When we walked out of the tombstone shop, it was very dark outside, and the visibility was less than two meters. According to my idea, take a flashlight to illuminate it, so that it is convenient to walk, Na Lang Gao said, the light of the electric light will attract the suspicion of others, so we have to walk in the dark.

The two of us left the town after several twists and turns, and Lang Gao meant that we could not take a ride to the county seat, either walk to the county, and then take a bus to Hengyang City, or go directly to the neighboring town to take the county's car.

In this regard, I deeply agree that the cars in our town to the county belong to the monopoly industry, and they have more or less something to do with the police station.

So, I dispelled the idea of taking a car to the county, touched the dozen or so red envelopes in my pocket, tore open the red envelope paper and counted the money, adding up to a total of 150 yuan and a difference of four yuan.

I asked Lang Gao if he had any money, he took out the pockets of his clothes and pants, and said, he was innocent and didn't get a dime.

I was also very drunk, and it was impossible to go to the neighboring town by car with such a small amount of money, so in desperation, the two of us had to walk in the direction of the county.

After walking for about an hour, the sky gradually revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly, and we rested for a while, and then continued walking.

When we came to the county, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and the two of us found a fast food restaurant, hurriedly picked up a few bites of rice, and spent four yuan to take the bus directly to Hengyang.

As soon as I arrived in Hengyang, before I got out of the bus stop, Lang Gao grabbed me and said, "Chen Baxian, you don't plan to go to Xiangxi with a hundred yuan, right?" ”

I was stunned for a moment and said, "What else?" ”

"" he couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth, "You're not sick in the brain, are you?" One hundred and fifty yuan to Xiangxi? I'm especially obedient to you. ”

I didn't understand what he meant, so I asked him what he said. He patted me heavily on the shoulder and said, "My boss, do you know that we must first go from Hengyang to Jishou, and then transfer from Jishou to Xiangxi." ”

Speaking of this, he paused and asked, "By the way, where are you going to Xiangxi?" ”

I thought about it for a while, but I wasn't sure, so I flipped out the note given by Ah Da and looked at it, only to see a simple sentence on it, 'Su Mengke is in danger of life, go to Phoenix City quickly'.

When I saw this, I was stunned, what does this mean, since it is a threat to life, then Ah Da should tell me directly, where do you need to pass on any note, isn't this special life for elementary school students? Could it be that Ah Da is kidding me?

But, with Ah Da's temperament, he shouldn't make such a boring joke, is it really true?

Made, if it's really true, I'm going to tear Ah Da alive, this attitude of delivering the news is too TM to make people angry.

Seeing that my face was wrong, Lang Gao pushed me and wondered, "What's wrong?" ”

I shook my head and said, let's go to Xiangxi, and go straight to Hengyang Railway Station.

When we came to the train station, we bought a ticket from Hengyang to Jishou at 8 o'clock in the evening, which cost a total of 124 yuan, and only 19 yuan was left on our body. He said that these thirteen red envelopes are the fare left by the old man for you.

As soon as I thought of this, I couldn't help but look at Mr. Fan a few times, this Mr. Fan is by no means a simple papermaker, he should know numerology and the like. Otherwise, it is definitely not so accurate, and the nameless old man in the bamboo forest should also be a master.

More importantly, they should belong to some mysterious organization, and they all have that strange symbol on them.

Thinking of this, I sighed, as the saying goes, the more people grow, the more they understand, and the more responsibilities they bear on their shoulders.

Subsequently, we stayed at the train station for a while, due to the limited money on our bodies, we did not eat dinner, and waited until eight o'clock in the evening, checked the tickets, got on the train, found a seat, and the train started slowly, and slowly rushed towards Xiangxi.

In the car, I was not in a very good mood and kept worrying about Su Mengke. So, along the way, I didn't speak, and Na Lang Gao seemed to understand my worries, and fell asleep as soon as he got in the car, of course, I don't know if it was a real sleep or a fake sleep.

After nearly ten hours of bumpy rides, the train drove into Jishou, we hurriedly got off the train and went straight to the bus station to ask the conductor how much the bus ticket to Phoenix was. She said that Jishou went to Phoenix City for 18 yuan per person.

That's it, we were in an embarrassing situation, I only had nineteen dollars on me, and the two of us needed thirty-six dollars to go to Phoenix, which was a bit of a joke.

The two of us left the bus station in a huff, crouched on the side of the road and watched the endless stream of vehicles in front of us, neither of us spoke.

After about ten minutes of silence, Na Lang Gao hesitated for a while, and asked tentatively: "Why don't you go to Phoenix City alone, and I'll find a job here in Jishou first?" ”

I stopped and said, "When we walked out of Hengyang together, how could we leave you alone, let's think of other ways." ”

He snorted and said to me, "I'm sorry, I was reckless and hurt you yesterday." ”

I said it didn't matter, and my mind kept thinking about where to earn the fare.

After thinking about it for a while, I realized that I was simply a waste, except for funerals and carrying coffins, I had no other skills, and I didn't even know where to earn those dozens of yuan in fares.

In an unfamiliar city, it was really hard to earn a fare, at least at that time Lang Gao and I were like that.

We squatted on the side of the road all day, but we couldn't get any money, but we couldn't stand the hunger and spent ten yuan to buy a little food and a pack of cigarettes. Lang Gao asked me how to buy cigarettes when I had no money, and I said that cigarettes are my reliance and the most affectionate companion.

The tall man listened to me, and did not speak, so he asked me for a cigarette, lit it, took a few deep breaths, choked a few times, and continued to smoke a few more times. It was these few puffs of cigarettes that made Lang Gao have one more bad habit in his later life, smoking, at least four or five packs a day, which was more ruthless than what I smoked.

In the next few days, the two of us wandered around the streets of Jishou in Sichuan, asking many construction sites if they wanted coolies, and those construction sites saw that we were outsiders, saying that they were afraid that we would steal steel bars and other things at the construction site, and refused to use us.

For seven days, the two of us only ate a few steamed buns, and we couldn't stand the hunger, so we drank tap water on the street to satisfy our hunger, and at night we slept in the bridge hole, and when it was cold, we found a paper skin to cover our bodies.

In just seven days, the two of us have changed, like beggars, the difference is that we did not beg for seven days, did not pick mineral water bottles to sell, in Lang Gao's words, men do something and do nothing, picking up mineral water bottles is to rob some people's business.