Chapter VII Commissary
Due to Rehamman's jade ore resources, in the next two days, in addition to contacting equipment, I asked a few of my men to collect information.
The next day, the equipment was shipped to us, a total of three copies, all of which were foreign goods.
That night, I picked the two men who had been booked in advance, and told them about the next destination, in fact, this time I was not going to fight, so there was no danger, otherwise, I would not have picked two young men who had gone out for the first time to go with me.
They were both very excited, just as Reharman said, every young man, especially men, is full of a sense of adventure, and I also made it clear to the two of them about the bad environment they may face next, and said: "You came with me to do jade business, and the next task is my personal private matter, whether to carry it out or not, this is your freedom, of course, if you want to, there will be a rich reward." ”
The enthusiasm for adventure and the added bonus made the two of them very excited to take on the task, and on the third day, we joined up with Rehaman and the Uyghurs, and the group began to drive towards the snow-capped mountains in the distance.
The snow-capped mountains seem to be on the horizon, but in fact they are far away from us. We took a Uyghur van and gradually drove out of Golmud and slowly entered the Gobi Desert.
This is just a superficial Gobi, so the environment is not bad, at the beginning we are driving a regular lane, this lane is the main lane to Kunlun Mountain, but we are not going to Kunlun Mountain, but to a branch of Kunlun Mountain, so halfway to the road, the car hit the steering wheel, crossed the lane, and began to drive on the Gobi without a road.
This section of the Gobi is covered with broken rocks, and it is very bumpy to sit on it, and from time to time you can see intermittent gully rocks, which are said to be the remnants of the glacial period, and these broken rocks were originally a large canyon, which gradually converged under the pressure of the ground for thousands of years, and became a deep ditch that adults can cross in a big stride.
This familiar landscape reminds me of the experience of going to the Western Queen Mother Country four years ago, when I got into the car of the black blind man, and they didn't let me participate in it, but the stuffy oil bottle stretched out its foot and blocked the car door, and I followed in.
Later, we encountered black winds, quicksand, and corpse worms......
Someone once said that when a person begins to doubt the past, it proves that he is already beginning to age. I didn't want to grow old, so I patted myself on the cheek and pulled myself out of my memories and looked at the snow-capped mountains in the distance along the bumps of the car.
Reharman said that although it looks close, it will take more than an hour for us to drive through.
The guy who graduated from the geology department was named Feng Guang, and he was surprised: "It's so far." Then he thought, "Is it because there is a fault in front of you?" ”
"Yes, there's a big fault, we need a detour, and that's how the terrain is here, how do you know?" said Rehamman. ”
Another fellow was Yan Dachuan, and he quipped, "It's a professional skill." He and I have been for a long time, so he is more casual, took out his clothes from his pocket, and said, "Boss, since you have to sit for so long, why don't you come and play two." ”
There was no such idle time when I entered the snowy mountain, so I nodded, and the three of them played cards in the carriage.
When I arrived at my destination, there was a kiosk at the foot of the mountain, selling snacks and simple hiking equipment. ”
"How long? That's a long time, at least more than ten years, and the boss has changed several times. Rehaman said.
I asked, "Is it open every day?" ”
He was a little surprised that I asked so carefully, but he still replied: "It is open every day, even in winter, there will be a small number of tourists, this commissary is the only supply point, a bottle of mineral water is 40 yuan, very profitable, so it is never closed." Boss, why are you asking this? ”
I didn't answer him, but continued to ask, "Does everyone go up and down the mountain this way?" ”
Hot Toad said: "No, all roads lead to Rome, there is no separation zone on the mountain, you can go down the mountain in all directions, but this one is the right way, and the other directions are either cliffs or ice blades, unless that person is a fool, he will definitely go down from here." ”
I immediately quickened my pace and walked into the commissary in one gulp.
The boss is a husband and wife, about 50 years old, the husband is lying reading a newspaper, the woman is rubbing her hands on the fire, at this moment the weather in March, at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, it is still very cold.
I sold a pack of Yellow Crane Towers, and a pack sold here for eighty yuan.
After buying the cigarettes, I asked, "Sister, how long have you been driving here?" "Business,Naturally understand Sinicization.,She's also very boring.,When I see me talking.,It's very refreshing to talk to me.。
"It's been three years." She replied.
I was overjoyed, and I felt like I had seized a glimmer of hope.
So I asked her, if the stuffy oil bottle really came down from the snow mountain, then it will definitely stay here, at least to buy some food, after two years, people come and go here, to note a certain tourist, the opportunity is not big, I can only hold such a hope: the stuffy oil bottle is more special, maybe the proprietress will have an impression.
So I asked, "So, did you host such a traveler two years ago, or in between?" I synthesized my own analysis and speculation and described it to the proprietress: "He has been in the snowy mountains for a long time, so he is more embarrassed when he comes down the mountain, his body is thinner than me, and he looks better than me...... Well, he has two long fingers, and if you've seen it, you should be impressed. ”
The proprietress looked a little embarrassed and recalled: "These two years...... Sorry, there are too many people, I don't have an impression. She looked apologetic and didn't plan to talk to me again.
I was a little frustrated, and the answer, while expected, was frustrating.
