Chapter 256 Pei Jiuyan is really like an old woman now.
The carriage remained silent for a long time until Hu Jue finished crying and realized he had lost his composure. He looked up, said "sorry," and was about to leave when Liang Qi suddenly grabbed him and handed him a handkerchief.
Hu Jue looked at him, somewhat confused, when Liang Qi turned his head and said awkwardly, "Wipe your face, write down your daughter's appearance and personal information for me. I know people in most parts of the country, and they might be able to help."
Hu Jue was both pleasantly surprised and somewhat incredulous, and turned to look at Qin Suisui.
As Qin Suisui took out disinfectant from her bag, she smiled and said, "Yes, my brother has a wide network of connections. You should quickly tell him about your daughter. Maybe it can really help. The more people there are, the more strength you have."
Da Liu and Zhou Jianguo had come over while they were talking. They had heard the whole thing and were quite moved. Da Liu patted Hu Jue on the shoulder, changing his previous attitude, and said with a smile, "Yeah, brother, don't cry. My boss is very capable. We have many brothers, so we can definitely help."
Hu Jue hurriedly wiped away his tears with his sleeve: "Oh! Okay! Okay! Thank you, thank you all! I'll write it right away!" Having searched for his daughter for two years, he strongly suspected she was no longer on Qiongtan Island, but he knew no one or had any connections elsewhere. If Liang Qi and the others could help, it would truly provide a lot more support!
He got up and tried to run to his carriage, but Qin Suisui stopped him: "No rush, the train has just started, and there are still twenty or thirty hours to go. You can't run away, so you can write whenever you want. But before that, I need to treat your wound first, it's bleeding."
Hu Jue's wound was indeed quite frightening. He had only received simple treatment at the police station, but he had run too fast to catch the bus, and the gauze had come undone, causing blood to seep out, which was rather alarming.
Hu Jue belatedly touched his head and gasped in pain.
Seeing his silly look, everyone couldn't help but laugh again, instantly dispelling the gloomy atmosphere.
Da Liu offered to fetch hot water for him. Qin Suisui had all the necessary medicines, so she treated the external injuries on his face and body, gave him an oral anti-inflammatory pill, and then let him go back to his own carriage to rest.
Perhaps because she was busy with something, Qin Suisui found that she hadn't felt carsick at all since getting on the bus.
Now that things had quieted down, she felt a little uncomfortable. Pei Jiuyan patted her back and peeled an orange for her. Qin Suisui was eating when Liang Qi strolled over from the next private room and handed her a small bag.
Qin Suisui was suspicious. She opened it and found that it contained three canned food jars. No wonder it was so heavy!
The canned food jars were filled with bright red chopped chili peppers, oily dried radishes, and mouthwatering pickled cowpeas—all appetizing and refreshing side dishes from Shashi!
"Brother Ruwen, is this what you just bought?"
Liang Qi shook her head: "I also took care of some other things. Oh, and there's something your man asked me to buy."
As he spoke, he took out two aluminum lunch boxes from his bag. Before he even opened them, Qin Suisui could smell the enticing aroma. When she opened them, sure enough, one box was full of stir-fried pork with chili peppers, and the other box was filled with crispy and fragrant stir-fried loach!
Qin Suisui turned to Pei Jiuyan in surprise: "How did you know I still wanted to eat stir-fried loach?"
Pei Jiuyan smiled but didn't answer her question: "It will take more than ten hours to get to your city. Our train probably won't stop along the way, so it will be inconvenient to get off and buy food. Fortunately, the temperature will drop as we go further, so the food won't spoil in a day. You can eat it slowly."
Jia Zhenzhen clicked her tongue and exclaimed once again, "Who would have thought that the 'Ice Block' Pei Jiuyan is such a person in private? In our military region, who would believe it if word got out?"
After saying that, as if afraid that Liang Qi would have a problem with it, he patted his shoulder and added, "You're a good older brother too."
Liang Qi chuckled and took out a bag of oranges from his backpack: "Eat these, they'll shut you up."
The oranges we bought in Guangzhou had already been shared and eaten by the group. Bored on the train, our mouths were constantly craving something to eat, and even the sunflower seeds Qin Suisui brought were devoured by them.
Fortunately, the rest of the journey went smoothly. Hu Jue also brought over the things that Lin Shengli and the others had given him and shared some with everyone. They were mostly fried foods that could be stored for a long time, such as fried dough twists and cat's ear noodles, plus oranges and melon seeds. The people in both carriages ate so much that their mouths got blisters and they got a sore throat.
Qin Suisui gets carsick, so she ate little and drank a lot of tea, which helped her.
Seeing her like this, everyone assumed it was the tea's doing, so they all went to get hot water and then asked her for tea leaves to brew. This made Qin Suisui both amused and exasperated; she hadn't even arrived at Pu Cha City yet, and she had already given Pu Cha City's tea a good advertisement.
It was past 2 a.m. when they arrived in Guicheng. There were hardly any people at the Guicheng train station late at night, and the temperature seemed even lower. They needed to make their last train transfer here, as the earliest train to Kunming was at 7 a.m. the next morning.
It was the middle of the night and the guesthouses were still closed. Besides, it would be troublesome and a waste of money to find a guesthouse, so everyone simply wrapped themselves up in their clothes and lay down on the benches in the waiting room for a while.
Qin Suisui usually sleeps a lot in the car, but she couldn't fall asleep for long, so she stood up and stretched her stiff limbs.
This was her first time visiting your city. She had only heard that there were many mountains here. The air she was breathing in was slightly cool and mixed with the unique fragrance of grass and trees in the mountains. It was indeed very comfortable.
If I have the chance in the future, I hope I can come to your city for a visit. The mountains here are high and large, so there must be a lot of rare medicinal herbs. While stretching her stiff ankles, Qin Suisui looked at the distant, rolling mountains shrouded in the night and silently made plans in her mind.
Pei Jiuyan, who had been dozing off on the bench, noticed the empty space on her shoulder. She immediately opened her eyes and looked around until she saw the graceful figure standing not far away. Only then did she feel relieved. She picked up her coat, walked over, and draped it over the woman's shoulders from behind, speaking softly:
"Why aren't you sleeping? It's almost dawn, and the morning breeze is cool. Put your clothes on."
Qin Suisui smiled, and couldn't help but recall Jia Zhenzhen's words: "Pei Jiuyan is really like an old woman now, not at all like that unapproachable ice block."
Pei Jiuyan was unaware that she was inwardly criticizing him. He thought she was happy to see the rolling mountains, so he stepped forward and stood beside her. Looking at the mountains gradually brightening in the distance, he smiled and said, "If you like it, we can come here to play sometime in the future. I have comrades here."
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