Facing Song Wenbin's question, Su Tina did not answer.
She just looked at Song Wenbin with a very innocent and pitiful look.
However, Song Wenbin didn't know what to say. Perhaps he had anticipated this moment during those extremely boring days of breaking ice and shoveling snow.
"That's it. I'll go talk to the program team."
Song Wenbin put his hand on the Dongfanghong door handle: "We abort the mission, that's the end of it."
"No, Brother Song. No."
Su Tina quickly held Song Wenbin's hand and begged: "Don't tell them, they don't know it now. If you tell them, there is really no room for recovery. I don't want to be taken to the hospital for examination. That is meaningless." .”
"Sutina, this is the North Pole, and it will be very dangerous for you to do this." Song Wenbin said softly.
"It's okay. It's not that bad yet. I still have ways to control it."
"Then what do you want to do?"
"Brother Song, tell me a story." Sutina requested, "Tell me a story so I won't be bored."
"I can't tell stories." Song Wenbin said. He would indeed make up some emotional jokes, but he was sure that such things would only raise Sutina's blood pressure and would not make her feel interesting.
"Then tell me about your past. I think those things are very interesting." Sutina added.
Song Wenbin was speechless.
What about his past? He actually doesn't think those things are interesting. What's there to say about serving dishes in restaurants and the unreasonable troubles made by the waiter's picky customers? What's there to say about making up jokes on the Internet and being greeted by a group of trolls about his eighteenth generation ancestors?
"There's nothing to say about that." Song Wenbin said coldly: "If you feel that you can't hold on, I will tell the program team that if you are unwilling to leave the North Pole, I will let people from the program team take turns watching you. If If something happens to you, the program will be terminated."
If possible, Song Wenbin hoped in his heart that this would be the result. To be honest, he was fed up with the endless ice-breaking trip. If Sutina quit due to illness, then he could stop this damn trip.
"No, really not. I know myself well. There are some things that cannot be controlled by external forces alone. I have to be willing and satisfied."
Su Tina's words made Song Wenbin feel tired. He put his fingers in his hair tiredly and sighed: "What on earth do you want? How about... let's go ice fishing? Under the ice... there should be fish... or build a snowman. , what do you think of building a snowman... Let’s put three works of art on the North Pole as a souvenir..."
"Brother Song, are you tired?" Sutina approached him and asked with concern.
"Don't worry about me." Song Wenbin said, "I'm fine. I can take care of myself."
"If you are very tired, let me tell you a story. Maybe you won't be tired after listening to the story." Sutina suggested.
"Listen to your story?"
"Yes, I promise I won't torture you like a desert island."
"No...you can't stand it anymore..."
"I just don't want to continue working. If we continue working like this, we will all be destroyed. Even if we work in the company, we have to have holidays. Brother Song, can you take a vacation and talk to me?"
Song Wenbin doesn't need stories, he's not interested in stories, and he doesn't want to get anything from them. But seeing Sutina like this, he sat upright and said, "You speak, and I listen."
Sutina tilted her head and said, "I still remember that when I was very young, I read a story called Adding Salt to Coffee."
"Salt the coffee?"
Song Wenbin was a little confused. He had never heard this statement before.
Isn’t it usually added with milk?
"Yes." Sutina nodded, "I can't remember where I saw it, but for some reason, I always think of this story since I met you."
Song Wenbin was speechless.
"Okay, you tell me, I'll listen."
After thinking about it, Sutina said: "It was about a man who was pursuing a very beautiful woman. The woman looked very cold and difficult to chase. It was difficult for him to invite the woman out for dinner.
At dinner, the waiter asked them what they would like to drink. The man ordered a cup of coffee, but at the end he asked the waiter to add a little salt to his coffee.
The woman was very puzzled and asked him why he added some salt to the coffee. After all, the coffee was already very bitter, and if he added some salt, wouldn't it be very unpleasant to drink? "
"Yes, why?" Song Wenbin also asked curiously.
"The man told the woman that he grew up by the sea, and was used to the taste of the waves hitting his mouth when he swam in the sea. Later, when he grew up, he moved around, worked hard everywhere, and was far away from his hometown and the beach.
Therefore, no matter where he goes, he will order a cup of coffee with salt to remember his hometown and the bitter taste. "
"Oh~" Song Wenbin suddenly realized.
"After the first date, the woman started chatting with the man. After contacting him, the woman found out that this man was actually very good, very responsible and motivated. In the end, she chose this man to be with him."
