Chapter 249

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Du Xiaojuan had an older brother named Du Zhiwei. Du Zhiwei's abilities were not as strong as Du Xiaojuan's; he was nearly thirty, his career was mediocre, and he was still single.

His parents were very anxious, so they planned to arrange a blind date for him during this year's Spring Festival, hoping to settle his lifetime matter.

Blind dates don't discuss feelings, only conditions, so things for saving face must be done thoroughly.

After discussing it, Du Xiaojuan's parents decided to let Du Xiaojuan lend her small sedan to her older brother for his blind date, so that he would look presentable, and maybe the girlfriend would take a liking to him.

Du Xiaojuan thought it over and finally agreed. After all, her older brother's lifetime matter was very important, and she could take a vehicle back to Wang Dashan's home, since Wang Dashan's home was not far from Guangzhou.

But unexpectedly, Wang Dashan now told her he wanted to drive her car back.

"Exactly which day is your older brother's blind date?"

Wang Dashan felt somewhat depressed as he asked this question.

Du Xiaojuan had lent the car out without telling him, which might disrupt his plans.

But he also knew it was Du Xiaojuan's car, and whatever Du Xiaojuan did with it was not excessive.

However, if the dates didn't conflict, perhaps he could first drive back to his hometown, and then drive the car back to Du Xiaojuan's hometown.

But Du Xiaojuan said:

"My mom said she arranged three blind dates for my older brother: one on Lunar New Year's Eve, one on the second day of Lunar New Year, and one on the fourth day of Lunar New Year."

Hearing this, Wang Dashan couldn't help but complain:

"Why didn't you discuss it with me first?"

Seeing his expression, Du Xiaojuan felt he was being a bit excessive.

It's my own car; how I handle it seems to be none of your business to interfere, right?

But her past romantic history had taught her to control her emotions. She knew arguing couldn't solve problems and would only intensify the conflict.

This is the advantage of a mature person when handling emotional conflicts: mature people can often extinguish conflicts before they grow, while immature people tend to constantly escalate small conflicts into big ones, eventually making things irreparable, ending only in a breakup.

Du Xiaojuan said calmly:

"I didn't tell you in advance; that's my fault, and I apologize to you. But I hope you can understand my side. My older brother is almost thirty, and this blind date during the Spring Festival is very important to him. Can we take the long-distance bus back together? Anyway, we're not in a rush."

Since Du Xiaojuan had said this much, although Wang Dashan was still depressed, he couldn't say anything more.

However, he had promised his younger brother they would take Du Xiaojuan's small sedan back together. Now such an accident had occurred, and in front of his younger brother, he estimated he would lose a lot of face.

But although Wang Dashan cared about face, he wasn't as extreme as his father Wang Zhanggen. He knew that since things had come to this, he could only go explain it to his younger brother himself. He believed his younger brother, knowing the reason, would understand.

However, because of this incident, his affection for Du Xiaulun was unconsciously reduced a little bit.

And in their future interactions, they might still encounter countless such small trivial matters and conflicts, one after another, all needing to be handled and solved.

The next morning, Wang Dashan called Wang Erhai:

"Younger brother, I'm afraid we can't take Xiao Juan's car home."

"What's this?" On the other end of the phone, Wang Erhai was somewhat surprised.

"Xiao Juan's older brother has a blind date during the Spring Festival. She lent the car to her brother, thinking that if her brother drives to the blind date, the success rate will be higher."

What could Wang Erhai say about this? He could only accept this fact.

"Fine, then we'll just take a vehicle back together when the time comes."

But Wang Dashan was somewhat worried in his heart. He was afraid Wang Erhai would be dissatisfied because of this:

"Younger brother, you won't be dissatisfied with Xiao Juan because of this, right? It's all my fault as the older brother; I didn't communicate well in advance."

Wang Erhai laughed it off:

"How could I be dissatisfied with Eldest Sister-in-law? Eldest Sister-in-law is a very good person. Taking a vehicle back is just taking a vehicle back. Those are small matters; it's not like we've never taken a vehicle back before, right?"

Hearing Wang Erhai's response, Wang Dashan couldn't help but feel grateful.

He had been afraid Wang Erhai would complain about him. If that really happened, being sandwiched in the middle, he would be not human inside or out.

But it was normal that Wang Erhai didn't mind this. Among most ordinary people in this world, who would complain about their older brother over such a trivial little thing?

Only those whose lives were extremely unsatisfactory and full of negative energy would quibble over every detail and be mean and sarcastic.

Just like when their parents were at their poorest back then.

Fortunately, nowadays the two brothers were living reasonably well. Although they hadn't achieved anything at work, they did have a stable income, so naturally they would be more tolerant in dealing with people and matters.

"Fine, fine. Then the three of us will go back together then. You don't need to buy bus tickets; I'll buy them for you on my end!"

Wang Dashan said this.

To make up for his mistake, he took the initiative to offer to buy bus tickets for Wang Erhai.

So that afternoon, he went to Tianhe Bus Station to buy tickets.

He knew tickets during the Spring Festival were hard to buy, so he had to come and buy them in advance.

But what he never expected was that when he arrived at Tianhe Bus Station and asked the ticket seller, he was told that the tickets to their small county town on Lunar New Year's Eve had all been sold out.

At that time, there were no ride-sharing services, and private cars were not as numerous as they are now.

The main way for everyone to go home during holidays and festivals was either by train or by long-distance bus.

For a major holiday like the Spring Festival, tickets selling out in advance was also a normal thing.

After learning of this situation, Wang Dashan was somewhat bewildered.

They had already agreed to go back together on Lunar New Year's Eve, but now they couldn't buy tickets. What should they do?

He hurriedly called Wang Erhai to tell him that Tianhe Bus Station no longer had tickets to their hometown county town for Lunar New Year's Eve.

Wang Erhai said:

"Is that so? How about we check Guangzhou East Station? Or maybe Guangyuan Bus Station? Other bus stations might still have tickets."

Wang Dashan nodded:

"Alright, I'll go check right now!"

Wang Dashan came out of Tianhe Bus Station and immediately took the Subway to Guangzhou East Station.

At that time online ticket purchasing had not yet become widespread; although such a method already existed, Wang Dashan did not know how to do it, and had Never Thought to do it online, so he Personally ran to the scene to Ask.

When he arrived at Guangzhou East Station and Asked, he Discovered there were no tickets there either.

He could only run to Guangyuan Bus Station to ask again, and Discovered there were no tickets there either.

Helpless, he could only run to Yuexiu South Bus Station to ask.

Yuexiu South Bus Station had the most trips back to his County Town Hometown, almost a bus every Half An Hour.

He should still be able to buy a ticket.

The only Shortcoming was that the Distance from where he and his second brother lived was Compare far; from Yuangang Village to Yuexiu South Bus Station would still take nearly an hour.