Chapter 18 Chapter Eighteen

Pan Yulong and Jin Zhiai came to a small town on the bank of the Penghe River. The streets are full of old houses with white walls and black tiles.It coincides with Daji, and the narrow bluestone ancient road is crowded with bustling farmers. The wet looks of these two young men and women obviously aroused the curiosity of passers-by.They had nothing on them except a pocket backpack of Jin Zhiai and a fanny pack of Pan Yulong. Pan Yulong rummaged through the contents of his pocket while walking, and Jin Zhiai asked, "What are you looking for?" She saw Pan Yulong take out some soaked RMB from the bag.

Jin Zhiai hurriedly opened her backpack and found that there were many important items such as passports and credit cards. She couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief and said to herself in Korean: "Oh, they are all here!" The two walked into an old street hotel.This hotel is like a landlord's courtyard in those days.Pan Yulong said, "We want two." The waiter froze for a moment before starting to go through the formalities, and muttered to himself: "Oh, we can't stay together." Seeing a phone on the counter, Pan Yulong asked the waiter, picked up the phone and dialed a number, and the call was connected quickly.

"Hello, you are Mr. Zhang from the youth hostel, right? I'm Pan Yulong...I'm fine, and the guests are safe. We've arrived at a...wait a minute." He turned The head asked the waiter: "What's the name of this place?" The waiter replied: "Gujing Town." Pan Yulong continued to talk to the phone: "Gujing Town. We are in Gujing Town now...yes, let's rest for a while, and we will go back as soon as we find the car...Okay, goodbye." Pan Yulong followed Jin Zhiai to her room, took out the key and opened the door for her. Jin Zhiai asked, "What were you talking about just now?"

Pan Yulong replied, "I asked them the route back to Penghe Resort." "Did you ask?" "Maybe we have to stay here for one night, and tomorrow we will take the early bus back to Penghe, which is more convenient." "Live here?" Jin Zhiai was a little surprised, and immediately shook his head, "No, we should leave here, leave here immediately!" Pan Yulong explained: "If we go back today, we will have to take a long detour and change many cars. We are not familiar with this place. If we go the wrong way, it will be even more troublesome."

Jin Zhiai was a little anxious, "If we don't leave, those guys will come again." "How do they know we're here? They don't!" "You have told Mr. Zhang of the travel agency that we are here, and those people will know soon. So, we should leave here immediately and get rid of them!" Jin Zhiai continued to insist. Pan Yulong thought for a while, and had no choice but to obey: "Okay. Then I'll go out and find a long-distance call first, and I have to report to our Wancheng Hotel." Jin Zhiai's tone was still firm, "No! Pan, don't call anyone. Only we know where we are going, so we can be safe. We have passports and money, so we can go by ourselves!"

"We...have to have somewhere to go." Jin Zhiai pondered for a moment, then suddenly said: "Let's go back to Yinhai!" Pan Yulong was taken aback, "Go back to Yinhai?" He suddenly realized that this was a good idea, and immediately nodded in agreement: "Okay. Then go back to Yinhai, then let's pack up quickly." The two reached an agreement, and Pan Yulong immediately went back to his room.Jin Zhiai put the small jewelry she bought into her backpack and hurried out.She walked out of the room and knocked on Pan Yulong's door, which was locked.She walked towards the stairs suspiciously, and suddenly found that Pan Yulong was on the phone at the counter downstairs.Jin Zhiai's footsteps going downstairs stopped suddenly, and Pan Yulong's voice on the phone could be faintly heard.

"...Yes, we are still in Gujing Town. Miss Jin said that we are going back to Yinhai...Yes, we are going directly to Penghe Airport. Okay, let's meet at the airport." Pan Yulong hung up the phone and hurried upstairs, and just went up a few steps when he saw Jin Zhiai standing at the top of the stairs looking at him. Jin Zhiai asked, "What are you doing?" Pan Yulong was a little speechless: "...I didn't do anything. I haven't packed my things yet." He went upstairs and walked towards his room while talking. Jin Zhi'ai watched his back as he entered the room, and didn't speak any more.

