Chapter 16 Fifteen, three bells

We will leave Chitwan the next day, and we will take part in the last group excursion organized by the hotel in the afternoon. The highlight of the excursion is to take a canoe to watch birds and crocodiles in the rainforest. KC considers the potential ethnic groups in our team Disagreement, two boats were grandly arranged, a big Indian family was sitting on one boat, and on the other boat, except for the boatman, there were only me and Wang Can sitting alone. The boat set off from the river, under the scorching sun, and slowly rowed into the rainforest. The river surface was narrow and wide, and the dense rainforest gathered and scattered above the head, and the sunlight scattered in the woods one by one.

The boat rowed very slowly, and the boatman stood up from time to time and pointed to a tree in English, telling us to pay attention: Look, bird!We immediately picked up the binoculars and scanned for a while. The draft of the small canoe is very deep, and our side of the boat is almost level with the water surface, which makes me a little nervous, but Wang Can sitting in the stern is very leisurely, leaning on the seat with his feet on the side of the boat, drinking canned beer , still humming a song in my mouth, the tune is out of tune, but it doesn't stop for a moment, it just swirls like exhaust gas in the back of my head.

When Wang Can ruined Eason Chan beyond recognition, I finally couldn't help it, and turned to stare at him, because he sang like this: "I came to your city, but you don't care about the meal..." Seeing me turn around and stare at him, Wang Can narrowed his eyes: "What are you doing?" "Is it okay to make a lower voice? Even the birds can't hear it anymore." "I lyrical myself, and I didn't sing to the birds." I didn't want to talk nonsense with him, so I turned around, and there was a moment of silence behind me, and the singing sounded again, this time: "Long johns, are you so cool if you wear them..."

After rowing for more than half an hour, I saw a lot of birds, but not a single crocodile, but fortunately, Wang Can's singing gradually stopped, and there was a sound of "thump, thud, thump" footsteps behind him, and the boat was over After swaying, Wang Can sat down behind me and leaned forward shamelessly. "Hey, Cheng Tianshuang, please do me a favor." I turned to look at him impatiently. "Ask this old man for me, when will you see crocodiles?" "Ask yourself." "I don't know how to say crocodile in English." I looked at Wang Can seriously, and Wang Can nodded seriously.

"Failing in English shows that I am patriotic. Really, my vocabulary is enough to buy a bottle of beer." "Do you speak Chinese very well? I didn't realize it either." Wang Can didn't react, and grinned broadly: "It's cool, let's stop arguing, don't we just want to have a good time when we come out to play, after these two days of playing, don't we just go back to our respective houses and find our mothers, okay? A little worldly, huh?" "Wang Can!" I stretched out my finger and pointed at him, "How can you be so sarcastic when you say words like sophistication?"

"Don't point at my nose, I tend to cross eyes..." Wang Can shook off my hand forcefully, interrupting my words. Just as the flames of war were about to spread, there was a sound of "Hush!" from the front, and the boatman pointed his oar at the grass by the river in the distance: "Crocodile!" The two of us shut up at the same time, each picked up a binoculars, and looked at the grass. In the grass by the river far away, there was really a crocodile. It was not as big as imagined in the binoculars, lying motionless. on the ground. We looked through the binoculars for a long time, and the crocodile didn't move, staying silently like a still life.

"Is this thing real or fake? Why does it look like a plaster sculpture?" Wang Can held the binoculars and muttered, then turned to look at me, "Hey, let the old man draw closer so that he can see better." "He stopped here to let you see. It must be a safe area. When you draw closer, the crocodile has entered the water. What should we do?" "Impossible, the crocodile must have a better temper than you." Wang Can took away the binoculars, looked at the boatman, and made a gesture of approaching with his hand. The boatman didn't bother to argue with him, and rowed a little towards the shore.

Wang Can motioned the boatman to come closer, but the boatman firmly shook his head and refused. Wang Can did not dare to provoke others anymore, so he squatted on the seat with both feet, and leaned half out of the boat, almost drooling. Still muttering. "I like the crocodile the most. Look at its skin. Hey, it doesn't look like anything on earth. The texture is so handsome. It's only suitable for a crocodile to wear this kind of skin." I looked in the telescope, and the crocodile was motionless. It really looked like a statue. It seemed that the locals carved one and put it in the grass for us to see from a distance. Who would ask others to stop the boat except Wang Can? Watch here for half a day.

