Chapter 242: Chapter 242: Nanlu Xing
After this round, it is estimated that Lv Youfu will reconsider his conditions seriously, rather than trying to take advantage of the situation and make everyone treat him like a savior, as he did before.
He will do whatever he wants next, and Feng Yiping doesn't really care or worry about it. He just needs to understand one thing: Feng Yiping doesn't want to take advantage of others, but Lv Youfu only thinks about taking advantage of others. Even if he does a good job of public relations, the result will be no surprise.
What will Mayor Fang do next? Will she investigate the people who put her in the eye drops? Will she dig deeper into the group of people who entered the aluminum products factory? That's her business, and Feng Yiping doesn't care, of course, nor does he care.
He had just returned from the tool factory. The work was progressing very smoothly, and Hong Haoran said that the work could be completed in another half month.
Huang Jingping's personality is really quite good. In their daily interactions, Feng Yiping doesn't demand anything, and she doesn't take the initiative to meddle in his affairs. She is not the type to constantly talk about 'how other people's boyfriends are like this and that,' urging her boyfriend or husband to learn from or emulate someone else.
To be honest, having a girlfriend or wife like that would be enough. When we were young, we heard a lot from our parents about 'other people's children.' If, after growing up, we have to listen to our girlfriend or wife always talking about 'other people's boyfriends' or 'other people's husbands,' that would be too sad.
A while ago, Feng Yiping was quite busy, but the past couple of days have been a little better. Huang Jingping thought that she should take this opportunity to go out for a walk and let Feng Yiping relax a little, so she agreed to Fang Yingzhi's request and also invited Xiao Su and Xiao Qing along.
Feng Yiping is indifferent to such things. Although he has also visited the red leaves in Fragrant Hill, he has never had the pleasure of visiting the ones near his hometown.
When they gathered in front of the school of finance, Xiaoqing brought his boyfriend. To Huang Jingping's surprise, Fang Yingzhi also brought someone with her, driving a van. The burly guy looked a little older than the rest of the group.
I wonder if he saw Feng Yiping and felt a little threatened. Xiaoqing's boyfriend pulled Xiaoqing into the van, so that Xiao Su in the back seat could enjoy the treatment of a leader in Feng Yiping's car.
The autumn weather is crisp and clear, and such weather is indeed suitable for going out, and even more so for playing a song that suits the occasion.
There aren't many songs suitable for travelling at the moment, so Feng Yiping puts the disc he just got from Hong Haoran into the CD player. This is the original soundtrack of the movie 'The Graduate'. He likes both the theme song 'The Sound of Silence' and the interlude 'Scarborough Fair'. He especially likes 'The Sound of Silence', and he thinks it's quite appropriate to play it at this time.
Both songs were sung by the American male vocal duo Simon and Garfunkel. They were very classic, perfect and beautiful. The two girls fell in love with them after just one listen and kept asking him to play them again and again.
'Why haven't I heard this disc before?' Huang Jingping asked Feng Yiping, holding the lyrics that came with the disc.
'I only got this disc from Hong Haoran yesterday, and this is the first time I've heard it.'
Xiao Su unbuckled her seat belt, leaned over the back of the passenger seat, and hummed along with Huang Jingping while looking at the lyrics. This won't do. If something happens and there's a sudden stop, she'll be thrown into the windshield. Safety first. Feng Yiping found a place with few cars and pulled over, letting Huang Jingping sit in the back too.
Now they were safe, but Feng Yiping was nearly driven crazy by the two of them. There were so many words in the lyrics that they didn't know, and they kept asking Feng Yiping how to pronounce them and what they meant.
After driving for an hour and a half, they arrived at a service area. The van in the back overtook Feng Yiping and stopped in the service area. Feng Yiping followed suit. Everyone spent a few minutes solving personal problems. When they returned, Huang Jingping was still sitting in the back row. She and Xiao Su were now very motivated, preparing to copy the lyrics and memorise them.
The car had already started, and Feng Yiping was about to leave when Fang Yingzhi suddenly ran over from the van, opened the door, and sat directly in the passenger seat. This made Huang Jingping in the back seat look a little bad, and she no longer had the heart to copy the lyrics with Xiao Su.
