sinovels Chapter 5 Chapter 5
Chapter 5 Chapter 5
The most exhilarating moment of the desert day is the sunset.
Before sunset, everything is smoky and lifeless, but in survival mode.
And after sunset, everyone from humans to sheep seems to wake up, and start their real life in the comfortable temperature and pleasant wind of the border town.
Ajit and Aruna called the landline and asked if they needed anything to bring to the hot pot party tonight.After a while, Chen Yan also called, and said politely: "I will bring the meat, and the butcher cuts it here. Thank you for lending me the car."
Jimmy took the opportunity to laugh and laugh: "Your boss is really stingy, [-] kilometers is the lower limit of reimbursement, isn't this letting you take a bullock cart. Take a bullock cart to see a doctor, and the cucumber dishes are cold."
Chen Yan: "It's day lily."
Jimmy: "Okay, Teacher Chen corrected my Chinese again, do you charge tuition?"
Chen Yan: "You are responsible for melting the sesame sauce. I'll be right there."
After hanging up the phone, he took cold white Kaihua sesame paste, and was lost in thought while melting it.
Chen Yan was his senior at University College London.In the year when Chen Yan graduated with a doctorate in medicine, he was a junior and volunteered for the graduation party. A professor who attended the meeting suddenly turned pale and fainted at the table. He was at a loss and rushed to the infirmary to call Chen Yan.
It stands to reason that Chen Yan was already an intern at the United Nations Development Agency at that time, specializing in epidemic prevention and control, and his retention was almost a certainty.But then he suddenly resigned from the United Nations somehow and joined America Without Borders, or USAAID for short.
Three years later, Jimmy also came to Thar, bumped into Chen Yan in front of the mutton skewer stand, and heard him tell the reason after getting drunk: the United Nations, like other large organizations, is heavily ranked according to seniority, and everything comes first , The best time to prevent and control the epidemic has been delayed several times in order to preserve political performance.
In the news, the United Nations is a model of peace and the light of mankind. However, in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East, the United Nations moves slowly, is overwhelmed by the four parties, and has inefficient internal management. It is not as good as some small agencies that can do practical things.
In order to "do practical things", he, the senior, camped in Ta'er for three years.Alumni gossip groups always talk about the madman who left London, and the two are always tied together.They say Chen Yan is an "idealist", but what about him?They said he was "selfish".
Chen Yan arrived at the door, knocked on the door, and asked, "Where's the sheep?"
Jimmy: "What do you think? It's already locked up! Tell me what wrongdoings you did in your previous life, even the sheep would hate you if they saw you."
Chen Yan obviously breathed a sigh of relief, soaked the hard-frozen mutton slices in the water bowl, and collapsed on the sofa.There were a few bristles in his hair and a bluish stubble around his chin.
Chen Yan: "I worked overtime again yesterday." He waved his hand to dismiss Jimmy's probing look, "It wasn't a terrorist attack, it was someone fighting in Blue Velvet. When it was delivered to us, one of the intestines came out—"
Jimmy: "I don't want to hear it."
Chen Yan: "It's not over when the intestines come out, he still—"
Jimmy: "I don't want to hear it."
Chen Yan: "Well, anyway, it's worse than this piece of mutton."
Jimmy: "I was there."
Chen Yan: "What? Where? In blue velvet?!"
Jimmy: "That's not an ordinary fight, it's a business grab. I picked up a heavy helicopter the day before yesterday. On paper, all the procedures are complete. It's from country K, and it's mainly transporting supplies, but in fact, fuck it, the helicopter is here. The uranium trigger. That's what they took last night."
Chen Yan: "Don't talk about it, do you think you are shooting a spy movie? The raw materials for making nuclear weapons can be snatched here and there in your pocket? Even if you are—"
Jimmy: "Mission: Impossible [-] was filmed at my reactor. Oh, of course, that reactor has been developed into a tourist attraction long ago. Also, what they rob is not uranium, but a trigger. Both are indispensable to build a nuclear bomb. You just now Say what am I?"
