Everest

The wind and snow intensified at noon, but the rescue team did not arrive. Wu Wei was anxiously making satellite calls outside, talking to the phone excitedly. His voice was constantly blown away by the wind, and finally he sat down on the snow-wrapped rock outside the tent in a daze.

Geng Aiqing stared at his figure for a while, feeling bored, so he had to go back into the tent. Shen Biwen was the only one in the tent. Luosang and other guides in the camp prayed for the dead souls together. Bi Wen sat on the sleeping bag, with no expression on his face, very calm, without too much sadness or sadness. After returning from there in the morning, Shen Biwen has been sitting here without moving his place, and nothing has changed. Didn't eat it—but Geng Aiqing didn't eat it himself.

"Are you hungry?" Geng Aiqing kicked his foot.

Shen Biwen looked up at him, then shook his head slowly.

"You have to eat even if you're not hungry." Geng Aiqing felt that Shen Biwen should be a little sad, but for some reason, he didn't want to say it. He just suppressed this feeling in his heart, which was a bit gloomy Alone, now it seems that the whole body is full of black air, Geng Aiqing can't stand it anymore, so he can only ignore the rejection around him, leaning towards him with a cheeky face, digging out the beef jerky from his backpack, tearing it up a little He stuffed it in his hand.

"Eat some, eat some, the rest are frozen hard, chew this one, you can still eat it!" Geng Aiqing even picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, and showed him to eat.

Shen Biwen's eyes didn't have much focus, and it seemed that it took him a long time to notice the beef jerky in his hand, and then he tore off a small piece and put it in his mouth.

Geng Aiqing breathed a sigh of relief.

"You... don't be sad." Geng Aiqing didn't know how to comfort him, thinking about Shen Biwen's theory before, he said dryly, "Didn't you also say that he... this can be regarded as fulfilling his dream, right..."

Shen Biwen covered his mouth with his hand.

Geng Aiqing: "..."

Shen Biwen twitched the corner of his mouth slightly: "If you can't comfort others, don't comfort them."

"..." Geng Aiqing silently pulled his hand away forcefully.

"Uncle Li and I haven't been in touch for a long time." Shen Biwen rubbed his sore wrist and said suddenly, "It's been several years."

Geng Aiqing noticed that he had changed Mr. Li's title.

Sensing his suspicious gaze, Shen Biwen explained: "Mr. Li and my dad are friends."

"Hmm..." Geng Aiqing nodded and shut up obediently.

In fact, Shen Biwen didn't want to say any more after finishing speaking. After all, it was many years ago, but seeing Geng Aiqing's eyes, he continued to say: "They knew each other before I was born, and they both know each other. They were friends who climbed together, and later often took me to climb together, and the relationship was pretty good at that time."

It turned out to be a family friend... Geng Aiqing felt a little distressed, seeing the death of an elder whom she grew up with must be very sad.

"But later, because of some things, I stopped communicating with him."

"What's the matter?" Geng Aiqing didn't expect another turning point, and asked subconsciously.

Shen Biwen paused for a moment, then slowly said: "You don't know about business matters..."

Geng Aiqing was dissatisfied and said: "Have you forgotten my identity? I know more about business matters, okay? And is your family also in business? Why haven't I heard of it?"

"It's just a small business." Shen Biwen replied lightly, "It went bankrupt later."

"Oh..." Geng Aiqing nodded, "No wonder I haven't heard of it. If you still want to continue in business, I'll help you later~ I'm not bragging, I'm still very business-minded!"

"No need." Shen Biwen reached out and stroked his hair, "Thank you."

"Hey, don't touch my hair!" Geng Aiqing hid back, "I haven't washed it for a long time."

Shen Biwen was stunned for a moment, and said in a low voice, "It's okay."

Geng Aiqing thought he meant "I don't dislike it", so she couldn't help but feel a little hot, rubbed her hair and put it under her nose to smell it, and muttered disgustedly: "You don't dislike me, you still dislike me, it's so dirty, You can't take a shower here."

Shen Biwen laughed.

Geng Aiqing realized what he had done, put his hand back in embarrassment, and forcibly dragged the topic back: "What happened next?"

"There is no later." Shen Biwen's voice dropped again, "We haven't been in touch for many years, but the mountaineering circle is so big, it's not completely unconnected...Although he and my dad are friends, but Uncle Li and I are not very familiar."

Geng Aiqing was puzzled, and couldn't help asking: "Did he have a falling out with your father? It's about business?"

"No." Shen Biwen replied immediately, "I don't know much about these."

"Okay." Geng Aiqing nodded, "No matter what, you can be regarded as elders. Let's go there together when we wait for condolences later."

Shen Biwen didn't speak, Geng Aiqing took him as acquiescence, squeezed to his side, hesitated for a while and took his hand: "Actually, I'm quite nervous, I really haven't met anyone I know... like this..."

Shen Biwen looked down at the clenched hands of the two, and said in a low voice, "Haven't you seen it?"

"That's right, I've never seen it before... Although the things I played with before were exciting, most of them were injured, and I haven't encountered many real life-threatening ones... Ah, just once!" Geng Aiqing whispered, "Then There was a time when my friends and I went to play mountain biking, you know?The two of us took a hand-held camera and prepared to play a few difficult moves to shoot a video challenge. Who knew that his bicycle had a problem and turned over halfway!I made the last move, and when I turned my head and saw that he was gone, I was so scared, I hurried over to find someone... When I found him, his lungs were pierced by branches..."

