Start the Jam!
However, Sun Miao and Su Ruixi’s traffic jam journey was still not as exaggerated as the Sutong Bridge1; after all, it was just within the city, so they successfully arrived after driving for an hour and a half. Also, because Su Ruixi was a VIP, there were staff members assisting with carrying luggage, checking bags, and registration procedures throughout the entire process.
Sun Miao saw this scene, and once inside the waiting hall, she asked Su Ruixi in a low voice, “Susu-jie, I saw online that planes can delay their flights for VIP clients. Is that real or fake?”
Su Ruixi raised an eyebrow but shook her head. “I don’t know.” Her words revealed a little pride: “I would never let others wait for me; punctuality is a very good habit. If I really made the plane delay because of me, then what is delayed is the time of the entire cabin’s passengers.”
This paragraph of speech immediately made Sun Miao look at Su Ruixi with starry eyes2; she became even more proud.
Sun Miao truly felt: Susu-jie really is a very good person.
In her life, she indeed gained a great deal of convenience due to money, such as people helping to carry luggage, specially handling itineraries, and so on, but she would not use special privileges that exceeded the scope or were based on sacrificing others. Su Ruixi said she had never used them, so Sun Miao believed she had never used them.
However, Sun Miao was a little worried; the road was so jammed today, would there be any VIPs who were late?
This concern could not be answered before the plane took off, but another matter occurred—the plane was oversold. Sun Miao heard a voice coming from the airport loudspeaker, seeking passengers on their flight willing to abandon this journey.
The airline was willing to provide a plane at the same time tomorrow, and simultaneously bear the cost of the placement hotel for the passengers tonight.
It was Sun Miao’s first time encountering such a thing. At first, she thought: How could everyone possibly agree to abandon their itinerary? As a result, after five minutes, the airline began to increase the price. The broadcast said they were willing to give passengers who actively abandoned their itinerary a compensation amount of one thousand yuan.
At this moment, Sun Miao was ruthlessly moved3.
Although Sun Miao’s savings were already plentiful, this was one thousand yuan falling from the sky; her little heart went putong putong4. If she were alone on this trip, she estimated she would have already charged over to express her willingness to give it up.
Su Ruixi was originally closing her eyes to rest her spirit. She seemed to sense Sun Miao’s abnormality, opened her eyes to glance at Sun Miao, and discovered: Sun Miao was actually quite tempted?
This almost made Su Ruixi laugh out of anger. She extended a hand and pinched Sun Miao’s nose. “Our plane tickets for this trip are far higher than one thousand, and you’re already tempted.”
“I-I was just thinking about it, I won’t go, really!”
Su Ruixi naturally knew Sun Miao was just a little moved in her mind and wouldn’t truly go, otherwise, it wouldn’t be a nose pinch right now, but directly pulling her ear. However, she also knew that Sun Miao’s small citizen5 mentality had always been there, which was why she was attracted by this little fly-head petty profit6.
Thinking of this, Su Ruixi suddenly smiled and started to tease Sun Miao. “Miaomiao, do you know that if there is nobody at this time, the airline will continue to increase the price?”
“Ah?”
Sun Miao indeed didn’t know. Su Ruixi revealed a smile like she was watching a good show. “You just wait, the price will definitely increase.”
Sure enough, after another ten minutes or so, seeing that no passengers had gone to cancel, the broadcast began the second round of price-increasing activity, rising from 1000 to 1500. Sun Miao was even more tempted, but it stopped only at temptation. At this time, still no one went to actively cancel; it was visible that everyone’s sentiment of returning to their hometown7 was relatively urgent.
But in the third round, when it reached 2000 yuan compensation, after the broadcast rang twice without ringing a third time, Su Ruixi knew: “Someone couldn’t hold it in and went to actively cancel. What a pity.”
“How is it a pity?”
Su Ruixi looked around the surroundings before leaning in close, speaking to Sun Miao in a low voice, “There was still room for a price increase, this person couldn’t wait first. I feel it should have reached at least 3000 before going up, otherwise it’s a bit of a loss. I saw it once before, the price increased to 5000.”
Sun Miao widened her eyes, clearly seduced by that 5000 compensation money. Su Ruixi laughed watching her. “You, ah, have almost fallen into the money’s eye8, your eyes have gone straight.”
There was no helping it; that was 5000 yuan.
When it came time to board, as a VIP, Su Ruixi still enjoyed the right to board first, and she directly took Sun Miao into the boarding gate. Sun Miao was not a first-time flyer this time; with the experience from last time, she was much calmer.
After landing in Xin Province9 that day, they did not choose to go out and play immediately, but chose to rest for one night first. Waiting until early tomorrow morning, they would set off for the Gu’erbantonggute Desert. As soon as they got up in the morning, they began applying sunscreen. That was the desert, ah; no matter how you thought about it, the sun would be quite big. If they didn’t apply sunscreen well, what would they do if they turned black?
Especially Sun Miao, who was blown by wind and basked by sun every day; her skin was originally rougher than Su Ruixi’s. She really didn’t want to be tanned into a little black doll10.
After finishing the application, the local tour guide was already driving and waiting downstairs. Sun Miao and Su Ruixi got in the car, but they didn’t expect that a day of traffic jam life had begun.
Yes, traffic jam.
