They almost lost their way and turned themselves into wild dogs. From dawn to dark, they scurried around, but none of them was their nest. No place is safe.

Of the three, one is five short and relatively strong; Maimaiti is lean and thin, and his body is average; The other one is a bit of a sissy and has a weak physique, so in the process of escaping, that sissy always falls last. After coming and going, the strong man was a little annoyed. Once, when urinating in a drainage ditch, the strong man said, "Otherwise, let's run separately, shall we?" ”

Maimaiti looked at the strong man gloomily and said, "Do you want to get rid of the two of us?" ”

The sissy began to cry, and he said, "It's better to die at home anyway." Maimaiti grabbed the sissy collar: "Do you want to betray us?" ”

The sissy shouted out of control: "I'm going to turn myself in now, I don't want to be offended." As he spoke, he climbed up the drain, but was pulled back by the strong man, and Maimaiti quickly covered the sissy's mouth to prevent him from making a sound. The sissy had to cry suppressed.

Among the servants, the sissy is the most fragile and unstable factor. This is something that both the strong man and Mamat are aware of. Maimaiti thought to himself: It seems that he wants something bad, but he can't do it, just kill him; The strong man was thinking: what if he collapsed? Of course, I won't attack him, so let's find a chance to get rid of them.

The strong man and Mamat glanced at each other, and they set up their sissies in unison like never before, and continued to run down the gutter. In any case, this is not the best place to kill the sissy or run away, because the gutter is only a kilometer away from the road.

The sissy sweats profusely due to resistance and struggle. His long, curly hair was all attached to his forehead, blocking his eyes. He kept wiping the sweat with the back of his hand, and the strong man thought he was crying again, and scolded: "You know how to cry, and if you cry again, you won't care." ”

Because the strong man is strong, later, it is almost the strong man who drags the sissy and runs.

Maimaiti gradually fell behind, and he really couldn't run. He ran and wondered what he was doing for it. For the sake of faith? When Ngawang Aji was cut to the ground, Mamat still felt that he was a hero, and he regarded himself as a hero and lifted himself very high. At this time, he only felt confused.

The three of them ran in a place where no one was, and after running all day, they were exhausted and the wolves were unbearable. Lost and disoriented, they could no longer see their future, and despair took over their hearts.

They were so hungry that the first night they lay in a wheat stack outside a village until dawn. The three of them took turns sleeping for a while, but they didn't actually fall asleep, and the reason why they couldn't sleep was because they were too hungry.

This village, about seventy or eighty kilometers from the city of Amu, is the last oasis in the township, and further on, there is the endless alkali beach.

There are more than 200 families in the village, and the villager Muradin's family lives on the edge of the village, and his family is located like a village gatekeeper, and people have to pass by his door, and many things cannot escape his eyes. Muradin himself was a sincere, dedicated peasant in his thirties. Last night, he was making love with his wife in his arms, and suddenly someone knocked on his door. Muradin's voice was the village party secretary, and he hurriedly opened the door. It turned out that the village party secretary led the police to go door to door to inquire if there was anyone in the house.

Muradin hurriedly shook his head: "No, no strange men came to our house. ”

Hou Xiucai's team came with the village party secretary, and he seriously stuffed a wanted warrant into Mu Ladin's arms, and then said: "If you find out about the situation, report to us quickly." ”

As soon as Muraddin heard that the police were chasing Ngawang Aji's killer, he nodded in a righteous sense: "Okay, okay." I remembered. ”

After sending the police away, Muradin returned to the house, where his wife was waiting for him with a longing expression, and Muradin quickly took off his clothes and fell into his wife's warm arms again. After a while, he broke free from his wife's arms again, and said, "Wait, let's see what these three bad guys look like, lest we see them and don't recognize them." So, the two kept in mind the appearance characteristics and resumes of the three people on the wanted notice.

The next day, at dawn, Muradin got up in good spirits. He first gave the donkeys plenty of water, and then led a dozen sheep out of the village, something he did every morning.

It was easy to look forward to dawn, and the sissy hiding in the wheat stack couldn't wait to ask to go into the village to get something to eat. Although Maimaiti felt a bit risky, he couldn't stand the torture of hunger, and he couldn't find something to eat right away. No, I'm going to have to get something to carry my hunger anyway. So, the three of them groped their way to the village. Their heads were covered with yellow stalks.

