Waiting for a long time, Captain

Chapter 20

Three months later, in a village in Deqin County, Diqing Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan.

Because of the erratic climate along the way, Gu Zeng was always dizzy, and he was able to survive the first two days in the small town, but he started to feel depressed on the third day.When it was the worst, she had vomiting and diarrhea, which could not be relieved by taking medicine for a while, so Cen took her to the clinic today to get water.

"We are too remote here, and people who come to Yunnan will not choose this place. Occasionally, there will be adventurous people passing through us, and there will be many people at that time, but this season is really rare, we all call this period of time It’s an ‘empty window period’, but the scenery is still worth seeing.” The doctor took the cushion and motioned Cen to put it behind Gu Zeng’s back today. Descriptive." After speaking, he scratched his head, a little embarrassed.The people here are very simple and not very good at expressing.

He nodded and smiled: "It's beautiful here."

After the doctor left, he took off his coat and sat next to her, asking from time to time: "Is it cold? Are you okay?" Gu Zeng was a little distracted, feeling the little nurses behind the glass window turning their heads frequently look at them.Maybe, just looking at him.

Cen followed his gaze today, and the little nurses immediately lowered their heads, and one of them was blushing and smiling at him at the same time.After a while, they chatted again, very simple, without extra thoughts.

Gu Zeng couldn't help laughing: "A beauty is a beauty, she is still a beauty wherever she goes, and she can seduce people just by sitting there."

He felt very useful, and nodded seriously: "It's just that the beauty is pus and blood, and I'm still studying it seriously."

To choke her with what she said before?Such a person is really, you never know what his next move will be.It was like meeting him that night in the woods close to the junction of the blue and white Nile Rivers, sitting on the grass in the dark, she hadn't calmed down from the previous thrills, he had patiently wiped away her tears, talking about him What happened after the communication was lost on the plane.It's just very little, and he simply explained that he jumped out of a parachute before the plane crashed. Fortunately, the final location was not far from Khartoum.

He explained: "At that time, all I had was a retired military officer's card, which was enough to show the sensitivity of my identity. In that place, it was not suitable to use some telecommunications equipment to report your safety, and also because of the particularity of the local environment. , I'm going to keep moving around, avoiding sentries and some guerrilla warfare."

To be honest, she doesn't really believe his nonsense now.She was silent and didn't respond, and finally she was discouraged, and she wanted to force him but gave up.

The fact of the matter is—that when he finally reached the ground, he was in such poor health that he could not see at all.You can't just trust some people. Although you wanted to inform Lu Zhao, unfortunately, he was penniless and had a severe fever at the time.He can only wait, waiting for his comrades to find him, or he finds them first.

There is no way to tell her that he earned some pocket money, but spent all of it on cigarettes, not to survive, but that he is indeed a smoker.

Before departure, he really didn't think that the environment would be so bad that day. Halfway through the flight, the airflow between the clouds began to become unstable, and his eyes also had problems at such an untimely time, which eventually caused the plane to make an emergency landing.A number of factors contributed to his decision to jettison the helicopter and jump by parachute instead.Fortunately, the wind was not strong at the time, and his judgment under the blurred vision was not too bad, which allowed him to finally reach Khartoum.

He knew that she would definitely come to him, so whenever he went to a place, he would always mention his destination: the blue and white Nile.

In fact, he had been waiting in that wood for five days.

"After you visited his small shop, you explained to him the process of naming Africa. The boss thought you were a lunatic and couldn't understand your thinking."

"The full name of Africa is Africa, and Africa is the name of a goddess worshiped by North Africans. In early African culture, she was a woman dressed in elephant skin and was believed to be a patron saint." He explained slowly , resting her finger on her cheek, "I would be more inclined to this answer, after all, belief is usually quite magical and will not be submerged by the long river of time."

Gu Zeng couldn't laugh: "Does anyone think you're weird?"

"Yes." He squinted his eyes and recalled, the cigarettes in his pockets were not exhausted, "Someone asked me to tell a story, and then gave me a tip. But every time I listen to the story, I feel that there is something wrong with my mind."

"What stories did you tell them?"

He pressed the tobacco with his fingertips, rubbing it slowly, and said in an unusually gentle voice, "I told them the abstinence story of a one-armed man who met a girl."

"I think they might prefer you to talk about the troops."

