Chapter 9

After what happened in the middle of the night, Bai Yan couldn’t fall asleep anymore because she wasn’t sure whether it was worry or fear that was lingering around.

She tried to keep her eyes open, waiting for the sky to turn pale.

As she tossed and turned in bed, she had already made up her mind. Ruan Xiaohui was not an easy person to deal with, and Meng Hechuan was a villain who did not care about his relatives.

I can’t just sit there and wait for death. I have to find a chance to escape from them.

She turned on the faucet to wash her face, then tiptoed to open the door and run away.

But who would have thought that Xiao Zhou, with his eyes as big as copper bells, was standing outside the door.

When the two looked at each other, Xiao Zhou shouted, “Chief Engineer Meng, she’s running away again!”

Bai Yan was pulled back again, and Meng Hechuan clasped their hands together again without saying a word with a click.

After checking out, there was still half a day before the next train arrived.

But everyone had nowhere to go and could only return to the station.

Bai Yan walked beside him angrily and suddenly said to him, “If Chief Engineer Meng doesn’t want to build airplanes, he can switch to working as a hawk.”

Elder Meng is very skilled in Taoism, and a little demon like Bai Yan cannot escape from his control at all.

It turned out that Meng Hechuan didn’t trust himself at all last night.

After Bai Yan closed the door, Meng Hechuan and Xiao Zhou divided the tasks.

One person guards the first half of the night, and the other guards the second half.

What she didn’t know was that Meng Hechuan had clearly divided the tasks last night, but he kept watch until almost dawn before actually sending Xiao Zhou to keep watch.

It’s not that he wasn’t sleepy, but as soon as he closed his eyes, Bai Yan’s annoying red lips and slender white fingers would suddenly appear in his mind.

Meng Hechuan was immersed in the memories of last night with a strange look on his face, and Bai Yan was also thinking about what to do in the future.

Under the current circumstances, Meng Hechuan will definitely not give up monitoring her.

Then she only had one choice left.

She would passively follow Meng Hechuan to Jingzhou, and after finding out her identity and letting her leave on her own, he would find another way.

With this thought in mind, Bai Yan finally behaved herself in the second half of the journey.

But apart from going to the toilet, Meng Hechuan never loosened the handcuffs between him and her.

Bai Yan simply decided not to see it and not to be bothered, so she closed her eyes and conserved her energy.

But just because she doesn’t cause trouble doesn’t mean others won’t cause trouble for her.

Due to the emergency on this train, Meng Hechuan could only ask Xiao Zhou to show his ID and temporarily occupy the conductor’s compartment.

There were four of them sitting inside.

Because Bai Yan’s hands were connected to Meng Hechuan’s hands, they sat in a row.

Ruan Xiaohui could only sit in the same row with Xiao Zhou.

But this did not stop her from being attentive to Meng Hechuan. She asked Meng Hechuan if he wanted some water, and asked him if his eyes were tired from reading.

The noise was so loud that Bai Yan couldn’t sleep at all.

When she raised her eyelids and looked at Ruan Xiaohui, Ruan Xiaohui pretended to be aggrieved, “Sister Bai Yan, why don’t you continue to sleep? Before the accident last night, you snored so loudly that I couldn’t sleep and went out in the middle of the night…”

Bai Yan sneered in her heart.

Ruan Xiaohui is indeed a low-end green tea. She brought up what happened last night for no reason to disgust me, and she also likes to engage in female competition.

She was probably watching herself and Meng Hechuan being “stuck” together all the time, and was afraid that there was something going on between them.

He wanted to take the opportunity to belittle Bai Yan in front of Meng Hechuan.

It’s a pity that Meng Hechuan didn’t react much after hearing this. He just flipped the book on his lap with his fingers and read quietly.

Instead, a fool like Xiao Zhou was confused and asked, “Comrade Bai Yan, do you snore?”

“Yes!” Bai Yan said openly, “Not only do I snore, I also grind my teeth!”

“Yes, yes, yes, you do. Sister Bai Yan, do you often do this at home? I heard that people who snore often drink too much. Sister Bai Yan, you look like a good drinker. Is it because you drink that you are so brave? But Sister Bai Yan, it is better for us girls to avoid smoking and drinking in private.”

After Ruan Xiaohui finished speaking, she deliberately glanced at Meng Hechuan.

But he still didn’t respond.

