Shallots

Chapter 41

Mohe is located at 53° and a half north latitude, which is the northernmost point of the country. The day is short and the night is long and boundless, so it is called "Dark Day".

At a temperature of -40°C, Lin Shixin's out-of-print mobile phone, which had long been eliminated from the market, crashed as soon as he got out of the car. He even suspected that the last message he sent had not been received.

He put the phone up to the sun, put it next to the fire to bake, and stuck it to his stomach to keep warm, but the phone still didn't respond.

At this moment, he, Li Song, and other fishermen have arrived on the kang of a family in Beihong Village. In front of him was steaming steaming, fragrant cornmeal pancakes, golden yellow and soft, sticky bean stuffing, thin skin, black and white, but unfortunately he had no appetite.

"If it doesn't work, just throw your phone into this casserole, I think it can have a signal." Li Song laughed.

Lin Shixin squinted at him: "Eat yours."

After eating, the room was divided, and the leading uncle automatically allocated Li Song and Lin Shixin into a standard room.

"Let's open another room. Li Song and I live separately." Lin Shixin said anxiously.

"The standard room is a big kang, enough for two people to sleep, why open another room, it costs 300 yuan a night." The leading uncle took a pen and paper to record the room number.

Li Song looked at Lin Shixin's uneasy look and thought it was funny: "Open another room, I don't sleep well, I can kick him."

"Young people just don't know how to save money." The uncle rolled his eyes.

Li Song pushed Lin Shixin's suitcase to his room, looked around, and checked the lock carefully: "Ah, this lock doesn't seem very strong, can it work?"

"Please roll away smoothly, thank you." Lin Shixin put the bag away and unfolded the quilt.

Li Song said with a hippie smile: "Go to sleep for a while, and leave at two o'clock in the afternoon."

Lin Shixin got under the bed, the kang was very hot, he blew on the phone to make a wish, and pressed the power button again - still no response.

He turned his back to the sky, stared blankly for a while, then turned around, looking at the red paper-cuts pasted on the squat wooden window. Zodiac, these are all derivatives of selling couplets.

He was a little regretful that he didn't even think about decorating Qi Feiran's home in Kangshu during the Chinese New Year. He imagined cutting window grilles for Qi Feiran to see, shaking the paper away, and the pattern appeared in front of him. The two little boys were holding hands. was shocked.

Imagining the [-] expressions that Qi Feiran might show, Lin Shixin couldn't stop laughing.

After taking a nap for a while, a group of people set off in a mighty way. The ice of Crescent Moon Lake is 30 cm to one meter thick. The tractor drove up to the lake, and the fine ice flowers gradually appeared. There are shadows left on the snow in the sun, which is as beautiful as a fairyland.

The winter fishing started, offering sacrifices to the lake and waking up the nets. The local girls in costumes danced and distributed the wine to all the people who came to the winter fishing. gift.

Lin Shixin and his group are not locals. After coming here, their eyes are darkened. The most difficult thing is that they can't find reliable locals and don't know where to get off the Internet.

Others in the team were either sitting in the car or squatting on the ground smoking, waiting for the person who had contacted the village chief to come back and deliver a message.

After waiting for a long time to no avail, Lin Shixin was wearing a military overcoat, bloated cotton trousers, black leather shoes with big toes, a Lei Feng cap crookedly buttoned on his head, and a black cotton mask, with his sleeves clasped together. Jump off the tractor.

Groups of people in the distance are wandering on the ice, and some people are fishing in cages in individual shallows.

Lin Shixin saw an old man with a limp in his legs, he was limping when he walked, one eye seemed to be injured and could not be opened, and the other eye was bright and energetic. His face was resolute, his complexion was dark and rosy, and he was weathered His hands were very rough, covered with chilblains, blackened like charcoal.

Lin Shixin moved closer to him and looked hard.

"Why did such a child come here, and I couldn't find it in the lake." The old man dragged a cage and looked at him, "Where's your father?"

"My dad didn't come, I came by myself, why do you look down on me?" Lin Shixin tilted his head and looked at the other party, the sun was dazzling, he squinted his eyes, "I am a military adviser."

"What kind of teacher? We don't have any fish here, so we don't need a teacher like you, just stay away." The old man started to push people away.

Lin Shixin walked from left to right, and then from right to left. He couldn't stop looking at the old man, and when he saw the contents of the cage, he suddenly shouted: "It's you! Come here! !! Hold him down! Don't let him run away!"

Hearing the sound, Li Song jumped out of the car and ran towards this side, and several uncles also ran over and grabbed the old man.

"Hey, I'm merciful," Lin Shixin said to the people who came running, "This is a trick."

The old man turned around and was about to leave, but was caught by Lin Shixin, "I'm not a fish, I can't see ice anymore, so don't look for me." The old man said.

"Why, you must be very knowledgeable, don't fool me." Lin Shixin said.

The old man looked at the few people around him, "He's from out of town, right? Go to the village chief."

"Grandpa, I can't afford the tuition anymore, and the school will expel me." Lin Shixin cried.

Old man: "..."

The old man: "Go find your father."

Lin Shixin: "I don't have a father."

The old man was taken to the car and drank a cup of hot tea: "We all know that we can make money. More and more people come here. The business is not easy to do, and it blocks other people's money. But they will be beaten."

Lin Shixin peeled open an orange and handed it to the old man: "We don't want much, 2000 catties is enough, and you don't need to go to the scene, just tell me how to recognize ice."

