Juanjuan was a little anxious. She looked back, and there were only two people left in the car except herself and the young man. Moreover, the two men seemed to be very old, one of them, sitting there coughing vigorously, and the other, holding a crutch in his hand, which was evidently a man with poor legs.

Juanjuan looked at the driver, she couldn't hold her breath, stood up and walked behind him, and asked:

"Uncle driver, where is this car going, how far is it from Liaoyuan County?"

The driver looked very leisurely, he took out a cigarette from his clothes, looked at her, then spit out a puff of cigarette, squinted at the mountains in the distance, thought for a while, and said:

It's not too far, at most it's fifty or sixty miles. Of course, this refers to the road distance, and if you climb over this side of the mountain, your ankles will be a little harder, and you will almost go back in time for dark. ”

“...... What, fifty or sixty miles away?"

Juanjuan repeated that she didn't have an intuitive feeling for these abstract numbers, so she didn't know how long it would take to walk these fifty or sixty miles.

She looked at the mountain range that the driver had just pointed to, it didn't seem too high, and there was a trail on the mountain. It's just that because she is a girl, walking alone on the road, she doesn't know if it's good or not, so she is very entangled in her heart.

On both sides of the road, there are constantly people getting off the bus and walking along both sides of the road.

Juanjuan still wanted to wait a while to see if the road could be passed.

After a while, a middle-aged car driver with a long beard came in front of him, who had come to borrow a lighter from the long-distance bus driver, and the two began to talk.

"Well, do you think this road can be fixed?" asked the passenger driver, handing the lighter to the bearded driver.

"It's enough, listen to the people in front of them, the machine can't come up at all, how can you rely on a few people to fix it?"

When the passenger driver heard this, he simply stopped staying in the car, he took a water glass, got out of the car, and together with the bearded driver, found a big stone on the side of the road, sat there, and began to talk about the sky. At the same time, he also lifted Erlang's legs and kept shaking his toes.

Juanjuan saw that the driver was not in a hurry at all, and her heart was even more anxious.

After a while, there were fewer and fewer people even on both sides of the road. Juanjuan rubbed the two, and she couldn't make up her mind a little in her heart.

"Aren't you going down? I'm not going to wait here anymore. I don't think it's going to be fun to wait any longer, who knows that this will have to wait until the Year of the Monkey?" the young man looked at Juanjuan and said slowly, "You wait patiently here, I can't, I have something to do when I go back." ”

He packed his satchel and prepared to get out of the car.

Juanjuan looked at the two old men left in the car, and then looked at the sky, and now, it was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon.

Juanjuan sighed, she didn't want to stay here anymore, she decided to get out of the car and walk as well.

Juanjuan took a few steps forward, and at this time, she found that there were fewer and fewer people walking on the road just now, it turned out that most of them were not going in the direction of the county seat, but after walking for a while, they were diverted to the nearby villages one by one.

Juanjuan looked at the young man in the distance, and she couldn't help but speed up her pace and chase after him.

"Why, you're coming down too, won't you wait any longer?" the young man seemed to see Juanjuan catching up, and he joked with her.

Juanjuan smiled embarrassedly, nodded, and said:

"I'm also in a bit of a hurry and can't wait any longer. ”

Indeed, Juanjuan also wanted to find Aunt Xu as soon as possible and know the truth as soon as possible. She couldn't afford to procrastinate.

Juanjuan followed the young man, and soon they came to the foot of the mountain, and the young man pointed to a mountain in front of him, and said:

"You see, this is the mountain, and there is a mountain road on it, and we can climb over it from here, and then we can climb over another mountain, and the rest of the road will be easy to walk, and if we take the main road, at this rate, I am afraid that we will not be able to walk back until the second half of the night. The young man laughed.

Juanjuan looked up at the mountain in front of her, and then at the young man who had followed her all the way, she slowed down under her feet, and secretly thought in her heart:

"After all, I am a girl, and there is no one I know here, in this barren mountains and mountains where there is no village in front of the village and no land in the back, will it be unsafe to follow such a stranger?"

"But if you don't follow him and walk alone on the avenue, how long will it take? The most important thing is that I am not familiar with the situation here, and who knows if I can go to the county seat before dark?"

Finally, Juanjuan turned her heart to herself, thinking to herself, what else could she think about when this time had come? So, she had to cheer up, re-tie her shoelaces, and prepare to follow the young man up the mountain.

