Zhou Chen looked down at his watch and replied, "Two hours and eighteen minutes."

Peng Yongli was stunned when she heard Zhou Chen report such a precise number.

"Have I slept that long?"

"Well, we'll be at the next stop in a little while, do you want to move around?"

"Okay, thank you so much for what you did just now." Peng Yongli said gratefully.

"It's nothing. Don't worry about it. You sit for a while. I'll go check inside the carriage. Some people will get off the train and I need to maintain order."

"Go and do your work, don't worry about me."

Zhou Chen did not leave immediately. Instead, he picked up the thermos on the table and made a cup of brown sugar water for Peng Yongli.

"Take the cup and drink."

Peng Yongli quickly refused: "No, you have already helped me a lot."

Zhou Chen smiled and said, "It's okay. This is the extra water cup I bought earlier. Since I gave it to you, I naturally can't take it back. You can use it. Don't be so polite."

"How can that be possible? You've already helped me so much, how can I accept your things? No, how about I buy them with money?"

As she spoke, Peng Yongli was about to take money out of her pocket, but Zhou Chen directly put the cup in her hand.

"It's just a water cup, it's not worth much money. You just talked to me for so long. Although we just met by chance, we are still friends. Just consider this as a small gift from me. Okay, don't put it off. I have to get busy now."

Without giving Peng Yongli a chance to refuse, Zhou Chen immediately picked up his hat and quickly walked out of the dining car.

Peng Yongli held the teacup in her hand, staring blankly at the direction Zhou Chen left. She felt that she shouldn't have accepted the cup, but for some reason, she was reluctant to return it.

After waiting for half an hour, when Zhou Chen returned to the dining car again, Peng Yongli had left, but after a while, she came back.

"Here, money for the water cup."

"Please accept it. Otherwise, I would feel embarrassed to accept your cup. I gave you the money and it's considered as my purchase. That's why I feel comfortable accepting it."

Afraid that Zhou Chen would not take the money, Peng Yongli explained seriously.

Seeing the serious expression on Peng Yongli's face, Zhou Chen did not refuse again, but did not take all her money. Instead, he took part of it.

"It's just a water cup, it's not worth much, this is enough."

"Oh."

Peng Yongli took back the remaining money with a smile. She didn't know how much the water cup cost, so she could only take as much as possible.

"Zhou Chen, you said I could contact you if I need to buy a train ticket in the future, so how should I contact you?"

As soon as she said this, her cheeks turned red. This was the first time in her life that she took the initiative to ask for contact information from the opposite sex.

Zhou Chen said: "I don't have a phone at home. I'll leave you the phone number of our police team. If you want to find me, call our police team. If I'm not there, just leave me a message and I'll call you back when I know what's going on."

Peng Yongli smiled happily, took the note with Zhou Chen's phone number, and whispered, "Thank you. I will call you if I need you. I won't disturb you from working now. I will go back to my seat first."

"Okay, if you need anything in the car, you can come to me again."

Zhou Chen did not hide his kindness at all. He had a good impression of Peng Yongli, and coupled with her familiar face, he did not mind getting close to this girl at all.

"Goodbye."

Peng Yongli waved, then happily walked back to her own carriage. She kept the note with the phone number close to her body, looked at the thermos in her hand, and the smile on her face became even brighter.

After more than ten hours, the train finally arrived at its destination, Ningyang Station.

Before the train arrived at the station, the passengers had already begun to crowd and prepare to get off. There was another round of busyness. Only when everyone had left did Zhou Chen and his group's trip end.

To Zhou Chen's surprise, Peng Mingjie brought Peng Yongli to say hello to him and thank him for his previous help before leaving.

This trip was very worthwhile for Zhou Chen because he met Peng Yongli. He knew that they would have more opportunities to meet each other in the future, so he did not show any emotion in front of them.

As soon as Zhou Chen returned to the compound, he saw Wang Xin sitting in the yard feeding chickens.

"Hey, busy man, why are you so free today?"

Wang Xin said cheerfully, "I just finished a case and can rest for a few days. But it's boring to rest at home without you guys."

"Then how do you want to have fun? As a criminal police officer, you can have a few days off, so just rest well. You are complaining now."

Zhou Chen said something and then went back to his home, while Wang Xin scattered the chicken feed in his hand on the ground and followed Zhou Chen.

"Zhou Chen, let's go out and play. Can we invite Xiaonian, Ma Yan, and Dali to join us?"

"You really have a lot of thoughts. We just came back from a trip. I'm not sleeping at home, but going out with you. What are you thinking? Go find them by yourself. I want to take a shower and have a sleep."

"No, you're not going out with me just to play, I have something important to do."

"No matter how important the matter is, it's not as important as my sleep right now."

Zhou Chen didn't even let Wang Xin in through the front door. After entering the house, he simply washed up and lay down on the bed to rest.

