Jiang Lili and He Yingqin finished lunch at the beach, ready to find a place to rest before continuing their afternoon work.

According to the current situation, by the time they had dealt with everything, it was already four or five o'clock in the afternoon, and they had already given up on the two-and-a-half boat to leave the island.

He Yingqin unscrewed a bottle of water and handed it to Jiang Lili, saying, "Among the people I know, except for Tang Lu, your cooking skills should be the best, but ......"

Jiang Lili put his hands in the pockets of his coat, "But what? ”

"Tang Lu's good cooking skills are tempered in a difficult living environment, but you are not." He Yingqin looked at Jiang Lili, "You should be simply interested in cooking, so you have developed good cooking skills, right?" ”

"Sort of." Jiang Lili looked back at He Yingqin, "However, the difficult living environment - you mean, Tang Lu is ......"

Before Jiang Lili finished speaking, He Yingqin's mobile phone rang, and "Tang Lu" was displayed on the screen, and he hurriedly signaled Jiang Lili to silence, and then connected the phone.

Tang Yu said that the situation had changed, and he would use the documents signed by He Yingqin and Jiang Lili in the morning.

He Yingqin flipped through the documents in his backpack, looked at his watch again, and said, "We can catch the two-and-a-half boat back." However, this side of the matter has not been dealt with yet. We were going to catch the six o'clock ferry back. ”

"Afternoon's business," Tang Yu asked, "can one person handle it?" ”

"It should be fine, just take more time." He Yingqin thought for a while, "If you don't let Lili send the documents back, I'll stay." ”

"Let Lili stay, you come back." Tang Yu said, "The person we want to meet in the afternoon is Mr. Huang. ”

"Huh?" He Yingqin's face appeared in his mind, "Okay, I'll go back." ”

"Tell Lili about it." Tang Yu paused and admonished, "Let her pay attention to safety." ”

"Okay."

He Yingqin told Jiang Lili about the situation, he thought Jiang Lili would be afraid, but no, she accepted the sudden change and Tang Yu's arrangement very calmly.

"It's really unreasonable to let a girl stay." He Yingqin explained, "But in comparison, Tang Lu doesn't want you to contact that Mr. Huang. ”

Jiang Lili probably guessed what kind of person Huang was always and said, "We will do whatever Tang Lu arranges." Go back and leave the afternoon to me. ”

He Yingqin gave Jiang Lili a bottle of water and a power bank together, "Pay attention to safety and save the alarm phone on the island." ”

Jiang Lili smiled, "Don't worry, I will get things done as soon as possible and go to the dock early." ”

She sent He Yingqin away, gave up rest, got on a convenient car around the island, and went straight to the next destination to visit several households on the island and learn about the situation with them.

Most of the people living on the island are elderly people, Jiang Lili is dressed casually today, and she visits the old people in a casual manner, most of the old people are very willing to chat with her, and she can easily get the information she wants to know.

All afternoon, the work went smoothly.

If she had to say that there was any problem, it could only be that some old people wanted to talk to her more, and she was not easy to refuse, so the progress of the work was much slower than she imagined.

At four o'clock, Ye Jiayan sent a message asking Jiang Lili when he would go back.

"Now I can only catch the six o'clock boat." Jiang Lili said, "It may not be until eight o'clock to get home." ”

Tang Yu also sent a message, asking Jiang Lili how her work was going.

"It went well!" Jiang Lili said, "Visit two more old people, and finally go to find an old man to sign."

word, and that's it. ”

"Okay." Tang Yu said, "Keep an eye on the time. He was worried that Jiang Lili would miss the boat from the outlying islands.

Jiang Lili felt that it would not, so Tang Yu did not have to worry, but there was an accident at the last moment.

She controlled the time well, signed the last paperwork, and immediately got into the convenience car and went to the dock.

When the car is driving on the coastal road, she is even in the mood to enjoy the scenery along the way.

The sea breeze is blowing in your face, and the sun is sinking below sea level, and the setting sun is gilding the sea and sky......

Sunset by the sea......

Jiang Lili suddenly remembered that she and Ye Jiayan had watched a sunset once, and they were also on the beach.

At that time, the sunset seemed to be more beautiful.

Maybe it's because Ye Jiayan is by his side.

Jiang Lili recalled the scene at that time, and the convenience car suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

She looked at the side of the road, and there were no passengers to get on the bus, and she was the only passenger in the car, and she told the driver that she was going to the port to catch the last boat to leave the island.

When she got into the car, the driver told her that there was still plenty of time, and when she stopped, the result was very uncertain.

The driver tried to restart the car, but nothing happened.

Jiang Lili looked at the time, it was already 5:30, and asked, "Master, is there something wrong with the car?" ”

"yes." The driver scratched his head, "I don't know what went wrong......

“……”

Jiang Lili's brain "buzzed" and he didn't know what to say for a while.

She wanted to ask when the car would be repaired and if she could get to the dock before six o'clock, but the driver didn't even know what was wrong with the car, so naturally he couldn't answer her question.

