"Anhe? What a coincidence?" The man was still rubbing his shoulder, his tone was very surprised. ＞雅文8＿ ＞＞
An He was also surprised. He stood at the door of the toilet, not knowing whether to turn around or go in to pee.
"Do you want to go out and play?" the man asked again and smiled.
"Yeah," An He nodded. Although his heart was churning, he still kept a calm face and walked sideways. "Sorry, I have to pee urgently."
After saying that, he didn't wait for the man to speak and went into the bathroom without looking back.
It really ruins the mood!
An He stood in front of the urinal, feeling so choked up that he almost forgot he was there to pee. A buddy next to him glanced at him several times and said as he left, "Are you standing there as punishment?"
I'll piss you all over! Anhe filed his teeth.
After using the toilet and washing his face, he slowly walked out of the toilet. Na Chen was standing at the door eating a box of ice cream. When he saw him come out, he handed the box to him: "Want to eat?"
"Hmm." An He took the box and scooped two spoonfuls to eat. The cool feeling going down his throat and into his stomach made him feel comfortable all over, so he scooped two more spoonfuls.
"Are you hungry or thirsty?" Na Chen looked at him, "Are you okay?"
"No," An He turned and walked towards the car, took two steps and stopped, turned his head and looked at Na Chen, "I ran into an acquaintance when I went to the toilet."
"Who did you run into?" Na Chen asked while eating ice cream, "I guess it wasn't someone you knew well. I can see you've grown embarrassed."
An He hesitated for a moment: "He Xu, the person I mentioned to you before."
"Hmm?" Na Chen raised his head suddenly, "Where is it?"
"What are you doing?" Angel grabbed his arm and said, "Let's go. We are out here to have fun. Ignore him."
Na Chen smiled and said, "It's easy for me to ignore it, but can you also ignore it?"
"Yes, it's over. I don't want to keep dragging myself down because of such a person." An He walked forward.
"Okay," Nachen trotted over to the car, opened the door and jumped in, "Let's go!"
"Don't you want me to drive?" An He asked with a smile, "Aren't you tired after driving for a whole day?"
"No, I tell you, you, an old man, can't understand the strength and energy of young people," Na Chen started the car, "I can drink a can of Red Bull and drive until tomorrow morning."
An He didn't say anything, he just reclined the chair, lay down and closed his eyes.
It's not a problem of physical strength or energy. He feels sleepy as soon as he drives. Occasionally, when he takes the bus, he will feel sleepy if the bus shakes for only one stop.
Na Chen turned on the music, but he didn't feel sleepy at all. He kept humming along with the music, and when he was happy, he would suddenly raise his voice and sing a few lines.
This feeling of "traveling" was great. Even though they just got off the highway and stayed in a shabby hotel in a nearby small county town that night, An He was still very happy.
The person you like is right beside you, talking, humming songs, and moving forward with you.
The next morning, An He was woken up by Na Chen. They wanted to arrive before noon, so they just bought a few buns for breakfast and set off.
But plans can’t keep up with changes. This section of the highway is under construction, and the speed limit is 60 all the way, with a few sections being 80. It was three o’clock in the afternoon when Na Chen finally said, “We’re almost there.”
An He opened the car window a little, letting the wind blow into the car. He closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. "It smells different from where we are."
"What's that smell?" Na Chen also lowered the car window and smelled it.
"… It smells damp, very damp." An He smiled. The air had the unique damp warmth of summer. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he also smelled the fishy smell of the sea.
But when Nachen drove the car to the passenger terminal, An He's expectation for the sea was temporarily put aside.
"Oh my god!" Na Chen shouted.
"Oh my God..." An He sighed as he looked out the car window.
People and cars were so crowded that the road was blocked.
Before, when driving in the city, the car was smooth and the traffic was fast. Now, all the open-air parking lots you can see on both sides are full of cars, and the roadside is full of cars. Their car can only move forward little by little.
"Didn't you say this was a small island for a relaxing vacation?" An He began to sweat.
"The last time I came here, it was very leisurely and the dock was empty," Na Chen sighed, then patted the steering wheel again after thinking about it, "It wasn't the peak tourist season when I came here last time."
"You're awesome!" An He sighed, "Hurry up and find a place to park the car and buy a ticket."
"Don't you want to eat something first?"
"Buy the tickets first. I feel deeply uneasy now."
The two parked the car on the side of the road, got out and ran towards the ticket office.
When he arrived at the ticket office, An He was almost smoking from the sun. The sun on the beach was too diligent.
