Chapter 2
But in any case, when Anxin looks back on her newlywed life, the overall feeling is still good. Among them, the most satisfying thing for her is the Iron Army. I've seen photos of Tie Jun, and his appearance is lackluster, which definitely doesn't match Anxin. But in the mouth of peace of mind, this husband is knowledgeable, upright, knows that he feels sorry for his wife, and is not lazy, dirty, or sloppy at home. It's not easy for a man to do that. The only problem, for Anxin, is that he is a little narrow-minded, and occasionally Anxin and a young man say a few more words, and he will show jealousy. This vinegar is also a condiment for happiness for men and women who are in love, but because of Mao Jie's heart disease secretly, Tie Jun's personality of not rubbing sand in his eyes makes Anxin particularly frightened and uneasy, so Anxin feels that this is Tie Jun's shortcomings.
There is another thing that the two also have a lot of controversy, that is, whether their future destination will be to stay in the beautiful small town of Nande for a long time, or whether they will return to the big city of Guangping together after the two-year internship period of Anxin.
The anti-narcotics brigade of the South German Public Security Bureau was the first unit to participate in the work of Anxin, and although she had only been working for more than a year, she had already found a feeling of being at home. Everyone on the team is very kind, they like her very much, and she is also competent in her work. It's close to her hometown. She and Tie Jun returned to Qingmian twice in half a year, her mother also came to Nande to see them once, and the captain Pan even invited her mother to dinner. Lao Pan's help in Anxin's work and his exemplary role as a leader in all aspects have made him almost Anxin's idol. His care for peace of mind in life is as warm as a brother. All this makes An An think that she and this job, these comrades-in-arms, her leaders, this small town, and even the sunshine and drizzle here every day have been inseparable.
Although Tie Jun's work at the "Nande Daily" is also smooth, on the whole it still feels like a guest country. Even if he is used to living in Nande, he is definitely not to the extent that he makes this his home and his final destination. He came here mainly for peace of mind, it was originally a short-term temporary thing, and they should return to Guangping after the expiration of the exercise period here, which was originally said. Guangping is a big place and the conditions are good, that is the place to live well and do a good job. What's more, Guangping is Tie Jun's home anyway, his mother is there, all his friends, classmates, and all useful social connections are there, so he has to go back.
This is a big event, a major event that will determine the direction of their future life together, and the two of them have discussed and even argued many times from retreat to pragmatism. Fortunately, the return date was not imminent, and they did not quarrel about it. The two sides are basically still in the stage of calm theoretical discussion when they express their own views.
The reasons for Anxin to persuade Tie Jun to stay seem to be all for Tie Jun's sake: first, the air here is good, which is good for Tie Jun's body - Tie Jun has asthma - what is more important than being in good health? Second, the leaders from top to bottom here attach great importance to the Iron Army. Although Guangping is good, the place is too big, there are many talents, and the competition is fierce, so it is not so easy to get ahead in Guangping. In South Germany, with the ability of the Iron Army and that bit of "background", it is estimated that there will be opportunities for improvement soon, so in terms of career, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages; Thirdly, in terms of life, the prices here are cheap, the supply is abundant, and the things are affordable......
And the reason why Tiejun insisted on going back seems to be all for the sake of peace of mind, the first of which is that the errand that Anxin did in Nande is really unsafe. To exaggerate, half of the people who walk around Nande Street at night are in the business of drugs. This gang of public security officers has an internal verbal saying, and the Iron Army also knows: Nande is a battlefield! Tie Jun had been to the anti-narcotics brigade, and there were more portraits of martyrs hanging on the walls of the conference room of the anti-narcotics brigade than pennants and certificates. What do you say you have to do as a girl like this, do you want to be a hero? Have this addiction?
"I don't want to be a hero, but I like to be with heroes. β
"Who? Who are your heroes there? β
"That's all, for example, Lao Pan."
