Chapter 3 The Journey to the West
Su Wen asked Jenny to talk to the manager, anyway, the majority of the salary is substitute salary, and the manager will push the boat.
It's easy for Wang Fatzi to ask for leave, as long as he doesn't have a group in his hand, the company is too lazy to care about these people......
According to Su Wen's experience, there are a lot of things that need to be sorted out, and two people have to work together for a few days. Before I could get to work, I received a call from Windy.
It is customary to call English names within the company, and Su Wen is a little unaccustomed to Coco Zhu suddenly becoming Windy. I always feel like Windy is a stranger when she talks about work. I occasionally flirt with this woman named Windy, and I seem to have changed my mind, and I feel a little guilty of mental cheating.
Leader's instructions: The two must make a work plan first, and they need to list the time, place, people, and events in detail.
Items that are planned to be used also need to be listed, with a list of planned sources, planned uses, and estimated wear and tear. If you need to purchase, you must fill in the requisition form.
Safety and security work needs to be done: the responsibility for the "safety and security general workflow and emergency response process" is assigned to the person, and the process must be reasonable and operable. And make a record of the drill. For the sake of the generous remuneration, two people who are known for their lack of education were quickly urged to mature into management masters.
A few hours before boarding, the two of them were still scrambling to find something to stuff into the box. In the end, the fat man sat on the box, and Su Wen used all his strength to close the zipper of the box. After passing through the security check, there was another rush of scramble. Open the box according to the requirements, in addition to the fat man's stinky socks, stinky clothes, women's underwear, and various liquid bottles and cans. The fat man pretended to be nothing, chatted with the security brother and farted, but the compensation was not. Su Wen grimaced as he cleared out a large pile of useless and forbidden items from several boxes.
Difficulties are always temporary, and the two finally meet Kristin at the airport in Wushi according to the plan. Kristin is a kind and quiet girl. There is no image of a domineering queen as Su Wen imagined, nor does it have a coquettish and arrogant temper. In short, everything is different from what is played in movies and television, and it is as plain as Su Wen's daily life.
The three met at a café at the airport. Ate something and chatted for a while. Kristin gave the two of them the impression that she was an ordinary girl, dressing, talking, and living habits that clearly showed her study abroad experience. Treat people warmly and politely. Looks ordinary, is not tall, and paints light makeup. The first impression is not Su Wen and the fat man's dish. Kristin's impression of the two men was that they seemed to be absolutely worthy of the salary. In short, the three of them did their duty as bosses and employees, and started their work in a friendly and pleasant manner.
The airport is small and looks like a long-distance bus station. Because it is located in southern Xinjiang, where the legend is somewhat discordant, Su Wen and the fat man faithfully began to perform their duties, in order to appear professional. Su Wen first accompanied Kristin out of the airport to meet the two Uighur guys who delivered the car and picked up the plane, Su Wen wore a black suit and sunglasses. As planned------ a magazine with a weapon in hand was rolled into a volume. (Books are a good thing, they can carry and inherit culture, they can spread knowledge, they can print small advertisements, and mysterious departments can extract confessions without injury, and they can be rolled up as weapons when necessary.) Alert is around Kristin.
The fat man went to pick up the checked luggage alone.
Su Wen waited for a while, and the fat man wrapped the six largest and seemingly heavy flight boxes into two groups with packing straps, and slipped out of the airport without using a trolley, one by one. The masses all looked sideways and consciously diverted the stream. I didn't encounter the little hooligans rudely finding fault, and the bad guys came to challenge them. At the moment, it seems that the plan is perfect, and a big guy who deadlifts 300kg has enough deterrent power when it comes to showing strength.
Su Wen saw two Uyghur guys going to pick up their luggage, and secretly held back a smile. The fat man's ruse succeeded again. The fat man smiled and said haha to the two of them with a sincere face, and handed the bundle of boxes to one of the guys lightly. The unprepared guy staggered at the box and proved the law of gravitation.
When shaking hands, I used a thick calloused bear paw to pinch another guy's hand out of a circle of cyan. The superiority of the two "locals" disappeared in the yellow sand.
The fat man, who easily established the authority of the team, allocated the drivers and luggage of the two cars, and arranged the travel plan. Su Wen went to inspect the vehicle's oil and water wear, supplies, spare tire spare parts, and bundled and fixed. Looking at the two brand-new white Middle East version 5700 with temporary license plates, Su Wen, who had only driven a second-hand 4600, was itching.
The fat man is good on the car and hand frequency. With a wave of his hand, he let the two Uyghur guys take the lead and find a place to eat roast mutton.
