Chapter 65: Barricades
The same road, the Beijing section is fairly smooth, just out of the city boundary, cracked asphalt pavement and insect-eaten large and small soil pits are immediately laid out in front of you. "Visible...... The ...... of the first few batches of officials How perfunctory, no wonder that county ...... Poor like that. The black Santana was very bumpy, and Xing Tian couldn't help frowning as he watched this unfinished road burrow into the mountains in front of him, with no end in sight, "Yugong...... Where can I find ......? This place. ”
Xingtian was afraid of biting his tongue, and he said three sentences intermittently. Perhaps for the same reason, Takugo in the passenger seat didn't say anything. The imminent action was decided on an ad hoc basis, and he had been hesitant to vote in favor of it at the Dongyuan Printing House three days earlier. "The affairs of the village are often done according to the methods of the village. He interjected, but the others didn't seem to listen.
The car finally stabilized, Zhuo Wu wanted to break the awkward silence, but he couldn't turn over the appropriate words, and the two lips were polished several times. "What do you want to say?" Xing Tian asked suddenly, looking directly at the road ahead. "Oh...... You ......" "You want to ask me if I'm tired?" "Ha, yes, how did you guess that?" "Because I'm tired." Xing Tian took a deep breath, "It's been open since 4 o'clock in the morning and now it doesn't stop, and I'm really a little unbearable to be here at my age." Dante said that he learned to drive when he went to college, so why don't you learn it?" This question was too funny for Zhuowu, and he replied: "I can't afford to buy a car, so why use it after I have learned?" The tuition fee is not cheap, so it is better to save money to pay the rent. "Alas, it's a pity that the White Snake has to recuperate for a while. If she comes along, she can switch with me. "White Snake can drive?" Zhuo Wu was surprised. "Of course, you won't steal it. "Steal?" "She didn't mention it?" Xingtian's tone suddenly tightened. "No, I didn't ask. "I thought it was the New Year...... Forget it, it's a long story, let's take care of the things ahead. ”
The car was quiet again, and Zhuo Wu looked down at his watch, it was almost half past seven. As far as the eye can see, there are bursts of clear smoke rising from the towering mountains, and the smoke rises to the treetops of the trees that cover the hillside, and slowly disperses, although it does not affect the visibility, there is also a simple rural interest in the distance.
Following GPS instructions, Santana crossed a mound, leaving the road that threatened to tear it apart and onto a passage into the mountain that had been dug more than 20 years ago. "Dante looked up the information and said that it was originally used to walk the truck, which seems to be correct. Xingtian said, "After 20 years, it has not been repaired." "The passage is not very wide, it is made of sand and stones on the loess, and you can clearly hear the violent sound of the sand hitting the wheel fenders when you sit in the car, but although it is a little bumpy, it is not so bumpy. The black Santana lifted the dust from the rear of the car and went deep into the mountains, so that no other cars could be seen in front of or behind.
"Is there anything else you don't understand about this mission? "Xingtian's tiredness is getting stronger and stronger, and he needs to stay awake by chatting with people. "The task itself...... Uh, fine. Zhuo Wu saw that he was at a loss for words, "I'm curious, I'm going to leave Beijing for a few days this time, how do you explain the work in the vegetable market?" Xing Tian smiled proudly and said, "There is a grandson in the north of the market who has a shop that repairs bicycles and electric vehicles. A week ago, the district bureau brought a gang of electric cars, and found that several of the backbones and the grandson were fellow villagers, so they jointly found out that the grandson had borrowed his own shop many times to help his fellow villagers sell the stolen goods. When the police officers who handled the case chased him to the vegetable market, the grandson probably heard the wind in advance and disappeared for a long time. Because the backbone of the gang in charge of the accounts was not arrested, the sub-bureau sent people to the vegetable market to find out the bottom of the grandson of the car repair shop, trying to find out whether his disappearance had anything to do with the leakage of the backbone of the accounts. I took this opportunity to volunteer to tell the police officers of the substation that I am very familiar with this grandson, including the Ya's hometown, and if they allow it, I will immediately go to his hometown to inquire about some news. If he is going to hide there, I will bring him back. ”
