It takes three hours to drive to the next city to see the sea.
Wang Jiexiang prepared a bunch of snacks, and packed an oversized suitcase for the travel luggage.
Yin Xian has nothing to do with her: "We will only go for four days, and your things seem to be gone for two years."
"Be prepared!" She tore open the snack package and stuffed potato chips into his mouth.
After eating her potato chips, Yin Xian didn't say anything else, and helped her carry the suitcase into the car.
"You add an extra coat, it will be cold when you go out."
Wang Jiexiang giggled: "I'm not afraid of the cold."
November is about to enter the winter season.
The car was driving on the road, most of the surrounding street trees were withered, and the cold wind blew by, bringing down a few leaves.
Yin Xian was driving, and Wang Jiexiang hadn't stopped talking since getting in the car.
She ate, and also fed Yin Xian, told him what fun and delicious things she saw in that city, and told him interesting things that happened when she went to work.
The chattering in the car was filled with her voice.
He could see that she was very happy today, as high-spirited as a child going out for a spring outing.
"Eat it yourself, I won't eat it." Yin Xian hid his face back, not touching the sweets she handed to his mouth.
"Ah—" Wang Jiexiang stretched out her arms, unwilling to give up: "Take a bite, this jelly has a different flavor, it's delicious."
Yin Xian reluctantly took another bite.
"You're full, wait until you get to the hotel, we'll go to the restaurant for delicious food, you can't eat anymore."
She ate the jelly he had bitten, and put the snack garbage into a plastic bag: "You are right."
Since Wang Jiexiang talked too much, in order to divert her attention, Yin Xian assigned her the task of playing with her mobile phone.
He gave her his mobile phone and asked her to play with Snake on the mobile phone.
The little girl Wang Jiexiang is also very fascinated by playing games. She didn't play two games of Snake, and she was aroused. Holding the mobile phone and curling up in the car seat, she manipulated the buttons flexibly, concentrating on the game.
The car finally quieted down, and Yin Xian played a song.
"Oh, my phone is stuck."
Wang Jiexiang's buttons didn't respond, the phone froze for a few seconds, and a text message came in.
After glancing at the message prompt, she returned the phone to Yin Xian.
"It's a text message from your company."
He didn't answer the phone.
"It's okay, don't worry about it, you can continue to play."
Wang Jiexiang returned to the Snake interface and restarted the game.
After a while, she stopped again.
The mobile phone rang the notification tone of the incoming call, and the monotonous ringtone completely overwhelmed the lyric music playing in the car.
"It's your company's phone number."
Without looking at the phone, he said, "No answer."
Wang Jiexiang understood that she shouldn't be too happy, as if she was on the opposite side of his work, and she had been trying to express her understanding of his work. However, when Yin Xian refused the company to find him, she couldn't even hide her joy.
They let the phone ring and hang up automatically when it rings.
The sun shone into the car, and Wang Jiexiang nestled comfortably in the seat, humming to the sound.
After driving to their destination, they checked into the hotel and took a walk to a nearby seafood restaurant.
Opening the menu, Wang Jiexiang first checked the price list at a glance.
Yin Xian tried to stop her: "Fat."
"It's so expensive," Wang Jiexiang had finished reading, and turned to whisper to him, "I used to work in a seafood factory, these..."
He took the menu from her hand: "Don't care about the price, what do you want to eat, just tell the name."
Yin Xian's words were really lavish, Wang Jiexiang also put on a lavish expression, patted the table, and answered him: "Okay, let's have a plate of fried noodles first."
He opened the menu and glanced at the fried noodles: as expected, it was written in the bottom corner of the menu, and the price was only higher than rice.
In the end, it was Yin Xian's order. He ordered all the specialties of this restaurant.
While waiting for the food to be served, he said he was going to the bathroom.
Wang Jiexiang was about to wash her hands, Yin Xian walked forward, and she followed behind.
After she washed her hands, she came out and caught a glimpse of his back, he was standing at the end of the corridor on the phone.
Wang Jiexiang didn't call him, and went back to her seat first.
All the dishes on the table were served, but Yin Xian hadn't come back yet, she sat and waited boredly.
He was on the phone for too long, and when he came back, their seafood soup was a little cold.
Seeing him coming, she raised her smiling face and helped him move out the chair.
Yin Xian looked at Wang Jiexiang's empty bowl and asked her, "Why don't you eat first?"
"I'm not hungry."
She called the waiter and asked him to help them heat up the soup, without any displeasure on her face.
Yin Xian sat down, still caring: "You don't have to wait for me, eat first."
She whispered: "At home, I always eat first..."
Putting a shrimp into his bowl, Wang Jiexiang took a deep breath.
"I'm really not hungry. I ate a lot of snacks in the car. It's okay to wait."
The matter of "maintaining a good mood for traveling" was tacitly shared by the two of them, and neither of them wanted to spoil the fun.
However, it is not the season to go to the beach at all, the water temperature is low, and it is impossible to go to the sea.
The wind was strong the next day, and it was too cold even for a walk by the sea.
Yin Xian suggested that they go to a nearby food street, and Wang Jiexiang immediately agreed.
They rarely have the opportunity to go shopping together. The food street is nothing special, it seems that every city has a similar commercial street, but they shop very vigorously.
