"When you get off the train, someone will pick you up. The license plate number is
80가 8**9."
Lisa dragged their luggage, and Jennie looked around the station exit for Irene Bae's car. She said she will send a car to pick them up, but after a long time, she didn't see a car that was supposed to pick people up.
"Didn't give a phone number either." Jennie muttered. She was about to call Irene Bae, but saw a man wearing a straw hat and overalls waving to her from afar.
"Is it Jennie?" The man's voice was so loud that it could be heard across the square.
Jennie froze, and saw the man running over: "Little girl, are you Jennie?"
"I am, and you?"
"Irene sent me to pick you up, let's go. The car is at the front entrance." As she said that, the man reached out enthusiastically to pick up the suitcase in Lisa's hand. Who knew that before his hand could touch the suitcase, Lisa had already ducked away.
The man grabbed air, then gave a strange glance at Lisa, seeing that Lisa had a calm face and didn't speak, he thought he did something wrong.
Was it because she just delivered goods to the city and the smell of sweat was too heavy and people from the city wasn't used to smelling it? Thinking about this, the man immediately apologized: "I'm sorry, the sweat on my body is too strong. It must have assailed your noses."
"No, you misunderstood, my husband is introverted and doesn't like physical contact with people." Jennie knew the other party had misunderstood and hurriedly explained.
"Oh, hehehe... ok." The man smiled and didn't take it seriously then. When she saw the other side didn't need help taking the suitcase, she led the two forward. "My name is Dong Il. I'm from the same village as Irene. You can call me Uncle Dong. I just brought a cart of goods to the town this morning and just sold out and was about to go back, then Irene said she had two friends who specially came to see her from the big city and asked me to pick them up."
"We inconvenienced you."
"No inconvenience, no inconvenience at all."
Jennie smiled and wondered, "How did you recognized me just now?"
"How did I recognize ah. We don't usually see well-dressed people like you in our small country town. I could easily find you at a glance when you stopped at the square." Dong Il smiled cheerfully, "Especially your man, coming from that station was just like coming out of the TV."
Your man? This description is really direct and crude ah. Jennie couldn't help but blush again.
How can I be married now, but still be ashamed of it? No, I just have to have thicker skin. Jennie shook her head and tried to "cheer up".
"What's wrong?" Lisa asked with concern.
"It's okay, it's just a little hot." Jennie used the hot weather to cover up her blush, although Lisa may not have seen anything from her face.
Lisa paused and found that Jennie's face was sweating a lot, so she pulled out a handkerchief from her pocket to help Jennie wipe her face.
"I ... I'll do it myself." Jennie grabbed the handkerchief and wiped her sweat, but her fingers still felt the coolness of Lisa's fingertips.
'Why is my temperature so much higher than Lisa?!!' Jennie thought blankly.
"Okay, put the suitcase in the back." At this time, Dong Il shouted suddenly.
Jennie turned her head and found that Dong Il was standing in front of a truck, and she pointed to the back of it, which also held a pile of empty fruit baskets.
"..." No wonder she couldn't find the car herself. It turned out that it was a truck that came to pick her up. Irene Bae, that dead girl, didn't say it in advance, which made her just look for the license plate number on a car.
Dong Il helped the two and put their luggage in the car, then said to Jennie: "I have a small space in the front of the car, so I can only take one person, or do you want your man to sit in the back?"
Jennie probed the car interior and found that there were only two seats in the front of the car. Suddenly, she frowned slightly. She would be uneasy is Lisa sat alone behind in the truck, but she would still be uneasy if Lisa sat in the passenger seat up front as well.
"Uncle Dong, let us both sit in the back." Jennie decided not to be separated from Lisa.
"The back will be bumpy, and we will be on the mountain road for a long time. The bumps will be very severe."
Then Lisa can't be left alone.
"It's okay. Irene said that the scenery here is very beautiful. I will sit back and look at it." Jennie casually made an excuse.
"Okay, all right." Dong Il didn't persuade her again. "You people from the city ah, are used to living in the city usually, like to see our mountains and rivers here ah." Their mountain scenery is good, and occasionally some city friends like to come visit, so Dong Il didn't think there was any problem with Jennie's excuse.
Jennie smiled and didn't speak, then climbed into the car with Lisa. She set their suitcases down and they sat on their suitcases with their backs against the truck's cab.
It took more than half an hour to drive from the country town to Irene Bae's home and during that time, they spent more than ten minutes on the mountain road. In the first half, the car moved smoothly. When they entered the mountain, Dong Il shouted out, "The road is going to be bumpy, you have to stabilize yourselves."
"Okay." Jennie responded loudly, then turned her head to remind Lisa, when the car suddenly turned a corner. She was thrown by inertia and landed into Lisa's arms.
Lisa leaned against the car's baggage compartment and firmly held Jennie in her arms.
"That ... Uncle Dong said, the road ahead isn't good. So, let's stabilize." Jennie said that as if she slapped herself and couldn't help but add. "Don't get thrown like me."
"En." Lisa nodded seriously.
Jennie sat up from Lisa's arms, then grabbed the back of the baggage compartment tightly with both hands to prepare for the next section of the mountain road that hasn't been traversed.
"Clang, clang dang, clang dang dang~~"
Their bodies rise and fell with the car and the back of their waists stuck against the car's baggage compartment. They bumped down several times and ached. But Jennie didn't dare to reach out to rub the ache, for fear that if she let go, her whole person would lose its stability.
