When I came back from morning exercise, Yila hadn't gotten up yet, and she didn't seem to be very drunk

"What are your plans for today?"

"I'm going to Nanping"

Jeans, white T-shirts, and small white shoes, Xu Shuai felt that Su had hugged a few more books and changed the rhythm of a college student every minute

After packing his backpack, Xu Shuai was also ready

"It's a rubber forest all the way to Nanping, you'd better wear a jacket, it's cold to ride a motorcycle," Su reminded with a knitted sweater

Although Meng Man does not have a temperature difference as wearing a cotton jacket in the morning and yarn in the afternoon, it is cool in the morning and evening, and he needs to add a jacket when riding

Motorcycles are the most practical means of transportation here, but the road is getting narrower and narrower, but on the contrary, the vegetation is getting denser and denser, and the branches and leaves of the large trees hugging each other are luxuriant, and the branches and leaves wrap the road without seeing the sun, so that people walking on the forest road are not troubled by the heat

At the entrance of the village, several banana trees stand across the road to block the way, and a few words are written on the cardboard next to it: Wild elephants enter the village

The cars on both sides of the road were blocked, and people were talking about the elephant, "Why is this elephant coming again?"

"The banana field in the south is finished, the price of 4 bananas, the banana boss will cry to death"

"I can't go back to my home on this hot day, it's really disturbing"

"Don't force it, the elephant came suddenly, there are still a few families in the village who didn't run out of that miserable, last year the elephant entered the village to eat the corn cob downstairs of my house, I hid upstairs and almost scared to pee, this animal is better than people"

A few dark-skinned men with flip-flops gathered around and complained

Xu Shuai leaned on the motorcycle and smoked, listening to the conversation of the people around him, they spoke with a local accent, and he only understood a rough idea

Su asked, "I'm going to buy water, what do you want to drink?" ”

"Anything goes"

Su moved towards the small shop by the village, many people were blocked here, the small shop was doing very well, thinking to kill the time, she bought a lot of snacks, and when she went back with her things, she was attracted by a shoe print on the sand

"Xu Shuai, come here", she shouted at him

Xu Shuai didn't know why, so he flicked off the cigarette butt and walked over

"Look at this shoe print?" Su squatted down and pointed to the ground

Xu Shuai looked at it and measured it with his hand, the size of the 45-size shoe was the right size, and the texture was also right, "Do you see the person clearly?" ”

"No, but it's not difficult to find someone This shoe print looks like it's left by wearing leather shoes, most of the people here wear slippers, and they will wear rain boots or rubber shoes when they go up the mountain at night to prevent snakes and insects", Su paused and said: "Moreover, people who can wear size 45 shoes are taller than ordinary people according to common sense."

So they just have to keep an eye out for tall people in leather shoes

"Well, yes, people have been smart for a few days with me"

Su was speechless at his words of putting gold on his face, and rolled his eyes back

"There is gold on the ground, why do you think you are so serious?" An old man in his forties and fifties leaned over and asked

Su stretched out his hand to wipe off the shoe prints on the ground, and picked up a small white stone, "Look at this stone, it looks like jade."

The old man shook his head, "You are a pebble," and left with his hands behind his back, the slippers on his feet rubbing against the ground with a crackling sound

Xu Shuai looked around, but as Su said, most people are used to wearing slippers, and there are a few motorcycles with rain boots hanging a few large buckets that look like rubber tapping

Su Liao was sitting on a motorcycle eating spicy strips

"How old are you and still eating this junk food?"

"It's delicious, it's cheap, can you eat a bag for a dollar?"