Wang Xin stood outside the door, muttering in frustration, "How boring! I wanted to tell you about my heroic image in handling cases."

Zhou Chen lay in bed but couldn't fall asleep for a long time. He couldn't help but think of Peng Yongli whom he met in the car. It can be said that she was the biggest surprise since he came to this world.

Just seeing Peng Yongli, he couldn't help but think of Hualan in the world of "The Story of Minglan", the wife who had been with him for decades and one of the women who had been with him the longest.

Amidst such wild thoughts, Zhou Chen slowly fell into a deep sleep.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 1367 The target is here, goodbye Lili

In a blink of an eye, more than a month has passed. Ma Kui and Wang Xin were only temporarily transferred to the criminal police team before, but now, their relationship has been officially transferred to the criminal police team of the Railway Bureau. Now they have become real railway criminal police.

Wang Xin boasted about this for a long time. You know, when he first entered the police academy, his biggest dream was to become a glorious criminal policeman.

He was assigned to the passenger police team before and was depressed for a long time, but he didn't expect that after three years, he finally achieved his goal and became a glorious criminal policeman.

However, he did not forget how he became a criminal policeman, so he deliberately took some wine to toast Ma Kui. Unfortunately, he was scolded and reprimanded by Ma Kui.

"Okay, auntie."

After Zhou Chen finished acupuncture for Wang Sufang, he put away the needles and said, "Uncle Ma, Auntie has a cold. Her current body will recover more slowly than ordinary people if she catches a cold. She needs to take some medicine. I'll write a prescription. You guys go back to the pharmacy and get some medicine. I'll take a look and then boil it."

Ma Kui asked worriedly, "Is it serious?"

Wang Sufang has been feeling unwell for two days. She was afraid of infecting little Ma Jian, so she asked Ma Yan to take care of the child for the past two days. At night, the cough was more severe, so she went to sleep alone in another room.

Ma Kui and Ma Yan both wanted to take her to the hospital, but she refused to go and insisted on waiting for Zhou Chen to come back from work before seeing her. During this time, Dr. Shen came to see her once and also suggested that she go to the hospital, but she refused to go.

Wang Sufang now has a great aversion to hospitals, because even the major hospitals in the capital are not very confident about treating her lung cancer. On the contrary, after Zhou Chen's treatment, she is still alive and well almost three years later.

So compared to the doctors in the hospital, she trusted Zhou Chen more, even Dr. Shen in the hospital was far inferior to him.

Zhou Chen was out driving these two days, and she would rather stay at home than go to the hospital, just waiting for Zhou Chen to come back.

Ma Kui was quite worried about this. He also admitted that Zhou Chen was an excellent doctor, but he was very anxious when he saw his wife coughing these two days and refusing to go to the hospital.

Look, as soon as Zhou Chen came back today, he was pulled over by the man who had been waiting for him.

Zhou Chen answered truthfully: "It's a severe cold. It may take ten days or half a month to recover. Auntie's body is weak now. She should pay more attention to keeping warm, especially when the seasons change. Another thing is to supplement nutrition, eat nutritious food, and don't overwork."

Ma Kui nodded repeatedly, but still sighed. Keeping warm was easy to say, but he had mentioned the issue of fatigue many times. However, he needed to work, and it was impossible for him to keep an eye on Wang Sufang all the time. He could only ask his daughter Ma Yan to keep an eye on her more.

Ma Kui took the prescription to buy medicine. As soon as Zhou Chen came out of Ma's house, he saw Wang Xin coming over with a TV.

"Oh, you bought a TV, are you going to give it to Ma Yan?"

Wang Xin had long been accustomed to Zhou Chen's teasing, so he didn't care at all and even held his head high.

"Well, do you want to stay and watch it for a while?"

"Forget it. I'm not really interested. If you send this TV over, your future father-in-law won't be polite to you."

Zhou Chen has seen many different sizes of televisions, so how could he be interested in this antique big-butt TV?

"Look at what you said. I'm not giving it to him. I'm showing it to Ma Yan."

Of course Wang Xin knew what kind of person Ma Kui was, and he didn't expect that this TV could impress Ma Kui. He only dared to send it secretly when Ma Kui was not at home.

Ma Kui quickly bought the medicine, went to Zhou Chen's house to examine Zhou Chen, and then hurried home to prepare the medicine.

But as soon as he got home, he saw Ma Yan tinkering with the TV. He was so angry that he started arguing with Ma Yan. In the end, it was Wang Sufang who came and stopped the confrontation between father and daughter.

One afternoon, the news that Wang Xin bought a TV and sent it to Lao Ma's house spread throughout the compound.

At night, a large group of people gathered together in the yard, placed the TV in the yard, and pulled an extension cord, preparing to test broadcast the show for the first time in the yard.

