an escape

They changed planes in Kunming, and then a local friend of Xie Jin drove to pick them up.The car drove for two hours, and the altitude climbed higher and higher.Ning Xie had never walked such a curved road before, and she was so dizzy from vomiting on the road that the car finally stopped.

Ning Xie wiped her mouth and asked, "Are you there?"

Xie Jin opened the car door for him, and only said, "Get out of the car."

When Ning Xie got out of the car, he saw that the road winding among the mountains had come to an end here, and the foot of the mountain was filled with fog. There might be a river, but the bottom could not be seen.It's September weather, it's not very hot here, the air is very fresh, Ning Xie took a few breaths and felt much better.

Ning Xie asked, "Where is it?"

Xie Jin said, "We have to walk a long way."

Ning Xie exploded again: "I'm not going! I want to go back to Beijing, you take me back to Beijing!"

Xie Jin waved to his friend the driver, and the car quickly drove away from Ning Xie.Ning Xie yelled and chased after a few steps, the car went like a heartless man, mercilessly.

Xie Jin said: "Look, there is no car now, should we go back?"

Ning Xie almost wanted to cry, so he knelt down and did some mental training silently, thinking, it's all here, let's go.

"Give me your phone." Ning Xie said helplessly.

Xie Jin asked, "Why do you need a mobile phone?"

Ning Xie said: "Call the academy to ask for a leave of absence and adjust the class! You think I'm as free and easy as you."

He didn't expect that the walk would take an hour.The mountain road was steep, and there was a river at the bottom. Every step he took, his palms were sweating.Ning Xie walked in fear and anger, and finally reached the river and was about to cross the river.

The upper reaches of the river are turbulent, but it is possible to sail a boat here.It's just that the boatman lives on the other side, so Xie Jin let go of his voice and asked the boatman to come to the ferry.The voice on the river spread far away, and Xie Jin's voice drifted past for a long time before the boatman's reply came melodiously: "Wait a minute, we are eating."

Xie Jin traveled to this river many times, knowing that the boatman always said that he was eating whenever he wanted to procrastinate.He said loudly: "Old man, I am Xie Jin."

Xie Jin is famous, so it is not likely that all the old people who are ferrying in the deep mountains know each other.What's more, he still acts in movies, and many people here haven't seen his movies much.But this old man knew that he was doing good deeds, he was handsome and kind, so he had a high opinion of him.

Sure enough, the other side said: "Wait, come!"

Ning Xie kept a cold face.

The boatman pushed the wooden boat over, and saw two young men standing on the rocks by the river, one was in low spirits and had an unswerving expression, while the other was kind.

Ning Xie reluctantly boarded the boat.

The boatman sang while sailing, Ning Xie only raised his eyelids to look at him.

The boatman said: "Young man, sing with me, I will teach you."

Ning Xie really doesn't want to sing...

The boatman asked Xie Jin: "What's the matter with this young man? His complexion is not very good."

Xie Jin said: "He can't think about it, I will watch him."

The old man sang a song and sent them to the other side.Xie Jin paid the boat fare, and continued on with Ning Xie.

Ning Xie asked feebly, "How long do we have to go?"

Xie Jin said, "Let's go for another hour."

"You always say to go for another hour, but it's almost dark, and I haven't slept much since yesterday." Ning Xie became angry again, "I don't want to go, and I will be passive and sabotage when I go."

Xie Jin comforted him: "This can be regarded as doing research. If you work hard, you may make a big achievement."

Ning Xie said: "I have a lot of research! I have a lot of research projects, who wants to come with you to this deep mountain and old forest?"

"Those projects of yours," Xie Jin said, "are just adding flowers to the prosperity of the world and earning some money. What's the point? Is this the original intention of your doctorate?"

"I just wanted to go abroad for a few years, and I couldn't learn mathematics from those lunatics, so I turned to social statistics and abused those liberal arts students." Ning Xie thought to herself, what is your original intention to talk to me about?He said nonchalantly, "What's wrong with making money? You're a math student who went to act in a movie. Is it because of your ideals?"

Xie Jin's expression darkened after hearing this.When he was young, his family was poor, and he did act for money.

"So you separated from me at the time, in fact, just to go abroad to play?" Xie Jin lit a cigarette and said seriously, "What's wrong with acting in a movie? You don't deserve to talk about ideals with a university teacher?"

Ning Xie raised her voice: "Are you speaking unreasonably? You were the one who broke up with me back then. I went abroad to study, and you broke up with me! You were like this before, your self-esteem was so high, what did others say?" Everything is looking down on you. When I go to school, you think I look down on you, and you want to break up with me. I gave you everything, I gave you my heart, and you want to break up with me!"

"You left without any regrets." Xie Jin smoked a cigarette, still looking calm, "I heard that you spend every day on the sunny beach in California, and your life is very nourishing."

Ning Xie became even angrier: "I left without no regrets? I beg you to follow me, my parents agreed, it's you who want to break up! How can I feel sorry for you?"

"I'm going with you, so what am I? The young master's accompanying student?" Xie Jin said in a low tone, "I was young at that time, and I only thought that if I worked hard for the rest of my life, I would never follow in your footsteps."

Xie Jin lit another cigarette.

At that time, he had no money, and his living expenses for a year could not afford Ning Xie's air ticket.

It was really pitiful to think about it at that time. He never loved money, but was overwhelmed by money time and time again.

The weather here is cool, but the ultraviolet rays are very strong, and Ning Xie's face turned red.Xie Jin felt a little ups and downs when he heard him vent, but soon calmed down again.He's not the frizzy kid he used to be.

He smokes quietly.

Ning Xie said, "Give me the cigarette."

"What?" Xie Jin asked.Ning Xie snatched away his half-smoked cigarette, put it in his mouth and took a puff, coughing up tears from the smoke.

Xie Jin patted him on the back to comfort him, and when he calmed down a little, he said, "Let me call you a car."

Ning Xie said weakly: "You have a car, didn't you tell me earlier?"

Xie Jin called.

Dusk spread over the mountains, and mist rose over the river.

An old farmer came out of the night driving a yellow ox, which was covered with a wooden plank.

Xie Jin greeted the old farmer, pointed to the board and said to Ning Xie, "Get in the car."

Ning Xie: "...the cart you mentioned, do you mean the bullock cart?"

Xie Jin smiled and said, "You can still ride a horse, but I think you don't even dare to walk here, and you probably don't dare to ride a horse without a saddle."