lanterns illuminate rivers and mountains

Ye Zhen thought that Long Jiwei's "going to Yunnan" meant going to Lijiang, Dali, such tourist attractions for a drive, eating, and wandering around.However, after two days and two nights of bumping in the car, he finally realized how wrong he was.

Ye Zhen had completely lost his sense of direction. They passed through bustling towns and dilapidated mountain villages, but the wheels never stopped.After entering the mountainous area for a day, the road conditions were no longer suitable for driving. Long Jiwei put his bag on his back and pressed Ye Zhen's shoulder: "Get down and change cars."

Ye Zhen got out of the car in a daze, surrounded by deep mountains and old forests, everywhere was thick and faint green, the crowns of the trees were intertwined, and the sky could hardly be seen.

There was the sound of brakes coming down the hillside. He looked up and saw a jeep parked 200 meters away from them. Several well-trained men got off the car one after another, and someone brought a horse from the forest.

A familiar figure got out of the car, and suddenly looked in Ye Zhen's direction with a heartbeat.

——That turned out to be Kurosawagawa.

Ye Zhen was taken aback. Could it be possible that this barren mountain would become popular? !

Long Jiwei glanced down the hillside, and said calmly: "We've already been with us, don't worry about them."

There are actually very few people on their side. Long Jiwei, Ye Zhen, a driver, and two shadow-like men who are serious and unsmiling, have almost no sense of presence.As for Kurosawagawa, at a rough glance, there were seven or eight bodyguards. If they fought hard, they would definitely not be at a disadvantage.

Ye Zhen was worried, but Long Jiwei was very calm, and led the people into the depths of the dense forest.After walking for about an hour or two, I heard the murmur of water and the faint lowing of cows on the side of the road.

Long Jiwei cut down the dense bushes with a knife, and saw a small stream, with an ox cart and two horses parked beside the stream, and two young men dressed as Miao nationality kneeling by the water to wash their faces.

Ye Zhen was amazed and asked, "What's going on?"

Long Jiwei pressed his shoulder to signal to stop talking, but he called out in Miao language.

Those two people got up quickly, ran over overjoyed, and talked to Long Jiwei in Miao language for a while.

Ye Zhen heard question marks all over his head, poked the driver and asked, "Do you understand?"

"I don't understand, this is the old Miao language, and few people can speak it now." The driver looked at Long Jiwei with reverence in his eyes: "Long Chu is a Gu Miao, and his branch is quite high..."

Long Jiwei suddenly pointed to Ye Zhen and said something, which seemed to be an introduction.

The two looked at Ye Zhen with embarrassment on their faces.

Ye Zhen was very sensitive, and immediately pulled Long Jiwei's sleeve: "What did they say?"

"I want to take you into the village," Long Jiwei said, "but you are not a Miao, and they dare not let you in."

"Going into the village to do something?!"

Long Jiwei ignored him again, turned his head and said a few words to those two people, his voice sounded like he was giving an order.

Those two people had no choice, bowed their heads to Long Jiwei and bowed deeply, turned around and rode on their horses, and quickly disappeared into the dense forest.

"I should dress you in Miao clothes," Long Jiwei said thoughtfully, "Just say that you are Xuanlin's child, because your genetic IQ is too low, and you can't speak Miao language so far, so you don't have so much trouble gone."

Ye Zhen: "..."

A few of them got into the bullock cart, and the two shadow-like subordinates immediately took on the heavy responsibility of driving the cart consciously.The old cow was proficient in the mountains and forests, and soon walked out of the hillside, walking along the stream all the way to the deeper mountains.

Ye Zhen lay on the creaking floor of the bullock cart, holding Long Jiwei's thigh with his front paws, and asked flatteringly, "Mom, are you really a Miao person?"

Long Jiwei asked: "Who is your mother?! Of course I am Miao, don't you think I look different from ordinary Han people?"

Ye Zhen looked carefully, Long Jiwei's face was very deep and handsome, his skin color was darker than ordinary people, his eyes were deep and his nose was straight, and he mixed two completely different temperaments of savage and gentle, yet he looked very harmonious and very charming.

Ye Zhen wondered: "Mom, are you praising yourself for being good-looking in disguise?"

Long Jiwei: "...Student Ye Shisan, tell me clearly! Who is your mother?!"

The bullock cart went all the way to the night, and there was no trace of a cottage in front of them, so they could only sleep in the open in the barren mountains.

