Chapter Twenty-Eight: Contradictions
Poker Face was the first to change into diving gear, and the smooth texture of foam rubber swept across the rough and wrinkled skin of Poker Face, and a trace of coolness on his clothes penetrated his skin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The info close-fitting wetsuit outlines the poker face's long and thin figure.
Lao Jiang's diving suit was oversized, and he finally stuffed himself into it, and he was already tired and sweating. It happened that Ah Shen came in, and when he saw this scene, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Such an elastic diving suit can't wrap you, it seems that your gang leader is really comfortable in the local area." ”
Lao Jiang was already irritable in his heart, and as soon as he heard Ah Shen speak, he couldn't help but get angry, picked up the things at hand and threw them at Ah Shen. He also cursed in his mouth, "Hooligans! ”
Ah Shen let out an "ouch", and almost didn't avoid the thing that Lao Jiang threw over, which clanged, smashed on the tempered glass door, and fell to the ground with a clang.
"What's wrong?" Yu Yue hurried in when she heard the sound, she had just changed into a diving suit, and the dark blue diving suit was on her, showing her thin but still bumpy figure. Poker Face was stunned for a moment, walked to the door, and said, "It's okay, the thing has dropped." He bent down next to Yu Yue to pick up the things that fell on the ground, lifted them up and opened them, and faced Lao Jiang, "Don't throw them around." "It turned out that what was in the small iron box was the jade lock that Lao Jiang gave to the poker face not long ago.
Lao Jiang knew that he was impulsive, and he couldn't help but regret it, and seeing that Ah Shen didn't care at all, he finally suppressed his almost explosive temper after giving him a blank look. What made him feel strange was that he didn't feel very angry at Ah Shen's words, but he couldn't control his emotions.
He reached out and took the small iron box containing the white jade lock, and said to the poker face, "This box is good, quite exquisite." ”
"I've seen it, and your lock is made of jade. The fineness of the jade is very good, it's a pity that you gave it to me, so I'll give it back to you. Poker Face threw the box to Lao Jiang from a distance, Lao Jiang caught it obediently, walked over and stuffed the box into Poker Face again, "Since I gave it to you, there is no reason to take it back." If everyone is like you, don't be the leader of my gang. ”
"Smug." Ah Shen complained on the side. Poker Face was not dissatisfied with Ah Shen, but from the first time he saw him, he found that this Ah Shen's personality was completely different from his own, but as time passed, he became more and more like himself when he was happy with him.
Thinking of this, Poker Face's chest felt as uncomfortable as if it was blocked by something, and he couldn't breathe. He was glad that he was wearing a human skin mask, and others could not see his true expression, and now he must be uncomfortable and pale. He tilted his head slightly, leaving a silhouette of Yu Yue and Ah Shen, who were standing side by side, with sideburns. A few minutes were as long as days, and the pain in his chest spread like a millipede through his body, clawing at his internal organs with his spiky hooks. The pain came and went quickly, and when he slowly raised his head, his lips trembled slightly when he faced Lao Jiang, who looked at him suspiciously. But at this time, he saw a faint but gentle light that shot over Lao Jiang's shoulder. The sun is rising little by little over the sea level, and the vast and boundless sea level is dyed red and orange by the sun, shining with golden light, and dizzy from the far end of the sky. The rising sun is like a red disc, with no hideous and powerful light, only gentle soothing like a mother's palm.
Poker Face felt a warmth in his chest, and the warmth rose suddenly, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Inadvertently, Yu Yue pounced and held the poker face of the fallen body, through the thin diving suit, the familiar touch of the body and the body made Yu Yue stunned for a moment.
"What's wrong?" Lao Jiang and Ah Shen pounced at the same time, Lao Jiang removed the poker face from Yu Yue's arm, and helped the poker face to the bed with Ah Shen. Yu Yue was stunned on the ground and did not move. For a short moment, the transmission of the temperature of the palm of the arm and the skin inexplicably reminded her that in the distant memory, she and Ah Shen stood side by side, and the arm inadvertently touched, the soft temperature of the skin.
"Yu Yueyue! Yu Yue! She faintly heard someone calling her. She looked up from the fragments of her memory, her gaze glazed away.
"Go get the medicine from your poker face bag." Lao Jiang shouted at the bedside.
