Su Changyao helped with the luggage and followed Shen Junqian and Tao Xiaotong with big strides.

When he walked out of the train station square, he saw a disheveled woman holding a child, rummaging through a trash can and stuffing food into her mouth.

Noticing someone passing by, the disheveled woman seemed to be frightened. She stopped rummaging through the trash can and looked up pitifully.

It looks so pitiful!

Su Changyao couldn't help it, so he took out a piece of cake left over from the train and handed it over.

After giving the pancake to Su Changyao, he was about to leave, but unexpectedly the woman stuffed the pancake into the child, pounced on him and grabbed Su Changyao's trouser leg.

"Good Samaritan, please be kind. My child and I haven't eaten for a few days."

"One piece of bread is not enough to fill your stomach. Give us some money to buy food."

"Give me some money, please."

Su Changyao was startled when his trouser leg was suddenly pulled. He tried to push the person away, but the child holding a biscuit also rushed towards him, crying and holding his legs, with tears and snot all stuck to his trousers.

The woman and child's actions immediately attracted many people to stop and watch, and they pointed at Su Changyao.

It seemed as if Su Changyao was a heartless man who had let down both mother and daughter.

Su Changyao was just about to give some money to get rid of them, but Shen Junqian, who was walking in front with Tao Xiaotong, turned around, put down his luggage and grabbed the woman's hand.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?"

"Why are you pulling my hand?"

After all, as someone who had worked in freight transportation in the south before, Shen Junqian was knowledgeable and experienced.

But he had no sympathy at all and grabbed the woman and spoke viciously.

"Begging, huh?"

Shen Junqian raised her hand and said, "Look everyone, the gaps between her fingers are quite clean."

“Is this like looking through a trash can?”

Shen Junqian exposed the truth behind the food-picking scam: "She hid the food in the trash can first and then deliberately put it on display."

"When she met a single man who sympathized with her, she let her child cling to his legs and refused to let go."

"Many of those who showed up at the train station were from other places. They were afraid of trouble and misunderstanding, and they were also afraid that she had accomplices behind her. It was better to have less trouble than more, so they would give her some money to avoid trouble."

"Okay, you're even playing tricks on my friend."

Shen Junqian grabbed the man and said, "I'll take you to the police station now."

"Let go!"

The woman struggled violently to shake off Shen Junqian. When she raised her head to face Shen Junqian, she suddenly felt like she saw a ghost and retracted her neck in fear.

When she raised her head and glared at Shen Junqian angrily just now, Shen Junqian saw clearly what she looked like.

"No, why do you look so familiar?"

"You look like someone I've met."

The dishevelled woman took a step back in horror: "You, you've got the wrong person."

She had no time to ask for money. She picked up the child from the ground, limped away into the crowd in full view of everyone.

When Shen Junqian exposed the beggar mother and son, Tao Xiaotong had been watching from the side.

Shen Junqian asked her: "Did you see it clearly?"

"Yeah, she looks a bit like Sister Weiwei's stepsister, Lu Jiaojiao."

Tao Xiaotong was puzzled: "In theory, she should still be serving her sentence!"

"Why are you at the train station, doing something so deceptive?"

It was also because Shen Junqian and Tao Xiaotong often went to Xiangyang Brigade at that time, and Lu Jiaojiao was so weird, so they were deeply impressed.

Although the woman's face was a little dirty and darker, she did look like Lu Jiaojiao. Even though her face was smeared with dust, Tao Xiaotong and Shen Junqian still felt that she should be Lu Jiaojiao.

However, Lu Jiaojiao met a human trafficker during a blind date, and she and the trafficker almost kidnapped Lu Baiwei's three children.

Although it was Lu Jiaojiao's first crime, the trafficking was unsuccessful.

But as a participant, she was accused of attempted trafficking.

Has she already served her sentence?

"Master Su, be careful next time. People who bring their children to rummage through trash cans on the street or at the train station are all out to scam people. My brother said they are a gang, and many people in the provincial capital have been deceived recently."

Su Changyao expressed his gratitude: "I still have too little experience, and I almost caused trouble for you."

"It's okay. My brother is in the police force. No one in the provincial capital dares to cheat Master Su."

Tao Xiaotong spoke to Su Changyao with a smile, saying that she could just report her brother's name in the provincial capital in the future.

Tao Xiaotong discussed with Shen Junqian while taking Su Changyao on the bus back home.

"I'll be home soon. Let my brother help me check on Lu Jiaojiao and see what's going on..."

He Ting and Lu Baiwei took Cheng Cheng to Pengcheng. The freight company arranged by Su Xiuyun had already transported the pharmaceutical equipment assembly line to Beijing. At the same time, Lu Baiwei decided to cooperate with Su Changyao to build a hotel in Pengcheng.

After Su Changyao, Shen Junqian and others got off the train, He Ting and Lu Baiwei had been calculating how much money would be needed to build a hotel in Pengcheng.

The investment of Jishi Pharmaceutical Company was all carried out with loans due to policy support.

Although Shiweiji and Weiman Clothing are doing well, they are still in the development stage and require a lot of capital investment, so not much money can be allocated.

Lu Baiwei had saved a small box of gold, which could be exchanged for some money now that the price of gold was at its highest.

But it is still far from enough to reach the amount of money needed to build a hotel.

Although Su Xiuyun and Ye Xiangling said that they would support them in building the hotel, if they invested too much money, it would reduce their shareholding.

So on the train all the way to Beijing, He Ting and Lu Baiwei were discussing where to find the funds to invest in hotel construction.

"I used to learn from Grandpa Zhou how to look for old things, and I have saved up some things. I should be able to exchange them for some money."

"In addition, there are still a few things I collected in the countryside that I haven't sold yet. I'll ask Grandpa Zhou to go to Liulichang with me later."

With these, plus the cash from the box of gold in Lu Baiwei's hands, and the fact that gold prices are now at their highest, she should be able to save some money for the initial investment in a hotel.

As the train clanged towards the capital, He Ting and Lu Baiwei had already discussed how to raise the initial investment for building a hotel while Cheng Cheng was sleeping.

Can't wait to go home!

When Lu Baiwei woke Chengcheng up to get off the train, her mind was full of Xiaoxuanzi and Hanhan.

However, they didn't know that Hanhan and Xiaoxuanzi, who had been living in the Shichahai courtyard, were fine at first after they took Chengcheng away. After all, when they were in the capital, Lu Baiwei and He Ting were often so busy that they were rarely seen.

Xiaoxuanzi Hanhan was unhappy because she didn't see Lu Baiwei and He Ting for a week, and her brother Chengcheng was not around either.

The two lively and talkative little guys became listless and lacked energy all day long. They pestered the old couple of the Lu family to stay in the warm room and warm themselves by the fire.

Once, the two little ones fell asleep, and tears came out of Hanhan's eyes. She was calling for dad, mom, and brother in her dream. This made Mr. and Mrs. Lu very distressed.

After calling Lu Yuanze in the south, the old couple breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that He Ting and Lu Baiwei had already boarded the train and were on their way back.