Along the way, Tang Ding's understanding of the little girl Song Tina has deepened.

"I told my mom not to worry and that I would be fine. ”

"Mom has been living in a closed house because of my father's death all these years, and I am basically taking care of the whole hotel. But I met Alicia, and she said she would help take care of her mother's hotel. ”

"I'm afraid she won't have time to take care of the hotel. ”

"Oh, why? I'm best friends with Alicia, and she will do what she promised me, just as I promised her. ”

"I'm not saying she's broken her word, it's that she's not available, because she's going to be all over the world soon. "Downing was seen by Alicia's face.

"Oh, that's great, Alicia's dream since she was a child was to be an actress, and although she is just starting out in her career, I firmly believe that she will become a good actor who is famous all over the world. ”

Tang Ding took a closer look at Song Tina's face again, and found that he still couldn't see through it.

Some people's faces can be seen through by Tang Ding almost at a glance, but there are some people that Tang Ding can't see through, such as Song Tina.

Thailand and China don't actually have a border, and if you have to have a place to meet, it's Chiang Saen.

When you arrive in Chiang Saen, this is the border of Thailand.

The easiest way to get north to China is to take the Mekong River, or else you have to cross a dangerous jungle.

The reason why it is so dangerous is because there is a very famous name here: the Golden Triangle.

Yes, this is the Golden Triangle. Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, the junction of the three countries, the world-famous three regardless of the zone, in the seventies and eighties, famous and notorious, here is the world's largest production and trading base of drugs.

Of course, with drugs comes the warlord divide and the proliferation of weapons, which in a word, is dangerous here.

Tang Ding and Song Tina decided to enter the country through the Mekong River.

Tang Ding and Song Tina found a ferry boat at the ferry port in Chiang Saen and went to the parade.

The Mekong River is the seventh largest river in the world and an important river system in Asia, originating in Qinghai, China, called the Lancang River in China, and called the Mekong River when it leaves China.

Although Tang Ding and Song Tina decided to take the waterway, the navigation of the Mekong River was not good. Especially in the upper and middle reaches, there are many rapids and waterfalls with great drops, so the ferry boat taken by Tang Ding and Song Tina cannot go straight to China, and the boat has to reverse at least twice on the way, once through a large waterfall and once through a dangerous rapids.

There is a small port in the waterfall, which is specially formed for the transit of goods, which belongs to the Lao section and has a Lao garrison all year round.

Because of its location in the Golden Triangle, complex terrain and intertwined warlords, although the Lao government forces cannot fully control this tropical rainforest, it is still easy to control several important cargo transit ports.

When you get here, there are not many passenger ships, most of them are freighters, and of course, some freighters will also carry some passengers who cross the border in order to make some extra money.

Of course, these cargo barges are not large, and the big ships cannot sail here at all, and the small barges are light and practical.

In Southeast Asia, China's goods are of high quality and low price, and the sales are very good, so China has the most barges, and they pay a fee of 200 yuan per person, and Tang Ding and Song Tina get on a Chinese cargo barge here.

There was a captain on the barge, who was also the chief engineer, a cargo boss, who was the owner of the ship's cargo, and a guy brought by the boss, plus Tang Ding and Song Tina, a total of five people.

On the ship, I learned that the boss's name is Cui Wang, he just shipped a boatload of shoes and hats to Laos last week, and made a lot of profits, this time he collected a boatload of red sour branch wood in Laos and shipped it back to China, hoping that this ship of wood can bring him a lot of profits.

Red sour branches, to put it bluntly, are mahogany, but they are a low-grade variety of mahogany.

Although this time and again are very profitable, but Cui Wang is scared, Tang Ding can see some clues from Cui Wang's uncertainties.

"Boss Cui, how do I think you are always a little uneasy?"

"Oh, Mr. Tang, don't you know, don't look at me back and forth, the profits are huge, but the risks are also very great, this area is the Golden Triangle, notoriously chaotic, many businessmen dare not go here, they would rather go down the Mekong River, from Vietnam to the ship, through the customs entry, rather than take this waterway, why? is because it is too chaotic here, careless, careless. ”

"What kind of chaos?" said Tang Ding in surprise.

"This is the Golden Triangle, and there are a lot of big drug lords entrenched here. Cui Wang said the word drug lord, although he knew that there was no one here, he still deliberately lowered his voice.

"You mean Kunsha?" Tang Ding is no stranger to Kunsha, that is because when he was in the other courtyard, Xing Lao often remembered the bittersweet and told Tang Ding a lot about the international situation in the sixties and seventies.

Kunsha, although the biggest drug lord of the Golden Triangle generation, has a special affection for China, Kunsha never directly sells drugs to Chinese, and never causes trouble on the Chinese border. Because Kunsha's ancestral home is Yunnan, China, and his mother is also Chinese, he has a special affection for China.

