0025 Night Rose-C.TLAY, Night.25 People are coming and going at the exit of Guangzhou South Railway Station subway station, and their faces are covered by masks of different colors, making it difficult to see the expressions on each person's face.
Chen Shanye stood beside a pillar, pressing his phone. He received a photo of Ruan Mei's ID card sent to him on WeChat. He logged into the high-speed rail ticket purchasing app, first refunded his own ticket for 10:53, and then bought the 14:54 train for the two of them. This was the nearest train to Yibin and the last train of the day.
If you take this bus, you won't arrive in Yibin until after 10 pm, which is well after the bus operating hours.
He flipped through his address book, found a number and dialed it.
"Ye Zi? What brings you here?" A heroic and cheerful male voice came.
"Brother Yang." Yang Xinwei was a fellow driver he had met a few years ago while driving an illegal taxi. Chen Shanye greeted him, "Are you free to go to Yibin tonight? I'll be at the high-speed rail station at 10 p.m."
"It's rare that you asked me to do that, so I will definitely go!" Yang Xinwei was eating rice noodles, and his accent was a little unclear.
"Okay, I'll send you the train time on WeChat once I get on the high-speed train."
"Okay, you're alone, right?"
Chen Shanye thought about Ruan Mei’s phone call more than half an hour ago. This coward must have been crying so hard that her nose was running.
Thinking of this, Chen Shanye couldn't help but curl his lips and said to Yang Xinwei: "No, I came back with a friend."
Chen Shanye didn't ask Ruan Mei to go with him on impulse. If Ruan Mei refused him, he would stay and help her find a house before returning to her hometown.
He couldn't feel at ease leaving her here alone.
However, after he proposed it, Ruan Mei agreed without much hesitation.
"Anyway, I haven't had a rest for more than a year, so I might as well just treat it as a spontaneous trip," said Ruan Mei.
After ending the call, he opened Ruan Mei's WeChat dialog box and enlarged the photo on the ID card.
Ruan Mei's appearance in the ID photo has changed a little compared to now. The girl has long straight black hair neatly combed behind her ears, her pink lips are slightly raised, and there is a hint of timidity in her pair of deer eyes.
He was completely different from the little guy who was seducing me in bed a few days ago.
Metro Line 2 goes directly to South Station from Jiangnan West Station. The journey takes 20 minutes. Adding the time Ruan Mei takes to pack her luggage, it will take at least an hour. Chen Shanye leaned against the pillar and waited quietly, his eyes fixed on the exit machine.
When Ruan Mei took the escalator up from the platform, she saw Chen Shanye standing straight with his arms folded, looking past the blurry figures in front of her.
At a single glance, he fell into those eyes with black swirls.
While packing her luggage, she wondered if she had been too impulsive. Although she and Chen Shanye had done the most intimate things, traveling together? And to Chen Shanye's hometown?
This has taken on another meaning.
But then she thought, why not?
She hasn't had a single day off since she took on the debt. She has been exhausted this year, both physically and mentally.
So before closing the suitcase lid, she stuffed all the remaining Black Horse Head condoms into the side pocket of her luggage.
In the past, she wanted to please Lin Bina, then she wanted to please Huang Mingyan, and now she wants to please herself.
She wants to enjoy life while she can.
As soon as she scanned the QR code to exit the station, Chen Shanye walked up to her. Before she could say anything, the suitcase in her hand had changed hands.
"Are you still feeling bad?" Chen Shanye lifted the red sunglasses that covered most of her face. Under the sunglasses were red corners of her eyes and slightly swollen eyelids.
Ruan Mei took off her sunglasses and hung them on her collar. She lowered her mask and shook her head. "I'm not uncomfortable anymore. I just felt a little confused when I was woken up this morning. It wasn't until the law enforcement officers put up the seal and revealed everything that I realized what was happening. I couldn't accept it for a while..."
"You cried like a little baby?" Chen Shanye's deep eyes were filled with smiles.
The smile was so full that it leaked out from the corners of his eyes. Ruan Mei could even imagine that under his mask he must be smiling again, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth like crescent moons.