"...Every time I see those women carrying crocodile skin bags, I get irritable, and I want to go up and grab them, and return them to the crocodile. Can you eat a cow raw? Can you Lay forty eggs a year? You don't know anything, so why grab someone's skin? You're a shameless..." Watching the crazy Wang Can is more interesting than watching the crocodile. "Hey, do you know why I like crocodiles so much?" Wang Can wanted to gain some sense of interaction while expressing emotion. I pretended not to hear, but Wang Can did not give up: "Guess, guess."

"Is it related to you by blood?" Wang Can glared at me: "Accordingly, I have a lot of respect for Pete's thick and cold-blooded animals, but you are really an exception..." Wang Can leaned out again and stepped on the side of the boat. Just as the boatman was about to stop him, the crocodile actually moved in our sight. It moved faster than we expected, although it was far away from us. The boat was quite far away, but from the binoculars, the crocodile crawled towards our boat firmly. I was startled, subconsciously dodged behind the boatman, the movement was a little bigger, and the boat swayed.

Wang Can was yelling, "Move! Move..." He was squatting by the side of the boat, was shaken by the hull, and kept a neatly curled up posture. into the water. The boatman and I were frightened. The boatman was about to come to catch people with the oars. There was a splash in the water, and Wang Can floated up with a lot of aquatic plants on his head. Not far away, the crocodile slowly crawled towards the surface of the water. The boatman and I shot at the same time, hurriedly fished Wang Can up, and asked him to sit in the back of the boat. Wang Can, who was squatting on the seat, was wearing a wig made of water plants. He was still in shock and scared like a chicken. After being pale for a long time, he finally uttered a sentence: "Damn it, my family is almost extinct." The boatman was also terrified, cursing and paddling back at a faster speed. It didn't take long before we carried the drenched Wang Can back to the finish line. We got off the boat, walked to a lawn by the river, and waited for the hotel's jeep to pick us up. Wang Can kept a sulky face and didn’t speak, and I didn’t bother to express my apologies. KC and the jeep didn’t come for a long time. I looked around for a while, and when I turned around, I found that Wang Can had taken off his shirt and was hanging on an upside-down withered tree by the river. On the tree, the tree grows very strangely. The roots that have been pulled out are divided into several claws, like a tree that can stand up at any time and walk step by step. Wang Can is shirtless, standing on the trunk Half lying down, a beam of light passed through the rainforest and just hit his stomach. Wang Can stared at his glowing belly, with an expression similar to love at first sight on his face. The tourists passing by in twos and threes saw this scene and walked away with a smile. I leaned over and whispered to Wang Can, "Can you bear it any longer? I'll be back at the hotel soon..." Wang Can waved his hand and looked up at me in a daze: "Do you have a mirror?" Although inexplicable, I still nodded: "Yes." "Give me." I dug out a small vanity mirror from my bag and handed it to him. Wang Can took a look in the mirror, lowered his head to ponder for a while, then raised his head and began to look at me, which made me feel hairy. "You give me that necklace around your neck too." I touched my neck, and there was a hollow totem necklace that I bought in Kathmandu. "Why? You're already like this, and you still want to rob me?" Wang Can glared: "Hurry up." Thinking that I was wronged by him just now, I was a little bit wrong, so I took off the necklace and handed it over. Wang Can pressed the hollowed-out totem flat piece on his belly, held a mirror in one hand, carefully reflected the beam of light in the middle of his belly, then looked up at me, and smiled excitedly: "You said, I'm going to bask in the sun for a while, is it right?" Wouldn't it be possible to bake a tattoo on my stomach? That would be so cool!" I looked at Wang Can, who was making fun of my stomach, with a bun of waterweed on the back of his head, and was a little speechless for a moment. Wang Can didn't intend to hear feedback from me, so he started the experiment with a dull head. The tourists who set off on the boat together have almost left, and the lawn has become quiet. Wang Can is still waiting for the sun tattoo to appear. If this scientific experiment is really effective, I would also like to witness a living person’s stomach emitting green smoke. stand up. At this time, in the dense forest behind the lawn, a bell rang, jingling for a while, then disappeared into the woods, and after a while, it rang again at the other end of the forest. The sound was particularly crisp and transparent. Wang Can and I pricked up our ears at the same