Bai Song arranged everything for the flight at 10:55 pm on October 31st, and the group of four were driven to the airport by colleagues from the Criminal Investigation Detachment.
The policeman from the Criminal Investigation Bureau was named Xu Tao, who was three years older than Bai Song and had just worked for two years. The two policemen from the Criminal Investigation Brigade were Deputy Captain Zhou Linwu and a middle-aged policeman named Wei Zixiang. They were all Bai Song's predecessors, and because of them, Bai Song felt at ease even though it was his first business trip.
The plane was a little late, so the ticket was only more than 800 yuan per person. In addition, we had to stop in Kunming City in southern Xinjiang Province, so we would arrive in Chacheng tomorrow morning.
This business trip is not a good one, as you can tell from the itinerary.
After getting on the plane, Captain Zhou asked everyone to rest as much as possible and sleep as much as possible if they can.
Bai Song was in a daze that night except for sleeping for two or three hours in the terminal of Kunming Airport when the plane stopped. With Bai Song's height, the economy class is not big enough and the legroom is not enough.
The next morning at around eight o'clock, the plane landed at the Chacheng airport on time. Captain Zhou led everyone to the hotel where they were staying to put down their belongings and booked three days. Then they went to the Chacheng Public Security Bureau to meet with the comrades who had contacted them there.
The tea city is not big, but it is still full of vitality. The World Tourism Organization once called it "a poetic city, a place where even the air is full of poetry."
The fresh and slightly sweet air lifted the spirits of the white pine trees that were accustomed to dust and haze, and they were in a very good state.
As one of the border cities in the country, Chacheng is bordered by Jingna City to the south and Laos and Vietnam to the southeast. It is densely forested and has extremely rich animal and plant resources. Unlike Tianhua City, the forest police have a high status and are very common in this place.
The person who contacted Captain Zhou was a comrade from the Criminal Investigation Brigade. After a brief exchange, everyone understood the situation.
2011 is an important year for the replacement of the country's second-generation ID cards. After the 2010 population census, Chacheng has been promoting this work, but it is far less easy than areas such as Tianhua City because of the complex terrain, numerous ethnic groups and poor roads.
Just two months ago, a mudslide natural disaster occurred in Da'er Autonomous County of Chacheng. Although there were no major casualties, it seriously affected traffic. June to September is the rainy season here every year. The rain two months ago lasted too long and the rainfall was not small. Da'er Autonomous County can be connected to the outside world, but several areas under its jurisdiction cannot be connected, and basically have no connection with the outside world.
Among them, Li's parents live in one of these areas.
Since the traffic has been restored to some extent, without further ado, Team Zhou rented a Great Wall SUV from a car rental company for 80 yuan a day, canceled his stay at the hotel, packed his things, bought a comprehensive map of the tea city, and headed for Dayi Autonomous County.
There was no highway along the way and the journey was long. Zhou Linwu and Wei Zixiang took turns driving for three or four hours before they reached Dayi Autonomous County. There were cliffs along the way and they saw piles of rocks and soil caused by small landslides four or five times, as well as loaders and bulldozers clearing the road. No one wanted to sleep and they all kept their minds highly focused. They arrived at Dayi Autonomous County in the afternoon.
This is the border, not as desolate as imagined. The service industry and market here are still very lively. The four of them went to the local public security bureau to learn about the situation, and then ate some local special stewed chicken. It was getting dark. The area they were going to was not close to the county town. It took an hour to drive, and then an hour to take a bull cart or three hours to walk. It is said that motorcycles can also go up, but not many people dare to ride. This is not even to the village, it can barely be considered a town. As for the actual destination, only cattle and horses and other livestock and human legs can walk up, and motor vehicles are basically out of the question.
We went to bed early in the evening, and set off at 6 a.m. the next day, arriving at the destination at around 7 a.m. There was a flat area of several hundred square meters, where two old minibuses, several domestic or imported off-road vehicles, and a dozen motorcycles were parked.
No matter how good an off-road vehicle is, it can only sigh at the road conditions here. This is not a question of road conditions. The narrowest part of the road is only about 1 meter wide. What off-road vehicle can handle it?
This was the first time Bai Song saw an ox cart again in more than ten years.
When he was a child, he grew up in the village. At that time, there was this kind of ox cart in the village. One cart could carry three or four people, and there was also a ox driver.
A few local guys came over and asked the four people in not very standard Mandarin if they wanted to go in by motorcycle, which would take 40 minutes. Captain Zhou declined, saying that the place was too fast and they were worried. The mountain road here was too difficult to walk on, and the oxcart could only carry two people at most. The four people waited for nearly half an hour before two oxcarts came. It cost five yuan per person, and four people could get in for 20 yuan.
After a full hour and a half of bumpy ride, we finally entered the town. It wasn't really a town, as it had only about one or two hundred households and three or four small shops. The town was paved with stone roads, and the only people coming and going were people, livestock, and motorcycles.
The ride was so bumpy that our butts were almost broken. We chatted with the owner of the oxcart and learned that the village we were looking for would take six or seven hours to get to from the town. The oxcarts could not go on this road. The locals mainly rode horses, and there was a section of the road that was the legendary Tea Horse Road. It took about three or four hours to ride, and the horses needed to rest in such places, and the speed of the horses was not fast enough.
The town had a very poor GPRS signal. Captain Zhou reported this to the Ma Detachment during the intermittent signal, and finally decided to rent horses and guides to go to the village. Once you leave the town, there is no signal at all, and there is no water or electricity.
The four of them went to the police station, but the door was locked and no one was there. They only left a phone number, but there was no signal and they couldn't make a call. In desperation, they followed the instructions of the fellow villagers and found the local post office.
When they got here, the four found an important clue. The postman here, Lao Ma, went to the village once every 20 days on average. Because part of the road was damaged some time ago and had just been repaired, he had not been there for two months. But every few months, Lao Ma would receive mail and remittances from the county, and he would go to the village and deliver the remittances to a family. The four people calculated that it was likely that Li had sent money to his parents through someone else.
The most important thing is that a remittance of 2,000 yuan was received a few days ago. Lao Ma is planning to deliver it tomorrow morning.
In 2011, the real-name system had just begun to be implemented on trains. Although the real-name system for bank remittances was implemented earlier, the real-name system for the first generation of ID cards was still far from being implemented well. To put it bluntly, it was just a plastic shell wrapped in paper. Therefore, the name "Wang Fang" on the remittance slip is probably not her real name.
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