occurred in a certain part of Dabai Autonomous County in Chacheng, and although there were no major casualties, it seriously affected traffic. Every year from June to September is the rainy season here, the rain two months ago lasted too long, the rainfall is not small, Dabai Autonomous County can pass with the outside world, but several areas under its jurisdiction are not good, basically cut off contact with the outside world.

Among them, Li's parents are in one of these areas.

Now that the traffic has been restored, without further ado, Team Zhou rented an SUV from the car rental company for 80 yuan a day, went to the hotel to cancel the housing, took his things, bought the most complete map of the tea city, and rushed to Dabai Autonomous County.

There is no high speed on this road, and the road is far away, Zhou Linwu and Wei Zixiang drove for three or four hours before arriving at Dabai Autonomous County, along the way to the cliffs, four or five times saw the stone mounds caused by small landslides, as well as loaders and forklifts that are cleaning the road, no one has the mind to sleep, they all maintain a high degree of concentration, and arrived in Dabai Autonomous County in the afternoon.

This is the border, there is no imaginary downfall, the service industry and market here are still very lively, the four of them went to the local public security bureau to understand the situation, and then ate some local specialty stewed chicken, the sky was dark. The area to be visited is not close to the county seat, an hour's drive, then an hour by ox cart or a three-hour walk. It is said that motorcycles can also go up, but not many dare to ride them. This is not even to the village, barely a town. When you really get to the destination, only cattle and horses and other livestock and human legs can walk up, and motor vehicles are basically useless.

In the evening, everyone rested early, and the next morning set off at six o'clock, and arrived at the end of the car at seven o'clock. There is a flat land, about a few hundred square meters, where two old minibuses, several domestic or imported off-road vehicles, and more than a dozen motorcycles are parked.

No matter how good the off-road vehicle arrives here, you can only look at the road and sigh, this is not a question of whether the road condition is good or not, the narrowest place is only about 1 meter wide, what off-road vehicle has a way?

Bai Song, after more than ten years, saw the ox cart again.

When he was a child, he grew up in the village, and at that time there was this kind of ox cart in the village, one could pull three or four people, and in addition to that, there was also a cattle herder.

A few local brothers came over and asked the four of them in non-standard Mandarin if they wanted to go in by motorcycle, they could get there in forty minutes, but they were politely rejected by Team Zhou, and this place was too fast and not at ease. The mountain road here is too difficult to walk, the ox cart can only pull two people at most, and the four people waited for nearly half an hour before waiting for two ox carts, one person can be pulled in for five yuan at a time, and four people can be pulled in for 20 yuan.

It took a whole hour and a half to finally enter the town, which was not so much a town as one or two hundred houses, three or two small shops, and the town was paved with stone roads, and only people, livestock, and motorcycles came and went.

This way, the butt is going to be upside down, chatting with the owner of the ox cart along the way, only to know that the village that several people are going to look for, starting from the town, there are six or seven hours to walk, this road ox cart can not go, the locals are mainly riding horses, and there is a section of the road or the legendary ancient tea horse road. Riding for about three or four hours, the horse needs to rest in such a place, and the horse simply does not walk fast enough.

There was a very poor GPRS signal in the town, and the Zhou brigade reflected this situation with the horse detachment in the intermittent signal, and finally decided to rent horses and guides to go to the village. Once out of town, the signal is guaranteed that there will be no water at all, and there is no need to think about water and electricity.

The four of them went to the police office here, and no one locked the door, leaving only a phone, which would have no phone signal, and could not get out. In desperation, according to the instructions of the fellow, I found the local post office.

Once here, the four of them found important clues. Lao Ma, the postman here, goes to that village every 20 days or so on average, and because the road was partially destroyed some time ago, it has just been repaired, and he hasn't been there for two months. But every few months, Lao Ma would receive mail and remittances from the county, and he would go to that village and deliver the remittances to a family, four people in total, which is most likely Li sent money to his parents through others.

The most critical thing is that I also received a remittance of 2,000 yuan a few days ago. The old horse is planning to send it off tomorrow morning.

In 2011, the train had just begun to implement the real-name system, although the real-name system for bank remittance was earlier, but the real-name of the generation of ID cards was still far from being good, to put it bluntly, it was a plastic shell wrapped in paper, so the name "Wang Fang" on the remittance slip should not be the real name.