time, chasing the sound of the bell, but Wang Can kept the posture of roasting the tattoo, the bell rang intermittently, and I became more and more curious. A local boy just came out of the forest. On the lawn, I leaned up and stopped him. "Can you speak English? Kid?" The child nodded obediently, but almost threw me over when he opened his mouth: "What's up! Man? (What's up?)" It seems that children in tourist areas have received international English education since they were young. The "How do you do?" "Where does the sound of the bell come from?" "Ringtone? What ringtone?" At this time, there was a sound of bells in the forest, and I pointed to the woods: "Listen." After the little boy finished explaining, he turned around and walked away bouncing around. Before leaving, he said, "See ya! Pal!" Wang Can yelled behind me: "Where is the bell?" I turned around and looked at him: "It's the bells hanging around the necks of buffaloes. Each cow has one. During the day, they are sent to graze in the forest and go to the river to enjoy the shade. At night, the master rings the bell, and the cows follow the sound of the bell." Going home, if any cow doesn’t come back, you can follow the bell on its neck and go back to the forest to look for it, isn’t it good? That’s the bell telling you to go home, lest you get lost.” I think this is very warm, but Wang Can is obviously not very interested, then looked down at his stomach, and said: "Isn't it just a GPS to prevent the cow from escaping? If the cow enters the forest, you can pick the bell yourself." gone?" "Why does the cow pick the bell? You can still go home after picking it? Are you free to cut off the credit card your father gave you? It's a meaning." The expression on Wang Can's face dimmed. "It's as if you don't have a bell around your neck." Wang Can countered in a low voice. I was stunned by these words. The bell rang again, this time the sound was much closer, as if it was ringing right next to the ears, if you listen carefully, you can hear the muffled breathing of the cows. Unlike the buffalo, the bell that came home was indeed picked up by me a long time ago. In the second-tier small town in Shanxi where I was born, even if the alarm bells all over the city rang, I would not be attracted by the bell. Many times I fill out the form, and when I see the word "native place", I will be distracted. My native place is a place where I can accompany my parents, go home for dinner, and go to bed at nine o'clock every night. It’s not that I don’t want to go back to a place where I can’t fall and I can’t jump high, but I can’t go back. The longer I stay in Beijing, the more I can’t accept my failure. I have other bells hanging on my body. One bell was given to me by the landlord. Every time the rent was paid, it would ring desperately. The other bell was given to me by the editor-in-chief, and it was the bell of the landlord. Tied together, sometimes they form a duet, and there is also a bell, which was given to me by the city of Beijing. Every time I was bullied and neglected by it, I felt disheartened and wanted to pack my luggage and go home. Leaving, but there will always be a faint call in my heart, just like this bell, wanting me not to go, wanting me to stay. In fact, I know that the sound of the bell is that I shook it for myself. When I was counting the bells on my body, the sound of the bells in reality was approaching. A large herd of buffaloes appeared mightily from the forest. The copper bells hanging around their necks rang in unison. The herd of buffaloes crossed the lawn, The bells sounded together, floating in mid-air, gathered into a group, and hit the sun that was about to sink in mid-air. "It hurts, it hurts..." With a thud behind him, Wang Can clutched his stomach, slid down silently holding the tree trunk, and turned over on the lawn. I leaned over to take a look, and there was a red dot in the center of Wang Can's belly. "Isn't it just posted in the sun? Why did you just scream and hurt?" "...I can't bear it anymore." Wang Can said with a painful face. KC and the jeep finally appeared on the edge of the lawn. Wang Can and I walked over, and Wang Can rubbed his stomach while walking. "Hey, actually, the one I posted can also be called a tattoo." I glanced at it and said objectively: "No matter how you look at it, it's just a small red dot." "Let's look at it from another angle. This little red dot can also be the solar system seen from distant outer space. I posted a solar system myself, is it awesome?" I nodded, really convinced: "Your father really raised a good son, I really envy him." After you came to me in the afternoon, I thought that the relationship between Wang Can and I had become peaceful. Although it was still far away from "having a good impression", at least seeing his face, I no longer felt evil. . But I didn't expect that Wang Can and I had a big fight on the last night we spent together in Chitwan.