Why it never ends

"Vilyuchinsky! Vilyuchinsky!" the visitor nodded excitedly. "Boat! Big ship! Come and sit?"

Although neither of them could understand each other's language very well, they understood each other immediately with only key words and gestures.

Hesta carried a cane and followed the man to a pier not far away.There were sparse passengers on the ferry at night, and Hesta paid the money in exchange for a thin ticket. She only walked a few steps in when she suddenly saw a familiar figure near the side of the ship.

"...Officer Su Lei?"

Si Lei turned around in response.

Looking at each other, both of them were stunned.

"The boat is about to sail!" The boss at the bow shouted loudly, "Everyone find a good seat to sit down!"

……

"So it's just you?" Si Lei looked back and confirmed again and again, "Qianye dares to let you run around like you are now... Aren't you joking about your own safety?"

"It doesn't matter," Hesta leaned on the back of the chair, "Miss Chiba said, I was under strict surveillance for the first three months, if there is any danger, someone will always come to rescue me, If it's a black ship, it's woe to her."

Su Lei looked around again, with doubts in his eyes: Hesta was the last passenger on board, and there was no one following after her, and there were no more than ten passengers on this ferry at the moment—could it be that they all got on early? Waiting for her watcher?
The waterscape around the two began to move back, and the boat drove away.

"What is Officer Sule doing in Viborg?"

"Just go and have a look. After all, this place is mentioned a lot in the book "Forest." Su Lei replied, and she looked at Hesta, "Why did you go there, and it was also because of Anna?"

"No, I have heard that there is a monument over there since I was a child. Since it is close, I will stop by."

"The one commemorating the War of Defense?"

"Ah."

The ferry sailed on the water for more than an hour, and finally docked at a small, more dilapidated pier.

There is almost no lighting on the pier. From a distance, Hesta saw people waiting on the shore with dim lights. Before the boat docked, those people began to call out the names of their relatives in an unfamiliar language. When the sound was heard, the passengers on the ship let out a loud and long "Hey!" and waved vigorously in response.

Su Lei glanced at Hesta, who was empty-handed, and tapped her crutch lightly with his knuckles, "Is this all the luggage you brought?"

"It's a temporary boat, and all my things are in the apartment."

Si Lei sighed, "Forget it, you can follow me tonight."

……

There is still snow on the Viborg Road in June, the snow is dirty, mixed with sawdust and cinders, and the path is muddy.

At this time, there were almost no people on the road, but the occasional passers-by were dressed in everything. A man wrapped in a thick cotton coat passed by, and then a young man in short-sleeved shorts walked towards him.

Su Lei stood in front of a grocery store, and then checked the paper map again with the faint light. She looked back and forth for a while, "...the hotel should be here."

Hesta stepped forward and knocked on the door of the grocery store.

After a while, an old lady took off the door panel and poked out half of her face from behind, "Who is it?"

Hesta couldn't speak, so he quickly called Si Lei over. The old lady's accent was so strong that even Si Lei couldn't fully understand it, but the two talked for a long time, and the old lady finally showed a look of enlightenment, and beckoned them to come in.

"She said that there used to be a hotel here, but because no one came, it was closed a long time ago," Si Lei explained in a low voice as he walked through the courtyard, "Now this is a small shop plus a warehouse, except for selling daily necessities. , mainly used to send and receive letters and couriers, from here to the north, there are a dozen villages, large and small..."

Hesta nodded. She stood in the center of the yard and slowly looked around. The structure of the front shop and backyard brought back many memories for her.

"simple?"

"……coming."

The old man led the two of them to a compartment next to the warehouse. Si Lei put down his luggage, and soon followed the old man out. When she returned, she was carrying a hot water bottle.

"How long do you plan to stay here?" Si Lei asked.

"Go back after seeing the monument."

"Then I will go with you tomorrow. At 06:30 tomorrow morning, there will be a car driving towards Villiers. It seems that the monument is right next to this town."

"How long are you going to stay here?"

"It depends," Su Lei replied, "I'll go through all the villages and towns here...maybe, more than half a month."

"Are you here to check on Anna's old background?" Hesta was a little surprised, "Do you really think you can find out?"

"...just try your luck, who knows."

After finishing washing, Su Lei put the remaining half bottle of water beside Hesta's bed, "Use the rest."

"Thank you."

……

Early the next morning, the sky was still gray, and the two left the grocery store.Su Lei left a banknote on the only table in the room, pressing it with a hot water bottle.

They were worried that the bus station would be as difficult to find as the hotel last night, but the opposite happened. As soon as the two arrived nearby, they saw a group of people with big bags and small bags gathered together, and a large car that could hold about 20 people The car was parked alone on the side of the road, the door was closed, and everyone was waiting under the car.

The two also hurried forward, and after observing for a long time, they couldn't find the head and tail of the line—no one was queuing.

Suddenly, someone patted Su Lei on the shoulder. When Su Lei turned around, he found that it was an eleven or twelve-year-old girl.Hesta also looked this way, she was startled for a moment, and then stared into the girl's eyes.It was a cloudy day at the moment, and the girl's eyes showed a strange light brown color, but as long as the sun rose, or the light here was brighter...the eyes would turn into a familiar golden color.

"Hello?" Su Lei asked tentatively.

"It's going to snow tonight!" The little girl's voice was still shrill, "If you dress like this, you're going to freeze to death!"

"Snowing?" Si Lei was taken aback, "I checked the weather here yesterday, and the temperature in the next few days..."

The little girl immediately laughed, "You still believe that! Only fools believe that! That's not allowed in the mountains!"

Hesta looked at the two people in front of her. Although she didn't understand what they were talking about, but when she saw the little girl patted her padded jacket and pulled up Si Lei's windbreaker, she roughly guessed the meaning. She wanted to ask if there was any A place that sells clothes, but I couldn't make a complete sentence in my mind for a while, so I could only grab the hem of the little girl's cotton-padded jacket, "Can you buy it?"

"My clothes are not for sale!" The little girl pulled back her cotton-padded clothes, and pointed to a residential building not far away, "There are rented ones over there, you can pick one after paying a deposit, will you pick it? "

Su Lei glanced into the distance, and was just about to touch the reserve price with the little girl, when she saw that she had put down her suitcase, and turned around to tell a few companions to watch it for her.

"Let's go," the little girl pulled Si Lei, "You two foreigners are not good enough, if you don't know how to bargain, you will be slaughtered. I will take you there."