86_86324 "Toll booth? What are you doing there? Uncle Wang immediately asked me.

I took my eyes off Duan Ke's smiling face, turned to Uncle Wang, and said, "When I passed by there, I saw a lot of things left by the police, and I thought we could go back and look for them and see if there were anything we could use." ”

"What's that?" Uncle Wang asked me again.

"Of course it's something you've used as a soldier."

"You say there's a gun there?"

"Hmm."

Uncle Wang pondered for a while, and then asked me for a long time, "Did you see it?" ”

"I didn't see it, but there were a lot of military and police cars there, and I thought if we went to look for it, there might be a surprise." I replied.

Uncle Wang thought for a while, then looked up at the sky and said, "It's going to be dark, let's talk about it tomorrow, get in the car first." ”

"Where are you going?"

"Just get in the car." Uncle Wang said as he walked towards the driver's seat.

Duan Ke took my backpack on his back and stood up from the carriage. I reached out my hands to help pull her down. Unexpectedly, Duan Ke jumped directly from the carriage and pounced on me, almost flashing a problem to my waist.

"What are you doing?" I asked her a little angrily.

"I dreamed of you." Duan Ke grabbed my shoulders and leaned in front of me and said to me with a smile.

When I saw her smiling face, the anger I had just felt instantly vanished. I narrowed my eyes and asked her, "What did you dream about me?" ”

"I'm not going to tell you."

Uncle Wang started the pickup truck and sounded the horn twice impatiently.

"Let's get in the car first." I said to her, and then pulled Duan Ke into the car.

After climbing this section of the hill, the pickup truck drove to the other side of the mountain. It was still a bumpy ride, shaking so much that my body was about to fall apart. By the time Uncle Wang stopped again, the sky had already begun to darken.

The sun hides below the mountain, leaving an extremely faint ray. By this faint light, I saw that we were coming to a small village. I call it a small village because there are at most a dozen or so houses, each sparsely lined up along the mountain.

"Uncle Wang, do you live here?" I poked my head out of the window and asked him curiously.

"No, my mother used to live here," Uncle Wang pulled the car keys from under the steering wheel, "and he refused to move to the city many times." ”

I remembered that Uncle Wang's mother had passed away, so I didn't want to ask anything, so I took Duan Ke and followed Uncle Wang out of the car.

Even in the sparsely populated suburbs of the city, you can't hide from the unpleasant smell of rancidity. Also, the smell here is a little different, which may be due to the presence of dead animals. Uncle Wang asked me for a flashlight, and then led us to a small stone path. Passing by a house, I saw a dog starved to death on the dam in front of the house because it was chained. Pity the dog.

After walking through a ridge dozens of meters long and then passing through a bamboo forest, Uncle Wang walked up a row of stone stairs and stopped in front of a tiled house, it seemed that his destination had arrived. The tiled house is quite large, and it doesn't look like it's for one person. I couldn't see more details due to the light. In short, this house is the type that can be found everywhere in rural China.

Uncle Wang stood thoughtfully in front of the house, looking at this, he didn't know what he could see clearly on such a dark day. It took him a long time before he walked to the door, and picked through the crack in the wall, and pulled out a key. Uncle Wang skillfully opened the door, then turned on the flashlight and swept the house.

"Come in." He said to both of us.

Duan Ke and I immediately followed quickly, after all, it was still quite cold to stand outside on such a day. As soon as I entered the house, I smelled the smell of wood. In the light of the flashlight, almost all you can see is wooden furniture. There was a four-corner wooden table in the main room, which was supposed to be used for eating. Further in front of this wooden table, in front of the wall, there was a small table with incense and some rotten fruit. Unsurprisingly, a black-and-white photo hangs on the wall of the small table.

It can be seen that the owner of the house used to live an extremely simple life here.

As soon as Uncle Wang entered the door, he used a flashlight to shine that photo. In the photo, he is an old man, with a serene demeanor, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes are very similar to Uncle Wang. This should be Uncle Wang's father. Uncle Wang looked at the photos for a while, then closed the door and led us from the threshold on the left to another part of the tiled house.

