Tex joined Nanao Ranch, and Emperor Wu's experience-learning team was formed.

Wu Di, the former editor of a Chinese media company, the former SASR airborne team captain Tex, the Melbourne racecourse intern Patricia, the old cowboys Frank and Rachel, except for the Frank couple, everyone else is "not doing their jobs", and this miscellaneous team is about to set sail in the Australian mainland.

After returning from Morburne, there was a person that Emperor Wu never forget, that is, the homeless man who performed the water mist magic in the square, the elegant homeless man had not been seen since that day, but things were always full of accidents, and on the night when Turks joined the ranch, Emperor Wu met him again.

Pelican Town has a theatre performance on the second Sunday of every month, this time with a theatre troupe specially invited by the mayor from Canberra.

Emperor Wu watched the short version of "The Phantom of the Opera" with great interest, and it was already eleven o'clock in the evening when he came out of the small theater, and he yawned and prepared to drive home.

The bird of prey stopped on the side of the square park and just twisted the key, when an exclamation came from behind, which startled Emperor Wu.

It turned out that there was a homeless man sleeping in the open car, and he crawled to the front of the car and shouted.

"Hey, there's no one in this car, where did you come from?" the homeless man's expression was exaggerated, as if he had a mental problem.

The homeless man often slept in the open-air pickup car, and half an hour before he climbed into the car after he had looked the Raptor back and forth three times to make sure there was no one inside.

"I just came out of the small theater. Emperor Wu said.

The homeless man laughed, "I slept on the mat of a scrapped pickup truck last week, and it was so warm that I bet your mat is fluffy too, otherwise it will be a butt." ”

Emperor Wu looked at the foot pad, it was not fluffy, and sleeping on it would definitely take off the buttocks.

With the dazzling headlights of the birds of prey, Emperor Wu could see his face clearly, it was the homeless man who performed "magic" in the square, and he was dressed much cleaner today.

"Dude, thank you for your wonderful performance last time, the temperature is a little low tonight, do you want me to take you to the hotel, I heard that Mrs. Rose's hotel has a new mattress, it must be very comfortable. ”

The homeless man laughed, "That's what you said, you're going to pay for my room? ”

The homeless man didn't seem to recognize Emperor Wu, maybe he saw too many people every day.

Emperor Wu made a gesture to get in the car, "Of course, do you want to drink some beer first?"

The homeless man happily got into the car and waved his hand repeatedly, "Beer is still free, tonight Mr. Jerome's youngest son has a birthday, and I was invited to eat barbecue together, Mr. Jerome, you know, his youngest son is very cute." By the way, your car is beautiful!"

The reason why Emperor Wu paid for tonight's room for him was because Emperor Wu was very grateful to him for the water mist performance that day, which refreshed some of Emperor Wu's values, poverty is not a reason to be sloppy, even a homeless man can live a very chic life.

Later, Emperor Wu learned that this homeless man's name was Burke, a native of Rockhampton.

He had a happy family, but on his thirtieth birthday, an unfortunate car accident and the death of his beautiful wife and two children left him grief-stricken and mentally stimulated, and wandered around after being cheated out of his possessions, and the residents of Pelican Town sympathized with his plight and often gave him alms.

That damn car accident made him feel like he could see his wife and daughter in the car, so he always slept in the bed of an open-air pickup, which made him feel at home.

Although Burke was a homeless man, he did not seem to make a living by begging, and the townspeople would spontaneously give him food and some change.

Australia's good welfare system has earned him a few hundred dollars a month, and Burke seems to have spent all that money on tobacco and alcohol.

Frank tells Emperor Wu that the homeless man Burke is often seen in the corners of the square walls, and that a tattered quilt and an army-green hat are all his belongings.

The next time I saw him, it was in a newly opened burger restaurant in the town, and Emperor Wu was eating a half-price hamburger set.

The employees of "Winphyy" were renovating the land in the pasture and drove in three agricultural locomotives, all of which were big diesel eaters.

Emperor Wu couldn't help, and he was bored in the house, so he had to wander around the town, and then found this newly opened burger joint. Burke stood outside the store for a long time, apparently attracted by the big deal at the burger joint.

Burke walked in after smoking two cigarettes, and when he found that Emperor Wu was also there, he was stunned for a moment, and greeted Emperor Wu with an embarrassed smile. He was dressed in a faded T-shirt and jeans, his unkempt hair crushed under the army-green hat, his thick beard covering most of his face, and he looked very sluggish, his eyes didn't know where to look, and his legs trembled incessantly.

There were not many people in the shop, so he walked to the bar and cautiously asked the waiter: "Can you give me a small burger, I'm sorry, I didn't bring money today, can you pay together next time you come." ”

He looked pathetic, a man in his forties who wanted a small burger.

Emperor Wu wanted to help him pay, but that would hurt his self-esteem, and judging by Burke's clean clothes, he still tried hard to maintain his majesty.

The waitress was a little girl, and she turned to ask her mother, who was in the kitchen, but her mother didn't think about saying yes.

The little girl brought Burke a burger and two small bags of ketchup.

Burke was delighted, thanked him three times, and walked out of the store wrapped in the little burger.

