Chapter 259

Finale

At seven o'clock in the evening, the news broadcast began.

The satellite moved his small stool early and sat in front of the TV.

"According to Xinhua News Agency, the oil theft and corruption case that shocked the Republic has now been solved. The leaders have made important instructions, saying that while we accelerate economic development, we must also ensure the party's style and clean government. This is the most important part of our Republic's long-term development."

"Mom, come and look, Uncle Hong, Uncle Hong is on TV." The satellite suddenly shouted.

Chen Lina was cooking in the kitchen. She ran out with her two dough boys to see what was happening. Hey, as expected, Hong Jinbu appeared on the black and white TV.

This was a public trial. He was handcuffed and standing in the dock. Then the scene changed and another person came out. He had gray hair and had been on the "News Broadcast". He looked radiant.

Now that he is in the dock, his hair has turned gray and his eyes are empty. He looks so miserable.

Let’s not talk about them. There was a major purge in the oil system. All the small parasites pulled out from the oil industry across the entire republic appeared on TV one by one. They were all gloriously on TV.

Well, all their ancestors are lost.

Miss Chen turned around and called the worker who was away on business. "Have you watched the News Broadcast? Hong Jinbu looks so pitiful."

"It's better to save on scholarships and put an end to it all. It would be better to jump into the Yellow River and die." Nie Gong, who was in the hotel over at Daqing, said with a smile.

Miss Chen said, "When Hongyan cadres get into trouble, they always like to jump into the Yellow River. This has become a custom. Fortunately, Jin Sheng is dead. I just called Sister Liu to comfort her. She doesn't seem sad. She also said that she will resign soon and come to the clothing factory to start a business with me."

Nie Gong said, "Then tell her that I welcome her coming. After all, once she arrives at the mining area, all the female students from Beijing University of Technology will basically be your subordinates, right?"

Miss Chen smiled and hung up the phone.

Outside, Liu Xiaohong and Nie Weimin were painting the new house.

"Wei Min, the base layer has been painted. Isn't the color beautiful?" Liu Xiaohong said as she took off her mask and smiled proudly.

It was already July. Unlike the others, Liu Xiaohong worked very hard for two months before she built the house for Nie Weijiang.

"By the way, we're out of vegetables at home. Didn't you just say you wanted to eat fried baloney with tiger-skin peppers? I'll go to the farm to pick some peppers for us. Take a shower and wait for me." Liu Xiaohong said as she took off her dirty clothes, threw them into the big washbasin, and prepared to leave.

"Wei Jiang worked all day today and kept talking about wanting to eat radishes from the farm. Remember to bring him some radishes," Wei Min added.

Liu Xiaohong smiled and said yes, then rode her bike to the farm.

Nie Weimin threw all the dirty clothes of Liu Xiaohong, himself and Wei Jiang into the basin and started washing them.

Wei Jiang specially applied for an international long-distance call and is currently on the phone with his godfather.

His godfather's illness was sometimes better and sometimes worse, but overall, his health was getting worse. He himself repeatedly made it clear that when he died, all his inheritance would belong to Nie Weijiang.

However, he still wanted Nie Weijiang to become a naturalized American citizen.

After all, as an American, Edward still wanted to keep all the capable people, taxes, and wealth that Nigel could create in the United States.

"If you are an American citizen and come back to China to do business, the government will take better care of you," Edward said on the phone.

Wei Jiang said, "Fuck, I will never give up my Chinese nationality, really."

Edward was very irritated by the pain and felt that he could not communicate with Wei Jiang. He said angrily, "If you insist on being a Chinese, then I have to tell you that you will not get a single point of my inheritance. That's it. Goodbye."

After hanging up the phone, I came out and saw my elder brother squatting there washing clothes. The lazy little Nie Weijiang didn't think much of it. After all, my elder brother had been the one who washed all the clothes since I was a child.

Liu Xiaohong had already returned from the farm when she got back, and the front basket of her bicycle was full of things.

Big peppers, radishes, and fresh water celery.

