Chapter 99: Memories with Wan Lu (12)

After everyone left, Xia Cheng found a gap on the road where there were few people and quietly walked towards the river bank.

She was holding something in her arms and imitated the meow of a cat before opening the door.

After entering, she looked at the empty and simple residence, and the eight-treasure porridge in her hand fell and rolled out.

Xia Cheng thought he would leave, but not so soon.

They didn't even say goodbye.

In the room, there were several pieces of clothes folded on the bed. They were bought by Xia Cheng for Wan Lu. The pair of big pink slippers were quietly placed there. Wan Lu put on his original clothes.

She loosened her grip and everything in her arms fell out.

The money hasn’t been paid yet!

If I don’t pay them, all the time I’ve been taking care of them has been in vain!

Turns out he's a liar!

She angrily picked up the food and removed everything from it, not wanting anyone to know they had lived here.

She carried everything home in a mosquito net on her shoulders.

*

Because she had been absent from work for no reason in the past few days, the boss hired a new employee. After receiving her salary, Xia Cheng pushed her bicycle in a daze.

In fact, the money Wan Lu gave her before was not used up, but there was nothing left after paying the tuition. She had worked for too short a time, and the money she had now was almost gone after a month's food, not to mention that she also had expenses for the summer vacation.

After thinking for a long time, Xia Cheng took the admission letter and prepared to go south to work.

Before leaving, Liu Jingfang found her.

He said that his cousin was doing business in the south. He had seen her before and thought she was down-to-earth, so he wanted to bring her over to work together.

Xia Cheng asked about the salary and naively agreed. Before leaving, she gave the remaining rice, flour, grain and oil at home to her neighbors and left in Liu Jingfang's cousin's van.

It wasn't uncommon for people in the same village to take others out for work; it happened every year. Liu Jingfang went along, and Xia Cheng huddled with her in the back seat, eating sunflower seeds and glancing at the fashionable cousin she'd mentioned.

"What are we going to do this time?"

"Waiter, right?" Liu Jingfang thought about it. She didn't know what her cousin said.

The car drove further south, through the city, the overpass, and finally turned into a small road, driving on a bumpy dirt road.

At this time, Xia Cheng had just woken up and suddenly opened his eyes, thinking that he was back in the village.

"Rest here for a while." Liu Jingfang's cousin said, and arranged a room for the two of them, and she lived next door with her boyfriend.

The room was not good, it smelled very musty and the windowsills were covered in dust as if they had never been cleaned.

The sound insulation is even worse.

Some blushing and heartbeating sounds came from next door. Xia Cheng covered her ears with a pillow and didn't dare to fall asleep all night.

The next day, we set off again.

This time, it seemed like we were driving on a country road. Although the road surface had cracks, it was finally flat.

After driving for a day and a night, a policeman appeared in front, knocked on the rear window, and called Xia Cheng and Liu Jingfang out.

"What are you going to do?"

"Working." Xia Cheng said honestly.

"What job?"

"waiter."

The police officer frowned, asked the two men to stay where they were, and turned to check Liu Jingfang's cousin's ID card, thinking it was fine. But when they found her boyfriend, they detained him.

Xia Cheng and Liu Jingfang were both taken to the police station.

It was also from the police that Xia Cheng learned that the driver was a fugitive and had used drugs.

The police earnestly advised them to go home.

Xia Cheng stood on the side of the road holding her schoolbag, her head buzzing.

She didn't know where to go.

Liu Jingfang was unwilling to separate from her cousin, and Xia Cheng didn't dare to travel with this woman anymore because of the driver's incident, so the three of them separated, and Xia Cheng decided to go to the restaurant to wash dishes.

But no restaurant wants someone who can only work for more than a month, or the salary is very low.

Xia Cheng was extremely depressed.

She regretted coming here, a place she didn't even know its name.

She held the admission letter and hesitated for a long time before deciding to go to Hai City, the city where the university was located and one of the most prosperous cities today.

She walked on the unfamiliar streets, asking for directions to Hai City. When she was hungry, she would take a few bites of dry biscuits. She was reluctant to take a car, and her heels were rubbed and healed.

She didn't remember how long she had been gone.

By the time they reacted, they were already on the small road. In front of them was a black car that had overturned into the bushes. Oil was hissing out of it, and the smell of gasoline was very strong.

Xia Cheng ran over without thinking.

Seeing someone coming, the car with a deformed front end not far away slowly drove away.

Xia Cheng jumped into the grass forest and saw a familiar face in the broken car window.

"Wanlu!"

The man did not open his eyes, blood was oozing from his forehead, and he was obviously unconscious.

