007 Chapter 7 Southern Umbrella Xiao Li

Caiyun County Zhenkang County, about 800 kilometers away from Kuncheng, there is no airport and no train, only a secondary highway winding between the mountains and mountains to maintain contact with the provincial capital, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, the passenger station of the county south umbrella town has become the main node of external contact.

There are no famous tourist attractions in Nanumbrella Town, and the industry, commerce and logistics are not very developed, so it stands to reason that there is not much business at the passenger station in such a small town, but more than ten long-distance buses arrive here every day, bringing endless flow of people to the small station.

A large part of these long-distance travelers are heading to the Kokan District of the Cotton Country, which is separated by a wall from the southern umbrella. Because the capital of the Kokan Special District, Lao Cai, known as Little Macau, has a thriving gaming industry and large and small casinos everywhere. Correspondingly, the color X industry is developed, and its reputation is not below Dongguan back then. Two miles to the south of the passenger terminal is the South Umbrella Port leading to the Kokan Special District.

Among these guests, there are not many people who have regular entry and exit visas. Some people don't even have ID cards, and if they want to leave the country, they can only smuggle in, which is impossible to do without acquaintances to lead the way. As a result, on both sides of the South Umbrella and the Old Street, a group of locals who specialize in taking guests to smuggle in each side of the street have been born.

Li Qiancheng is one of these locals, and he is a native of Zhenkang. His parents died of illness a few years ago, and he had no education or technology, so he had to rely on the mountains to eat and do the business of leading people to smuggle people. I'm 19 years old this year, with dark skin, not tall but quite strong. Liyi Xiaopingtou wears a blue and white-edged sportswear. Riding his 150 Lifan motorcycle, he shuttles his guests through the deep mountains and dense forests all year round, going back and forth between Nanumbrella and Lao Cai. Due to the number of arrests by the local border armed police, they are familiar with each other, and after checking to confirm that they are not carrying prohibited items, most of them will be let go. Therefore, he has a reputation in this line, known as Nan Umbrella Xiao Li, and some regular customers designate him to pick him up, and he is one who picks up and drops off more guests every day.

That morning, Li Qiancheng was in the repair shop to maintain his motorcycle, and his partner Lao Hei called, saying that there were two inland people who were going to Gokan, and they refused to take his motorcycle together, and asked him to come over to help bring people.

Looking at the dismantled motorcycle, Xiao Li asked anxiously: "Master, how long will it take to get it done?" ”

The mechanic was full of oil, was cleaning up the dirt on the clutch, didn't have time to look up, and responded to him: "To replace the new clutch pads, brake pads, and oil filters, there is no hour that is not good, you can leave first and come back to pick up the car in two hours."

Two hours, it was enough for Xiao Li to send people to Lao Cai to run back and forth a few times, and it seemed that he had to find another way, so he dialed the phone of his partner Lao Hei again, and said: "Lao Hei, my car hasn't been finished yet, so I won't go, you go to find someone else to help."

Who knows, but I heard Lao Hei say: "No, they specified that they should find Nanyu Xiao Li, saying that they were introduced by a friend." ”

When Xiao Li heard this, he knew that he couldn't get rid of it, he knew that this introduced friend might be a regular customer from the mainland, as long as he still had to mix on this line in the future, he should not snub these customers, so he had to say: "Lao Hei, my car hasn't been done yet, you take people to the border inspection station, let's walk over from Line 2." ”

On the phone, Lao Hei hurriedly said: "You are crazy, I heard a few days ago that Lao Mian planted mines on Lines 2 and 3, are you going to send them to death?" ”

Xiao Li said disdainfully: "Since 09, I have heard that Lao Myanmar has buried mines on the border, and after all these years, I haven't seen anyone bombed, what are you afraid of him doing?" ”

On the phone, I only heard Lao Hei say worriedly: "I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if, what if it's true this time?" How many lives do you have? ”

Xiao Li said: "It's not as mysterious as you say, Gokan is also a Chinese community, and the border people on both sides are related to each other, scraping grass in the mountains and forests, grazing in the fields, and walking across the border carelessly. You can't keep them in our army? Let's sneeze in Huaxia, Lao Mian has to shake three times, what are you afraid of him doing? ”