Yu Yue woke up like a dream, and when she saw Lao Jiang's anxious eyes, she couldn't help but be startled, and Lao Jiang's expression was not only anxious but also angry. What is he angry about? Yu Yue rummaged through the poker face backpack in confusion.
"In the outside pocket." Lao Jiang's voice came again.
"Oh." Yu Yue reached into the outer pocket of her backpack and took out a small white bottle, which she glanced at hurriedly, and there was no label. "Is that it?"
Lao Jiang took it, trembled and poured out two small blood-red pills and stuffed them into the poker face's mouth.
"Don't worry." Seeing that Yu Yue had been in a state of distress since just now, Ah Shen walked over and put his arm around her shoulders in an attempt to comfort her.
Yu Yue instinctively took a step to the side, avoiding Ah Shen. It wasn't until this step that Yu Yue was surprised by her body's reaction. She looked at Ah Shen, she couldn't see any expression in Ah Shen's eyes, only him facing the sunlight outside the window, clear and transparent.
The sun had fully risen, shining warmly on the floor of the cabin, which was mottled everywhere, and somewhere on the floor, the blood spat out of Poker's face was drying and congealing into a dark red mark that seeped into the texture of the wooden floor.
Pokerface's sudden coma forced them to postpone their plans to go to sea. Lao Jiang has not left, he noticed that the poker face this time is different from the previous sleep, the previous sleepiness is just lethargy, this time, from the poker face sleep from time to time dreams, Lao Jiang knows that he sleeps more deeply, and this deepness is also accompanied by body pain.
"How long did I sleep?" Poker Face hadn't fully woken up yet, he opened his eyes slightly, and the light shone into his eyes, and he felt dazzling. Raising his hand to block his forehead, he asked Lao Jiang in a daze.
"One day." Lao Jiang looked out the window, the sunset had barely sunset into the horizon.
"Hmm." Pokerface closed his eyes again and said in a very low, slightly frustrated voice, "Let's play again tomorrow." ”
"Hmm." Lao Jiang wanted to get up and leave, but his body didn't obey the call, it turned out that he had been sitting for a long time, and his body was stiff. He smiled bitterly and simply asked the question he had been thinking about in his heart, "Is your body okay?" This question, Lao Jiang weighed it in his heart, and what he really wanted to ask was, "Can your body still go to the grave?" However, years of understanding made Lao Jiang give up, poker face is definitely not the person who will give up what he wants to do because of physical reasons, even if he is going to die the day after tomorrow, he will go to this tomb. The only thing Lao Jiang can ask is, "Are you okay?" ”
"It's okay." Poker Face turned around, "This is the place I'm looking for, and the anomaly in the geomagnetic field has caused my body to react so strongly." Pokerface gasped and said, "I've got to go down and have a look." ”
As expected, Lao Jiang didn't say anything more, moved his legs slightly, and got up to leave.
That night, Zhuo Fan and Ma Yisha came to see Poker Face, and Ah Shen also took advantage of Lao Jiang's departure for a short while, and then left. Only Yu Yue did not appear, but she didn't sleep all night.
After nightfall, Yu Yue listened to the wind outside the window, the hull of the ship was bumping, and she couldn't sleep at all. She got up, put on a sweater, and walked outside. The sea was still cold in the early spring, and the cold seemed to penetrate through her every pore, and she shivered, and still walked to the deck.
The wind on the deck was very strong, blowing head-on, blowing Yu Yue's hair back hard. She combed her hair with her hands, she had not had a haircut since Ah Shen's plane crash, and in more than half a year, her hair had grown from shoulder-length short hair to long hair. The sea was so dark that it was impossible to distinguish between the sea and the sky, and there was no starry sky when looking up, only thick black clouds, tumbling and pressing down.
"It's going to rain." A slightly hoarse voice came from behind him.
Yu Yue recognized the voice, she barely managed to squeeze out a smile, and looked back at the poker face coming from the darkness.
Poker face wrapped in a long down jacket, walked from the other end of the cabin, looked at Yu Yue without any expression on his face, and then looked at the sky. "It's supposed to be a big storm."
"Can we survive it?" Yu Yue's heart was calm, she didn't feel scared at all at this time, even she felt surprised.
"Yes, this ship was originally produced by the shipyard for German marine companies, both in design and equipment, it is first-class, such a storm at sea, it is not a problem." Pokerface hesitated for a moment, then said, "This ship has a nice name, it's called the Whale. ”
"Whale, is that the whale in the sea?" Yu Yue smiled slightly. "This marine company is really romantic."
