Chapter 4: Previous Lesson

At night, I was alone in this small house, and when I came it was empty, and when there were so many things in the house, I felt that it was more empty than when I came. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoI don't know if this void is due to the establishment of habits or whatever, but my mind replays the scenes that should be there at this time of the day, even though there are some arguments or silences. I don't know what kind of meaning the words I said to Xiao Yu's ears, I'm not him, I can't understand it, I think maybe I'll never know whether this is a relief or a hurt for him.

Looking out the window at the pitch black, I didn't feel burdened and didn't feel as happy as I imagined. No matter what, life has to go on.

I did this all day, but it made me feel exhausted, so I fell asleep. By the time I opened my eyes again, it was already the next morning.

Without Xiao Yu, I would no longer be Gal. Put on your own clothes and drive to the mall to buy some essentials. First of all, I didn't know how far I was going or how long I was going to go, so I bought two suitcases, one large and one small, so that they were enough for all kinds of hiking. Next is the shoes, you can't wear heels for hiking, we're going to a volcano, it's a mountain road, hiking shoes can't be missing, three pairs of hiking shoes are enough. There is also a jacket, in fact, I have never been to the wild, so I bought jackets, hats, gloves, and outdoor products are recommended by the store, and they have equipped me with two large sets of full outdoor supplies, from tents to Swiss army knives. This pile of purchases is actually about the same, in fact, Ah Cheng will definitely prepare these things, but I don't worry, it's better to prepare it myself.

I couldn't move anything from the outdoor store, so after taking them to my car, I continued to wander around the mall to see if there was anything I liked. After shopping for an hour, a model shop attracted me, I walked straight into the store, looking at all kinds of ship models, car models, all kinds of aircraft models, all kinds of aircraft battle models, these things I also have my favorite, such as the first number of EVA, such as various motherships, warships, but more when I entered the store, I saw a lot of models that Xiao Yu had mentioned before. It's funny to think about, I used to hate him like that, but I didn't expect that I remembered everything he said.

"Hello, all the models in these two showcases, don't duplicate them all for me." I called the salesperson and pointed to the two display cases in front of me and said to him.

"Uh... The salesman was obviously a little unresponsive, and it took two seconds to make sure he was right. It seems that there are very few people coming to their store.

The salesman took out the model boxes in the display case one by one to check the price and write the receipts, and after I paid, the salesperson asked the salesperson to help me send these models to the car. The trunk is full of outdoor items, and now this large pile of models can only fit in the back seat and passenger seat. As soon as I finished loading my things, Zhang Yimo called and asked me to drive to the hot spring hotel to meet him.

Two hours later, it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon, and I was stuck in a traffic jam all the way to the entrance of the hotel. This hot spring hotel was originally my dad's, and later transferred to a Taiwanese. Zhang Yimo stood at the door to pick me up, and when he saw that the model boxes full of cars basically buried me in the car, he began to taunt me again: "You really know how to keep warm." ”

"You know what, it's called Yaqu." I gave him a disdainful look and walked into the hotel. The door of the hotel is a big door cover, above which is a dark green eaves, and inside is a cluster of landscape stone mountains on the left, a small fish pond on the right, and a simple stone road in the middle. The whole hotel is not big, it is a two-storey building of a Japanese Buddhist temple, the style is simple and exquisite, behind the main building is the hot spring pool, the pool is built according to the mountain, layer upon layer, and the top few places are the rooms that belong to the pool alone. Except for summer, it is basically the peak season, due to the limited rooms, the service facilities are first-class, so if you want to book a room here, you have to book a room at least a month in advance. Zhang Yimo didn't know what way to book a room here, and there were several rooms with independent baths on the hillside. But I don't understand what he is doing here to book two rooms, and what else does he have to say to the bottom of this hot spring pool?

I haven't eaten all the way here, I'm a very food-loving person, and I also have the peerless magic of not being able to eat fat no matter how much I eat, so I'm very much looking forward to the arrival of the meal.

We went straight to the restaurant. The restaurant is outdoor, on the right side of the main building by a bamboo forest, below which is a stream, on which a group of small pavilions are built using wooden planks, each of which is separated by its own and very elegant. I took the menu and looked at it for a long time, ordered a seafood platter and Indian hot pot, and he didn't have as much trouble as me, so he asked for a fried pho and it was gone.

