Chapter 29

The next morning.

After washing up on the balcony, Bai Yan reached out the window to check the temperature, then went back into the house and put on another coat.

Seeing her change her shoes and prepare to go out, Ruan Xiaohui couldn’t help but asked, “Sister Bai Yan, where are you going now?”

“go out.”

Bai Yan answered simply, looking at the cloth shoes on her feet that she wore from home.

Meng Hechuan sent over a lot of clothes one after another, but the clothes were short and wide, and they could be worn.

It’s hard to find shoes that fit.

In addition, Bai Yan was somewhat obsessed with mysophobia. Since she joined the team, apart from the pair of leather shoes lent to her by Aunt Zhang, she had only worn the pair of thin and worn old cloth shoes on her feet.

The glue on my cloth shoes had come off, so they couldn’t block the wind when I walked on the road, and my feet felt very cold.

She thought to herself that she would definitely get paid as a translator.

When the brigade gets paid, the first thing we do is buy shoes.

“Sister Bai Yan, didn’t you say the training class hasn’t started yet? Why have you been out these days?”

Ruan Xiaohui stood behind her and looked at Bai Yan in the mirror.

The coat Bai Yan was wearing was a black denim jacket, which was also sent by Meng Hechuan.

When she got the clothes, Ruan Xiaohui disliked its dark color and its looseness. It didn’t show her figure at all when she put it on. It looked like the same clothes that the maintenance workers at the base wore.

She rarely competed with Bai Yan for it, and even pretended to be generous and said in front of Meng Hechuan that she would give it to Bai Yan.

But now looking at the girl in the mirror, she is wearing a red sweater with this coat, and she has tied her hair into a high ponytail, revealing her full and round forehead.

Both energetic and fashionable.

Ruan Xiaohui felt jealous. If she had known that the dress would look so good on her, she would have snatched it away first.

Bai Yan took the headband Aunt Zhang gave her and put it on in front of the mirror.

She had long seen in the mirror the way Ruan Xiaohui stared at her. Her eyes were stupid and straightforward, with her thoughts written all over her face.

“Sister Bai Yan, although your identity has passed the team’s review, we are new members after all. It’s not good for you to go out frequently these two days, right?”

Ruan Xiaohui heard some noise outside and opened the door under the pretext of drying clothes.

The building manager was walking upstairs.

Ruan Xiaohui raised her voice even louder, “You were out playing last night and didn’t come back until almost ten o’clock. I was worried that you might be in danger! Now you are going out again. Did you meet some bad people outside? The leader and Chief Engineer Meng arranged for us to live together. If you keep playing and coming back late like this, I will have to tell Chief Engineer Meng.”

Bai Yan straightened up from in front of the mirror, her eyes a little cold, “Worried about me? You were so worried about me that you locked the door last night and made me knock on the door for more than ten minutes before you opened it?”

Ruan Xiaohui, who had been acting weird just now, now looked a little guilty. “That’s because I waited for you too late, so I fell asleep.”

“You have a really good sleep quality. Next time I come home late, I’ll have to borrow a speaker from someone before I come back.”

After saying that, without any explanation, he took the cloth bag on the table, hung it on his body, and walked out the door.

When she saw the building manager standing at the door, she greeted her crisply, “Auntie Wen.”

Aunt Wen responded with a smile, “Comrade Xiaobai, Chief Engineer Meng has been waiting for you downstairs. By the way, this is the herbal ointment that Mrs. Meng asked me to bring back from her hometown last time. Chief Engineer Meng left too quickly after sending you back last night, and I didn’t have time to give it to him. Please help me pass it to him later.”

Bai Yan nodded, took the herbal ointment in Ruan Xiaohui’s surprised look, and went downstairs directly.

Meng Hechuan crossed his legs and leaned diagonally on a 28-inch bicycle, his brows slightly furrowed.

The family building was not tall and Ruan Xiaohui had a loud voice. Just now he clearly heard Ruan Xiaohui saying that Bai Yan had been leaving home early and coming back late these days.

He was only thinking about quickly translating all the foreign language materials through Bai Yan, but he didn’t think that such working hours would cause trouble to Bai Yan.

Just as I was daydreaming, a pair of cloth shoes suddenly stepped on the stairs.

Then, the girl in black clothes took two steps at a time and ran down the stairs.

When he saw the coat she was wearing, Meng Hechuan’s expression became unnatural for a moment.

It is already the twelfth lunar month, and Jingzhou is located further north than Jinling.

Meng Hechuan knew that Bai Yan’s luggage was lost on the train, so he wanted to find some thick winter clothes for her.

But there were few female soldiers in the brigade, and after collecting them all, there were only two or three coats.

Meng Hechuan thought that the weather would only get colder, so he went home and packed a few thicker coats that he seldom wore and sent them over.

He hesitated when he gave them to him, so he didn’t specifically state that these clothes belonged to him.

I didn’t expect to see Bai Yan wearing it so soon.

And I happened to be wearing the same style today.

While he was daydreaming, Bai Yan had already walked in front of him.

“Let’s go.”

She grabbed the strap on her shoulder and tilted her head to look at the bicycle behind him. “Bicycle?”

Meng Hechuan stood up straight and supported the faucet with his hand. “It’s hard to get into the alley near the Xinhua Bookstore by car, so a bicycle is more convenient.”

Bai Yan nodded and looked from the high back seat of the bicycle to Meng Hechuan who was kicking the pedals and preparing to push the bicycle.

Because it was the weekend, Meng Hechuan neither wore a uniform nor a formal suit like he did at the reception.

He simply put on a white shirt inside, a small striped jacket on his shoulders, and a black windproof jacket on the outside.

Dressed neatly, he looks like a youthful college student.

“Lu Jili doesn’t like going to bookstores, he will go directly to Shichahai later.” Meng Hechuan got on the bicycle, supported his long legs on the ground, turned his head towards Bai Yan, “Let’s go to the bookstore by ourselves.”

…

Bai Yan sat on the back seat of the bicycle, but in order to keep a distance from Meng Hechuan, she kept leaning back.

She grabbed the space in the back seat with her hands and struggled to keep her balance.

But the roads in the 1980s were not stable, and even though Meng Hechuan was very careful, Bai Yan was almost thrown off several times as he rode from the family building all the way out.

Bai Yan had no choice but to pat Meng Hechuan on the back, “Can you ride slower?”

The wind was too loud and they were paving the road outside, so the rumbling sound of the machines pounding piles drowned out Bai Yan’s voice.

Meng Hechuan leaned back slightly and turned his head, “What did you say?”

In a moment of carelessness, the car wheel ran over a big pothole, and Bai Yan, who was sitting in the back seat, was shaken and fell forward.

Her nose hit Meng Hechuan’s back, and the sore pain forced her to cry physiologically.

“Ride slower!” Bai Yan felt pain and anger. She covered her nose with one hand and hooked the man’s waist with the other hand to maintain balance.

Meng Hechuan lowered his eyes and suddenly a slender white hand appeared on his black coat.

He felt as if his heart was burned. Meng Hechuan kicked his long legs and stopped the car.