Ruan Mianmian was really surprised when she saw Qin Zheng sitting next to her.
Shouldn't he be working in the village at this time?
How come he appeared beside her?
Compared to Ruan Mianmian's surprise, Qin Zheng seemed very calm.
He looked into her eyes and said seriously, "I'll go with you."
Ruan Mianmian was a little confused and muttered, "You know where I'm going, just go with me."
Although the murmur was very quiet, Qin Zheng still heard it. He continued, "I will accompany you wherever you go."
There were many people on the bus, and several female comrades who were close to them were looking in their direction, with gossipy expressions on their faces.
Although Ruan Mianmian was wearing a mask and a hat, she still felt embarrassed and redness crept up her cheeks uncontrollably.
She was afraid of being seen by Qin Zheng, so she quickly turned her head to the other side. She also opened the window halfway to let the wind in, so as to ease the rapid heartbeat.
Qin Zheng looked at her and smiled in his heart, but his face was still cold and indifferent.
This made the female comrades who wanted to gossip feel embarrassed. They all turned their heads and stopped looking in their direction.
The car was not driving very fast and had to stop in several larger towns along the way.
There were quite a lot of people getting on and off the bus, and there was even an old man and an old woman who brought some live poultry on the bus.
The smell in the car is really bad. Even the mask is not very effective.
Finally, after the car had been shaking for nearly three hours, Ruan Mianmian finally arrived at the final destination - Jianghe City.
Qin Zheng looked at Ruan Mianmian, took out a box of cooling oil from his pocket and handed it to her, saying, "Try this, it should not be so uncomfortable after you apply it."
In fact, he wanted to give it to her when they were in the car just now. But she kept turning her back to him. There were too many people, so he couldn't do it in public, so he had to wait until now.
Ruan Mianmian was not the kind of person who would suffer by talking stubbornly, so she took the cooling oil and accepted Qin Zheng's kindness.
There were many people coming and going in the station. It was not until they walked out of the exit that Ruan Mianmian had the chance to ask him, "What are you doing here?"
"The captain asked me to come." Qin Zheng stopped teasing her and told her the reason directly.
"Captain?" Ruan Mianmian still couldn't figure out what this had to do with the captain.
"The captain told me alone last night." Qin Zheng said as he led Ruan Mianmian to the side of the road. "He told me that you were coming to the city today. He was afraid that it would be unsafe for a girl like you to go alone, so he asked me to come."
Qin Zheng actually felt something was wrong when he saw Da Huang in his yard. He asked Chen Zhao, but didn't get any useful information. So he went straight to the captain.
From him, he learned what she was busy with recently, so he volunteered to catch up with her.
The captain was indeed worried that something might go wrong if a girl went out alone, so when Qin Zheng mentioned it, he immediately agreed.
Early this morning, Qin Zheng waited directly at the station. He got on the bus only after seeing her get on.
"So that's how it is." Ruan Mianmian suddenly realized.
The captain was too cautious. Even though he said he would be fine, he still called Qin Zheng over.
Now we have no choice but to go together. We can't just abandon him halfway.
It's almost noon, let's go eat something first. We need to fill our stomachs before we can do anything.
The state-owned restaurants in the city are much larger than those in the county.
And the dishes provided are more diverse. Of course, the price is a little bit higher.
Seeing this, Ruan Mianmian felt even more confident.
Such changes can only happen if living standards improve.
If the state-owned restaurants in a city were similar to those in a county, then the city's economy would be very depressed, and her small business would naturally not be able to continue.
Qin Zheng asked Ruan Mianmian to reserve a seat first, while he himself queued up to buy food.
Although it's not yet time for lunch, there are already people queuing up.
Ruan Mianmian chose a window seat where not many people were sitting.
While waiting for Qin Zheng, he looked through the window and observed the pedestrians on the street outside.
Most of the people in the village wear clothes with patches on top of patches. Often, you can't even tell what color or material the clothes were originally made of. All you can see at a glance are colorful patches of various colors piled together.
It is better in the county town, although most people have patches on their clothes. However, they pay more attention to the pattern of the patches, which are generally not too different from the original color. And few people go out wearing patches all over their clothes.
No matter how tattered the inner clothes are, at least the outer clothes will be worn without patches or with very few patches.
Although Ruan Mianmian didn't see many people in this city, she didn't see many people with patches on their clothes. Or at least, there were no patches on their outer coats.
Not only that, even the styles and colors of the clothes were much richer than those in the village and the county. In addition to blue, green, gray and black, she also saw some uncommon colors, such as red and yellow.
She also saw several lesbians wearing long-sleeved floral bras.
Sure enough, the economic base determines the superstructure.
The overall economic environment in the city is much better than that of the villages and towns below.
Food, clothing, housing and transportation are all very intuitive manifestations.
Here is the market for handmade products. The county town is still too small.
When Qin Zheng brought the food over, he found that Ruan Mianmian was staring out the window, and he didn't know what she was looking at.
The aroma of the food brought Ruan Mianmian back to her senses. She looked at the three dishes and one soup on the table and felt a little surprised.
They are all the things I like to eat.
She looked at Qin Zheng again. Was this a coincidence?
Qin Zheng handed her the chopsticks and said, "Eat quickly. You probably have something else to do later."
Yes, eat first. Only when you are full can you have the energy to do other things.
No one spoke while the two of them were eating; they just ate in silence.
Qin Zheng waited until Ruan Mianmian put down her chopsticks before he moved all the leftovers on the plate into his own bowl, thus finishing his plate.
"Are you full?" Looking at the way he ate, Ruan Mianmian doubted that he was not full at all.
"I'm full." Qin Zheng cleaned up the dishes and said, "It's not good to waste food, so..."
He didn't finish his words, but Ruan Mianmian understood.
She gave him a thumbs up.
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