Chapter 35 Going to the Clothing Wholesale Market to Buy Goods

It's the weekend again.

The school is still closed on Saturday at noon and returns to school on Sunday afternoon.

Time was too tight and Su Jiaojiao had no time to go home. She had to go to Mo City to stock up on goods.

As soon as the get out of class was over, she went to a public phone on the roadside and called the village committee, asking them to tell Chen Guilan that she would not be going back home over the weekend.

I called Liu Wenzhi again and asked him if he would come to Jiaoxian the next day or the day after tomorrow. Liu Wenzhi said that he would not go there these days and would go next week.

After hanging up the phone, Su Jiaojiao went to Hualian Shopping Mall and went directly to the socks stall on the first floor to ask when the truck from Mocheng Wholesale Market would be dispatched. The stall owner's husband, Wu Laoshi, drove a pickup truck to Mocheng all year round. In her previous life, she and Qin Shuang had ridden in his car many times.

If she remembered correctly, there should be a car in the afternoon.

It is sent every two days on weekdays and once a day on weekends.

Wu Laoshi happened to be watching over the stall. He looked at his watch and said, "Leaving at 2 pm today, arriving at 4 pm, returning at 6 pm, and coming back around 8 pm. There's another trip tomorrow morning at 3 am, arriving at 5 pm, returning at 7 pm, and coming back at 9 am."

The timings of these two trains are very reasonable.

For Su Jiaojiao, she had plenty of time today, but she came back too late and had nowhere to go. She was supposed to be back at 8 o'clock, but sometimes she had to wait until everyone was gathered before the bus left, so it was possible for her to be back at 9 or 10 o'clock.

If she goes tomorrow, she won't have much time to sell the goods, and she won't have anywhere to put the remaining goods.

As soon as Su Jiaojiao came in, Liu Ying saw her and immediately understood her difficulties. She patted her shoulder and said, "You just don't have a place to put the goods. It's okay. Just leave them at my place. I'll wait for you to come back."

"Have you rented a house?" Su Jiaojiao didn't have time to talk to Liu Ying.

"My cousin has a warehouse. There aren't many things in it, but the important thing is, it's near your No. 1 Middle School." Liu Ying took out the key and waved it in front of her, smiling, "I live there too. You can stay with me for one night."

"So you're not going home tonight?" Su Jiaojiao felt embarrassed to bother her old classmate. Liu Ying smiled again, "It's cold, and I don't want to go back. My cousin put a bed in the warehouse for me, so I can show her the goods."

"You're really my savior." Su Jiaojiao hugged her and immediately told Wu Laoshi that she would take the afternoon bus. Wu Laoshi nodded and said, "The round-trip fare is 25 yuan, and the freight fee is 25 yuan. There's just one seat left. If you come a little later, you won't be able to go."

There is still an hour before departure.

Su Jiaojiao was sitting at the counter chatting with Liu Ying, and Liu Ying finally took out an envelope and gave it to her: "Here are the photos you asked for. I took them for three days. I didn't take any photos during these days because your dad wasn't here."

"Thank you." Su Jiaojiao flipped through it casually, put it in her schoolbag, and asked, "How are you and Xiao Wu doing?"

Although it was an expected photo, she still felt emotional when she actually saw it.

And he said he was just an ordinary colleague!

"He came to see me yesterday." Liu Ying knew Su Jiaojiao wasn't interested in Xiao Wu, so she said calmly, "He didn't say much that day, but he told my brother-in-law that he liked me and could see I wasn't interested. The next day, he came to me and said he'd give him a chance. I figured, since I have nothing to do anyway, I might as well just be friends for now!"

"Liu Ying, if you don't want to, don't force it." Su Jiaojiao advised her, "Finding a partner is not only about conditions, but also about chemistry."

In her previous life, after she went to the imperial capital, she lost contact with Liu Ying.

More than ten years later, she met an old classmate and talked about Liu Ying. She learned that she was divorced and married a divorced man. She had just given birth to a son. She also said that the reason for the divorce was that her husband had been working abroad for five years and had an affair. She didn't know anything else.

As to whether her husband is this Xiao Wu, she is not sure.

"Oh, let's talk about it later!" Liu Ying scratched her head, "Let's talk when we have time."

