"Girlfriend?" Ye Siren replied a little surprised.
"Yes, I was at the National Day scene that day. I saw you and the honor guard lady going back and forth, and I gave her our family watch. She is not your girlfriend, so who is she?"
Siren didn't think too much at first and quickly shook his head.
He knew that if his uncle, who was a soldier, heard anything about puppy love, if his righteous heart broke out, he would not be easy to deal with. Without his four hours of preaching, everyone would leave even if he sat on the bench. Don't open this.
"I only gave her the position of captain and team leader symbolically, and let her represent the silver band. Don't think too much about it." Sidan said, taking out the family heirloom watch and showing it to his uncle.
"The watch is still with me. How could I give such an important thing to a girl casually?" Although Siren said that, he actually knew what he had done.
"That's such a pity. Look at her, she looks like a pretty young girl. Your father must like her very much." Uncle Ye said.
"No, just because she is a young lady, I shouldn't provoke her. I know my own qualities." Siren said cautiously.
"It's good that you know." Uncle Ye patted him on the shoulder in a firm tone and said, "You are only 18 years old. What kind of love are you talking about? After this trip, you must first take the exam for me and then go to sea to help me. "
"Yes, you will have to introduce some beautiful and dedicated girls to me when the time comes. I don't want to be like my father, who returned home after running on the boat and my mother ran away with someone else." Siren teased.
Speaking of this mother, it is really a shame to the Ye family.
She and Dad Ye had been married for many years and had no children. Not long after the child was born, she came to Hong Kong immediately.
Siren had little impression of his mother. After his parents divorced, Ye Jingtian used his strong financial resources to attract many beautiful girls to be attached to him. Siren's impression of some of his father's female companions was even clearer than his own mother's.
"It's okay. The most important thing for those who run boats is money. Maybe after a few rounds, life will be better. Of course, there are conditions. It's not too late to choose slowly." Uncle Ye said, his tone suddenly turned cold: "The premise is that you have to live."
Living... is really an interesting question...
Uncle Ye was a retired soldier, but Siren had been alone at home since Ye's mother came to Hong Kong. Therefore, Father Ye asked Uncle Ye to retire temporarily and take care of Siren before returning to the army.
Father Ye's early business partners included the military from various countries. Uncle Ye, who belonged to the intelligence department, had contact with Father Ye from time to time.
This time the boating mission was secretly carried out by Uncle Toye from the military in small fleets of civilian organizations. It passed through Somalia and the Persian Gulf to help deliver supplies and important documents to the embassy in Iraq. At this time, the United States was launching a war against Iraq in the name of counter-terrorism, and the overseas Chinese businessmen in Iraq were in dire straits.
Relying on his own connections and connections, Ye Jingtian has organized a small fleet of boats, anchored at the secret naval base of Daya Bay in Huizhou, preparing to go to Iraq.
In order to avoid being accidentally injured by the enemy's artillery fire, no one on this trip, except Uncle Ye, was allowed to have a Chinese background. Ye Siren, who knew five languages, became one of the important candidates for the translator for this trip.
This trip is very risky, and the settlement allowance of 500,000 yuan has been distributed to everyone before departure. Uncle Ye gave Siren more than 300,000 of his own money.
Siren spent 400,000 to keep the silver band.
The rest was given to my father to pay off debts and provide living expenses.
This mission was very difficult. Uncle Ye saw that Siren's face was not as hesitant as before. It felt too unnatural, so he said: "Xiao Ren, do you really want to go sailing with me from the bottom of your heart?" ?”
"Of course!" Siren said firmly, but that firm look was unusual for Uncle Ye.
Siren is very afraid of death. Uncle Ye has known it for a long time, but the more he sees that he is less afraid of death, the more strange it becomes. Uncle Ye continued to ask: "But don't you like the silver band? That day, when I saw you performing with your classmates, I was really happy."
Uncle Ye said, his voice gradually getting deeper: "Since Xiaoxing passed away, I haven't seen you smile like this for a long, long time."
It turned out that on National Day, Uncle Ye, as a soldier, also attended the state banquet and watched the race from the VIP seats at the end of the parade. Siren looked a bit military in his uniform.
This Xiaoxing was a little girl who lived next door when Siren was seven years old. She was his childhood sweetheart.
Because when he was seven years old, something happened in Xiao Xing's family, which led to Xiao Xing's death.
At that time, Siren could not get out of the shadows. So, Father Ye arranged for him to go to sea and taught him how to run a boat. After witnessing many natural and man-made disasters, as well as people's birth, old age, illness and death, he gradually stepped out of the shadows. It can also be said that he used a more terrifying shadow to cover the less terrifying ones...
It wasn't until he met Li Moyan that he truly came into contact with what music is. Only then did a glimmer of light appear in his gloomy heart.
"Didn't you say you're afraid of the dark? Are you afraid of claustrophobia?" Uncle Ye asked him again.
"It's okay!"
Siren said firmly, recalling that night when he and Xuerou were chatting in the dark... He felt that as long as there was light, darkness was not that scary.
Light saved him. So now it's his turn to save his light.
This light is the Unicorn Band. Of course he likes Silver Band, of course he likes music, but it’s because he likes it that he wants to leave. If he hadn't left, the band would have really come to an end this year, and everyone in the band would have lost their light, their dreams and their future.
In the past, he always felt that music was his dream, his obsession, and his own freedom, and no one could interfere with it. However, he only understood what his father said today. To truly own a woman, you must first learn how to accept and face losing her.
Siren didn't understand what his father meant, and he wasn't that love-minded. Instead, it is much more reasonable to put this love into dreams.
