Chapter 15
Su Lie bought the painting and spent almost all the baht in his wallet. He insisted on paying so much money, which scared the student who sold the painting.

It was late at night, and the hawkers on the side of the road closed their stalls one after another. We ran out of money and had no money to take a taxi, so we had to walk back to the hotel. Walking down the street, the crowd dispersed, and the street that was lively an hour ago gradually became colder.

"I'm so happy tonight." I said sincerely, "Chiang Mai is such a good city. No matter who comes here, they can more or less get what they want."

Su Lie smiled lightly while holding the painting.It's so rare that he still smiles like this, looking very satisfied, like a child who becomes obedient after being given sugar.

"Tomorrow we go to Korat," he said.

"Korat? Where?"

"A province in the northeastern part of Thailand, I found out today that they have left Chiang Mai for Nakhon Ratchasima."

Back at the hotel, Su Lie carefully packed the painting and put it in his newly bought suitcase.After washing up, we each slept in our own places, me on the unbearably large bed and he on the sofa in the living room.There is a half partition between the living room and the room, as long as you turn your head to the right, you can see Su Lie sleeping on the sofa in the living room.

I left a lamp by the bed, tossing and turning.I share a room with Su Lie, a lonely man and a widow, we are so close, so close that he might hear me snoring or talking in my sleep.The last time I talked in my sleep was in the dormitory. Miley described it to me, saying that I struggled on the bed in the middle of the night and shouted and shouted "I won't go, I won't go, I don't want me, I don't want to", she thought I was I was raped in my dream, and a slap woke me up.After waking up, I also forgot what dream I had, but I guess it has something to do with Su Lie.

"Turn off the light and sleep peacefully. Don't worry, I won't do anything to you." Su Lie said suddenly.He is not asleep yet.

I turned to the right: "There is something I really want to ask you, why did you insist on calling me to Thailand, actually..."

"What do you want to say?" Su Lie put his hands under his head.

"I want to say, you care so much about Yunzhu, if others will definitely be moved, why don't you just confess your love to Yunzhu? It will save a lot of trouble."

"She likes Zhong Siyu."

"Of course I know, aren't you trying to break up her and Zhong Siyu now? Although I was forced..." My voice trailed off in the last sentence.

"You get to the point."

"You don't need to pull me together, I can't help you at all. Hey, I'm not saying it's useful to break them up, you know I don't advocate doing such things, I just think Yunzhu may not understand your heart enough, Maybe it's because you haven't conveyed enough." I knew that these words were definitely not what I really wanted to convey, so I didn't agree with what I said, and I wanted to scold Su Lie directly and tell him that Yunzhu would not like him.I'm a girl, and I can tell that Yunzhu looked at him more like a relative.

"How is it enough? I went to America to find her when I was 16, and confessed to her in New York's Central Park. You know what she said, she said that she would always treat me as a younger brother. Am I her younger brother? We are a little bit related by blood." None, I don't know what's wrong, I've been looking for an answer."

It was the first time I heard Su Lie talk about these things. His tone was very calm, and there was some kind of uncomfortable suppressed emotion under his calm.

"But she and Zhong Siyu are in love, aren't they? Don't you think it's cruel to break up people who love each other?"

"I'm not as great as you, I can't do it to bless her, I just can't do it."

"You won't succeed. Yunzhu really loves Zhong Siyu. To tell you the truth, even if I come to Thailand with you, I will never do anything for you to break up their behavior." I confessed.

Su Lie was silent for a long time, I thought he was angry, but unexpectedly his tone was unusually relaxed: "To be honest, I don't know what I can do or what will happen when I see Yunzhu, I don't know, I just bet One, I think things like love can change in ever-changing ways. When we go to Korat, we will know why I must come with you. We don’t need to do anything special at all. It’s like a horse race, we all hold a number in our hands, we don’t know which one we win, maybe I lost, who knows.”

After Su Lie said this, he stopped talking. The more hopeless he is, the more worried I am about the great tragedy that will happen to him.I don't quite understand what he meant. Could something unexpected happen in Korat?Another unpleasant conversation.

Drowsiness hit me, I walked around all day, my eyelids were heavy and heavy, I was too tired to try to persuade Su Lie, he and I were not even friends, after returning from Thailand we were two people who had nothing to do with each other, I want Concentrate on living a good student life in the last year of university, why should I care about him so much, sleep is more important.