'Sorry, you may have misunderstood. The person driving the van is my childhood neighbour. He knows I don't have the slightest interest in him, but he still won't let go. Yesterday, I heard that we were going out to play today, so he followed me around shamelessly. He wouldn't go away, so I got really impatient and just wanted to run and hide in your car, so as not to bother you.
'It's fine,' Feng Yiping didn't even look at her. He always felt that Fang Yingzhi's words seemed to be more about explaining how outstanding and sought-after he was.
Huang Jingping was a little angry in the back seat. She had always felt that this Fang had some ulterior motives, and sure enough, she had believed her when they set off.
So, from then on, every time they reached a service area, Huang Jingping would demand a stop, either to buy something or go to the toilet. Feng Yiping understood what she meant and followed her, but Fang Yingzhi just sat there in the passenger seat, as if her butt had taken root. Even if Huang Jingping made an excuse to get something from the glove box, she just moved aside, with no intention of getting up, which made Huang Jingping angry.
So the atmosphere in the car was a bit awkward. Fang Yingzhi kept looking for things to say to Feng Yiping, but the questions she asked were never answered by Feng Yiping. They were all answered by Huang Jingping, who was sitting in the back with a cold face. Su should have noticed this situation a long time ago, but she kept pretending to be stupid and just argued with the lyrics the whole way.
Fortunately, there were less than two hours left in the journey. Huang Jingping was on the verge of exploding with anger, when Nan Lu arrived.
This is also a small county. In terms of scale, it seems to be inferior to Feng Yiping's county, but it is clean, tidy, peaceful and quiet. There is also a river winding past the edge of the city. At this time of the year, it is the dry season, and the river is only a shallow layer, exposing patches of green moss on the bottom.
They drove around the city, and finally stopped in front of the county's newly built 12-storey hotel, which is Nan Lu's only three-star hotel, built specifically for tourism.
As soon as they got out of the car, Huang Jingping ran over and took Feng Yiping's arm, quite demonstratively.
With so many people together, Xiaoqing and her boyfriend felt bad about taking a room just for themselves, so the four girls took two rooms, the other two guys took one, and Feng Yiping took one on his own. It was just right, and he wasn't used to sharing a room with a stranger.
As soon as they arrived at the room and put their things down, Huang Jingping dragged Feng Yiping out to go shopping, without even bothering to look after Xiao Su. Feng Yiping felt that she really wanted him to avoid Fang Yingzhi, not go shopping.
The counties in the interior are more or less the same, and the layouts are similar. They walked hand in hand almost all the way around the city, and didn't even come back for dinner. They ate a little bit of everything at the stalls outside, and Feng Yiping's favourite was the grilled fish at one stall. It didn't come with any sauce, but it was exceptionally tender and delicious.
After returning to the hotel, Huang Jingping looked at the empty corridor and was very satisfied. 'Go to bed early, I'll wake you up in the morning.'
'You go to bed early too.'
Feng Yiping hadn't even finished brushing his teeth when there was a knock on the door. He looked through the peephole and saw Huang Jingping standing in the doorway with her bag. "What's wrong?'
'Su is still in the shower, so I'll come and shower with you." She quickly slipped inside.
Of course, Feng Yiping didn't want to say no, but at home it was fine, but in a place like a hotel, this kind of experience really made Feng Yiping feel tortured.
He lay on the bed watching TV, but in fact he had no heart to watch, just mechanically pressing the remote control and constantly changing channels. In a little while, the bathroom door opened, and Huang Jingping, wearing a shirt, brushed her teeth while smiling at him, and seeing him like this, she hurriedly said, 'Oh, how can you watch TV like this, it's so bad for your eyes, just turn it off if it's not good.' She didn't care about the way she spoke, and some of the toothpaste foam even got on her clothes.
It really didn't work to turn it off, so Feng Yiping now needed something to distract him. So he stopped on a channel that was broadcasting the news. Of course, the effect of the news was actually equivalent to something like Buddhist scriptures that could calm people down.
Huang Jingping muttered, 'What's there to watch in the news?'
Just then, there was a knock on the door again. Who could it be at this hour? Huang Jingping and Feng Yiping exchanged a surprised look. She suddenly realised something and went to the peephole to have a look. Sure enough, she opened the door wide and saw Fang Yingzhi standing there.