Bai Guoguo said goodbye to Captain He, Aunt Wang and the others, and boarded the train from the less crowded sleeper passage.
She took the ticket and followed the instructions to find the carriage, but was disappointed when she saw the sleeper car.
The sleeper cars at that time did not have doors like those in later generations. They were just partitioned rooms.
Each partition has two groups of berths facing each other, with each group consisting of three beds in the upper, middle and lower levels.
The tail end of the berth faces the corridor, where there are several sets of small tables and benches.
The sheets and quilts on the berth had been washed so thoroughly that their colors were unrecognizable. When you walked over, you could still smell the greasy smell of hair coming from the pillows.
"Be content. At least you can lie down and rest. It's better than a hard seat."
Bai Guoguo silently comforted himself in his heart.
Bai Guoguo's bed was in the middle bunk on the left side of the sixth compartment. She took advantage of the fact that she arrived first, opened her luggage bag as a cover, and took out a towel blanket, a pillow, and a single sheet from the space.
The pillow is a summer cooling pillow made of bamboo strips. It is small and does not take up much space, so it is also reasonable to take it out of a small luggage bag.
When she was halfway through making her bed, people started coming into the carriage one after another.
There weren't many people coming in, only seven or eight. After all, not everyone can buy a sleeper ticket.
In this era, you can only buy a sleeper ticket with a certificate from your work unit, otherwise it will be useless no matter how much money you have.
Of course, if you are willing to spend money, you can also buy high-priced tickets from scalpers at the station.
However, scalpers are only found in prosperous big cities, and there are really no such people in their small town of Huixian.
So the air in the carriage is pretty good now. The people who come to ride are either cadres or intellectuals, and no one is making loud noises.
But when the train arrived at the next station, something went wrong. Not only was the sleeper car almost full, but many people who had bought standing tickets were squeezed into it.
A mother and son came to the bunk below Bai Guoguo. The woman was probably in her 40s. Her clothes were not torn, but she was very unhygienic.
Her hair was so greasy that it was in clumps. She hadn't combed her pigtails for who knows how many days, so they were all crooked and messy, and a lot of her hair was scattered.
What's even more disgusting is those hands. You can even see the lines of dirt on the wrists, and the long nails are pitch black. The whole body exudes a complex fishy smell.
Bai Guoguo guessed that she must have a gynecological disease, otherwise there wouldn't be such a strange fishy smell.
Her child, however, was well-dressed. He was small, fair-skinned and clean, and looked about two or three years old.
He was sleeping motionless in her arms, with a pair of fashionable plastic sandals on his little feet.
The style of the shoes looked like they were for a boy. It was incredible that he was just a kid and could sleep so soundly even though his mother smelled so bad.
Bai Guoguo closed her eyes, pinched her nose, and thought aimlessly. She used her ring and shoulder bag to cover herself and smuggled out a white gauze mask from the space. This mask was stockpiled during the epidemic.
She sprayed the mask with toilet water twice and then put it on her face.
When she smelled the scent of floral water coming from the mask, she felt her chest felt better and no longer as stuffy as before.
Bai Guoguo almost suffocated when he was attacked by the stench of the woman in the lower bunk.
The passengers in the three bunks opposite were also frowning. The passenger in the lower bunk was a middle-aged man with a middle-parted hairstyle.
The person in the middle bunk was an elderly man with slightly gray hair and glasses.
On the top bunk was a young man wearing a green military uniform. It was unclear whether he was an educated youth or a soldier.
In fact, the young man on the upper bunk was a company commander of the 24th Army. His surname was Li. It was he who discovered Bai Guoguo delivering information last time and brought the information to the military district leaders.
It was Captain Li and several other young soldiers who checked Bai Guoguo's room in the hotel where she was staying.
When Captain Li came back from visiting his relatives, he entered the carriage and climbed onto the upper bunk, and he discovered that he had seen the girl sitting opposite him before.
But the last time they searched the room, the girl was so sleepy and half asleep that she was not afraid of them at all and was extremely brave.
If an ordinary person were to encounter such a search, even if he had not done anything wrong, he would be frightened and tremble all over, or become extremely nervous.
Only this little girl, leaning against the door frame, half asleep and half awake, was completely defenseless against them.
She just let these four or five grown men search her room.
Finally, he fell asleep on the bed in front of them.
Captain Li still remembers how speechless he felt at the time. In the end, he could only helplessly pull the quilt over her and close the door for her when he left.
This girl has no idea how attractive she is and has no sense of vigilance.
She heard someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night and opened it in a half-awake state. Even when soldiers came in to search the room, she was not scared awake. She was extremely brave.
Fortunately, the people who went in were PLA soldiers. If it were someone else, the girl would have been in trouble.
I didn't expect that I would see her again when I returned from visiting my relatives and took the bus back to the army. It was fate.
Captain Li saw the little girl frowning, closing her eyes and pinching her nose, and she took out a mask from her bag with one hand.
She even sprinkled some toilet water on it before putting it on, demonstrating what it meant to be extremely disgusted, and a faint smile appeared on her face.
What an interesting girl!
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