stepmother

.Chapter 23.

Hong Kong is a natural deep-water harbor and a world-class port.The so-called good harbor, in addition to the depth of the water and the width of the bay, is not affected by the tide, and it is convenient for ships to enter and exit all year round.So as long as it is not the typhoon season, there is basically no wind and no waves in this area.

The sampan rowed out for nearly an hour, and when it was close to the outermost mouth of the harbor, Ruan Jinwen saw the big boat he was about to board.

Under the night, the 22-ton ship floated quietly on the sea. Although it was connected to the floating pier, it did not feel like it was going up and down with the waves. On the contrary, it was like a ship leaning on the shore, lying quietly and waiting. with.It was nearly 70 o'clock at this time, and the moon rose to about [-] degrees above the sea level. Under the moonlight, the entire sea surface glowed with a cold and desolate light like a mirror, which suited Ruan Jinwen's state of mind at this time.

After all, he was fleeing, and he felt that his journey was a bit miserable, so he always had the illusion of dark waves in his heart, as if he wanted to vent but couldn't find an outlet, so he could only press there, just like the calm sea.

When getting closer to the big ship, the captain called someone, and after a while, a hanging ladder was lowered from the big ship. It was the kind of iron ladder that could only pass one person, and was used for emergency departure from the ship.After a while, a person came up and down the ladder, wearing a white shirt and blue trousers, obviously a sailor.

That man was a foreigner from nowhere, with brown hair and brown eyes, but his nose bridge was unusually high and his eye sockets were deep. After casting a glance at Ruan Jinwen, he looked at the owner of the sampan fishing boat, but he opened his mouth fluently. Cantonese.

Ruan Jinwen couldn't understand the conversation between the two, so he stood beside them and glanced at the foreigner from the corner of his eyes from time to time.He himself was [-] tall, and the foreigner was about the same as him, but he was thin and thin, like a monkey, with sharp eyes, and it was really strange that he could still catch the light in the middle of the night.

After a while, the two finished chatting. The captain turned his head to look at Ruan Jinwen, and told him in not-so-standard Mandarin, "Mr. Ruan, this is Mr. s arrangement."

Ruan Jinwen nodded and glanced at the thin man as a face-to-face meeting.Another dozen hundred-dollar bills were drawn from the bag and stuffed into the captain's pocket.There were about thirty cards in that dozen. The captain was entrusted by someone, and the client was his elder brother, so he was embarrassed to take the money and pushed and shoved him a few times.

It was the sailor, with sharp eyes, who saw the dollars in Ruan Jinwen's bag at a glance, and didn't say much. There was a pause at the end of his eyes, and a ray of light flashed by.

The captain delivered the person, and gave Ruan Jinwen the contact information of the person who would respond later, and then drove the boat away from the floating pier.

Ruan Jinwen watched the boat sail away, and then turned and walked towards the hanging ladder when there was only one o'clock.

The sailor was about to pull up the hanging ladder, and when he saw him stepping up, he stretched out his hand and waited for his reaction.

Ruan Jinwen thought that the other party was going to help him, so he raised his palm, and the sailor immediately turned his face away, and said two English words, "Dollar, Dollar".Probably afraid that Ruan Jinwen would not understand, he said in blunt Mandarin, "Money, money!"

Ruan Jinwen looked up at him, he was standing on the steps of the hanging ladder, the whole figure was covered by a shadow, and he couldn't see any expression clearly, only those eyes, which were unusually cunning.

"Humph" couldn't help but sneered, Ruan Jinwen went to unzip the bag, then pulled out a stack from the inside, and threw it to the thin man.

He gestured sensitively, and stopped the person after receiving it, but still didn't let go. He swung his fingers around the edge of the stack of banknotes, and a strange and disdainful smile leaked from his mouth, "Ten thousand is too little, not enough!"

Fuck him.Ruan Jinwen cursed secretly in his heart, this foreign monkey has a really big heart.

But the curses in my heart are all curses, now I need someone to ask, and it is in the floating port, which is a hundred and eight thousand miles away from the pier. If he doesn't pay the money, he will get on the boat by himself when he turns around. No one came to answer.Moreover, the light on the sea was cold and desolate, and the island in the distance was covered in darkness. It was impossible to tell if there were any powerful fish in the sea, and it was impossible to guarantee that he would be eaten.Thinking of this, I was a little scared, and I didn't think about anything, I opened the bag and took out two stacks, plus the previous stack, a total of [-] US dollars, put it in the monkey-like man's hand, and asked, "shit, enough?"