"Uncle, where is the boat parked now?"
"Daya Bay, how about we go to your hometown first before we set off and visit your old friends by the way?"
"Yeah, that's fine."
Huizhou...is such a long-lost name.
If he hadn't come to Hong Kong, if it hadn't been for what happened to Xiao Xing, Siren would never have wanted to go back even to death...
That warm but scary hometown.
But after more than ten years, some things have to be faced.
At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was a little dark. The first light in the morning shone on Chen Nanfang's school gate, as if everything was reborn. During the National Day a few days ago, Typhoon No. 10 blew. The big trees and saplings on the road uphill from the school were blown straight and slanted. Among them was a century-old tree that had gone through the Opium War and the Anti-Japanese War. There were more than a hundred trees, big and small. This war has gone through thousands of ups and downs, and it still stood firm even under the hands of Typhoon Nigg. But the next light rain and wind blew it uprooted, and the scene was really sparse.
It was lying on the road, and the car could not enter the school gate. When it fell, it happened to be on top of the truck transporting the "Full Moon Unicorn".
Fortunately, Siren went to Zhou Guodong yesterday with a piece of notice, and the silver band's treasure was temporarily put back in the music room.
Lin Xuerou dragged her tired footsteps, finally climbed up the mountain, and arrived early in the morning to wait for Siren.
But she waited until the school door opened and her classmates began to come in one after another. She kept waiting, and waited until the school door closed, but there was no sign of him.
Apart from Xuerou, those who also felt something was wrong were Lun Jingqing and Gao Wenjian who were most directly affected.
Usually, the two of them relied on You Siren to copy their homework, but they were unwilling to turn in their homework until the last moment.
But today is miserable.
Ye Siren didn't go to school!
What should they do? During the break, they took advantage of their last chance to go find Qingli and Xiaojing from the liberal arts class to see if they could work it out!
But as soon as they left the classroom, the two of them were stopped by Xuerou.
"Is Ye Siren inside? Call him for me!"
"I'm sorry, senior, we have something to do and are busy!" Wen Jian said. He was about to go around her, but saw her cold gaze. Wen Jian, a 180cm tall man, was so frightened in front of a 167cm girl. I couldn't move my legs at all, and my whole body was numb.
"Please!" Every word Xuerou said was polite, but seeing her slightly rolling up her sleeves, neither of them dared to act impulsively.
Everyone knows that it is not a gang, but a death order.
However, even if it is an order, even if it is an imperial edict, it still does not work so far.
Because Ye Siren didn't go to school at all today.
"Do you think Siren has been acting weird lately?" Xuerou asked insinuatingly.
"No, it's the same as usual." Wen Jian said.
But the attentive Jingqing said: "He said something very strange yesterday, what will you do if I am gone? He said it as if he was leaving.
leave…….
Xuerou didn't dare to say anything more for fear of disturbing the situation in front of the two of them.
She is also not sure whether what her mother said last night is true or false, whether she will go to sea today, tomorrow, or when...
So Xuerou went to Xiaojing, who was more familiar with Siren, and asked the same question.
"Brother Ren went to sea." Xiaojing said calmly.
"How...how could this happen?" Xuerou asked in surprise.
"He is the only son of a shipping king, so of course he will go to sea!" Xiaojing said, "When he was in Wang Xi'an, he would occasionally go to sea together under the arrangement of his father, so don't worry."
"Do you know where he is going? When will he come back?" Xuerou asked.
"He is going to the Persian Gulf in Iraq. After he goes to sea, he can't receive any messages. You also know that after leaving the high seas, there is no signal on the mobile phone. Although you can use Beidou satellites to access the Internet, but... you have to have it. How expensive it is... Moreover, it is military equipment. Except for special circumstances, we ordinary people cannot use it at all."
Although Xiaojing spoke calmly, Xuerou couldn't calm down, "Oh my God! Iraq? Iraq is at war with the United States!"
"It's okay. Brother Ren has been to sea many times, so it'll be okay."
Xuerou became anxious when she saw that Xiaojing seemed to have nothing to do and seemed to be used to it.
"Why are you speaking so calmly...Why don't you stop him...You are her girlfriend!"
"No, the only person he cares about is my sister. I only found out from my sister yesterday."
What a love brain...
Xuerou said disdainfully: "Iraq is such a dangerous place. You knew he was going, but you didn't stop him. You still stayed here to make your sister jealous!" ? Unexpectedly, you are not a good girl either...
What if something happens to him and he can't come back to participate in the Halloween competition?
No, what if he never thought about participating in any competition this year from the beginning?
The more Xuerou thinks about it, the more uneasy she becomes...
At this time, the class bell rang, and Xuerou went back to the classroom.
Xia Yu and Guo Dong watched Xiaojing and Xuerou chatting the whole time. She sat next to her and wiped a cold sweat thinking of Xiaojing's cold attitude towards Siren.
"What a cold-blooded woman. You have never liked Ye Siren from the beginning, right? So whether he lives or dies, it doesn't matter to you, right?" Xia Yu said coldly.
"Are you praising me, mermaid?" Xiaojing said, crossing her long, slender, fair-skinned legs, crossing her hands on her chest, and said coldly: "You said I'm cold-blooded? Why are you saying this? Don’t you think it’s very unconvincing in your mouth?”
Xia Yu couldn't help but shudder as she listened.
She couldn't help but think back to the rain a few weeks ago.
"The author has something to say: Haha!~Xiaojing is not a kind-hearted and harmless magical girl..."