The corners of Xu Shuai's mouth twitched, he had never eaten this kind of low-grade food, and the bottle of mineral water stood far away, as if the spicy strips he ate were the source of pollution and would be infected

If you don't eat it, Su snorted coldly and opened a pack to eat by yourself

The midday sun was high, the ground was hot like an oven, people took refuge in the banana fields by the roadside, and even the water in the commissary was bought, and many people began to curse

Su took out the bread and turned Xu Shuai, "Do you want to eat it?" Don't say that I treat you badly, limited material resources are not"

Xu Shuai took a bite, it was dry and hard, and it smelled of wine, and it looked like it was old, but this place was far away from the town, and then he saw Su tearing a banana leaf and sitting on the ground, looking like he didn't plan to leave, he had no choice but to force himself to eat it

In the afternoon, people from the Forestry Conservation Bureau came to the village to investigate, saying that the elephants had left and could go home

The people of the village were boiling, and they all rode their motorcycles and drove away with the sound of engines

Su put the rest of the food into his backpack and followed him into the village

A village here is equivalent to a village, and Su went to the village chief's house

Pushing open the fence door, the geese in the yard raised their heads to the sky and chirped, and a few fierce ones stretched their necks and spread their wings to chase after and peck people, but unfortunately Xu Shuai made a faster move and twisted its neck and threw it aside, and the goose that suffered a loss honestly only called not attacking people

"In any world, animals will bully me"

Xu Shuai coughed lightly: "Have you considered character?" ”

"You ......" Su wondered if this guy didn't lift the bar for her, was he panicking?

Of course, Xu Shuai didn't tell her that geese are second only to dogs in terms of tightness, and trained geese are more alert than dogs in some aspects and can take care of their homes

Hearing the sound came out of a person, smiling like a Maitreya Buddha, medium stature

"Mango is good"

"Come on, come in and sit down", he beckoned the guests into the house, poured tea and took out a cigarette to Xu Shuai: "The young man is smoking (eating cigarettes)"

Xu Shuai took it and thanked him

"What about your godmother, what are you busy with?"

"I was drunk yesterday, and I can't hold up an intravenous drip in the hospital today"

Xu Shuai glanced at Su, not knowing why she was lying

"Yesterday it was her birthday, I was supposed to go, but I was too busy to make it"

Su was silent, didn't go to it? I'm afraid I didn't invite you, even if I invited a tigress who lived in your house, I didn't dare to go

"Brother Man, do you know where I'm coming, do you have any news?"

The man took a sharp puff of cigarette, shook his head and said, "No, can I not be satisfied with what your godmother entrusted me, maybe they will not be in Mengman for a long time."

Xu Shuai looked at his nose and nose, and his nose was concerned, and he understood that these two people were talking about Su's parents, and it seemed that Yila and this Brother Man were still a little old

Say goodbye to Brother Man and go home, although he has long been used to it, he still can't help but be lost

"This village is often harassed by elephants?" Xu Shuai deliberately found a topic

"This is close to the primeval forest, elephants will occasionally come to find food, the national protected animals can only hide, and the elephant has a grudge against it, if you scare it and hurt it, it will find trouble, so the people in the village will hide, and the loss will be subsidized on the continent."

Su sat on the back seat of the motorcycle, leaned forward and said shyly: "Biologist, sell you a piece of gossip, if you want to see wild Asian elephants, don't go to the Wild Elephant Valley, go to Nanping and Bala to squat, that is pure wild."

The motorcycle suddenly stalled, and Xu Shuai checked it and said, "It's out of gas"

"Ahh So far away, let's push it back? ”

"Find a household to smoke some gasoline, the last thing that every household here lacks is a motorcycle."

I thought it was true, and the car was an essential tool for rubber tapping

The two decided to go back to the village by going over the mountain and copying the path

The rubber-covered mountain does not look high, and only when you go deep into it do you realize the hardships of the road

The setting sun shines through the gaps in the treetops, gilding the forest with a layer of gold

As night fell, the sound of partridges chirping could be heard from time to time in the forest. Xu Shuai secretly shouted that he had made a mistake, there were rubber trees all over the mountains, and it was easy to get lost without a sense of direction

Su also realized that something was wrong: "I think it's better to run back along the road, it's easy to get lost when you walk like this."

"Okay", Xu Shuai pulled her down the mountain, and after walking for half an hour, she couldn't see the road, she was really lost

"If you're lazy, you'll suffer, I'll sit down", Su sat on a rock, rubbing his sore calves

"The stockade is in the south, let's go south, we can always go out"

Su was skeptical: "It's pitch black, how do you tell the direction?"

"Biologists have their own secrets", Xu Shuai pulled her and walked south