Restart life

Chapter 52 0051 [Four Girls in Five Groups]

This long-distance bus station was built three years ago.

The project cost 60 million yuan and was built in a very grand style, with catering and accommodation facilities included.

Chen Guiliang quickly bought a new ticket and returned to his seat in the waiting room, only to find that Bian Guanyue was gone.

After waiting for two minutes, Bian Guanyue reappeared, this time with a bottle of Farmer's Orchard fruit in his hand.

She had bought two bottles before, and this one was obviously for Tao Xue.

"You like Nongfu Spring drinks?" Chen Guiliang asked, sitting in a chair with his eyes fixed on the entrance to the waiting room.

Bian Guanyue said, "I've never drunk it, but I often see it on TV."

Following the advertising slogan "shake before drinking," she shook the bottle a few times, unscrewed the cap, took a sip, frowned, and said, "I don't really like it; the taste is weird."

Chen Guiliang smiled and said, "I'll treat you to some white flower snake grass water when I have the chance."

"What kind of drink is that?" Bian Guanyue asked.

Chen Guiliang briefly introduced it as: "A healthy and delicious beverage rich in the essence of traditional Chinese medicine."

Bian Guanyue kept the name in her heart.

After chatting for a while, Chen Guiliang saw a petite figure sneaking into the waiting room.

Childish devil!
Tao Xue followed behind the tall stranger, thinking she was well hidden. Upon entering the waiting room, she immediately crouched down, hiding behind a row of chairs, and quickly moved to a side corner.

There weren't many people in the waiting room, and Tao Xue quickly spotted Chen Guiliang and Bian Guanyue.

Why is that pretty senior student here too?

Tao Xue pouted, feeling a little down.

But she quickly regained her composure and continued to approach cautiously, soon finding herself behind the two men.

"Ow!"

Tao Xue spread her two paws, like a little tiger pouncing on its prey, and pounced on the back of the chair between the two of them.

"what!"

Bian Guanyue cried out in surprise, genuinely startled.

"Haha, scared you, huh?" Tao Xue said smugly.

Bian Guanyue was both amused and exasperated.

She's starting to have a crush on Chen Guiliang and subconsciously sees Tao Xue as a potential rival. Turns out, this rival is just a little kid, a high school freshman still resorting to scare tactics.

"Hey, nephew, why weren't you scared?" Tao Xue asked.

Chen Guiliang shoved the drink at her and said irritably, "This was bought for you by Senior Sister Bian, so hurry up and apologize to her!"

Tao Xue stuck out her tongue and sat down next to Bian Guanyue: "Senior, I'm sorry, I scared you just now."

"It's alright," Bian Guanyue said.

Shura field?
nonexistent.

Chen Guiliang didn't date anyone; all his relationships were purely platonic, involving male and female classmates or upperclassmen and underclassmen.

The two girls, completely ignoring him, started chatting away.

Of course, it was mainly Tao Xue who was speaking.

Tao Xue asked, "Senior, why did you change seats? I remember you used to be deskmates."

"It was adjusted based on the grades," Bian Guanyue said.

Tao Xue unscrewed the bottle cap: "Thank you for the drink."

"You're welcome."

Bian Guanyue didn't say much, because she wasn't familiar with Tao Xue. But she couldn't help but ask, "Why do you call him nephew?"

Tao Xue said smugly, "My brother and his cousin are classmates, so in terms of seniority, isn't he my nephew?"

"Oh."

Once Bian Guanyue understood the reason, she lost interest in speaking.

Tao Xue patted her chest and said generously, "It's alright. Let's each stay in our own place. I'll still call you 'senior sister.' If you ever come to the city, just give me a call!"

“Okay,” Bian Guanyue said.

After saying all that, Tao Xue was at a loss for words, unsure of what to talk about with Bian Guanyue.

Bian Guanyue, however, did not speak first.

Chen Guiliang spoke up at the opportune moment: "I bought you the train ticket."

"Thanks." Tao Xue reached out and took it.

Chen Guiliang asked, "What books have you been reading lately?"

“The Universe in a Nutshell.” Tao Xue took it out of her schoolbag.

Chen Guiliang said, "Why are you, a literary girl, reading popular science books?"

"I read everything. You've read this book too?" Tao Xue asked with a smile.

Chen Guiliang said, "I've read it, but I've forgotten the details. I only remember things like black holes, string theory, and time travel."

Tao Xue exclaimed, "Hawking is truly amazing, he's simply a genius scientist!"

Chen Guiliang felt evil; why did the mention of Hawking immediately bring to mind a certain island?
Seeing that Bian Guanyue had stopped speaking and seemed to have become an outsider, he asked, "Do you know Stephen Hawking?"

"I've heard of it, but I don't know much about it," Bian Guanyue said.

Chen Guiliang, trying to make conversation, said, "How about we each use eight characters to describe Hawking's life?"

"Let me speak, let me speak."

Tao Xue raised her hand like a primary school student: "A prodigy, physically disabled but determined."

Bian Guanyue opened the bottle cap, sipped his beverage, and pondered carefully: "Hmm... exceptionally intelligent, open-minded and optimistic."

"It's your turn," Tao Xue said, looking at Chen Guiliang with great anticipation.

Chen Guiliang said: "The superior knows astronomy, the inferior knows..."

He paused deliberately at this point.

Tao Xue scoffed, "What kind of description is this of Zhuge Liang?"