He raised his eyebrows understandably: "Good suggestion."

Gu Zeng shook his head helplessly. With his thinking logic, sometimes it is quite frustrating.

At a later time, the doctor knocked on the door and asked if they would like to eat together. Cen today tactfully refused, glanced at the salt water in the bottle and said: "When this is over, we will go back to the hotel to settle, thank you."

By the time most of the clinic had started eating their dinner, they were still waiting for the last bits of salt water to flow into their bodies.

He asked again: "Is it better now?"

Gu Zeng nodded and looked at him suspiciously: "Why did you refuse?"

"Ok?"

"I'm talking about eating."

"You are hungry?"

"No, I just want to know the reason."

"My idea is that if you can, try not to cause any burden to them. If you want to give him money, it's not impossible, but I don't think he will accept it."

The place where they are now - the alpine region on the southwestern border of China, the conditions are more difficult than most cities in China.Just above their heads was a lamp, hung by wires, shining brightly, and sometimes it would go out briefly, then come on again, and the voltage was extremely unstable.

The work of doctors and nurses in the clinic is also very hard, but they are really nice, and the medical expenses are only charged a few yuan.

About half an hour later, they left the clinic, and the doctor stood at the door to see them off.When Gu Zeng looked back, he felt that the shadow under that beam of light was very thin, very thin.

Remembering that before he left, he was very generous to give them the flashlight, but they all refused.Guessing that there might be only one flashlight in the entire clinic, which is not enough for my own people, I have to give it to them, so I pointed to Cen today and said, "It doesn't matter, he often walks at night, and mountain roads are fine." After finishing speaking Only then did he realize that there was a faint sense of pride in his tone, and he blushed all of a sudden.

Cen just smiled today, walked out with his arms around her shoulders, and after walking a long way, Gu Zeng asked, "Why didn't we give them more money just now?"

"They don't need it." He lowered his head and looked at her softly, "Giving a smile here will be more valuable than taking money." Brushing the broken hair on her cheek with his fingers, he praised her affirmatively, "Of course , Smiling, you have always done a good job."

"Have you been here many times before?"

They bid farewell to Lu Zhao and Xu Shen from Sudan, and then flew to Nepal, where they stayed for a few days and rested most of the time.She was very weak at that time, probably because she was frightened by Sim.

Take a car from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, through many cities and towns, and finally come here.

"Four times."

The path they took was winding and full of pebbles and puddles.She is basically following in his footsteps, but she can always bypass some obstacles.

It was very cold at night, and he held her hand in his pocket. Thinking of the first few days when I came here, I felt dizzy after walking for a while every day, and always held his hand. coquettish.

"I checked the weather forecast at the hotel yesterday. The temperature has been very low these days. Fortunately, I bought some thick clothes before entering the country, but I always feel that you are wearing thin clothes."

A shirt and a black coat wrapped his slightly thin body.Decided to buy another small jacket for him to wear inside, but just thinking about it, suddenly stepped on a puddle.The sneakers were immediately wet, and the air-conditioning rushed to the throat.She let out a low "ah", and Cen had already realized it today, and turned to look at her feet.

"Did something cut your foot?"

"No."

He looked around, but there was no place to sit down, and quickly said, "Take off your shoes and show me." Holding her with one hand, he was so stubborn, saying that if he wanted to see it, he must see it.

Gu Zeng obediently took off his shoes and showed him. Except that the shoes and socks were wet, everything else was fine, and his feet were cold.He warmed his hands for a while, and then said, "I'll carry you home."

It was still some way away from the hotel, but she refused, but he insisted that this was the only way to go.When she arrived at the hotel, although her feet were a little cold, but because she was wrapped in a cloth towel, she didn't show any signs of injury, and everything felt fine, and she warmed up quickly after being covered in the quilt for a while.He was different, his shoes were covered with ice.The two hurriedly changed into clean clothes. What she thought was that she must buy some clothes and shoes for him tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest.

"Ah Cen, come and lie down under the quilt for a while."

When he said this, he was still sitting by the window smoking a cigarette, his movements were very slow, as if they had been deliberately elongated, for about half an hour.It's like this every time. If you smoke, you must wait until the smell on your body dissipates before you come to sleep.

There are many rooms in the hotel, but for safety reasons, they decided to live in the same room with two single beds.