Zhou Chen didn't want to go at first, but Wang Xin kept pestering him to go over, and finally he had no choice but to agree to go and take a look.

When Zhou Chen and Wang Xin came over, most of the people in the yard had already come. Everyone in the yard brought chairs and small stools and sat together, eating melon seeds, eating, and quietly waiting for the TV to start.

Niu Dali was standing next to the TV, holding the antenna, and saying bad things about Wang Xin. He was startled when he saw Wang Xin and Zhou Chen suddenly appear.

Zhou Chen walked to the edge of the crowd and found a stool to sit down.

As soon as he sat down, Aunt Lu, who was sitting next to him, asked Zhou Chen with a smile: "Zhou Chen, look, Wang Xin has become a criminal policeman and has now been rated as a model. I heard from Old Lu that the criminal police team wants to transfer you to the criminal police team. Why don't you go?"

Before Zhou Chen could answer, Lu Hongxing scolded Aunt Lu in dissatisfaction: "You are meddling in so many matters. Zhou Chen has his own ideas. It is your turn to talk nonsense here. Besides, Zhou Chen is now the chief of police, and he is only in his twenties. He has a bright future. What do you know as a woman? You can only see what is in front of you."

Wu Changgui in the front row turned his head and said, "What Lao Lu said is right. Zhou Chen is capable. He became the chief of train police after working for two years. He has won several advanced awards. He will definitely be a leader in the future. His future is bright. The criminal police team is good, but it is also hard work. Look at Lao Ma and Wang Xin. Once they go out, they can't come back for several days. They don't have much time to rest. We can rest for two or three days after each train trip. We don't have much time to relax."

Mrs. Wu asked curiously, "But I heard that the salary at the Criminal Police Team is high."

"You know nothing. Criminal police salaries are slightly higher than train police salaries, but Zhou Chen is the head of the train police squad and his salary is not low. Maybe the criminal police squad can get more bonuses, but it's hard to say. Besides, being a criminal police is much more dangerous than being a train police."

Cai Danian agreed, "Yes, in my opinion, among the young people in our compound, Xiao Zhou is the most capable."

After being praised continuously, Zhou Chen just smiled faintly and said: "Uncle Cai, I feel embarrassed by your praise. I don't have any ability, I'm just lucky."

"Even if it's luck, it's still a skill. Otherwise, why don't others have that luck, right?"

"Yes, what Lao Cai said makes sense."

"What time is it? Hasn't Huo Yuan Jia started yet?"

"almost."

"Where are Old Wang and Old Ma's family? Aren't they coming?"

"........."

Just as everyone was eating and chatting, Cai Xiaonian walked into the courtyard with a girl who was not very tall and was dressed simply, and walked towards the crowd with a smile on her face.

When he came up to him, he suddenly coughed loudly a few times. Wang Xin, who was fiddling with the TV antenna in front, looked back and was stunned. He hurriedly patted Niu Dali beside him. Niu Dali turned around and was also shocked.

"Mom."

"Who is this?"

"I don't know, what's going on?"

The two of them stared at each other stupidly.

Cai Xiaonian raised his head proudly at the two of them, then walked to his parents and patted them.

As soon as Cai Danian and his wife turned around, the girl called out in a crisp voice, "Uncle, Auntie," with a sweet smile on her face.

When Cai Danian and his wife saw the girl, they immediately looked delighted and were very enthusiastic.

"Come on, come and sit down, come and sit down, the TV will be here soon, let's watch TV together."

All of a sudden, everyone around looked at the girl, and Mrs. Wu even screamed, "Oh, oh, who is this, Xiaonian, why don't you introduce her to everyone?"

The girl smiled embarrassedly, and Cai Xiaonian's eyes wrinkled from laughing so much. He introduced herself proudly yet embarrassedly.

“This is my partner.”

"Oh, my partner, Xiaonian, it's ok, I've brought my partner back."

Although the girl was very embarrassed, she still took the initiative to say, "Uncle, aunt, hello, my name is Yanhong."

Cai Xiaonian continued, "My girlfriend is Tang Yanhong. Yanhong, let me introduce everyone to you."

"This is Brother Wu, this is my sister-in-law, this is my master, this is my master's wife, they are all our neighbors, Brother Jia, Brother Li, Uncle Zhao..."

When Cai Xiaonian introduced someone, Tang Yanhong followed suit and called out with a smile on her face, which made it easy for people to like her.

"Yanhong, I have to introduce this person to you. He is my childhood friend and good brother, Zhou Chen."

Zhou Chen smiled at Tang Yanhong: "Hello."

Tang Yanhong said seriously: "Hello, Zhou Chen, I heard Xiaonian often mention you, saying that you are multi-talented and very amazing."

"What's so great about that? Don't listen to his nonsense."

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