back from trouble

It was the end of June, the temperature began to rise, and outside the small porthole, the sky was so blue.Smiling in a good mood, he took out his phone and checked the time, it was hardly late.

With two light impacts, the plane landed steadily on the runway of Lantau Airport.

Xiaocheng is flying on a low-cost airline. Most of the planes are tourists from mainland China, traveling, or visiting relatives and friends. Before the plane stops, there is commotion, and they all stand up to leave their seats, or go to pick up their luggage. The stewardess had to come out and repeatedly emphasized not to unbuckle the seat belt and leave the seat until the plane stopped.However, there are many passengers with children, who are noisy all the way, and they can't calm down here, and they laugh so much that they have a headache.

He is the least able to get along with children, and he is not born with children. At this moment, he regrets that he should not have saved so much money.

The plane taxied on the runway for a long time, turned slowly, and stopped beside the escalator.Originally, we had to go directly to the airport hall through the aisle, but the low-cost airlines did not have a fixed landing point, so it depended on the temporary arrangement, and we arranged for passengers to go down from whichever one was available. Now it happened to be full, so we had to take the escalator.

Finally able to get off the plane, the passengers couldn't hold back, they scrambled to unfasten their seat belts and stood up, impatiently moving outside.Xiaocheng has been to Hong Kong several times before, and with plenty of time, he was neither excited nor anxious, so he closed his eyes slightly, and when he felt that almost everyone in the cabin was gone, he stood up unhurriedly, He picked up a square business suitcase and got off the plane.

The bright sunshine rushed towards us, and there were densely packed high-rise buildings not far away. It didn't look like the surrounding area of ​​the airport, but rather like the city center.

The people who got off the bus first had already gone out of sight, laughing like they didn't have any checked luggage, so they could go out directly through the express lane.As a result, he followed the signs and walked over, only to find that a group of people had already blocked the exit of the expressway.Xiaocheng found someone to ask about the situation, and said that something happened outside, and the exit was closed, so he couldn't go out for the time being.

Most of the people blocking the door were mainland tourists, talking in Mandarin amidst the Cantonese, and they were all anxious and puzzled.

Xiaocheng didn't want to squeeze in there, so he simply dragged his luggage and walked back to the luggage transfer hall, turned on his mobile phone, watched the news and waited for the notification.

He skillfully connected to the airport wifi, swiped casually, and just swiped out the latest news——

"Mainland tourists at Lantau Airport are blocked, or armed conflicts have occurred."

Laughing, he stopped his fingers and clicked in. Just at this time, the radio also announced that there was chaos outside the airport. Passengers please be safe and don't be impatient.

Laughing and glancing at the news, it was probably a street political movement organized by radical youth groups in Hong Kong, which blocked several main entrances and exits of Lantau Airport in the name of demonstrations.When suspected mainland tourists came out, they laughed and insulted, and there seemed to be one or two conflicts. In order to prevent the situation from escalating, the airport has temporarily blocked entry and exit.

Xiaocheng glanced at it and closed the page without interest. It seemed that today he had to delay some time. Xiaocheng called the manager who had already arrived in Hong Kong, and then put the phone back in his pocket.

Probably the pan-democratic social environment is very different from other continents. Political demonstrations of this level have seriously violated social order.The police force in Hong Kong is not in place?

Smiling, Cheng glanced around the hall. Most of the stranded passengers were crowded near the exit. The luggage transfer hall was quite quiet. He found an empty chair, went over and sat down, and took out a book from the suitcase. Books, flipping through them casually.

A few people also sat down, gathered together in twos and threes, most of them tourists, and ate the bread and ham they brought.Xiaocheng felt someone sitting beside him, but he didn't look up, and quickly browsed the book in his hand.

This is a novel written by a Jewish writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year.

As soon as I looked up, I found that the rest area was full of people, and there were many tourists standing in the hall—it seemed that the matter had not been resolved.

Xiaocheng put the book on the armrest, took out his phone and checked the time, more than an hour has passed, could it be that something has become serious?By the way, he opened the webpage and browsed it, only to realize that there was indeed a big trouble.

It turned out that two hours ago, the first batch of mainland tourists who left the airport happened to collide with the parade and were beaten by radicals!Many people were seriously injured and have now been sent to the hospital.

This time the action was obviously aimed at mainland tourists. It is said that the parade organization had already checked the flights in advance, and only waited for the mainland low-cost airlines to land before rushing on.

Low cost airline?Xiao Cheng couldn't help but glanced at the flight number, it was indeed the one he was on.If he had acted faster when he got off the plane, he might have been one of those victims.

Smiling into a slight frown.

