the knife of love

Chapter 157 Seeing or not seeing?

Tang Jingcheng's fingers trembled, and he texted Guan Yue word by word: "Do you know where I am?"

"I know, Pagan mining area, but your signal is not good there, if you want to see me, please write back to me, and I will go to find you."

When Tang Jingcheng saw this passage, her whole body seemed to float. She never knew what this man was thinking. How could he come to Pagan to look for her for no reason?
Is it because she already knew that she was pregnant?
"Tang Jingcheng..."

"Tang Jingcheng...!"

"Ah? What?" Tang Jingcheng raised his head from the front of the phone, "Sorry, what did you just say?"

Su Jue could only smile helplessly: "I said that I will go to Myitkyina tomorrow night and take you there with me."

"No, I'm not going."

"Why?" He thought she was playing the young lady again, "You have seen everything you should see, and you know everything you shouldn't. You are still pregnant, this place is not suitable for you to stay for a long time."

"I know, but can you give me another two days." Tang Jingcheng wanted to see Guan Lue here, no matter what the future holds, at least he should know about the existence of the child.

"When will you come back from Myitkyina?"

"I can't tell. If the negotiation goes well, I may come back the day after tomorrow. If it doesn't go well, I may stay there for several days, so I don't feel relieved to leave you here alone!"

"What's there to worry about!" Tang Jingcheng pretended to smile peacefully. She didn't want to tell the truth to Su Jue, but she also wanted to meet Guan Lue, so she looked around for reasons to persuade him.

"I'm not going to the mine, so I'll wait for you in the hotel room. Besides, it's not a war-torn place here, so what can happen!"

Su Jue still felt wrong after thinking about it: "Is that why you want to stay here?"

"It's not that I want to stay, it's that I really don't want to follow you on the road at night. I almost vomited my intestines when I came by car from Myitkyina last time. I finally felt better today. I'm going to do it again tomorrow night. I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it." .”

Maybe Su Jue thought it made sense, and scratched his forehead: "Okay, then you stay here, I will let Radumin take care of you here, and my friend will come back from Germany the day after tomorrow, if possible, I will let you He came directly to Pagan to find you."

"Okay, that's troublesome."

Tang Jingcheng had a cute face, and Su Jue was not used to it.

"You don't need to be so polite."

"But I feel like I'm really bothering you all the way."

"Really? Thank you! But it's been troublesome for so long anyway, it doesn't matter if it's one more time."

"..."

Tang Jingcheng actually slept surprisingly well that night, and woke up very early the next day.

Su Jue didn't have the habit of sleeping late either, so the two made an appointment to meet in the restaurant of the hotel.

At that time, the sun in the mountains had just risen, and strands of golden sunlight shone on the simple white walls of the restaurant. Tang Jingcheng walked over from the corner of the stairs, and Su Jue clearly felt that the water glass in his hand was sinking.

"Where did the clothes come from?"

"I brought it from China, customized by Taobao, does it look good?"

Su Jue smiled: "It looks good!"

Tang Jingcheng also smiled: "I always feel that your answer is very reluctant."

"No, it's really pretty."

"Yes, I think so too." Tang Jingcheng turned around in front of the table narcissistically.

She wore a longi that day. The upper body was a crimson cotton loose top, which was short and just reached the waist, and a peacock blue longi was wrapped around it. The skirt was narrow and long to the bare feet, making her slightly tilted Buttocks and legs were covered, although they were tightly covered, but Su Jue felt that Tang Jingcheng in the longki had a different kind of beauty.

After they had breakfast, Su Jue was going to the mining area, while Tang Jingcheng was standing in the lobby of the hotel, biting a soda.

"Wait a moment."

"Anything else?"

"Do you know where the jade market in Pagan is?"

"You want to go?"

"Well, I want to go and have a look."

"But many of the items sold in the jade market here are fakes!"

"Fakes?" Tang Jingcheng smiled, rather proudly, "Do those fakes still want to fool me?"

"..."

Su Jue also thinks it makes sense after thinking about it, she is Tang Jingcheng, Qiu Qiguan's apprentice, and one of the youngest national jade carving masters in the industry.

"Well, when do you want to go? I'll ask Radumin to drive you there then."

……

After Su Jue left, Tang Jingcheng went back to the room, kicked off his shoes and sat down on the bed covered with a mat, and wrote back a text message to Guan Lue: "I only stay in Pagan for a few days, if you can make it in time, do it tomorrow, tomorrow at four o'clock in the afternoon See you at the jade market in Pagan!"

The other side quickly responded to her message: "Okay, I will go there, see you there!"

Tang Jingcheng read the last four words countless times.

