"Meiyun, you are amazing."
Lu Changzheng looked at Liu Meiyu with infatuation in his eyes.
He was not stupid. When Liu Meiyun kicked him, he realized what the old lady was up to. In the past, he had heard people complain in the army that it took dozens of hours to go home by train. When they encountered villagers who used their status to make trouble and occupied seats, those who were not good at talking could only suffer in silence.
Although Lu Changzheng did not suffer a loss, he was really annoyed to deal with such a person. Liu Meiyu said a few words to the old lady, and her face changed. She took her bag and left.
Lu Changzheng simply loved Liu Meiyu, who was so sharp-tongued and clever.
"Meiyu, don't worry. From now on, all my allowance will be given to you. You can buy whatever you want." If it weren't for the crowded train station, Lu Changzheng would have wanted to hand over all the money and tickets in his pocket to Liu Meiyu for safekeeping.
"That's what you said." Although her ears were burning from the burning look in Lu Changzheng's eyes, Liu Meiyu was still very rational at the critical moment.
"Yes, I did."
Lu Changzheng nodded with a silly smile. Not only would he receive the future allowance, he would also take back the passbook that he had left with his aunt and give it to Liu Meiyu for safekeeping.
Liu Meiyu didn't know that with just a few words, she had emptied out all the savings that her man had saved for more than 20 years.
With still forty minutes before the train was scheduled to depart, passengers had already started queuing for ticket checking.
The queues were uneven, and there were arguments and shouting everywhere, occasionally accompanied by children crying at the top of their lungs.
Lu Changzheng and Liu Meiyu were ranked last.
He was carrying all of Liu Meiyun's luggage and his own marching backpack, and he looked far less dapper than usual.
Liu Meiyu followed beside him, carrying a military water bottle on her body, looking extremely relaxed.
Originally, Liu Meiyu wanted to carry her own luggage, but Lu Changzheng refused to give in and almost took away her water bottle.
Finally, Liu Meiyun had no choice but to stand on tiptoe and whisper in his ear, "There are too many people. It will be even more crowded when checking tickets later. I'm afraid we will be separated. Please lend a hand and hold me."
The girl's warm breath blew over him, making him feel tingling and numb. Lu Changzheng's ears instantly felt hot and his heart was pounding. He couldn't even hear the noise in the waiting room.
Liu Meiyu originally wanted to use this method to persuade the man to give him some of the luggage, but Lu Changzheng actually put the luggage together, held it with one hand, and freed his other hand to hold her.
"Don't worry, I won't lose you."
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In the 1960s, if you wanted to take a train, you had to squeeze, run, and scramble to get on the train. The train would obviously leave at a certain time, but once the tickets were checked, people would rush in. The crowd was so dense that if you were not careful, you would be knocked off your feet.
Liu Meiyu was really glad that she had Lu Changzheng by her side, otherwise, with her inexperienced look, she would probably be half dead by the time she got on the train.
After finally finding the carriage and getting on the train, Liu Meiyu slowed down a little.
However, this was also because the sleeper car they were in was mostly occupied by people on official business trips from various units, and there were very few people with their families. The hard seat car in front was so crowded that at a glance, it was filled with dark heads.
They had two tickets for the bunk bed. After Liu Meiyu found a bunk bed, she was so tired that she collapsed on the bed and watched Lu Changzheng put away his luggage in a listless manner.
Lu Changzheng was over 1.80 meters tall, with no one knowing how much muscle he had. He carried so much luggage and had been pulling her for half a day, but not only was there no sweat on his forehead, even his breathing was even.
"Are you hungry? Do you want something to eat?"
As soon as he put down his luggage, he started asking her about her well-being.
"Not hungry." Liu Meiyun shook her head, looked at his right arm and asked worriedly, "Is your hand really okay?"
"I'm fine now." Lu Changzheng grinned and shook his arms. His heart felt as sweet as if he had eaten honey.
Seeing his silly look, Liu Meiyu couldn't help but laugh as well. She felt that this man was completely different from the calm and serious man she saw on the day of the blind date.
"Okay, stop breaking your arm." Liu Meiyu said angrily.
The train was still about ten minutes away from leaving. Lu Changzheng couldn't wait, so he took out two apples from his pocket and planned to wash them first.
"Where did you get the apples?" Liu Meiyu's eyes lit up when she saw the apples. She hadn't eaten any fruit since she came here.