Xia Cheng took off his schoolbag, got into the driver's seat, unbuckled his seat belt, kicked the car door with both feet, and dragged the man out with all his strength, like pulling a carrot.

After doing all this, she had no strength left in her body. Several days of malnutrition had made her extremely weak.

But the car leaking oil was too dangerous. Xia Cheng staggered to her feet, screaming "Ahhhh" while pulling the people away from the black car.

Xia Cheng didn't have a cell phone, so she couldn't call the police or an ambulance. There were also very few vehicles passing by on this small road.

Why was Wan Lu here? This liar didn't even leave a penny! He made her lose her job and now she's lost here.

Wan Lu slowly opened his eyes.

There was even blood dripping from his eyelashes, and he looked very miserable.

The sky-blue eyes stared at Xia Cheng intently.

Xia Cheng wanted to pick it off for him.

"Look at your sister! Why did you leave so suddenly?! Why are you here again?!"

Wanlu grinned.

"I'm alive......"

"Give me money, give me money!" Xia Cheng felt a little sad, her eyes red. Why did this person make himself so embarrassed? This liar, is he here to play tricks on her?

Wan Lu smiled grimly.

Xia Cheng pulled the man up and had just stood still for a few seconds when he heard the sound of a car passing overhead.

She looked up and saw a tall man in black stopped and jumped down.

Wan Lu's expression changed. He pressed down her hand that was begging for help and picked up the stick on the ground.

"Run."

"ah?"

"He's the one who hit me, get out of here!"

"Oh, okay." Xia Cheng picked up the schoolbag on the ground and ran away obediently.

"Don't even think about leaving." The man in black took out a dagger from his pocket. If it wasn't difficult to carry a gun here, he would have shot the two men in front of him.

"Who sent you?"

Wanlu tried to delay as much as possible.

The man in black didn't answer and rushed forward.

Wan Lu dodged with a wooden stick. He was no pushover. As a member of the California mafia, how could his skills be that bad?

Xia Cheng ran far away and hid behind a secluded tree, shouting, "I've called the police, they'll be here soon!"

The man couldn't get any advantage from Wan Lu, so he turned around and wanted to attack Xia Cheng, but when he turned around, he saw that the man had already run dozens of meters away.

Wan Lu took advantage of the situation and struck him with a stick.

The man fainted with shaking legs.

Xia Cheng jumped out, patted his chest, and ran towards Wan Lu.

He looked a little miserable, with his shirt torn in several places by the knife. When he got closer, he saw blood all over it. Xia Cheng frowned, stretched out his hand, and didn't forget his business.

"Give me money."

Wan Lu was puzzled.

"What money?"

"I took you in, didn't I agree to pay you?!"

"I left it under your bed a long time ago. I left you a note."

Xia Cheng thought about it and realized that there did seem to be a piece of paper in the pile of clothes, but she was so angry that she burned them all in the earthen stove.

So her work was in vain?

She waved her hand unhappily.

"Where's your sister? Where's Guoguo?"

"We split into two groups and went back."

Xia Cheng didn't ask any more questions. She held the strap of her schoolbag tightly and pointed the way.

"Then I'll be leaving first..."

"Wait." Wan Lu pulled out a few bills from his pocket. "No matter how you got here, find a car to go back."

Xia Cheng has no problem with money.

"What about you? If you stay here, someone will see you."

"My pick-up person will be here soon."

Xia Cheng nodded, suppressing the awkward feeling in her heart about being together and separated in recent days. She was really reluctant to leave. It was not because she was reluctant to leave Wan Lu, but because she was reluctant to leave no one at home to talk to her.

Just as he was about to say goodbye, he saw Wan Lu open his lips.

"careful!"

What are you being careful about? She turned her head and felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. She looked down and felt something cold stabbing into her body.

Looking back, I found that the unconscious man had woken up without me noticing.

The dagger left, Xia Cheng frowned, and fell into Wan Lu's arms.

"You stabbed the wrong person, brother..."

"Boss!"

Many more people jumped down from the small path and quickly subdued the man in black.

Xia Cheng thought miserably: I am so unlucky.

*

This is where the memories end.

After that, Xia Cheng was sent to the hospital. When she woke up, there was an unfamiliar female doctor sitting in front of her. She said that she was lucky and had no internal injuries.

But Wan Lu was nowhere to be seen.

In fact, Xia Cheng had always been looking forward to seeing him, because that summer vacation, she had too many questions that she didn't ask.

For example, why did Wan Lu and Huang Yi Qiu come to the backward little village, why did they suddenly leave, how did they leave, and why did they split into two groups.

In the ICU, Xia Cheng saw Wan Lu and thought it was an illusion.

After being pushed out of the ICU, she opened her eyes and saw the four men in front of her, feeling deeply at a loss.