Chen Yan: "..."
Jimmy: "You do your job, I'll fight my dad." He pointed to a live chicken in a cage in the backyard, which had just been delivered from a farmer, and motioned for Chen Yan to bleed and pluck the hair. "Dinner at six o'clock, Don't delay anything."
Chen Yan is worthy of being a doctor. Cooking a big dish is like cooking a small fresh food. In an instant, a live chicken turns into a boiled chicken and is placed on the table. Together with a plate of peanuts, a few pieces of sugared garlic, fermented bean curd, and chive flowers, it becomes the beginning of a hot pot meal.
As soon as Ajit entered, he looked around and found that Aunt Aruna hadn't arrived yet, so he grabbed Chen Yan and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Jimmy heard it through the kitchen wall and interrupted cheerfully: "What?"
Chen Yan sighed, wiped his hands on his trousers, took out a USB flash drive in his pocket, and asked Ajit if he had brought a laptop, but he didn't. The local supplies were scarce, and the airport naturally wouldn't provide laptops to employees.The only computer in Ajit's family was bought for his younger brother's computer major, and it is usually locked in a cabinet.
Chen Yan replied to Jimmy: "It's nothing to do with you!" Then he borrowed Jimmy's computer by default, copied files for Ajit, and asked: "Ono or Xiangsha?"
Ajit was dumbfounded: "There are... two people? I think they look exactly the same, are they twins?"
Chen Yan: "...Then copy them all to you." He copied the files into a new folder and named it "Business", and then copied them into Ajit's USB flash drive.
Far away in the kitchen, Jimmy slowly brewed a pot of tea—a French Meissen milky-white hollowed-out teapot, which was a bit old, and he poured Mingqian Longjing into it to cover the bottom of the pot.
He has a water pipe that is specially connected to the well water in the desert. At this moment, it is filtered again with a water filter and poured into the teapot.
On the table of the Eight Immortals of Suanzaozhi, an antique clock from the first industrial revolution has just been wound, and it keeps ticking.Pour off the first bubble, warm the cup with the hot water of the second bubble, and then fill it up.
When he returned to the living room with the teacup in hand, the other three were already chatting about the world around the bubbling hot pot.
Ajit loves to hear Chen Yan talk about the stubborn local people he met when he was doing epidemic prevention and control in the African United Nations, as if the Tatars were much better than them.
And Aruna counted the homework of her three children over and over again, and Jimmy also listened patiently, and picked up a piece of "up and down" fat beef slices for her, and explained slightly apologetically: "I also hope that I I can give you more advice, but I studied in England."
Ajit: "Chen also studied in England!"
Jimmy: "Of course we both went to University College London. Don't you know that?"
Ajit immediately bowed down.Although he has no idea where London is at all.England seemed to him far away.
Chen Yan kept nagging: "It's a pity that you are wasting it. You studied chemical engineering, but what are you doing now? You won the highest honor for your undergraduate thesis? Why do you have to—"
Jimmy drank up his own tea but filled the other with wine: "Okay, half of Chelsea has my surname, so don't worry about me. Dr. Chen, you are the only one who can help the world."
Chen Yan dropped a mouthful of meat into the sesame sauce bowl and didn't pick it up for a long time.
Chen Yan: "Is it over? How many times have you shown the show? Why do you keep saying this over and over again?"
Jimmy pointed out the window and pointed to the electric hot pot: "The power plant also has my surname." Finally he pointed to the meat on the plate, "They also have my surname. If you don't agree, don't eat it."
Jimmy opened a bottle of Bombay Sapphire and then a bottle of Havana.
The flavors of the two wines are one in the sky and the other in the ground—the one in the sky is so invigorating and refreshing, while the one in the ground is also so charming that it makes people want to be depraved and unable to extricate themselves.
Aruna has to cook for the children when she gets home, so she doesn't drink.Chen Yan is a rigid doctor, and he yells that drinking is harmful to his health, and he has only tasted it.Only Ajit was relegated from the capital of country Y to the hinterland of this desert alone, drinking cup after cup, as if drinking the sweetest well water in the desert.
