Chapter 358 Farce on the Train
Song Jinan was wearing a coat with his hands in his pockets, his eyelids drooped, and there was a bitter smile in his light brown eyes.
He sighed and returned to the home of the branch secretary Wang Fuji. He had been living here temporarily since the youth cadre site collapsed.
Duan Juhua was getting up to make breakfast when she turned around and saw Song Jinan carrying a bag, looking like he was going on a long journey. She was stunned for a moment: "Hey, Song Zhiqing, where are you going? You don't want to have breakfast?"
Song Jinan smiled slightly, and his handsome face reflected in the morning light made a middle-aged woman like Duan Juhua a little confused.
He said, "Aunt Juhua, my father wrote to ask me to come over. I'm away for the time being, so you don't need to cook for me."
"Your father? Hiss——" Duan Juhua's eyes widened. If she remembered correctly, this Song Zhiqing seemed to be the son of the governor? So, he was going to meet the governor of H Province? He was a real high-ranking official!
Song Jinan obviously didn't want to say more. He nodded at Duan Juhua, then picked up his bag and left the Dalaozi Production Brigade.
He had to catch the morning train to Qing'an County. It was not late at this time, but it was not much time either.
He accompanied Huang Sheng the whole night in dealing with the leading cadres from the commune. Fortunately, nothing serious happened. When he came back from H Province, Huang Sheng was almost released. However, the female comrade named Bai was wronged.
Song Jinan felt a little guilty and just wanted to talk to Huang Sheng about it after returning and make up for it.
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It was already six o'clock in the morning when Gu Yuehuai arrived at the train station. Although there was no holiday during the Spring Festival, the train station was still crowded with people. Many people were carrying large and small bags, and it was unknown whether they were visiting relatives or family members who were away.
If you want to go to H Province from Qing'an County, the journey will take a long time and you will need to transfer.
She needed to get off at Fengshi Station and transfer, and had to take a train for a day and a night. There were many passengers on the train, and they had to eat, drink, defecate and urinate on the train. In order to pass the time, she naturally came up with all kinds of carriage business.
Just as Gu Yuehuai got on the train, someone invited him to play mahjong.
Gu Yuehuai smiled and waved her hand, then found her seat according to her ticket. As soon as she sat down, she saw snowflakes fluttering down outside, landing on the shoulders and luggage of people hurrying on the road, which gave her a complicated feeling in her heart.
Life is full of different things, and everyone is busy struggling to make a living. Generally speaking, there is no difference.
She has lived her life again, with a goal in her heart that she is pursuing persistently. She no longer needs to live cautiously like she did in her previous life. This is really a kind of luck. She should cherish it and not waste every minute and every second of her time.
Just as he finished his thoughts, a figure suddenly entered Gu Yuehuai's sight.
He was wearing a black coat, had a tall and straight figure and a handsome appearance. He stood out among the crowd like a crane among chickens. Many young girls who passed by him couldn't help but look back at him a few more times.
Gu Yuehuai paused and turned his gaze to the bag in Song Jinan's hand.
She looked away, pretending she didn't see it, and took a sip of water from her bag.
It didn't take long before the train started and made a rumbling sound.
Crowding on the train is not just talk. As the train starts, some people who haven't had time to get on the train will climb on through the windows. No matter if they have a ticket or not, as long as they can squeeze on the train, they can go. If they can't squeeze on, they can't leave even if they have a ticket.
As soon as we got on the train, everyone racked their brains to find a piece of vacant land to settle down.
Some people occupied the connection between the trains in groups of three or four, some lay directly under the seats, and even worse, some young and flexible people sat directly on the luggage racks. The scene was extremely chaotic and crowded.
Those who had seats like Gu Yuehuai became the object of everyone's envy.
Sitting next to Gu Yuehuai was a fat young girl. In today's situation, it was rare to find someone who was so fat. Either she had a well-off family or she worked in a state-owned restaurant.
In her opinion, it should be the former, because the girl was wearing gold earrings in her ears.
As soon as the car started, she took out a chicken leg wrapped in oil paper from her bag and started to eat it in big bites. The aroma of the braised chicken leg wafted out, attracting the passengers around her to look at her frequently.
The fat girl didn't care and was even quite proud of herself. She blew on the chicken legs from time to time to make the fragrance spread further.
A middle-aged woman sitting opposite Gu Yuehuai was holding a child. It was freezing cold and the child had a runny nose, which he forgot to suck up and flowed into his mouth. He couldn't help licking his lips at the aroma of the chicken leg.
After a while, he started yelling, "Mom, I'm hungry, hungry, I want to eat chicken legs!"
The middle-aged woman was also staring at the chicken leg, sniffing the aroma in the air, and then she licked her face and said to the fat girl sitting next to Gu Yuehuai: "Comrade, look, the child is greedy, can you give him a piece of chicken leg? Just a little bit will do!"
The fat girl sneered, ignored him, turned her head away, and pretended she didn't hear anything.
The child also realized that he would not be able to eat chicken legs today, and he started crying: "I want to eat chicken legs, chicken legs! Mom, please buy me chicken legs! I'm hungry, so hungry!"
The middle-aged woman was so angry that she slapped the child on the head and cursed him: "What are you crying for! You are not destined to eat chicken legs. Find a better one in your next life! Okay, hold it in! Your yelling is giving me a headache!"
Suddenly, the child cried even louder.
The carriage was noisy, with all kinds of people chattering.
Gu Yuehuai held her bag and rested with her eyes slightly closed. A day and a night was too long, and who knows what might happen in the middle. What happened now was just an ordinary thing, and she just hoped to stay out of it and not be implicated.
No one knew what Gu Yuehuai was thinking. The train was shaking all the way until noon when an accident happened.
It was snowing even harder outside. Everyone on this train had gotten up early in the morning, and by noon, they were all tired and exhausted and fell into a deep sleep. This was the perfect time for pickpockets and thieves to appear.
Gu Yuehuai was awakened by a shrill voice, and the source of the voice was the fat girl next to her.
She blocked her ears with her fingers and looked over. The fat girl had already stood up. She covered her ears and cried at the top of her lungs: "Help! Someone is robbing us! They are robbing us! My earrings and my bag! My bag!"
Gu Yuehuai looked at the blood flowing from her hands that were covering her ears, which was very creepy.
However, at this moment, the fat girl had completely lost the pride she had when eating the chicken leg. Without her luggage and money, she was penniless. Right now, she really didn't know what to do except crying.
Gu Yuehuai looked at it calmly, then quickly looked away and out the car window.
As the train moved, the fields on both sides continued to extend farther and farther away. The heavy snow covered the fields with one piece of white field after another, and the chaotic and noisy sounds in the ears seemed not so harsh.
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