"Then why don't you call your team from the guardhouse and ask Qin Zheng to come and keep you company?"

"No."

Ye Yun shook her head. Since Qin Zheng had already gone home, there was no need for her to bring him back. It would be better to let Qin Zheng rest at home.

In fact, it would be better if she didn't bring anyone with her.

Gu Jin understood what she meant, nodded and said nothing more, patted the back seat of the motorcycle and said, "Do you want to get on? Where are you going? I'll take you there?"

Ye Yun politely declined, saying, "No need, it's not far."

"Alright then."

Seeing that she kept refusing, Gu Jin didn't say anything more, got on his motorcycle, said goodbye to her, and left.

"Tsk! Riding a motorcycle to work all day, what's he showing off for!"

The gatekeeper spat.

Ye Yun was slightly taken aback and looked at the gatekeeper with confusion. Wasn't he just smiling and greeting Gu Jin?

"Young lady, don't associate with this kind of person, he's no good!"

The gatekeeper said kindly.

Ye Yun twitched the corners of her lips. So what did Gu Jin do to make the old man remember him?

As the sun gradually set and the air grew cooler, the restaurant that Tan Zongguang had mentioned was not far from Qin Zheng's transport team. There was still plenty of time before the agreed time. Ye Yun walked slowly by herself and arrived at the restaurant before seven o'clock in the evening.

They had arranged to meet at a state-run restaurant, and they could see Tan Zongguang waiting for her at the restaurant entrance from afar.

"Comrade Xiao Ye, over here!"

Tan Zongguang pushed through the crowd and spotted Ye Yun from afar. A look of joy appeared on his face. He waved to Ye Yun and ran towards her.

He quickly ran up to Ye Yun, politely pushed up his slipping glasses, and said with a smile, "My father and his friend are still inspecting the site. Let's go inside and wait a bit. Are you thirsty?"

Ye Yun shook her head, "No need to go in, we can just wait for them at the entrance."

It wouldn't be appropriate for them to go inside and sit down before the main character arrived; waiting at the door would show her respect for the other person.

Tan Zongguang thought what she said made a lot of sense, so he nodded and waited with her by the roadside.

There were rows of stone benches along the roadside, seemingly prepared as a resting place for guests who stopped at the entrance. Ye Yun got tired of standing, so she sat down on one of the stone benches.

"Master Ye... no, how should I address you?"

Tan Zongguang smiled sheepishly, "Master Ye, it seems too old to call you that, but calling you 'comrade' is too formal. No matter how I address you, it just doesn't feel right..."

Ye Yun smiled politely, "Don't worry about it, just call me by my name."

"good."

Tan Zongguang, however, felt relieved and called out with peace of mind, "Ye Yun."

Ye Yun readily nodded in agreement.

She had just sat down when she looked up and saw someone rushing towards her from a distance.

Qin Zheng rode his old-fashioned bicycle towards her through the crowd. Across the throng, Qin Zheng called out to her with a joyful voice, pedaling even faster.

Ye Yun smiled and narrowed her eyes.

She guessed that Qin Zheng might come to town to find her, given his personality, and to her surprise, he actually did.

She stood up, smiling as Qin Zheng rode up to her. After he came to a stop, she softly asked, "Why are you here?"

Qin Zheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "When I got home, I found you weren't there. My aunt said you were having dinner with someone at the restaurant, so I just went back to town too. After dropping the transport truck off at the team, I came looking for you."

It was only after he returned to the transport team that he learned that Ye Yun had come to the transport team to look for him.

"Wife? You went to the transport team to find me?" He held Ye Yun's hand tenderly, cupping it in his palm and squeezing it again and again.

Ye Yun smiled and said, "I originally planned to bring you along for dinner, but I couldn't find you."

"The team just happened to have a mission to go home, and I was thinking of going home right after I finished delivering the goods," Qin Zheng said. Suddenly, as if remembering something, he said happily, "Oh, right, honey, our brigade will be able to get electricity soon."

“I know, Gu Jin told me.”

Seeing that he was happy, Ye Yun reached out and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Qin Zheng responded with a silly grin.

This scene was witnessed by Tan Zongguang, who looked at their familiar and intimate behavior, and his expression darkened.

Qin Zheng then noticed Tan Zongguang beside him and looked him up and down.

Ye Yun explained, "Qin Zheng, this is Teacher Tan. Did your aunt tell you? Teacher Tan is going to introduce me to some business today. He's the one who arranged this dinner party for me tonight."

Qin Zheng nodded, indicating that he understood.

He glanced to the side and met Tan Zongguang's gaze, then extended his hand and said, "Hello, Qin Zheng."

Tan Zongguang was taken aback.

He was surprised by Qin Zheng's imposing presence. The tall and strong Qin Zheng did not seem like an uneducated mountain man, nor was he as fierce as rumored. Instead, he gave people a sense of complete peace of mind.

Tan Zongguang, a former primary school teacher, racked his brains but couldn't come up with the most fitting adjective to describe it.

The tall man standing before him was like a magnificent mountain, shielding him from all the impending storms. It wasn't just women who admired such strength; even he, as a man, was subdued by this formidable power.

After a long pause, Tan Zongguang finally extended his hand to shake Qin Zheng's hand, saying, "Hello, Tan Zongguang."

Qin Zheng glanced at Tan Zongguang with his sharp eyes and felt that Tan Zongguang's reaction was a little strange, but he didn't think much of it and took a red summer women's thin jacket from behind his old bicycle.

He had put it in the back seat before he left, just in case Ye Yun got cold in town.

He stretched out his thin jacket, shook it, and gently draped it over Ye Yun's slightly cool shoulders. He then wrapped his arms around her waist and asked in a low voice, "How much longer?"

Ye Yun looked at Tan Zongguang.

Tan Zongguang, still watching the loving scene between the two, immediately snapped out of his daze and laughed, "Wait a minute, I'll go check what's going on!"

As he spoke, he kicked open the parking brake of the old bicycle next to the restaurant and hurriedly left.

Qin Zheng frowned in displeasure, gripping Ye Yun's small hand and saying, "He just wants you to wait here?"

Ye Yun heard the displeasure in his voice and couldn't help but chuckle: "No, I was going to go in, but I felt it was a bit stuffy inside and I was afraid I wouldn't be able to hold back my vomiting, so I thought I'd go outside and get some fresh air."

Oh, I see.

Qin Zheng understood that his wife, being pregnant, didn't like stuffy environments.

Before long, Tan Zongguang hurriedly returned on his old bicycle.

This time, his face was very anxious, and he said to Ye Yun with deep apology, "Master Ye! I'm so sorry! Something happened to my father's friend!"

ah?

Ye Yun was slightly surprised.

Tan Zongguang's old bicycle came to an abrupt halt in front of Ye Yun. Due to the rush he had been on, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead. He hurriedly explained, "It's like this, I just went to look for my father, but I couldn't find him. Only the people who were with him told me that my father's friend from Lin'an had something come up and couldn't come!"

Ye Yun's brow twitched.

Lin'an?

Hearing that word again still touched her heart.