Rehaman witnessed the whole process, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's unlikely, your friend is silent, if it weren't for him for me to discover the jade vein, to be honest, I wouldn't have been too impressed with him." ”
His words are right, most of the time, the stuffy oil bottle is like an invisible person, even in my opinion and the fat man, he has a lot of memorable things at a glance, but for anyone who has not been with him, the stuffy oil bottle is not good looking, it is estimated that it is difficult to leave other impressions.
I took a cigarette and prepared to leave the commissary in frustration, but at that moment, the owner of the newspaper suddenly raised his head and said, "I may have seen the man you said." ”
I just took my first puff of cigarette, and I almost choked to death when I said suddenly, and I coughed several times before I could barely suppress it, and said, "Have you seen it?" ”
To put it this way...... The stuffy oil bottle has left the snowy mountain?
The boss was a big-bellied man, and he motioned for us to come into the commissary and sit down, and I took Reharman inside, and the boss recalled, "It was about two years ago around December, and a few years ago, there were fewer people. There is indeed a young man who came out of the snowy mountain, he is really embarrassed, he only wears one dress, I have worked under the snowy mountain for more than ten years, and I have never seen anyone come out of the snowy mountain with a single dress. ”
After thinking about it, the boss said again: "He is seriously ill and seems to have a fever, after arriving at my shop, I invited him to come in and drink a cup of hot water, and he bought some food from me for two hundred yuan, because he went down the mountain late and had no car, so he added another three hundred yuan and spent the night with me." ”
Stuffy oil bottles here for the night?
My mood suddenly became excited, and I had only one thought: it is good that people are not dead.
I can predict the embarrassment of his descent from the mountain.
The time that the boss said was December, that is to say, the time difference between the time and the time mentioned by Rehaman was about half a month, and after the stuffy oil bottle entered the snowy mountain, it stayed in it for half a month before going down the mountain.
When I went down the mountain, I didn't have any equipment, and I didn't even have one piece of clothing left.
I can't help but guess, what did he meet inside? There was only one piece of clothing left...... Could it be that he was raped by the wild man in the legendary snow-capped mountain? Of course, this was just a bad thought on my part, and then I motioned for my boss to continue.
The boss said: "The next day, when I went to check, I found that he had a bad fever, and it was snowing very much that day, and there was no bus, if he wanted to leave, he could only walk to Golmud by foot, at least four hours of walking, and he was sick, so I persuaded him to rest for another day, and only charged him 100 yuan." ”
"He's very similar to your description, his two fingers are longer, but he doesn't look good, although he is thinner, but he is taller than you."
The boss's description made me a little stunned.
I thought maybe it was the emaciation that made people look taller, but in fact, the stuffy bottle was about the same size as me, and I often wondered that maybe I was a centimeter taller than him.
Finally I said, "Can you draw him as he looks?" ”
The boss smiled: "I'm not good at technology." "I said it doesn't matter, it's better than nothing.
The boss took a pen and paper drawing, but the result of the drawing was ...... It's really not flattering, it's just a stick figure of a primary school student, and it has no reference value at all.
I gave up, asked again, and the boss said that the young man's illness would not be cured the next day, and his health was very good, and then he took a ride away. I think that if the stuffy oil bottle enters the snowy mountains to prove something, then at least it will carry some traces of relevance.
So I asked, "Is there anything special about him?" ”
The boss shook his head, and I said, "You're thinking about it, it's important to me." "I stuffed two bills.
The boss glanced at it, and immediately made a contemplative expression, and after a while, he said: "Yes, I don't know if it's anything special, it's a silver piece, I saw him take it out and play with it, it's probably so long, so wide, and there are words on it." ”
According to the boss's comparison, I surmised that it was a piece of engraved silver foil, about ten centimeters long, and the width should be about the same, I asked, "What is written on it, have you seen it?" ”
"No, no." The boss said: "This is a personal ** item, I didn't go to see it, but the silver piece is not like ours, like Tibet, I went to Tibet when I was young, only the people there can make the silver piece so thin, and the font can also be convex." ”
Something from Tibet?
I pondered carefully, since the stuffy oil bottle would play with that thing, it was obvious that it was very important, but the question was, could this thing be obtained after he entered the snowy mountain?
Behind the snow-capped mountains, are there any Tibetan relics?
The words of the big-bellied boss reminded me of a legend that Rehaman said, once a group of people once moved to the depths of the snowy mountains, perhaps...... That relic was created by those people.
Is the stuffy oil bottle looking for the people who have been sentenced to death?
I thought about it for a long time, but there was no result, but there was finally one thing to prove that the stuffy oil bottle walked out of the snowy mountain alive.
But that was two years ago, he came out of the snowy mountain alive, but he didn't meet me and the fat man two years later, as promised, this kid ...... His credibility has been reduced to zero by me and the fat man.
Now it can only be proved that the stuffy oil bottle walked out of the snowy mountain two years ago, but what did he experience before these two years, perhaps...... Only in the depths of this snowfield will there be an answer.
I got up to say goodbye, took care of the boss's business, bought a pack of cigarettes for each person, and then the group headed for the snowy mountain.
Looking up from the foot of the mountain, you can only see a white patch, a leaf obscuring the eyes, and no one knows what is on the other side of the mountain.