After Wei Ran finished speaking, he also lit the huazi given to him by the other party, and explained casually, "When I was diving, the water level was not that high, and there was still a thin layer of air at the top, otherwise

I can’t dive through either.”

"No matter what, you are quite awesome and very courageous."

Lu Ming gestured with his thumbs and exclaimed, "If it were anyone else, he would definitely not dare to go down. If he was washed away by the underground river, he would really be nowhere to be found."

Wei Ran was about to say something exactly when he heard the other party continue, "But it's really thanks to you that now Uncle Dao, Uncle Xiao Xifeng and Uncle Cha have been found, and my father's concern has finally been solved. This

He has been thinking about this all his life."

"Lu...Teacher Lu, he..."

"Alas! You don't know"

Lu Ming took a few puffs of cigarette and said in a puff of smoke, "Ever since we brothers and sisters can remember, we have spent August 1st in the small courtyard in Wenshan almost every year. During the winter and summer vacations, we also take turns to go to each other's houses.

Or just stay in that small courtyard for a whole vacation.

My eldest brother, Qingyan, was the oldest, and Sister Qiangwei was the second eldest. At that time, they were the primary parents, supervising our homework, taking us to play, and supervising our respective laundry and cleaning.

At that time, I drank honey water every day, and every once in a while, I could also drink royal jelly sent by Uncle Dao."

Speaking of this, Lu Ming sighed, but since the summer vacation of 1998, Uncle Dao has never come back. At that time, my elder brother Qingyan wrote letters and sent them here almost every week, or he saved his pocket money and secretly sent them here.

I went to make a long-distance call to Grandma Jiang who was looking after my house.

But until Uncle Wang moved to the small courtyard, he didn't wait for a reply from Uncle Dao.

From that time on, my dad would take a long vacation at the end of March every year and live here by himself for half a month. I heard from my mother that sometimes he would drive the truck left by Uncle Dao to the surrounding areas.

In the woods, once I go there I don't come back for several days.

When I went back, I was all unshaven and looked like I had lost my soul.”

In the silence of Wei Ran and Brother Yang, Lu Ming took off the bunny hat on his head and twirled it on his fingertips and continued, "Since that year, we have never eaten the royal jelly brought by Uncle Dao.

I have never received a hat made by him again."

"then..."

Wei Ran glanced at Cha Xifeng, who was walking in the front, his back slightly blurred by the rain. After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Didn't Squad Leader Dao mention Cha Xifeng back then?"

"No"

Lu Ming shook his head, "Don't talk about Brother Cha, he hasn't said where he is hiding for so many years.

I remember that before 1998, Uncle Wang once looked for Uncle Dao in the same village we visited before, but he was never found. At that time, my dad said that if Uncle Dao wanted to hide, no one would be able to find him.

"

yes...

Wei Ran couldn't help but look at Zha Xifeng at the front again. The old detective who had been trained in the war wanted to hide, so how could anyone find him?

"I heard you are with Mao Zi?" Lu Ming asked as if he had nothing to say.

"Yes, Kazan." Wei Ran replied absently, "I'm studying for my Ph.D. there."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Uncle Wang's daughter is also studying at Maozi's place."

Lu Ming followed the topic and said, "But she is in Irkutsk, right on the edge of Lake Baikal."

"Oh, what are you studying?" Wei Ran, who was still distracted, asked casually.

"Space Physics"

Lu Ming came up with a professional term that Wei Ran had never heard of before, and then added, "If it weren't for the tight time this time, she would definitely come back."

"You brothers and sisters are quite close," Wei Ran said in a confused tone.

“After all, we grew up together”

As Lu Ming spoke, he calmly dusted off the two locusts attached to his bunny hat, and then put it back on his head.

After a brief chat, the three people at the end also distanced themselves from the people in front.

Seeing this, the three of them flicked their cigarette butts away and sped up to catch up.

Thanks to the mountain roads that were temporarily opened in the past two days and the bamboo sheds that the demining students had set up along the way in advance, everyone braved the rain and climbed over the last mountain at around 4 p.m. that day and arrived at the original guard site.

In front of the dug hole.

In the past two days, the cave that could barely allow the sanitary ignition to be drilled out has been enlarged enough for a jeep to drive in. Even the trees and weeds around the entrance of the cave have been cleared and leveled.

At the same time as the ground was built, a flood control dam was also built.

