Chapter 58: Even Bicycles Can Have Accidents

“When?” Mrs. Chen’s eyes lit up.

“After we eat, we’ll go. Sandi will take her to town, she’ll go by herself.”

Mrs. Chen was excited now: “Quick, tell someone to find Caiyun right away, tell her the opportunity has come.”

Liu Xiulan nodded repeatedly: “Yes, yes, yes, I’ll go right away.”

The bicycle belonged to the secretary’s family, it was semi-new.

At this time, people who had bicycles were either cadres or those who had someone in the family who earned a salary.

The bicycle at Secretary Zhang’s house was his means of transportation to the commune for meetings.

Others wanted to borrow it, it was difficult.

But Chen Mingchuan borrowed it, the secretary and his wife were very enthusiastic.

“Just use it, just use it, the commune won’t have any meetings these two days, you can use it well.”

Chen Mingchuan was not a person who took advantage of others, the day he came back, he went to Zhang’s house with two bottles of wine and two bags of snacks.

That wine, it wasn’t something you could buy in this countryside.

At that time, Secretary Zhang’s face was like a blooming flower.

It wasn’t a matter of the price of the wine, but Secretary Zhang just loved this kind of thing, this kind of wine from outside, even with a ticket, you couldn’t buy it at the supply and marketing cooperative!

Pushing the bike, the two of them went onto the road.

Chen Mingchuan knew that Li Xinyue couldn’t ride a bicycle, so he put his legs on both sides: “Get on.”

Li Xinyue: “…”

I can’t ride this kind of bicycle, does that mean I can’t even jump on it?

Clearly, yesterday I jumped on it!

Actually, Li Xinyue wasn’t unable to ride a bicycle, it was just that she didn’t dare to ride this tall, big, and heavy “two-eight bar”!

The ones she had ridden before were small and cute shared bicycles.

She didn’t want to get on, but Chen Mingchuan insisted on her getting on.

There was no way, she could only climb up.

After sitting down, Chen Mingchuan pushed with his legs, and the bike started easily.

Li Xinyue sat in the back seat, feeling that having a bicycle was much faster: “I wonder if I can rent the secretary’s bicycle.”

“Huh?”

Chen Mingchuan didn’t understand at first.

Li Xinyue explained: “I want to rent it to learn for a few days, I want to buy a bicycle myself after I get industrial tickets.”

Forget about buying a car.

In this era, a small car, not to mention the price, if you really had the money to buy one, you would be envied to death.

Of course, Li Xinyue knew that she couldn’t earn that much money now.

Small cars, should still need tickets now?

I don’t know if there are any tickets for this.

Chen Mingchuan immediately said when he heard her idea: “Aren’t you going to buy a used bicycle for Sanhu?”

“When I buy it, I’ll fix it up and teach you how to ride it first.”

Like that?

That’s fine too!

“Is a used bike expensive?”

“It won’t be too expensive, if you can’t ride it, it’s just scrap metal.”

The two of them talked as they went on the road, encountering many people along the way.

Those who knew him greeted Chen Mingchuan, and he responded politely.

As they walked, a child suddenly ran out from a farmer’s house…

“Be careful!”

Li Xinyue’s scream only came out when “squeak” Chen Mingchuan put his feet on the ground, and on his back, he heard a “bang”…

“It hurts!”

Li Xinyue touched her nose, tears welling up in her eyes.

“Where are you hurt?”

Chen Mingchuan immediately jumped off the bike, the child was nowhere to be seen.

Taking out her handkerchief, Li Xinyue wiped her tears.

“It’s okay, I just bumped my nose, your back is too hard.”

Chen Mingchuan: “…”

Is it my fault?

But as soon as this thought came to mind, he couldn’t deny that his back was too hard.

“Tilt your head back, you’re bleeding from your nose!”

Ah?

You’re bleeding from your nose?

Li Xinyue reached out to wipe it, her handkerchief was stained with silver red…

This nose is too sandy, the blood was “dripping” down, Chen Mingchuan took out his handkerchief and stuffed it into her nose.

“No, just press down on both sides of my nostrils with your hands!”

Chen Mingchuan immediately followed suit.

As soon as he pressed down, Li Xinyue immediately hooked her middle and little fingers together…

Within a minute, the nosebleed stopped.

Chen Mingchuan was surprised by Li Xinyue’s method of stopping nosebleeds.

Villagers usually tilt their heads back and stuff something up their noses when they get nosebleeds…

But she didn’t.

“Wipe this.”

A large, clean, square-folded handkerchief floated in front of Li Xinyue.

She wasn’t a fussy person, so she took the handkerchief and wiped her nose.

Just a few wipes, and the handkerchief was stained with a bright red.

“Should we go wash it by the river?”

The bleeding wasn’t much, just a wipe was enough.

Li Xinyue thought for a moment: “It’s better to go back and wash it clean and return it to you. It’s wet now, not good to keep it.”

Chen Mingchuan nodded: “It’s okay, I’ll wash it myself.”

“Does your nose still hurt? Should we go to the clinic first?”

Li Xinyue shook her head at the suggestion: “You want to go to the hospital for a bumped nose? Do you think I’m Lin Daiyu?”

“You’re making a fuss over nothing, the doctors would be exhausted if everyone was like you!”

Chen Mingchuan was speechless after being retorted: “…”

I was just worried about you!

No, no, no, that’s not right, when did he start worrying about this person?

He’s not getting a divorce, he just doesn’t want his son to be without a home.

With a face full of crows, Chen Mingchuan decided not to think about anything: “Let’s go, it’s time to get on.”

When they reached the town where they waited for the bus, Chen Mingchuan rode his bike away.

The first bus had left, the second bus was at ten o’clock.

There was still half an hour, Li Xinyue found a place to sit down, but soon discovered that Chen Mingchuan had returned.

“What’s up?”

Chen Mingchuan didn’t mention the dream he had.

He made up an excuse: “Zhu Ming said that the friend who bought my plywood has a used car to sell, he even asked him if he wanted it last time.”

Is that so?

“That’s good, the bus is coming soon.”

The bus, although old, was still on time, and it arrived soon.

The two quickly got on the bus, there weren’t many people on board, so they immediately found a seat.

At 10:57, they arrived at the bridge in the county.

Chen Mingchuan looked at his watch: “It’s not a good time to go now, let’s go have some food first.”

Indeed.

It would be awkward to go during someone else’s mealtime, they might think they were there to mooch off them.

The state-owned restaurant wasn’t far away, they crossed the bridge and arrived in less than ten minutes.

It was close to mealtime, and the restaurant was already full of people.

“What do you want to eat?”

“Three taels of rice, a dish of green pepper scrambled eggs, and a dish of braised winter melon.”

“Okay!”

Chen Mingchuan ordered a pound of rice, only two dishes, and it was still early, so Li Xinyue leisurely ate…

“Xiaoyue?”

“Sister Zhang Li, why are you here?”

What a coincidence, she was just thinking about finding Zhang Li after eating, but unexpectedly she was also here for lunch.

Zhang Li smiled: “My uncle is the chef here, he makes the best braised pork, he said he would make me a dish today.”

So that’s it!

City people’s relatives are all city people, and country people’s relatives are all farmers.

This saying—really holds true.

“You go back first, I’ll come find you later.”

“Take your time eating, wait for me.”

Zhang Li didn’t say much, she went straight to the kitchen.

It was almost a matter of minutes, a dish of glistening braised pork was placed in front of the couple…

“You’ve already ordered food, I won’t insist on you going to my place for dinner.”

“This one, consider it a treat from me.”