Chapter 10 Begins
Yu Yue folded the letter and stuffed it into the envelope, "You say, how true is this letter?" β
"It is difficult to say, and even if he were to be true, we would not have had the luck to see the lake of which he spoke of in his letter; Even if he says it's false, we can't prove it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ info" Zhuo Fan smiled faintly, kept his eyes looking ahead, and drove seriously.
Zhuo Fan was right, and analyzed the nature of the letter thoroughly in one sentence.
"So what's the point of our trip? Just for "Ragnarok" to continue to attract readers' attention? However, such an attraction does not even give an answer. I'm afraid the column can only say, 'Probably, the mystery of the mysterious lake is that none of us knows if it exists?' I'm afraid the reader will be disappointed when he sees this, right? β
"Isn't the cave also a big disappointment for the reader? For readers, sometimes disappointment is also a form of hope. β
Yu Yue was confused, Zhuo Fan has been in the industry for many years, and he has seen the hearts of the people in society quite thoroughly, and he always has to think about it for a long time when he says a sentence or two from time to time.
Zhuo Fan noticed that Yu Yue was silent, turned his head and glanced at her, seeing that she was frowning, looking in pain because she couldn't understand, he smiled lightly, "Silly girl, if the reader is disappointed, how can there still be a column called "Wonderland"?" β
Yu Yue suddenly realized. Perhaps, it is precisely because of the stability of life that many people lose their basic perception and curiosity about life. And all kinds of incomprehensible things in the "Ragnarok" column not only make readers incomprehensible, but also arouse their curiosity and desire for truth, which is the main reason for the popularity of "Ragnarok".
"Teacher Zhuo's words are too profound." Mayisa, who was sitting in the back of the car, poked her head in front and said with a smile. Mayisha is a Uygur girl, her hometown is in Turpan City, she looked at Zhuo Fan with the big black eyes of a Turpan girl, with an innocent face, "That...... Does Mr. Zhuo believe what the letter says? Since the person who wrote the letter dared to sign the letter after the letter, it still shows some credibility, right? β
Yu Yue remembered that on the letter, although the font was a little sloppy, it was still recognizable as "Ni Ming". Thinking of this, she nodded approvingly.
Zhuo Fan sighed softly, "You guys, think about the homophone of 'Ni Ming'. Zhuo Fan paused for a moment and said with a smile, "Did you think of anything?" β
Yu Yue muttered in her heart, Teacher Zhuo Fan is worthy of being a senior reporter, and he has habitually used the way of guidance for juniors, instead of giving answers directly, I am afraid that before she has arrived at Ayding Lake, she has not really investigated the vicinity of Ayding Lake, and her brain capacity is already insufficient.
"Ah, it's anonymous!" Yu Yue only heard Mayisa's incomparably clear voice ringing in her ears, and she was still a little confused, "Anonymous? With that, she hung her head.
Zhuo Fan nodded with satisfaction and drove the car through the dust, "In this way, even the person who wrote the letter did not treat us honestly, but wanted to hide himself, did he not want to be noticed or had other purposes?" Maybe I just want to see us travel thousands of miles and rivers for this. Zhuo Fan chuckled.
Yu Yue admired Zhuo Fan's analysis very much, from just one letter, Zhuo Fan could see so many clues after reading it once, she couldn't help but ask again, "Does Teacher Zhuo have the answer in his heart?" β
Zhuo Fan said calmly, "Not yet, maybe we can know when we get to Ayding Lake." But why did he write down the money? β
"Isn't writing a letter a basic format?" Yu Yue asked rhetorically.
Zhuo Fan looked at Yu Yue helplessly, "You think, since he doesn't want us to know his identity, why bother, and that letter won't be published, so he doesn't need a pen name." β
Mayisa listened quietly and interjected, "Teacher Zhuo has a point, although it is said that signing is the basic format for writing a letter, but even if we don't write it, we won't care. In fact, even if he wrote it, we have no way of confirming whether the signature is true or fake. β
Zhuo Fan nodded in agreement, "That's right." After speaking, he looked at Yu Yue and comforted him, "Yu Yue, you have just graduated, and you have less social experience, so you may not be able to understand many things." In short, this letter gives me the feeling that it is not that simple. β
The atmosphere between the three of them became stagnant, like the dry and stuffy air outside the window, which was a little breathless.
Zhuo Fan turned a corner and changed the topic by the way, "Martha, how long has it been since you returned to Turpan?" β
Martha is the Chinese name of Mayisha. Mayisha went out of the Turpan Basin with her father since she was a child, developed in the south of the Yangtze River, and settled in Hangzhou after traveling to several cities. Therefore, Mayisha is a Uyghur girl who grew up in Hangzhou, and she speaks Chinese without a local accent.
"It's been twenty years." Maisha flashed her big eyes, and her beautiful face revealed innocence from time to time. Looking at Mayisha, Yu Yue often sighs, sure enough, one side of the water and soil raises the other side, this originally beautiful Uygur girl, who grew up in the south of the Yangtze River, is more and more grounded. In Hangzhou, Mayisha's suitors probably can't go around the West Lake for a week. Mayisha counted with her fingers, and her cute and innocent appearance made Yu Yue couldn't help laughing.
Speaking of which, the young man sitting next to Mayisha opened his mouth and spoke a series of Uyghur languages. The young man's name was Batur, a native of the Uyghur ethnic group, who had lived in Turpan since he was a child and never left. So he didn't speak Chinese, and he couldn't understand what they were saying at all.
