Around five o'clock, the three of them met at the train station. Yu Zihan and Pei Shuyan's backpacks, like last time, were mostly filled with food. They were both carrying two large bags.
They saw Zhou Bingxuan also carrying a big schoolbag. Pei Shuyan asked curiously, "Senior, is there food in your big backpack?" Zhou Bingxuan scratched his head embarrassedly, "Yes, it's food. These are all prepared for me by my sister. When she learned that we were going to Pengcheng, she asked around and knew that we would be staying on the train for a long time, so she prepared these." His words were full of pride.
The sleeper berths Pei Xiao had bought for them were still in a compartment, with two lower berths and one middle berth. The three of them boarded the train and stowed their luggage. Zhou Bingxuan offered, "I'll take the middle berth, and you two girls can take the lower berth." The two girls didn't object; after all, it was much more convenient for boys to take the middle berth.
They sat down to rest, hoping that they would not encounter any weird passengers this time. However, their good wishes were dashed, because the passengers they met this time were more than just weird.
Soon, three people came into their box: a young couple and an elderly woman. The elderly woman was hunched over, with a haggard face and a look of exhaustion and helplessness in her eyes.
She was wearing a worn cotton-padded jacket and holding a rag bag filled with some bulging things.
The couple entered the private room and said to Zi Han in a very bad tone, "My mother is not in good health. Can you let her sleep in your lower bunk?"
Seeing the hunched old woman, Yu Zihan couldn't bear to ask her to climb up and down, so she agreed. "I'll trade my lower bunk for your middle bunk." Yu Zihan felt that there was nothing wrong with her suggestion, so she said it as a matter of course.
"That won't work. We only have one middle bunk, and my wife needs to sleep there." The man said more confidently.
Yu Zihan was so irritated by this person's complacency that she laughed. Since she had encountered such unreasonable people, she ignored them and sat down on her bunk, spreading out the blanket. It was still very cold on this stretch of road, so she had to cover herself with a blanket when she slept. She ignored them because she didn't want to waste her breath on an unreasonable person.
"What's wrong with you? Didn't you want to exchange beds with us? Why do you still want to sleep?" the woman shouted at the top of her voice.
"I said I would exchange my middle bunk with you, but you didn't agree. I thought you didn't plan to exchange. I'm sleeping in my bunk, so what do you have to do with it?" Yu Zihan said, looking at the woman in front of him.
"If you want to change, I'll take the upper bunk and exchange it with you. You've changed our only middle bunk, so how can I sleep on the upper bunk? It's so high that I can't climb up." The woman said it as if she were at home. Yu Zihan had never seen such a person before.
"Then I won't change. It's not that I don't want to change with you, it's that you don't want to change." Yu Zihan said and prepared to go to bed. She really didn't want to bother with such a person.
"Oh my God, this is bullying, it's so unfair. Forcing an old woman like me to sleep in such a high place, you might as well let me die." The old woman cried out at the top of her lungs, as if she was going to die.
The old woman's actions attracted people from several nearby boxes.
The old woman cried even louder when she saw someone coming. "It's so unfair! I'm so old, and she refused to trade berths with me no matter what I said. Look at her, what kind of person is she?"
"You're really uneducated. What's wrong with switching beds with an old man? You're young, but you'll get old too."
"Ah, young people nowadays are not decent."
People began to talk about it. These words were all nonsense, but the old woman was encouraged by people's words and became more unscrupulous. She even stood up and threw Yu Zihan's quilt to the ground.
"What are you doing?" Zhou Bingxuan couldn't bear it anymore. He shouted and rushed over to pull the old woman.
But Yu Zihan grabbed him and said, "If you try to pull her, you'll fall into her trap. She's just waiting for us to provoke her."
"Old lady, although I don't have much manners, I still know how to respect the elderly and love the young. When your family got on the bus, I asked to exchange my lower bunk with your middle bunk, but you refused. Do you think I'm easy to bully? You really take advantage of your age. What are you howling about here? I am your child? You raised me? Why should I be so unkind to you?" Yu Zihan looked at the onlookers.
"If you feel sorry for her, don't you have someone on the lower bunk too? Why don't you exchange it with the one on the upper bunk? If you don't want to, then stop making a fuss. Everyone can be generous to others." After saying that, Yu Zihan took down the quilt on the upper bunk.
"You threw my quilt on the floor and made it dirty, so I'll replace it with yours. Is that okay?"
People wanted to say something, but when they thought of what Yu Zihan had just said, they returned to their bunks in silence.
The old woman was about to cry when Yu Zihan interrupted her: "If you want to cry, go home. This is a public place. If you cry again, I will drag you out." Yu Zihan looked serious and didn't seem to be joking at all.
At this time, the flight attendant came over.
"What are you arguing about?" The flight attendant's voice was impatient.
"We want to move my mother to a lower bunk. My mother is in poor health and she is old." The young man did not dare to talk to Yu Zihan this time, but his tone was full of green tea flavor.
After hearing this, Yu Zihan really felt like vomiting.
The flight attendant looked at Yu Zihan and the others and asked, "Can you young people please switch berths with this lady?"
The young man and woman looked at them smugly, as if to say, see, in the end they still have to change it for us.
Yu Zihan snorted coldly and stopped Pei Shuyan who was about to get up with his eyes.
"We're not able to change. Sorry." Yu Zihan wouldn't indulge them. Originally, this was a small matter, and she could sacrifice her own interests for charity. But being forced to do so, and having her charity treated as foolish, was something she couldn't do. She'd bought her ticket with her own money. Respecting the elderly and caring for the young was a prerequisite. There was no reason to sacrifice her own interests for a complaint.
"Hmm?" The attendant hadn't expected Yu Zihan to reject her offer so quickly. But she had no right to force anyone to change their tickets. She had no choice but to go from compartment to compartment and ask. Finally, a young man exchanged tickets with the elderly woman, but he insisted they use the middle berth instead.
The young couple realized that if they didn't agree, no one would exchange tickets with them. So they reluctantly traded their middle berth with the young man for the lower berth for their mother.
After this incident, Zhou Bingxuan saw that Yu Zihan was the chivalrous Yu Zihan. She had her own principles and didn't consider the gains and losses of those she wanted to help. For example, she could spend 2,000 yuan to help a family. She would rather hurt herself than catch the thief. But she would not compromise herself or sacrifice even the slightest bit of her own interests because of others' moral blackmail.
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