Return to Hong Kong Island for a Century

Chapter 60: Setting Sail (Please add more to favorites, read more, and vote)

When Alin saw Li Song's hurried look, and looked at the keys and money in her hand, her nose felt sore.

Arlene felt very complicated before coming here, because Hong Kong Island is so big and she had no place to stay. After hesitating for a while, she came to Li Song's place. She felt embarrassed to come empty-handed during the New Year, so she bought some fruits.

Watching Li Song leave, Arlene felt a little happy. Li Song said that it would take ten days to half a month to go back and forth for thousands of kilometers. He could just stay here until school started, and by then everyone at home who should leave would have left.

Li Song still took the ship and arrived in Guangzhou smoothly.

"Mr. Li, welcome, welcome!" Li Song met Zhang Jianshe and others again.

"Excuse me, Mr. Zhang and Mr. Ma." Li Song still lived in the same small building as last time.

"It's not hard, thank you for your hard work, Mr. Li." Ma Shengli said.

"I wonder if the tugboat is ready?" Li Song asked directly.

"Ready and ready to go."

"The itinerary over there has changed again. The tugboat is too conspicuous. Is there a smaller cargo ship, 2,000 tons will be enough?" Li Song said, because Li Song later learned that during this period, the mainland's ocean-going tugboats served scientific research and would probably be watched closely.

"Of course no problem, then what else do you need?" Ma Shengli and others agreed immediately.

"We need some more diesel. Here's the list." Li Song wanted some diesel because the diesel on the training ship was limited. Diesel from the 70s was not easy to get on second-hand platforms, so they were all environmentally friendly models.

"Then let's set off tomorrow morning." Li Song actually hadn't determined the location for receiving the goods, but he would go out to sea first because the time of receiving the goods was uncertain.

Li Song also breathed a sigh of relief, but he couldn't ask at the time because these ocean-going tugboats were mainly preparing for this year's Fat Five test.

"I'd also like to trouble Mr. Ma for help. Please take these gifts and money to my family. I will go back to see them when I have time." Li Song took out the gift box and money again. He didn't take much, just three thousand Hong Kong dollars, because in Li Song's memory, the original owner's father wanted to renovate the house.

"Don't worry, Mr. Li." Ma Shengli and others had discussed this issue and believed that Li Song was being controlled by someone and had no choice but to go home easily.

"Mr. Li's parents and grandparents are in good health, and Mr. Li's two sisters are also in good health." Section Chief Zhou said.

"Thank you, but my brother-in-law has a bad temper. I don't know if my sister will be bullied when I leave?" Li Song said again.

When Li Song was at home before, my brother-in-law was beaten several times. There was even one time when his family was about to set fire to his house, which scared his family.

"That shouldn't be the case." Section Chief Zhou took note of this.

"Yeah." Li Song just mentioned it. As for how to do it, it was none of his business.

Li Song continued to write in the small building. Li Song took all the things related to the novel with him and put them on a second-hand platform in the name of a diary, and then wrote a note saying the price was negotiable.

It’s not that Li Song knew that Alin was coming to live with him, but he was afraid of theft. What if someone saw that he was not at home and came to steal things, and saw his drafts and outlines? Not only would his identity be exposed, but some of his other novel outlines might also be sold to others.

Of course, there was a delicious treat in the evening. During the meal, Li Song learned that the land of the motorcycle factory had been leveled and civil construction work was underway, with three shifts working 24 hours a day.

In the evening, Li Song returned to the small building to continue writing and went to bed at twelve o'clock.

At nine o'clock the next morning, Li Song, wearing a sailor suit and carrying an old canvas bag, boarded a 2,000-ton bulk carrier and quietly set sail.

Section Chief Zhou was traveling with Li Song, so Li Song ordered the ship to head towards the South China Sea first, and didn't say anything else.

Li Song was treated well on the ship and had an independent cabin. The ship was not very fast, with an economic speed of ten knots.

Li Song continued writing, then took out some English books to read. "Mr. Li?" Section Chief Zhou asked from outside the door.

"Mr. Zhou, come in." Li Song put down his pen and opened the door of the room.

"Mr. Li, how do you feel? We just left the Pearl River Estuary." Section Chief Zhou came in and found Li Song still writing something, so he asked while glancing at him and saw the words "Hu Sijiu".

"I feel okay." Li Song replied.

"Mr. Li, what are you writing? If you are not in a hurry, why not wait until we get ashore? After all, the boat is quite bumpy." Section Chief Zhou asked casually.

"Although I graduated from a martial arts school, I envied those writers. After arriving in Hong Kong, I read some martial arts novels and found them very interesting, so I decided to write something." Li Song answered with a smile.

"Mr. Li actually has the same idea. When we were young, we also dreamed of becoming writers. Unfortunately, we didn't have much talent and all we wrote were doggerel." Section Chief Zhou replied with a smile when he heard this.

"I incorporated some stories I heard into it, and it feels alright." Li Song chuckled, thinking that he should also reveal his identity as a writer.

"Then Mr. Li, you can call me anytime if you have anything." When Section Chief Zhou heard this, he just wrote it down and didn't pay much attention to it. Because being a writer is the dream of almost every young person, he didn't plan to ask any more questions.

"Okay!" Li Song felt a little disappointed. Why didn't he ask?
Section Chief Zhou didn't continue asking because, on the one hand, he was afraid that Li Song didn't have much achievements and it would be embarrassing to ask him. On the other hand, asking too many questions would give the other party the feeling of prying, which would be bad.

Section Chief Zhou was more worried about this operation. He didn't know the destination or how the other party contacted him.

Section Chief Zhou didn't sleep all night because Li Song said yesterday that the ship should be changed, and everyone was discussing what had happened.
Who is the other party?

Can you get so many devices at once?

The burden on me is too heavy.

On the sixth and seventh days of the Lunar New Year, Li Song occasionally came out to the deck to exercise, and Chief Zhou and Li Song ate alone.

Section Chief Zhou felt relieved that Li Song did not contact other people, because if he did, things would be more troublesome.

Section Chief Zhou did not continue to say anything more to Li Song, because the more he talked, the more reports he had to write when he returned, because he had only one contact with Li Song.

"Section Chief Zhou!" At two o'clock in the morning on the eighth day of the first lunar month, Li Song knocked on Section Chief Zhou's cabin door.

"Hmm?" Section Chief Zhou looked a little haggard because he didn't sleep well.

"This coordinate!" Li Song took out a coordinate point.

"Okay!" Section Chief Zhou picked up the coordinates and rushed out, because he didn't know how to navigate.

Section Chief Zhou could probably guess that Li Song had the freighter sail at a constant speed and only gave him the coordinates at the right time.

Section Chief Zhou came to the cockpit and gave the coordinates to the navigator. The coordinates came out soon, and they were about ten nautical miles off course. So Section Chief Zhou ordered the cargo ship to speed up.

Li Song did not go to the cockpit, and he was a little nervous.

Because Li Song discovered that he could receive goods anywhere in the world, but the shipping costs were different in different places. This time he spent $100,000 on shipping.

"If this succeeds, then..." Li Song felt that this was a huge bug.

(End of this chapter)