Chapter 32 Chapter Thirty-One

1 Boarding the plane from Chengdu, I encountered many unexpected difficulties at Bangkok Airport on the day of arrival in Thailand. The biggest trouble was the language barrier.Naturally, Thais can’t understand Chinese or English. To me, their language is more like a pot of porridge with milk and coconut milk, which makes people more and more confused the more they listen.For example, to make a phone call, I bought a "Telephonecard (telephone magnetic card)", but the window refused to sell it to me no matter what.This is the case for running several places in a row.I was dumbfounded, I pay, you sell things, this is a matter of course, the same in the whole world, is there any special rules?They all shook their heads and refused. What's the problem?Later, I managed to find a person who could understand Chinese and figured out that the Thai telephone magnetic cards were divided into different denominations to make different calls, such as international long-distance, domestic long-distance and local calls, and these magnetic cards were not compatible with each other.Because I couldn't tell what kind of magnetic card to buy, and they explained in Thai that I couldn't understand it, so they refused to sell it to me.It took me two hours to figure out this trivial problem, and I was sweating profusely.And calling a taxi, negotiating prices, transferring cars, eating, finding streets, addresses, names, etc. Almost every small problem is enough to make me fall into a desperate situation, I become deaf, blind, or like an alien, It is difficult to move an inch in this foreign city where there is no communication.I deeply understand that more than half a century ago, the American writer Snow went to the Soviet area in northern Shaanxi to interview alone. At that time, he did not know how many unimaginable difficulties he had to overcome!

All these difficulties were solved after I met my Thai translator and guide Xiaomi. Xiaomi is the little brother of Mr. Feng who promised to support me to interview in the Golden Triangle."Little brother" is a polite term for Chinese people. In Hong Kong, it means horse boy, a little guy who runs errands and does odd jobs.Mr. Feng introduced to me that this child, surnamed Mi, also came from the Golden Triangle, a small refugee, and he accompanied me throughout the interview.By convention, I pay all his fees and commissions, in other words, I am the employer and he is the employee.I raised my eyes to look at him, and the guide and translator was looking at me quietly. His eyes were very dodgy, and when he met my eyes, he quickly lowered his head and said nothing, with a very sensible and humble look.

At that time, I was wearing a multi-pocket photography vest, a miniature home video camera commonly known as "Palm Ray", a fully automatic camera, and a multi-purpose interview bag, which contained US dollars, RMB, Thai baht, passports and interviews. Book.The appearance of being armed to the teeth is like an invincible "Apache" helicopter.I don't know what kind of impression this outfit has on Xiaomi's eyes. Anyway, I can see from his eyes that he is in awe of me, and even has the meaning of admiration, so I am very satisfied with the effect.Of course, it was only later that I fully realized that this was just my illusion. I judged this young Chinese who had been completely foreignized with the thinking and value standards of mainlanders.

Xiaomi is not tall, with slightly protruding eyeballs. I don't know if he suffers from mild hyperthyroidism. In short, he looks pretty handsome compared to the locals.His skin is fair and thin, like a girl from the south of the Yangtze River, and he is not a native of the Golden Triangle at a glance.He told me that he is 19 years old and understands Thai and Burmese. Because he is Chinese, there has been a surge in tour groups from mainland China in recent years, so he came out to be a tour guide.He has not obtained the qualifications of a tour guide, which means he is a "wild guide" working illegally.He has no academic qualifications, nor has he studied any tour guide courses. His only advantage is that he can understand Chinese (can't read and write). Some teams with low profits let him be a "wild guide" to lead them and earn a meager salary.

I asked him why he didn't go to school and learn a skill hard?He told me honestly that it was useless, unless he went to a foreign country to study. Thai people don't like to study, and they just want to earn money to enjoy life. Xiaomi wears a mid-part hairstyle that is popular among modern urban youths. He wears a long-sleeved shirt, trousers, and the collar and cuffs are tightly buttoned. The only thing that is exposed is a pair of bare feet and slippers.It's hot in Bangkok, probably such nondescript outfits are very popular among the lower-class youths in Bangkok.His luggage is extremely simple, so simple that I was stunned. An empty plastic travel bag was thrown on the car casually. There was almost nothing in it, not even a change of clothes and mouthwash. At least I never saw it in the subsequent journey. He rinses his mouth and cleans his personal hygiene.

