Chapter 9: Theft on the Train
After taking a photo in front of the bronze statue of Zhan Tianyou, it is close to noon, because there are often tourists from Beiping who come to Badaling to play, so there are a lot of food sold near the train station, and there are a few small restaurants that look good. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
I picked a restaurant that looked cleaner and went in, because there were not enough large tables in the restaurant for so many people to eat together, and the shopkeeper had to put two long tables together. It is worth mentioning that this seemingly small restaurant actually provides Western food, after chatting for a while, the shopkeeper told that most of the people who came to the Great Wall in the early years were foreigners, at that time the train was not passed, and it was very hard to come here once, but foreigners they just like to drill into the deep mountains, so some shops have since started to play Western food signboards to attract customers.
Xie Shuyao, who was joking with Old Pete, was suddenly interrupted by Bai Ruolin and whispered in Xie Shuyao's ear: "Look at that person over there—"
Xie Shuyao looked up and looked in the direction pointed by Ruolin, and found that the gray-clothed man he met at the station in the morning was sitting in a corner and eating, this time because of the relative distance, Xie Shuyao finally saw the appearance of this person, this person is Xiao Ziming, but why did he appear here?
Xie Shuyao saw that Xiao Ziming seemed to notice that someone was looking at him, his gaze gradually moved to himself, Xie Shuyao hurriedly lowered his head, pretending not to see him. Xie Shuyao secretly glanced at Xiao Ziming with his peripheral vision, and saw that he didn't seem to see himself, he just glanced at Xie Shuyao, the big table person, a few times, and then stopped staring at Xie Shuyao.
Ruolin saw Xie Shuyao's unusual behavior after seeing the man in gray, and asked Xie Shuyao quietly, "Do you know him?" ”
"I don't know." Xie Shuyao shook his head and denied it, saying that Xie Shuyao looked up in Xiao Ziming's direction, but Xie Shuyao's gaze happened to meet Xiao Ziming's sweeping gaze, and soon Xiao Ziming's gaze turned elsewhere, as if he didn't see Xie Shuyao.
Because of the appearance of the dangerous character Xiao Ziming, Xie Shuyao has been on high alert, and it was not until Xiao Ziming left after eating that Xie Shuyao was really relieved. Although Xie Shuyao was very curious about why Xiao Ziming appeared here, Xie Shuyao knew that "curiosity kills a cat", and sometimes he knows too much, which is not a good thing. After that, Xie Shuyao kept an eye on the surroundings, and seeing that Xiao Ziming did not appear again, Xie Shuyao felt that Xiao Ziming's purpose for coming here might not have anything to do with her, but she just happened to meet here.
After the meal, Xie Shuyao had already left Xiao Ziming behind. Father Xie told everyone that there is a distance of three or four miles from here to the entrance of Badaling Dengcheng, and everyone can go on foot, or you can hire donkeys and horses from nearby villagers.
Xie's mother wanted to hire a sedan chair for Xie Shuyao to let her daughter take the sedan chair to the Great Wall, Xie Shuyao heard that she could ride a horse, Xie Shuyao, who had horseback riding experience in her previous life, couldn't help but feel a little itchy, and pestered Xie's mother to hire a horse for herself. Xie Shuyao picked a majestic-looking jujube red horse, and then Xie Mu negotiated the price with the owner of the horse.
The groom heard Xie Shuyao say that Xie Shuyao had no experience in horseback riding, so he began to teach Xie Shuyao the skills of getting on and off the horse, in fact, Xie Shuyao had ridden a horse several times in his previous life, and once rode a horse alone and trotted a few laps. Without waiting for the groom to explain his experience in horseback riding, Xie Shuyao couldn't wait to grab the reins and horsehair with his left hand, raised his left foot and climbed onto the stirrup about one meter high very laboriously, jumped up with his right foot, stepped over the horse's back very smoothly, and landed smoothly on the horse's back, without the slightest drag in the whole movement.
Seeing that Xie Shuyao's movements on the horse did not drag the slightest mud and water, it was not at all like a first-time horseman, and guessed with some surprise: "Miss, look at your posture on the horse, you are a veteran of horseback riding." ”
"No, I've only secretly ridden a few times before." Xie Shuyao said on horseback.
Xie's mother, who was standing on the side, heard that her daughter had secretly learned to ride a horse before, and asked with some surprise: "Who did you learn to ride a horse from?" How come I've never heard of you? ”
Xie Shuyao thought about it, after he came to this world, he really hadn't touched horses, and he couldn't think of any excuses to explain, so he said to Xie Mu with an arrogant face: "I won't tell you, anyway, I will have a lot of things you don't know." ”
"Don't be poor, be careful when you ride your horse, don't fall off your horse." Mother Xie repeatedly admonished her daughter, who was usually used to being very aggressive.
After speaking, he instructed the groom: "This old brother, you have to help me take care of her, this girl is very wild, help me take care of her more, don't let her fall off the horse." ”
The old horseman bowed his head and bowed his waist to Xie Mu and said, "Madam, don't worry, my horse is docile, and it is more stable than sitting in a sedan chair." ”
In addition to Xie Shuyao and Jin Bihui riding horses, two foreigners, Jonathan and Charles, actually wanted to ride a donkey, I don't know what they thought, while the others chose to ride a sedan chair.
