From Beijing to Hailar, the whole journey is about 1740 kilometers, from Beijing to Hohhot, the whole journey is about 480 kilometers, and from Hohhot to Hailar, the whole journey is about 2280 kilometers. Xiao Yao's decision to go to Hohhot is going farther and farther.

But the three of them didn't know at the time, Xiao Yao also checked the map of the national administrative region, but couldn't find it, Xiao Yao only knew the address from a letter from a classmate, and he was in the Inner Mongolia Hailar Dayan Mining Bureau.

The three of them got on the train to Hohhot, and Xiao Yao was still complacent about his decision.

When the three of them arrived in Hohhot, they inquired after eating a meal of mutton shabu, and the three of them were all stunned, they couldn't think of a fork in the road. And the money in hand is no longer enough to buy three tickets to Hailar.

At the beginning of May, the weather was still relatively cold in the north, they did not have thick clothes, and they did not dare to spend more money to buy a sheepskin jacket for one person.

It was even colder at night, and on the day of their arrival, several people stayed in the waiting room for one night, and could not stay the next night. I had to go to a hostel opposite the station to open a room, and in order to save money, the three of them only booked a single room.

"What to do? We can't just be stuck here. ”

There are only two single beds in the room, and Wang Yan is large and sleeps alone. He looked at Xiao Yao and Jin Ming sitting together, with a sad face.

"I'll go to the post office tomorrow and send a telegram to my dad and ask me to wire a sum of money from home, and we'll be waiting here for the next two days. ”

Xiao Yao felt that if he wanted to get the money as soon as possible at this time, the only way was to transfer wire. He didn't expect them to help him solve the problem, so he had to reveal his whereabouts.

"But, I see that you bought sheepskins with the money, and there is not much, what should we do when we eat?"

"Eat, eat, you know that food, clothing, shelter and transportation, clothes are in the first place, if you don't buy sheepskins, it will freeze you to death a long time ago. ”

Wang Yan complained, so frightened that Jin Ming stopped talking, Xiao Yao thought about it and said:

"I'll send a telegram tomorrow, I'll go buy the watch, let's save some and eat for a few days." When the money comes, we'll go. ”

All three spent the night in a dreary state. After dawn, Xiao Yao asked Jin Ming not to walk around in the store, and after he and Wang Yan went to take a telegram, they went to sell their watches. However, they asked on the side of the road for a long time, and no one was interested in buying his watch.

The morning sun is warm and the streets are flooded. Xiao Yao and Wang Yan walked lazily on the street, selling watches that no one cared about.

In the sunny and sheltered corner of the street, they saw many poor people sitting there basking in the sun and keeping warm.

These people are herders and blind streams. From time to time, they put their hands into the dirty and thick sheepskin jackets to catch fleas, and then stuffed them into their mouths to bite them to death, and when Xiao Yao passed by them, they could hear the "snapping" sound of fleas being bitten to death.

"Xiao Yao, can we come to this place? I found lice on the bed last night, you see these people, basking in the sun, catching lice at the same time, and stuffing them in their mouths, it's so disgusting, I itch when I look at it. ”

As Wang Yan spoke, he couldn't help twisting his shoulders, as if his back was itching.

"If you can't do it, you have to do it, others can live here, why can't we? The person in front of me is dressed very brightly, you go up and ask. ”

"Why am I again......?" ”

Wang Yan didn't finish speaking, and when he saw Xiao Yao glaring at him with his eyes, he had no choice but to step forward and ask.

However, this time Xiao Yao really looked at the right person, and the person was really interested when he heard it, looking at the watch that Xiao Yao took out, the two sides talked about the price. Xiao Yao bought a watch for 120 yuan, but he basically didn't wear it at school, and in the end, the man was only willing to pay 30 yuan at most.

Xiao Yao originally wanted to buy a half-price, but now it's only half-price. The meaning of the man's words was to imply that they had stolen the watch, and it was already a lot to pay thirty yuan himself.

Wang Yan didn't bother to explain to him, but he didn't dare to call the shots at such a low price. He took back his watch and looked at Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao waved his hand, and had to endure the pain of parting his love. His idea is simple, no matter how much, sell it and pull it down.

Thirty yuan, in those days, was only enough to maintain a day's food and accommodation for three people.

The next day, Xiao Yao still went to the post office with Wang Yan to check whether there was a call back at home, and the operator took out a telegram and handed it to Xiao Yao after asking them about their identities.

The call has been informed, insist on two days, and the remittance will arrive.

After reading the content of the telegram, Wang Yan was very excited, but Xiao Yao said coldly:

"Why are you so happy, do you want to go home?"

"What's the matter? We've only been out for more than ten days, and we haven't been arrested yet? Do you want to go home?"

Wang Yan couldn't guess why Xiao Yao asked him like this, his head was full of question marks.

"If we don't want to go home, we have to get out of here right away. ”

"Aren't you going to wait here for money?"

"I'm still waiting for a fart money, the wire transfer and the telegram should arrive at the same time, and now the telegram is coming, and it is said that the money will arrive in two days, and it is not the money that arrives, but the people who arrive. If nothing else, my dad will send someone from the factory to arrest us back, and there will be police in order to ensure that we are not in order. ”

Xiao Yao had complete insight into the intentions of his father's telegram. As the saying goes, knowing the son is more than the father, and in turn it can be said to be the father and the son, Xiao Yao knows that he can't stay here for a long time, and the thirty-six plans are the best.

