Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen

Shi Yan walked out of the hospital nervously all the way, but found that no one noticed them, so she was a little discouraged, so she didn't bother to do any underground work, and generously "connected" with Huang Hai to discuss the next action plan .The result of the discussion is to save half and waste half, first take the bus to the train station, and then call a taxi to enter the mountain. But when they got off the bus at the train station, they found that things were not that simple.They stopped several cars in a row, but no business was negotiated.None of the drivers wanted to go to the place they mentioned, and they all said that there was no road for cars and they couldn't drive in.One driver reluctantly agreed, but asked them to pay 200 yuan, which almost made both of them stick out their tongues and couldn't get it back.

The two had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​taking a taxi, bought a few steamed buns in a small restaurant, and walked into the mountains while eating.After walking for a while, Shi Yan's back was soaked with sweat, Huang Hai was even more so, the whole shirt was soaked, and it was dripping on her body, even her two nipples flickered.Shi Yan asked worriedly: "Can you walk this far?" "No problem, I can do it, as long as I encounter a mine accident now, if I don't leave, I will be buried alive in the mine—" She thinks his method of self-encouragement is very strange, but it is also very effective. She also imagines that she has encountered a mine accident and was buried underground. Now every step she takes is a step away from death and closer to the hope of survival. One step, thinking about it this way, it seems that the weather is not so hot, and people are not so tired.She asked curiously: "You said those workers who encountered mine accidents, what were they thinking at the end?"

"I don't know, maybe I'm thinking about how to survive—" "But they must know in the end that they -- they can't live -- what will they think then?" "Maybe I'm trying my best to remember my relatives on the ground—the most cherished thing—" The two walked in silence for a while, and he whispered, "If I was buried in the well someday, I must think of—today --Now--" She didn't understand it for a while, but after a while, she realized that he was saying that she was his relative and the most precious thing to him, but she was not sure, and she didn't want to talk about it Digging deeper, I just rambled and said: "You--you always interview these things, do you often--think of these things?"

Huang Hai nodded: "I often think about it." "Isn't that--making your own life very--miserable?" "My own life has been miserable—but misery can be divided into major misery and minor misery. I was once an unhappy person, and I felt that fate was unfair to me, so that I was born with—with such a Permanent flaw, when I was living in a little miserable world, and the whole world pretended to be miserable. If you remember, my letters to you were all--blaming stuff--" She nodded, and he continued: "But since I went to Wangjiagang and saw so many poor people living there in a - very closed - very - ignorant environment, my miserable world is - —Changed, Miserable is still Miserable, but not the little Miserables I used to be, but a—bigger Miserables—”

She asked tactfully: "Then do you think that your interviews and investigations are of any use to changing this big - Les Miserables world?" "Whether it's useful or not can only be known after doing it. If you don't do it, how will you know if it's useful or not? It doesn't work this time, it doesn't mean it won't work next time; it doesn't work once, it doesn't mean it won't work after doing it many times. I only do this Only then do I feel at ease, otherwise, I always feel that those who died or absented from work are looking at me with grievances—”

Already in the mountains, surrounded by dark rocky hills with no vegetation, she suddenly felt as if there were some people standing on those hills, staring at them questioningly, she couldn't help shivering, and whispered: "Quickly don't let me go!" You said it, I was so scared—" He didn't go any further, just comforted and said: "Don't be afraid, I'm just talking about some of my wild thoughts-I feel that since I walked into such a big miserable world, it seems that I have come from my own little miserable world. Came out—I just want to help other people out of their miserable world—”

"So have you ever thought of any other way to--help these people?" "Of course I've thought about it, but I haven't found anything more effective. Do you—have any suggestions?" She faltered and said, "Where do I have any suggestions? As a person, I am too busy with my own affairs, so I don't have the heart to help others—" "You are too humble. In fact, you are a very kind person and you care about others. Otherwise, you wouldn't have come here with me." Shi Yan felt very good after receiving this high hat, and felt that she was indeed kind-hearted, at least she had no intention of harming others, and sometimes she could help others.An ambition welled up in her heart, and she hoped that she would be able to find the "pork belly", get the draft of the letter, find out the truth of the mine accident in one fell swoop, punish a group of corrupt officials who disregard human lives, and Save a group of poor people who are suffering.She didn't even want to study in this ruined teacher's academy anymore, so she went to work as a reporter with Huang Hai and did a few spectacular things.

But before she reached the door of "Pork Belly", her ambitions faded a bit, and she suddenly had an ominous premonition: she would definitely have a bad start today.She is like this every time, when she doesn't care about something, that thing is dangling in front of her eyes, dangling back and forth, and when she starts to care, that thing will definitely disappear.Like she ran so far today to get the draft of that letter, it would be too strange if "Pork Belly" was waiting there with the letter in her hands. Sure enough, when they came to the shed where "Pork Belly" lived and reached out to knock on the door, they found that the door was ajar.They knocked politely and called a few more times, but no one answered.

Huang Hai said: "You wait here, I'll go in and take a look." He opened the door and walked in carefully. Shi Yan waited outside the door, feeling very nervous, fearing that there might be an ambush or a trap inside. After a while, she didn't see Huang Hai coming out, so she couldn't help shouting: "Huang Hai? What are you doing? Come out!" Huang Hai replied from inside: "You can come in too, there is no one inside—" Shi Yan also walked into the shed carefully, and saw that it was empty, with nothing left and no one there. Huang Hai was groping under the stone stool, on the window sill, and behind the stove, but found nothing except the dust in his hands. .She asked nervously, "Did someone catch 'pork belly'?"