Between serving dishes is certainly an important time to talk.

"Xiao Yu, what are you going to do?"

"He's moved away." I folded my chin with my hands together and looked at the small bamboo forest in a daze.

"Well, how's the preparation going?" He didn't stop at the previous question, he was very knowledgeable.

"I just went to buy a lot of them in the morning, and it should be enough."

"Buy? I'm asking you if you know where you're going, what are you going to do shopping? Finding that my understanding of "preparation" was a little off, he immediately corrected me.

"Huh?! What else do I need to know? Isn't it you and Ah Cheng? I understand what those do. "I'm a little confused, and I'm not going to be a guide, so they just knew.

"Well, forget it, I'll give you these in the evening. We left early this time because Yang Yu contacted me the night before and said that Gal had left without saying goodbye. ”

"Yang Yu? He was also involved in this? "I always thought that Gal was involved, but Yang Yu also knew. How many people still know this? I don't think I'm keeping up.

"Yang Yu and I studied at a university, because of the relationship between the family, so he knows a lot of things." Zhang Yimo explained and continued what happened just now: "He was originally going to accompany Gal to Mexico, but when they first arrived in Tucson, Gal suddenly said goodbye. Yang Yu said that before they arrived in Tucson, Gal had suspected that someone had discovered her whereabouts, so he guessed that Gal had most likely gone to Sicily. We left ahead of schedule to rush to the United States to join Yang Yu and use your identity to confuse the other party, so that Gal can be safe. ”

I listened to what he told me, and my heart went up, what is that place in Sicily? Big gangster! What is Gal doing in that place? But he said that he was in a fog for a long time, and I was really anxious, so I blurted out and asked, "Who is Gal hiding?" I've been asked to keep Gal's whereabouts secret since I came back, and I guess it's not just because of Ah Cheng. Also Why should Gal go to Italy? What does this have to do with her being discovered? What's going on here? ”

Zhang Yimo didn't intend to hide it, he lit a cigarette and told me, probably that is, in the early years, when our father made a fortune, our uncle Shen Dahua was released from prison, and my father didn't want him to go out and live a bad life again, anyway, the uncle was imprisoned in Xi'an, so let him go to the underground casino in Shaanxi to manage. Everything was fine, but the uncle loves to drink, no brain, once he drank alcohol and teased a little girl in the office, the little sister is married, and the husband is the security officer in the field, this matter was known by the little sister's husband, rushing in is like beating our uncle, and the result was beaten down by other security personnel, and the uncle angrily did it in front of the man. Is this worth it? The man was not angry, so he ran away the next day to find the big strong son of the local snake in northern Shaanxi, and in order to let the big strong man help him get angry, he said that as long as he helped him slaughter Shen Dahua, our father would definitely go to Shaanxi, and then slaughter our father again, and the treasure of the god family would belong to them. The baby they were talking about was Zhang Yimo bringing me a small stone, and our father carried the stone at that time. Originally, this matter was a secret, and only the family knew about it, but the uncle was drinking and talking nonsense over there, and he had already told Balabala about the family's secret. This is good, the strong son of northern Shaanxi released a word, saying that whoever wants to make a fortune will follow him to kill people, and soon many small gangs in northern Shaanxi began to cooperate temporarily, half a month later, a large group of people in black pressure all came to our field to make trouble, but since it is a casino, who is afraid of whom? The people in our yard picked up the guy and started doing it, and the scene was so chaotic that in the end the police came and saw all they saw were broken arms and legs. Uncle was hacked to death in that incident, and the field over there was also seized, and the police wanted to follow the vine, but the guys who were alive were very loyal, and none of them flirted, and then my father spent a lot of money to calm it down. But since then, the fact that our God family has a treasure has been rumored at home and abroad, some people believe it, and some people don't. There's one group here that really trusts us, but they're not going to beat us up. It is said that when my father was still in the underworld, he once went out to help people collect accounts, the family was so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat, one of the two adults was as thin as a ghost, and a prostitute was full of illness, and the person who collected the debts saw that they had no money to pay back, so they had to follow the rules of the rivers and lakes, but my father saw that there were two babies in the house, and they were dirty, and they must have not eaten for a few days. So my dad took these two babies away, ate and drank well, sent them to school, and waited until eighteen, these two babies said that they were going to break into the world by themselves, at that time in the early nineties, we were just born, the eldest sister was in elementary school, the two babies were also gone, and my father thought that he was in his forties, and he should live a normal life, so he washed his hands. When my father died, although he had a huge amount of assets, in order to avoid disasters, he told my mother as early as when he was sick that the funeral must be simple. On the day of the funeral, the two babies came back from Italy, and the little boy was now a terrifying gangster boss, and his momentum instantly grew his face. They also know about our family's stones, and in order to repay our father, they are like a promise in front of our father to protect the descendants of God's family for the rest of their lives. But after all, the emperor is far away, and the two babies must return to Italy, and Gal needs to be more cautious in many places in China, because there are too many people who were killed back then, and there are too many people who know secrets, and there are countless people who take revenge and peep at things. Dad handed over the stone to the Zhang family for safekeeping, also because the Zhang family was not conspicuous, but only did a low-key training business, which was also one of the safety measures. And I wasn't taken to Italy for no reason, my dad took into account that he was from the underworld, and he was afraid of revenge so he refused to give us a household registration, and later sent me to Italy, mainly because he already knew that the two babies were a bit famous over there, and sending me there could reduce the risk and ensure safety.

