flstandardbreds Chapter 138 Return to Star City
Chapter 138 Return to Star City
After Tao Junle said that he really wanted to go back to Xingcheng first, he and Tong Jia both fell silent.
Suddenly, Tong Jia's eyes lit up.
He stood up and pulled Tao Junle up, took out a cloth bag from under the chair where he had just sat, and handed the bag directly to Tao Junle.
She said, "Even if you found that you could get into the RV, you only saw that the things on the surface were unchanged and moved the things in the refrigerator. You didn't look anywhere else, right?"
Tao Junle said: "This is my sister's RV, how can I just look at it casually?"
Hearing the word "sister" blurt out, Tong Jia smiled and said, "This is the invisible cloak and bulletproof vest that Grandma Rong and I asked for. I ordered two sets. The size can be changed according to the person's body shape. Even if you grow to two meters in the future, it will not be out of place.
Although I didn’t know whether we would meet again in the future, I asked Grandma Rong for two each.
This is yours. If you have enough strength and endurance, you can swim back to Star City from Java."
Tao Junle, who was originally very touched, looked at Tong Jia in disbelief when he heard Tong Jia ask him to swim back to Star City. He asked, "Jia Jia, do you know how far it is from Star City to Java? It's relatively close to where I am, but it takes nearly two hours by boat.
Swim back? You think too highly of me."
"Haha" Tong Jia laughed.
Then he patted Tao Junle's forehead and said, "I was just joking, do you really believe it?
I can't believe that Java doesn't have a ship to Star City recently and you can't buy a ticket, but you have an invisibility cloak.
Not only can it help you get on board, it can also help you return to your home in Star City unnoticed and find evidence that Grandma Wolf murdered your mother."
Tao Junle touched the invisibility cloak and began to plan his next move.
He said: "After I give the money to my father's colleagues tomorrow, it will take him at least four to five days to exchange it for Javanese rupiah. I will use this time to go back to Star City and then come back to take care of my parents' funeral."
"You...you have already returned to Star City, why do you want to go back to Java?" Tong Jia asked in confusion.
Tao Junle moved his hand, and finally mustered up the courage, raised his hand, lowered his head, and scratched Tong Jia's nose.
He said: "Now I only know that there will be ships in Java to take people back to China, and the government will help them settle down.
If I don't catch this wave of favorable conditions and wait until I return from Star City on my own, will I still be able to enjoy the chaotic period you mentioned?"
“That’s right, it’s best to follow the policy.
Okay, let’s solve our problems one by one, and we can discuss the rest when we are closer to the time.
So many things have changed, and it's uncertain whether many of them will happen again." Tong Jia gathered all the papers the two had written and placed them under the medicine box.
Tao Junle glanced at his watch and said, "It's half past four. Are you sleepy?"
Tong Jia shook her head and said, "I plan to catch up on some sleep tomorrow morning. If you're sleepy, go back quickly..."
No, don't go back yet.
I have something very important to do.
You, squat down."
Tao Junle squatted down with a suspicious look on his face and looked at Tong Jia. Just as he was about to speak, the entire space he was in changed.
"Where is this... um..." The pitch-black and cold environment, similar to an enclosed space, made Tao Junle, who had been in normal brightness just now, a little unable to accept it for a moment, and he blurted out to ask where this was.
Before he could finish his words, Tong Jia covered his mouth.
Then, caught off guard again, I changed space again and returned to the RV.
Tong Jia let go of her hand, and Tao Junle sat directly on the floor of the RV, and asked in a daze, "Jia Jia, where did you take me just now?
"Isn't this a bun shop? Why is it so dark and a little short?"
Tong Jia came out of the bathroom after washing her hands and said, "You can't go into the bun shop. If you insist on going, it means you've had enough of life.
The place I just took you to is the attic where I live now, which is also my home.
I've been curious ever since I learned that you can also enter the RV freely.
If we both enter the RV from different places, can one of us take the other person back to where he entered?
I just tried it.
I can take you back to where I came in. Now try and see if you can take me back to where you came in."
After understanding Tong Jia's words, Tao Junle stood up and wanted to pick up Tong Jia to test whether he could go to Java.
But then he thought of the gentleman's agreement he had made with Tong Jia, and he chuckled twice and said, "My legs are numb from squatting. I'll stand up and slowly, slowly."
After swinging his legs twice while walking, he squatted down again, holding Tong Jia's hand, thinking about where he came in.
In a blink of an eye, he and Tong Jia appeared in a small room in a hotel in Java.
