Feng Shinan and Xie Sansi have no deep friendship. The two of them are neither in the same unit nor in a thousand trades, and they can't be separated from each other no matter how they are classified. During the "**" period, the people who were given another book by "***" were all classified as "cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods", and they were mixed to work together. Since then, the two have been in contact, but they are not close. One day, Xie Sansi went to the street to buy something, and by the way, he took a look at Feng Shinan. Feng Shinan said that he was preparing to go to Xinjiang to sketch and prepare for the creation of oil paintings. Xie Sansi said: "I also want to go to Xinjiang for sightseeing, but unfortunately we can't go all the way." ”

"Why?"

"You are a famous family, you are on a business trip, and you must be picked up and sent by the official everywhere, and the hotel will be discussed. I'm traveling at my own expense, so I can't afford to talk about this pomp! ”

Feng Shinan said: "I have tasted the set sent by the official car, and it is bitter. This time, I'm just going to stealth in micro-service. Except for bringing a letter of proof to register for the hotel, no one else will be alarmed. ”

The two reached an agreement to go together. Feng Shinan has his own job, Xie Sansi has retired, and Xie Sansi voluntarily took care of all the preparations.

Xie Sansi hadn't been out for many years, and he had never been to Xinjiang, so he went to an old classmate from college to inquire about the situation. This classmate worked in Xinjiang in the forties. Mr. Xie probably didn't read the newspaper much, or he only read the headlines on the first page and the academic articles on the third page, but he didn't know that this old classmate had become a vice minister. The deputy minister was also a very enthusiastic person, so he said: "You don't have to worry about it, I will ask the office to buy the plane ticket, and I will send a letter to the relevant units in Xinjiang, and they will receive everything!" ”

As soon as Xie Sansi came back and said to Feng Shinan, Feng Shinan disagreed: "I just want to be with you in order to avoid this set of entertainment, why do you want any arrangement from the deputy minister, no!" ”

Two days later, Xie Sansi came again. It was said that he had spent a lot of time arguing with the deputy minister and blushing, which only then did he return his enthusiasm. But this matter was known to the deputy minister's daughter, Jinping. Jinping is 35 years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, works at the Institute of History, lives alone and widows, and will soon go to Xinjiang to collect materials, and she asks them to wait for her to leave.

Feng Shinan regretted the agreement reached with Xie Lao, this old man turned out to be so sticky and trivial! Feng Shinan is afraid of seeing people, especially women, for this he has never been married in his life! How do you get a single woman to go to Xinjiang together? Without saying a word, he twisted his head to the left and right at a forty-five degree angle.

After another two days, Xie Lao came again. He said: "After persuasion, Jinping doesn't want us to wait for her to go on the same road!" ”

"Okay."

"But she has a request, she wants to get to know you, and wants to ask you some art questions."

"No, no......"

Before the next word "line" could be spoken, the door opened, and a woman with long shawl hair and a light-colored dress entered, looking plump, beautiful, and full of strange atmosphere.

"I'm here with Uncle Xie, waiting for you outside. Since you don't want to be invited, I'll have to come in myself! ”

Feng Shinan immediately changed his words and said: "I mean that I am not worthy of instructing others to learn, I didn't say that I am not welcome." ”

From here on, Jinping came to see the painting at the two ends of the three days, talked about painting, and asked to learn to paint. She is an avid painter in her spare time, especially the Russian 19th-century realist school. Feng Shinan learned this school of painting, so she has admired Feng Shinan for a long time.

It was really a chore to accompany her to look at the paintings and talk, and Feng Shinan always felt a little afraid, I don't know why, anyway, it wasn't because her father was the deputy minister. Maybe that hair? The dress? That strange smell? I can't tell! Every time she left, he would not say goodbye, and swore bitterly: "All the good time has been wasted on her!" How many more years can I paint? Can you afford it? I won't open the door when she comes again! ”

For this reason, he bought a "door mirror" that peeked out from the door, Beijingers called "door eye", someone knocked on the door and he took a look quietly, but he saw that it was her or opened the door! He is a passive type, and he never learns to pull down his face and embarrass people in front of him.

After getting on the plane to Xinjiang, he breathed a sigh of relief and thought that he was relieved from now on! Who thought of Xinjiang, changed cars, and met a demon driver. Somehow, there are always breakdowns along the way. Isn't this breaking down again!

The bane of the driver was also recruited by Xie Lao! He knew the vice president of a certain college in Xinjiang, and the vice president rented the car for them. This companion really chose to smash it! Eighty percent of them have this catastrophe in their fate - recently, I have always heard Xie Lao talk about Buddhism, and he has also infected a few words of Buddhist language.

As soon as the car broke down, Xie Lao helped the driver Xiaoman to work and did not leave the area around the car. Feng Shinan not only didn't want to do it, he didn't want to look at it, he hated this driver so much. He walked more than a hundred meters and sat down on the slope of the leeward side of the road to get angry.

This is probably the ninth time that it has broken down. He also made an oath to the Great Gobi for the ninth time: "Even if it is repaired well, I will not take this car!" I've had enough! I'd rather sit here until dawn, stop the bus back to Yining, and then take the plane back to Beijing! Urumqi doesn't stop! If I can't stop the passing car, I'll ride a donkey, I'll go! I'd rather do a pull-out......"

I shouted for a while, feeling bored. There was no one on the Gobi Desert, Xiao Man and Xie Lao were a hundred meters away, and it was a headwind! Just like creating a work, no one shouts good or opposes it, and the painting is boring.

So he calmed down and looked at the Gobi Desert.

There is no grass, no trees, no people, and probably not even a mouse on the Gobi Desert. People are accustomed to use the words "flying sand and stones" to describe the wind, and now the wind is not small, there must be five or six levels! But not a grain of sand flew, not a single stone left. About tens of thousands of years ago, hundreds of thousands of years ago, there was also a scene of "flying sand and rocks" in this area. The wind blows every day, and those who can fly are gone, and those who can walk are finished, leaving this bare, hard and erected piece of clay ground, full of stone beaches. It's really strange that this place in Xinjiang seems to have been enchanted by some witch. When you walk on the Gobi Desert, you can't see anything alive for half a day, but in the blink of an eye, when you turn a corner, you will see a green patch in front of you. The clear water, the pastures, the tall aspens, the miscellaneous flowers everywhere, the herds of camels, horses, cattle and sheep, as if someone had recited a few incantations, filled your left and right at once.

He remembered the picturesque Tambra steppe.