Xiaomi is an introverted person, he doesn't talk much, and often looks at people from the corner of his eyes. If your eyes meet him by chance, he will run away quickly, like a frightened mouse.If you don't speak, he doesn't say anything, he follows you like a shadow, so you have to speak first before he speaks.I don't know how he works as a tour guide, but I can't imagine how a quiet tour guide can satisfy a large group of tourists.Thailand is a free economic country with different cultural backgrounds. There is no political and ideological work and leadership care, no meetings and study sessions, and party organizations at all levels "five stresses and four beauties". There are temples, drug abuse, prostitutes and sexually transmitted diseases everywhere. Young Chinese like Xiaomi, letting themselves go will cause What kind of consequences?Just like doing embryo transfer or researching new varieties, at least I have a strong interest in this topic.

That night we rented an overnight car to the Golden Triangle of Northern Thailand. Xiaomi tilted his head and fell asleep next to me, making a loud grinding sound in his dream. 2 Xiaomi is really an interesting young man. What's interesting about him is that we're always in a cat-and-mouse game, or a mouse-cat game.On the first day of entering the Golden Triangle, he took me straight to Maesle to meet Mr. Feng, Mr. Feng's father in Bangkok.In the evening, I was arranged to stay in a garden hotel called "Messle Lisuo" on the top of a beautiful mountain. The hotel was built in the woods, and the air was filled with the damp and moldy smell of the rainy season.When I first arrived, I was like a blind man, letting Xiaomi make arrangements.He led me to the top of a mountain. I felt it was wrong and proposed to live in the village, but he was very stubborn and insisted that I live on the mountain, so I had to give in and live.Only at night did I realize that I was the only guest in this huge mountain hotel, surrounded by the forest at night, so quiet that I could hear snakes hissing and swimming on the branches, and the lights of the village seemed far away in the sky.I couldn't help but shudder. This is not equivalent to isolating or imprisoning me.I don't understand what this means, it's too cold at the heights, am I coming to the Golden Triangle for isolation?I guess Xiaomi's young brain can't produce such sophisticated ideas. I don't know what those people's intentions are. In short, it's not a good sign, but I hope it's me who disturbs others.

The next day I acted alone and moved down the hill by myself to a little hotel called the Central Hotel.Then I started the interview work with an unprecedented crazy passion. I traveled hundreds of miles in the mountains, followed historical clues, interviewed various people, and conducted field investigations. The content was all-encompassing.Sometimes I have to interview more than a dozen people a day, inspect several important historical relics and memorial sites, get up at five or six in the morning, and go to bed late at night.Xiaomi’s job is to provide guide and translation services. I think he is a competent employee. He borrowed a scooter from others, and he often drove me at dawn to drive me to a restaurant for breakfast, and then dispatched interviews according to the day’s plan. .If I go to a nearby place, I will be driven by Xiaomi, and if I go far away, I will charter the car of the driver Xiao Dong.If I didn't finish my work, or missed my meal due to an interview, Xiaomi would patiently wait outside my door without urging me, and wait for me to finish my work and then have lunch or dinner together.

Gradually, I learned that Xiaomi doesn't drink or smoke, and only cares about eating. "Food is the paramount necessity of the people", this is an important truth.His family lives in the village of Maesle, and there are three generations living in an ordinary tin house.I learned from him that he had a mother who was a widow and that his father died when he was a few years old.Grandpa was also a soldier and died earlier, and there was an old grandmother who was also a widow.My mother went to the school at the entrance of the village to sell pea flour every day, earning a meager income. He also had two younger sisters, so life was very hard.Because I pay for his food and salary, he cares about eating very much. More than once he came to urge me to have lunch or dinner, but I found that he had already invited a group of cronies to the restaurant with great courage, surrounded The table sits up, just waiting for my employer to come and pay for the meal.I see that this behavior is very honorable to him, so I often grant him generously.

Xiaomi introduced me to the locals as a writer. He worked for me, and his words showed pride, which made people think that I was a person with status.For a while, he followed me every step of the way, introducing interviewees, arranging schedules, itineraries and vehicles for me. In this sense, he was very much like my secretary.He seemed to be very happy with this secretary job, very attentive and hardworking, until one day, I happened to find that he paid for my car fare at least twice the local market price.This discovery took me by surprise.I soon found out that the prices of all the expenses he handled were high. Although I am not a businessman, I can guess what he did with it.After a short period of ideological struggle, I decided to continue to pretend to be deaf and dumb and kept in the dark about it. If I can't bear it, I will make a big mess. I don't want to affect the interview work at a critical moment.