The gringo weighed the money in his hand, and was a little satisfied. He said "Ok, Ok" for a few times, and didn't care what he was doing behind him, so he just turned around and hid the three stacks of dollars separately. Put it into the pocket of the blue cloth trousers, and climb up the hanging ladder in three steps at a time.

Ruan Jinwen greeted the eighteen generations of the family's ancestors in his heart, and then stepped up to keep up with him. It didn't take long for him to climb to the deck where the hanging ladder hung.

This is a freighter, the top deck is where the containers are loaded, and the living quarters for the sailors are below the deck, so Ruan Jinwen went down a few floors through the iron door holes until he was below the sea level. The guy slowed down, whistled and led him through a passage and stood in front of a cabin.

The gringo pointed inside, let Ruan Jinwen in, and said in English, "You will stay here tonight."

Ruan Jinwen probed to see that there was an iron gate inside, and wanted to ask a few more questions, but the gringo turned and left.

"Fuck" could only scold mother, and then walked in with the travel bag.

When he got inside, Ruan Jinwen almost fainted from fright.There are ten iron beds in the [-]-square-meter cabin, and they are all bunk beds. There are basically people lying on each bunk, and some are sitting, drinking beer and chatting.The cabin is airtight, there are only two vents, and there are men in a room, the smell is self-evident.

This is the fucking Datong shop.Ruan Jinwen's heart exploded instantly.

He had been on big ships before, but they were all big cruise ships.The Caribbean Sea, or the Sea of ​​Love, or the Norwegian fjords, are always luxurious and extravagant.He has only seen this kind of Datong shop in TV and movies. He thought it was an exaggerated creative technique of the director before, but he didn't expect to see it with his own eyes in his life. Not only did he see it, but he also had to experience it himself.

Probably blocked someone else's way, and someone yelled at him.He listened to the language he didn't understand, and then looked at those people, all of them were dark-skinned with wide noses and flat eyes, and they looked like Filipinos.

No one came to tell him which bunk to sleep in. He was a little hesitant, glanced at the people in the cabin, turned around and walked out.

It was more than 700 nautical miles from Hong Kong to Manila, and the big ship sailed for nearly 39 hours. It was really unbearable for him to stay in that cabin for two nights and one day.Let him sleep there this night, he would rather spend the night on the deck with the sea breeze, anyway, he can't sleep.

So he decided to find that foreign monkey, isn't it just greedy for money, he just gave it.

Fortunately, the living area of ​​the cargo ship is only that big, and it has not yet weighed anchor, so it is quite convenient to find someone.

The gringo was gambling with a group of sailors, and he might have good luck at night, so he was polite. Hearing him say in English that he couldn't stay in that cabin, he smiled and extended his hand to him.

Ruan Jinwen understood what he meant, and put another dozen or so US dollars in his hand, asking him to lead the way.He greeted the gamblers and took him to another deck.

He also stood in front of a cabin, and he let Ruan Jinwen go in by himself.

Ruan Jinwen learned this time, so he had to take him to look inside together.

This time it was a small cabin with two bunk beds in the small room.But there was no one in the shop, so Ruan Jinwen asked him in English, "I live here alone?"

The gringo shrugged, knowing that his English was good, so he told him that he didn't know, and maybe someone like him would come in.

Ruan Jinwen was about to start scolding, but the gringo got impatient and muttered, roughly meaning that if you want to stay, you can stay here, this is the last room, if you can’t stay, you can go back to the previous place.

Ruan Jinwen: "..." Compromise.

After 10 minutes, someone really squeezed in.

Two people came, one looked like a Southeast Asian, and the other was a foreigner with blue eyes.

Ruan Jinwen didn't greet anyone, but when he saw someone coming in, he leaned back on his bed, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

The blue-eyed foreigner probably had a drink, and started snoring as soon as he fell down, the sound was deafening.

Young Master Ruan couldn't bear it, he tossed and turned a few times, and was disturbed by the sound so much that he couldn't pretend to be asleep, so he simply sat up.

He found that only the sleepy foreigner was left in the room, and the Southeast Asian boy who had come in with him earlier was gone.

After sitting for a few more minutes, staring at the sleepy man, he simply went out, took a cigarette and smoked on the deck.

When I got to the deck, I saw that the ship had already set sail.He looked out from a distance, and the surrounding area seemed to be a whole piece of jet-black, because the moonlight was blocked by the tall masts and cranes, so only the lights of the ship itself reflected on the sea where he was.

Those lights were extremely weak and could only illuminate the vicinity of the ship.Ruan Jinwen leaned out half of his body and saw the waves of white foam turned up by the chopping waves below, so he suddenly thought, it really looks like floating on the mutton soup he ate at home in Beijing that layer.

