Chapter 8 Reaching the Border
The two of them ran and stopped, fighting along the way, and finally arrived at the buildings on the outskirts of the northern country before dark. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Both of them were so hungry that their chests were a little close to their backs, and the two people who wanted to travel lightly didn't think of bringing anything to eat, so they stayed outside all day, and when they were in the car, Song Jie ate some of the food provided by the car, and the little girl fell asleep and simply didn't eat anything. At the end of this day, he was completely out of strength, and most of the weight was pressed on Song Jie.
"Brother Song Jie, have you arrived?" Yun Xi is a little weak when she speaks, her strength is almost exhausted in the long journey, and it is a little laborious to move at the moment, where has she usually carried out such a big physical exercise, and it takes several hours to walk, which directly causes Yun Xi's legs to tremble a little.
In fact, Song Jie is not much better, he used to jog for exercise, but he has hardly been out of the house since he came home from school.
There are people who specialize in receiving visitors in the vicinity. The man was dressed in an off-white velvet coat, made of unknown animal fur, tightly wrapped around his body, with a blue belt tightened around his waist, and a brown felt hat on his head.
"Why did the Nongs get here?" The man speaks Mandarin not very fluently, with a dialect flavor, the communication within the north has its own language, here at the border of the north, there are still some scientific and technological products in circulation, the local people will also use the language translator, because in recent years, there are more and more outsiders in the north, in order to facilitate communication, the local people have acquiesced to the circulation of the translator.
"Uncle, can you come here without coming over?" Song Jie carried the tired little girl who was about to collapse on the ground on his back, and followed the uncle forward, seeing more and more people, but it seemed that they had an agreement, and no one else would come over if the locals showed them the way.
"When the nongs came down from the iron box, there were people pulling peakless camels on the platform, why don't you sit on one of them." The old man tightened his belt, "Nong, these outsiders, can't stand to walk so far, and they have to run to our pimple." โ
Listening to the uncle's Mandarin that is not authentic and mixed with various prescriptions, Song Jie unconsciously wanted to laugh a little, this translator is probably a model that has been eliminated, I don't know if he will be awkward when he listens to the translation himself.
When he got off the station, he did see the herds of anoleic camels, but he thought that those camels were used to pull goods, so he didn't pull the little girl over.
"Nong, these outsiders have come here to shout something, and the outer part of us is about to be cut off from the northern country." The uncle seemed a little unhappy when he said this, "But it looks like the nongs are not selling things, so I will show you the way." โ
"Where do you want to go first?" The uncle looked at Song Jie, who was sweating and sweating with the little girl on his back, and now that he had entered the city, there were more people, and the old man began to ask them where they wanted to go.
Brought two people to a restaurant, and the old man introduced it as a place with their local specialties.
Song Jie exchanged some northern currency before he came, and wanted to give the old man some compensation, but the old man refused, he said that he wanted to guide the outsiders who came by himself, this kind of thing is not money, Song Jie had to helplessly thank the uncle again and again.
The old man brought Song Jie to a modern and rich street, and Song Jie specially asked the shopkeeper how to settle the money here through the electronic system, so he took the little girl to sit down with confidence.
The currency of the northern kingdom must not be misused, otherwise there will be no way to reward those who help when they actually enter the mountains.
The menu in this restaurant is very strange, there is basically nothing else except all kinds of fruits, and the drink is only a strange thing marked with the snow and water of the mountains.
Song Jie, who was hungry enough, didn't think much about it, and directly ordered all kinds of fruits with strange names.
The dish was very fast, there was no staple food here, and the completely washed fruit was served directly on the plate, without even slicing it. The little girl picked up a fruit with the white skin of a garden and took a tentative bite. There is only the taste of water, but it is not unpalatable, the gap between imagination and reality is too big, the little girl stuck out her tongue, and the hunger still made the two clean up the food quickly.
These things don't look like much, but they unexpectedly quench their hunger, and first start to see how little food actually makes both of them eat very much.
Song Jie took Yun Xi to find a place to stay, and after settling Yun Xi down, he went out to find out the news.
Genting Mountain is located between the mountains, and locals who are resistant to electronic technology will not allow electronic satellite scans into their homes, even if it is just to create an electronic map that will also help them. For some reason, all countries have maintained a consistent attitude, and no country has resorted to coercive measures or surreptitiously monitored this quiet little country.
Of course, I am afraid that no one except the high priest and the heads of several countries will know what happened to this before. In short, the result was that Song Jie tried his best and couldn't find a map of even a local place.
Song Jie, who came out of the hotel, walked all the way along the alley-like path, this small dirt road was a little dirty, but the shops on both sides were very lively, crowded with shops, and from time to time you could hear the shouts of the people selling things, Song Jie really had a long experience, and he had never talked about such a lively shop street.
