The warm sunshine in the afternoon, the moist air blowing from the forest on the shore, the blue lake water outside the deck, and of course, the big white cat waiting to eat fish at my feet.
In this rare leisure, Wei Ran swung the fishing rod again and again. Although the two fish he caught all went into the cat's belly, he didn't come here for the fish, so it didn't matter.
I never get tired of this.
Just as he was picking the third fish off the hook, Ivan, who seemed to have been sleeping just now, asked without opening his eyes, "How have your life been these two days?"
Wei Ran paused for a moment, then picked off the fish and threw it to the big white cat with a normal expression, then threw the hook into the lake again, then lay down on the rocking chair again and answered truthfully, "It's not bad, although it's very bland.
, but very fulfilling and a good place for vacation.”
"How about comparing with Dalia?" Ivan opened his eyes, lit a cigarette and asked.
"It was hell there." Wei Ran shook his head, "In comparison, this place is like heaven."
"Yeah, it's like heaven here."
Ivan murmured something like a whisper, stood up with the fishing rod, pulled the line back to close the rod, and continued to ask, "Victor, if you can only choose between two, would you choose Dalia's side or the other side?"
Would you choose this place?”
"You can only choose one of the two?" Wei Ran turned around and asked.
Ivan threw the fishhook out again, looked at the calm lake with his old eyes and replied, "Yes, I can only choose one of the two."
After a moment of silence, Wei Ran replied with a smile, "Maybe I'll go back to Kazan."
"Why?" Ivan asked, finally turning his face away.
"If I were your age, maybe I would live here."
Wei Ran pointed to the direction he came from, "The environment here is very good. Although there are not many people in the village and the living conditions are not as convenient as in the city, everyone seems to have a good relationship and the pace of life is slow. It is a very leisurely and suitable place.
A place to retire.”
At this point, Wei Ran's tone became more and more certain, "But I'm not that age yet."
"Interesting young man" Ivan sat on the recliner again and suddenly changed the subject and said, "Tomorrow is Friday."
"So?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in confusion.
"Both of my daughters have no classes on Friday, so they take the train from Petersburg back to Petrozavodsk every Thursday night. On Friday, that is, tomorrow morning, at seven o'clock in the morning, they will take the train
We will arrive at the station.”
Having said this, Ivan looked at Wei Ran seriously and said seriously, "Victor, before they come back, I will give you two pieces of advice."
"What advice?" Wei Ran became nervous after hearing this.
"The first piece of advice, watch your mind, don't try to take advantage of my two daughters, even exchanging contact information. The second piece of advice, watch your mouth, don't reveal your origins, don't let the two of them
Hearing things you shouldn't hear, let alone showing off your achievements or merits, you'd better act like an arrogant and rude idiot."
Wei Ran was about to open his mouth to say something, but Ivan had already looked at the calm lake again, "There is no need to make any guarantees, I am just informing you that as long as you fail to do any of the things, I will put you in oil
The barrel was tied to an anchor and sunk alive into the deepest bed of Lake Onega."
"Thank you for your advice." Wei Ran smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Then under what name should I appear?"
Ivan said irresponsibly, "That's something that should give you a headache. That crazy female Dalia must have taught you how to lie."
After pondering for a moment, Wei Ran put away his fishing rod and said, "My family has a travel agency, and I'm going to work with you to bring tourists here to experience the life of fishermen. How about it?"
"Okay, Yana and I will cooperate with you." Before I could finish his words, Ivan had already thrown the fishing rod to Wei Ran, stood up and walked to the cabin, "Okay, we should go back."
"Father's love is like a mountain. Either he sinks in the lake or he drowns alive. There is really nothing wrong with him..."
"What are you mumbling over there?" Ivan shouted dissatisfied, "Hurry up and sail back!"
"Coming! Right now!" Wei Ran responded hurriedly, put away the fishing rod indiscriminately, and ran into the cabin in a hurry.
Soon after, with the roar of the engine, the dilapidated fishing boat slowly sailed towards the direction it came from.
After landing on the pier without any danger, Wei Ran found an excuse to go back to his room and once again focused on his graduation thesis, which was about to be completed.
Another night passed quietly, and at 4:05 a.m. the next day, Ivan knocked on Wei Ran's door on time.
Wei Ran, who had gotten up and put on his clothes ten minutes ago, responded deliberately in confusion. After waiting for two or three minutes, he yawned and opened the door.
There was still an insulated lunch box and an old-fashioned insulated kettle for each person. Wei Ran followed Ivan and boarded the fishing boat silently. Without even saying a word to the other party, he started the engine on his own initiative, left the dock in reverse, slowly changed direction and drove to
pointed in the direction of Ivan's finger.
I don’t know if it was because his two precious daughters were coming back, but I was lucky that day. The two old guys on the stern deck cast a net for the first time and got something.
And Ivan also took this opportunity to deliberately arrange Wei Ran to the stern of the ship to help cast the net.
Wei Ran is really not afraid of this job. Although the net he throws is not as round as the two old guys next to him, it is still the same. However, as the fishing net is thrown out and taken back again and again,
He was inevitably covered in water and had an unpleasant fishy smell.
Until this time, Ivan was satisfied and called him back to the cockpit to take charge of driving to the city, while he and his two old friends were talking and laughing at the stern of the boat, sorting the catch.
Wei Ran, who was holding the steering wheel, didn't know the other party's plan. The petty old man did it on purpose. He deliberately tried his best to make Wei Ran look slovenly before his two precious daughters boarded the ship.
In fact, he had no doubt that whenever he figured out the other person's thoughts, Ivan would unceremoniously press himself into a large plastic basin filled with spring fish as a reward for the correct answer.
We sailed the boat to Petrozavodsk with a fishy smell all over us. Ivan also took over the job of driving the boat again, obviously not wanting anything to go wrong on the day when his daughter came back.
"Today you are going to sell fish"
After the boat stopped, Ivan ruthlessly left the job of selling fish to Wei Ran, and he himself ran back to the cabin and changed into a pair of decent clothes, and even the rain boots on his feet turned into a pair of
Even Wei Ran could smell the cologne in his shiny leather shoes.
Although Wei Ran felt that Ivan's actions were a bit exaggerated, but looking at the other two old men's accustomed expressions, he knew that this was probably not the first time.
Watching Ivan, who looked like a dog in his clothes, leave the dock, Weiran pulled the trolley without any mental barriers, took the price tag that Ivan had written in advance, and followed the other two "old" colleagues.
