novelraw Chapter 391: Ditch! Ditch! Ditch!
Chapter 391: Ditch! Ditch! Ditch!
(Warning: Do not read while eating or drinking!)
On the winding, bumpy mountain road, five cars were driving at a speed of 30 miles per hour.
Leading the way was a black business sedan with the large letters "Candy Technology" printed on it.
Behind it were four brand-new refrigerated blue vans.
Fortunately, the vans weren’t the largest size; otherwise, meeting an oncoming vehicle would be quite a test of the driver’s skills.
The journey started from Candy Technology Park, with only a stop at a service area for a meal and refueling, without any other stops.
The sun was setting, and darkness slowly enveloped the mountains. Occasionally, those in the car could hear the calls of unidentified animals.
"Buddy, can you drive a bit faster? This place feels eerie, with no village or store in sight."
The driver glanced at Wang Fengmei in the passenger seat and said, "You’re scared, yet you still came here to work."
"You’ll be based in these mountains most of the time in the future."
"Besides, I’m not familiar with this road, so what if I crash by driving too fast?"
Wang Fengmei pulled her jacket tighter, "Then turn on the air conditioning."
"It’s really quite cold."
"The reason I came is the same as yours, just to earn an extra two thousand a month, right?"
"Otherwise, who would want to leave the city for the mountains? I’m a graduate of a top university, after all."
As she spoke, Wang Fengmei felt a twinge of grievance.
Before graduating, she never imagined how hard it would be for a top university graduate to find a job, let alone a high-paying one.
As netizens say, freshly graduated students have the lowest salaries nationwide.
The driver smirked without contradiction.
If not for the meager earnings, he wouldn’t be heading this way.
The only supermarket, he heard, was just a small shop outside the construction site.
Now that the construction is complete, the shop will probably leave with the construction team.
Thinking of this, the driver said to the colleagues in the car:
"How about we open a small shop in the village together? What do you think?"
"Buddy, forget it. Don’t you know how poor this village is?"
The others agreed wholeheartedly with Wang Fengmei.
Opening a small shop might leave us without even our underwear.
The car went silent for a moment.
But the driver kept pondering this idea.
The village might not have money now, but it will soon.
Then, as the first shop in the village, it would definitely be the most popular.
"Oh crap, the ditch! The ditch! The ditch!"
Sitting in the passenger seat, Wang Fengmei watched the driver dazing off, about to drive into a ditch, scaring her hair on end.
The three people in the back thought she was singing and laughed out loud, joining her in song.
"Ole! Ole! Ole!"
With a bang, the business sedan fell into the ditch.
The hood of the sedan was bent out of shape.
Fortunately, the five people in the car were cautious and all wore seatbelts.
Terrified, Wang Fengmei turned pale, trembling, unable to control her limbs.
Thankfully, it wasn’t a cliff, or else everyone’s lives might have ended there tonight.
The four vans behind stopped just in time and got out to check the situation.
Watching the business sedan fall into the ditch, the van drivers were dumbfounded.
After being pulled out of the car, Wang Fengmei sat on the ground for a while to calm down.
Even now, she was still shaken.
She stopped calling him buddy, directly yelling at Liu Zhongquan’s name and cursing.
"Liu Zhongquan, what the hell are you doing? I told you there was a ditch ahead, and you didn’t even hit the brake."
"What, can’t tell the difference between brake and gas?"
"Or did you buy your driver’s license?"
Turning her head, Wang Fengmei looked speechless at the three colleagues sitting in the back.
"Laugh, why aren’t you laughing now? Did you think I was at karaoke just now?"
"You were even going ’Ole! Ole! Ole!’"
"Ole my foot."
Everyone stared, slack-jawed, as Wang Fengmei unleashed a torrent of words, leaving behind her usual gentle demeanor.
After calming down, Wang Fengmei let out a cold laugh.
"You really hit the punchline of that dark joke, the blind and deaf are all here."
"Hahaha."
When she said this, everyone couldn’t help but burst into laughter.
Some laughed so hard they clutched their stomachs.
They laughed until their bellies hurt.
It was completely dark by now. Looking at the car in the ditch, Wang Fengmei asked helplessly:
"What should we do now?"
"Let’s pull it out first and see if it’s still drivable."
"I guess that’s our only option."
With the help of the vans, after more than half an hour of effort, they finally pulled the car out.
Fortunately, the car could still start, though the hood probably needed replacing.
Everyone was sweaty from the effort, but they managed to set off again.
This time, no matter what, Wang Fengmei refused to sit in the passenger seat.
Dammit, it was just too scary.
Leaning powerlessly against the seat back, Wang Fengmei stared blankly ahead.
"Do you think when the boss hears about our ordeal tomorrow, he would clutch his stomach in laughter?"
A colleague next to her twitched his lips and replied:
"Probably..."
After more than an hour of bumping along, Wang Fengmei and the others finally reached their destination: the village office.
The village chief looked at the arriving fleet, happy yet worried.
The cars ended up like this; did they crash on the way from the county?
Hopefully, no one got hurt.
Exhausted, Wang Fengmei, as the station manager, got off the car and said to the village chief:
"Hello, Chief. Starting tomorrow, Candy Technology will begin purchasing vegetables. Please inform the villagers."
"Of course, of course."
The village chief, looking at everyone with concern, stammered:
"Was there an accident? No one got hurt, right?"
Everyone had a twitch at the corner of their mouth.
Wang Fengmei certainly didn’t want to mention "ditch! ditch! ditch!" again.
"Thank you for your concern, Chief. Everyone’s fine; the car just got bumped."
Looking at the deformed car front, the village chief pondered.
Was it really just a bump?
Are you sure it didn’t fall into a ditch?
Otherwise, where did all that mud come from?
The next morning, after Mo Jingchun dropped his kid off at kindergarten, he just entered the office to find Xia Xiaomin looking at him strangely.
Mo Jingchun picked up his phone, opened the camera, and checked his reflection; nothing was on his face.
He washed his face three times this morning, so there couldn’t possibly still be sleepiness in the corners of his eyes.
Silently, Mo Jingchun put his phone away, locked eyes with Xia Xiaomin, and asked:
"What’s up? Do I have something on my face?"
Xia Xiaomin shook her head, "No."
"Then why are you looking at me like that, making me feel like there’s something on my face?"