Chapter 16: The Town
"Is there really that town?" I couldn't help but sigh with emotion, I don't know why there is always the picture in the story in my mind, the yellow sand is all over the sky, the remnant sun is like blood, Lin Jianguo walks alone in the deserted town, this should be the sequelae of reading too many martial arts novels, but it always feels wonderful to be able to go to the place in the story.
"Is there a town that hasn't suffered any catastrophe, doesn't that count as the end of the story? You have to find a person, his name is Liu Weijun, my ultimate source of news is him, but unfortunately, I didn't see him in person, he was very defensive, and I always felt that there were more secrets in him. Uncle Ge said to us.
"Liu Weijun?" I subconsciously muttered, and then I sensitively thought of a person and looked up at Uncle Ge.
Uncle Ge nodded at me and said, "That's right, this Liu Weijun is the youngest son of Second Master Liu in the story, I searched for clues and found that the whole incident was the only one who knew about it." The rest of his family didn't know about it, and his youngest son didn't seem to be doing well, I don't know how it was bad, so you had to go yourself. β
"Uncle Ge, won't you accompany us for a ride?" Brother Chengxin leaned on the edge of the cabin, glanced out the window at the autumn drizzle that seemed to never stop, and couldn't help but ask.
I understand what Brother Chengxin means, maybe we haven't come out of the heartbreak of losing Uncle Johnny, and we always feel that we need an older elder by our side to feel at ease.
Uncle Ge shook his head and said: "You also understand that you seem to be free, but in fact, there have always been many people who have been eyeing you, and it is probably no secret that I came to your ship to walk this way." In the future, I will definitely be approached by a lot of people, or based on some clues from my previous itinerary, to find out what news I gave you! In order to avoid these troubles, I have to continue to 'disappear', just wait a minute, you find a place, even in the middle of nowhere, and put me ashore, I will naturally have a way to solve it." I'll only show up when you do find Ghost Fighting Bay. β
"If we can't find Ghost Punch Bay, won't you have to be missing for the rest of your life?" Brother Chengqing was on the side, and finally said a sentence in worry.
"Hahaha, you know? I always miss the way Lao Jiang looked when he was young, as if there is nothing in the world that can stump him and make him sad, and there is no more man who stands up to the sky than this! It's hard for people like this to not believe me, and I also believe that you little guys won't let me disappear for too long. When Uncle Ge said this, he smiled so heartily, as if he really recalled some of the years he had gone through with my master, and he did not have the slightest worry or burden, and gave us great trust.
After all, it was impossible for us to put Uncle Ge in some wilderness, but found a relatively remote place, but not far from a few small villages, and put Uncle Ge off the boat.
When we waved goodbye, Uncle Ge walked very chicly, but he didn't want him to walk more than ten meters, but suddenly turned around, ran a few steps towards us, looked at me standing on the edge of the deck, and said, "Chengyi, remember to bring back that guy from Lao Jiang." β
I don't know why, when I heard this, my heart suddenly felt a little sour, and I looked at Uncle Ge's hopeful gaze and nodded solemnly.
Master, are you really suffering in Ghost Fighting Bay?
The autumn drizzle has been one after another, Uncle Ge's back has gradually drifted away, and the Dream has also restarted, continuing to drift on a certain section of the Yellow River, but this time there is a specific destination, Uncle Ge before getting off the boat, told us the specific location of the town, from the map, it is completely possible to go by water.
After all, compared to the overland route, the terrain determines that the monitoring of the water route is much less, although it cannot be completely avoided, at least in terms of the time of news transmission, we can fight for a certain time difference.
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More than ten days later, the Dream finally docked in a small port that seemed to be a little dilapidated, where there were also some small cargo ships and wooden fishing boats parked here and there, and the whole port was inexplicably a little depressed.
It is said that places with ports should be somewhat prosperous, and such a dilapidated port is really rare.
After dealing with some trivial matters of stopping the boat, Ruyue and I, as well as Brother Chengxin, got off the boat first, and after a while, the others also got off the boat one after another, and they chose to be together in twos and threes, and move freely.