"I exchanged it with a fellow villager on the way."
In fact, he bought it from a fellow villager, but he dared to say this to Liu Meiyu only when no one was around.
"Then you wash it, and we can each have half. One is too big and I can't finish it."
"Okay, I'll go wash it now."
Finally, he heard that Liu Meiyun wanted to eat something and shared an apple with him. Lu Changzheng was very motivated and even a little regretful that he didn't buy two more apples.
Just before the Long March, Liu Meiyu unexpectedly met an "acquaintance" in the carriage.
It was the lady who was trying to trick them into giving away their sleeper tickets in the waiting room just now.
Liu Meiyu watched the old lady dragging her luggage, holding the train ticket in her hand and looking all the way in the aisle, and finally stopped in front of her bed. As expected, the empty bed above her head was the old lady's destination.
Sure enough, the old lady found the bed, stuffed her luggage under the bed, took a look, seemed a little worried, and began to look at the two lower beds next to her luggage.
As she did so, she came face to face with Liu Meiyu, who was sitting leisurely on the bed, staring at her.
Liu Meiyu smiled at her.
When she saw Liu Meiyu, the old lady was stunned at first, but then she realized that she had been deceived by this girl in the waiting room just now.
She glared at Liu Meiyun in anger and said, "Hey, young people nowadays are so dishonest that they even fool an old woman like me."
This strange voice immediately attracted the attention of many people around. Especially when everyone found out that the old lady was talking about the girl who had just boarded the train and stunned the whole car with her beauty, they became even more curious and gathered around to ask what was going on.
When Liu Meiyu was doing business in her previous life, she encountered all kinds of weird things and had long since developed the ability to be invulnerable to swords and guns.
"Auntie, what a coincidence!" She put on her shoes and got out of bed, as if she didn't understand what she said, and said to herself: "How come we are so lucky? We both bought standing tickets, but we still met in the sleeper compartment."
When the people around who were joining in the fun heard this, their reactions became even louder.
What? People who bought standing tickets are actually running to the sleeper car?
The old lady was just upset after discovering that she had been cheated, and she just wanted to say a few words to Liu Meiyu so that she could embarrass herself in front of everyone.
But she didn't expect that Liu Meiyu didn't know whether she was pretending to be stupid or was really confident, her voice was so loud, coupled with her coquettish face, almost everyone in the carriage came over to watch them having fun, which made the old lady even more upset.
"Who wants to have a connection with you? You're so young, but you're always playing tricks." The old lady glared at Liu Meiyu with disgust.
Liu Meiyu smiled at her sincerely, "Auntie, I didn't lie to you. We did buy standing tickets. Just now, I met my target's old leader at the train station. He knew we were injured, so he insisted on exchanging his sleeper tickets for us. We are lucky to meet such a good leader."
So that's how the girl got her sleeper berth ticket. An old leader who cares for his subordinates and takes care of injured soldiers is so worthy of respect. Just when everyone began to praise this old leader from the bottom of their hearts, they heard Liu Meiyun's clear voice again:
"Auntie, aren't you standing too? Why are you here too?"
The curiosity of the crowd, which had just subsided, was aroused again by her words. They all looked at the old lady, waiting for her to explain the matter.
"I was so bad that I met a kind person on the road who changed my ticket for me. Why? Is this against the law?"
The old lady snorted coldly. It was not known whether she believed what Liu Meiyu had just said or realized that she was not a good person either. She pushed away the onlookers, took off her shoes and climbed onto the bed, as if she didn't want to pay any attention to Liu Meiyu at all.
The people who were originally enjoying the fun walked away tactfully when they smelled the sudden odor of stinky feet in the air.
Liu Meiyu frowned, and the resentment that she had suppressed with great difficulty surged up again. It was not until Lu Changzheng came back from washing the apples, switched beds with her, and fumigated her with Chinese medicine for a while that she felt a little better.
The train rumbled along for an hour or so before it began to darken outside. Liu Meiyu took a nap and felt much better.
When I opened my eyes, I saw Lu Changzheng sitting on the bed opposite me, looking energetic.
Compared to Liu Meiyu's listlessness, Lu Changzheng was full of energy throughout the journey. His eyes never left Liu Meiyu. Anyway, no one on the train knew each other and everyone thought they were a married couple with the marriage certificate in their pockets. Lu Changzheng felt very justified.