But in the world, there are often blessings and disasters. When they were about to reach the door of the hotel, they saw Jin Ming running from another corner and shouting them to a hidden corner.

"You're not waiting for us at the hotel, what are you doing here?"

"The hotel was controlled by the police, and they took our things off and told me to come out and find you guys to go back as soon as possible. ”

Xiao Yao immediately understood that he sent a telegram back to something bad, and it must be the police from his hometown who contacted him. Although he did not say where he lived in the telegram, the hotel was not far from the post office, and the police could find it by a casual search.

"Police, won't it be so fast?"

"It's not the police who arrested us, they said that a warehouse opposite the hotel was stolen last night, and the police are fully investigating. He also said that the three of us were outsiders and were suspicious, so I detained my luggage and asked me to come back to you. ”

Xiao Yao came up as soon as he heard the fire.

"What stupid cop would dare to suspect us of stealing? Didn't you tell the police, are we still students?"

"I just said that it was the students who were suspected. ”

Jin Ming said helplessly, he also heard the police say that the warehouse opposite was stolen, so he directly said that the three of them were still students and would not do the thing of stealing chickens and dogs.

But the three of them wrote on the letter of introduction for the registration of accommodation, that they were the three of them projectionists of the film team, and they came out to observe and study.

If Jin Ming didn't say that he was a student, or that the letter of introduction was not written like that, the police would not suspect them in any simple relationship, but it was such a mistake that made the police suspect them.

Listening to Jin Ming finish everything, Wang Yan scolded Jin Ming for being too stupid. Xiao Yao was sure that if they went back now, they would definitely be exposed as three escaped students, and as long as they made a long-distance phone call to ask, they would be caught by the police, and the best result would be to send them back.

Wang Yan and Jin Ming had no doubts about Xiao Yao's conviction this time, and their opinions were surprisingly unified.

"Forget it, we can't go back to the hotel, so the luggage will be handed over to the hostel security management, so that someone from the family can take it back." If we don't want to be caught, let's go. ”

"Someone's coming, someone will come to the house to arrest us?"

Jin Ming didn't know the situation yet, and listened to Xiao Yao's words with a confused face.

He guessed it, and it was as if it were true. Well, now, no matter whether people come or not, we just have to go if we don't go, and we lose all our eggs, and now it's more enjoyable to run. ”

"It's a pity that three sheepskins cost us so much money, and we didn't wear them on our bodies, what should we do when it's cold at night?"

Xiao Yao thought for a while, then returned to the post office, found a piece of paper, picked up the ballpoint pen for guests at the post office and handed it to Jin Ming.

"I said, you write. ”

Xiao Yao asked Jin Ming to write a letter to the police waiting in the hotel. The general content of the letter was that the three of them had come out to play, and had nothing to do with the theft of the warehouse.

Xiao Yao hoped that the police would not delay their work on them, let the thief go, and affect the progress of solving the case.

Xiao Yao said in the end that they said goodbye without saying goodbye, not to evade accountability, but they didn't want to be found by their families, and hoped that the police would hand over the detained luggage to the family members who came over two days later to bring it back, and they were very grateful.

"Who's going to send it over? Won't it be me? I'm sure I'll not be able to get out of that case. ”

Xiao Yao dictated, after Jin Ming finished writing, he saw that Xiao Yao was still looking at him, and he was a little panicked.

"Whoever goes to deliver the three of us will be detained, and if we find someone to send it, we will leave. ”

At this moment, Xiao Yao saw a girl who looked like a primary school student walking by, and hurriedly stopped her. But this kid doesn't know what's going on, he just doesn't understand Xiao Yao's words, they don't understand what she says, Xiao Yao doesn't understand them, Xiao Yao talks for a long time, and she just shakes her head.

Xiao Yao had to take her to the location where he saw the hotel, pointed to the inn and pointed to the letter, stuffed it into her hand and then pointed to the hotel, the little girl understood, and nodded seriously.

After Xiao Yao handed the letter to the little girl, he immediately took the two of them from the opposite position of the hotel to a hidden and parallel position to the hotel, and watched the little girl walk towards the hotel.

Not long after the little girl entered, a policeman followed the little girl at the door of the hotel, and the little girl pointed to Xiao Yao where they had stayed, and the policeman ran over quickly. Seeing all this, Xiao Yao was relieved, he stretched out his hand and pulled the two of them away quietly.

"Only a few bucks in your pocket?"

After eating a simple lunch, Jin Ming was surprised to see that Xiao Yao only put away three or four yuan. Xiao Yao looked at him in surprise and pouted.

"I haven't acted alone, and I can still eat the money?"

"Xiao Yao, I don't want to stay here, this side is really not suitable for our life, let's go to the south. ”

"Didn't you say that the mutton was delicious that day? Why do you say that now? I don't want to stay here, but now we can only walk around wherever we want to go, and we will eat a meal tonight and start a hunger strike. ”

"The mutton shabu that day was delicious, but unfortunately I didn't dare to eat it later because I didn't have the money, and it was much better than what I ate in Beijing. ”

Jin Ming followed, licked his tongue, and recalled the meal of shabu mutton they ate when they first arrived in Hohhot that day.

Xiao Yao himself thought that the mutton shabu that day tasted very good, but after asking about the wrong way, plus buying three sheepskins to keep out the cold, he immediately became nervous at hand, and he never ate the delicious and inexpensive mutton shabu again.