Lao Hei over there was silent for a while, and he was also calculating in his heart, the border between the two countries was clearly drawn 50 years ago, there was no dispute, and there was no war during this period. Moreover, most of the residents of Mianbei are of Chinese descent, and the border atmosphere is quite relaxed. In recent years, the government troops of the Cotton State have occupied Lao Cai and emigrated many Cotton people, only to release the rumors of laying landmines to intimidate exchanges between the border residents of the two sides. If they really want to lay mines, I guess they don't have the courage to do so. So Lao Hei replied: "Okay, in ten minutes, you wait for me in the alley behind the border checkpoint, and I will bring someone over immediately".

The most convenient way for them to take people on foot is to take Line 1, which is in the abandoned ditch next to the border checkpoint wall, and they can climb the stairs to get there. The Burmese side of the South Umbrella Port, Burma called Yanglongzhai, was also a prosperous port before the XX Incident in 09, and at the time of the XX Incident, it was the birthplace and the main battlefield, and the residents were once almost deserted. A few years later, some people slowly returned, but recently, the United Army of Gokan wanted to recover Lao Cai, and there were occasional crossfires near Yanglongzhai, the situation was tense, and the blockade was tight, so no one dared to go to Line 1 again. It is only possible to detour around Line 2 or Line 3 farther away one kilometer away. The so-called Line 2 and Line 3 are just the secret names of the two border trails, and most outsiders do not know the details.

Ten minutes later, Xiao Li waited for Lao Hei and them in the alley behind the border checkpoint, and Lao Hei brought two inlandmen, one of whom looked like a cadre, and wore glasses, and his small body looked like bean sprouts. Lao Hei pointed at Xiao Li and said, "This is the Southern Umbrella Xiao Li you are looking for."

The man with glasses walked two steps faster, came to Xiao Li, stretched out his right hand and said, "Xiao Li, look up for a long time!" ”

Xiao Li stretched out his hand and shook it with the man with glasses, and asked casually: "This friend, the situation over there has been tense recently, and everyone has run this way, why are you going back?" ”

The man with glasses said: "It's because of the tense situation that my friends introduced me to you for safety, I'm in a bit of a hurry over there, and I can't go if I don't go." ”

Xiao Li said: "Thank you for your care, but there is an ugly saying ahead, I can take you over, but you may also encounter armed police investigations, if you carry contraband or commit something else, don't expect to pass the customs in a fool's way."

The man with glasses nodded and said, "That's nature."

Xiao Li instructed again: "Obey the command on the way there, follow me closely, don't walk around, stepping on a mine is not a joke, clear?" ”

"Okay, just do what you ask," the man in glasses nodded.

Xiao Li said: "In this case, 150 yuan per person, I am only responsible for taking you across the border, and it is not far from the old street when you get there, you can take a taxi yourself." ”

The man with glasses said: "It's over, it's no problem for us to take a taxi by ourselves, but I heard that you can lead the way for only 50 yuan?" How do you charge 150? ”

Xiao Li said: "Now the situation over there is tense, the investigation is strict, the risk is high, isn't it normal to charge a little more money?" ”

The man with glasses paused for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, it's 150 per person, you have to be safe." ”

Xiao Li smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, I'll give you money when you get there, let's go." After speaking, he took the lead in leading the way, out of the alley, and headed east.

The road next to the border checkpoint is not paved with cement, and next to the road is an old city wall, hundreds of meters long, about three stories high, overgrown with shrubs and thorns that are impassable, this old city wall is the national border, and on the other side is Myanmar. According to legend, it was built when Zhuge Liang captured Meng seven times. To the north of the border checkpoint is a dense mountain, and it is not easy to get through. To the south of the border checkpoint is the old wall, so you have to bypass this section of the wall to cross the border from the side path.

Xiao Li often takes people to cross the border from the trail here, so he is very familiar and reassured.

Bypassing the city wall, he entered a sugarcane forest, and Xiao Li remembered that the sugarcane field closest to the roadside belonged to Lao Hei's family. Looking at this field path that has been walked countless times, Xiao Li suddenly had an inexplicable uneasiness, this place is different from the sky, quiet, very quiet, so quiet that people are frightened, insects do not chirp, birds do not chirp. This is almost impossible for the flowery southern fields.

