With Ye Zhi by my side, I felt at ease and stopped thinking about many things. When Ye Zhi drove the car onto the highway, I fell asleep listening to the wind blowing in through the cracks in the car window.
I had a dream. In the dream, a pair of incredibly gentle hands embraced me from behind, and it seemed as if my existence was solely for the purpose of having this dream. I was standing on the beach, enveloped by the warm sea breeze, while a seagull perched on a white yacht. Inside the yacht, a couple was dining, and the crew sat on the deck fishing. Opposite the yacht were rows of white European-style buildings along the beach, exuding a sense of history and tranquility.
I suddenly longed to hug the girl behind me. I turned around, but the sand blown by the sea breeze stung my eyes, and I couldn't open them. She gently blew on my eyes... Suddenly, a heavy rain began to fall in my dream, and I was freezing cold...
I shivered and woke up, then opened my eyes and looked around groggily. I realized that Ye Zhi had already parked the car at an emergency stop. A torrential downpour was falling outside the car window, and Ye Zhi had opened the side window a crack to keep the air circulating in the car. Some raindrops splashed in through the crack. It turned out that this kind of touch had changed my dream.
I picked up my phone and checked the time; it was already two o'clock in the afternoon. I turned to look at Ye Zhi, who was slumped over the steering wheel, fast asleep... The only smell in the car was the dampness of the rain, and her scent—a faint fragrance, a touch of mystery.
I unbuckled my seatbelt, intending to get out of the car and take a blanket from the trunk to cover her. At that moment, the temperature inside the car had plummeted by about ten degrees due to the torrential rain outside, making it feel like winter.
Ye Zhi is also a very light sleeper; she woke up as soon as I made the slightest movement.
I said to her, "It's too cold in the car, I'll get you a blanket from the trunk."
"The rain is too heavy, don't go down."
"soon."
As I spoke, I opened the car door, and the rain was indeed so heavy it was almost frightening; at this point, many large trucks with their hazard lights flashing were parked near our car, and the highway was completely paralyzed because no one dared to drive...
I quickly took a blanket from the trunk, but even in that short time, I was already half-soaked.
I huddled back into the car, then spread out the blanket and covered Ye Zhi with it... At the same time, Ye Zhi handed me a tissue.
I took it from her and, while wiping my face, asked her, "Where are we?"
"We've already entered Sichuan province..."
I checked the navigation, which showed that we were parked near a county called Yanbian. Although it was in Sichuan, it was only about 300 kilometers away from Dali. Six hours had passed since 8 a.m.
I exclaimed to Ye Zhi, "I've actually slept for six hours! Why didn't you wake me up?"
"Seeing you sleeping so soundly, I didn't have the heart to wake you..." After a slight pause, Ye Zhi asked again, "Are you hungry? There are some desserts I bought on the back seat."
I peered out the car window again before replying, "I'm actually a bit hungry. I wonder when this road will be open!"
Ye Zhi reached into the back seat and took a box of desserts, then gave one of them to me...
I took a bite, then lay back in my seat, anxiously watching the torrential rain outside the car window. After a moment, I said to Ye Zhi, "We definitely won't make it today. Let's find a place to rest for the night along the way."
"Try to drive as much as possible; there might be fewer cars at night."
"Honestly, can't you give yourself a little more time? I really wish you could stay at my house for a few more days."
"Five days is the limit."
I wanted to say something, but I swallowed the words back, because no matter how much I said, it wouldn't change anything about how busy she was...
After a moment of silence, I unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and gestured for her to have some.
She shook her head.
I said, "This dessert is quite dry, don't you want to drink some to soothe your throat?"
"If you drink too much, you'll need to go to the bathroom, and who knows how long this blockage will last."
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I really wouldn't have thought of that..."
As I spoke, I opened the car door, then put my jacket over my head and started urinating against the hillside near the temporary stop...
Feeling relieved, I got back into the car and said to Ye Zhi with a smile, "I'm done. What are you going to do now?"
Ye Zhi remained silent, her expression somewhat unpleasant.
I continued with a sigh, "Why do these kinds of things always happen to us? ... It was the same in Sanya last time, we were stuck on the rocks, and you were holding it in too; I think this is some kind of curse on you..."
"Then you should keep up that sense of superiority."
“I can’t build my sense of superiority on your suffering. How about we think of a solution? Keeping it all bottled up like this isn’t a good thing.”
Just as I was saying this, the door of the car in front of us opened, and a man and a woman got out. The man was holding an umbrella, and after he used the umbrella to shield the woman from one side, I could vaguely see the woman unzipping her pants...
I quickly said to Ye Zhi, "Look, it turns out you're not the only one troubled by this... Why don't we do the same thing?"
Ye Zhi shook her head. Clearly, this was a huge burden for her, and doing so was indeed risky. The couple in front of her hadn't coordinated well, resulting in the woman's exposed skin—I saw a patch of white flesh...
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