"Ouch," Tie Jun said, "Lao Pan's father was a drug addict to death, and he is bitter and hateful, so why did you come here?" β
An Anxin said: "Do you think that those of us who are working hard here are all for personal revenge? We're here to ......."
Tie Jun hurriedly raised his hand to stop her: "Don't tell me big truths, you are not an opponent." You are different from Lao Pan, you are a lesbian and a college student, and the organization should not let you do this for a long time. β
Speaking of which, there is no way to say it without saying the truth: "Anti-narcotics is a matter of meritorious service for the country and the people, and it is the patent of your men?" After two years of study, you are not qualified to do anti-narcotics? Lesbians are not qualified to do anti-narcotics? β
Tie Jun frowned: "What do you mean by telling me this big truth, if you don't have my wife, I will immediately bring a group of reporters to interview you." Package you as a heroine fighting on the front line of public security and anti-narcotics, blow you up in newspapers, radio, and TV every day, and make you a household name! Put you on the stove and burn it, so that you can't get down if you want to, and you can't do it if you want to! One day it's not so easy for you to get tired, annoyed, want to steal or just want to relax. If you are a heroic model, you have to do things according to the heroic model, speak according to the tone of the heroic model, and you can't bargain with others when you go to the street to buy groceries, or people will say how heroes are like this! If you really sacrifice one day, then it will really be a good beginning and a good end, and we will have more to write about, and it will show that this typical example of our tree is not wrong! β
In fact, Anxin had already told Tie Jun that Captain Pan almost never let her participate in any dangerous missions. In the entire anti-narcotics brigade, almost everyone has a conscious sense of protection for her, a female college student who has been sent to exercise. The Iron Army knows all these things.
Of course, during the whole process of the decentralization and training of the South German Anti-Drug Brigade, Anxin was not without any dangers, and she even participated in a face-to-face entrapment operation with drug dealers. Although her participation in that operation was completely accidental, it was this accident that changed her life later.
It was a big case that the anti-narcotics brigade had been operating for a long time, and Anxin only knew that every time there was an important clue in this case or something big to take, the provincial public security department would have to come. At the beginning of that year, the province found an important intelligence source from Myanmar, and from the analysis of the intelligence provided by this intelligence source, there must have been a large stronghold for drug trafficking and drug transportation in Nande. There was a battle every time it was intercepted, and the opponent resisted relatively stubbornly, so he couldn't leave a single living hole, so the clues of this case were always broken as soon as the thread was revealed, and it never reached the stronghold in the territory.
In this way, the case began to be filed in the spring, and there were many small victories in between, but the real breakthrough did not come until the autumn. In the autumn, in a passenger room of the Nande Hotel, they intercepted the latest batch of goods revealed by this intelligence source - twenty-nine kilograms of high-purity *** in a general's canvas suitcase, and more importantly, they captured the delivery man alive in the toilet of that room. And the whole operation was well planned and extremely secretive. When this person was arrested, even the waiter at the hotel didn't notice it.
The delivery man was taken back to the anti-narcotics brigade, and even Captain Pan was startled, it was a woman in her twenties.
This woman seems to be a novice, and her only hope after being arrested is to live, so she cooperates very actively in the interrogation, and the initiative is almost courteous. According to her confession, she had planned to go to Wuquan, a town very close to the city of Nande, in the evening of the next day to meet with the person who received the goods. The code word of the joint between the two sides is, the delivery asks: "Do you know that it is raining today?" The person who received the goods replied: "Today is not tomorrow." In addition, the person receiving the goods must also carry a black elephant brand travel bag as an identification object, as long as the identification object and the code word are matched, and the two sides can change the bag.
This set is almost the same as what was filmed in the movie, maybe it was learned from the movie at all.
The next way to deal with this case is probably as anyone who has watched the movie can guess, and sent someone to disguise himself as a delivery person to go to Wuquan Joint. Of course, the person who sent it had to be a woman.
