"General!"
"Haha, I lost again!" Chen Yuanyuan laughed.
"Then you have to treat me to dinner when you get to the capital!" Gao Qinjian said with a smile.
The two of them had nothing to do in the car, so they started playing chess. Unfortunately, Chen Yuanyuan was no match for Gao Qinjian, and she narrowly won one game after playing five games.
"Yes, how long will you go to BJ this time?" Chen Yuanyuan thought that Gao Qinjian's next stop was to stay.
"It's not decided yet. I'm not going back this time just for fun. I'm going to visit relatives." Gao Qin Ken said.
"Your family is at the capital base?" Chen Yuanyuan remembered that Gao Qinjian said that she was from the Northeast, and thought her family were all in the north.
"Yeah, my dad works there. He's not in good health recently. I went to stay with him for a while." Gao Qinjian sighed and told Chen Yuanyuan his pain.
She likes the sojourning life, but her father has always wanted her to settle down, so she has not had a good relationship with her father in recent years, and her days of sojourning abroad have been unstable. She only found out that her father was ill after returning to the hotel last night.
Every family has difficulty reciting sutras, and Chen Yuanyuan didn't know how to comfort her. It was just lunch time and she stopped at a service area.
"Ms. Chen, the service area is here. Do you want to go down for dinner?" Liu Yifeng asked.
"I won't go down anymore. Ah Feng, go buy some food and come back. I'll cook some noodles. Do you want to eat?" Chen Yuanyuan opened the kitchen cabinet and took a bag of rice to Liu Yifeng.
It's not convenient for Gao Qinjian to get food from the space here, but there is an induction cooker in the RV, so he can still cook some noodles.
"Okay, I also bought some braised duck this morning, which goes well with noodles." Gao Qinjian also took out a package of takeout from his backpack.
Seeing that Chen Yuanyuan was preparing to cook noodles, Gao Qinjian also went to the service area with Liu Yifeng to buy some food.
After Chen Yuanyuan cooked the noodles, he poured them into cold water and set them aside, then put the braised duck into the pot to heat.
At this time, Chen Yuanyuan's phone also rang. It turned out to be Xiao Yan's call.
"Yuanyuan, what time will you arrive today?" Xiao Yan asked.
"The convoy was delayed for a while this morning. It should be around two o'clock in the middle of the night." Chen Yuanyuan said while cooking.
"Okay, I contacted Deputy Chief Shen before, who is Shen Yichen's father. He said he would pick you up," Xiao Yan said.
"Ah? It's so late. I just need to find a place to stay by myself." Chen Yuanyuan also thought of suddenly showing up to surprise her godmother, but she didn't expect Xiao Yan to reveal her itinerary.
"It's been agreed, he's quite insistent." Xiao Yan said.
"Okay, I'll contact him then." Chen Yuanyuan said.
Although she hasn't met Shen's father and Shen's mother in recent years, Shen's father is now the deputy minister of military affairs at the capital base, so he is equipped with a satellite phone. Occasionally, she will still contact her godmother.
As the transportation industry gradually improved, the two often sent each other specialties from the city, and their relationship did not weaken due to the distance.
We haven’t seen each other for more than three years, and Chen Yuanyuan feels a little shy about being close to her. She wonders how her godmother is doing now.
"Then I will arrange for someone to pick you up from Shen's house tomorrow to meet the expert. Remember to put your notebook away," Xiao Yan said.
"Okay, please."
After Chen Yuanyuan hung up the phone, the duck soup was boiling. Chen Yuanyuan put the noodles that had been cold water into it and stirred it.
When Chen Yuanyuan took out a small bowl and divided the noodles into three parts, the three of them happened to come back.
"I bought drinks! Mung bean soup and fermented osmanthus honey." Gao Qinjian said, holding three drinks in his handbag.
"I bought fried tofu and grilled dried fish, and this is the remaining rice." Liu Yifeng returned the food and the remaining small bag of rice to Chen Yuanyuan.
