Chapter 471, White Paper Cranes

The lumberjacks needed to finish their tasks for the day before they could return to the barriers, and Ren Xiaosu was right beside them chatting with the group of workers while waiting for them to call it a day.

After Ren Xiaosu had left without saying goodbye to the Company of Sharp Swords, he didn’t go deeper into the Central Plains directly from the Zong Clan’s territory, but instead, he turned his head south and found the place where the flooding had occurred in the first place, and then traveled all the way towards the east, trying to look for Yan Liuyuan and his group along the river.

The river valley area had formed a new river course, and the landscape here was not quite the same as last year’s almost every year, and the river that rushed all the way downstream from the snowy mountains washed over the familiar appearance of the place like time.

All the way down the river, Ren Xiaosu had even looked at the settlement where they used to live, and the place where Yang Xiaoguan taught him the sniper rifle.

But time had changed, and things were different.

Ren Xiaosu didn’t manage to find any clues about Wang Fugui and the others, even when he was about to walk to Barrier 61.

A worker lamented, “You kid is really lucky, getting lost in this mountain and still coming out alive.”

Ren Xiaosu curiously said, “Is there anything in the mountain?”

“There’s a nest of wild boars,” the worker exclaimed exaggeratedly, “The particularly fierce kind.”

Ren Xiaosu silently thought, what this worker is talking about, should be the nest he ate a few days ago, right?

But he didn’t say anything more, he just followed and exclaimed, “Ah, that was indeed so close, fortunately I didn’t come across it.”

He sat down and asked the lumberjacks, “Do the old brothers often move around this area on weekdays?”

“Yes,” said the lumberjack who had just sat down with the intention of resting for a while, “We specialize in cutting timber for the Wang family, and we have been working in this area for the last few months, in the north in the earlier years, but the Wang family said that they wanted to develop sustainably or something like that, and that they couldn’t cut tightly in a forest, so they sent us here, and the area that had been cut in the north was in the middle of a forest. Trees are being planted where timber has been cut in the north.”

Someone laughed: “You say it’s strange, it’s strange to go through the trouble of cutting down the trees, and even to replant them, I don’t know what the plan is.”

Ren Xiaosu didn’t pick up the conversation, but continued to ask, “Then have you seen people floating downstream?”

The loggers paused for a moment, “Are you looking for your family?”

“Right.”

“The upper reaches actually often float down corpses, perhaps due to the war in your northwest, but living people have never been seen,” the lumberjacks shook their heads, “That is, this river can still see corpses, it is said that this is the water of the snowy mountains, there are not many predatory fishes, if it were any other river, the corpses would have been gnawed by the fishes. ”

Ren Xiaosu’s heart paused for a moment to stop talking, in fact, his heart has been afraid to hear some bad judgment.

But it doesn’t matter, he will continue to look for it.

And these lumberjacks didn’t come here every day, so maybe they just happened to miss it? It wasn’t impossible.

The lumberjacks glanced at Ren Xiaosu, “I’ll give you a heads up in advance, the people who fled over from the Northwest side, although the Wang family doesn’t reject them, they are not allowed to enter the barriers collectively, so you barriers people have to be psychologically prepared for the fact that you’re likely to become stragglers like us, and only be able to do some menial work to support your family.”

Ren Xiaosu laughed, “All of you old brothers have misunderstood, I am also an exile.”

When the lumberjacks heard that Ren Xiaosu was also an exile, their expressions suddenly became cordial, and they inquired about the differences between the Northwest’s stragglers and the Central Plains’ stragglers.

As a result, the lumberjacks came to one conclusion: the Northwest’s stragglers didn’t live as well as they did.

Although they are also tired, also low wall people, also live in a hurry, the market towns are not too trusting of each other, but at least they do not worry about their own starvation, and do not have to eat moldy nests.

One of the lumberjacks laughed: “We work here for a day, and we can still go back to the market town to buy a bowl of mutton meat buns to eat, and if we put down a little more blood money, we can also eat a meat sandwich.”

Ren Xiaosu froze for a moment, “Can all of you stragglers here afford to eat meat?”

“Haha, mutton buns only have meat soup, where can I see meat ah, have meat soup is good.”

Ren Xiaosu drifted off, indeed, having meat soup is also a very good thing.

Comparatively speaking, the Central Plains is indeed more affluent than the southwest and northwest, and this has been the case since ancient times.

In the evening, the captain of the logging team drove a truck full of lumber on the return trip, all the workers sat on the lumber in the truck’s bucket, and someone asked Ren Xiaosu, “Have you ever seen the troops of the 178th Fortress in the Northwest, we’ve heard from the walled people who fled over in the Northwest, that the troops of the 178th Fortress are very powerful, and there is especially a company that beat up the Zong Clan in the North and didn’t have any temper at all, and they even beat up the Zong Clan’s grain silos were beaten.”

Ren Xiaosu smiled and said, “I’ve only heard about it, but I’ve never seen it.”

“Quickly tell us about it, recently the market town has been discussing about the Northwest, it sounds even more exciting than Mr. Storyteller’s stories.”

Ren Xiaosu thought for a moment and said, “I heard that the company originally did not want to cross the river to the north, but they feel that the war has been fought for too long is not good, as the saying goes, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, so they are obliged to sail across the river to pacify the war in the north …… However, this company is great to great, but To talk about the most powerful, or a transcendentalist in this company, it is said that he is brave and mighty, handsome and dashing …… Later, he went to the north alone and went to the 146 barriers, and that was called a wind up …… By the way, the transcendentalist that you guys have just talked about, it is him now ……”

Just like this, the lumberjacks were all mesmerized, and only reacted when they were almost at the market town, “Yo, so soon.”

But just at this time, a gust of wind blew, the sky seems to have something white flying through the wings, but was pressed down by the gust of wind high in the air, Ren Xiaosu subconsciously felt wrong, so he jumped up from the car bucket, and grabbed the white gadget into his hand …….

He spread the palm of his hand to take a look, it was a small delicate thousand paper cranes, seems to have a spirit, that thousand paper cranes even still twisting body glaring at Ren Xiaosu.

Although this crane does not even have eyes, but Ren Xiaosu favor the heart of this extremely bizarre feeling: this little thing is really staring at himself.

The crane’s wings were extremely sharp, and Ren Xiaosu inadvertently cut her fingers.

When Ren Xiaosu let go of her hand in pain, the crane lifted its wings again and tried to escape, but before it flew out of the palm of her hand, it was caught by Ren Xiaosu again.

Ren Xiaosu curiously unwrapped it, and on the inside of the square white paper was written: the war in the north has been finalized, and the Qing Clan has signed an alliance with 178 Fortress.

“Is this someone passing information to the Central Plains?” Ren Xiaosu pondered in his heart, but even he didn’t know about the matter of the Qing Clan and Fortress 178 signing a covenant.

As a result, before he could figure it out, a lumberjack beside him suddenly said with a puzzled face, “How did this white paper crane fly here?”

The lumberjacks hadn’t seen those small movements between Ren Xiaosu and the thousand paper cranes, and only felt that it was a bit strange to have a thousand paper crane flying here.