Chapter VII: Arrival
In the silence of the master and Cheng Qing, the car drove at a very fast speed, overtaking one vehicle after another in front.
The news software that Cheng Qing decided to delete not long ago was spared because of the report of the fire in the welfare home. After all, if Cheng Qing wants to know more about the news, he still has to check the latest reports of the reporters in the software.
Cheng Qing leaned back on the seat, slightly distracted, and tried her best to focus on the current pick-up task first. But when he shifted his attention to the task, Cheng Qing was thinking about how to deal with this completely strange girl.
This girl may need to live in his house for a long time, which means that she is almost a member of their family. But I know everything about her, but I don't know anything.
What he likes, what his personality is, and how he behaves, these are all things that no one told him in advance. It is like walking through the darkness by yourself, and you need to seek the light by yourself, and find the best way to get along with this new member.
"It seems that the matter of the welfare home needs to be postponed again." Cheng Qing thought in her heart that after receiving this new member of the family at this time, she had to deal with her daily life problems and tell her some matters at home. All in all, it is to let her integrate into the life of the family as soon as possible.
"It's a lot of work." Cheng Qing kept thinking about the troublesome nature of these things in her heart, shook her head, and looked out the window.
The repetitive scenery kept passing by, and soon Cheng Qing turned his head, he looked ahead again. The sun just shone at this time, so Cheng Qing lowered the visor slightly, closed her eyes and decided to rest for a while.
Usually at this time, Cheng Qing is almost asleep, and today has a task on her body, even if Cheng Qing supports herself, but sleepiness often sweeps in again after waking up for a while.
"You'd better be ready, it's not far from the airport, the time is now 9:42, and it is expected that it will only take four or five minutes, and this highway will be completed, and it will also arrive at Dongdu International Airport." Master Lu still looked at the road ahead and reminded him.
"Understood, master." Cheng Qing tried her best to get rid of the shackles of sleepiness, sat up from the seat, and then poked her head next to the car air conditioner.
The cold wind blowing from the air conditioner stimulated Cheng Qing's senses, and he immediately recovered a little, and after opening his eyes, he put down the visor.
The fierce sunlight made Cheng Qing's drowsy state dissipate again, and he lifted his backpack and held it in front of him, waiting to reach his destination.
"It is still recommended that you go to the bathroom to wash your face, this is a good way to wake up, when I was in school, as long as our teachers saw someone in class showing signs of wanting to sleep, they would immediately let them go out to the bathroom to wash their face, and when they came back, they would always be much sober." Because there are a lot more vehicles near the airport, the road is not as empty as before. For the safety of driving, Master Lu also took slowing down measures. also had the opportunity to talk to Cheng Qing again.
"I have some mints here, which will make people feel a lot more sober, and I think you will need it soon, driving long distances is the most likely to cause mental fatigue."
Before Master Lu could say his suggestion, Cheng Qing had already started rummaging through something in his backpack. Soon, he found a vial.
There are a lot of mints in the bottle, and it looks like it's just a few times after it has been opened. Cheng Qing picked up two and put them in her mouth, the mints slowly melted, and a cool feeling gradually unfolded.
"I'm fine, you can keep it for yourself, this situation is used to it, when the time comes, I will open the window again, find a parking place when I return to the city, and take a rest in the car, and the state will be restored."
Master Lu shook his head slightly, the congestion of the vehicles in front of him had been cleared at this time, and he increased his speed again, trying to overtake the slower vehicles on the road as much as possible.
Seeing that the speed of the car increased again, Cheng Qing clearly knew in his heart that he should not continue to chat with the master. So there was silence immediately.
Five minutes of silence passed quickly, and the distance to the airport gradually shortened. At this time, Dongdu International Airport finally appeared in the field of vision, and then slowly approached, approached, until it was close in front of you.
"Safe and arrived early." Master Lu specially put safety first, even if Cheng Qing is not the kind of person who is surprised when he sees anything new, but there are really not too many technical masters like Master Lu who ensure the combination of safety and speed when driving. This made Cheng Qing feel admiration in her heart.
"How much is the total travel fee, master?" The first thing Cheng Qing did was to ask about the price first.
"It's on this taximeter." Master Lu looked at the meter and gave a price.
Cheng Qing immediately paid off the fare, thinking that the price was still within the acceptable range of her pocket money, and then began to prepare to get out of the car.
Cheng Qing gently pressed the button, unbuckled the seat belt, glanced at the back of the vehicle, and slowly opened the door.
