The reporters were sternly "invited" back to their seats, and the staff carefully checked the cameras, and only after all the film inside was blown out did they return the cameras to the reporters one by one. This extraordinary scene not only stunned the reporters and staff, but also surprised the four princesses.

There is a reason for the panic of the four princesses of Lancang, because the political and diplomatic relations between China and Lancang are still very delicate.

Lancang began to exclude China under the coercion of Annan at the end of 1976, and by 1979, diplomatic relations between the two sides had fallen to a freezing point, and the Vientiane branch of the Xinhua News Agency was closed. In August 1980, the ambassadors of the two countries returned to their respective countries, and only the chargé d'affaires of the two embassies presided over the affairs of the two embassies...... But soon, Annam's 200,000-strong army fell into the Khmer quagmire, and although China withdrew after the cross-border attack, the pressure on Annam's border became more and more intense, and the dream of "the world's third military power" and the "Indochinese Federation" went bankrupt.

The rapid changes in shape shì forced the Lao People's Revolutionary Party to take the initiative to seek to improve relations with China from 1982 onwards. By 1984, he began to openly seek rapprochement with China, and was "willing" to act as an "intermediary" for Annan to improve relations with China. Time is on China's side, and in the face of Lancang's overtures, China only chooses to extend an olive branch in the economic and trade fields first.

During the Lancang and Honsavady periods, China's southern border economy and trade were mainly based on the people-to-people trade between the border people of the two countries. Since 1983, the two sides have begun to have government-organized economic and trade activities. By 1984, with the improvement of relations between China and Laos and China and Myanmar, China had introduced an unprecedented policy of import tax reduction and exemption for small-scale border trade, and implemented tax reduction and exemption for the import of 162 kinds of goods.

The promulgation of this policy has epoch-making multiple significance. Its most direct achievement is that it has enabled the border trade activities between China and Lancang and between China and Honsavaddy, which are mainly based on small border trade, to enter a period of rapid development in the past ten years. What is more strategically significant is that it has also made the Indochina Peninsula countries such as Lancang, Hungsavady, and Siam increasingly economically connected with China......

The actions of the reporters and staff made Mei Xue a little scared.

After a brief commotion in the cabin, a tall, white-haired, graceful female official, dressed in a solemn black suit and an elegant fuchsia shirt, accompanied by a group of entourage, was slowly walking from the business class in front of her down the aisle to the economy class in the back.

"Hello Chief!" "Hello Deputy Prime Minister!" "Good ...... Minister"

The staff and reporters stood up in a mess, with a variety of names and a rush to greet the kind old man. The old man smiled magnificently, greeted everyone, and waved his hand to invite everyone to sit down. Mei Xue was stunned, she looked at the old man in a daze, and she was at a loss for a while. Suddenly, her head went blank, because the old man had already smiled and walked straight in front of her - to a stand.

What a familiar face, what a kind old man, more exciting than the images on TV and in pictorials. At that moment, the four princesses' chests were pounding, and the old man's powerful aura was so powerful that they didn't dare to come out, and they didn't dare to move.

You know, she is the woman in charge of China's economy......

As an outstanding representative of Chinese women, although she was an anti-Japanese veteran, as a senior Chinese official at the level of economic, trade and financial experts, she was active in the world political and economic arena, and became one of the representative symbols of China in that era......

"Hello grandma!" was stunned for a moment, Mei Xue and the other princesses all stood up with a "whoosh", and bowed to the old man nervously and helplessly!

The old man was taller than the little princesses, and she looked at Mei Xue with a loving and relieved smile on her face. At that moment, Mei Xue didn't dare to look at her eyes, so she hurriedly lowered her head and bowed again. The two female escorts wanted to introduce, but they didn't know the princesses, so they stood next to them and blushed for a while, very embarrassed.

Suddenly, the old man stretched out his hands, like a grandmother caressing her grandson, holding Mei Xue's little face. first focused on cutting a lock of hair in front of Mei Xue's forehead behind her ears, and then stroked Mei Xue's immature little face with both hands, and lowered her head and kissed her forehead. Her expression was so focused, as if she had forgotten about her surroundings and was immersed in infinite love for her granddaughter, and that scene moved everyone present. Mei Xue could clearly see that there were tears in the old man's eyes......

"Grandma......" At that moment, Mei Xue couldn't resist her feelings anymore, her chest was hot, her tears could no longer be suppressed, and two crystal tears suddenly burst out of her eyes, choking out......

The old man held Mei Xue tightly in his arms, patted her back gently, and said in a voice that only Mei Xue could hear, "My daughter has worked hard! Thank you, China! China will not forget you! Your motherland, Lancang, will also thank you! ”

Mei Xue raised her head in the old man's arms, with tears of excitement in her eyes, looked at the old man, and pleaded in a voice that only the old man could hear, "Grandma, my ancestral home is China, I want to add back Chinese nationality ......"

For many years afterwards, whenever Mei Xue remembered the scene at that time, she was excited and incomprehensible. At that time, the thinking had stopped, why did you blurt out this request? What the world does not know is that China is the country with the strictest nationality management in the world, and it is 10,000 times more difficult to obtain Chinese nationality than to obtain the nationality of country M or European countries......