After eating, check into the hotel. Su Wen went to the car addiction and prepared supplies by the way, bought shovels, machetes, snow chains and a few pieces of wood, and tied them to the roof rack. But I found that the roof rack was aluminum alloy and not strong enough, so I called the fat man to ask him to find a way, and the fat man was still waiting for the local buddies in the hotel to send prepared oxygen cylinders, food, tents or something.
Su Wen first drove south along the Cheerchen River, got off the highway and went to the Gobi and the desert to test the car condition. Park your car next to the Cheerschen River, climb to the roof of the car and study the roof rack. At about 8 o'clock in the evening, the sun had just set, and it was not yet dark, and there was not a trace of clouds. You can already see the starlight, and the moon is gradually brightening. The lights in the direction of the county town are not bright, and the shadowy poplar forests of the Gobi Desert in the distance and the unique wind sound of the desert seem to be another planet.
After finishing his work, Su Wen lay down in the luggage pile on the roof of the car and looked up at the sky. imagined that Coco Zhu was lying next to him, and the two of them waited for China's brightest galaxy to appear and counted the stars together......
The fat man drove over after finishing his errands, and the person shouted without jumping out of the car: "No way, I found a few auto repair shops, it's too late to weld the frame, and the technology is not good." Hey, don't you buy wood? Wrap it up with rope and reinforce it. ”
"I didn't expect our boss to be like this, he doesn't look like a wealthy family. Su Wen said.
"So what do you think it should be? Horns on their heads? Where do we understand their world? Work hard, and you will be able to save some money by the end of the year, otherwise you will be scolded to death by the old lady when you go back for the New Year" The fat man is a little depressed.
"Rub, you deserve to be single for a lifetime, a ready-made opportunity to marry into a wealthy family!" Su Wen teased.
"I can't even think about it, alas..... I couldn't find a girlfriend, and my mother was scared to death. It is said that a working-class child like you could have mixed into the revolutionary ranks by fighting her father, and the little girl pounced on her with a sigh. The fat man casually picked up a piece of wood and gestured.
"Now that I have to fight my father, I have to be rooted, and we will forget about it as a working-class family. Oh, by the way, my mother's ancestors are very good. Su Wen was a little proud.
"Pull it down, I've been told that I've been talking about immortals, this bull ghost and snake god has been beaten for several years. Besides, it's been thousands of years, how can you be sure it's your ancestor? Your mother's surname is Su, and your father's surname is Su. Why isn't it your father's ancestor? That temple is magnificent, is there a monk or Taoist priest to give your family admission money?"
The fat man said and laughed: "Anyway, you go to the temple gate to put a broken bowl and make a robe, and my brother will sharpen a peach wood sword for you." Brush a few ways to subdue demons and subdue demons, and shout again: I am the immortal N generation! Maybe someone will give you money, brother, I'll take a broken gong to collect money. ”
"Cut, I'll take the broken gong to collect money, you can earn more by crushing the boulder on your chest, in case a two-dimensional little girl who clips her head to the door panel sees your monster shape, crying and shouting to follow you. Your mother doesn't have to complain about me, does your mother think that I cut off your beard because you couldn't find a girlfriend?" Su Wen teased.
"Do you still have your ancestral jade pendant?" Speaking of the sad matter of his girlfriend, the fat man didn't take the flying knife.
"With it, when I was a child, I was beaten if I didn't bring it, and now I feel uncomfortable if I don't bring it. Su Wen said and touched the jade pendant hanging on his chest.
"And the jade produced here is almost the same as Hetian jade. Do you want to learn from your grandmother to go to the Gobi tomorrow to pick up a basket and leave it to future generations, so that your family will have two baskets of ancestral jade pendants. But I have to find a processing workshop with better craftsmanship, and I look awkward when your round and square is not square. Last time, I saw that your basket of ancestral jade peres still looks like potatoes. If you are not afraid of wasting money, take it and process it together. Before the fat man could finish speaking, he was kicked in the ass.
Su Wen was also happy, remembering that when he was a child, he planned to secretly take the ancestral jade pendant to the "Treasure Appreciation" program for identification, and sold it for game consoles for the value. Later, one day before my grandmother died, I mysteriously asked my mother to take out a basket of ancestral jade pendants from under the bed. I remember that my mother's face changed, and I never dared to mention it with my father at home. But my dad washed the pile of stones and put them in the flower pot on the windowsill, which looked good. Mom didn't say anything, watered as usual.
"Why are you stupid? I'm afraid I don't miss Coco Zhu again, you two are tired of it day by day. I warn you, your family can't afford to buy a house in City G, and they may not marry you. The fat man was terrified by Su Wen's laughter, and hurriedly sacrificed a killer weapon to suppress the shock.
"I don't even want to go to S City, I can't afford to buy a house when I go, and I can't get a job, so I'm worried to death. After speaking, Su Wen lost the interest in continuing to talk nonsense, jumped out of the car and took out his mobile phone to take a few pictures of the starry sky for Coco Zhu.