What Zhang Yimo told me is something I never knew, it seems that Gal knows this, and I can't imagine how much pressure she is under.

Coming out of the story, the dishes have been on the table for a long time. I picked up my chopsticks and started eating, and I was shocked to hear this story, and my mind made up all kinds of scenes, imagining that if those things happened again in this era, I would probably be able to make a Hollywood blockbuster.

After eating, I sat down in my seat with my stomach puffed out with satisfaction, licking my mouth with enjoyment, and the most beautiful part of eating is to eat until I can hold on! Zhang Yimo looked at my four-and-back appearance and sighed.

"Our family of gods, what a god! This kind of restrictive blockbuster can happen, no wonder we should make a fortune. I said self-deprecatingly.

Our family is rich, but the rich ones are not necessarily the ladies, I am not, I am a woman who speaks very aggressively, which is why I have always been single. After all, Zhang Yimo's living environment is different, they are engaged in education, they are in contact with all the great literati, and there is a limit to no rules, where are we free-range, we can do anything, I don't believe you look at Ghal, what replaced her, ran around with a child, went to the mafia alone, everything is much crazier than me.

"I found that as soon as Xiao Yu left, you were completely exposed, and all kinds of ruffians came out." Zhang Yimo shook his head at me. Is it disappointment? Let's be disappointed, when I get to the United States, I have to become Gal, let me relax first.

I glanced at him and looked at the time, it was past three o'clock in the afternoon. At this time, people are most likely to fall asleep, but I didn't fall asleep after listening to the story just now, Zhang Yimo asked me if I had been to this Nanshan, I said that I had been there when I was a child, and I still remember how the road went, so he proposed to go to Nanshan. I thought that since we had all come to the bottom of the mountain, we would go for a walk in the mountain and try on my hiking shoes.

Change into hiking shoes, get in Zhang Yimo's car and drive all the way to the mountain gate. After getting out of the car and shaking our legs, we began to climb the mountain.

This mountain road is easy to walk along the road at first, and then it enters the mountain, although there are traces of artificial repair, but it can be potholed and very physically demanding to walk. Halfway up we walked, I drank all the two bottles of mineral water we brought, and there may be no water for sale in this mountain, which is fun.

Zhang Yimo walked in front of me, without saying a word, I was almost crawling behind, I couldn't walk anymore, he retreated to pull me, and then turned around and continued to move forward.

It is estimated that after climbing for more than an hour, we arrived at a place like a village, I can't understand why these people live here, aren't they tired of climbing mountains? I found a small shop, bought two bottles of water, and the money was just paid by the two of us to drink it up and tons, the boss saw that we were sweating profusely in the cold weather, thirsty like this, and couldn't help laughing at us and said, "Did you two eat electric blankets?" Sweating profusely on such a cold day? Zhang Yi looked at the sky silently and didn't speak, I burped, gasped and said, "Let's climb the mountain, this mountain road is too difficult to walk, and it is really hard for you to live here." ”

"What! You've come from this road? This road is the old road, why don't you go up through the main gate? There are still attractions over there! "The boss was surprised and amused when he heard that we actually walked the dirt mountain road that they didn't take.