The initial team of Kunsha's troops was the world-famous Chinese Expeditionary Force, and Kunsha's goodwill towards China came from many aspects.

"Kunsha? No, Kunsha has died a long time ago, and Kunsha is still focused on China, if only he were there, now the new drug lords in the Golden Triangle region are split out of the Kunsha group in the past, one is called Bokang, the other is called Kangpu, of course, these two people are the two largest drug lords in the Golden Triangle, and the rest have some small drug lords, and now these drug lords are no longer limited to drug production and drug trafficking, they are also armed robbery, kidnapping and tearing tickets, which is why doing business in this area is very profitable, because the danger is too great, every time you cross the river, you have to be afraid. ”

"Oh, well, you should be careful. ”

Tang Ding nodded, and while nodding, Tang Ding also saw Cui Wang's face, and Cui Wang's face was getting closer and closer to the appearance of breaking money.

A person's face is not static.

Sometimes, it is not predestined to break the fortune or not, but depends on the evolution and evolution of the people and things encountered.

There are no special rooms on cargo ships, and if you are tired, everyone has to crowd into the engine room, of course, this is a subtropical area, and even the nights are not very cold.

Running all the way, Tang Ding's skills are profound, of course it has no effect, but Song Tina is a little girl, so she can't hold it anymore, so she has a little dinner and falls asleep.

Tang Ding didn't know when he fell asleep, but Tang Ding's sleep was very light, and he suddenly heard a sudden motor sound in the middle of the night, which was far away, but Tang Ding still heard it.

When Tang Ding opened his eyes, it was pitch black all around, except for the lights on the barge that illuminated the waterway, reminding the ships sailing at night to pay attention to safety.

If the barge is not an accident, it is generally rare to sail at night, because there is only one boat, and it is very tiring to drive a boat for a day.

The sound of the motor gradually became far and near, Tang Ding stood up, and when the sound of the motor was more than twenty meters away from the barge, the lights suddenly turned on, and the lights on at least three ships shone directly on the cargo barge.

Tang Ding squinted, and from the illumination of the light, he saw the figures with guns on these three ships in a trance.

Under the strong light, even with Tang Ding's eyes, what he saw was very trance-like.

With the light shining, a ship was also approaching, the sound of the motor gradually became louder, and Cui Wang and everyone in the cabin also woke up, "It's not good, it's a robber!"

When Cui Wang shouted the word "robber", there was a "bang", and the two boats leaned together, and the robbers began to jump and board the boat, with an AK47 in his hand and a sound of pulling the bolt.

Tang Ding didn't act rashly, of course he had no problem escaping by himself, but there were also Song Tina, as well as Cui Wang, a businessman he had just met, and others.

Of course, Tang Ding didn't resist either, his kung fu was very good, and he had no problem dealing with ten or eight, but this AK series rifle was amazingly powerful, and no matter how high his kung fu was, he couldn't resist a shot.

Now, it is the right time for all the robbers to aim their guns, and to act rashly at this time is tantamount to becoming a live target.

"Get up, get up, stand up, stand in line. Although he knew that everyone was awake, the robber still kicked Cui Wang, who was curled up on the ground.

Cui Wang actually woke up, he was just pretending to be asleep.

Tang Ding saw surprise on Cui Wang's face who stood up.

Tang Ding also glanced at Song Tina, he was no longer surprised, this little girl was very calm, and there was no fear on her face.

"Tell you, don't move, I won't shoot, because we only rob money, and we don't kill people under normal circumstances. But if someone can't think of it, then don't blame me for not recognizing the gun in my hand. "The robbers shouted loudly and with a very arrogant attitude.

"Tie them up for me first, yes, that's all. ”

"Okay, that's right, let's go, drive the boat back. "One of the robbers at the head issued orders one after another, in an orderly manner, and seemed to do this often.

The cargo ship followed one of the robbers' boats, turned into a small waterway not far ahead, and walked for less than an hour before reaching the place.

"Get off the boat, get off the boat. ”

The robbers drove all five people off the boat, searched them all, and then locked them all in a log cabin.

"Boss, didn't they kill us, did they?" asked the young man under Cui Wang, who suddenly experienced such a scene, his legs and feet were weak, and his voice trembled.

"Killing people won't be for the time being, they should be blackmailed first. Cui Wang's tone was also a little trembling.

"Alas, this trip seems to have lost all your money, your cargo and my ship, all gone, and a large ransom to pay. The captain sighed, he ran down the waterway, he knew very well the tricks of the robbers, he had been in this situation twice, but on both occasions the robbers did not ask for his boat, not even the ransom, and returned the boat to him.

First, it's useless for them to ask for a boat, and the ship is not worth much, and secondly, the robbers are also keeping these boat bosses as the target of their next robbery.