It was already time to move to the autumn pastures, and there were not many herds to be seen on the grassland, but thanks to the familiar road of Dr. Guo, who was with him, and his Kazakh language was also very good, he actually found two families in a hidden ravine. The tent was so green and bright on all sides, and between the dark green cedars and transparent aspens, the flocks of red horses, the light brown camels, and the snow-white sheep were like patches of flowers scattered on the green grassy slopes. A girl in a pale blue dress, humming a folk song as if she had heard it, rode on a tall horse with a chestnut white nose, and walked down the hillside in a hurry. This scene made many famous landscape paintings that he had admired and copied clearly reproduced, and there was something more than what he had seen before. He found that no matter how many times he had "read" these paintings and their reproductions, there were still omissions and unreads, and he realized the expression, charm and style that his copies had missed. He spread his easel and painted intently, ignoring the eyes and cacophony gathered behind him......

There are only two yurts in this place. One is the purchaser who buys skins for the supply and marketing cooperative, and the other is the deputy captain of the animal husbandry team. Swimming around are their herds of horses, sheep and their children. The Kazakhs do not graze like the Han Chinese, they do not gather their livestock together. They let their animals move freely, graze and play. The boy just sat on his horse and looked at a suitable place, and only when one or two of the horses had gone too high and too far did he shout and throw a stone to summon it back. There are no clouds in the clear blue sky. The sun shines brightly on the cedars, elms, and artemisia grass, and the river flows swiftly under your feet.

Feng Shinan painted them one by one, and it wasn't until Xie Lao came to call him to eat that he found that during this period of time, the purchaser had killed a sheep, roasted a stove of naan, and prepared a veritable feast. In addition to the master and the four of them, there were also the neighbors' deputy captain's family and the girl on horseback he had just depicted. It turned out that she was not a member of these two families, but an accountant of the supply and marketing cooperative, an ethnic Russian. As soon as the master introduced him, he remembered that the female accountant was humming the song on the horse, and he could sing it himself. It was a popular Russian folk song in the fifties.

There are no chopsticks to adjust the spoon, and the mutton is eaten with the hand, and the rice is also eaten with the hand. This is a veritable "finger lamb" and "pilaf". It is not a delicate and detailed imitation of chopsticks and wooden spoons sold in the Xinjiang restaurant of Beijing Million Village.

The Kazakh children got together and sang two songs, and the Russian girl danced from her seat with a headscarf in her hand. People welcome guests from Beijing and Yining to the show, the three old men and half-old men are a little twisted, and the driver Xiaoman volunteered. Stand under the carpet and hum a disco tune by yourself. Doctor Guo turned his face, Feng Shinan's nose and eyebrows were wrinkled, and his face was folded into a bun. Only Xie Lao smiled and slapped with the Kazakhs and Russians to accompany Xiaoman.

The deputy captain said: "A few old comrades don't sing or dance, can we make some other requests?" ”

"Okay!"

The vice-captain said that his family had also killed sheep and invited them to dinner. The buyer asked the painter to paint a color portrait of him. The woman of the deputy captain asked Dr. Guo to check her body, why did she feel empty after eating two catties of mutton in one meal......

They all agreed, but by the end of lunch, the sun was already setting in the west. Xinjiang is more than two hours later than the sunset in Beijing, and it is time to take the lights in Beijing. To accomplish these things, we will not be able to return to the nearby apiary for the night today as planned, nor will we be able to cross the Tianshan Mountains and return to Urumqi via southern Xinjiang tomorrow as planned. It was the driver's suggestion that Xiao Manti make a suggestion, and he was very enthusiastic about it, afraid that he had some personal plans. This man is hard to speak, can he agree to leave a day late?

Xiao Man was unusual, pushed the old military hat off his cockade to the back of his head, raised his right hand and raised it back, and said, "Yes, I approve your request!" ”

The whole tent applauded, and Dr. Guo turned his head again. Feng Shinan was moved by Xiao Man's generosity, and didn't care about his unorthodox state.

There were a lot of requests that I promised, but I didn't do anything else this night except to satisfy the enthusiasm of the vice-captain to entertain the guests. It was late at night when they had finished eating, drinking, and playing, and the old men fell asleep leaning against where they were sitting, and in their dreams they heard the laughter of young men on the lawn outside the door.

The next morning, each completed his own tasks. After the physical examination, the portrait was colored, and it was time to set off, only to find that people had not seen Xiaoman since the morning. I didn't see any Russian girls. Not even her chestnut horse with a white nose was on the long leash on which it was tethered.

"It doesn't matter, young doll, if you play it, you'll come back!" The vice-captain's wife said generously. The doctor said that she was not sick, but that her stomach was enlarged by meat. She removes the psychological burden. So it's more amiable than yesterday.

At nearly ten o'clock, the little doll herding sheep shouted and pointed to the hill to the east. Everyone put their hands on the pergola and looked over, and saw Xiaoman and the female accountant riding on a horse, laughing all the way down the hillside.

Feng Shinan snorted in his nose and said, "What does it look like!" ”

Dr. Guo said loudly: "I have to talk to him seriously!" He came out with us, messing around like this, affecting the outside world's perception of us! Outrageous! ”

Feng Shinan's good mood was ruined again all of a sudden.

The impression between people often echoes each other. Xiaoman is "not presentable" in the eyes of Dr. Guo, and Dr. Guo is "not a thing" in the eyes of Xiaoman.

Dr. Guo received a phone call from Vice President Lin of Urumqi three days ago. The vice president said that an old friend of his and a painter were going on a private trip to Yili, and that they had no acquaintances or "guankou" in Yili, and hoped that Lao Guo would take care of the two people as a friend of his friend.

Dr. Guo was born in the military, entered the military medical university from a hygienist, and worked as a surgeon in Yili Hospital after changing jobs. He loves to read miscellaneous books in his spare time, and he knows Xie Sansi's status in the philosophical and aesthetic circles very well. Although I don't look at paintings very much, I have also seen Feng Shinan's works and name from the calendar. He has a lot of respect for these two people. Therefore, he sacrificed his compensatory time that he was easily unwilling to use, and was willing to serve as a volunteer guide and translator, accompanying them to visit and sketch in the Tangbula grassland. In the past two days, he has seen what this driver has done, and he has felt both ashamed as a Xinjiang native and a friend of the guest - two well-known people at home and abroad actually called a hairy guy to play a helpless role, what kind of world has this become!

On the phone, he told his old patient, Vice President Lin, to let the car stop in front of the Yili Hotel in Yining City two days later, and he would go to meet them. Vice President Lin said that one of the two was sightseeing at his own expense, and the other was strict and frugal and refused to live in a high-end hotel. Dr. Guo said: "You let them stop in front of the Yili Hotel, and I will find a cheap place for them to live." ”

According to the scheduled time, Dr. Guo stood at the door of the Yili Hotel for seven hours, and every time a car came, he asked, "Is it Xie Lao?" "Is there a surname?" A total of more than 20 cars were ushered in, seven surnamed Xie and two surnamed Feng, but none of the surnamed Xie and the surnamed Feng were in the same car. Five of the seven surnamed Xie are family, the older seventy, the youngest two years old, sitting in a small van, and the other two are lesbians. The two surnamed Feng are father and son, who came in a Shanghai car.