Zhang Yimo looked down at me, expressionless. I felt a deep malice from the whole mountain, I had been here before I went to Italy when I was a child, and I did take this road up the hill at that time, how did I know that I had built another road now. I buried my head and walked forward, Zhang Yimo hurriedly grabbed me, pointed to a path up and said, "This is the way up the mountain, where are you going?" ”

"I'm not going up the mountain, I'm going to see what the new road looks like." I stubbornly turned my head and looked ahead, thinking to myself: What kind of mountain are you climbing, my leg is about to break.

"That's not good, we'll get down the car and still be here, and we'll have to walk back to the car from there, so it's too big a bend. Walk around, go up the mountain. He didn't care how much my mind jumped, and pulled me up the hill.

Alas, I'm really a dog, it's okay for me to say what to climb the mountain, I'm sick. With the voice of self-blame in my heart, I walked on the mountain road step by step with difficulty, and I don't know whether Zhang Yimo deliberately took the wrong road or this road is like this, since I left the small village, the road behind this is getting more and more outrageous, what cliffs, what slopes and quagmires, I doubt how this can still be called a road.

In such a difficult environment, Comrade Zhang Yimo and I climbed to the top of the mountain step by step. On the top of the hill there was a yellow kudzu erected in the middle of the flat ground, and in the direction of four o'clock on the way we came up, there was another way up, which was obviously much more formal. I rushed to the tree and sat down in two steps and one step at a time, without any extra strength. Although Zhang Yimo didn't feel better than me along the way, he still has the strength to wander around and look at the scenery, I really admire him.

It was almost half past five, and I looked up straight ahead, hey! Just in time for the sunset to proceed! I hurriedly called Zhang Yimo to watch the sunset together. As soon as he picked me up, he turned around and walked down the normal road.

"Wait, wait, it's watching the sunset, what kind of wind are you smoking?" Puzzled, I stepped back, trying to pull my hand back. He didn't say a word, he came up and picked me up and began to walk down the mountain, I wanted to resist, but I thought that he had wasted a lot of strength when he came up, and now I must not have much physical strength to carry it, and then it is the way down the mountain, alas, let's go, don't make him fall and get me out, then I can't play.

Zhang Yimo carried me, I looked at the ground, this regular mountain road is not difficult to walk, the road is a ladder is a ladder, where are those Xiaoba slopes just now. Ten minutes later, we went down to the village just now, and the shopkeeper recognized us with sharp eyes and greeted us warmly, "Yo! On this trip to the mountain, how did you make two mud dolls? I saw that I had come here, so I asked Zhang Yimo to put me down, stand on the ground and pat the soil on my body, and ask him, "What the hell did you see just now?" As soon as I said watch the sunset, you pulled me down the mountain. "There is a bit of blame in the words, you think, I finally went up to the top of the mountain, and watching the sunset was a small reward for myself, but as soon as he came, he lost my reward, and now that the sun has set, of course I am not happy in my heart.

He didn't look at me, and walked down the hill along the easy path at the main entrance, and I didn't know why, so I had to follow. He walked so fast that I barely managed to walk side by side with him at a trot. The road down the mountain was not too dark, and the lights were full of joy, and we walked straight along this large slope to the mountain gate.

There are bicycles to rent at the mountain gate, so now it's okay, you don't have to walk to the other side of the mountain gate.

"Boss, rent a tandem bike." Zhang Yimo didn't speak since he reached the top of the mountain, and now he finally spoke again.

"Just rent a single one, I don't know how to ride." I smiled and said to the boss and went to pick up the bike with the back seat.

Zhang Yimo ignored what I said, grabbed the tandem bicycle at hand and prepared to hit the road. What's wrong with him today? Because I asked him to climb the mountain and tired him? Because I said the wrong place and made us take a big detour? I've never seen him like this in all the time I've known him, and I can't figure out what he's thinking. Seeing that he had lifted a tandem car, I knew that what I had just said was nonsense, so I obediently followed him.

"Sit in the back." Zhang Yimo ordered me without replying.

There are two kinds of double bicycles, one is side by side, that is, two single bicycles are placed in parallel, and the middle is welded with steel strips, just like the axle, and there is another kind of this that Zhang Yimo selected, a long strip, two faucet handles, one in the front of the car, one in the middle of the car, so that you can sit two people on a line before and after, and this method is better that people who don't know how to ride a bicycle can also ride, as long as the front one will, and the back only needs to sit there and pedal.

