Chapter 70 Chapter 3 Freedom Like the Wind (2)

The girls all left, and one of them, who was very beautiful, asked Marty for tape before leaving, and pasted her picture in the sea of ​​pictures on the pillar.Her companions booed and tore a ribbon from the balloon to wrap around the new photograph. Purple ribbons looped into a heart pattern. The rattan couple proposes to play cards, and Su Yuan and Ji Er second the proposal.Marty, who was not involved in the game, went to the bar and cleared away the messy glasses.Most of the guests staying now are quietly sipping coffee and eating cakes, and they seem to be waiting.Christmas Eve itself is a religion, and waiting is its ritual.In the ancient times full of faith, people waited for the dawn of fate on this night; now, in crowded and desolate cities, people use this night to recall the time when there was still faith and expectation.

Marty looked out from the door and saw Xiaoye's back.She was squatting alone under the dim and lonely street lamp, playing with the little leopard with a pine branch. After waiting too long, Marty took a sip of his cool black coffee.It tasted very bitter and very cold.Hai'an will not come in today.Everyone knew in their hearts that this was a sad coffee shop that lost Hai'an. The door was pushed open, and Xiaoye walked in, directly walking into the bandstand.At twelve o'clock at midnight, Xiaoye played the most traditional version of the Christmas Eve chorus.In the singing, the people in the room fell silent, and they all tasted the non-religious sense of tranquility and happiness in the singing.Rattan hugged Xiaomei tightly, Suyuan approached Marty lightly, and Jill patted Xiaoye's shoulder.

"Come on, let's close the store and go for a night tour." Jill's voice was very brisk. "Okay." Xiaoye lowered her head, and soon she raised her head again, with a bright smile on her face, "Let's go to the northernmost seaside!" The last customer was sent away, and after a simple tidying up, Teng Tiao Xiaomei and Jier went to pick up the car, Marty and Su Yuan accompanied Xiao Ye to close the store, turned off the projection lights on the dance floor, and turned off the sea blue lights In an instant, the store was completely dark, and they all walked out of the coffee shop, Xiaoye pulled down the iron door forcefully.Not far ahead was a lonely street lamp, which cast a huge black shadow over the iron gate.Before the black shadow, Xiaoye stood there for a long time without moving.Once, in a silent and distant time, Xiaoye's world was covered with fire-like sunlight. In the flames, she finally learned that the more intense the light source, the darker the shade created.Suyuan and Marty walked to Xiaoye hand in hand, the shadow in front of them was Hai'an.

After staring at them wordlessly, Hai'an grinned, and he unloaded a heavy bag from his shoulders.Xiaoye ran in front of him, Haian rubbed her short hair, and hugged her shoulder so naturally. Marty and Suyuan also came to Hai'an.The Haian in front of him has lost a lot of weight, is very tanned, his hair has grown a bit, and his face is full of chic Yusi.Marty felt a little touch in her heart, she could see Hai'an's hard-hitting look in this roughness. "Brother Ke, did you see the note I left?" Xiaoye helped lift Hai'an's backpack, but found that it was unexpectedly heavy.

"I just came back to China, so I came here directly." Hai'an said. "You almost missed us," Marty said. "We're going on a night cruise on the North Shore." "Well, starry night roaming, how could I miss it?" The horn sounded from behind, and Jill stood leaning against her car with her chest in her arms. She exhaled a long smoke and smiled.Teng Tiao's car also came, and he had replaced it with a cool Saab sports car. Teng Tiao and Xiaomei waved excitedly at Hai'an from the car.Xiaoye ran to fetch Haian's white sports car.All of a sudden, the headlights of the three cars illuminated the door of the sad coffee shop together, and everything in the lively and warm sad coffee shop seemed to be back to the past.