"They agreed?" "The people from the sub-bureau didn't agree, after all, this is their case." When they left, I asked the leaders of the vegetable market every day for instructions, asking to assist the sub-bureau in solving the case and tracking down the lawbreakers hidden in the market, so as to correct the atmosphere in the market, re-establish a good image of the market, and deter people with bad intentions around the market. I couldn't help but go into the office again and again to make trouble, and the leader thought that it was useless for me to stay, and heard that I was willing to bring my own dry food, and counted these days of going out as personal leave, so I agreed. ”
Xingtian was sometimes serious, sometimes foul-mouthed, and Zhuo Wu sneered at a string of words. "Is it true that this trip is a double win, public and private?" "Hmph, come on, if we really want to go to that grandson's hometown, we have to go south, and go out of Beijing in the direction of due south, instead of driving in the northwest direction like this." "Hmm, the gang that stole the electric car ......" "Didn't I say it, it was a case of the sub-bureau, whether I exceeded my duty and helped others, it depends on whether I am happy or not." As for the image, deterrence or something, you won't take it seriously, right?" Seeing that Zhuo Wu was speechless, Xing Tian added: "This time it's over, if I have enough time, maybe I will go around in a big circle to help others." ”
Zhuo Wu's interest had been drawn out of the car window by an old crow with its wings spreading, and he remembered that they were in the "rural scene" he had seen a few minutes earlier, but he could still taste the "wild fun" when he watched it from a distance, and at this time he was there, and his heart was filled with a hint of coldness. According to Dante's description of the level of development of the area, Zhuo Wu's imagination presents a large barren land with several miles of uninhabited people, but he did not expect it to be so densely frequent. But he soon saw that the vegetation on the mountain was not planted artificially. They were tall or low, they were in a straight line, they scrambled to stretch out their branches, each tree trying to make itself taller, and along the uplifted slopes on either side of the gravel road, they covered each other and entangled themselves in the limited land, jagged into two green strips, stretching into the distance. Takugo recognized aspen, apricot, and walnut, which were sneaking in with the other tall trees, and the low trees and shrubs were so dense that they seemed to be dormant in the shadows.
"It's almost there. Ten minutes later, Xing Tian reminded. In fact, there is no need to look at the GPS, and Zhuo Wu has a hunch - an abandoned brick hut will occasionally pop up on the side of the road, like a forest ranger guard in the past, sometimes a collapsed fence will appear at the foot of the mountain, and a barren field will appear behind it, and most obviously, as it seems to be about to drive to the end of the access to the mountain, the mountain in front of it is no longer green.
Zhuo Wu took out the camouflage binoculars that Dante had asked him to bring, and saw that a mountain that was not too high was cut bare, revealing the edges and corners of the rocks and the color of the soil, and there were several places below the mountainside that flowed sand and gravel like pus, which were the traces of the excavation of the forklift of the sand and gravel. Looking at the two adjacent mountains, the scene is similar. It is worth noting that there are several square iron signs erected on a mountain at the far end, and each sign is brushed with a word, which is read as "Emei Health Valley".
Xingtian suddenly slammed the steering wheel, and Santana suddenly slumped down into the mountain passage, rolling through the bushes and grass into the field, and stopped urgently when he was about to crash into the tree. "You're crazy!" Zhuo Wu was angry at the former detective for the first time. "Get out of the car, bring your backpack and binoculars," Xing Tian looked left and right, making sure that this was the most suitable place to hide Santana, "Let's walk over." ”
Half an hour later, on a hill outside the end of the mountain passage, Xing Tian and Zhuo Wu were condescending, lying side by side, covered in soil. The telescope seemed to be glued to Zhuo Wu's eyes, and the scene in it made him raise his dirty hand to wipe the beads of sweat on his forehead, and asked Xingtian, "How do you know that there is such a thing?"
On the flat ground, three sturdy countrymen, laughing at each other, paced up and down a thick log with their hands in their pockets, which was erected at the ends of two half-human-high "X" shaped wooden brackets, and crossed the middle of the dirt road that connected to the mountain passage. This is about 300 meters in front of the hill.
Xing Tian went through the binoculars and said, "I don't know, but I've encountered something similar before." Zhuo Wu suddenly thought of something, and his heart immediately rose to his throat: "Xingtian, will they have guns?" "Hmph," Xingtian smiled bitterly, "If they dare to bring guns, our business will be simple." ”