"There aren't many people." An He walked into the ticket hall and saw that there were only about ten people in front of each ticket window.
"There aren't many people here," Na Chen put his arm around his shoulders, his voice filled with helplessness, "because all the tickets to the island are sold out..."
"What?" An He was startled. He glanced at the big screen and was stunned. Not to mention today's tickets, tomorrow's tickets, even the tickets for the day after tomorrow were gone. He shouted, "Fuck!"
"Wait for me." Na Chen did not give up. He squeezed to the window and confirmed again. There were indeed no tickets left.
"What should I do? We can just play in the city. We can play in the sea anyway." An He planned to change his plan.
"Wait for me." Na Chen, with an indomitable look on his face, squeezed to the counter of the travel agency next door to inquire about a day trip to the island.
There are no tickets for the day tour.
At this time, An He saw a sign standing next to it - the island's reception capacity is limited and it can only accommodate 7,000 tourists per day.
"Don't struggle." An He was not disappointed, nor did he feel depressed. He was amused to see Chen Man walking around the ticket office. "There are only 7,000 people."
"There is a tour group outside. Ask the tour guide if there is any way." Na Chen sighed and pulled An He out of the ticket office. "I don't believe that we can't get to the island!"
After coming out and standing at the door of the ticket office, they stared at the approaching tour buses, intending to target a tour guide who looked easy to talk to.
"Would you like to take a speedboat tour around the island?" A young man with a local accent and a dark complexion where you could see his teeth came over.
"Can we go to the island?" An He asked.
"No, just go around the island."
"Then don't sit down."
"There are no tickets now, and there will be no tickets the day after tomorrow."
An He said nothing, and the young man walked away.
After a while, another uncle came over and asked: "Would you like to take a speedboat tour around the island?"
"Can we go to the island?"
"cannot."
"No."
After that, people kept coming to ask if we wanted to take a speedboat tour around the island.
An He was too lazy to ask if he could go to the island, and always answered, no.
After more than a dozen rounds, An He walked to the corner and lit a cigarette. Another older woman came over and asked, "Do you want to take a speedboat to the island?"
"No need to sit down." An He took a puff of cigarette and answered skillfully.
"Sit down!" Na Chen shouted and slapped him. "People are asking whether we can go to the island or not!"
"Sit down!" An He came to his senses and shouted.
"Four hundred per person for a ticket to the island." The eldest sister said quickly.
"What?" Na Chen pointed inside, "The ticket office is 120 per ticket, and the entrance fee is 90. ﹏雅文﹍吧w·ww-.`ya·w`en8"
"You can't buy a ticket for 120 yuan. The more expensive one is 240 yuan. It's not expensive at all with the entrance fee!" The elder sister didn't even raise her head, and said impatiently, "I promise you can get on the boat and go to the island right away."
The two looked at each other, and An He said, "What kind of speedboat?"
"The speedboat for 20 people takes an hour. Do you want to take it? If you want to take it, I will ask everyone to leave." The elder sister was quite arrogant. After she finished speaking, she was ready to turn around and leave.
"Does that mean you still need to gather 18 people?" An He poked Na Chen with his finger and pointed behind him.
Na Chen turned around and saw a big sign behind him.
The coast guard has stepped up efforts to crack down on illegally operated black speedboats. For your own safety, please do not take black speedboats to the island.
It also said that a speedboat spotted the coast guard halfway through the journey and simply threw a boat full of tourists into the sea and ran away.
"Is it reliable?" An He asked in a low voice, "Why do I feel like I'm sneaking in?"
"What a memorable event! We are going to sneak across the river together!" Na Chen looked at him, "Can you swim?"
"Will... I can't swim in the sea, what do you mean?" An He stared at him.
"If I fall into the sea, you are responsible for saving me. I can't swim and I'm afraid of water," Na Chen said seriously. An He's expression became serious because of what he said. He suddenly laughed, patted An He's shoulder, and said to the older sister, "350."
"400, I am a very honest person. You won't find anyone more trustworthy than me! Are you going to leave or not? If not, I will call someone else!" The eldest sister looked at the two of them and seemed a little unhappy.
"You said so, get on board right away," said Na Chen.
"Yes! Are you going or not? If you want to go, I'll follow you!" The eldest sister turned around and walked away, striding forward without even looking back.
"Why is she so cocky?" An He asked in a low voice behind his elder sister.
"Because there are too many people like us," Na Chen grinned, "It's just that I'm in a good mood now, who would care about her in the past!"