Xiaomi is born with a certain proletarian temperament. I have never seen a penny in his pocket, and he even asked me to tip him for him when he went to the toilet.He seemed to be in a state of abject panic at all times.About a week after he was employed by me, he began to borrow money from me. Every time he asked me to borrow money, he seemed restless, his face was flushed, and he was panting heavily, as if he would commit suicide immediately if he could not borrow money.I was taken aback, obviously awed by his dangerous mood, afraid that he would do something stupid, so I complied with his request.As soon as the money was in his hand, he ran away at once, and disappeared in a blink of an eye, but when I saw him again, he was poor and penniless.I didn't understand what he was doing with all the money. In the third case, I finally couldn't bear it anymore and warned him: If this continues, you and I won't have to go back to Bangkok.He obviously didn't believe my warning, maybe in his opinion, people called "writers" should have endless money, so he sneaked his eyes on my interview bag.As I said before, my passport and coins are packed in the interview bag. I saw his eyes always follow the interview bag, and I became more vigilant in my heart.One day he was sleeping in my residence, and I sent the old educated youth Yang Fei out, leaving the interview bag on the desk.As soon as I walked out of the gate, I was startled by an instinct, or an ominous omen. I realized that something might happen, and hurried back to the room. I saw this young man with extraordinary skills was no longer lying on the bed, and he was leaning over the desk. Pretending to tidy up her hair, and the zipper of the interview bag has been opened. In any case, as long as the Golden Triangle interview goes smoothly, as long as you work hard, this kind of secret intrigue is a disturbance in a teacup, and our general direction is the same.When Maoer Hegu came back, there was a gun battle in Manxingdie. I decided to go to interview. Originally, this was his part of the job. "I won't go!" He shook his head uncharacteristically, with a terrified face, and objected loudly: "That place is very dangerous, you must not go there." I tried to convince him, I heard that he had lived in the back shed outside the starburst when he was a child, and he was very familiar with that area.I said, "You have to go, this is work, I'm not afraid of you, what are you afraid of?" "No, no, I'm not going." I saw a frightened light in his eyes, and his head shook like a rattle.He almost begged, "Brother, please forgive me...you can go anywhere, I really can't go...never!" Seeing Xiaomi's pitiful appearance, I really don't understand why he refuses to go.I think he is only nineteen years old after all, he is still a big child, and he is about to cry, so I have no choice but to give up trying to persuade him.I was very impressed with this incident because it was the first and only time he turned down a job, while at other times he was doing just fine.I think there must be some kind of embarrassment in this, otherwise an employee has no reason to embarrass his employer. Later, I heard a shocking story from Qian Dayu, and I immediately forgave Xiaomi.Because the protagonist of this tragic story also includes Xiaomi and his family. 3 Qian Dayu said that the battle of the examination of science and teeth is over, and the Han self-defense force, that is, the remnant army of the former Kuomintang, is facing an unprecedented split.Lei Yutian, Li Wenhuan, a member of the veteran faction, is too old to go to the front to fight in person. They follow a pro-government line of peace, forbearance in everything, and obedience to the government. Pai officers were strongly dissatisfied.He told me this while he was on his way back to Maesle from Khao Kho Kao Asan, smoking a cigarette with cloudy eyes. I interjected and asked if it was because the young faction took credit for their victory and their ambitions for power were inflated? Qian Dayu shook his head and replied: They are making self-sacrifice for the benefit of all Han people. I didn't speak, and listened to him continue talking. Just after the rainy season this year, rumors came from down the mountain that the government wanted to prosecute the Han Chinese Self-Defense Forces for treason, because they refused to obey orders during the examination and examination, and blatantly killed the government battalion commander and many officers and soldiers.In the army, treason is a first-class capital crime. If the charges are convicted, Yone Masuda and others will be sent to a military court and then hanged.Obviously, this is a continuation of the previous conspiracy. Many people believe that the government must kill the Han Self-Defense Forces before it is