The bag Gu Yu was carrying was waterproof, even so, he still made several layers of protection to prevent the material from getting wet.
After coming out of the market, I bumped all the way to the passenger station and boarded the five o'clock bus. The seat was in the last row, and there were only two empty seats before it was full. He leaned against the window, looking at Shengtian City at dusk, like a tired giant elephant.
The car started slowly, and he blinked suddenly, and the glass window was stained with a few drops of water. Just as he was leaving, the heavy rain that had been holding back for a day finally arrived.
The weather forecast did not flicker, and the bus drove away from the city all the way, only to hear the rumble of thunder and the increasing rain. As soon as I got on the expressway, the outside was already filled with mist and blurred.
"Wow, boom!"
"Crackling!"
Listening to Yusi's publicity, Gu Yu couldn't help feeling a little worried, and the other passengers also stopped talking, leaving only a few whispers.
"Ding dong!"
At this moment, the phone rang, but it was a greeting from Jiang Xiaozhai: "Have you got in the car?"
"Just left Shengtian, have you got off work yet?"
"I'm getting ready to go downstairs."
"It's not easy to wait for the bus at this time, the subway can be more convenient."
"It's still early, I'll go to the park first."
"Where are you going?" he wondered.
"Of course I'll pick the flowers, aunt can't wait for me."
Well!
Gu Yu immediately choked, not knowing what to reply. Immediately afterwards, another message came from over there: "Don't you think it's wretched to steal a sweet-scented osmanthus in the rain?"
All right…
He threw himself to the ground, and quickly typed three large characters: "Eldest sister, be steady!"
Then there was no movement, and about ten minutes later, the girl sent a photo, which was a watery, pale yellow and pale laurel.
And the hand holding the flower branch has slender lines, well-proportioned flesh and bones, beautiful and yet powerful.
He suppressed a trace of surprise, a trace of yearning, and a trace of throbbing, and joked: "It's very beautiful, but it will teach bad friends."
"Then if I donate a sapling to the park, I will repent."
"Donate two, count me in."
"Farewell, I will take the blame on myself. Hey, don't you think what you said just now..."
"Special routine!"
"Special routine!"
Gu Yu pursed his lips, pressed send, and these three words appeared on the screen at the same time. Immediately, a big yellow smiling face came from over there.
The two chatted like this, and Xiao Zhai answered intermittently, sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly.
He occasionally looked outside, barely observing the road. At normal speed, it would take four hours to get to Baicheng, but on rainy days, we had to slow down, and the two hours were less than half.
Unknowingly, the bus got off the highway and started to take a country road, passing through some villages and towns. After another ten minutes, the conductor yelled, "Wudaohe is here, is anyone getting off?"
"have!"
An old man got up with his pockets in his hands, and he had seen him before. He was the beekeeper from the medicine market.
Wudaohe is a town under the jurisdiction of another county. It is closer to Baicheng, about seventy to eighty kilometers away. After he went down, the vehicle continued to move forward, and soon entered a mountainous area.
The sky had long been completely dark, and the darkness seemed to swallow everything, only the car lights flickered faintly.
Xiao Zhai had something to do, so Gu Yu leaned against the back of the chair, a little drowsy. In a daze, I heard a "creak" and the car stopped.
"what happened?"
"Maybe there's a traffic jam."
"Oh, it's better not to be in a car accident."
Amidst the passengers' discussion, the driver went out for a walk, ran back and scolded: "The road is closed in front of the paralyzed, I don't know what happened."
have to! Fearing what would happen, everyone immediately complained.
But it was useless to call. We waited for a few minutes, and suddenly someone knocked on the door and got into the car, but it was a policeman in a raincoat. He pressed his hand and said, "Be quiet, there is a landslide ahead, and the road has been blocked. This section of the road is very dangerous now. In order to avoid casualties caused by a second landslide, all vehicles are now returning."
Well, one word blew up the pot.
"It's almost here, let's go back again!"
"That's right, it's midnight when I return to Shengtian, where do I live?"
"Crap, today's idea is too memorized!"
The policeman was quite qualified, not angry at all, and persuaded: "I understand everyone's feelings, but it's all for personal safety. It's better for us to make a trip than get injured and die, right? Besides, the road is blocked now, and no one can get through it." .”
In fact, everyone knows it well, but they just can't accept it for a while. After nagging for a long time, the police turned to the next car. The driver had no choice but to slap his jacket: "Okay, stop making noise! Do you still want to live in the mountains?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, the car stopped a little.
After a while, the police began to direct the traffic and direct the U-turn. The bus was followed by an SUV, and even the exhaust was full of strong resentment.
Gu Yu was also very depressed, wondering where to deal with him overnight. Shengtian's consumption is too high, even a small hotel costs one hundred and eighty yuan, why don't you go to an Internet cafe all night
Just as he was thinking wildly, he suddenly saw a crowd of people in front of him, and the lights were indistinct. He paused for a moment, then asked, "Master, is there a hotel in Wudaohe?"
"Yes, I lived there before." The driver said firmly.
"Stop the car in front."
"Aren't you going back to Shengtian?"
"It's too far away, I can make do with one night."
"That's fine too. It's faster to get to Baicheng from anywhere."
The driver was very kind, and after a few instructions, he parked the car on the side of the road. Gu Yu jumped down, and as soon as the umbrella opened, it was crackling like a cannonball.
Good guy!
With a bag in his arms and an umbrella in one hand, he walked towards the town with a deep foot and a shallow foot. Wudaohe is a small place, with only two streets, one horizontal and one vertical. Most of the shops are closed, and only a few restaurants are still lit.
The driver was unambiguous, he found a hotel, opened the door and went in, and looked up to the counter with a wooden bed behind it. A middle-aged woman was lying on the bed, watching TV boredly.
"Is there a room?"
"Live by yourself?" The woman glanced at him.
"Um."
"There are 40's and 60's, which one do you live in?"
"Can I see it?"
"..."
The woman had a blunt attitude, picked up the key and went upstairs. Gu Yu curled his lips and followed to a room upstairs. The room was extremely small, with two wooden beds, an old broken TV, and no bathroom.
"This 40, the toilet is in the corridor, do you still see the 60?" the woman asked.
He touched the quilt, but it wasn't damp, and said, "No need, this is the only room."
"100 yuan deposit, come down and register."
"oh."
After everything was settled, Gu Yu went back to the house and locked the door, first checked the medicinal materials, they were still dry.
He fell on the bed and turned on the TV intermittently. He wanted to talk to Xiao Zhai about his bitter experience tonight, but after thinking about it, it seemed that he hadn't gotten close to this level yet.
The reason why he came to live in Wudaohe was because he didn't want to travel back and forth, and because the incident he heard during the day inevitably made him curious.