I heard old Uighurs say that people who like long-distance cycling often pass by on the Qianjiang Highway. Chen Mu has worked at a gas station for three months and has never seen them. Today is a glimpse.
After the five people got out of the car, they immediately got busy.
Those who replenish water need to replenish water, those who buy things go shopping, and some people even squat down to dismantle the bike on the spot, probably to adjust the bike and replace parts.
Chen Mu was busy greeting these customers. Although the business was not big, it was rare for the gas station to be so popular at night, which was quite rare.
Chen Mu found that one of the riders was particularly interesting, with a bird wrapped in clothes in his arms, and because it was tightly wrapped, he couldn't tell what it was.
The man noticed that Chen Mu was looking at the bird in his arms, so he smiled and said, "It's a wild duck, it's injured."
"Wild duck?"
Chen Mu thought it was the other party's pet, and he was reluctant to take it with him when he went out riding, but he didn't expect it to be a wild duck.
The man was a middle-aged man, short and stocky, talking happily, and continued: "It's interesting to say, our convoy passed a green belt two days ago, and it was going downhill, and the speed was very fast. I didn't expect this one The stupid wild duck suddenly flew out of the green belt and hit me with its head, knocking me down."
While speaking, the middle-aged man untied the wild duck from his arms, then took out a half-cut mineral water bottle from his pocket, filled it with some water, and fed the wild duck to drink.
The wild duck is not small, with a yellow-green beak, orange-yellow feet, bright green head and neck, with an obvious white collar around the neck, dark-brown upper body, black waist and tail feathers, and a white patch on the abdomen. , especially eye-catching.
Chen Mu thinks the most beautiful thing about it is that there are purple-blue wing mirrors on its wings, which look very dazzling.
The middle-aged man continued: "It flew out very suddenly and hit me very hard. At that time, I fell off the car and turned over several times. Hey, fortunately, I was lucky. The car was fine. It's okay... Well, after inspection, I'm only a little bit skinny, and there's no injury to the bones, otherwise I'd really have to go home because of this little thing.
With a hearty smile, the middle-aged man pointed to the wild duck that was drinking from the mineral water bottle, and said: "It is much worse than me. Its wings should be broken. I don't know if there are other places. Injured, I can't fly anyway, I have been carrying it for the past few days, just to see if it can survive."
This is the first time Chen Mu has heard such a thing. There is such a stupid bird that flew out to hit someone riding a bicycle, and even broke his own wings. If it was someone else, it might be stewed and eaten right now. .
They come out to ride, meet a lot of people, generally have a wild temper, and are especially able to communicate.
After the middle-aged man chatted with Chen Mu for a while, because Chen Mu handed over a bottle of cold beer, he generously handed the wild duck to Chen Mu.
"Our travel plan for this trip is very tight. We must first enter Xinjiang, and then enter Tibet from Xinjiang..."
"Little brother, I can't take care of this wild duck, so why don't I leave it to you?"
"I usually feed it some anti-inflammatory drugs to see if it can survive by itself. Well, it's life if it can't survive, and we don't care about it."
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Chen Mu was holding the wild duck that was sleeping in the nest of clothes listlessly after drinking water, what he thought at the time was: "I heard that this thing is a national protected animal, I don't know how it is now... let's eat it , is it a crime?"
The people in the cycling team drank a case of cold beer, and Chen Mu gave them a discounted price of twenty per bottle.
Although the price is much more expensive than outside, but they can understand the price in this place where there is no way to go to the village or back to the shop, so they paid generously and drank happily.
The middle-aged man is a chatterbox, he talks a lot and doesn't stop.
Chen Mu obviously didn't say anything, but the middle-aged man felt that he and Chen Mu were quite congenial, probably because Chen Mu was a good listener and didn't bother him, so he finally put his arms around Chen Mu and called brother, and exchanged words. Change contact information.
In the desert, the communication between people is sometimes so simple and direct, and they don't care about other messy things at all.
That night, all the members of the cycling team slept on the floor of the business office. They brought tents and sleeping bags. It was a blessing to have tiles to cover their heads and no need to eat and sleep in the open, and they were not picky at all.
Before dawn the next day, they set off again, leaving only the wild duck in Chen Mu's arms.
When the people in the cycling team were far away, Chen Mu patted the wild duck on the head: "Come on, there is a poultry shed next to our garage. It has been useless, and it happens to let you live in it. It is stated in advance that it should be fed and should be fed. Medicine and medicine, I won’t miss you, it’s up to me whether I can get through it... Well, when you can fly, go on your own, if you can’t make it through... Tsk tsk, don’t blame me for being cruel."
After finishing speaking, the kind-hearted man Chen Mu put the ducks into the shed, put two bowls, one for water and one for food, turned and left.
The duck looked at Chen Mu's back, shrank its head, hid in the corner covered with hay, and didn't move.
Chen Mu went back to his room to catch up on sleep, changed his clothes after getting up, and was about to go to Bahe Town to buy some fish fry, but he didn't expect Alekun to rush in from outside: "Brother Mu, Sister Chen is here."
"Huh? Who?"
Chen Mu couldn't remember it for a while.
Alecun quickly said again: "It's sister Chen, um, the one who stayed at your place a few days ago."
Chen Xiwen
Chen Mu reacted.
What is she here for
Boss Chen has an incomparably agile business thinking, he immediately thought of beer, and quickly said to Alecun, "Go, take a case of beer and throw it into the cellar freezer."
The guys from the cycling team drank all of his case of cold beer last night, and he's out of stock.
The Uyghur boy didn't understand why the boss suddenly said this, and after answering, he left in doubt.
Chen Mu walked towards the business room, and he saw Chen Xiwen. What surprised him was that the other party was not a ghost with a smoky face, but wearing light makeup, wearing a white coat, and even a stethoscope and a name tag. on the chest.
"How did you come?"
Chen Mu took a look at Chen Xiwen, and found that the woman's complexion was not very good today, her eyes were a little red, and she looked like she had just cried, so she asked tentatively, "You... what happened to you?"
Boss Chen felt strongly that his beer sales might have plummeted if it wasn't during the day.
When Chen Xiwen saw Chen Mu, he seemed to relax all of a sudden, took off his white coat, remained on the chair, and said, "I ran away from home."
"Well?"
Boss Chen was astonished.
He still hadn't finished receiving the amount of information in Chen Xiwen's words, so Chen Xiwen said again: "I want to stay with you for a few days."
Hearing this, Boss Chen opened his mouth to refuse, but when the words came to his lips, they suddenly changed into: "Five hundred a day."
Then-
"make a deal!"