This time into the back of the mountain to go to the place is indeed much farther than I imagined, we drove the car from Qiao Qidong their police station to the village at the foot of the back mountain to stop, there is no road in front, the car can not go at all, we can only borrow seven horses to ride into the mountain, we have been on the pastoral road, this road is extremely difficult, until it is almost dark to walk to the foot of a steep mountain, the guide said that there are now two roads, one is a short road from this mountain over, and then over a hill to the place where the body was found, Another way is to follow the river on the side of the mountain and go around the three mountains, but that may take two more days.

"It's not that it's a two-day or three-day journey, how to get here has to climb two mountains"

I asked the guide dissatisfied, I was exhausted by this time.

"Who knew you were walking so slowly, if we walked today, we would have arrived today, and we would have come back tomorrow"

The guide spread his hands and said.

This is a sturdy man in his thirties, who has been exposed to ultraviolet rays in the mountains all the year round, and his face is dark, and he is right, he runs ahead all the way.

And we are very difficult to follow behind, usually sightseeing and horseback riding is very interesting, but you can ride a horse for a day, the roots of the thighs will be worn out for you, but it is not fun, I smiled helplessly, and sat on the grass.

We stayed in a small wooden hut where the herders were temporarily living while they were herding their sheep.

After entering the mountain, the road is picturesque, at first I still feel beautiful and leisurely, but to the back of the buttocks and legs are grinding pain, no matter how beautiful the scenery can not be seen, at this time to settle down, it is already twilight, the cold air penetrates into the body little by little, Yang Lei and the guide went to find some firewood, and the herdsmen left the stove to make a fire and boiled some boiling water to cook some instant noodles, a few people ate while it was hot, I quickly got into the sleeping bag.

Zheng Duo said: "Aren't you going to go into the mountains for a vacation? Why don't you enjoy the night view of the mountains outside? ”

At this time, I was too tired to argue with him, closed my eyes and said, "The scenery will not run away, I will look at it slowly tomorrow, there is still more time."

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The next day, everyone discussed it, decided to choose a shortcut, this mountain road is very steep, all sheep intestine trails, immediately do not go to stay at the bottom of the mountain, watched by the herdsmen grazing nearby, we hiked up the mountain, the beginning of the mountain still has some slope, the more you climb up the steeper, look at the front of the mountain road more and more steep, at this time it is past noon, the sun is dizzy, Zheng Duo let everyone stop and rest, drink water, eat something, everyone got up and set off, the guide walked in front, Zheng Duo let me walk in front of him.

He asked me, "Are you afraid?" ”

"It's fake not to be afraid, but if you fall, you will be broken"

I say.

"Be careful, don't be afraid, I'm behind you"

He said softly, and then muttered, "I shouldn't have let you come if I knew this."

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I was very moved to hear him say the previous words, and after listening to his muttering words, I glared at him angrily and said, "If I fall down, I don't need you to pull me, so I won't have to worry you."

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"Can you say something nice with a crow's mouth, you can't stop wrestling?"

Zheng Duo also glared at me and said.

Seeing that he was a little annoyed, I giggled and said, "You think I want to fall?" ”

In fact, I'm really scared, I'm a little afraid of heights, the more I climb up, the more panicked, my eyes only stare at the road in front of me close to the cliff on the left, the right side is almost straight up and down the steep slope, what's worse is that the road is full of gravel, when you climb uphill, your feet are easy to slip, when you get to the top of the mountain, there is a straight slope of almost 70 degrees, the guide climbed up and stood on the slope and pulled the small firewood and Xiaohu in front of me, when I should go up, I climbed up for a while, and I saw that I was about to reach the guide's hand, and my feet slipped and slipped down, Seeing this, Zheng Duo grabbed the clothes on my shoulder, and with his tugging, I quickly climbed on the ground and clinged to the ground, and he was also dragged down a little, but fortunately his right foot was pressed against a protruding stone, and the two of us were rescued.

Yang Lei behind Zheng Duo also rushed over, and the two of them dragged me tightly, and I slowly climbed up.

I patted the soil on my body and felt that my hands hurt, and when I looked up, I saw that my hands and arms were scratched by stones, and they were bloody, Zheng Duo took my hand and looked at it, frowned, and said, "The medicines are all in Xiaochai's bag, you have to go up to bandage you"

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I said, "It's okay, let's go up and talk about it."

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When I got to the top of the mountain, Xiao Chai treated my wound, and he wanted to wrap me in gauze and I didn't let me, saying: "This kind of small cut can be covered with some medicine, but it will cover the wound if it is wrapped."

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Zheng Duo said with a straight face: "Wrap it, when you will go down the mountain and go up the mountain, don't you need to put your hands in your pockets?" Does the dust not enter the wound? ”

At this time, I was already a little shorter in front of him, and I heard what he said right, so I asked Xiaochai to wrap two layers of gauze on my two hands.

By the time the body was found, the sun had turned west, and the body was in a depression on the leeward side of the hillside, and the body had already been eaten by wild beasts, and it was broken and shapeless, but judging from the fragments of clothing, it might have been a woman, most likely a local herdsman.

