Since Zheng Haixin was in a bad state, it was not the time to ask her.

It was already past two o'clock in the middle of the night, so it was not advisable to stay here for a long time.

Zhang Quanlong drove Li Yuenlang's Jetta King. A policeman pumped some gasoline from the police car and put it in the Mercedes-Benz. Then he drove the Mercedes-Benz and Li Yuenlang drove the Magotan. A group of four cars left Laolongkeng and headed straight for Fengqian Village.

It was too late, so the village director left Li Yuanlang, Zheng Haixin and Zhang Quanlong to live in the village committee.

The two policemen drove away and returned to Jingkou Township, which was not far anyway, about ten minutes away, and the village committee did not have that many beds.

There is a duty room in the village committee and a bed in the village director's office.

The village director brought new bedding from home for the three of them to use. Li Yuanlang thanked him profusely and sent the two policemen away. The village director and Uncle Jing Quan also went home to rest.

The danger was over, everyone's mood was completely relaxed, and they all felt tired and tired. It was estimated that they would have to sleep until they woke up naturally.

There were two beds in the duty room, so Zhang Quanlong said to Li Yuanlang: "Go upstairs and accompany Zheng Haixin. She is from a woman's family. She has just been frightened and her body and mood are not yet stable. Besides, a woman lives in a strange place."

It’s hard to avoid being afraid of this place..."

Anyone else would have thoughts about Zhang Quanlong. After all, men and women are different.

But Li Yuanlang didn't think much about it, he knew Zhang Quanlong had good intentions.

Indeed, he would be really worried if Zheng Haixin was left there alone.

"Quan Long, you should rest early. If anything happens, we can talk about it after you wake up."

Sure enough, when Li Yuanlang knocked on the door of the village director's office, Zheng Haixin turned on all the lights in the room, sat on the bed holding the quilt, and stared out the window in a daze.

"Haixin, are you okay?" Li Yuanlang pulled a chair and sat across from her, asking with concern.

"I'm fine. I should ask you this too, so we can encourage each other."

Her mood was close to normal, and Li Yuanlang finally calmed down.

"It's too late. You can rest. I'll be with you."

Zheng Haixin said nothing, and silence equaled acquiescence.

Li Yuanlang built a simple bed with two chairs, put a mattress on it and prepared to lie down.

He was tired and sleepy. Lying here, he only wanted to give Zheng Haixin a sense of security and had no other thoughts.

"Good night." Zheng Haixin wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, she decided to forget it and lie down with her clothes on.

"Turn off the light." She told Li Yuanlang as soon as she lay down.

"It's better to light it, I'm worried that you will be scared."

"I'm not a three-year-old child. I'm not afraid of the dark."

With a "click" sound, Li Yuanlang turned off the switch, and the room instantly became dark, leaving only the moonlight outside the window.

There was silence for a while, no one spoke, there was only the rustling autumn wind outside the window and the slight sound of breathing.

Li Yuanlang's cell phone already had a signal. After checking, there was no message but a missed call notification. It was from Ni Yizheng. It was probably nothing serious. It might have something to do with Wen Mo's passing out after drinking too much.

There was another moment of silence.

For a long time, Zheng Haixin broke the silence, as if talking to herself, or telling Li Yuanlang, "I was afraid of the dark when I was a child. At that time, my brother often went on business trips and never came back, so I was the only one left at home. Every night,

I locked all the doors and windows, turned on all the lights, and then I sat at the foot of the bed with my quilt in my arms and stared at the lights for an hour or two. I didn't dare to sleep until I felt sleepy."

"Later I felt it was too tiring, so I tried to light only one lamp in my room. Turning on all the lights was wasteful and ineffective."

"Are you listening?" Zheng Haixin asked cautiously without hearing Li Yuanlang's reaction.

"I'm listening, just tell me."

"Later, I tried to change the lights in the room to table lamps, and then the table lamps were replaced by candles. Finally, I didn't need to light anything, and I could sleep peacefully by myself once it got dark."

Zheng Haixin said it cheerfully, but Li Yuanlang felt extremely sad when he heard it.

It is said that children from poor families become masters early. That is because they have no choice. Who doesn’t want to grow up under the care of their parents and enjoy their childhood happily?

"How old were you then?" Li Yuanlang asked.

"Nine years old, maybe less than nine years old."

Zheng Haiyang is more than ten years older than Zheng Haixin. After her parents died in an accident, it was not easy for her brother to be both a father and a mother, and he also had to go to work and take care of her.