"You are a local. The locals have been looking up information for two days but still haven't figured out the peak and off-seasons..." An He smiled and sighed, "I haven't even had time to see where the sea is."
"You'll see once you get to the island." Na Chen clicked his tongue and made no excuses for his misjudgment.
The eldest sister walked very fast, making and receiving calls all the time as she walked. She waved her hands and looked like a human smuggler commanding thousands of troops to smuggle across the border.
The two of them were carrying their bags and following behind their elder sister and could hardly keep up.
Na Chen frowned, sweat on his forehead: "I want some ice..."
"Wait," An He suddenly stopped, interrupted him, and looked at the tourists next to him, "Why did I hear them say 340!"
"340?" Na Chen also stopped and saw several tourists surrounding a black guy in his twenties and asking him something. Although he didn't care about the money, the attitude of the older woman in front of him made him, who was always arrogant, very unhappy. So, he didn't care that the older woman was about to disappear in a big stride, and went straight to those people.
"340 per person, we're all here. With you guys in there, we only need two more people. I'll call two more people and we'll go," the black guy said, holding a map. "We'll arrange for you to get island tickets and make sure you get on the island just like everyone else..."
When An He approached, Na Chen had already negotiated with the black guy. He pulled An He's arm and walked towards the parking lot: "Let's take the car. He will take us to the pier for illegal immigration."
"Just throw that big sister away like that?" An He looked over there. The big sister's snake-like demeanor was still swaying in front of An He. "Will she beat us up?"
"You think too much," Na Chen laughed, "Now even if you want to chase her and get beaten up, you won't be able to find her. If it were two girls, they would lose her after walking 20 meters."
"Just say you have long legs." An He said with a smile, following the black guy. The black guy didn't run, but he kept talking on the phone while walking.
"I was praising your long legs." Na Chen slapped him on the butt.
"Pay attention to quality!"
The black guy picked up seven or eight tourists, who were divided into two cars. An He and Na Chen sat in the black guy's car with another young couple. The young couple had been hugging each other since before, and in order to prevent them from experiencing the pain of separation between the front and back seats, An He sat in the co-pilot seat, and Na Chen huddled by the back door.
After driving for forty minutes from the city to a small road in the suburbs, An He found that the road had changed from cement to sand. The black guy stopped the car and said, "We're here."
A few people got out of the car, and found everything around them desolate, with no sea in sight.
"Where are we?" An He couldn't help but ask.
"The pier," the black boy pointed forward, "Can't you see that this is already sandy land? Cars can't go forward. Brothers and sisters, follow me."
After a long day of hard work, it was getting dark. Following the black guy, An He felt inexplicably excited. He always felt that he and Na Chen were a pair of wandering... homeless people who had saved up their life savings and decided to sneak onto... a small island of only six square kilometers to spend the rest of their lives together.
He was so engrossed in his thoughts that when Na Chen patted him on the shoulder, he was startled. For a moment he thought he was caught by the coast guard while trying to sneak across the border.
"Don't you want to see the sea?" Na Chen pinched his chin and pulled it forward, "Look."
An He raised his eyes, looked forward, and stopped.
A huge golden-red sunset hung above the sea level, and a narrow pier extended from the beach into the sea.
There are fishing boats of all sizes parked in the bay. The ones farther away can only be seen as silhouettes. Everything is covered with a layer of dazzling gold under the setting sun at dusk.
The water in the bay is very calm, with occasional small golden waves.
An He stood there and felt the surroundings suddenly become quiet.
"Go and have a bite of the sun," Nachen took out his camera and pushed him, "I'll take a picture."
"How do I chew it?" An He walked forward a few steps and stepped on the sand. His feet sank down. He bent down and looked around. He found that there were many small pieces of coral on the beach. "So many corals?"
"The island is covered with broken corals. The ground is paved with them," Nachen raised his camera. "Jump a little. I want to see if your mouth can touch the sunset when you jump."
There weren't many people around, but the small pier was still crowded with thirty or fifty people. An He hesitated for a moment, thinking about whether to make this somewhat stupid jump.
"Hurry!" Na Chen shouted, "Dance faster!"
"Just keep torturing me!" An He helplessly threw his backpack to the ground, looked around, and then jumped.
"You can do it, you are worthy of being a school basketball player, you have great jumping ability and your butt is also..."
"Will you take the photo?"
"Shoot! Jump sideways!" Na Chen pointed his camera at him, "I'll take pictures continuously, so jump more."