Hearing the sound, he decisively stubbed out the cigarette butt, took off his coat, put it on the window, and walked over to turn off the light.

Do you think that what she said was tactfully hinting to him that she was going to sleep?Really discouraged, she kicked her legs under the quilt remorsefully.

"A Cen."

"Ok?"

In the darkness, she could feel his eyes fixed on her all the time.She stretched her legs, intertwined slightly, summoned up the courage to ask, "Are you cold?"

"Ok?"

"If it's cold, we can sleep together."

She is really worried about his body. There are many times when he doesn't say anything, but she can feel it too.Although he has a good background and has not been sick along the way, some memories probably do not appear often, so as long as they appear once, even for a moment or only for a moment, they will be particularly unforgettable.She always felt that when she met him in Khartoum, he was not doing well.Or, should I say very bad.

He didn't speak, and the room fell silent for a while.She licked her lips, her mouth was dry, but she repeated: "Ah Cen, I'm covering the heat with the quilt."

Suddenly there was a gust of cold wind in the air, and the next moment the black shadow pressed down, pressing against her body with a cold air.He hugged her with his arms, and the two squeezed into the narrow bed.

He should have smiled and said, "Maybe your arms won't be able to stretch out, and you might not be able to sleep comfortably on this bed. But it's too late to regret it now." He lowered his head, looking for her lips in the dark , kiss up.At the moment before she fell asleep, the two were still kissing each other to keep warm.

It was difficult for Cen to fall asleep today. After making sure that Gu Zeng was completely asleep, he put on his coat and sat back by the window, lighting a cigarette.

Too sensitive, she still noticed it.

The moonlight was a little cold, and he suddenly raised his arm, placed it about thirty centimeters away from his eyes, looked carefully with those eyes, and then slowly lowered it for a long time.He could see only vague outlines now.

Just now, on the way back, when Gu Zeng's feet fell into a puddle, he was still trying to discern the way ahead, and it couldn't be said that it was effortless.Thinking about the decision to bring her here now, was it too hasty?

In the silent night, only the sound of the wind can be heard.After an unknown amount of time, he climbed back into bed, and the person in his arms was still warm.Afraid of her being cold, he deliberately lay down beside the bed.After a while, she hugged him.Like looking for coolness in a stove, desperately rubbing against his arms.

For a moment, he was about to cry.

When Gu Zeng woke up in the morning, he had a strong feeling that she wanted to take a bath.

"It's so sticky." I was sweating all night last night, I don't know if it was the effect of the potion, or because I had too much of him.She muttered a few words in a low voice and looked up.At this moment, she was standing on the hill behind the hotel, looking at this man not far away, she thought he was so handsome.

A batch of saplings were newly planted on this hill, and a strip of cloth was planted on each tree trunk, flying colorfully in the wind.Standing inside, he felt like returning to his hometown.In fact it was, and she later learned that this was where he had first started, where he had first become calm and gentle, kind and strong.

Cen waved her hand today. She imitated the locals, wrapped a cloth scarf around her head, walked up to him, and asked softly from a distance, "Do I look like a girl here?"

He reached around the back of her neck and tied it again: "No, you look better than them."

"The truth?"

"The degree of ultraviolet light here is higher than that in the inland areas, and the girls will be tanned. Your skin is very fair, and it is fairer than ordinary girls, so it looks like you are from outside."

"Well, that's a pretty good explanation."

He took her up to a higher mountain, and looking down from the top, he could see many strips of cloth floating on the mountain path, and the majestic land was clear at a glance, with a kind of tranquility and invisible sanctity.Listening to them hunting in the wind, it seems that every inch of land has been so noisy when passing through the bustling world.But once there is no wind, all that is left is peace.

She suddenly lowered her head and muttered: "I haven't bathed here for a long time, don't you think I stink?" She also felt that in most customs, the sacrificial ceremony can only be performed after taking a bath and burning incense.She said stubbornly: "I must take a shower before the return trip."

Cen smiled today, turned around and poked her forehead: "When you recover, let's go to the city, where the environment will be better, and you won't get cold in the shower."

He leaned down, sniffed his nose lightly to tease her: "Actually, it's okay, I can't smell any strange smell, if there must be, it's also a girl's body fragrance."

He pulled her back, the noon sun was a bit scorching, he lowered his head to avoid the light.The owner of the hotel was sitting at the door basking in the sun. Seeing them walking in, he smiled and asked, "It's going to cool down tonight. Are you still staying?"

