Chapter 56: Something Doesn’t Feel Right

Because they were in a hurry to go back, Xia Keqing and Yu Hong didn’t eat much in the morning, and now they were really a little hungry.

They were also thirsty.

But Xia Keqing took the water and twisted it, and found that the bottle of water had been opened.

She immediately winked at Yu Hong.

Yu Hong understood and started chatting with Master Huang, “Master Huang, you guys who drive trucks are out for half a month every month, right? It’s very hard work, isn’t it?”

Master Huang laughed when he heard this, “It’s hard work, but what can a man do when he has to earn money to support his family?”

Yu Hong took the opportunity to put down the water bottle, “Master Huang, how old are your children?”

“Four children, my youngest son just turned two.”

Yu Hong: “That’s quite tough, you have to raise so many children.”

This sentence immediately resonated with Master Huang, “Isn’t it? One person has to raise such a big family, how can it be easy?”

This reminded Xia Keqing of some places in Guangdong Province in the future where they valued having many children, having daughters didn’t count, they had to have a son.

One is not enough, two is not too many, three is not too much.

Master Huang had four children, and he only mentioned his youngest son, it seems that the first three were daughters.

Yu Hong: “The first three are daughters?”

“Daughters are good!”

Master Huang: “What’s good? Little girls, they’ll be someone else’s when they grow up.”

Yu Hong said again, “Having three older sisters to help, the boy will enjoy a good life.”

Master Huang laughed when he heard this, “That’s right.”

Xia Keqing heard this and knew she was right.

After chatting for a while, Yu Hong took out two packs of biscuits, two sausages, and two packs of milk from her bag.

Then she handed a pack of each to Xia Keqing.

Xia Keqing subconsciously took it.

But she felt a little lucky that Yu Hong had brought food.

Xia Keqing really didn’t have the habit of carrying food with her.

She couldn’t blame her, mainly because in the future, no matter where she went to play, as long as she had enough money, she could buy whatever she wanted.

And this time she came here to see the world, she went on a shopping spree and completely forgot about preparing food.

It wasn’t until Master Huang handed them the water that she realized that it would take at least ten hours to drive back in a truck, even if they didn’t eat, they had to drink water.

“Thank you, Aunt, Aunt Hong is always thoughtful, I forgot to bring food.”

Master Huang, sitting in the cab, heard this, “It’s okay if you didn’t bring food, I’m on the road all year round, I always carry dry food in the car!”

“There’s noodles, do you want to eat?”

Xia Keqing thought, I just took a bottle of water that you opened, how could I dare to eat your food?

Thanks to the education of the future, Xia Keqing was very wary of strangers.

Especially not eating water that has been opened is common sense for everyone.

Relatively speaking, Yu Hong was more trustworthy.

“No, Master Huang.”

Yu Hong also said, “My niece and I brought food, don’t bother.”

Xia Keqing didn’t say anything.

Master Huang said, “What’s the bother? Anyway, I’m going to park and cook noodles later, it’s the same whether it’s one person or three. If you want to eat, I’ll make more.”

Yu Hong and Xia Keqing both said they didn’t need to, and Master Huang didn’t force them.

Xia Keqing suppressed her doubts, thinking that she was probably overthinking it.

But she still had some reservations, when it got dark, Master Huang got out of the car to start a fire and cook noodles, she quickly made an appointment with Yu Hong to have one of them stay up at night.

Yu Hong didn’t understand, but she quickly reacted.

“Okay, you sleep first. Aunt will watch.”

“You young people are so quick-witted, you thought of this so quickly!”

Yu Hong was grateful.

In her opinion, all the goods in this truck were her entire fortune, if this truck driver had any ill intentions, then all her savings would be gone, wouldn’t she have to fight him?

Worst case scenario, this Old Huang had his eyes on them, especially Xiao Qing, such a young and beautiful girl.

Even if she risked her own life, she absolutely couldn’t let Old Huang hurt Xiao Qing.

Of course, in Yu Hong’s opinion, Old Huang wouldn’t be so insane, it’s just that it’s dangerous to drive a truck on the road these days, things like highway robbery are not unheard of.

Besides, there were only two women in the car.

So they had to stick together, they had to be wary of the truck driver, Old Huang, and also be vigilant in case someone robbed them on the road.

Yu Hong thought that Xia Keqing brought this up for her goods.

But it’s basic operation to be more vigilant when you’re out and about.

Xia Keqing saw that Yu Hong understood, so she didn’t say much.

As a result, in the middle of the night, she woke up, and it was Yu Hong who woke her up, Yu Hong leaned close to Xia Keqing’s ear and whispered, “I feel something’s wrong.”

Xia Keqing subconsciously looked outside the car, the truck was driving at a steady speed, it was dark outside, and she couldn’t see much.

But occasionally the headlights hit the road and she could see a few road signs.

“What’s wrong?”

Yu Hong whispered, “From Guangdong Province to our Jiangxi Province, shouldn’t we be going from south to north? And it should be on the east side, but isn’t this place name on the west side?”

Yu Hong didn’t read much, but she’s been in business for so many years, so she’s seen a lot.

Besides, she was still very cautious, and she brought a map.

So she pointed to the map and told Xia Keqing.

Xia Keqing immediately understood.

Although this is a world from a book, the basic logic is consistent, it’s similar to her previous life, and the geography is roughly the same.

They are going west.

Could it be that this Old Huang is really up to something?

But because they didn’t take the highway, and the road conditions in this era were not good, the route wasn’t fixed, if he didn’t admit it, or if he really just took another route, they couldn’t be sure that he had ill intentions.

But when you’re out and about, safety comes first, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

If they were wrong, they could apologize and pay.

But if this Old Huang really had ill intentions, and he sold them to the west, then it would be too late to cry over spilled milk.

This won’t do, they have to save themselves!

Yu Hong’s hands trembled slightly, but her voice was forced to be calm, she lowered her voice and mouthed to Xia Keqing, “Xiao Qing, what should we do?”

Xia Keqing made a decision immediately, “Aunt, trust me.”

Yu Hong grabbed Xia Keqing’s hand, her heart felt a little calmer.

But she still felt unlucky.

She wasn’t the first time coming to Shenzhen to buy goods, why was she so unlucky this time and encountered this kind of thing.

But it’s good that she’s not alone.

If she was alone, she really wouldn’t know what to do.

This is the inconvenience of a woman doing business alone.

If she knew it would be like this, she should have brought her cousin.

Yu Hong got divorced and has been raising her daughter, she usually goes out on business trips to buy goods, so she arranged for her daughter to board at school.

Her daughter’s school even allowed her to stay at school on weekends, so she was very relieved.

Her own family couldn’t help, but her cousin was a good person, and he could help occasionally.

But after all, he’s just a cousin, he also has a family, Yu Hong was embarrassed to always bother him.

Besides, she came with Xia Keqing this time, so she didn’t think about bringing her cousin, who knew that this kind of thing would happen.

It’s really scary.

Now that it’s come to this, there’s no other way but to trust Xia Keqing.

Xia Keqing is a college student, she’s always been smart, she’ll definitely think of a way.

The truck continued to drive, Xia Keqing held the map in her hand, and after comparing several road signs, she found that the truck was indeed going west, but after driving for six hours, Master Huang needed to rest.

The truck stopped at a rest stop, similar to a service area in the future.

Xia Keqing got out of the car and made a fuss.

“My things are gone! My money is gone! And I lost tens of thousands of yuan worth of goods! I suspect the driver conspired with someone to take it from me! I want to call the police!”