239 Writing a Letter
She took out some food and continued, “Hurry up and eat. I only have one lunch box. I have to take it back later. These are eggs and sweet potatoes. I can only come to deliver food to you once at night. My friend will definitely find out if I bring more. She’s much smarter than me.”
After Jiang Chun blurted everything out, she realized that she had nagged him. When she looked up and saw the smile on Cui Jin’s face, Jiang Chun blushed and smiled in embarrassment. “I have a habit of nagging. I know it’s a little annoying.”
“No, I’m quite introverted, so it feels good to have someone to talk to.” With that, Cui Jin picked up the lunch box and started eating.
After eating, Cui Jin smacked his lips to savor the aftertaste and praised, “Your culinary skills are quite good!”
Jiang Chun smiled when she heard this. “My friend taught me how to cook. I didn’t cook this well in the past.”
Cui Jin thought about how the other party had helped him so much, but he didn’t even know the other party’s name. He hurriedly asked, “Miss, my friends call me Ah Jin. I still don’t know how to address you.”
Jiang Chun also introduced herself. “My name is Jiang Chun.”
Cui Jin had been hiding and escaping today. In order to mislead the traitor, he didn’t even know where he had escaped to, so he asked, “Jiang Chun, what’s the name of your village?”
“He Mountain Village.”
Cui Jin recalled the topographic map of this area and silently calculated the distance. He realized that he was only more than a hundred kilometers away.
This time, Cui Jin brought a five-person team out to capture a spy. At the final critical moment of the capture, a traitor appeared in the team, and the knife wound on his body was the other party’s doing.
Now that he was in a pinch, he didn’t know what had happened to the team.
The traitor wanted to kill him, so that the traitor could continue hiding, but now, he didn’t know Cui Jin’s exact situation, the traitor would definitely return to the army and fabricate a story to distort the truth about his disappearance. Or, the traitor would retreat in the shortest time possible after stealing secrets.
Cui Jin knew that he couldn’t let the other party continue to hide. Otherwise, if the military’s important secrets were leaked, even his death wouldn’t be enough for him to atone for it!
He could only recuperate for another day at most before he had to leave. After pondering for a moment, he said to Jiang Chun, “You don’t have to come over anymore. I’ll leave tomorrow.”
Jiang Chun widened her eyes and asked in shock, “Your wound is so deep, but you’re leaving after only a day? It’ll be even worse if the wound gets infected.”
Cui Jin looked at the round-faced girl with almond-shaped eyes in front of him. At this moment, her eyes were shining.
Cui Jin smiled and said in a low voice, “A day is already a lot. I still have very important things to do. I’ll write a letter to you later.”
“Huh? Write a letter?” Jiang Chun was stunned for a moment. Weren’t they talking about him leaving? Why did it suddenly jump to the letter-writing segment?
When Jiang Chun thought of the money on the stove today, she thought that the other party must be planning to send her the money again for tonight’s meal, so she smiled and rejected him. “The 0.5 yuan you gave me is enough. You don’t have to send me money anymore.”
Cui Jin smiled and reached out to rub Jiang Chun’s head as he said softly, “Hurry up and go back. It’s not easy to walk back when it’s dark.”
Jiang Chun had only been rubbed on the head by an elder before, so when she was suddenly touched by a member of the opposite sex who was about her age, her ears burned. She didn’t dare to look at him directly anymore. She picked up the lunch box and placed it in the basket. Then, she carried the kerosene lamp and ran away without even saying goodbye.
As Cui Jin watched Jiang Chun’s fleeing figure, he laughed helplessly. “I seemed to have been a little too anxious, but I have no choice. After all, I’ve been single for 25 years, but I’ve finally met a girl I’m attracted to. I can’t let her slip away.”
After Jiang Chun ran home in one breath, her heart was racing. For a moment, she couldn’t tell if it was because she was in too much of a hurry or because of his actions.
When Yu Bing returned with the books, she saw Jiang Chun sitting there in a daze with her hands supporting her head. Then, Jiang Chun suddenly smiled.
This was a very rare side to Jiang Chun. After Yu Bing arrived beside Jiang Chun quietly, she suddenly waved her hand in front of Jiang Chun’s eyes.
Jiang Chun was so frightened that her body trembled. Then, she suddenly came back to her senses and clutched her chest as she said, “You almost scared me to death.”