Just wanted to agree to Azan Hongban's proposal, but Fang Gang said: "No, Tian Qi must go, the disaster is because of him, and now Lao Xie has become a scapegoat, how can he stay in the hospital safely?" ”

Since Fang Gang said so, it is not easy for me to refuse, and Azanhongban proposed it again. Can you hire a nurse to take care of Lao Xie, he wants to go with us. Deng Kang shook his head: "It's better for you to stay, because we said that we can't come back in a few days, with Lao Xie's situation, if the condition is serious, you can also use witchcraft to temporarily control it for a while, which is better than no insurance." ”

Before saying goodbye to Lao Xie, he pulled my sleeve tightly and said, "Tian, Brother Tian, there is another very important thing...... I hurriedly asked something, Lao Xie said: "You have to take care of the medical expenses in the hospital." "I was half angry. When did he think about it, he still paid attention to this, it was really an old fox.

Fang Gang glared at him: "Tian Qi has already paid 50,000 baht, and it is not enough to pay it back when he comes back." Definitely won't let you pay half a dime! Lao Xie put his heart back in his stomach.

After everyone discussed it, we immediately set off, I booked a plane ticket at a nearby hotel, and the three of us flew to the airport from Bangkok to Phnom Penh. This is the northernmost airport in Cambodia, and the northeast from Phnom Penh is only passenger-only, and the local transportation is inconvenient, with only a few larger cities having regular shuttle buses to and from the capital. There seemed to be small planes available to fly from the capital to the northeastern province of Lap, but not every day, so we hired a minivan at the airport and flew to the Bang Long area.

It was already evening when I arrived at the place, and I was pleasantly surprised that this was a pure Cambodian remote village, and there was water and electricity. Here I met a Chinese who was on a trip to the Banglong area to inspect a local school project. I wonder how there can be a school in such a remote location, because I don't think there are 500 households in such a village. With his help, the three of us stayed at the only school in the village, which was actually a few simple thatched huts with more than a dozen sets of crooked tables and chairs. There was also a room with a plank bed for us to live in. As for the diet, we ate with the Chinese teacher and he cooked.

Talking with this Chinese, I learned that he works as a minority language teacher at a United Nations educational institution in Shanghai, has been visiting Southeast Asian countries for many years to study education projects, and often provides help to local people. He told us that there are many ethnic groups in Cambodia, and the most populous is the Khmer, which is similar to the situation of the Chinese, and China has the largest Han nationality. Cambodia's ethnic minorities are basically concentrated in the northeastern province of Lap, which is where we came. These peoples have been isolated for a long time and rarely reach the central and southern regions. Exchanges with the Khmer ethnic group and more advanced regions.

Therefore, these ethnic groups not only maintain primitive living habits, but also have strong folk customs, and they are accustomed to calling the people in central and southern Cambodia "mainlanders"; twenty or thirty years ago, whenever any mainlanders came to the residential areas of these ethnic minorities in the northeast, they would be arrested by them and driven to the mountains to fend for themselves. There are not only poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains, but also miasma for many years, and it is difficult to get out if you go in. Later, the Cambodian government found that the northeast was picturesque, so it took the opportunity to plan to develop it into a tourist area, and also opened water and electricity, which could also alleviate the conflict between the mainlanders and the residents of the northeast.

"I see," I sighed, "that we arrived late, and if we had come decades before, would we have been driven into the mountains as if we were from the mainland?" ”

The Chinese teacher smiled and said it was possible. Fang Gang snorted: "It's not bad to be driven into the mountains, lest we have to find someone to inquire, anyway, we have to go into the mountains sooner or later." ”

I slept restlessly at night and there were too many mosquitoes. Fortunately, Fang Gang purchased mosquito repellent potion, otherwise I estimate that half a catty of blood would have to be sucked away by mosquitoes. I got up the next day, because Deng Kang and the ghost king had been on the phone before, and they learned that the ghost king had come to Banglong seven or eight years ago. I also went to the mountains to look for laborers. The Chinese teacher knew Khmer, so Fang Gang asked them to ask the locals if there was a master nearby who practiced the Fa and specialized in exorcising evil spirits and curing diseases.

