Eating barbecue and drinking cold beer, a chill invaded the stomach first, then a heat burned, and finally a rush of urine. I don't know how much we drank, but we helped each other drunk on the side of the road and watched people come and go.

"Baby Shuma, my brother didn't pit you tonight for the 100 yuan barbecue money, mainly because my brother felt uncomfortable when he thought that he would be separated from you tomorrow, so he ate more."

Shuma leaned against the corner and said, "Brother Hang, do you know, I have lived under the protection of my family since I was a child, and no one has ever tried to pursue poetry and distance. ”

"That's it, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and you are a Baylor with a yellow flag."

", I just want to live my life."

After a moment of silence, I took a few heavy breaths and said, "In fact, there is no poetry and distance, and life will eventually return to normal." Feed the horse with a dream, the more you feed it, the more stupid it becomes, the poetry and the distance, the more you go, the dirtier it gets. ”

"No, I won't look back, China's mountains and rivers, I will go overnight." Shuma's eyes lit up.

"People think of it as tourism, but you think of it as a river and lake."

The wind was a little strong, and Shuma's eyes blinked vigorously, and he lowered his head and said: "There are many people who like to eat bear paws, but there are very few people who have eaten bear paws all their lives." ”

I pressed my temples to sober myself up, I have always poured chicken soup on others, and this time is no exception, and I sighed: "One day you will find that sailing away is nothing but hesitation, and after many years, only the past flows." ”

Shuma said lightly: "After many years, my original intention is not disappointed, I will go home after all my travels, and I have no regrets in my life since then." I will spend ten years pursuing the wandering of the four seas, and then I may spend 30 or 50 years remembering the past ten years. ”

"Literary and artistic youth always like to say that they are traveling, not traveling. However, travel is a practice, not by its name, but by its nature. It's these differences that we have to appreciate and live in the city with a completely different way of life like a native. If you're just looking around, browsing the different malls, the different buildings, the different streets, it's pointless. ”

"Taught Brother Hang, I heard that you are a tour guide?"

"Everything, in terms of tourism."

"Then can you recommend me some different cities, it's the kind of pretending to be forced."

"There is no specific place, if you want to make your trip meaningful, it is that you have been to a city and you can understand the story of a city."

Shu Ma nodded as if he didn't understand, and then looked at the ancient town behind him, not knowing what he was thinking.

In fact, I didn't tell him that meeting someone in a place is more worth thinking about than looking at the scenery, because you will find that once you meet such a person, there will be a deep loneliness afterward, because after talking, you will feel that talking to anyone except her in the future is the same as chewing wax, and there is no point in talking to that person, and there is no need to say more to that person, so you will start to want to read more books......

Chatting and chatting, I saw Shen Lin holding Qu Sen's arm like a little woman, the two of them whispered, and then responded to each other with a happy smile.

I turned my head to look at the night sky in the distance, but I couldn't see the world in the darkness clearly, the outdoors was getting more and more blurred in the night, but there was no island floating outside the city in this blur.

I finally picked up the lighter, lit a cigarette for myself, in the smoke, I can't help but think of my future life, with the number of tourists increasing these days, I have a hunch: this year will be a harvest season, I have enough bonuses, Meng Meng's condition can be controlled, can also be in accordance with the agreement, get the right to operate the hostel, the longing for the future for me now is like a return to the wild goose, after a long journey and wind and rain, will eventually arrive, fortunately, so the process I never gave up......

At this time, Lin Ke sent me a newly written song and asked me to help him check it, I turned up the volume on my phone, and then listened to it with Shuma: "...... The school uniform has not become a wedding dress, but it has become a concern, the wheat ripening in summer has become the wine of winter, what is the night tonight, what year is the next year, night after night, year after year, there are thousands of cups of empty thoughts, I want to know the moon and a half back to the world, even if it is a traveler at the end of the world, there is no cape to trample on......"

After listening to a song, Shuma sighed: "The song is really well written, I can't imagine that your friends around you are so awesome!" ”

"If you're interested, I'll take you to Xi'an to meet a maverick bar owner."

Shuma nodded and sighed, "I haven't known a cool person like you in four years of college, and it's the first time I've complimented someone." ”

"Don't be hypocritical, I have something to do tomorrow, so I won't send you, scan a QR code, add a contact information, and contact me when I get to Xi'an."

A quarter of an hour later, Shuma and I went back to our lodgings, and when the wine came up, I stood in front of the window, looking through the dim glass window at the brightly lit street, and then, Qu Sen appeared in my sight, but the person beside him was not Shen Lin, but a rather familiar woman, they hurriedly got out of the car, and then trotted into the teahouse.

I took a deep puff of cigarette, tilted my head and thought carefully about this familiar figure, but I couldn't think of who it was, and after slowly exhaling the smoke stuck in my mouth, I dialed Li Shi's number again, and she should still be on the way back at this moment.