The old man laughed, "I'm not a surefire fish."

Lin Shixin put his hands on his knees: "I would like to accept the bet."

The night was dark, and the snow on the ice floated slightly. Lin Shixin squatted on it to look at the surface of the ice, and lay down on the ground to listen to the sound and identify the position of the fish.

He is like a cat walking on ice, staring at the ice with vigour, as if he wants to see through to see where the fish are hiding.

He walked back and forth on the ice for more than an hour, then ran back into the tractor and told everyone: "Let's make ice!"

The fishermen measured the distance of the ice eye at the position drawn by Lin Shixin, and started digging the ice eye in groups of two.

The 1500-meter fishing net went down the pole and entered the water one by one. It took five or six hours to lower the net and enclose the nearby waters. After the winch was lifted by the car, thousands of big fish danced on the ice. Good harvest.

Qi Feiran sat drowsy in the long-distance bus, the driver tried to chat with him several times, but he rolled his eyelids and ended with the word "um", he was a cold chat terminator.

Three days passed, and the phone calls between Lin Shixin and Li Song were still disconnected.Qi Feiran inquired from Li Song's neighbors in the countryside the name of the specific village where they went to Dongchow, and then flew there by plane. After landing, he found that this place was a provincial capital city, far away from his destination.Had to take trains, tractors, and cars to go to the destination in rotation.

He felt dizzy at the station, remembering that he hadn’t eaten for a long time. He bought food at a small window at the station, and the other party gave him a steamed bun the size of a pot lid. God, if you are hungry, you can take two bites and drink mineral water.

When he got out of the car, he was so cold that his little brother was fucking unconscious, and then he suddenly realized that he was dressed too little, with a woolen coat over a shirt, and always dressed coquettishly, and he might not survive two days here.He found a clothing wholesale market and bought the same style of clothing that Lin Shixin used to sell fish before, including a military coat and a large cotton hat. After wrapping himself up tightly, he rented a horse-drawn sleigh, got into the car and sat down. The master asked him where he was going, and he said confusedly, he was going to go fishing in winter, and he would go wherever there was a lot of fish.

The cart driver has seen a lot of mountain cannons like him. He charged him 100 yuan for a journey that usually costs less than 500 yuan, and put him on the lake.

Qi Feiran started a carpet search. It was a carpet search in the true sense. When he saw a child who was not tall, he turned the other person to look at his face and overturned several children along the way. Our fathers are busy again, so they may be beaten many times.

By the lake is a birch forest, covered in silver, like a fairy tale world, he has no intention of admiring it, so he speeds up to find someone.Seeing that the lake has already walked halfway, but there is still no sign of Lin Shixin. As night fell, he panicked. After dark, people on the lake left one after another, and it was even more difficult to find someone. He did not Luggage, after getting off the car, I went straight here to find someone, and I didn't know where to live at night.

The world is so big, there is no place for him, his heart seems to be no longer in his body, his anxiety has reached a peak, he lies on the ice in a big character, looking at the dark blue sky, listening to his own breathing He even wanted to die on the ice so angry that Lin Shixin would collect his body and let him know what he had done to him. The person who kept saying he loved him suddenly threw himself into this world of ice and snow, where people froze to death. A deadly ghost place.

When he was closing his eyes and dying, he heard a series of familiar laughter, the sound was clear and sweet, it was the tactic that liar always used to confuse people.

"Look! It's better if I splash it, I want to splash it in a C shape!"

Lin Shixin is holding a thermos cup filled with hot water. He is playing "Splashing Water into Ice". In the environment of minus 39°, when the boiling water is poured out like this, a large cloud of fog will be formed when the water is cold. , and then turned into countless icicles and shot around. At this moment, the sun was setting and the orange light was reflected, which was even more beautiful.

Li Song stood by the side holding a thermos pot, looked at him and smiled, and when he poured out a cup, Li Song filled it up for him.

Qi Feiran struggled to stand up, and walked towards them expressionlessly amidst the cloud of water mist thrown by Lin Shixin.

The colorful mist fell, and Lin Shixin saw a tall man walking towards him with a livid complexion. He blinked, thinking it was his hallucination, and waited until he really saw who it was. At that time, he threw the thermos cup out, jumped into the opponent's arms in three steps, and shouted: "Qi Feiran!"

Qi Feiran was so thrown by him that he almost lost his footing and fell down. He put his arms around Lin Shixin's waist and looked at Lin Shixin's big shining eyes, which were full of surprise.Every time he sees himself suddenly, Lin Shixin always looks like this, like a lively and active puppy, who will pounce on his master and wag his head and tail for fun...

No, according to his personal script, the first moment he found Lin Shixin, he planned to slap him, let him learn a lesson, and let him understand his temper.

"Why are you here? What kind of car did you come in!" Lin Shixin was still circling around with his arms around his waist.

Qi Feiran looked at him, trying to accumulate his anger.

"I thought you could make it to the fifth day, but it's less than three days." Li Song walked to the side and picked up the thermos that Lin Shixin had thrown aside, "Are you mad?"

Very good, the anger was instantly full, Qi Feiran broke away from Lin Shixin who was holding him, walked up to Li Song in a few steps, grabbed his neck, took a few steps forward quickly, and neatly put He pushed into the nearest ice hole.

With a splash, Li Song fell into the water, and the broken ice splashed.

Qi Feiran's face was calm, and he watched Li Song thumping in the icy water from above, as if Satan had descended.