too late. In this situation, external pressure accelerates internal differentiation.The young and strong faction held secret meetings many times to study countermeasures, and the participants had different opinions on the two major issues of whether to confront with force and launch a mutiny.Forced confrontation means the end of peace and the resumption of war, while mutiny means internal division and mutual killing, because this decision is too important, and every conspirator can understand its heavy weight. At that time, there were still more than 2,000 people in the self-defense force in name, and Qian Yunzhou was the chief of staff, controlling nearly half of the troops.The head of the regiment, Mi Zengtian, had a grudge against the government army, and he gritted his teeth when he mentioned it, with new and old grudges welling up in his heart.He is a radical anti-government faction and advocates an immediate mutiny on the grounds that Lei Gonggong (Lei Yutian) blindly obeys the government and makes the Han people suffer from being dumb.Rebel as soon as you have a gun in your hand, and go back to the mountains to fight guerrillas. The division commander Yang Weigang also stood on the side of Tuan Mi.He declared angrily: "We Chinese are dignified, who is bullied by the Thais? In the Golden Triangle, if you have a gun, you are the grass-headed king. What kind of battle can those government troops fight? It's because our brothers work hard. But these bastards are doing the opposite Take a bite, so many brothers died for no reason, can they close their eyes in the ground? Look at how beautiful Zhang Jiajun is, they can do great things, why can't we do it?" Both of them looked at Qian Yunzhou.Among the three, Mi Zengtian was the youngest, in his early thirties, the teacher Yang Weigang was less than forty years old, and even the veteran Qian Yunzhou was only fifty years old.Qian Yunzhou is the banner and backbone of the young faction, and they all wait for Qian Yunzhou to make up his mind.Master Yang also urged: "Chief of Staff, small size is not a gentleman, no poison and no husband, mutiny is mutiny! If Lei Yutian disagrees, kill the old thing!" This is another critical moment that determines the fate of the Golden Triangle, and history is frozen here.The question I am concerned about is, since peace is hard-won, how can the resumption of war continue to deprive the Golden Triangle of the hundreds of thousands of Han refugees' peaceful future, and push them into the pool of blood of war again?Is this in the fundamental interest of most people?However, the motives of Qian Yunzhou can be doubted. Is their resurgence of wars for the benefit of the majority, or to satisfy their own ambitions, to fight for power and profit, and to seek personal gain? It is said that Qian Yunzhou did not speak for a long time at that time, he was full of conflicts in his heart and hesitated.This is not indecision, Qian Yunzhou is a courageous commander, but this issue is really important, related to the overall situation of war and peace!If the officer's proposal is followed, a mutiny will be launched immediately, the general headquarters will be surrounded, Lei Yutian will be forced to resign, and then the self-defense force will be reorganized to take a tough attitude towards the government.Even if the mutiny fails unfortunately and the team is pulled away, anyway, the guns are fighting the world, and it is not believed that there will be no way out.It's easy to fight, it's nothing more than being Li Guohui again.The problem is that Qian Yunzhou at this time is no longer the little intelligence chief who followed Li Guohui back then. He is one of the decision-makers in the Golden Triangle. He thinks that there are hundreds of thousands of Han refugees behind him. Are they willing to accept the cruel reality of war? It was this sense of urgency that surpassed the military, that is, the long-standing national urgency of the Chinese nation, that completely buried his hope. I said to Qian Dayu, maybe all of your father's tragedies are because he is not just a soldier, right? Qian Dayu was stopped by my question, and he was speechless all the way, until the car returned to the Maesle Hotel, he said to me sullenly: You are right, he knows that he cannot represent the interests of all Han people, because the war will turn the Golden Triangle into a piece of land. scorched earth.But he had to choose to fight, because he was born as a soldier, with a gun in his hand, and soldier's blood flowed in his veins, so even if he put down the gun, he would not become a civilian in the general sense. I said I got it, thank you.As your father's son, it really touched me to have such a reflective attitude.I think your father's rebellion was just a rebellion against the