Be there or be square, okay, then be there or be square.

When the evening was approaching, Su Jue went back to Yudu Hotel, went back to the room to pack some things and prepared to leave for Myitkyina.

Radumin picked him up from the mining area by car, and Tang Jingcheng sat on the steps in front of the hotel and waited for him.

"Miss Tang, don't you go with President Su?"

"No, stay here, I will trouble you to take me to the jade market tomorrow."

"It's definitely okay to take you there, but our jade market is full of scams. If Ms. Tang wants to buy jade, I can introduce someone else to you."

Tang Jingcheng smiled and shook his head: "No, I just want to go and have a look."

Now that she said so, Radomin would not say much.

Sitting there, Tang Jingcheng wrapped his arms around Longji on his knees, and asked again: "I seem to have heard that Su Zhan also came to Myanmar."

"Yes, I arrived with the old chairman, and I'm also in Myitkyina now. I was supposed to pick him up to Pagan yesterday, but I thought I'd send a car to send President Su there tonight, so Master Zhan will send Su with him at that time." The total car is coming to Pagan."

"That means he will come back with your President Su at that time?"

"No, President Su needs to stay in Myitkyina to talk to the old chairman, but Master Zhan will come to Pagan with his car tonight."

"..." What kind of strange arrangement is this, Tang Jingcheng was a little curious, "Why do you call Mr. Su Myitkyina? The landslide here is solved?"

"No! It's just that the solution is not resolved, so I have to call Mr. Su to Myitkyina." Radumin slipped his mouth again as he spoke, and moved a little closer to Tang Jingcheng, deliberately lowering his voice: "I heard from Manager Chao that Su I always went back to Myitkyina to discuss matters with the leader of the government army, and Master Zhan came here to see Ang Lai."

"Ang Lai?"

"It is a leader of the Kachin Independence Army."

"..."

Tang Jingcheng's mind trembled again, how deep is the situation hidden here?

"But Ms. Tang, don't dwell on these matters. These are all decisions made by the higher-ups, and I just heard about them." La Dumin pouted.

Tang Jingcheng was about to stand up from the steps with his arms propped up, but he heard someone shouting from the side: "Nila...Nila..."

A Burmese girl who appeared to be in her early twenties came out from behind the pillars of the hotel. She was thin and wearing a longi that was so dirty that she couldn't tell the color. She was barefoot, her skin was dirty, and her messy hair almost covered her Half of the face, only the exposed eyes are clean and bright.

The Burmese girl kept approaching Tang Jingcheng.

"Go, go..." Radumin wanted to push her away in disgust, and then cursed a few words in Burmese. Tang Jingcheng couldn't understand the meaning, but he could roughly guess that he was chasing her away.

But the girl seemed to be obsessed with something, staring straight at Tang Jingcheng, and kept repeating two words: "Nila...Nila..."

Tang Jingcheng quickly stood up and asked Radumin: "What is she talking about?"

Radomin glared at the girl, and replied, "Miss Tang, don't worry about her, she has some brain problems."

"Insane?"

"Yes, a madman."

"Nila...Nila..." The girl was still chanting, trying to break away from Radumin and come to Tang Jingcheng's side, but her eyes kept sticking to her wrist.

Tang Jingcheng raised her arm. Could it be that she was talking about the jade lock and key on her wrist?
"What does Nila mean?"

"Nila is her name, which can be translated as sapphire in Burmese."

"Sapphire..." Tang Jingcheng murmured.

"Yes, sapphire! Many local poor Burmese people like to name girls jewels. Maybe they want to get a good omen, but this girl doesn't know if it's a bad fate or an unknown birth."

"Unknown birth?"

"Yes, everyone in our area knows about her family. Not long after she was born, her father was crushed to death because she was digging a mine. Even the body was never found. Her mother has no ability to support her. She is hungry After a while, besides, Burmese patriarchal thoughts are very serious, and when she was about seven or eight years old, her mother found another man and gave birth to a younger brother, and no one cares about her later."

Tang Jingcheng can imagine her hardship and poverty when she was a child.

"Then she was born with a defective IQ?"

"No, it was normal when she was born, and this girl was very handsome when she was young."

Tang Jingcheng took a closer look at her facial features. Although her face was dirty, she could indeed tell that her foundation was good and her facial features were correct. She should be considered beautiful among Burmese girls.

"Then how did it become like this?"

Radumin sighed, and let Nila go: "I guess she committed some crimes in her previous life. A seven or eight-year-old girl is left outside all day long, and this mine is full of men..."

Radomin stopped talking later.

Tang Jingcheng's heart trembled: "What do you mean by that?"

