Chapter Thirteen The Strange Old Man
Wen Mo's words were stunned by the end of the story, "What does it mean?"
Wen Mo ignored me and sorted out the things in my bag on his own.
The second uncle came over and patted me on the shoulder, "As a person from Faqiu, I should have some experience."
What? Did Wenmo meant just now? I didn’t agree. But I didn’t say anything else. I asked my second uncle, “When will we set off?”
The second uncle looked at the date and said, "Let's make some preparations first and set off tomorrow as soon as possible. We can't delay it. We are already late than others. We have to hurry up. Otherwise, we won't be as hot as we eat shit!" This sentence made the second uncle say the face and he didn't know that he had scolded himself.
My second uncle gave me a list and asked me to purchase equipment according to the contents of the list. Most of the items above are very ordinary, and many of them were used in Qilian Mountains, such as wolf eye flashlights, multi-functional engineer shovels, hiking ropes, glow sticks, compressed food and other outdoor adventure supplies. I dare not save money by buying these things, and maybe it will cost my life at that time, so I chose the best ones. Fortunately, these things are not very expensive, but the thing called dry diving suit written on the second uncle's list did take me a lot of trouble. I am not professional about diving. I learned that diving suits are divided into wet and wet and dry diving suits for three people. I went to many places before I could barely buy them. It was said that they were from Switzerland or something, and it cost me tens of thousands at once, which made me heartache.
Later I learned that the biggest function of this dry diving suit is good warming performance. When going to sea in this season, if you need to go into the water, you must use this dry diving suit, otherwise it will easily freeze in the cold sea water and eventually become fish feed.
After I prepared everything, I returned to the hotel and found that my second uncle and the others had just returned and were planning to go out, so I asked them where they were going.
The second uncle told me that he contacted his friends in Weihai to see if he could find a fishing boat that could be sent to us to sea. Now he went over to take a look and asked me if I wanted to go together.
How could I refuse? So I excitedly set off with my second uncle and the others.
We took a bus to a small travel agency. Looking at the door, the plaque was not small, and a circle of colorful neon lights surrounded by a few big words: Journey to the West Travel Agency. I pointed to the plaque and asked my second uncle, "Uncle II, are you sure it is this? This name is really auspicious."
The second uncle looked at it and shook his head, "Anyway, I'm not asking them to take us out to sea, I just set up a line for us."
As soon as we walked in, a man with a mustache came up and said, "Brother Zhuo, you are here! Hurry up, please come inside!"
Xiao Wang asked us to the inner room and poured tea for us attentively. Although she was smiling, she was a veteran of the world, which made me not have a very good first impression of him.
I said to Xiaomouzi: "Boss, the name of your travel agency is quite unique. Journey to the West? What did you think?"
Xiaowang clapped her hands, "This guy asked well. I thought about the name of my store. You said that the most important thing in this society is speed. Now everything is about speeding up, and my store is also pursuing speed."
I smiled, "Your store name has nothing to do with speed. Do you mean you want to go west faster?"
The beard laughed and said, "You are really good at joking! I live a happy life, I don't mean that. I just thought, how do you describe this as fast? That's a little swish. But it's not very nice to call you, so I broke the word swish into pinyin, which is Xi~you~soo! So it's called Xi~you~soo! "
After hearing this, I felt so sweaty! I was so convinced! I glanced at my second uncle and thought to myself, is it reliable to find someone you are looking for? The neurotic hospital has come up with a wall!
The second uncle's face also turned green and he coughed heavily, "Well, let's talk about the important things!" The second uncle looked up and said to the beard, "How is the matter I asked you to inquire about?"
The face of the beard showed a look of embarrassment, "Brother Zhuo, we have been in a relationship for many years. Logically speaking, what you explained, I must have devoted myself to my work until I die!" I thought to myself, what a mess is this, and I asked you to ask about something, why did you devote yourself to my work to death? If you can't use it, don't be able to swear words! I suddenly became full of worry about our future!
Xiaomouzi continued, "But you are going to sea this month, and it's not near the sea, so no one is willing to go! Now the fishermen have a better life and have more ways to make money. No one is willing to take risks for the money of these three melons and two dates, right?" Xiaomouzi said, and picked up the cup in front of him and took a sip of tea slowly.
We understood at a glance that he wanted to ask for more money. Uncle Er exchanged a wink with us and said, "It doesn't matter. You can add more money. As long as you are willing to go and have good skills, we will give you double the price."
When Xiaomouzi heard this, her eyes lit up and she quickly put down the teacup, "Brother Zhuo, you are out now, we still say that it's not worth it! Okay, I'll ask you now. You have some tea first, I'll call you, and you can wait for my news." After that, Xiaomouzi walked out.
I asked my second uncle in a low voice, "How did you know this person? What's the relationship? Is it OK?"
The second uncle also said with some embarrassment: "There is no way. Now there are Qin Dynasty relics on the sea, which have spread in the circle, and many people are watching! For example, the group of An Ye. What I said to the outside world is to go to Shanxi to sweep warehouses (tomb robbers) in a few days, so that we don't pay attention to us. No one or the power is not allowed to do it secretly. Most of the people I know are people in the circle, and only this person is outside the circle. This person usually does all kinds of work and knows a lot of people, but they just recognize money. But the more people they recognize money, the simpler they are. As long as you give him enough money, he will help you."