"have no idea." "Maybe 'Pork Belly' took your money and ran away without a draft?" "I hope so. It's probably the best scenario, and if something goes wrong with my interview, I'll be guilty of it for the rest of my life—" She comforted and said, "She must have taken your money and ran away. You see, she took everything away. If she was caught, the house would definitely be a mess—" "You're right, let's look around and see if anyone knows where she went—" They came out of the shed where "Pork Belly" lived, and walked for a long time before they saw the place where the miners lived.Huang Hai found a miner and asked him if he knew the whereabouts of Wu Hehua who lived in a shed halfway up the mountain.

The miner was stunned for a long time before he said: "Oh, you said 'pork belly'? Then you just said 'pork belly', what did you say 'Wu lotus', I thought about it for a long time, I have never heard of her From this name, I know she is 'Pork Belly'. If you don't say that she lives in the middle of the mountain, I really can't figure out who you are looking for. She doesn't live there? Where else can she go?" "Do you know who's here--who knows where she is?" The man squinted his eyes and looked at Huang Hai for a while, and said, "Why are you looking for her?" "I'm from the newspaper, and I have something important to do with her—" The man was in awe: "From the newspaper? That's the person from above. I'll take you to Lao Liu, he must know where she is—" Under the leadership of the miner, they found Lao Liu, a man in his forties or fifties, thin and dry, with coal black in the wrinkles of his face.When Lao Liu heard that they were looking for "pork belly", he complained: "I don't know where she went, this tricky woman, no wonder you asked me to 'offer' at the beginning of the month, she must have made a good plan to make money. I got one vote—” Lao Liu took Huang Hai to find several miners, probably all of them were "side sets" of "pork belly", but they didn't know where "pork belly" went. Most of them said that "pork belly" took their money and fled. Only one kid with squinting eyes said maliciously: "I said she must not have escaped, her bitch, she can't sleep without a man fuck? She must have been taken away by the mine police—" Huang Hai hurriedly asked: "What else do you know? Have you seen the mine police coming here?" Slanted eyes said: "I won't tell you if I saw it. I told you. If you write it in the newspaper, I still have good fruit to eat?" Later, no matter how Huang Hai interrogated him, or even made a wish to pay, he squinted and refused to say anything. He just smiled evilly and spit all over the place and said, "That bitch, others don't know, but I don't know? She has something here. With so many people fucking her, she feels comfortable day and night, is she willing to run away?" Huang Hai took Shi Yan to visit many miners who were off duty at home. Everyone said they didn't know where the "pork belly" went, so they had to go back home.When they walked back to the train station, Huang Hai was already drenched in sweat and was about to collapse.The two decided to go to a small restaurant to eat something first, and then take the bus, otherwise, they might not even be able to get on the bus. The two sat down in the small restaurant, and Shi Yan asked worriedly: "Are you okay? Should I take you to the hospital?" "I'm fine, maybe I haven't eaten for several days, I'm hungry, just eat something." After the two ate something, Huang Hai's complexion really improved."So what do we do now?" she asked. "I'll find a place to live first. If you have something to do, you can go back to school first." "I'm fine, I'll go find a hotel with you." The two of them found a very simple small hotel in a secluded street, Huang Hai registered and checked in, Shi Yan helped him settle down, and got up to leave.Huang Hai warned: "Don't tell other people about my living here, and we don't want to meet again, so as not to hurt you, I will call you in the name of your cousin if something happens." Seeing that he was so cautious, she even pulled out the "cousin" who is often seen in underground party stories, and she also became nervous: "Did you find out that someone is following us?" "No, it's just a precautionary measure. It's not a big mistake to be careful. I'm afraid it will hurt you—" On the way back to school, Shi Yan kept turning her head and looking behind her, fearing that someone was following her, but she didn't seem to have even a human hair. I don't know if the stalkers were highly skilled, or there was no one following her at all.As soon as she arrived at the dormitory, Yao Xiaoping came in with a lunch box. As soon as she saw her, she asked, "Where did you go today? You didn't even attend class—did you go to Huang Hai's place?" She nodded and lied, "He's very sick and needs someone to take care of him, and I was in the hospital—spent a day—" "Don't lie to me, you two are not in the hospital at all, you must have gone to find 'pork belly'." She couldn't help asking: "How do you know we're not in the hospital?" Yao Xiaoping smiled inscrutably and said, "Hmph, what can you hide from me? Did Huang Hai tell you not to tell me? I didn't ask him to look for him, a thankless guy. He might still be lying in bed until now." Waiting to die in the infectious disease hospital, he didn't thank me, and treated me as an outsider? Let's see if I can help him in the future!" Shi Yan quickly cleared things up for Huang Hai: "He didn't treat you as an outsider, and he didn't ask me to keep it a secret from you. I was going to tell you, but you turned out to be faster than me—" Yao Xiaoping stopped pretending to be angry, and asked with concern: "How is he? Is he all right?" "Better than yesterday—" "Of course, why don't you go? How can he be better?" Yao Xiaoping said with a smile, "It's not easy for you to stay with him for a day. Had a nightmare." Shi Yan felt uncomfortable when she heard Yao Xiaoping talking about Huang Hai like this, but she couldn't find anything to refute, so she could only avoid talking about it. Yao Xiaoping thoughtfully stopped talking about it: "Where is he now? Has he returned to the hospital?" "No--" "He's smart, if he goes back to the hospital, I'll have to follow you around looking for him tomorrow—"