"This portion of yours is not enough to cook." Chen Yuanyuan put half of the fried tofu and grilled dried fish into the largest bowl of noodles and handed it to Liu Yifeng.
"So much? You guys can eat more?" Liu Yifeng was embarrassed that he only had half of it.
"Just take it." In the past two days, Chen Yuanyuan also learned about Liu Yifeng's appetite and was a good cook.
"If you want to drive, you can't drink wine. Drink mung bean soup." Gao Qinjian took out the mung bean soup and gave it to Liu Yifeng.
"Do I have this too?" Liu Yifeng said embarrassedly.
After all, Chen Yuanyuan was his employer, so it was reasonable for him to take care of the food, but Gao Qinjian was just a guest of the same car, and Liu Yifeng didn't know whether to accept him or not.
Moreover, beverages are basically luxury goods now. There is no industrial white sugar now, most of them are sucrose, and sugar is a strategic material reserve, so the price of beverages has skyrocketed.
"Just take it if you are told." Gao Qinjian pushed the drink to Liu Yifeng, wondering why the young man was taking so long.
Liu Yifeng thanked the two people again, but Chen Yuanyuan urged him to go to dinner quickly.
He had suffered a lot while driving a car in the past, and he often received orders for chauffeurs. He was lucky enough to meet an employer who was polite, and he had never met an employer as good as Chen Yuanyuan.
After lunch, Liu Yifeng filled up the gasoline again and set off. Chen Yuanyuan was also very tired after lunch. After letting Gao Qinjian sleep on the forehead bed on the roof of the car, she also slept in the big bed.
When Chen Yuanyuan woke up, it was already dusk. Gao Qinjian was already reading a book.
"You got up just in time. Xiaofeng said just now that he will go to the inn for dinner in an hour." Gao Qinjian said.
"Okay, what are you looking at?" Chen Yuanyuan was a little embarrassed. She didn't expect that she would sleep all afternoon, so she changed the topic.
"European history." Gao Qinjian closed the book cover and showed it to Chen Yuanyuan.
"I didn't expect you to like history. I have several history books at home in Guangdong City. Come over and bring them to you later." Chen Yuanyuan collected a lot of his father's books at his home in Xiangcheng Villa. If someone sees them, they will be more valuable. It's better than being covered in dust in space.
I remember almost falling asleep in the history class in junior high school. It is so rare to find people who sincerely like history.
"You must be influenced by your family. My father likes to study world history. I have listened to his stories since I was a child." Gao Qinjian said with a smile.
Seeing Gao Qinjian continuing to read, Chen Yuanyuan took out her tablet to read for a while.
The three of them continued their journey, and the road was smooth, and they soon reached the capital.
Seeing that the time was almost up, he called Father Shen. Father Shen and Chen Yuanyuan agreed on a meeting place and went out.
At this time, Chen Yuanyuan also went to the front seat to find Liu Yifeng and asked him where he would stay after arriving in the capital.
"Don't worry about me. Our company has an office in the capital base. There is a place to rest there. I will have work on Wednesday and can still have a day off." Liu Yifeng said.
"It's good if you can rest. You've worked very hard." Chen Yuanyuan felt that this young man was quite diligent.
"It's not easy to live in the Guangdong base. If you save more money, you can soon be able to pay the entire rent." Liu Yifeng said with a smile.
Liu Yifeng looks young, but he has a mother at home and a nephew left by his brother and sister-in-law.
Now his mother and her children share a 15-square-meter low-rent house with others, so he has no place to sleep when he goes back, so he sleeps in Datongbu in the relief area.
Chen Yuanyuan also recalled the days when she lived in a low-rent house with that doggy couple in her previous life. In addition to being dirty and messy, there was also a peculiar smell in the corridor.
Although the low-rent housing in this life has independent toilets and the sanitary conditions are better than in the previous life, Chen Yuanyuan also knows that it is not easy to work at the grassroots level in Guangdong City.
We also need help from someone to handle the traditional Chinese medicines in the traditional Chinese medicine shop. When we go back, let’s see if Liu Yifeng’s mother can do some handiwork at home.
