THE FAKE DAUGHTER BECAME THE FAVORITE - CHAPTER 40

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Chapter 40: Shen Jinghe Is A Jinx

"Then you haven't crossed the bridge yet, right?"

"No, if I remember correctly, there should still be several kilometers to go."

"Then you'll have to take a detour! That was close, right after the assistant director's car crossed, the bridge collapsed. The water in the river is just too strong."

"Okay, I understand."

"Alright then, we won't wait for you. We'll head back to the hotel first."

After hanging up, Shen Jinghe told Wen Yan they needed to take a detour.

He immediately re-navigated and selected another route.

However, this road wasn't easy to drive on either—it was bumpy the whole way.

Wen Yan joked that it was like riding a bumper car.

Shen Jinghe retorted: "Be grateful. It's already good that we haven't gotten stuck in a mud pit."

The moment he finished speaking, the wheels got stuck in a mud pit and couldn't get out.

Wen Yan glanced at him: "Don't tell me you have a crow's mouth?"

Shen Jinghe was also quite frustrated. He quickly turned off the engine, got out, and looked for stones to wedge under the wheels.

After the two of them struggled for a long time, the car still wouldn't budge.

Shen Jinghe had no choice but to call the director.

To make matters worse, there was no signal!

Seeing the rain getting heavier and Shen Jinghe walking farther and farther away looking for signal, Wen Yan quickly grabbed an umbrella and chased after him.

Although their phone cards belonged to different carriers, the mountains treated them equally.

Neither of their phones could make calls.

Wen Yan was speechless: "What do we do now? That pit is too deep—the two of us can't push the car out."

Shen Jinghe frowned. He was determined to fight these terrible conditions: "As long as the car isn't buried, I refuse to believe we can't get it out!"

However, the moment he finished speaking, a thunderous roar came from behind them!

A tremendous boom from the sky—the mudslide made its grand entrance.

Right where their car had stalled, the mountain slopes on both sides had completely collapsed.

The car was instantly buried...

Wen Yan looked at Shen Jinghe with utter dismay: "Seriously, you really do have a crow's mouth, don't you?"

Shen Jinghe was also helpless: "I was just saying it casually..."

"Enough!" Wen Yan quickly interrupted what he was about to say. "For the sake of our lives, starting now, don't speak anymore. Everything follows my arrangements. Do you agree?"

Shen Jinghe wanted to speak, but thinking of the buried car, he took a deep breath and chose to nod instead.

After Wen Yan looked around, she pointed in a certain direction they had come from: "There are some houses over there. It should be a village. Where there's a village, there's probably signal. I suggest we go there and try our luck."

Shen Jinghe continued to nod.

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Mountains look close but are far to reach.

Looking at the houses that seemed right in front of them, it took the two nearly half an hour of walking through wind and rain to get there.

The good news was that there was signal at one spot along the way. Shen Jinghe got through to the director and learned that the director and others had successfully returned to the hotel.

At the same time, there was bad news, the director had received word that the mountain collapse wasn't limited to one location. The roads in and out of the mountains had been blocked.

Even if Shen Jinghe's car hadn't been buried, they couldn't get out anyway. They needed to wait for the government to clear it before the roads could be reopened.

The director told them not to panic and to first find a household to see if they could stay temporarily.

This was currently the only solution.

In this day and age, many elderly people live alone in rural mountain areas.

The family they were staying with was occupied only by a widowed old woman.

The old woman said that decades ago, her home was still lively. her husband was alive, and her sons and daughters were all at home.

But later, after the children got married, they all moved to the cities to make a living, leaving her alone to watch over the two two-story buildings belonging to her eldest and youngest sons.

So tonight, Wen Yan and Shen Jinghe didn't have to worry about having nowhere to stay.

Although the old woman lived alone, she kept the house in perfect order. The furniture in the unused rooms was all covered with plastic sheets, and when uncovered, everything was still clean and tidy.

The old woman even brought out clothes belonging to her sons and daughters-in-law for Wen Yan and Shen Jinghe to change into.

After a wonderful hot bath and some ginger soup to drink, Wen Yan immediately felt comfortable all over.

However, they couldn't just eat and drink for free at the old woman's expense. Wen Yan took the initiative to help the old woman with chores.

Sweeping, shelling peanuts, peeling chestnuts, she wasn't afraid of hard work and did everything.

Shen Jinghe was also too embarrassed to just watch without doing anything.

To be honest, he'd eaten chestnuts before, but this was the first time he'd ever known they grow inside a thorny pod, it was truly bizarre.

He was just a bit curious, how was Wen Yan so skilled at these tasks?

Stepping on the thorny pod and rolling them on the ground, she deftly extracted the fruit with scissors in her hand.

But thinking about it, she must have had a tough life before being adopted around ten years old; maybe that's when she learned.

He wondered what kind of life she had as a child.

Definitely poor and hard, and then she ended up in an orphanage.

Hmm, it's pretty good that she didn't turn out badly.

Fighting openly and covertly with Shen Zhirou didn't seem like such a big flaw.

Never mind her and Shen Zhirou, even between him and his eldest brother, or between the third and fourth brothers, whose relationship was any better?

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Just like that, the two stayed at the old woman's house for three days and two nights.

During these three days and nights, Shen Jinghe gained quite a lot.

Not only did he learn to start a fire and cook rice over a wood stove, but he also received a whole bunch of gifts in the form of mosquito bites.

Because of his presence, Wen Yan felt like the mosquitoes weren't even biting her anymore.

On the afternoon of the third day, the director personally drove to pick them both up.

As for their car that had been buried by the landslide, it was pitiful, already totaled.

On the way back to the city, Shen Jinghe specifically stopped at a pharmacy to buy some medicine.

Actually, he quite liked this small place, he didn't even need to wear a mask and didn't have to worry about being recognized.

When the car returned, it was right around dinner time. Quite a few people from the crew had come to the first-floor restaurant to eat.

Many pairs of eyes were staring at the two of them. To avoid suspicion, Wen Yan didn't take the same elevator as Shen Jinghe.

Shen Jinghe didn't pay much attention to all that. He pulled out a box of medicine from the plastic bag he was carrying and tossed it to Wen Yan.

"Take it. Don't spread your cold to others."

Wen Yan almost didn't catch it. By the time she had a firm grip and wanted to say thank you, Shen Jinghe had already closed the elevator door.

'Wait, can't this person speak nicely? What does he mean "spread the cold to others"?'

After ordering food to be delivered to her room, Wen Yan finally changed into a completely clean set of clothes from head to toe.

Just as she was about to eat, her phone kept beeping non-stop.

It was messages from Wang Che.

'Beep beep beep, are you there, are you there?'

'Quick, tell me what happened in the mountains these past few days?'

'Someone saw Shen Jinghe showing concern for you, do you two have something going on? They say there's something ambiguous between you two. Is it true or false?'

Wen Yan was speechless.

She sent back a long string of ellipses.

'What nonsense, it's all completely fabricated, way too exaggerated!!!'

Wang Che: 'You have zero credibility right now! Hurry up and confess honestly. What good thing did he give you at the elevator entrance?'

Wen Yan directly took a photo of the cold medicine and sent it over.

'A cold isn't a good thing. Do you want this "good thing"?'

(End of Chapter)

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