After leaving the "ladder outpost", Ye Song and Dou Miao began to advance towards the regimental headquarters of the border defense regiment, preparing to take a ride to the county where the next border post was located.

Before leaving the outpost, Xiao Lei marked the location of the regiment headquarters for them, and asked many times if they needed to accompany them. Ye Song and Dou Miao thought that they had received Shen Lingfei's special training, and it was no problem to find such a large camp in the mountains and forests, so they politely declined.

The confident two climbed mountain after mountain, crossed river after river, and after unremitting efforts, they finally ...... Lost.

Night Pine sat on a large rock by the river, his head down and analyzing the map. Doumiao walked around with her hands in her hands, looking up from time to time to look around.

"What results did the night pine analyze? Where do we go from here? Do you think we're going to be stuck here forever? I'm still so young, there are so many new things that I haven't tried yet, so many anime that I haven't watched, so many games that I haven't played...... The good years are wasted in this deep mountain and old forest? Ye Song, you should find a way! ”

Ye Song rolled his eyes and said, "Can you be quiet, if you have time here, it is better to go ahead and explore the way." And have you forgotten that we both have locators on us, we stay in one place for more than three days, and naturally someone will come to search and rescue. ”

Dou Miao smiled awkwardly: "Aren't I too nervous...... By the way, how is your map analysis? Did you find a way out to the border regiment? ”

Ye Song stood up and said, "There are more snow-capped mountains here, so it gives us the illusion of a continuous cycle, and if I'm not mistaken, we should go to the snow-capped mountain on the far left." ”

"What if you're wrong?" Dou Miao asked faintly.

Ye Song's face darkened: "That's it, Lao Tzu will go to explore the path first, you wait here, if I don't come back, you will be found by the search and rescue personnel in three days, how about it?" ”

Dou Miao sneered: "Hehe, I don't want to adjust it when I see that the atmosphere is too dull!" How can I disbelieve your judgment? You're just too serious...... Let's go, let's go now. ”

After turning over the snow-capped mountain in front of them, although there was another snow-capped mountain standing in the distance, they knew that this direction was correct, because there was a national flag planted on the snow-capped mountain in the distance.

Heading in the direction of the flag, they soon found a small town...... Village? No, it should be said that it is several houses.

"Night Pine, is this really inhabited? It can't be an abandoned village, right? ”

Ye Song took out his binoculars and looked at it: "It's not an abandoned village, there is still smoke in the chimney, which means that there are still people." ”

As the two approached the village, two Tibetans came out of the house, and when they saw them, one immediately returned to the room, while the other ran and shouted loudly.

"Night Song, what is he talking about? Could it be that we are intruders and gather the villagers to meet the enemy? Doumiao asked blankly.

Ye Song said angrily: "If I could understand Tibetan, I would have gone to talk to him a long time ago, and have you been a little nervous lately?" Who at the border doesn't know the military uniform we are wearing? ”

"But you see that they are nearly thirty people coming, and it will be too late if we don't run!"

Ye Song indifferently raised his hand and slapped the back of Dou Miao's head and said, "Are you lame?" Don't you see someone holding Hada in their hands? When have you ever heard of giving your blessing to someone when you fight with someone? ”

Dou Miao was stunned for a moment, and looked carefully into the distance, and there were indeed two snow-white Hada in their hands.

When the crowd approached, the two Tibetans held Hada in both hands, held it high at shoulder level, and then stretched it out flat, bending down to offer it to Yesong and Doumiao.

"Tashi Delek!"

Dou Miao nodded and smiled dryly, and was about to stretch her neck, but saw Ye Song stretch out his hands to greet him.

Dou Miao asked in surprise, "Is this ...... You know? Isn't this thing meant to be put around the neck? ”

Ye Song smiled: "Didn't I tell you that I used to check a lot of information for traveling to Tibetan areas?" The book says that there are certain rules and forms for offering to Hada. According to the customary rules, the upper level is respected, the lower is given, and the same level is given to each other. To present Hada to the top should be held in both hands, Hada folded the other party's mouth, and gave Hada to the other party's hands. And these Tibetans respect our soldiers, so they are presented to the top, and don't you think this height is very suitable for putting on your neck? What's more, only the subordinate can be put on the neck. ”

A middle-aged Tibetan aunt nodded with a smile and said in Mandarin: "Young soldiers, welcome here, I am the township chief Zhuoga." ”

Ye Song and Dou Miao looked at each other in amazement, and said in unison: "This is a township? ”

In the room, there are tables of dried beef, tsamba made from barley, and fragrant butter tea.

Ye Song drank a bowl of butter tea and suddenly felt warm in his body, so he asked: "Zhuo Gaane, you said that this is a township, but there are too few people, right?" ”

Zhuo Ga smiled: "This is not the time when our township has the least number of people, there are only 3 people in this villager. ”

Dou Miao said: "How can the three of them be called a township!" ”

Ye Song stepped on him quietly, and looked at Zhuo Ga with a smile and an expression of anticipation for the follow-up story.

Zhuo Ga smiled and recalled: "Our township has a treacherous environment, inconvenient transportation, and a shortage of rice and grain. Each grain requires more than a week of walking, crossing five mountains, and being transported in for storage before the snow season. ”

"In the late 50s of the last century, there were more than 300 villagers here, but because of the harsh environment, the inconvenience of life and the uneasy border location, the county arranged for the villagers to live outside. As a result, only my father's family, who was the head of the township, remained in the 1,987-square-kilometer township. ”

Dou Miao asked curiously, "Since everyone has gone out, why are you still staying here?" ”

Zhuo Ga looked at him and said, "My sister and I have asked this question, but my father said that this township is our home, and if everyone doesn't want it, that family is not home." He firmly believes that as long as he stays here, there will be people coming and going, and the more people there are, the better and better the home. ”

Ye Song pursed his lips and said, "What about later?" ”

"In the 80s of the last century, when the mountains were covered by heavy snow in the cold winter, my father took my seriously ill mother over the snowy mountains to see a doctor, but in the end he left forever because he did not receive timely treatment. My little sister was forever submerged by a snowstorm on the way to transport grain with her father...... So there are only three of us left in this township, and we will guard this land. ”

"How do you guard the three of them?"

"As a pastoral patrol, we drove the yaks to various pastures, and when outsiders saw that there were so many yaks, they knew that there were people living here, so they didn't dare to mess around."

Zhuo Ga said proudly: "The weather here is changeable, the road conditions are dangerous and bad, every time I go out to patrol the mountains, my father has to leave a will, saying that he will not look for him if he does not come back on the fifth day." It is such a difficult environment, but my father's belief has never wavered, and we must not miss an inch of China's land! ”

……

In the afternoon, Ye Song and Dou Miao left the township along the highway that was only opened at the beginning of the 21st century, and Zhuoga's father was the first person to walk out of this frontier land by road.

Night Pine looked at the national flag on the top of the mountain again, which had been hand-sewn by Zhuoga's father.

Bright red flutters high on this inaccessible border, and for half a century, it and the three of them have watched over this land, and where there is a national flag, there is a country and a home!