At this time, a heat wave hit quickly, and Cheng Qing also leaned back a lot because of the instant reaction he faced. When he was able to adapt to the temperature difference between inside and outside, he looked at Master Lu, lowered his head gently, and said, "Thank you for helping me." ”
"Don't say thank you, if you don't mind, call me if you need to use the car, my name is Lu Feng, and here is a business card of mine." Master Lu took out a business card from his pocket and handed it to Cheng Qing.
"Definitely."
Cheng Qing politely stretched out her hands to take the business card, and after a cursory glance, the taxi company where Master Lu worked, as well as his phone number, and his name were clearly printed on it.
"And your mints, which were not taken and fell on top of your seat." Master Lu reminded kindly.
"This is specially reserved for you, I hope you will use this to relieve your fatigue first, it will have the effect of refreshing your nerves, and you will still have a long way to go back to the city later. You now helped me get to the airport before the plane arrived, and I have nothing more to thank you for. So you might as well keep it. ”
"That's fine." After Master Lu glanced at the mints, he thought for a moment. After all, for the sake of driving safety, it is indeed more useful to eat mints to refresh your mind, so Master Lu accepted it after thinking about it again and again.
"Okay, goodbye, master." After Cheng Qing completely adapted to the temperature difference, she got out of the taxi and stood outside the door and said.
"Well, good luck with your pick-up this time." Master Lu controlled the button, lowered the window of the passenger seat, and said to Cheng Qing, who thanked him outside the window.
Master Lu beckoned, then closed the window, and debugged the navigation of the car, the rearview mirror and other equipment in the cab. After he confirmed that he was barrier-free, he put in gear, started, and after starting steadily, he soon couldn't see the rear of the car.
Cheng Qing stood still and watched Master Lu's vehicle gradually move away. Until she couldn't see it, Cheng Qing glanced at her watch, which showed that it was currently 9:50, that is, there was still an interval of about ten minutes before the pick-up time.
I woke up early in the morning and didn't eat anything, so I might as well buy something to eat near the airport.
Cheng Qing decided to make the most of these ten minutes, he looked around for a while, and soon the place he was looking for appeared in his field of vision. Cheng Qing immediately took a step and walked towards the bakery near the airport.
"Welcome." When Cheng Qing opened the door and walked into the store, all the clerks raised their heads and said, as if they had a tacit understanding.
"Is there anything I can do to help you, this customer?" A waiter walked over, helped Cheng Qing take a clip and a plate, handed it to Cheng Qing, and asked.
"It's nothing, I'll just buy a little and take a look." Cheng Qing didn't want to be recommended all kinds of other latest styles of bread, according to his idea, he still had to buy bread that he was familiar with and liked. Sometimes a new style of bread, although it has a freshness, is not necessarily the one that best suits your taste.
And if you don't want to continue eating after trying, it is not only disrespectful to the original ingredients, but also a waste of the cost of buying new products, and at the same time, it does not fulfill its original purpose, which is to solve the problem of hunger.
Before this, Cheng Qing had this kind of painful experience, once at noon at lunch, when he decided to buy some bread to satisfy his hunger, after entering the bakery, a waiter recommended several types of goods that he was not interested in, and he bought all the waiter's recommendations after listening to these words.
As a result, after wasting money in vain, a lot of bread was left because it was not tasty, and food was wasted. And on that day, Cheng Qing remained hungry all afternoon.
So Cheng Qing directly and politely rejected the waiter's proposal, and did not give her any possibility to promote some products of this store. At this time, polite refusal is the best way to achieve the goal.
The waiter still had a smile on his face and said, "Okay, then you can pick it yourself, and if you need help with the selection process, I can provide it for you." ”
Carefully put a piece of dinner paper on the plate handed to Cheng Qing just now, the waiter maintained a good service attitude, and was not affected by Cheng Qing's euphemistic refusal at all. He walked slowly around the store, keeping an eye out for new customers to welcome outside.
"Seeing that you are about the same age as me, you should be enjoying the vacation during the summer vacation at this time, are you going to visit acquaintances, or to pick up the airport?"
At present, the number of people in the store is very small, and the waiter seems to be more interested in Cheng Qing and takes the initiative to talk.
"How do you think I'm here because of these two things?" Cheng Qing showed no waves on the surface, but in his heart he was curious about his accurate guess at this time.