The flashlight swept around the room a few times, and I could see that this was the kitchen. Well, yes, it's time for dinner again, and I'm feeling hungry. Uncle Wang walked back to the main house and brought over a few wooden stools.

"Sit down, I'll go find something to eat." Uncle Wang said, and walked out of the kitchen again.

As soon as he left, it was dark around us, and we couldn't see anything. I remembered that I still had candles in my backpack, so I took it off and pulled one inside. But this is the last one.,Dropped a lot at the door of the corridor today.,Forget to pick it up.。 I lit the candle and placed it on the stove, and the flickering light finally brightened up the area.

"I'm hungry." Duan Li was on my shoulder and said to me.

"But I've eaten everything I can eat at noon." I leaned over and said, "Let's see if Uncle Wang can find something to eat." ”

Duan Ke suddenly opened his eyes wide and let out a sigh of surprise, as if he had thought of something. She took off her backpack, stretched her hand in, and pulled out a bucket of instant noodles. This should be the bucket left over from the last time we were in the toll booth management building.

"I'm glad now." I said to her.

"But what do you do? Are you hungry? ”

"I'm not hungry, you can eat yourself."

At this time, Uncle Wang walked back with his things. I looked at what he was holding, and it turned out to be a carton of milk and a bag of bread. How could he find these things, there was no supermarket behind this house.

"I sent them all during the holidays," Uncle Wang put the things in his hand on the stove and sighed, "My mother is thrifty, and everything is put away well, and she is reluctant to eat it." ”

We both nodded, thanking him for his hospitality once again.

I took the instant noodles in Duan Ke's hand and asked Uncle Wang, "Can you boil hot water?" ”

"Absolutely." He replied.

Uncle Wang sat down on a small stool in front of the stove, grabbed a handful of firewood from the corner of the wall, lit it and stuffed it into the fire.

"The great thing about living in the countryside is that you have very little outside influence. I mean, even if there is no water or electricity, I can still survive. Uncle Wang said with a smile, and then walked to the water tank next to the stove to scoop water.

"I can live for the rest of my life on the land behind me, believe it or not?" He asked me as he shook the pot.

I nodded, unquestioning his claim. If there is no water or electricity in the city, who wants to sleep in those concrete buildings?

"That's good, or we will move to the countryside in the future." Duan Ke told me.

"Aren't you going home?" I turned my head to ask her.

"With you, it's the same whether you go back or not, and it's not necessarily a good thing to go back."

"Home?" Uncle Wang asked, he was pouring water into the pot, "Where are you going?" ”

"Zhejiang." Duan Ke replied to him.

"Yo, it's a little difficult." Uncle Wang said and sat back on the small stool.

"But it's not impossible," he lit a cigarette and continued, "Lou Li, don't you have a map, show it to me." ”

I pulled out the map and handed it to him. Uncle Wang added some firewood to the fire, then pulled over the stool and sat down under the candle. I saw him smoking a cigarette for a while, and I didn't know if I saw anything.

"Well, it can be like this, we have a lot of provincial highways here, you can go up to National Highway 318, and you can drive along this national highway to Zhejiang." Uncle Wang read the book for a while, puffed out a cigarette and said.

"You saw the route so quickly?" I asked him in surprise, I remember when I was planning on the map before, I was dazzled by the dense routes.

"After I came back from being a soldier, I also ran a few years of transportation." Uncle Wang looked at the book and said indifferently.

"However, if there is a traffic jam on the provincial and national highways, your girlfriend will not be able to go home." He added.

"Then would you like to come with us, it would be much easier if there were two drivers on the road." I asked him with some excitement.

Uncle Wang looked at us for a while and said, "Okay, I have nothing to do here anyway, so I should drive out for a tour." Could it be that I really rely on the land behind the house and live here for the rest of my life? ”

It's so good, I'm excited in my heart, with Uncle Wang helping us, this thing is half the battle.

"You're not waiting for your son?" Duan Ke suddenly asked him.

"Don't wait, if he is still alive, he must be better off than me."