Because Qi Mingyuan had met Du Anping and the two had dealt with each other.

When Qu Jingyun fled famine from Suiyuan to Ningshi, he clung to a coal-carrying train carriage, suffering from hunger and cold for two days and two nights. Finally, when he was climbing down from the wall next to the railway track at the train station, he fell to the ground and injured his leg, and he couldn't even get up.

The place she chose to climb over the wall was very remote. Normally, no one would come there. It gets dark early in winter, and no one could hear her even though she shouted at the top of her lungs for a long time.

On a freezing winter night, she was wearing only a thin cotton coat full of holes, shivering in the snow.

In the end, his voice was hoarse and he had no strength to shout anymore. He could only accept his fate and curl up under the wall, not knowing whether he would live to see the next morning.

Just when she was about to lose consciousness from the cold, she suddenly heard the voices of several men talking from far away. Although the voices were very small, they gave her immense hope in the silent winter night.

Qu Jingyun cheered up immediately. Her voice was so hoarse that she couldn't make a sound. She just waited for the men to approach, and then she used all her strength to throw herself at their feet.

When she heard the men screaming in fear, she knew they had seen her.

After a while, a man came over and kicked her.

She immediately grabbed the man's feet as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw, crying hoarsely:

"Brother, save me..."

The person who rescued Qu Jingyun by the railway wall on a winter night was not Qi Mingyuan, but Du Anping.

At that time, Du Anping was a railway worker on the Ningshi Railway. Like many young people at that time, he had this job by taking over his parents' jobs.

When he was young, Du Anping was a lazy and uneducated person. Even if he had to work a shift, he didn't think about working properly. Instead, he joined forces with several other "like-minded" young people on the railway to plan to transport goods by railway.

On the night they "picked up" Qu Jingyun, several people had planned to steal a few baskets of coal and sell them on the black market to earn money for cigarettes, but unexpectedly they were frightened by Qu Jingyun.

The others didn't want to get themselves into trouble, so they cursed it and went their separate ways.

Only Du Anping, whose feet were tightly held by Qu Jingyun, stayed.

But he didn't have any good intentions for no reason. It was Qu Jingyun's proud breasts rubbing against his ankles, soft and warm, which made him distracted for a moment.

The girls working on the railway all looked down on a frivolous young man like him. At most, he would just talk and flirt with them. Which girl would really let him take advantage of her?

Du Anping's mother died early, and his father died in the line of duty last year. Now he is alone and has no worries. That night, he took Qu Jingyun, who was frozen to death, home.

After sleeping on the warm kang all night, Qu Jingyun woke up the next morning and started crying to Du Anping.

She said that her life was miserable, that she was hungry and cold, and that she had nowhere to go. In short, she cried and begged Du Anping to take her in, saying that she would definitely repay him well after she found a job.

Seeing that Qu Jingyun looked quite pretty after washing her face, Du Anping, who was eager to have a woman accompany him, agreed.

At first he pretended to be a decent person for a few days, but in less than a week he couldn't help but touch Qu Jingyun. He would either touch her little hand when serving her food, or touch her back inadvertently while talking.

Qu Jingyun was of course aware of his tricks to take advantage of her, but she didn't dare to resist too directly, for fear that Du Anping would kick her out if he was unhappy.

In those years of famine, people were starving to death everywhere because they couldn't even get enough food to eat. She was a stranger from another place, with no background, no money, and even no letter of introduction to settle down in the street. How could she find a job easily?

Only Du Anping was willing to take her in and give her food to eat. Of course, she didn't dare to offend him too much, so she could only try her best to deal with him.

The days of "Dances with Wolves" did not last long. One day, Du Anping came home furious and smashed all the tables, chairs and benches in the house to pieces.

Qu Jingyun was so scared that she hid in the corner and trembled, fearing that he would go crazy and hit her next to vent his anger.

After Du Anping had smashed everything in the house and there was nothing left to smash, he sat on the kang, panting heavily and cursing the leaders of the railway system.

From his words, Qu Jingyun learned that he and those people had been reported for secretly selling goods on the railway, and were caught red-handed by the security team, so they were fired from the railway.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that his father ran to the railway alone last year to avoid the derailment of a train that was cut to the wrong track by the dispatching room, regardless of his own safety, and manually turned off the track switch, although he saved the train in the end, he himself did not have time to escape and was swept under the wheels by the strong wind generated by the close distance of the train and died gloriously, Du Anping would have been sent to prison by now, and might even have been shot!

But even though he escaped, Du Anping was still very dissatisfied. He clamored for compensation from the railway leaders who had fired him. When they ignored him, he went to the train station gate to make trouble every day.

Not only did he make trouble himself, he also brought Qu Jingyun along and forced her to join him.

The railway leader saw a little girl sitting at the door of the train station crying every day without any shame and felt that she was really pitiful, so he gave Du Anping some money and asked him to take the girl back quickly and not embarrass himself in public.

Who knew that this would give Du Anping an unexpected "inspiration" - since he, a grown man, couldn't get the money, he asked a woman to come forward and ask for the money, and she would get it for sure!

From then on, he found ways to use Qu Jingyun to ask for money near the train station.

At first he simply pretended to be pitiful and begged, but he found that the money he made was too little, so he started to think of some ways to extort more money faster. He didn't expect that after a week, he made more money than he earned in a month by working hard.

At first, Qu Jingyun was frightened by him and dared not disobey. Later, after the two of them extorted money, Du Anping was generous to her. He took her to restaurants and bought her new clothes. Qu Jingyun found that making money this way was indeed fast and easy. She also began to give Du Anping advice, constantly improving their scams, and gradually turned from a coerced victim into a participant in the crime.

Qi Mingyuan's encounter with her was just one of the scams she and Du Anping had repeated countless times after continuous improvement.

But that time, Qu Jingyun was deeply attracted by the elegant, handsome and wealthy Qi Mingyuan. Her experience of cheating many times told her that this man was not only elegant, but also powerful, and definitely richer than anyone she had cheated before.

In order to get close to a more powerful thigh and completely break free from the swamp of Du Anping, she racked her brains to persuade Du Anping, using the reason of seizing a treasure pot that can continuously make money, to let him cooperate with her in a "hero saves the beauty" drama.