Chapter 1260 Veteran

Volunteers and local villagers who have entered the mountain before have already been waiting at the entrance. According to them, the mountain road is not too long, but the most difficult thing is that there is a moat in the middle, with mountains on both sides, and a wide road in the middle. The river is more than 50 meters long, and there is no bridge between the two mountains, only two steel cables. Anyone entering the mountain, except for helicopters, can only enter and exit through these two steel cables. . Fastest update

Although Li Mu was well prepared, after he really followed these people into the mountain, he realized the hardships here. The mountain road has not been systematically repaired. The slightly gentle places are almost completely stepped on hard soil, which is steeper. Some traces of manual repair can be seen in the place, but it is only to repair some of the pockets where the feet are stepped deeper and smoother, so as to prevent people from slipping on the soles of the feet when climbing the slopes.

According to the guide, the villagers in the mountains rely on this road to get in and out of the mountains. Even if they are not sure of absolute safety, people are injured on this road every year, ranging from bruises to fractures. If you fall on this road, you will not be able to get out of the mountain in the first half of the year.

This is the first time Li Mu has walked this kind of difficult mountain road in his life. To tell the truth, he is a big man in his early twenties, and it is extremely difficult to walk such a mountain road. It is difficult to imagine how the old man here can get out of the mountain.

Fortunately, there are these soldiers who have been tempered and hardened. They can also guarantee that each person can carry 15 kilograms on this kind of mountain road. In addition to some equipment, some of the grain and oil prepared for the old man are also carried by them. Li Mu himself is not sure if he can't convince the old man to go down the mountain. These grains and oils are a record, at least it can make the old man no longer worry about eating.

Li Mu's hometown is on the eastern coast. Although it is not an economically developed area, it is generally justified. The poverty he has seen before is nothing more than a dwelling, frugality, careful planning, and at most ragged clothes, but when he lives in the southwest Deep in the mountains, when he was struggling on the mountain road that was not the road, he realized what real poverty was.

Real poverty is the kind of reality that makes people fall into despair at a glance.

In such a big mountain where even a bicycle could not get out, Li Mu put himself in, and all he could think of was despair, but despair.

What surprised Li Mu was that Liu Xinying, who was walking with him, didn't seem to be struggling so much. Her movements were exceptionally neat, and sometimes she was much more dexterous than herself.

At first Li Mu was surprised, but he was relieved soon after thinking of one thing. Liu Xinying is a very amazing woman. She has even been to the North and South Poles, and she is still someone who wants to climb Mount Everest. Climbing this kind of mountain road should be a piece of cake. Compared with her, I was inferior. I really had never participated in that kind of challenging outdoor activities, and had no such experience at all.

The group climbed the mountain road for about an hour, and finally gradually reached the top. When they reached the top of the mountain, the first thing Li Mu saw was the two ziplines that spanned the two mountains.

The zip line is a steel rope thicker than a thumb, and it is fixed on the top of the mountain on both sides. It happened that a villager was holding a lamb and was sliding over from the opposite mountain. Li Mu gasped and observed carefully, only to find that the top of the zip line was. There are two pulleys side by side, with fixed ropes under the pulleys. When people cross the river, they tie themselves to the ropes, and then drag the steel ropes with their hands to let the pulleys move forward.

Before he got close, Li Mu had already heard a huge turbulent sound, like the opening of a hydropower station, and the momentum was extremely huge. Under such a surging sound, the two of them had to roar loudly when they were talking next to each other, otherwise He couldn't hear clearly at all. He came to him and looked down. Only then did Li Mu see the turbulent, rolling river water.

A volunteer from the province said loudly in Li Mu's ear: "Mr. Li, this is the Nujiang River below."

Li Mu suddenly realized: "No wonder I always feel like I've seen this kind of battle somewhere. As soon as you mentioned Nujiang, I remembered it. I learned it in the geography class in junior high school."

The volunteer smiled slightly and said, "In the eyes of those from outside the mountains, this is a rare sight, but in the eyes of the locals, this is the mother river, and it is also a natural moat that blocks them from the outside world. There is a zipline. This side of the zipline is the town, and the other side of the zipline is a dozen primitive villages located deep in the mountains. Mountain residents with a radius of more than ten kilometers share this zipline to enter and exit the mountain, but even if they go out of the mountain, they will We can only go to the town where we parked just now. When we think of the county seat, we have to walk dozens of kilometers. There are no buses here. There are people in the town who ride motorized tricycles to carry passengers, and some people drive animals to carry passengers. Kilometers are the real way out of the mountains.”

Li Mu nodded lightly. More than a dozen villages used this zipline to enter and exit the mountain, with a radius of more than ten kilometers. That is to say, the farthest village in the mountain would have to walk more than ten kilometers to reach the zipline. , Ten kilometers on flat ground is nothing, but in such a big mountain, I am afraid it will take at least half a day to walk for more than ten kilometers, right?

In this way, if the villagers go out to the mountains, one day may not be enough...

Just thinking about it, Liu Xinying waved to Li Mu at one end of the zipline and said, "Mr. Li, we've crossed the river!"

