There was a road across the desert along one side of the shelterbelt, and it was noon, and there were few cars on this road, and it was still some distance from the populated area, except for the sun-dried cotton fields that walked a little way into the shelterbelt, in which the lush cotton grew happily in the sun.

And a convoy came on the asphalt road that was about to melt in the scorching sun.

An old SUV cleared the way in front of it, followed by two trucks with several machines covered in canvas to protect them from the wind and sun.

After a while, the convoy stopped under a brand new road sign.

In the off-road vehicle in front, a young man who looked a little haggard in the passenger seat dialed a number.

Jingle bell, a sound like a landline phone for decades rang in Cheng Bin's pocket.

The ringtone of the mobile phone woke up Cheng Bin, who was dozing off, squinting, swiping the thumb of his right hand on the smooth screen, and the microphone that he just put to his ear came with a voice, still the hoarse voice.

"Boss Cheng, where are you? We're here! ”

"Ahh Oh okay, you're here? Where is it? ”

Cheng Bin, who was a little confused, said into the microphone.

“... We got to where you said we were, but we didn't see anyone!! ”

There was silence. The young man on the other end of the phone was also speechless.

Cheng Bin, who felt a little embarrassed in the atmosphere, also stretched his still bare feet into the cool stream, and instantly a cool breath dispelled the sluggish spirit and sobered up, and the whole world instantly became clear.

"Okay, I'll come out now, I'll take a look, don't hang up yet!"

Cheng Bin stood up in the stream barefoot, stretched out his right foot from the water, shook his foot in the air a few times, and stretched his right foot, which was still wet, into the hiking shoes that had been dried on the shore, and then his right foot made a force and his left foot was also lifted up from the water, just like his right foot, and his left foot was also stretched into the hiking shoes.

Holding the phone in his right hand and his socks hanging on the branches of a tree in the ground with his left hand, he stuffed them in the pocket next to the travel bag. Then I picked up my travel bag and walked along the gap between the trees in the cool breeze that was blowing slowly, and walked on the soft soil towards the road.

"Don't worry, I'll be out in a minute or so, and you should see me then. Just a few rows of trees, I'll be out there soon. ”

"Good! I know. ”

When Cheng Bin walked out of the shelterbelt, a heat wave hit his face, completely different from the cool breath in the forest, as if two regions.

And Li Qiang, who was in the car, also saw a short-sleeved young man with a bag in front of him, and at first glance he was not a person who often lived in this kind of place.

And Cheng Bin also saw a convoy of 3 cars, parked on the side of the road, beckoned, said a word, and hung up the phone, "I'm waiting for you in this shady place, this ghost place is too hot"

"Okay, let's get over it"

As he spoke, he asked the middle-aged Uyghur uncle sitting in the driver's seat to drive, and at the same time said to the walkie-talkie, asking the vehicle behind to follow.

In fact, Cheng Bin was only two or three hundred meters away from the location of the convoy, and the car drove next to Cheng Bin in less than a minute.

I saw Li Qiang, who was sitting in the co-pilot, opened the closed tightly closed car and boat and said to Cheng Bin.

"Boss Cheng, get in the car."

Listening to Li Qiang's words, Cheng Bin opened the door of the back seat, threw the bag into the back seat where no one was there, and then quickly got into it himself.

At this time, Li Qiang also turned his head and said to Cheng Bin, who had not yet sat down.

"Let's not go there for now, let's find a cool place to stay until the afternoon and evening before working, this weather is really not able to do it during the day!"

"Good! I listen to Boss Li, then let's find a wider forest to hide."

Cheng Bin replied to Li Qiang, raised his head, and saw this Boss Li, who had been in contact for several days but had not seen his true face.

is different from the appearance of the middle-aged uncle who matched the hoarse voice of the vicissitudes of life, what is shown in Cheng Bin's eyes is a young man who looks decadent because of his raunchyness.

The hairstyle that was blown up by the air conditioner without careful repair, the black beard that came out after not shaving for a few days, and the blank eyes due to lack of sleep made the young man in his 20s look like he was about 30 years old.

"Boss Li, it looks like there's been a lot of going on lately!"

"Hey, don't mention it, it's the same as families all over the world now! The old people in the family are gone! Up to now, there are only me and my family in the family, my family's affairs plus her mother's family's affairs, a lot of various things, and I can't finish being busy! I haven't slept well until now! ”

"Yes! Although it is said that birth, old age, sickness and death are inevitable for people, but the relatives at home are leaving in front of them one after another, and no one is uncomfortable! Cheng Bin sighed, such a thing like a collapse has been done twice this time.

More than ten years ago, because of the plane crash, both parents died, at that time I felt that the sky was going to fall, a feeling of being at a loss for a whole year, the worst time felt that life was meaningless and wanted to commit suicide, fortunately there are grandparents at home to take care of, otherwise now Cheng Bin may be a different look.

And 3 months ago, his grandfather, who had been with Cheng Bin for a long time, also died of various incurable diseases, and his grandmother had passed away a few years ago.

In just three months, the vast majority of families with elderly people have experienced the pain of losing a loved one.

I walked a few hundred meters along the avenue and found a stable parking place, and then the three cars were parked on the side of the road in turn.

"Let's go, let's get out of the car and cool off, I'll tell you that I also brought a big watermelon, a big watermelon from the frontier, that taste, that texture, and then rinse it in the forest with cold water, absolutely not."

"Really? I'm going to have to try it."

Saying that, the two people sitting in the front of the off-road vehicle got out of the car, and the two trucks behind got out of the car, three Uyghur elder brothers and a young Han Chinese.

Cheng Bin took a clean plastic bag from his bag and followed them out of the car.

Then Li Qiang took out a big watermelon from the trunk and called the driver behind him to lock the car and walk into the forest together.

After walking a few dozen meters, Cheng Bin and the others arrived at a small stream, and said that there would be a stream every few hundred meters in the shelter forest here to water the trees.

After finding a clean place, a group of people sat down, and Li Qiang also put the watermelon in his arms into the water.

"Come, let me introduce to you, this is Boss Cheng who drilled the well this time"

Li Qiang pointed at Cheng Bin and said to a group of people.

"These are my teammates, Eli. Ye Wen is not Ye Wen, it is a cultural text. ”

As they spoke, several people smiled kindly.

Li Qiang introduced several of his team members one by one, and after a period of ceremonial greetings, several people gathered together and talked about each other.

After a while, he talked about the epidemic of the elderly, and when it came to the present, the tall institutions, various countries did not find out what caused this catastrophic event, and all kinds of rumors spread wantonly, although there was a hot control by the imperial court, but all kinds of rumors were still repeatedly banned.

Some say that it is a virus released by aliens, some say that the end is coming, and so on.

And because of these rumors and panicked people, they hoarded a lot of supplies at home, so that the imperial court had to come out and plan the market as it had done decades ago.

But more than 3 months have passed, except for the elderly leaving one after another, nothing else has happened, people have slowly calmed down, and the markets of various countries have slowly been handed back to the market by the imperial court, although there are still a very small number of drugs such as drugs, energy and the like are controlled by the imperial court, but there has never been such a terrible rush to buy as a few months ago.

After a while, Li Qiang took out the watermelon that was encroached in the water, asked for a knife from Ai Li, put the melon on the plastic bag brought by Cheng Bin, and cut the melon with a knife.

The rustling pulp, the sweet taste, and the cool taste instantly dispel the heat from the body.

On a scorching summer day, finding a forest, in the shade of the tree, in the cool breeze, eating sweet melon pulp in your mouth, coupled with a group of people around you, is definitely a great enjoyment of life.