Breaking Through the Clouds

Yaoshan Feiyueding, Yunzhongzhai.

The bonfire in front of the house was burning fiercely in the night, the roasted whole lamb was turned over, and the oil dripped into the fire.

The main room reeked of alcohol, and the round tables were full of people, but at this moment they all collapsed.Even those who have not completely lost consciousness are still leaning back and forth against the wall with drooling faces and tranced expressions, their faces full of greed and satisfaction as if they were in a fairyland.

There was an indescribable stench in the room. If anyone had ever smelled it, they should be able to immediately realize that it was the peculiar smell of marijuana.

"Our Boss Wang said that the goods are good. According to the agreed time, he will bring someone up the mountain to pick them up. No problem!" A thin and thin Mediterranean old man put his chopsticks on the table and said with a smile: "But I still want to pick them up." Let me ask you, where do we go to pick up the goods? The local area will soon be covered by heavy snow, and we are not familiar with this place..."

Ajie took a sip of his wine and said lightly, "It's okay if you're not familiar with him. When Wang Pengfei goes up the mountain, we'll send someone down to pick him up. After that, we'll go to the underground factory together."

"Hey, that's what I said, but this deep mountain and old forest—"

"You've been working under Wang Pengfei for several years, Lao Cai. Those surnamed Wang know how to deal with us, so don't worry about your boss."

"Uh……"

The Mediterranean called Lao Cai didn't find out, not quite reconciled, and stole a glance not far away.

On the open space outside the main room, K of Spades turned his back to him, and was chatting with a young man beside him with his head slightly tilted.They stood very close to the bonfire, the jumping flames reflected on the side face of the young man, reflected the straight bridge of the nose, and the depths of the pupils of the eyes were shining brightly.

In such a noisy environment, I couldn't hear what they were talking about, but I saw the young man answering a few words from time to time, with a gentle and calm attitude, and the conversation could be regarded as a back and forth.K of Spades seemed quite happy, turned his head and smiled and said a few words, and the young man also showed a slight smile.

Suddenly Spade K turned his head this way as if he had noticed something.

Lao Cai immediately lowered his gaze cautiously.

After a while, when he looked up again, he saw that the K of Spades had already left with the wine, leaving only the young man standing by the campfire.

Lao Cai left the main room on the pretext of turning on the water, went to the bathroom at the back of the house, jumped out through the window when no one was paying attention, and came to the front yard in the dark.The young man still stood there without moving, stretching out a pair of slender hands and slowly roasting on the fire. Lao Cai walked over slowly, looking left and right. When he came close, his body shrank, and most of him hid in the shadow of the eaves. , coughed and laughed: "Where is the fire?"

Jiang Ting didn't say anything, his face was slightly reddened by the bonfire, and he said after a long while, "It's freezing cold, warm up the fire to keep out the cold."

Lao Cai sighed persuasively: "Winter is here, can spring be far behind?"

"Where does spring come from in the twelfth lunar month of winter?"

Lao Cai was still about to say something, but at this moment, the guard at the gate of the front yard probably wanted to release water, and walked a few steps away.

"You are too courageous!" Jiang Ting's attitude changed suddenly, without turning his head, he lowered his voice and scolded: "Wang Pengfei is not easy to fool, if something happens to you, you will be killed by both the buyer and the seller! Who told you here?"

Lao Cai's eyes kept moving vigilantly to the left and right: "It's okay, the surname Wang still trusts me for the time being. Liu Ting is very anxious to ask why there is no news from Myanmar?"

Jiang Ting's Adam's apple slipped up and down.

"...their people died."

Lao Cai's pupils trembled slightly, and he said "ah" after two seconds, "It's...it's good, and I don't feel guilty."

As he said that, he woke up in a disguised way: "By the way, you really don't have a clue about the address of the factory?"

Jiang Ting shook his head, the movement was very slight, but Lao Cai could see the seriousness in his eyes, "A few days ago I was too anxious and did something wrong, and they are now very guarded against me. But 'he' every time It takes about six hours to take people out and back, counting the inspection, foot trip, back and forth to pick up, the factory should be within [-] to [-] kilometers nearby."

Lao Cai frowned and asked, "Is there no way to narrow down the scope?"

"..." Jiang Ting breathed out and said, "I'll try again."

Judging from his reaction, Lao Cai knew that this request was probably a bit too much for others.But before he was ordered in danger, the Bureau Lu of Jianning City talked to him, and specifically mentioned one point - Jiang Ting, as long as he really wants to do something, he will try his best to find a way to do it.

Lao Cai's eyes turned to focus, and he sighed softly: "By the way, Lu asked me to tell you that your 'home' is fine."

Sure enough, Jiang Ting responded immediately: "Okay?"

Lao Cai was actually just talking nonsense according to Director Lu's instructions, and couldn't figure out a good way to do it in a moment of urgency, so he simply made a gesture of raising his arms to show off his muscles: "Here, I can eat and sleep, and my body doubles." It’s delicious and delicious. Lu asked me to tell you to work with peace of mind, don’t worry!”