The next day, he took a day off, and waited for him from the morning, and finally waited for Xie and Feng, two celebrities sitting in a Beijing jeep, and after greetings, Dr. Guo said: "Let's go, the house I found for you is in the south!" ”

Leaning out of the front door, a crooked head wearing a military hat without a red five-star cockade squinted at the three people and asked, "Isn't this a hotel?" Where do you live without this? ”

Dr. Guo said: "...... in the south"

"What's the best place to stay in the south? Do you live in a small shop? I've been driving for four years and haven't lived in that place! If you want to live in your house, find me another place! ”

To the south is a hostel, much more rudimentary, of course, and the toilet is in the backyard a hundred meters outside the building. The three-bed room was quite spacious. Dr. Guo asked, "Do you think it's okay?" No, let's find another place. Xie Lao and Feng Shi Nanlian said: "Very good, very good! The driver said: "The poor family is rich in the road, wouldn't it be more economical to save money if you don't come out so economically?" Dr. Guo hurriedly said: "In my opinion, it is a little simpler, and it is not commensurate with the status of the two." Xie Lao said: "It's very good here, we are out to travel, not out to show off!" The driver picked up and said, "If you want to stay here, find me another place." Dr. Guo smiled and said: "I didn't expect that the two celebrities could endure hardships, but our young comrades can't be accommodating." How much can you pay for a day's accommodation by level? I'll give you a standard look! The driver rolled his eyes and said, "No matter who is bright or dark, everyone is equal in my car, all are passengers!" Our housing has always been chartered by passengers, and I will live in whatever room they live in! Feng Shinan said: "Isn't it different for the three of us to have a room?" The driver said, "I can't sleep in the same room with others." ”

Dr. Guo couldn't, so he had to find another private room, and the driver Xiaoman reluctantly opened the car door and asked people to unload their luggage.

Dr. Guo arranged for them to rest first, and then came to take everyone to his house to sit down in the evening, and he prepared some wine and food for everyone to pick up.

Dr. Guo still retains the straightforwardness and roughness of a soldier, and his lover is an intellectual who has left the school gate and entered the hospital gate, with a female student style. The two are equally hospitable, but also lack cooking skills, in addition to buying a few plates of cooked meat and preserved eggs, they fry mutton according to the method of Xinjiang kebabs, and the cups, plates, tables and chairs are not very neat. As soon as the driver Xiaoman saw a few cold dishes on the table, he showed a disdainful look, and when he preferred to set up a chair, there was one less seat. At this time, the hostess was making roast mutton in the kitchen, and Dr. Guo Zhang Luoxie and Feng were seated, and said to Xiaoman cordially: "Little comrade, there is still a stool in that room, please move it and sit on it yourself!" ”

Xiao Man glared at him, didn't say anything, and finally reluctantly took out the stool and sat down.

Dr. Guo filled everyone with wine, then stood up and raised his glass and said: "Both of you are people who have contributed to the motherland, it is not that this opportunity is difficult to get me here, it is really brilliant!" Let's make a toast to the health of the two of you! I happen to have two compensatory days off that are useless, so I'll accompany you to the Tangbula grassland tomorrow! I'm familiar with that area, and my Kazakh language is quite passable! ”

Xiao Man also raised the cup, but when he heard this, he put the cup down again.

After the three of them finished drinking, when it was full again, Feng Shinan stood up with his cup: "I also want to toast to the comrades doctors who are fighting in the frontier, you not only protect the people's health, but also promote national unity!" Let's make a toast to the Frontier Warriors! ”

The two of them raised their glasses and were just about to touch them, when Xiao Man knocked the plate with chopsticks and said, "Look at you poor and sour!" There's no one in your eyes, hey, you're the host's toast, and two of the three guests are toasted? You, a Beijinger, toast to the frontier people, just being a doctor is worthy of respect, but the little soldier driving is not worthy of respect? If you don't welcome me, don't call me here! What is it about deliberately shabbling? ”

Probably no one in the room had ever seen this kind of world, and no one was prepared for this, so they were all stunned for a while. Xie Lao looked at everyone, laughed, and immediately raised a glass of wine and said, "Master Xiaoman is so anxious, Comrade Feng finished speaking, I haven't spoken yet!" What I want to say is to thank Master Xiaoman for his hard work all the way and helped us a lot on this trip! Cheers to your glorious future! ”

"Well, that's pretty much it!" Xiao Man's stiff face was pulled away: "Okay, cheers, I wish you old men a bright future!" ”

Everyone laughed and drank the wine, and although everyone was looking for something to say, and everyone pretended not to mind, the interest finally cooled down a lot, and it was a lot more reluctant. Later, when I talked about the local customs, the atmosphere became warm again. Because Dr. Guo is not only a surgical expert, but also has a hobby of studying folklore and collecting anecdotes. As soon as the topic turned to this, he was in high spirits, and Xie Lao and Feng Shinan listened with great interest. Xiao Man drank two glasses of wine with a sullen head, yawned and said, "I'm a little sleepy, go out for a while." ”

People were eager for him to go away, so they agreed and said, "It's better to go and get some air, and come back quickly." ”

After Xiaoman left, Lao Guo stopped the original topic and asked, "How did you find such a driver?" ”

Feng Shinan pointed at Xie Lao and said, "You ask him!" ”

Xie Lao said: "Vice President Lin has entrusted favors, only charging fuel fees and not car rentals, can you still pick a driver?" Besides, no one knows anyone, so how do you know that this person will be like this! ”

Dr. Guo said strangely: "For an influential figure like you, the reception unit should also support a car, so why do you still pay for a car yourself?" ”

At this time, Xie Lao told him that they came out this time to avoid the official reception and enjoy the freedom of personal movement.

After talking for a while, the staple food came up, and Xiaoman hadn't come back yet. The hostess had to go out to look for it, and after looking for more than ten minutes, she came back and reported: not only was there no one, but even the car was gone.

I couldn't figure out where he was going or how far he went, so I had to set aside a meal for the rest of the people to eat first. After eating, he waited for more than an hour, and it was already late at night, so Xie Lao proposed to walk back, maybe he would meet Xiaoman on the way to pick him up. Dr. Guo said that this Yining is not as good as Beijing, there are very few people on the street at night, there are no street lights in some areas, and the road is unfamiliar, so he will accompany them back. Anyway, tomorrow he was going to accompany them to the Tangbula grassland, so he simply brought his toothbrush, and stayed in the hotel tonight, where there was not a bed to spare.

