Chapter 6 Comrades-in-Arms
It's autumn, the weather is cool, and there is an endless stream of tourists coming to Yunnan, so the airport is crowded with passengers inside and out. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info we out of the airport hall, was about to go to the opposite road to take a taxi directly to Jinning County, a coolie cart master sharp-eyed, saw that we were carrying a large bag and a small bag, immediately came over to talk, asked us if we need to pull something.
Tan Jia was about to refuse the cart puller, when suddenly I felt that person looked very familiar, thought about it for a while, and was shocked all of a sudden, and couldn't help but ask, "Are you Li Remnantge?" ”
The driver trembled all over, raised his head in disbelief, only glanced at me, the expression on his face froze, and then said excitedly: "You are Yang Feiyun?" Are you really Yang Feiyun? ”
Li Cangge was my best comrade-in-arms when I was a soldier, we have known each other since the time of the new recruits, and we are in the same class and the same dormitory, in this era of peace, we can be regarded as veritable hardcore comrades-in-arms.
After three years of hard work, he and I were left in the army and became a first-class non-commissioned officer because of our good results in all aspects. After two years of hard work, we became non-commissioned officers of the second class together. But it was also in that year that Li Remnant Ge got drunk and had a brawl with his superiors, and was ruthlessly announced to be discharged from the army.
During my seven-year career as a soldier, Li Cangge spent five years with me, and because of this, we established a deep friendship that ordinary people simply cannot understand, and it can be said that he is my best brother except for Biaozi.
Although he was discharged from the army later, we often had phone contact with each other, that is, after Xiaoling's accident, the contact between us became less and less, but I didn't expect to meet him here today, which surprised me so much.
But what I didn't expect was that he hadn't seen him for just over two years, and he, who was about the same age as me, actually looked like a middle-aged man, and the resolute look on his face in the past had completely disappeared. Now he had become unshaven, haggard, and wearing a peaked cap, so much so that I didn't recognize him at first sight.
Seeing his current appearance, I felt a little sour in my heart, thinking that he had a very unsatisfactory life in the past two years, otherwise he would not have been engaged in such a very unstable, hard and tiring job at a young age.
The two looked at each other for a moment, always wanting to take a closer look at each other's appearances, and finally laughed out loud and came to a big bear hug. Looking at Li Cange, who was full of tiredness, I felt sad for a while, and asked, "Old man, how did you become like this, I almost can't recognize you." ”
Li Sange seemed to see my thoughts, and pretended to smile easily: "What is this, let me tell you, I am living a good life now, I can do whatever I want, I am much freer than when I was a soldier." By the way, how have you been doing during this time? ”
I knew that he was saying something against his will, but he didn't break it, and replied: "I have a stable job, and the income is not bad, I think it is more comfortable than you, so you don't have to worry about me." ”
Glancing at Tan Jia and the others, Li Cangge and I felt a little rude at the same time, the two of us patronized the old days, but ignored them. I pointed to Tan Jia and the others first and said, "Oh, these are my colleagues, and they have a good relationship." ”
Li Sange smiled at everyone, and said with some embarrassment: "Hello, I am Yang Feiyun's comrade-in-arms, called Li Sange, it's a pleasure to meet you." He stretched out his right hand.
When the people in the scientific research team heard the conversation between me and Li Sange, they naturally understood the relationship between us, so their attitude suddenly became much more relaxed, and Tan Jia took the lead, shook hands with Li Sange one by one, and said their names respectively.
