"You two little brothers, please wait in the car for a while. I will call another person and leave after three people are seated."
Wan Li is a middle-aged man with a golden and cheap smile. If he takes two more people in the car, he can earn a few more dollars. This way he can explain to the yellow-faced woman when he goes home, otherwise the yellow-faced woman will not touch him at night.
Amidst the laughter of the taxi driver next to him, the middle-aged man Wanli ran towards the exit of the station.
Chujiu and I were sitting in the back seat of the taxi. When no one was paying attention to us nearby, I reached into the storage bag of the seat.
There is a string of addresses written on a piece of cigarette paper that is as wide as a finger. It seems that this cigarette paper was picked up casually from thousands of miles away.
I took a look at the address on the note to Chujiu, then crumpled it into a ball and stuffed it into my pants pocket.
Within ten minutes, I saw from a distance through the car window the middle-aged Wan Li with a flattering smile on his face, carrying a huge suitcase in his hand, and following behind a young woman.
"Little girl, please sit in the front row and wait for five minutes. If no one gets on the bus within five minutes, we will leave immediately."
The young woman looked impatient and said it would be five minutes, otherwise she would get off and take another car.
Wan Li didn't go far this time. He was not far from the car and shouted at the top of his lungs, "In the direction of Jiangnan District, I promise to get on the bus and leave, guaranteed discount."
"Everyone is coming to Jiangnan District. Should we take a meter or estimate the price?"
Two minutes later, a middle-aged man squeezed into the back row and casually said an address. Wan Li started the car. The address was halfway there, so just give him some money and he would be happy.
"How much is the discount if I use a meter? How can I tell you the valuation?"
Chujiu reported an address and leaned on the seat to ask Wan Li. The middle-aged man next to him touched Chujiu with his elbow and stretched out a finger.
"Jiangnan District is quite far away. It's conservatively estimated to be 1560 yuan with a meter. If you don't have a meter, you'll be charged 120 yuan."
Then Wanli asked where our specific address was in Jiangning District, and I casually said Shiziling.
The young woman sitting in the front row turned back and looked at me curiously. She went to Shizi Slope.
"Your place is going to leave Jiangnan District. One hundred and two can't be less."
As soon as Wan Li finished speaking, Chu Jiu slapped him behind the driver's seat. If he could walk, he would leave. If he couldn't, he would stop immediately.
The middle-aged man next to him gave Chujiu a secret thumbs up.
"Okay, okay, if it weren't for your convenience, I would definitely not accept this business. You guys need to pay first."
I took out a hundred dollars and handed it over from the back seat. Wan Li grabbed it with one hand and looked at the car window. I almost got scolded to death by a tigress after I received a piece of fake money a few days ago when I returned home.
The young woman in the passenger seat also handed Wanli a one-hundred-dollar bill and snorted disdainfully. Really, it had just been taken out of the bank.
The middle-aged man next to Chujiu fumbled in his pocket for a long time and handed Wan Li fifty yuan.
The vicinity of Shiziling is densely packed with various processing factories, and trucks passed by on the dirt road next to us one after another.
Wan Li slowed down the speed of the taxi and carefully passed through the pits dug out by trucks one after another. This driving style was completely different from before.
At Shizi Slope, not far from Shizi Ridge, a young woman got out of the car. Wan Li smiled flatteringly and helped the woman take out her suitcase from the trunk.
There were only three of us left in the car. As soon as I yelled Wanzi, I was interrupted by Wanli. At the end of this road is Shiziling. The Wanshun Hotel you want to go to seems to be the third one.
Wanli glanced at the center console of the car. Although I didn't understand what he meant, I quickly shut my mouth.
Chujiu turned around and glanced at the rear window, indicating to Wanli to stop here and we could just walk the rest of the way by ourselves.
The road we were on was not very wide, so Wanli backed up the car several times before turning around.
Chujiu curled her lips with a disdainful look on her face. She was pretending to be the same person. Normally, she would have just turned around and turned around.
"Chujiu, why do you get off the bus here?"
Chujiu replied that he was tired from riding in the car and wanted to take a walk. When he saw me raising my arm, he immediately changed his answer and looked at the nearby terrain.
After our taxi left the train station, two black cars followed us. After the middle-aged man got out of the car, a car followed him.
Another car probably wanted to follow us, but it was blocked in the road by the young woman who got out of the car just now. It seemed that the car accidentally knocked over her suitcase.
I have never discovered the situations Chujiu mentioned at all.
There were so many cars on the road, how on earth did he recognize that there were two cars following us.
"Brother Wanli suspects that someone has installed a listening device in his car."
We walked along the road for a while, and Chujiu said leisurely that the shabby hotel in front was where Wanli wanted us to go.
As Chujiu said, one word describes the hotel as shabby, and two words describe it as very shabby.
There was an old two-story building with almost all the mud on the side. Only a few pieces of white mud were left hanging on the wall. Chujiu muttered that it might as well look better if it was all gone.
There are several trucks parked in the open space in front of the hotel. This place should be used by drivers who pull goods from nearby factories to temporarily stay. It is cheap and close to the factory.
"Two young masters, are you staying in a hotel? Do you want a single room or a double room?"
I stared at the sign at the door of the hotel. The word "Wanshun" was almost washed away by the rain and turned into a page.
"Get a double room."
Chujiu casually took off his backpack and frowned at me.
I also had a wry smile on my face. I could smell the smell of sweat mixed with strong foot odor at the front desk at the door. As for the second floor, I couldn't even imagine it.
"You two young masters are just starting to follow the car. You will get used to it in the future. It is not easy for the drivers of big cars."
The owner of the hotel handed us a key and told us that the deposit would be refunded when we left.
Sure enough, when I went up to the second floor, I couldn't help but cover my nose with my hands. There were all kinds of socks and shorts hanging out in the corridor on the second floor. The smell was probably coming from the shoes that were thrown at the door.
Judging from the expressionless look on Chujiu's face, he was probably holding his breath while walking.
After entering the room, I opened the window on Chujiu. Fortunately, the air at the back of the building was fresh.
"Guo Guo, why did Wanli find such a place for us?"
On Chujiu, he fell on the bed and complained dissatisfiedly to Wan Li. In the past, when he went on missions, he always stayed in the best local hotels.
Is it possible that the department has run out of funds recently? They actually let us stay in a hotel that costs 20 yuan a day, and we have to pay for it ourselves.
"There must be a reason why he arranged it this way. Besides, I don't feel that bad."
Chu Jiu curled his lips and saw that there was a black and white TV on the cabinet next to my bed. He was surprised and said that it cost 20 yuan to watch TV. It was really not too bad. Our feet were smelly anyway, so it would be a good place to live here.