Emperor Wu was very sympathetic to him, and maybe he could help him. The sudden death of his wife and daughter is a big blow to anyone, and it is too difficult to accept all this.

The town square is bustling with activity at night, and people who have finished a hard day begin to welcome the night in their own way. After Emperor Wu parked the car on the corner of the square, he deliberately looked for Burke, but he couldn't find it, maybe he hated the hustle and bustle, and was quiet somewhere.

Drink two beers at Maggie's bar and make small talk about gags with the people next to her.

The town's bars have a very human touch, and Maggie always plays some sentimental country music instead of a crowd of DJs.

At half past nine, Emperor Wu left the bar and went to the corner of the square to continue looking for Burke.

Sure enough, he was half-lying in the corner in a daze with a bottle of wine, muttering something that others couldn't understand.

His position was in the innermost part, and if you didn't look carefully, you couldn't spot Burke behind a row of old cars.

Emperor Wu didn't know how to greet him, so he simply went to the convenience store and bought cooked beef and four bottles of beer.

"Mr. Burke. Emperor Wu sat directly on the ground with a large bag of things.

Emperor Wu's appearance surprised Burke, "Mr. Free Hotel." ”

"Mr. Magician. ”

Emperor Wu laughed, opened a bottle of beer and handed it to him, "I'm not Mr. Hotel, my name is Emperor Wu, and I run a ranch in the suburbs." ”

"Shepherd... Field. Burke's voice was quiet, and it didn't seem to be in good spirits at night.

"Come, man, is this beef and beer, do you need something else?" Emperor Wu sat next to him.

Burke took the beer and looked at it in the moonlight, "Castelmoines Distillery... FOURX, a bitter beer, has a faint bitter taste after drinking, and a sweet fruity aroma after a few seconds. ”

"I don't really know, it's just a random beer, I actually prefer Budweiser. Emperor Wu said.

Speaking of this, Burke seemed much more energetic, "Since you know that my name is Burke, you should also know that I am from Queensland, FOURX is the best-selling beer in Queensland, and I have seen the four X's on the roof of the distillery company building." ”

"I see, those four big X's must be interesting. Emperor Wu took a sip, which was indeed more bitter than any kind of beer he had drunk before.

Burke said gratefully: "Thank you for helping me twice, to be honest, the last time you suddenly started the car really scared me a lot, I have confirmed three times that there was no one in the car, and I was just about to lie down in the car to sleep, but the car moved." ”

"There will inevitably be times in life when things don't go well, and it will all pass, friend. ”

Emperor Wu touched the wine bottle with him, and each picked up a large piece of beef and stuffed it into his mouth.

After chatting for a while, Emperor Wu found that his normal thinking was very clear, and his brain even turned faster than his own, and he also had a unique view of the world.

A bottle and a half of FOURX went down, Burke lay comfortably in the corner of the wall and fell into the memory, the corners of his mouth flashed with a smile, and after a few seconds, he began to tremble again, "Sue... Shan, to Susan, that's right... Her name is indeed Susan, how could I... Misnamed her, and m... Ya, Fin... Ni, soup... Well, my sweet little angels, they've always been against me drinking... Ha ha... That damn Fred, it's all yours now... It's all yours, haha. ”

"Burke, Burke?" Emperor Wu felt unable to control his emotions.

Burke burst out laughing, shaking the beer all over the place, and he stood up and yelled, jumping and jumping with excitement.

Emperor Wu drove him to the hospital, where doctors said he had severe mental trauma and often had flashbacks of the car accident ten years ago in his mind, that is, the car accident that constantly appeared in dreams, even in a waking state, and kept replaying it in his mind.

The doctor sighed at what happened to him, "Poor man, I might have killed myself a long time ago." ”

Emperor Wu paid him a week's hospital bills, but the next morning, Burke ran out of the hospital, and the surveillance at the door did not see him, and it seemed that Burke had climbed out of the wall.

Is he worried that he can't afford to pay off the hospitalization expenses? Emperor Wu didn't think about asking him to pay back the money at all, this money was nothing to Emperor Wu, Emperor Wu just wanted to help a down-and-out person, because Burke's eyes let Emperor Wu know that he was still saved.

Since that day, the townspeople have not seen the homeless Burke again, and even the news program specifically mentions him, hoping that the people who meet will call the program.

Emperor Wu imagined that on the morning he woke up in the hospital, he escaped while the nurse was away, maybe he went to another city now, and he was no longer alive.

Maggie, the owner of the bar, said that his friend had seen Burke, the homeless man, and that on the night he had escaped from the hospital, Burke tore his only quilt under a bridge, pulled all the cotton out of it, and threw it into the river with a fierce cry in his mouth, and he threw the army green hat on the riverbank.

Emperor Wu rushed to the riverbank, but found no shadow of Burke, only a few scattered pieces of black cotton, and in the garbage can not far away was his hat, which was smeared with several layers of dirt.

No one could figure out Burke, no one knew what he was thinking when he was conscious. After that, he disappeared from Pelican Town, and the homeless man with the army-green hat who liked to sleep in the pickup compartment disappeared.