Bai Yan also smiled and tilted her head and said, “I don’t like alcohol, so I don’t drink often. But sometimes I sleepwalk. I heard that once I sleepwalked and took out everything from someone else’s clothes and put them on myself!”

Ruan Xiaohui’s face turned pale all of a sudden.

Her lips trembled and she didn’t dare to answer for a long time.

Bai Yan was too lazy to continue arguing with her, so she snorted and simply supported her chin with one hand and looked at the scenery outside the window.

It was still six or seven hours before reaching Jingzhou. When we stopped at a station to wait for the interchange, we saw residents from the surrounding area selling oranges on shoulder poles at the platform from car window to car window.

Oranges are in season, green and juicy, and look very delicious.

The boy selling the oranges was about twelve or thirteen years old, and he was very smart.

Seeing Bai Yan take a closer look, he stayed in front of their car window to persuade her to buy it.

“Sister, the oranges grown in my family are very sweet. You are beautiful, so I will give you one to try. If it is not sweet, you don’t need to pay.”

Everyone likes to hear others praise themselves. Bai Yan curled her eyes and said crisply: “Great!”

Bai Yan reached out to take it, but found that she couldn’t peel the orange because she and Meng Hechuan were connected on the same hand.

She blinked and looked at him. “Chief Engineer Meng, it’s not easy for me to peel the oranges like this. I can’t run away in the car anyway, so why not–“

“No.” His eyes were still on the book on his lap, and his tone was calm but unquestionable: “It was also in the car yesterday, but you still ran away.”

Bai Yan was speechless.

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The little boy quickly stood on tiptoe and reached into the car window: “Sister, how about I help you peel it?”

“Thank you so much!” Bai Yan took the peeled orange, pinched a piece and put it in her mouth. It was indeed very sweet.

She smiled and asked the little boy to weigh half a pound.

Before leaving, the little boy gave Bai Yan a handful of winter dates.

Ruan Xiaohui was watching from the side, curled her lips, and suddenly said: “Sister Bai Yan is pretty, she is really good, much better than me, she can eat oranges if she smiles at others. Sister Bai Yan, do you have a lot of suitors in your hometown?”

Ruan Xiaohui’s repeated provocations finally made Bai Yan unable to bear it anymore.

She looked up, and a clear and beautiful voice came out of her lips, “Do you cook often at home?”

“ah?”

“I guess your cooking skills are pretty good. You’re so good at adding spice and sauce. If it were in ancient times, you would be considered a royal chef.”

Ruan Xiaohui was holding her breath, but she had to pretend to be terrified and scared. “I’m sorry, Sister Bai Yan, maybe I said something you didn’t like to hear…”

“Since you know I don’t like to hear it, then don’t say it.”

Ruan Xiaohui gritted her teeth and said, “I’m sorry…”

“I’ve done something I’m sorry for, so I’d better not say sorry anymore.”

Xiao Zhou couldn’t help laughing, and then immediately covered his mouth.

Meng Hechuan turned his attention away from the book and glanced at her.

Bai Yan decided to stop while she was ahead and spread out her hands. The green tangerine made her palms look snow-white.

“Orange, Chief Engineer Meng, do you want to eat some?”

“……No.”

“Don’t worry about not having money, I’ll treat you.”

…

At five o’clock in the afternoon, accompanied by the whistle, the green train finally arrived at its final destination, Jingzhou.

Meng Hechuan waited until most people had gotten off the car before he took the three of them out.

At Yanzhou Station, Meng Hechuan hung up the phone and returned to the team.

As soon as I exited the station, a military green jeep with license plate number BD00143 was parked conspicuously on the road at the exit.

Bai Yan had no reaction like Meng Hechuan and the others, but Ruan Xiaohui’s face and heart were filled with turmoil.

She grew up in a small village and only took a train when she was eighteen and was abducted by human traffickers.

I didn’t expect that I would have the chance to get on a car so soon.

A driver jumped out of the jeep and saluted Meng Hechuan when he saw him. “Chief Engineer Meng, the commander was very happy after receiving your call. He specially ordered me to pick you up and told you to bring the translated drawings to him when you arrive.”

Meng Hechuan nodded slightly and asked everyone to get on the bus one by one.

Bai Yan and he held hands and could only stand close together.

There was not much space in the car, and she, Ruan Xiaohui and Meng Hechuan were sitting in the back seat.

