Chapter 236: Smuggling
When he was very young, Li Hao longed for the endless ocean, the sparkling sea, the warm sea breeze, and countless seagulls flying, everything related to the ocean was tempting him. [Ran^Text^Library] He even often fantasizes about a man, a boat, cruising the oceans, watching the tide rise and fall, watching seabirds swoop, watching dolphins chase...... Therefore, he loved one profession at that time: sailor!
But as Li Hao grew older, he also forgot about this wish when he was a child. I no longer yearn for the sea. The sea is indeed very beautiful and vast, which makes people feel refreshed, but more often, the sea is presented on the vicious side, with a tsunami up to 100 meters, a wide range of undersea earthquakes, and countless unsolved mysteries under the sea, these unknown factors have discouraged Li Hao. Sailor, this profession is no longer thought of doing so.
Many years later, Li Hao never thought that he would one day become a "glorious" sailor!
Looking at the not symmetrical, even a dirty sailor's vest in his hand, Li Hao was a little stunned, and then he remembered that Chen Liang smiled mysteriously at him before getting on the boat, and said, "You will like the identity on the ship." Only now did he suddenly realize, a little helpless and a little funny.
"By the way, your sailor's job is to be in charge of the sanitation on deck, don't refuse this status, this is also to hide the fact that you are smuggling, who would doubt that a humble sailor who is responsible for overtime sanitation on the ship is a stowaway......" The wolf said hoarsely, taking a sip of bad wine nonchalantly.
Li Hao nodded, but did not refuse, after all, the situation was compelling.
"And what are you doing here?" The wild wolf suddenly smiled coldly at Li Hao.
"Huh?" Li Hao was a little confused for a while.
"Don't mop the floor yet!"
"......" Li Hao was speechless for a moment, then touched his nose, smiled helplessly at the wild wolf, picked up the mop on the ground and the dirty light blue sailor vest, and prepared to leave this first-class cabin.
"Wait." The wolf spoke suddenly.
Looking at Li Hao's puzzled and helpless gaze, the wild wolf's expressionless cheeks seemed to ease a little, took out a pack of cigarettes from his arms, and threw it to Li Hao along with the bad wine on the table.
"Don't fix it too quickly, I don't have that many cigarettes and alcohol." Then, without waiting for Li Hao to speak, he slammed the hatch shut and locked Li Hao outside.
After standing stunned for a long time, Li Hao came back to his senses, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, this wild wolf is a friend worth making.
He didn't go to the deck right away, but hid in the toilets, and only when the crowds gradually decreased before tiptoeing to the back of the deck.
At this time, it is the time when the entertainment in the ferry is at its hottest.
Li Hao heard the sound of heavy metal colliding outside, it was rock music in the bar, and he could imagine how the formally dressed daughters outside were debauched inside, and the gentlemen who looked polite on the outside were wolfish inside.
Because, he is the one who came over.
Standing quietly on the edge of the deck, with his hands on the fence, his eyes staring at the endless ocean, his heart was unexpectedly calm, no longer undulating.
At this moment, he did not look like a hunted person, but an ordinary traveler, enjoying the cold sea breeze.
Li Hao couldn't help but sigh, the sea is really vast and vast, take a step back and open the sky, no matter how big the ups and downs are, in front of the sea, it will subside.
He has nothing to think about, nothing to worry about, like a mirror, shining on his truest self.
The night is lonely, windy, cold.
Li Hao didn't know how long he had been standing, but he felt that there was no hatred in his heart, it was like a vast grassland, extremely empty. After a long time, he slowly walked under the deck of the cabin, took the mop and began to mop the floor.
Because, some guests who are not used to the noisy environment inside have come to the deck one after another to enjoy the quiet night view of the ocean.
No one paid attention to Li Hao, a sailor in a dirty sailor suit, but he noticed it, and he glanced at it with disgust, and then ignored it.
This is also in line with Li Hao's mind, he is now a marginal person, no one cares, no one cares. Li Hao even smeared his cheeks to make himself more like a humble sailor.
