Globe Trekker

Chapter 29

Two groups of people were huddled under the cave wall recessed five or six meters on the left side. They had heard the conversation and footsteps between Wu Ming and the young guard before, so they had already stopped crying and talking in fright. People from all over the world.

Wu Ming stopped when he found the target, and vaguely saw two groups of people sitting on the withered grass, two on the right and three on the left, four or five meters apart. Because the light was too dark, he could only vaguely see the figures, and Wu Ming had no choice but to go forward After a few steps, I finally saw three people on the left huddling together in horror.

After staying for a while, Wu Ming's eyes adapted to the brightness here, and he clearly recognized that the woman who was tightly guarded by two old people was a pregnant woman with a big belly. Wu Ming was not in the mood to recognize the two people there.

The place is filled with acrid fishy smell and rotten smell, so strong that it is disgusting and almost suffocating. Even a strong man like Wu Ming can't bear it, let alone old people and pregnant women staying here all the time?
We must know that polluted air is very harmful to pregnant women and fetuses. The woman's abdomen is obviously swollen, and she is probably already six or seven months pregnant. How can she continue to live like this?In this barren mountain where there is a lack of medical treatment and medicine, if you can't hold it and collapse, your life may be in danger at any time.

Wu Ming immediately pleaded with the young man who accompanied him: "My good man, this woman has a big belly, she can't stay in this kind of place, or she might have a miscarriage, or even die because of it. Good point, can you change the place for them? You don’t need to ask for anything else, and you don’t need to go out of the hole, just move it to the place where my little brother was lying last night!”

The young man thought for a while and finally nodded. Wu Ming didn't care about the dirty smell, walked up to the two old people and squatted down, and said as kindly as possible: "The two old people listen to me, this place is very bad for this sister-in-law's health. There must be problems if we stay here, or the sister-in-law will fall down, and if that happens, the child may not be able to keep it, why don't you move it to a place with better air in front, do you think so?"

The two old people may have been frightened, and they huddled together and did not dare to answer. Wu Ming had no choice but to persuade the pregnant woman patiently, explain his worries, and promise that nothing would hurt them.

Wu Ming's handsome appearance, his upright face, and his gentle and sincere words finally won the trust of the two elderly people and the pregnant woman, but the three of them seemed to be frightened, and they didn't dare to talk to Wu Ming, they just nodded repeatedly and supported each other to get up , tremblingly followed Wu Ming to the entrance of the cave.

"Dear Sir, Dear Sir, we need your kind help, and we want to follow you!"

Weird mandarin with a slight Jiangsu and Zhejiang accent rang out loudly. Wu Ming looked back and was surprised again. The one who caught up was a tall foreigner with an unshaven beard.

Seeing the pleading eyes of the foreigner, Wu Ming nodded after a while, motioning for the two of them to follow.The foreigner was overjoyed and didn't forget to thank him repeatedly. He went back to help his companion catch up, and followed Wu Ming closely to the depression more than ten meters away from the entrance of the cave.

Wu Ming saw that the dry grass on the ground was so thin that it could barely cover the dust and exposed rocks, so he quickly told the two old people to wait a while, and looked around for something to sit on and keep warm.

The young guard on the side shook his head again and again, sighed and strode out of the cave, and quickly brought two bales of hay and threw them to Wu Ming.

Wu Ming thanked with a smile, quickly untied the straw rope, spread two bales of hay evenly on the innermost flat place, and politely asked the two old people and pregnant women to rest.

The two old people expressed their thanks repeatedly. The pregnant woman whose face and hands were already swollen was very grateful. She bowed deeply to Wu Ming with tears, and respectfully helped the old man to sit down first.

It was only then that Wu Ming could clearly see what the pregnant woman looked like: she was of medium build and her face was pale. Although her face was slightly swollen, she could still see a delicate and upright appearance. She was about 25 or six years old and could not be called beautiful. His manners are well educated.

The woman looked at Wu Ming, with some questioning in her eyes, Wu Ming waved her hand to signal her to sit down and rest, turned to the foreigner and smiled, and nodded to the Chinese who was wearing glasses and a priest's robe next to the foreigner, which was regarded as a formal greeting .

The foreigner who could speak Chinese had already calmed down and was very touched by Wu Ming's help. Knowing that Wu Ming and the bandits were not in the same group, he bowed deeply to Wu Ming gratefully, chanting words as if he was praying to God.

Wu Ming wasn't in the mood to pay too much attention to it, and he didn't want to put on a show. He returned to the young guard and thanked him again in a low voice.

The young guard was also a polite man. He asked Wu Ming to walk to the entrance of the cave far away from the hostages, and sat on a raised rock to talk to Wu Ming in a low voice, as if he was very interested in Wu Ming's identity and experience.Wu Ming answered every question, as long as it wasn't what he didn't want to say, he wouldn't deliberately hide it. After some conversation, the two got along well.

The food and quilt delivery person finally came. Wu Ming thanked politely, took the quilt and immediately walked to the two old people and pregnant women sitting in the corner, unfolded the quilt and put it behind them, then went back and brought a large bowl of steaming hot With a basket of rice and a large bowl of dried vegetables and stewed meat, I ran to the old man and pregnant woman again and squatted down: "Eat it while it's hot. There are not enough chopsticks. You can just pick up two thicker grass roots as chopsticks and deal with it."

"Hey, hello! My master ordered this to be given to you. If you give it to someone else, I won't have the time to bring it to you. They have their own meals, and they will send them in the afternoon." The middle-aged man who brought the meals The man warned Wu Ming loudly.

Wu Ming turned around and said with a smile: "Thank you, little brother, this good man, but the big sister and the two old people are so hungry that they can't move. They need this meal more than me, so you can eat it as a little brother." Let’s go down, if you’re hungry, I’ll eat their share in the afternoon.”

"Damn it! I've never seen you pretending to be a good person like this, and I don't even know what time it is. If you don't protect yourself, you can control others!" The middle-aged man seemed to have a bad temper, and he didn't want to look at Wu Ming again. Turning around and leaving, the young man shook his head and followed.

Watching the two bandits walk out of the cave, Wu Ming sat on the rock and laughed at himself. He raised his head and saw that the two old men and pregnant women were looking at him with complicated expressions without moving their chopsticks. After thinking for a while, they strode out of the cave. Lest they have scruples and can't let go.

Looking far outside the cave, the surrounding mountains are majestic and vast. Wu Ming slowly analyzed and calculated in his mind based on the time of arrival last night, the approximate location and the scenery in front of him.

After a long time, Wu Ming deduced that this place should be in the north of Yushan County, belonging to the Bijia Mountain or the hinterland of Gexianweng Mountain in the Huaiyu Mountain Range. It is no more than [-] kilometers away from Yushan County. It was impossible to get myself to this place in just half a night.

Overlooking the mountainside more than [-] meters away, there are wooden houses hidden among the big trees on both sides of the stream, and the unique sound of waterfalls pouring from the west can be faintly heard.

Wu Ming then climbed up the rock four or five meters high on the right side of the cave entrance and looked westward. He found that beyond the dense and tall forest treetops 600 meters away, there was a gentle slope several hundred meters long and wide, with a stream meandering through it, faintly I saw a group of busy men, women and children and a few cattle.

This discovery made Wu Ming secretly amazed. It seemed that the strongman who brought him here was not a professional bandit. Gradually, he felt that this bandit's den seemed less hateful, with a little more warmth and life.

(End of this chapter)