The road from the hotel to the Gu’erbantonggute Desert was okay—few people, few cars—but when they were nearing the Gu’erbantonggute Desert, Sun Miao and Su Ruixi discovered something was wrong. The vehicle speed slowly dropped down, directly reaching 30 ma11. In the end, they were stuck on the highway in the desert, simply unable to move.
Below was the highway, on both sides was rolling yellow sand. Watching the scenic spot not far away, they were actually stuck in traffic.
It took a full hour to reach the original destination, the Gate of the Desert.
Good news: they weren’t stuck in traffic anymore. Bad news: people mountain, people sea12.
Su Ruixi failed to manage her facial expression due to surprise. She had specially dressed up today: a high-luxury silk scarf wrapped around her head, wearing cool black sunglasses, her upper body in a red-and-yellow patchwork ethnic-style thin sweater—she was simply the brightest cub13 in the desert.
It was just that at this moment, Su Ruixi regretted a little: coming out to crowd with people during National Day14.
She really hadn’t come out to play much during National Day and had no cognition of the National Day human flow volume; that was why she found it so strenuous15. Sun Miao, however, had long done a lot of homework and felt this number of people was still acceptable. They still followed the set plan; under the tour guide’s lead, they rode camels, slid on the sand in the desert, and took many photos.
It was just, too blocked.
Especially when riding camels, their camels were stuck in traffic. This was a paid project of the scenic area, and the price wasn’t cheap, but it couldn’t hold back the large number of people coming. On a small section of the sand dune road, it was all camels. The camels in front didn’t walk, so their camels couldn’t move either, and could only follow behind the camels of other people in front.
Su Ruixi had also played in the desert before, but that was many years ago, during her own student era. At that time, she still felt riding a camel was a not-bad experience, which was why she arranged this itinerary.
In the beginning, Sun Miao also felt very happy riding a camel because she had never ridden one. The camel was very tall; when people hadn’t mounted yet, it would lie in the sand, waiting for people to sit between its humps. After Sun Miao went up, the camel stood up directly. It rose too fast, giving Sun Miao a moment of weightlessness.
Sun Miao was considered relatively restrained; some tourists shouted out directly.
When the camel walked forward, it swayed and rocked, and the person on its body swayed along with it. This feeling made Sun Miao feel like she was sitting in a yao yao che16.
Up to this point, the experience was considered good, but once the jam started, the experience took a sharp turn down and became very terrible. Camels were very tall, and sitting on them wasn’t considered stable. Even if they stopped, the camel was a living thing and wouldn’t be motionless; its neck was also very flexible, and when it turned, it would lead the body to turn a little as well.
At this time, for Sun Miao, it was not too wonderful.
Seasickness on flat land was probably this kind of feeling.
Secondly, the camel was an animal with very heavy body odor. The smell on its body was that kind of, en… a strange smell combining sweat stink, dry grass smell, and feces smell. Especially the feces smell; it truly smoked people to the point of feeling a headache. When under the sun for a long time, that smell began to slowly ferment, making Sun Miao somewhat dizzy and dazzled.
If Sun Miao was like this, even more so for Su Ruixi.
Su Ruixi was behind Sun Miao. Sun Miao kept turning her head to look at her from time to time, but unfortunately, Su Ruixi had wrapped herself up too well, so Sun Miao couldn’t make out Su Ruixi’s expression.
When they finally finished walking this segment of the sand dune, Sun Miao had a feeling of being relieved of a heavy burden. And Su Ruixi, don’t even mention it; she nearly fainted directly.
The tour guide saw their conditions were both bad and took them to the rest area first. Su Ruixi took off the silk scarf and sunglasses, her expression a bit awkward. She set the itinerary; now that they encountered such a thing, she certainly didn’t feel good in her heart.
The rest area was also people mountain, people sea. Fortunately, the tour guide took them to the VIP rest area, where there were slightly fewer people. Sun Miao looked around, then sat directly beside Su Ruixi, holding her hand and pulling it toward herself. “Susu-jie, it can also be considered interesting la. In this lifetime, it’s my first time jamming camels in the desert. Others don’t have an experience like ours.”
Her words made the wilting Su Ruixi unable to resist raising the corners of her mouth, but she quickly suppressed it. “You are just coaxing me. I arranged this trip extremely poorly; it’s not fun at all.”
Sun Miao shook her head. “Why does Susu-jie say this ah? Today is only the first day; there are still many good days behind. It’s just that today was a little terrible. We’ve finished experiencing the most blocked camels, so it definitely won’t be more terrible later.”
Sun Miao coaxed for a long time before Su Ruixi became a little happier.
She leaned on Sun Miao’s shoulder, lamenting that she was really lucky to be able to find such a good girlfriend. Emotionally stable and always positively upward—this was a point Su Ruixi liked very much about Sun Miao. She liked seeing Sun Miao’s smile and also relied on the positive experience she brought her.
However, after leaning for a while, Su Ruixi lifted her head up.
“Susu-jie, what’s wrong?”
Su Ruixi wrinkled her nose. Unable to hold it back, she still told the truth: “So stinky.”
The two of them had stayed with the camels for so long; not only were the camels exposed to the blazing sun, but they were also sun-dried along with them. So right now, both of their bodies had the stink of the camels.
Sun Miao wrinkled her nose and smelled Su Ruixi’s body. “Still talking about me, Susu-jie, you’ve also been marinated into the flavor!”
Su Ruixi’s sky, all of a sudden, collapsed.
The author has something to say:
National Day, really, there are people everywhere, everywhere.
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