The tattered bus stopped on the bumpy road, and the bus driver, whose face was covered with dust like a monkey, turned his head and shouted at the sleepy Qin Long, "I've gotten off here in Lijiagou." ”

Seeing that Qin Long didn't react, the driver shouted again: "Eh, call you, aren't you going to Lijiagou and get off here." ”

"Here?" Qin Long looked at the endless mountains outside the car window with a confused expression, hurriedly got up from the seat where his buttocks hurt, reached out from the luggage rack to get off his backpack and carried it on his shoulder, and carefully carried a boxy burden in his arms, nodded at the driver and said thank you, stumbling sideways and squeezing through the basket of iron cages stacked in the bus aisle towards the door.

After getting off the bus, Qin Long held the door and asked the bus driver who was about to leave, "Master, which direction is Li Jiagou in?"

The driver stretched out his hand and pointed to the continuous mountains outside the car window and said: "Go to this end, you have to climb over four mountains, you can't go tonight, there is a village at the foot of the mountain, stay in that village for a night, tomorrow morning mountain, hurry up and go before dark may be able to Lijiagou." ”

Qin Long glanced at the driver's finger and said thank you.

The bus threw off a piece of dust and bumped away with black smoke, Qin Long swept away the dust with his hand on the square box in his arms, and whispered to the box: "Old company commander, I'll send you home." ”

The old company commander left, walking peacefully and without a trace of pain.

The old company commander even had a satisfied smile on his face when he left, a smile that Qin Long didn't quite understand until now.

Are you happy to see the national flag raised, or are you happy to have eaten a big fat meal on your deathbed?

Qin Long took the initiative to ask Ying to send the old company commander's urn back, just to see with his own eyes the world that the old company commander had fought for all his life.

What made him so persistent in dying all his life without regrets?

On this trip to the capital, Qin Long only stayed in the capital for one day and one night, that is, he had a meal with Old Man Jin and Principal Mo in his busy time, and he had to go.

But somehow, the comforting words that Old Man Jin said felt a little unacceptable in Qin Long's ears.

Qin Long shook his head and smiled bitterly, maybe Old Man Jin and the old company commander are not from the same world.

It was also because of Old Man Jin's comforting words that Qin Long took the initiative to ask the chief to send the old company commander home in person.

He wanted to know about the world of the old company commander, perhaps because they were all soldiers, and emotionally, he felt that he seemed to be closer to the old company commander than the old man Jin.

In fact, Qin Long was also very busy this day and night, Qin Zhen called him, Tang Hao'er called him, Pork Rongniu Thirteen called him, and even Qin Xiangbei's old man also called him, naturally it was all about the treasure hidden in Fangla Yinjia Mountain.

However, Qin Long suddenly felt that the treasure of Fang La, who was so rich and rivaled the country, seemed to be not so important in his heart.

Qin Long suddenly felt that he was rich, and he had wealth that he couldn't spend in his life, but his spirit became empty.

The soul is gone

Qin Long didn't know if he would find his soul on this trip, but he knew that he should come.

Holding the urn of the old company commander, Qin Long walked along the rugged mountain road all the way to the mountain.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that Qin Long walked along the mountain road to a small mountain village with only a dozen or twenty households at the foot of the mountain.

Naturally, there are no hotels in such small mountain villages, and there are no places for people to stay and eat in such small mountain villages.

Feeling the darkness, Qin Long knocked on the courtyard door of the first family in the mountain village.

A dog's barking sounded in the yard, and soon a thick man's voice rang out in the yard: "Coming, who's it?"

Qin Long said to the courtyard gate: "Hello, I am passing by, I want to go to Lijiagou, can I stay here for a night, I can give you accommodation fees." ”

"Are you going to Lijiagou?" the man in the courtyard asked, but the footsteps did not pause until he walked to the door, and opened the latch with a bang.

The gatekeeper was a man in his fifties or maybe sixties, and Qin Long couldn't tell his age from his face at all.

