Wandering in the vast darkness

Chapter 75 Endurance

DianDian's mom sent a WeChat message asking, "How's it going, Master Yu?"

Yu Wenhao said, "It doesn't seem like anything special happened. I just sat there and listened to them praising me in various ways."

Dot Dot's mom sent a smiling emoji.

Yu Wenhao looked at the screen and muttered, "Just keep being smug."

Dian Dian's mother said, "Thank you, Master Yu. I'll treat you to a meal when I get back."

Yu Wenhao quickly replied, "No need, really no need to be so polite, it's nothing."

After putting down her phone, Yu Wenhao continued to wait. After about ten minutes, she saw a short, stocky woman in her fifties walking towards her from the other end of Qinghe Road. There were many people coming and going on the road, but Yu Wenhao instinctively knew this was the person she was waiting for.

Yu got out of the car and stood beside it. The woman saw him and asked, "Is that you? Is that you?"

Yu nodded and said, "Yes, yes, it's me, eldest sister."

The woman rolled her eyes at him and said, "You wait here, I'm going back to get my things. Don't leave, or I'll complain about you."

The best way to make yourself unable to hear is to sing in your head, as if the train carriage were a karaoke room, and whatever the other person is saying would just be background noise.

After waiting another six or seven minutes, the woman finally arrived. She opened the back door and got in, carrying a Wuliangye non-woven bag that was bulging with contents.

"Where are you going? To the hospital, to bring your son food. The doctor said he can be discharged, but he's still staying at the hospital, saying the nurses there are pretty. Humph, and he's ordering his mother around like this and that. I'm taking it there now, and I guarantee that in less than ten minutes, he'll be using the black chicken soup I've been simmering for hours to curry favor with some vixen, saying it's to nourish her body."

He felt that he had now become incredibly skilled, not only in sleeping but also in endurance.

The woman's phone rang. She answered it and shouted into the phone:

Yu Wenhao immediately became careful and replaced "you" with "you" which is rarely used by people from the South.

Yu Wenhao silently sang "Unavoidable Love" in his heart:

The woman still wouldn't let him off the hook: "Now you know you were wrong, but what were you doing all this time? Do you even know how much you've hurt me? I could demand compensation for emotional distress. It's only because I couldn't be bothered with people like you, that I didn't stoop to your level. Don't you have any self-awareness?"

However, the Yu Wenhao of today is not the same Yu Wenhao of yesterday. What the Yu Wenhao of yesterday could not tolerate, the Yu Wenhao of today can.

"Let me tell you, I'm not kidding, but if you offend me, I can kick your platform out of Hangzhou, you know that?" the woman said.

If it were based on Yu Wenhao's old temper, he would have already pulled over and told the woman, "Get out! Get out of the car! Do you want to see my ID? My name is Yu Wenhao. You think you're so great? Come find me! Now get out of the car!"

Yu Wenhao got into the car, wanting to cancel the order, but then thought that she had already waited for her for so long, so she might as well wait a few more minutes. In particular, the woman's words that her son was waiting for her at the hospital touched Yu Wenhao. At the hospital, that must be something important, so she decided to wait.

Yu Wenhao was getting annoyed. "I've been waiting for you for almost twenty minutes. You've arrived, and now you want me to wait for you again? How much longer? Don't you know that the platform's rules about when drivers can cancel orders have already passed? Even if you complain about me, it won't do you any good?"

Having driven for ride-hailing services for so many years, Yu Wenhao has seen far too many unreasonable and boastful people like this. Some claim to be the son of the police chief, able to revoke your driver's license and operating permit in a heartbeat. Others go even further, saying the provincial governor and mayor are their brothers, and that their word is law in the city. If they have that much power, why would you still want to use a ride-hailing service?

"So you mean you're waiting for me here, and you're upset, and I should thank you, right?" the woman said. "Don't give me that crap about rules. Who does this platform think it is? Do you know who I am?"

However, calling her "sister" would be too intimate. From the moment Yu Wenhao saw this woman, including her behavior, he felt unable to feel close to her. So he simply didn't call her anything and continued:

"What do you mean, 'big sister'? Am I that old? Drop the 'big' part." The woman interrupted Yu Wenhao.

"Then you don't have to send it, just ignore him." The man on the other end of the phone said loudly.

Indeed, the difference between "elder sister" and "sister" is only one word, but for women, it can make a huge age difference. But look at this woman, she should be at least twenty years older than herself. Yu Wenhao felt that calling her "elder sister" was appropriate, but the woman felt it was inappropriate, so Yu Wenhao could no longer call her that.

Yu Wenhao stopped talking and decided to ignore her, not because she was scared, but because she found it too boring.

The woman felt offended and, still angry, raised her voice even louder:

"That's ridiculous. A ride-hailing driver dares to lecture me? So what if I made you wait a few extra minutes? Making you wait was giving you face, you know? Believe me, one phone call from me and your platform's boss will come running to me and apologize. You actually dare to lecture me? Don't you even look at yourself in the mirror?"

"Oh, I see. In the future, could you call a car after you get home? There are plenty of cars available at this time, so you don't have to worry about not being able to get one. There's really no need to start calling a car so early when you're still out."

"No, no, I was just offering a friendly reminder. According to the platform's latest regulations, the waiting time used to be five minutes, but now it's more than ten minutes. If the waiting time exceeds ten minutes, the driver can cancel the order without penalty. If you encounter this situation, and the car leaves after you arrive, wouldn't that cause you to miss your appointment? You agree, right?" Yu Wenhao explained.

The woman kept talking incessantly, and Yu Wenhao couldn't take it anymore, so she quickly begged for mercy:

"Okay, okay, you're right, you're completely right, I was wrong, alright?"

"What do you mean? Are you lecturing me?" the woman asked, her eyes wide.

"My son is waiting for me at the hospital. I'm here to talk to you!" the woman said before walking into the residential complex.

Yu Wenhao knew she had encountered a difficult person today. This kind of person was always self-centered, thinking the world revolved around her and that whatever others did for her was their due. At this moment, she might have already started recording, and then, in the blink of an eye, she would post it online to complain loudly, saying that she was really unlucky today and had encountered a scumbag driver.

The woman's journey began; her destination was the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University, a drive of only ten minutes or so, with a fare of no more than sixteen yuan. "Damn it," Yu Wenhao cursed inwardly, "I've waited half an hour for just a few dollars, twice the drive's distance!"

Yu Wen smiled and said, "You are a passenger, I don't need to know who you are."

Their favorite saying is "I'm not kidding you," but when they open their mouths, they always use grand gestures and exaggerated claims to scare you.

"Don't you know that the customer is king? Don't you know that we are your bread and butter? Where is your service mentality? You're obviously uneducated and uncultured. Well, that's right, if you were educated, you wouldn't be driving for ride-hailing services..."

Yu Wenhao quickly shut up and used his unique skill: when encountering such a customer, just pretend the other person doesn't exist and ignore whatever they say.

The woman continued to curse, and Yu Wenhao felt that he didn't even need to beg for mercy. As long as he opened his mouth and said one sentence, the other party would respond with a hundred sentences.

"I can't forget the first time I saw you / Your captivating eyes / Your image lingers in my mind..."

Yu Wenhao listened, but he was also angry. So he had been waiting here for half an hour just to see her go and deliver black chicken soup to her son who was staying in the hospital? He thought it was something important.

Yu glanced at the woman in the rearview mirror and said, "Sister..."

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