The first thing I did was to find out

Chapter 363 Promise (I)

The place that Shi Dadan was looking for with fewer people was a dessert shop in an amusement park. The decoration of the dessert shop was okay, and it mainly sold cold desserts such as shaved ice and shaved ice, and the prices were very expensive.

You know, in this amusement park, a pure meat sausage only costs 8 yuan, but the cheapest serving of shaved ice in this dessert shop costs 68 yuan.

It was only April, and the weather was not that hot. It was far from the season when you needed to eat ice drinks to stay alive after entering the amusement park. Therefore, the business of this dessert shop was very bleak. When Qin Huai and Shi Dadan entered the shop, there was only a young couple in the shop. The two of them ordered a bowl of shaved ice.

Qin Huai and Shi Dadan ordered a bowl of shaved ice each. Shi Dadan saw that this dessert shop actually sold hot glutinous rice balls and hand-grabbed pancakes. Out of curiosity, he immediately spent a huge amount of money to buy 39 glutinous rice balls and 25 hand-grabbed pancakes. Qin Huai couldn't help but sigh at the price, and the snacks in his Yunzhong Canteen were really too cheap.

The two found a seat in a corner and sat down.

Shi Dadan was still holding a grilled sausage in his hand, which he had just bought from a stall selling grilled sausages.

As soon as he sat down, Shi Dadan took out the fresh meat mooncakes made by Zheng Siyuan from his bag and placed them on the table, along with a bag of Wangzai steamed buns he got from Qin Luo, and started eating.

Qin Huai discovered that Shi Dadan might not really have any interest in the amusement park, but he was quite interested in eating something in the amusement park.

"Xiao Qin, do you want to eat something?" Shi Dadan invited, saying excitedly, "Are you going to read my memory in front of me now? I asked Lao Luo last night, and he said that when you read memories, you are sluggish and have no reaction, and you read very quickly. No matter how long the memory is, even if it is ten days or half a month, you can finish it in a few minutes."

"Is that so?" Shi Dadan stared at Qin Huai.

Facing Shi Dadan's curious gaze, Qin Huai nodded. He could tell that Shi Dadan must not be telling the truth and must be hiding something.

But now he really couldn't figure out what Shi Dadan wanted to hide. If there were any memories that could not be seen by him, Shi Dadan would definitely not be as excited as he is now.

He looked like he really wanted Qin Huai to see his memory.

Qin Huai wanted to scratch his head, and then said, "You auspicious beasts are really confusing."

Qin Huai nodded and briefly explained the process of looking at the memory before. As he was talking, the shaved ice and Shi Dadan's food were served. Shi Dadan also naturally told the store owner that they had something to discuss and asked the store owner not to disturb them later.

Although the shop owner was puzzled as to why someone would discuss business in a dessert shop in an amusement park, since there were no customers in the shop anyway, he nodded and walked away, finding a table farthest away from Qin Huai and Shi Dadan to sit and play with his phone.

Qin Huai had almost finished explaining, so he stopped talking nonsense and directly opened the game panel to find [Shi Dadan's memory].

Click Yes.

[Memory loading——].
"Xiao Xu, are you back from delivering goods? How did it feel to be driving alone for the first time? Were you scared? Did you encounter any problems on the road? The cars in your fleet are so broken that they look like they were assembled from parts taken from scrapped cars. Except for the engines and the chassis, which of the rest is not pieced together? Basically, they are repaired as they go. Lao Xu always complains to me after every delivery."

"You have to be careful when driving. I heard that Xiao Xia from the meat processing factory had his car overturned. Not only was the cargo destroyed, but he was also hospitalized. You have to be careful."

At the entrance of the textile factory, the security guard smiled and joked with Xiao Xu on the truck, opening the door and letting the truck in as he spoke.

Xiao Xu, who was sitting in the driver's seat, smiled naively at the security guard, did not respond, and slowly drove the car in.

The security guard just shook his head helplessly at Xiao Xu's dull behavior and muttered, "What a dull guy."