Xiao Li stretched out his hand to stop everyone's footsteps, and carefully checked the soil on the road under his feet, all of which were very solid old soil, and the new loose soil when the mines were not buried, so he was relieved.

At this time, Lao Hei shouted from behind: "There is no need to check here, it's still in the country, do they dare to plant mines?" ”

"Hey", Xiao Li patted his head and smiled awkwardly, it seemed that he was still nervous. So he waved his hand lightly and walked forward quickly.

Walking around the corner of this ridge, you can already see the small ditch on the edge of the rice field, which is regarded as a national border. Xiao Li cheered up, slowed down, and carefully looked at the other side, is there anything different from usual?

He watched the ground and walked cautiously step by step. Not only should you pay attention to whether the ground has been dug up, but also pay attention to whether there are any small ropes that have touched the thunder. He took people through different roads many times a day, and he was never so careful as he is today, because he always had a feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

Carefully walk through a dozen sugar cane fields, and after walking a few meters, you can cross a small ditch and enter Myanmar. Xiao Li's heart relaxed, because the soldiers on the Burmese side only collect money, do not check documents, as long as you don't bring a gun or cannon, you won't search your body, it's easy to deal with. On the contrary, the armed police on the domestic side will check their ID cards, check their luggage, and collect prohibited items together, not to mention, if they are not happy, they will take them back to the bureau to stay overnight, and it is common for them to be fined a thousand children and eight hundred.

At this moment, a loud shout suddenly came from the sugarcane forest: "Stop, don't move, rob!" ”

The man with glasses behind him was stunned, up and down, and was so frightened by this sudden binge that he squatted on the ridge, and then his butt slipped and fell into the mud under the sugarcane's head, and his hands and buttocks were covered with mud, embarrassed.

Xiao Li secretly said in his heart: "It's finally here!" Then he turned around, and saw four people coming out of the sugarcane forest one after another, a small flat-headed casual clothes, but it was difficult to hide a capable atmosphere, and a small flat-headed head headed by him walked straight to Xiao Li and asked, "Why did you come?" So late today? ”

The man with glasses shuddered, and said secretly: "It's over, this Southern Umbrella Xiao Li turned out to be with the robbers, and deliberately took me to this wilderness to rob it, and the old Wang next door also introduced me to him, it must not be a good thing, didn't he deliberately come to retaliate against me?" ”

But I heard Xiao Li next to him reply: "There is something today, it's too late." The glasses man's heart suddenly seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, it was cold, it was really a gang, it seems that today's disaster can't be avoided, just want to break the wealth and eliminate the disaster, and people are safe.

Xiao Pingtou, who was the leader, glanced at everyone and asked casually, "Just a few people?" ”

Xiao Li nodded and replied, "Just two."

Xiao Pingtou then said to the man with glasses who was still sitting on the ground: "Take out your ID card!" ”

The man with glasses is blind, does he still have to check his ID card for robbery? Puzzled, he twisted his head towards Xiao Li and looked at him. Xiao Li smiled and said, "They are armed policemen who are anti-narcotics, take out the documents for inspection, and cooperate with the work." ”

When the man with glasses heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, washed off the rotten rot on his hands in the muddy water, and carried the backpack behind him over to rummage through the documents. took out a small notebook, handed it to Xiao Pingtou and said, "Comrade policeman, I lost my ID card, but I have a passport, do you think it's okay?" ”

Xiao Pingtou took the passport and said while looking through it, "What is the use of the passport?" What about your exit visa? ”

The man with glasses smiled awkwardly and said, "This one is tight, I didn't have time to do it"

Xiao Pingtou seemed to have expected this situation a long time ago, and said: "Open the luggage and check it."

The man with glasses was worried, and he didn't know if his passport could pass the customs, so he could only cooperate with opening the luggage bag for Xiao Pingtou to check. At the same time, another police officer also examined the man with glasses.

Xiao Pingtou turned the glasses man's backpack upside down, took out a huge box, and asked, "What is this?" ”

The man in glasses said: "Drones for aerial photography".