Fortunately, Long Jiwei had prepared tents and sleeping bags. Ye Zhen was more excited than camping. He squealed and yelled to see how people set up tents and make fires. Then he couldn't wait to get into the tent, wrapped in sleeping bags and rolled around.

His subordinates baked pancakes, stuffed dried meat and compressed vegetables for him to eat, but Ye Zhen refused to take out his sleeping bag, and only showed his head and opened his mouth to beg for food.

So his subordinates were full of veins, and could only squat on the ground with pancakes, feeding Ye Shisan who was rolling around, and had to feed saliva when he had time to prevent the child from choking to death inadvertently.

The night fell quickly, they set up a bonfire, and the two subordinates and the driver took turns to watch the night. Junior Ye Shisan fully enjoyed the preferential treatment for him as a minor, and rolled into the tent by himself to sleep.

Long Jiwei waited until Ye Zhen fell asleep before coming out of the tent. The hard soles of his military boots stepped on the fallen leaves, making a slight creaking sound.

Not far from their tent was another bonfire, and Kurosawagawa stood in the night like a solid stone statue.

He didn't know how long he had been standing here, and the muscles all over his body were tense like a taut string.He didn't move suddenly until he saw Long Jiwei, and asked with a smile, "Where's Ye Shisan?"

Long Jiwei's voice was thinner than the night, and he said softly: "—Go back."

"I want to talk to Ye Shisan, please..."

"If you dare to walk into the territory of the Miao people, I guarantee that you will never return, and in the end you will be rotten to the bone."

"Director Long Jiu," Kuisawa's face was as calm as warm water, and he didn't even move his tone, "I will go around the Miao people's cottage, but I must see Ye Shisan, I have something to say to him .”

Long Jiwei sneered, didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, turned around and walked back.

After walking two steps, he suddenly turned around and asked with a smile, "I heard how many times did Chu Ci slap you that day?"

Kurosawagawa said in a low voice: "I made an abrupt mistake, and I regret it very much. Mr. Chu was right to teach me a lesson."

Long Jiwei stared at him for a while, but unexpectedly said nothing, turned around and strode away.

Of course, Ye Zhen didn't know about the episode that night. When he woke up the next morning, his eyes were full of greenery, and the mountain stream was full of birds singing. The spectacular scene made him stupid at the time.

But Kurosawagawa and his party did not know when they left the camp. Long Jiwei knew that he must still be following behind, but he was quite winking, presumably deliberately avoiding the hunting area of ​​the Miao people.

The ox cart traveled unhurriedly through the mountains for three days, traveling during the day and camping at night.In the past three days, Ye Zhen made all kinds of noises. Sometimes he wanted to drink Yonghe soybean milk, and sometimes he wanted to eat chocolate balls;

In the early morning of the fourth day, the subordinates found a package at the door of the tent, and when they brought it back, they found two large pieces of chocolate and a piece of fragrant barbecue.

The driver was terrified, and hurried to look for Long Jiwei: "Long Chu! Long Chu! Are those Japanese still following us? What should we do? Do you want to..."

Long Jiwei was silent for a while, and said, "Give it to Ye Shisan."

"But if he asked how, I said who gave it?"

"How could he ask? How can a child remember so much after seeing the food." Long Jiwei smiled lightly, but there was no smile in his eyes: "——It's just a waste of effort."

The driver was dubious, and took the chocolate to Ye Zhen. Sure enough, when Ye Zhen saw the chocolate, his eyes lit up and he jumped up and down, and he never thought of asking where it came from.

On the fifth day of the ox cart’s journey, when Ye Zhen was nestling in the carriage and licking his last half of chocolate, the car suddenly stopped with a “moo——”.

"Here we are." Long Jiwei picked up his bag, got up and got out of the carriage.

Ye Zhen followed out in a daze with snacks in his mouth, only glanced around, and was stunned.

I saw a waterfall appearing in front of me at an unknown time, the water mist was transpiring under the sun, and lush trees could be seen faintly on the rugged mountainside.Under the clear sky, a huge Miao Village reveals its magnificent corner.

Ye Zhen tremblingly asked: "Where is this... what is this place?! What are we doing here?!"

A loud horn sounded in the air, and then the whole Miao village rang with silver bells.The hanging gate opened with a bang, and two rows of strong Miao boys rushed down the mountain road, and soon a line of hundreds of feet stretched out, like two long dragons welcoming guests.

Long Jiwei held Ye Zhen's hand, and said calmly: "Come home to visit relatives, and I will teach you by the way."