Lin Fan chuckled, "Xue'er, I know some massage techniques that can promote healthy development."
"I don't need development!"
Jiang Hu Xue's pretty face turned red, and she was so angry that she picked up a pillow and threw it at Lin Fan's head.
Lin Fan instinctively withdrew his hand and used his arm to block.
Jiang Hu Xue took the opportunity to put on her clothes and changed the subject, "You'll take me to the city tomorrow."
"Huh?"
Lin Fan's mouth fell open.
"What 'huh,' you won't even take me?"
"No, no."
Lin Fan placed the pillow back on the bed and said with difficulty, "My sister-in-law went back to see her parents a few days ago, and I have to pick her up tomorrow. We've already agreed."
He scratched his head and added, "If you leave in the morning, I can pick up my sister-in-law in the afternoon."
Jiang Hu Xue snorted, "That's more like it."
"Can you drive?" Lin Fan asked.
"Yes, why are you asking?"
Jiang Hu Xue was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Did you buy a car?"
"No."
Lin Fan had a bitter feeling he couldn't express.
Others bought cars with great fanfare, wanting the whole village to know.
But he couldn't. He was afraid his sister-in-law would nag him about it all the time if she knew.
And then there was that little girl, Tian Mengyao, who seemed to want to claim the car for herself.
"The village committee has a car. I'll borrow it tomorrow, and you can drive it."
"That would be great!"
Jiang Hu Xue had originally planned to ask Lin Fan to help her move her luggage, but now it seemed unnecessary.
"By the way, what kind of car is it?"
"I only know how to drive automatic. I can't drive manual."
Jiang Hu Xue thought that Luofeng Village was so poor and backward, even the village committee wouldn't have a fancy car.
Lin Fan pretended to recall, tilting his head and looking at the ceiling, and replied, "I think it's called a Wrangler. I heard it's worth five or six hundred thousand, and I don't know what kind of transmission it has."
"What?" Jiang Hu Xue exclaimed, "Your village committee can afford such a nice car?"
"Is it very nice?"
Lin Fan looked at Jiang Hu Xue with a half-smile.
Jiang Hu Xue widened her beautiful eyes and retorted, "Isn't five or six hundred thousand nice?"
Lin Fan slapped his forehead, realizing he had said the wrong thing, and explained, "It's okay, I can afford one soon too."
Jiang Hu Xue didn't follow up on that topic, but said excitedly, "I've never driven such a nice car before!"
"Can you really borrow it?"
Lin Fan sat on the edge of the bed and said with a playful grin, "If you let me kiss you, I promise it'll be no problem."
"Kiss your big head, you're so annoying, get lost!"
Jiang Hu Xue turned her face away, pouting her lips, and refused to look at Lin Fan.
Lin Fan shrugged and left dejectedly.
Jiang Hu Xue almost called him back, but thinking of his earlier presumptuousness, she closed her mouth.
After leaving the school, Lin Fan sighed.
Jiang Hu Xue, with her pure and lovely, sensible demeanor, was someone he couldn't stop thinking about!
With this thought in mind, Lin Fan ran all the way to the village committee secretary's office.
"Secretary Tian, um, tomorrow I have a friend who needs to use the car to go to the city for some business."
Lin Fan brought this up after he finished helping Tian Mengyao with her chores.
"Hmm? Hmm?"
Tian Mengyao looked up at the smiling Lin Fan and asked, "What friend, and why do they need to borrow the car?"
"A good buddy," Lin Fan spread his hands. "I really couldn't refuse."
"Oh, then let him borrow that minivan. It's just sitting there anyway, and it'll go bad if it's left idle for too long."
Tian Mengyao said as a matter of course.
"Hiss~"
Lin Fan inhaled sharply and frowned, "Hey, you're really thinking ahead. Don't I have any pride?"
He then pointed at himself.
Tian Mengyao put down her documents and said earnestly, "This is for your own good."
"If a 'good buddy' can borrow it once, and sees that your car is nice, they'll ask for it again and again."
"That car is a gas guzzler, and you'll regret it then."
Lin Fan chuckled, "Oh, you're looking out for me now?"
He held up a finger, "I promise, just this once, and no more."
"I don't believe you?"
Tian Mengyao pouted, still unwilling.
Lin Fan lightly slapped the table, "You're hoarding my private property. Hurry up and open up the clinic and let me have the car. After my friend is done with it tomorrow morning, we can go pick up my sister-in-law in the afternoon."
"What, you treat the village committee like your own home?"
Tian Mengyao glared at Lin Fan with her head held high, "What am I to you? You can boss me around just like that?"
"I, I..."
Lin Fan stammered for a while, then said angrily, "Just tell me yes or no!"
"Yes~"
Tian Mengyao drew out the word, "The car is yours, you can use it however you want."
She threw the car key on the table and huffed, "Stubborn pride leads to suffering. You pay for the gas yourself, I won't cover it."
"Okay."
Lin Fan nodded, then smiled, "You manage the village affairs, and you manage my affairs too..."
Tian Mengyao snorted, "I'll manage them. You're my subordinate, what's wrong with me managing you?"
As she spoke, Tian Mengyao had already walked out.
And so, the two of them drove to the clinic.
"I'm leaving."
Tian Mengyao got out of the car and handed the car key to Lin Fan, "Take care of the car. When it comes back, no cigarette ashes or mud."
Lin Fan took the car key and promised, "Don't worry, I'll even wash it for you."
He waved his hand, "Hurry up and go. I'll call you tomorrow afternoon."
Tian Mengyao gave him a glare, "Always ordering me around."
As she spoke, Tian Mengyao turned and left.
Lin Fan stood by the car, watching Tian Mengyao's graceful retreating figure, and had some thoughts.
However, the problem was, her background was too formidable, he didn't dare!
"Why am I thinking so much?"
Lin Fan shook his head with a wry smile and strode into the clinic.
...
Dawn broke.
Lin Fan woke Jiang Hu Xue up at six-thirty in the morning.
"Hurry up and open the door."
Jiang Hu Xue hurriedly got up and put on her clothes, complaining as she did so, "Hold on, I'm not dressed yet. Why are you here so early?"
Lin Fan didn't want to come so early either, but reality wouldn't allow it!
Tian Mengyao usually woke up at seven-thirty to start work. If he didn't come early, he might be caught, and his plan would be exposed.
To get up early, he had even given up his great nightlife and didn't go to Song Yue's house last night.
He waited outside the door for more than ten minutes before Jiang Hu Xue opened the door.
"Have you packed your things?"
Lin Fan put his hands in his pockets and tilted his head to look inside.
"I packed them yesterday. Where's your car?"
Jiang Hu Xue had a bright smile on her face, looking very excited.
She hadn't driven much since she got her license, let alone a luxury car like a Wrangler.