650: Chapter 646 Cold Rainy Night (Part 1) 650: Chapter 646 Cold Rainy Night (Part 1) “A landslide occurred ahead, and they say it will take at least one night to clear!” Ye Fan said to Zhao Lina.
Zhao Lina’s face immediately turned grim, and she asked, “What do we do?”
They were stuck right in the middle, no villages ahead and no shops behind.
Minhde County was dozens of kilometers ahead, and returning to Long’an City was also twenty to thirty kilometers behind.
Ye Fan said, “Wait a minute, I’ll see what towns are around.”
With that, Ye Fan took out his phone and started flipping through the maps.
A moment later, Ye Fan looked up at Zhao Lina and said, “Our luck isn’t too bad, there’s an exit about one or two kilometers ahead.
It leads to a town called Cross Town.
We can spend the night there.
Let’s hurry before it gets completely dark.”
Zhao Lina had no choice but to nod, got out of the car, and walked forward with Ye Fan.
Sure enough, about two thousand meters ahead, there was a highway exit.
Ye Fan and Zhao Lina left the highway at this exit and walked towards the nearby Cross Town.
However, as they headed towards Cross Town, other people who were also stuck on the road were heading there as well, in groups of threes or twos along the way.
Ye Fan realized a problem, which was that the limited hotels in the town were definitely already fully occupied.
It wasn’t far to the center of Cross Town, and they reached it after half an hour’s walk.
“Let’s go check the hotel first,” Ye Fan suggested to Zhao Lina without giving up hope.
Zhao Lina coldly said, “Now you think there will be room in the hotel?
Even if there are vacant rooms, I won’t stay.
Small inns are the dirtiest.”
Ye Fan just spread his hands resignedly.
After dinner, they bought some items in the town and when they returned to the highway, the weather had already turned completely dark.
It was now late December, and after dark, the north wind was howling, the sky was pitch black like ink, with a slight drizzle falling.
Those returning to the highway from Cross Town shrank their necks from the cold.
Ye Fan saw that although Zhao Lina was trying to stand up straight, her pretty face was clearly pale with cold.
Today, having gone to the precinct for a meeting, Zhao Lina was wearing less clothing than others due to being in uniform.
Ye Fan felt a bit heartbroken and quickly took off his jacket and draped it over Zhao Lina.
Unexpectedly, Zhao Lina immediately shook off his jacket, pushing it away with a cold expression and a disgusted tone, “Stop pretending here, I don’t need your pity!”
Without waiting for a response, she quickened her steps forward.
Ye Fan gave a bitter smile but didn’t persist in offering his jacket to Zhao Lina.
After all, it would only take half an hour to walk from Cross Town to their car stopped on the highway; walking quickly, it could be done in twenty minutes, so it shouldn’t be too cold.
Seventeen or eighteen minutes later, Ye Fan and Zhao Lina were back in their car,
Ye Fan was still in the driver’s seat, and he started the engine and turned on the air conditioning and the heater.
As the temperature in the car increased, Zhao Lina soon returned to normal.
Silence fell inside the car.
The night was long, especially being trapped in a car, it was even more boring.
Ye Fan tried to start a conversation with Zhao Lina, but she wouldn’t respond.
After several attempts, he gave up and took out his phone to pass the time by browsing the internet.
Around 10 PM, Ye Fan inadvertently checked the fuel gauge and noticed that only a quarter tank of gas was left.
“Damn, this amount of gas definitely won’t last through the night,” Ye Fan pondered worriedly.
He looked up at the windshield in front of him; the freezing rain was incessantly falling, and the sound of the howling wind filled his ears.
“In this weather, without heating, Lina definitely couldn’t handle it,” he couldn’t help but think.
After a quick thought, he had an idea and turned to Zhao Lina, “Director Zhao, I’ll step out for a bit and be right back.”
Zhao Lina kept looking at her phone, the fluorescent light from the screen illuminating her icy, indifferent face.
She didn’t even blink, as if she hadn’t heard him.
Seeing that Zhao Lina didn’t respond, Ye Fan didn’t call out again.
Instead, he opened the car door and quickly got out.
After Ye Fan left the car, Zhao Lina looked up and turned to glance outside the window.
But outside it was pitch black like ink, nothing was visible except for the raindrops continuously hitting the window.
Unable to determine how heavy the rain was outside, she slid down the window.
As soon as the window cracked open, a blast of cold wind carrying icy rain poured in, causing her to shiver and quickly roll up the window.
“What terrible wind and rain, so cold, what could he possibly be doing out there now?” Zhao Lina couldn’t help but think, “Isn’t he afraid of catching a cold?”
The next moment, she scolded herself inwardly, “Tch, why should I care about him?
It’d be better if he just died!”
With that thought, she continued to browse the internet and read novels on her phone.
However, the pleasure she had just been feeling was now gone, and she felt quite bored, aimlessly flipping through pages without really taking anything in.
After flipping through that novel for a while and finding it truly uninteresting, she switched to another.
But she found the next one even harder to engage with, only reading two chapters before impatiently switching to a third.
Within just four to five minutes, she had switched through more than a dozen novels and finally put down her phone, staring blankly out of the window.
After about ten to twenty minutes, Ye Fan still had not returned.
Zhao Lina grew increasingly restless, picking up her phone several times and pulling up Ye Fan’s number, but ultimately she didn’t make the call.
Another half-hour passed, and just as Zhao Lina was about to genuinely call Ye Fan, he returned.
The car door was suddenly opened, and as the cold wind poured in, Zhao Lina saw two woven bags drenched with rain swiftly stuffed inside before she saw Ye Fan, holding the items, sit down and then close the door.
“You…” Zhao Lina started to speak but immediately clamped her mouth shut, swallowing back her words and replaced them with a cold gaze.
Ye Fan turned to her, flashed a smile, and said, “Sorry to keep you waiting.”
Knowing Zhao Lina would not respond, Ye Fan turned back around, arranged the contents of his hands, and started untying the bags.
Though Zhao Lina’s face was cold, her eyes fixed on Ye Fan’s movements.
She glanced at the two woven bags and from their outline, she guessed they were blankets.
Indeed, as Ye Fan untied the bags, he pulled out a blanket.
“Here,” Ye Fan turned and extended the blanket toward Zhao Lina.
However, Zhao Lina didn’t take it, turning her face away as she coldly said, “I don’t want your things!”
“Heh, this isn’t a gift,” Ye Fan said with an indifferent laugh, “It’s for sale, three hundred and fifty yuan.
I bought this blanket for two hundred and fifty yuan, selling it to you for three hundred and fifty, fair, right?”
Zhao Lina mulled it over for a moment, then reached out to take the blanket.
Zhao Lina grabbed the blanket and immediately placed it on the seat beside her, then took out her wallet, pulled out five one hundred yuan bills, and awkwardly handed them forward, stating, “Five hundred yuan, I won’t take any advantage!”