Just like when he went to pick up Squad Leader Dao, Wei Ran still didn't come up to him this time. He just watched from a distance as Zha Xifeng carried the remains of Squad Leader Dao and led Hai Dongqing and others into the cave.

"Let's go back," Wei Ran suddenly said to Brother Yang who was standing beside him.

"Now?" Brother Yang looked at Wei Ran in surprise.

"Yes, now." Wei Ran turned around and walked back as he spoke.

Looking up at the sky, Brother Yang hurriedly said hello to the guard near the entrance of the cave, and then quickly caught up with Wei Ran.

"Aren't you waiting for them?" Brother Yang asked after catching up with Wei Ran, "They are probably going to rest here for the night. I see that Mr. Cha has even set up the tent in advance."

“No more waiting”

Wei Ran shook his head, and then explained as if he was afraid that the other party would misunderstand, "Mr. Cha can bring them here even without me. There is no need to stay and wait for their thanks, and they don't need to thank me. On the contrary,

I should just thank them."

At this point, Wei Ran smiled and said, "In that case, it's better to leave at this time. Seeing that they found them, I felt relieved and could go home. To tell you the truth, I rushed back from Kazan.

I haven’t been home to see him for a while.”

"That's fine, but the road is not easy to walk at night." Brother Yang reminded.

"Then walk slowly, we have plenty of time anyway." Wei Ran responded with a smile, and then quickened his pace.

Brother Yang smiled when he saw this, threw the Bayi Bar in his hand over his shoulder, and also quickened his pace.

At seven o'clock that evening, the two of them returned to Ganzhu Village quietly without being dragged down. They took a car driven by Brother Yang overnight and rushed back to Ha Giang City, which is only 20 kilometers away from the border between the two countries, and stayed in a local family.

A hotel in pretty good condition.

Waiting until early the next morning, Wei Ran said goodbye to Brother Yang in the drizzle, crossed the border between the two countries alone, and returned to Tianbao on the other side, where he met Suisui and her beauty who had come to wait in advance after receiving the news.

Followers.

"Are we going home now?" Suisui asked before Wei Ran could close the car door, "I'm still waiting to see those martyrs come back."

Wei Ran bumped into the car door and replied, "Let's go home first. We have nothing to do here anymore."

"also"

Suisui seemed to see something and simply said hello to Wan Qiu, the beautiful tour guide in charge of driving, "Sister Wan Qiu, please take us to the airport."

"Okay." Before the beauty Wan Qiu finished speaking, she had already slowly stepped on the accelerator.

They were chatting about what happened on the way to follow the veterans to find their comrades. When the car was about to drive to the airport, an off-road vehicle with military license plates honked its horn at them, and then honked.

It stopped on the side of the road.

"What's wrong?" Suisui, who was about to fall asleep leaning on Wei Ran's shoulder, opened her eyes in confusion, "Are you at the airport?"

"We're almost there, wait for me to get off."

Wei Ran said, unbuckled his seat belt, opened the car door, and walked out.

Almost at the same time, the door of the military-branded off-road vehicle was pushed open from the inside. Immediately afterwards, Luo Qingyan, who had only met once, got out of the car and walked straight towards Wei Ran.

When the distance between the two was less than two meters, Wei Ran stopped with a smile on his face, followed closely by Luo Qingyan, who also stopped in the drizzle and slanting wind, raised his hand and looked towards seriously

Wei Ran saluted.

"Comrade Weiran"

Luo Qingyan put down his arm, then took out a long camouflage cloth roll from his jacket pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, "Thank you for helping me find my father! This... this is my thanks. I hope you can accept it as a gift."

commemorate!"

With that said, Luo Qingyan handed the cloth roll in his hand to Wei Ran, who looked surprised.

"This is the bunny hat my father gave me when I was 18 years old."

Luo Qingyan said while Wei Ran hesitantly took the roll of cloth, "Comrade Wei Ran, I give this to you as a souvenir. I hope you like it."

"this..."

Wei Ran said quickly, "No, this is too valuable, you should take good care of it..."

"Take it"

Luo Qingyan said apologetically, "I asked Brother Cha the day before yesterday, and he said that you only accepted his two cigarettes, two bottles of wine, and two boxes of bees.

I really don’t know how to thank you or what I should use to thank you, so I’ll just give you this hat. Although it’s not that precious, it can at least serve as a souvenir.”

"This...is good!"

Wei Ran clenched the light but heavy gift in his hand, "I accept this gift. If you want to return this gift someday in the future, you can contact me at any time. Mr. Cha has my contact information.
To be continued...