Xiao Pingtou's eyes flickered, and he asked, "What are you doing with a drone?" ”

The glasses man's feet trembled, and he hurriedly argued: "I bought it online, and it's not contraband, this ......"

Xiao Pingtou said: "Don't you know that five kilometers of the border is a no-fly zone?" ”

The man with glasses explained: "I didn't fly again, I just brought a gift for a friend"

Xiao Pingtou looked the man with glasses up and down, and then looked at the box, which was indeed unpacked, so he handed the whole box to the man with glasses and said, "Open it."

The man with glasses was worried, and hurriedly reached out to unpack it, and explained: "Comrade police, this is the big J somersault cloud S900 bought online, which is used for professional-grade aerial photography, which is very ordinary and common."

Xiao Pingtou picked up the manual in the box, and while flipping through it, he asked the man with glasses: "How long can it fly?" How far can you fly? ”

The man with glasses hurriedly replied: "The shopkeeper said that he can fly for 15 minutes, and the farthest will not exceed 1,000 meters."

Xiao Pingtou glanced at the data on the manual, which was similar to what the man with glasses said, and couldn't help but put his mind at ease, and asked again: "Who did you take the drone over there to?" ”

"Bold Haili", the man with glasses replied steadily, he knew this question in his heart, because when he came, Lao Wang next door had confessed, and also provided him with the address and name of the so-called friend, so he was not afraid of police inquiries.

Sure enough, Xiao Pingtou asked again: "What is he doing?" Where to stay? ”

"At the intersection of Dongcheng Road, the fast-food restaurant opens," the man with glasses replied with a nod.

"How did you meet?" Xiao Pingtou asked again.

"I met on the Internet," the man with glasses replied without leaking.

Turning the backpack upside down, Xiao Pingtou couldn't find anything on the plate, handed the passport back to him, and said: "When you come back, you will know that you are dead."

The man with glasses didn't know what to say, so he stood in place, did he mean that when I came back, he would confiscate the goods with him? Or does it mean something else? , the head is in chaos.

At this moment, I heard Xiao Li say, "It's okay to go."

The man with glasses came to his senses, and when he looked back, his companion had already finished his examination, packed his bags, and stood there waiting for him to go.

A few steps forward, Xiao Li crossed the small ditch, even if he stepped into the boundary of the cotton country. Xiao Li opened the way in front, and the crowd behind him passed by. The man with glasses couldn't help but look back at the place where the police had checked just now, there was only a sugarcane forest behind him, and the breeze was rustling, where could he see half a figure?

In order to make the people of the Golden Triangle give up planting Crow, sugarcane and tea are important alternative crops that our country encourages them to plant, and also help them solve most of the sales, so there are large areas of sugarcane planted in the fields of Mianbei.

After not going far, he passed through the sugar cane forest and entered the woods of a small hill, where there was a slope of yellow earth that sloped upward, not long for a hundred meters, but winding and slippery. The trees on both sides of the yellow mud road are lush and the leaves are everywhere, and if you really want to bury a mine or something on the road, it is not easy to find it if it is covered by dead leaves. So although Xiao Li has walked many times, he still carefully explored in front, and deliberately folded a dead branch on the side of the road, which is as thick as a baby's arm, which can be used to pluck the dead leaves on those roads, and can be used as a crutch, because the road on this small hill is full of yellow mud roads, and it was drizzling in the morning, and now the road surface is even more slippery.

The man with glasses always thought about the words of the armed police: "You will know that you will die when you come back!" Thinking about how the armed police would clean him up when he came back, he couldn't help but ask Xiao Li, who was walking in front: "Xiao Li, did the armed police say that they will clean me up when I come back?" ”

Xiao Li said: "Well, he is warning you not to bring drugs or do other illegal things when you go to Cotton Country, otherwise you will be cleaned up when you come back."