However, Liu Xiaohong is not needed at the stove because Chen Lina is cooking.

Liu Xiaohong saw Wei Min washing clothes, so she kicked him away and started washing herself.

Wei Min, who was born with the attitude of a boss, ran into the kitchen to help Chen Lina light the fire when he saw Xiao Hong coming to help him wash clothes.

"Your daughter-in-law has been married for three months and built our house almost brick by brick with her own hands. Nie Weimin, do you have a conscience? Why don't you help her wash clothes instead of coming to me to help me light the fire?" Chen Lina said.

Nie Weimin said, "I will massage her back at night."

A typical big brother. I treat my wife well, but my wife must be good to my family and my brothers.

Chen Lina rolled her eyes at Nie Weimin, finished cooking the dishes, pointed at Weimin and told him to cook for her. She went out and took out two thousand yuan from the sewing machine and gave it to Liu Xiaohong. "Xiaohong, tomorrow you two go to Uru and buy a washing machine. From now on, don't wash your clothes by hand. Use the washing machine, okay?"

Liu Xiaohong also agreed readily, "Okay, I'll go buy it tomorrow."

She was squeezed dry by Chen Lili before she entered the house. She came in penniless and had no confidence to do anything.

Although my monthly salary is high, I cannot afford to buy a washing machine for my home. The cheapest washing machine now costs at least two to three thousand yuan.

Nie Weimin, I guess, was worried that Miss Chen would have a hard time after he went to work. In fact, he had been asking about the price of a washing machine, wanting to buy one for Chen Lina.

However, he is now unemployed and has no extra money. He is so poor that he doesn't even have enough money to buy a washing machine for his family and mother.

As the eldest brother, what should I do?

Just in time, after washing the dishes, Miss Chen was in a good mood today. She went out to chat with Sister Qian, Sister Wang, Lu Fangfang, and a group of other women, waving big cattail-leaf fans.

Nie Weimin entered the bedroom and was about to give Liu Xiaohong a leg massage when he found her sitting cross-legged on the window, applying lotion on her face.

"Didn't Weijiang buy a whole set of NE for you? Why are you applying Dabao?" Nie Weimin said in surprise.

Liu Xiaohong turned around and said, "Cosmetics will eventually run out. Expensive stuff like that only contains a tiny amount of makeup, so it would have run out long ago. This is cheap and comfortable to use, so I'll just use this."

Nie Weimin looked for a long time and suddenly found that Liu Xiaohong had become much darker and thinner than when she first got married.

Of course, in June and July, you have to build a room and expose it to the scorching sun every day. No matter what kind of sunscreen you use, it can't protect you from the scorching sun in June and July in the border area.

Liu Xiaohong leaned back and leaned into Nie Weimin's arms. "Don't worry, I will be paid during the few months of vacation. When we get to Dongfeng City, I will take out all the money and buy better cosmetics."

Nie Weimin patted his head and said, "Wait, let me give you something."

Liu Xiaohong saw that he gave her a letter and was puzzled, "Why did you give me an empty letter?"

Nie Weimin said, "This is my salary passbook. It is said that every month when I get my salary, I deposit it directly into this passbook. From now on, you can keep my salary passbook."

"Aren't you afraid that I'll take your wages, secretly, and give them back to my mother?"

Given his unhappy childhood experience, Nie Weimin was indeed shocked, but at the same time he also said, "No way?"

Liu Xiaohong said seriously, "Maybe I will."

Nie Weimin looked at the passbook and bit his lip. From the look in his eyes, he probably wanted to give it back.

Liu Xiaohong turned around, smiled and kissed him on the forehead. "Don't worry, gratitude is gratitude, and righteousness is righteousness. I can tell the difference."

She has loved such a man all her life and would only give him all the good things in the world. How could she possibly spend his salary on others?

One day, he said he wanted to plant the five-star red flag on the moon.

From then on, Liu Xiaohong was determined to help him realize his dream of landing on the moon by studying hard and making progress every day.

Nie Weimin opened the window and saw that the yard was quiet. He pushed Liu Xiaohong down and said, "Come on, I'll show you a new position."