Of course, this kind of wise and brave task can't have peace of mind, not only is she worried about her safety, but to put it bluntly, let a newcomer like her who has no experience and has never been in battle go to the battle for fear of messing up this operation. The anti-narcotics brigade did not have a competent female comrade, and the city bureau specially transferred one from the criminal investigation brigade temporarily. The woman's peace of mind knew at a glance that she had been a criminal policeman for many years, and her calm and sharp energy was written on her face.
The female detective came early the next morning. All morning, Captain Pan was busy holding a meeting with all the people who participated in the trapping operation, and he also had to send people to the train station to get tickets, and send people to Wuquan to step on the spot, and he was nervous all morning. Anxin made meeting minutes for them, and she took the initiative to chat with the female criminal policeman for a while during lunch, no matter what she said or did, she admired this eldest sister.
The train from Nande to Wuquan departs at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone departs for the train station in batches from 3 o'clock. The railway station is ten minutes away from the anti-narcotics brigade. At three o'clock, the female criminal policeman got into a taxi specially found by Lao Pan with the general's canvas box loaded with drugs, came out of the small street at the back door of the anti-narcotics brigade, and drove onto the main road. Something that no one expected happened at this time.
That's a car accident.
A pickup truck pulling beer rushed through the intersection and crashed headlong into the taxi with a special mission in order to hide from a group of schoolchildren from school opposite. The truck and taxi each had minor injuries that were not serious. The anti-narcotics policeman dressed as a taxi driver was unharmed, but the female detective sitting in the back seat hit her head on the barrier between the front and rear seats, her head broke and she was bleeding, and she immediately fell unconscious.
The joint task had to be changed immediately, and the problem was that there was almost no time left. Lao Pan was about to leave in the office of the team headquarters when he received a call from the comrade who was acting as a taxi driver at the corner of the street, and was immediately dumbfounded. He was stunned for a long time, and finally, he turned his head to look at ease.
Anxin was cleaning up the garbage left over from the meeting on the table and the floor at that time, and she didn't know what was going on, and when she saw Lao Pan looking at her, she also looked at Lao Pan.
Lao Pan asked her almost cluelessly: "Rest assured, where is your gun?" β
Ten minutes later, Anxin put on his civilian clothesβa white half-sleeved shirt, a gray waistcoat, and dark blue jeans, typical of a studentβand stood on the street at the back door of the anti-narcotics brigade. Her right hand, carrying the canvas suitcase that had just been taken out of the taxi that had been hit, raised her left hand to stop a passing taxi. She had a hard time loading her suitcase into the car, Lao Pan and they were all nearby, in a nearby van, they could only watch her, and it was impossible to come over to help. They watched as she packed the box, slammed the door shut, and watched as the taxi started slowly with its turn lights flashing before moving up their van and quietly following it.
Anxin's feelings about this operation are difficult to describe because everything happened so suddenly. At that time, except for Lao Pan's car, all the comrades who participated in the operation had already set off, and she was the only one left behind at the team headquarters. She was going to copy out the Mid-Autumn Festival condolence letter sent by the brigade to the police who were not at home after cleaning, but where did she think that ten minutes later, she would suddenly become the most important role in the whole operation!
She got off the train in the square in front of the train station, and walked to the station with the canvas suitcase. But when they saw Lao Pan following behind with a blank face, they all guessed a rough idea, so they all entered the role one after another, the observation that should be observed, and the observation that should be in the car.
The 676th train from Nande to Wuquan is a small train in the province, the total journey is only more than 200 kilometers, and it must stop at every station, mainly for the convenience of people who go to work and do business along the line every day. Anxin had never been on this car, and after getting on the bus, she realized that there were not too many passengers, and there were still many empty seats in her carriage. As soon as she sat down, the car drove away, and she was a little nervous when she heard the announcer announce the name of the next stop, Wuquan. She looked to the side, looking out the window of her car with a wide view out of the bright mountains in the distance. It was when the sun was setting in the west, and a few wisps of white clouds were condensed on the mountain, and the white clouds caressed the golden terraces, and in the layers of terraces, there was not a single figure of cultivators. Although Anxin grew up in a remote mountain town, she has never done farm work in the countryside, and she has never understood who planted so many terraced fields on the mountain?
