Chapter 39 Unexpected Fortune Falling from the Sky
"ah--"
A blood-curdling scream pierced the silent night.
The fright woke everyone in the carriage from their sleep.
Everyone patted their chests and rushed into the carriage to see what had happened.
In an instant, they surrounded them in layers.
The second son and the couple also woke up. The second son immediately rolled off the bed and stood guard in front of Jiang Ruzhen.
"Mom, what happened?"
Jiang Ruzhen, who had been fierce just moments before, turned pale and kept patting her chest.
"Second brother, I just heard a noise. When I woke up, I saw a big dark figure standing in front of my bed, with his hand reaching into the upper bunk and groping around. I don't know what he was doing."
"Huh? Could it be a thief, trying to steal something in the middle of the night?" The second brother didn't think of anything else, only the possibility of theft.
"Really? Everyone, quickly check your luggage to see if you've lost anything."
Upon hearing this, A-Kuan, who was sleeping on the upper bunk next to Jiang Ruzhen, quickly went up to his bed to search his bag. He was relieved to find that nothing was missing.
He bowed repeatedly to Jiang Ruzhen, expressing his deepest gratitude. If it weren't for this vigilant woman, he might have lost the huge sum of one hundred yuan in his bag.
Some people in the surrounding area rushed back to their own carriages to check, while others hurried to find the train attendants.
The flight attendant arrived shortly afterward with the train police and took the menacing man away.
Before leaving, he also said that if anyone lost anything, they should go to the flight attendant to register it.
The fierce-looking man was difficult to explain; he wanted to create some chaos, but not to be mistaken for a thief and kidnapped.
However, after thinking about it, he felt it might be safer to be under the jurisdiction of the railway police.
He didn't argue, and before leaving, he glared at Jiang Ruzhen before being taken away by the train police.
The crowd dispersed, and the second brother, still shaken, sat down next to Jiang Ruzhen and said...
"That guy looked all dressed up and was quite fat, I never imagined he was a thief. Mom, were you scared?"
Jiang Ruzhen rolled her eyes. If she hadn't been alert and woken up at the slightest sound, she probably would have already been taken advantage of.
She kicked people so badly they were crippled, what's there to be scared of?
"Um, thank you so much, big sister," the young woman said shyly as she came over to express her gratitude.
Her husband and second son didn't understand what was going on, so the young wife quickly whispered a few words in her husband's ear.
The young man named A-Kuan immediately turned red with anger. He hadn't expected that the fierce-looking man wasn't after the money, but after him.
However, it's best not to spread the word about your wife being taken advantage of, as it will damage your reputation.
He thanked Jiang Ruzhen repeatedly, advised his wife to go back to sleep, and then sat on the lower bunk to keep watch until dawn.
Jiang Ruzhen declined to comment on the actions of the two young people, noting that the demands placed on women in that era were indeed very harsh, lacking the enlightened feminist ideas of later generations.
The second brother also wanted to persuade Jiang Ruzhen to sleep in his bed. He was guarding her on the lower bunk, but Jiang Ruzhen slapped him and made him behave.
"Sleeping like a pig, do you think I need you to guard me? I can protect myself."
The second brother chuckled foolishly twice, then grabbed Jiang Ruzhen's arm and shook it.
"Then I'll trouble you to keep an eye on our son. I'm scared."
Jiang Ruzhen rarely showed this level of closeness to her, her rebellious second son, from childhood to adulthood, so she reached out and patted his head.
"Okay, go to sleep. Mom will protect you!"
The second son was so pleased with Jiang Ruzhen's gentle touch that his confidence swelled instantly. He felt that he might be able to compete with the fourth son for favor again.
The night returned to calm.
After a long, bumpy night, we finally arrived at Yangcheng Station at nine o'clock the next morning.
The second son's stomach was growling with hunger, so Jiang Ruzhen led him through a maze of left and right turns to a state-run restaurant. After ordering, Jiang Ruzhen went to the restroom.
Let the second child eat first. The public restroom was not far from the restaurant, and the second child didn't think much of it and obediently waited at the restaurant.
Jiang Ruzhen arrived at the alley where the public toilet was located and found two people blocking the entrance, preventing anyone from entering.
"What's going on? We need to go to the toilet, why won't we go in?" someone shouted, clearly unhappy.
The two young men politely showed off their red armbands, saying, "We're from the neighborhood. The walls of the toilets inside are a bit loose, and our workers are working on repairs."
Please come back in an hour, everyone.
Oh, I see. The crowd gradually dispersed.
Looking at the two young men, Jiang Ruzhen suddenly remembered that they were one of the people who had been watching the man on the opposite bed last night.
That means that the fierce-looking man managed to escape last night, but he was eventually cornered in the toilet this morning.
She hadn't cared what those groups were up to, but last night, this fierce-looking man had successfully enraged her, and she'd become interested to see how badly he'd been beaten. With that in mind, she slipped into the depths of a nearby alley and entered her spatial dimension, calculating the distance to move it to the women's restroom area.
She listened to the sounds from next door from inside the room; the area around the toilet must have been surrounded by people.
There was no one in the women's restroom, but in the men's restroom, there were loud thuds and faint pleas for mercy from men.
After listening for a while, Jiang Ruzhen felt refreshed; that man must have been beaten up badly.
Just as she was preparing to retreat, she suddenly heard a roar from next door, and a dark object fell from the sky and landed on the ground in the women's restroom.
Jiang Ruzhen looked closely and realized it was the handbag that the man had been holding in his arms all day.
Before her brain could even process it, her hand had already reached out.
He quickly pulled open the chain, took out several piles of things, and stuffed in two lunch boxes containing a few apples.
The weight was about the same as what she took out.
She had just zipped up the chain and tossed the bag back onto the floor when footsteps sounded at the door.
Jiang Ruzhen flashed into the space, manipulated the space to move ten meters away, and took out the things she had just pulled out and counted them.
hey-hey!
Unexpected wealth falling from the sky.
Four packages in total, and she got 40,000 yuan for free, even from bad guys. Jiang Ruzhen was overjoyed.
She didn't take much; it was probably about one-fifth of the total.
Besides, she added something of equal weight back, so those people shouldn't notice anything.
Jiang Ruzhen was smug for a while, and only after realizing that no one was around did she leisurely come out of the space.
Back at the hotel, the second brother asked her why she had been gone for so long.
Jiang Ruzhen said that the nearby public toilets were under repair, so she went to one that was further away.
The second son didn't pay much attention. A little while later, the waiter brought over a steamer of pork buns, a plate of steamed buns, a plate of egg pancakes, four tea eggs, and two bowls of porridge.
Jiang Ruzhen said it wasn't enough and asked the waiter to pack another steamer of buns and a bowl of porridge.
The second child asked her curiously, "Mom, I have enough to eat, why are you packing more?"
"Yeah, I'm going to feed the dog in a bit."
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