She wrinkled her nose and denied it: "Who looks like a little doll? There is no such thing..."
Chen Shanye stopped teasing her and walked towards the high-speed rail station hall with two suitcases. He asked, "You haven't had breakfast yet?"
With Ruan Mei's schedule, she must eat breakfast and lunch together.
"Well, not yet." Ruan Mei followed him and touched her stomach: "I'm a little hungry."
"Then get your ticket and go into the station. Find something to eat inside. Give me your ID card and I'll get the ticket."
Ruan Mei took out her wallet from her bag, pulled out her ID card and handed it to him.
Chen Shanye found a place where the sun couldn't reach and asked Ruan Mei to watch the two suitcases. He walked towards the ticket machine with his long legs. After a while, he came back with the ticket. Ruan Mei took the ticket and saw that it was a first-class seat and the ticket price was 746 yuan.
She took out her phone and transferred money to Chen Shanye's WeChat account: "I'll return the ticket money to you."
Chen Shanye gave her a deep look, picked up two boxes, one black and one red, and walked towards the entrance: "Let's go in."
The station has high ceilings and is spacious. The number of waiting passengers is certainly much less than during holidays or the Spring Festival travel rush, but it is much more lively than the quiet and deserted period of the epidemic. The cleaning staff are still diligently cleaning and disinfecting the seats and the floor.
Chen Shanye asked Ruan Mei what she wanted to eat. Ruan Mei took a look at the restaurants on the mezzanine upstairs. They were either McDonald's or KFC, either Zhen Gongfu or 72nd Street, and there was also a Starbucks.
In the past, she would have chosen Starbucks and had an Americano with a ham and cheese sandwich, but she chose McDonald's.
Chen Shanye put the box next to the table and asked her, "What do you want to eat? I'll go buy it for you."
"No need, just sit down and I'll order on the mini app." Ruan Mei handed the phone to Chen Shanye: "Look at what you want to eat?"
"I don't need that. I had breakfast this morning."
Time passed unknowingly and it was almost noon. Ruan Mei thought of eating her lunch portion as well, so she ordered an Angus double thick beef burger set meal for Chen Shanye, replaced the fries with corn cups, and the drink with low-sugar green tea.
She ordered a teriyaki chicken burger set meal and added a serving of Chicken McNuggets. She had seen how much Chen Shanye ate.
"I ordered a meal for you too, just think of it as early lunch."
"Okay, send me the pickup code and I'll go get it." Chen Shanye stood up.
While Chen Shanye was waiting for his meal, Ruan Mei posted a notice on her WeChat Moments saying that the store would be closed for a week and would only accept orders but not ship. When he looked back at WeChat, Chen Shanye had returned her transfer.
When Chen Shanye returned to his seat with the food, he saw Ruan Mei staring at him sullenly with her cheeks puffed out. He placed the plate on the table and asked with a smile, "What's wrong with you?"
Just like a little goldfish.
"Why did you return the money? The ticket is too expensive, I can't let you pay for it alone." Ruan Mei divided the two meals and pushed the McNuggets in front of Chen Shanye.
"You'll need some money to rent a house in a few days. I'll pay for it." He inserted the straw into the two drinks.
After taking a French fry and biting off the end angrily, Ruan Mei said dissatisfiedly: "If you keep doing this, I won't go out with you next time."
Chen Shanye picked up the burger with one hand and tore off the oil paper: "You treated me to a meal, so it's even."
Ruan Mei took a bite of the burger, her cheeks moving, and her voice was muffled in her mouth: "How much is a burger... You work hard to earn money, don't waste it on me..."
The two exchanged glances, and Ruan Mei heard Chen Shanye mumble something with his head down. The restaurant was crowded and noisy, so she couldn't hear clearly, so she asked again, "Huh? What did you just say?"
"Nothing, didn't you say you were hungry? Eat quickly."
Chen Shanye lowered his eyes and ate his hamburger, quietly hiding the words "Money is not a waste if it is spent on you".
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