Chapter 5: Reasons Why Others Are Late

Rewind and say.

At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of April 20, I arrived at the Korla ** Hotel.

On the steps of the doorway sat a girl, wearing a black stand-up collar cardigan, embroidered with a large red flower on her chest, with a high bun on her head and a delicate baby face. Her first impression was that her eyes were shining, blacker and whiter.

I parked the car and walked to the hotel with my luggage.

She kept looking at me in the sun, and I guessed she might be one of my teammates.

Sure enough, when I walked up to her, she stood up: "It's so slow, I'll wait for you." ”

I said, "You are ......."

She said: "Pulp, Yueyang's pulp." What, it's not as good-looking as you think? ”

When I first met, I felt that this girl was stabbing and always loved to prick people.

I said, "No, no, no." Hey Pulp, how do you recognize me? ”

She said, "It's all here, and you're the only one left." ”

Then, she led me into the large conference room, where I met my teammates.

Covered in dust, I introduced myself: "Hello, I'm Boss Zhou, but what you're seeing now isn't my best time - I haven't shaved for three days." ”

Everyone applauded enthusiastically.

A girl stood up and hugged me, and I smelled the rich aroma. She said: "I am Meng Xiaoshuai. Boss Zhou, you don't look like a boss at all, haha. ”

Meng Xiaoshuai is a model, and her good looks are social skills, and she got the hotel manager and provided us with a meeting room, free of charge. I believe that the first thing that any man sees when he sees Meng Xiaoshuai, what attracts their attention the most is not her handsome face, but her perfect big breasts, absolutely E cup (obscene).

I smiled and said, "I'll look at it after shaving." ”

Then I sat down, and the juice sat down next to me.

I looked around at everyone: "Sorry, sorry, I'm late." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "You don't have to apologize, we all arrived today." ”

I was stunned: "Oh? ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Let everyone say it for a while." ”

I said, "So, let me guess who you are." I've seen Meng Xiaoshuai's photos before, and just now Pulp introduced herself, except for the two of them. ”

The man sitting across from me was tall and wearing a blue and white striped sweatshirt with bulging flesh and sturdy pimples. Bareheaded.

I said, "Are you Huang Xi?" ”

His eyes widened in surprise and nodded vigorously: "Boss Zhou has good eyesight!" Then he did a bodybuilding move, and his upper arm muscles bulged higher.

I said, "Tell me why you're a day late?" ”

He said, "Something happened to my family......"

It turned out that Huang Xi's younger brother also practiced sanda, but that guy was so brave and ruthless that he always caused trouble. On the day Huang Xi left, he had a group fight with someone in a bar and was arrested by the police station. Fortunately, the consequences were not very serious, Huang Xi bailed him out, and it was almost dark, so he had to postpone his departure for a day.

……

The person sitting next to Huang Xi was in his 30s, flat-headed, wearing a thick gold chain, and the cuffs of a designer jacket showed a bit of cyan tattoo, as if it was a pirate pattern.

I said, "You are Bai Xinxin." ”

He nodded somewhat arrogantly.

I said, "What's the matter with you?" ”

He said, "Dead." ”

I said, "Who died?" ”

"A little sister I know," he said. ”

And then he began to speak.

It can be heard that Bai Xinxin is a merry brother with many beautiful women around him.

The day before he left, he took a few little sisters to the park for boating. There is a girl named Jiang Mengxi, who loves life very much, and on the day of rowing, she somehow fell into the water.

Everyone rushed to the rescue, but no one could be found.

It was an artificial lake, small, shallow, and the terrain was not complicated at all.

Time passed inexorably, and if she was still in the water, she would have drowned, but no one saw the body.

Since she has never surfaced, some people even suspect that she is teasing everyone, and maybe she secretly went home.

It wasn't until the staff drained the water that they found her - Jiang Mengxi was hung on the power unit of the pedal boat they were on.

I don't know if she knocked on the boat for help at that time, everyone was in a panic at that time, and kept shouting, probably ignoring and covering up the signal of life.

The strange thing is that she was obviously hung under the boat, but the boat was not affected in any way, and during the search and rescue, the boat was also involved, searching back and forth on the lake......

Bai Xinxin helped with the funeral and postponed it for a day.

……

After Bai Xinxin finished speaking, the atmosphere was a little depressing.