coming of a civilian era, a rebellion against himself as a soldier.They are the last soldiers of the Golden Triangle.Can it be said that they exchanged their own destruction for the real arrival of peace, and the essential transformation of the Han refugees in the Golden Triangle from soldiers to civilians?Just like Phoenix Nirvana.So far, the flower of peace has really bloomed in this fertile land? Qian Dayu turned his head to the side without answering, his face was distorted by pain.But I believe he agrees with me. Mutiny is war, bloodshed, and death, so even a small negligence has a heavy price to pay, including many deaths.There are many precedents of coups and mutinies in Chinese history, some of which were successful and some of them failed. One of the decisive factors is the will of the people.Whichever side most people stand on, sympathizes with or supports whichever side, the balance of history tends to ruthlessly tilt to which side. Another important factor is chance, the contingency that corresponds to inevitability.If the assassination of Hitler was successful, wouldn't World War II end early?Haven't thousands of lives been saved?If Zhang Guotao’s plot to replace Mao Zedong during the Red Army’s Long March came to fruition, how many years would the solemn announcement on the Tiananmen Gate tower on October 1, 1949 be postponed or simply die? Neither of these two crucial historical factors fell to Money Week.In other words, the balance of history has not turned in favor of the rebels, even though they are the best and bravest officers in the Han Self-Defense Forces.The commander-in-chief Lei Yutian soon heard some rumors. After all, he was a senior political figure in the Golden Triangle.When Qian Yunzhou learned that the news had leaked, he was forced to hastily rise up, playing the banner of mutiny.Unexpectedly, most of the officers and soldiers of the Self-Defense Forces are unwilling to fight among themselves, let alone go back to the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas. They all have wives and children, and they have suffered from wars for decades. Ten Respondents.Such a small team, not to mention against Lei Yutian, let alone deal with the encirclement and suppression by the government army, even if they encounter bandits, they will inevitably be eaten by one bite. Because of the Dongchuang incident, there was no way to go for a while, just like the famous Lin Biao incident back then, such an important person did not know where to go in panic, and finally had to end up in a shameful end of plane crash.Mi Zengtian proposed to join the Zhang family army and seek asylum from Kunsha, because Kunsha was encircled and suppressed by the government army and suffered a lot of losses. The senior officers of the Zhang family army are basically Han Chinese, and they are all professional soldiers of the former Kuomintang remnant army, so Kunsha took them in The possibility is relatively large. Qian Yunzhou had no choice but to agree to defect to Kunsha.Taking a step back, even if Kunsha refused to take them in, he would not turn his back on them. Qian Yunzhou was still Zhang Suquan's chief in the past.Instead of looking at the monk's face and looking at the Buddha's face, taking refuge in Kunsha became an expedient measure for these plots to expose the rebels. They escaped from Mesle overnight, and after negotiation, an officer finally agreed to let them stay temporarily on a mountain called Huipeng outside Manxingdie, waiting for Kunsha to reply. 4 Many have told me that the rebel must die. The person who said these words seemed to be hesitating, as if talking about something that should not be discussed.In fact, Qian Yunzhou's conspiracy was exposed, and the crisis has not passed. We will see that the Golden Triangle is a whole, and war and peace are major events that affect the whole body. Therefore, all parties in the Golden Triangle are nervous around this group of restless rebels. Get active. As I said before, when I passed by the Chinese boy Ah Xiang and I saw a Han village there, Chinese couplets were pasted on the door lintels, but only a few years ago this was the outpost of Zhang Jiajun, with many fortifications and bunkers. Sha met with Mr. Woolf, an American Congressman, and proposed to the President of the United States that the famous drug acquisition plan was on the top of Huipeng Mountain.I saw Hui Peng, except for this secluded small village, there are no forests around, some low shrubs, and the rest are bare red earth hillsides. But time went back twenty years, and there were no people on this mountain except for rocks and bushes. Qian Yunzhou and his rebel subordinates camped on this barren mountain.After going through vicissitudes, this general who is over half a century old has a lot