Chapter 631: The Story Within the Story

Sleeping with a stranger of the opposite sex feels like a year.

A rough night...

When the sky brightened and the man returned to the driver's seat, Lin Yiyi really fell asleep.

The wind and snow did not stop, sometimes it was heavy and sometimes it was light.

The road condition was bad and the trucks were moving slowly.

After arriving at the town, Zhao Sheng went to a state-owned restaurant and ate a large bowl of noodle soup, and filled the two thermoses he brought with hot water.

Before leaving, I packed eight corn buns, two eggs and some pickles.

The person in the back seat behind the driver's seat was soundly sleeping and he didn't wake up even after going up and down several times.

Zhao Sheng had no intention of waking her up.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the truck drove onto the provincial road and continued to drive south.

After passing the neighboring city and the provincial capital, we didn't stop the car along the way except for a quick stop to relieve ourselves.

The road conditions were bad due to the ice and snow, and the driving speed was very slow before leaving the province.

Normally, it only takes more than 9 hours to drive south from Ze County out of the province.

This time it will probably take a whole day.

In winter, it gets dark early and is gloomy.

Lin Yiyi woke up, half-closed her eyes and stretched. For a moment, she felt like she was still in the dormitory, but the unfamiliar quilt and environment reminded her of what happened yesterday.

She didn't know where she was going, and until she figured out a clue, she could only stay in bed and secretly drink glucose.

Zhao Sheng could see clearly the movement under the quilt from the rearview mirror.

It looks like someone wants to rely on him.

He didn't say anything to break the silence, but continued driving with the steering wheel.

Lin Yiyi sipped the glucose in small sips. Although she drank slowly, there was only a small amount in a bottle, so how long could she sip it for?

She was so hungry that drinking glucose alone was not enough.

The point is that she wants to go to the bathroom now.

You have to speak even if you don't want to.

Lin Yiyi sat up wrapped in a blanket and took the initiative to greet the man driving in front, "...Comrade, I'm awake."

He didn't say anything, just looked at her in the rearview mirror and continued to look forward.

She reached out and picked up the sportswear on the back of the passenger seat, and put it on secretly.

Wearing dirty clothes, she didn't stay close to the quilt, but folded it and put it aside. Because she was wearing thin clothes and the cold made her shiver uncontrollably.

After a while, Zhao Sheng asked in a deep voice, "Where are you going?"

"...I have no idea."

"have no idea?"

The atmosphere was deadlocked again, but was soon broken by a gray-haired animal that jumped out from the road.

Zhao Sheng didn't even blink and just ran over it.

A small animal was instantly pressed into the wet and dirty ground.

Lin Yiyi felt as if for a moment she saw with her own eyes the scene of the small animal being crushed and blood splattering.

He asked again, "Where are we going?"

“…” She didn’t even know where she was, how could she know where she was going?

It was difficult to answer this question, so Lin Yiyi could only ask him back. She rubbed her hands back and forth and said carefully, "Comrade, where are you driving to?"

"South." Zhao Sheng frowned slightly, his expression still as dull as ever.

South?

Lin Yiyi seemed to be suddenly inspired. Yes, the south. No matter what year it is, going to the south is definitely better than staying here.

She taped another bottle of glucose to her right to cool it and echoed his words.

"What a coincidence! I'm going south too."

Zhao Sheng put his tongue against his back teeth and smiled, "You want to follow me?"

He moved his eyes down to her clothes, which were so dirty.

As if her words were misinterpreted, Lin Yiyi hurriedly explained: "...I want to take your truck to the south, is that ok?"

Considering that it will snow heavily in the evening, Zhao Sheng does not plan to drive at night. He did not get a good rest last night, so he will stay in a guesthouse tonight.

He said to the person behind him, "It's getting late. Bring me the letter of introduction."

“…” It’s over. Why can’t I escape being asked for my ID card?

Lin Yiyi felt uncomfortable holding it in, so she looked around and asked, "Can I go to the bathroom first?"

Zhao Sheng felt that it would be troublesome to have one more person, but he still turned to the side of the road, slowed down and stopped the car.

After the car stopped, Lin Yiyi got out and went to the weeds covered with snow on the side of the road. She didn't dare to go far, for fear that the truck driver would drive away.

The cold weather didn't even give her the courage to slip away under any pretext.

I have nothing to eat or drink and I don’t know the way.

A few minutes after getting off the bus, Lin Yiyi's nose tip was red from the cold. When she hurriedly ran to the front of the truck, the man was holding a cigarette in his mouth and adjusting his pants with his hands.

She seemed to know what the crashing sound she heard last night was.

The truck restarted.

Faced with the driver's repeated questioning, Lin Yiyi had no choice but to lie, "I lost the letter of introduction."

Zhao Sheng didn't believe it. "Lost? Are you a drifter? If you are, I can only ask you to get off the bus."

Lin Yiyi was so frightened that she hurriedly shook her head, "No, no, I'm not, the letter of introduction was really lost."

"I was going to the south to look for my relatives, and something unexpected happened on the way. My luggage was stolen."

He asked again in a cold voice: "Where in the south? What's your name? Where are you from? What relatives are you looking for?"

After being bombarded with questions one after another, Lin Yiyi couldn't think too much and could only say something random, "I went to Xiaozhen, a small fishing village by the sea. I came from the grassland."

Zhao Sheng knew that she was talking nonsense and it was the same as if she had said nothing. He did not expose her and just stopped talking.

The railway line from the grassland to the south does not reach Ze County, let alone Zhaojia Town.

Only the provincial capital has an intermediate station.

The female liar is full of lies and is just a vagrant wandering around.

I don’t know what I did wrong in my hometown, so I’m hiding everywhere.

Zhao Sheng was always wary of her, fearing that she was a female hooligan who used her beauty to trap truck drivers.

In fact, if he just left her behind and focused on driving the car to deliver goods, nothing would happen.

But deep down, I wanted to step on the edge of danger to see what she would do and what she wanted to do.

He was curious about her.

We are staying in a guesthouse tonight. The female gangster cannot stay in the truck. If she steals his goods, she will suffer heavy losses.

One must keep one's eyes on him.

The corners of the oil paper bag on the passenger seat had fallen apart, revealing the few steamed buns left inside. Lin Yiyi was so greedy that she kept swallowing her saliva.

She didn't have the courage to ask for it, but she was too hungry to bear it.

The feeling of being hungry is extremely uncomfortable.

It felt like there were two villains fighting in her mind, one urging her to ask for it directly, and the other asking her to save face and be reserved.

Unfortunately, the daring villain won in the end. Lin Yiyi leaned on the edge of his driver's seat, looking pitiful with eager eyes.

"Driver...can I have half a steamed bun?"

Zhao Sheng sneered in his heart and habitually wanted to ask people for favors, but he thought that she was a blind female vagrant and would have nothing.

After thinking for a while, he finally nodded in agreement.

Half is half.

At the very end, before dusk completely falls.

There were three and a half corn buns, and only half of them were gone.

Zhao Sheng's thin lips were pursed into a line, with a hint of melancholy between his brows.

Why on earth did he want to keep this woman who wasted his food?

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