I have never been to sea.
And at night, I can't tell the direction of the sea at all.
The motorboat drove for a long time, and then stopped halfway. The black man who drove the boat lifted up the canvas... Underneath are cans of gasoline! !
I'm in a cold sweat! The fat man and I even leaned on the canvas to smoke just now! ! Just thinking about it gives me chills!
The fat man looked indifferent.
Oil was refueled on the way, and a few hours later, the black man who drove the boat measured the direction with an instrument, then glanced at the fat man, and said a very strange language.
He doesn't speak Chinese. The fat man looked at him, and then exchanged a few words with him in that strange language.
My heart moved, and I took a closer look at the black Chinese character. He really didn't look like a Han Chinese.
"Don't look at him, he is from Vietnam." The fat man said lightly, "He has a bad temper, don't keep looking at him."
After waiting quietly for a while, our boat stopped and floated on the sea. The Vietnamese were a little impatient and said something to the fat man from time to time, and the fat man had a leisurely expression.
Finally, there was a faint sound of a motor in the distance, and then the searchlights flashed a few times. The fat man stood up immediately, took out a large flashlight from under the canvas, and flashed it on the other party a few times. Rhythm, flickering and flickering.
After the two sides switched on the lights for a while, the fat man nodded and looked back at me: "Boy, your boat has arrived."
The big boat stopped, and our motorboat started to move closer. I saw that there was no national flag flying on this boat, and the hull was a bit worn out. It seemed to be a refit of a large fishing boat. Next to the mast, there are also abandoned fishing nets and other devices.
After the two boats docked, someone lowered the rope, and the fat man smiled and said to me, "Let's go up."
I picked up the bag that the fat man gave me, thought about it, turned to look at the Vietnamese, and said in a very sincere tone, "Thank you."
Honestly, I do this purely out of habit. Because others help me, I will be used to say thank you. The Vietnamese man glanced at me, and suddenly a smile appeared on his cold face, then he took out something from under the seat and handed it to me.
It is a bottle of mineral water, and it is a miscellaneous brand, and it has been opened, only half of the bottle is left.
The fat man glanced at the bottle, then gave the Vietnamese a strange look, and suddenly smiled: "Boy, he likes you. Take this thing, maybe it will be useful on the road."
I took it in doubt, although it was an open mouth, and it might even be the mineral water he drank, but I still carefully put it in the bag.
Fatty accompanied me on board.
There are five or six crew members on this boat, all with indifferent faces. I saw that some people even had guns pinned to their waists, and there were several diving equipment hanging in the cabin. The fat man laughed and hugged someone, then pulled me to introduce him: "This, my brother!"
The man was very short and thin, and he actually spoke Chinese, but it was not standard and very blunt: "Your brother... is not like you! You are very big, and he is very small!" He smiled and used I made a gesture with my hand, probably to describe the difference in size between me and the fat man.
Fatty smiled. Then he took out an account number from his pocket, took out his mobile phone and dialed a number in front of that person. After the call was connected, the fat man handed the mobile phone to the person. The person immediately looked serious and listened for a while. Son, showing a satisfied smile, patted the fat man: "Very good, everything has arrived, you are very trustworthy. So am I!"
He raised his chin to me: "Go in, you sleep in my room!"
The fat man gave me another call, "After you go ashore, find a place to call this number, and someone will come to pick you up."
After all this was done, the fat man patted me goodbye. Before leaving, he held me back and looked at me with a smile: "Boy, do you know why I saved you?"
"I don't know." I shook my head.
"Because there are too few people like you, and one death is one less." The fat man smiled sadly: "So I don't want to watch you die."
When I saw him jumping from the rope, I was suddenly moved and reluctant, walked to the side of the boat, and said loudly to him: "Fang Dahai, I, Chen Yang, will come back one day!!"
The fat man just waved his hand to me, and then laughed loudly: "Before doing anything in the future, ask yourself, is it worth it!"
The motorboat left quickly, and soon went away.
I looked at the distant ship and said to myself:
"It's not worth it! But... I don't regret it!" I seemed to relieve myself: "At least I don't owe him anything now."
…
This is a stowaway boat, also known as the legendary snakehead boat. The person who traded with Fatty was also Vietnamese, but he seemed to have done a lot of business with Fatty and could speak Chinese. His name is even more strange, just called "Old Snake".
When the fat man sent me on board. I also wondered why the black guy Vietnamese on the fat motorboat didn't go on board. Later I found out...
Although they are both Vietnamese, they have different origins, one from South Vietnam and the other from North Vietnam. Although the current political situation has been different for many years, but the historical grievances, the grievances between South Vietnam and North Vietnam, we can't tell clearly.