In the early morning of the next day, Su Lie and I flew to Bangkok. Someone in Bangkok picked us up and we only stayed for a short time. In the afternoon, we chartered a car from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima.I wanted to spend a few days in Bangkok and go to the legendary Khao San Road, but I knew it was impossible from Su Lie's serious expression.Along the way, Su Lie and I had almost nothing to say. Su Lie found a driver and a guide in Bangkok, and there were four people in the car heading to Nakhon Ratchasima.

The guide is a local girl from Chiang Mai, who is a university student like us and comes out to work part-time in summer.The driver, tall and big, is different from ordinary thin Thai boys. It probably has something to do with his long time in the army. He is familiar with many places in Thailand, a little shy, and doesn’t talk much.The girl looks a bit like a mixed race, wearing hot pants with wheat-colored slender legs exposed, she is very beautiful, her English is very good, and she chatted with Su Lie a lot about the scenic spots in Korat.At first she thought that Su Lie and I were in a relationship, but Su Lie immediately denied it.She saw that I was upset, so she couldn't ask any more questions.I had no choice but to pretend to be serious and tell her: "I was forced to come here." Since I was not good at English, I said "forced" as "kidnapped". The girl looked at Su Lie and me in horror. Want to call the police.But Su Lie had no choice but to correct me. Taking advantage of the girl not paying attention, he leaned against me and said through gritted teeth, "Please don't talk."

I can probably understand the conversation between Su Lie and the guide girl. Su Lie said that he did not go to Korat for fun, but went to the Khmer area from Korat. Maybe he would continue to go east and find people along the way.The guide girl said that if you go northeast and get close to Cambodia and Laos, there are some political problems, and the law and order will be relatively poor. Let us be mentally prepared.

I don’t know how Su Lie knows Yun Zhu and Zhong Siyu’s whereabouts so well, but I’m in a foreign land and I don’t speak the language, so it’s okay in a big city. Luck index, maybe really meet the guests and die in a foreign land.

Maybe the guide girl saw that Su Lie and I were not a couple. Su Lie was handsome and wealthy. The two gradually became intimate. In the photos taken by the camera, the two laughed happily from time to time.I know that Su Lie has always had the magic power to attract girls, otherwise how could he change four girlfriends a month in school.

Later, when I was refueling at the gas station, I proposed to change seats with the guide girl, but Su Lie didn't say anything, but the girl was a little flattered and happily agreed.I was a little angry, so I went to the convenience store next to the gas station and bought a lot of snacks to vent. When I checked out, the driver brother handed me a bottle of water and took the food bag from my hand in a gentlemanly manner.

"Thank you." I blurted out almost reflexively, not realizing that others would not understand me when I spoke Chinese in a foreign country.

"You're welcome," he said.

I took two steps forward and was surprised to find that what he just said was Chinese.I suspected that I had misheard, and looked back at him: "What did you just say?" This time, I still spoke Chinese.

"You're welcome," he said again.

I almost jumped up: "You can speak Chinese?" I was happier than discovering new species in the New World.In the past few days, Su Lie is the only Chinese-speaking person around me, and he is still not willing to talk to me. In an environment where I don't understand the language, I am almost suffocated.It is indescribable to hear the kindness of a person who can speak Chinese.

"I can say a little bit. I have lived in China for several years." He said, not very standard, with a Cantonese accent.

I excitedly ran to Su Lie, danced and told him: "So the driver can speak Chinese, so he can speak Chinese." I waited for his reaction.

Su Lie is paying for gas, and by the way, exchange it with the gas station for cash.He looked at me like a psychopath, and said calmly and nonchalantly, "I know, I found him because he can speak Chinese."

It was as if someone had poured cold water on me, seeing Su Lie's complacent expression, I felt ashamed.But I quickly shifted my focus to the driver, and I finally had someone to chat with.After I got on the road again, I sat in the passenger seat and chatted with the driver brother. Although he didn’t talk much, he might not understand everything I said. Most of the time it was me. That said, even then I'm satisfied.Occasionally, Su Lie would hear a cold, disappointing voice from behind, telling me not to disturb the driver.

