Chapter Ninety-One: A Thousand Miles of Travel
According to the original plan, I first took Li Huaishan to a nearby bank to withdraw cash, using the card I accepted the maintenance money on.
Although I changed the bound mobile phone number to my own early on, it is still a bit risky to do so, after all, the phone is not on me now, in case the second master is holding my mobile phone now, and the withdrawal information happens to be sent to my mobile phone, the matter of me leaving the ghost string will be leaked immediately.
But now there is no other way out, but to fight luck.
After withdrawing the money, Li Huaishan and I went to the vicinity of the furniture city to buy ten large travel bags, enough food, water, and a few sets of clothes.
I did buy more things this time, but I couldn't help it, my appetite was too big, if I bought food according to the amount of food I would eat in a normal person, then I wouldn't starve to death halfway?
When everything was almost ready, Li Huaishan went to Zhang Jianbao to get a driver's license, and I went to Boss Lu's furniture store.
Luckily, Boss Lu has come back from Hainan, but there is no one at the counter, it is estimated that Boss Lu should be playing furniture in the backyard, and the proprietress may not have gotten up yet.
I walked into the store with a couple of bags on my shoulders and shouted into the backyard, "Is there anyone?" ”
The voice that was extremely familiar to Boss Lu immediately came from the backyard: "Someone, wait a minute." ”
In a moment, Boss Lu rushed into the store through the back door, and the proprietress also came down from upstairs.
As soon as I saw Boss Lu, I suddenly had a smile on my face, but he didn't recognize me, and asked me: "Do you cook or make a bed, it just so happens that I just bought a few kinds of wood from Hainan......
I tentatively shouted, "Old Lu? ”
Boss Lu stopped halfway through his words and looked at me with a question mark on his face.
Or did the proprietress recognize me first: "Xiao Zhang? ”
Boss Lu glanced at the proprietress and then at me, and it took a long time to react to what was going on: "If not?" Holy, how did you become like this? ”
I patted the Tang costume on my body: "For the better or for the worse?" ”
"Of course it's getting better," Boss Lu turned around and took me a bottle of mineral water from the freezer, and shouted with a smile: "Look at this body, this temperament, I haven't seen it for a year, it's like a different person." Hey, where have you been all this year, why have you changed so much, hey, what's going on with your eyes, why can't you open them? ”
As in the past, he always had endless things to say when he saw me, and I saw that he was also very close, but I still hadn't forgotten that I had something to do.
The proprietress stood at the top of the stairs and asked me with a smile, "Are you here to mix up outside and come back to visit the two of us?" ”
I smiled and waved my hand: "I'm average, and when I come back this time, I'm mainly here to get a driver's license and borrow a car by the way." ”
"Borrow a car?" Boss Lu came to me, looked at the clothes on my body carefully, and then became puzzled: "You still need to ask me to borrow a car?" You're wearing this outfit alone for the car. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the proprietress asked me, "Which truck do you want to borrow?" ”
I said, "I remember that Lao Lu has a diesel-burning car, and I want to borrow it, by the way, there should still be a few mentions of diesel in the warehouse, right?" ”
Hostess: "Yes, there are seven or eight mentions, the car is in the garage, and the keys are there." Lao Lu, get Xiao Zhang's driver's license. ”
Boss Lu reluctantly took my hand and said to the proprietress: "If it's not easy to come back, let me talk to him for a while first, what's the hurry?" ”
The proprietress glared: "Where do you have so many words to talk about, Xiao Zhang would have found a place to sit down if he wasn't in a hurry, okay, you can be sharp, don't be verbose!" ”
Boss Lu is notoriously afraid of guilt, and the proprietress wilted when she glared at him, and hurriedly ran behind the counter to find my driver's license.
What is the situation of the drawer on the counter, I know, Boss Lu is used to doing everything, and the things in the drawer are also messy, and it will take a long time for him to find my driver's license.
I really couldn't wait, so I said to the proprietress "Sister Jing, look...... Why don't I pick up the car first? ”
The proprietress smiled: "Go ahead, Lao Lu still has to toss for a while, you can bring all the diesel fuel in the warehouse, save the money to refuel on the road." ”
I was not polite, I went directly to the warehouse to get the diesel, and then ran to the garage to pick up the car.
When I drove towards the door of the furniture store, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that the proprietress was probably not as simple as I had imagined in the past, not to mention that she could see at a glance that I was in a hurry, but only that she asked me to bring all the diesel, and it seemed that I had already concluded that I would have to walk a long way this time.
This kind of eyesight is not something that a shrew who doesn't run a house can have.
Back at the door of the furniture store, Li Huaishan happened to come to me, and Boss Lu also came out with my driving photo.
Because this car is not often driven by Boss Lu, the smell in the car is relatively strong, so I rolled down the four windows to ventilate, Li Huaishan saw at a glance that the person driving was me, and without saying a word, he got into the car directly.