of hoarfrost on his temples. I imagine that it is impossible for him not to be worried, just like the famous Wu Zixu who passed Shaoguan and his hair turned white overnight.Because he is the focus of attention, the center of the typhoon, and a key figure, his movements and attitudes are particularly eye-catching.But a soldier who had joined the rebellion—I declare that he had been pardoned—told me quietly that Qian Yunzhou had always seemed very calm and composed, as if everything had been expected.He even told his subordinates many times that if there is no need to fight and bloodshed is avoided, and the soldiers and their families are not held accountable, he is willing to bear all the consequences.It's a pity that these words are no longer accepted. What determines their fate is not their attitude and position, but the politics, situation and common needs of all parties in the Golden Triangle. More than a month later, the black shadow of fate finally enveloped them. The news of the mutiny of the Self-Defense Forces was reported to the government, and the Ministry of National Defense issued an order to resolutely eliminate the rebels and prevent them from fleeing into the mountains.But what makes Lei Yutian deeply troubled is another problem: if Kun Sha agrees to accept Qian Yunzhou, then this war is bound to evolve into a battle between Mesle and Manxingdie.Once the two largest Han Chinese armies in the Golden Triangle meet, the Self-Defense Forces may not be sure of victory. Apart from allowing outsiders to reap the benefits, I don’t know when will the feud between the same brothers be resolved? Lei Yutian visits Li Wenhuan.Li Wenhuan suffered from migraines and showed signs of a mild stroke. He used to be the old chief of Kunsha, and he has been in the Golden Triangle for decades, so he is of course familiar with the samadhi.He made a meaningful metaphor and said: If I were Kunsha, I would be a favor and give this group of people as gifts to those who need them most.Reciprocating favors and offending neighbors is a dangerous thing.To take a step back, if Kunsha acquiesces in doing it ourselves, it would be an act of cooperation, which can be a medium strategy.Of course, if Kun Sha insisted on taking Qian Yunzhou in, we had no choice but to report to the government that the rebels had fled into Manxingdi, and asked the government troops to attack.We must not start a war with Kunsha, otherwise both sides will suffer, this is the next strategy. Lei Yutian suddenly realized.Finally, there is another obstacle that is not an obstacle, and that is how to deal with Qian Yunzhou after the rebellion is quelled.Qian is the veteran of the three dynasties of the remnant army of the Kuomintang and one of the founders of the Li Guohui era. He made great contributions to the survival of the Han people in the Golden Triangle. It is said that this question made all the commanders sad.Although all of them are soldiers, they have fought in battle all their lives, and they have seen many dead people and eliminated many enemies, but they still have sympathy and respect for these former comrades-in-arms.Because Qian Yunzhou is a real soldier after all, and they rose up to resist in order to maintain the dignity and pride of the Han army and to prevent their backbone from being broken.Of course they have ambitions and act too aggressively, but who hasn't made mistakes and acted too aggressively?After these people are eliminated, who dares to resist the will of the government? Conversely, doesn't resistance to the government mean war?Only when the backbone is broken, will eternal peace come.For the sake of eternal peace, and for the sake of future generations without bloodshed, they had no choice but to hold up their knives and sticks with tears and break their own spines. It is said that the aggressive instinct of all male animals comes from male hormones, so as long as their testicles are castrated, the animals can be made to settle down.The testicles of the Han Self-Defense Forces are Qian Yunzhou. It is said that when the encirclement and suppression order was issued, even General Lei, the always formidable commander-in-chief, was moved and burst into tears. 