We arrived in Korat before dark. Compared with Chiang Mai, Korat is much deserted. I don’t know if it’s because of the light rain that started, and there are few pedestrians on the downtown road.The hotel staff we stayed in was not as enthusiastic as Chiang Mai, and they received our reservation formally. However, we can still feel the goodness of the staff from the point of telling us that there may be heavy rain at night, and let us pay attention to safety and try not to go out. manner.

Su Lie booked four rooms, three of which were on the second floor and the other room was on the third floor.Su Lie hardly thought about it, pointed at me and said, "Go live in the room on the third floor."

The guide girl kindly offered that she could share a room with me and save a lot of room fees, but only for one night.Su Lie disagreed, saying that the room fee is not the problem, the problem is that living with me may be unlucky.I know he is satirizing the Chiang Mai hotel fire incident, obviously he is also responsible, if he didn't get me there, would I have suffered a fire?It was an accident, just happened to me by accident.I was so angry that my hair was about to smoke, I took the room card and went into the elevator by myself.

There are really few people in the hotel, and there is no one in the corridor on the third floor. It looks like a scene in a horror movie. I think of a few Thai ghost movies I have watched. I suddenly feel chills on my back in the hot summer of July, and I desperately force myself not to go. Thinking about it, and cursing Su Lie, he searched for his room.

The room is big and clean, and there is a balcony. Standing on the balcony, you can see the layout of the entire hotel. Below it is facing a rectangular swimming pool with green floor lights.The hotel's weather forecast didn't look very accurate as the rain had stopped.I turned on all the lights, including the bathroom light and the bedside light, and turned on the TV. I finally found an English channel. It was boring political news. I simply turned the volume up as a practice of English listening.

I considered whether to go down and tell the guide girl that we would live in the same room with her. The bed was so big that there was enough room for the two of us to sleep in two big characters.But when he thinks that if I go and Su Lie finds out, he will probably laugh at me again, laughing at me for being so tall and afraid of sleeping alone.No go no go!I hypnotized myself, but it didn't work, and I was still scared.After washing up, I climbed into bed, but I couldn't fall asleep, I tossed and turned on the bed.

It was after eleven o'clock at night, I was so tormented by all kinds of horrible images in my head, I ran out, took the elevator sneakily to the second floor, looked around, worried that Su Lie would suddenly appear from somewhere.I tiptoed to find the room of the guide girl. Although there was a lot of unnecessary movement on tiptoe, the hotel seemed to be well soundproofed.

After knocking three times, no one came to the door.That's right, the room number is 209. I checked it carefully when I assigned the room card. I must remember correctly. Could it be that I fell asleep?Please don't sleep with headphones plugged in.I knocked a few more times, and harder, so hard that I thought I'd be able to hear it if I lived next door.

I have already thought of an excuse, saying that there are mice in my room, and there are inexplicable voices, and I try to make the guide girl feel horrible living alone, so that she will be happy to share a room with me, how smart I am.

I thought beautifully, prepared my signature smile, opened the door, and what appeared in front of me was Su Lie with only a bath towel wrapped around his waist!How did he appear in the wizard girl's room?I try not to notice his bare upper body.

Most of my head was burned like an electric shock, the kind of treatment in a mental hospital. I stared blankly at him, and there were millions of reasons in my heart that I couldn't answer.There is an indescribable discomfort, like cutting an onion, suffocating and wanting to cry, but I can only endure it desperately and continue cutting and cutting.

Su Lie started to look puzzled, staring at me, an evil smile gradually appeared on his face.

"What? Want to sleep with me?"

I was suddenly awakened by his unscrupulous words. I was ashamed and angry. A rush of heat rushed from my body to my head, and I was a little incoherent: "I... I am looking for Miss... no, I am looking for Miss Guide." Hearing the previous sentence, I felt like going crazy, because Su Lie's expression was as if he was caught in the door after hearing the previous sentence.I hardly dare to look into the room, if a lady guide who just got out of the shower appears in front of me, I really don't know what to say next.So, after saying that, I turned around and ran, running so fast that Bolt could compete with others.I ran back to the room on the third floor in one breath, really in one breath, and only after returning to the room did I take a deep breath, like a fish deprived of oxygen can finally float to the surface to absorb oxygen.

In the dead of night, it was so quiet that I seemed to be forgotten by the whole world, and my soul was floating alone in the room.One night passed very, very slowly. I lay on the bed and looked at the time every once in a while. Every minute was as slow as being broken. Gradually, the sky dawned.