After the phone was connected, I greeted, "How long will it take to get to Xi'an?" ”

Li Shi seemed to have just woken up, and said in a hazy tone: "It is estimated that it will take about two hours." ”

I sighed softly, then fell into silence, and looked at the houses wrapped in night outside the window again in a sitting posture, and sighed: "Actually, you shouldn't work so hard, I really wish you were the girl who had nothing to do with a sketchbook to draw and travel at will." ”

"Compared to me, you are much harder than me, and you should have rested earlier." Li Shi said the closing words that she often said before hanging up the phone.

"Don't blatantly hang up on me!"

"I want you to rest early, what's the matter, are you okay?"

"It's fine, I just want to find someone to be silent, I've been in a lot of emotions lately, and I can't get rid of ......"

"Okay, then be silent."

So, we were really silent on the phone, but it wasn't like nothing to do, I was smoking a cigarette here, listening to her breathing and the music in the car, and she was probably looking out the window at the night with tired eyes, and importantly, we were connected because we were on the phone.

After a long time, I finally flicked the cigarette ash and said to her, "How are the other lines of the company running?" ”

"The effect is good, but Jiang Laiyue is too ruthless, and she can almost always launch the corresponding theme after we release the travel itinerary, and the advertising is very strong, making it look like we copied her."

"If the company's internal ghosts are not eliminated every day, the information will still continue to leak, or the same sentence, pay attention to the people around you."

“…… Yu Hang, in fact, when you said this, you already had the answer in your heart, didn't you? ”

I wanted to say something, I felt my lips tremble, and finally swallowed the words, and at this time, Qu Sen walked out of the teahouse with the familiar figure from before.

I smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if I know it now, since Jiang Laiyue has a heart, it is the biggest bet, if the internal integration of the company at this moment, I am afraid that the impact is worse than the leakage of information, we continue to follow the step-by-step process, unchanged to respond to all changes." ”

Li Shi smiled and replied, "You don't usually be so emotional and wise, right?" ”

I knew that Li Shi's words were not a question of me, but more like a ridicule between lovers, but it still made me tremble a little, so I trembled a little and said to her: "You have to keep my embarrassing thing secret from me last night, after all, I am also a figure with a head and a face in the circle, if Lin Ke and Nian Ge know, they must laugh off their big teeth!" ”

"Okay, I'll keep it a secret for you!"

"Hey, this person can't do it, he has to live himself as a movie, but it turns out to be a bad movie......"

"One day you won't be a tour guide, so you'll write a chicken soup article."

Li Shi's words were so gentle that I laughed, and the night became even deeper......

……

As the clock ticked forward for another week, and the entire Aoki River entered the peak season of tourism, everyone decided to hold a themed event on "beer and food" on this night, in fact, asking the hotel staff to move the ingredients and utensils outside, and choose a relatively convenient and safe location where everyone sang and ate delicious food.

Such a simple activity has aroused the interest of tourists enough, because the different places of dining, the mood is naturally different, and the large-scale picnic dinner is a rare experience.

Just when everyone was immersed in the preparation activities of the evening, I heard the hotel owner say a rather serious thing - the tour group on Jiang Laiyue's side lost three tourists, and two hours have passed, and no one has been found.

Losing tourists has always been the most taboo thing for travel companies, and I heard in the morning that this group of tourists from Jiang Laiyue Company joined through the theme of "adventure", all of them are outdoor enthusiasts in their twenties and thirties, there are not many people, but they provide new possibilities for monotonous tourism projects, such a thing may be because the organizers of the event have taken away the communication tools, and outdoor enthusiasts are not familiar with the local area, or it may also be that there is no experience in outdoor activities at all, which led to the occurrence of this incident.

I lit a cigarette, stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, faced the dusk with no end in sight, and made a decision, I was not going to tell anyone about this fact, because I did not want to see Jiang Laiyue's pain in a foreseeable event, so this is also a lie that has to be done.

This kind of topic that will be criticized by people may instantly destroy all of Jiang Laiyue's plans, everyone travels just for fun, if this kind of thing happens, I am afraid they will avoid it, and once other travel companies know about it, they will definitely attack it and divide her resources.

In the distraction, the mobile phone rang again, and I was sensitive to some fragile nerves recently, and immediately tensed, hesitated for a moment, before taking out the mobile phone from my pocket, and unexpectedly found that it was Lao Gou calling, if he had gotten the news, then I knew quite well what he wanted to say.

After hesitating for a long time, I didn't answer the phone, and I didn't answer the call from Li Shi, in the past few years since I entered the society, I know that the mall is sinister, but if Jiang Laiyue is destroyed in this way, it will be too cruel.

Li Shi's phone kept dialing, I answered the phone, and she panted and asked, "Yu Hang, what are you doing?" ”

I was silent for a while, and then changed the subject in pretended confusion: "What are you doing, why is your voice so coquettish!" ”

I seemed to feel Li Shi's anger on the phone, and she replied with some anger: "I don't have time to joke with you, someone rumored that Jiang Laiyue's tour group lost people, you go and confirm whether it's true or not!" ”

I felt a cramp in my heart, pinched my temples heavily with my fingertips, and finally said to her: "If it is true, will you seize this opportunity to hype up with the entire industry and suppress it?" ”