Chapter 425 The Worst Possible Case
Gu Xizhou signaled Su Nanzhi to speak first.
After carefully recalling the black leather bag she had just seen, Su Nanzhi said with certainty, "The bag I saw at the train station before wasn't this new!"
Seeing the puzzled look on Gu Xizhou's face, she immediately explained that she had seen the man while waiting for the bus.
"I'm sure there was a scratch on the black leather bag I saw yesterday, but the leather bag on the table just now was brand new."
Gu Xizhou's expression froze, and he realized that something was wrong, but he still said calmly: "Are you sure?"
After all, it was just a quick glance, and Su Nanzhi might have made a mistake.
Su Nanzhi nodded again. Drinking the spiritual spring water every day not only improved her skin and body, but also her eyesight.
She was sure that she remembered it correctly and had not seen it wrong just now.
Seeing Su Nanzhi nod, Gu Xizhou also expressed his own judgment, "The man's demeanor is too relaxed. If he hit the child because he touched his cowhide bag this morning, why would he be so carefree and put the bag on the table now?"
Having said this, he paused slightly.
"And the contents of that cowhide bag have changed."
Gu Xizhou still remembered that he took a quick look at it at noon. There should be a square box in the cowhide bag, because the box inside was very large and the cowhide bag was stretched very tightly.
Although the cowhide bag on the table was also very tight, the contents inside were different.
"Where did the original contents go? What was in that box?"
Su Nanzhi asked the doubts in her heart.
Gu Xizhou didn't know either. He comforted Su Nanzhi and asked her to go back to the private room first.
He was going to contact the conductor on the train.
His intuition told him that the contents of the cowhide bag were dangerous.
Su Nanzhi passed by private room 208 without even raising her head, for fear of arousing the man's suspicion.
However, her mind was spinning rapidly along the way, wondering what was in the black bag. It was definitely not an urn.
Various speculations flashed through her mind, and finally a horrible thought stopped in her mind.
Bomb!?
Su Nanzhi shook her head vigorously. How could it be a bomb?
Even as I was thinking this, the shadow of the bomb kept lingering around.
Su Nanzhi suppressed her uneasiness and turned to enter private room 201.
The old man on the opposite bed was cracking melon seeds while bickering with the young man on the upper bunk. When he saw her come back, he greeted her and continued, "When my mother died, the funeral I gave her was one of the best in our alley. It wasn't like today, where people are so focused on simplicity and hardship. In some places, even the body is dismembered after death."
In 1997, some places in China implemented the cremation system and forced people to be cremated. Some elderly people simply could not accept cremation.
Su Nanzhi's eyes lit up, and she replied naturally, "Uncle, you older people are more knowledgeable. I've only seen the coffins used by the elderly in the village after they died, but I've never seen the urns that city dwellers can use."
The old man was even more interested after being flattered. "The urn is just a broken wooden box, nothing fancy."
Su Nanzhi asked curiously, "Uncle, how do you know? Did you see the urn used by the person next door?"
The old man frowned and waved his hand, "Then look at the urn next door. Many of my old friends put their ashes in wooden boxes when they died."
Su Nanzhi nodded with a look of regret, "I thought I could see what the urn looked like."
The old man twitched his lips and said, "Young comrade, you are quite curious. What's so interesting about an urn?"
"Besides, what kind of good family would show their mother's urn to others?"
Su Nanzhi pretended to be embarrassed and smiled sheepishly.
"I just heard you say that. I thought you had seen it."
The young man on the upper bunk also spoke up, "Yeah, uncle, you're talking so much nonsense, someone who didn't know you would think you've seen it before, but it turns out you were just bragging."
Being suspected, the old man immediately became unhappy.
"I...I haven't seen it, but everyone watching the excitement just now heard that guy say that the bag contained a fucking urn."
"Besides, this thing is so unlucky, what's so good about it?"
The old man was so angry that his face turned red. He continued, "You are so young and you don't know how to respect the elderly and love the young. I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice."
"What's so rare about an urn? I saw more beautiful things when I was young than you have seen stars."
Su Nanzhi: Still an old man who refuses to admit defeat.
Hearing the two quarreling again, Su Nanzhi, who had obtained the information she wanted, did not try to stop the fight. She just sat on her bed and waited anxiously for Gu Xizhou to come back.
What is in the black leather bag?
The waiting time was extremely difficult to endure. When Gu Xizhou came back, Su Nanzhi felt like a century had passed.
After confirming that Gu Xizhou was fine, she breathed a sigh of relief and was about to ask how things were going.
When he saw the curious faces of the people in the private room, he immediately changed what he was about to say.
"Where have you been wandering off to? Why did you take so long to come back?"
Gu Xizhou also answered very cleverly, "I was just taking a walk. I felt uncomfortable all over after lying down all morning."
Su Nanzhi stood up and said, "I'm tired too. It's time for dinner. Let's go to the restaurant for dinner."
Gu Xizhou nodded obediently and followed her out before entering the private room.
The old man looked at the backs of the two and couldn't help but muttered softly: "I didn't expect that a big Hua oh character is still a henpecked husband."
Although it is already afternoon, it is only four o'clock and it is still early for dinner.
The two came to the dining car. There were not many people in the car. They bought two servings of rice and found a secluded corner to sit down.
"How about it?"
Before even sitting down, Su Nanzhi couldn't wait to ask.
Gu Xizhou looked a little heavy-hearted, but when he met her anxious eyes, he still managed a soothing smile.
"We are not sure what is in the man's swapped bag, and he has accomplices, so we cannot act rashly."
Although Su Nanzhi had expected this, she was still a little nervous when she heard this.
After all, it was all her and Gu Xizhou's guess that what the man was carrying was a dangerous item, but fortunately the railway staff did not deny their guess outright.
"But we don't have time."
Su Nanzhi was a little anxious.
The train stops at a station almost every hour or so. If the two men really carried explosives and left them on the train before getting off, it would be a disaster for the passengers on the train.
This is the worst possible scenario.
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