Qin Huai stood at the gate of the textile factory, looked at the security guard, then looked at the slowly moving truck, and without any hesitation, he jogged to catch up.

At this time, the workers at the textile factory had not yet gotten off work. The entrance to the textile factory was deserted, with only the security guard on duty and Xiao Xu, who had just driven.

Xiao Xu is obviously Shi Dadan from the first life. This is the second time Qin Huai has seen a monster in his memory that does not match the appearance of the monster he knows. The first one is An Youyou, but when An Youyou appeared, she was a beggar. The beggar's makeup was eye-catching enough, so the appearance was relatively unimportant.

Shi Dadan was different. In his first life, he looked more like Dang Kang than in his second life. To be more precise, he was more in line with Qin Huai's stereotype of Dang Kang.

He has a round face, a crew cut, dark skin, and looks gray. His work clothes are also gray. His facial features are ordinary and there is nothing special about him. He looks very honest and simple. He is slightly fat, but in this era, he should be considered fat. He looks like an honest person who is not very smart.

The truck was driving very slowly in the factory area, and Qin Huai could catch up with it by jogging. Seeing the car stop, Shi Dadan cautiously turned off the engine and got out.

The first thing I did after getting off the car was to check the rear tire.

"Xiao Xu, what happened? Did the tire burst?" Hearing the noise outside, Shi Dadan's colleagues came out and asked, "Why did you come back so early? Didn't the clothing factory invite you to dinner?"

Shi Dadan was still looking down at the tire. He pressed it anxiously and said slowly, "It's against the rules to keep it. I took two steamed buns to eat on the way."

When his colleague heard what Shi Dadan said, he shook his head helplessly. His expression did not show any derogatory meaning. It seemed that he was used to Shi Dadan's behavior and could only feel helpless: "You, you, I really don't know what to say about you. I didn't ask you to take bribes, but I asked you to be so cautious about eating at the clothing factory. You really deserve to be the golden signboard of our fleet, the number one honest man."

"If you send out more vehicles in the future, I wonder who will say that our team is lucrative."

Faced with his colleagues' jokes, Shi Dadan did not react at all. He just gave a simple and slightly flattering smile and let it go.

My colleague continued to mutter, "The team leader went to Jinling to deliver goods today and will stay overnight. Before he left, he asked me to help you check the car. Did you encounter any problems while driving on the road today? In my opinion, our fleet should replace some new cars. These broken cars have been driven for many years. Even if they are new for three years, old for three years, and patched for another three years, they are still clothes, not cars."

"When our fleet's cars were delivered, they were antiques. Sometimes I was afraid they would fall apart while driving on the road. After driving them for another two years, we no longer need to work in the fleet and can just repair them. We have mastered the skills."

Shi Dadan still didn't say anything. He just stared at the tire and pressed it again and again.

Seeing Shi Dadan staring at the tire, his colleague asked, "Xu Mo, is there something wrong with the tire?"

Qin Huai suddenly realized that Shi Dadan’s first life was called Xu Mo, and this name was quite consistent with his personality.

My buddy didn't say anything at all, he was quite silent.

Seeing his colleague asking, Shi Dadan spoke up, speaking very slowly: "It seems there is a problem. On the way back, I always felt that the car was a little off."

My colleague didn't take it too seriously: "It's normal. Let me check it for you."

Then start working.

Although this colleague talks a lot, he is still capable at work. He is very careful when checking the vehicle and will not just check the tires just because Shi Dadan said there seemed to be a problem with the tires.

The colleague kept talking about the fleet while working, even when he was crawling under the car. Even though Shi Dadan didn't respond at all, except for an occasional "hmm", it couldn't stop his colleague from talking.

You can tell he's a chatterbox.

Through the gossip of his colleagues, Qin Huai extracted a lot of useful information.

For example, Shi Dadan and Xu Nuo have a very good relationship now, and they are even inseparable. After graduating from technical secondary school, Xu Nuo did not go to work in a factory, nor did he continue his studies. He stayed at home doing nothing and was unemployed for two years.

