Bai Shibao laughed and said, "Brother, don't worry. My brothers and sisters all get along well. I certainly won't be like what you said after I get married."
How many siblings do you have? Are they all married?
“There are four of us siblings. I have an older brother and an older sister, and they are all married, but I am not,” Bai Shibao said with shame.
"It's okay. You should do great things when you're young. It's fine for capable people to get married later."
That's what they say, but Bai Shibao isn't young anymore. Besides, he's not in a hurry, but Guan Xinyan is.
Bai Shibao scratched his head: "I wanted to bring my girlfriend home to visit during the Spring Festival this year. If all goes well, I also want to get married as soon as possible next year."
"That's fine too."
Bai Jiaojiao served Bai Shibao only the parts that were easy to remove from his bones, and even left the chicken skin for him to eat, so that he could get some collagen and it would be good for his wounds to heal.
Bai Shibao ate quickly and finished in no time. Bai Jiaojiao packed up her lunchbox and rushed back to her afternoon classes.
Because of Ding Shifang and Cen Rong's affair, she and Shen Heng were considered whistleblowers. Bai Jiaojiao received a notice to go to the police station to sign a document. After class, Bai Jiaojiao had to ride her bike to that remote South District Police Station.
Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned, and the bicycle chain broke on the road.
This really worried Bai Jiaojiao. She had neither the skill to drive the car back and forth, nor the ability to repair the chain. She was in a real dilemma.
Bai Jiaojiao thought to herself, "I'll just wait by the roadside. Maybe a kind person will give me a ride. It doesn't matter where I'm going, as long as they can take me to a place with people so I can ask around and find someone who knows how to fix things."
There are really few people on this road. After all, everyone is either working or doing something these days, and no good person would wander around aimlessly.
After waiting for ten minutes, Bai Jiaojiao drove away while keeping an eye out, and finally saw a pickup truck driving by. Judging from its color, it should be a military vehicle.
"Comrade, is the car broken down?"
A man in uniform leaned out of the driver's cab. People are still warm-hearted these days; they are always willing to help those in need.
Bai Jiaojiao was overjoyed to see someone: "Hello, my bicycle chain broke. Could you please give me a ride and take me to the village over there? There's no one around here, it's too far."
“Sure, why not?” Yang Fenglin stopped the car, the engine still running, and jumped off to help Bai Jiaojiao carry the bicycle upstairs. As he carried it, he said, “You comrade, don’t you have any sense of caution? Aren’t you afraid we’ll take you away and sell you?”
Bai Jiaojiao laughed and said, "You even have a red flag on your car, how could I not trust you?"
"You're absolutely right!"
Yang Fenglin had never seen such a clever and straightforward young girl before, and his mood improved as well. He grinned and said to the person next to him, "Qi Yunxin, you go sit in the back and let the lady come up."
The person sitting in the passenger seat wasn't as talkative as Yang Fenglin; he had a blank expression the whole time. Bai Jiaojiao glanced at him and thought he looked a bit dull.
The pickup truck has two rows of seats, and the front view is good and spacious. Yang Fenglin thought that Bai Jiaojiao must have never ridden in a car before, and he wanted to let her broaden her horizons.
"You can sit in the back." Qi Yunxin looked at Bai Jiaojiao through the car window, clearly not wanting to move.
"Okay, I'll sit in the back. Thank you both! I'll write a letter of commendation to your unit next time!"
What else could Bai Jiaojiao be picky about? She'd be willing to ride in a car, or even a truck carrying cow dung.
"Don't you even know what 'ladies first' means?"
Yang Fenglin got into the car, closed the door, and restarted it. He said to Bai Jiaojiao, "Don't mind me, my brother's just like that, very meticulous. If we weren't in a hurry, we would have fixed your car for you. We have the tools in the car too. Where are you going? We're going to the South District Police Station, is it on your way?"
Bai Jiaojiao was surprised that this could be a match: "I'm going to the South District Police Station too!"
What are you doing at the police station?
Yang Fenglin glanced at Bai Jiaojiao through the rearview mirror.
Bai Jiaojiao said, "I reported a case before, and now it's closed. I need to go and sign something."
"Oh, what case is it? Is it convenient to talk about it?" Yang Fenglin drove with one hand, acting nonchalantly, while Bai Jiaojiao reached for her seatbelt and fastened it.
"There's nothing inconvenient about it. This even made the newspapers. It's about the arrest of two spies."
"Hey! You're the one who reported this! You're a people's hero!" Yang Fenglin was very supportive but exaggerated. "Old Qi, look at this, it's such a coincidence. Comrade, let me tell you, we came here for this very reason. The South District Police Station has some documents, and we came to pick them up. What a coincidence! Hey, where are you from? If it's on your way, we can just give you a ride home after you sign the papers."
Yang Fenglin was incredibly outgoing, and Bai Jiaojiao said, "No need, comrade, I still need to get my car repaired when I get to the South District."
"Why are you being so polite? Didn't you just say that we have a red flag on our car, to serve the people? Don't you think so, Lao Qi?"
"Yes." Qi Yunxin replied sparingly.
Yang Fenglin was like a cheerful dog, while Qi Yunxin was like a block of wood. But the two of them were so close that they were inseparable.
"Really, it's not necessary."
"Tell me where you're going first. It might not even be on your way. Do you think you can just hitch a ride whenever you want?"
Bai Jiaojiao said, "I want to go to Peking University."
"Yan University? Yan University! Yenching University, huh?" Yang Fenglin turned his head back. "You're a top student!"
"Turn your head around! Hurry up!" Bai Jiaojiao was terrified by Yang Fenglin.
"Don't be afraid, I'm an old hand at this, and there's no one on this road." Yang Fenglin said casually, while Qi Yunxin beside him remained calm, clearly used to it.
Bai Jiaojiao patted her chest: "Let's drive safely."
"Okay, okay, drive safely," Yang Fenglin said, surprised that he had picked up a high-achieving student today. "You're from Peking University, how come you went to the South District to report a crime? But if your car gets fixed quickly, we really can give you a ride. How about this, we'll go and deliver the documents first, and then we'll take you. I've never been to a university before, how about you show us around?"
Bai Jiaojiao strongly suspected that this wasn't the first time she had met Yang Fenglin, otherwise why would Yang Fenglin speak so familiarly?
However, she also felt that Yang Fenglin was quite approachable.
"If you two have time, I'd like to invite you to have dinner at our school cafeteria." After all that running around, it'll probably be dinnertime by then.
"Sure! But you don't need to pay, we have rules."
"If I don't invite you, I won't take you two along."
Yang Fenglin: "......" This is the first time someone has managed to kill a conversation with him.
He paused for a moment: "If you want to treat me, then treat me. Consider it repayment for the gas money."
Bai Jiaojiao could now ride home without feeling guilty, otherwise she would have felt really embarrassed.
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