After a simple assignment, Marty and Suyuan took Jier's car, Hai'an took Xiaoye, and Teng Tiao and Xiaomei were in the same car.They sailed into the dark night of Taipei, and exchanged messages with loudspeakers along the way. After passing through the light pollution area of ​​the city and climbing up the hillside on the outskirts of the city, they saw the starry sky.The car drove briskly, and the three cars crossed the Yangming Mountains in the starlight.On the downhill road to the sea, Jier twirled her long hair and said "sit firmly", then suddenly accelerated to overtake Hai'an's car.Marty sat in the front seat lowered her body. She had learned Jill's drag racing skills, and now she was crying secretly.

Behind is the raised black ridge on the edge of the entire Great Taipei, and in front is the black sea under the night sky.Jill's car was speeding like an arrow, and there was a dead silence all around.Jill turned on the stereo, and it was Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd again. "The sad coffee shop song?" Marty asked. "Listen to Xiaoye!" Jier turned to look at her, but the speed of the car did not slow down at all. "Look ahead, please!" Marty yelled. "Xiaoye, call all the rock music she likes the song of the sad coffee shop." Su Yuan said, "Most of them are some really loud music. When she is in the mood, she will play it all night, making it painful for the guests half dead."

"Actually, Xiaoye is quite good at listening to music. Her sad coffee shop songs all have a common theme." Jill tapped the steering wheel along with the music. "Noisy." Su Yuan said. Jill grinned, pressed the horn hard, and drove away a large container truck in front of her.The container truck was on fire, and it swung its tail left and right to prevent Jill from overtaking. "Get out of the way! Get out of my way!" Jill yelled out the car window. Marty gripped the edge of the seat, feeling the unbridled hard rock hit the driver's emotions. "Freedom!" Jill passed the big truck with a beautiful arc on one side of the car.She screamed exaggeratedly: "Wow, the free car in the middle of the night, I really love it!"

"Hi! You!" Xiaoye shouted from outside the car.Hai'an's white BMW sports car chased after her. Xiaoye stretched out her upper body from the car, and was waving at Jill and the others excitedly. Her short hair was torn by the strong wind, and her loud laughter came from the wind. Jill stepped on the accelerator to the end, but Haian's car was driving like the wind, and they whistled past the car window.Marty and Suyuan quickly waved to Xiaoye. Jill catches up at top speed.Marty had an illusion, as if the wheels were about to fly off the ground, but the distance between them and Hai'an was getting farther and farther.Walking along the coastal road, Haian's taillights are now at the end of the road, where the sea meets the sky, and it looks like a twinkling starlight.

"Damn it, rely on his car." Jill scolded.A charming smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. At 2:08 in the middle of the night, they came to Hualien's desolate and gravel beach. The strong wind blowing from the Pacific Ocean hit this deserted rocky beach after a thousand miles of icy travel.Amid the sound of waves, Marty picked up a handful of gravel, and when he let go of it, the gravel was blown away obliquely by the strong wind.It was too cold, so cold that there was no place to hide, naked and exposed on the rocky beach, filled with wind, blowing away the memories brought from the city.

The gravel on this beach is thick and of different shapes. Marty and Su Yuan walked arm in arm and struggled to the edge of the beach close to the waves. Hai'an was already there, and Marty saw that Hai'an was still carrying his luggage.Jill spread a thick woolen shawl over her curly hair and sat down on the gravel next to Marty.Cane brought a canvas chair, and he set it up graciously, but Xiaomei refused, she wanted to sit on the stone. Where the sea water hits the rocky beach, there are white waves under the faint starlight.Hai'an was standing in front of the sea line, and the wind was blowing like frost, but Hai'an opened his collar, spread his arms and immersed himself in the wind.Marty felt the colder, and she took the corner of the sheepskin from Jill's shoulders and wrapped it around her head.Xiaoye came running from the other end of the beach, holding a bunch of heavy things in her arms, and carefully folded these things on the gravel in front of everyone. It turned out to be a handful of firewood for a campfire. "It's lucky." Xiaoye said with a smile, "It was left over from the previous people's camping, and we ordered it." The wind was too strong, Xiaoye and rattan lay on the ground and tried their best, and finally lit the pile of firewood.On the beach under the starlight, raging flames rose up. Although it still didn't block the cold, at least it provided a lot of warmth visually.