The appreciation and conjecture about the terraces soothed her nervousness, and she almost forgot that under her seat, there was a shogun canvas box full of ***. Along the way from Nande to Wuquan, the scenery is breathtaking. Within a radius of 100 miles, South Germany is an undeveloped natural park, a huge scenic area with the most colorful plant populations, hills, plains, forests and rivers. Probably because it is too close to the border and the fight against drugs is too sharp, there are not many people who come from other places to visit.
Wuquan is only more than 30 kilometers away from Nande, but Anxin has never been to Wuquan. According to the confession of the captured female drug dealer, she will board the ferry at the famous ferry pier in Wuquan and ferry to the other side, and after boarding the boat, she will meet the person who receives the elephant travel bag, and then she and he will hand over on the boat, and after the boat reaches the other side, they will go their separate ways. When Anxin came out, she was in a hurry, and she didn't have time to think about all the details, so she just had to desperately remember those two joint code words, for fear that she would forget to miss a big thing by then. Especially the question she was about to say first, once she forgot it, she would be smashed. As for the rest, including the surrounding environment of the ferry dock, and how other comrades would contact her at that time, she didn't know anything about it.
Of course, she didn't have time to call Tie Jun, she made an appointment with Tie Jun yesterday to go home and cook for him. She didn't know if the mission would go well. But even if all goes well, she will probably have to come home after 10 p.m. today. Tie Jun might be angry if he didn't see her when he got back from work, and if he didn't get it right, he would have to force her to change jobs.
Looking out the window at the moving dusk, Anxin thought all the way. She thought of her hometown Qingmian. The clear twilight is more peaceful than here. She didn't know if there was a smaller county in China than Qingmian, which was just a few streets sandwiched between two huge cliffs. At dusk, the cliffs are painted with dazzling gold, and the small town is shrouded in a silent shadow, and the slowly moving light and shade express its unique depth. She thought of Beijing again, and the deepest impression was the dazzling sunset on the corner tower of the Forbidden City, which overlooked the noisy street with rolling traffic, but still held on to a kind of historical ** and made you deeply feel the solemnity of that huge invisible and unimpregnable.
She was struck by something, a passenger sitting down next to her with a large movement that almost made it suspicious of provocation. She withdrew her gaze from the window, and when she looked back, she saw a young man sitting next to her, well-dressed, in stark contrast to the rustic-faced people in the carriage. He bumped into her, not only was he not sorry, but he smiled at her, and she was about to frown and stare when she was suddenly so shocked that she almost screamed-
Mao Jie?
Mao Jie was still as handsome as before, and looked at her with a smile and asked, "Why are you here?" I look at the back of your head for a long time, and I'm afraid of recognizing the wrong person. β
An Xin panicked for a while and couldn't speak, it was really not the right time to meet Mao Jie here. Mao Jie said again: "I know you're hiding from me, but if you think about it, Nande is such a small place, can you hide!" β
Anxin subconsciously looked around left and right, not knowing what Captain Pan and the scouts in the car would guess when they saw Mao Jie and her so affectionate. She subconsciously responded to Mao Jie: "Who is hiding from you." She didn't know what to say, she just wondered how to find a way to get him away as soon as possible.
