Ronin: Start with the cotton

Chapter 273 The Hitchhiker

A journey of four.

One stays at the starting point, one stays halfway.

Only Qiao Shan was left alone to send Jiang He to the job.

The towns on the road are becoming rarer and replaced by long and uninhabited mountains and plateaus. Except for the flat roads that represent the traces of human beings, the original appearance of nature began to be gradually revealed in front of the two of them.

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Passed through some small town for a night's rest along the way.

In the early morning of the next day, the two of them set out on the road again. This time, Jiang He drove the car, and Qiao Shan sat in the passenger seat.

It’s funny to say that although Dongji Island is too small to even drive a car, almost everyone on the island can drive. The reason is that the young people on the island have nothing else to do except fishing.

At that time, the slogan of Miaozidao Driving School was: "Learn to drive, give life another choice."

Therefore, most of the young people who go from Dongji Island to the mainland have started driving business like Haohan, either driving taxis, or driving trucks, transport vehicles...

Therefore, even though he had been teaching for ten years, under everyone's influence, Jiang He learned to drive and even passed the driver's license test.

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Travelers say that the journey is actually lonely and boring.

Qiao Shan didn't feel deeply about this.

In the co-pilot position, Qiao Shan was holding a puppy in his arms, and was playing with it with great interest.

The puppy is an Alaskan puppy, which seems to be only three or two months old. They picked it up by chance on the road, because there is no way to go to the village or back to the store, and the puppy looks very hungry. Howling, guessing it was a wild dog or a lost family dog, so the two took this little Alaska.

Qiao Shan felt that this puppy was the one that Haohan Jianghe bumped into in the original plot.

However, the original plot of the movie is too literary and artistic, and many of the plots are fragmentary. In addition, the story of the movie is told in reverse from Hu Sheng's perspective, and it is still about the story of Jiang He's novel "Traveler", so Qiao Shan is not sure what happened on the way between them. Will everything really happen the same as the original plot?

"Before, Jiang He had a bad face, and Haohan's face was blackened, and he looked like he was about to die. It was not until Haohan was sent back to Changxi Town that the two of them changed their luck... It seems that the original plot can only be used as a reference. Really believe it."

Qiao Shan thought to himself.

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The road became more and more winding, and the road began to stop and go.

Because Bayi Town is not completely on the national road, they have to go through a section of mountain forest and wild road before they can re-board the Tibet-Qingdao Highway.

On the way, the two stumbled upon a small restaurant.

Behind the restaurant is a small village with scattered low houses.

Surprisingly, they stopped the car, and the two of them got in in a hurry. Just as they found a place to sit down, an old lady came from the back kitchen soon.

The old lady was wearing an apron, her face was dark yellow, but she was neatly dressed.

"Two guests, what would you like to eat?"

Handing over a menu, Jiang He was secretly surprised when he saw the price on it: "So expensive?"

Wiping her hands with her apron, the old lady explained in broken Mandarin, "It's not expensive. Our place is small, and we don't make any money by opening restaurants. We have to buy vegetables and meat from far away cities."

Qiao Shan looked at the price, ordered a few dishes without saying anything, and returned the menu to the old lady.

"The mountains are high and the land is biased. It's normal to be more expensive. It's nothing."

It seems that the small restaurants here are relying on the passengers passing by them to make money. Since it is a one-time transaction, how can they not be slaughtered.

Qiao Shan's spiritual sense had scanned it all, and there was a menu at the cash register, the price was more than half of what they had in hand, and that menu was obviously for the locals.

"Miss Boss, the price is fine, but the dishes must be cooked well, otherwise you won't be paid if they don't taste good!"

Qiao Shan said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

The old lady was also very happy: "Don't worry! I will definitely let you eat and drink well!"

The two customers ordered 400 yuan worth of meals at once, which was worth the income of her small restaurant for two days. Seeing what Qiao Shan said, she naturally didn't dare to take it seriously.

Not all the passengers along the way are honest people, she also knows how to watch people order dishes.

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The old lady was cooking in the back kitchen, and Qiao Shan observed it with his spiritual sense for a while, but he felt relieved.

Although his cooking skills are far worse than his own, he is not a hypocritical person. As long as the other party cooks well and doesn't play tricks, he doesn't care about hundreds of dollars.

Before the main course was served, Qiao Shan and Jiang He started drinking with a plate of cold dishes.

In this remote area, no one checks for drunk driving. Jiang He knew Qiao Shan's drinking capacity and driving skills, so he didn't adhere to the moral values ​​of a cultured person.

The two chatted about the knowledge and scenery along the way, and explained the local customs.

Suddenly, there was an intermittent roar of motorcycles outside the small restaurant, and after a while, a man dressed as a knight walked in with a helmet.

"Damn, it's troublesome now... Huh? There are still people going to Tibet?"

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The man was wearing a navy blue polo shirt with a stand-up collar on his upper body, and a gray warm and windproof coat on the outside. The trousers on his lower body seemed to be the same suit as the coat, which was also light gray.

He came to sit down at Qiao Shan's dining table familiarly, and said with a reserved and awkward smile: "Hello, can I ask, are you... travelers to Tibet too?"

Qiao Shan and Jiang He looked at each other, and they both looked at the dark-faced wind servant man.

The man's face looked obviously in the state of being exposed to ultraviolet light for a long time, and it was almost burnt. With this posture, it looked like the kind of cyclist who rode a motorcycle into Tibet.

Jiang He said honestly: "We are not travelers, but we are indeed going to Tibet."

Qiao Shan had a strange expression on his face. He took a sip from the beer bottle in one hand and a cigarette in the other, and said with a faint smile, "He's a teacher. He was assigned to Bayi Town. Where is he going to teach?"

"Bayi Town!!!"

The dark man's eyes lit up suddenly, he looked at Jiang He expectantly, and stammered, "Then, can I take a ride?"

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself!" The man straightened his expression, sat upright and said seriously: "You can call me Alu, I believe you can see that I am a traveler, originally I planned to go to Tibet alone, but it seems There was an accident and my motorcycle broke down. I can wait for a few days, but my purpose this time is to see NT3M5P. If I go late, I won’t be able to see it, so... can you give me a ride? "

"Don't worry, don't look at me like this, but I'm not a bad person!"

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Jiang He pushed his glasses and asked in confusion, "What is NT3M5P?"

Qiao Shan looked at Jiang He, he was a little puzzled at first, but soon realized, he couldn't help laughing.

In the original plot, Jiang He knew what this code represented. Now it seems that the other party has beautified the current experience in the book.

The man, A Lu, took off his coat, smiled sincerely, and explained: "The enhanced version of the fifth-generation Voyager [-]! A Fenlan satellite, launched in the Three Kingdoms of A, is used to explore outer space, chasing Voyager [-] of."

"I feel that my destiny is like that satellite, the rocket sent me to outer space..."

A Lu slowly told a poignant story about himself and his deceased wife.

The story moved Jiang He, looking at the vicissitudes of A Lu, a feeling of sympathy arises spontaneously.

Soon, Jiang He agreed to A Lu's request for a ride.

He even took the initiative to invite Alu to sit with them for dinner, and the three of them exchanged glasses of wine. Qiao Shan listened with a smile most of the time, without interjecting, and even asked the old lady to add two dishes.

For a time, the host and guests enjoyed themselves.

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(End of this chapter)