winter in greenland

Harvey glanced at the wound on his shoulder and pointed, "Why don't we deal with this?"

Dan glanced at it and didn't pay much attention. "Just ask your waiter to bring over an ice bucket and a towel."

Harvey was a little worried: "Don't you need to go to the hospital?"

Dan shook his head impatiently: "It's not necessary for such a small injury."

Harvey had no choice but to raise his hand to greet the waiter behind the bar, asking him to bring out an ice bucket and a towel, and then turned to Dan: "Want to chat?"

Dan was silent for a few seconds and didn't speak for a while.Until the waiter brought the ice bucket over, he wrapped a few pieces of ice in a towel, moved his shoulder, and applied it casually to the part of his shoulder that had just been hit, and pressed it loosely with his right hand: "Which version do you want to listen to?" story?"

Harvey became a little interested: "Why, there are different versions?"

Dan raised his chin: "Of course. There's an 'Ice Age' version, there's a 'Maleficent' version, and there's a sappy 'Beauty and the Beast' version."

Harvey laughed. "Dan, I didn't see that you had a talent for storytelling."

Dan shrugged, the wound on his shoulder was affected, he frowned slightly, and then said indifferently: "It's just a dark fairy tale."

"Oh?" Harvey raised his eyebrows.

Dan held up the wine glass in front of him and shook it, the ice cubes collided with each other and made a crisp clinking sound: "Actually, there is nothing to tell, it's just a story that you can't ask for."

Harvey's eyes turned around on him, and then glanced at the direction of the door, he understood something instantly, without saying anything, he raised his wine glass and touched Dan's.

Dan raised his head and drank the wine, with a self-deprecating smile on his face: "If this incident has taught me anything, it is not to try to read people's hearts."

"Since when did you become a human observer?"

"I knew him, and even knew him to some extent, long before I actually knew him. It was because of this level of 'knowing' that I became curious about this man and wanted to meet him. When I saw the real him, I wanted to see the real face of this person, instead of drawing his outline in my heart based on other people's narration. So I applied to go to Sirius. It's just that I didn't expect fate to be such a fucking thing. All these things seem to be accidental and coincidental, but in fact everyone's ending has long been doomed."

Dan's voice was low, with no emotion in it, but Harvey could hear the deep frustration hidden underneath.

"So...you didn't try to finish that sentence to him in the end?"

Dan turned his head to look at him with disbelief in his eyes: "Is there any need to tell?"

"Maybe he didn't understand what you meant at the time." Harvey considered his tone.

Dan shook his head. "No, Harvey. August may look dull, but he's definitely not stupid. He understood what I meant, and he didn't let me finish. He just wanted to save face for both parties. From our From being rescued to when I was discharged from the hospital, he never showed up, and I'm not stupid, besides, I have my pride."

After a pause, Dan leaned forward slightly, folded his hands, and made an elegant arc on the bar: "And I have always believed in one truth-never fight with others for things that don't belong to you, especially It's a dead man."

Harvey looked stunned: "Dead? His... er, ex?"

Dan nodded, and raised his hand to call the bartender behind the bar for another glass of whiskey: "A dead lover is like a white moonlight. The memory ends at the best moment, and what remains is the past, even though the memory is sad. But always with such an indescribable sweetness, that person will always be placed in an unattainable position. It is like an altar for those successors to look up to. But there are some fools, Ming Knowing what is in front of you, you still want to give it a try, always expecting that you will be the most special one. Oh, people can’t escape this inferiority.”

"According to what you said, he should avoid you in fear, so have you ever thought about why he insisted on 'reminiscing with you'?" Harvey pointed out the crux of the problem.

Dan shook his head: "Why do I think so much? No matter what he thinks, since he can't give the same response, let's forget about the past. We are not 'old friends'."

The bartender brought Dan's drink, Harvey frowned, raised his hand and cut off his glass: "Don't drink it."

Dan stubbornly snatched the wine glass from his hand, raised a finger and shook it: "I'm not someone who likes to make things difficult for myself, just this one time, leave me alone."

Harvey sighed: "You have to learn to look forward."

"Of course I will. I'm looking ahead now."

"Then what kind of trouble did you make in the shop tonight?"

"Which one came out?"

"Why did you hit that little bastard, the reason, do you need me to remind you?" Harvey had a half-smile on his face.

Dan said nothing.

"Or, the way you look forward is to flirt with a little girl who is less than 5 years old?" Harvey said half-jokingly.

The expression on Dan's face flickered, and his eyes were a little dazed: "That little girl, Nina, reminds me of another little girl I rescued in Greenland. At that time, I promised her that I would visit her. Who would have thought that now? It's not important, I probably won't see her in the future."

Dan drank too much that night, and woke up the next morning in a strange bedroom with no memory of how he got here.

The bed under him was very soft, the heavy curtains on the right were drawn tightly, and a mushroom-shaped desk lamp on the bedside table emitted a faint yellow light.Looking at the layout, it looks like a hotel.

He sat up from the bed and rubbed his forehead, only to feel a splitting headache.Someone thoughtfully placed a glass of cold water on the cabinet. He took a long gulp from the cup, then fell back heavily on the bed, staring at the ceiling.