5 On a dark and stormy night in the Golden Triangle, the rebels crumbled like soft sand dunes. The forces of all parties have united with the same interest in dealing with the rebellion and acted together. The tide-like army surrounded and retreated from all directions, and the end of the rebels came. All plots, fights, massacres, and bloodshed are carried out under the cover of night, just like a herd of zebras in the East African savannah being dismembered by predators.The guns rang out, the mountains were ablaze, battlefields and slaughterhouses were everywhere, and the rebels had nowhere to escape.When the sky finally brightened, the sky was full of light, and a round of red sun emerged from the horizon as usual, the sound of gunfire had long since subsided, and the hilltop was empty, like a theater at the end of the song.Only the strong smell of gunpowder smoke and sulfur remained in the air, the ground was full of bomb craters, the embers were still alive, and bloody corpses were scattered everywhere. These corpses still had body temperature, indicating that a bloody massacre had just happened not long ago. The news released by the press: how many armed drug dealers fleeing abroad were killed, how many drugs were seized, and so on. Unofficial news from within the Self-Defense Forces is as follows: the rebellion has been quelled smoothly, and some rebels have been killed. Considering the rebels' previous military exploits, they have decided not to be held accountable.etc. The Kunsha Group claimed that: Qian Yunzhou and others fought among themselves and killed each other, and the rest of them dispersed without knowing whereabouts. It is said that those unfortunate family members were later agreed to go to the mountain to collect the corpses. Most of the corpses of their relatives they found were beyond recognition, and many corpses had been chewed to pieces by wild dogs.Some of them were bound hands and feet with iron wires, indicating that they were not killed in battle, but massacred.Of course, in a fundamental sense, no matter how you die, there is no difference in death itself.Family members have nowhere to redress grievances, and there is no place to redress grievances. Who told your man or son to become a rebel?In the Golden Triangle, the rule of survival is, either succeed or die. Mi Zengtian’s wife came to collect her husband’s body with her son Xiaomi, who had just passed his second birthday. As soon as she found her husband’s body, she howled dryly, passed out on the top of the mountain, and hit a tree after waking up. dead.In the end, the cry of her son reminded her of her responsibility, so the woman wiped away her tears, buried her husband, survived tenaciously, and brought up her children. When I saw this admirable Han Chinese widow in the Golden Triangle in 1998, she was already a wrinkled, skinny old lady, squatting at the gate of Maesle Middle School selling rice and soybean noodles.Xiaomi whispered behind me that my mother would get up at three o'clock every morning to grind the mill and cook rice and bean flour without interruption for more than ten years... It is said that Huipeng Mountain has become a forbidden place for all the relatives of the victims, and they can only kowtow when they bring incense wax paper money on the Qingming Festival every year.Mi Tuanzhang's son, Xiaomi, naturally followed this family rule when he grew up, and refused to go in that direction. It is said that anyone who hears the cries of those lonely ghosts will be in bad luck for a lifetime. The final suspense is that the whereabouts of the commander Qian Yunzhou is unknown. He seems to have been plundered by aliens and escaped into the air without a trace.Qian Dayu said that he and his mother searched every mountain and every ravine near Huipen, but there was still no trace.This is a mystery. It is unnatural for a living person to be vaporized when people are alive and dead.Of course, it is basically impossible for him to escape, and there is no hope of breaking out, so he should be a prisoner and be held in a secret place, or even if he is shot or executed, his family should be informed to collect the body!The problem is that he is indeed missing and has no whereabouts. He has become a question mark that has been burned in the hearts of relatives for a long time. I have always believed that death is not the misfortune of the dead, but the sorrow of the living.Qian Dayu said that his mother Ruina became the most unfortunate woman in the world.The daughter of the former chieftain of Mengsa has been tortured by bad luck all her life: frequent wars, family fortunes, her father died of poverty, and her husband disappeared due to rebellion.In short, all these disasters are related to the invasion of the Golden Triangle by the Kuomintang Han army that was defeated in the mainland a few years ago.To use an inappropriate analogy, the Ruina family is like accidentally boarding a broken boat passing by the remnants of the Kuomintang army. They entrust their fate to the captain, and the captain is Qian Yunzhou.Now that the ship was sinking, what was she going to do? Qian Dayu said that because there was no body, the mother kept a glimmer of hope in her heart, firmly believing that her father was still alive. This is a cruel hope, and the old man has been tortured by this hope all his life.Qian Dayu is already the father of