The temperature dropped quickly, and the two of them just stopped the car in the yard after they were busy, and the eldest lady immediately jumped out of the room and asked nervously, "Are you done?"
It seems that no one can calm down in an unfamiliar environment.
Su Wen also felt that it was inappropriate for the two bodyguards to throw the master down and run out to wave, so he hurriedly replied: "It's all ready, you don't need to go out at night, you can call us if you have something." ”
After breakfast the next day, the two cars headed south along the Cheerchen River, and soon left the road and onto the mining area. And the county is very large, the mine road is narrow and rotten, and there are pits everywhere. Off-road vehicles can't drive fast, and sometimes it's more comfortable to drive the desert Gobi than the mine road.
At about eight o'clock in the evening, the fat man decided to set up a tent by the river. Fence the tent with a cart and light a bonfire with poplar wood collected at the point. The fat man stewed a pot of mutton, opened it and brought kimchi, naan or something, and everyone ate it beautifully. You don't expect to take a bath, and it's easy to fall asleep after a day.
Su Wen woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't see his night duty, took a coat and climbed out of the tent to replace the fat man in advance. I saw the fat man sunk in a folding chair, with his head tilted, drooling, and snoring, looking like a Shar Pei dog ready to swallow the moon. Su Wen looked at the electronic map, and there was a high probability that he would turn west and climb Dahan tomorrow. The mountain trail will be difficult to walk.
The starry sky is still bright tonight, Su Wen looked at the direction he was going tomorrow in a daze, and suddenly felt palpitations. This is not on the plateau yet, it can't be a high anti, right? Su Wen hurriedly got into the car and took out a small oxygen cylinder placed in the glove box, put on the mask and took a few puffs. The heart feels hot and even a little burning. "It's not that you want to die before you get out of school, right? ”
Su Wen's head was sweating slightly. Carefully recall the steps of first aid and slowly lower the seat. Holding down the heart with your hand, the heat and tremor from the palm of your hand are not like the reaction of the human body, but like a mobile phone with vibration mode turned on. After touching it carefully, I found that the problem was with the jade pendant hanging on my chest. took out the jade pendant, and saw that the dark green jade pendant lingered with a layer of fluorescence, vibrating at a very fast frequency like a mobile phone, and it was slightly scorching.
In the dark, suddenly a strong intuition spread throughout his thoughts, as if something was summoning Su Wen in the distance. Su Wen didn't like this feeling of human navigation, but he was helpless. Shaking your head didn't work. I checked the map and found that it was just the direction of tomorrow's plan.
After waiting for a while, the strange situation did not go away. Su Wen couldn't understand the situation, so he could only wrap the jade pendant with a glove and hang it on the outside of his non-fitting clothes. The low temperature of 2~3 degrees quickly cooled the jade pendant. The tremor also slowly disappeared.
Su Wen called out to the fat man and studied it for a while, but the fat man couldn't see anything abnormal, and he couldn't say why. The two decided to stop there, and some people suddenly had a strange feeling that it was common in field work teams, and the correct thing to do was not to spread so as not to cause panic.
The next day, the car of the two Uyghur boys broke off the roof rack. After a delay of dozens of minutes, I transferred the items to the car, removed the top shelf and continued to move forward. In the evening, we finally arrived at the location of the project team. The people in the project team have been waiting for a long time.
A chubby Zhang Gong with eyes was the person in charge, and after saying hello, he stood on the hillside and began to report to work. Su Wen and the fat man stood aside a little and looked around. The north is a stretch of high mountains, and the south is also a stretch of high mountains. You can see the glaciers in the distance. They stand in a location with lots of buildings and tall machinery, typical of the mining area. A few flags with slogans were torn to pieces by the wind. A huge project sign indicates that this is the mining area of a large state-owned enterprise. Looking at the introduction of the project card, it should be a large magnetite mine, located in the southern part of the Ajin Mountain fault, which is still in the early stage of development. Su Wen touched the jade pendant, could it be that this jade pendant is not a stone but a piece of iron? When he encountered magnetite, he had some kind of reaction? Soon Su Wen determined that this matter was not within the scope of his cognition, and he was ready to have the opportunity to ask the "workers" here.
The fat man had already confirmed the location of the canteen, and when he was staring at the chimney and studying what dishes were stir-frying, Zhang Gong beckoned everyone to get into the car.
A new pickup truck has been added to the team to lead the way. There was a lot of stuff pulled in the body. Zhang Gong sat next to Kristin, and the fat man went to check the platform and the platform with the team in front of him.