It is about four miles from Dr. Guo's house to the hostel, not to mention the car on the road, not even a dog. When I came to the hotel, I saw the car parked outside the door. Came to the second floor, the light in Xiaoman's bedroom was on, but no one heard the sound of music from one end of the building, Dr. Guo followed the sound to find the door of the conference room, opened the door and looked, six or seven young men and women were writhing with the music, Xiaoman took the hand of the waitress in the building, shook his shoulders and hips, and jumped sweating profusely. Seeing the door open, the eyes of several people were all cast to the door, Xiao Man took a fixed look, smiled and raised his hand to hook his thumb, and said, "Come, let's jump together!" ”

Dr. Guo said loudly, "Why don't you pick up the guests?" ”

"I see that you are very energetic in the vernacular, I thought you wouldn't be able to finish selling it until dawn, and it turned out that there were not many goods in your stomach!" As he spoke, he whirled the waitress into the distance, and didn't even look at Dr. Guo anymore. Dr. Guo slammed the door shut, and there was a burst of laughter in the room.

As soon as he returned to the house, Feng Shinan was furious, walked back and forth in the house, and repeatedly said: "You have to teach him a lesson!" I'd rather not sit in the car than teach him a lesson! ”

Xie Lao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Running such a long way, not for sketching, not for sightseeing, just to fight with this hairy young man?" **A gang has been engaged in it for ten years and created such a group of people, and you have taught him a lesson in a few days? ”

Dr. Guo said: "You can't indulge, the lesson also depends on the timing, you take care of these things a lot of inconvenience, this matter is up to me, don't interfere!" ”

The next morning, Xiaoman was still asleep when everyone washed his face, he just washed his face when everyone ate, he went to eat when everyone packed up, and he didn't even have people and cars after packing up. It wasn't until more than ten o'clock that he hurriedly drove the car back, and as soon as the car stopped, he urged everyone to pack their luggage and leave quickly. He broke his rule of not allowing guests to sit in the front chair, opened the front door, and excitedly let Xie Lao sit on the chair to his right. Feng Shinan and Dr. Guo opened the back door, only to understand how he had changed the charter - this morning, he made two baskets of apples and a carton of grapes, and filled the back half of the carriage.

Feng Shinan didn't know what to do with the luggage in his hand. Xiaoman said: "Squeeze it!" Wouldn't it be nice to put your luggage in the space behind the chair and your legs on the apple basket? ”

On this day, except for the two anchor times, Dr. Guo and Feng Shinan did not have a moment of peace, for a while the luggage behind them smashed on their necks, and for a while the apple basket caught their feet, and they always struggled between the luggage and the apples.

Dr. Guo and Xiaoman tore their faces and fought last night.

According to Xiaoman's suggestion, Xie Lao and Feng Shinan did not turn back, rested in the apiary for the night, and crossed the Tianshan Mountains to the south the next day, and went back to Urumqi from the south of the Silk Road. The idea was not bad, so they agreed without hesitation, and agreed to bring Dr. Guo to Nilek City. Let him take a coach back to Yining from there. Who knew that they stayed in Don Brador for one day, and when they came to the apiary the next day, the sky changed, and it rained lightly. When it rains on the flat land, snow will fly on the Tianshan Mountains, and it is difficult to climb a large mountain from Nilek to southern Xinjiang, and it is difficult for the car to climb because of the snow. Xiao Man suggested not to stop at the bee farm, taking advantage of the fact that the rain had just fallen and the snow on the mountain was not deep, so he marched overnight. Xie Lao is a rare person, Feng Shinan has also passed half a hundred, he slept less on the grassland last night, and today he sat in the car for half a day, and he was a little tired. And he didn't trust Xiaoman and the safety of his car, so his face showed embarrassment. The two of them didn't speak, but Dr. Guo understood their concerns, so he said, "People are so old, why are you playing with this life!" There is no need to go to southern Xinjiang, this road is not snowy and there is nothing to see, have a good night's rest, tomorrow along the original road back to Yining, from Yining back to Urumqi is not very good? ”

Xiao Man sneered and said, "That sent you home again, right?" But you are in a rub car, and you have no right to speak at all! ”

Dr. Guo couldn't hold back any longer, and said sharply: "When you see an unhealthy trend, everyone has the responsibility to criticize." ”

Xiaoman said unhurriedly: "Please note, you have the freedom to criticize, and I have the right not to let outsiders get in the car!" Don't take the hat of the unhealthy style, what is my improper style? ”

"You don't pick up guests in the middle of the night and pull the waitress to do a swing dance! If you don't set off on time in the morning, you can ride a horse with a female accountant of the minority in your arms, what is your style? ”

Xiaoman smiled brilliantly and said, "You dare to have a wife and children, I don't have a partner yet!" You can't take care of personal matters! ”

Dr. Guo said: "I arrived in Nilek the night before yesterday, and I could have rushed here after dinner, but you said that you forgot your small bag at the hotel in Yining City, and drove to get your small bag overnight!" The car is public, right? The oil is public, right? Hundreds of kilometers back and forth, don't you have a few broken apples and a flower turban in your small bag, wasting public oil and wasting our time for this little thing, can this still be said to be a private matter? ”

Xiaoman said: "I haven't gone back to settle the account, how do you know that I don't pay for gas?" I arrived at Nilek at seven o'clock yesterday morning, and you haven't gotten up yet, so how can you waste time? Even if you drove here the night before, wouldn't you have been able to enter the grassland yesterday? ”

"When you live there, you wander around, never overhaul your car, and always break down when you get on the road!"

"It's also a person who drives, don't I rest when you stop to rest?"

"In short, you can't go from southern Xinjiang, and you will go back the same way tomorrow!"

Xiao Man looked at Dr. Guo with disdainful eyes and walked out without a sound.

Feng Shinan said: "Look, you say that he has the next sentence, and he can't listen to a criticism!" ”

Dr. Guo said: "If you can't listen, you can say it!" You can't be polite to such people. ”

Xie Lao shook his head and sighed.

Suddenly, the sound of a car motor sounded outside, and Xiao Man walked into the house like a gust of wind, picked up the apple basket and walked out, shouting, "Get on the bus with your luggage and leave immediately!" ”

The three men looked at each other, not knowing what to do. Feng Shinan whispered: "Let's not go up, let him go alone!" Xie Lao said: "If things are slow, don't make any more trouble, if he wants to leave, he must have his reasons, we also promised to go from southern Xinjiang, go up first, okay?" Why don't you stop until Nilek! ”

He mobilized Feng Shinan to take his luggage and get into the car. Dr. Guo was helpless and finally walked out. But Xiaoman first tied the car door from the inside, opened the plastic window and shouted: "It's raining and the road is slippery, my car can't pull four people, you can find another way!" ”

Xie Lao and Feng Shinan hurriedly stopped and said: "No, he is our friend, if we don't pull him, we will go down ......"

