004 Companions, Lunch?
The boy didn't go far where he took the two. What many first-time visitors don't expect is that there is an open-air parking lot hidden under the road at the exit of the port. There weren't a few cars parked in the muddy parking lot, but there were traces of car prints everywhere, probably because the cars that had been parked here had already left.
"Guest, water."
The boy handed Su Yuan a paper cup, and Su Yuan shook his head and said no.
"Do you speak Chinese?"
"People here speak Chinese."
The boy's voice was muffled.
"Yo, how is buddy feeling?"
The man wearing the hat led several other guests down the road, and patted Su Yuan's shoulder very familiarly, looking very happy.
"It's okay. By the way, I don't know your name yet. β
"Huang Shang, what the emperor meant, buddy, I started it myself. That ......"
"Su Yuan."
Seeing that Su Yuan was reluctant to speak, Huang Shang didn't bother much, and went to greet several other guests. Su Yuan was not idle, he was looking at the means of transportation they were going to take for a while-an armored car.
The armored car is a domestically produced model, and the only weapon left is a heavy machine gun on the roof, but the red stars on the sides and in front of it have been deliberately retained. The body of the car was covered with patches, and the wheels that were deep in the mud made Su Yuan wonder if it could still be used properly. It was not alone, behemoths similar to it abounded around, as if making Su Yuan wonder if he had arrived at a mercenary camp.
"Hey, dude, lo and behold, this is our secret weapon!" Huang Shang patted his chest proudly, "With it, even the guerrillas of Yue Du have to be afraid of three points when they see us!" By the way, buddy shouldn't know those people, right? β
Su Yuan didn't answer, Huang Shang's eyes rolled, and he immediately changed to an exaggerated expression like cross talk, and said with his eyebrows fluttering:
"They, under the banner of 'recovering the country' and 'independence', rob when they see people, kill people when they see them, in the words of you Chinese, they are a group of 'stars'! Dude, if you're walking alone on this road and bumping into them, you're done!
"What about the railway? Can't you use it? β
"Hey, the railroad also? The rails have been pried back and melted! β
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Su Yuan's brow furrowed, he had heard before he came how chaotic the order here was, how difficult the guerrillas were entrenched in the countryside of North Vietnam, and so far, the puppet government and its army in North Vietnam had only controlled the main cities of North Vietnam and their surroundings. If what Huang Shang said is true, then they are not only difficult, but they are simply helpless for the government army.
"Then you haven't met them, haven't you?"
Hearing Su Yuan ask this question, Huang Shang's spirit suddenly came.
"I've met it, who hasn't met anyone who walks this path! If you meet a kind person, take all the people in the car away, and you can let us go after all the things are snatched, if you meet a ruthless person, hehe, I met a ruthless person two years ago! β
Huang Shang suddenly jumped on the front of the car and made a shooting gesture with both hands.
"We were walking at night, and those people thought we were bullies, and they all came up in an uproar, never thinking that we would still have machine guns. I was right in front of them, toot, and I almost hit a rocket. I machine-gun half of them and the rest scared away! β
Listening to Huang Shang tell him about his thrilling encounter two years ago, Su Yuan unconsciously made up his brain. In Su Yuan's brain supplement, the protagonist is not the swarthy, skinny man with a hat, but the tough guy governor Schwarzenegger in American movies.
"Boss, when are you going to drive?"
"Hey, right now, right away!"
Before Huang Shang left, he didn't forget to add a few words:
"But, buddy, that's all in the past. Well, now that the Liberation Army has sold us all the equipment they have used, if any bandit army dares to block the way, they will have to weigh it! Hahahahaha!! β
Huang Shang is gone, and it seems that the upper echelons are not without countermeasures against the rampant local guerrillas, Su Yuan thought.
As the car drove and everyone gathered, Mr. Huang took the opportunity to go about his business, selling pistols to customersβan almost essential item in this chaotic land. There were two streams, and at first glance, the little hooligans who grew up in a very bad family environment immediately paid for the two, and used very dangerous movements to compare around, so as to avoid it, Su Yuan, who was afraid to avoid it, hurriedly pulled Elf to avoid it, but ran into another group of people, a small family led by a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes.
The middle-aged man greeted Su Yuan very politely, and Su Yuan hurriedly stretched out his right hand.
"From now on, we will be brothers who share weal and suffering together. My name is Zhao Guoxing and I am a businessman. β
"Uh, Su Yuan, student ......"
Su Yuan replied hastily. Zhao Guoxing stared at Su Yuan's face, then looked at Elph next to him, and suddenly sighed:
"Students, alas, who will come here, which one does not have difficulties?"
Zhao Guoxing then told Su Yuan about his experience like pouring beans on a bamboo tube. He is a businessman from Shanghai, who was deceived by his partner in a cooperation, saddled with an astronomical loan shark, and was forced to live a life of debt evasion, dragging his family and family, and fled all the way here.