"Clang dang~~"
The car was bumpy again, just as Jennie gritted her teeth and was about to collide against the surface again, an arm quietly cushioned Jennie's back. Jennie only felt her back was soft and her body was caught in a warm embrace.
"Lisa?!" Jennie turned back.
"It hurts, I'm blocking it." Lisa's voice was very low. If it wasn't for Jennie's ears, the voice would be almost lost in the whistling of the truck. But Lisa didn't need Jennie to hear, she just didn't want Jennie to have the same bruises on her back like him.
Jennie was too ticklish and she won't let him touch her. If she was injured, she couldn't massage and apply medicine for her, so she couldn't get hurt.
Jennie was quietly pasted within Lisa's arms. With every bump from the car, both of them had closer contact. Jennie didn't know how to describe her feeling at that time, but she felt that this embrace seemed to be a circle of a small world and all around it was quiet. She could only hear the other's heartbeat and breath. And all her feelings were in Lisa's powerful arms.
She didn't know how long it took after that, but the car suddenly stopped. Dong Il stepped out of the cockpit and said to the two with a smile: "Here we are."
"Here we are?" Jennie suddenly returned to her senses.
"It's Irene family's cherry orchard." Dong Il said, while helping to pick up the luggage that the two handed down.
"Thank you, Uncle Dong." After getting out of the car, Jennie pulled out a box of chocolates from her backpack and handed it over. "I have a box of chocolates. Here you go."
"This won't do, I said that this was on my way, so it was convenient." Dong Il waved her hand and said she would not accept it.
"This is the souvenir gift we casually bought. It's not expensive, it's to show our appreciation."
"That's fine." The people from the mountains were straightforward. When they saw Jennie really wanted to gift it, they didn't refuse it again.
"Soon Irene will come down to pick us up in a minute. "Jennie smiled.
"Okay, then I'm leaving. Come and have dinner at this uncle's house when you're free." Dong Il waved his hand and drove away in his pick-up truck with a clang-dang.
Until the sound of the truck could no longer be heard, Lisa's brows slightly loosened. she had never seen such a noisy car before, which was even louder than the train.
"Nini!" At this moment, a bright female voice came down from the hillside, then a girl in a plaid shirt ran down the mountain like the wind.
"Baechu." Jennie was so happy that she let go of her suitcase and ran to meet her. The two flower-like girls hugged on the grassy hillside, smiling like two five-year-old toddlers.
Lisa looked at Jennie's smile, and all the discontentment that had accumulated from the noisy journey instantly dissipated. her eyes were bright, even shone with some satisfaction. she thought that if she could see Jennie's smile every time she had to experience such noise, then she felt that the noise wasn't so unbearable.
The two laughed enough, and Irene Bae then devoted her time to look at the young man who had been standing quietly under the hillside. At her appearance, she immediately said with jealousy and envy, "What a beautiful youth, how could she encounter you."
"Jealous ah?" Jennie laughed. "I got in line more than ten years in advance. "
"Uhuh, I know your childhood sweethearts."
They walked back a few steps and Irene Bae extended her hand to Lisa: "Hello, my name is Irene Bae, and I'm your wife's good friend."
Jennie turned her head to see Lisa, but instead of urging or reminding her, she quietly waited for Lisa's response.
Lisa first looked at Irene Bae's outstretched hand, then looked at Irene Bae's face, her movement was slow and expressionless.
Irene Bae wasn't impatient, still with a goodwill smile, she patiently waited for Lisa's response. Lisa's situation has long been mentioned by Jennie, so she didn't feel strange or impatient at this time.
"Hello." After two minutes, Lisa finally gave a response, but she just said hello and didn't reach out to shake Irene Bae's outstretched hand.
But just this answer made Jennie very happy. Because it took Lisa only two minutes for her to accept her friend.
"I've decided, the next time I talk to her, I will definitely not take action." Her hand was outstretched for a long time and felt a little sour, and Irene couldn't help but rub her hand and complain to roast Jennie.
Jennie ignored her, holding Lisa's hand, and they went up the mountain.
Irene clutched Jennie's luggage and followed, leading the two into the small wooden house in the cherry orchard.
There are five cabins total lined up in a row. They were built in the middle of the cherry orchard.
Irene gave Jennie the middle room and then introduced: "The kitchen is in the back and at the right is the bathroom. Take a bath and change your clothes, then we will eat. I live next door. You can call me anytime."
"Okay." Jennie glanced briefly at the wooden house, the internal space is very large, about twenty ft . Although the decoration of the room was simple, it was very sentimental. Irene even prepared them a crimson mandarin duck quilt, just like a bridal chamber.
"Then I'll go make dinner first." When walking to the door, Irene turned back and winked at Jennie. "Friendly reminder."
"What?" Jennie asked.
"The sound insulation here isn't good, you guys ... pay attention at night." After finishing, Irene quickly rushed out of the door and happened to avoid Jennie's bout of rage from the humiliation from her flying shoe assault.
When she missed, Jennie turned around and met Lisa's line of sight, so the disharmonious thoughts that Irene drawn out from her brain suddenly overflowed and she couldn't accept them.
"It's okay, I can wear headphones." Lisa said that since Jennie bought the headphones for her, so she wasn't afraid of the noise as before.
"..." What's the use of wearing headphones for that kind of thing!!!