Liu Dong, who was an injured person himself, did not go up to join in the fun. Instead, after bypassing the checkpoint in front, he returned to the road next to him from the ravine. Of course, this time he was driving his own Hummer!
But before Liu Dong could drive far, he saw two buddies with yellow skin and dark eyes waving their hands and getting ready for a ride on the roadside!
These two people were the same as the guys Liu Dong saw confronting the Americans at the border checkpoint. They also had voice recorders and portable cameras in their hands!
Because the other person might be his compatriot, Liu Dong slowly stopped the car!
When he rolled down the window, the two people who came up to say hello were obviously stunned for a moment. Obviously, they didn't expect to meet an East Asian with such an obvious appearance here!
"Sir, are you Chinese?" a tall and thin young man asked tentatively.
"Yes, I am Chinese!" Liu Dong said directly in Chinese.
"Great! Sir, can you give us a ride? We want to go to Peshawar, but we can't get a taxi at the moment!" the tall and thin man said quickly with joy and a hint of anxiety.
"It doesn't matter, come on up, I'm going to Peshawar too!" Liu Dong said with a smile.
"That's great, thank you!"
After finishing speaking, the tall and thin man waved to his companion who looked a little shy!
Soon, the two of them sat in the back seat of Liu Dong's Hummer!
"Thank you so much, sir! We have been waiting here for almost two hours, and there is not even a taxi. If we hadn't met you, we would have really slept in the wilderness!" said the tall, thin man.
road.
"No need to thank you. I'm taking you along for the ride. And we are compatriots! By the way, look at you carrying a camera, both of you are reporters?" Liu Dong asked as he drove.
"Yes, we used to be reporters at Hu*nan TV Station, but we offended the leader and were fired!" The tall and lanky man looked a little unhappy when he said that he was fired!
"Then why did you come to Pakistan?" Liu Dong said.
"Isn't this the war in Afghanistan? We brothers are thinking of coming here to have a try. If we get valuable manuscripts by then, it will be easier to find a job!"
Hearing this, Liu Dong couldn't help but shook his head secretly. These two guys were really bold. Even he thought Afghanistan was extremely dangerous and had to take a detour many times, but these two people actually dared to sneak in by themselves!
"Then why didn't you go to Afghanistan and instead stayed in Pakistan?" Liu Dong continued to ask.
"We also want to go to Afghanistan, but the damn Americans have blocked all entrances to and from Afghanistan, prohibiting journalists from all countries from entering. I even heard that Al Qaeda refuses reporters interviews! So we were blocked outside!" said the tall, thin man in frustration.
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"Actually, we originally wanted to buy a few donkeys like reporters from other countries and team up to bypass the American checkpoint from the mountainous area. But those selling donkeys actually took the opportunity to raise the price, and the price was raised to several hundred dollars.
5,000 US dollars! We brothers don’t have that kind of money, so we can only despair!”
The dull young man, who had been silent just now and was carrying a camera, said with an annoyed look on his face.
After he finished speaking, the tall and lanky young man next to him also nodded with a bitter look on his face.
Seeing them like this, Liu Dong smiled and said: "Then are you planning to return home from Peshawar?"
"Well! The little savings we brothers saved when we were working have been almost all spent now. If we don't go back, we probably won't even be able to afford a plane ticket back to China!" the tall and thin man said with a bitter look on his face.
Seeing them worrying about their livelihoods and careers, Liu Dong, although he was a few years younger than them, understood their difficulties very well. When he saw them, he felt like he saw himself who had just stepped out of high school.
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At that time, I didn’t have much, let alone any means of making a living. Apart from moving bricks on construction sites, I could only go to restaurants to wash dishes for others, or work as a security guard! Life must be very tight, and I feel
Very undignified!
After struggling for nearly two years, I slowly found my future in Quancheng Antique Street!
If it hadn't been for the accident of Relic Yuanguang, Liu Dong believed that even if he was not as successful as he is now, he would still be doing well, because his efforts had almost reached the critical point of success!
Recalling the hardships in the past, Liu Dong had the idea of helping the two compatriots in front of him! However, Liu Dong has not yet figured out how to help!
"By the way, we've been chatting for so long and I still don't know your names?" Liu Dong said.
"Oh, my name is Bai Quan, and this is my best friend Ren Guohui. We are college classmates! We were also assigned to the same unit after graduation, close friends!"
After the tall and lanky man introduced him, the tall, slightly dull man nodded towards Liu Dong in the reflector!
"Hey, sir, how did you come to Pakistan? You're not the same as us, are you?" Bai Quan joked.