He just heard someone beside him asking him in a bite of inaccurate Mandarin, "Can I read this book?"

Xiaocheng looked up slightly, he was a young man in his early twenties, wearing a strict British suit, with a subtle smile on his face, pointing his finger at the English novel under his elbow.

Smiling and nodding, he raised his arm to signal him to take it himself.

The other party reached out to take it, gave him a gesture of thanks, and looked down.

Smiling, he glanced at the other party and continued to browse the web.

He thought that the conflict between Hong Kong and the mainland was not so intense at this time, but he did not expect it to be so serious at this time.

Hong Kong is different from Taiwan-Taiwan in that there are conditions for independence but no need for independence.In the next ten years, the mainland's economy will take off at a rapid pace, and Hong Kong's economic status will be impacted unprecedentedly. Coupled with the social and cultural differences brought about by the differences in political systems over the years, and the malicious provocations of some Hong Kong-independence elements, cross-strait relations are becoming increasingly tense.There are also some media, either because of their political stance, or because of sensationalism, they guide public opinion, and the situation is out of control.

In this matter, it is not possible to sum up who is right and who is wrong, but there are many reasons why Xiaocheng doesn't like coming to Hong Kong.

With a flick of his finger, he closed the webpage, and with a wrong leg, he opened a software for speculating in foreign exchange.

It's just a small game, just to pass the time.

After he played a few games, a quarrel suddenly broke out behind him.

He still cleared the warehouse in his hand without haste, and then turned his head for a while.It was a mainland couple arguing with the airport staff, surrounded by many stranded mainland tourists, helping to create momentum.

Probably the couple's child was blown at the airport and had a little fever, so he asked the airport staff to give him a blanket.The airport staff replied that the airport did not prepare these, and asked them to take out a few clothes for the child to add.At this time, speaking Mandarin in Hong Kong was still very rare. The Mandarin spoken by the two staff members at the airport was also very substandard, and they popped out sentences in Cantonese from time to time. It was very difficult for the two sides to communicate.In addition, the attitudes of both parties are probably a little bit bad, and the parents of the children are anxious, and it is even more difficult for them to speak calmly.

Being stranded at the airport for this reason, I believe no one will be in a happy mood, especially those mainland tourists who come for tourism, and have attributed the responsibility to the airport.In addition, they feel some discrimination, seemingly non-existent discrimination.It was about to explode.

Seeing more and more people gathered around, the matter was not resolved at all.

Xiaocheng stood up, and the young man next to him suddenly looked up at him.

Xiaocheng pulled the suitcase and walked into the crowd.

He only said one sentence, and the mood of the couple was stabilized——

He said, "I'm a doctor, let me see what's wrong with the kid."

The people around immediately gave him an open space.

In fact, the child is not suffering from cold and fever, but a bit of heat stroke, coupled with acclimatization.Xiao Cheng has also done life-saving and wound-saving work at any rate, and it is easy to deal with such minor illnesses.

He comforted the couple first, and then told the airport staff in English to ask them to bring some medicine for heatstroke and some water.Finally, he uses an accented "please."

Soon, the medicines and water were distributed, not only the couple, but all the stranded passengers were given drinking water, in addition to a simple dinner.The airport notified every passenger to line up to receive supplies with a ticket in hand, and apologized on the radio.

The emotions of the passengers were quickly appeased.

It's that simple sometimes.

The airport doesn't have many blankets in June, but it does have all the medicines, and that's what the couple really needed.

Solving a problem is nothing more than discovering a need and satisfying it.

It has been almost two hours, and the number of passengers stranded at the airport is increasing, but the airport has not given any positive measures.Laughing, I'm tired of waiting.He knew that special passages would be reserved at the airport, but those were reserved for people with extremely important identities, so he had no choice but to wait now.

As a result, he went back to the rest area and sat down, only to find that the young man who had just been sitting next to him had disappeared.

What disappeared together was his book.

Laughing, he stretched his pants, feeling a little helpless.

By the time he really walked out of the airport, the lights were already on.Rows and rows of street lights look like dotted bands of light.There was a long queue of taxis parked outside the airport, Xiao Cheng stopped one, got on it, and said the name of the hotel in English.

After half an hour, he finally lay down on the big soft bed in the hotel.

Hong Kong is very expensive, and it is such a large-scale exhibition and auction arrangement. The so-called top hotels are also quite cramped.

Xiaocheng couldn't care less about it anymore. Outside the window was the bright lights of Victoria Harbor, the endless prosperity, and the extravagance of luxury.

It is the quiet sea reflecting the quiet starry sky.

He fell asleep peacefully.