I looked at the middle-aged woman next to him, she was dark-skinned, wearing a camouflage uniform, short hair, and she looked like she had traveled all year round. She must have been Boob.

I said, "You are Bubu." ”

She said, "I'm Bubu. ”

I said, "Tell me why you're late." ”

"I'm because of the kids," she said. ”

Boo's only hobby is traveling, and whenever she has a holiday, she will definitely drive out to play. She gave me the impression of being calm and warm-hearted.

Bubu's daughter is called Puddingding and she is 14 years old.

Puddingding attends a private middle school, and because of her lack of care, she is extremely capable of living. Just as Bubu was preparing his travel belongings, he received a call from the private middle school that Puddingding had a fever.

She immediately rushed to the school, took her daughter out, and went to the hospital.

On the third day, my daughter's fever subsided.

She said, "Mom, you go, I'm fine." ”

Then, she hugged her mother and took the bus back to school alone......

Bubu was supposed to be two days late, but on the way, she traveled day and night to catch up for the day.

……

The girl next to Bubu looked to be 30 years old, her skin was a little bloodless, very white, plain face, wearing a red shirt, blue shoulders, and her hair was very dark and long.

There is no doubt that she is still studying for a doctorate.

I said, "You're a dancer." ”

She looked at me for a moment and lowered her gaze: "Uh, I'm Yiwu." ”

Maybe it's because she has read too much, and she seems a little wooden. I even felt from the look in her eyes that she was a little nervous.

I said, "Tell me about it." ”

"I came by train and my wallet was stolen," she said.......

A scholar is a scholar.

A man immediately interjected: "You were also stolen?" When I came, I lost my backpack too, but luckily my money wasn't in it! ”

I immediately asked, "Are you ......?"

He turned his face to me and said, "Boss Zhou, I'm Zhang Hui." ”

I said, "Aren't you a prison guard?" ”

He said, "Won't the police be stolen?" I have a friend who is on the anti-pickpocketing team, and they often can't get on the bus! ”

This sentence made me laugh, and many people laughed.

Zhang Hui added: "The main thing is that I don't wear a police uniform. ”

I said, "What did you lose?" ”

"ID cards, police officer IDs, and...... A photo of my girlfriend. ”

I turned my gaze to Yiwu: "You go on. ”

Yiwu transits in Xi'an.

At that time, she was so sleepy, she took a nap, and suddenly felt a cold on her face, she opened her eyes at once, and saw a young man in his 20s, very thin, holding a bottle of mineral water in his hand, looking at her with squinting eyes. Seeing that she opened her eyes, he looked away, raised the mineral water and took a sip.

Yi Wu didn't know where the water droplets came from, and she fell asleep in a daze.

She had been in the ivory tower, so inexperienced in society, that the young man sitting next to her must have been a thief, and he was actually testing her to see if she was asleep by flicking his fingers at her face.

When Dressdance wakes up again, she finds that her backpack has been pulled open and her wallet is missing.

Tickets are also in the wallet.

She looked around, and the crowd was crowded, and she burst into tears.

A lot of people watched.

She cried and went to the station police station to report the crime.

She had a little money in her pocket, very little, only enough for short-term food and lodging.

The police promised to put her on a train the next day and let her return to Guizhou, and they would contact her again if there was any progress in the case.

After she left the police station, she found a small hotel to stay in. She didn't call me, she hoped the police would help her get her wallet back.

The next day, she came to the train station again, and when she walked into the waiting hall, she felt that her backpack had been touched hard, and she looked back sharply, and found no suspicious person, so she turned the backpack to her chest.

The police station has changed police. Just as the police officer on duty was looking through yesterday's transcript, she opened her backpack to get water and found the lost wallet! Open it and take a look, the ticket is there, the money is there, it's a lot!

She was stunned for a moment, and quickly said to the police: "Don't bother you, thank you!" Then he left the police station quickly.

The day before, she rummaged through her backpack, the wallet was definitely gone, and now, why did it come back?

She immediately remembered that she had been hit as she walked into the waiting hall, and she believed that it was at that time that someone had slipped a wallet into her backpack.

Why did the thief steal her wallet and give it back to her?

She didn't think much about it, so she quickly changed her ticket and continued to Korla.

……

After listening to Yiwu's narration, everyone thought that when she cried, the thief must have seen it somewhere, and was moved by compassion.