"Identified as a gold mine, high grade. It is not possible to determine the reserves at this time. There are other important mines, the reserves of which cannot be confirmed. The prospecting team had to wait for the heavy snow to close the mountain before it was convenient to enter the operation. Zhang Gong said eagerly.
"We can't make progress with so much upfront investment, do we have to wait for the discovery, and the equipment is almost in place?" Kristin was a little anxious.
"Yes, if it's a gold mine and that kind of mine, it has to be replanned according to policy. None of the existing mining schemes and equipment are working. We also had to stop work and wait for the project to be re-planned. Our plan is to bring in the equipment before the heavy snow closes the mountain, and the equipment will be considered as if the first phase has started. According to the spirit of the document and specific practice, even if we explore other minerals on our operating surface, it will not affect the progress of our project. In fact, when we are operating, we can also help them prospect by the way, which is convenient for everyone. The person in charge of gold prospecting works in the same department as me, but this time in a different project team. The problem is that there is a bit of friction between the construction site and the locals these days, and they don't let the equipment in. Zhang Gong didn't care about the two people in the front row, eager to discuss with Kristin.
"What does the local government say?"
"These people are Mongolians in Tibet, and they don't belong here. Their settlements are hundreds of kilometers away from these. They said that this is their holy place, and they will come here every year to pay respects, and we are not allowed to touch their holy place. The situation is quite chaotic, and I can't tell where they came from, let alone know that they are from that village. We inquired for a long time, but no one in the neighborhood knew about it. Except for the geological team, no one from the scientific expedition team will go there. ”
The fat man had just taken a sip of water and almost didn't spray it all on the windshield. It's a mess.
The fat man hurriedly covered up his gaffe: "Everyone be careful, the road is not good." As he spoke, he was stunned and deliberately pressed over a few big pits. The people in the car were overturned on their backs by the upside down. ”
Zhang Gong was completely unmoved: "The unit in charge of local ethnic affairs arranged for someone to go there a few days ago. After staying at the project site for two days, they finally said that this was an ethnic affair and that it involved religious issues, that they did not understand the language and customs of the Mongolian people, and that it was not all within their jurisdiction, and that they hoped to find a joint office with the unit in the jurisdiction where they lived. It is also suggested that the two sides should negotiate well and strive to properly resolve disputes based on the principles of friendship, equality, and mutual benefit. I wondered, everyone speaks Mandarin. What a language habit!"
"If not, just talk to them about compensation, it's compensation for demolition. Kristin was also a little laughing and crying.
"It's also discussed, but no one in the project team is responsible for this kind of thing, and it's not easy to talk about it, they don't even have a temple, only a few stones and mountains. Even if someone is in charge of this matter, they will not be able to come up with an idea, and there is no basis for the compensation standard for demolition and relocation. Zhang Gong shook his head helplessly and said.
Su Wen didn't pay attention to what they were talking about, anyway, it wasn't something he could worry about. The key is that after leaving the mining area, the strange situation brought by the jade pendant has been aggravated, and the feeling of human navigation has become even stronger. Fortunately, the pickup truck in front of it was running around all the way, and the general direction was still the direction in which I felt.
Su Wen really admires these geology buddies, a tattered pickup truck actually runs fast in a valley with strange rocks, potholes, only ruts and no roads. Climb high and low, rush left and right, and do not slow down. The scariest thing is that this is a castrated version of the rear-wheel drive pickup without four-wheel drive.
Not long after walking, the fat man found that the current location belonged to the Ajin Mountain Fault, and the Cheerchen River in the county of Yumo County originated in this area. The fat man carefully turned on the map track recording function. Although there are ruts on the ground, they can be buried by a flood or wind and sand at any time in the dry channel. The wind and sand in the south of Ajin Mountain are smaller than those near the county seat of Jimo, and when it blows, it will make you doubt your life. The fat man shook his head and cheered up, and entered the no-man's land, working here, he couldn't be too careful.
There are many mysterious legends about this area. Most of the mystical stories that have been widely circulated come from atheists: geological teams and mine workers. Everyone who has worked in this neighborhood can easily come up with one magical joke after another, and some of the jokes are even written by personal experience or the lives and blood of people around them. The locals didn't make a fuss, and they walked as far as the mine where they had just stopped. Further on, there are only legendary gold diggers and poachers (after a certain target shooting conference, there are few legends). According to the experience of the fat man and his colleagues, entering the no-man's land, these mysterious legends must not be mentioned---- small mysterious events combined with harsh natural conditions can quickly break the belief of a team.
The fat man glanced at Su Wen in the passenger seat. Su Wen didn't speak after getting into the car, pursed his mouth, grabbed the handrail in his right hand, and put his left hand on his chest. Leaning forward, staring straight in the direction of progress, the focus of his eyes was not on the ruts, but on the distant mountains. The fat man was a little worried about Su Wen's state.....