CHAPTER 642: CHAPTER 642 ANXIOUS FEMALE

The road back to West River Village is considered a rather secluded one; Lin Fan is familiar with it, so he doesn’t need to use navigation. Choosing this road makes the journey much shorter, but it’s not on the navigation system, so fewer cars travel on it.

Ahead of Lin Fan’s vehicle, a small truck is moving, with the logo of a freight platform printed on its body.

"What are you doing?"

On the truck, a female voice sounds quite emotional.

"What did I do to you?"

The driver said somewhat gloomily.

He didn’t know what he did to make the woman so emotional.

He’s a dedicated driver for the freight platform, earning a living by helping people transport goods. This job is his second today, with the backend showing the reward for this order is 50 yuan.

Too little!

His mind was filled with thoughts about the end of the month approaching, trying to earn more money for rent, utilities, and his family’s living expenses. Every month it’s quite tight, so earning a bit more could make life easier in the coming month.

However, this order was taking up too much time; if he didn’t end it quickly and take the next one, his plan to earn more today wouldn’t be realized.

The process of these moving jobs is picking up an order on the freight platform, then according to the location, rushing to the customer’s place, loading the goods into the vehicle, transporting them to the destination, unloading, and completing the task.

Each step can be optimized to save time, but may also be delayed for various reasons.

For example, if the road conditions are good or if a shortcut is available, a lot of time can be saved. But if the road conditions are bad, like during traffic peaks, it could be a nightmare.

Moreover, during loading and unloading, you wish for the customer’s goods to be as few as possible; naturally the more goods, the more time needed. But the price remains the same, no additional charge for more goods.

Unless the customer pays extra to ask the driver to help with moving, which allows for additional earnings, or an extra pair of hands to speed up loading and unloading; this is the perfect solution.

Today was really unlucky.

This was the kind of situation that every freight driver least wanted to encounter: this woman had a lot of goods and, to save money, didn’t want to pay the driver to help with the moving.

Just the process of loading the goods onto the vehicle took more than half an hour.

It means the driver waited downstairs at the customer’s location for more than half an hour.

The woman was saving money, running upstairs and downstairs over ten times by herself, and finally finished moving the goods.

The driver’s mood gradually became irritable with the prolonged waiting time. Calculating the time, loading goods onto the vehicle took more than half an hour; upon reaching the destination, who knows how long unloading would take? Possibly another half an hour, with this woman’s personality, it was entirely possible, along with round-trip driving time, this job ate up hours of his time.

Hours, just for 50 yuan.

The thought of this made the driver’s mood terribly bad.

But what could he do? The deed was done, he couldn’t refuse this order; he had accepted it himself and had to complete it, albeit tearfully, so he tried to save as much time as possible on the driving.

Therefore, the driver didn’t follow the navigation; he was familiar with the roads and knew there were shortcuts to take.

But for some reason, the woman got agitated.

This left the driver completely bewildered, not understanding why the woman was upset.

Originally irritated by the time-consuming move, the driver held no goodwill towards this woman, and now with her inexplicable actions, the driver was even more displeased.

"What am I doing? I’m driving, and I haven’t asked what you’re doing yet. This woman is really annoying!" the driver muttered to himself.

"Where is this going? He’s not following the navigation!"

The woman’s heart was very anxious at this moment.

The more she thought, the more frightened she became.

Recalling when she decided to move today, she ordered on the freight platform, truth be told, it was quite affordable, just 40 yuan, seemed a bit too cheap, she was very satisfied.

Happily placed the order, and waited for the driver to arrive.

Finally, the driver arrived, asked her to bring down the goods, so she pulled down a box.

The driver looked, showing a bit of surprise in his eyes, asked: "Hello, are there many items?"

She laughed and said: "There are a lot more items."

The driver responded: "Do you need help?"

She was somewhat surprised: "Can you help move them?"

Until this point, the exchange between them was friendly and relaxed.

The driver said: "I can, but it won’t be free; a tip is needed."

What? There’s a charge?

She kind of understood: society is really deep with tricks; no wonder moving is so cheap, turns out moving the goods incurs additional fees!

Heck, I won’t let you earn this money!

"Do you need help with moving?" the driver asked again.

The woman immediately shook her head decisively, saying: "No need, thank you, I can handle it myself."

The driver seemed disappointed, saying: "Oh, then you move it."

The woman started moving the goods, after running back and forth several times, she was extremely tired, and looking up, the driver was playing on his phone, clearly not intending to help at all.

No tip, truly no helping hand here.

The woman’s impression of the driver plummeted instantly.

"Have you finished moving yet? Want help?"

After going up and down the stairs not less than ten times, the driver asked again, and the tone clearly became impatient due to the prolonged waiting.

"No!" the woman resolutely replied, her tone was somewhat aggressive; she had run ten times herself, no reason to spend money at this point.

The driver urged: "Then hurry up, it’s been more than half an hour."

The woman retorted: "Isn’t there a 40-minute waiting time? It hasn’t been 40 minutes yet, I have figured it out, loading goods onto the vehicle, if it exceeds 40 minutes, then there’s an overtime fee. Rest assured, I will finish moving within 40 minutes!"

The driver nearly choked on his own anger, keeping a cold face, not wanting to speak further with this woman.

Seeing the situation, the woman felt uneasy inside, thinking the driver seemed a bit upset; might he retaliate against her?

She started to regret it; had she known earlier, she wouldn’t have booked this car, but most of the items were loaded, it wouldn’t be right to back out now.

Finally, the woman managed to get everything loaded before the 40 minutes were up.

As she sat in the car, the driver immediately started the vehicle, giving her a fright.

The atmosphere in the cabin felt a bit oppressive; the driver had a cold face, driving silently, seeming to have suppressed anger with nowhere to vent.

The woman grew worried again; will this driver retaliate against her? The more she thought, the more afraid she became.

"I need to keep an eye on him!" the woman resolved mentally, holding her phone, watching the navigation.

Wait!

Increasingly it didn’t seem right, the driver had deviated from the course!

What is he planning?

Surely he wouldn’t take me to a deserted place to do something awful?

The woman grew increasingly fearful.

But she dared not ask, fearing a question would puncture the paper screen, exposing the driver’s sinister side, terrified of such a scene.

Luckily, after the driver first deviated, it wasn’t long before he returned to the course.

However, before the woman could feel at ease, the driver deviated again.