Muradin drove the sheep out of the village, and was confronted by three men with new faces dodging towards his village. He joked to himself, "It's really whoever comes." Why did the police come to check on three strange men tonight, and met three strange men this morning. Look at it, it's similar to what the wanted notice says, shouldn't it be the three people they said? As it was just dawn, he could barely see the faces of the people who came. With a sense of responsibility, he decided to find a way to see what the three men looked like. Muradin was an advanced element of law and order in the village, and his vigilance was already very high.

So, Muradin took the initiative to greet the three strange men who greeted him: "Hey, hello! Where are you from? ”

They also saw Muradin, and they instinctively reached for the pistol hidden in their waists, and the other party suddenly took the initiative to ask, which caught them off guard, and they thought that if they pretended to be dumb and kept silent, they would be able to get through.

Maimaiti thought that it was too late to retreat at this time, and if he didn't agree, it would arouse the suspicion of the other party, so he replied stubbornly: "We are here to find the cow, and our cow is lost." ”

There is some truth in his answer, farmers in this area often lose their cattle and sheep. Moreover, the peasants have a habit that when the cattle and sheep are lost, they rarely look for them, and the cattle and sheep work wherever they go. Some cattle and sheep will return to their owners' homes the following year, while others will put down their farm work and go out to look for lost cattle and sheep.

"Oh, looking for cows. What village are you from? Muradin asked more earnestly.

The sissy gave him the news of her village. Muradin was simply terrified: he remembered that the wanted notice said that one of the murderers was from the sissy village. Is there such a coincidence? It's a pity that he didn't have that wanted warrant on him, otherwise, he would have understood it when he compared it with them. Muradin also has a doubt: how can there be three big men looking for a cow in the early morning? Besides, looking at their dress, they don't look like cattle herders. Muradin's faces looked closely at the three again, and he felt that they looked very much like the three bad guys on the wanted notice, and his palms were sweating with fright.

"How did you find our village? When did you lose your cattle? "Muradin tried to hold them back as much as he could.

At this critical moment, a villager came out of the village on a motorcycle.

Muradin deliberately greeted him: "Where are you going so early?" ”

The man did not notice the presence of the three strange men, and he replied kindly, "Go to the village to do something." Muradin, you woke up so early. ”

"How did you do with the thing I dragged you to do, you come down, I'll ask you." Muradin beckoned the man to get out of the car.

Everyone thought it was strange that Muradin hadn't asked for an errand? He was about to ask what was going on, but when he saw Muradin's look at him, he got out of the motorcycle in confusion.

Taking advantage of this time, the three of Maimaiti hurriedly slipped to the front, seeing that they were about to enter the village.

Muladin looked panicked and said to the man, "Hurry up and report to the police station, these three people are very similar to the person who killed Ngawang Aji." ”

The man was also taken aback, and looked at the three men who had just walked past him with his mouth wide open.

"Go, I'll hold them back." Muradin said with a wave of his hand.

The man immediately flew to report.

Muradin was left alone, and though he was afraid, he had the courage to leave the sheep behind and run to them. Muradin's nervousness was evident, but his face was full of smiles, and he said kindly: "Three friends from other places, I am very sad to hear that your cattle have been lost. I think you must be thirsty and hungry now, and I would love to help you, please come to our village for some tea and some naan. Muradin warmly invited.

Seeing that Muradin chased them up and invited them to eat, the three of them were suspicious, but Muradin's behavior was not out of line, and hospitality is a good habit of Uyghurs. The three of them were not good at slapping Muradin's face bluntly, for fear that he would suspect something. Especially the sissy, looking forward to how nice it would be to be able to eat food right away.

Among the three, Maimaiti was the most scheming, and he already had a premonition that something was wrong, so he turned around and walked back. Muradin hurried to pull him: "Hey, this brother, you are the most polite, don't you are welcome, you must taste our lamb skewers, our naan, oh, it is so fragrant." ”

Maimaiti wanted to get rid of Muradin's entanglement, but this was in someone else's village, and if he made a big move, he would attract the attention of others, because at this time, the villagers began to leave the village in twos and threes.

Muladin was overjoyed by this, and he winked at the three fathers and sons who were approaching him, and said, "Hey, what are you going to do?" You see, these guests from other places are very sad, their cattle have been lost, they have walked all night, they are tired and hungry, let us invite them to the village to eat something. ”

After all, they are villagers, and after living together for a long time, they have a sense of tacit understanding. At first, they didn't care about the three strange men in front of them, but after Muradin's shouting, they also found out that there was something wrong with these three people, and last night, the agents of the anti-terrorist special detachment also stuffed a wanted notice into their home. As a result, the father and son also stepped forward to greet the strange "guests" warmly, and they almost dragged the "guests" into the village committee.