I sat behind and pedaled the bicycle to the rhythm of Zhang Yimo, after the sun went down, the woods on the mountain were dense, and the road was not visible at all where there were no stalls. Zhang Yimo turned on his mobile phone to follow the road, and I felt like a blind person in the back.

The mountain road was dark, we didn't dare to ride fast, and it took us an hour to get to the place where we parked. Packing the bikes into the trunk, we got in the car and headed back to the hotel.

The room had a prepared bathrobe and bath towels, so I wrapped them in them and went down to the hot spring pool. Zhang Yimo's room is next door, there is a high screen between the two pools, and there is a cliff outside the pool, and a circle of walls is made of glass, so that you can watch the night scene below, and you don't have to worry about someone turning over next door.

I was lying comfortably in the pool, and today my whole body was almost falling apart because of the mountain, and I quickly fell asleep after soaking in this hot spring water. Half-asleep and half-awake, there was silence and smoke, and I seemed to see a person sitting in this pool, and the person was pouring water on himself, and the sound of the water was very three-dimensional and crisp. Suddenly, the man suddenly raised his head and looked at me, the light was too dim to see the expression on the man's face, the fog was too big, I blinked, and when I opened my eyes again, a huge white face had appeared in front of me, and I wanted to stick it all to my face. The visual impact of that close-up was overwhelming, and I almost felt like my whole body was boiling, and every pore stood up to the top of my head, and then I felt my heart skip a beat, and let out a miserable "Ah~!" ”

This shout directly pulled me back from that half-asleep state to reality, and the fog disappeared, and there was still a lot of noise outside, and melodious music was still playing in the room. Zhang Yimo on the other side of the screen heard me scream, and immediately asked me vigilantly what was wrong, and I replied that I had a nightmare.

As soon as all my fatigue dissipated from such a strange dream, I got up and changed into loose clothes, and called Zhang Yimo next door to ask him to go down to eat together.

I went to the restaurant again, sat here in the daylight during the day, looked at the landscape and looked leisurely, and at night, this independent small pavilion was lit with candles, lined with the lights of the mountain, as if in the Milky Way, which made people reverie.

After ordering, we both lit cigarettes.

"What's wrong with you today? Didn't speak all the way. "I'll find something to talk about and wait for dinner.

"Do you know how many mistakes you made today?" Zhang Yimo asked me rhetorically, his tone like a teacher.

"What happened to me today? What did I do wrong? I asked him puzzled, I didn't think I was wrong.

"Firstly, unfamiliar with the terrain wasted a lot of physical strength, secondly, there is no common sense and awareness of danger, and thirdly, too much dependence." Zhang Yi replied truthfully by default. Hey, he's not tired from climbing the mountain today, and he still has time to think about this.

"How do I know that the road has changed, I haven't been kind enough to say that I will take you to the mountains to have a look and relax. Also, where do I have no sense of danger and common sense? How am I dependent again? I retorted.

"If you want to do anything, you must first have full preparation, which includes gathering information and making detailed plans, and you don't, which makes the two of us waste a lot of time and energy on unnecessary things, which is very much worth the loss. Secondly, you don't have a sense of danger and common sense, if it's dark in the mountain, it's very dangerous, you see that the sun is about to go down, but you still want to admire, then have you thought about it, the last bit of light is you sitting on the top of the mountain to enjoy, so what do we rely on to illuminate the mountain? Cell phone? Moonlight? Finally, we're going back to where we parked, and if you don't know how to ride a bike and think I'm going to let me ride it, what if I can't either? Suppose I'm injured and can't move, what do you do? And I also climbed the mountain, I also have physical exertion, if I carry you alone, it will inevitably consume more physical strength, so if there is a danger or emergency, who has the strength to deal with it? He pointed it out to me the same way. I nodded in acknowledgment of what he said, although I was a little unconvinced, but when I think about it, it is true, even if I make excuses that if that happens, I will definitely not do this, but I still belong to the unconscious, and these consciousnesses should always be carried out in my heart.

