Chapter 17: Lost
"This way, why did this road come back again?" Cao Guoxiong stared at the compass in his hand with a blank face, and said to He Qi with a frown in disbelief: "Xiao Zhang, do you remember from which mouth we came in from?"
"This place all looks the same, but it's hard to tell the difference. He Qi shook his head apologetically, glanced at the dark clouds in the sky, and sighed: "I can't even see a star, we can't get out." β
"Let's make up for one night first, if I don't go back, Jin Liang's kid will bring someone to find me, let's wait for one night." Cao Guoxiong found a stone and sat down, touched his stomach, and said with a wry smile: "It's good now, I fell down, and all the food and drink were given to the river god, and there was no signal in this broken place, so I couldn't find anyone if I wanted to find it." β
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, after I go out, I must make amends to the old man. He Qi lowered his head guiltily, but the corners of his mouth showed a smug smile, this was the first night He Qi and Cao Guoxiong entered Bagong Mountain, just in response to the sentence that the sky is unpredictable, the sky is clear in the morning, and the two of them are also full of energy, but when it comes to noon, it is a blessing and a curse.
Bagong Mountain is not a mountain in the strict sense, but a maze composed of many jungle-covered valleys, it only takes half a day to walk into the hinterland of Bagong Mountain from the mountain pass, and the road is extremely smooth, except for those ditches and holes and undulating soil slopes, in fact, it is a straight road, but on this straight road, Cao Guoxiong has suffered enough, he has always boasted of being old and strong, as soon as he entered the mountain, he was excited by He Qi's few words compared to the strength of his feet, and he took the lead in the front, walked for more than an hour, stepped on a loose bluestone, and stumbled and rolled down, although he was not injured, but He Qi found a reason to take away the backpack, The rest of the road is also stumbling, in short, it is embarrassing, and finally found the so-called entrance, Cao Guoxiong did find two small ginseng, which made him very excited, and he walked quickly towards the valley with He Qi, but after this short period of luck, unlucky things followed one by one.
First when the two of them walked to a waterhole, He Qi actually accidentally fell in, and the two backpacks on his body disappeared in an instant, and then the cautious Cao Guoxiong got up with the intention of going back, and then the two of them had gone too far, and they went around a few times in the dense forest, and they actually got lost.
"How long can you trap them?" Zhu Jiujiu pressed his throat and quietly pulled Xu Li's ears.
"After today, you can be sleepy for as long as you want. Xu Li shrugged his shoulders and laughed in a low voice: "Don't look at the surname Cao's jumping up and down today, but after all, he is an old man, and as soon as he was tossed by those things we made today, he had no strength for a long time, and he wilted down as soon as he didn't eat. β
"Then I'm relieved. Zhu Jiujiu breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed with a tired face: "Today, this girl is almost tired and died, that old boy is really slippery enough, he will actually come up with a way to take a stone and throw it on the road to make a mark, if I follow him to pick up stones behind his ass tomorrow, I will really give up." β
"What if Cao Jinliang brings someone to find him?" Xu Li nodded, and then asked in a low voice: "He can't just watch his old man disappear in the mountains, don't look at this valley is like a maze of clouds and mountains and fog covered by us, but if Cao Jinliang really brings dozens of people in, he can rescue them in less than half a day." β
"This place, not necessarily. Zhu Jiujiu shook his head and glanced left and right, this is a zigzag ravine in the belly canyon of Bagong Mountain, but in this ravine, it is dense with jungles, and the paths are clustered, any road can be walked for half a day, and even most of them will lead to other valleys, causing more forks in the road, if it weren't for the day when she and Xu Li came to explore the road, they brought satellite positioning, and they were fully equipped, and they were almost lost in it in broad daylight, not to mention Cao Guoxiong and He Qi, the two people who only had a compass in their handsγ
"If you want to find it, you will still find it. Xu Li shook his head and said: "After all, he is a bureau chief, and he always has to pay attention to one or two when he reports to the police. β
"It's not actually called Bagong Mountain. Zhu Jiujiu shook his head and said in a low voice: " Although there is indeed a legend of Bagong Mountain among the people, it is a place to the west of Jiucang Mountain, He Qi told me that the location of this place, only Zhang Tianzheng, he himself and Cao Guoxiong know, Cao Jinliang only heard the name that day, if you want to send people, even if you look through the place, you can't find them, but if it is really according to the path that Zhang Tianzheng found, perhaps, they will really meet, these two mountains, separated by just a road. β
"It's really a way to make people laugh and cry, how long does he plan to stay inside?" Xu Li smiled and sighed: "Starve yourself for a few days, I can't do this kind of thing." β
"Maybe it's tomorrow night, when Zhang Tianzheng met with guests that day, I heard him say that there are some things tomorrow that can't be entertained, if you guess correctly, when this bureau ends, it will be tomorrow..."
