Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 114

"Oh, that's really far away." Shang Pu looked at the navigator, put the gravel in his hand next to the table, and patted the ashes on his hands, "Mr. Jiang Qu went to the border post? What is he doing there?" , No one has come down from the mountain for three to five years."

Sitting next to him was a soldier resting. He was a soldier in Nyingchi Military District. He took off his hat and raked his hair. There was a layer of snow on his shoulder straps. Hearing what Shang Pu said, he turned his head and said, "Zhan Niangshe that The place is floating in the sky, surrounded by cliffs, not to mention people, even monkeys can’t go up. The soldiers standing guard at that place, their heels are frozen in the permafrost and they can’t get off. It’s really hard. "

Shang Pu stood next to the soldier with his waist propped up, and Chen Wei guarded behind him with his gun slung over his shoulder. The distance was not far, and the sound of the rushing river could be heard in the distance.Shang Pu had nothing to do, so he chatted with the soldiers, about Tibet, the border post, and the soldiers and civilians here.

"Where is Zhan Niang's house? Can you tell me more about it?" Shang Pu was tired from standing, so he moved a chair and sat down, crossing his legs. "We haven't been there before, so we want to know more about it."

The soldier suddenly laughed, and he pulled his trousers, revealing his boots, with splashes of mud all over the front.Shang Pu handed him a cup of hot water, and the soldier took it, waved his hands and smiled, "You can't go, don't go. What's in that place, snowy hair, glacier, Tibetan horse bear, and Tianlei, go It's not standing guard, it's cultivating immortals."

He said these words jokingly, but Chen Wei noticed an imperceptible trace of nostalgia and depression in his eyes.The soldier took a sip of hot water and held the cup in his hand. Shang Pu asked him, "Why can't we go? Now that the road has been repaired, it will take a few days to drive there."

"What can you do when you go there? There are nine months of minefields in the whole year, and before you go up the mountain, a lightning strike will bury you." The soldier propped his knees indifferently, squinting at the lake, "I'll go to that place, It’s much clearer than you. Some things don’t matter if you just listen to others, you have to experience it yourself to understand what we’re talking about. So don’t go, it’s very dangerous.”

Hearing what he said was interesting, Shang Pu raised his hands and asked him: "Is the natural environment bad? I know that."

The soldier laughed again, but he didn't dare to laugh because of the lack of oxygen on the plateau.Chen Wei patted the ashes off the stones, sat down, and stretched his legs to listen to the soldiers. A plateau gray eagle flew over the mountain and disappeared from sight.

"Of course I'm not just talking about the dangers of the natural environment, brother." The soldier scraped off a layer of dirt that had accumulated on the hem of his boots. "There are more dangerous things than this. You don't know, and it's best not to know."

Chen Wei sensed that there was something in the soldier's words, and he turned his head to watch the soldier's movements. His movement of scraping the mud was very slow, and the movement of the soldiers on patrol was also very slow.Here the plateau is hypoxic, and a slightly larger range of motion is prone to problems, so the time seems to be stretched.

The snowtops gleamed in the dark, and as far as the eye could see, the mountaintops were covered with white snow in veins.The soldier pointed to the snow-capped mountains in the distance and said: "Did you see that snow? It has been frozen for thousands of years, and I don't know what is buried under it. Don't go climbing the snow-capped mountains. Some monsters suddenly appear underground when you climb halfway. But it’s explained above.”

"What kind of monsters can we meet? What's in the snowy mountains? What dangerous things are there in Zhan Niang's outpost?" Chen Wei clasped his fingers tightly, wrapped in leather gloves, so as not to be too cold.

The soldier smiled and said nothing, another voice floated from the side, a little frivolously: "What monster? What other monsters are there? Xue Beng, Tibetan horse bear, human monkey! They are all monsters. What else? Tell me what else? What can there be?"

Hearing the sound, Chen Wei raised his head, and a taller figure walked to the side and sat down. He was a rough man, wearing a soldier's military uniform, with a bushy beard and a scar on his right eye.

Dao Scar looks unruly, with a kind of free and easy wildness. He is from western Sichuan, maybe he came out of Zoige Grassland, and he speaks with an accent.The original soldier stopped talking, just smiled and lowered his head to scrape the soles of his shoes, and the mud and debris fell into the crevices of the stones.