The car started suddenly, threw them all in the back seat, honked the horn and drove out the door. Xie Lao and Feng Shinan looked back through the window, and saw Dr. Guo standing in the rain with his hands shaking, not knowing whether to say that he didn't care about him or that he wouldn't let them go. The car turned a corner and was out of sight.

Xie Lao has coronary heart disease. Car tires are not as easy to beat as bicycles, and after a few hits, his heart beats and panting, and sweat seeps out from the back of his neck.

"You rest." Xiao Man snatched the gas bag from his hand and glanced angrily at Feng Shinan in the distance. He didn't expect the two nerds to do much work for him, and he didn't even look down on what they did. But he had to tell them to follow, and he couldn't let them sit idly by, as if it made sense that the driver had to do all the work. What does it mean to be reasonable? Whoever is strong, whose idea is reasonable! If I don't drive, you can't move an inch, I have to command you! What experts, academics, fart! Xiaoman has given himself such a little power, and he finds fun in this power!

In "*****", Xiaoman's family was prominent for a while. His father went from being the head of the General Affairs Section to the deputy head of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee! His brother went from a secondary school student who did not study well to become a rebel commander and the leader of the faction during the "Great Revolutionary Alliance"! the leader of a street embroidery group became the head of the residents' committee! He himself was the commander of the Red Army, and led a group of children to spit in the faces of the "capitalist roaders" and "reactionary academic authorities"! His family moved from two one-room units to a high-level dormitory. In the early days of the rebellion, there was a black plaque of "Wang Bawo". But this "Wang Bawo" upstairs and downstairs, the living room and bathroom are really more comfortable than the "red compound". In the past few years, his father has a car in and out, a secretary for errands, and a constant flow of gifts and intercessions. What generals, mayors, experts, professors, as long as his father and his brother say a word: "touch the soul", it is enough for the old boy to drink a pot! Before he reached the age of entering the factory, Xiaoman was recruited with his father's female secretary opening a note. After entering the factory, he was sent to the automobile team with a note from his brother's close comrades-in-arms. Now some people criticize Xiaoman for loving the drill camp, you don't have back pain when you lie down and talk, go back a few years, you come to my house to drill the camp and I don't pee on you! **It's down, Lao Tzu is in prison, my brother is re-educated through labor, once a son of heaven and a courtier, if you are not smart, you still have my fragrant gluttony to eat? He doesn't do blatant violations of law and discipline, and now that he is in trouble, no one will speak to him, don't do that stupid thing! But in life, you have to live comfortably and smoothly. What is comfortable? Relying on the disciples and forces, there is no more. At this point, Xiaoman is a little sorry for the fall of "***"! Relying on knowledge and ability? Let the "*****" be delayed. He is a middle school student and can't even do four arithmetic. From this point on, Xiaoman also felt relieved of the fall of "***". If you have no skills and no knowledge, you have to rely on being smart. Xiao Man has seen how others were deferential and catered in front of his father, and how his father groveled in front of more powerful people. He learned, and even though he didn't feel good in his heart, he forced himself to learn. He knew that the dispatching section chief liked to eat apples, so he took apples back when he got out of the car, and bought them for three cents and a pound, and he said that they were pulled from the orchard for one cent. The daughter of a female cadre went to school in Xinyuan, and before leaving the car, he "accidentally" met the cadre at the factory gate, and said casually: "I want to go to Xinyuan when I get out of the car, do you have anything to do?" The cadre first said, "It's okay, take a look at Lianlian for me." Then he took off the turban around his head and said, "Take this with you, I bought a new one, and I just wrapped it twice!" Xiao Man replied with a smile on his face, and encouraged himself in his heart: "Don't erase it, don't feel humiliated, life is competition, survival of the fittest." The official is apologetic, and when he comes out, others will come to shoot him. "To do this, in addition to the work, you also need to build money. When Xiaoman joined the work, he only brought a note from the female secretary and did not bring any money. When "***" fell, he felt that it was not easy to mix in the original area and the original unit, because everyone knew him. In order to be transferred to Xinjiang and to arrange a good place, he gave gifts to several cultural relics that his brother had smashed and looted, and now he has no savings at all. It doesn't matter, the wool is out of the sheep, and the idea is made from the body of the car, and the car does not cost money and food stamps for half a month, and the difference in the price of the apples is recovered. Give the guests an idea, let them go around southern Xinjiang and return to Urumqi, and the fuel money to Xinyuan will be settled! Of course, the guests should also be analyzed. Although some guests are "soil hats" from other places, the units that can come forward to rent a car are the party and government leading organs of the autonomous region. Although some individuals come forward to rent a car, it seems to be a thorn, soft and hard do not eat, what newspaper reporters, procurement personnel, and tourist college students, these people are not easy to mess with, some will find a way to cure you, some dare to raise their arms and you desperately, a big trouble, at least the upgrade is blocked, and the bonus is disappointed! It is no longer the same as before, and when some people really report their opinions to the newspapers and leading organs, the unit cannot ignore them. The ideal guest is the two in front of you. What college does the car rental run by. There is neither power nor money in a place like the college, which shows that the foundation of the guests is not hard! One writes books, the other paints, most of these people don't understand anything, and they are thin-skinned, and they don't want to quarrel even if they suffer losses. The only thing I'm worried about is that there are sometimes die-hards among this kind of people, and they are evil. For this reason, Xiaoman made the following test. Scheduled to leave the car at 7 o'clock in the morning, he drove the car to the door but turned off the ignition, and deliberately sat by the telephone to consume. The phone came at eight o'clock, and an old man's voice said, "Excuse me, I'm looking for a master!" We set off for Ili at seven o'clock this morning, why didn't we come at eight o'clock? ”

It happened that there was no one in the house, so Xiao Man said, "My surname is Man, and I was about to drive to your place, when suddenly a big truck blocked our door, and the car couldn't get out." ”

"You told him to move!"

"I don't know where the driver went, I couldn't find anyone after shouting for a long time."

"And when can I go?"

"I don't know, maybe I won't be able to make it today."

"Oh, master, can you try to find a way to come early? The time for us to come out is fixed, and if we delay a day, we will miss a day, so do our best to help, okay? ”

Sure enough, the other party didn't even dare to put a hard fart.

