At dawn, before the sun rose, Landie had already packed her bags and was ready to set off. As a photographer, Shen Ming carried equipment that could even hold anti-tank rocket launchers. At first, Lan Die was worried that Shen Ming would not be able to carry it alone, but she was relieved when she found that he was lightly carrying the equipment weighing a hundred catties on one shoulder, without panting or blushing.
Dare to love the young rookie still has an advantage, that is the strength of his arm, it should be no problem to use it as a horse, right
The two of them set off from the big pants and went directly to the airport. They will take a domestic airline and fly to Lincang, which is the closest to Guokang, then take a car to Lansan Town, and enter the territory of Kokang through the border crossing.
Due to the rise of the border crossing gambling industry in recent years, this seemingly unpopular transportation line has been slowly developed. Even the mountain roads it passes are covered with asphalt, and there is no sense of bumps in the frontier.
Shen Ming and Lan Die set off at 6:00 a.m. and stood in Lansan Town in just 5 hours. This is the most important trading port south of the Tian Dynasty. A variety of daily necessities and noodle shop specialties, mutual trade is in full swing.
However, since the Kokang War, the appearance of Lansan Town has also undergone earth-shaking changes. The busy traffic on the streets is no longer a caravan consigning goods, but carrying delicate refugees. Many refugees came too late. There is no place to rest in the exhibition center, so they can only live on the streets and live a life of begging. Refugees with a little money can still rent a prefabricated house in this town to shelter their families from the wind and rain, but the rent is also rising, which is close to the price of second-tier cities in China, and the rent method is learned from the hotel, which is based on worship. Every week there will be a step-by-step price increase.
Drinking water, instant noodles, and even basic livelihood items such as shampoo in the town have also increased. However, under local suppression, it has not yet reached the point of killing people. In order to stabilize prices, a large amount of food and daily necessities are transported every day. In the past, the Celestial Dynasty also invested a lot of manpower and material resources in order to appease the refugees and maintain the relative tranquility of the area.
However, it is difficult to find real happiness on the faces of those courageous refugees who also have yellow skin and black hair. The vast majority of them are old, weak, women and children. The able-bodied men in the family did not flee with them, because the house and their local property still need someone to take care of them.
The communication between Guokang and Lansan Town has long been interrupted, and these refugees can only pray that their men are still safe. Of course, what needs to be prayed most is that the war will end as soon as possible, so that they can return to their homes and enjoy a stable life again.
"Is this a war?" To be precise, Landie has not yet stood on the real battlefield, and here is directly close to the frontier of the battlefield.
Seeing the appearance of outsiders like Lan Die and Shen Ming, a group of children gathered around the road and begged for things in incomprehensible bold words. They were not really helpless, at least in Shen Ming's eyes. Come on, those malnourished children in Africa who don't even have the strength to call "passing off" are the ones who should really be relieved.
But Landie didn't know that nerve was touched, like a reincarnation of a Bodhisattva, she put down the package with tears in her eyes, took out a bunch of chocolates and distributed them to the children.
"Don't grab it, everyone has it, pass it on to the little brother in the back." Lan Die said softly.
"Senior! Those are our emergency supplies!" Shen Ming hurriedly stopped him. He knew the state of the war zone, so he gave away all the food, and if he really fell into trouble in the later stage, he would be dumbfounded.
"Xiao Ming! Do you have sympathy? Don't these children need emergency more than us? Quick! Take out yours too! This is an order!" Lan Die sternly roared.
"Oh, I'm unlucky..." Shen Ming could only break his teeth and swallow in his stomach. Who told him that the role he played was a rookie who had never been on the battlefield, and he couldn't explain to Lan Die that this group of little bastards eat Not bad.
No way, Shen Ming's beef jerky and chocolates were also distributed to this group of children, and they just cleaned up with Lan Die, and continued towards the customs office with a bunch of equipment that couldn't be chewed or chewed.
Originally thought that the customs gate, which had already terminated the trade, would be deserted, but the curbs along the customs gate were full of nervous refugees. When they saw Shen Ming and Lan Die walking towards the customs gate, they surrounded them in groups. come up. These are not children begging for things, but desperately stuffing letters into their bodies, speaking their requests in jerky Chinese or English in a chaotic scene.
Basically, they are asking Shen Ming and Lan Die to go and see their home situation, and bring back a message. Inside the envelope are their detailed addresses, family photos, and many of them have banknotes in them. Although there are not many, they all represent them. An anxious mind.
"Shen Ming! Protect the equipment, don't break it! I'm sorry, everyone, please let me go!" The petite Lan Die was squeezed in the crowd and could hardly see the sky, and there were a group of refugees' hands on her body If you stuff things randomly, you will inevitably be stuck with oil and eat tofu. Lan Die was ashamed, annoyed and helpless, so she could only tell Shen Ming to be more careful!