Chen Wei hugged the gun in his arms, took a breath of cold air, and smelled the faint smell of tobacco leaves on Dao Scar's body: "How could a Tibetan horse jump out of the snow? It broke in two."

The four of them laughed, and Scar took out a cigarette. They were all veterans stationed in Linzhi.Handing it to Chen Wei, Chen Wei waved his hand and said that he doesn't smoke, Scar said: "It's impossible to come here without smoking, I'm so lonely, I don't feel like I'm still alive."

A few people were silent, and the surrounding people were silent. No one dared to speak loudly here, especially those who were physically weak, and might not be able to breathe if they opened their mouths a little bit wider.It's really lonely, the army is stationed here all the year round, it's so lonely that it makes people crazy.

Dao Scar took a few puffs of cigarettes, coughed twice, and continued: "Tibet is too evil, you outsiders are new here, and you don't know a lot of things. Don't underestimate those outposts. What do you want to guard down there?" I dare not even think about it."

Chen Wei waved away the smoke, kicked the small stones under his feet, and joked: "It's really the same as it is written in the book. There are dragon veins under the plateau. Ancestral dragons and divine burials. Anyone who wants to become an immortal goes from here?"

Dao Scar shook off the soot, leaned on his knees and laughed, Shang Pu poured him a bowl of brick tea from the side, Dao Scar took it bluntly, and said thank you.The soldier next to him scraped off the mud, stomped his feet, and said, "That's about it. Don't ask, the superiors won't let us tell. Go back and look at the map, and you'll understand everything."

The soldier put his gun on his back with a clatter, the whistle on the other side suddenly sounded, and Scar dropped his cigarette butt.They got up and brushed the dust off their trousers, put on their hats and went to assemble, walking crisply.

Chen Wei looked at their backs as they walked away, and felt that the backs were full of a gloomy loneliness and distant atmosphere, which is the case for all soldiers here.Just as he was about to talk to Shang Pu, Du Yu suddenly ran over from the side and slapped Shang Pu on the head.

"What place are you jumping around all day, not afraid of bursting blood vessels." Shang Pu scolded back, "Is there something wrong? It's nothing."

"He Luan is back." Du Yu sat in a circle next to Chen Wei and said, "Take a look. There was no one in sight early in the morning, and the brothers were scared to death. They thought they would be dealt with by military law for something wrong. .”

Chen Wei tied up his shoelaces, stood up leaning on the gun, waved at the two sitting people, and walked along the sandy beach to the temporary hut where He Luan worked.Du Yu moved his butt close to Shang Pu, whispering something, but most of the time, he looked at the distant mountains silently.

There are chandeliers hanging in the shed where he works, Chen Wei opened the curtain and walked in, it was warmer anyway.When I entered, I saw a figure standing in front of the workbench, wearing the usual dusty white coat and goggles on his eyes.

"Are you back?" Chen Wei walked over and stretched out his hand to rub He Luan's hair, "I didn't get a letter when I was called away suddenly. We were all scared to death by you. What did the officer tell you to do? Are you okay?"

Seeing him coming, He Luan put down a bone in his hand, lifted up the goggles, rubbed his eyes, and said, "Teacher Jiangqu is back, do you know?"

"I know, I saw it when I was on patrol, the car of Zhan Niangshe's outpost, and the soldiers over there followed."

"Well, the teacher went to Zhan Niang's house and found someone there." He Luan said, he pulled the chair and sat down, the water glass in front of him was empty, Chen Wei poured it for him, "I saw That person... no, maybe he should say he saw me."

"Mr. Jiangqu must have traveled thousands of miles to find him. He must not be a small person. What did you say after meeting? What kind of person is he? He doesn't look like a border guard."

Chen Wei hung the gun on the wall, wiped off the water droplets and dust on the stool, and sat next to He Luan.There was no one in the shed, and the researchers were all taking samples outside. It was so quiet that they didn't dare to speak loudly.

He Luan's mood was a bit weird, but he couldn't tell what was weird, as if he had changed himself. Chen Wei had a strange feeling.He Luan rubbed a stone repeatedly, and it was only then that Chen Wei keenly realized that He Luan was actually hiding his panic.

