Wandering in the vast darkness

Chapter 58 The Return Journey

The two chatted as they ate, and Brother Wang asked Yu, "You don't rest on Saturdays and Sundays either, you still drive as usual?"

Yu said yes.

"So, if I ask you to go somewhere on Friday, you can wait there for two days, like Sunday night, before returning to Hangzhou?" Brother Wang asked, and Yu Wenhao nodded and said yes.

Yu asked Brother Wang, "Normally, I start driving at six o'clock in the evening. If you need to go somewhere within a five or six-hour drive, I can take you there, as long as you can get back to work the next morning."

Brother Wang asked, "So you don't need to sleep?"

Yu Wen smiled and said, "I don't sleep much anyway. I get home around 2 or 3 o'clock every day, get up at 5:30 in the morning to drive, and catch up on a nap at work at noon."

"You're really going all out! What's wrong, are you short of money?" Brother Wang asked.

Yu Wenhao didn't hide anything from Brother Wang, and he nodded in agreement.

"Is there any particular reason? I know your company has good benefits, and you're the workshop director, so your income should be quite high. If it's just to cover your mortgage and car loan, you can manage. You don't need to work so hard," Brother Wang said.

Brother Wang told him about his situation, and Yu Wenhao felt that there was nothing he couldn't tell Brother Wang, so he told Brother Wang about Qianqian's situation.

The two people in the back row looked at each other and laughed. One of them immediately said, "You're so good at making calculations. Okay, then we'll do as you say. Take us directly to the Shouchang factory."

He turned off the app, drove to the entrance of NOCpartyktv, parked the car, reclined the seat, and quickly fell asleep. Anyway, Qiqi would knock on his window when she got down.

So when the two of them heard this, they agreed to Yu Wenhao's suggestion.

Yu Wenhao dropped off the customer at Conch Cement Plant and got a rideshare fare, taking someone from Yongcheng to Hangzhou, which saved him some money. By the time he returned to Hangzhou and dropped the customer off at their destination, it was almost 1 a.m.

The other party said, "We're not going to Hangzhou, but tomorrow morning. We need to get to Yongcheng for some business..."

When they go on business trips, their travel expenses are covered by a lump sum, and any savings are theirs to keep.

"No, no, we even had dinner in between, a big meal, it was delicious," Yu Wenhao said.

After finishing their meal, the two returned to the Tiantai International Hotel. Yu Wenhao said goodbye to Brother Wang and drove to the Conch Group. The Conch Group was very close to the Tiantai International Hotel. Yu Wenhao drove along Wenhua Road in front of the hotel, and after passing three traffic lights, he saw the Conch International Hotel. The Conch Group was right next to the hotel.

The other party agreed, explaining that there was work to do at the factory the next morning. If they took the high-speed train to Hangzhou, then transferred to another high-speed train to Yongcheng, and then took a taxi to Shouchang, it would be afternoon by the time they arrived. Therefore, they had to get to Hangzhou tonight.

After listening, Brother Wang sighed and said to Yu Wenhao, "Sigh, you've had it tough too, Xiao Yu. I can't help you much, but like I said, no matter what, just hang in there. I believe things will get better in the future."

After the car got on the highway, it was pitch black outside and there was nothing to see. At this time, no one was sleepy, so the three of them started chatting. Yu asked them if they had urgent business in Hangzhou, otherwise why didn't they take the high-speed train tomorrow morning?

Yu Wenhao was also very happy. This way, once they arrived in Hangzhou, he wouldn't need to go into the city. He could simply take the Hangzhou Ring Expressway and transfer to the Hangxinjing Expressway to go to Shouchang. The time it would take was about the same as going into the city to drop them off at their hotel.

"Master, let me discuss this with you. How about you give me an extra 300 yuan and I'll take you directly to Shouchang? Here's the thing: tomorrow you take the high-speed train from Hangzhou to Yongcheng, the ticket price is over 100 yuan. Once you get to Yongcheng, you'll need to pay extra to take a taxi to Shouchang. And in Hangzhou, you'll need to pay extra to take a taxi to the East Railway Station tomorrow morning."

Shouchang is a town under Yongcheng. Conch Group has a cement plant there, so when they said they were going to Yongcheng, Yu Wenhao knew that they must be going to the Conch Cement Plant, which meant they were going to Shouchang.

On the other end of the phone, Meng Zhen laughed: "You're just bragging, bro. Qianqian had a lot of fun today."

"Don't thank me, just drive carefully and be safe!"

After waiting a few minutes, two men in their forties came out of the building, got into the car, and one of them asked:

The Hangxinjing Expressway has an exit at Shouchang. Not far from the exit, next to National Highway 320, is the Conch Group's cement plant. However, Yu Wenhao didn't exit at Shouchang. Instead, he exited at Yongcheng and took National Highway 320. Taking the national highway to Shouchang would take less than ten minutes longer, but the toll fees differ by ten yuan between the two exits.

"The hotel room rate in Hangzhou is much higher than in Shouchang. If you go directly to Shouchang tonight, it won't interfere with your plans for tomorrow morning, and you might even save some money."

"Okay, thank you, Mengzhen."

Yu Wenhao immediately remembered and exclaimed, "So you're going to Shouchang, right?"

"I'm from Yongcheng," Yu Wenhao said, and the two men laughed, saying it was quite a coincidence.

Yu asked, "Yes, that's right. We brought a guest here, now we're going back."

When Yu arrived at the entrance of the group's building, he didn't see anyone. He made a phone call and told the other party that he had arrived. The other party said okay, he would be right there.

"You drove your car from Hangzhou, Zhejiang?"

"I know, I know." Yu Wenhao hung up the phone.

In Yu Wenhao's suggestion, there was a major point that Yu Wenhao didn't know: even if they stayed in a budget hotel in Hangzhou, they would still have to pay for accommodation. However, if they could get to the Shouchang factory, the factory had a guesthouse where employees could stay for free. In this way, they could save the 300 yuan just for accommodation.

Yu Wenhao nodded, understanding, but in his mind he was already calculating. He thought, "The round-trip highway toll from Hangzhou to Yongcheng is 120 yuan." He said to the two men:

The round trip would cost twenty yuan, and Yu Wenhao certainly wanted to save that money.

Qiqi sent him a WeChat message saying that he might finish a little late today, and that Yu Wenhao still had time and could take another order, but he felt he was too tired today and wouldn't take any more.

While resting at the service area, Yu Wenhao received a call from Meng Zhen, who asked where he was. Yu Wenhao told her that he was on his way back, but he had picked up two passengers who wanted a ride and was going to take them to Yongcheng. He assured her that everything was fine.

Meng Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and said to him, "You've been driving since this afternoon, aren't you tired?"

Yu nodded and said, "Thank you, Brother Wang!"