Ever since we decided to go to the desert, Singh and I began to prepare with our two senior brothers and started to get busy with our studies.

Moussa never contacted me 'privately' again, and after I had arranged for the team to report on the task that day, Ayyub 'handed over' all the information he had found to me early the next morning, and the contents were detailed and practical, and even the main points were properly organized, which really saved me a lot of thought for my subsequent work.

After the report was completed, the discussion of the group was also concluded. And Musa, as if he was deliberately avoiding me, never came to class again.

Perhaps, he's getting busy again. Are you still busy with the same things as last time?

But I never received a text message from him again, and sometimes when I heard my phone ringing, I would vaguely expect the letter to be from Moussa, but it was always empty.

He was more decisive than I was in cutting off the seeds that sprouted, and the intimacy that existed as if it was nothing had even begun had turned into a dream.

In order to stop thinking about it, I devoted myself to preparing for the first practice of my master's degree. In the process, I gradually had more contact with Singh.

In the past, because of various news reports in China, I was always prejudiced against India, but now that I have contacted, it seems that Indians are not as dirty and terrible as I imagined before, on the contrary, I think that Singh is calm, kind and friendly, but in the occasional quiet stagnation, a kind of melancholy emerges.

Singh, perhaps, is also a man with a story.

Singh is a Sikh who wears a turban, a steel bracelet and short trousers, but the style and color of his turban are different from those of Muslims. Singh's father worked on a construction site in Dubai, and the family soon moved to Dubai with a strong sense of family in India.

Dubai is the only place in all the emirates where there are Hindu, Sikh temples and very little interference with the religious activities of non-Muslims. For some devout Indians, it is indeed a good place to go out to work and earn money.

"I've been in Dubai since I was in secondary school and I've been here for eight years now. Singh said.

I knew very little about Sikhism, and I only vaguely remembered some news reports, so I asked him: "I have heard that Muslims and Sikhs often have conflicts, and people from the two sects meet like enemies." You've been in Dubai for so long, have you ever encountered it?"

Singh groaned for a few seconds and shook his head, "No, there is basically harmony and there are not so many contradictions. Suddenly, as if he remembered something, his expression was a little melancholy, he was silent for a moment, and suddenly sighed, and said in a low voice, "I even ...... I also fell in love with a Muslim 'girl'. ”

I only felt that my 'chest' was stagnant, as if something was stuck in my heart, and it took me a while to raise my breath, and I continued to ask as if nothing happened: "And then?"

The air suddenly condensed, and the wrinkled mood was also stained with a thin layer of frost and snow. I was working on my hands, but my breath was holding my breath, silently and impatiently waiting for Singh's answer.

It's like waiting for my unknown fate.

The waiting process was long and tormenting, and a heart hung in my throat, almost jumping out. It seemed like a long, long time before I heard Singh reply in a low voice, "Nothing." ”

He didn't want to say more, but I could tell from his melancholy expression that it was a sad story.

As if empathizing, a few wisps of inexplicable sourness suddenly appeared in my heart, but I couldn't tell why.

Just when I was confused, I saw two senior brothers pushing the 'door' and entering, and one of them muttered: "The professor prefers someone who can speak Arabic, saying that he is afraid that he will 'get lost' in the desert and will not understand the language." What do you say, Ayyub is not going, who wants to go to the desert to be our interpreter? Ramadan is only over tonight, and we will set off again in a few days, and the Muslims have not yet recovered, and they don't have the strength to go to that kind of dry and far place. That's the salary the professor gives to the translator, so where are we going to find someone?"