"It's really not a border guard. He is a person who cooperated with my father. I call him an informant." He Luan said, shaking the dust from his hands, "My father was in Tibet. Now, not in the army at all, he was on a mission with many informants, looking for something in Tibet. Many people died, and that informant was one of the few survivors. Ten years ago, the father Entrusted some things to him for safekeeping, the informant has been staying at Zhan Niangshe post, he said, he has been waiting for me to come."

A gust of cold wind came in, and Chen Wei shrank his neck. He got up and closed the curtains and fastened them with hooks. Mouth covered.

"I heard Teacher Jiangqu mentioned that he knew your father, and he also knew the purpose of your father's coming to Tibet. Did the informant say what they were looking for? Why did the informant stay in Zhan Niangshe? Not somewhere else?"

He Luan shook his head and said: "The informant seemed very mysterious. He knew a lot of things, but he didn't say anything. I asked many times, but he didn't open his mouth. The informant only told me that because there was something buried under Niang Zhan's house, he You have to guard the tomb there."

"Why did the informant keep waiting for you? Could it be that he knew you were coming here?" Chen Wei rubbed the back of his hand, his throat was dry, "What did your father entrust to him?"

"I can't figure it out. I haven't understood it all the time. Weiwei, have you noticed that since I got here, people often come to ask me where I am from and what my last name is. It's as if they knew I was coming. what's going on?"

"Iron box, that iron box." Chen Wei pinched his fingers and said, his heart was tense, and he always felt that something was wrong, "Your father suddenly went crazy and died suddenly, anyone can see that there is something wrong in it." Question. Maybe they just caught on to that, and you're sure to find it here."

He Luan took a sip of the hot tea, and there was a smell of fried oil. He didn't notice that his hands were still covered with dust, and the cup was a little dirty.Chen Wei noticed that He Luan was restless, because he usually pays great attention to these details.

"What's wrong with you? You seem to be flustered. Did the informant tell you anything else? Don't panic, you can tell me something. If it's not convenient here, let's go back to the room and talk." Chen Wei held He Luan's hand.

"No, I'm fine, I'm fine. The informant gave me a few things, and I put them in the room."

"what?"

"An unsigned letter, and an old tape recorder."

"Is it your father's relic?"

"...Maybe. But it can't be called a relic, because the informant told me," He Luan paused, then gritted his teeth, "My father is still alive."

Chen Wei was shocked, and his voice became trembling: "Where is he?"

"Kang Rinpoche."

At this time, the curtain was suddenly lifted, and the cold wind rushed in from the outside, blowing away the dust on the ground.I don't know when it snowed outside, some flakes of snow came in and stuck to He Luan's fingers.Du Yu and Shang Pu came in from the outside stomping their waists, chatting and laughing, asking for some hot water.

Ji Yao left the office when the sun was setting, and there was an assistant sitting outside the door. When Ji Yao passed by, he stopped and asked, "Who brought this box in this afternoon?"

The assistant glanced at the metal box in Ji Yao's hand, thought for a while and said, "It was sent by Fu Zhong. I didn't stop him, because you specifically told me that he didn't need to stop him when he came."

"How do you know his name?" A trace of imperceptible dissatisfaction flashed across Ji Yao's face, his brows frowned, and soon returned to normal.

The assistant was frightened. He didn't know where he had offended the commander again, so he could only say, "I know you have a good relationship with him, so I did some homework, otherwise it would be embarrassing not to be able to call out his name."

Ji Yao glanced at a notebook in the assistant's hand, which recorded some of her daily habits and interpersonal relationships.The assistant has been with him for quite a long time, and his eccentric temper has caused a lot of trouble for the assistant's work.

"Oh." Ji Yao put on a windbreaker and turned to leave, "Go to bed early, you don't have to be on duty anymore."

Turning down the stairs, Ji Yao deliberately passed a suspended corridor.This corridor has the style of medieval Europe, with ribbed vaults on the top and huge murals painted, among which are gilded and colorful emeralds, which glow when the sun shines.

He likes this misty atmosphere, like an autumn morning, when you open the window, you can see the light smoke on the lake.He also likes this corridor very much.

People passing by greeted him. Although the commander was a bit fierce, the people below respected him very much.Ji Yao occasionally smiled back, but most of the time he was looking for someone.People are so strange, they want to see someone so much, but they are afraid of seeing someone.

A corridor came to an end, but the person Ji Yao was looking for still did not appear.He breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, but his mood sank slowly like lead. There was an indescribable sense of relief, but it was more of a long-lost loneliness.