There was a very narrow single bed next to the door, with a mirror on the side, and a two-layer cabinet at the end of the bed that reached Tong Jia's waist.
Apart from that, there was nothing else in the room.
Tong Jia asked: "Is there no toilet? How do you solve it?"
Tao Junle said, "Come into the RV. The toilets here are shared, and you have to go to the end of the corridor. Many people who live here are hostile to foreigners."
If my dad's company hadn't used my ID to book a room, I might have ended up on the streets."
Looking at the small room, Tong Jia took a few deep breaths and then sneezed loudly.
She asked, "The air smells terrible. Let's go back."
So, neither of them stayed in the capital or Java for long.
After returning to the RV, Tong Jia said, "Just sleep in the RV. The air in the hotel is choking.
If you're worried about not being able to hear someone outside calling you, turn on the four-way surveillance...
By the way, let's try it out. When we're both in the RV at the same time, which side does the surveillance camera monitor? "
After saying that, the two of them looked at the four surveillance cameras at the same time.
It turned out to be a surveillance screen divided into four parts. After the two people went back and forth twice, although it was still four parts, it became sixteen small screens.
Two parts belong to the capital, and two parts belong to Java.
Tong Jia said, "Let's go out now and come back in to take a look."
Tao Junle did as he was told, and when the two came in again, he saw that the sixteen small screens had become eight small screens.
After summarizing the new uses of the RV, Tong Jia yawned.
Tao Junle immediately urged her to go back to her room and sleep.
He said, "Jia Jia, you need to catch up on your sleep tomorrow morning, so I'm going to go find my colleagues at my dad's company.
You should go back and have a good rest now. I will also take a rest. We can discuss the next step here tomorrow afternoon."
Tong Jia nodded and said, "You have to promise me that you can't act on your own and you have to wait for me."
As soon as the words came out, she and Tao Junle were both stunned.
This is what Tao Junle often said to Tong Jia in his previous life, but in this life, it was Tong Jia who said it.
After being stunned for a moment, they laughed at the same time.
Tao Junle spoke first: "I used to worry that you were going out alone because you wanted to abandon me. Now... after exchanging heights, I know that you just wanted to protect me."
Tong Jia also said: "At that time, every time I heard you say that, I thought you were just showing off, and I always wanted to find a reason not to take you with me.
But in fact, you don't want to join in the fun, but are simply worried about my safety."
The two men looked at each other and smiled.
Tao Junle raised one hand and said, "I, Tao Junle, swear that as long as Tong Jia needs me in this life, I will never abandon her."
Tong Jia thought that she seemed to have made promises to Tao Junle more than once in her previous life, but it seemed that there were several times when she broke her promise due to some objective reasons.
She did not comment on Tao Junle's oath.
He just lowered his head and smiled, then said, "Okay, while there is still time, take a good rest.
My mother will go out to work at one o'clock in the afternoon. As soon as she leaves, I will come in."
"Okay, you should go back and catch up on your sleep too." Tao Junle agreed.
Tong Jia left the RV and returned to her small attic.
She was still a little sleepy, but as soon as she came back, she was completely chilled.
I quickly threw back the quilt and wrapped myself tightly. After slowly warming up, I fell asleep while counting sheep.
The next morning, Qin Hanyi prepared breakfast, locked the door and left home.
Tong Jia slept until noon. When she got up and put the breakfast left by Qin Hanyi into the RV, Qin Hanyi came back from get off work.
Qin Hanyi saw Tong Jia standing in front of the table, and the dishes on the table were empty.
She asked with concern: "Jia Jia, did you just wake up? The breakfast must be cold. Didn't you heat it up before eating?"
Worried that Tong Jia would feel uncomfortable in her stomach if she ate raw or cold food, and also worried that Tong Jia wouldn't know how to use the stove in the kitchen, she specially bought a small thermos from the department store yesterday, which didn't require a ticket. Even if it was full, Tong Jia could still hold it steadily.
Before going out every day, she would fill the thermos with hot water and ask Tong Jia to pour the hot water into the aluminum lunch box to heat up breakfast.
But when she came back, she didn't see any water in the aluminum lunch box, so she naturally assumed that Tong Jia had eaten the breakfast without heating it up.
Tong Jia couldn't admit that she had just woken up, so she lied, "Mom, I finished eating a long time ago, and I ate it while it was hot. I thought you'd be back soon, so I wanted to clear the table for the delicious food you brought back."