After a pause, Sutina continued: "It's just that after getting married, this woman developed a habit. No matter which restaurant she went to eat, she would tell the waiter to give my husband a cup of coffee with salt. The waiter was very surprised why someone Would love coffee with salt.
Whenever this happens, the woman will explain her husband's past and habits to others.
In this way, the two lived an ordinary and happy life until the man passed away at the age of eighty.
When the woman was sorting out her husband's belongings with grief, she unexpectedly found a letter in her coffee shop. "
"letter?"
Song Wenbin pricked up his ears.
"Yes," Sutina said, "a letter written to his wife. In the letter, a man confessed his helplessness to his wife.
He told his wife that on their first date, when he went to a restaurant with her as a young woman, she was so radiant that she could make almost any man who saw her cringe and become speechless.
He was also very nervous and had no idea what to say. It wasn't until the waiter came that he had the idea to order a cup of coffee with salt.
In fact, he doesn't like to drink coffee, and he has never added salt to it. Although he grew up by the sea, he is not paranoid enough to miss his hometown with a cup of coffee with salt. Just to ease the awkward atmosphere on the first date, I had no choice but to make up such a story.
But he didn't expect that the woman would actually believe this ridiculous statement, and he didn't expect that his wife would actually remember such ridiculous things for the rest of her life.
Of course, he didn't dare to admit this kind of thing. He didn't deny it the first time, the second time, and the third time, and then he accepted his fate. "
Song Wenbin looked at Su Tina blankly.
He really didn't expect Sutina to tell him such a story.
"only……"
Sutina couldn't help but smile and said: "The husband's last words were very emotional and he complained to his wife in his suicide note.
Do you know how bad coffee tastes with salt?
That thing is simply the worst drink in the world, bar none, but he has to pretend that the ridiculous story is true every time. After drinking coffee with salt for the rest of his life, he told his wife that in his life, The thing I hate the most is undoubtedly that cup of coffee with salt in it. "
After hearing this story, Song Wenbin couldn't help laughing: "Hahahahahaha~"
Sutina didn't smile. She just looked at Song Wenbin's nervous smile and asked, "Do you think this story is funny?"
Song Wenbin was surprised, stopped smiling and said seriously: "No, I think this story is quite romantic. The husband drank coffee with salt all his life to take care of his wife's cognition. He must love her very much."
"Probably so," Sutina said.
"The wife also loves her husband very much." Song Wenbin added: "That's why she orders a cup of salted coffee for him every time she goes to a restaurant. However, I think if the husband really doesn't like salted coffee, he should talk to his wife Say, in that case, maybe he wouldn't have to drink that cup of salty coffee."
Su Tina listened to Song Wenbin and asked, "Why didn't he do that?"
"Who knows, maybe he has a masochistic tendency." Song Wenbin said.
Sutina looked a little disappointed.
After listening to the story, Song Wenbin asked Sutina: "Are you feeling better?"
Sutina nodded silently.
Song Wenbin left the tractor, leaving Sutina alone in the carriage.
He stood on the wasteland, looking at the howling north wind, his face a little dull. After being stunned for a long time, he finally came back to his senses from that damn story. Looking back at the tractor compartment, he saw that Su Tina was already sleeping on the small bed. After thinking about it, Song Wenbin came to the film crew's car and asked them to borrow some iron chains to prevent the tires from slipping, and secure Dongfanghong's door. Locked.
After doing all this, Song Wenbin felt relieved.
He set up a tent alone next to the icebreaker and rested there.
On a snowy night, Song Wenbin didn't sleep very peacefully. From time to time, he would dream about the live broadcast on Jiangnan Road and the earthly fireworks with people coming and going.
Until the cold woke him up from his sleep as usual. He looked at the constantly shaking tent roof and suddenly realized that he had not broadcast live for a long time.
He left the tent and prepared to continue a new day's work, but after leaving the tent, he found that the sky had turned dark in a rare way. He was astonished that the ever-soaring sun dipped near the horizon.
Unknowingly, he had stayed in this place for more than half a month. If he stayed any longer, he would have to wait for the end of the day and the end of the night.
He didn't know what this meant, but faced with the rare changes in the past half month, he came to the Dongfanghong icebreaker, opened the chain on the door, and said in surprise: "Sutina, Sutina, look, the sun has set. The polar night is coming..."
Others were stunned before he finished speaking.
There was no one in the carriage, and there was no trace of Sutina anywhere.
Song Wenbin looked at the chain in his hand, and his mind went blank.