After touching the box, the guard said, "Oh no, there are no condoms."

"Don't you do it once every two weeks? You have been doing it every day recently. Doctor Zhang from the clinic scolds you every day and says he wants to investigate who is always stealing his condoms." Liu Xiaohong said.

Nie Weimin knelt down. Since he was talking about new postures, how could he stop? "No, wait, I have to steal a few more."

"Doctor Zhang said he put a mousetrap in the infirmary. Be careful." Liu Xiaohong was shouting while leaning on the window. Nie Weimin was nowhere to be seen.

Chen Lina was sitting outside the door, listening to Lu Fangfang saying bad things about her daughter-in-law.

That's right, she is the daughter-in-law of Qin Sheng, the former security captain of the base and now the chief of the public security department of the mining area airport. She is a well-known lazy person in the entire base, as sloppy as Sun Duoyu in the past and Qian Saozi now.

Lu Fangfang has always been a clean person, but she is driven crazy by this daughter-in-law.

Chen Lina doesn't like to listen to these gossips. Of course, the most important reason is that she is always busy at home and has no time to go out.

Well, she is not so busy recently. Liu Xiaohong helps her wash the pots and keep clean. After dinner, she can also go out for a walk.

But after hearing about this kind of thing, she still feels troubled.

So she took the satellite's hand and said, "I remember the apple pears your father planted in the grove two years ago are now bearing fruit. Let's go pick two pears and eat them."

Lu Fangfang was still saying, "Xiao Chen, just stay here and listen to me, okay?"

"No, no, just chat with Sister Qian and Sister Wang. I'll go to the back to pick some pears and be back soon."

Listening to such gossip is really a headache. The sooner you avoid it, the better, right?

As a result, Miss Chen had just avoided an in-depth discussion on the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, but she encountered a large-scale love-break scene again.

"Mom, that's my second brother. He has been in Beijing all the time. Why didn't he tell me that he came back? What is he doing in the grove?" Wei Xing jumped up and down and grabbed Miss Chen.

Chen Lina was also puzzled. Erdan had been in Beijing for two months. He finally got home and smelled the delicious aroma of cooking at home, but he didn't even come home. What was this kid doing?

Well, she pulled the satellite and hid.

Because at this time, Chen Lina suddenly heard Erdan say, "Tiantian, I love you, I mean it..."

"Okay, Weiguo, put away your act. Tiantian will be here soon. Hurry up, are you ready?" It was Li Mingcheng, running from a distance and making gestures to Erdan.

But it turns out that this is a large-scale courtship scene?

It was July and the weather was hot. Tiantian was on vacation at home recently. She was fanning herself with a big palm-leaf fan and walking towards us staggeringly in big slippers.

"Remember, show your passion and depth for music to impress her, okay?" After saying this, Li Mingcheng snapped his fingers and hid away.

As a result, he hid behind a large pear tree with drooping branches. Just as he was about to pick a pear to watch the fun, he saw two faces behind the tree.

"Ah, Auntie, what a coincidence."

"Yes, what a coincidence, I can actually squeeze into a group while secretly watching the excitement. Let me ask you, does He Lanshan agree to your marriage with Gao Xiaobing?" Chen Lina asked Li Mingcheng quietly.

Li Mingcheng held his head and said, "We are doing quite well in Beijing. Apart from the fact that people always laugh at our band name, there is nothing wrong. We have all the signs of being famous. But it is too difficult to make a million. I think by the time I make that, my hair will be grey."

Chen Lina said calmly, "You and Gao Xiaobing, it's already been a done deal, right?"

Fortunately, it was dark, otherwise, Li Mingcheng's face would have turned red long ago.

"Next time you find He Lanshan, just tell her that I have always wanted to marry my daughter to you, but unfortunately you are determined and you have to marry Gao Xiaobing. Don't worry, she will agree to the marriage as soon as she hears it." Miss Chen said with great certainty.

Li Mingcheng's eyes almost popped out as he looked at his ten-year-old sister Nie Weixing and asked, "Is this okay?"