The more he looked, the more he felt like he was dreaming.
How did he find such a beautiful young wife? Not only is she beautiful, but she is also smart and has a very pleasant voice. Not to mention her personality, he likes her very much. No matter how he looks at her, he is happy.
"You must be thirsty. Drink some water first."
When Lu Changzheng saw that Liu Meiyu had woken up, he quickly handed her the kettle on the table. The water in it was still warm.
Liu Meiyu took two sips and felt much better.
"You must be hungry. Eat something to fill your stomach first." Lu Changzheng took out a bag of food from his backpack and put it on the table mountain.
Only then did Liu Meiyu realize that, apart from two sets of clothes, Lu Changzheng's backpack was filled with food prepared for her on the road.
The lady who lived in the shop diagonally opposite Liu Meiyu turned over and saw that Liu Meiyu was being taken care of in every possible way. In addition to apples, there were boxed cakes and even a bag of snacks on the small table. She snorted, sat up, grabbed some roasted melon seeds from her pocket, and while cracking them, she chatted with the people in the shop opposite.
"The daughter of widow Liu in our village was also very pretty, but she ran away after only two years of marriage. Oh, or so people say, if you marry a girl who is too pretty, she will be restless. I heard that she even hooked up with her brother-in-law..."
The woman's voice was sharp and shrill, and people on the left and right bunks could hear it. Coincidentally, there was a very beautiful person in their carriage, so some people turned their eyes to look at Liu Meiyu.
Lu Changzheng had a gloomy face and looked very unhappy.
Liu Meiyu was fine. Women's little tricks didn't hurt her at all.
Just then the flight attendant came over with a dining cart, and Liu Meiyu called Lu Changzheng to get the meal.
"Meat dishes are 30 cents, vegetarian dishes are 20 cents, no tickets needed!"
At that time, there were no disposable lunch boxes on the train. All the lunch boxes were made of aluminum without lids. After the meal, the train attendants would come back and collect the lunch boxes for recycling.
However, there are also many people who carry this kind of aluminum lunch box with them, such as her and Lu Changzheng.
"Comrade, two pickled vegetables." Lu Changzheng handed over the lunch box. As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Meiyu glanced into the dining car. Although the braised pork was not big in size, it was almost entirely fat. The vegetable dish was just stir-fried cabbage.
"Don't order two vegetables. Order one vegetable and one vegetable."
Afraid that Lu Changzheng would misunderstand that she was reluctant to spend money, she added, "We can eat a mix of food. I want to eat vegetables."
Liu Meiyu didn't dare to say it because she thought the braised pork was too fatty and looked too greasy, and she was afraid of being looked down upon by the people in the car.
Nowadays, when people buy meat, they usually look for the fattier ones.
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Lu Changzheng nodded and packed some vegetarian food into another lunch box.
The flight attendant saw that they were wearing military uniforms and had a very friendly attitude. He even poured an extra spoonful of vegetable soup into Liu Meiyun's vegetarian lunch box.
Liu Meiyu shared some of the braised pork and Chinese cabbage in one lunch box, and evenly put half of the rice into Lu Changzheng's lunch box. The fragrant aroma immediately filled the entire carriage.
The box lunches were sold very quickly in the sleeper car. The woman who was on the upper compartment with Lu Changzheng and his companions originally thought that the food on the train was shockingly expensive. A cabbage with rice cost 20 cents, while cabbage was only 0.2 cents a pound outside. She was reluctant to buy it even if she was beaten to death, and just planned to eat some dry cakes and sweet potatoes on the way. But seeing that Liu Meiyu and the others were eating happily downstairs and the braised pork in the dining car was running out, she made up her mind, touched her pocket which she had been holding, and called out to the attendant who was about to leave.
"That girl, I want a...meat dish!"
The attendant, who was about to push the cart to the next carriage, was suddenly stopped again, and his attitude became less friendly this time.
"Sanmao!"
The old lady turned her back and carefully took out three banknotes from her pocket, "Give me an extra spoonful of soup, too."
The attendant took the ticket, scooped up some soup, got it over with, and impatiently pushed the cart away.
Liu Meiyu was concentrating on eating, but when the old lady was taking out money, a piece of paper accidentally fell from above. She just glanced at it and pretended not to see it. It was not until the person on her upper floor reminded her that the old lady climbed down and quickly picked up the paper, not forgetting to glare at her.
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