The train was still crowded, and a gentle breeze kept blowing into the carriages as the train traveled, making everyone feel sleepy.
The man diagonally opposite was the same one who had "stood up for" the mother and child earlier. He was now fast asleep, snoring loudly, and seemed to be sleeping soundly.
Fu Wan was a little sleepy, but when she saw the boy who was standing next to the man reach into his bag, she was instantly wide awake and began to watch the show with great interest.
Bai Qianzhou, who was studying a medical book, looked up and saw Fu Wan staring at something not far away, so he followed her gaze.
Upon seeing this, he couldn't help but narrow his eyes.
Stealing?
Was the thief a child who had previously taken their seats?
The boy was clearly not doing this for the first time. Without any hesitation, he slowly reached his hand into the man's bag, then observed for half a minute in that position. After finding that the man had not woken up, he began to move again.
In less than two minutes, Fu Wan and Bai Qianzhou watched as he pulled a brand new wallet out of the man's cloth bag.
Yes, pliers.
It was only then that Fu Wan realized the boy's technique was very professional. His index and middle fingers held the wallet firmly, and as soon as he pulled it out, the woman standing next to him seemed to have eyes in her hand, immediately taking the boy's wallet and stuffing it into her sleeve.
Fu Wan was dumbfounded. It turned out that her son's mother had seen him stealing!
Fu Wan suddenly realized that the woman's look of looking left and right just now was actually keeping watch for the child!
If Fu Wan and Bai Qianzhou hadn't been quick-witted and closed their eyes to pretend to be asleep when the woman looked over, their peeping would have been discovered by the mother and son long ago.
Bai Qianzhou frowned and carefully examined the boy hiding behind the woman several times.
For some reason, he always felt that there was something strange about the boy.
It seems like his appearance doesn't match his bone structure; how should I put it, he doesn't seem like a child of this age.
Whether it was the success of stealing the wallet that gave the boy confidence, after stealing that wallet, he turned around and looked around in Fu Wan's direction again.
Fu Wan felt a tremor in her heart. The greed in his eyes was completely inconsistent with the image of his child.
Fu Wan and her two companions didn't bring much luggage this time because they were going to Hong Kong by plane, so they deliberately didn't bring much to avoid the hassle of checking in luggage.
Besides the food Ye Xiaocui prepared for the journey, the group only brought a change of clothes.
Fu Wan's idea was simple: they were going to Guangzhou, where most of the nice clothes these days are. She planned to take this opportunity to go on a shopping spree and bring back some trendy clothes.
So their luggage wasn't particularly eye-catching, but the three of them looked and acted differently from the people around them, making people subconsciously think that they weren't from a particularly poor family, and that at least they must have enough to eat at home.
In addition, the boy had already harbored a grudge against Fu Wan for insisting that they give up their positions.
Fu Wan pretended to be confused and glanced at the boy, confirming once again that he was examining the cloth bag she was holding.
Tsk tsk, he's probably wondering where her wallet is.
Fu Wan didn't call the train conductor over earlier because she wanted to see what kind of trouble this kid could cause.
Unable to discern where Fu Wan and the others had kept their money, the boy then turned his attention to the old woman dozing in the aisle.
Just then, Fu Wan suddenly felt someone touch her knee. She looked down and saw that it was indeed Bai Qianzhou.
Fu Wan looked up, and Bai Qianzhou gave her a wink, signaling her to look behind her.
Fu Wan felt strange and turned slightly to look out of the corner of her eye, only to see someone using the same posture as that child, taking a pack of cigarettes from a young man's pocket and stuffing it into her own sleeve!
Fu Wan looked up and was surprised to find that the man who stole the things was the same one who had taken her seat earlier!
It is worth noting that after hiding the item in his sleeve, the man pulled out a newspaper from under his arm and acted as if nothing had happened.
But Fu Wan could see clearly that the moment he picked up the newspaper, he exchanged a glance with the woman on this side. The seemingly timid woman had completely lost her previous timidity and instead gestured to the man in a commanding manner towards the other side.
Fu Wan glanced in that direction, and sure enough, there was a man who was already asleep there. He looked like a black marketeer, with bulging pockets on his shirt and a pager coil hanging from his waist.
A hint of delight flashed in the man's eyes. He pulled a strangely shaped pair of small scissors from his pocket and was about to cut the coil around the sleeping male passenger's waist.
Meanwhile, the child pulled something wrapped in a handkerchief from his aunt's cloth bag.
Fu Wan couldn't stand it anymore. It turned out that this family of three was a gang of thieves. The woman acted as lookout and observed and selected the prey, while the two men, one big and one small, were responsible for carrying out the theft.
Even though Fu Wan knew that there were quite a few pickpockets on trains in the 1980s and 90s, she still couldn't help but feel her heart race when she actually encountered one.
Fu Wan and Bai Qianzhou stood up almost at the same time. They looked at each other, and without saying a word, Bai Qianzhou took a few steps to bypass the crowd of people sitting or standing in the aisle and grabbed the scissors that the man hadn't had time to put away.
"Comrade, what are you doing!"
Meanwhile, the woman not far away, seeing that her accomplice had been exposed, was about to grab the little boy and run away.
Unexpectedly, Fu Wan and Fang Min blocked their path from the front and the back.
Damn it, it's those three people again.
"Comrades... what are you doing? I want to take my son to the toilet."
The woman immediately started to act pitiful again, but Fu Wan didn't buy it at all and stared at her intently without blinking.
"Going to the toilet? Comrade, take out whatever's not yours from your pockets!"
Looking at the woman's bulging pockets, Fu Wan didn't believe she had only stolen one person's wallet.
The woman couldn't possibly take it; tears immediately streamed down her face.
"Comrade, I just accidentally sat in your seat earlier, why are you making things difficult for me?"
I have nothing in my pockets. You're insulting me by asking me to empty them.
Even if the King of Heaven himself came, it wouldn't make sense. We're all women, you can't make things difficult for me just because I'm easy to talk to..."
Fu Wan was captivated by her superb acting skills, and the people around them were also awakened by their commotion.
Seeing the woman crying with tears streaming down her face, the man who had previously advised Fu Wan to give up her seat couldn't help but speak up again.
"I said, why are you so mean, woman? It's not easy for her to take her son out, why are you always making things difficult for her?"
If you ask me, someone like you has a problem with their thinking and should be taken to a re-education class.
Fu Wan rolled her eyes at him speechlessly. If she hadn't seen the woman instructing the child to steal the cloth bag from the old lady next to her, she wouldn't have bothered with it.
"Uncle, don't be so quick to speak up for justice. Why don't you check your pockets and see where your wallet is?"
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