Boss Lu knew Li Huaishan, and as soon as he got into my car, he trotted all the way over and asked me, "Why did you get mixed up with him?" ”
Li Huaishan hooked my shoulder: "The two of us are difficult brothers, and we have a good relationship!" ”
Boss Lu obviously didn't treat Li Huaishan very much, and when he saw Li Huaishan put his hand on my shoulder, he immediately frowned, and pressed his face to my ear and said, "You have to be careful, this guy has been in the number." ”
When he spoke, his voice was not small, and Li Huaishan was not happy on the spot: "I heard it all." ”
I took the driver's license from Boss Lu: "Don't worry, I know it." So what, I may have to come back after a while, you haven't been short of cars lately, have you? ”
Boss Lu pouted: "There is no shortage of cars, but there is a shortage of people to drive." ”
I knew he would say that.
At the moment, the time is relatively tight, and I don't have time to fight with Boss Lu, wave goodbye to him, and then drive away from the furniture city.
When the car was about to drive to the highway intersection, Li Huaishan suddenly asked me, "What do you mean?" ”
He said this without a beginning or end, and I didn't react at once: "What do you mean?" ”
Li Huaishan leaned towards me: "If you don't have to, what kind of way are you?" What do you mean by heart? Didn't you treat me as a brother at all, and you're still guarding against me? ”
He was really right, I really didn't treat him as a brother, as for saying that I am still guarding against him, it would be a bit wronged to me, if I wanted to guard against him, I wouldn't take him with me this time.
I asked him, "Do you know Boss Lu?" ”
Li Huaishan: "I understand, I saw him every day in the past few years in the furniture city. ”
I said: "Then you should know, Lao Lu, as soon as the conversation box is opened, it will be endless, we must leave Bohai Bay before the family finds out that we have escaped, how urgent and anxious the time is, in this case, how can I have the heart to explain your matter to Lao Lu?" When I spoke like that just now, I just wanted to gag his mouth. ”
Li Huaishan was obviously not satisfied with my answer: "Then you don't have to say, you know it in your heart, what do you think of me?" You can just ignore him and just drive away. ”
I defended myself: "That's not good, I haven't seen Boss Lu for a long time, he talks to me, I have to respond anyway." I said, why do you care about this kind of thing, are you tired? ”
Li Huaishan: "Anyway, I'm just not happy." No, I need something to soothe my soul. ”
As he spoke, he turned around to get food, and I had to remind him, "We don't know how long we'll have to walk, you can save some food." ”
Li Huaishan waved his hand impatiently: "Oh, I know, I won't move your share." ”
Judging from Sun Chuansheng's handwriting, the chrysalis village he found was in an old forest at the junction of Yunnan and Tibet, very close to Myanmar. I plan to take Shangri-La to replenish supplies there, and then enter the old forest from Gongshan.
The first geographical indication mentioned in the handwritten book is near Gongshan.
From the Bohai Bay to the junction of Yunzang, the whole journey was thousands of miles, and Li Huaishan and I took turns driving, and it took nearly two days to drive without rest all the way.
On the road, I was always very nervous, for fear that someone from my family would suddenly appear, and I was especially afraid that someone would check my driver's license.
But it's also strange to say, when I was driving, I was never checked once, but Li Huaishan was interrogated twice when he was driving, I don't think he looks like a bad person, why is he so unpopular?
Li Huaishan himself said that he has been like this since he was a child, every time he encounters an inspection or something, there must be him, even during the exam, he is also a special one who is taken care of, and the invigilator often sits next to him and does not leave, as if he was expected to cheat in the morning.
By the way, I haven't said Li Huaishan's age before, he was born in June of August and 4, a full three years older than me.
The two of us traveled day and night and finally arrived at Shangri-La the next night.
The handwritten letter said that after getting off the road, we had to walk four days to reach the Chrysalis Village, so we had to buy supplies for camping, but when we arrived at Shangri-La, it was already very late, and we didn't dare to stay in a hotel, so we parked the car on a quiet side of the road and slept in the car all night.
Early the next morning, we packed up the supplies and a small amount of food for the camp, arrived at Gongshan before noon, found a parking lot to park the car, and then looked for the signs on the handbook and hiked into the old forest.
Although Gongshan is remote, you can still see many villages and farmland along the way.
The classics of the family say that in such a small and remote village, there are often hidden dragons and crouching tigers, and there are still many retreats, that is to say, the more you are in such a place, the easier it is to meet people in the industry, and there may be the eyeliner of the family.
For the sake of prudence, the two of us could only rush overnight, deliberately avoiding the village, until we went deep into the inaccessible old forest, and our hearts relaxed a little.
The food we bought at Shangri-La was mainly for the pupa village, and when we walked in the woods, we had to dig rabbit nests, catch fish in the river to satisfy our hunger, and occasionally pick some wild fruits.
Fortunately, I have read a lot of ancient scrolls related to ancient marches in the past few months, and I know what kind of things can be eaten and what things cannot be eaten.
The mountain road is difficult to walk, Sun Chuansheng took four days to reach the chrysalis village, the same road, Li Huaishan and I walked for eight days, and when we crossed the last mountain stream, the two of us have been tortured by the harsh environment in the wilderness to the point that people are not like people, ghosts are not like ghosts.
Sun Chuansheng's handwritten book said that after stepping on the last mountain stream and looking in the direction of due north, you will see a miasma surrounded by two mountain cliffs, and the chrysalis village is in the depths of the fog.
I stood beside the mountain stream, took out my compass to make the direction, and then looked due north, and sure enough, I saw two canine-toothed cliffs standing in the distance, and between the two mountains, a large thick fog was slowly swirling.