The words were poorly made up, but to his surprise, Jiang Ting believed it, and the corners of his chapped lips curled up in the cold wind, and he said "huh" earnestly with a smile.

Lao Cai felt a little ashamed in his heart.

But in their line of work, shame can't be eaten as a meal, and the real thing is to climb up the ladder.Lao Cai gritted his teeth and hurriedly struck while the iron was hot: "So you pay attention and spend more time. Listen to me, if you can find out where the underground factory that stores the bulk goods is—"

At this moment, Jiang Ting caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye, and his expression changed slightly.

There is a corridor corner not far behind Lao Cai, which has been blocked during the day and is a dead end.But now there are footsteps coming out from behind gently, and at the same time as Lao Cai's voice sounded, the footsteps stopped suddenly.

A half figure was exposed behind the wall, cast by the moonlight on the ground, like a ghost protruding its upper body from the darkness.

"If you can find out where the underground factory that stores the bulk goods is—"

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Ting raised his eyes, met Lao Cai's gaze, and silently mouthed.

"——I, we," Lao Cai saw clearly what the mouth shape represented, and suddenly a gust of hot blood rushed to the top of his head, and instantly turned into piercing ice, exploding from the scalp to the eardrums!

"We," he couldn't hear what he was saying at all, the experience of walking on the tip of a knife for many years saved him:

"Our boss will never treat you badly. You can say as much as the thank you fee, or you can draw this amount after the transaction is completed!"

A terrifying silence enveloped everything.

"..." Jiang Ting stared at Lao Cai, seemingly unaware of the people slowly walking out not far away, and snorted mockingly: "Thank you Fei."

Lao Cai didn't dare to move, let alone turn his head, and looked straight ahead at him.

"I stay here with peace of mind. I can get as much business as I want. Tell Wang Pengfei what can he give me? Do business well. It will snow in a while. Everyone should finish their work early and go home early. It's not good for either of us, understand?"

Cold sweat rolled down Lao Cai's forehead, Jiang Ting was still on the fire with one hand, and waved impatiently with the other:

"Tell your boss, don't worry about being on the stage, and get out!"

The bonfire swayed and swayed, the noise of the banquet in the main room came from a distance, and there was no movement behind him.

Lao Cai took two steps back, his calves in his trousers were trembling, and he swallowed hard:

"You...you don't know good from bad, just wait and see!"

Jiang stopped, and Lao Cai strode away angrily with his neck stuck.

The main room became quiet again, and Jiang Ting remained calm, still standing by the campfire and warming his hands.The half of the figure behind the corner of the corridor remained motionless as if frozen, and after a full cigarette, there were finally rustling sounds, and the sound of footsteps stepping on gravel and branches approached.

Only then did Jiang Ting turn around, only to see Wen Shao smelling of alcohol, smiling against the firelight, "You haven't left yet?"

I don't know if it's an illusion, but this tone always gives people an indescribable subtlety.Jiang Ting smiled and didn't speak, only heard him ask: "I saw someone passing by here just now, who is it?"

"Oh, the one whose surname is Cai."

"What is he doing here?"

Jiang Ting didn't say a word, and met Wen Shao's gaze, he leisurely warmed himself up for a while, and then asked with a smile, "I told you, what if I suffer too."

Wen Shao said, "Then why? You're overthinking."

"It's a small matter, and it's already taken care of, forget it."

Wen Shao was unmoved, and looked at him with a slight smile.

"...You have the strength to ask the end of the casserole." Jiang Ting finally compromised helplessly, "He came to ask where we hid the big goods, and said that Wang Pengfei was willing to give me a thank you fee. I have already sent him away, now you It looks like it's going to be killed or cut, whatever it is."

The smile in Wen Shao's eyes finally had some sincerity, and he shook his head and sighed: "Wang Pengfei has never been honest enough in his work, and I have discovered it a long time ago. The guy surnamed Cai chased Ajie to ask where the factory was just now, but he bumped into him. It’s a soft nail, I guess it’s because you are alone and easy to talk, so I’m here to hit a hard nail.”

Jiang Ting asked casually, "Are you still doing business?"

"Do."

Jiang Ting glanced at him.

"What?" Wen Shao asked.

"You can take this kind of risk, aren't you afraid of being slapped coldly by someone surnamed Wang?"

"Are there any serious people in this business? Aren't they all ghosts and snakes?" Wen Shao laughed, as if he didn't care about scolding himself, and then added a sentence: "Don't say it's a buyer playing tricks, even if it's a policeman. Keep up with the smell, and this business has to be done properly."

Jiang Ting paused unexpectedly: "...Are these blue goods so big?"