In his pocket was a letter paper sprinkled with gold, and the gold powder on it was like a fine heart.Ji Yao turned the toe of his shoes in a different direction, walked into a place where the setting sun could not shine, and rubbed a corner of the letter paper in his pocket with his fingers.

He passed a glass room on a certain floor, and his shadow was reflected on the transparent door.When he came to a place, he stopped suddenly, turned his head to look inside the door, and saw several figures swaying.Fu Zhong's seat was empty, and the table was tidy.

The reason why Ji Yao likes to walk in that corridor is not only to watch the sunset, but also to be able to drop by Fu Zhong's office.

He didn't see Fu Zhong after that, he was not in a hurry to go back to his room, he walked to a small balcony alone, where he could enjoy the cool evening breeze, looking far away, Chunshan was smiling.

Fu Zhong was cooking in an apron, and he left the office early because he was going to prepare dinner for Ji Yao.I went out to check the time, it was getting late, and Ji Yao hadn't come back yet.He wiped his hands and sent a message to Ji Yao on his mobile phone, leaning against the door and waiting for a reply.

— Chief, are you coming back for dinner?I made bacon risotto and rib soup.What else do you want to eat?I can do it for you.

— Chief, it's been an hour, why haven't you come back, are you in a meeting?

— Chief, I know you are very angry, I was wrong, sorry, I can wait for you to forgive me slowly.The soup was almost done, I added corn and the meat was already simmering.

— Chief, why don't you reply to the message?I'm worried about you, tell me where you are, if you don't come back, I'll go find you.

Ji Yao leaned on the railing, holding a mobile phone in his hand.The screen was always on, and messages kept popping up in the dialog box. He watched quietly without replying.Finally, he turned the phone over and exhaled long into the thin cloudy sky.

Fu Zhong took off his apron, put on his coat and leather shoes, and was about to go out. It was getting dark, and Ji Yao still didn't reply.Just as Ji Yao was about to swipe his card to open the door, the magnetic door suddenly opened from the inside. He was startled, and hurriedly withdrew his hand, almost drawing his gun.

When the door was fully opened, the two of them were within thirty centimeters of each other. Fu Zhong saw the people outside clearly, and many emotions flashed in his eyes, happiness and sadness, like two whales swimming past.

Ji Yao and him looked at each other for a few seconds, then suddenly lowered their eyebrows and said, "I'm back."

Fu Zhong didn't say anything, he approached Ji Yao and stretched out his hand, and then carefully hugged him into his arms, he was afraid that the chief would refuse.Ji Yao didn't move, he could only smell the increasingly intense aroma of sea salt and campanula, when Fu Zhong hugged him tightly, a deep contradiction suddenly arose spontaneously.

"Okay, stop hugging." Ji Yao pulled Fu Zhong's hand away after dozens of seconds, "There are eyes everywhere, be careful."

He leaned over to change his shoes expressionlessly, and then carried the medicine box into the bedroom to put it away.Fu Zhong knew that he was in a bad mood, the light in the entrance was not turned on, it was very dark, he stood in the dark for a while, silently counting the seconds.

Fu Zhong arranged the bowls and chopsticks on both sides. The pork rib soup contained golden corn, and a faint oily fragrance wafted into the warm light.Ji Yao came out wearing a shirt, rolled up his sleeves and sat down. He never looked at Fu Zhong.

"Is the soup good?" Fu Zhong asked, and the spoon hit the ceramic bowl to make a crisp sound. "Is it too weak? Do you want to add some salt?"

Ji Yao ate the rice on the plate with his eyes downcast, and after a moment of silence he replied: "It's pretty good, neither salty nor bland, it's just right."

Fu Zhong didn't move his chopsticks much, he kept looking at Ji Yao, his neat hair, thin glasses frames and ironed shirt.Neither of them spoke. Just when Fu Zhong was about to speak, Ji Yao suddenly raised his head and said, "You can go back after this meal."

"Why? I want to stay with you for a while."

"There are surveillance everywhere here, how can we stay together every day?" Ji Yao turned up his volume a little, and he knocked on the table sternly, "You forgot the call with your dad? I told you, there is always someone want me dead."

"So what? At least I don't want you to die." Fu Zhong said, "Someone wants to kill you, I can help you protect your back, it's better than you alone."