He took a mop and wiped it on the deck over and over again......
Minutes and seconds passed, and soon, the night was late.
The guests who were blowing the sea breeze on the deck all entered the cabin, and Li Hao stopped mopping the floor, but quietly walked below the deck.
There, there was a small, dark passage with a faint fishy smell. Li Hao didn't care at all, he leaned directly in the passage and didn't say a word.
After sitting for a long time, Li Hao was a little sleepy, he got up and walked into the lounge that the wild wolf told him.
But pushing the door open, Li Hao was stunned again.
In a small room of less than ten square meters, there were still thirty people hiding in it.
Like Li Hao, they were all wearing light blue sailor vests, and their hands were dirty and covered with jet-black marks.
At the moment of the door, the thirty people all glanced at him coldly, as if there were more than thirty swords, pointing directly at Li Hao's chest.
In his heart, Li Hao immediately clarified the identity of the thirty!
Like him, the same stowaway!
It's just that they hid a little earlier than Li Hao, so they took the lead and occupied this small room.
This small room, listening to the wolf, seems to be a captain's room, but the area is about the same as the toilet in Li Hao's old-fashioned single-family building, only a bed, a table, and nothing else, oh yes, there is half a nautical chart on the bed, and a broken compass.
Looking at the unkind gaze of the thirty people, Li Hao didn't feel inappropriate, after all, everyone has a sense of territory, others come first, and they come later, so they deserve to be hostile to others.
But where is this difficult to defeat Li Hao?
Facing more than thirty fierce gazes, Li Hao smiled faintly and took out the wine and cigarettes given to him by the wild wolf from his arms.
There were not many cigarettes, only five or six, so I lit one myself and threw the rest of the cigarettes into every corner, so that those smugglers had a chance to taste the cigarettes.
As for the wine, Li Hao poured a big sip himself, and then threw it to the thirty people.
The thirty took a sip of wine, took a puff of a cigarette, and handed it to the next person......
At the end of the round, the cigarettes were gone, and the bottles were empty. But the eyes of the thirty people looking at Li Hao are no longer as bad as before, in general, they accept Li Hao, a "person of the same kind".
In the next few days, Li Hao didn't go out much, and stayed in this room with the thirty stowaways. Inside, there was a very strong smell, mixed with the smell of men's bodies, it smelled very bad, and Li Hao didn't mind.
Three meals a day, all fish food, and a few pieces of black bread. If you're lucky, you'll be able to eat exotic food from lavish banquets inside.
The food is pitiful, not enough for the thirty people to eat.
But everyone seemed to have reached a tacit agreement, each person ate a small bite of the fish fillet, and no one took a sip of fresh water. In the process, no one ate much, they were very rule-abiding, and no one was dissatisfied because they didn't eat enough, everyone was silent and didn't say a word.
Li Hao was inside, and he also kept the rules, ate three bites of salted fish fillets, drank four sips of fresh water, and was only half full.
He knew that at sea, apart from the guests at the banquet, there was an endless supply of delicacies, and as for the sailors and sailors, they all ate the same, salted fillet and fresh water, and occasionally vegetables and meat.
"Smuggling at sea, don't ask for food, don't starve to death."
This is what a stowaway beside Li Hao whispered to Li Hao.
Working as a cleaning sailor during the day, and locking himself in a small room at night, staying with those stowaways, this is Li Hao's life these days.
After a few days, Li Hao and the thirty people gradually became acquainted, they didn't sleep at night, they got together to gamble, and the bets were wine, cigarettes, and food. Whoever wins takes an extra sip of wine, smokes an extra cigarette, and even eats an extra bite of food.
Those smugglers also brought a lot of "resources" on board, and these resources were naturally alcohol and cigarettes, as well as some drugs.
Because of nighttime gambling, these "resources" are used up quickly.
The days of Li Hao's smuggling were smooth in the first few days, without a trace of accidents, but today, the peace was broken!
Because Li Hao suddenly discovered today that among the other thirty stowaways, one of them disappeared inexplicably!