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"Finally came out. At three o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, the hungry Cao Guoxiong let out such a long sigh with the support of He Qi, the two slept in the valley all night, woke up early the next morning, cleaned up and tossed until noon, only to be found a path by He Qi, the faint traces on the road made the two ecstatic, and walked for a few hours with the strength of their feet, and then they walked out of the valley and got on a road, looking at the small restaurant that was close at hand, Cao Guoxiong's eyes were green.
"Uncle, uncle!" At this moment, a person suddenly jumped out of the small restaurant, Cao Guoxiong was stunned, but found that it was his nephew Cao Jinliang, he shouted, the restaurant suddenly boiled the pot, and more than a dozen people in various colors ran out together, staring at Cao Guoxiong with wide eyes, seeing that he frowned, took a step forward, and shouted in a low voice: "What's the matter, you called the police?
"I didn't call the police, it's all people from my company. Cao Jinliang shook his head and hurriedly explained: "Uncle, you don't know, you didn't go back all night, and your aunt was in a hurry, so she found me here and asked me to take someone out to look for you overnight, and I have been looking for you all night, you, are you okay?"
"It's good that you didn't call the police, what is this little road?" Cao Guoxiong breathed a sigh of relief, and pretended to be heroic and said loudly: "This time, I have conquered a big mountain again, I am happy." β
"That's, that's. Cao Jinliang's eyes rolled, and he understood what Cao Guoxiong meant, this kind of thing is really not good to say, although it is a little thrilling, but in the system, it is a big joke, people in the system will not care if you come out by yourself, when it comes to their mouths, they will only spread falsehoods, the more they say, the more chaotic they are, saying that you are old and you are lost, it is okay, I am afraid that if you are a little more powerful, you will say that you are unstable, you don't say that you are missing, and you will work hard and lose money, and if you are heard, you will make a big article, which is a taboo in officialdom for an old cadreγ
"It's okay, you all go back, keep your mouths tight!" Cao Jinliang had this realization, turned around and drove away more than a dozen of his subordinates, and then glanced at He Qi with an unkind gaze, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, how about this trip?"
"Director Cao's blessing, I finally came out, Jiang is still old and spicy. He Qi smiled bitterly, shook his head, and saw that Cao Jinliang's subordinates were almost gone, so he covered his stomach and said, "Mr. Cao, let's eat something first, this day and night, I'm really hungry." β
"Yes, yes, eat first!" Cao Guoxiong no longer holds his official shelf at this time, one is his nephew, and the other is surnamed Zhang, who is as unlucky as himself.
"Yes, yes, eat first. Cao Jinliang hurriedly opened the door, and then shouted: "Boss, hurry up, all the good dishes are up!"
"It's here!" The middle-aged boss, who couldn't close his mouth with a smile, quickly brought out a few dishes and put them on the table, and said with a smile: "Several, do you want to drink some wine?"
"Come on, Second Sun, can you drink the wine in this small restaurant?" Cao Jinliang waved his hand, the boss surnamed Sun really knew him, Jiucang Mountain is not a big place, Cao Jinliang was a hooligan when this surnamed Sun was opening a restaurant, the heart was very bad, the wine is fake can no longer be fake Xibei goods, and it is also mixed with water, the dishes in the restaurant are not authentic, dead pork, gutter oil, rotten vegetable leaves, what is there, big notorious, not seen for a few years, he thought that this Sun Lao Er washed his hands and did not dry, but unfortunately met here, if it were not for this few miles away There is no restaurant, the group is very tired of searching the mountains and searches, and he is not willing to go far, he really doesn't want to eat a meal here Sun Lao Er, It's the meal just now, or he sent someone to watch Sun Lao Er make it with good ingredients before he can eat it with confidence, as for the wine, he doesn't believe that there is a good one at all.
"Brother Cao, I can't hide it from you, there is no good wine, it is all mixed with water, but you can drink it. Sun Lao Er laughed, rubbed his hands and went back to the kitchen, Cao Jinliang shook his head, picked up a chopstick dish, and laughed: "This guy, it used to open a restaurant, it was dirty and messy, I didn't expect this to be so clean now, I thought he had changed sex, but as a result, the bottom is still like that!"