I know he's going to give me a shot for what's next, and it's a fool not to be a fool if there's such a person who is willing to teach me. Seeing that I didn't want to make excuses, he continued: "You must know that we may encounter all kinds of problems on the road on this trip, you are no longer the original child of the family, you have to learn to deal with and face, everyone's shoulders can only bear their own heads, in the face of danger, you must first learn to protect yourself, so that you are responsible for yourself and other entourage." ”

I understand what he said, whether I just go back to Gal, or in the face of all kinds of people in society who peep at this stone, I have to be cautious and cautious. Gal is like that, everything she does must be well thought out, so she has a plan for everything. For example, it seems to me that she is going to Ah Cheng's house, just go directly, why do you want me to replace her. Now that I think about it, I was too stupid to understand what's at stake.

"Okay, even if I teach you a lesson today, if you don't understand anything in the future, you should think for yourself first, and then listen to my opinion after you have your own understanding, which is the most correct way to make judgments." Zhang Yimo comforted me, and a long-lost smile finally appeared on his face again.

Listening to him tell me this, my heart was much heavier, I had too much to learn, and I didn't want to kill the group because of my mistakes.

The meal came up, I picked up the bowl and began to eat, Zhang Yimo sandwiched a large piece of meat for me, and said with a smile: "Eat more meat, this goes out There are many places like today that require pure physical strength, you are too thin, I don't know how many sweaters you carried when you pretended to have a big belly." ”

"You don't understand, I have a great thing about this person, when I am full, my stomach can bulge like a balloon, but as long as it is digested, it will return to the same state in an instant." I'm proud to say that this is something that many girls don't want.

"You call it wasting food, you know? What's the use of eating so much if you don't grow meat after eating? Zhang Yimo said and sent a large mouthful of rice to his mouth. I gave him a blank look, it's useless for me to eat, is it useful for me to starve to death?

I buried my head in eating, I consumed too much today, I ate it with a wolf, and I was choked many times in the middle, and finally I ate four large bowls of rice, and I didn't lose to him at all.

"Well, you're a little accomplished in eating it." Zhang Yimo drank his saliva and shook his head when he looked at me sitting in my seat stupidly again.

After eating, I went back to my room and went to sleep. At about ten o'clock in the evening, I was woken up by a knock on the door, and I didn't bother to care about my messy hair, so I went to open the door with sleepy eyes.

Standing at the door was Ah Cheng, who couldn't help laughing twice when he saw me like this.

"Little Gal, everyone is here, Xiao Mo asked me to come and call you." He never knew my name was Nini, and I didn't tell him what my name was when I mentioned my identity twice, so he still thought I was the same name as Gal.

"Huh? Let's go now? "I've just slept for an hour and I'm leaving, so I'm in a hurry!

"Who said that I left now, Xiao Mo asked me to call you over to discuss the matter of leaving tomorrow," Ah Cheng saw that I couldn't figure out the situation, and stretched out his hand to shake my head to make me sober up.

"Oh, okay, I'll take the keycard." I turned around and went to the house to take out the room card, and then followed Ah Cheng to Zhang Yimo's room.

Zhang Yimo's two rooms are suites with living rooms, as soon as I enter Zhang Yimo's room, there are a bunch of people standing in the living room outside, there must be seventeen or eighteen, all of them are muscular men, and half of the domestic ones are imported, this formation seems to be going to war!

I walked through the crowd and saw Zhang Yimo sitting on the sofa eating fruit, and next to him sat an old man with dark skin and gray hair, who was holding a bunch of pictures and looking at them carefully, and looked up and saw me there like a ghost, and immediately stood up and bowed in a proper manner and said, "Third Miss." As soon as he shouted, the surrounding group of muscular men suddenly took a step back, and also learned from the old man's respectful bow and shouted, "Third Miss." ”

The old man shouted and I wondered, but suddenly a group of people shouted in unison, which startled me, and I looked around with wide eyes, except for Zhang Yimo sitting, everyone else was standing.

"This, this... Sit down, sit down. As soon as my mind twitched, I said this, and everyone froze, still bowing and bending there, and I suspected that I should say flat first.

"Master Liu, I won't go through the form in the future, little Gal is not used to it." Zhang Yimo took a bite of the fruit and said in his mouth.

"Yes, listen to the young master." The old man called Master Liu nodded in reply, then coughed, and the group of fierce men behind him all raised their bodies, put their hands behind their backs, and looked ahead. When I saw this movement, I said, "Amazing! Well-trained, obedient to commands, good health, delicious food... Wait, what the hell?

