Chapter 107 Newlyweds, full of energy!
When Qiao Xing saw his action, she knew he was having a craving for cigarettes. She looked left and right and saw an unwanted lighter on a trash can not far away. She quickly ran over, picked up the lighter, and brought it back to Qin Ce.
Qin Ce took the lighter from her hand, walked a few steps away, and went to the trash can to smoke.
Qiao Xing and Wang Ye exchanged glances, both sensing that something was wrong with him.
Wang Ye said, "Is that kid complaining about the hotel I booked?"
Qiao Xing corrected him, "That's called a hotel, not a guesthouse."
“What’s wrong with the hotel? We’re just going to rest, not go on a date…” Wang Ye said, his eyes darting back and forth between the two of them, then suddenly he had a look of realization.
"I get it, you two want to exercise, right? You're really newlyweds, full of energy!"
Qiao Xing twitched the corner of his mouth; what kind of wild and inappropriate words were he saying?
She took out her phone, opened the hotel booking app, and said, "The place you booked is too far away. Let's book two rooms nearby. It's the same if we get up early tomorrow."
"Then my money is gone?"
"I'll transfer it to you in a bit!" Qiao Xing was speechless. He was so generous when buying things for Lily, but now he was agonizing over a hundred yuan. Men, huh?
"Fine, it's only a hundred yuan. You decide, and I'll see where to get a taxi."
After finishing his cigarette, Qin Ce felt a little better. He had been thinking about how to persuade the two to change hotels, but when he came over, he saw Qiao Xing booking a hotel.
Are you booking a room?
Qiao Xing nodded, glanced up at him, and to save his face, she made an excuse, saying, "That place is too far away, I want to go to sleep early."
"I'll book it." Qin Ce took out his phone and started looking for hotels.
Seeing this, Qiao Xing didn't bother to argue with him, otherwise she was afraid that he wouldn't like what she ordered.
Those who have studied abroad are indeed particular about their things.
Qin Ce booked the nearest hotel, and it took less than five minutes to get there by taxi. He then led the two of them to the taxi stand to queue up.
It was his first time taking a taxi at the airport, and the queue was a bit long. Bored, he took out his phone to check his email.
Qin Ce is tall, has a good physique, and is good-looking. Especially in a southern city, he stands out from the crowd.
This attracted many girls to peek at him. Qiao Xing even saw two girls taking pictures of him, but he was focused on his phone and didn't notice.
Qiao Xing became even more convinced that if he liked women, it was impossible for him to have never had a girlfriend in all these years.
With his looks, he must have plenty of girls pursuing him, right?
Qiao Xing was lost in thought when it was time for them to get on the bus.
After getting on the bus, we went straight to the hotel, got a card at the front desk, and took the elevator to our room.
But to Qiao Xing's surprise, Qin Ce, that spendthrift, actually booked three rooms!
This move left Wang Ye completely bewildered. What were these two doing? Why did they book rooms separately?
Qiao Xing was so tired that she didn't want to guess Qin Ce's thoughts. She went into her room, washed up quickly, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
The next morning, Wang Ye started banging on the door frantically.
He booked a ticket for the 10 o'clock train; if he arrived late, he would miss it.
Even though it was only a little past seven o'clock, Qiao Xing had to get up to wash her face and brush her teeth, and then the two of them went to call Qin Ce together.
But after ringing the doorbell for a long time, no one answered.
Just as Qiao Xing thought something had happened to him, Qin Ce suddenly appeared behind the two of them, "What are you pressing?"
Qiao Xing was taken aback, and she and Wang Ye turned around at the same time, only to see him dressed neatly, carrying breakfast in his hand.
"Did you go out to buy breakfast?"
"Well, I thought you wouldn't be able to get up. It's still warm, so you can eat first, and then we'll go to Xian County."
Qiao Xing took the breakfast from his hand and shared half with Wang Ye. She couldn't help but wonder if this guy never slept.
Because many times before, he wasn't asleep when she went to sleep, and when she woke up, he had already gone out for a morning run.
It was already surprising enough that Qin Ce got up early to buy breakfast, but Qiao Xing didn't expect that the surprise was yet to come.
The three of them stood outside the hotel, staring in astonishment at the SUV in front of them.
Qin Ce said, "It's rented."
"You went to buy breakfast and rented a car while you were there?"
Qin Ce opened the car door and said, "I rented this car online last night and picked it up this morning. We have to transfer to another bus to get to Xian County, which is too troublesome. It's much more convenient to drive there."
Wang Ye was devastated again; his tickets had been wasted again!
Qiao Xing pushed Wang Ye into the car, "Okay, cousin, don't look like that. Your ticket isn't worth much."
Wang Ye was very frustrated. If he had known that Qin Ce had arranged everything, why would he have bothered to look up any strategy guides?
Qin Ce turned on the navigation and navigated to the county town first.
Driving is definitely faster than taking the bus; the three-hour journey only took two hours to reach the county town.
Then we went to the town, which took almost an hour to get from the county seat to the town.
Qiao Xing curiously looked out of the car. The houses in this town did look a bit backward. Many of the houses were old five- or six-story buildings, and there were also many intricate wooden buildings. There were no traffic lights, and motorcycles and electric bikes were weaving through the crowd. There were stalls everywhere on the roadside.
It's the kind of place where they open a shop, then put up a shed outside and display all their goods on the street.
You don't see many young people on the street; almost everyone is elderly or middle-aged with children.
Qin Ce's car was having a hard time getting around the town because the elderly people didn't pay attention to where they were going, carrying loads on shoulder poles and baskets on their backs, and there were all sorts of motorcycles shuttling back and forth.
Wang Ye said, "There aren't many people here, but the traffic jam is worse than in big cities."
Qin Ce couldn't resist lighting a cigarette. He took a drag, and the smoke drifted out of the car window. "The roads here are narrow, and there are no traffic lights, so traffic jams are normal."
As he spoke, he honked the horn.
Only after hearing the horn did the people slowly make way. He held the steering wheel with one hand and slowly drove the car away.
Wang Ye took out his phone and looked at it, then said to Qin Ce, "Qin Ce, Lily's home is in Bali Township. The navigation can't get there. We need to find someone to ask."
"Go ask."
Wang Ye rolled down the car window and asked the old man outside, "Grandpa, which way to Bali Village?"
The old man spoke in a dialect that I couldn't understand at all.
They asked a few more people and finally got the directions.
Qin Ce drove towards Bali Township. The absurd thing was that the road leading there was still a dirt road, with mountains on both sides.
The car bumped along for another hour before finally arriving at Bali Village... at the foot of the mountain.
Yes, we still have to walk another eight miles up the mountain path, no wonder Lily said it was inconvenient.
This is with me driving myself; if I were to take a bus or something, it would take a whole day just to get home.
By the time the three arrived at Bali Village, it was almost dark.
This was Qiao Xing's first time visiting a rural area, and everything around her was constantly challenging her understanding of the world.
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