Locals told us. To the north of Bang Long, near the Cambodian-Lao border, there is a sorcerer who lives in a wooden hut on the edge of the woods, and he usually performs the rituals of exorcism and casting spells in the village.

The Chinese teacher helped us find the sorcerer's residence, who was about forty or fifty years old, very thin, and had no flesh on his body. Even the ribs can be seen clearly. He looks like an angry King Kong, pouting, and looking at everyone with anger. He said: "A few days ago, someone was already asking about labor, why did they ask again? ”

"A good friend of ours was hit by a blood surrender, and even the people from the Ghost King Sect couldn't solve it," Fang Gang asked the Chinese teacher to help translate, and he could also speak simple Khmer, but he was far less proficient than the Chinese teacher. "The person who inquired a few days ago was also a friend of mine, and I asked them to ask. I've heard that the black-clothed Azan who surrendered had learned witchcraft from Laocha before, and it is estimated that only he can solve it, so we came to him for help. ”

The sorcerer said, "I met Lao Cha four or five years ago, when he came out of the mountains to do exorcism to people, and that man was a teacher in the village who taught children to read, and he didn't know who he had offended, and he vomited blood and bled all day long. I tried to relieve him, but I didn't succeed, so the village sent a few people into the mountains to invite the laborers out, and he finally released them. ”

After listening to the Chinese teacher's translation, I hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, this friend of mine also suffered from blood!" ”

The sorcerer told us that few people now know where the laborers live in the mountains, and only the rice deliverer knows, and he only sends them once every two years. I hurriedly inquired about the location of the man who delivered the rice, and after the guidance of the wizard, I found the rice merchant in the small town of Banglong. He said that he used to go into the mountains every two years to deliver two bags of rice to the wizard named Laocha, and the last time he delivered rice was more than two years ago. The laborer told him that he didn't need to send it anymore.

"Why don't you send it?" Fang Gang asked. The Chinese teacher helped translate it, and the rice merchant shook his head and said that he didn't know either, so he just sent the rice and didn't ask anything else.

We asked the rice merchant where the laborer lived in the mountains, and the rice merchant said, "It's a bit difficult just to say it, but I just remember the road." It's not easy to walk, and it's nearly two hours one way by motorbike. In many places in the mountains, you can only walk by cart, and you have to walk for more than half an hour. By the way, what are you looking for Master Laocha for? ”

Deng Kang said: "There is a friend who has fallen into the evil descent, and it seems that only he can unravel it, can you take us into the mountains?" We don't know the way, we're afraid we won't find it. ”

Mi Shang scratched his scalp and said that the road was not easy to walk, and it was too hard to go, so he didn't want to go. Fang Gang snorted: "How much money can you make by sending two bags of rice, don't you also have to run errands?" ”

"I can earn dozens of yuan by sending rice to the labor master!" The rice merchant replied unconvinced. After translating it, I realized that the dozens of dollars he was referring to were US dollars. The Chinese teacher told me that Cambodia's economy is at least 30 years behind China's, because it is too poor and the inflation is huge, so one yuan can top up to several hundred Cambodian dollars. In Cambodia, many places use US dollars, and even ordinary people use US dollars to settle their bills when they buy vegetables in the market.

The rice merchant can earn 50 US dollars, or about 400 yuan, for this job, but for a small town like Bang Long, in northeastern Cambodia, it is already a big deal.

Fang Gang took out two thousand-yuan baht bills from his leather bag and threw them to him: "Don't look for it, take us into the mountain tomorrow!" The rice merchant was obviously very familiar with the Thai currency, and hurriedly took the money and put it in his trouser pocket, as if he was afraid that Fang Gang would regret it and ask for it back.

He said: "There are four people in total, and I need two motorcycles, and I only have one, and I have to borrow it from others." "I was trembling when I spoke. I thought to myself that I was right, so I took out another 2,000 baht and handed it to the rice merchant, and he shook his hand as he held the banknote, and immediately said that he would borrow a motorcycle.

The two motorcycles that the rice merchant had brought together seemed to have been assembled, all of them were old, grayish-black in color, with auxiliary fuel tanks hanging from them, and they seemed to have been specially modified for long distances. There are far more motorcycles than cars in Southeast Asian countries, one is that the road construction is backward, and the other is that many places are not spacious mountain roads, and they can only use motorcycles to travel.

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