The loggers needed to complete today's task before they could return to the fortress, and Ren Xiaosu was chatting with the workers while waiting for them to finish their work.
After Ren Xiaosu left the Jian Dao Company without saying goodbye, he did not go directly from the Zong clan's territory into the Central Plains. Instead, he turned south and found the place where the flood originally occurred. Then he headed east, trying to Look for traces of Yan Liuyuan and others along the river.
New river channels have been formed in the river valley area. The landscape here is different from last year almost every year. The river rushing from the snow-capped mountains to the lower reaches washes away the familiar appearance here like time.
Walking along the river, Ren Xiaosu even looked at the settlement where they once lived and the place where Yang Xiaojin taught him sniper rifles.
But times have changed, things have changed and people have changed.
Ren Xiaosu could not find any clues about Wang Fugui and the others, even though they had to go to Barrier 61, they still couldn't find any.
A worker sighed with emotion: "You are really lucky, you got lost in the mountains and still came out alive."
Ren Xiaosu asked curiously: "Is there anything in the mountains?"
p>"There is a nest of wild boars," the worker shouted exaggeratedly: "A particularly ferocious one."
Ren Xiaosu thought silently that the worker should be talking about him a few days ago The one that was eaten, right?
However, he didn’t say much. He just exclaimed: “Ah, that’s really dangerous. Fortunately, I didn’t encounter it.”
He sat aside and asked the woodcutter Said: "Brother, do you often move around here on weekdays?"
"Yes," the woodcutter who just sat down and planned to take a rest said, "We cut wood specifically for the Wang family. In recent years, We have been working in this area for months. In the early years, we were in the north. However, the Wang family said that for sustainable development and the like, we could not cut down a forest, so we were sent here. The places where wood was cut in the north are being planted. "Where's the tree?"
Someone said with a smile: "Don't you think it's strange? I cut down the tree with all the effort, but I don't know why I have to plant it again."
Ren Xiaosu did not answer the question, but continued to ask: "Then have you seen anyone floating down the river?"
The loggers paused: "Are you looking for your family? "
"Yes."
"In fact, corpses often float down the upper reaches. Maybe it is caused by your war in the northwest, but I have never seen any living people." The woodcutter shook his head. : "That is to say, corpses can still be seen in this river. It is said that this is a snow-capped mountain water and there are no carnivorous fish. If it were any other river, the corpses would be eaten up by the fish."
Ren Xiaosu's heart He paused and stopped talking. In fact, he was always afraid of hearing some bad judgment in his heart.
But it doesn’t matter, he will continue to look for it.
And these lumberjacks don’t come here every day, maybe they just missed it? It's not impossible.
The woodcutter glanced at Ren Xiaosu: "Let me tell you in advance, although the Wang family does not refuse those who have escaped from the northwest, they are not allowed to enter the barrier. Therefore, you people in the barrier must be mentally prepared. It is very likely that you will become refugees like us. As long as I can do some heavy work to support my family."
Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, "Brothers, I have misunderstood, I am also a refugee."
When the lumberjacks heard that Ren Xiaosu was also a refugee. , their expressions suddenly became friendly, and they all asked about the difference between the refugees in the northwest and the refugees in the Central Plains.
As a result, the lumberjacks came to the conclusion that the refugees in the northwest were not doing as well as they were.
Although they are tired, have lower barriers to others, and live in a hurry, and people in the market town don’t trust each other very much, but at least they are not worried that they will starve to death, and No need to eat moldy steamed buns.
A lumberjack said with a smile: "We have been busy here for a day, and we can go back to the market town to buy a bowl of mutton steamed buns. If we spend more money, we can also eat Roujiamo."
Ren Xiaosu was stunned for a moment: "Can all the refugees here afford to eat meat?"
"Haha, mutton steamed buns only have broth. Where can I see meat? There is meat. Soup would be good."
Ren Xiaosu suddenly realized that it was indeed a good thing to drink broth.
Comparatively speaking, the Central Plains is indeed richer than the southwest and northwest. This has been the case since ancient times.
In the evening, the captain of the logging team drove a truck back loaded with timber. All the workers were sitting on the timber in the bed of the truck. Someone asked Ren Xiaosu: "Have you seen the troops of Fortress 178 in the northwest? Well, we heard from the fortress people who escaped from the northwest that the troops of the 178th Fortress were very powerful, especially one company in the north that beat the Zong family to the point of losing their temper, and even beat up the Zong family’s granary."
Ren Xiaosu said with a smile: "I have only heard of it, but I have never seen it."
"Tell us about it. Things in the northwest are being discussed in the market towns recently. It sounds better than The storyteller's story is quite interesting."
Ren Xiaosu thought for a while and said, "I heard that the company didn't want to cross the river and go north, but they felt that the war was going on for too long. As the saying goes, the ability is better. The greater the responsibility, the greater the responsibility, so they were obliged to sail across the river to quell the war in the north... However, this company is very powerful, but when it comes to the most powerful person, it is an extraordinary person in this company. It is said that he Brave, mighty, handsome... Later, he went north alone to the 146 Barrier, and it was like a storm... By the way, the extraordinary person you just mentioned is him..."
As he said this, the lumberjacks were fascinated by what they heard, and they realized when they were almost reaching the market town: "Hey, we're here so soon."
But at this moment, a strong wind blew through, and there was a strange scene in the sky. Something white was fluttering and flying by, but was pushed down by the strong wind. Ren Xiaosu subconsciously felt something was wrong, so he jumped out of the car and grabbed the white gadget into his hand...< /p>
He opened his palm and saw that it was a small and exquisite paper crane. It seemed to have a spirit. The paper crane was still twisting and glaring at Ren Xiaosu.
Although this thousand paper cranes didn’t even have eyes, Ren Xiaosu had this extremely weird feeling in his heart: This little thing was really staring at him.
The wings of the paper crane were extremely sharp, and Ren Xiaosu accidentally cut his finger on it.
Just when Ren Xiaosu felt pain and let go, the paper crane flapped its wings again and tried to escape, but before it could fly out of his hand, it was caught by Ren Xiaosu again.
Ren Xiaosu opened it curiously. The inside of the square white paper read: The war in the north has been decided, and the Qing family has signed an alliance with Fortress 178.
"Is this someone passing information to the Central Plains?" Ren Xiaosu thought in his mind, but even he didn't know about the agreement between the Qing family and 178 Fortress.
Before he could figure it out, a woodcutter next to him suddenly asked with confusion: "How did this white paper crane fly here?"
The woodcutter didn't even look at it. Qing Ren Xiaosu and the Paper Crane's little movements made him feel that there was a Thousand Paper Crane flying here, which was a bit strange.