"The romantic thing is the owner of the marine company, I heard that he loves his wife very much, and once promised her to take her out to sea to see whales, but he was too busy with business to spare time. Year after year went on, and one day, his wife died in a car accident. He realized that he had missed so many ...... in his busyness."
"It turned out that this whale was a gift from him to his deceased wife." Yu Yue looked back at the ship. When Ah Shen ordered this ship, she had objected, the ship was too luxurious to be suitable for this dangerous trip. And now, when she saw the whole hull, reflecting a dim and cold light under the rolling dark clouds, like a whale in the sea, silently moving forward. She actually felt awe in her heart for this voyage, and also had a different kind of affection for this ship. She pinned the strands of hair that flew to her ears behind her ears and said, "You know what? In the past, Ah Shen was also busy all day long, and we hardly had time to be together. But God is much better to me than to that boss, at least now, Ah Shen is by my side every day. ”
Poker's face tightened suddenly, and the deep regret and regret in his heart could not be expressed, only through the story of the ship. It's just that, no matter how you say it, it's no longer him who is happy to be around. The present that Yu Yue said is just a natural continuation of the past, and there is no entanglement in the past, only happiness in the present. How could he bear to shatter her dreams.
Poker Face took off the down jacket on his body and draped it over Yu Yue's shoulders.
The sea breeze mixed with the scent of the poker face, it was an indescribable smell. When Yu Yue recalled it many years later, when she closed her eyes, she could still smell that night, the sea breeze mixed with the faint aroma of poker face.
The wind is far away.
When Yu Yue came back to his senses, the poker face was gone. The melancholy in her heart came up for no reason. The sea breeze is stronger, and the sea is surging. Yu Yue wrapped the down jacket of the poker face tightly, and the faint temperature of the poker face remained on the down jacket, and she actually felt a little nostalgic and nostalgic. Wrap the down jacket tighter again and walk back.
Nothing was said all night.
The next day, the weather was bad. The wind was blowing, mixed with raindrops the size of beans, crackling on the tempered glass, as if God was venting his resentment to the person who went to sea. Everyone gathered in the poker-faced room, and the small room suddenly became very warm. Poker Face had already changed into a wetsuit, put on the down jacket that Yu Yue had just returned, and sat on the sofa next to the bed.
Others sat or stood with sad faces.
"The weather is so bad, do you still want to go to the sea?" Zhuo Fan couldn't help but ask first, full of worry.
Old Jiang wished that the weather had been so bad, and they might be able to go home. Thinking of this, he looked at the clothes that had been changed by the poker face, sighed, and said to Zhuo Fan, "The weather on the sea is bad, but the bottom of the sea is calm. ”
"But how are you going to dive down?" Zhuo Fan asked the most critical question, and as soon as he finished speaking, almost everyone looked at him.
"I'll go down first. Pull the rope down, and if you want to go down to the sea, follow the rope. ”
"Do you know how dangerous this is?" Zhuo Fan felt incredulous for the poker face to insist on going to the sea in such bad weather, "Maybe this storm will stop soon." ”
Poker Face shook his head, his eyes full of worry, "Before I went to sea, I heard the forecast that this storm would not end so soon, and it would last at least a week. ”
Zhuo Fan stopped talking, he knew what a week meant. They only prepared food and water for a week.
"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Ah Shen reproached, "Are you dragging everyone to death with you?" ”
"What do you mean?" Lao Jiang retorted, Lao Jiang knew the reason why the poker face was in a hurry. In a world that doesn't belong to him, his body is declining, and he doesn't know how much time he has left. "If you don't want to go to the sea, I'll go with poker. It was safe on board. ”
"yes, I'm glad I had a big boat, otherwise we'd all die here." Ah Shen is unrelenting.
"Yes, thank you!" Lao Jiang became more and more unlucky, and the unlearned and unscrupulous poker face had already annoyed Lao Jiang to the extreme, "How do you think you can borrow this boat, it's not because of ......"
"Old Jiang, don't say it." Poker Face whispered to stop. He lowered his head and said slowly, "I'm sorry for letting everyone take risks because of my health." He raised his head, looked at Yu Yue and said, "You and Ah Shen will stay on the boat, and Lao Jiang and I will go to the sea." After the poker face finished speaking, he nodded to Lao Jiang, took the backpack placed in the corner, and walked out the door.