"Batur is saying that the affection between me and him since childhood has been diluted by the past 20 years." Maisha said, a smile pouring out of her eyes. After explaining to us, he turned to Batur and muttered in Uyghur. The atmosphere between the two people is so unpleasant.
Since the theme of this issue of "Ragnarok" was determined to be a mysterious lake near Lake Aydin, Mayisha quickly got in touch with Batur, and as soon as we got off the plane, we met the sturdy Uyghur boy in Mayisha's mouth, who, like other Uyghur boys, had a pair of blazing eyes under his thick eyebrows. Beneath the white shirt was sunburned. He smiled, revealing a row of white teeth.
Batur said that he had already booked a hotel for us, and that we would stay in Turpan for one night tonight, and then we would go to Ayding Lake early tomorrow morning. We can take a walk around the city today, experience the local folklore, and prepare what we need for the next few days. β
Zhuo Fan carefully pondered the instructions on the navigator and did not answer. Yu Yue nodded politely, "Okay." β
Zhuo Fan drove two streets and stopped in front of a small hotel, Yu Yue looked at the destination shown on the car navigation system was this small hotel, and couldn't help but be surprised, "This is the ......?" "The faΓ§ade of this inn is small, except for an old sign at the staircase leading to the second floor, which is marked in Uighur and translated into Chinese in the lower row, "Yakashi", and when you look up, the windows on the second floor look old, and the window frames embedded in the thick earth wall are rusty. Here, it is clearly more like a resettlement house in a slum.
"'Akashi' means 'good' in Uyghur language." Seeing the disbelief on Yu Yue's face, Mayisha hurriedly explained.
Come to think of it, the travel expenses that the magazine gave me and Zhuo Fan, even if Yu Yue and the three of them lived in a five-star hotel every day, it was more than enough, and there was no need to live in this kind of homestay building with no guarantee on the street. What's more, Yu Yue is here to work, and without a good working environment, the quality of work will be greatly reduced. Thinking of this, Yu Yue looked at Zhuo Fan as if asking for help.
Knowing Yu Yue's reluctance, Mayisha hurriedly turned her head and discussed with Batur in Uyghur.
Zhuo Fan was very calm, parked the car in the parking line drawn downstairs, turned off the fire, "Get out of the car." β
Mayisha and Batur were still discussing something, and had no intention of getting out of the car, however, Mayisha's face had gradually softened.
Yu Yue hurriedly followed Zhuo Fan out of the car and asked embarrassedly, "Teacher Zhuo, do we really want to live here?" She gestured to the upstairs window.
Zhuo Fan thought for a moment, "It does seem to be a little too old, but since it was Batur's proposal, it shouldn't disappoint us here." β
At this time, Mayisha seemed to have reached an agreement with Batur and got out of the car with a mysterious smile on her face. Yu Yue grabbed her, pulled her aside, and asked in a low voice, "Do we really live here?" β
Maisha smiled mysteriously, and instead of answering me directly, she said, "Go up and have a look." β
"By the way, uncle, you're also old, what are you doing in this place where birds don't?" He followed the man who had walked in front. The man was still wearing the big camouflage uniform, which was the only piece of clothing he had worn in the past few days, and he could smell a smell from the man's body, but the man had no idea of changing his clothes.
He saw that the man didn't mean to deal with him at all, and instantly became angry, "Hey, I've followed you to the end of the world anyway, no matter how you say it, you can't ignore my existence." Really treat me as air, breathe it in and spit it out! β
The man was silent, pulled his foot out of the sand, pulled out his shoe and shook off the sand in his shoe. It seems that he was not heard at all.
There was no place to vent the fire in his heart, and he muttered, "I should have bought a camel if I knew it, you like to pull your shoes in the sand, let me ride, you see this long yellow sand, where are we going?" They had been walking in the desert for a day and a night, and if it weren't for the water they had brought with him, he would have been reluctant to follow the man in front of him in the morning.
The man said lightly, "Just go all the way west." As he spoke, he took out the compass around his neck, wiped the sand from it, opened the compass, and determined the downward direction.
He said impatiently, "You've proofread the direction countless times." He complained, "I really don't enjoy living a good life, and I came to roll in the desert with you, I must have had something in my head before I woke up." In fact, he did not know why he followed this man, he had never seen him, but the moment he saw him on the seashore, he felt as if something was pulling between them, and such an inexplicable and strong feeling tended to make him follow him from the coast to the inland. But this man is so strange, he doesn't speak, he wears his head in a camouflage uniform all day long, no matter what he goes through, he doesn't complain, like a robot without a little emotion. He finally sighed, "Hey, can you tell me what's your name?" If one day I am sold by you, and others ask, I can still tell your name, right? β
"Why did I sell you?" After all, after walking in the long yellow sand for most of the day, the man's voice was a little hoarse.
"Along the way, haven't you discovered my value?"
"Value?"
He strode around him in the sand, holding his chin in his hand and blinking his eyes, "I'm so loved." β
The man ignored him, this guy has been stalking him since the seaside in Zhoushan, looking at his face, the man couldn't help but feel a little sad, "Let's go." β
He saw that the man was far away, and he mustered up all his strength to catch up again, and from a distance, he looked like a wild monkey fluttering in the desert, "Hey, you haven't told me what your name is?" β
He tugged at the man's sleeve, and the man didn't want to pay attention to him.
"I think we're going to keep going. I'm not going to call you all the time, am I...... If you don't answer me, I'll give you a name...... What's your name? β
- "Well, you answered me." β
The farther and farther the man goes, he is going to throw him off. He was in a hurry, "Hey, poker face, you go slower!" β