"Because I saw you come to the airport with just a small backpack on your back. If you are traveling, the minimum toiletries, change of clothes must be carried by a large suitcase, and your bag is now in a state of collapse, indicating that it is empty and does not contain anything at all. But at this time, if there is an acquaintance who arrives at the place of the plane to pick up, you may not need too much luggage, because there will naturally be someone there to arrange. ”
"So it's almost just a short trip, and there are some things that need to be done when you come to the airport for a short time, and that's almost like picking up and dropping off."
"However, if it's a drop-off, it's unlikely that you'll be separated from you before you leave, and you're still relatively relaxed picking bread here, so I think you're going to see you off."
"Of course, this is just my guess, and I don't know exactly how it is." The waiter smiled politely, ending his guess.
"It's pretty much as you said." Cheng Qing wandered around the shop without finding any trace of the bread he wanted to eat, and looked up at the waiter, confirming his guess.
Cheng Qing has a soft spot for a kind of bread called salad buns, although salad buns are a very old bread, but the popularity has not decreased among customers, and it is still a high position in the popularity of major bakeries.
Of course, Cheng Qing naturally belongs to the popularity of salad buns, and this kind of bread firmly grasps Cheng Qing's preference, because it does not have any bells and whistles in the introduction and configuration, but the classics are eternal.
"Is this the bread you're looking for?"
A plate of bread is freshly baked and served out neatly on a plate. The waiter took the plate, and on top of it was a full plate of salad buns.
"Seeing that you haven't picked a favorite bread in a long time, you may need a salad bun that has just sold out."
The waiter smiled and placed it on the counter.
Cheng Qing felt very recognized of his business ability, looked at the freshly made fluffy, steaming bread on the counter, then picked up the tongs and put a few of them on his plate, standing behind a customer who was currently queuing.
"I'm a prospective senior high school student at Chaohai Middle School in Dongdu, my name is He Zhiyan, and I'm currently helping out in this family's understaffed bakery, and it seems that I have my own things to do during the leisure holidays."
It seemed that seeing that there were few people in the store who could have a common topic after leaving, the waiter put the remaining bread on the counter into the other bread sections of the store, walked back and continued to chat with Cheng Qing.
When Cheng Qing heard Chaohai Middle School, she replied politely: "I am a quasi-sophomore high school student, called Cheng Qing, and I also belong to Chaohai Middle School. ”
The waiter, who claimed to be He Zhiyan, said: "Of course, I am very lucky to meet here." In the future, when you need anything at school, you can find me, and I will definitely try my best to help. ”
He Zhiyan...... How does it feel familiar, could it be that I have heard this name on campus before?
Cheng Qing was frantically searching in his mind for all his memories of the name at this time, but after thinking about it briefly, he still found nothing.
Cheng Qing just nodded, put the bread on the cash register and asked the staff to count it. After the checkout was completed, Cheng Qing looked at the time on her phone and said to He Zhiyan: "Senior, I still need to pick up the airport, the time is almost up, see you in school." ”
"Well, thank you for your patronage, and welcome to visit us next time." He Zhiyan carefully opened the door of the store and bowed down.
After Cheng Qing left, there were no more customers left in the store, He Zhiyan breathed a sigh of relief, found a seat in the store and sat down, and rested for a while.
"Thank you so much for coming to the store to help during the summer vacation, some of the part-time waiters in our store have temporarily taken a leave of absence because they need to go home during the holidays. Without you, our store would be really busy. ”
A man with an older face walked to the place where He Zhiyan was sitting, pulled a chair away, sat next to He Zhiyan, put a cup of iced coffee on the table, and said.
"Uncle, there is no need to say thank you, if there is nothing to do, I will always stay in the store. It's a rare summer vacation, and it's good to have a little more experience, and I'm not used to staying in my father's company all the time. ”
He Zhiyan picked up the iced coffee and took two sips, and said slowly: "It's still early, there are not many customers in the store, and by noon, it is estimated that there will be a wave of peak customer flow." Uncle, you should also take a break and prepare to face the busyness of noon. ”
"Okay, then I still have to be busy, the store has a lot more customers than usual during the summer vacation, so I have to prepare more." The man known as "Old Uncle" seemed to be very pleased, patted He Zhiyan's shoulder, and got up to leave.
He Zhiyan took two sips of iced coffee again, and seemed to have relaxed and rested. He stood up and walked to the door again, standing respectfully and waiting for the next customer.
"Hello and welcome."
Opening the door for the guests, He Zhiyan continued to face every customer who came to the bakery with a smile and a standard service attitude.