"Miss, I'm so sorry." The driver opened his wallet, "I'll refund you the fare, you can find another way to go to the pier." ”

"No need." Jiang Lili pushed the money back to the driver, "How far is it from the dock?" ”

"It takes more than twenty minutes to walk." The driver said, "Well, I'll ask if there's anyone who can ride you to the pier right now." ”

Jiang Lili thought that it was a stranger, and they were now at the halfway point between the residential area and the dock, so it would take time for someone to come over......

She decided to walk to the dock on her own.

The driver was very sorry, wrote his phone number to Jiang Lili, told her to contact him at any time if she needed help, and told Jiang Lili to go straight along the road to the pier.

Jiang Lili was afraid that it would be too late, so she walked forward quickly with a note, and took out her mobile phone from her coat pocket during the process, only to find that it had been turned off.

She remembered that He Yingqin left a power bank for herself when she left, and she breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly turned it out and plugged in her mobile phone to charge.

By this time, the sun had completely sunk below sea level, the light suddenly disappeared, and twilight finally found a chance to sweep the land.

Jiang Lili clamped his bag tightly and quickened his pace, and suddenly, the mobile phone in his coat pocket rang.

There was no one on the road, not a single car, only the sound of wind and waves, and the ringing of mobile phones was particularly abrupt in the background.

Jiang Lili was so frightened that her heart was pounding, she took out her mobile phone, saw Ye Jiayan's name displayed on the screen, breathed a sigh of relief, and connected the phone:

"Hello?"

"Jiang Lili?" Ye Jiayan's voice was unusually irritable, "I."

Didn't I tell you that your phone is in a state where you can communicate? What are you doing when you turn it off? ”

“……”

Jiang Lili was shocked, and was yelled at by Ye Jiayan again, a little stunned.

The strange thing is that hearing Ye Jiayan's voice, her heart almost instantly and miraculously settled.

"Jiang Lili," Ye Jiayan's tone still sounded very bad, "I asked you why you turned off the phone?" ”

Jiang Lili looked up and looked around—it was gray, the sea had completely turned blue-gray, and the lighthouse on the island was lit up at some point.

"My phone just ran out of battery." Her voice was soft, "I'll walk to the docks now." ”

"Now?" Ye Jiayan paused, and his voice slightly raised by half a tone, "Walking? ”

"Hmmm......"

Jiang Lili didn't have time to say anything more, so Ye Jiayan continued:

"It's almost 5:50, and you haven't arrived at the dock yet?"

Jiang Lili looked at the time and secretly screamed in her heart, "I may not be able to catch the last boat from the island......

"You're not with a colleague?" Ye Jiayan's voice was a little deep, "There are two people, why are they still busy at this time?" ”

"......," Jiang Lili hesitated for a moment before saying, "My colleague went back at noon." ”

"You're alone now?"

"Hmm."

"At this time, you are walking to the dock alone?"

"Ye Jiayan......" Jiang Lili's voice suddenly lowered, "I feel...... There seems to be someone behind me. ”

"Don't hang up, don't panic, don't look back." Ye Jiayan reacted quickly, and the irritability in his voice disappeared without a trace, replaced by a reassuring composure, "How far are you from the dock now?" ”

Jiang Lili grabbed the placket of his coat with one hand and looked up, "There is probably a little more than a kilometer left, and I can already see the dock." ”

"Walk over there." "Even if you can't catch the last boat, don't leave the dock and wait for me there." ”

"Waiting for you?" Jiang Lili hesitated for a moment, and weakly reminded, "There is no longer a shuttle ship to the island." ”

"I have a way." Ye Jiayan asked, "Is there anyone behind you?" ”

Jiang Lili slowed down, and a sound of footsteps that did not belong to her came into her ears along with the sound of the wind and the sound of the waves.

"Hmm." Jiang Lili's voice was obviously a little tense.

"Where are you?" Ye Jiayan asked, "I heard a lot of wind. ”

"I'm at the beach." Jiang Lili looked ahead, "I was walking on the road just now and saw the sunset. ”

"Oh...... Is it good-looking? Ye Jiayan asked.

"Huh?" Jiang Lili didn't expect Ye Jiayan to be interested in this, so after thinking about it, she said, "It's okay, it's not as good as the last time I watched it with you." After a pause, she suddenly reacted to say this a little ambiguously, and emphasized, "Maybe it's because the weather is bad today!" ”

"Are you sure it's because of the weather?" Ye Jiayan's tail note rose slightly, as if full of deep meaning.

Jiang Lili knew what he wanted to say, and pretended not to understand his words, "Otherwise? Because of the weather, of course! Whether the sunrise and sunset are good or not depends entirely on whether the weather is good or not! ”

"Humph!"

Ye Jiayan's voice sounded more arrogant than ever.

“……”

Hey, Jiang Lili thought in her heart, this person is so annoying!