"Can you swim? Then jump!"
"I can doggy paddle... but when I get nervous, I forget how to paddle."
Tie Nan was both amused and exasperated, then looked at me and said, "Look at you two... always talking about risking your lives together, why don't you just get married!"
Yang Sisi kept her head down, not looking at anyone, while the others looked awkwardly at Tie Nan, who always had a bad habit of speaking without thinking. I suddenly took two steps in front of him, and he took a step back in fright. I grabbed his sleeve and pulled his jacket off, then draped it over Yang Sisi. After that, I took another jacket from Coach Ma and draped it over myself.
...
In the courtyard of the guesthouse, Yang Sisi and I sat around the fire wrapped in blankets, while the others were busy preparing dinner by the barbecue grill... In my memory, it had been a long time since we had a bonfire dinner like this.
Calling it a banquet wouldn't be an exaggeration, because they bought a whole sheep and brought several cases of beer from the bar, which made Dali seem like a place full of food and drink. But I felt like they were making the best of a bad situation.
I truly hope that everyone can still have this positive mindset more than a month from now.
Every time Yang Sisi sneezed, I would take a deep drag of my cigarette. After repeating this several times, she slapped me on the back. Seeing that I was choking on the smoke, she chuckled quietly, as if she didn't want me to have an easy time.
I didn't argue with her and moved to the side. She moved to the side too, but when I showed an impatient expression, she moved back.
At this point, the group finally finished cutting up the whole roasted lamb, placed it on a plate, and brought it over. At the same time, beer was also distributed to everyone. Without much chatter, they ate and drank.
For some reason, a few moments later, several people started talking about my injuries again, and they gave several versions of why I was injured, but no one believed that I was injured by falling, especially after seeing that I also had so many injuries on my back.
Iron Man put down his beer bottle, lit a cigarette, took a puff, and said to everyone, "First of all, let me state that I am not a drama queen, but I really have a picture in my mind that records the cause and effect of Michael getting beaten up."
Yang Sisi asked him, "What scene?"
Tie Nan looked up, closed his eyes, and slowly exhaled the smoke from his mouth before beginning his storytelling: "One pitch-black night, Michael, far from home, lay on a double bed in a budget hotel, feeling utterly lonely. As he lit a cigarette, he thought of his girlfriend A and his high school girlfriend B. He missed those blissful nights spent with them... His heart began to flutter..." He paused briefly, then added in a particularly heavy tone, "At that moment..."
Yang Sisi was startled and yelled, "Are you back from the dead?!"
"What do you know... this is called creating a vivid scene."
After gathering his emotions, he continued, "At that moment... a small card was slipped under the door like a godsend... Michael sprang from the bed with a somersault, carefully picking up the heavy card... feeling both ashamed and burning with lust. Finally, his animalistic instincts overcame everything, and he dialed the number on the card... and then..."
All eyes turned to Tie Nan. After keeping everyone in suspense for a while, he slapped his thigh and burst out laughing, "Then he got himself into a honey trap!... Haha..."
I kicked over his beer bottle and said, "Don't you fucking think you started something really abruptly and ended it off?"
Coach Ma chimed in with a smile, "I think Tie Nan did a good job. The logic of the whole story was very clear, and the inner struggles and causes and consequences were well expressed... If this were an essay, I would give it... 90 points!"
The crowd seemed to enjoy the feeling of me being teased, and even applauded the two wicked beasts.
Yang Sisi, in particular, chimed in, "I believe Michael is capable of doing something like this."
Peach and White Dew laughed and nodded.
I could genuinely feel the festive joy of eating dumplings during the Lunar New Year from them, so I couldn't sit still any longer. I put out my cigarette and said to everyone, "Don't you people discourage the hero. Things aren't as despicable as you think."
"You won't say anything, and you expect us to look at you with high regard?... You're dreaming!"
"I said, it's not good enough yet."
As I spoke, I lit another cigarette and then told everyone the whole story of how I was beaten.
After listening, Tie Nan exclaimed first, "That's fucking amazing! ...Does Ye Zhi know you got beaten up for this staged accident?"
I shook my head.
Tie Nan then turned to Yang Sisi and said, "Don't you have Ye Zhi's contact information? Give me her number. We can't let Mi Gao suffer such a big loss for nothing. Even if we don't ask her for a favor, we still have to ask her for some medical expenses, nutrition fees, or something."
Yang Sisi protected her phone and replied, "I won't give it to you."
"Are you willing to watch our heroes suffer such injustice without any reward?"
"I do."
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