Chapter 110: Encountering Tong Youyou On The Road, Battle Of Wits
Happiness came too suddenly. Chang Ning didn’t know about the others.
He had been in the military unit from enlistment until now, less than a year, always staying in the military unit, cut off from contact with the outside. He didn’t even know what the outside was like now.
He urgently wanted to know what the outside was like.
Everyone, upon hearing there was a seven-day holiday, showed expressions of wild joy. Being able to go out and stroll around was naturally a delightful thing.
“I know you’re all very excited. You can leave now. Don’t forget to change into civilian clothes.”
Hui Lang reminded them.
Looking at this group of excited guys in front of him, Hui Lang understood them. After all, they were all young people with an average age of twenty-two or twenty-three, exactly at the age when they were full of energy.
Everyone happily returned to the dormitory and took out their civilian clothes that they hadn’t worn for a long time.
Chang Ning asked, “What arrangements do you all have?”
Everyone started discussing noisily. Some said they were going home, some said they were going to stroll around Donghai City. Anyway, everyone had a destination.
Chang Ning planned to go home. The home of this life was in Donghai City. Except for the family address changing, everything else was exactly the same as the previous life, including interpersonal relationships.
Wolf Fang’s Barracks was very large, and the location of the 026 Logistics Warehouse was at the innermost part of Wolf Fang.
When Chang Ning and the others went out, they still had to drive. They could park the car at the entrance parking area and leave it without worrying; naturally, comrades returning from outside would drive the car away.
The boys’ luggage was very light. Each had a backpack containing a few sets of spare clothes and nothing else, all aimed at convenience.
Wolf Fang’s location was relatively remote. To go to the city area, they had to take a long-distance bus from the nearby county town, not far from the barracks.
Chang Ning traveled to the city area with everyone and didn’t find the journey boring.
After more than two hours, everyone parted ways at the Donghai City South Gate Station.
Chang Ning shouldered his backpack and walked out of the station, preparing to hail a taxi home. The bus was definitely too crowded to board. Although a taxi was expensive, it had the advantage of convenience.
Thinking that opportunities for holiday were few, Chang Ning didn’t feel sorry about his fare.
“Beep beep drop~”
Chang Ning, standing by the roadside preparing to hail a taxi, heard the car horn behind him and subconsciously wanted to make way.
Looking down, something was wrong. He was standing on the sidewalk himself—why should he yield?
“Chang Ning, are you on holiday?”
Someone called him. Chang Ning looked toward the voice and saw a delicate face poking out from the car window.
Upon closer inspection, it was an acquaintance.
“Military Doctor Tong.”
Seeing it was Military Doctor Tong, Chang Ning greeted her and then had nothing more to say, mainly because he didn’t know what to say to her.
“I mean, are you on holiday?” Tong Youyou asked again.
“Ah, I’ve eaten.”
Chang Ning’s dazed appearance made Tong Youyou laugh.
“Sorry, sorry.
Squad Leader Ma Da said we can take seven days off.”
Coming back to his senses, Chang Ning realized he had answered the wrong question and felt extremely embarrassed for a moment.
“You’re really interesting. I’m just heading to the city area for some business. Where are you going? I can give you a ride.”
Tong Youyou found this dazed little guy surprisingly amusing.
“I’m going home. Would it be too much trouble for Military Doctor Tong?”
“Psh, what trouble?
You need a ride, and I happen to have a car.
We’re acquaintances, so it’s convenient. No trouble at all.
Get in.”
“Oh, okay.”
Since Military Doctor Tong had put it this way, Chang Ning couldn’t refuse, so he shouldered his backpack and got into Tong Youyou’s Land Cruiser.
After getting in the car, Chang Ning told Tong Youyou the address from his memory.
As the car drove, most of the time on the road it was Tong Youyou talking and Chang Ning listening.
Unless Tong Youyou asked him, Chang Ning wouldn’t speak.
He really didn’t know how to communicate with Tong Youyou. Talking to a pretty girl made him extremely nervous.
Tong Youyou was working so hard to close the distance with Chang Ning because she needed something from him.
This was an important source of data for her thesis. To make recording data easier in the future, she naturally had to get on good terms with Chang Ning.
Normally, with her background, she wouldn’t need to go to such trouble, but for some reason, she couldn’t access Chang Ning’s information anymore.
The current Tong Youyou was no longer the novice she was when she first came to Wolf Fang. She immediately understood that Chang Ning was not someone she could command at will.
The higher the confidentiality level, the greater the power behind the person. Those without background had better not get involved, as it meant big trouble.
Anyone who rashly contacted Chang Ning and his group would be investigated. Fortunately, Tong Youyou’s purpose in contacting Chang Ning was not to threaten national security; she just wanted to study Chang Ning’s body.
“Don’t call me Military Doctor Tong outside. It feels so distant. After all, we’ve known each other for several months, right?”
“Okay, Military Doctor Tong. Correction: we’ve known each other for 45 days, not several months.”
Chang Ning said seriously.
“Hey, rounding up, we’ve known each other for two months.”
Tong Youyou’s voice carried a slight nasal tone.
“By the way, I’m a bit older than you. Outside, call me Big Sister.
Don’t worry, I won’t let you call me that for nothing. In this corner of Donghai City, I, Tong Youyou, still have some influence.”
Tong Youyou had a bold and heroic air, just like Qiao Feng drinking in Tianlong Babu.
In Chang Ning’s eyes, these two unrelated people unexpectedly overlapped.
Tong Youyou = female version of Qiao Feng.
From Tong Youyou’s words, Chang Ning discerned that this female version of Qiao Feng probably had an extraordinary background. She might really be able to protect him.