I said, "Zhang Hui, tell me about you." ”

He said, "I'm doing business." One of the prisoners ran away. ”

I looked at this Zhang Hui repeatedly, he was not the same as I thought, as a prison guard, I didn't see much righteousness in his eyes, but a bit of a thief. To put it simply, his eyes were rolling too fast.

According to him, originally, he was on vacation and planned to leave the next day. That afternoon, however, he received a temporary call from the prison saying that a prisoner had escaped.

Zhang Hui was only in charge of missionary education in prison, but something happened in the prison, and he had to return to his post.

The prisoner has the same name and surname as Zhang Hui, but the words are different, the prisoner's name is Zhang Hui, a native of Daqing, Heilongjiang, for homicide, with a suspended death, and has been in prison for 7 years.

That day, when the murderer Zhang Hui was in the hospital for a physical examination, he took the opportunity to jump out of the second floor. The police officers who were guarding him went downstairs to chase him, but he had already crossed the road, rushed into the residential area opposite, and disappeared.

Next, the criminal police, armed police, and prison guards jointly searched and arrested, and in the middle of the night of the next day, he was finally arrested on the top floor of a high-rise building.

The prison guards and inmates turned out to have the same name.

I found out that this trip was all a miracle.

……

The man next to Yiwu was wearing a gray hoodie, his hair was almost shawl, and his fingers were slender.

I said, "Who are you?" I can't guess. ”

He said, "Hey, I'm the number—the outsider." ”

He's a bit of a stammerer, he's an off-the-counter who likes to tinker with the radio.

I said, "Let me guess why you're late." ”

The outside continued to laugh: "Guess. ”

I said, "Which girl are you getting stuck with." ”

The number was a little embarrassed: "I don't have a girlfriend yet, who pesters me, I'm for me - my dog ......"

I was surprised: "You brought the dog?" ”

He said, "Yes, Golden Retriever, 4 years old." ”

I said, "You're going to take it through Lop Nur?" ”

He said: "Don't blame me for being pessimistic, I thought about it, if I can't get out this time, I want to end up with it...... My parents have long since divorced, and I live alone, and it is my only companion - my partner. ”

The dog outside the number has an unworthy name - Four Eyes.

Outside the number, he came to the airport with a flight box, a disinfection certificate, a quarantine certificate, and a health certificate to go through the check-in procedures, but he was told that the health certificate had just expired.

No matter how much he pleaded, the airport staff refused to accommodate.

He had no choice but to return and go to the street veterinarian station to reapply for a health certificate.

Everything was done, the flight had been delayed, and it could only be departed the next day.

……

The person sitting next to the number is very handsome, his skin is very dark, and he is very strong, he should be Xu Erge, a Jiangsu man who likes to travel by bicycle.

Unexpectedly, Xu Ergo also published a book about travel experiences, and I immediately felt a sense of closeness to him, but I didn't express it. I don't want everyone to know that I'm a writer, I just want to play "Boss Zhou".

His tone was slow: "Speaking of which, the reason why I was late was very oolong. ”

Xu Erge's pronunciation is standard, the words are clear, and he is engaged in broadcasting when he listens to it.

On the day of departure, Xu Erge met a man who seemed to be a fortune teller. Usually, when Xu Erge travels by bicycle, he must hang the Buddha of Peace on his chest, and he believes in his fate.

The man he met was about 30 years old, with a thin face, very neatly dressed, and he looked very much like the property manager of the community. He stood at the door of Xu Erge's community, as if waiting for Xu Erge to come out.

Sure enough, as soon as Xu Erge walked past him, he said, "Donor, you want to go out?" ”

Xu Erge was very surprised, he was not a monk or a Taoist, but he called Xu Erge "donor".

Xu Ergo stopped and said, "Yes." ”

The man said, "Hold off for a day." ”

"Who are you?" ”

The man looked away and said, "Change it to tomorrow." ”

"Why? ”

The man said calmly, "Just listen to me." Then he turned and left.

Xu Erge felt very strange, the other party didn't say the reason, didn't say that he wanted money, only this inexplicable advice.

There was only a lonely black car at the entrance of the community, and the driver was looking at him with his eyes, waiting for him to patronize the business.

Xu Erge thought about it, this strange person didn't know him and had nothing to do with him, so it couldn't be that he was deliberately manipulating. He hesitated for a long time, and finally turned back and went home.

