Jiang Li and Han Chaoyang were surprised to find people living in this small mountain village that had been abandoned for many years.

In this place where even the rangers don't come, they suddenly saw six big living people, including public security officers and armed policemen with guns, and the old man was also so frightened that he almost fell off the ladder.

Jiang Li hurriedly went up to hold on to the ladder and talked to the old man who was slowly climbing down.

Han Chaoyang couldn't understand the local dialect, and Lu Gang and the other four armed police soldiers couldn't understand it, so they simply acted according to the plan very tacitly. Han Chaoyang walked into the courtyard to see if there was anyone else, and the armed policemen worked in pairs to set up cards at the pass through the southern forest area.

When I came in, I really looked like home.

An old lady with a wrinkled face and almost lost her teeth was lying on the kang in the inner room, and there were several boxes of medicine on the kang head. An eleven or twelve-year-old boy watches TV in the hall, the TV is black and white, it looks old, but the picture and sound are quite clear, maybe the quality of the electrical appliances in the past is better than now, and there is a satellite TV receiver on the roof, and the signal is better.

"What's your name, little friend?"

The little guy was a little scared, he didn't even bother to turn off the TV, he ran to the door with a smoke, hid behind the old man who was talking to Jiang Li, and looked curiously at the uninvited guests who broke into their house with big eyes.

Jiang Li obviously told the old man what was happening nearby, the old man looked incredulous, took off his hat and scratched his head that was about to fall out, motioned for the two to wait, ran into the yard and took out a machete, and led the two to patrol the village from house to house. The little guy was as excited as the little guy he had met in the morning, and chased after him with a stick.

As expected, the village is abandoned, but the previously dug water cellar is still there.

After less than half an hour of walking through the collapsed ruins, no less than 40 water cellars with water were found, but no trace of anyone coming to collect water was found. After confirming that the fugitive had not come, Jiang Li first called the headquarters to report to the headquarters, and then used the walkie-talkie to communicate with Lu Gang at the mountain pass outside the village.

"The hill to the west is the commanding height of this area, and it is impossible for fugitives to come from the hill, but the terrain is high and the view is good, and the superiors have asked us to set up an observation post on the hill. There are only six of us, including the three passes you are guarding now, and I am responsible for the west pass, but I don't have a gun with me, so you have to arrange for one person to come over. ”

"No problem, I'm here to guard, Fang Jun is going to support you. ”

"Okay, contact me if there is any situation. ”

Without waiting for Jiang Li to explain, Han Chaoyang took the initiative to smile and said, "I'll go to the west mountain." ”

"Chaoyang, I'm sorry, it's mainly that there are too few people......"

It's a bit far to the west of the mountain, and you have to keep climbing, but compared to the three passes below, it may be safest to set up an observation post at the top of the mountain. There is nothing on the top of the mountain, it is still tiring to climb up and down, and I don't even know if there is a way up the mountain in the south, even if Feng Changdong runs to Tanjiagou, it is impossible to climb to the top of the mountain.

"The public security in the world is a family, we are our own people, and it is too foreign to say that. Han Chaoyang followed him to the entrance of the village and asked curiously, "What happened to the old man, the old lady and the child just now?"

"It's good to return farmland to forests to prevent man-made destruction of vegetation and soil erosion, but for the villages that used to live here, moving out is not necessarily a good thing. Although the mountains are full of dry land, and although the harvest is not good, under normal circumstances, no matter how bad it is, the whole family can still have an income of 2,000 yuan a year. The state has food subsidies and cash subsidies, more than 100 per mu, but it costs money to eat, and you have to buy everything. ”

"Can't live outside?"

"There is nothing wrong with young people, those who are strong can go out to work, and it is better to work than to farm. The older ones can't do it, and they can't find a job if they want to go out to work. If you want to engage in breeding, you have neither the technology nor the funds. The one just now really couldn't get by, so I thought about it and took my wife and grandson back to live in the mountains. ”

"He doesn't have a son?"

"Yes, my son and daughter-in-law are working in other places, and they go out at the beginning of the year and come back at the end of the year, and now the work is not easy to work, and they can't earn a lot of money all year round. ”

"But he brought the child back, how can the child go to school?"

"No, it's nothing new for kids to drop out of school in our country. ”

Hearing a sound of footsteps, Jiang Li looked back at the little guy who had caught up again, and continued: "It's not a bad thing for the old man just now to come back, the neighbors have all moved out, and the water cellars left behind can be used, not only does he not have to worry about the lack of water anymore, but even has surplus water to water the crops, this year's drought has caused disasters in many places, and his family does not." ”

One person has the water of the whole village, and of course he will not be short of water.

Han Chaoyang subconsciously looked back at the little guy who had caught up but didn't dare to follow too closely, thought about it and asked, "Brother Jiang, how to count the destroyed forest land at the entrance of the village in the east, will the forestry department hold him responsible?"

"I asked, he said that it was originally his family's fruit forest, not fruits, but white fruit trees that were promoted and planted in the township in the past, but they didn't bear many white fruits. ”

"Didn't cut down the trees in the woodyard?"

"No, illegal felling is subject to legal responsibility, under normal circumstances, no one dares to defy the law, and besides, these trees planted later are neither tall nor thick, what is the use of burning fire, and who can they sell to when they are cut down. ”

"That's right. ”

While chatting, the place to "go our separate ways" has arrived.