Because he had nothing to do, he had a lot of time. He would come to the factory to see Shi Dadan every day at the end of the get off work day, rain or shine. From the tone of his colleague, he seemed to have mistaken Shi Dadan for a cousin of Xu Nuo, and he kept sighing that Shi Dadan was really a fool with good fortune.

Although he has not received much education and is not very smart, he has a good relative. With the relationship with Director Xu, even if Shi Dadan cannot join the fleet, he can still get an easy job as a driver in the cotton mill. Not to mention that although Shi Dadan is not smart, he is quite talented in driving, and he is big and can endure hardships. He can barely be considered a talent needed by the fleet. Qin Huai even heard from his colleagues that the captain of the fleet admired Shi Dadan and intended to train him. Usually, the captain personally taught Shi Dadan how to check vehicles, repair vehicles, and check vehicles. The treatment is not something that ordinary people with connections can get.

In addition to the promise of this relationship, Qin Huai also heard that Shi Dadan was very popular in the blind date market. There were not many single guys like Shi Dadan who were strong, honest, simple, not smart, hardworking, and had a good job. Matchmakers within a ten-mile radius seemed to have set their sights on Shi Dadan and were frantically introducing him to potential partners.

Shi Dadan was so scared that he didn't even dare to go back to the dormitory after get off work, for fear that the matchmaker would come to his house and introduce another girl to him.

At this point, his colleagues burst into laughter and mocked Shi Dadan: "Xiao Xu, you too, do you scare the girl that much? You're hiding from the matchmaker like a flood or a beast, and if you don't know, you'd think the girl is going to eat you alive or something. At your age, you should go on a blind date and get married. How old are you this year? You must be 22."

"When I was your age, my eldest daughter could eat steamed buns."

"Give me the wrench."

Shi Dadan silently handed over the wrench.

"Oh, I don't know what to eat in the cafeteria tonight." A colleague sighed.

"We eat cabbage cooked with bean sprouts, stir-fried beans with minced meat, vegetable and tofu soup, and steamed buns made with three-grain flour." Shi Dadan answered immediately.

colleague:……

The colleague crawled out from under the car speechlessly, his hands covered in oil, and handed the tools to Shi Dadan, who quickly took them.

"You remember this quickly."

"You've fixed the car, but it still has the same problem. If it stalls while you're driving tomorrow, check the parts underneath to see if they're loose. The captain has been teaching you how to tighten these for so long, you must be able to do it. Tomorrow, the team is short-handed, so you'll have to drive alone."

"Hey, are you going to the meat processing factory tomorrow? The food there is really..."

Before the colleague finished speaking, a young, fair-skinned man who looked like he came from a wealthy family, because the material of his clothes was obviously much newer and cleaner than those of Shi Dadan and his colleague. His skin did not look much exposed to the wind and sun, and his hands were not rough, with no obvious calluses. Qin Huai felt that the man was familiar with him walked towards the two of them.

It's a promise.

Qin Huai had seen Xu Nuo in Gong Liang’s memory before, but he had only met him a few times and had not observed him carefully.

Now taking a closer look, I find that he is indeed the youngest son of the factory director.

He was fair-skinned, gentle, and somewhat scholarly. He had a decent appearance, red lips and white teeth. If he had not been unemployed at home for the past two years and was suspected of being a prodigal, Qin Huai suspected that the threshold of Director Xu's house would have been broken down by a matchmaker.

"Xu Mo, it's time to get off work! I grabbed six steamed buns with fermented glutinous rice wine from the state-owned restaurant today, and also packed two delicious dishes. No one is coming to my house to eat now!"

"Hurry up, it's late and my dad will be back. He will definitely scold me if he sees me buying so many fermented rice wine buns." Xu Nuo winked at Shi Dadan frantically. Shi Dadan looked at his colleague first, and after seeing the envy that could not be hidden on his colleague's face, he nodded to his colleague and slipped away from get off work.

"It's good to be Director Xu's son. I can live and eat for free at home for two years without going to work, and I can eat fermented rice steamed buns and takeaway vegetables." A colleague sighed and shook his head, "It's true that people will die if they are compared with others, and goods will be thrown away if they are compared with others."