It is the first time that I have thought about Beijing like this while keeping half my body lying on the railing of the boat, with the smoke that appears and disappears from the fire in my mouth.He didn't think his own home was good before, and he ran outside all day, but now he feels that there is nothing like his own nest. If he is lucky enough to go back early this time, he will definitely stay at his own home for ten days before going out. .

When he was homesick, someone came over to strike up a conversation and called him hi a few times, but he didn't respond, and the person approached directly.It's the Southeast Asian kid in the same cabin as him.

After a while, the kid was familiar with himself, so I introduced myself to him, "My name is Akum, you can just call me Akun."

Still can speak Chinese.Ruan Jinwen stared at the past with a cigarette in his arms, but didn't answer.

Ah Kun began to ask him, "What's your name? Why are you also on this boat?"

Ruan Jinwen spit on the outside of the boat rail, and replied calmly, "Ah Wen."

Seeing that the kid was still staring at him, he also asked, "Why are you also on this boat?"

"I'm going home. I'm a Filipino." Akun said happily, and looked at Ruan Jinwen with wide eyes. It seemed that he had a good impression of Ruan Jinwen.

Looking at it this way, this Ah Kun looks pretty good, except that he is thinner and darker, he is really pretty.

Ruan Jinwen was not very interested in other people's affairs, but Ah Kun seemed to have caught someone who could talk, and was so excited all night that he told Ruan Jinwen everything about his family on the deck.

He told him that his mother took him to Hong Kong to work when he was a baby.In Hong Kong, they are Filipino maids in wealthy families.He also said that his mother was ill and died of illness, and he wanted to go back to the Philippines to find his father.He also said that his father was very powerful in the local area, and there were a lot of pa la pa la.

Ruan Jinwen almost got these things in one ear and out the other, because when he was in Beijing, there were people like this around him in nightclubs, so he didn't feel disgusted. Lost that skill.

After two nights like this, by the morning of the third day, Ah Kun had become Ruan Jinwen's little follower.

Seeing that he was about to arrive at the port, Ruan Jinwen tidied up his bag, touched it inadvertently, touched it again, and suddenly became nervous.He tore open the bag to look, and the bag of things that Jian Bai asked Shi Shaoqing to hand over to him before leaving Hong Kong was gone.

Ruan Jinwen turned over the mattress and searched under the bed for a long time, but in the end he still couldn't see the package.He hasn't been willing to open it yet, why is it gone!

He sat there in a daze, pondering, recalling the past two days.

He was often alone in the cabin, and the blue-eyed foreigner didn't see anyone during the day, and would come back drunk at night.That means he and Akun stayed in the cabin for a longer time.I have left occasionally, but Akun will follow when I leave, but Akun may not be there when I am there.This is so fucking strange, could it be that he was taken away by someone?When did it go smoothly?

It's impossible to go along?He flipped through the bag again, and there seemed to be a lot of dollars in it.It's not right, maybe there are a few missing, but he didn't feel it.

Just as he was about to take a bite, Akun hurried in from the outside and shouted, "Brother Wen, we can't leave, this ship has been hijacked."

The author has something to say: Thank you for being here.I changed the cover, what do you think?

Entering a new chapter and starting the bloody plot, everyone must withstand the pressure and continue to follow.

Speaking of this article, this article is called "Stepmother", but there is actually a more appropriate name "Master's Suffering". In fact, some little angels have already seen it. It feels like Ruan Jinjin's growth history, but it is not far from it.That is to say, his transformation.

I find it strange that some little angels say that he is an author and that he is disgusting. Ruan Jinwen’s current performance is the normal performance of a super rich second generation. That's why I can afford to gamble and have fun.This article is realistically oriented. When I write the article, I will try my best to portray those characters that will exist in reality, and describe their characters and tempers.So it's not like the character settings in those articles that hang on to the sky, which makes people love it.I admit that those people in my article are all flawed (including the scolded Yu Guang and the scolded Lanbao), but please see how cute they are.

Finally, everyone is welcome to discuss the content of the article with the author, but it is really unacceptable to irrational abuse and criticism. Life is a kind of fate, and it is a kind of fate that you can click into this article, and you should read and cherish it.

I am on a business trip today, if the next chapter is not finished, I will update it on Saturday.I love you all.

I was originally a cold person, but I was forced by you to become a tease and talkative person!The usual practice is to ask for flowers, to leave comments, to ask for kisses, to ask for hugs, to ask for heights, and all kinds of requests, not too many