The young man walked and walked, looking in both directions, and his expression seemed as if there was something in his mind.

When the two of them climbed to the top of the mountain and sat side by side on the ground to rest, after a while, the young man first stood up, then looked around, saw that there was no movement, took a few steps forward, subconsciously glanced back at Juanjuan, and then took out a mobile phone from his pocket, and kept clicking on the keyboard on it with two thumbs.

Juanjuan muttered, looking at the way he looked, he must be texting.

The two of them rested for a while, and Juanjuan was worried about getting dark, so she urged:

"It's not too early, let's hurry up. ”

The young man glanced at Juanjuan and smiled, he stood up, and the two of them hurried back on their way.

Through conversation, the young man told Juanjuan that his name was Gao Gaohai. He is now in the workforce, working in a hotel and earning a good income.

I finally climbed over a mountain. The two men rested for a while, and then they began to climb a second mountain.

When they reached the top of this mountain, the two of them stood on the top of the mountain and looked into the distance, and by this time, the sun was about to set.

"Let's go, hold on a little longer, and we'll go down the mountain. Juanjuan saw that this mountain was even taller than the one just now, and she was a little anxious.

At this time, Gao Haiqing didn't seem to be in a hurry, he wiped the sweat on his head and said:

"There's no rush. There is only a way down the mountain, and it won't take much effort for us to go back. ”

Juanjuan thought about it, she actually wanted to rest for a while, so the two of them sat down for a while.

After resting for about half an hour, the two of them got up again and walked down the mountain.

"Oops......"

Juanjuan was walking in front, but at this time, she heard Gao Haiqing behind her suddenly scream. When she looked back, she saw him squatting on the ground, and the two of them kept rubbing their ankles.

"What's wrong with you?"

Juanjuan hurriedly ran over, looked at him and asked.

Gao Haiqing's face distorted, "I...... I accidentally broke my foot just now...... Oops......"

Juanjuan looked at him sympathetically and said:

"You...... Why are you so careless? Well, let me see, does it matter?" she said, looking down at his ankle.

"It shouldn't matter. Gao Haiqing said, judging from the appearance, it doesn't seem to be particularly crooked.

"It doesn't matter, then you stand up and try to take a step?" said Juanjuan, frowning.

With Juanjuan's support, Gao Haiqing gritted his teeth, stood up hard, and tried to walk.

"Oops, it still hurts a little bit......"

Juanjuan hurriedly asked him to sit down again and said:

"Don't hold on, if you can't do it, just rest a little longer......"

There was no way, so the two of them had to sit for a while.

After a while, Gao Haiqing saw that Juanjuan's face was a little anxious, so he said to her:

"Okay, it's not too early, let's walk back slowly. ”

Of course, Juanjuan was anxious, but no matter how anxious she was, she couldn't leave him alone, right?

"It really doesn't matter?"

Gao Haiqing helped Juanjuan again, stood up again, and with Juanjuan's support, took two steps and smiled:

"Okay, just walk slowly, it's just hard for you. ”

Juanjuan smiled and said:

"Then what's the solution, who told you to accidentally break your foot? ”

So, Juanjuan put one of Gao Haiqing's arms on her shoulder, and the two of them began to walk step by step again.

Since it was now going down the mountain, Juanjuan could only choose some relatively flat places and help him walk slowly.

Finally, when it was dark, the two of them finally went down the mountain.

Juanjuan wiped the sweat from her head, she looked ahead, there was a road not far away.

"Can you wait for a taxi?"

Gao Haiqing knew Juanjuan's mood, so he said to her:

"You don't know, there are very few cars here, I think so, now there is still some way from the county seat, I will make a phone call and find someone to pick up the two of us by car." ”

Juanjuan nodded, and after that, Gao Haiqing took out her mobile phone and began to make calls.

Sure enough, after a while, a small car came quickly from a distance, Gao Haiqing squinted his eyes, looked at the car, and when the car was about to come to him, he shouted happily:

“...... Here it is, this is it. That's right. ”

The car came up to the two of them and stopped, with three people sitting inside. These people were about twenty-seven or eight years old.

The car door opened, and two people got out of it, they looked at Juanjuan, looked at Gao Haiqing again, and asked:

"How's that, is it badly hurt?" asked a man with bright eyes, looking at his feet.

"It doesn't matter, it's just a little bit. Juanjuan, let's get in the car quickly. ”