Li Cangge seemed to remember something all of a sudden, and asked me: "By the way, are you and your colleagues here to Kunming for tourism or a business trip?" Why didn't you squeak me before you came, and let me do my landlord's friendship. ”
Tan Jia immediately secretly glanced at me, the meaning couldn't be more obvious, hoping that I wouldn't reveal the identity of the scientific research team and the purpose of this mission. Although I was extremely reluctant, I had no choice but to deceive Li Sange and said: "We are here on a business trip, and because we are in a hurry, I don't plan to tell you." ”
Li Cangge has a bold and upright personality, and when he heard me say this, he immediately quit and said: "We haven't seen each other for more than two years, and today you and your colleagues are in a hurry, and you have to stay for a meal before leaving." ”
Tan Jia's face was a little uncomfortable, and she wanted me to reject Li Huange in one bite, but could I really refuse? After thinking about it for a while, it was finally the excitement in my heart that overcame my reason, and I said with a little emotion: "Okay, it's up to you to arrange." ”
Tan Jia looked at me in some surprise, maybe she didn't expect me to say this, but in front of outsiders, she didn't want to blame me directly, but she looked at me with some complicated eyes.
Biaozi naturally saw Tan Jia's eccentricity, so he eased the atmosphere first, clapped his hands and smiled: "Okay, good, you are an authentic Yunnan person, you have authentic food here, you have to introduce it to us." ”
Since I have agreed to Li Huange, if someone retorts, it will only make things more and more complicated. In this situation, Liu Dapeng came out to play a round, and he smiled at Li Cangge: "Brother Li, you and Yang Feiyun haven't seen each other for a while, and it stands to reason that you want to get together." However, the company's task this time is very urgent, and we don't have enough time left, so after you finish lunch here, we have to leave, and I hope you will forgive me. ”
Li Cangge said indifferently: "No problem, one meal, one table, it's enough, Feiyun and I have a long way to go." ”
I saw that his situation was not very good, and I wanted to say that I would invite this meal, but I was afraid of hurting my friend's face, so I said: "We are not used to eating in the restaurant, don't you just live here, why don't you go to your house!" ”
Li Cangge hesitated for a moment, and said: "My home is in Jinning County, fifty kilometers away from here, this coming and going, it's really a waste of time, don't talk nonsense, just pick an authentic Kun restaurant here, and take you to eat the famous dish of steamed chicken." ”
"Your home is in Jinning County?" Because the excavated tomb of King Dian is in Shangzhu Town, Jinning County, and the purpose of our trip is also there, so I was slightly surprised when I heard him mention Jinning County, and I couldn't help but ask subconsciously.
Li Cangge looked at me with a surprised expression, paused for a moment, and then quickly reacted, and asked in surprise: "What, is it possible that the location of your business trip this time is also Jinning County?" ”
I said in my heart that this is really a coincidence, maybe I can really go to his house for a light meal, but I don't know what Tan Jia means, but it is estimated that she will most likely refuse in order to keep this action secret. I looked at Li Huange with an expectant face, and I really didn't want to hide him, but the situation forced me to deceive him again.
But what I didn't expect was that Tan Jia took my words and said to Li Cangge: "That's right, we are going to Jinning County on a business trip this time." ”
Li Cangge immediately clapped his palms and said happily: "That's really good!" He turned back to me and smiled, "Don't you want to go to my house for dinner, isn't it right now?" Also, if the place where you do business is not far from my house, you can simply live in my house, and the two of us can reminisce happily. ”
I looked at Tan Jia in a little surprise, not understanding why she wanted to admit the location of this mission. Tan Jia seemed to see my thoughts, nodded and smiled at me, and signaled that I could make my own decisions.
I felt a burst of ecstasy in my heart, and smiled at Li Cangge: "If it is really not far from your home, I will naturally live in your house, even if you want to, you can't rely on it." ”
Li Sange was also very happy, he said: "I want to send the cart to the rental house, you wait here for a while, I will come immediately." After he finished speaking, he hummed a small tune, pushed the cart and walked away happily.
I turned back to Tan Jia and said gratefully, "Thank you for this incident!" ”
Tan Jia explained: "You don't have to thank me, anyway, just go by the way, just do what you want, so as not to be thought by you that I am unkind." ”
That's why she's doing it? I was a little surprised, but no matter what, I was quite grateful to her for agreeing so happily.