"Let me come!" Shen Ming suddenly leaned over, carried the little Landie on his shoulders, and pushed out of the crowd. The embarrassed she immediately felt relieved, but in front of everyone, she was wearing only hot pants and a vest, and being carried by a big man like this, she couldn't help but feel shy. Dare to sit in the room by yourself, but a girl who is so ambiguous in front of others will still be ashamed.
"Get out of the way!" Shen Ming didn't look so good towards these refugees. He carried his companion on his shoulders, a device more than 1 meter long in each hand, and walked forward with iron bones. The killing intent in his eyes was worse than the rebels these refugees had seen. It was even more frightening, making them involuntarily make way.
When Shen Ming finally put Lan Die down at the Chinese customs gate, there were many envelopes and paw prints on their bodies and luggage. The most shameless thing is that there are two more black paw prints on the chest of Landie's white T-shirt, the more obscene it looks.
"This group of perverts won't let A- go!" Shen Ming scolded with glaring eyes.
"Shut up! Change clothes! I'm leaving!" Lan Die blushed, jumped up and patted Shen Ming's head. The soldiers on guard led the two to the inner room and asked them to put on clean clothes before going through the customs.
Shen Ming put the letters on his body together and prepared to throw them away.
"What are you doing?" Lan Die who followed out asked nervously.
"Of course it is thrown away. There is no way to help them fulfill this kind of wish. And it is best not to read it. They can write worse than Qu Yuan. Throwing it away is the best way to deal with it." Shen Ming has also experienced such a thing.
"No! These are the expectations of those refugees, how can they just be thrown away!" Lan Die snatched the letter from Shen Ming's hand, put it together with her own, and put it into the luggage.
"Senior...you are busy." Shen Ming sighed helplessly.
Soon, Shen Ming and Lan Die, as field reporters assigned by Yangshi, completed the customs clearance procedures at the customs gate. The captain kept reminding the two of them that Kokang is in a mess now and they must be more careful.
The retail Landie also shook hands with the captain tightly to express Yangshi's condolences to these frontier soldiers.
After crossing the national border that symbolizes the border between the two countries, Lan Die was still waving goodbye to the soldiers when Lan Die was suddenly grabbed by the neck from behind. Before she could react, the border guards from the Kokang side had already dragged her and Shen Ming into the Kokang border checkpoint.
That kind of rude attitude made several border guards raise their 95 aiming excitedly, and even opened the safety of the gun.
But the courageous squad leader with a big beard and an "81-bar" assault rifle on his shoulders chuckled disdainfully and raised his middle finger at these frontier soldiers. His arrogance really makes people want to smash him to death. Face.
"Stop! You can't treat us like this! We are approved war reporters, protected by international law!" Lan Die kept stating in English, and wanted to reason with the soldiers who arrested her.
The soldier couldn't understand Lan Die's chattering English at all, he just thought it was a provocation, angrily raised the butt of the rifle in his hand, and smashed it down.
Yi Landie's small head was sure to be popular, but the butt of the gun was blocked by Shen Ming's palm as soon as it fell halfway. Shen Ming explained in noodle shop language with a lost smile, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, she doesn't understand the rules, she's a little nervous."
Shen Ming let go of the butt of the gun while talking, and pushed Lan Die back to the corner.
"You can speak noodle shop dialect?" Lan Die didn't express her gratitude for being saved, but wondered about Shen Ming's language talent.
"I told you that my third uncle likes to gamble, and he always comes here to play. He taught me my noodle shop language. I can barely get by with some daily expressions." Shen Ming turned around and explained, "There is also senior, international law is here. It's useless, if you have to be soft, then just be soft, and if you can't afford it in front of you, don't eat it."
If it wasn't for Shen Ming's timely action just now, she would already be lying on a stretcher now.
"You are a newcomer, you are too spineless. Think about our revolutionary martyrs, which one has been soft in the face of the enemy's gunfire and slaughter?" Lan Die directly popularized patriotic education for Shen Ming.
"Senior, those are all dead... Do you want us to hang here too?" Shen Ming wanted to cry without tears, so he could only refute in his heart.
And a group of Kokang rebels had already begun to rummage through their luggage. Lan Die watched her underwear being picked up and kneaded back and forth by the hands and feet of the soldiers, even wearing it on her body and making fun of her companions. Lan Die hated her teeth so much that she just wanted to burn all those clothes.
After confirming that there were no contraband in the luggage, they turned their attention to the stack of envelopes. They tore up the envelopes containing the wishes of the refugees, counted all the cash inside, put them in their pockets, and then put Photos and letters were thrown in the trash.
"How could they do this!" Lan Die finally couldn't bear it anymore.
"Of course they can do this... soldiers who can kill people ruthlessly, what else can't they do?" Shen Ming kept Lan Die behind him to avoid unnecessary conflicts.