"Bai Yan, were you talking about epaulettes? You know that too?"

Seeing Meng Hechuan turn around and walk towards Bai Yan, his face was filled with confusion and a determination to get to the bottom of things.

Ruan Xiaohui made up her mind and repeated the same old tune. Suddenly she rolled her eyes, her body went limp, and she fainted backwards.

"Chief Engineer Meng! Comrade Xiao Ruan fainted from fright!"

Bai Yan felt both admiration and relief in her heart.

She quickly took a step back and gestured in the direction of Ruan Xiaohui, "Chief Engineer Meng, your little sister Ruan has fainted. You should take care of her first."

Meng Hechuan was only a few steps away from Bai Yan. He stopped and looked back at Ruan Xiaohui.

The body did not move.

Bai Yan knew that he was not so easy to fool, so she took a few deep breaths secretly, making herself look no different from usual, "Oh, yes, we met together in Yanzhou, I just remembered it when you mentioned it just now."

...

...

She blinked and tilted her head, looking confused: "I just wanted to ask what the shoulder strap is used for, there is no other meaning."

Meng Hechuan stared at her without blinking, his expression gloomy and unclear.

What are you thinking about?!

The only coincidence between Bai Yan and Baijia Village is that they both have the same surname "Bai".

Why is it that based on this tiny coincidence, I often wonder what would have happened between them if it was Bai Yan who saved me and took his epaulettes?

Once this strange idea came up, it began to ferment uncontrollably.

If it was Bai Yan, would she also come to him with her epaulettes like Ruan Xiaohui did and ask him to help her stay in the team?

Will they have more contact?

Meng Hechuan was restless and thinking about all sorts of things, but was she really someone he could get in touch with?

Although her family is not complicated and they are ordinary people, Meng Hechuan cannot take any risks in what he wants to do.

Over the years, he has always trusted his instincts.

This time, his intuition kept telling him that Bai Yan was not as ordinary as she appeared.

She seemed to be carrying some secret that she dared not let others know or touch.

and--

There is also a Tan Hean.

Meng Hechuan narrowed his eyes, and deep in his eyes, there was a flash of sadness that he himself didn't even notice.

He suppressed the inexplicable thoughts in his mind, and when he spoke again, his tone was calm, "Forget it if you don't know, it doesn't have any special use."

"Hechuan...Brother?" Ruan Xiaohui didn't really faint. Although her eyes were closed, her ears were perked up.

Before Meng Hechuan came close and showed concern for her, and realizing that he had been talking to Bai Yan, Ruan Xiaohui had no choice but to "wake up slowly" on her own.

She opened her mouth weakly, "I'm sorry, I'm so useless. I fell ill after being tired for a few days..."

Meng Hechuan turned around and told the two female comrades from the kitchen team who were supporting Ruan Xiaohui, "Take Comrade Xiao Ruan to the infirmary first."

One of the female colleagues in the kitchen felt a pain in her arm, and she hurriedly said, "Chief Engineer Meng, Comrade Xiao Ruan just fainted, and we don't know how to take care of her. How about you come with us?"

Meng Hechuan hesitated a little and looked at Bai Yan who was brought by himself and Lu Jili: "Then you——"

Bai Yan wanted to run away as soon as possible, and said to him, "Ah, I have something to do with Teacher Wei this afternoon. We need to select people to participate in the exchange class. Chief Engineer Meng, Captain Lu, thank you for your lunch and soda. You can go ahead and do whatever you want. I'm leaving first."

"Sister Yan, I'll go with you to see the excitement of your selection process."

Meng Hechuan looked at the girl who left side by side with Lu Jili. In the end, he said nothing and nodded to Ruan Xiaohui: "Let's go. I'll take you to the infirmary."

…

Infirmary.

Ruan Xiaohui was pretending to faint. The team doctor on duty listened to her stethoscope and measured her blood pressure. "This female comrade is in good health. She's fine."

Ruan Xiaohui imitated Bai Yan's behavior in the dormitory these days, raised her orchid finger and pressed it on her forehead, "Doctor, I often feel dizzy recently, and my nose is blocked and my throat is sore. And my hands, is it because I wash too many dishes and dishes? I feel like my hands are cracked."

Doctor Xu was sitting at the table recording Ruan Xiaohui's medical records. He turned his head and glanced at her when he heard this.

Her hands did show signs of work, but looking at the entire team, except for the young ladies in the art class, who didn't have scars?

Even the sons of powerful people like Chief Engineer Meng and Captain Lu were injured many times during their missions.

Once, Meng Hechuan even used his arms to withstand the impact in order to rescue a piece of mechanical board.

When the man was brought in, his wounds were so deep that the bones were visible, but he didn't even make a sound.

Since this female comrade in front of me is in the kitchen team, isn't it her job to wash vegetables and dishes and do the logistics work for the team?

Doctor Xu was disdainful in his heart, so his tone was naturally not so polite. He wrote a simple medical advice: "Your hand, it won't crack."

Doctor Xu stood up and handed her the medical instructions. "I just checked you. Your hands smell like clam oil. You probably used more and more often than I did. You took such good care of them, so how could they crack so easily?"

Ruan Xiaohui's face was red and purple.

Doctor Xu was quite impatient with her appearance, and didn't even plan to keep her in the medical room for observation. He hurried her away: "Chief Engineer Meng, this young colleague is fine. I still need to clean up the equipment here."

Meng Hechuan nodded and walked out with Ruan Xiaohui.

"Brother Hechuan, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have mentioned the epaulette matter in front of so many people."

Meng Hechuan paused while looking at his watch. "Speaking of this, Comrade Xiao Ruan, do you still remember the epaulettes?"

Ruan Xiaohui nodded, with an expression that said it was all my fault. "I really can't remember... Brother Hechuan, will you blame me? That shoulder badge was the opportunity for us to meet, but I forgot it."

"...It doesn't matter." It can't be said to be blame. To be precise, in Meng Hechuan's heart, the fact that Ruan Xiaohui couldn't remember the epaulettes should be a trouble for him.

It's like there's a puzzle that never gets solved.

Ruan Xiaohui bit her lip, feeling jealous when she thought about the hand contact between Bai Yan and Meng Hechuan in the cafeteria just now.

I don’t know why Bai Yan is so lucky with men. She can always get Chief Engineer Meng to help her.

Jealousy drove Ruan Xiaohui to become bold.

She stretched out her hand and tried to hook the hand that Meng Hechuan was swinging at his side.

Unexpectedly, just as her fingertips touched Meng Hechuan, he quickly withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted, "Comrade Xiao Ruan, what are you doing?"

"I, I just... Tsurukawa brother, I just thought, oh no, I just saw that you have something dirty here."

Meng Hechuan twirled his thumb and put his hand in his pocket. "Thank you, I'll do it myself. I'm not used to others touching me."

Ruan Xiaohui's face turned red and white when she was rejected.

She hurriedly made excuses for herself: "I'm sorry, I didn't know you didn't like being touched. I saw Sister Bai Yan always touching you like this. She even grabbed your hand in the cafeteria today. Next time, I'll remind her next time."

"No need, she is different." Meng Hechuan spoke quickly and walked forward.

"She...she didn't touch me on purpose every time."