Chapter 23 21 start again

Lying on my back on the bunk, I gaze upward.I don't know what kind of dirt it was, but it stained the entire ceiling black, like a dark cloud.Watching and watching, I began to fall into some unpleasant imagination.Like fallen leaves decaying back to dust, my body sank deep into the bed and melted. . . For a moment of horror, I doubted that I would ever make the journey again.It has been three weeks since I lived in Xihai B&B.When I first lived here, I also actively ran around the streets and alleys of the city for a new start.The camping supplies here are not very good, so I had to ask a friend to send them from Japan.Most other daily necessities are cheap, I collect around the local market,

I've attached plastic shopping bags to my bike with bungee cords instead of the bike's storage bag, and it looks like a real mess.But this is exactly what I want to achieve, the poorer you look, the less likely you are to be robbed. Incidentally, this idea later had an unexpected side effect, which I only found out later.As long as you rest in a small town or village, local people will come and ask: What do you sell?Anyway, ha, I was mistaken for a small itinerant peddler. In this way, he prepared step by step down-to-earth, but what happened next made his heart tremble.It was my 10th day in Lima, and I walked into the Lima branch of American Express.I have been here several times before, but the traveler's check was only reissued for 400 US dollars, and the total amount robbed reached 2,900 US dollars.

That day, the eldest sister who had been in contact with me and felt that she was a nice person saw it, her face darkened, and she told me a terrible news: your traveler's check cannot be reissued.At the moment I thought I heard it wrong, but yes, he did say that, I felt weak all over, and almost collapsed on the spot. For, why? Your invoice shows signs of being used this is so stupid I asked them to let me call the bank and a robotic voice came through the receiver 'Your check has been used'. For the famous American Express, the Japanese spoken by the translators is not good enough. .Wait, I called you to report the check number after I was robbed, didn't you tell me the check hadn't been used?It was used after that, what are you doing?Didn't I confirm with you after I told you the number?

. . . . . . . . Hey, talk to me! Travelers checks cannot be deactivated completely Hey, if that's the case, then why am I buying a check?Why do I have to pay that one percent handling fee?Isn't it just for safety? . . . . . . . . . . Anyway, since I stopped after calling, it should be your problem, right?Reissue it to me quickly.I told them angrily that this was impossible, and the other party replied.You guys, pay attention to your words and practice your Japanese more.Talk to your boss, my English is a hundred times better than your Japanese.Click, the other party hung up the phone.

I redialed again and couldn't get through.The bank lady in front of me looked at me with confusion rather than sympathy, so I had to do it all over again. Afterwards, I fought with the American Express bank on the phone almost every day, but there was no progress at all. .It's really deceiving. Traveler's checks are the safest, which is simply a bluff, The bad luck didn't stop there.Probably because of the traveler's check incident, my body suddenly collapsed, and I developed an unexplained high fever, my tonsils were swollen, and I coughed so badly that I spent every day in bed.Looking blankly at the dirt-covered ceiling, the phantoms of the robbers kept appearing: the black gun muzzle approaching me, bloodshot, murderous eyes, and dirty skin. With the sound of his footsteps rushing towards me, these images repeated in my mind.I tried to concentrate on reading the book, but my eyes immediately jumped out of the book, only the robber in my mind was staring at my face, and I fell into a deep sense of powerlessness every day and couldn't extricate myself.Sitting on the bus to Lima, the passionate mood of a person has long since disappeared without a trace.

This seems to suggest to me: it's time to turn back I was in bed thinking about my fortune-telling lady and about the hematuria. The ominous premonition at that time really came true. Bad things happened one after another. If I reluctantly start now, maybe I will die next time. . . . .Such delusion, I firmly believe. But. . . . .If I stop here and go back to Japan, I will definitely regret it for the rest of my life. This matter is more certain than my foreboding.I can only start, I can only go straight forward, I must surpass the current predicament, and there is nothing I can do in case of any accident.Rather than spending your life regretting, it's better to finish what you want to do and then scatter like cherry blossoms.Originally, it was with this kind of determination that I left Japan and embarked on a journey. However, these words were only circling in my mind in vain, and my body has not been able to move.Only by chatting with my roommate, Sano-kun, can I temporarily relieve my depressed mood.The two of us lived in this three-person room. This kind of cheap homestay usually has this kind of common room, that is, sharing a big room with other people, and of course it is much cheaper.I was the only one living in the triple room at first, and Sano-kun joined me after he had just finished riding his motorcycle across Central America.He is easily shy, and he is not much talkative. His very black and white eyes are very simple.

I hid in the quilt, retracted into my own world, but only opened my heart to him. It was just incredible. He just listened to others talking silently, but he could feel the deep tolerance, understanding and tenderness.He hadn't shown any signs of moving on.Once I asked him when to leave, he hesitated and said: . . . .Well, maybe I'm a little nosy, but I won't leave without watching Brother Ishida leave. I was speechless and could only look at his face. Ah, but please don't mind, it's my own pleasure to do so. He regards my business as his own business, be careful that I will give up the journey, and stay in the hotel all the time in order to see me off.

He didn't say anything like: Come on, or change your mood and think about it for the better. He just listened quietly to others, or said something insignificant, but there was some kind of power in it.Although the traveler's check is still lost, I already feel that there is no need to pursue it any further.My health is still not very good, and I started to go out again for equipment.On the thirty-fifth day of my stay at Xihai B&B, I finally set off. There were about 10 guests staying here. They were all there to send me on the road. I shook hands with them one by one.Looking at Sano-kun's face, I wanted to say something to him.He smiled, and his eyes were slightly moist, and I was speechless, so I had to return the same smile.In this way, I started again.