Xu Nuo pulled Shi Dadan towards the gate of the cotton mill. Shi Dadan didn't want to go out very much and wanted to go to the cafeteria to get some food first.

He said it directly.

"The cafeteria has fried beans with minced meat today. I brought my meal ticket and lunch box, so I want to go get my meal first." Shi Dadan said.

Xu Nuo stopped and looked around vigilantly, not knowing who he was hiding from.

"Then hurry up and make it quick. I'll wait for you outside so my dad doesn't catch you. I've been waiting for you at the factory every day lately. My dad has heard about it. Aren't there going to be a new batch of college students coming to our factory soon? My dad wants me to take the college entrance exam again, saying that technical secondary schools were good when I was studying, but college is better now."

"You are very smart, much smarter than me. I think you can go to college." Shi Dadan said in a low voice.

"That's different. I'm not interested in this. This is not my first life, and going to college won't help me overcome my tribulation. Go to the cafeteria and get some food. I'll wait for you outside."

Shi Dadan nodded and ran towards the cafeteria, running like a hungry high school student rushing to the cafeteria after class.

Qin Huai:?!

Although he had always suspected that Xu Nuo might be a spirit. Because even if spirits pretended to be human in their first life, as long as they failed to survive the tribulation, it would mean that they were not human. The most obvious characteristic of spirits was that they did not have much empathy for humans.

Of course, birds like Qu Jing who have overly rich emotions are exceptions.

In his first life, Shi Dadan felt so guilty about hitting Xu Nuo that he committed suicide after failing to pass the tribulation. Qin Huai didn't think anything of it when he heard it for the first time. Later, Luo Jun felt that Shi Dadan didn't tell the truth. Qin Huai went back and thought about it carefully. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

At that time, Qin Huai suspected that Xu Nuo might be a monster, and Shi Dadan was so guilty of killing the same kind who helped him that he failed to overcome the tribulation.

However, Qin Huai did not expect that this guess would be confirmed so quickly. It was confirmed not long after he looked at Shi Dadan's memory.

Qin Huai wanted to follow Xu Nuo to see what he would do, but this was not Xu Nuo's memory, so he could only follow Shi Dadan. Shi Dadan ran very fast, and Qin Huai had only stopped for a few seconds when the air wall hit him. He could only see Xu Nuo sneaking and tiptoeing, running towards the gate of the cotton mill like a guerrilla fighter.

Unable to see Xu Nuo, Qin Huai could only speed up his pace and run at the fastest speed he could remember from seeing so many monsters to catch up with Shi Dadan.

Shi Dadan ran into the cafeteria with his bag and lined up.

Then he took out three lunch boxes, handed over three meal tickets, and gave the waiter a simple smile.

The waiter filled three boxes of food for him as usual, and asked him one more question: "I also have some cornmeal mixed with black flour steamed bread. No meal ticket is required, just money. Do you want it?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Shi Dadan nodded repeatedly and happily received six big steamed buns.

Shi Dadan walked out happily holding the lunch box and steamed bread, his face full of joy at having food again.

The workers who were eating and were not familiar with Shi Dadan were stunned when they saw the lunch box and steamed bread in his hands.

"Which workshop is going to work overtime tonight? They have lunch boxes and steamed bread."

"Which workshop? That's Xu Mo from the fleet, the one who eats a lot. He ate 1 steamed buns on his first day at our factory. That loser Xu Nuo treated him to a meal. How could you not recognize him?"

"26 white flour buns!"

"Yes, 26 steamed buns. It is said that he is a relative of Director Xu. He was too greedy in the countryside and couldn't make a living so he came here to seek refuge. Although he is in the team, he is also a good farmer. Isn't there a piece of land behind the canteen? The radishes in that land are planted by him. They are growing really well. Otherwise, the people in the canteen wouldn't give him such a full serving every time."

"No wonder he came to seek refuge with Director Xu. Who can feed such a hungry man in the countryside?"

(End of this chapter)