This batch of "blue gold" originally belonged to Wu Tun. After he mastered the simplified synthesis procedure, he opened up an underground factory in the depths of Yaoshan Mountain. Sold to Southwest, Myanmar, Laos.Due to its remote location and limited conditions, the output of this underground factory is not very high. Compared with the Golden Triangle area in the last century and the current northeast of Myanmar, it is quite small.

But the spade K came here in person, not the product itself, but something more important than the blue product—simplified synthesis formula.

He led a group of people to wander in this village deep in the mountains and old forests for such a long time, and he must have figured out the formula and production process in the underground factory.If the remaining batch of blue gold in stock is not much, it can actually be sold casually, or even destroyed on the spot.

"—It's quite big." Wen Shao said casually, "We have to hurry up and sell it, otherwise it's a pity that it will spoil."

What kind of an unimaginably huge amount of drugs is it that makes the King of Spades feel that it is a pity to destroy them?

Under the light of the fire, the depths of Jiang Ting's eyes were dim.

Suddenly K of Spades changed his tone: "But don't worry."

"...?"

Jiang Ting looked up from the fire, and suddenly his left hand was grabbed.

The shimmering light in Spade K's eyes is gentle and deep. Although he doesn't have this kind of emotion at all, at least he imitates it very much:

"Even if I run into the police, I won't let you do anything. As you said, even if we are afraid of death in this life, we will be together."

Even if we die, we will die together.

——However, under the dark and cold river, another person came against the current, struggled to open the car door, held his last breath of oxygen, grabbed his hand and dragged him to the brighter and brighter river;

On the rainstorm mountain road, the G65 slammed into the mountain wall in a frantic tail swing. He pressed his knees and hands on the broken glass all over the floor, gritted his teeth, climbed to the side of the police car, and dragged the man out of the distorted cab;

Long ago, that man was covered in dust and blood, his right palm still had blood drawn from the bottom of a wine bottle, standing amidst the hustle and bustle of the crowd and the flickering police lights, with a fierce and sharp body all over his body, with the command car He looked at each other from afar.

There has never been a promise between them to live and die together, and it may be because of this that the story cannot reach the end of growing old together.

Jiang Ting met the gaze of Spades K and slowly smiled.He didn't take back his held hand. He was standing here just now, raised his head at the same angle, and saw Lao Cai exaggeratedly clenched his fist and bent his arm, tsk tsk and said loudly: "Eat and sleep! Director Lu Having said that, everything in your 'home' is fine!"

The smile in Jiang Ting's eyes became clearer.

With such a smile, he also looked at the king of spades, and replied, "—OK."

·

A few days later, early in the morning.

The tattered Wuhong Lingguang bounced on the mountain road, passed through the rugged woods and weedy slopes, and finally climbed up the mound with difficulty, and turned off the fire with a bang.

"That's right here!" The old policeman of the Shanxia Police Station is a part-timer. His main business is farming all year round, and he spit out a strong local taste: "Get off here and go forward. The hometown is behind Bajiuli Road. , this road is easy to walk, without much effort! Just a few slopes and a river, you, a boy, carry a girl on your back, and you will be there in half an hour!"

Ma Xiang in the back seat twitched his mouth and looked at Han Xiaomei, who spread his hands innocently.

Both of them are dressed as migrant workers returning home to visit relatives in the 90s. The two-dimensional boy Ma Xiang is wearing a Beijing brand watch and artificial leather shoes full of dirt. A street bag with Chanel's LOGO hanging on it, and a gold chain that could fade in case of contact with water was hung around their necks.Han Xiaomei was obviously not used to her new necklace, she had reached into her collar to scratch it several times, and now her five fingers were a little yellow.

"I'm talking about Team Yan," Han Xiaomei asked with a bitter face, "Can we have a gold-plated one in our bureau next time? Why don't we buy a stainless-steel platinum one? Bureau Lu said that our lurking this time is considered a 3A-level key operation." , the equipment can't be sloppy like this, can I really reimburse the medical expenses for skin allergies when I go back and register?"

"People in the mountains don't recognize platinum. You are from the county town to buy medicinal materials. The more gold you have, the better." Yan Xie turned his head from the driver's seat and said hoarsely: "Ma Xiang, your accent is very wrong so far, and you will go home later. Try not to open your mouth when asking for news. I taught Lao Zhang how to talk to the villagers. You two follow behind to watch, listen, and observe. Once you find clues about the presence of drug dealers in the nearby mountainous area, report back here immediately. , I'll wait for you in the car."

Ma Xiang and Han Xiaomei both listened and nodded. Yan Xie turned to the old policeman surnamed Zhang, and politely said, "I will leave these two disciples to you. Be careful, don't expose them, and pay attention to safety."

Lao Zhang has never seen a leader bigger than the head of the police station in his life, but he has met all the senior officials from the provincial department to the city bureau in the past few days, and he has been very panicked for a long time, and he waved his hands again and again: "Don't dare! Don't dare!"

Yan Xie reluctantly pulled the muscles at the corners of his mouth.