Ji Yao took off his glasses and covered his eyes, Fu Zhong saw his frowning eyebrows, those long eyebrows were as charming as floating clouds and mountains.Ji Yao wiped her eyes, and the end of her eyes swept the misty peach color, and Fu Zhong was worried by this ray of red.

"How can we use it to meet people like this, you have come out with your father, what about other things, what about the time bureau, the regulations are there, do you want to go to jail? Don't you think about your family? "

"Why do we have to be so concerned about unexpected people's eyes? We are upright and upright, and we don't do things like sneaking around and sneering in the dark. Is there anything we can't get on the table? Isn't it because we are all men? Then I will tell them, I love You, I just love you, even if I was arrested and put in jail, I will still love you. What about the regulations? We did not hinder the progress of the mission. What about the family? The military power and government are not in my hands. Chief, what are we afraid of? "

"There is no need for a reason to kill. All we can do is to avoid the risk of being killed. Fu Zhong, you have never experienced the abyss, so you don't know how terrifying the abyss is. I love you, I really love you, but I have to stay away from you, and that's the saddest thing."

"We are not wrong, love anyone is right, the fault is those who hinder us, they only dare to secretly do dark things behind the scenes, like mice, huddled in a small corner, with a vicious light in their eyes. "

Ji Yao covered his face, he didn't cry, he just felt extremely tired.Fu Zhong stood up, went to Ji Yao and squatted down, hugged him, and let his body soften in his arms.Ji Yao closed his eyes, seeing the great sorrow in his tiredness, swallowing him like a whale.

Fu Zhong called his name softly, and it sounded like a dream in the middle of the night in the silent room.Night had fallen, and the night was long, like the thousand rivers and mountains they were trudging through.

Your gentle voice has been echoing in my ears for a long time, and I still see your lovely face in my dreams.

"Hug me." Ji Yao said, he tightened Fu Zhong's front lapel, and leaned his forehead on his shoulder.

Fu Zhong finally left Ji Yao's suite. When he left, he saw Ji Yao standing in front of the dark blue window with his back turned to him, looking into the distance.The furnishings in the room are reflected on the glass, as if you are in the reflection of the world all at once.

Go back to your room, turn on the light, and smell the aroma of wood.He suddenly remembered that he hadn't been back for a few days, but there was no dust on the table.After a brief shower, he sat down at the table and turned on the computer.

Although the relationship is troublesome, the business still cannot be forgotten. Fu Zhong compared the data with the computer, a bedside lamp was lit in the room, and the stars spread behind him.

Fu Zhong carefully browsed through Zhu Min's information to Ji Yao, and his eyes wandered repeatedly on the words Tang Ji, Song Chen, Constantine and "Redtail Fish King".Recovering from a trance, he looked down and saw the graffiti on the paper, all of which were Ji Yao's name.

He never felt that he was so lonely, and he never felt that he missed someone like this.

Ji Yao went to the rooftop at night, echoing the huge astronomical observatory opposite.He called Shanhua and told him to bring a bottle of wine.For the first time, he lit a cigarette and smoked it slowly while leaning against the railing of the roof. The smoke was blown away by the wind and fled.

"What's the matter, brother, I haven't smoked for a long time, why did I start smoking again today? Look, did you choke to death? It's time to throw it away." Shanhua patted Ji Yao on the back, calming him down.

Ji Yao coughed until tears came out, snuffed out the half-burned cigarette and threw it into the trash can next to him: "Damn it."

Shanhua glanced at him, poured him a glass of old wine, handed it over, and they clinked glasses: "Have you had a fight with your friend? You look so bad, you can't see hope. What can't you think about? Tell brother Say, make me happy."

It was the first time Ji Yao heard him say that he didn't beat anyone. Normally, his mother wouldn't even recognize him.Ji Yao shook the wine glass, took a sip, and leaning on the railing said: "Now I still consider you a brother, so I would like to tell you some things. Shanhua, if you love someone very much, you Will you all believe it?"

Shanhua looked at the mountains in the distance and smiled, without answering directly, she asked back: "Then do you believe in Fu Zhong?"

Ji Yao remained silent, Shanhua laughed after a while, punched Ji Yao, and said, "Then this question is meaningless. It's not because I believe that I love him, but because I love him that I choose to believe him."