pjbooks Chapter 666 The 80s (15)
Chapter 666 The 80s (15)
The middle-aged man across from me carefully placed the discarded drafts on the table and smoothed them out. He was a rough man, but he could tell that these drawings were definitely not ordinary.
"Are there sleeper berths? I didn't expect that!" Wangyou suddenly realized that there were sleeper berths. She had probably been pampered too much. She had ridden in oxcarts before, then in cars and airplanes, but this was the first time she had ever ridden a train. When she bought the ticket, no one told her that there were sleeper berths!
Seeing Wangyou's bewildered expression, the uncle opposite him gave her a loving smile. "Look how pitiful the child is. She's never been on a train before and doesn't even know there are sleeper berths."
“Child, I don’t understand what you’ve drawn, but I know it must be important. I didn’t dare disturb you, so I just had our people sit around you. My name is He Jianguo.”
"Uncle, hello, I'm Huo Wangyou." Wangyou smiled as she took back the discarded draft and continued working on it. She put the suitable draft into her small handbag.
"Uncle, can I sell you your enamel mug? I'd like to get rid of this scrap of paper."
"What are you selling? I'll give it to you. So you're Huo Wangyou!" He Jianguo decided to take back his words about the child's suffering. If Huo Wangyou was suffering, then no one was suffering.
"Thank you, Uncle. You know me?"
"I don't know you, but your name is very well-known in our unit," He Jianguo said with a smile.
"Really!" Wangyou smiled as she poured a drop of the potion into an enamel mug filled with shredded paper. Watching the paper turn into black water, she felt much better.
She can't sleep well at night if she doesn't deal with things like rejected drafts immediately.
He Jianguo watched as the exquisite blueprints were torn to shreds and melted away by Wangyou. He turned his head away with a pang of heartache. Although he knew they were scraps, there was nothing he could do; he just couldn't help but feel the pain.
“I’ve arranged a sleeper berth for you, so you can get some sleep tonight.” He Jianguo turned his face away, refusing to look at his heroically sacrificed teacup.
"Okay, could you please get me a clean set of bedding?"
"Everything is arranged."
"Thank you, Uncle He. You're so thoughtful. I'll make up the difference for the ticket."
"How could I let you pay? I can afford a train ticket. Besides, you paid for our soldiers to have a good meal!"
“That was my own choice. One thing at a time, and they can’t be confused.” Wangyou insisted on handing the ticket money to He Jianguo. “You don’t take a single needle or thread from the people, so I can’t take advantage of you either.”
"You silly girl, you really don't owe anyone any favors!"
"The best relationship is one where money and goods are exchanged directly; the hardest debt to repay is one in the form of favors."
"Tongtou, let's go, I'll take you there."
"We don't need this!"
"Not for you, but for the blueprints in your bag. They're not safe on the journey." He Jianguo glanced at Wangyou's bag, quite worried. Would it be safe to keep them safe?
"You're overthinking it. No one can take my things away if I don't want to." Wangyou was helpless, but she could understand, so she stopped trying to persuade him.
Wangyou spent the next few days alone in the sleeper car, surrounded by soldiers on guard duty. There was nothing to say, so Wangyou could only provide them with meals.
A few days later, they finally arrived in Heilongjiang Province. The people sent by the machinery factory to pick her up had already arrived, and He Jianguo was relieved. Then he and his men boarded another train, as they still had to return to their unit.
Wangyou thought of the name of the military region she had asked He Jianguo, and decided that she should go and see it if she had the chance, so as to thank them for escorting her all the way, even though she didn't need it, it was their kindness.
Wangyou spent half a month at the machinery factory and assembled the drone she wanted using the factory's existing parts. She succeeded, but it was only the most basic drone structure, similar to those already available abroad. It wasn't that Wangyou couldn't build something more advanced, but rather that it seemed impossible for her to build it.
Wangyou made a decision: she would go back and assemble a research team, have them conduct research every day, she would provide the ideas, and they would conduct the research—perfect, as long as it didn't go through her hands.
Then Wangyou was seconded to the Heilongjiang Military Region for a few days, so she planned to go to the Southwest Military Region to see her brother and bring him some warmth.
The machinery factory had bought her a plane ticket well in advance, and even booked a sleeper berth for her transfer, so that she wouldn't be unaware of the situation.
Compared to other places, conditions in the southwest are much harsher. The most difficult thing is probably the abundance of poisonous insects, snakes, and ants in the mountains.
"Brother, if you had told me earlier that there were so many poisonous insects and snakes here, I would have come much sooner." Huo Yunxiao, who came to pick up Wangyou, was horrified to see his sister pull another poisonous snake out of the bushes.
"Little sister, get in the car quickly, or it will get dark."
"Let's catch them a few more times!"
"No, we've stopped so many times along the way. Tomorrow, tomorrow I'll take you out to catch it."
"Alright then." Wangyou reluctantly wrapped a bamboo leaf green bracelet around her wrist. From a distance, it looked like a jade bracelet, but when you looked at the red and white rings on it, you instantly changed your mind.
Mr. Wang, who was driving, didn't dare to turn his head again. When he first met her, his eyes lit up. Where did this fairy come from? But after witnessing her feat of catching snakes along the way, Mr. Wang's eyes could no longer shine.
Why would a fairy catch a snake?
Comrade Xiao Wang glanced cautiously in the rearview mirror and saw Wangyou pry open the snake's mouth and take out a toothbrush from somewhere to brush the snake's teeth. This was something a human would do.
"Brother, Little White, Little Red, Little Green, and Little Yellow are all so cute and good-looking. I can't bear to take their gallbladders. Tomorrow I'll catch some less attractive snakes to play with!" Wangyou said while brushing the snake's teeth.
"Okay, no problem." Huo Yunxiao nodded, glanced behind him, and quickly turned his head back.
Several snakes raised their heads at the mention of snake gallbladders, and when the person brushing their teeth said they were pretty and wouldn't have their gallbladders removed, they obediently continued to coil up.
Snake never imagined in his life that he could save his life because of his good looks.
When the people from Huo Yunxiao's military region first saw Wangyou, they had only one thought in their minds: Where did this fairy come from? She's so beautiful! So, wherever she goes, people stare at her.
After watching this girl catch snakes of all sizes for several days, all my fairy-tale fantasies about her shattered completely. What kind of fairy-tale girl spends all her time with snakes?
After seeing the beautiful two-legged creature stab a snake gallbladder with a knife, Little White, Little Yellow, Little Green, and Little Red obediently completed their task, focusing on driving away all the toad-like creatures in the vicinity. If they couldn't drive them away, they would find useful snakes to do so.
A bluish python, about the thickness of an adult's arm, did the best and cleanest job of chasing away the toad-like creature, thus saving it from death.
"From now on, brush your own teeth after eating, or I'll make snake soup with you all." Wangyou gave each of the five snakes a toothbrush and a tube of toothpaste. The five snakes, lined up neatly, nodded in unison and cleaned themselves up in an orderly fashion.