"I'm here to do business! I don't want to go to that war-torn place in Afghanistan! By the way, I'm about the same age as you. Call me Liu Dong, sir. I'm not used to it!"
"Then we're welcome!" Bai Quan, who has a relatively active personality, laughed.
When he finished speaking, the roar of a helicopter suddenly came from the distance!
Soon, four Apache helicopters escorted a large transport helicopter in the center, flying from far to near, flying over the sky above Liu Dong's head, and heading straight towards Afghanistan!
Looking at them, Liu Dong's brows wrinkled unconsciously.
"Hey, Liu Dong, are you dumbfounded? You haven't even seen the famous Apache helicopter gunship, right?" Bai Quan said.
Liu Dong, who calmed down his expression, said: "Of course I know the Apache helicopters, but isn't this already Pakistan? Why are there American armed helicopters?"
"do not you know?"
Seeing the surprised look on Bai Quan's face, Liu Dong immediately understood something in his heart, "I really don't know this. In fact, I just came to Pakistan yesterday!"
"Oh, that's no wonder! In order to fight in Afghanistan, the United States leased a military base in Peshawar with the Pakistani government on the condition of reducing debt! Now they have stationed a large number of troops and weapons and equipment, all in order to launch an attack on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan
We are preparing for a ground battle to completely conquer the southeastern provinces where the Taliban's resistance is fiercest!"
"Really?" Liu Dong's eyes flashed coldly!
He doesn't think he has much magnanimity at all. He has always done so since he was a child. As long as he is bullied by others, he will get it back no matter what method he uses!
This time, two American Apaches almost sent him and Xiao Jinzi to the West. How could Liu Dong remain indifferent to such a life-threatening feud!
"Well, look, there is the American military base in Peshawar!"
Looking in the direction of Bai Quan's finger, a few kilometers ahead of Liu Dong's left, surrounded by heavy barbed wire, a huge military base loomed in front of Liu Dong's eyes!
Although only half of the Peshawar base can be seen from a distance from the car at the moment, rows of M1A2 main battle tanks inside, as well as Apache armed helicopters listed on the tarmac, and even -15e Eagle can be seen
The figure of a heavy air superiority fighter gliding and taking off!
Of course, what exactly is in the more sealed military warehouses is unknown to Liu Dong because of the distance!
But looking at the size of this military base and the amount of supplies stored, "if it were to be blown up, I believe the Americans would be terribly distressed!"
With this thought, Liu Dong's car gradually drove into the city where his figure was already revealed!
Peshawar, as the capital of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan, is the city with the most ethnic characteristics of Pakistan. It was designated as the capital by King Kanishaka I of Gandhara of the Kushan Dynasty in 58 BC.
Because it is located on many trade routes in Central Asia, the area has been an important trading center between the South Asian subcontinent and Central Asia for many centuries. King Ganishekha of the Kushan Empire, who advocated Buddhism, once established his capital here.
One of the centers of Buddhist culture. From the 4th to the 6th century, the eminent monk Faxian of the Jin Dynasty, the envoy Song Yun of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the eminent monk Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty visited here successively.
"Lush" land of abundance.
However, Liu Dong, who entered the city at this moment, did not see the shadow of the land of abundance in this South Asian transportation hub. Instead, Pashtun refugees who had come from Afghanistan to escape the war crowded the not-so-wide streets of Peshawar.
If you add in the American soldiers who have a lot of money to go shopping on vacation, and the businessmen who came here because of the war, this city with a population of less than one million is full of a somewhat abnormal prosperity!
"Where do you live? Can I take you back?" Liu Dong said.
"That's so embarrassing!"
Even so, Baiquan obviously couldn't bear to get off the car! It's still far away from where they live!
Walled City!" Ren Guohui is obviously much more upright than Bai Quan!
Seeing the embarrassment on Bai Quan's face, Liu Dong smiled and said: "This is my first time coming to Peshawar. I don't know where the Walled City is. If you know the way, can you point it out to me?"
"We know the way!"
Bai Quan said quickly.
Then under the guidance of the other party, Liu Dong drove through Peshawar, an ancient city full of Pashtun culture, Buddhist culture, Islamic culture and colonial culture!
As one of the oldest cities in the world, in this conservative Islamic city, Liu Dong rarely saw anything too modern along the way! If there is anything that is the most eye-catching, it must be the large number and well-decorated ones.
Gorgeous mosque!
As for Buddhism, which first existed here, it has been completely squeezed out of here in two thousand years!
………………………………………………………………………… (To be continued…)
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