Li Mu once played a zipline in the Dashan scenic area around Yanjing. The feeling of sliding down the mountainside with a zipline was particularly refreshing. To a certain extent, Li Mu liked that exciting feeling. But today, Li Mu was full of awe, he tied himself tightly, and then dragged the zipline forward with both hands.

Because the heights of the mountains on both sides are similar, there is basically no drop between the two ziplines, so whether they are entering or exiting the mountain, they cannot slide down. They must be dragged little by little with both hands. How tiring is this thing? Although there is no height difference between the two sides of the wire rope, the wire rope is not stretched and straight. After a person goes up, the position of the wire rope where the person is will naturally be pulled down a bit, so it is extra hard to slide like this. Underfoot is the rolling water of the Nujiang River, the water is turbulent, making people feel empty in their hearts.

Li Mu only slid halfway, his arms were extremely sore, and when he finally slid to the opposite side, his arms were so sore that he couldn't feel it.

The slender Li Ziwei slid halfway on the river and cried for ten minutes, then she finally slid over with gritted teeth. While comforting her, Li Mu sighed in his heart that no matter how much money people in the city make, they are too little. , many people complain about the pressure, hardship and social injustice of life every day, but compared with the people who live here, they are already many times superior. The young people here, the greatest wish of their lives, I am afraid that Get out of the mountains.

The large troop slid across the river in turn, and traveled for another hour under the guidance of the guide. When the crowd climbed over one mountain and stood at the foot of another, the guide pointed to dozens of sparse houses halfway up the mountain and said, "Then It’s the Baofu Village we’re going to, and it takes about 20 minutes to go up the mountain from here.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. In more than 20 minutes, victory was in sight.

The guide introduced: "There are still more than 30 households in the village. The permanent resident population is in the early 100s. Most of them are old, young, women and children. There are also some middle-aged laborers with silicosis. On the easternmost hillside."

Mr. Sun's original name was Sun Xiaozhong, filial filial piety, loyal loyalty, since ancient times, it has been said that loyalty and filial piety are not both.

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After more than 20 minutes, the mighty twenty-odd people finally came to Baofu Village. This village has already lost its appearance. The whole village is full of thatched houses, not even a single brick house. People, having three thatched huts is already very good, and some people even have only one small thatched hut. From the outside, the internal area cannot exceed ten square meters.

Baofu Village has almost never had visitors from outside. Occasionally, people from outside the mountains are young people who go out to work. This time, there are so many people from outside the village and more than a dozen soldiers in military uniforms. Shocked, men, women and children went out one after another, looking at these uninvited guests in horror. There was no officially appointed village head in this village, only one old man in his 60s who was elected by everyone and who also worked as the "village head". When the old man saw such a big battle, he nervously stepped forward to ask Chen Chengwu, who looked the most like an officer. He spoke in local dialect, but Chen Chengwu couldn't understand it at all. The guide hurried forward to Chen Chengwu at this time and said, "He is The village head elected by the village, surnamed Tian, ​​everyone calls him the village head Tian. He just asked you if the PLA came to the mountains to arrest fugitives. He said that 20 years ago, dozens of PLA came here once, saying that they were invaders. The mountain caught the fugitive and searched the mountain for three days and three nights."

Chen Chengwu hurriedly said to him: "Please explain to the old village chief, we are here to see Mr. Sun."

The guide nodded, pointed to the east, and said a few words to the village chief. In a hurry, he slapped his thigh and shouted a few words.

Chen Chengwu asked the guide, "What did the old village chief say?"

The guide said: "The old village chief said that some people came to see the old man Sun a few days ago, and said that he was a hero who had beaten the Japanese devils before. The villagers didn't believe it. I told him just now that the old man Sun really beat the devils. And it was the Flying Tigers who flew the plane to fight the devils in the sky. Why didn’t the old village chief say such an important thing earlier? Grandpa Sun has lived alone in the village for half his life, and no one knows that he is a great hero. I know, I have long since offered him up as an ancestor!"

Chen Chengwu sighed and said, "It's not too late to know now. Just tell the old village chief that we have to see Mr. Sun first, and then come back to visit him."

The guide said a few words to the old village chief, and the old village chief immediately replied. The guide said that the old village chief wanted to go together, but Chen Chengwu did not object, so he greeted the guide and took everyone there.

When he came to the hillside at the east end of the village, when Li Mu saw the lonely thatched hut, his eyes almost burst into tears. This thatched hut was really dilapidated. The rotten and broken wood inside seems to be completely blown down by a strong wind. The door of the thatched cottage is even more crude. It is simply nailed on by a few crooked branches. There was a fertilizer bag with urea written on it. The bag has not been used for how long, and it is now riddled with holes.

Before everyone arrived at the door, the old village chief shouted in an accent that everyone could not understand. After a while, the dilapidated door was pushed open from the inside, and a rickety old man with gray beard and ragged clothes was leaning on his back. The walking stick made of branches staggered out from the inside. When he saw more than a dozen soldiers in military uniforms standing outside the door, the old man was stunned at first. After a while, he raised his right hand tremblingly. After a long time, he raised his right hand to his ear with difficulty.

At this moment, everyone understood that the old man was actually saluteing them...