four children, his eyes were still red when he said this.There is such a touching picture in my mind: whether it is sunny, raining or lightning and thunder, mother Rena's eyes are half-opened, although she can't see anything.She said alertly like a mouse, Daewoo, go outside the door to see if your father is back?Or the old man didn't sleep at all, she waited all night for that amazing moment to magically come, just like decades ago, the husband in military uniform knocked on the window lightly, picked her and the child away, and flew away... Qian Dayu said that the eyes of the old man have been crying for nearly 20 years. What kind of eyes will not be deformed, corroded and worn out? My tears burst forth like a fountain.In this world, is there any greater and more thrilling love than this unforgettable waiting?Meng Jiangnu cried for the Great Wall, and the Great Wall collapsed. She only cried for a few days and nights, but this mother and wife have been crying for twenty years!In the Golden Triangle, such mothers and wives are almost everywhere, and there are many, many... Qian Dayu finally said goodbye, he was going back to Bangkok to "do business", we hugged like brothers when we parted.I asked him the last question, I said with your current ability, can't you investigate the whereabouts of your father?He shook his head and said, I can only do what I should do.History is an old account, and I should not settle it. Besides, there are at least hundreds of open and secret earth holes in the Golden Triangle, which are the gates to hell, and no one can expect to come out alive. I said that in your mind, your father is the mysterious figure Qian Yunzhou who has experienced ups and downs in the Golden Triangle. He spit out two words without hesitation: ——Heroes! For a moment, I followed my son's gaze and saw a tall and stalwart figure. This was the father, the father in the son's mind.I believe that the father will always live in the heart of the son, and this is enough. The father will silently watch his son go to a new century in heaven or hell.The difference is that the son took a completely different path from his father, which is a just path of fighting to defend the sanctity of mankind. I believe that the father's spirit in heaven will also be gratified by this, "Tears fly and rain down"! It needs to be solemnly added that not long after I returned from the Golden Triangle, China’s Xinhua News Agency quoted news from Thailand that the Thai anti-narcotics organization has won major victories in the Golden Triangle, seizing more than one million grams of heroin and other drugs, which is the largest number of drug trafficking cases cracked in recent years.The news did not disclose in detail when and where the case was solved, as well as the people who contributed to the case, but I would rather believe that there is also a brainchild of my friend.When the book was nearly finished, I received a letter from a friend, telling me that Qian Dayu had disclosed his identity and was no longer engaged in secret anti-drug work, so it is not difficult for smart readers to guess that the person who mysteriously appeared that night on my thrilling journey in the stars It is Qian Dayu. I silently bless this distant friend in China. 6 By the way, the last time I broke up with Xiaomi was at Bangkok International Airport.He seemed very anxious, breathing unevenly, flustered, his eyes fixed on my interview bag, and he had a desperate and crazy expression.He kept urging me to change money, to Thai currency, and I told him not to worry because I had no reason to spend any more.At this time, he looked very desperate, with red eyes, a bit like a wolf, or like a gambler who lost money.But he has no reason to quarrel with me, because he has already advanced Thai currency from me that is more than his entire salary. I wanted to talk to him about something, but he was impatient, as if he wanted to get justice from me.本来我同丰先生并没有协议，一定要支付向导多少薪水，我体会丰先生的意思，多少给一点饭钱即可。像小米这样没有执照的“野导”，一月能挣下饭钱就不错了，何况他已经预支几千泰铢和天知道做了多少手脚的回扣。我想他毕竟才十九岁，从小失去父爱，家里很穷，我想到他那位在学校门口卖米豆粉的寡妇母亲，她含辛茹苦养大的儿子在我金三角之行中毕竟起了不可替代的重要作用。 我把身上那个令他馋涎欲滴的采访包打开，向他公开全部财产秘密。我告诉他，我只是个作家，不是腰缠万贯的富翁，作家与富翁不是一回事，所以我的全部财产还剩下不到三千铢泰币。我决定除留下机场出境所需费用外，其余钱一分不剩全部送给他。我想这大约很出乎他的预料，这是一个没有想到的结局，或者说在他短暂的人生经历中还没有这样的经验，当客人已经不需要他，也就是解雇他的时候把所有钱全部送给他。年轻人显然感动了，面部表情起了极大变化：先是吃惊，呢喃，困惑，不可理解，当他弄明白我没有欺骗他的时候，他脸色渐渐缓和下来，显得放松，接着出现我所熟悉的柔和、满意和谦卑的神情。他一再向我弯腰致谢，态度友好、殷勤和恭顺，像个称职的仆人。我突然想到一句话，这是我一直想问他而难以启齿的，我果断地抓住的机会。我说：“你想过没有……报仇？” 他大吃一惊，好像被人当场抓住吸毒把柄一样。他惊慌地申明：“不不！……我现在是泰国人，佛教要讲因果报应……不不，不是你们那个意思。” 我有些失望，又感到欣慰。因为我看出来，米团长的这个唯一的儿子已经彻底洗尽了杀伐之气。他的气质更像个懦弱的泰国商人，可是当一个商人为什么不比当一个铁血杀手和杀人不眨眼的复仇者更好呢？哪怕一个不成功的三流导游，也比整天生活在血腥中的刺客枪手好一万倍。 从这个十九岁的也许还染有某些恶习的金三角第三代人身上，我意识到，金三角的杀戮时代确确实实是结束了。 我们友好和亲热地互道再见，然后我像我来时一样，独自踏上返回我的国家的行程。当巨大的波音飞机腾空而起时，我俯瞰地面，不知道刚才那个小米生活在这个偌大世界的哪一个角落。 我默默地祝福他走运。