Even though Bai Yan was very careful, she couldn’t avoid having her trouser legs touching those of Meng Hechuan who was beside her.

The jeep is not shock-resistant and it shakes every time it goes over a pothole.

On the way from the train station to the aerospace compound, Bai Yan had already fallen into Meng Hechuan’s trap several times.

The material of Meng Hechuan’s uniform was stiff, rubbing against him, causing his body to suddenly stiffen.

Every time Bai Yan failed, he would straighten her out.

Finally unable to bear it any longer, Meng Hechuan gritted his teeth and slapped the driver’s seat hard, “Your driving skills are so unstable, go back and tie the tires to the playground and run ten laps.”

When the car arrived at the gate of the military area, the driver had a bitter look on his face.

I don’t know how I offended Chief Engineer Meng.

Meng Hechuan had no intention of explaining and untied the handcuffs that were attached to Bai Yan’s wrists.

“Xiao Zhou, take Comrade Xiao Ruan to dormitory building 12 first. As for you, follow me.”

From the moment she entered the gate of the military zone, Bai Yan was quiet and didn’t make any noise.

Whatever Meng Hechuan says is what it is.

Seeing this look, he couldn’t help but sneer: “You are quite smart.”

Bai Yan didn’t say anything and rolled her eyes in her heart.

There were guards armed with real weapons all around her, and she knew the importance of judging the situation.

…

The chief’s office is on the third floor.

Meng Hechuan asked Bai Yan to stay at the door first and knocked on the door himself, “Report, Chief, Political Commissar.”

“Come in.” Lu Zhenhua took off his glasses and waved at him: “You’re back.”

Soldiers have always been practical people who only do things and don’t talk.

Meng Hechuan saluted the leaders, then took out the drawings and notes he brought back from the south and handed them over: “I gained a lot from this trip to the south.”

He briefly explained his understanding of the drawings and the direction of the next research. Lu Zhenhua nodded as he listened, and occasionally whispered to others around him.

After Meng Hechuan finished his report, several leaders smiled.

Lu Zhenhua motioned Meng Hechuan to sit down, “I see that you have a better understanding of the contents of the drawings after this trip?”

There were many things going on on the road, and Meng Hechuan had no time to report the specific situation to the team.

Hearing this, he looked outside and said, “Commander, Political Commissar, this is what happened. When I went to Jinling, I met a woman…”

He paused, not knowing whether to call Bai Yan a lesbian or a female spy.

“I met a girl. By chance, I found that she knew English and could translate the contents of the drawings fluently…”

After listening to this, Lu Zhenhua put on his glasses again and looked carefully at Bai Yan’s handwritten translation draft.

The handwriting on the draft paper was dignified and densely written.

All the fonts used are simplified Chinese.

Lu Zhenhua glanced outside and could only see a reserved young face.

He pondered for a moment, then turned his gaze to Meng Hechuan again: “Did that young man write all this?”

Meng Hechuan nodded at him and gave him a complete account of how he met Bai Yan.

The whispered conversation inside had lasted for nearly an hour, and Bai Yan felt like her legs were going to go weak.

She was just about to slack off and lean against the wall when a bland voice came out: “Stand at attention.”

My original intention was just to scare her, but I didn’t expect that Bai Yan was actually a good young man who had experienced several military trainings since childhood.

When he heard the command, he kicked his legs almost subconsciously and stood at attention.

The posture is quite straight.

Seeing her like this, a faint smile flashed in Meng Hechuan’s eyes.

“Hey, you can laugh too?” Bai Yan thought she was seeing things and blinked.

Hearing her say this, Meng Hechuan quickly restrained his expression and returned to his cold and indifferent face.

“The chief wants to see you.”

He stepped aside to make way and walked back into the office with Bai Yan.

Bai Yan had already prepared herself mentally when she was standing at the door, so she was not nervous when she saw the military district leaders in uniform.

In addition, she is pretty and well-behaved. Because she has not received any organizational training, she doesn’t know how to address people, so she always calls them uncles and aunts sweetly.

The political commissar, who had no daughter at home, laughed out loud.

“Uncle Lu, I’m really not a spy. I’m just an ordinary… ordinary high school student. I learned these foreign languages ​​by myself in my spare time in my hometown. I came to Jingzhou out of helplessness…”