In less than half an hour, Li Cangge returned, at this time he had changed into a jacket and did not wear a peaked cap, and the whole person looked a lot more energetic, which made me find some familiarity back then.
There were eight of us in our group, plus large bags of things, it would take at least three taxis to fit it, Tan Jiaxian was too troublesome, so he stopped a minibus on the side of the road. The price was agreed between the two parties, and as soon as the middle-aged driver stepped on the accelerator, the car started.
In less than an hour, we arrived in Jinning County, and the middle-aged driver asked: "Where are you going to the county, I am very familiar with this area, and I can send it to you anywhere." ”
Li Cangge smiled: "That's great, we don't even have to turn the car, you can send me directly to Shangzhu Town." ”
"Upper Garlic Town?!" Several of us couldn't help but exclaim at the same time, startling the driver's eldest brother and Li Zhenge.
Stunned for a moment, Li Huange immediately reacted, and said in disbelief: "Could it be that when you come to Jinning County, you also go to Shanggarlic Town?" That's a coincidence, isn't it? ”
Liu Dapeng said jokingly: "I really said it, the location of our business trip this time is really Shanggarlic Town, it seems that you and us are really fateful." ”
I was overjoyed in my heart, it seems that God helped me, and now it is impossible to go to Li Zhenge's house for a few days. Li Cangge was also pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly said: "Feiyun, this is the will of heaven, this time you can't run away if you want to." ”
The driver's eldest brother said impatiently: "Have you discussed it, you will go on the road after discussion, and ah, the cost of this section of the road is calculated separately, plus an additional 100 yuan." ”
Biao scolded loudly: "Less nonsense, are you still afraid that we won't give money." Besides, you're fucking "on the road". ”
The driver's eldest brother knew that he was speechless, and he didn't talk nonsense, so he drove the car onto Kunyu Expressway, and it took about twenty minutes for us to arrive at Niulian Village in Shangzhu Town, where Li Gange's home was located.
Walk into Niulian Village, find that the traffic here is convenient, the environment is beautiful, the road is lined with three-storey small buildings, basically every household has a car parked in front of the door, it seems that the villagers here have a good life.
Li Cangge told us that in the past, Niulian Village, like other villages, walked on mud roads and lived in wooden houses, not to mention small cars, even small four-wheeled and three-wheeled vehicles, which were only available to about a dozen households. However, in the past few years, due to the development of this place by the government, several mineral deposits have been discovered, which has driven the economy of the village and allowed people to live a good life.
Li Cangge's home is on a small hillside in the south of the village, where he is the only one, and the small two-story building looks lonely. In front of the building there is a threshing floor, on the left is a pigsty and a chicken shed, and on the right a few fruit trees have been planted.
There was a woman drying buds in the barn field, it was Li Cangge's mother, who saw us uninvited guests, with a surprised expression, and walked all the way over.
Li said that we are very good friends of his, and because we are here on a business trip, we will stay at home for a few days. When Aunt Li found out about the reason, her face was full of smiles, and she quickly welcomed us warmly into the house and brought us Pu'er tea.
After chatting for a while, Aunt Li led us up to the second floor, but there were only three rooms, so except for Tan Jia, the rest of the scientific research team was a room for three people, and two of them had to lay on the floor.
At noon, we had an authentic steamed pot chicken, one of the four famous dishes of Yunnan. To cook steam-pot chicken, the chicken breed should choose local chicken, and the chicken is too big, too small, too fat, and too thin. If you are too fat, thin and fishy, it is best to use a tender hen that is just about to lay eggs or a young rooster that has just started to crow.
The ingredients of the steamed chicken are simple, only a few slices of ginger, a few shallots, a little pepper, and refined salt. After preparing all the ingredients, they are steamed in a "steam pot" for about two hours. The cooked steamed chicken is delicious but not greasy, and has a unique fragrance. Since the chicken broth is formed by steam, it retains its original flavor.