At nine o'clock, Xiaoman drove the car away. The two of them didn't complain about him, and said with a smile: "It's all up to you how hard you have worked all the way, please help hard!" ”

At noon, Xiao Man deliberately walked around the car, estimating that they had bought the meal before approaching the table. I saw a large plate and a small bowl on the table, as well as beer. The gray-haired man said, "You know that the driver doesn't drink alcohol on the road, so it's okay to drink some beer?" The gray-haired man said, "Master, look at whether you like this dish or not, otherwise we will want something else!" ”

Xiao Man made a reserved and polite appearance and said: "Very good, very good, but I eat like you like this, and the meal fee is not easy to calculate!" ”

Hua Baitou said: "Don't worry about these little things, as long as we cooperate smoothly, you don't have to pay money and food stamps along the way, we have a treat." ”

Xiaoman said: "That's not good! ”

The white-haired man said, "In terms of age, we are the big brother, and you are the little brother; In terms of income, the salary is a little higher than yours, so you don't have to be polite, just be smooth on the road and don't break down. ”

So Xiaoman saw that these two people were weak and incompetent, and looked for problems to treat them everywhere. First, he played tricks on them for fun, and let out a breath that was a generation shorter in front of others; The second is to restrain them, lest they come out and get in the way if they want to do something.

I didn't expect a doctor Guo to come out halfway!

Someone took him seriously, he could have not cared. Over the years, there have been many times when others don't take him seriously, and on some occasions he has to deliberately show that he doesn't take things seriously, in order to show respect for those who should be respected! But Dr. Guo didn't take him seriously at the family banquet. This one doesn't work! You can't let anyone take themselves seriously! People should live with dignity and let others see their existence. The sacrifice of dignity in front of some people is in exchange for showing one's dignity and existence in front of more people.

After Xiao Man threw Dr. Guo down, he was very proud for a while, but the trouble that followed drowned out this good mood again!

When the car drove to Nilek, it was raining too much, and he estimated that it was indeed difficult to climb over the Tenshan Osaka, so he had to stay at the guest house. The next day, I saw that the Tianshan Mountains were snow-white, so I had to go back to Yining along the original road, and go from the original road to refuel at the Nilek gas station, which was a bit of a scratching head, when he set off from Yili, he added enough fuel to drive to Xinyuan or drive back to Yili, but he went back to Ili that night to pick up a handbag he forgot to take (there was a flower headscarf sent by a female cadre to her daughter, no matter how far he had to get it), two or three hundred kilometers back and forth, and the fuel was consumed, not to mention going to Nilek, even Tangbra could not drive. On the way, he went to the gas station to refuel. It was a Sunday, the station was closed, and the caretaker went home to stay with only an old man to watch the door. He said that he had an urgent task to save the patient, and first put the gas ticket on the table, and persuaded the old man to call the administrator, and he looked at the door for the old man for a while. The old man knew that this was not appropriate, but it was important to save people, so he forced himself to make a review and called the administrator. He reckoned that the old man would never call the caretaker, so as soon as the old man went away, he found the guy to unscrew the lock and filled the oil himself. Then drive the car to the door. After a while, the old man came, and sure enough, the administrator refused to come. He said, "Then forget it." He got into the car and started the machine, and as soon as he thought about what to expect, he called the old man to the door, took out a few gas tickets and stuffed them in his hand, and said, "Thank you, I have filled up the gas." The old man was stunned, he drove away, and when the old man understood and checked the lock, it was too late to look for him again. He knew that he was going to the south from Tangbula and would not come here to refuel again, so he didn't think about it anymore after this matter was done. It's bad now, you can't go without refueling, and refueling is tantamount to surrendering.

He drove the car near the oil depot and stopped to quietly observe the movement. After a while, I saw the old man from a distance coming out with a lunch box and walking in the direction of the city. This was an opportunity, no one had seen him except the old man, and he estimated that the old man might not be able to remember his car number that day. I had the audacity to drive the car in.

The administrator was also a young man, and he was very neat, and he quickly refueled him and collected the ticket. He's already about to start the car. The Administrator suddenly screamed and said, "Wait! He immediately stopped in front of his car, looked at his license plate and said, "Good boy, I'm looking for you, let's go, go to the public security bureau and talk!" I've been checking with the old man for two days, and you're fine! "It turns out that the old man really remembered the car number!

From here, for two hours, he was on trial. After being trained, restrained, and written a confession of mistake, he left his work unit and name before he was allowed to drive the car. The two bad old men also complained that he had been going for too long. Do you know how these two hours passed? Do you know what trouble there is in returning to Urumqi? I want to compete everywhere, and I always hit a wall everywhere, why can't I always catch up with good luck? After saying that, the tires deflated again.

Break down and break down, and leave late and leave late. He pumped the tires again and again, blaming the two old men for all the bad luck. They didn't have to spend the night in the Dombrador, and even the headscarf was given to the daughter of the female cadre (he forgot that he was willing to stay an extra day so that he could have more contact with the Russian girl).

Xie Lao has studied Buddhism for many years and has written many papers on Buddhist philosophy and Buddhist art, which are highly valued by Chinese and foreign people. He used Marxism, dialectical materialism, and historical materialism as weapons to discuss Buddhism, and his analysis was quite incisive and correct. However, this does not guarantee that he will not be influenced by Buddhist teachings. "Compassion-based", "slow things are round", "no quarrel with the world" and other principles of life, there are quite traces of his body.

He is a little pitiful Xiaoman, a young man, with an outdated and rotten concept, when will he be able to come to his senses and get out of this selfish, narrow-minded, blind and ignorant sea of suffering? The poisonous juice infused by "***" for ten years cannot be eliminated with a few words, and it will only be effective by the long-term washing of the entire social force. So he often tolerates Xiaoman. It is believed that getting along in the short term, using probation and example to teach is more effective than criticizing and arguing. He was the eldest, and it was his duty to work hard to make sure that the trip was completed from beginning to end. Xiao Man threw Dr. Guo on the grassland, he was very sad, he felt that he had not completed the task and failed to fulfill his responsibility!

Xiaoman put the gas bag down. He said, "You rest, I'll keep fighting!" ”

Xiaoman said: "When we are angry, we are left to put the wheels on and smoke a cigarette first." Actually, I don't expect you to do much work, I just can't get used to the old man's style of putting on a stinky shelf. We are equal! It's like the stones and eggs on the Gobi Desert, you are bigger, I am smaller, but the identity is the same, it is all stones, and you can't press it on me. As he spoke, Xiao Man picked up a flat stone chip with one hand and played with a cymbal.

Xie Lao said: "But this stone always collides with each other like this, either the big one is broken and the small one is broken, or the two are all over!" ”

Xiaoman said: "Broken is broken, this thing is useless!" ”

Xie Lao said: "It's useless to scatter them one by one, what if there is something that glues it together?" For example, cement, if you use water to combine them together, you become concrete. Bridges can be built, roads can be paved, and skyscrapers dozens of stories high can be built. So it has value, and people treat the stone as a treasure. The important thing is that each stone has to be willing to contribute to its place. Don't always want you to press me, I will press you. If everyone wants to gain the upper hand and grab the first floor, it will be useless. Don't you see the foam in the pot when you stew meat, they can't stay under something else, and they try to get out of the picture. On the surface, it was satisfied, but the cooker skimmed it out with a spoon! ”

"Frightened, you old man can really speak! You're not a stone, you're not a bubble, how do you know they think so? ”

"I'm using this analogy, and that's how I behave."