I sat next to Zhang Yimo and stretched out my head to look at the drawings in Master Liu's hand, and Ah Cheng sat on a single stool rummaging through the contents of the bag.

"Little Gal, you look at this first." Zhang Yimo saw that I was so curious, so he brought me a stack of drawings on the table.

I took it and flipped through them one by one, and there were symbols, as well as some photos and photocopies of my notes. I flipped it relatively quickly, and I was about to turn to the bottom, and suddenly I was attracted by a photo, this photo is a photocopy, black and white, I didn't recognize who was on it, but there was a horizontal groove in the lower right corner of the whole picture, and the little finger was so thick, according to the unconventional edges, it should not be completely in the mirror, and there was a part of it outside. I don't know what it is, but when I flipped through the pictures above, there were a few cases where something was not completely in the camera but was in front of the camera. So I pulled out this one, went back and looked for other similar pictures, and soon found five. Zhang Yimo watched from the side, understood very well what I was thinking, picked up the pile of papers in Master Liu's hand and rummaged through them, and also found twelve sheets.

I lay the seventeen pieces of paper on the ground, took the edges of the white bars and put them together, and sure enough, I put together an incomplete image after a while, and then I picked up the pen and drew the figure on the paper separately, and it looked like an arc with a corner at the bottom of the arc. Due to the incompleteness of the overall image, I can't guess what it is. looked at Zhang Yimo to see what he thought, but during my puzzle, I don't know when this item is gone, and Ah Cheng next to me saw that I wanted to find Zhang Yimo, and explained to me: "He just took a text message and went out." What did you spell out? ”

"I don't know, where did these things come from?" I looked up at Ah Cheng, and then I found that the macho men around me were standing against the wall in a regular manner, and they didn't look at people.

"It's all leftovers from our previous expeditions, and I thought it would be too impractical to move them all over, so I'd take pictures of them all with my camera, and some of them are photocopied, so that they can be used at any time." Ah Cheng told me.

"Ah Young Master Cheng, did you find anything strange when you took the photo?" Master Liu touched his mustache and asked Ah Cheng with a pout.

"No, I put it in my bag, ran all the way home, and took pictures in the attic. At that time, I didn't want to study the contents of it, but thought about making a backup so that there would be no accidents. ”

I looked at the picture on the ground and wondered what this complete pattern was. Is it a pre-death message in Conan? Each picture in this turned out to be a photo, so it wasn't because Ah Cheng appeared when he took the photo, but because of what was in the original information. What could it be?

"Do you remember when these pictures were taken?" I asked Ah Cheng. He thought for a moment and shook his head to indicate that he didn't know. But that's not right, he's in charge of photography in that expedition, how could he not know where these things were taken? "Aren't you in charge of photography, how could you not know?" I asked him.

"This is the team leader himself taking a photo with his mobile phone, I definitely don't know. These photos are all from his phone, and I opened the pictures and took them with my camera. Ah Cheng explained.

"Are you sick? Can't you just take his phone and connect it to the computer? "I'll go, why is this kid so bad at brain?

"I know, I've backed up all the photos, and I also have them in the USB flash drive, I just gave them to Xiao Mo. It's just that those photos are not in focus, and the background is all spent, who can tell where it is. "Ah Cheng felt that I underestimated his IQ and complained a little.

"What about Zhang Yimo?" I looked around, and this person ran away after reading a text message, where did he go? I shouted at the top of my voice: "Zhang Yimo! Come out! I know you're here! You have the ability to answer text messages, you have the ability to come out! ”

I was shouting, but Master Liu hurriedly came over to stop me: "Okay, okay, okay!" , Third Miss, you can't hear the young master shouting like this. Let's take a look at the others first, and the young master will be back in a while. "I see that he is full of embarrassment, okay, let's look at something else first.

"What are you looking at these things for? Wouldn't it be the same puzzle as I am? I asked Master Liu. When I entered the door just now, I saw that he was looking very carefully, and his eyes were almost on the paper.

"The young master asked me to show the map just now." He said as he showed me the one in his hand. This picture is also photographed, the route on the map is hand-drawn, there is a north-south coordinate on the top of the right side of the picture, but the whole picture does not even have a word, who knows where it is.