But when the old woman heard this, she smiled with relief, and once again held Mei Xue in her arms, as if she was holding her favorite little granddaughter. She gently patted Mei Xue's back, and said without hesitation in a voice that only Mei Xue could hear, "Grandma promises you, welcome the children home......"

Letting go of Mei Xue, the old man shook hands with Su Ji, Mei Shi, and Su Gong one by one, and greeted and hugged them one by one. Only then did he say slowly with a voice that everyone could hear, with a thousand bearings, "Today is March 13, a historic day. On behalf of the Chinese government, I would like to welcome the four princesses to study and further their studies in our country! ”

The four princesses said in unison, "We must study hard and make progress every day!" ”

This scene made everyone laugh, the old man showed a smile kindly, and then looked up to the sky and smiled, and the accompanying staff also smiled comfortably. The old woman suddenly pointed to the cage next to Mei Xue's leg and said, "Open it, let it also come to witness this historic good day!" ”

Mei Xue was guarding the cage, she was so frightened that she was about to cry, "Grandma, this thing can't be opened on the plane, it will ...... Scares you. ”

"Girl, it doesn't matter, I specially approved it on the plane."

Mei Xue heard that the old man said that it was specially approved by her, so she had to lift the wrapped blue cloth and open the lid of the cage. The concubine's playful and curious head suddenly stretched out from it with a "whoosh", "Ah! "Wolves!" There was an exclamation from the plane. Two female staff members in suits had already swished to either side of the old man......

"Woo!"

The concubine had obviously been locked up for a long time, and she didn't know the panic she had caused to others. It suddenly emerged from the cage, swooped onto the top of the chair, stretched wide, and whispered in comfort.

"Wolves?!"

There was another exclamation on the plane, "Is it really a wolf?" "What a beautiful wolf!"

The old man laughed like a child, reached out and picked up the concubine, and kissed the tip of her black nose. The concubine was also very angry with Mei Xue, looking at the old man with sparkling eyes in a friendly manner, tilting her beautiful head happily, looking left and right.

"Let it also become a bridge of friendship between the people of China and Lancang." I hope it has a happy life in China, and I hope that all the princesses will have a good time studying and living in China......"

……

After the friendly reception was over, and after the old man and his entourage returned to the business class, the staff explained to the reporters that today's foreign affairs activities are not allowed to be reported or disseminated, which is discipline!

When the cabin was quiet, Su Ji stroked the concubine's head, and then pinched her thigh hard before muttering, "Oh my God, my head has been dizzy." Sister Xu is really hand-eyed, we actually took her special plane to China...... Is she visiting our country? I didn't hear the report......"

"No, it's a special pass through Africa for a meeting......"

Mei Xue held the concubine in her hand, it was very curious, and lay on her shoulder very meekly, quietly looking at the earth, blue sky and white clouds outside the porthole. Seeing enough, the concubine jumped on her lap again, erected two beautiful big ears, tilted her head, and looked at Mei Xue fixedly with two bright eyes.

"What is it going to do?" Su Gong saw the strangeness of the concubine and asked puzzledly.

"Woo!"

Suddenly, the concubine raised her head and whispered softly at the top of the cabin, and her childish voice echoed in the cabin. Then, lying on Mei Xue's knees, she put her head under her stomach and slept comfortably. "The concubine is a little she-wolf with human nature, she is bidding farewell to Lancang, and it is difficult to give up the South Asian continent!" Sugi said appreciatively.

More than two hours later, the plane landed at Hufang International Airport, the capital of China's Anhui province. The old man and his entourage did not get off the plane, and when Mei Xue said goodbye to the chief, the concubine actually walked to the old man's seat, and waited for the old man to reach out and touch his head before walking off the plane together.

The special plane slid to the runway again, and pierced into the blue sky with its head held high.

At this time, a van and a truck drove up to them and stopped. Only then did the princess find out that Xu Tianyi and Yingya had made more than a dozen large boxes of luggage for them, which had been unloaded just now.

Looking at the blue sky and white clouds in the sky, the towering tower, the wide airport runway, and the magnificent terminal building, several little princesses cried, and Su Ji said with emotion, "We are also Chinese now......

Mei Xue said firmly, "No! Our ancestors were Chinese, and we will always have a yellow-skinned, black-haired Chinese heart......"

……

Just when Mei Xue and other princesses had already set foot on the land of China, at this moment in the distant jungles of Southeast Asia, in a small basin behind Songgo Mountain, the second highest peak of the Khmer Cardamom Mountains, Li Haichao led a team of brothers, riding elephants, under the leadership of Lingyu, swaying through the Khmer and Siam borders, into the densely forested mountains of the southwest border of the Khmer.

At this time, they came to a small village called Pag, and were preparing to set up camp and rest.

From Chanthaburi to Trat and all the way to the border, it is a flat, inhospitable wilderness. The route is sparsely populated, with two rubber plantations, where some workers live. Torrential rains poured down from time to time, the roads were muddy, and elephants laboriously humped people and equipment and slowly marched through muddy water.

In several Khmer refugee camps run by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Siamese government, countless barefoot and ragged Khmer refugees, men, women and children, huddled together like ants under plastic sheds, surrounded by barbed wire. Armed men with guns on their backs lazily maintain order......