Chapter 1778 - 1029

"Not yet," Lei Long grabbed Zhong Junkai’s phone, watched the video on his phone, and sent the video segment about Liu Feifei from Junkai’s phone to his own before returning the phone to him.

When Zhong Junkai held his phone, he noticed that the video had been forwarded. He glanced at Lei Long and, in front of so many classmates, it was difficult to comment, but he felt that Lei Long must surely know Liu Feifei.

Liu Feifei has always been in the countryside or studying in Yun City, so how could she know Lei Long?

It’s a mystery.

"Zhong Junkai, when is your flight or train tomorrow?"

"Me? I can’t afford a plane ticket! I booked the high-speed train long ago. The station in Yun City has a high-speed train that passes through, and there’s an exit that’s not far from my home."

"What time is the high-speed train?"

"Tomorrow at nine o’clock. Lei Long, you won’t be sending me off, will you?"

"Hmm."

Other classmates overhearing the conversation chimed in: "Lei Long, why don’t you send me off too? My train’s also at nine tomorrow."

"Not convenient." Lei Long picked up a glass of wine, leisurely raised it in a certain direction, and silently said to himself, Liu Feifei, we’ll meet soon.

"Uh..." The classmate was left speechless.

"Hey, hey, Lei Long, I have an eight o’clock flight tomorrow. Could you send me to the airport before you see off Zhong Junkai?"

"No time..." Lei Long smiled faintly.

"This bias..." The classmate also had nothing to say.

During the day, Liu Feifei went to her uncle’s orchard to pick fruit. After working until six o’clock, she received 100 yuan from her uncle.

Working eight hours on the mountain, with lunch included, earns 100 yuan, the same payment for everyone picking fruit up there.

After work, she took a ride on her uncle’s small truck delivering fruit to market stalls in town.

"Feifei, you’re still a student; don’t push yourself so hard. If you’re facing difficulties, talk to your uncle. How are your grandparents? I haven’t had the time to visit them because the orchard’s been busy."

Both the boss and the driver, her uncle expressed concern for Liu Feifei while driving.

"Uncle, the road is winding; please drive carefully. I’m young and it’s no problem. Plus, I’m returning to school the day after tomorrow; it’s just a couple of days’ work. My grandparents are doing a bit better."

Liu Feifei’s grandfather lost his sight and received treatment in the hospital, while her grandmother suffers from high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, now hospitalized. This burden fell on her mother.

Her mother is an accountant in a company, yet her salary only covers the family’s expenses and Liu Feifei’s schooling. With the elderly falling ill, their pension couldn’t cover the hospital and surgery fees, so they had to borrow here and there to pay part of the hospital bills.

The hospital costs were overdue again; her mother hadn’t been paid yet. She worked during the day, cared for the hospitalized elderly after work, and even stayed overnight in the hospital. Seeing her mother this exhausted, Liu Feifei couldn’t add to her burden.

During the rigorous studies of her senior year, with only half a day off on weekends, Liu Feifei took a day and a half off to pick fruit at her uncle’s orchard, finishing by six to help sort fruits at a town stall.

"Alright, once this busy period is over, I’ll go visit them."

"Uncle, that’s very kind, but my grandparents will soon be discharged to rest at home, so you needn’t make a special trip, I know you’re busy."

"Okay, don’t work too late. It’s already this late, have something to eat first before working!"

"Uncle, I bought two buns to eat. I’ll sort the fruits at your stall."

As she spoke, the truck neared a fruit stall on the outskirts of town, beside which was a snack shop. Liu Feifei got off, shut the door, and bought two vegetarian buns, costing fifty cents each, from the snack shop.

Uncle didn’t have time to attend to Liu Feifei, as he had an entire truckload of fruit to sell.

Liu Feifei ate the buns, drank a cup of tea from the snack shop owner, and started sorting fruits at the stall.

Working here earns eight yuan an hour; you can do more work, staying until all the fruits are sorted and loaded onto the truck, and you get paid daily.

Liu Feifei sat on a small stool, checking fruits for weight with others during their part-time jobs.

She was strong; often, the small tasks of fruit sorting didn’t need her. Instead, she helped weigh the fruits on the scale.

Weighing fruits wasn’t easy; after weighing, they had to be unloaded, with crates weighing over ten kilograms being carried back and forth for hours, which was quite tiring.

However, Liu Feifei managed with ease, her speed being swift and smooth, earning praise from the stall owner since Liu Feifei started working there three years ago.

On her days off, during the harvest season usually post-October, she would pick fruit and work part-time there.

In the past, her mom and grandparents worried about her working so hard and insisted she shouldn’t exhaust herself there.

But she wished to earn some living expenses and lighten her mother’s load; their income was precariously balanced on her mother’s shoulders, causing her heartfelt pain and making her especially well-behaved from an early age.

She remembered her childhood, always concerned about her brother and father, though she was too young and incapable of finding them back then.

Liu Feifei knew her mother’s heartache; she resolved to seek justice for her mother, determined to attend a university in the Capital City to search for her brother and father, hoping to reunite their family for happiness.