Kang Mingcheng regretted it. "So, does that mean Shi Zhiqing doesn't need to come this time? She came back to the city to find a job, right? I don't know what factory it is, but if there's a connection, then shouldn't we all give it a try?"
He wanted to go back to the city, and he would do anything to get there.
The reason why he targeted Shi Le Yan was that her family often sent her packages starting this year. He had seen the mailing address once and it turned out to be from Beijing.
Han Wei looked down upon people like Kang Mingcheng the most. He glanced at him and said, "What do you think? I won't talk about anything else. Just based on the Qin family, it would be too easy for Shi Zhiqing to return to the city."
Lin Yanran is also preparing to return to the city. Her family has found her a job at a high-speed rail manufacturing plant. She will take a leave next month to go back for the exam and interview.
Thinking that if Shi Leyan also went to the high-speed rail manufacturing plant, they would be colleagues in the future, Shi Leyan asked her to collect the bedding, and she agreed without saying a word.
Qin Changshuo's comrades sent the two of them onto the train. They took a sleeper berth and asked for two lower berths. There were not many people on the train at that time and there were only three people in their compartment. Shi Leyan's upper berth was occupied by a middle-aged woman with a child.
The four people got on the bus at the same stop.
The woman smiled and said to Shi Leyan, "Comrade, it's inconvenient for me to sleep upstairs with my child. Can I switch with you?"
Without waiting for Shi Leyan to answer, Qin Changshuo said, "Let me switch with you!"
The child was only five years old, and the berth was narrow, so it was really inconvenient for him to sleep on it.
In fact, there were not many passengers on this train, and there was no one in the compartment next to theirs. When the woman bought the ticket, the conductor originally suggested that she buy the lower berth, but the lower berth was two dollars more expensive than the upper berth.
She thought that once she got on the bus, she could use this excuse to exchange with others and save a couple of dollars.
Sure enough, as soon as she opened her mouth, a male comrade was considerate and changed her bed.
After the child got on the bus, he played for a while and then started to complain that he was hungry. The woman slapped him and said, "Hungry, hungry, everyone is hungry. The food on the bus is so expensive. Eat later."
How could Qin Changshuo not know the woman's intention of changing beds? However, he didn't need to bother with such a person, so he simply slept on the upper bunk of Shi Leyan, so that the woman and her son would not sit on Shi Leyan's bunk.
They both looked dirty.
Shi Leyan took out a sheet from her bag and spread it on the bunk. She asked Qin Changshuo, "Brother Jinle, I have another bed. Do you want to use it too?"
Qin Changshuo smiled and shook his head. "No, I'm a rough man, I don't care about this. Are you hungry? I'll go buy you something to eat."
"I'm not hungry yet. It's not time to eat yet. I'll go with you later." Shi Leyan said with a smile.
This was the most relaxing day she had lived since she came to the countryside. She was so excited to be able to return to the city.
The two rested for a while. It was already six o'clock in the afternoon. An announcement was made on the train, informing everyone that those who wanted to eat could go to the dining car.
Qin Changshuo took their lunch boxes and prepared to go get food. Shi Leyan wanted to go with him, so the woman took out her lunch box and said, "Comrade, can you bring a lunch box for us too?"
No mention of giving money.
Shi Leyan was about to take the man's lunch box when Qin Changshuo stopped her and said, "Watch the luggage here. I'll be there soon."
After saying that, he left without taking the woman's lunch box.
Shi Leyan had been abroad for many years. After returning to China, she went to the countryside and lived a very miserable life in that small mountain village. She did not have much experience in making a living.
But she's not stupid either.
At this moment on the train, there was no one in the compartments to her left and right. She pondered for a while about the man's intention to change berths, and vaguely understood it. However, she had never bought a domestic train ticket, so she didn't know the price difference between upper and lower berths.
After about ten minutes, Qin Changshuo came with two lunch boxes. Their meals were different. Hers had more vegetables and less rice, braised pork, and stir-fried pork slices with cucumber, while Qin Changshuo had a serving of shredded pork with fish flavor and a serving of braised pork with potatoes.
"I don't know what you like to eat, so I specially ordered two different dishes. If you like mine, you can choose from mine."
Qin Changshuo handed his lunch box to Shi Leyan.
There were no disposable lunch boxes in those days. Free lunch boxes and spoons were provided on the train, but lunch boxes and spoons that had been used by others were always disgusting, so people who were more particular basically carried a water bottle and lunch box wherever they went.
The aroma of the food stimulated the child across the street to cry loudly, "I want to eat, I'm hungry!"
The woman slapped her son and said, "Eat, eat, eat. If no one helps you buy food, what are you going to eat?"
The child became more and more naughty, and Shi Leyan became unhappy while eating. She glanced at the woman and felt disgusted.
Qin Changshuo was not affected at all, as if he didn't hear anything.
"Eat it, it will get cold soon." Qin Changshuo asked Shi Leyan to change seats with him. He was tall, and when he blocked the way, Shi Leyan could basically not see the mother and son.
"Comrade, could you share some of your food with me? My son is hungry. His father is also a soldier. We just came back from visiting his father."
The woman thought that this time she visited her husband, she would definitely be pregnant with a son.
Her sister-in-law gave birth to three sons, but she only had one son and two daughters. Every time her sister-in-law showed off in front of her.
Qin Changshuo pointed outside and said, "Go forward. There's a lunch stand in the second carriage. A box of lunch is 35 cents. No ticket required."
"This... is not a matter of money. I'm with my child and it's not convenient for me to go buy it. I asked you to buy it for me just now, but you didn't help." The woman blamed.
Qin Changshuo pointed at the upper bunk and said, "Do you know that the upper bunk is two yuan cheaper than the lower bunk? I've already saved you two yuan, so do I have to treat you to a meal? Otherwise, you give me back the two yuan and I'll treat you to a meal."
The woman was unwilling to do so. She smiled awkwardly and said, "Isn't it because my family is poor?"
Qin Changshuo glanced at the White Rabbit candy in the child's pocket and said nothing more.
The woman felt a little embarrassed when she saw Qin Changshuo ignored her. Finally, she felt sorry for her son and took him to buy a box lunch. It was stir-fried pork with green peppers and stir-fried pork slices with cucumber. If it was pork belly, it would cost fifty cents per portion, and she was reluctant to buy it.
Shi Leyan was craving meat, but after eating a few pieces of pork belly, she felt sick of it. She thought the fish-flavored shredded pork in Qin Changshuo's bowl was delicious, so she exchanged it with him.
"Eat more pork belly." Qin Changshuo said.
"So disgusting!" Shi Leyan said, sniffing her nose. She herself didn't realize that she would inadvertently act coquettishly in front of Qin Changshuo.
Perhaps it was during those days of recuperation that they shared hardships and their destinies were once tied together.
The woman saw it and muttered under her breath, "You vixen, you have no shame!"
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