"Luckily we were lucky, you bought the food in advance!" Lu Zhixia popped a grape into her mouth, it tasted very sweet, and then spat the skin into the trash can.
When I looked up again, I saw the two of them had returned. The woman's hair was messy and she had scratches on her face. The man's face was bruised and swollen, and there was blood under his nose.
I thought to myself that they had quite a wonderful meal—
Seeing that they had already lain down, Yan Hong could only climb onto the upper bunk, then lay down under the covers and started crying.
She felt so wronged. She queued for so long, didn't get a single bite to eat, and even got into a fight with someone.
Hu Xianghui saw someone crying, touched his nose, turned to look at the two of them, and then saw the grapes and bananas on the table.
"You guys are living too well, you even have fruit to eat, could you...?"
"No." Gu Lingxiao answered decisively, "We don't know how long this car will be parked here. The fruit is our personal property. We can give it to them or not."
"Brother! I'll pay you, okay?" Hu Xianghui took out his wallet from his pocket. "Your fruit only cost two or three yuan when you bought it, I'll give you 10 yuan."
"We don't sell fruit or water. If you want to buy anything, go buy it next door," Gu Lingxiao replied coldly.
"Isn't there any room for negotiation?" Hu Xianghui asked, unwilling to give up.
"No!" Gu Lingxiao said.
Hu Xianghui could only look at the female comrade and say, "Can't we discuss this?"
Lu Zhixia didn't look up, but said coldly, "What he said is what I have to say."
Hu Xianghui pointed at them, then turned and went out. He asked in every carriage, and finally took out all the money in his wallet and exchanged it for a bag of bread. Only then did he feel at ease and went back to his bunk to lie down.
——
Lu Zhixia was vaguely awakened by a loud shout, and then she realized that the train was moving.
Hu Xianghui broke down, "How could this be? The road was repaired so quickly?"
Yan Hong licked her chapped lips and said sarcastically, "The train conductor said yesterday that it would recover soon."
Looking at the hard bread on the bed, Hu Xianghui wished he could turn back time. He had spent more than 20 yuan on this, which was his savings from many years of hard work.
Now everything has gone down the drain, and I feel like dying.
"How much did you pay for that bread?" Yan Hong asked deliberately.
"Get out!" Hu Xianghui lay back down, turned over, and faced the wall.
After hearing their words, Lu Zhixia was completely awake. She lifted the covers, sat up, picked up the kettle, took a sip of water, and looked up to see Gu Lingxiao returning from outside, carrying a plastic bag filled with plump, white steamed buns.
"Did you manage to buy steamed buns?"
"Yes, the price is a little higher than usual, but it's within an acceptable range."
"How long did you wait in line?"
"Not long after, because I knew someone who knew me."
"Who do you know?" Lu Zhixia asked curiously.
Gu Lingxiao sat down and said, "Train conductor, we chatted before. I didn't expect him to remember me."
"Having connections really makes things easier." Lu Zhixia casually folded the blanket and looked at her hands.
"Now there's water to wash your hands," Gu Lingxiao said.
Lu Zhixia was delighted to hear there was water. "I'll go wash my hands and then come back to eat steamed buns."
Gu Lingxiao watched the person walk out, then put the bag in his hand on the table.
Hu Xianghui was really angry. Seeing how well they were doing while he was living such a miserable life, he wanted to spit on the men, but he didn't dare!
When Lu Zhixia returned after washing her hands, she saw the man on the upper bunk staring intently at Gu Lingxiao.
What do you want to do?
"No, it's nothing." Hu Xianghui turned his body around and then lay down again.
Lu Zhixia sat down and looked up at him again, thinking that this person was mentally ill. Fortunately, the train would arrive in a few hours, and she would never see him again.
The steamed bun was still warm; when you bit into it, juice flowed out.
"It's actually a meat bun."
Gu Lingxiao noticed the oil on her lips and gently wiped it off with a handkerchief. "The train conductor said that because this incident caused inconvenience to everyone, he wanted to make some compensation by taking out all the meat he could to make steamed buns."
Lu Zhixia looked at the handkerchief in his hand, recalling her previous suspicions, and asked him,
"Is this my handkerchief?"
"yes!"
"When will it be in your hands?"
"That was the night I got injured."
Lu Zhixia thought about it and realized that there really was such a thing. It turned out that her memory was too bad and she hadn't remembered it.
"So, did you start from that time?"
“I liked you even before that,” Gu Lingxiao said tenderly. “It was probably the first time we met, when I was in a tree watching you run away below.”
Lu Zhixia never imagined it would start back then. Thinking back to when his hair was disheveled and his clothes were a mess, he actually fell in love with him back then—
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