Chapter 40 Chapter 40 A day trip to the suburbs [Second update]...
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As dusk fell, two white and gold buses followed a black commercial vehicle, driving slowly and steadily on the road against the rolling heat wave.
The devastated city was gradually left behind, and the deserted national highway seemed to be forgotten by time. There were no pedestrians or vehicles, and the trees along the road had lost all their leaves, leaving only bare branches and desolation.
“Ding Di——”
A fork in the road appeared in front of the right side. The business car honked to signal, then turned right and slowly drove down the slope, following the narrow and winding road.
The bus driver followed carefully without hesitation.
Going downhill and then uphill, the road is still narrow, but there are vast farmlands on both sides of the road.
Due to the continued high temperature, the corn in the field had already turned into a pile of dry corn. Gu Mengran lowered the car window to take a look, then decisively turned the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator to drive the commercial vehicle into the field.
There is a certain height difference between the road and the farmland. A commercial vehicle can barely drive in by rubbing its chassis against the mud. There is no need to even try for a heavy bus, as it certainly cannot drive in.
Seeing Gu Mengran open the car door and get out, Zheng Yijie, who was confused, stepped on the brakes and stopped the car on the side of the road, and quickly lowered the window, "Aren't we going to Jincheng? What are you doing in this mountainous area? It's still early, if we drive faster, we can get there tonight!"
"Turn off the engine and get out of the car." Gu Mengran walked back to the road on the hard mud and waved at Zheng Yiji through the car window without much explanation.
"What? Trick me into going to the wilderness to kill me?" Zheng Yijie asked half seriously and half jokingly, then he rolled up the car window, turned off the engine, put on his backpack and got out of the car.
Gu Mengran curled his lips and smiled, "Congratulations, you guessed it right."
The car behind was parked next to the one in front, and Mr. Meng got out of the car slowly. He glanced at Zheng Yijie who was confused by the situation on the side of the road, then looked at Gu Mengran who was chatting and laughing with him, and frowned slightly.
He knew Gu Mengran's plan very well, but in front of outsiders...
"cough."
The old man coughed lightly and was about to call Gu Mengran over to ask him what to do. The next moment, Gu Mengran reached out his hand and covered the bus without warning, and the huge object occupying the road disappeared from his sight in an instant.
This action scared two people.
The old man thought that Zheng Yijie was unaware of the situation and that Gu Mengran was crazy as he had been kicked in the head by a donkey, exposing himself in front of outsiders for no apparent reason.
Although Zheng Yijie had seen Gu Mengran use the space, seeing it from a distance and seeing it up close were two completely different experiences. Such a big car just disappeared silently! He was shocked by this supernatural phenomenon that could not be explained by science and broke into a cold sweat.
That’s awesome, just 200 push-ups, I’ll do it tonight!
The two people on the roadside were stunned, and Gu Mengran, who had done a bad thing, laughed so hard that he fell backwards.
But the joy didn't last long. The old man's cold eyes came into view. Gu Meng felt a chill on his back for no reason. He waved his hands and stepped back. "It was just a joke, Grandpa. Actually, he knew it a long time ago. He accidentally saw it, so you can't blame me--"
"Gu Mengran, stop right there!"
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Three days is neither fast nor slow.
Now that things were out in the open, there were no more secrets. Gu Mengran took his grandfather and Zheng Yiji to the mountains for a picnic and barbecue. They ate and slept, and had a great time for three days.
Unfortunately, it was too hot to camp, so we had to sleep in the car. After three days, all three of us suffered from back pain and leg cramps, without exception.
It was a hot noon. The commercial vehicle parked in the farmland shook twice, and the front door slowly opened. Gu Mengran got out of the car, hunched over, opened his arms and stretched comfortably.
The heat wave hit him in the face. Gu Mengran turned on the fan on his neck, rubbed his sore neck, and then slowly opened the back door.
The hot air rushed into the carriage, and Zheng Yijie, who was dozing in the second row, woke up almost instantly. It was like a bucket of cold water was poured over his head. He sat up suddenly and looked around in horror.
"What the hell! What happened? Is it on fire?"
The culprit, Gu Mengran, was so frightened that he touched his nose and reminded in a gentle voice, "It's not on fire. It's time to get up."
"Why get up? There's nothing to do. Let me sleep a little longer..." His voice became smaller and smaller. Zheng Yijie closed his eyes, tilted his body, and was about to fall back into his chair.
Gu Mengran grabbed his arm in time and pulled him up.
"Still sleeping! What time is it, brother? The wheat hasn't been loaded onto the truck yet!"
"Xiaomi?" Zheng Yijie blinked blankly, "What do you mean Xiao—Oh, right! I think I should go back today."
Gu Mengran glared at him unhappily, "You still remember."
Thinking of important matters, Zheng Yijie forced himself to sit up, but within two seconds, his shoulders slumped and he leaned weakly against the chair, as if all his vitality had been sucked away by an invisible force.
"I don't think three days is reasonable. There are three trucks of wheat and we don't have any tools. It will take at least five days to unload and load the goods by hand." Zheng Yiji opened his eyes with difficulty and tried to bargain with Gu Mengran to stay a few more days.
Gu Mengran sneered, "Who was the one who cried and said he didn't want to come? Don't want to leave after having so much fun? Hurry up, get up and work!"
