Xia Qing raised some of his own questions and listened carefully.

He then thought for a while and said: "I used to be a soldier in Inner Mongolia, although I am not a border post, but the border line has been there, the border line between Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia is relatively straight, and the border line is basically a straight line, so there are not many boundary monuments over there, and in some places there are even two pieces set up in twenty or thirty kilometers, and they are basically unguarded, so if I am allowed to say, I think there is no outpost near the boundary monument, it is not the most critical, as for why only red paint is used to write the word China, I think maybe the conditions were relatively poor back then, and the natural environment here was harsh, so I used local materials and directly erected this boundary monument......"

Gao Chao spoke, and suddenly remembered something, so he continued: "Also, I used to talk to the village chief in the Tajik village before, and I heard him say that this side is actually very close to the national border, and he didn't say how far it is, but if you think about it, we have been walking in this valley for about four or five days, even if our travel speed is slow, then I think it's about the same, so if you look at it this way, maybe this is really the border, but it's ......."

Gao Chao spoke, looked at the front of the boundary monument again, and said with some hesitation: "It's just that in addition to the two characters of China, there is a row of numbers below the boundary monument, which is the number of the boundary monument, and every boundary monument should have it, but this boundary monument has nothing except the two characters of China, which is also a little unreasonable." ”

The fat man listened and said casually, "What's wrong with this? You have said that the conditions were so difficult back then, and it was a boundary monument to get a stone slab to stand here and write red paint, just think about it. When the monument was erected, it must have been decided temporarily, and it was completely unexpected. ”

Although the fat man just said that, he was very reasonable. Gao Chao couldn't help but think when he heard this, and then said: "If it is really as you said, they decided to erect a boundary monument on the impropose, then what kind of situation did they encounter to want to do this?" ”

The fat man touched his chin and pouted his teeth, which he couldn't think of.

However, Xia Qing on the side said: "There is only one possibility to temporarily erect a monument......

Gao Chao couldn't help but say, "What is possible?" ”

Xia Qing said: "Unless when they were scouting and patrolling, they encountered soldiers from another country. Then the soldiers of the two countries decided here to temporarily erect a boundary monument to show where the national border was. ”

Gao Chao listened to Xia Qing's words, nodded and felt that there was some truth, but it was a bit far-fetched, he said in his heart, how could the soldiers of the two countries meet in such a place where even rabbits don't, and they would be so friendly. It is simply unimaginable to agree to erect a temporary boundary marker. You must know that in the eyes of soldiers, national borders are not drawn, national borders are fought by force.

Faced with Xia Qing's inference, Gao Chao was still thinking.

But the fat man seemed to remember something again, so he hurriedly said: "I remember when I was drinking in the village, I was chatting with a Tajik fellow. He said that if you go west from their village, the sheep herders will be able to slip out for three or four days and you will be able to slip to the border, and he said. He also said that in the past few years, there were always foreigners who entered the country illegally, so they Tajiks have always been vigilant and ready to block those foreign enemies who enter China without authorization. ”

The fat man's words reminded Gao Chao at once.

Gao Chao nodded and said: "Yes, I seem to have heard the Tajiks talk about it before, because of the problems left over from history, there have been a lot of changes in the national border, I remember that it seems to have something to do with the former Soviet Union/United Nations, and the specific thing is not very clear, but the national border in this area is indeed a lot of controversy, it seems that until today, the national border on the Pamir Plateau has not been completely unified." ”

Xia Qing listened to Gao Chao and the fat man's words, and then nodded and said: "It seems that it should be right, maybe just thirty years ago, they met a foreign army here, but I don't know how they negotiated and why they finally drew the national border here." ”

Gao Chao also said: "Indeed, the matter of demarcating the national border is not something to be said casually, this cannot be established without the agreement of the two countries, and no one has the right to erect the boundary monument on behalf of the two countries in such a hasty manner, which is irresponsible and absolutely unacceptable." ”

Xia Qing thought for a while, but said: "Old Gao, don't forget where this came from, this is the Pamir Plateau, something unusual happened here thirty years ago, so we can't look at these issues with ordinary eyes, maybe it is indeed a little inappropriate to determine the national border in this way, but since they have done this, they must have their reasons......

As Xia Qing spoke, he looked at the boundary monument again, and said to himself with some doubts: "Thirty years ago, the situation here must have been unimaginable, how many people had come here, who were they, and what were they doing here?" ”

Xia Qing's words, Gao Chao stood aside and of course heard it, he suddenly felt a little lost, how could they understand everything that happened here thirty years ago.

But as he thought about it, he suddenly remembered something.

So he hurriedly said to Xia Qing: "If it is a boundary monument, there will generally be characters on both sides, some will be written in the script of neighboring countries on the back, and some will be written in Chinese, if this boundary monument was really erected by foreign troops and our army together, then they will definitely write on this boundary monument in two languages." ”

Xia Qing listened to Gao Chao's words, and then asked, "You mean, on the other side of this boundary monument, there may also be words?" ”

Gao Chao nodded, and the three of them suddenly became a little excited.

So Xia Qing used the same method, using the tools she carried, to apply the white powder to the back of the stele again, and then the three of them were silent and began to wait beside the stele, hoping to get more information on the back as Gao Chao said.

Sure enough, just a few minutes later, some of the white powder began to turn red, and then they found the reddened powder, which formed four English letters.

“CCCP？” The fat man was the first to read out the four letters of the English alphabet.

(USSR) (To be continued.) )

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