Of the 200,000 people living in Phakant, only 50,000 are locals, and the rest are immigrants and merchants from China, India or Pakistan who are engaged in jade mining and trafficking. Processing and sales. In other words, most of the wealth of the whole Hpakant is in the hands of other people, and the local people in Myanmar are basically in the middle and lower classes.

The government sells out the rights to mine jade. The frequent riots in Myanmar in recent years have been largely due to the intensification of tensions between government and independence armies, which collect taxes from jade sales to support the economy, and where there is a local armed force, the Independence Army, which competes for valuable territory in exchange for weapons and military support.

Tang Jingcheng didn't know anything about these things before he came to Pakang.

Her impression of Myanmar is those beautiful photos on the Internet, thousands of pagodas, monks everywhere, this is the peaceful side of Myanmar to the world, as for the other side, war, riots and killings. Hidden deep in these remote mountains.

After returning to the room of the Yudu Hotel, Tang Jingcheng took a shower, washed away the sweat and dust on his body, changed into a light T-shirt and sat at the window to look at the Wulu River and distant mountains not far away, and the large and small shacks were scattered on both sides of the river valley.

The slowly setting sun hangs on the green mountaintops, adding another layer of hazy and mysterious to the whole Hpakant.

It's a place that people love and hate.

How many people came to this land with the dream of getting rich overnight. And how many people have died or survived on this land.

Tang Jingcheng suddenly remembered a certain person and a certain scene.

She and he used to sit in a restaurant in a small town at the foot of Jingmai Mountain and drink tea, it seems that it is also like this in the evening, the sunset is shining, and she says that she likes it, there is no indisputable tranquility there. Dual historical skills.

He retorted, pointing up to the mountains in the distance.

He asked Tang Jingcheng, "Do you know what it is?" ”

"Mountain!"

"Where's the other side of the mountain?"

"Burma!"

"It is only 35 kilometers from us to the China-Myanmar border. Everything you see now is a façade, wait another five or six hours, and after dark the whole border will be lively, food, wood, stone, even drugs and arms, all the shady trade will take place on the border, and just 35 kilometers away from you, there is still a civil war in Burma, and as far as I know, there was a riot in a town there two days ago, and he died

More than 20 people, not to mention the major jade mines, once there is a landslide or heavy rain, all the miners will be buried in it, and even the corpses will not be found! ”

He said these words vividly, but she didn't believe it at the time, but when she really came to this place, she realized that everything was true.

Tang Jingcheng bent his legs on the chair to hug himself, and in such a posture, his lower abdomen could be easily squeezed by his knees.

In another week, it will be five months.

The book says that the five-month-old child has basically been formed, and if you do B ultrasound, you should be able to tell whether it is a man or a woman.

She had never asked the man if he liked boys or girls, but she remembered what he had said.

"Do you like kids a lot?"

"It's okay..."

"Is that okay?"

"Ahem... I kind of like it. ”

"Why?"

"There's no reason, I just think that having a child is a family."

He compared the child to a writer, and he also wanted to really give her a home.

Tang Jingcheng rested his head lightly on his knees, and his fingers rubbed the jade lock and key on his wrist.

"I'll be a good father, Tang Jingcheng, you have to believe me in that."

Tang Jingcheng still remembers the tone in which he said this at that time, determined and urgent, as if he was eager to prove something, but now? She had secretly fled to Myanmar alone with her child, who she had planned not to let him know for the rest of her life.

It's just that now I think of these for no reason, and I panic again.

Is she a little too selfish?

No matter how much she hates this man, he is the father of the child after all, and this can never be changed, so what qualification does she have to deprive the child of the right to have a father?

In other words, how could she put her grudge on her unborn child?

Tang Jingcheng lay quietly on his knees, looking at the mountains in the distance, night gradually fell, the miners went back in twos and threes, and the mountains lit up with small dim lights, which was the meaning of home.

She finally took out her phone, but fortunately, there was a signal, and dialed the phone.

International call, the first time did not dial, try again is a busy tone, wait until the third time finally beep, but the Chinese voice on the other side of the phone prompts the other party to turn off.

Tang Jingcheng felt how ridiculous he felt at that moment, he came to Myanmar in a big circle, and finally had to take the initiative to contact him, but he couldn't get in touch, maybe this was fate.

Stop fighting, she put her phone away, and felt that her behavior was a little cheap.

Just as he was about to go back to bed and sleep for a while, there was a knock on the door, and Tang Jingcheng went to open the door.

Su Jue stood outside the door and was really stunned.

For the first time, he learned the casualness of this girl, and the upper body was a loose white round-neck T-shirt, with the lower abdomen tucked together, the hem barely covered the legs, and the two slender legs were directly naked.