"No, we'll leave in the afternoon."

"Oh." The boss was a little disappointed. After all, there were few people staying in the hotel in winter. After these two people left, it would probably take ten days to see new passengers.He put the cigarette to his mouth, sniffed it slowly, did not inhale, and then asked, "Little girl is healthy?"

Gu Zeng saw that his hands were cracked from the cold, and black mud was deeply trapped in the densely packed crevices. He might have just come out of the kitchen.She hummed and laughed: "It's much better."

When I followed him to the back, I subconsciously looked at his hands, which were slender and slender, and imagined that when he was the boss's age, they should still look like these hands, which were so beautiful that people could not speak.

When we left in the afternoon, the boss was still muttering unwillingly: "It's really going to cool down tonight. I saw it on the top of the mountain. It's going to snow heavily at night..."

"Thank you for your reminder." He smiled and stepped out the door, leading her away like this.

There is a field not far from the loess sandy land, like an oasis in the desert.They have very little luggage, just a box, and now it is on the side of the road, and Gu Zeng is sitting on it, waiting for the ride he said.

"Today is No. 14. Tomorrow I'm going to the market in the city. Usually at this time, there will be cars from the protection station heading to the center of the city." He looked up at the sky. The boss said it was right. The weather might change tonight.But it seems that there is no better choice. If today's opportunity is missed, it may take half a month to take a ride to the city next time.

Gu Zeng sat for a while, feeling bored, and began to appreciate the scenery here.The counties near the border are sparsely populated, but they are all the most honest people.Thinking of the second day here, I couldn’t eat all day because I was not feeling well. I sat at the door of the hotel and looked at the owner’s child. He had a dark face, but his eyes were very dark and innocent. His eyes seemed to be looking at an unpolished gemstone.His bowl was full of rice and only a few pitiful vegetables, but he was very satisfied. After realizing her gaze, he passed the bowl over, without saying a word, just grinning.She pushed it back, and he handed it over again. After several rounds of this, he started eating again, smiling at her with crooked eyebrows.After communicating with his mother, I realized that he could not speak.

"Some children here are very silent. Sometimes they don't say a word for half a year, and when they don't want to speak, they don't speak for a whole year, but they are used to smiling at others."

Both she and Cen felt that if there was a better way to live, they would still choose to smile.Destiny presents different gifts to everyone. Some people are extremely fierce, some are cowardly and timid, but people with a warm heart will smile.

After a while, I saw a car driving not far away.The speed of the car was very fast, and there was a burst of yellow smoke from galloping on the dirt road.Cen stood on the stone wall today and watched, the smoke in his hand was about to burn his fingers.

She found that since coming here, he seems to have broken free, and he no longer thinks about self-denial and restoration of etiquette, and he often smokes.Sensing her gaze, he lowered his head and told her to take off his scarf with hand gestures, and standing in the middle of the road can stop the car like a wild horse.

Gu Zeng found it hard to believe, but later it was verified that pretty girls from out of town are indeed more attractive than men, and several men in the car immediately stopped the car.

In the dusty sky, Cen slid down from the stone wall today, held Gu Zeng with one hand, and walked to the side of the car with the luggage in the other.Someone asked him, "Where did he come from?" His Mandarin was not standard, and Gu Zeng saw that his face was covered with ashes and yellow sand.

Cen took out his Veteran's ID card from his breast pocket today and showed them: "My wife and I are from Beijing, and this is the place where we first met."

How can you be so serious and full of nonsense?She couldn't help laughing.

A person in the back seat of the car began to shout at the top of his voice, speaking in a dialect. They couldn't understand them, so they could only look in his direction. It turned out that a peak cow was surrounded by several lambs not far away. Live, as if a duel for territory is about to start.When he yelled like this, the owners of all the families saw him, and quickly ran over with his whip, and the lambs dispersed immediately.

Cen turned to look at her today, pursed his lips and smiled, and told her with peaceful eyes: It's a pity that I didn't see a wonderful wrestling.The first thought in her heart was, how could she still be able to withstand such teasing?He lowered his head and laughed.

At this time, I really want to ask him what kind of mood he felt when he came here for the first time.

Later he replied, "I feel like I'm watching a big drama that has continued from the last century." When they said this, they were really watching a big drama.