"Ouch!" Zheng Yijie wailed, put on his shoes and reluctantly walked out of the car. Seeing that Gu Mengran had no intention of asking the old man to get up, Zheng Yijie was kind enough to close the car door.
“It’s so hot!”
Less than two seconds after getting off the ground, Zheng Yijie started wailing again.
Gu Mengran lowered his head and walked towards the road without turning his head, "If you talk less, you won't feel hot anymore."
It was obviously not that easy to shut up a chatterbox. Gu Mengran walked onto the road and had just taken out two buses and placed them in the middle of the road. Zheng Yijie stood by and rubbed his belly, "I'm a little hungry. I don't have the energy to work."
"Oh."
Gu Mengran laughed, took out a large piece of hand-torn bread and threw it to him.
Seeing the thing thrown over, Zheng Yijie reached out to catch it with a smile, but when he saw it was bread, his face immediately fell and he said dejectedly: "You know I don't want bread. Aren't the spare ribs from the day before yesterday and the barbecue from yesterday still available? Give me some."
"Don't worry about it. You've eaten a lot. That's for Liang Zhao." Gu Mengran didn't even look at him. He opened the door and walked straight onto the bus.
Zheng Yijie complained in a low voice: "It's Liang Zhao again. I've heard you say this so many times these days. You two brothers have such a good relationship, as close as if you were wearing the same pair of pants, but you don't look alike."
What else can it be? Gu Mengran raised his lips slightly, without explaining too much to him.
With space at hand, loading a few trucks of wheat is effortless.
The large woven bags that he had stockpiled before the disaster came in handy. Gu Mengran took out a thick stack and, starting from the back seat, used his hands to pour the wheat in the space into the woven bags little by little.
The wheat came from Hengrongsheng, and it was soaked in water when the ship capsized. Storing the wheat in space will not dry it, so in addition to eating, drinking and having fun these days, they did not forget to take out the wheat to dry it.
Working together makes the work less tiring. Gu Mengran was loading the goods in the front, while Zheng Yijie was sealing the goods at the back with cable ties to prevent leakage during transportation and to make it easier for people to unload and carry the goods.
Gu Mengran was rarely generous. He filled all the seats and aisles of the two buses, leaving nearly two-thirds of the space for wheat.
If it was the supplies that he had spent time and effort to stockpile, Gu Mengran would definitely not be willing to give so much away to others, but they could not finish eating the wheat that they obtained by chance, so instead of stockpiling it in the space, it would be better to give it to those in need.
Well, I'm just offering flowers to Buddha.
After more than two hours of hard work, the bus was loaded. The old man finally woke up, and the three of them had a simple meal to fill their stomachs, and then loaded the commercial vehicle with wheat.
The last bag of wheat was put into the aisle. The business car was so full of wheat that there was no room for anyone to sit except in the front row.
It’s past three in the afternoon, so it’s still early.
The old man closed the car door, checked the time, walked around the front of the car to the driver's window, and knocked on the glass twice.
In less than two seconds, the car window slowly rolled down, and the radiant Gu Mengran held the steering wheel and leaned out with a smile, "What's wrong, Grandpa?"
The corners of his mouth were slightly raised, his eyes were full of smiles, and he was visibly excited, with four words written on his face - eager to go home.
Meng Gaoyang saw through his thoughts at a glance, shook his head helplessly, stretched out his left hand and handed the watch to him, "It's only a little after three o'clock, isn't it too early to leave now?"
"It's indeed early. It's just over an hour's drive, and we'll be back at a little after four o'clock." Zheng Yijie walked over from the back of the car, leisurely waving the old man's palm-leaf fan.
Upon hearing this, the smile on Gu Mengran's face gradually faded, his palm unconsciously rubbed the steering wheel, and he said without confidence: "It's okay, it's only a few hours earlier than expected, there is not much difference between arriving at four o'clock and seven o'clock."
The old man stopped talking after hearing this, but Zheng Yijie hadn't figured out the situation yet, so he went to the window and analyzed with Gu Mengran: "No, no, no, there's a big difference."
"Think about it, we must be exhausted after harvesting so much wheat in three days, right? We should have arrived in the dark, exhausted, and struggling to reach the mountain city, instead of arriving at four in the afternoon, looking very relaxed."
"Dusty?" Meng Gaoyang chewed on these two words again and again, and suddenly thought of a key question. He slapped the car door hard, "I almost forgot!"
"What?" Gu Mengran and Zheng Yiji spoke at the same time.
The old man sighed, turned around and pointed at the white and gold bus on the road, and said with a bit of pride: "Haven't you found the problem yet? Isn't it too clean? It looks like it went to Jincheng and brought back so much wheat?"
Zheng Yijie took a closer look and said, "Yeah, what should we do? Drive out for a few laps?"
"No need." Gu Mengran opened the car door and got out, pointing to the farmland where the commercial vehicle was parked. "Bring the car in and let the tires spin for a while."
"Hey, this is a good idea. I'm counting on you, Xiao Mengran!"
The bus can't drive in? No problem, just retract the bus and put it in the farmland. The driver gets on the bus, brakes, and accelerators, coating the relatively clean wheels and body with a layer of dirty yellow mud.
After a long and tiring half an hour, the three vehicles returned to the flat road. Then the commercial vehicle took the lead and led the two buses on the way back.
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