The gluttonous Wang Jiexiang would always go over to take a look at a vendor selling snacks. She will not miss any of the boutiques on the road.
Facing a cartoon rabbit hairpin, she picked it up and gesticulated on her head.
"Yin Xian, look at me, do I look good?"
He shook his head: "Childish."
Wang Jie put it down fragrantly.
When she walked out of the store, she didn't see Yin Xian following her out. She turned to look for him and found him queuing at the cash register.
He calculated the money for the rabbit's card, and Wang Jiexiang happily pinned it on his hair.
After walking for a short distance, Yin Xian's eyes were attracted this time.
There is a small stall with a sign saying: Make your own name mobile phone pendant.
They approached the booth and saw that it was nothing unusual. Different characters are engraved on the plastic colored squares. The buyer picks out his name, and the stall owner uses a rope to help you string them together, and the mobile phone pendant is completed.
Wang Jiexiang saw that Yin Xian was quite interested, and asked him, "Do you want your name or mine?"
"your."
So she buried her head and started looking.
"Wang" and "Xiang" were immediately found by her, and she was looking for the word "knot", when Yin Xian suddenly made a sound.
"I found it all."
She looked at his palm, where there were two characters of "fat".
"Boss, help me make a pendant."
Turning his head, Yin Xian said to Wang Jiexiang, "I will give it to you."
"Send you a big-headed ghost, I don't want it!"
She grabbed his hand, returned the two plastic cubes to the boss, and pulled Yin Xian away from the booth.
At the end of the food street, a group of people surrounded Wang Jiexiang and saw the words "marriage bridge" from a distance.
"Wow, there is a special bridge over there!" She led Yin Xian forward to look.
In particular, far from being considered, it is a very deliberate man-made attraction.
A big tree is surrounded by a circle of red rope, some red ribbons are hung on the branches, and a sign with wishes written on it. There is a simple bridge behind the tree, and people with big steps can cross it in four or five steps.
With the word "marriage" as a selling point, many young couples gathered around the bridge.
Wang Jiexiang was curious: "What are they doing there?"
"Did you see that stall? The marriage card sells for five yuan, and I'll hang it on the tree for ten yuan."
"Let's go," she pulled him over to join in the fun: "Let's go and have a look too."
Yin Xian has no interest in this kind of thing, the tree over there is noisy and crowded.
Wang Jiexiang didn't notice his expression, and bouncingly pulled him towards the Marriage Bridge.
Before they got under the tree, they were entangled by people doing photo business by the bridge.
"Sir, miss, do you want to take a photo together? Marriage bridge leads to marriage. You are such a good match, the effect of the photo must be good."
Wang Jiexiang waved his hand: "No, I rarely take pictures, and the ones I take are not good-looking."
As soon as she replied, the businessmen saw an opportunity, so they worked harder to sell, and followed them all the way: "We are professional photographers. You are so beautiful and have such a small face. You must be photographed. Take one, your boyfriend. He is also a handsome guy. Are you here to play? Come out to play as a souvenir, our marriage bridge promises a very good marriage."
Yin Xian quickened his pace and wanted to leave, but Wang Jiexiang was faintly moved by his words.
"There is a discount for couple photos. We used to charge ten yuan. If you look at your handsome men and beautiful women, we will charge you five yuan."
Wang Jiexiang tugged at Yin Xian's sleeve: "It only costs five yuan, it doesn't seem expensive."
He looked at the expectation in her eyes, and hesitated to speak.
Later, it was still according to her wishes. They stood by the bridge where people come and go, with the stone tablet with the words "marriage bridge" written in the background, and the short, narrow broken bridge.
Pedestrians passing by cast their gazes at them, and the photographer held up the camera, asking them to hold hands and make them smile.
After the photo was obtained, Wang Jiexiang paid twenty-five yuan for it: five yuan was for the photography fee, and twenty yuan was for the photo-processing fee.
The photo was not well taken, she asked Yin Xian if he wanted to see it, he shook his head.
Only then did Wang Jiexiang feel: he was not happy.
He didn't like it, but he didn't say it the whole time.
In the photo, Wang Jiexiang is holding Yin Xian's arm, leaning towards him, smiling so brightly that you can see the gums, she has only taken pictures a handful of times, and this is the best photo she has ever taken.
He, who was held by her, stood behind her, and except for his arms, the rest of his body stopped rigidly in place. She was leaning towards him, but he stood straight, leaving a distance between them.
Yin Xian didn't smile, he didn't look at the camera, his eyes were cold.
Marriage, the two big and festive scarlet letters behind them, seemed extraordinarily forced.
That photo was stuffed into Wang Jiexiang's pocket, and she didn't look at it a second time.
They walked back to the food street.
Yin Xian bowed his head, saw her thoughtful look, and suggested.
"Are you still going to the Marriage Tree? You didn't go just now."
Wang Jiexiang stared into his eyes and was silent for a few seconds. She noticed that she couldn't answer his questions fluently, because she began to think about what he expected to do.
Such thinking filled her daily life and existed in every moment they got along.
What does he want to do, is he happy, is he unhappy... He never takes the initiative to say.
If she can't guess, it can't guess.