After getting on the train, Jiang Huashu realized that he was too naive. You want to take a soft sleeper when there are no foreign guests? You are dreaming.
It would be nice to have a hard sleeper!
Because Jiang Huashu was a new arrival, he was assigned the most marginal position. It wasn't exactly a marginal position, really; the other colleagues were all in the same corridor, and the top, middle, and bottom bunks across from them were all from their unit. Only this one, the bottom bunk next to the next to the next, was assigned to Xiao Paocai.
Just be by yourself. This is not a big deal for Jiang Huashu, who is a social butterfly. It is even better if they are not together. This way, you can eat whatever you want without worrying about being seen by people at work.
Just as Jiang Huashu had just laid down on his bunk, he saw someone coming from the middle and lower bunks opposite. It was Xiao Yu and his master.
At first, Xiao Yu thought Jiang Huashu was on the train alone, but then he saw someone calling him from several compartments away. Xiao Yu instantly understood that this guy was probably also an "apprentice".
What really made them good friends was the middle bunk above Jiang Huashu.
Just before the train departed, the man who had been assigned to the bunk above Jiang Huashu arrived late. He was also a gay man. Panting heavily from his haste to catch the train, he found his berth and placed his two large travel bags directly on Jiang Huashu's already-covered bunk, without a second thought. He then plopped down on it himself. Xiaoyu, sitting on the middle bunk across from him, frowned at the scene.
After a while, Jiang Huashu came back from talking to the person next door and saw two travel bags on his bunk. He got angry.
"Are you sleeping in this bunk?" Jiang Huashu asked the man.
"Huff, huff, I'm in the middle bunk, are you in this bunk?" the man asked Jiang Huashu, not moving a muscle. Shouldn't you move aside when the owner arrives? This man showed no sign of getting up, which was hilarious.
Jiang Huashu knew that the other person was not a good person when he saw his impolite behavior. It was most taboo to encounter such things when going out.
"I bought the ticket for this berth, please give way." There was no other way, I had to be polite first and then use force, as people from my unit were right next to me, and it would be pointless to argue about it.
"I don't want to move anymore. It's hard to sleep on the middle bunk. I'll give you ten dollars. How about we switch?"
"Sorry, I don't want to change." This time Jiang Huashu spoke a little harshly.
"What's with your attitude?" The man in the middle bunk looked at Jiang Huashu with his nose raised, his arrogant look like an emperor, but he didn't move.
"Ten dollars is a lot for you, don't keep going on!"
"I just said I don't want to change. Don't you understand me?"
"Okay, okay, fifteen is fine, right? The ticket is less than a hundred dollars in total, don't be too unreasonable."
Jiang Huashu looked at the man, his anger rising. There was nothing he could do but silently repeat to himself: Unity is formed and developed in contradiction. People's hearts are different, just like their faces. We seek common ground while reserving differences... After some psychological counseling, he began to respond to the man on the upper bunk: "Comrade, I'm sorry, I don't want to trade seats with you. Please take your two bags off my bunk. Thank you."
"Okay, okay, I'll give you twenty. Twenty is okay, right? You're such a country bumpkin who hasn't seen the world. We agreed that I'll give you the money and you'll move to your bed right away." As he said that, he opened the black Old Shanghai leather bag in front of Jiang Huashu and took out the money.
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