"Think about it carefully." Su Jiaojiao didn't know what to say.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Laoshi's pickup truck set off on time.

Su Jiaojiao got in the car first and sat behind the driver's seat. Two female stall owners who sold goods in Hualian Department Store came one after another, one sat in the passenger seat and the other sat behind the passenger seat. As soon as they got in the car, they started chattering. Wu Laoshi was already used to it. He looked back at the number of people and started the car and drove forward.

"Honestly, we are still missing one person!" The woman next to Su Jiaojiao reminded him.

"The other guy is waiting for us up ahead. He's not coming." Wu Laoshi started the car and drove out of the Hualian Shopping Mall. The female stall owner sitting next to Su Jiaojiao saw that Su Jiaojiao was still wearing her white and blue school uniform and asked curiously, "Little girl, are you going to Mocheng to stock up?"

"That's right." Su Jiaojiao answered politely.

"You're so capable at such a young age." The female stall owner introduced herself in a familiar manner, "My last name is Wang, you can just call me Sister Wang."

Then he pointed at the woman sitting in the passenger seat and said, "Her last name is Tang. We all call her Sister Tang."

"Hello, Sister Wang, Sister Tang." Su Jiaojiao greeted them. Wu Laoshi laughed, "You two are so shameless! She's still in high school and can call you aunt. And you're still calling her Sister Wang and Sister Tang? You're pretending to be young!"

"Go to hell." Sister Tang, who was sitting in the passenger seat, laughed and punched Wu Laoshi. "What's wrong with us just being willing to let a little girl call us sister?"

"Okay, okay, Sister Wang and Sister Tang, please sit down, we're going!" Wu Laoshi laughed heartily again.

Su Jiaojiao took out an English dictionary from her pocket and flipped through it silently.

About ten minutes later, the car stopped and someone got in and sat next to her. Su Jiaojiao instinctively leaned towards the door and continued to look at the words. Qin Xiuming's voice came from above her head: "What a coincidence?"

"What a coincidence." Su Jiaojiao was speechless when she saw that it was Qin Xiuming.

This person is really haunting.

No matter where you go, you can run into him.

"If I had known you were going to Mocheng, I would have driven." Qin Xiuming glanced at the English dictionary in her hand and sighed at her hard work. "I'm going to Mocheng to buy accessories for my mother's garment factory. What are you going to do?"

"Of course I went to Mo City to buy goods." Su Jiaojiao didn't look at him. Since she didn't want to associate with him or be friends with him, it would be better to stay away from him. If he fell in love with her again, it would be very troublesome.

"Su Jiaojiao, could you please not talk to me in that tone?" Qin Xiuming saw that she was still ignoring him and looked at her meaningfully. "I'm not pursuing you, so there's no need to rush to reject me."

Her body language told him she didn't want to talk to him.

I don't want to have any contact with him.

The two female stall owners had stopped talking at some point and were listening to them with great interest.

They knew Qin Xiuming but not Su Jiaojiao. After hearing what Qin Xiuming said, they both laughed and looked at Su Jiaojiao with ambiguous eyes. They thought she was his girlfriend.

"Qin Xiuming, could you please stop using your own thoughts to speculate about others?" Su Jiaojiao turned her head to look at him and said calmly, "I told you, I'm not a guinea pig. Don't study me. Do you know that this is very annoying?"

"Okay, I was wrong." Qin Xiuming crossed his arms, leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes. Since she didn't want to talk to him, he shouldn't be so annoying. Seeing that they stopped talking, the two women started chatting animatedly again, from their husbands to their children, and then to their mothers-in-law. Finally, they reached a consensus and complained in unison about their respective mothers-in-law, how difficult they were to get along with.

Su Jiaojiao simply put away the English dictionary and looked out the window quietly.

Wu Laoshi was driving on the national highway. There were nothing but trees on the roadside. Occasionally, a few villages flashed by, and lush trees began to appear in front of him. When the monotonous scenery was replaced by bustling traffic, he was getting closer and closer to the Mocheng Wholesale Market.

After a while, the car stopped.

The big words "Mocheng Clothing Wholesale Market" suddenly caught my eye, and the golden font sparkled in the orange sunset.