Conway heard the rumble of the train coming from the phone, and felt a chill in his heart. He knew that his delaying strategy was wrong again.
He is very busy today.
The night before I went to work, I caught up with the equipment of my subordinate communications unit that had aged and stopped functioning. It took me a full day to deal with it before I could finally get some results. I was thinking about my wife who refused to answer his phone calls, and I was thinking about asking for leave to go home and have a look at her. Unexpectedly,
As soon as I called her, she left Beijing without saying a word!
The tone of voice is also not good.
Before she could ask any more questions, she hung up the phone on the pretext of being sleepy.
"I don't want to talk anymore, I'm very tired."
In fact, she wasn't tired at all. She wanted to hear his voice and hear him give her a soft word of assurance or something.
But Conway didn't contact her all day long, leaving her alone and indifferent. Now that I think about it, she would greet her with a wagging tail when he called me. Is she that mean?
"I know you are still angry with me, but Mengmeng, do you think it's worth it? For an unrelated person."
"I-----"
Just as she was talking, the gentle voice that haunted her last night came from the other end of the phone.
"Director Kang, have you finished the phone call? They are waiting for you inside to start the dinner."
Are you done with the phone call?
Why is it so uncomfortable when these words reach Gu Mengmeng's ears?
She was a regiment-level staff officer, or a female staff officer, who came to call her superiors in person. This made the servicemen and regimental officers who were already idle in the agency so embarrassed!
And this sentence, have you finished the phone call? It seems like a question but it is actually an affirmative statement. She is telling him to go in quickly whether the phone call is over or not. Everyone inside is waiting for him. Who is she to him?
?What qualifications does she have to speak to her superior in a proprietary tone? Hasn't she ever thought that her superior is talking on the phone to his irritated wife?
She couldn't see that Conway frowned tightly at this moment, and then returned to his usual calm and profound look.
He said: "I'll go right away. Counselor Xu, please take care of me first. Thank you."
Staff Officer Xu still wanted to keep a gentle smile on his face and persuade him to hurry up, but when he came into contact with his ice-like eyes that refused to let anyone know him from thousands of miles away, he automatically withdrew his emotions just like last night.
"Then you--hurry up."
Conway nodded expressionlessly, turned around and put the phone to his ear again.
When she heard the voice that made her so addicted that she couldn't extricate herself, she said with a rare tenderness: "Mengmeng, be obedient! Stop making trouble. Something will happen to my husband..."
Staff Officer Xu's eyes flashed, he took a step back, opened the door and walked in silently.
Gu Mengmeng was so angry that she still had the time to talk to him.
"Don't bother me anymore. I'm very busy!" He rang the phone. Still feeling unsatisfied, he took out the batteries and threw them randomly on the pillow.
The middle-aged woman opposite had already eaten. She was burping, secretly looking at the sulking female officer, and asked carefully: "Comrade, did you quarrel with the man?"
Gu Mengmeng raised her head in astonishment, not liking either of the words she used.
Comrade, man.
Now these are the two words she hates the most.
It's not good to ignore people. She said a few words to them, went to the bathroom and came back to sleep.
I tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. The thunderous snoring of a middle-aged woman echoed in my ears, but what came to my mind was the scene of Conway and the goblin staff toasting each other...
The internal and external difficulties really tortured her and drove her crazy.
When I fell asleep, the morning light was already shining through the sky outside the car window.
It was a long, deep sleep, and when she woke up from the fragmented dream, she was still unaware of the notification on the radio that she would arrive at her destination in 20 minutes.
The conductor came over and gave her the ticket.
He smiled and said: "Girl, I can sleep well! I called you twice and I didn't wake up..."
Gu Mengmeng blushed furiously, rubbed her messy hair, got up and hurriedly went to wash up.
The middle-aged woman had already gotten off the bus.
Her destination is the newly emerging metropolis in the Central Plains, a political, commercial and cultural center that has gathered five thousand years of splendid civilization. It is the end point of her trip.
There were two people picking up the car.
Cultural officer and driver of the force.
After shaking hands and greetings, they boarded a new Toyota Cross-country and ran towards their destination.
Along the way, high-rise buildings stand tall and traffic flows like dragons. On the main roads in the city, just like Beijing, there are endless traffic jams. Electric vehicles are like bicycles in the 1960s and 1970s, and they are becoming more popular at every traffic intersection and street.
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The weather here is dry and windy, and when it blows, the sky is filled with dust. She looked out the window at the pedestrians covering their mouths and noses, and asked the cultural officer how many years he had been in the military.
"It's been 10 years. I'm a graduate of the Nanjing Artillery Academy. I was assigned here and have been staying in the military branch ever since."
"oh."
The road finally cleared under the guidance of the traffic police.
Military vehicles have special privileges and can pass through traffic arteries faster than other vehicles, quickly arriving at the hotel in the military subdivision.
The room was registered very early. It was a suite on the second floor. It was treated with courtesy only for division-level cadres, which made Gu Mengmeng feel a little uncomfortable. The clerk said: "Reporter Gu, thank you for your hard work. Let's rest today. I'll send someone tomorrow."
A car will pick you up and take you to the military camp. Oh, for food, you can eat at the buffet for free in the hotel restaurant, or you can go outside. Remember to tear up the invoice and I will pay it to you when you come back!"
Looking at the sincere, tall and handsome cultural officer, Gu Mengmeng smiled.
She thanked him for the reception, said goodbye politely, and went upstairs to her room with the key card in hand.
The army's hotel did not have a star rating, but its internal facilities were no less than those of high-end hotels in Beijing. Her suite, exquisite and elegant decoration, and clean and fresh bathroom made her fall in love at first sight.
She slept well on the train.
Lie on the bed for a while again.
Feeling hungry, she suddenly realized that she hadn't eaten for three meals. She bit her lower lip, took her wallet, and decided to visit famous cities in the Central Plains to fill her stomach.
Because her mobile phone is a communication tool with the military division here, she always shuts it down for personal reasons, so when she goes out, she puts the battery in it.