When he said this, Zhao Guoxing suddenly laughed again.
"Everybody says it's like the American West, a land full of chaos and of course, a land full of opportunities. If I can make a comeback, I will do my best to give back to society. I just don't know if my family can withstand my toss......"
Zhao Guoxing just talked about his own affairs, and did not mention Su Yuan at all, which made Su Yuan feel a trace of admiration in his heart.
"That, hehe, don't you come here for two guys? Buddies are also family people, so you can't help but guard against it. β
"No need, I'm old, I still don't need these things."
"Hey! Alas......"
Huang Shang left disappointed, and Su Yuan admired Zhao Guoxing even more.
"Hey! On the road~"
Huang Shang shouted, and everyone gathered together and boarded the armored car. Even if most of the weapons were unloaded, the interior of the armored car was still not as spacious as Su Yuan imagined, and nearly half of the space was used by Huang Shang to load the goods, and more than a dozen of them squeezed into the car near the observation hole, Huang Shang told them that they had time to help him look at both sides, and few people really took it to heart.
The ventilation in the car was not bad, and the bumps were not very drastic. Su Yuan sat in a corner and let Elph sit next to him, listening to the noise in the front seat.
Unfortunately, the two delinquent teenagers sat in the front seat of him. Zhao Guoxing said that everyone who came here had difficulties, and Su Yuan didn't dare to agree, such as these two - they completely regarded this place as the set of those heroic movies, and they were the protagonists. They deliberately used a very high-pitched voice, as if they were afraid that no one in the whole car would hear them.
They said that they wanted to go to Hanoi - the capital of North Vietnam - to join a small gang first, then form a gang there, and when the time was ripe to break away with the people they had pulled, join a large gang, repeat the same process, and finally take the position of leader.
"Otherwise, we'll go and be a snakehead!"
Hearing what the two teenagers were talking about, Su Yuan's sleepy eyes widened and he became interested.
"I heard that the smuggling business here can make a lot of money, and go east to the sea, west to Laos, south to South Vietnam, and north to China, brother! As long as we figure out a way, the banknotes don't look like they were printed? β
"That's right, it's a quick deal!"
Su Yuan was quite uneasy and touched the inner pocket of his jacket, which contained 50,000 yuan in cash and his bank card.
"Classmate, are you...... Do you want to go abroad? β
Zhao Guoxing's voice from the right made Su Yuan wake up like a dream.
"Ah, yes."
"Alas, everyone has their own difficulties."
Zhao Guoxing touched the young child's head and looked at the steel ceiling, his eyes seemed to be infinitely sad.
Su Yuan looked at the people who boarded the car with him, there were down-and-out businessmen like Zhao Guoxing, young men who were not deeply involved in the world and full of entrepreneurial passion, and men with tattoos on their arms, big shoulders and round waists, and fierce faces.
They were swept up by the tide of the times and embraced this land full of despair and hope at the same time, and they were the victims and creators of history. Among them, Su Yuan, who had a white face and a green face, was so unsociable.
"Everyone has their own difficulties...... Su Yuan said softly.
"Distinguished guests! We're going to go the country road! There are seat belts on the seats, so fasten them~"
"Eh, safe ......"
Before Elf knew what was going to happen, Su Yuan used the fastest movement to help Elf and himself fasten their seat belts.
This is what Huang Shang had told them before he set out, that within 10 kilometers of leaving the starting point, they would leave the green safety zone and enter a large gray area, where the forces of the government army and various guerrillas, bandits, and the private soldiers of the rural landlords were intertwined, and they would not only be stopped by people to collect protection money, but they might also be robbed. They are going to take the country road that Huang Shang is familiar with.
The condition of the rural road was as Su Yuan thought, more than a star and a half worse than the main road, because during the war, almost all the roads were destroyed, and the government only repaired the main road after the war, so the rural road was abandoned. Decades have passed, and there is no trace of the asphalt that once covered it. The armored car was moving at an extremely slow speed, and the smell of humidity made Su Yuan almost suffocate.
After arguing for an unknown amount of time, Huang Shang said to everyone:
"We're going to pass by the largest Zhuangzi in a while, and we'll stop for a while, and we'll order the money in our hands for dinner~"
Dine? As soon as Su Yuan woke up, he heard these two words, although his need for food was close to nothing, he was indeed a little hungry.
"Su Yuan! Dine! Dine! β
Compared to Su Yuan, Elf was much more excited. Su Yuan raised his head and looked outside the car through the observation hole, and the time was about noon.
"Okay, eat."
I heard that this place also uses RMB? Su Yuan couldn't help but look forward to it.
It's not a tour, but it's okay to have a meal or something, right?