Qin Hanyi hung her bag at the door and came over with three lunch boxes. While clearing the tableware, she said, "It's good that the food didn't get cold. Today, there's nothing special to eat. Just a dish of stir-fried pork with cabbage, a dish of garlic eggplant, and an egg drop soup."
We only had three dishes, and we had to go to the cafeteria of our cultural center and the state-owned restaurant to put them together.
I read in the newspaper that the harvest this year is not good. In many places, after the cold weather, people can hardly eat staple foods, let alone substitutes.
I asked the waitress at the state-owned restaurant if they still had braised pork, and she said that was not certain.
The above means that the supply of meat and vegetables should be limited. I went there too late, so I could only buy stir-fried cabbage with meat, which was all lean meat without any oil or water.
However, if it’s any later, there won’t even be this little bit of lean meat left.”
Tong Jia knew that these were difficult times, so she naturally wouldn't be picky about the food.
Not to mention being able to eat these three dishes in this period, she should be secretly happy because even in fifty years, there will still be many children in remote mountainous areas who will not be able to eat these three dishes.
Qin Hanyi bought two mixed steamed buns as the staple food. The mother and daughter only ate one together. The remaining two steamed buns and the remaining dishes were all covered with lids and placed on the windowsill.
Then, Qin Hanyi took out the prepared key and handed it to Tong Jia.
Worried that Tong Jia would get lost if she went out, after Tong Jia put away the keys, he took her out to familiarize herself with the alleys near the family quarters of the cultural center.
After Tong Jia repeatedly assured her that she knew the way, Qin Hanyi sent her home and went to work.
After watching Qin Hanyi walk away, Tong Jia quickly opened the door with the key, went into the house, and locked the door with the key from the inside.
I glanced at the clock on the table and it was already ten past one.
Ten minutes had passed since the time she and Tao Junle had agreed upon, so she hurried up to the attic and entered the RV.
Sure enough, Tao Junle was already in the RV.
Seeing her come in, Tao Junle studied the documents in his hand and asked, "Auntie was out late today. Did she delay your time?"
Tong Jia shook her head and said, "No, she always locked me in the house before. She just made a key for me and was worried that I would get lost, so she took me to familiarize myself with the roads near my home.
What are you looking at? So seriously. "
After she finished speaking, she also stretched her head to look at the documents in Tao Junle's hand.
Tao Junle did not give the document to Tong Jia, but gave her a piece of paper at hand.
He said: "This is the ferry schedule I brought back from the office this morning when I went to the ferry company with my father's colleague to negotiate compensation.
I've done some research and found out there's only one ferry to Star City this afternoon and two tomorrow morning. I'm thinking of going back this afternoon."
Tong Jia looked at what Tao Junle had written on the paper and said, "Why are there only boats to Star City today and tomorrow? There are no boats at other times?"
Tao Junle nodded and said, "These three boat trips were retained because Javanese government officials had to go on business trips. All other trips have been cancelled.
They said that they would not resume flights until this accident was dealt with.
In fact, whether going or coming back, as long as I have one trip a day, with the invisibility cloak you gave me, I can go wherever I want to go."
"Even if you have an invisibility cloak, you still have to pay attention to safety and never take it lightly, okay?" Tong Jia was worried that Tao Junle would underestimate the enemy, so she quickly reminded him.
After saying that, she was still a little worried, so she opened the drawer under the table and revealed a gun inside.
She pointed the gun and said, “We don’t actively cause trouble, but if we encounter trouble, we don’t have to be afraid.
If anyone bullies you, just use a gun to deal with him.
Of course, I don't have anywhere to collect bullets now, nor do I have an awl to pierce my insoles to turn into bullets. If it's a small matter that can be overcome with patience, don't use bullets, use a knife, be more economical.
Tao Junle smiled and said, "Don't worry, I usually don't cause trouble."
“Oh, and I’ll be waiting in the RV. When you get to Star City, you must take me there.
I especially want to see what Star City looks like now, and whether it's as developed as it is in later generations." Tong Jia then made her request.
Tao Junle smiled again, nodded, and said, "To deal with that wolf grandmother in my grandfather's house, you must be there. Even if you don't want to go, I still ask you to go."
"You can still use me? It seems that you already have a plan. Tell me quickly, what do I need to do?" Tong Jia asked a little excitedly.
Tao Junle glanced at the watch on his wrist and said, "The ship is at 3 pm. I can't use the car after putting on the invisibility cloak, so I have to go out now.
What do you need me to do? We'll talk about it when I get to Star City.
It will definitely give you a lot of fun.”