The first reason for this is that Uncle Ge told us that Liu Weijun is very defensive, and I think too many of us go to him, and I am afraid that we will not even get the opportunity to talk. We don't have the ability of Uncle Ge, even if we don't meet, we can get some news from other places.
As for the second point, if the personnel are scattered, there is a certain cover effect for our actions, and at least those who get the news to monitor will not be able to find the focus for a while.
The place where the port is located, is a small county and city, the footsteps are a little hurried here, I found that this place is very poor, maybe in all the more than 2,000 county-level administrative districts in China, it is considered the kind of poverty that is behind, the feeling of the whole county is not as good as some of the larger towns I have seen, no wonder the port here has a feeling of depression and dilapidation.
And the town that Uncle Ge told us belongs to this county, and I can probably sketch what kind of town it is.
The transportation in the county town is not very developed, even though it was morning, we did not buy a ticket to that town, so we had to hire a very broken minibus to go to that town at a high price.
Although the road is in bad condition and the dilapidated car is about to fall apart, I still feel comfortable living on the water for too long, after all, people are suitable creatures to stay on land, and if you leave for too long, you will miss the land from the bottom of your bones.
Looking out of the car window, this is already a typical scenery of the great northwest, and there is an indescribable sense of vicissitudes precipitated in the yellow eyes, although it lacks the beauty of green, but it is equally shocking.
After staying in the Great Northwest for a period of time, I have always thought that a man must go to the Great Northwest in his life, because the vicissitudes and heaviness, including the wind and sand, should belong to the scenery in the eyes of men, even if it is barren, it also has its own heaviness, which is the quality that men should appreciate from the scenery of the Great Northwest.
Don't lose the true character of a man for the sake of so-called power and wealth.
There were too many chaotic thoughts, and the car was so bumpy all the way to the destination, and when I got off the car for two hours, it was so bumpy that I couldn't spit out anything.
"The road ahead is not easy to walk, and no one has come to repair it for more than half a year, even if you take a bus, you can only send you to this place. But not far, you walk along this road, another half an hour, you can see the town, there are no people in the town, all the people who are left are old, young people have gone out to work, are you here to travel? Why did you choose this town? Nothing spectacular. "The driver of the car was very enthusiastic, and when he counted the money we gave him, he gave a brief introduction to the town, there were no superfluous adjectives, but he could feel the sadness of the town in decay and twilight.
When I look up, I can also feel the remoteness of this town, surrounded by undulating loess slopes, and if it weren't for the main channel of the Yellow River flowing through here, I think it would be difficult to form a town here.
Bidding farewell to this enthusiastic driver, we had no choice but to walk along this dilapidated road, just after walking for a while, we felt that the saliva was full of that fine dust, but after turning a bend in the mountain, we saw the town under the hillside, and also saw the Yellow River rushing by the town.
But I don't know why, I just stood on this hillside and glanced at this town, and my heart suddenly felt a little heavy, I can't describe that kind of breath, I'm afraid that it takes the literal Chengzhen to specifically describe the breath that envelops a town, but I can feel that kind of breath is a kind of dull dead air, giving people a very bad feeling.
Exploring the source of this dead air, I immediately saw that in the corner of the town, there was a large arc of retraction, the color of which could only be described by two simple words: gray and yellow.
"How can a town be dead? Still affected to this extent? I frowned, and said in my heart that it would be nice if Chengzhen was here, after all, with my shallow knowledge of feng shui, I can't see anything, but I will always know that a place, including villages, towns, counties, and cities has its own feng shui qi, and if the feng shui qi fails, this place will also fall sooner or later.
Thinking of what the driver said, I think the impact of this feng shui being broken is also one of them.
"This town doesn't feel good." Looking at the houses below, even Ruyue noticed it.
I didn't speak, but Brother Chengxin raised his glasses and said, "Forget it, let's not delve into this, let's go down first." β