Chapter 144
Ah Qiang was eager to return to see Luo Chunyan, but his confession was rejected, leaving him extremely depressed.
He found the distant relative and a few friends with whom he had borrowed money before he left, returned the four hundred yuan, and had lunch at his friend's house.
During the meal, he told a few friends he had grown up with that he was now in Pingdong City, working with his brother Lei in the scrap building materials business, which was more profitable than in the county, and that he would gradually expand the business.
If any of you brothers want to follow him to the city to make your fortune, you can go to the city to find him later.
After finishing his meal, A-Qiang didn't even go home. He bought a ticket for the earliest bus back to Pingdong City and left.
There's just an empty open space at home and two rooms with nothing of value, so there's not much to see when we go back.
A-Qiang felt that there was nothing worth remembering about Pingquan County, but rather Pingdong City, which held endless possibilities and had loyal friends like Brother Lei.
Going to Pingdong City to follow Brother Lei was the right choice he made.
After today's incident, Ah-Qiang is even more convinced of this point.
If he had stayed in Pingquan County and continued to be Ah Qiang, a despised scrap collector, Luo Chunyan, Zhang Chunyan, and Li Chunyan would still have looked down on him just the same.
Once on the bus, A-Qiang saw that most of the seats were occupied, except for two empty seats in the last two rows at the back of the bus.
Ah Qiang had some drinks with some childhood friends at noon, and feeling depressed, he walked over and sat down in silence.
The seat next to him by the window was occupied by a young woman in her early twenties.
When a dark-skinned man reeking of alcohol got into the car and sat down next to her, the young woman became wary, clutching her bag and shifting further inside.
Seeing that the girl next to him was scared, A-Qiang turned around and smiled at her: "Sorry, I had some drinks with my friends at noon, did the smell bother you? I'll go sit in the back."
Seeing that he didn't seem frivolous when he spoke, but rather quite sincere, the girl glanced at him, shook her head, and smiled, saying, "It's nothing."
Feeling the stranger's kindness, A-Qiang felt a surge of frustration from being rejected by Luo Chunyan earlier. He took out the pearl necklace box from his pocket, handed it to the girl, and said, "This is for you, as an apology."
After saying that, A-Qiang went to the seat in the back.
There were two empty seats in the back, which were quite spacious. Ah Qiang was still drunk and fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
The girl in front of her was stunned when she saw the pearl necklace that the strange man had thrown into her arms.
When I looked back at A-Qiang, he had already closed his eyes and started snoring evenly.
girl:"……"
After more than two hours on the bus, they arrived in Pingdong City. Aqiang got up, rubbed his eyes, and prepared to get off the bus.
The girl called out to him, "Hey, comrade, these are your things."
"What is that?" Ah Qiang asked, confused.
The girl handed over the jewelry box, saying, "You were drunk just now, so you left your things with me."
Ah Qiang glanced at it, grinned nonchalantly, and looked a bit simple-minded. "You mean this? It's nothing valuable. You can have it."
After saying that, A-Qiang got off the car in a few steps, waved to Hu-niang, and plunged into the crowd in the station.
The girl was a student from Pingquan County who came to Pingdong City to study recently, as the start of the new school year was approaching.
I am studying for a junior college degree at a vocational school.
She quickly got out of the car, wanting to catch up with A-Qiang and return the things to him, but when she got out, she found that he was nowhere to be seen.
The girl hesitated before opening the box and saw that it contained a pearl necklace.
Although the girl's family wasn't particularly well-off, she had seen classmates from wealthier families wearing pearl necklaces at school; they cost two or three hundred yuan each, which wasn't cheap.
That young man actually gave away a necklace worth several hundred yuan to a complete stranger...
"What a strange person."
The girl muttered to herself in surprise, but she was deeply impressed by this young man whose name she didn't even know.
On the other hand, Luo Chunyan, holding the letter that A-Qiang had brought back for Lei Tingjun, did not go to the Ji family.
Yesterday, Ji Xingguo had just returned from dropping off Ji Wanmei. If Luo Chunyan were to hand Lei Tingjun's letter to Ji Xingguo now, it might provoke him to go to Pingdong City to settle scores with Lei Tingjun again.
Luo Chunyan then helped Ji Wanmei put the letter away, thinking that when Ji Wanmei wrote back next time, she would send her a reply along with the letter.
A-Qiang returned to the construction site dormitory that afternoon.
Lei Tingjun was really busy driving around with a few fellow workers from the transport team, so he went straight to sleep when no one was in the dormitory.
Lei Tingjun didn't return until six or seven o'clock in the evening.
Seeing a pair of shoes placed in front of the bunk bed in the dormitory, A-Qiang was sprawled out on the bed, sleeping like a dead pig.
Lei Tingjun wiped his sweat with a towel, then kicked him, waking him up.
“Brother Lei, you’re back…” A-Qiang woke up and sat up.
"Has the letter been delivered?" Lei Tingjun only cared about this.
"I didn't see Miss Ji. I entrusted my heart to Luo Chunyan and asked her to pass it on for me. I didn't stay in Pingquan long; I came back after lunch," A-Qiang said in a muffled voice.
Upon hearing that the letter had been handed to Luo Chunyan, Lei Tingjun frowned slightly.
This Luo Chunyan has always been quite hostile towards him, constantly telling Ji Wanmei to stay away from him and to speak ill of him.
The Thunder Army actually knew all of this.
Lei Tingjun didn't take Luo Chunyan's instigation seriously, always believing that as long as he was sincere, Ji Wanmei would feel it.
But if the letter is handed to Luo Chunyan, what if she deliberately doesn't pass it on to Ji Wanmei?
Lei Tingjun's expression darkened slightly, and he frowned, saying, "I told you to give the letter to Ji Wanmei, not to Luo Chunyan."
Ah Qiang hung his head and said, "Brother Lei, I know I didn't handle your matter well, but at the time, I really couldn't have stayed there any longer. I specially bought a gift to go back and confess to Luo Chunyan, and she still told me to get lost. Do you think I should have the nerve to stick around there with her?"
Lei Tingjun said calmly, "It's her loss that she doesn't like you. You don't need to belittle yourself; you'll meet a better girl in the future."
In fact, A-Qiang also knew that Luo Chunyan, while not exactly a snob, definitely loved wealth.
She just looks down on herself for being poor and a scrap collector.
Ah Qiang rallied: "Brother Lei, I'll definitely work hard with you from now on, make money, and make a name for myself! I'll let those relatives and friends who looked down on me before, and those materialistic women, know that I, Ah Qiang, am a person of importance. I'll make them regret how they treated me!"
Lei Tingjun smiled faintly, "Alright, at least you have ambition."
Calculating the time, it's already August 25th, and the start of school for Ji Wanmei is just around the corner.
Lei Tingjun thought that the letter most likely wouldn't reach Ji Wanmei.
He should go to the provincial capital, Huadong, to find her himself.
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