Jimmy patted him on the shoulder and asked him: "Is there something wrong with Rahimi recently? He seems to be in trouble in the black market. Can you ask your brother to find out what he's been up to lately?" It looks like we at Tal Airport are a family, and if anyone is in trouble, others have to lend a helping hand.
Ajit nodded when he was drunk, and turned on the Bose sound system switch for a long time, which happened to be a song and dance channel.
He then pulled Aunt Aruna and Chen Yan and jumped up on the spot, watching Jimmy seriously consider whether to notify the power plant of a power outage in the entire city of Taal tonight.
After the meal, Chen Yan put his chopsticks on the table and signaled Jimmy to smoke a cigarette in the courtyard: "You asked me to check the Band-Aid, there may be something wrong."
Jimmy wasn't surprised.
Chen Yan: "The language on the band-aid is the local dialect of Bangalore, which is a variant of the official language of country Z. The factory location I found out from the medical administration system is also in the northern province of country Z."
Jimmy asked, "What's wrong?"
Chen Yan replied: "That address cannot be a medical supplies factory."
Jimmy: "How do you know? You opened the map eye?"
Chen Yan: "Because I just came back from a meeting there. It's the headquarters of the American Aid Association in country Z."
Jimmy asked suspiciously, "Your unit?"
Chen Yan nodded: "Yes. That building was originally the private residence of the corrupt police chief, but was later rented by the American Aid Association and converted into a fifth-floor office. We didn't create a sticker factory there."
At this time, Jimmy's pager on the dining table rang, and it was the temporary navigator of the airport.There is no flight coming into the port tonight and no scheduled maintenance work, so he and Ajit and Aruna have a dinner together tonight. After learning the lesson from last time, he left a temporary navigator in case there is an alternate landing.
Chen Yan: "But I don't understand why you want to compete with a Band-Aid?"
Jimmy: "That's not an ordinary Band-Aid—" He remembered Lin Mu's concentrated expression standing next to the pinball game, with a new scar on his finger due to the storm.
But the scars will heal one day, the storm will pass, and who is left?What will that person think when he finally stands alone in the sunny day intact?
"It's a gold-plated Band-Aid." Jimmy said and ran back to the living room.Unexpectedly, Ajit had already embraced his pager as a musical instrument, giving him momentum for his wobbly dance.
Ajit: "Bet! What's the rush this time?"
Aruna patted her broad forehead: "The canopy was blown away by the wind."
Ajit: "There's a power outage, the backup generator is down, and the yogurt in the fridge stinks."
Aruna: "The monkey ran into the airport! Same as last time—"
Jimmy also had an answer in his heart, but maybe he was looking forward to it too much, or maybe he knew it was impossible, he moved his lips, like a drowning fish, and didn't make any sound in a daze.
He grabbed the pager and turned on the screen.
Then, like a dream, there was only the line of words he dreamed of: K862 returned for some reason.
When Jimmy changed out of his clothes for eating hot pot, put on a brand new hoodie and stepped on the motorcycle, Ajit was still dancing with the portable heater in the house, and Chen Yan asked him if he really didn't want to taste the mutton. If he didn't taste it, he would CD up.
Although Aruna Auntie secretly felt sorry for her daughter Nina who withdrew early from the battle of Diao Taer's most famous wealthy son-in-law, she still beckoned and watched Jimmy speeding away——
To the airport, to his captain, to his forest.
Three minutes after the tail sound of the motorcycle disappeared into the sky, Chen Yan ate up the last plate of mutton, staring at the stupid sheep adopted by Jimmy with endless interest.
Then he saw the gleaming ID on the table——Jimmy was too anxious to go out and forgot to bring his work ID, and the strict Y country security check at the airport gate regarded anyone who was not from his ethnic group as a dangerous person.
He asked Aruna to stuff Ajit into a tuk-tuk to send him home, then he skillfully found Jimmy's jeep keys, started the car, and drove onto the dirt road leading to the airport.