Su Jue swallowed unconsciously, and scratched his forehead with his hand: "Take a bath?" ”

"You've just come back from the mines?"

"Well, but I've gone back to my room and taken a shower to take you to dinner."

"Oh." Tang Jingcheng stared at Su Jue, and sure enough, he found that he had changed his clothes, and his hair was also semi-wet, "Then let's go." ”

She lifted her leg to go out.

Su Jue took a breath and pulled her back: "You plan to dress like this and go out?" ”

"Huh?" Tang Jingcheng realized that he was barefoot and didn't wear trousers, so he habitually rubbed his toes on the ground, "Sorry, wait for me, I'll go put my pants on." ”

“……”

After Tang Jingcheng returned to the room, the mobile phone in her hand "dripped", it should be a new text message coming in, she didn't care, she pulled out a loose beach shorts on her body, put the phone in her trouser pocket, and then sucked the double flip-flop out.

"Alright, let's go."

……

The two of them had dinner in the restaurant of the Yudu Hotel, Su Jue didn't talk much, and Tang Jingcheng found that his face was a little depressed, and he was thinking about something.

Could it be that the people in uniform came to him in the afternoon and said something?

"Have you not closed your eyes since last night?"

"Almost, there's too much to do."

"But you have to sleep, you see you have dark circles under your nose." Tang Jingcheng pointed to him with his hand.

Su Jue smiled: "I only sleep four hours a day on average in Yunling. ”

"What about the rest of the time? All at work? ”

"Almost, I don't have any other hobbies."

This is really an extremely terrifying thing, Tang Jingcheng shrugged: "From this point of view, you should be a relatively boring person." ”

"Not necessarily, work can be considered a pleasure in a sense, at least it proves the value of your existence."

"......" Tang Jingcheng was a little speechless.

"Do you use your work to prove your worth?"

"Why not? You get as much as you give, so working is fun and fair in that sense. ”

I don't know why, Tang Jingcheng always felt that Su Jue was a little sad when he said these words.

He kept pinching the tissue in front of him with one hand: "I only officially joined Su Fan about five years ago, and my first position was as a senior commissioner in the sales department, but I am the only one in the entire sales department who can be called a high commissioner." ”

Tang Jingcheng was quite cooperative with him: "Ah, that means you're amazing!" ”

"Wrong, it's not that I'm good, but because I'm Su Hongzhi's son, my father only gave me a grassroots position, but on the personnel side, for the sake of my father's face, he had to add the word 'senior' in front of 'commissioner', but there was no such position in the original organizational structure."

“……”

Su Jue never mentioned the past to anyone, but not mentioning it doesn't mean that it hasn't happened.

"I studied medicine in college, and I can get a master's diploma when I graduate from five years of bachelor's and master's degrees, but after entering Sufan, these things I learned in medical school are useless at all, I have to start from scratch, and since then I have only four hours of sleep every day, and the remaining twenty hours I need to constantly transform and move forward, so that others can accept you, convince you, and let the person in the high place also see you."

When he said the last sentence, Su Jue lowered his head slightly.

Tang Jingcheng seemed to understand something, and frowned: "That person in a high place, does he mean your father?" ”

"Heh..."Su Jue didn't answer, and suddenly smiled, "Don't talk about this, it's not appropriate to talk about this topic today." ”

Yes, it's not suitable to talk about this topic, at least Tang Jingcheng doesn't want to talk to him about Su Hongzhi.

"Let's talk about the uniformed troops I saw in the mining area this afternoon, and Radumin told me that they were all local independence forces."

Su Jue wiped his forehead with his fingers again.

Well, he had to admit that the question was more than the one he didn't want to answer.

"Radumin is not tight-mouthed, but you'd better not know about these things, and don't ask in the future, it's not good for you."

"......" was another sentence, Tang Jingcheng muttered a little unpleasantly, and then the mobile phone in her trouser pocket vibrated again, reminding her that there were unread text messages.

Reluctantly, she pulled out her phone and turned it on......

"Also, I will leave for Myitkyina tomorrow night, and I have something very important to discuss, so you can come with me then." Su Jue said again, but Tang Jingcheng's thoughts were attracted by the text message on his mobile phone.

"Can we meet tomorrow? Close! ”

Yes, Guan Luo, that's right, that's the name.

Tang Jingcheng felt that his heart was skipping a beat, and then looked at the number of the text message, the mobile phone in China, but it was not the one she used to contact Guan Luo before.

The most important thing is why did he suddenly ask to meet?

Could it be because she had just called him in her room?