I nodded, what the second uncle said made a lot of sense.
After sitting down for about a cigarette, Xiaomai came back and smiled. He saw that he had succeeded, "Brother Zhuo, I found it, I found it! This person is amazing. He is definitely an old fisherman. If you have no experience, follow him to sea to keep you safe."
"Okay!" Uncle Er nodded, "When can we set out?"
Xiaomouzi added tea to us, "Brother Zhuo, don't worry, I'll make arrangements as soon as possible, it's only a few days."
These days? I didn't expect it to take so long, so I urged: "Boss, please hurry up, we are very anxious!"
The mustache nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, I will definitely be as soon as possible!"
I wanted to say something, but my second uncle pulled me up and stood up, "If this is the case, I'll have to worry. I'll take me a while to call your account! We'll leave first!"
Xiaomouzi smiled and his eyes narrowed, "What a hard work, Brother Zhuo, you are too polite! Then, I promise to take you to see him tomorrow and you will be able to set off that day!" After hearing this, I couldn't help but curse again in my heart.
Early the next morning, Xiao Huzi drove to the hotel to pick us up and set off. We left Weihai city, headed east along Binhai Avenue, then turned into the small road, and then turned to a somewhat desolate beach.
After stopping the car, Xiaomouqiu asked us to get off. We stood by the beach and looked around. How could there be a boat here?
The second uncle patted his beard and said, "What do you mean by bringing us here? This deserted person, are you planning to kill him for money?"
Xiaomouzi quickly laughed, "Brother Zhuo, you teased me again, how dare I touch you guys! To be honest..." Xiaomouzi lowered his voice and said, "Those who dare to go out to sea this season are not ordinary people. Weihai is not big, I have some acquaintances on the ground, and I have heard of many things, but don't worry, I understand the rules, I don't know anything!"
The second uncle nodded, "Then stop talking nonsense! Hurry up!"
Xiaomouzi quickly took out his cell phone and called, "I said, "Old man, where are you? We are all here!...Okay... Come here quickly!"
Xiaomoustache hung up the phone and said to us, "This old man has a bit of a weird temper. However, people are good people, and there is no need to say about their experience. They are one of the best in the Jiaodong Peninsula. I am not bragging, but I can find him. This old man rarely contacts outsiders, especially after that incident, he became even more withdrawn."
"What's the matter?" I asked curiously.
The mustache sighed and was about to speak when a motor sound came from the sea, and a somewhat worn fishing boat slowly drove over.
So the beard led us to an abandoned pier. This pier has been in disrepair for many years, and many of the wooden boards on it have been broken and rotten. Walking on it, I was frightened.
The boat stopped at the dock. When we walked over, we saw a thin old man standing at the bow of the boat, with gray hair floating in the sea breeze, and wrinkles on his face were like stone carvings. We couldn't guess his age, because people who worked on the sea all year round were attacked by the sea breeze all year round, and their faces would look older than their peers.
Xiaomouzi stepped forward and said hello, "Old man, these are the bosses I told you. I want you to take them out to sea. Can you see if you can..."
The old man's eyes were very cold and he glanced at us, "I didn't agree to take people to sea! I have seen many such people over the years, and they all do some shameful things after going to sea. Maybe I would consider it before, but since something happened to Xiaoyong..." The old man sighed and waved his hand, "You guys go!"
"This!" We were all stunned! This was a waste of time! The second uncle yelled at the beard in anger: "You guy didn't even agree, just deceive us here! What's the matter!"
The beard knew that he was in a loss and he was not even able to pay.
I was a little unwilling to give up, so I said to the old man: "Uncle! We really have something to do to go to sea. You can take us to the place to see if it is successful or not, we will give you double the money!"
The old man squatted on the deck to clean up the fishing nets, without raising his head, just continued to wave his hand.
I wanted to say something else, but my second uncle pulled me next to me, "Forget it, think of something else!" Then he turned to Xiaomou and said, "You guy go back and think of a solution for me. This is not done, we have to finish it!" Xiaomou and nodded in a hurry.
We had to turn around and leave, but Wenmo was still standing on the dock and tracing at the fishing boat. I pulled LaVinmo and signaled him to go back first.
Wen Mo turned around and took two steps, suddenly turned around, looked up at the old man on the boat, and said aloud: "Old man, have you ever seen a giant fish?" We all looked at Wen Mo with some differences, not knowing that he suddenly asked what the purpose was.
But what we didn't expect was that after hearing Wen Mo's words, the old man stood up suddenly as if he was struck by lightning, stared at Wen Mo with wide eyes. After a long time, the old man's body tilted, leaned against the cabin, and shook his head blankly.
Wen Mo nodded, turned around and walked back. We didn't recover for a while. After a moment of silence, I chased after me and was about to ask Wen Mo about the intention of doing that just now.
Suddenly a hoarse voice came from behind, "I'll take you out to sea!"
Chapter completed!