When I thought of this, I couldn't calm down.
I have already lost two of my cherished partners. If I lose another one, I really can't bear such a blow.
So, worried, I hurriedly turned over and got down to the ground. As a result, it didn't matter when I got down to the ground. My whole body went limp at that time. The pain from the wound on my body almost made me suffocate. Fortunately, Rafael supported me in time, so I didn't fall down directly.
"You are still very weak now!"
Rafael frowned and said, "Although you are someone that Hu Da values, you can't ignore your body so much. You haven't eaten well for several days, and you haven't received regular treatment!"
His words woke me up.
Not to mention the injuries on my body, I am afraid that I can't keep up with the nutritional supplements during the days of coma.
There is definitely no nutrient solution in these traveling caravans. In the past few days, they basically crushed beef jerky and boiled it in hot water to make liquid food for me. The intake is not large, just barely enough to sustain life. So although I am awake now, my whole body is empty. To be precise, my foundation has been broken. It is now close to December, which means that we have been in the desert for more than 20 days. I am not full, I don't sleep well, I am exhausted for days, and I am tortured by pain. It is strange that I can get better. My physical foundation is exhausted little by little. This time I am lucky to be able to wake up after sleeping. It is strange that I can stand. I am afraid that I will have to rest for a while when I go back. I have been on missions too frequently. I am really too tired in the past six months.
I sighed. While I was thinking, Rafael had found a stick for me and handed it to me to use as a crutch. Although it was simple and crude, it was really useful. With this "third leg", I was able to stand up and limped out of the wooden house.
Outside, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse.
December in the desert was not very cold. The evening breeze was cool and the night was like water.
A bonfire had been lit outside the wooden house. The people of this wandering tribe were celebrating around the bonfire. There were about 30 or 40 people, which was considered a relatively large wandering tribe. These people should all be people from the wandering tribe. They were all related to each other. It was called a tribe, but it was actually a big family.
As the saying goes, snakes have their own ways, and mice have their own ways. The people of the walking tribe also have their own unique living atmosphere. No matter whether they are men or women in their tribe, they will not marry outside. Once they have a marriage relationship with the outside world, basically only people from the outside world can join their tribe. Once people from the tribe leave, they will be regarded as traitors, and even their parents will not be friends, because their tribe is too small, and this is also to ensure the continuation of the tribe. Unfortunately, in today's society, how many people are willing to join them for love, like them, living a life of wind and rain, no house, no car, only the sound of camel bells?
Looking at the crowd of people who were having fun around the bonfire, a layer of sadness surged in my heart-perhaps, this walking tribe I saw is the last walking tribe in our country. Now the country is becoming more and more developed. When railways and highways are built in every corner of the country, it is the time for this special professional group to disappear.
Next to the carnival crowd, a small group was dormant in the dark birch forest. Compared with the lively crowd, this small group seemed much more silent and cold.
Although I couldn't see the appearance of these people clearly because of the poor light, I could tell from their basic body shapes that they were Qingyi and the others!
At that moment, I couldn't help but quicken my pace and walked over there. When I got close and saw the number of people, my heart was finally at ease.
Qingyi, Zhang Jinya, Fatty, Zhou Jing, Lin Qing, Yi Shiting...
Everyone was there!
It seemed that we were not separated in the underground river.
Qingyi and the others were also very happy to see me wake up, and they quickly asked me to sit down. I looked at my companions, holding back a lot of words, but in a blink of an eye I didn't know where to start. It was not just me, Qingyi and the others were the same - Cao Yuan, like a heart disease for all of us, made us unable to be happy.
In silence, I drank the wine sent by Uncle Rafael until everyone fell asleep drunkenly, and this night was spent peacefully.
The next morning, we met and discussed briefly, and decided to embark on the return journey. The amount of information obtained from this trip to the ruins of the 36 countries in the Western Regions was too huge. Qingyi and his team needed to return to the Tiandao League immediately to report. There were the Ten Deadly Tombs and the Three Talents Gathering Evils. We already felt that the storm was coming.
Of course, I was not going to go with them.
So, after discussing it, we went to find Uncle Rafael, and then met the tribe leader through Uncle Rafael's introduction. We proposed that we wanted to borrow their camel team to return to Hami, Xinjiang. Of course, revenge would definitely not be less, and we asked for a high reward. As long as they could send us to Hami, we would get a reward of 100,000. Of course, giving 100,000 does not mean that this journey is so valuable, but mainly to thank them for saving us.
They couldn't actually make much money from traveling and doing business. Their income was very meager. The price we offered was high, so the tribe leader naturally wouldn't refuse. He asked Uncle Rafael to pick two strong young men, pull thirty camels, and bring enough clean water and supplies to set off with us.
The return journey was not so bumpy. After we were washed onto the shallows of the Tarim River, we had actually entered Lop Nur. It was not far from Hami, and it took about three or four days to get there. After the fat man gave Uncle Rafael money, we parted ways in Hami.
Because my current status in the Tiandao League is particularly embarrassing, I finally thought about not going to Longhu Mountain. After picking up the car in Hami, I drove back to Taiyuan with Lin Qing and Zhou Jing.
I was confused all the way, and I didn't know what I was thinking. After returning to Taiyuan, because Zhou Jing and I were seriously injured and the wounds were seriously infected, we both registered and were hospitalized.
Next, I was silent for a while, probably stayed in the hospital for more than ten days. When I was able to get out of bed, I took the time to leave the hospital temporarily and went to Yu Laoer's place. I gave Yu Laoer the things I found this time. These were big things. Yu Laoer was so surprised that he gave me 100 million without saying a word, saying that this was the advance payment, and the final payment of 100 million would be paid later!
This is also the rule of our industry. If it is a big item worth more than 100 million, the recipient will not give you the money all at once. No one can bear to pay too much in advance, so half of it is paid first, and the remaining half will be paid by the owner after the item is sold. My family and Yu Laoer are old friends, but the rules cannot be broken, and we still have to follow the rules.
Zhou Jing and Lin Qing also sold their things, but that was a private matter between them and Yu Laoer, and I didn't ask.
I didn't touch the 100 million yuan upfront payment, and I didn't plan to touch it. I opened another account and kept it there, because I heard that Cao Yuan had parents in Shandong, and the money was for her parents, but I wouldn't give it all at once, because that would make the two old people suspicious. So after asking Qingyi for the address, I asked Lin Qing to take 20 million yuan to Shandong and give the 20 million yuan to the two old people. I'll give the rest slowly later.
Of course I wouldn't say that Cao Yuan had an accident. I just asked Lin Qing to tell the two old people that she was invited to go abroad as a professor and give lectures. This was her reward. Because of the rush, Cao Yuan didn't have time to go home, so she asked Lin Qing to help take it over.
That's all I can do.
As for me, I didn't dare to go. I didn't have the face to go, and I was embarrassed to go. I was afraid to see the lonely eyes of the two old people, and I couldn't stand it.
After finishing this, I returned to the hospital and stayed there for about seven or eight days. Around the end of December, Qi Nan, who had been guarding the office, suddenly ran into my ward and said to me with difficulty: "Xiaotian, there is a mission. I am afraid you will have to be discharged from the hospital with injuries."