Chapter 23: Departure

86_86324After a short discussion, the matter of taking Duan Ke home was decided. No way, in such a world, everyone wants to find something to do, otherwise they will be bored to death. I assure you that even the most thoughtful philosopher, if he is lucky enough to live, will not be able to endure this boring life.

After we had a brief dinner, Uncle Wang arranged a small room for us to stay. This small room was supposed to be used to store grain, and a wooden threshing machine was still in it, which I hadn't seen in years. Uncle Wang brought us a sheet and told us to lay it on the floor and go to sleep, but I don't know where he slept, and I didn't ask him.

After a qiē was finished, the surroundings quieted down. That's what a night in the countryside should look like. I remember sleeping at my grandmother's house when I was a child, also in the countryside, and I remember the quiet of the night, which is how I feel now. If you sleep in the city, the silence can make you feel uncomfortable, but in the countryside, you take it for granted.

"Lou Li, do you really want to take me home?" Duan Ke slept on my chest and asked me.

"Is that fake?" I replied.

"But what if I get home and my parents are gone?"

"You still have me."

She suddenly stopped talking. I thought of my parents again, if only they were still around. At the very least, they would definitely like Duan Ke very much. I'll never see them again, and I'll have to do everything on my own. For more than ten days, I felt that I had experienced something that could only be experienced in a lifetime, and I didn't know if my future life would still have to run around and encounter all kinds of strange things.

Fortunately, I finally found a new goal, and the thought of driving to Zhejiang gave me a long-lost sense of excitement. I stroked Duan Ke's back and said in my heart that I was lucky enough, not only did I find a girlfriend today, but I also escaped death like acting in a movie.

I heard Duan Ke's even snort, but I didn't expect this girl to fall asleep so quickly. Sleep, I said to myself, there is still a lot to do tomorrow.

I had no dreams all night, and early the next morning, I was woken up by a rooster crowing. Even without humans, these animals still live their own way. I didn't want to sleep again, so I carefully moved Duan Ke out of my body and out the door. From memory, I walked back into the main room, where the wooden door was wide open. Needless to say, as soon as I stepped out of the door, I saw Uncle Wang sitting in the dam smoking a cigarette, still holding the traffic map in one hand.

He saw me walk out the door and nodded to me as a morning greeting. At this time, the sky has not yet dawned, and the east is containing the morning sun red, indicating that today is another sunny day. I saw several acres of fields on the opposite side of the tiled house, overlapping mountains in the distance, and I could see several tower cranes emerging from the top of the mountain. The tiled house behind me was more dilapidated than I expected, and there were bamboo forests in front of and behind the house. Although the house is a little dilapidated, it is dilapidated enough to complement the surrounding landscape.

Uncle Wang stood up, handed me a cigarette, and said, "Which toll booth did you mention yesterday?" ”

"It should be the one east of the city, I know the way." I lit a cigarette and said to him.

"Then we have to go early, the toll station car can't go through, we have to walk a lot." Uncle Wang said.

"Don't worry, we left a car on the highway when we came back, and we just had to walk to the toll booth on the highway and we were ready to drive." I yawned and said to Uncle Wang.

Uncle Wang nodded and sat back on the stool. I walked to the kitchen, scooped some water in the tank, and washed up briefly. By the time Duan Ke woke up, it was already half an hour later. When she got up, she did this and that, and it took another half an hour. Bidding farewell to Uncle Wang's old house and walking out of the village, we returned to the pickup truck.

Uncle Wang chose another route and did not return the same way, probably to avoid running into those people from yesterday again. After ten minutes of driving, the road ahead is unpassable. As I saw when I went into the city before, the two roads were jammed with traffic. I'm going to walk into the car pile again, but I didn't expect my fate with this car queue to be over.

The sun hides behind the clouds and makes the occasional appearance. Apparently the flies also like the weather, as they rush to the morning shift and weave through the smelly piles of cars. The three of us climbed onto the roof of the car and stepped over one car after another, neither of us paying attention to the corpses under our feet, just wanting to walk through the long line and reach the toll booth as quickly as possible.

This time, there was no slippery rain under our feet, and it was much easier to walk, and in twenty minutes, we walked to the small toll booth. When you cross the toll booth, you can see that the car is still parked in the same place. Duan Ke shouted excitedly, and then ran towards the car.

Seeing her running figure, Uncle Wang and I both laughed.

When Uncle Wang and I walked to the front of the car, Duan Ke deliberately turned on the headlights and flashed us a few times. Seeing us scrambled to close our eyes and avoid the lights, she leaned on the steering wheel and laughed. What a girl who doesn't grow up, I thought to myself. Uncle Wang sat in the back row, and I squeezed into the passenger seat. Duan Ke took out his sunglasses from his backpack, put them on his face, and then skillfully turned the car around.