"Paralysis," Chen Guiliang added.

"puff!"

Bian Guanyue clearly has a low threshold for laughter; upon hearing such a horrible joke, she immediately spat out her drink. Knowledgeable in astronomy, yet paralyzed in the lower limbs?
Tao Xue frowned, feeling annoyed at how childish it was.

But they didn't realize that scaring someone from behind was even more childish.

"That doesn't count!" Tao Xue said angrily.

Chen Guiliang glanced at the digital clock on the wall of the waiting room: "It's almost time."

After saying that, he walked towards the platform.

Tao Xue quickly picked up her schoolbag and followed.

Bian Guanyue was still taking out tissues to wipe her clothes when she sprayed some of her drink on her pants.

Chen Guiliang rushed to get on the bus and headed straight for the last row.

It wasn't good for him to sit with anyone, so he had to choose the last row. That's because four people could sit there, while the other seats could only seat two.

The two girls understood the situation and immediately bypassed Chen Guiliang, choosing to sit next to him in the row in front of him.

Chen Guiliang smiled and moved his buttocks to lean against the car window.

It's quite harmonious, at least on the surface.

After waiting for about ten minutes, the bus was only about a third full.

Seeing that no more passengers were boarding, the ticket seller went to hand in the receipts and returned to shout for the driver to start the bus.

Upon exiting the station, staff members came to check and confirm that the number of passengers matched the number of tickets.

Less than a kilometer after leaving the bus station, the bus suddenly pulled over and stopped, and passengers rushed on, filling the bus to capacity.

Bian Guanyue asked curiously, "I always see a lot of passengers here. Why don't they go to the bus station to buy tickets and get on the bus? They can sit and wait in the waiting room. There's no need to stand on the roadside in the cold wind."

“Get on the bus here and the fare is one yuan cheaper,” Chen Guiliang explained. “The driver and ticket seller are also happy because they can pocket the fare money when they illegally pick up passengers outside.”

Bian Guanyue was incredibly surprised: "Is that even possible? Didn't the passenger transport company know?"

Tao Xue, surprisingly well-informed, replied, "Of course I know; they have to make offerings every month."

Bian Guanyue hesitated, feeling she shouldn't have said that.

Tao Xue sarcastically remarked, "My dad has a friend who drives a long-distance bus. He used to come to our house for meals often, and when he got drunk, he would boast about how much money he could make. He also said that some people were too corrupt, and that they had to give away a large portion of their wealth as tribute."

"A large portion? That's definitely quite shady," Chen Guiliang commented.

Tao Xue quickly found a topic to talk about and began to recount various secrets, not only about the passenger transport company.

Things like kickbacks in procurement, bribing officials to get things done, etc.

The literary girl is quite gossipy.

Bian Guanyue had never encountered these things before, and while she was shocked, she listened with great interest, occasionally chiming in with a few questions.

We chatted all the way to the county town and got off the bus.

Chen Guiliang and Tao Xue took a bus directly to school.

Bian Guanyue, however, wanted to go home.

"Senior, what's your phone number?" Tao Xue asked.

Bian Guanyue took out her phone and added Tao Xue to her contacts. They even exchanged QQ numbers.

Chen Guiliang stood to the side watching, feeling a chill run down his spine.

There seems to be an ominous sign!

"Goodbye, senior sister."

"Goodbye."

The bus from the border town arrived first; I waved goodbye, turned around, and got on.

She sat by the window, looking back at the two people standing by the roadside until the car drove away and disappeared from sight.

When I got home, my maternal grandparents weren't there; they were probably out playing mahjong.

Bian Guanyue first put her laptop away, then rolled around on the bed, feeling restless. Finally, she sat down at her desk and opened her pencil case.

Inside the pencil case was a white jade-like pebble.

The stone surface is painted with human faces and is also marked with the words "憨包" (hān bāo, meaning foolish or simple-minded).

She thought for a moment, then added a dog's tail to the face, saying "rascal dog" after "simpleton".

After finishing the drawing, I examined it carefully and found it increasingly interesting.

Bian Guanyue picked up her phone to send a text message, but instead of sending it to Chen Guiliang, she asked Tao Xue, "Have you arrived at school yet?"

"I just got off the bus at the school gate," Tao Xue replied quickly.

……

After jumping off the bus, Chen Guiliang excitedly ran to the roadside pharmacy.

The female shop assistants all recognized him and greeted him warmly, "Handsome guy, here to weigh yourself again?"

“Yes, sorry to bother you, beautiful lady,” Chen Guiliang shared his results, “I only gained one pound and seven ounces this week.”

The female shop assistant laughed and said, "I'm still worried about how to lose weight."

"Hurry up and let me weigh it." Tao Xue wanted to join in on everything.

She pulled Chen Guiliang off the scale and stood on it herself.

Chen Guiliang said, "A fat pig will be slaughtered if it's put on the scale."

"You're the fat pig!" Aunt Tao roared.

Another text message arrived.

Tao Xue replied, "Chen Guiliang is a bastard!"

"Did he provoke you again?"

He called me a fat pig, which made me furious.

"Haha."

Chen Guiliang leaned over to take a look: "What are you texting about?"

"I won't let you know," Tao Xue quickly said, avoiding the question.

Chen Guiliang couldn't understand why they wanted to talk to him privately, bypassing him.

I hate people who create small groups!
Four girls in five groups – it's no joke.

(End of this chapter)