While Pan Yulong was hastily stuffing his and Jin Zhi'ai's wet clothes into the newly bought backpack, Tang Doudou was also packing and stuffing the clothes into a travel backpack.A Peng and Dongdong stood aside, and there was a suitcase on the ground in front of the bed. A Peng handed a Walkman to Tang Doudou and asked: "This is the Walkman you want to borrow. Didn't you have one before? Did you lose it?" Dongdong glanced at the train ticket on the table, and asked suspiciously: "Our ticket to Beijing is on Saturday, why are you packing so early?" While tidying up, Tang Doudou replied, "I have a personal matter. I'm going to Yucheng."

Dongdong's cell phone rang, he picked it up, and walked out of the bedroom while answering.A Peng thoughtfully asked Tang Doudou in a low voice: "What are you doing in Yucheng? Do you need my help?" Tang Doudou was silent for a moment, and said to himself: "I'm going to find another truth!" After finishing speaking, she closed the zipper of her backpack with a bang. Pan Yulong also zipped up the backpack and put it on his back.At this time, Jin Zhiai appeared at the door, standing at the door and looking at him carefully. After leaving the hotel, the two boarded an oncoming tractor. After a bumpy ride, the tractor stopped on the side of the road outside the town. The driver said to Pan Yulong, "This is it."

Pan Yulong helped Jin Zhiai jump off the trailer, looked around, and saw that there was no one on the side of the road, neither a stop sign nor any sign of the station.He asked suspiciously: "Is this the station?" The driver had already started the tractor, and he turned around and repeated loudly: "That's right here! Everyone rides here." Pan Yulong followed the tractor and asked, "Where should we get on to Qinghe County?" "Qinghe, it's right here." The driver pointed to the opposite side of the road, "The opposite side is the car going to Lanchang County."

The tractor drives along the road.Pan Yulong put the backpack on the ground and said to Jin Zhiai: "This is it." Then the two waited for the car together. A dilapidated long-distance bus drove up in the distance, panting heavily, and stopped opposite.Jin Zhiai started suddenly, crossed the road and walked towards the bus, Pan Yulong hurriedly called her behind, "Oh, that's wrong! That's to go..." But Jin Zhiai still walked towards the opposite side without hearing it. Really going to board the car going in the wrong direction, Pan Yulong hurried across the road with his bag in his hand, and chased after him. Come. Jin Zhiai really got into this car.Pan Yulong grabbed the car door and yelled at Jin Zhiai: "Miss Jin, come down quickly, this is the car to Lanchang County. You are sitting in the wrong seat!" Jin Zhiai saw Pan Yulong's gesticulations, and instead of getting out of the car, she ordered loudly, "Come up!" Pan Yulong looked at Jin Zhiai in both confusion and annoyance, and said in a low voice, "We're sitting on the wrong side! We're going like this..." Jin Zhiai immediately interrupted him: "Let's go to Lanchang County!" Pan Yulong was taken aback by her determination, and could only stare at Jin Zhiai, wondering why she lost her nerve again. On the road from Gujing Town to Lanchang County, Pan Yulong and Jin Zhiai sat side by side in the back of the car.Jin Zhiai's face was calm at this time, but Pan Yulong's face was full of anxiety. The car swayed and lingered, and drove slowly towards Lanchang. The long-distance bus stopped on the side of the road, and Pan Yulong and Jin Zhiai got out of the car one after the other.After the car drove away slowly, they looked around blankly, and there was nothing around them. Lin Zaixuan was sitting in the office of the China General Representative of Beijing Times Company, and his secretary was behind the executive desk, making a phone call. "What? Missed the chairman? Didn't she go to the airport?" Something was reported on the other end of the phone, and the secretary hurriedly said, "Please wait a moment." Report: "They didn't find the chairman at Penghe Airport, maybe the situation has changed..."