The woman's brow furrowed slightly, she was a little scared, afraid to hear something from the lean man's mouth that shocked her and made her unwilling to believe it.

However, in the face of what the lean man had not yet spoken, the woman was powerless to refuse.

She wanted to know so much, she wanted to hear anything about men, even if she couldn't tell which one was true.

She didn't cover her ears, nor did she stop telling him to continue.

She stood there, plucking up the courage to let the lean man continue to speak with great interest.

"Don't look at me like that, there's nothing surprising. On the day he brought you, the boy reported to the boss where he met you and how he brought you. Otherwise, why do you think the boss left you behind?"

The woman still stood upright, looking straight at him in front of her, and the man felt a little tired, so he took out the only remaining cigarette from his pocket and put it in his mouth, and sat down on the spot.

"There are some things you may not know, have you ever wondered why he was the only one who went up and saved you in a house that was almost abandoned by the firefighters?" he pointed to his head and looked at the woman with a smirk.

"I don't know, maybe he happened to be passing by. The woman's eyes were a little evasive, and she lost her confidence.

"Just passing by?joke, you live on a high floor, he'll be passing by right from there?" the man raised his voice.

The woman said no more.

"He's a thief!" he said loudly, "what a righteous and courageous act, bullshit, he's an out-and-out thief!"

Seeing that the woman was still standing there, the man continued: "The lights were turned off in your house that day, and he thought that there was no one in this house, so he stared at it, and he stared at it all night, and when he was about to start, he didn't think that there was a fire in the building, and your house was also on fire." He stared at it all night, unwilling to leave like this, so he thought about taking advantage of the chaos, quickly going in, getting something and leaving. I didn't expect someone in the house, you still saw him, he thought that if you got out alive, then he would be miserable, yes, this time I won't do the job, get you out, pretend to be a hero, and get out if you are seen. ”

The woman remembered the fire that night, and the man suddenly appeared in front of her, heroic, but without leaving his name.

So, is the reason he doesn't keep his name because he's a thief?

"Those of us who usually don't go to sea do something else. The man took a deep puff of his cigarette and looked intoxicated.

The woman's eyes became colder and colder, she was unwilling, and insisted on asking: "Then what about later, when I went to sea with you, and when I got to the boat, you wanted to use me as bait, and he stood in front of me." He took care of me when I was injured, and I remember the way he looked at me, for fear that I wouldn't wake up, and I believed it was real.

He encouraged me to persevere, he would have taken me out, if it weren't for him, I would have died in the sea. ”

The more the woman spoke, the more excited she became, and halfway through speaking, she covered her face and cried loudly.

Her heart was full of regret and sadness, sad that she would never see the benefactor who had saved her again.

"How else to say that you women are easy to deceive, if you have feelings, you will have no brains. He lied to you, acting in front of you!"

"No, it's impossible, if he wants to take advantage of me, just feed me to the fish, why lie to me?" the woman asked rhetorically, sobbing.

The man was a little impatient, glared at her and said, "What I just said, did you listen to it, he urgently needs to get a sum of money to go home and beg for a wife!"

Don't you notice? Say we're doing illegal business, but we're so poor that we don't have much money on us.

Why? Because the money is in the hands of the boss, otherwise how can we be so obedient? Every time we go out to work, we have to give the money to the boss, and he only gives us a small part of the living.

Many people have long wanted to leave, but they can't help it.

Only when the boss says you can go, you can go, then the boss has to abide by the agreement, it is possible to give you the part of the money that has belonged to you for so long, otherwise, you will always be his little brother and will not get a penny.

Your man wants to leave, but if he doesn't do it long enough, the boss won't agree to him leaving, and he won't give him the money.

No, he figured out where the boss hid the money, and that night, taking advantage of the opportunity that you tied up with him, escaped, went to steal the boss's money first, and escaped with the boss's money. ”

The man took another puff of cigarette and continued to express his opinion: "Otherwise, he is still smart, usually so many people are together, staring at each other, how can there be a chance to start." You said that if you feed the fish early, where will he find this opportunity?"

The woman suddenly felt her legs go limp, and she sat down on the ground.

The man didn't pay much attention to the woman, he flicked the cigarette ash between his fingers, and said, "If it weren't for him, I wouldn't have been kicked out like this by the boss, and the money was swallowed, it's really unlucky!"

The man gritted his teeth.

The woman looked at the soot on the ground and was distracted.

The man was still babbling and complaining, about the hatefulness of men, about the cruelty of the leader, about his hopeless life.

In fact, he didn't care where the man had gone, nor did he care if the woman was sad at the moment, he only cared about the money he couldn't earn, and the life that seemed to never get better.

Originally, the woman wanted to tell him that the man had given her a phone number.

Now, she didn't want to say anything.

She could imagine how the lean man in front of her would answer her—

"A number? Do you believe it? Have you tried it, have you gotten through?

What? Didn't get through?

Needless to say, that's all, you still don't believe what I say, do you?

Silly or not. ”

Really, am I being stupid?

The woman remembered her first conversation with the man, and the man also said that she was stupid.

Later, she said that she wanted to go back to his hometown with the man, and the man said that she was stupid.

However, the man said that she was stupid, which was different from what the lean man meant.

She could feel the difference.

It clearly reveals real care and kindness.

If it weren't for her own insistence, maybe she would have left the man a long time ago. How do you start?

Or, did the man have already seen through her mind and wanted to indulge like this?

The two thoughts were intertwined and contradictory, giving her a splitting headache.

If one can't trust one's feelings, what else can one believe?

"Use your brains more in the future, and stop believing in ethereal feelings. The man finally said this, snuffed out the cigarette butt, and got up to leave.

The man was gone, and the woman looked up into the distance.

She looked at the sea again that she and the man had seen together.

"Was it a seagull? Maybe he was looking at a seagull that day. Perhaps, he has long ceased to be attached to the sea, and just wants to find a chance to leave, like a seagull, and fly away freely.

Have we really never seen the same sea?"

The woman had no answer.

Since then, this question has been haunting her mind, and she has never had an answer.

"Has he already escaped, bought a mobile phone, plugged in a calling card, and waited for me to call him?

Still, this number has never existed, it has always been an empty number, and it is impossible to get through. ”

The number was still in the woman's memory, but she never dialed it again.

Even though the question popped into her mind in the middle of the night, she didn't try to call it once to find an answer.

She was afraid of the answer.

If the answer is the first option, she will naturally pick up the phone immediately, contact the man as soon as possible, and happily express her thoughts to him.

But what if it's the second one?

Will she be able to handle it?

She didn't know.

Maybe in this life, you won't know. She thought.