In order to keep a place where he could set foot, Bai Tan sorted and collected the garbage accumulated inside and outside the cave, kept some for use, discarded some, and sorted out the rest, thinking about when to resell it and how much to exchange for two dollars.

After that, Bai Zang went out independently a few times, according to Bai Tan's teaching, he waited for a while near the garbage dump to see if anyone came to look for Ye Mingzhu.

Bai Tan's nature is hard to change. Every time he sees the radiant, gorgeous and elegant antique treasures, he can't move. After bumping into the night pearl that Bai Zang picked up by accident, he held it in his hand for a few days and played with it over and over again. , Watching, and writing two or three pages of thoughts through the skylight.

However, a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way.After all, the Ye Mingzhu was not his own. Bai Tan was afraid that if the owner accidentally lost it, he would have become an ant on a hot pot by now, so he took it out like a piece of flesh, let Bai Zang hold it, and waited for the owner to come. Searching.

Unexpectedly, Bai Zang wandered around the garbage dump every day, and never saw anyone approaching him. Thinking of the obsession with this bead in Bai Tan's peach blossom eyes, and the ecstatic appearance when he first saw it, he was a little glad that it was Wuzhu. He deliberately rummaged through the trash, hoping to find other ancient relics.

One day, Bai Zang was holding a piece of bamboo stick and was busy with his head bowed. He saw a few people dressed in different clothes coming from a distance, talking about something in their mouths, pointing at Bai Zang from time to time. , it seems that the topic is also related to him.

"Comrade Public Security, look, it's him!" Ge Laoshuan smiled courteously, and explained: "This kid came to our village to buy things before, and he seemed to be looking for someone to save him or something."

Without waiting for Comrade Public Security to ask questions, an old man wearing black-rimmed glasses and a silver-gray suit asked eagerly, "Son, have you seen this man? He's my student." As he spoke, he took out a It was an old photo with yellowish hair, and there was a blurred picture of a person in snow clothes and black hair, and his complexion was as smooth as jade.

Bai Zang was staring at them defensively at first, his eyes were as quiet and cold as a wolf's. The people who scanned the photo couldn't help being a little stunned. He didn't know what this small, paper-like thing was called, but He is very familiar with the people above.

Seeing Bai Zang's silence, the young man dressed in a neat uniform and with an upright face said: "Little comrade, if you have seen the person in the photo, please tell us quickly, it is our unshirkable responsibility to help others and help those in need. .”

It was as if a weight was tied to the tip of Baizang's heart, which made his whole life ache, and he couldn't figure out why, so he licked his dry lips and said vaguely, "Brother..."

The elegant old man was a little deaf, he was startled when he heard the words: "What?"

Baizang lowered his eyes and murmured, "Brother."

Bai Tan thought that he would be trapped in the deep mountains for a long time and degenerate into a savage. He never expected that there is no unparalleled road. Bai Zang just went out for a trip, and when he came back, he led a few people, but they His condition was not good, his clothes were all torn by thorn bushes, and there were eye-catching bloodstains on his hands, feet and cheeks, making him look particularly distressed.

Leaving aside other things, Bai Tan suddenly saw Professor Wen, as if in a dream, hugging the old man with tears in his eyes and saying: "I almost died here!"

Professor Wen blamed himself: "I didn't protect you students well."

The teacher and the student talked and laughed, telling each other about their various experiences after the dispersal. When Bai Tan heard that there were still five or six students missing, he immediately couldn't sit still, and said to Professor Wen: "You are so old. Running back and forth, how can my body bear it? My feet will be fully healed if I take care of them, and we will go find them with you then!"

Nowadays, communication is underdeveloped, and here is a mountainous area with rough and difficult roads. Let alone foreigners, even locals often get lost. What's more, some remote villages have no external roads, and bicycles and cars cannot enter at all. Go, you can imagine how difficult it is to find someone.

When the two talked, several comrades from the public security who had come to search together stood aside to rest, with a slight smile on their faces.

Only Baizang stood there like a wooden stake, not speaking, and was incompatible with the cave he had lived in for more than ten years.

Before Bai Tan was carried down the mountain, he held Bai Zang's hand and discussed with him, "Let's leave here and live a new life, shall we?"

Baizang asked sullenly, "Another kind?"

Bai Tan's smile was soft and full of comfort, and he said in a gentle voice, "Yes, if you go outside, you can study and go to school, make friends, and meet many people."

Baizang pondered for a long time, inspecting every inch of land and every corner of the cave back and forth, reluctant to part with it.

Bai Tan knew that under the circumstances of the fledgling bird, Bai Zang naturally had a deep affection for this place. Once he was about to leave, there would definitely be a struggle and pain in his heart. He couldn't bear to make things difficult for Bai Zang. After teaching him tirelessly for so long, it was hard for Baizang to touch a corner of human society. If he let go of it at this time, he would definitely shrink back into his shell again, thinking and behaving like wild animals in the forest.

After a long, long time, when Professor Wen couldn't help but urge him, Bai Zang said in a low voice, "I, brother..."

After going down the mountain, Bai Zang kept holding onto the corner of Bai Tan's clothes tightly, as if afraid of being abandoned by him, Bai Tan had to pat the back of Bai Zang's hand from time to time.