The car stopped at the entrance of a village, and the staff of several protection stations got out of the car, or sat with fellow villagers on stools, or leaned on the big elm next to the stage.

Cen lifted her up today, and she climbed onto the roof of the car following his gestures. It was already dark at that time, and the people of this place had just begun a wonderful baptism of drama.He climbed up, took out a cigarette in his hand, and answered her like this, "Everyone's makeup is very delicate, including movements and singing, this is the only place that makes me feel real, truly feel I am in this world, in this primitive and clean village." He turned his head, put the cigarettes into the box, and put one hand on the back of her neck, stroking her delicate skin.The second half of his sentence is: "Otherwise, I would really like to keep going, to a place where I can find peace of mind."

It took a night to drive to the city, the driver Uncle Zhang was so tired that he was snoring on the steering wheel, and the other people were still watching the big show with great interest, with different expressions like the people in the show at the moment.

Gu Zeng grabbed his hand and gently squeezed it in the palm of his hand. He really wanted to say this sentence, "I am so thankful, you have not gone far. There are so many cities, it is fortunate that you finally returned to Beijing. "

Probably because of what he said before, he said that my wife and I are from Beijing and this is where we first met.He should have defined their beginnings in the earliest and earliest time, that sentence.In the consulting room surrounded by snow, he asked her: "Why do you believe in destiny?"

Now, the answer at this moment is, to meet him, Ah Cen.

"After you disappeared, Lu Zhao told me some things and restored the original truth. It turns out that the miracle in Atlanta had also been ill in the past, and it was very serious." She leaned on his shoulder and looked at the people on the stage I feel that the man who sang the drama "The people on the riverside are the most elusive" has thicker eyebrows, less tenderness and more roughness, at least when expressing this drama, it did not show its original bitterness and helplessness .

"When you told me that you could empathize with me, I thought we were all just liking someone for a long, long time with difficulty." Later, I realized that it was far more than that. It was obvious that he had endured more, and the truth was more cruel.

"After what happened to Lu Zhongnian, I hated myself for being cowardly. If I didn't run away, wouldn't he be so ill? Cen, I can't get involved in your past, but I really hope that you will When you are sick, don't hide it from me, don't lie to me again."

The wind was loud, and suddenly snow fell in the sky.Uncle Zhang who fell asleep under the car suddenly woke up, stuck his head out of the window, and looked up at them: "Watching a big show on the roof of the car is romantic enough, isn't it cold?"

"It's not cold." He changed his posture, blocking the snow, and asked her softly, "Do you want to get in the car? Your body is just right."

"No, stay a little longer."

The topic just now is not over yet.She looked at him persistently, silently asking for an affirmative answer.Cen couldn't avoid such gazes today, and felt that he should give her a thorough and clear answer.

"There is only a period of the past, which belongs to the Air Force and Suge, nothing else." He suddenly turned over and got out of the car, reached out and hugged her, and kissed her ear the moment his body fit together, "The future will be the same, it will only be like this, There will be no one else but you."

"You know that's not what I want."

He smiled helplessly: "Gu Zeng, I can't give you the promise you want."

Before the snow fell heavily, they set off again.Because the two young people who came with Uncle Zhang in the car did not have a driver's license, and Uncle Zhang was in a state of fatigue and could not drive for a long time, so Cen had to be replaced to drive today, and she sat in the co-pilot.She knew the condition of his eyes, worried that something might go wrong, and kept looking at him nervously, but he said that he was in good condition at the moment, and he would keep moving forward at a low speed, and would stop if there was any discomfort.

With no better choice, she could only agree.

Uncle Zhang and several big men crowded in the back seat, a little excited, chatting about some things about entering the city.

"There was once a couple who got into the car with us halfway, and we were the ones who drove for fifteen hours, because neither the gentleman nor his wife knew how to drive, and they were very guarded against us the whole time, hugging us tightly. My own package." Uncle Zhang said angrily, "Can I miss their things? Now a stack of banknotes is thrown in front of me, without blinking."

The companion grinned: "Come on, if there is really a stack of banknotes, if the origin is innocent, would you not want it?"

"That's right, but I don't steal or rob, and I really can't help it." While speaking, he wrapped the two of them in his arms and hugged them tightly, "I'll let you two watch, don't worry .”

(End of this chapter)