The man stared at Qin Long in the dark shadow for a long time, and said with a smile: "Come in and talk, the mountain wind is strong outside." ”

Qin Long walked into the courtyard with a smile: "Thank you, uncle." ”

It was only in the light from the room that the man saw Qin Long's appearance clearly, and asked Qin Long with a smile while closing the courtyard door: "You are a cadre from the county, right? The road to Lijiagou is not easy to walk, stay here tonight, and leave early tomorrow." Don't mention whether you have money or not, you are willing to go to Lijiagou to be good cadres, have you eaten? Today you are a coincidence, today I set a little wild boar on the mountain, thinking that I haven't had a tooth sacrifice for a long time, so I just let my mother-in-law cook it and eat some together. ”

Qin Long said embarrassedly: "I'm not a cadre in the county, I went to Lijia Village for some other things, and I was disturbed." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's all guests. The man laughed and let Qin Long into the house, and his loud voice had already beckoned: "Mother-in-law, the guest is here, bring some sweet potatoes to boil." ”

A woman's voice answered in the house, but when Qin Long walked into the house, he didn't see the woman who responded, so he must have gone to the hut to pick sweet potatoes and burn them.

Entering the house, the man politely let Qin Long sit at the small table on the ground in the room, and smiled at Qin Long: "Put things on the bed, it's weird to be tired." ”

Qin Long looked at the furnishings in the room curiously, except for the small dining table in front of him, which could only be regarded as a floor table, there was only one bed in the room that could barely be regarded as a bed.

The bed is built with two rows of bricks and a few wooden boards, two quilts are placed on the bed, and there is a rough cabinet at the foot of the bed, which should be of primary wood color, but due to the use of a long time, the color of the cabinet has become dark black, it seems that this cabinet should be used to put some clothes or something.

There is a TV set on the cabinet, it is the kind of big-ass TV that can no longer be seen in the city, it is color, but it looks like it is only about fourteen inches, and a TV series is being played in the TV that looks like an anti-Japanese drama, and the villain in it looks like a painting puppet Qin Long is very unaccustomed to it, and the TV signal is not good, so it is distorted from time to time, and it is replaced by a snowflake.

Except for this TV, there are no other decent electrical appliances in the house, such as air conditioners, computers, refrigerators, microwave ovens, etc., which are used to by city people, and there is not even a shadow of it here.

Looking down at the dining table again, there was only a large pot of wild boar stewed potatoes on the dining table, almost all of which were potatoes, only a few pitiful pieces of wild boar meat occasionally showed out shyly in the potato pile, and they were chopped into small pieces that were not much larger than peanuts.

There were four pairs of dishes and chopsticks on the table, and in the pair of chopsticks in front of Qin Long was a steamed potato that had been bitten off in half, and the other three bowls were also filled with the same steamed potato.

There were a few gnawed bones on the table, Qin Long dared to swear to the sky, he had never seen a bone that had been gnawed so cleanly, not only did there not even a single shredded flesh on each bone, but even the bone stick was bitten open, sucking out the bone marrow and juice inside.

For no reason, Qin Long suddenly felt that his nose was a little sour, and he said to the man who was greeting him politely: "Uncle, don't be busy, I'm not hungry, you just need to arrange a place for me to sleep." ”

The man laughed and said: "How can you not be hungry when you get to the end of the meal, eat and drink some sweet potatoes to burn and sleep steadily, come, give me something, I will put it on the bed for you first." ”

As he spoke, the man reached over and was about to take the urn in Qin Long's hand.

How can you put an urn on someone's bed?

Qin Long hurriedly dodged the hand stretched out by the man and said embarrassedly: "Uncle, I am holding an urn, and it is unlucky to put it on your bed, but I am worried that I will be cut by wild dogs when I put it outside, I am really sorry." If you are taboo, I will leave, find a shack with no one to squat for the night, and I will leave early tomorrow morning. ”

The man really retracted his hand, stared at the urn in Qin Long's hand, looked at Qin Long and asked, "Are you going to Lijiagou to deliver the urn?"

Qin Long nodded, he was really a little worried that this uncle would blow him out, this barren mountain and wilderness, it would definitely be uncomfortable to squat outside for a night.

The man looked at Qin Long and asked, "It's Li Jiagou's people who died?"

Qin Long nodded again.

The man exhaled, looked at Qin Long and said, "I know all the people in Lijiagou, who is dead?"

Qin Long held the old company commander's urn and looked at the man and whispered the old company commander's name: "Li Changqing, do you know each other?"

"Li Changqing?" The man trembled violently, and stretched out his hands to Qin Long again with trembling hands, and his eyes were covered with tears: "Young man, can you let me hug the old company commander and let me toast him with a glass of wine?"

The man grinned, and two bean-sized tears rolled out of his eyes.