Not long after leaving, Xie Shuyao's face was a little red from the sun, and Xie Shuyao had to take a white sunhat from Xie's mother and put it on her head to cover the strong sunlight.
The mountain road is not very long, but it took more than 20 minutes to arrive. After seeing the inscription "Juyong Guanwai Town" written on the Guancheng in front of him, Hu Shi began to be the tour guide of this tour group, and kept telling everyone about the history of the Great Wall, to Xie Shuyao's surprise that Hu Shi's understanding of the Great Wall was no worse than that of those tour guides in later generations, and many allusions to the Great Wall could be at his fingertips, so Hu Shi became a history teacher along the way, and Xie Shuyao and they became his students.
After climbing to the wall of the Great Wall, Xie Shuyao looked at the Great Wall overgrown with grass in front of him and sighed a lot. The Great Wall in front of you is not the same as the Great Wall seen by yourself in later generations, there are a lot of weeds growing on the Great Wall in front of you, the road on the city wall is potholed, many of the green bricks on the ground have been weathered, there are broken green bricks and gravel everywhere, and several beacon towers in the distance have collapsed to varying degrees, which looks very dilapidated. Xie Shuyao likes this real Great Wall very much, it is not as beautiful as the Great Wall that has been repaired in the world, it is full of traces left by history, such a Great Wall is to show the thickness of its history, every dilapidated place has its story, maybe it is the baptism brought by war, maybe it is the traces of nature day and night.
Xie Shuyao stood on a beacon tower and looked into the distance, the magnificent Great Wall of thousands of miles winded and hovered between the mountains, the Great Wall was like a dragon in front of him, and he seemed so small in the endless world, Xie Shuyao took a deep breath, and shouted loudly at the mountains and mountains with all his strength: "Ah~~~"
Mother Xie heard her daughter on the side suddenly shouting madly, and she was worried and wanted to care about her daughter, but was stopped by Old Pete, who persuaded Mother Xie that it would be good for her to let Xie Shuyao vent to her heart's content!
After shouting, Xie Shuyao thought of a sentence in the biography of Wukong in later generations, and shouted: "I want this day, I can't cover my eyes anymore, I want this land, I can't bury my heart anymore, I want all living beings to understand my intentions, and I want all the Buddhas to disappear!" ”
After venting, Xie Shuyao gasped for breath with some prostration, and felt that she felt a lot more relaxed in her heart. After Xie Shuyao finished shouting, Old Pete also yelled a few times to vent.
"Sister Shuyao, let me take a few photos for you!" Jin Bihui took out a bulky camera and said after Xie Shuyao finished shouting.
Seeing that Jin Bihui had already set up the camera, Xie Shuyao leaned on the city wall and posed at random, and Jin Bihui on the side also began to press the shutter frantically. On the Great Wall, Jin Bihui took dozens of photos of Xie Shuyao, pointing out the rivers and mountains on the beacon tower for a while, and standing on the battlements of the city wall and looking into the distance......
After more than two hours of playing on the Great Wall, everyone returned with great joy.
On the train back, Jin Bihui bought train tickets for everyone, and saw that Xie Shuyao fell asleep on a chair as soon as he got on the train, so Jin Bihui bought a sleeper for Xie Shuyao and himself, and Xie Shuyao just went to the sleeper car with Jin Bihui after being polite.
The sleeper car is also divided into a first-class sleeper car and a second-class sleeper, Jin Bihui bought Xie Shuyao a first-class sleeper car with only two beds, the sleeper in the first-class car is very soft and wide, Xie Shuyao is like sleeping in the clouds when he lies on this bed, and he falls asleep after a while. Xie Shuyao, who was asleep, was awakened by the sudden "plop" sound, and Xie Shuyao, who was awakened, opened a thin slit in his eyes, and a vague figure appeared in front of him. Xie Shuyao, who was sleeping in a daze, didn't pay much attention to it, and then closed her eyes again and fell asleep.
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"Wake up, wake up—"
Xie Shuyao was woken up by someone reluctantly, looked at the person who woke him up with a blank face, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Have you arrived in Beiping?" ”
"Oh—have you seen what you've lost? We met the thief. Jin Bihui saw Xie Shuyao's appearance that he didn't know anything, and said helplessly all the way.
Xie Shuyao reacted at this time, she wanted to come and see what she had lost, but after standing up, she remembered that her luggage was all in Xie Mu's, and she had nothing for the thief to worry about. Xie Shuyao cautiously asked Jin Bihui, "What did you lose?" ”
"I lost more than three hundred dollars, and a camera and a few rolls of film for you. Did you lose anything? Jin Bihui said.
"I don't seem to have lost anything—" Xie Shuyao said embarrassedly.
"Do you see if your watch is still there?" Jin Bihui asked at Xie Shuyao.
Xie Shuyao looked down and saw that his wrist was bare, and the watch was indeed missing. Xie Shuyao hurriedly touched the jade Buddha on his neck again, and disappeared, Xie Shuyao raised his eyebrows: "Ciao, this is actually stolen!" ”
After calming down, Xie Shuyao discussed with Jin Bihui and decided not to tell Xie Shuyao's parents about the thief on the train, so as not to worry them.
At this time, in a second-class carriage, Xiao Ziming stared at a jade pendant tied with a red rope, and when he saw the word "Chang" on the back of the jade pendant, Xiao Ziming showed a trace of doubt on his face, and then the corners of his mouth turned up slightly with a smile.