As soon as they met, Li Dezhong stood up and greeted Gu Jingmo with a smile. Looking at Xia Jin behind Gu Jingmo, he said, "This is my girlfriend. Hello, sister-in-law. I'm Li Dezhong. You can just call me Dazhong."
Xia Jin smiled and shook hands with him and said, "Xia Jin." In fact, although Gu Jingmo is about the same age as them, if we really talk about seniority, they all have to call Gu Jingmo uncle. After all, the old man was fifty years old before he had Gu Jingmo. Although we are younger, we are older in generation.
But they all grew up together, and each had their own opinions. Otherwise, if you asked a group of young people to call someone of the same age "uncle," they wouldn't say so. Those of them who grew up together were ranked by age, only considering the oldest.
Li Dezhong handed two tickets to Gu Jingmo and said, "Here are your tickets. I've chosen a convenient time for you. You don't have to get up too early in the morning and rush to catch the train. You might have to eat lunch on the train."
Gu Jingmo smiled and said, "Thanks, brother."
"What's the big deal? We can just talk about this."
After the two of them finished talking, they asked the waiter to bring the menu over and they ordered. Since it was their first time here, Xia Jin and the others didn't know what to eat, so Gu Jingmo handed the menu to Li Dezhong and asked him to take a look.
The group ate for two hours. After the meal, Li Dezhong insisted on sending Xia Jin and the others back. However, Gu Jingmo said he wanted to go shopping, so Li Dezhong gave up the idea and drove back in his own car.
After Li Dezhong left, Xia Jin said to Gu Jingmo while taking a walk, "He and Dechen are really family, aren't they? They're not like each other at all. One is warm and attentive. When he was talking to you just now, he even paid attention to my mood and taste, and asked me from time to time if I was used to it. Dechen is a complete sullen person."
Gu Jingmo said: "So it is precisely because of this that Dechen joined the army. Dechen's family members are also very good at dealing with people, and this is how Dechen, this special person, came into being."
"It's good to complement each other."
Xia Jin walked around for a while and couldn't walk anymore, so she was carried back to the guesthouse by Gu Jingmo. Xia Jin was afraid that the guesthouse was not clean, so she washed up, put on her clothes for today, and lay down on the bed to rest.
The next morning, they woke up at 7:00 AM, packed their things, checked out of the hotel, and went to have breakfast. They went to a noodle shop and had two bowls of beef noodles. Their train ticket was at 10:00 AM.
After Xia Jin and the others finished eating, she went to the pastry shop that Li Dezhong had recommended to her the previous night and bought some pastries. She also bought a roast chicken that he had recommended as delicious. After that, the two of them took a bus to the train station.
This was the first time that Xia Jin had taken a train in this era. In her previous life, she had only taken a train in the early 2000s. At that time, the order on the train was already very good. Xia Jin had not expected that people would be so crazy about taking a train at this time.
These people boarded the train like a war. No one had the concept of queuing. The crowded train hadn't stopped yet, and people rushed in while it was still slowing down. When the door opened, they rushed in, adults yelling and children crying. If Gu Jingmo hadn't been there to protect Xia Jin, Xia Jin would have been crushed by the crowd.
Many people were carrying bags as big as mountains, their elbows bumping against each other, their feet stepping on each other, and when they got on the bus, their shoes and pants were covered with footprints.
At this time, the train windows can be opened from the bottom up, and many people who cannot get in through the doors climb in through the windows. There are also fathers who hand their children in first and then squeeze in from the front.
Xia Jin was shocked by this situation. Looking at the miserable state of those people, Xia Jin was unwilling to squeeze with them, so he stood at the back with Gu Jingmo. When most people had gone up, the two of them went up.
The scene inside the car refreshed Xia Jin's cognition once again. At a glance, the car was packed with people, some lying under the chairs and some sitting on the backs of the chairs.
Li Dechen bought them the most expensive tickets. Gu Jingmo carefully cleared the way for Xia Jin in front. Xia Jin was protected by Gu Jingmo and walked to their carriage. Xia Jin was closely guarded by Gu Jingmo all the way because he was afraid that they would be separated by the crowd and then lost. Trains in this era were not safe. There were thieves, human traffickers, and perverts. So Gu Jingmo protected Xia Jin very closely since he got on the train.
However, Xia Jin looked at the situation in their carriage and thought that maybe the expensive ones were no different from the cheap ones. The carriage was still full of people. Gu Jingmo and Xia Jin found their seats, and there were already people sitting there, two middle-aged men.
Xia Jin looked at the two people and said, "Please move aside. This is our seat. You're sitting in the wrong place."
The two middle-aged men were scoundrels. Seeing that it was a pretty girl like Xia Jin who came to talk to them, they said in a vulgar way, "Little sister, since you are so pretty, it's not impossible for you to give way."
The man touched his chin and clicked his tongue twice, saying, "But..." Then he looked Xia Jin up and down with a disgusting and obscene expression.
Gu Jingmo said with an unwavering expression, "What do you want to do to my girlfriend?"
The two men didn't look up at Gu Jingmo. After all, the other party would not dare to provoke them alone, so they just wanted to vent their anger. There was nothing they could do in the car, but getting off was uncertain.
Everyone in the car thought it was better to have less trouble than more. Besides, the two men who teased Xia Jin were in their prime, and no one wanted to cause trouble for an insignificant person.
The man who was speaking ignored Gu Jingmo and reached out to pull Xia Jin. Gu Jingmo grabbed the hand and lifted the man up from his seat. The man's bones seemed to be broken by Gu Jingmo's grip. He begged for mercy and cried, "It hurts, it hurts."
Another friend saw this and wanted to come over to help him, but when he looked up and saw Gu Jingmo's tall and strong body, he didn't dare to say anything for a moment and wanted to run away with his things.
Gu Jingmo still had one person in his hand, and fiercely said to the other person who wanted to run away: "Where do you want to go? Apologize to my girlfriend, and after you apologize, get out of here and let me watch you."
The person whose hand was being held was in excruciating pain and burst into tears, saying, "Auntie, I was possessed by a ghost just now. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I was wrong."
Gu Jingmo looked at the other person who wanted to run away and said, "What about you?"
The man bent over and said to Xia Jin, "I'm sorry, I'm just a mean person," and then he slapped himself twice.
After slapping him, he looked at Gu Jingmo and asked, "Is this okay, man?"
The person in Gu Jingmo's hand also kept shouting, and Gu Jingmo had no intention of letting them go. Xia Jin looked at the curious crowd around him. Xia Jin didn't want to become the topic of their conversation along the way, and the train was about to leave, so it would be a waste to keep holding on to them.
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