"Fortunately, it's okay, he's still alive and kicking." Geng Aiqing laughed out of nowhere, "I was really scared to death. I put him on the bicycle and dragged him out of the mountain. Yeah... from then on, I never went out to play with him again, it's so unreliable!"

"What about the video to be shot?" Shen Biwen asked.

Geng Aiqing said speechlessly: "I don't care what video is on, I didn't think about it that much, seeing that everyone else is gone, at least they went out with me, if I'm going to die, I won't regret it for the rest of my life, but at that time I didn't even think about it, so I jumped down to find him, and thanks to my good skills, I didn't get down... But I remembered the video you said, and the video was still filmed, but the second half was full of him crying while bleeding, Hahaha, it’s been a while since it was posted on the Internet!”

After laughing, Geng Aiqing found that Shen Biwen didn't respond. He turned his head and saw that his face was pale and frightening. He was startled: "What's wrong with you?"

Shen Biwen took his hand out and rubbed his temples: "It's okay, I have a headache."

"Altitude sickness?" Geng Aiqing became nervous, "I'll get you some medicine."

After rummaging in the backpack for a while, Geng Aiqing couldn't find the plateau medicine. Geng Aiqing remembered that Lin Sheng had taken the medicine away in the morning, so she stood up and said, "The medicine is with Lin Sheng. I'll get it. You wait here."

Shen Biwen looked up at him, the tension and concern in Geng Aiqing's eyes were so clear.

"Okay." Shen Biwen avoided his gaze.

Geng Aiqing took it and didn't pay attention so much, turned around and left the tent, Lin Sheng, Pei Lei and Yong Ke gathered together to discuss tomorrow's itinerary, saw him coming over and asked him how Shen Biwen was, Geng Aiqing took out the plateau medicine , thought for a while and said: "I feel a little sad for him, after all, he is an elder I knew before and a friend of his father."

Yong Ke said "huh": "Is Li always Shen Biwen's father's friend?"

"Hmm..." Geng Aiqing felt that he said that other people's family affairs were not very good, so he said perfunctorily, "Later, I heard that the two families fell out, so they stopped communicating. It's nothing serious, I went to deliver medicine to him."

Yong Ke nodded: "No wonder, when Xiao Shen came to me before, he specifically told me not to talk to Mr. Li's team, so there was a grudge."

Geng Aiqing had already walked out of the tent. Hearing this, he felt that something was wrong, but for a moment he couldn't figure out what was wrong, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

When going out, Geng Aiqing saw Wu Wei sitting not far from him. He seemed to have just finished making a phone call. He was hunched over in exhaustion, with one hand covering his head. He seemed in great pain. Geng Aiqing left Asked in the past: "How is it?"

Wu Wei looked up and saw him, and forced a smile: "It's almost there, the rescue team is coming soon."

Geng Aiqing saw how uncomfortable he was, and asked hesitantly: "I still have high-resistance medicine, do you want to..."

"No need." Wu Wei pointed to his head, "It's not a matter of high rebellion, it's an old problem."

"Oh..." Geng Aiqing took the medicine back.

Wu Wei looked at him for a while and asked, "How is Shen Biwen?"

"Him?" A trace of worry flashed in Geng Aiqing's eyes, "It's sad, but I comforted him a little, he should be better."

Wu Wei nodded and breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you can hold on, otherwise I really don't know how to be worthy of Mr. Li."

"Huh?" Geng Aiqing was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

"President Li has been taking good care of him before, saying that he is the son left behind by a friend, so he should be taken good care of him."

Geng Aiqing asked strangely: "The son who stayed?"

Now it was Wu Wei's turn to be surprised. He hesitated before whispering, "You don't know? Both of his parents committed suicide..."

Geng Aiqing's eyes widened.

"It happened several years ago. Since then, his family has gone bankrupt. Shen Biwen was not in a good mood at that time. Mr. Li was worried at that time and found him to help him for a long time. Then he left for some reason. Already..." Wu Wei sighed, "I heard many things from Mr. Li. After that incident, Shen Biwen was in a bad state of mind and committed suicide several times..."

"Suicide?" Geng Aiqing was in a daze, completely unable to imagine that someone like Shen Biwen would commit suicide.

"That's right..." Wu Wei shook his head, "Hey, when Mr. Li brought him back from the hospital for the last time, I followed him. He was much thinner than now... He hasn't grown much in so many years... But after that time He has been actively preparing to climb Mount Everest. Mr. Li also said at the time that his father had always set the goal of climbing Mount Everest at that time, but after the accident, this goal was not achieved in the end. I didn't expect Shen Biwen to inherit his father's last wish..."

"It's not a last wish." Geng Aiqing whispered.

"What?" Wu Wei froze for a moment.

"Climbing Mount Everest is Shen Biwen's own dream." Geng Aiqing said firmly.

Wu Wei nodded: "Well, I must have my own ideas, otherwise I wouldn't have worked so hard for such a thing these years."

Desperately as if this is the last thing in life.

Geng Aiqing was shocked by the words that suddenly appeared in his mind, making his whole body tremble.

"what happened?"

"It's nothing." Geng Aiqing shook his head and put on a smiling face, "The rescue team is here, let me see off Mr. Li, and I'll deliver medicine to Shen Biwen first."

Hearing Mr. Li, Wu Wei's eyes darkened a little, he stood up straight, and said thank you seriously.