Therefore, the relationship between the two brothers and sisters is very good. Most of the time, in Zheng Haixin's mind, she has regarded Zheng Haiyang as her father or even mother.

Li Yuanlang deeply agrees with Zheng Haixin's experience.

His mother passed away early, and his father continued to drink.

As a child, he took on family responsibilities prematurely.

He knew how to cook, wash and do housework at a very young age, but he was forced to do it.

If you don't know how to do it, you will go hungry and enjoy the punishment and beatings from your father.

Only with such experience can Li Yuanlang become what he is today.

So from this point alone, he is very similar to Zheng Haixin, which is why he can understand Zheng Haixin.

When Li Yuanlang also told these things about his childhood to Zheng Haixin, Zheng Haixin smiled and said, "I didn't expect that your dignified Secretary Li didn't have a much better life than me when he was a child."

The rich don't know the suffering of the poor, and the well-fed don't know the hungry.

Only those who have experienced it know the bitterness of it.

Li Yuanlang responded with a wry smile, "I am also a human being, and I am an ordinary person from an ordinary family. There is nothing surprising."

"Yes." Zheng Haixin sighed and stopped talking.

"Haixin, are you sleepy?"

Li Yuanlang turned over and faced Zheng Haixin who had the same profile on the bed.

"What do you want to do?" Although Zheng Haixin asked, she was not unusually alert.

She believed in Li Yuanlang, otherwise she would not have agreed to him staying here.

"If, if possible..."

Li Yuanlang said half a sentence and left half a sentence, which really made Zheng Haixin a little wary.

Is he hinting?

If that's the case, what should I do?

Is it a shout or a warning?

When she thought that Li Yuanlang would do that to her, Zheng Haixin immediately wrapped herself in the quilt tightly.

Because it was dark, Li Yuanlang didn't notice Zheng Haixin's strange reaction. After thinking about it, he finally couldn't help but ask.

"If possible, can you tell me why you have fixed-rate fire bombs in your Mercedes-Benz?"

That's what it was for.

Zheng Haixin breathed a sigh of relief, which scared me.

I blame myself for overthinking, Li Yuanlang is not that kind of person at all.

Although Zheng Haixin didn't want to recall that experience, she decided to tell it.

Zheng Haixin rushed from Guangnan to Xiwu County on high speed.

When passing through the Wuma County service area, she stopped to refuel and went to the bathroom.

After she came out, an enthusiastic dealer reminded her that there was a small nail on the left front tire of her car.

Zheng Haixin checked and found that the small nail was not inserted too deep, but if it was not pulled out in time, it could easily cause the tire to deflate slowly, posing a safety hazard.

She had no tools and couldn't borrow them, so she had to ask about a car repair shop and learned that there was one just past the toll road in Wuma County.

So Zheng Haixin turned directly from the highway to Wuma County and quickly found the car repair shop.

The person who received her was a master who was about fifty years old and looked very kind.

The master looked at it and said that the small nails were inserted too deep and the air leaked. It was probably caused by Zheng Haixin's extra mile walking.

You can repair tires here and put a spare tire on Zheng Haixin.

Zheng Haixin thought about it and decided to repair the tire and keep the spare tire for use when needed.

The old master told her that there was a lot of work now and the tire repair would have to wait for a while, so he asked Zheng Haixin to come over in an hour to ensure that the repair was completed.

Zheng Haixin had been to Wuma County many years ago and took this opportunity to revisit her old place.

I took a taxi to the county town to eat something, then went shopping in a nearby shopping mall, and then returned to the car repair shop in almost no time.

Once she saw that the tire was repaired and the nails had been taken out, she paid the money and continued on her way.

Since she had never been to Xiwu County, she relied on navigation all the way.

Only then did she get off the highway and drive through Fengqian Village into the mountains.

But after walking for a while, she felt more and more that something was not right, but the navigation always showed that the road was correct.

Just when she slowed down and wanted to stop for observation, a "click-click" sound suddenly came from the armrest box. When she opened it, she saw that it was the fixed speed device.

She immediately thought of the scenes she had seen in movies and TV series, and knew what this thing was.

Moreover, the speed control device started counting down from 5 seconds, and it was too late to run now. Zheng Haixin simply stepped on the accelerator, and the speed of the car increased rapidly. The countdown of the speed control device quickly disappeared and changed to a number showing the speed of the car.

In this way, Zheng Haixin knew that this thing would only count down when it was above 80, so she ran all the way until she reached the three-way intersection, and she resolutely chose the direction of Laolongkeng with the best road conditions.
Chapter completed!