Mao Jie smiled: "Why didn't you hide, I looked for you several times and you weren't there, and you didn't go back in the middle of the night, are you living somewhere else now?" β
Anxin didn't answer his question, but asked, "Where are you going?" Where to get off the bus? β
Mao Jie pointed forward in general: "In front, what about you?" β
Anxin's answer was equally vague: "I'm down in front of me." Mao Jie, don't look for me anymore, I'll look for you if there's something. β
Mao Jie said: "Okay, when are you looking for me, let's say okay!" β
Anxin said: "If you are free, I will look for you." β
Mao Jie said: "That's not good, you have to tell me." Where exactly do you live now? Where exactly do you work? You haven't even told me which school you're in for so long, we're too unequal. β
Anxin said, "You didn't tell me what you do." β
Mao Jie said: "I said that I don't have a job now and help my parents do business, why didn't I tell you!" β
Peace of mind is also this, these are what he said. She defended herself aggrievedly: "Who knows what business your family does, and you haven't said it." β
"Why haven't you said that what business makes money and what kind of business. What about you, what exactly do you teach in which school? I don't think you're a teacher at all. β
"And what am I like?"
"Like a student at most. Are you a college student? I know that there is only one university in South Germany, which is the Forestry Institute, which is private. I've been there looking for you, but I haven't found you. Is the name you telling me my real name? β
"I wonder if your real name is true."
"Then I'll bring my family's household registration book and ID card to you for inspection tonight! Will you go back to your place today? I'll look for you at night. β
Anxin saw that the more he talked, the more entangled he became, and he was a little anxious. She had to end the conversation immediately, for Wuquan was already in sight. She stood up and said that she wanted to get out of the car: "I won't go back tonight, if you want to find me, tomorrow at seven o'clock in the evening, at the entrance of Ruixin Department Store, we will meet again, I will tell you what I do." β
The train staggered into the platform of Wuquan Station, and Anxin bent down to pull out her box from under her seat, and when she bent down, Captain Pan and two other scouts squeezed up from behind at the right time, squeezing beside her, separating Mao Jie. It seems that there are still a lot of people who get off the bus in Wuquan, and the surroundings are a little chaotic, and in a noisy voice, she heard Mao Jie's farewell to her behind her:
"Okay, see you tomorrow."
Anxin squeezed into the passengers and got off the train, and the people who got off the train suddenly crowded the narrow platform, and they couldn't evacuate for a while. Anxin finally squeezed out of the platform with the flow of people, and when she came to the small street in front of the station, she looked back and saw that Captain Pan and they had also squeezed out. As soon as she saw Lao Pan, her nervous mood relaxed a little.
She dragged her suitcase down the side street. Turning a street corner, there was no one around, Lao Pan followed, and asked softly, "Who was that just now, what's going on?" β
Anxin didn't want the unit to know that there was such a person as Mao Jie in her private life, so she pretended to be disgusted and said: "A little Bu Mao, a little gangster, pestering me and having nothing to say, if it weren't for this task, I would have scolded him a long time ago." β
Lao Pan also believed it, didn't ask any more, just reminded her in a low voice: "You haven't forgotten the joint code, right?" She said, "I don't forget, I'll ask the man first: Do you know it's raining today?" The man replied to me, "Today is not tomorrow." Pan nodded, and reminded her how to get to the pier. The two walked out of the street corner without saying a few words, and when they got out of the corner, they immediately separated, and went their separate ways with indifferent expressions.
If Wuquan is not a city, it must be a rather small town. It has several lively streets that look no worse than the business districts of southern Germany. But the most famous place in Wuquan, apart from the largest Buddhist temple in the whole of South Germany, Manlong Temple, is the ferry pier that can only be seen after passing through these streets. The name Wuquan originated from the wide Wuquan River.
In other words, the Wuquan River is longer, wider and flatter than the Nanmeng River, and it is also another branch of the mother river of the Nu River, and it is also the most noteworthy scenic belt in the Nande region. Many major ethnic festivals and cultural, sports and folk celebrations organized by the first in South Germany are held here at home. When I came to the river on this day, the sun was setting and the sky was getting dark. She queued up to buy a ticket and walked into the pier, but there was no ferry on the pier. On the shore on both sides, for some reason, there are many small rows gathered, and many people are loading paper light boats on those small rows. There are a lot of onlookers around, among which there are many tourists who know at a glance that they are from afar, and there are many people who take pictures, and the magnesium lights are flashing. An An looked at Captain Pan and them, and Lao Pan seemed to be at a loss at the unexpected excitement here. An An asked a man who looked like a cadre beside him:
"Comrade, what are so many people doing here?"