We collected some samples of clothing, and the forensic doctor Xiao Chai went through the existing bones and extracted some samples, so we dug a pit on the spot and buried the remaining remains.

At this time, it was already late, there was no shelter here, and we could only sleep in a leeward depression, and Zheng Duo arranged for people to take turns to guard against the wild beasts in the mountains from hurting people.

Without the lights of the city, the stars in the sky were unusually dense, and we were all surprised that there were so many stars in the sky.

Lying under the empty starry sky, thinking about how desolate the deceased was when he was dying alone in this empty wilderness, I couldn't help but feel a little pain in my heart.

According to the guide, there are no herdsmen who have settled in this vicinity for more than ten kilometers, and I really don't know how this woman came here and died here, and what happened to her?

There was no clue at the scene to explore the cause, and our group of people may have gone so far to let this nameless deceased be buried in peace.

Or we can find her family and let them know where the people they care about are.

If she were a herder in the area and knew that we had found an unknown dead person, someone would have come to report her missing, and we might have known why she was in the place of death.

When he returned, Zheng Duo said that he had walked a long way around the mountain and along the river, and I knew that it was because I had been scared by the danger I had encountered when I went up the mountain.

Although walking along the river is not as dangerous as going over the mountain, but the road has become farther, the river has increased and the river is very cold, and the water is turbulent in some places, when crossing the river, we can only pull each other with ropes and slowly feel the stones and wade through the water, so the road is very slow, so that the original two or three days of the journey, we walked for five days before we walked out of the mountain, fortunately we brought enough food, and I brought a lot of snacks, all the way to not starve everyone.

Although the road back is farther, it is indeed a lot smoother, I did not have any accidents along the way, to Xiaochai slipped when crossing a more aggressive river, if it were not for the rope wrapped around his waist, the police in front and behind him pulled him tightly and was washed away by the water.

Xiao Chai is a thin young man, who has only been working for more than two years, and the fall in the water scared him a lot, and he was terrified all the way.

When the two of us walked at the back, he asked me, "Sister Lin, do you think that a group of us have traveled so far to see the value of this corpse?" ”

I knew that he was frightened, so I consciously flattened my voice and smiled: "There is nothing worthless, this is the duty, we are doing this, we have to come if it is worth it or not, anyway, we are lucky to find the bones this time, if we don't find it this time, we will come." ”

"Really?"

"Of course, once the herdsman in the mountains reported that a corpse had been found, and we went into the mountains three times to find the corpse."

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"Did you find it?"

Xiao Chai asked in surprise.

I shook my head and said, "No, but we tried our best"

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"Isn't that a wasted effort? It's a waste of money, we have to go into the mountains to rent horses and find guides this time."

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"There is no way, sometimes we do a lot of things knowing that there is no result but we have to try our best to do it, just like some murders, even if we know that we can't solve it, the work we have to do must be done, and many things are not measured by money"

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Xiao Chai sighed and said, "I've been thinking that if I drown here, I won't be able to do it?" I'm so young, my daughter-in-law didn't marry me, I don't want to be a martyr! Sister Lin, aren't you afraid that you almost fell down on the mountain? ”

I smiled and said: "No one wants to be a martyr, it's false to say that they are not afraid, but there are dangers everywhere, walking on the main road of the city is in danger of being hit by a car, and walking downstairs on a flower pot will also stone you to death." So just face it calmly, there will be a lot of such dangers in the future, and it will be good if you experience more in a few years, bravery is not born. The profession of a police officer will not only bring you a salary to support your family, but also a valuable character sharpening, if you are engaged in this profession just to make a living, then you will live up to this profession in vain."

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"Sister Lin, do you really like to be a police officer?"

I smiled at him and said, "I think it's okay."

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On the way back, I relaxed, and I also had the heart to look at the scenery around me, all the way was boundless green, and there were clouds dotted with sheep on the mountainside, and sometimes we could see the shepherd half-lying on the roadside and watching us walk slowly.

When we go to the deep mountains, the grass will be greener and greener, the population will be less and less, the scenery will be more and more beautiful, looking at the people scattered on the verdant hillside one by one, the smoke curling, the chickens and dogs smell each other, you will feel a kind of indescribable beauty, and at the same time feel a kind of indescribable loneliness, you will feel that the life of the mountain forest secluded dwelling that you have longed for in your heart is not real.

And when you go out of the mountains, the green is a little lighter, people live more and more intensively, there are shops and canteens on the roadside, although there are not many people in and out, but it brings a strong commercial atmosphere, you will feel that this is the real life.

This growing breath of life made me feel homesick and miss him.

I lament that I am an ordinary man after all, there is no kind of free and easy to laugh at the red dust, after all, I am bound by love for life, I am like all ordinary people and all living beings are busy for work, family, life, I think in today's era there is no one who can really stay away from the world, but as a woman who is nearly forty years old, I have never wanted to let myself become impetuous.

Facing the green mountains and green waters, I want to let myself have a peaceful spiritual home.

When the years pass away little by little, when the face is getting old and the youth is gone, when the noise of life is gradually leaving me, I hope that the years can polish me into a calm and gentle woman, and calmly spend the years when I am no longer young and noisy.

But where is the home that really belongs to me?