As Jimmy raced down the dirt road at forty miles an hour, every dirt slope felt like it was going to help him take off in place and escape the solar system.But he didn't slow down, he was used to dangerous driving.
In high school at a public school outside London, he was always the first one home on holidays.Being bullied by his classmates, he rode his motorcycle to Edinburgh on a rainy day.
In the rain, the face of the world is blurred, good and bad, justice and evil, color and black and white, as the night deepens and the rain gradually slows down, all clues are covered.They said his father was evil.He doesn't understand.
Jimmy subconsciously wanted to put his right hand in his pocket to warm up, but suddenly realized that something was missing from his pocket.What about work permits?Oh, just now I changed my clothes for eating hot pot, and I forgot all about my ID and keys at home.
It was too late to turn back now, and he could almost catch a glimpse of the flashing points of light on the top of the clouds, like a star, falling from far to near in a dream of twists and turns.
He hurriedly parked the car on the side of a dirt road parallel to the tarmac, and walked to the iron fence at the end of runway [-] to wait.
At the end of runway [-] is the apron where heavy helicopters land. There is a row of roadside trees, which were transplanted by the important border town of Tar to welcome the new president when country Y was founded three years ago.
Jimmy rubbed his hands, glanced at the top of the tree, then climbed up steadily, picked between two thick tree forks, and sat down like a golden knife.
Lin Shu is approaching right now.Lin Mu was listening to the navigator's announcement of the ground temperature.
It is sunny at night and the wind speed is pleasant. It is suitable for dreaming, sleeping, reminiscing about the past and reunion.The captain should be led to sleep by the navigator.
As he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard the roar of a helicopter.
Everything from the grass to the branches was blown upside down, and after a while, the trees quietly walked out of the cabin at the end of the roar.
He was still wearing a tall and straight captain's uniform, his hair was overwhelmed by the headset, revealing some pubic hair.
Across the 360-volt high-voltage power grid, Jimmy waved to him from the tree and shouted: "Hey, don't go yet."
The captain seemed a little surprised when he saw him, and didn't say anything, but he left in no hurry as he wished.
Jimmy went around to the main gate of the airport just in time to catch up with Chen Yanlai to deliver the documents.He took his documents, passed the security check, and went straight to the crew lounge.
Sure enough, Lin Mu was sitting on a row of plastic benches—he was holding a cup of hot water in which he soaked a fat sea of unknown origin.
Jimmy waited patiently for him to finish the glass.
Ji Yuanyuan came out of the bathroom like the wind, and had already changed out of the work clothes she had when she landed, and put on casual clothes: brown trousers, a work vest, handsome Martin boots, and an orange headband tied on her head. Silk flies in the wind.
The flight crew informed them that the guest house was fully occupied in the past two days due to the visit of reporters, and their flight returned temporarily due to the sudden aftershock in country K, and there was no priority in accommodation.
When Ji Yuanyuan met Jimmy, she didn't mention the accident that her purse was robbed that day and she left without saying goodbye, so Jimmy tactfully didn't ask.
After a while, Chen Yantuo's colleague called the guest house and said that there was still a vacant room among the employees. Jimmy asked him to make sure to deliver Ji Yuanyuan.
Ji Yuanyuan turned her head to Lin Mu: "It's okay for you to settle the lodging by yourself." It was a period instead of a question mark, and Ji Yuanyuan put on a wildfire-burning, spring-breathing smile, "I believe in you."
Chen Yan waved the key in his hand, and the two disappeared from sight in an instant.
Jimmy and the captain were left, looking at each other in blank dismay. Jimmy picked up the captain's business bag, which was not heavy, and then took the lead to walk towards the airport exit. It was dark, but he walked in easily.
"Can you ask me why I must go with you?" the captain interrupted him.
The author has something to say:
Jimmy: "Because you look like a man—"
Lin Mu: "Who?"
Jimmy: "Like my soulmate, the love of my life."
forest:"……"