"Little brother, just came here." The middle-aged woman standing in front of a store soliciting customers saw Song Jie walking on the street and looking around left and right, and hurriedly shouted, "Come and drink something with us, the eldest sister will tell you some common sense here." โ
Compared with the bustle of other stores, this drink bar is particularly deserted, and occasionally people who walk by also subconsciously walk from the other side, and when they see Song Jie, they are about to walk over, and a little boy who is squatting and playing with mud on the ground next to him stands up and runs to Song Jie's side, and his dirty little hands pull the hem of Song Jie's sportswear, and a dirty little face that even has a nose on it looks up, and looks at Song Jie sincerely, "Big brother, don't go, my mother said that her family did something bad and went unlucky." โ
"Thank you, kid." Song Jie smiled, squatted down and touched the top of the little boy's head, "I know, thank you, let's go play." The little boy saw that the person he kindly reminded actually touched the top of his head, and ran to the place where he had just dug in the mud with a snort, and then what made him even more angry was that Song Jie actually stood up and walked into the drinking bar.
I really don't know the hearts of good people, the little boy snorted and continued to play on his own.
Although Song Jie felt that this drinking bar was a little strange, he still didn't think that the family had done something bad, if this was the case, it would be impossible for the family to stay in the northern country.
The middle-aged woman introduced Song Jie into the store with a grateful face, "You are still the first customer of my store in the past two months." The woman crossed her hands on her chest and bowed slightly to Song Jie.
Although Song Jie didn't know what this action meant, he still roughly guessed that it should mean to express gratitude.
"You're not a local either, are you?" Song Jie smiled, not taking those so-called rumors too seriously, "I want to ask about things here, I can't help but want to laugh when those locals talk, and when I come back and explain to me, how embarrassing it would be if I laughed." โ
The middle-aged woman led Song Jie to the front of the bar and sat down, "I am indeed not a local, but I have lived here for decades, my man is a local, ....... before, hey, don't say it, what do you want to ask?" โ
Song Jie glanced at the drink list posted on the table and ordered the most expensive drink. The woman entered the small door behind the bar, as if to call someone, and sat back next to Song Jie after a while. "I'm sorry, I don't know how to mix this juice, I have to call the next person."
Song Jie didn't come in for a drink, he nodded to show that he knew, "Do you have a map of the northern country?" โ
"How can there be, you are not allowed to draw maps here, where the locals go depends on memory, and the places they have not been to depend on luck, people who enter the mountains will get lost a lot every year, and those of you who come from other places and want to go to Genting can go to all depend on luck."
"Are there a lot of people going to Genting Mountain?" Song Jie touched the bracelet on his wrist and looked up like the woman, "By the way, eldest sister, I don't know what your name is." โ
"The eldest sister's name is ridiculous, and I'm a little embarrassed to say it." The middle-aged woman reached out and touched her rough cheeks, with a hint of embarrassment in her eyes, "My name is Laneige, and there are many people who go to Genting Mountain, but most of them are people who turn back halfway, and it is rare to hear that any outsiders really go up to Genting Mountain." โ
Indeed, this name has a scholarly elegance, which seems to be very inconsistent with her image, and it is estimated that she has been teased by others because of her name before, and she can't hang up when she says it this time. Before he said his name, he quickly changed the topic.
The small door behind the bar opened again, and out came a girl who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, her belly was slightly up, her eyebrows were delicate, her skin was white and smooth, her long hair was softly draped behind her head, she wore a white fluff on her head, and her waist was wrapped in a layer of animal fur that she didn't know what kind of animal it was.
Once you've stood in front of the bar, you'll start picking up fresh fruit and preparing it for juice.
Song Jie blinked, but he didn't have much curiosity, and continued to ask Laneige about the news of Genting.
"It's not just about getting lost in the mountains, there are a lot of fierce beasts in the mountains, you outsiders haven't seen them, and it will be miserable if you encounter them, like the locals can't easily escape if they encounter them." Laneige rubbed his hands nervously when he spoke of the beast, as if he still had lingering feelings about it. "I know the way to Sรกmi Mountain, but I don't know any farther, but there are locals living in Sami Mountain, and you can get there and find a guide."
"You want to be my guide?" Song Jie frowned a little inexplicably, "Didn't you open a shop here, why did you take the risk of taking me into the mountain?" โ
Laneige sighed and glanced at the girl who was busy inside, "I just have one request, if you find what you want and come back, help me take Xiangxiang out of here." โ
The little girl who was busy at the bar seemed to have no sense of what was happening outside, and continued to mix the juice together and put it in a colorful porcelain cup.