"Not necessarily, people always collide with each other, and whoever is hard will take advantage."

"Not necessarily, you're driving, and you let a car come from the other side, why don't you hit it?"

"Then there are traffic rules!"

"There are rules for driving, but there are no rules for behaving and doing things? However, some of the rules of being a human being are written on paper, and some are engraved on people's hearts! ”

"What rules are you?"

In a word, it is convenient for comrades to be with others. Those who teach have to eat, those who sell food have to get a haircut, and those who have a haircut have to take a car to work. When the barber went to work, he was angry with the driver, and he was not happy when he worked, so he was willing to cut the wrong scissors; The rice seller saw that his hair was ugly, and his heart was awkward, so he allowed to put heavy salt, and the food he taught did not go well, and he was not careful in class; It happened that the son of the car driver was studying in his class, so he didn't study well, he couldn't get into college, and the driver was not happy! ”

Xiao Man clapped his hands and laughed: "You are so funny." ”

"You said that if you turn it over, everyone respects others and is convenient for others, isn't it convenient for everyone, and our lives will be happier?"

"Of course it is, but now that everyone doesn't do that, I can't be guilty of being angry!"

"If everyone doesn't start with themselves, won't there always be no beginning? In fact, someone has been doing this for a long time. If you think about it, haven't you ever encountered a time when you are happy to do things, and if others don't create convenience for you, can you do things happily? ”

Xiao Man suddenly remembered the old man who looked at the oil depot, and the old man who was at the police station just now went straight to the responsibility to exonerate him, otherwise the police would not let him go.

Xie Lao said: "This is convenient for people, but it is not only for me to live comfortably. There is also a greater goal, that is, to make concerted efforts to build our motherland into a prosperous and strong country, and this is called the ideal. The communist ideal is cement, and if you take this, you can condense our stones and eggs into one, and you will cast Optimus Prime. ”

"Oh, you're educating me!" Xiao Man suddenly understood, and put on a straight face, "No way!" When the whole country gets better, I'll keep up. I'm not stupid when everyone else is taking a bargain! ”

"Idle talk, how to educate you? It seems that the loss may still be cheaper. In the '*****', '***' asked me to write an article exposing the 'revisionist educational line', saying that I had written it and reused me. I didn't write it, and I was never released in prison ever since. Everyone felt sorry for me, saying that I didn't know the times and suffered a big loss. An old colleague of mine took over my assignment and suddenly became a 'red expert', and he became a *** committee member, and people said that he picked up the bargain. All of a sudden, '***' knocked me down, and he was still 'making it clear' when I got out of prison. People also said that I didn't write an article at that time because I picked up a 'cheap', and he didn't resist it at that time because he suffered a loss! In fact, each according to its own rules, plant melons and get melons, there is neither cheap nor loss here. When people die, they settle accounts, and there is always a balance between what they pay and how much they get, but some people pay attention to moral conscience, and some people care about material wealth, and there will be some things that exchange this for that, and exchange that for this, and right and wrong are their own public judgments......"

The more Xie Lao spoke, the more he forgot the object, and the more Xiaoman listened, the more confused he became, so he threw away his cigarette butt and got up to get on the wheel of the car. Xie Lao didn't seem to understand some of the words, but he secretly felt that his father and brother had taken advantage of a small advantage and suffered a big loss. If he didn't have a "*****", he would have studied step by step, and he would have graduated from college, at least a few years after graduating from secondary school. Not to mention that the work will be better than the current situation, at least when others mention the "smashing and robbing" elements, they don't have to worry about weakness and blush.

The wheels were good, he called Xie Lao into the car, drove straight to Feng Shinan's side, and said in a kind tone that he had never had before: "Comrade painter, please get in the car!" ”

Feng Shinan sat there and shook his head, and said, "You go your way, I don't take your car and go back to Yili!" You mischievous all the way and even threw our friends on the prairie, this is intolerable! I will never ride in your car again, we will have a day of reckoning! ”

Xiaoman pushed the car door and scolded: "Get out of your mother's ass, don't be ashamed, see if you can bite Lao Tzu in half!" ”

The door slammed shut and drove away. Feng Shinan vaguely heard Xie Lao shouting something in the car, and threw something out as the rear door opened a crack. Feng Shinan caught up and looked, it was Xie Lao's windbreaker, and there were two apples and half a bottle of liquor rolled in it.

Feng Shinan nibbled on an apple and drank a few sips of wine, for the first time since he left Beijing, he was so happy, he finally made a decisive thing, straightened his waist and shot at the unhealthy wind, worthy of Lao Guo and worthy of himself.

This is a big victory for him as a human being. When he was young, he was confident, irritable, and sharp-edged, and the anti-rightist struggle did not give him a hat, but it frightened him. For the next twenty years, one movement followed another, so that when there was no movement, he prepared for the movement that could and would have been. At first, I forced myself to swallow what I was going to say and suppress the anger that I was going to make, but then I got used to it. After the Third Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee, his nervousness and vigilance were gone, and he was no longer ready to be beaten and hated, but he would no longer confidently say the opposite opinion in front of people. I know that my opinion is right, but I can't say it. A woman chases him, and he doesn't love any woman at all, especially not this woman. But when people wanted to see him, he didn't dare to refuse in person, and he didn't dare to accept it categorically when people gave him small things. It took half a year for him to explain the situation to the organization with a red face. The organization asked him to write a letter to refuse, and he wrote the letter and showed it to the organization, and people looked at it and said, "Is it okay for your tone to be so soft and soft?" He wrote another one, and it wasn't much tougher. Or did the relevant leader talk to the person for him once before he solved it. provoked the woman to complain: "If you don't speak early, delay me for half a year!" ”

An unknown person wrote to him, saying that he was crippled, abused by his family, wanted to be independent and had no place to live, and that if the painter did not give him some money to build a straw hut, he would commit suicide, and he sent 200 yuan. After sending it, he felt that it was inappropriate, and wrote a letter to the commune according to the address of the letter, asking the commune to pay attention to this person and not to let him die. A few days later, a letter came from the local commune saying that the man was a liar, who was neither poor nor suicidal, and was using the money he sent to recruit women to drink, and that the government had instructed the man to refund and review, and asked him for advice on how to deal with it. He was angry when he saw the letter for three days, and on the fourth day the liar himself came with a letter to him, begging for mercy, and saying that he could not pay it back soon after the money was spent. He then wrote a letter to the local commune to intercede on behalf of the swindler, saying: "If the money can be returned, it will be refunded, and if there are difficulties, it can be relieved or not returned, and the main thing for young people is to educate ......." He regretted it again when the letter was sent, and he felt in his heart that such people should be severely punished. He was frugal himself, and it was not easy to get 200 yuan, but he couldn't say it.