"This map is the map of Young Master Cheng and their expedition into the volcano, at that time, the team leader simply didn't write anything in order to avoid the map being lost and picked up, anyway, they have all been there, and they know where to go with this map."

I took the map and looked at it carefully, and the lines on the road map were not very smooth, and it seemed that they had already reached their destination, or that they had drawn it somewhere. On the route in the middle of this map, there is a fork in the road that I am interested in, where the lines are broken, and the lines before and after don't look like they were drawn in a hurry and slightly opened, which is deliberately disconnected.

"Ah Cheng, come on," I didn't look up and called Ah Cheng, he came over and squatted next to me. I pointed to the disconnected place and asked, "Where is this?" Do you remember? ”

Ah Cheng looked at the position I was pointing at, and seriously recalled it in his mind, and after a minute, he finally remembered, "Ah! This place, there is a cliff here, and when we came here, we borrowed a climbing rope to hang down the mountain wall little by little. ”

"Huh?! No way? "When I heard that there was a climbing rope, my legs were a little weak. I'm not good at outdoor sports, but I've seen discovery shows where climbers like Spider-Man climb on cliff faces, using climbing ropes. Should we do the same? Isn't it too exciting?

"The only way to go down from there is a rope, and there is a basin below, and there is no way down in a circle." Ah Cheng said affirmatively.

I don't know the bottom of my heart, I must not go into the mountain with them, and when I see Gal, I will take her away immediately.

"What's the route we're going to take this time? Tell me about it first. "After listening to Zhang Yimo's words today, I have to learn to have at least a grasp of everything, and I can't always blindly follow.

"Okay, Third Miss, we will first go to the United States to meet Young Master Yang Yu this time, and then go to Young Master Ah Cheng's house, get the original items of these materials, and finally set off for Mexico. We have contacted the second lady to ask her to wait for us in a month in Puebla where we meet and go up to the volcano. "Master Liu told me everything we were going to do, and I nodded to indicate that I understood.

The main purpose of going to the United States is to pretend to be Gal, and I want to see who these bastards who are spying on Gal! Don't let me get caught, I'll send you to jail one by one!

We continued to discuss the issue of travel in the house, and the time soon reached zero o'clock, Zhang Yimo took a text message and went out and hasn't come back yet, I don't know if it's a hook up with a girl. My eyes are starting to dry up, and I've smoked half a pack of cigarettes to refresh me. I see those macho men still standing there, motionless, it's amazing!

"You all go to my room to sleep, it's empty, it's empty, it's just that the bed is not enough, I asked the guest room to add more quilts, you can spread more." I commanded the man who was standing.

"Yes, thank you, Miss Three." The voice was neat but not loud, after all, it was already late, and it could not disturb the people.

I called the front desk and asked for a quilt, and the other party heard me say that I wanted to add 30 quilts, but I couldn't understand it directly, so I called the manager to answer the phone. As soon as the manager heard that it was our room, he agreed again and again, it seems that Zhang Yimo is very face-saving here, first booking a room, and then adding an extra bed is no problem. After the call, I gave them the room card, and there was no luggage in the bedroom, and it was empty and wasted. They went out in an orderly manner, and there were only three of us left in this room.

"The third lady is really sympathetic to her subordinates, in fact... I opened a couple of big rooms downstairs for them. The expression on Master Liu's face and the grateful voice in his tone, I was instantly speechless.

"You said it earlier..."

At this time, someone knocked on the door, Ah Cheng went to open the door, and a waiter stood at the door and said politely, "Hello, is Miss Gal here?" ”

"It's me." I got up and walked to the door.

"Hello, I was asked to give you this letter just now, please accept it." The waiter reached out and handed out a white envelope.

"Didn't you leave a name?" I asked the waiter as I took the envelope.

"The other party was a woman, but she didn't leave her name. Is there anything else you can help with? ”

"No, thank you."

"You're welcome, and I wish you a good night."

I closed the door and sat down on the sofa with the envelope, and Ah Cheng also came over and waited for me to open the envelope. The envelope was not glued, and I took out a watch with a blue circle on a black background and a letter with the following contents:

Hurry up and prepare 1 million for Lao Tzu! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will kill him!

When the three of us saw the contents of the letter, we were instantly shocked and said in unison:

"Kidnapping?!"