The next day, he heard that there was an accident with a black car at the entrance of the community - the driver was pulling a girl to the center of the city, and when waiting for the red light, a large truck full of goods next to it overturned and smashed on the black car.

Xu Ergo was not sure if the black car that had the accident was the same one waiting at the gate of the community the day before.

When he went out the next day, he took a special look, and the black cars at the entrance of the community were gone.

……

I turned my gaze to Juice, "Tell me about you." ”

"What happened to me was more oolong than Hurgo......

Then she began.

This self-proclaimed psychic girl encountered something that was really half-clouded and half-foggy.

On March 1, she went on a trip to Beijing and bought a new mobile phone before leaving.

While waiting for the flight at the airport, she was bored, she tried to take a selfie, and the effect was not bad, but the photo showed that it was on April 18.

The date of the phone was wrong, so she called it.

Shortly after returning to Hunan from Beijing, she joined our team across Lop Nur.

On the day of departure, while she was waiting for her flight at the airport, she had nothing to do, and took a photo of herself with her mobile phone, which showed that the time was April 18. That's right, it was April 18th.

However, she found a problem - there were only two photos in the phone in total, and she compared them - the angles, clothes, expressions, and dates of the two photos were almost identical!

In other words, on the first day she bought the phone, she filmed the scene on April 18!

What's even weirder is that in the first photo there is the back of a woman with shawl hair, and in the second photo there is also this woman!

She turned her head suddenly, looked at the long hair, hesitated for a moment, and finally asked, "Hey, let me ask you......"

The woman turned her face.

Juice looked at her and continued, "Are you sitting here on March 1st?" ”

The other party was a little surprised: "What do you mean?" Today is March 1st. ”

Pulp was stunned, couldn't turn her head for a moment, and asked another strange-sounding question: "Will you still be sitting here on April 18th?" ”

The woman watched her for a moment, and finally said, "Will you know about the next month?" Then he turned his head away and said no more.

Staring at the black shawl hair, the juice became more and more uncomfortable.

She deleted the photos on her phone and immediately decided: refund the ticket and leave tomorrow.

……

After she finished speaking, everyone was amazed. The doctoral student named Yiwu didn't understand at all, she frowned and asked Pulp: "Was it April 18th or March 1st?" ”

Pulp smiled and said, "Dear, time belongs to philosophy, not to your profession. ”

Yi Wu said honestly, "Oh. ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "God, if I encounter such a thing, I will definitely be scared to death." ”

Pulp pouted and said, "I just think of it as a puzzle game, how much fun." ”

I interrupted them and said, "Let's go on." ”

Then, I said to Meng Xiaoshuai: "Beauty, what about you?" ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "I didn't encounter anything. The reason why I postponed it for a day was because I received a call from Yi Wu that day, she said that she had lost her wallet and would be a day late, and I knew that even if I came, everyone would not be able to leave without the number of people, and it happened that I had not finished filming the advertisement in a publication, so I changed my ticket. ”

After speaking, she turned her face to me: "Boss Zhou, why do I always think you are very familiar?" ”

Juice immediately looked at me sensitively.

I said, "I look like Chen Baoguo." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said again: "Also, I met Xu ......"

Xu Erge looked into her eyes: "Xu, Er, Ge." ”

Meng Xiaoshuai said: "Well, when I saw Xu Erge, I also felt a little familiar, it seemed to be his voice, but I couldn't remember who it looked like......"

Xu Erge said: "You must have heard the audio of my storytelling on the Internet, and it has spread quite widely. ”

Meng Xiaoshuai nodded: "Well, it's possible." ”

……

There was only one male left, and there was no doubt that he was the repairman Wei Zao. This kid has a big nose.

Wei Zao has a flat head, his eyes are bright, and his every move is very agile. I was a soldier, and I saw a sense of military rhythm in his eyes, and I said, "Wei Zao, tell me why you are late." ”

"I bumped into a small wild deer halfway through......," he said.

Then he began to speak with a fluttering eyebrow. It's the episode I wrote earlier.

Everyone was silent, as if they were listening to a legend. We are in the mainland, and we will only see a sow on the road, but he hit a wild deer!

It's just me who doesn't feel right.

Regardless of what happened to everyone, the result was the same - 11 people, each one a day late.

……

Next, we discussed the departure for tomorrow.

After the meeting, the juice quietly walked up to me and said with a smile: "Zhou Dedong, I am Feicheng." ”