"Let's go!" Duan Ke said excitedly.

Looking out the window, it's all the way you came. The familiar highway I thought I would never see in my life, but I came back after two days in the city. The green outside the window looks even greener today due to the sunny day. Uncle Wang looked at the other lane that was jammed with cars and didn't say a word.

"Uncle Wang, let's talk about what happened when you were a soldier." I saw that none of the three people in the car spoke, so I opened the conversation.

Uncle Wang looked out the window and replied after a long time, "What do you want to hear?" ”

"What's it like to be at war?" I asked, then turned my head away, waiting for his answer.

"It's like fighting, but if you meet an enemy, either you die or the enemy dies, in short, you have to die to call it a war."

"Were you scared then?" Duan Ke suddenly interjected.

"I'm afraid, it's a lie to say I'm not afraid, I was about the same age as you two at that time, and my gun was unstable when I went to the army."

"I heard that when you fought back in self-defense against Vietnam, you killed a lot of people?" I asked.

"Well, those Vietnamese boys are very elf-brained, and I was lucky to pick up this life." Uncle Wang replied, "Once our class received a task and entered Vietnam once, and after coming out, there were only two people left in the class. ”

"Two people?" I was surprised.

"Well, if my squad leader hadn't saved me my life, I would have died in Vietnam a long time ago."

"And how did you get back?" I asked.

"After completing the mission, I dragged a wounded comrade-in-arms through the woods of Vietnam for several days before walking back to the defensive line." Uncle Wang looked at the high-speed service station outside the window and said very flatly, "I don't know how I walked back." ”

"That's amazing." Duan Ke praised.

"This story sounds interesting, why don't you tell me?" I was curious.

Uncle Wang waved his hand at me: "That incident is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences, and I will tell you again when I have time in the future." ”

"Okay." I said, anyway, there will be time in the future.

During the conversation, the car had already driven some distance. Soon after passing the bridge, some cars began to appear on the road ahead, and it seemed that we were about to reach our destination. Soon, the toll booth in the middle of the highway appeared in view, and when I saw it, I felt a little kind.

"First stop in front of the traffic police's booth, I remember how many cars there were." I say to Duan Ke.

More than ten seconds later, the car stopped in front of the traffic police law enforcement booth. Duan Ke said that she felt that the smell of the toll booth was unpleasant, so she stayed here and waited for us. Uncle Wang and I got out of the car and walked to the three Santanas parked next to the pavilion. There shouldn't be anything we want in these three cars, because they are just ordinary law enforcement vehicles, painted blue and white, and the word "public security" printed on the doors. Sure enough, Uncle Wang and I just stood outside the car window and looked at it, and we could see that there was nothing inside.

"Go this way, there's still there." I said to Uncle Wang, and then led him to the toll booth.

The two of us quickly crossed the group of cars in front of the toll booth and came to the bottom of the toll booth. The corpse that reminded me a lot of time before was still leaning against the flower pot, and it looked like it was decomposing and there was a lot more to it. But I didn't come back to visit him today, I took Uncle Wang around the corpse and came to those cars. Only then did I realize that I had misremembered, there were no troop cars at all, there were SWAT cars parked.

But it's all the same, as long as there's something in there. These cars were much larger than the three Santanas just now, and they looked like they had been modified from ambulances. When we went around to the back of the car, we found that the doors of the cars were wide open, and Uncle Wang and I looked at each other and walked to the compartment of the nearest car.

I saw several dead people sitting inside, and the stench had been sealed in for a long time. Uncle Wang took the lead and walked in, and I hurriedly covered my mouth and nose to follow. The space in the carriage is not very large, and no one can stand up straight in it. I hunched over and searched inside. Several corpses were right in front of my eyes, and I couldn't bear to let my eyes linger on them for a second longer. However, looking at the equipment on their bodies, they should have been SWAT officers before they died.

After trying to find it for several minutes, I didn't see anything like a weapon. I was about to ask Uncle Wang to change to the next car, but I saw that he seemed to have found something, squatting under a corpse, digging something into the seat. After a few seconds, I saw what appeared to be him pulling out a strip and scolding. But Uncle Wang was facing away from me, and I couldn't see what he was holding.

"What did you find?" I asked him with my mouth covered.

Uncle Wang laughed, then turned around and handed me the thing in his hand. As soon as I reached out and took it, I immediately felt the coldness of the metal.

Grandma's, I looked at the things in front of me and scolded unconsciously. It turns out that there are really guns here