I have only been here for a day, and I already know that there are more than 30 people under the cabin!
This boat used to be a fishing boat... and it still is. Publicly, it belongs to a fishing company in "Haiphong City" in Vietnam, and the fishing gear it wears is real.
When not transporting people, this boat is used for fishing, and when necessary, the cabin below is emptied and used for loading people!
I didn't go to the cabin below the deck to see it, and the old snake gang didn't go down by themselves. The five or six crew members on the ship lived in the upper cabin, and I lived in the old snake's room, which is said to be the captain's cabin, which is actually about the same size as the toilet at home, with a small bed, and the sheets were full of stench , there are tattered nautical charts on the table.
I ate the same food as the crew, all fish food, and a little vegetable every day.
And those same stowaways who lived below the cabin, I couldn't see them at all. I don't know what they look like...they never even come on deck. Because the door leading to the cabin below has always been locked!
Only a crew member will send a small amount of water and food down every day.
I can be sure just by looking at it... That little water and food is not enough for forty people!
But the old snake doesn't care at all, he chatted with me, and in his words, the people below are all human snakes.
"It's fine if you don't starve to death."
It's also smuggling, but I enjoy almost the best treatment. I eat the same food as the crew, and I can breathe on the deck every day. I even have a cigarette... It's a cigarette that the fat man left in my bag .
I casually scattered a few packs of cigarettes to Old Snake and his crew, and immediately let them see that my face softened a little.
Because of my cigarette offensive, most of the crew treated me well, and I was free to walk around the deck, except for one cabin they locked up, which I couldn't enter, and I could walk around everywhere else.
In the evenings, I'd even play big cards with the crew, betting on cigarettes.
Soon, within four days, all my cigarettes were used up.
Frankly, I even thought everything was fine for these four days... until...
On the fifth day, the weather was fine, but a bit hot.
Standing on the deck, you will see the sea on all sides, no matter from any angle, you can't see the slightest bit of land.
This feeling can make people feel very, very small! But today there is no wind, the sun is directly on the deck, and it is a little hot! I felt hot sitting in the cabin, so I couldn’t resist going outside. Most of the crew members were shirtless, and some people were lazily cleaning the deck. Old Snake was sitting in the cockpit smoking a cigarette. His forehead was covered with sweat. Cursing something incomprehensible.
There is a fishy smell everywhere on the boat. Although I have gotten used to this smell these days, I still can't bear it in such a hot day. I can only feel a little better when I get some wind on the deck.
At this moment, a crew member walked inside and said something to the old snake.
After listening to the old snake, he was very calm and confessed a few words...
Then, I stood on the bow deck and saw with my own eyes two crew members go to the cabin below, and within a few minutes, a person was lifted out!
The man didn't move, and when he was lifted up, his arms were drooping, and he seemed to have lost consciousness.
Just less than seven or eight steps away from me, the two crew members carried the man to the side of the boat with indifferent expressions, and then threw him into the sea! !
I was stunned!
The two crew members didn't seem to respond, and they even seemed to be used to it. They clapped their hands, then went to the two of them and laughed at each other.
My heart was sinking all the time, and I couldn't help walking quickly into the cabin.
The old snake was also there, I hesitated for a moment, my face was a bit serious: "Just now..."
The old snake was watching his subordinates rummaging through the bag, but he casually raised his head and glanced at me: "That person is dead."
I took a deep breath: "Is it... a human snake?"
"Yeah." The old snake shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and spread his hands: "Dead people are normal."
At this time, the two crew members who turned over the bags suddenly cheered, and found a stack of banknotes and half a pack of cigarettes from the bag.
The old snake went over and snatched the banknotes with a blank expression, then took out half and threw it to the two crew members, and put the rest in his arms. As for the half pack of cigarettes, he also took away.
Then the old snake came to me, took out a cigarette from the half pack and handed it to me: "Either?"
I suddenly feel a little nauseous...
Seeing that I didn't intend to answer, the old snake smiled coldly: "What are you afraid of? Anyway, he's dead, so there's no need for it, isn't it?"
Old Snake distributed half a pack of cigarettes to his crew, and then lit one himself.
I didn't speak, I just watched the crew members quietly.
But in my mind, I was thinking about the person who was thrown overboard... No one knew his identity, age, and name.
But a big living person just disappeared!
"What do you think?" The old snake came to me and said to me: "Dead people... It's normal. They die a lot every time." He grinned and pointed to the cabin below: "It's hot up there, and it's even hotter down below." It was hot! There was no wind, and there was not enough water. The man was unlucky, so he died."
When he smiled, his yellow teeth showed.
The sun shines on my body, but I feel a little cold.