In this day and age, education is relatively backward and talents are scarce, so no matter where cultural elements go, they are looked up to by others.As a professor at a leading institution of higher learning in China, Professor Wen is well-known in the circle, and he has some connections. After he finished reporting the situation, they all extended a helping hand.

Under the mobilization of Ge Laoshuan, Bai Tan, Bai Zang, and Professor Wen were temporarily placed in the villagers' homes. Professor Bai Tan and Tong Wen had a lot to say, asked carefully about the situation after the team broke up, and discussed the next Where should I start looking for someone? Baizang was quiet the whole time, not interrupting or interjecting casually, only keeping his gaze on Baitan's face.

The houses of the peasant family were simple and shabby, and Bai Tan and Bai Zang were assigned to a large bed. When they were resting, Bai Zang looked uneasy and refused to close his eyes, staring at the void with piercing eyes.

Finally got out of danger and met an acquaintance, Bai Tan is in a good mood today, so excited that he can't sleep, through the cold moonlight, he can see the uneasiness in Bai Zang's eyes, he understands his worries in a moment of thought, and jokes with Bai Zang intentionally: : "Why don't you sleep?"

Baizang turned his head to look at him, and his pronunciation was still unclear and fluent when he spoke, "You, are you going? No, me?"

"Kids, what are you thinking?" Bai Tan squeezed the flesh on the side of Bai Zang's face, and said with a smile: "I'm your brother, how can I leave you alone?"

Probably because he just arrived in an unfamiliar environment and couldn't adapt well, Baizang was somewhat repulsive to Geba Village, and also hated the approach of other people, so he stayed wholeheartedly by Baitan's side and followed him step by step for a whole day, even when he was sleeping, Baitan comforted him. A few words are useless.

In the end, Bai Tan really had no other choice, so he stretched out his hand, and held Bai Zang under the bed, "You are so clever, you can wake up when brother moves, now let you catch it, don't worry, right?"

As expected, Bai Zang smiled childishly.

Bai Tan couldn't help laughing and cursing: "You brat, you have a lot of ghosts!"

Bai Zang slept until the sun was up. He was rarely so lazy and relaxed. When he opened his eyes, he was still in a daze, subconsciously looking for Bai Tan, but there was no figure of that person on the other side of the bed. ?

It was chilly under the quilt, as if I had been away for a long time.

Baizang didn't know why, but suddenly his heart skipped a beat, he stood up and was about to walk out in big strides.

Unexpectedly, Ge Laoshuan was hiding outside the door, poking his head, looking in furtively, and they bumped into each other unexpectedly.

Now, Ge Laoshuan didn't hesitate anymore, and said straight to the point: "Wait, are you looking for your brother? Oh, don't look for him, he's already gone!"

After hearing the words, Bai Zang, who had gone far away, came back like a gust of wind, stared fixedly at Ge Laoshuan, opened his mouth and roared a few times, with a sad, indignant and wronged expression.

Bai Zang wanted to say that Bai Tan would not deceive him, he promised himself last night that he would never leave him alone, absolutely not!

But the sad thing is that the clumsy and tongue-twisting Bai Zang didn't know how to justify at all, so he could only listen to Ge Laoshuan's every word and stab him in the heart with a knife.

"Really, baby, I didn't fool you. Your brother is a college student, but he is a person with university knowledge. The higher-ups specially issued a document, saying that there are serious things waiting to be done. Your brother and Professor Wen both care about everything." They can’t take a bite and leave, besides, if they don’t leave, are they still waiting for us in this poor mountain valley for the rest of their lives?”

"Oh, don't be angry, don't be angry, your brother has no choice but, according to the professor Wen beside him, there seems to be some urgent matter waiting to be dealt with."

"Oh, by the way, your brother said that it will take a lot of hard work for us to take good care of you these few days and let you go to school. You can't be ignorant of him. He said this One time is very important, and it is inconvenient to reveal too many words, but as soon as I finish my work, I will come right away... Hey, hey, why are you going?!"

Ge Laoshuan uttered Bai Tan's words like peas pouring out of a bamboo tube, all he wanted was to persuade this irritable boy, but he didn't know that the other party didn't pay attention to what he said, kicked open the courtyard door, and wandered around for a while Turning around, the wings of his nose fluttered quickly, sniffing what remained in the air, a trace of very light and very faint breath, and chased westward without saying a word.

Reluctantly, Professor Bai Tan Tongwen and others had already gone a long way, and changed to a bus after reaching the town.There was a lot of noise in the station, people pushing small carts to do business, people smoking with newspapers, people squatting in corners to eat, children crying loudly, young women bluffing people with stern faces...

Fish and dragons were mixed together, cars came and went, the dust splashed up to three feet high, the smell of Bai Tan had long since been washed away.

Bai Zang stood in the middle of the crowd, letting strange faces come into view, his face was full of bewilderment, like a wounded beast, not even capable of licking its wounds by itself.

"Do you have eyes? Good dogs don't get in the way, do you understand?" Someone felt that Bai Zang was in the way, so he couldn't help spitting, and pushed him away rudely.

Bai Zang fell to the ground, looking at the hurried passers-by, he felt confused and puzzled in his heart.

Is he doing something wrong?

He put his hand into his pocket, pinched the round night pearl, as if he wanted to draw strength from it, and thought for a long time without moving.

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