"Oh," replied the man, apparently as an out-of-town tourist, as is usually the case with the luggage she was dragging on, "the lanterns are on, and today is our river lantern festival here, once a year." It will look good when it gets dark for a while and lights it up. Are you going to take a boat? The cadre-looking man asked her.
"Yes, by boat, I'll go across the river."
"Ah, the boat is coming, you should be able to see it on the boat in a while, it's full of lights floating on this side of the river. It's going to be dark again, and it's all on as soon as it's dark. If you're not in a hurry, you can wait for the next boat, it's very beautiful after dark...... Where are you from? β
Anxin casually said that she was from Nande, and she didn't want to talk to him, so she thanked him and dragged the box to the dock. She had no intention of appreciating the landscape that was about to emerge on the river. Although she had heard about Wuquan's annual river lantern festival when she was in college on Guangping, it is impossible for her to have the leisure to stop and have fun with the people here, and she is not a tourist today!
The ferry boat finally arrived from the other side of the river, a wide-bodied boat that was much larger than Anxin had imagined, not only wide, but also long. The titanic-like momentum and volume of this ferry boat make the originally quite wide Wuquan River appear narrow. The ship had an open front and rear deck, which could drive a dozen cars. There is a canopy in the middle, and the style of the canopy is a bit of a minority style, and there is a bit of a gorgeous feeling in the fancy one. On both sides of the ship, there are more elaborate railings, which look like an ocean-going passenger ship sailing on the sea.
There are a lot of people coming from the other side of the river on this boat, and some of them seem to be tourists who come to see the river lantern festival. There were also many people waiting to get on the boat to the other side, and there was some confusion on the dock for a while. The people who got on the boat did not wait for the people on the boat to get off and then squeezed up. Anxin saw that several scouts had already taken the lead in squeezing onto the ship, occupying all corners of the ship. Old Pan also went up, and stood on the back deck, his gaze swept over her face, not stopping, but she knew that he was urging her. So she picked up the suitcase and followed behind a group of peasant-like men and women on the crowded trestle.
After getting on the boat, she chose a more conspicuous location and searched around with her eyes. There were still a lot of people huddled on the pier and hugged the boat, and the order seemed to be unattended. As soon as the trestle was removed, the whistle whined, and for a short time, the hull of the ship slowly drifted off shore.
Standing on the back deck, his gaze shifted from the ashes of the sunset to the river sinking into the shadows. Sure enough, she saw the beautiful paper lamps that had just been lit, floating on the surface of the misty river. Although it was not completely dark, the paper lamps were all red, and they flickered on the darkened water, making people feel very warm. The warm red light brings the whole river into a fairytale-like fantasy. Seeing this slowly swimming firefly, Anxin almost forgot the tension; even, forgetting the heavy responsibility on her body at the moment; She even forgot what was in the canvas box in her hand. She was really a little forgetful, and sighed in her heart that life was so good. She wished that Tie Jun was here at this time, he was an idealist and liked to pursue any romantic mood, so if he wanted to, he would definitely be fascinated by this fairyland-like river lantern festival. With such a mood and atmosphere, he would definitely be able to write an aesthetic prose after reading it.