If the place were right, Chang Ning would now want to kill a chicken and burn yellow paper with Tong Youyou, swearing brotherhood as opposite-sex siblings before heaven and earth.
From then on, one life, two brothers, no distinction between us.
Unfortunately, these were just thoughts in Chang Ning’s mind. With his personality, he really couldn’t do such a shameless thing.
After forcing Chang Ning to recognize her as Big Sister in the car, Tong Youyou felt she was one step closer to the days when she could casually command Chang Ning to cooperate with her research.
Excitedly flooring the accelerator, the Land Cruiser nimbly weaved past various vehicles on the road.
It scared Chang Ning pale. This wasn’t the Dragon Clan world; was it really okay for Tong Youyou to play with time zero like this?
Most importantly, he was still in the car! If she wanted to die, don’t take him with her!
“Big Sister, slow down! I’m getting carsick!”
In the car, Chang Ning was finally forced to say more than three words.
Still, thanks to the fact that in this era, few male compatriots had cars. Otherwise, with the heavy traffic and frequent congestion twenty years later, Chang Ning felt he would already be gone by now. Everyone could go to his home for the funeral feast, listen to a suona and erhu performance.
Close friends could even squeeze out a crocodile tear to express sorrow for the departed good friend.
“Oh oh, okay, okay.”
Only when Chang Ning spoke did Tong Youyou remember there was someone else in the car. In her excitement, she had forgotten Chang Ning was still there.
Seeing the speed return to normal, Chang Ning trembled his lips, leaned back in the seat, and took several deep breaths. Several times just now, he thought life had restarted.
Too thrilling!
“You’re home. Remember, if you have any problems in Donghai City, find Big Sister. I won’t let you call me that for nothing.
Also, here’s my phone number.”
Tong Youyou quickly wrote her private number on a sticky note. The number of people with this number was less than twenty, and each had an extraordinary background.
“Okay.”
Chang Ning took Tong Youyou’s sticky note and solemnly put it in his clothes pocket.
More friends mean more paths. In society, friends like Tong Youyou were naturally the more, the better.
However, Chang Ning still kept a mental guard. If Tong Youyou was too good to him, he really wanted to beat her to death… cough, wrong play.
Back to the point: as the saying goes, no courtesy without a reason is either seduction or theft.
It couldn’t be that Tong Youyou saw him as handsome and wanted to date him.
Don’t joke. Chang Ning knew he wasn’t ugly, but to a heavenly daughter like Tong Youyou with deep background, he was far from enough.
Since she didn’t fancy his looks, she must be after something intrinsic about him.
Thinking about it, Tong Youyou also had a background as a doctorate from Donghai City Medical College, with extremely strong research ability. What she could fancy about him was probably only…
“Ah, son!”
While Chang Ning was analyzing, someone hugged him. Coming back to his senses, he saw it was his mom, no doubt!
Although he had transmigrated, whether previous life or this one, his family’s appearances hadn’t changed at all, and the information was exactly the same, so Chang Ning felt no discomfort.
“You little rascal, why didn’t you tell me you were coming back? I could have had your dad buy your favorite veggies, and I’d cook for you myself.”
As she spoke, Mother Chang patted Chang Ning’s back a few times. The sound was quite loud, clearly a real mom’s doing.
“Mom, the military unit doesn’t allow mobile phones.”
Chang Ning smoothly took the groceries from his mom’s hand and explained.
“Hurry home with me. I’ll make your favorite dishes.
Look at you now, all tanned and thin.
I really don’t know what you were thinking, not being a high-achieving Yanjing student and instead running off to enlist and suffer like that…”
Chang Ning listened tirelessly to his mom’s nagging. Actually, he hadn’t lost weight. The military unit’s meals were good, and with training, his body was all muscle. His weight was even a bit heavier than before enlistment, just not obvious.
If he had to describe it, it was the type that looked slim clothed but muscular undressed.
However, in this world, there’s a kind of thinness that parents think you’ve lost weight. Chang Ning didn’t argue with his mom; he couldn’t win anyway.
After Chang Ning left, Tong Youyou changed her expression entirely, completely different from her previous carefree, wild demeanor.
“This Chang Ning is really interesting. Clearly not nervous at all, yet he insisted on pretending to be scared for me to see.”
Tong Youyou had originally thought Chang Ning was really frightened by her fast driving.
But when she gave him the sticky note, her finger touched his wrist and found his pulse strong and steady. How was that the look of someone scared?
She immediately knew the guy was faking it.
Tong Youyou had majored in Western medicine in university, but that didn’t mean she wasn’t skilled in traditional Chinese medicine.
Don’t forget she was from a traditional Chinese medicine family. Before university, she studied pure traditional Chinese medicine theory.
Without real skills, her grandpa Tong Zhen would have broken her legs for switching to Western medicine.
“Chang Ning, are you really bad at talking to girls, or is it just with me?”
Tong Youyou parked the car by the roadside, elbow on the window, recalling the entire process from meeting Chang Ning at the station to dropping him home. She found no suspicious points.
If Chang Ning really wasn’t good at interacting with the opposite sex, that would be fine. But if he was pretending, that would be trouble.
It would mean Chang Ning had been wary of her from the start. How could she then research the secrets on him?
She couldn’t go through military channels. Before, maybe, but now his information was all classified.
To really get Chang Ning to cooperate with her research, she’d have to reach the Southeast Military Region’s Military Headquarters. No matter how capable she was, she couldn’t do that.
“Whether real or fake, Chang Ning, I just don’t believe I can’t take you down!”
