Interlude

Author: There is a detective

Interlude

With the help of the map and compass, Lu Nan left the jungle and spent two yuan to ride on a walking tractor in the countryside.

Sitting on the bricks, Lu Nan held on to the iron frame tightly, fearing that the bumpy tractor would throw him out. The driver was a local and could not speak Mandarin, but was extremely hospitable. After Lu Nan handed him two red one-yuan bills,

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The hands wearing worn-out labor protection gloves held the front of the car tightly, muttering in a dialect that Lu Nan couldn't understand at all. Lu Nan nodded politely, and then laughed with the uncle's hearty laughter.

The tractor drove to a relatively gentle road section. The uncle took out dry tobacco and glutinous rice paper from his pocket with one hand. Lu Nan stretched out his hand to help him roll it up. But the uncle turned back and handed Lu Nan a corn seed bag, which contained shredded tobacco and glutinous rice paper.

Glutinous rice paper.

Unable to resist the kindness, Lu Nan stuck out his tongue and licked the sticky rice paper, rolled one for himself, took the matchbox from his uncle and lit it.

Two people in a car, smoking choked tobacco, drove alone among the mountains.

A puff of smoke was left behind. I don't know if it was the exhaust left by the low-quality fuel burned by the tractor, or the smoke that dispersed in the wind after the two smoked.

When he arrived at a fork in the road, the uncle stopped the tractor and explained to Lu Nan in an emotional voice that he was going home. If he wanted to go to the city to work, then he would take this road. The ignorant Lu Nan jumped off the tractor and picked up his own

The snakeskin bag goes forward.

The uncle only thought that Lu Nan was a foreign kid who had crossed the border and wanted to work here to make a living. But Lu Nan only thought that the uncle was a warm and friendly tractor driver and a smoker for more than half an hour.

The scenery on the edge of Yunnan is indeed beautiful, but the destination given by Miao Lian did not have comrades waiting for him, but only a piece of information for him to complete the mission.

Passing by a village, there was a bus back to the city at the entrance of the village.

Looking at the students who were carrying bags and pulling boxes to say goodbye to their families, and the farmers who were desperately stuffing various woven bags and local products on the roof of the car, Lu Nan walked away carrying the snakeskin bag. No one here knew him, and there would be no one here.

I have an impression of a dark-skinned young man carrying a snakeskin bag, because everyone who gets on the bus has that kind of skin.

It is a gift from the sun, the color of skin possessed by workers, and even the snakeskin bag is the same.

After queuing up and walking into an overcrowded car, Lu Nan helped a girl wearing regional ethnic costumes lift her heavy linen woven bag, which contained a full bag of peanuts, potatoes, and perhaps cornmeal.

This bag contains food for young scholars. Two years ago, Lu Nan would also carry a sack and go to study just like she did.

Study hard and study hard.

Lu Nan, who was trapped in endless loneliness, suddenly found a glimmer of light. Everything he and his comrades had done was not because of these students who actively studied and ordinary people who worked hard to get out of trouble.

"Thanks."

The girl's face was red and she said it in a local dialect. As a result, Lu Nan didn't understand what she was saying at all. He just nodded politely and smiled.

After squeezing onto the line train, the thin and capable female conductor shouted loudly to the people who got on the train to buy tickets.

For a moment, Lu Nan didn't know where he should get off the car. He only knew that he was far away from the location given by Miao Lian. It might take several days to walk through the virgin forest. If there were any dangers or difficulties during the period, the mission would fail.

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Moreover, he did not carry any supplies with him and walked through the jungle alone and empty-handed. By the time he reached the designated location, he was already exhausted and exhausted. Whether he could complete the assassination was still a question.

"Those who get on the bus buy a ticket, those who don't buy a ticket buy a ticket, and if you don't buy a ticket, you get off!"

Lu Nan took out the folded map and looked around. He recognized the longitude, latitude and numbers on it. Just when Lu Nan was analyzing where he should get off the bus, a shy and green voice reached his ears, and the girl blushed.

Look at Lu Nan.

"Brother, where are you going?"

"Uh~~~"

Although the girl tried her best to speak Mandarin fluently, the accent of her local accent still made her look inexplicably regretful and shy after speaking.

Lu Nan smiled and said, "I want to go to Pengzhai, but I just don't know where to get off the bus."

"Going to Pengzhai?" the girl said with red cheeks: "Pengzhai is very far away. You can only get off the car at the roadside and have to walk for several hours to get there. I am going to the town. I will remind you when the time comes.

car."

"Thank you very much. I was just wondering where to get off the bus."

The conductor squeezed over and shouted in his native accent: "Go to Pengzhai, eight and a half yuan."

"Uh~~~"

Lu Nan still didn't hear what she said clearly, so he could only focus on the girl, who covered her mouth and chuckled.

"Brother, the ticket to Pengzhai costs eight yuan and five cents."

"Oh, thank you."

Lu Nan took out the change from his pocket and handed it to the conductor. Thinking that it was so expensive, he yelled at the price randomly. He took the change and put it into his pocket. The bumpy feeling continued to surround Lu Nan, and he held the handle in the car.

Lu Nan almost fell asleep while standing.

Suddenly, the girl sitting in the car seat asked: "Brother, what do you do? Your accent sounds like you are not from here."

"oh."

Wiping the corner of his mouth, Lu Nan said: "The tractor driver was deceived into working here, and this is what happened."

"Ah!" The girl opened her mouth wide and looked at him in surprise.

"Hey, it's a little thing. You have to study hard, otherwise you will have to work everywhere to make a living like my brother. I was tricked into working here for more than a year without any wages, and I was even beaten up."

After a long silence, the girl said: "My father was also deceived into working, and he has not come back yet."

"ah?"

Now it was Lu Nan's turn to be surprised.

In the noisy carriage, an unknown person lit a piece of choking tobacco, and white smoke filled the carriage. The girl opened the window to breathe, turned her head to look at the scenery she had seen many times, and Lu Nan also set her sights on

On the scenery outside the window.

After a long silence, the girl was in the mood to chat again.

"Brother, where are you from?"

Lu Nan said casually: "Northerners."

"Then you must have been to many places."

"right."

Lu Nan said with recollection: "I have been to many places, including deserts, seasides, grasslands, and plateaus. I have seen the majestic Great Wall, the rough sea, and the boundless desert.

One time, I went boating with my friends, but the wind and waves were so strong that our boat capsized. The wind and waves were very strong, and we climbed ashore exhausted. When we were very thirsty, we found a coconut tree on the shore.

, so I climbed up the tree to pick coconuts. When I got down from the tree, I found that all the coconuts I had picked had been snatched by my friends. I was so angry that I kicked them into the sea one by one."

"Hahaha······"

The girl smiled and said: "Really, your friends, don't they even leave one for you?"

"Hi." Lu Nan shook his head and said, "Don't mention those brats, they are all very annoying."

As they chatted, Lu Nan also let down his guard and started chatting with the girl.

I don't know how long the car drove on the winding country road. The girl glanced at the roadside with a still unfinished expression on her face.

"Brother, at the small intersection in front of you, get off the car and walk forward to reach Pengzhai. By the way, aren't you going to the town and county?"

After asking the conductor to get off the bus, Lu Nan picked up the snakeskin bag and waited for the bus to stop.

"I'm going to find a friend and borrow some money from him to buy a ticket home. You have to study hard, you know?"

The girl lay on the car window and looked back at Lu Nan: "I understand, goodbye."

After getting off the bus, Lu Nan stood on the roadside and waved to her: "Goodbye, study hard."
Chapter completed!