Chapter 99
Ji Wanmei turned around to take the luggage from Lei Tingjun's hands.
Lei Tingjun said in a low voice, "I'll put it up for you."
As he spoke, he raised his long arm and found a spot on the luggage rack above, placing Ji Wanmei's small suitcase there.
Ji Wanmei asked him, "Where is your location?"
“I bought a standing ticket.” Lei Tingjun finished speaking, giving her a deep look in his dark eyes. “I’ll be in the aisle at the back. I’ll come over immediately if anything happens.”
"Hey, wait a minute." Ji Wanmei called out to him.
Lei Tingjun stopped and waited for her to finish speaking.
Ji Wanmei didn't know what was wrong, she just felt her face was a little hot. She lowered her head and tucked a stray hair behind her ear, and said, "We packed a few servings of braised pork rice when we got on the bus, and we bought some for you too. Come and pick them up at six o'clock."
"Okay, I understand." Lei Tingjun smiled almost imperceptibly, a fleeting smile in his dark eyes, then turned and left.
Ji Wanmei finally sat down, still feeling a little dizzy.
At this moment, Luo Chunyan looked at the blush on Ji Wanmei's face and said quietly, "Meimei, you don't actually have feelings for Lei Tingjun, do you?"
Ji Wanmei quickly denied it: "No way! Don't talk nonsense."
She denied it too readily, too quickly, too decisively.
Such a denial seems less credible than a hesitant answer after careful consideration.
Because this is entirely a subconscious rebuttal, or a resistance to having her thoughts read by others.
Luo Chunyan saw everything, but said nothing more, only sighing, "You know it in your heart."
Ji Wanmei pursed her lips, concealing her thoughts.
Once all the passengers had boarded, the train finally departed with a roar.
The return ticket was bought in a rush.
I couldn't get three consecutive seats.
I only managed to buy two adjacent tickets. The other ticket was in the same carriage, but three rows away, in the window seat in front of me.
Officer Li then very gentlemanly gave up the two consecutive seats to Ji Wanmei and Luo Chunyan.
As for Lei Tingjun, they were all heading back to Pingquan County, so Officer Li didn't care whether they were standing or sitting.
Lei Tingjun leaned against the metal-shelled carriage in the aisle, a cigarette between his fingers, taking one puff after another.
This is a designated smoking area, and several smokers have made it very smoky, so basically no women want to come here.
Lei Tingjun was dressed in a black short-sleeved shirt, revealing his muscular arms. His long legs, which were bent and crossed, were pressed against the cold metal door behind him in his faded jeans.
He held a cigarette between his fingers, squinted, and looked somewhat lost in thought beneath his sharp brows. His dark eyes held a mystery as he silently exhaled smoke rings.
The dark circles under her eyes spread and diffused in the narrow space of the aisle, eventually dissipating as a wisp of white smoke.
His dark, inky eyes were mesmerizing.
It gave him a profound, aloof, and mysterious aura.
After smoking two cigarettes in a row, he finally managed to suppress the restlessness in his lower abdomen and calm his turbulent emotions.
However, even though he was smoking, he could still seem to smell the faint, pleasant fragrance emanating from Ji Wanmei.
Lei Tingjun was somewhat helpless.
Her influence on me was enormous.
It's not just his mood, his motivation for doing things, or his plans for the future.
Now, even his most basic ability to control his own body has been easily taken over by her.
The train made a rhythmic clanging sound as it passed over the tracks.
The swaying was greater at the junction of the two carriages than elsewhere.
But Lei Tingjun stood ramrod straight, his tall figure not swaying at all, as steady as a pine tree on the top of a cliff.
He turned his head and looked out the train window through the swirling smoke.
As the train passed by farmhouses and fields, Lei Tingjun was unexpectedly reminded of his childhood memories of living in the countryside with his parents.
But that was so long ago, all before he was four or five years old.
A person's memory spans a limited period, and Lei Tingjun actually doesn't remember much about his parents anymore.
When Lei Tingjun was five years old, his parents died in a landslide. The couple went into the mountains in the middle of the night to dig wild ginseng to sell at the market, but unexpectedly encountered a rare landslide.
The couple was buried in the flood, and their remains were never found after they died.
Not to mention any compensation.
From then on, Thunder Army became an orphan.
At first, young Lei Tingjun was sent to stay at his uncle's house because he needed to go to school.
That is, his father's younger brother, and his grandmother's youngest son.
However, Lei Tingjun was sent there for less than two years before he became too naughty and kept fighting with other children in the village.
He beat someone so badly they bled from the head, and the other family's parents came to his door to reason with him, which led to his aunt's disdain.
The aunt refused to allow Lei Tingjun to continue staying at their house, no matter what she said.
Because of this, the aunt had a big argument with Lei Tingjun's uncle.
At that time, Lei Tingjun's uncle had just had his second child, and the family was already struggling financially, so they couldn't spare any extra food or tuition fees to support Lei Tingjun's life.
And so, Lei Tingjun was kicked out of his uncle's house and sent back to his old home in the village.
There's only my elderly grandmother living in my hometown.
Lei Tingjun was only eight or nine years old at the time. His grandmother felt sorry for him, so she went to ask a distant relative in the village for help.
They pay some lodging fees each month, hoping they can take in Lei Tingjun temporarily.
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