When the sun was waning, Du Xiaowei finally climbed the north peak of Huashan, looking at the more steep east peak in the sunset, she could only sigh at the mountain.

The navy blue sweatshirt on his body was wet with sweat several times, wet and dry, and dried. Not only is it very uncomfortable, but now standing on the top of the North Peak, it can no longer bear the bone-chilling mountain wind that can be described as "cold".

Du Xiaowei, who was not originally for the mountaineering to relax, looked around, and it was inevitable that she would have a little regret in her heart. However, after the purpose of this trip has been achieved, after raising his eyes to look at the cliff he has chosen in his heart, he resolutely turned around and went to the entrance of the cable car to buy a ticket and queue up, preparing to return to the bottom of the mountain for the night.

The reason why he chose Zhonghua Mountain as his future destination is because of a sentence in the "Funeral Flowers" of "Dream of Red Mansions" in his memory - "The essence is clean and clean, and it is better than dirty ditches". Not only can you stand on the top of Huashan Mountain and see your hometown in the distance, but more importantly, if you jump into the abyss in the future, you will naturally not be found out, and no one will know the truth about being infected with the HIV virus. Naturally, it will not reach the ears of the villagers, so that the parents can't raise their heads because they have raised a daughter like themselves.

Thinking silently, he moved forward a little bit with the flow of people in the queue, and when he finally stepped into the cable car, he unexpectedly saw the young man he had met in the middle of the mountain and recalled his memory.

"Hello. ”

"Hello. ”

Smiling at each other and saying hello lightly, Du Xiaowei found that in the cable car car, there was only a young man left at the handrail near the compartment wall, and the other party was also moving his body slightly to the side, so as to make a seat enough for him to stand, so he had to walk over with a grateful face.

"Thank you. ”

Although Du Xiaowei was curious, she didn't ask why the other party wanted to go down the mountain except for thanking her. Grasp the handrail, look at the dizzying difference in elevation outside the cable car, and carefully appreciate the momentary weightlessness from the slight changes in the zipline every time the cable car passes a support point. It is natural to imagine in my mind what I will feel in the short time after my jump.

"Did you use the cable car a lot before?"

The accosting of the young man next to him interrupted Du Xiaowei's contemplation, and she withdrew her gaze and turned her head to look at the other party and said, "No, this is the first time." ”

"Hehe, then you must be a very calm girl. ”

"How so?"

"I've seen girls who ride the cable car for the first time get nervous, especially when the cable car passes through each support point and there is a momentary feeling of weightlessness, many of them scream. Even if you can hold back, you will be frightened. ”

I can hear that young people talk well, not like the people I usually meet who pretend to be cool. So Du Xiaowei opened her mouth to explain: "Anyone will be nervous, but the degree is slightly different." ”

"You sound like someone from General City. ”

The young man's words somewhat surprised Du Xiaowei. The Mandarin I spoke did have some tail notes in the local dialect of Weijiang City, and I didn't want the other party to be able to hear it. "It seems that you must be familiar with General City. ”

"Yes, my home is in the neighboring city of Snakehead. Moreover, I myself graduated from the Jiangjun City University of Science and Technology. ”

"Oh, no wonder. Du Xiaowei then added: "You heard it right, I do work in Jiangjun City. ”

"Hehe, then we can be regarded as a foreign acquaintance. ”

Du Xiaowei just smiled when she heard this, didn't say anything more, and moved her eyes to the scenery outside the cable car again. At this time, the sun had set, and at the top of the cliff selected by Du Xiaowei in the distance, there was a faint afterglow of the sunset. However, in the mountain stream below the cliff, there is already twilight surging. At the end of October, the days are already short, and it should be completely dark when you get off the cable car and take the car into the city.

While thinking like this, the speed of the cable car slowly slowed down, and in a blink of an eye, it reached the end of the mountain.

Du Xiaowei was in front, the young man was behind, and as the flow of people walked out of the cable car, no one said anything, just smiled and nodded to each other, and then disappeared into the hazy night, and the pedestrians and vehicles outside the exit were weaving.

Raising his hand to stop a taxi, Du Xiaowei, who had already learned about the hotel in this small county at the foot of Huashan through the Internet, said to the driver: "Xiyue Hotel." ”

"Is it going to stay or eat?" The middle-aged driver in his forties was obviously a very talkative person, and Du Xiaowei asked as soon as she finished speaking.

"Both for meals and for accommodation. ”

"It's okay to eat. If it's accommodation, have you booked a room?"

"Need a reservation?"

"Of course. The taxi driver said with a hint of pride in his tone: "Xiyue Hotel is our most upscale hotel here, and now you need to book at least three days in advance this season." If you catch up with the peak season, I am afraid that you will have to book a room half a month in advance. ”

"Oh. ”

Seeing that Du Xiaowei didn't say anything more, the taxi driver said again: "Do you want to go to Xiyue Hotel? Do you want to introduce you to another hotel of similar grade but half cheaper?"

Du Xiaowei, who has been a secretary in Dousheng Group for three or four years, naturally knows about the shady dealings between taxi drivers and hotels in some famous tourist cities. So, Wen Yan shook his head and said, "Let's go and see it first." ”

At this point, the taxi driver didn't say anything more.

In less than 20 minutes, when the taxi stopped in front of the hotel, the hotel greeting waiter greeted Du Xiaowei and opened the door for Du Xiaowei, and asked enthusiastically: "Is Miss staying or dining?"

"Do you have a room for a stay?"

"Yes. It's the off-season for tourists, and there are rooms of all sizes. ”

When paying the taxi fare, Du Xiaowei found that the expression on the driver's face did not change in the slightest after hearing the words of the hotel waiter. I also understand in my heart that, like what I just said, I'm afraid that taxi drivers will come several times a day, and the so-called habit will become natural, and they will no longer care about being slapped in the face.

Under the guidance of the waiter, I came to the front desk, and sure enough, as he said just now, not only are there all kinds of rooms, but also the room prices are 60% off. I asked for a standard room, turned around and took the elevator upstairs to enter the room, first take a hot shower to wash away the sweat stains and chill all over my body. Immediately changed into a clean casual autumn dress, made an appointment with the laundry office by phone before going out, and put the sweatshirt with sweat stains into a plastic bag in the drawer of the bedside table.

She wanted to eat something simple, so she went back to her room to rest early, saying that she didn't expect to meet that young man for the third time.

"Hey, it's a really small world. ”

"Hehe, the world is not small, presumably this county is a little smaller. ”

(End of chapter)