The boat had reached the middle of the river, farther and farther away from the sparkling paper lanterns, which echoed the last sunset in the western sky. And the eastern sky is as blue as the tail of a peacock, so deep and full, so thorough that there is no trace of impurities. Anxin thought: These drug dealers really lack common sense, and they ran to such a blue sky to ask if it is raining today. Wouldn't it be thought that you were insane if the people next to you heard it? If it's raining, you ask this, it's also neurotic, and the day is raining, and the answer is that it's not going to be tomorrow and it's going to be more neurotic. This code word only seems natural when the sky wants to rain and rain, but there are many people who want to say it in the rainy time. When the teacher of the public security college gave a lecture, he also said: Do not talk about the weather when you are doing investigation and intelligence work, because it is easy to be disturbed by accidental coincidences. Fortunately, today's weather is good, no one talks about the rain, and the code words of the receiver are: Today is not tomorrow, you can cover up some of the stupidity of the previous question. The people around listened to it, and they could barely hear it. Anxin even childishly thought that after catching the person who picked up the goods, she would tell them all about the common sense of joint codes, and let them know that they were all caught because they were too stupid!
The receiver should have been on this ship at this time, searching around with peace of mind, but he never found the target they were looking for. The only identifying sign they knew was that the man was holding a travel bag with an elephant brand in his hand. She, and of course Captain Pan, had already begun to pay attention on the docks, and no one had seen anyone carrying such a bag.
The ship was getting closer and closer to the other side, and the tension along the way was replaced by a strong suspicion, and she thought that maybe the situation had changed, and maybe the person who picked up the cargo had not come at all today. Or, the woman they caught in the hotel tricked them, maybe there was no such thing as Wuquan delivery at all, and she was probably nervous today. She thought about what she was nervous about, there were people from the front and back, left and right! She figured out that her nervousness was probably a very normal kind of excitement!
The other side was already in sight, and I could see clearly the people waiting for the boat on the shore. If it weren't for the fact that it was getting darker, I could probably see their anti-waiting expressions. An An's gaze at this time was actually no longer looking for the target that didn't seem to exist at all, she looked left and right, trying to find Captain Pan in the crowd, wanting to see how his face reacted at this time. Unexpectedly, her gaze bumped into a familiar figure, and she subconsciously turned her back, not wanting the person to see it. It's Mao Jie again! It turned out that he also got off the car in Wuquan and also got on the ferry. The moment he saw Mao Jie, he thought that he was following him here, but it didn't look like it when he looked at it secretly, because he obviously didn't see that she was also on the boat. Next, Anxin saw a thrilling scene that made her heartbreaking! Mao Jie took out a black travel bag from the large nylon tote bag he was carrying. Anxin couldn't take her eyes off it, and she saw that the travel bag was Elephant's. That's right! This new Elephant duffel bag was exactly what they were looking for!
Anxin's eyes widened, she could barely believe her vision!
Another scout not far from Mao Jie also saw the travel bag, and his gaze swept to Anxin's side like lightning. Anxin woke up like a dream and remembered to move his steps, and walked towards Mao Jie somewhat mechanically.
She stood behind Mao Jie, who was looking down to fold the nylon handbag and stuffing it into the elephant brand travel bag, completely unaware of the peace of mind behind her. It wasn't until he re-opened the zipper of his travel bag and turned around that he suddenly saw Anxin's direct eyes, and the surprise on his face was as vivid as the surprise in Anxin's heart when he saw him just now!
"Hey, why are you on this boat?"
Mao Jie's face showed a smile of surprise, and the sincerity and innocence of that smile made Anxin feel strongly shaken and questioned that Mao Jie was the person they were looking for. She almost uncontrollably brought the tremor to her mouth, to her own voice.
She said, "...... You, do you know it's raining today? β
She trembled because she was afraid, she was afraid that Mao Jie would be able to pick up this codeword. She was afraid that her relationship with Mao Jie would be so cruel.
Mao Jie's face showed the expression she expected - he looked at her very blankly. Then, a few seconds later, the expression changed, from dazed to surprised. He seemed speechless with astonishment. His appearance made Anxin's whole brain go black!
Mechanically, and with a hint of luck, she repeated, "Do you know it's raining today?" β
Mao Jie opened his mouth, and after opening it for a long time, he replied very slowly and with difficulty: "...... Not today, tomorrow. β