Xiaoman threw Dr. Guo on the grassland and angered him. He can bear the grievances he suffers. To insult his friends, his guests, and not to take drastic measures, is tantamount to insulting others himself. He has made it, and he has made it, what is there? It is nothing more than sitting on the Gobi Desert for a few more hours, but you can enjoy the happiness of the victor, the happiness of overcoming your own weaknesses.

Looking back and thinking about Xie Sansi, he seemed to stand on a new height, and he felt a little pity for him.

He's a real expert. In Urumqi, he listened to Xie Lao's report, talking about Buddhist art and Western Regions culture, he was really full of economy, such as "Fanyana", "Kizil", and "Kubudura"; What is the "Gandhara modeling style", "the skinny and clear appearance of the Northern Dynasty", "the Bodhisattva of the Tang Dynasty is like a palace baby", the head is the Tao, such as a number of treasures. Compared to him, he is simply illiterate! But this old man is a weak man in life, retreating everywhere and compromising everything. Although the vice minister in Beijing kept his promise, after arriving in Xinjiang, he was stopped by his friend Vice President Lin, and as a result, those who should have been rewarded were still repaid, but they were still delayed when they should have been delayed, but they did not enjoy all the conveniences of official reception -- official reception, they would send a car for them to visit Yili, and send special personnel to take care of their lives and arrange their schedules. Now I still have to pay for my own car rental, and I have such a driver.

In front of this driver, this big expert and university scholar seems to be three generations lower. The driver mocked him and called him "Xie Lao'er", and he responded; The driver set up a shelf, he was busy eating, serving tea and melons to serve him; He had cataracts, but he gave up his sunglasses to the driver; He had coronary heart disease, but he risked his life to help the driver fix his car. Feng Shinan was disgusted by the driver's various performances, but he couldn't tear his face and quarrel with him, he was angry that he didn't have the courage to tear his face! But Xie Lao was calm, neither angry with the driver nor angry with himself. How can this kind of person not have any anger at all? Feng Shinan did not understand Buddhism, and he suspected that "compassion-based" was intrinsically related to Tolstoy's "do not resist evil".

Something flashed in the distance, and I heard the sound of a car, and where did the car come from in the middle of the night? He stood on the road and watched, the car was coming from the direction of Nilek, he had not seen a living thing for several hours, and suddenly he saw a car that was very kind, which reminded him that he was still in the human world. Suddenly, he felt that the stars in the sky were brighter, the wind was lighter, and his mood was cheerful.

The car drove closer, and he squeaked to stop the car when he was five or six meters away, and as he opened the car door, someone shouted: "Comrade Feng, isn't it?" ”

The voice was very rusty, Feng Shinan walked over to the headlights, a few people got out of the car, and a doctor Guo came out from behind:

"Lao Feng, why did you stop here, Xie Lao? What about jeeps? ”

An inexplicable impulse brought tears to Feng Shinan's eyes, and he said: "The car is gone, I will not take the car in protest against the driver who threw you off!" ”

People laughed and admired at the same time. Lao Guo said: "Why bother for me! How dangerous it is, get in the car! In front of the headlights, Lao Guo introduced several other people to Feng Shinan: one is the director, one is the director, and the other is an expert.

He was helped into the car by everyone, and found that there was a woman sitting in the first row of seats on the car, and he saw him neither speak nor move. People asked Feng Shinan to sit in the first row, and he excused himself and sat down behind the woman. The car drove away, and he asked Lao Guo how he could run into these chiefs and this car? Lao Guo said that on the night they left, the car drove from the Tangbula grassland to the bee farm. The car also came from Urumqi, but they took the south road when they came, and they had to take the north road when they went back. When they crossed the Tianshan Mountains, they also saw the Beijing jeep parked on the Tangbula grassland, and when they arrived at the collector's tent, they learned that Feng Shinan and his gang had just left there.

Feng Shinan is not good at socializing, and after asking these few words, he didn't have anything to say, so he sat silently with his eyes closed. Gradually, he felt that something was wrong, as if a pair of eyes were watching him in the dark, and a familiar, disturbing smell wafted around him. He looked up and saw that the woman was turning her head to look at him, and when she met his eyes, she didn't dodge or dodge. Feng Shinan stared for a moment and whispered, "Is it Jinping?" ”

The whole car burst out laughing.

"I'll see when you recognize me!"

Feng Shinan subconsciously expressed joy: "Why are you here......"

"Didn't I say earlier that I was going to Xinjiang to collect information?"

"You, how did you get here......"

"I'm going to Donbra too! I know you hate me and don't want to travel with me, so when I heard that you were going to the north, I came from the south on purpose. But what should I do if the road is narrow, and I run into it? ”

People laughed again. There was a person in the black field who said: "Comrade Feng, don't let down the kindness of the vice minister!" He was always worried that it would be inconvenient for you and Xie Lao to act alone in Beijing, so he specially instructed Comrade Jinping to come here to look for you, and strive to act with you, so that there would be a response, so he deliberately came to meet your line. When you arrived at Nilek, you learned that you had gone back the way you had come, and you chased you all night! ”

Feng Shinan asked, "Where are you going after you arrive in Yining?" ”

The director said: "Let's discuss it in Yining, I heard that you haven't been anywhere else except Tangbra, go around more, we have our own car, it's very convenient." ”

The director interjected and said, "Don't worry, you won't even charge gas money." Dr. Guo has already explained the situation of your car, and told him to go back by himself and settle accounts with him again in the autonomous region. If you don't deal with it, you can't do it, I'll call back first when I get to Yining! ”

Feng Shinan asked, "How many of you still have other tasks, right?" ”

The director said: "Nothing else, it is our task to ensure that you visit well!" In his early years, the vice minister worked in our region and made contributions to the peaceful liberation of Xinjiang. Comrade Jinping went back to Xinjiang for the first time in decades, and we accompanied her to walk around and have a look, and she went back to report to the old chief, so that he could rest assured! The seeds they sowed in their early years are now bearing fruit......"

Jinping listened to Feng Shinan's throat as if he was holding it, and snorted lightly twice, knowing that he would not be very useful when he heard this, so he laughed.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Laugh at you for not summing up some lessons!"

"What lesson?"

"Do you want to take a private tour next time that doesn't alarm the authorities? Does it work? ”

Feng Shinan was about to find a suitable word to refute her, but the car suddenly stopped, and the driver said loudly: "There is a Beijing jeep parked on the side of the road in front!" ”

People ask, "Anyone?" ”

"A young man is pumping up, and a white-haired man is helping him bang on the tires!"

Everyone leaned over and looked forward.

Feng Shinan said to himself: "It's anchored again, this should be the tenth time!" ”

Beijing, December 1982.