"Are you awake?" The curtain was drawn from the outside, and Joe's furry head poked in from the balcony.

"Joe?" Dan sat up, somewhat surprised.

The young man walked in from the outside with a somewhat apologetic smile on his face: "You drank too much last night. Harvey said he didn't want to go home and took care of a drunk, so he opened a room in the hotel and sent you here. He I just went to the store, let me come and watch over you."

"what time is it now?"

"It's almost noon, are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?"

Dan got up and got out of bed, and put on the coat beside him: "No need, I have an appointment with a guest to go out to sea in the afternoon, I'll go home and wash up."

Unexpectedly, as soon as he stepped on the carpet, he tripped over the shoes next to him and almost staggered.With sharp eyes and quick hands, Qiao stepped forward to support him, and his tone was full of worry: "In your state, going to sea is a bit dangerous, isn't it?"

Dan shook his head: "It's okay. The appointment is at 6 pm. The two guests want to go fishing at night. I'll go back to the apartment and take a shower so I can sleep for a while."

Seeing that he persisted, Qiao didn't say anything more. He called the front desk and checked out. Looking at Dan's pale face, he was still worried: "Shall I take you back?"

He really drank too much the night before, besides having a headache, he was also slightly dizzy before his eyes. Dan didn't refuse any more, and let Joe half help him out of the room.

The hotel is not high, they lived on the 2nd floor, they didn't wait for the elevator when they went down, and walked down the stairs to the lobby.

Coincidentally, just as they came down the stairs, the elevator next to them made a "ding" sound, and the two subconsciously glanced in that direction, only to see that the elevator door opened to both sides, and 4 or 5 people walked out of the elevator Come out, the leading one is August.

Dan: "..."

Joe noticed the stiffness in his body and was a little puzzled for a moment.Because he didn't see the farce of the previous night, he only vaguely felt that the person in front of him looked familiar.

Before he could ask Dan if they knew each other, he felt a needle-like gaze on the arm he was holding on to Dan.Immediately afterwards, August had strode over.

"What's the matter with you?" He asked Dan, but his eyes were fixed on Joe, and his eyes were a little sharp.

Joe was a little dazed for a moment, and his body reacted subconsciously—he helped Dan take a step back slightly.

Dan sighed silently in his heart, gently brushed off the hand that Joe was holding on to, and stepped forward half a step to block Joe, with a polite and alienated smile on his face: "What a coincidence, Major."

August saw his small movements, and felt a little more irritable in his heart.Behind him, Heath, Ian and others also looked over in silence, and the situation was a little awkward for a while.

Dan cleared his throat: "If there's nothing else, we'll go first, Major."

As he was speaking, he was about to turn around when August took a step forward and pressed his shoulder, while turning his head and giving a simple order to the people behind him: "Go first."

Even though Heath and the others were curious, they didn't dare to touch the officer when he was obviously in a bad mood. They didn't ask anything at the moment, and they all simply said hello to Dan and left.

August's hand just pressed Dan's shoulder that was hit by a wine bottle the night before. He frowned and said with pain: "Is there anything else, Major?"

August noticed the change in his face immediately, and slightly loosened his grip: "What's wrong with you?"

"Excuse me, Major, I'm in a hurry." Dan said, grabbing the arm of Joe who was standing there, turned around and left.

August stood still, watching the two people leaving, his eyes slowly sank. After thinking for a while, he took out his cell phone from his jacket pocket and dialed Heath's number.

"Hey, Heath, I'll be there a little later at noon, please help me talk to Captain Hook."

Heath on the other end said something, and his expression became a little impatient: "I have something urgent to deal with, so you can just make up an excuse to delay for a while." After speaking, he hung up the phone.

In addition to the bar business at night, Corinna also provides afternoon tea during the Midsummer Festival these days.Because the location of the shop is good, there are many customers coming and going.Harvey usually doesn't have anything to do at this time, he just comes to the store to guard according to his habit.

In sunny summer, most customers like to sit outside facing the street, but the inside of the store seems quiet.When the bamboo wind chime on the door rang, Harvey said welcome and didn't look up until a shadow stopped in front of him.

"It's you?" He recognized August, surprised.

August nodded briefly to him, not intending to exchange pleasantries: "What's wrong with Dan?"

"What's wrong?" Harvey didn't respond for a while.

"I met him in the hotel just now, and he didn't look very well. What happened to him after I left here last night?" August's tone was very concise.

Harvey looked at him for a few seconds, and there was a hint of playfulness in his eyes. He thought for a while and said, "It's nothing. I got into a fight with someone and got hurt."

August frowned: "Fight? Was he injured? Who hit him?"

Harvey was a little amused: "Since you met him at the hotel just now, you should ask him for more detailed information."

A look of remorse mixed with self-blame flashed across August's face, and his tone was a little unnatural: "He and I... had some misunderstandings before, and he doesn't seem to want to see me."

Harvey shrugged: "I can't control it. It's more appropriate for you to ask him about the reason for the fight. If you don't know where to find him, he is working in the Old Port during this period and is responsible for taking tourists out to sea. Maybe you can Go to port and try your luck."

August nodded his thanks, turned and left.

Looking at his straight back, Harvey gave a "tsk", and a meaningful smile appeared on his face.