Early in the morning, I went downstairs to the hotel restaurant to have breakfast. It was too early, before 7 o'clock, and the restaurant served breakfast from 8 to 9 o'clock.Su Lie and the others didn't wake up, the itinerary was decided after breakfast.I really didn't know what to do, so I went back to my room and changed into my swimsuit to go swimming.I bought the swimsuit in Chiang Mai, but I have never had a chance to use it. In China, Miley and I often go swimming. Miley is the kind of person who shines brightly in the swimming pool. The lifeguard will always stare at her, wishing she would drown. kind.

The swimming pool is outdoors, and the sign on the side of the pool is marked in English and Thai, showing the time to change the water. It was just changed yesterday evening. The water in the pool is clear and does not have a strong smell of disinfectant.The quality of a hotel can be seen in the details.The altitude of the Korat area is lower than that of Chiang Mai, and the climate is hot and dry. It is not as cool as Chiang Mai at seven o'clock in the morning here, and the wind is a bit stuffy.I swam back and forth in the pool a few times until I felt better physically and mentally, and the hotel service was attentive, and a waiter brought towels before I climbed into the pool.I put on a towel and went back to my room to take a shower and change clothes.

The second time I went to the restaurant, the restaurant became more popular, and there were few people sitting there. It seemed that everyone didn’t want to miss the hotel’s free breakfast, and some foreign tourists even started to drink early in the morning.At eight or nine o'clock, the sun shone in from the windows of the restaurant, and the edges of the painted golden windows glistened in the sunlight. Everyone seemed to be dining in a Buddhist hall.Su Lie and the others were sitting in a corner with a huge potted plant, out of the sun's rays, the guide girl waved to me, I walked over and sat down next to the driver brother.

"What kind of sunglasses do you wear indoors?" Su Lie asked with a cup of coffee.

"I want you to take care of it." I said in a bad tone, and waved to the waiter to get the menu.There was a tan in the sunglasses, looking at Su Lie through the sunglasses, his face became more rigid, and the atmosphere became a little awkward.

The guide girl said with a smile in English: "Korat is exposed to severe sun exposure, and sunglasses are a must." She tried to ease the atmosphere.But when I looked at her face, I couldn't smile at all.This beautiful country has changed because of seeing Su Lie at the door of her room last night, and it is not beautiful at all.

The restaurant waiter handed me the menu, I ordered a free French toast according to the picture, turned to the page of the wine list, pointed to a peach-flavored beer that I could understand, and told the waiter to buy a bottle.

"What wine are we drinking early in the morning? Are we leaving soon?" Su Lie was a little annoyed.

"Drinking is the energy to continue on the road."

The driver brother asked in Chinese: "Are you okay?" The worried expression on his face made me feel that the people at the table were a little human, so I smiled at him, but I didn't explain it, and I couldn't explain it.

When the French toast and peach beer arrived, I drank mine and ate mine, ignoring Su Lie's face.I have to say, the peach flavored beer is so good that I thought I'd take a few bottles with me on the road, I don't think I can push it any further.

After breakfast, the driver brother had already loaded the luggage into the car. I saw Su Lie and the guide girl were spreading out a map of Thailand to study the route, and they were almost head to head.When I was about to leave, I finally couldn't help it, and after getting in the car, I opened the door and went down.I went around to the back of the car and took out a small suitcase of my own from the trunk. It was full of items I bought in Chiang Mai, including gifts and a few clothes I brought back.

Su Lie watched me jump out of the car and go to pick up my luggage again, wondering what the hell I was doing for a while.He also jumped out of the car, with a slightly sullen face, restraining himself from erupting.The guide girl and the driver brother stuck their heads out of the car window and looked at me inexplicably.

"What's going on with you today?" Su Lie walked up to me and asked.

The suitcase stood by my feet, and I stretched out my hand towards him, and said in a blunt tone, "Give me your passport, I want to go home. I'm quitting. If you want to find Yunzhu, you can find it yourself. I won't go. I I regret it, I regret it so much, I shouldn't have come with you in the first place."

"Why are you crazy? Didn't you have a good day yesterday?"

"I'm not well at all, I'm homesick, okay? I want to go back, I'm quitting, if you don't give me a passport, I'll go to the embassy to get a new one, or I'll be deported back to my country."

Su Lie was so angry that I couldn't say a word.

(End of this chapter)

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