While eating, we praised Aunt Li's good craftsmanship, such good craftsmanship, it is really a waste not to open a restaurant.
Aunt Li smiled and watched us feasting, and said: "I was really right by you, I used to be the chef who opened a restaurant, but a few years ago, I had some physical problems, so I couldn't do this job." ”
Aunt Li told us that she suffered from a serious heart attack, and in order to treat it, not only did she spend all her family savings, but also Li Zhenge's discharge fee was not left a penny. But what she couldn't accept the most was that after spending so much money, her heart disease did not improve at all. Now that the family is at the end of the mountain, they can only rely on Li Huange to work as a coolie at the airport to earn some money to maintain the family.
No wonder I haven't seen him for more than two years, and Li Huange has become the down-and-out appearance he is now, which is because of this. My mood suddenly became heavy, and I couldn't even eat the tender chicken, so I just looked at Li Huange in a daze. The others felt the same way I did, and suddenly fell silent.
Li Cangge pretended not to care and said: "It's no big deal, money is just something outside the body, and you can earn it if you don't have it!" Okay, let's not mention the useless ones, come on, come on, you hurry up and drink the chicken soup, the soup will taste different when it is cold. ”
After dinner, Tan Jia called us into her room for a meeting to discuss the plan to find the tomb of King Dian. Tan Jia told us that when an archaeological team was in Kunming, he accidentally let his mother discover an ancient tomb more than 2,000 years ago, and got a silk book and a wolf skin map from it.
The silk book was left by a man named Tianjizi, who claimed to be a very famous feng shui master during the reign of the Dian king, and because of this, he was invited by the Dian king to see the feng shui of the cemetery. At that time, the King of Dian was already a nearly 200-year-old antique, he believed in feng shui numerology very much, and when he was dying, he specially found the famous Tianjizi at that time to find a place for himself to bury his bones with excellent feng shui.
The king of Dian had an order, how could Tianjizi dare not obey, so he went to the palace of the king of Dian that day. But after he saw the King of Dian, he was surprised to find that the King of Dian looked different.
The King of Dian was nine feet tall, his hands were above his knees, his head was extremely large, and the most terrifying thing was that his eyes could glow green at night, just like the eyes of the beast. If it weren't for the fact that the King of Dian spoke and acted in the same style as ordinary people, Tianjizi would have really thought that he had encountered the legendary monster.
After seeing Tianjizi, the King of Dian did not beat around the bush and directly said his requirements, but there was an additional condition, that is, his feng shui treasure land must be near Dianchi Lake.
In the following days, Tianjizi stayed in the palace of the king of Dian, and led a group of craftsmen to look for feng shui treasures in the mountains near Dianchi Lake. It took a month for Tianjizi to finally find a feng shui treasure land, and it also met the additional conditions of the Dian king, that feng shui treasure land was near Dianchi Lake, and it was even more within the jurisdiction of Jinning City.
After the king of Dian learned about this, he was in a good mood, and on the same day, he and a group of ministers went to the place mentioned by Tianjizi to check. After arriving at the place, Tianjizi pointed to an overgrown low mountain in front of him and told the King of Dian that the trend of the low mountain is called "the return of ten thousand ants" in feng shui, and the descendants of those buried here must have many children and grandchildren, and the wealth and glory are inexhaustible, and more importantly, it can also be used as a joint burial tomb.
When the king of Dian saw that the low mountain was not beautiful, he didn't believe that it was a treasure of feng shui, and more importantly, as a king, there were countless beauties in the harem, if there was no accident, how could he not have more children and grandchildren? In that case, what is the use of this feng shui treasure? So he gave up that piece of feng shui treasure.
The King of Dian was not interested in this feng shui treasure land, and Tianjizi had no other way but to continue to look for other feng shui treasure places near Dianchi Lake. This search, after searching for half a year, finally allowed him to find an excellent place for feng shui in the upper reaches of Dianchi Lake - the place where the coffin was carried by Kowloon. (To be continued.) )