Jiang Li stopped, turned around and said a few words to the little guy, who drooped his head and said nothing. Jiang Li couldn't help it, and after saying a few more words, the little guy smiled, rushed to the front of Han Chaoyang, and led the way in front of him with a wooden stick.

"Brother Jiang, did you ask him to go up the mountain with me?"

"Aren't the children in the mountains running all over the mountain, his grandfather is relieved, and I am also relieved to have him as your companion. ”

At least stay at the top of the mountain until dark, there is at least one person talking to the little guy, Han Chaoyang smiled happily: "Okay, I'll be in a group with him, if there is any situation, I will call you." ”

……

There is no difference between having a guide and not having one.

No matter what you ask, the little guy is embarrassed to speak, and when he asks in a hurry, he scratches his ears and laughs, but he can really help a lot, first of all, don't run the wrong way, follow him to drill around in the mountains and forests where there is no road at all, and unconsciously climb to the top of the mountain.

Along the way, he also took Han Chaoyang to search, where there are caves, where people can be hidden behind trees, and where there are wild fruits to eat, he knows it clearly.

Fooled!

Han Chaoyang took the prickly fruit he picked and took a bite, the sour and the astringent, hurriedly spit out the water and rinsed his mouth, the little guy smiled and leaned back and forth, and went into the woods to pick a few wild fruits of different shapes.

"Don't eat it, you kid didn't have a good heart. ”

"It's delicious, it's delicious!" the little guy finally spoke, a standard Longdao Mandarin, with an accent similar to that of He Suo.

"If you don't eat it, you can eat it yourself. "Eat a trench and grow wise, Han Chaoyang will not be fooled again, standing on the top of the mountain and observing the movement under the mountain.

"It's delicious, it's delicious. The little one stuffed a wild fruit into his mouth, sat down on the ground, and beat the weeds with a stick.

"What was that for me just now?" Han Chaoyang asked absentmindedly.

"Thorny milk, people say it's traditional Chinese medicine, it's good to eat it. ”

"What did you just eat?"

"This?"

"Hmm. ”

"The crotch bubble, also known as the fork fruit, is near two trees that grow like this, and I can't eat it if I want to eat it in Chiliu. ”

This wild fruit looks strange, it really looks like a trouser, Han Chaoyang took one and wiped it clean, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it, this time he was not fooled, it was very sweet, and it tasted very good. Since there is no one outside the mountain, then eat a few more, and eat all the "crotch bubbles" that the little guy picked, Han Chaoyang couldn't help laughing: "I thought it was wolfberry." ”

"This one is delicious, too. ”

The little guy handed over two more crooked plants, which looked like grass roots, not like fruits. Han Chaoyang plucked up the courage to wipe it clean and ate one, it tasted okay, and he couldn't help but touch his messy hair.

"This is a jujube, which can be used to make jujube wine, and it can also be boiled with hemp sugar. The little creature grinned, and ran down into the woods in search of food.

After eating the second jujube, Han Chaoyang suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone to dial Jiang Li's police service.

"Chaoyang, have you found something?"

"Brother Jiang, just now the little guy invited me to eat a few wild fruits, jujubes and that ...... What kind of 'crotch bubble' is quite delicious, Feng Changdong is the same as a mountain person, the little guy can find him as well, and it is not so easy to go on a hunger strike. ”

"Yes, there are plenty of wild fruits in the mountains this season, but we can think of the same as the headquarters. ”

"Just think about it, anyway, now it's to arrest him, not to starve him. ”

"The encirclement is getting smaller and smaller, and he will definitely not be able to escape. ”

"Okay, hang up first, and contact you if you have a situation. ”

……

In order to save the mobile phone battery, Han Chaoyang not only hung up but also turned it off.

Said that there was a situation and then contact, but the result was that he kept watch at the top of the mountain until dark and did not find any movement, and said that the little guy who was observing at the top of the mountain together ran into the forest from time to time to play for a while, and was tired of running and running, and actually lay down in the grass and fell asleep.

"Brother Jiang, what did the instructor say, when will the reinforcements come?" Han Chaoyang turned on his mobile phone, sat down next to the little guy and dialed Jiang Li's phone again.

"The instructor said that the cadres and masses mobilized by the higher authorities were all busy assisting in the search and arrest in the afternoon, and they all went back at this time, and there could be no reinforcements tonight. Said that the command told us to stand by and let us guard the bayonet. ”

The leader obviously thinks that other places are more important than this side, but the fugitive is Li Jiayao who ran in this direction, and the south is indeed more important than the north.

"Send people under the fence" to ask for others, but Han Chaoyang thought about it and said with a bitter face: "Brother Jiang, the bayonet must be guarded, can my observation post be withdrawn, I can't see anything at night, there is no need to continue to stay at the top of the mountain." ”

Yanyang's peers were unlucky enough, and they encountered such a thing as soon as they came.

Jiang Li sighed secretly, held up his mobile phone and said apologetically: "Chaoyang, I reported to my superiors, but the superiors said that we can't see at night, and the fugitive can't see it in the forest, and he chases so tightly behind, it is entirely possible for him to use his mobile phone as a flashlight." ”

"See the light?"

"Work hard, and then insist on persevering, I told Uncle Yan, he will go up the mountain to bring you food later, and he won't come down when he goes up, so he will stay with you. ”