Chapter Seventy-Five: The Strange Pond
As the sun sank in the west, darkness once again enveloped the sea, and the sea, which seemed peaceful during the day, became terrifying at this time. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
I didn't have a hobby of watching the sea at night, so I was ready to turn around and go back to the cabin.
As soon as we entered the cabin, we heard the captain of the ship shouting at us: "There is a small island in front of us, and there are lights on it, so it should be inhabited." ”
Judging from the dotted lights on the island, it is not a prosperous place, and the population should not be large, and the island is just a small fishing village at most. Lawyer Yan asked the boat boss to dock our boat, and he left two members of Brother Hao's team to guard the yacht, and the rest of the crew got off the boat together.
As soon as we arrived on the island, we saw many locals working on the shore, probably retrieving dry goods that had been lying on the ground.
I looked up at my watch, it was already past 8 p.m., and the people here were really hardworking, and they were still working outside at this time. When they saw so many of us from other places suddenly coming to the island, they all put down their work and looked at us curiously.
Ai Wen walked over and greeted one of them, what I heard them say was the language we were looking for, it seemed that the dark, thin fisherman who imprisoned Zhang Xuefeng was a person who lived in the neighborhood, if not from here.
I saw that Evan and the man talked for a long time, and the more we talked, the happier we became, and finally the man invited Evan to join us in their village, and we were happy to go.
Evan told us that the fisherman's name was Raul, and he said that he and his wife had been living here for almost 15 years, and although it was very backward, the people here were very kind, and they were much better than those in the big cities, so they liked to live here to be self-sufficient.
He also learned from Raul that this is an unnamed island, which is so small that it has no name at all, and it is only included in the Babuyan Islands on the map of the Philippines.
And just a few decades ago, the island was just a desert island, uninhabited. Later, when some fishermen passed through the island, they occasionally went to the island to rest, and after a long time, they built some simple houses on the island to shelter from the wind and rain. Over time, people moved here to settle down, and the current small fishing village was created.
Raul brought us to his yard, and although it was only a simple courtyard, the yard was still very clean. At this moment a woman with a big belly came out of the house, and she said something to Raul in some surprise, probably asking us what these people were doing.
Raul smiled and explained a few words to the woman, and the woman turned back to the house and brought out a pot of hot water, and I could see that they were very poor, but still very hospitable.
Evan told Raul that we were here to find a Hong Kong businessman who had disappeared many years ago, and asked him if we had heard of a Hong Kong man named Zhang Xuefeng who had been here 20 years ago.
Raul shook his head and said that he and his family had only moved here 15 years ago, and that they had lived in Luzon before, and that they had been living on a boat because they were too poor to afford a local house, and that they had been living on a boat.
As we spoke, it was getting late and late, and many of the fishermen began to return to the village one after another, and when they saw that our group of people were sitting in Raul's house, they all gathered around to watch the excitement curiously.
Raul asked a few villagers who had lived here for more years than he had ever heard of a Hong Kong man named Cheung Xue-feng who had been here 20 years ago.
They were all at a loss, as if they had heard of the name for the first time, and it was said that they Filipinos were no strangers to Hong Kongers, because in the early years, Filipino women liked to come to Hong Kong as domestic servants to improve their family's economic environment.
At this time, an elderly fisherman told Ai Wen that he had heard his next-door neighbor Ying Hong tell him that her father had helped a group of Hong Kong people smuggle smuggled goods at sea in the early days, but then he went to sea and never returned.
As soon as we heard about the show, we asked Aven to ask him where his neighbor was now? The old fisherman said that Yinghong had not come back from fishing at sea, because Yinghong's boat was a little bigger, so she usually had to walk a long way, and often only came back once every few days.
Lawyer Yan and Uncle Li discussed, instead of looking for each other so randomly, it is better to wait for that Yinghong here, maybe this is really a useful clue, maybe this is really a useful clue? So our group camped here, bought some food from the fishermen on the island, and waited for the fisherman named Yinghong to return to the island.
After dinner that day, Ding Yi and I wanted to walk around the island casually, but Uncle Li repeatedly told the two of us to be careful, saying that there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants here, so don't be bitten.
I jokingly patted Ding Yi and said, "Uncle Li, don't worry, Ding Yi is a must-have product for home travel to avoid snakes and insects!"
Uncle Li smiled and shook his head, and waved his hand at us, "Go and go back quickly, don't go too far." ”
To be honest, we really couldn't have gone too far, because Evan told us that the island was so small that it wouldn't take me three or four hours to get from south to north, so I just wanted to walk around and move my muscles because I had been on the boat so hard before.
The climate on this island was very humid, hot and stuffy, and I always felt a slimy feeling on my body, so I pulled Ding and searched around, and I really found a small pond that was not large.
The location of this small pond is very private, and the grass on the periphery grows very high, but from time to time there are bursts of cool water blowing from the pond, which makes people feel more comfortable, I can't wait to jump into it to take a bath, it must be very refreshing!
Who knew that when I wanted to go down to cool off, I was pulled by Ding Yi, "This water is not clean, so I can't go down." ”
I felt it hard, and then I said to him, "No, I don't feel the corpses here!"
But Ding Yi said, "The place where there is a corpse is not necessarily unclean, in short, you can't go into the water." ”
I was so hot that when I heard him say that I would not be allowed to go into the water, I immediately felt a little irritable, so I pushed him casually and said, "Why do you say that if you don't let me go down, I don't know if there is anything unclean here?"
After saying that, I turned around and walked towards the pond without looking back, but I didn't take two steps, and suddenly I heard someone shouting behind me, and I turned around a little dazedly, and saw Raul running towards us with an anxious face, and he came to me, and without saying a word, he pulled me back, and said something while walking.