"Damn." An He took a breath and decided to just go for it. He didn't know anyone anyway.
Na Chen shouted, jump!
He jumped seven or eight times in a row on the beach, waving his arms and legs. When Na Chen shouted to stop, he couldn't stop and jumped several more times as if he was equipped with a spring before he stopped.
Na Chen gave him a thumbs up and said, "Beautiful dance. Come over here and pick some photos."
The two were smiling at the camera when suddenly people around them all gathered towards the dock and three speedboats drove over.
"Hurry! Get on the boat!" The black guy shouted at them a few times, then rushed to the dock, turned around and waved at them desperately to hurry up.
Everyone around was called by their respective human traffickers and rushed to the dock in a hurry.
"Damn, isn't that what happens when you sneak across the border in a movie? I'm just experiencing life today," Na Chen grabbed his bag and ran away. "How was it? Was it fun?"
"It's so satisfying," An He rushed forward with him, squeezed through the crowd and moved closer to their smuggler, lowering his voice, "Don't throw your bag around, the money is all in your bag."
There was no ATM on the island, so they both carried cash, all in Na Chen's bag.
Na Chen quickly hugged the bag and moved closer to him, lowering his voice: "Uncle, you have to protect me. Our life savings are all here..."
"Hurry! Get on the boat!" The black guy patted Na Chen on the shoulder and pushed them onto the boat.
The boat owner was standing at the bow, holding a small book in his hand: "Wait a minute! Don't push! Why are you pushing? I'm going after everyone! Put your luggage at the bow! Put it at the bow!"
"Here are the ten of us! I called you before!" The black guy continued to push people onto the boat, as if they were fighting.
The boat owner stopped them from boarding and let another snakehead on board first. Na Chen said from behind An He: "It seems that our snakehead is still a little inexperienced. I'm afraid he won't be able to get on board soon."
Seeing that the iron chairs on the boat were filled up row by row, An He was wondering whether he should push the boat owner away and jump onto the boat, but the boat owner stepped aside.
An He let the girls in their group get on first. When there were only four seats left, he got on the boat and took off his backpack and put it on the bow which was already full of luggage with no room for feet. Now it felt not like smuggling but fleeing. There was a hail of bullets behind them. Those who got on the boat would escape, and those who couldn't would die on the beach.
He grabbed Na Chen's arm with his backhand, with a sad face: "Hold on to me, don't get separated."
Na Chen looked at him. He was afraid of water and the speedboat was shaking violently. He was very nervous. After hearing what An He said, he curled up a smile. He tried to hold it together but couldn't. In the end, he laughed out loud while holding a pile of luggage: "Can you not learn from me?"
"Forget it, I'll hold on to you. You're not afraid of getting separated. I'm penniless and can only swim back." An He clicked his tongue.
There were two seats left out of the four seats in the first row at the bow, so Na Chen sat at the side. An He originally wanted to say, "If you're afraid of water, sit in the middle," but seeing that Na Chen had no intention of moving, he had to sit in the middle.
It feels okay, it's in the first row, with a wide view. Although the sun has already set into the sea and the surroundings are covered with night fog, the twinkling lights from the fishing boats are still very beautiful.
There were two men next to him as well. An He turned his head and wanted to say hello. After all, they were going to stay together for an hour.
"What a coincidence," the person next to him said before he spoke, "Anhe."
An He simply couldn't describe his feelings. He stood up without saying a word and had the urge to jump off the boat immediately.
"Sit still! Don't move!" the boat owner shouted at the stern.
An He stood still.
Na Chen pulled his hand and said, "Sit here with me."
An He hesitated for a moment and sat in the seat that Na Chen gave up for him.
Shit! This is fucking hilarious!
The boat started moving, turned its bow and headed into the sea.
As soon as the boat turned, everyone on board cheered.
The sunset is no longer visible on the sea level. There is only a golden halo that makes half the sky golden red. In the distance, there are many lit navigation lights.
"An He," Na Chen put his arm on An He's shoulders and whispered in his ear, "I'll give you a chance. The water is shallow here. If you say a word, I'll throw him in."
The author has something to say: Continue tomorrow.
The customization will start next week. The word count is estimated to exceed 300,000, but not by much, only about 10,000. *The requirement for customization is that the word count is within 300,000 words per book. If it exceeds this, it will have to be divided into volumes. I feel that it is not cost-effective to spend dozens of dollars more on one volume just for these few extra words, so I will revise the text and squeeze out the water.