Chapter 279 Train Seat Controversy

During the Spring Festival travel rush, there are a lot of people at the train station.

Shen Xingjiang put Jiang Wanwan and the other two in a sheltered place at the door and waited while he went to get the tickets.

Jiang Jun looked at her elder sister who was still eating the buns. She was wearing a thick army green cotton coat and a Lei Feng hat on her head. The ear straps of the hat were

She had a red scarf around her neck. It was a very long scarf that could be wrapped around her neck twice and still hang down in front of her chest.

Jiang Jun sighed: "Sister, you are destined to enjoy a happy life. You have dad at home, and now you have brother-in-law, who takes care of you meticulously."

Jiang Wanwan finished eating the buns and then the eggs: "You can see that your brother-in-law is a good man, learn from him, so that you can marry a wife."

Jiang Jun clicked his tongue twice and had no answer.

When Shen Xingjiang came back, Jiang Wanwan had just finished eating. He gave the ticket to Qin Botang first, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped Jiang Wanwan's hands clean, and put the red handmuffs on her.

Then he took her little hand and went to the waiting room.

Shen Xingjiang held his young wife with his left hand and carried a large luggage bag with his right hand.

Qin Botang held the ticket and the bag, and said with emotion: "I am also the eldest son of the Qin family, but my life is not as enjoyable as your sister's."

Jiang Jun picked up the bag resignedly: "Don't think about it. We are at most Jiang Wanwan's long-term workers now. Being a young master is a thing of your past life."

The four of them walked together, all of them had good figures, attracting everyone's attention.

After waiting in the waiting room for a while, the tickets were checked.

The train has three levels of carriages: first class, second class, and third class.

Third class carriages have hard seats, and there is one cleaning staff member for every few carriages. Since third class carriages are usually next to locomotives, steam locomotives, and coal-powered, third class carriages are all subject to the invasion of coal dust.

Someone commented: "The wind blew with coal dust, and it felt like sour vinegar when it entered my nose, and it felt like I was in a coffin."

Although hard sleeper was not as comfortable as those in later generations, it was still pretty good.

Jiang Wanwan and her companions' carriage was next to the hard seat carriage, with four tickets next to each other, and there was a lower berth. Shen Xingjiang put his specialty luggage under the berth, and helped other passengers put their luggage on the shelf. After packing, he finally sat down.

Not long after the train started, an old lady came over from the hard seat side holding a child. The child looked quite old, about eight or nine years old. The old lady was not tall, had sparse hair, and a thin body. She squeezed over with the child in her arms and saw Shen Xingjiang walking over in army green clothes.

"You are a military comrade, right? We only bought one seat. Can you let my grandson lie down here for a while? I can't hold him anymore."

Shen Xingjiang did not agree directly, but asked Jiang Wanwan: “Do you want to sleep?”

Jiang Wanwan was not sleepy yet, so she moved to a seat near the window.

Shen Xingjiang went to sit in the aisle seat and said to the old lady, "Wake him up after he has had a nap. My wife also needs to rest."

As he sat there, the corridor seemed blocked in an instant.

The old lady put the child down, and she squeezed into the very end position. In order to make the child sleep comfortably, she took off the child's shoes. When the shoes were taken off later, a sour smell spread in the carriage.

The boy's socks were half dry and half wet. There was a hole in the front of the blue socks and they were particularly dirty.

Qin Botang's seat was above him, and the eldest young master instantly felt uncomfortable. He coughed twice, climbed down, and went out with the cup of water.

The old lady was unhappy when she saw Qin Botang leave: "What does that young man mean? Does he dislike my grandson's smelly feet?"

Jiang Jun was sleeping on Jiang Wanwan's bed. When he heard the old lady's words, he leaned over and said, "Please put on the child's shoes. They really smell bad."

Jiang Jun was afraid of waking the child, so he reminded him gently and quietly.

The old lady was not happy. She just looked at the honest and kind person, but she was so curious that she held the child's feet and confronted Jiang Jun by the neck: "You can't stand the smell, don't you have feet?"

"Whose feet don't smell? My grandson washes his feet once every ten days or half a month, so they are very clean. Why are you so hypocritical? Why didn't the girl say anything?"

The old lady was very angry.

Jiang Wanwan couldn't help it: "Sorry, this is a public area, please consider other people's feelings and put on the children's shoes."

Coincidentally, just as Jiang Wanwan was speaking, the old lady's grandson woke up.

The little boy cried as soon as he woke up. He rolled over and cried, and kicked his grandmother with his feet: "Ah, I just fell asleep, can't you talk more quietly? You woke me up!"

"Bad grandma, why don't you shut their mouths!"

The old lady hugged the child distressedly and coaxed him again and again: "It's grandma's fault. Let them bully my precious grandson. I'll get a needle later and sew up their mouths bit by bit."

Jiang Wanwan gave Shen Xingjiang a look, and Shen Xingjiang got up and went out.

As soon as he left, the old lady saw him and took out the ticket from her pocket and threw it on the bed: "You are the one who woke up my grandson. You must change seats with me so that my grandson can sleep well."

"If my grandson doesn't grow taller because he didn't sleep well, you will have to pay us!"

Jiang Wanwan was not angry. She glanced at her hard seat ticket and turned her head to look out the window.

The old lady wanted to say something, but Shen Xingjiang had already walked in, took the child out of her arms and put him standing in the aisle outside: "Comrade, we are kind enough to give up our seats, but they are trying to extort our seats. Please deal with it."

He handed over the old lady's ticket.

The man called by Shen Xingjiang nodded to him apologetically and persuaded the old lady to leave: "Your seat is in the next car, please come with me."

The old lady didn't want to go back. She couldn't hold her grandson: "I want to stay here. They ganged up on me and bullied me. He is a comrade in the People's Liberation Army, but he also bullies others."

The comrades on the train were also complaining in their hearts that it was really a headache for this old lady to come and extort seats.

Jiang Wanwan chuckled: "You can sit here if you want. Pay double the ticket price to buy my seat, and you can let your eldest grandson stay here."

She nodded at the child and said, "We definitely won't give up our seats for you to sleep in. If your grandma really loved you, she would have bought it for you."

The child got angry when he heard this: "I want to sleep here, grandma, please give me money, I don't want to go back to sit in the hard seat, it's too hard, my waist, legs and butt hurt, give me money quickly!"

If the lady had the money to buy a sleeper berth, why would she come here to extort a seat?

She glared at Jiang Wanwan: "The little girl has a dark heart. How could you instigate my grandson? He used to be very sensible."

Jiang Wanwan calmly added another point: "Comrade, I see that the old lady only has one seat ticket, and the child is obviously over one meter tall. Did he wear a long cotton jacket and squat down to measure his height to avoid paying the ticket?"