"That's what it means... She was slept by someone. This girl also suffered. After her mother remarried, she basically ignored her. She was alone outside and was watched by the workers in the mine. After the accident, her mother went to that man to make a fuss." , I lost a little money after the quarrel, and it ended up hurting her even more, her mother may think it is profitable, and later use her to make money openly."

"Make money? You mean..." Tang Jingcheng couldn't believe it, "That's her mother!"

"Yes, dear mother! But some people in this place are afraid of poverty. Besides, no one cares whether she lives or dies with a little hoof. The situation will get worse and worse in the future. On the surface, secretly, tsk tsk... Only she knows how many times she has suffered, and she has gradually become this kind of virtue."

Stupid, crazy, crazy...

Tang Jingcheng breathed a sigh of relief, feeling inexplicably depressed.

"Then how old is she?"

"It's about seventeen or eighteen."

"So small?" Tang Jingcheng found it inconceivable. Although this girl was thin, she was about the same height as her. She thought she was in her early twenties.

"The girls in this place are incomparable to yours. The sun is poisonous and the skin is rough, so they look older, but this girl got it done early, and she is going to be a mother at such a young age."

"what?"

"Being a mother!" Radumin patted the little girl's belly casually, "Look, it's all bulging, and I don't know which man it is from. I heard it's been four months..."

Tang Jingcheng felt the bone-chilling cold under the scorching sun. Taking a closer look at the little girl's lower abdomen, it was indeed slightly swollen.

What kind of world is this?
The scorching sun seemed to expose all the ugliness and ferocity to the outside.

"Your name is Nila, isn't it?"

The little girl didn't look at Tang Jingcheng in a daze, and continued to stare at her wrist: "Nila...Nila..." It was like a spell.

Tang Jingcheng finally understood what she meant. She was talking about the watch she was wearing on her wrist, which was inlaid with blue diamonds, and the blue diamonds shone brightly under the sunlight.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Tang Jingcheng took off his watch, "This is a blue diamond, and there are four inlaid in it. The person who gave it to me said that the blue diamond represents the ocean, which is vast and vast."

Radumin laughed a little: "Miss Tang, it's useless for you to tell her these things, she can't understand."

But Tang Jingcheng didn't care, the girl seemed to be quiet all of a sudden, her eyes fixed on Tang Jingcheng's face.

Tang Jingcheng found that she had big black eyes, as if she could get rid of the troubles in this world.

"Nila, diamonds are the strongest thing in the world, and blue represents hope. I will give it to you now." After speaking, she put the watch on Nila's hand.

There was momentary shock in Nila's eyes, who said she couldn't understand, some love and warmth don't need language to communicate.

La Dumin was a little confused: "Miss Tang, this is..."

"Nila, you have to be as strong as this diamond." Tang Jingcheng, ignoring the astonishment of Radumin next to him, squeezed Nila's finger...

When Su Jue walked out of the hotel lobby with his luggage, he saw this scene: the setting sun from the distant mountains slanted over, and the golden sunlight shrouded the land. Tang Jingcheng gently squeezed a girl's hand, and the girl The clothes are shabby, but she doesn't mind at all, with a smile on her face.

Sunset danced on her peacock blue longi, and it was so beautiful.

Su Jue couldn't help but took out his mobile phone and took a picture of the scene in front of him, saving it in the encrypted album.

"Boss Su." Radumin saw Su Jue walking over first.

Tang Jingcheng also looked back at him: "I met a new friend." As soon as he turned around, Nila ran away as if he had seen a ghost.

"Hey, watch!" Radumin chased after him, cursing and yelling a few words in Burmese.

Tang Jing Cheng smiled: "Stop chasing her, let her go."

"But…"

"It's okay, I've already given it to her."

Radumin could only purse his lips.

Su Jue was a little curious: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, are you going to leave?"

"Well, leave when the car arrives. By the way, this is my friend's contact information in Myanmar." Su Jue took out a piece of paper from his pocket, and wrote Qi Zheng's name and number on it.

"He will arrive in Pagan probably the day after tomorrow, and I have already called him and asked him to come to you when he arrives in Pagan."

"It's okay, I won't have any problems by myself." Tang Jingcheng looked calm.

La Dumin also made a promise at the side: "President Su, don't worry, I know everything here, and I will take good care of Miss Tang."

On the night Su Jue left, Su Zhan came to Pagan by car. The next morning, she also heard from Radumin, and Su Zhan also lived in Yudu Hotel. In order to prevent encounters, Tang Jingcheng stayed at Room.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, she received another text message from Guan Lue: "I'm already on my way to the jade market, see you later."

(End of this chapter)