The man with glasses took a few steps forward, took Xiao Li's hand and asked, "Then they don't care if you gamble money and call a chicken or something?" ”

Xiao Li said impatiently: "Are you a child?" This is also asked? You don't go to Lao Cai to gamble money, don't prostitute X, are you going to be a goodwill ambassador? Or are you going to compete with Chief Bai and grab the chairman of the SAR to be the chairman? ”

The man with glasses smiled awkwardly, stretched out his fingers to push the glasses on the bridge of his nose, let go of Xiao Li's hand and stepped forward. said that it was too late, Xiao Li grabbed him, pulled him back, and scolded: "Be careful of mines!" Are you looking for death? Follow me! ”

The glasses man's body looked like bean sprouts, and he was caught off guard by Xiao Li's tugging, his feet slipped, and he suddenly fell backwards. Although this small dirt slope is not high, it is a yellow mud road, and it just drizzled in the morning, and now it is slippery and tight, and the man with glasses actually slipped off the road and was about to roll down the slope.

The old black eye walking behind him couldn't see it well, and hurriedly reached out to drag him. Kankan tugged at the strap of his backpack. The screaming man with glasses waved his hands and feet, and his panicked hands were scratching everywhere, and he didn't know whose hand he grabbed in the confusion, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw, and he grabbed it violently, and he wanted to push it up.

Lao Hei didn't expect that as soon as he grabbed the backpack strap of the man with glasses, he was grabbed by his right hand and dragged down hard. I was shocked, and hurriedly tried to stabilize my body with my feet, and dragged the glasses man up, but unfortunately the yellow mud road under my feet was slippery and slippery, and I couldn't bear it, so I was dragged by the glasses man and fell out of the mountain road.

This sudden change made Xiao Li, who was walking in front, jump, because he knew best that considering the safety of the border people, Lao Burma would not usually bury mines on the road, but in the grass, on the hillside, it was no joke, and he didn't know where there would be a few deadly mines. Hurriedly turned around and reached out to grab the man with glasses, but unfortunately he was a step too late, and the man with glasses had already dragged Lao Hei down the slope.

Xiao Li hurriedly stretched out the branch in his hand, hoping to hook them, and suddenly the branch in his hand was struggling, and his people followed and slid down, seeing that they were about to roll down the outer slope of the mountain road. With both hands, he grabbed the branch in his hand and didn't let the person on the other end of the branch slide down. Shouted: "Hold on, come up!" ”

Brother Chen, the companion of the glasses man, was silent and silent along the way, and fell in the end, everyone treated him as if he did not exist, and this sudden change also startled him, but he didn't expect his reaction to be quite agile, stepping on the turf on the side of the yellow mud road, and rushing forward in a few steps, he hugged Xiao Li's waist, and pulled the glasses man on the other end of the branch with all his strength.

Lao Hei originally grabbed the backpack belt of the glasses man on the right, but he dragged him out of the road, and hurriedly stretched out his left hand to grab it, just pulling another backpack belt, or how to say that the quality of domestic products is worrying, the backpack belt can't stand the force of a person, and it snapped and broke, and the whole backpack fell off the glasses man's shoulder, and rolled down the mountain with Lao Hei.

Xiao Li watched Lao Hei roll down, and hurriedly shouted, "Catch it, danger, don't slide down!" But the hillside was full of weeds that were no more than knee-high, and Lao Hei grabbed a few handfuls, but he couldn't bear them, and the grass roots brought out the yellow mud and rolled down together. Xiao Li hates, this hateful man with glasses, he doesn't listen to commands, he walks around, what should he do if he falls down now? Xiao Li even thought viciously in his heart that if Lao Hei touched the mine, he would let go of the branch in his hand and let the man with glasses go with Lao Hei.

In the blink of an eye, Lao Hei fell into the small ditch at the foot of the slope with a bang, splashed a large area of muddy water, the muddy water in the sky had not yet landed, there was a loud bang on the dirt slope a few meters away, the dirt in the sky was thrown into the air, the yellow mud slope was blown out of a hole, and the black smoke rolled into the sky, and finally touched the mine. Xiao Li's heart was about to break, "Old black, old black!" Xiao Li was lying on the mountain road shouting, where the smoke and dust were scattered, I saw that half of Lao Hei's body was buried in the ditch by yellow mud, and some blood was flowing in the muddy water, and Lao Hei was motionless and didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

As the saying goes, if you often walk by the river, how can you not get your feet wet? If you want to know Lao Hei, how his life is, and see the next decomposition.