Chen Lina said, "Why not? I really think you can be my son-in-law. If I have an older daughter, I really will."

He Lanshan's personality is such that she likes to compete with Chen Lina in everything. She originally looked down on Li Mingcheng. However, she was shocked to hear that Chen Lina intended to marry her daughter to Li Mingcheng.

That would be incredible. In an instant, Li Mingcheng would become a hot commodity in her eyes.

"Aunt Chen, thank you. Also, if Aunt He really doesn't want to, can I come back and marry the satellite?" Li Mingcheng was so happy that he also made a joke.

Unexpectedly, this one sentence made Chen Lina and Nie Weixing collectively angry.

"Brother Mingcheng is a big gangster. Humph, watch my fists and kicks." The satellite said, his feet flying out.

Chen Lina went even further, "Come on, you can come, but I will let my laborer break your legs."

"Erdan, when did you come back? Have you gone home or not? What are you doing in the woods?" Tiantian was wearing two slippers and slapping mosquitoes.

Erdan took a deep breath, looked at Tiantian, and said, "I have written about 200 songs in total. I have been in Beijing for two months. I have selected the best 20 songs based on the audience's response. They are all written for you."

Tiantian laughed immediately, "I don't think your songs are written for me. I've listened to so many of them, and I feel like what you sing is about our past lives."

"But in my life, or rather, my definition of happiness, there is only you." Erdan then said.

Nie Weiguo's childhood was undoubtedly happy, considering the love of his parents and the abundance of material wealth.

However, from the perspective of study and environment, it is undoubtedly miserable. He has been discriminated against since he was a child because of his poor academic performance, and of course Tiantian was also discriminated against.

Therefore, he could deeply feel the confusion and pain that Tiantian, who was also a poor student, had experienced.

The roads they walked together, the scenery they saw together, the mutual understanding and reliance on each other when they comforted each other in silence because of their poor grades on campus, are the inspiration for Nie Weiguo's songs.

"So, Tiantian, my desire to marry you has never changed since I was a child. Can you marry me?" Erdan said again.

Behind the big pear tree, Li Mingcheng clenched his fist and said, "Wei Guo is a very straightforward person, really."

Chen Lina, however, held her forehead and sighed, thinking to herself, it’s over, my son is going to be given a nice guy card.

But he likes women, which is a good thing, right?

As expected, Tiantian was obviously frightened. She looked at Erdan who was much taller than her, took two steps back, shook her head and said, "Erdan, don't scare me like this. Really, I'm your sister, how can you say such things to me?"

"I love you and I want you to marry me, but you don't have a boyfriend in Beijing or in the mining area. I've asked around and everyone who knows you says you're single. There's no obstacle between us," said Erdan.

Tiantian sighed and paused for a long time before saying, "Weiguo, the person you sing about in your song is a goddess, but I am an ordinary girl who can't be more ordinary, even a little stupid.

Sometimes I eat too much, sometimes I'm on a diet, sometimes I overeat, and sometimes I'm constipated. I'm like this at home, wearing loose pajamas, looking at myself in the mirror, and occasionally I can get crazy because of my own ugliness. I'm an ordinary girl, and I'm totally not worthy of you."

Li Mingcheng and Wei Xing were both puzzled. Nie Weiguo was so handsome. Even though he wasn't famous in the Beijing circle yet, it was only a matter of time before he became famous. It was so strange that Tiantian, who was short and ugly, was not liked by such a handsome and dazzling man on the stage. He was so handsome.

Look, the two of them are quietly shaking Chen Lina's arm, asking her to clear up their confusion.

Chen Lina whispered, "Tiantian, she entered the woolen textile factory at the age of thirteen. Don't look at her as only twenty-three. She has been in society for ten years and looks at things calmly. Nie Weiguo only loves the goddess in his imagination, not the real Chen Tiantian who has been in society for ten years, has no education or diploma, and is not very pretty. Do you understand?"

The satellite pouted and said, "I don't understand."

Li Mingcheng also said, "Love is love, there is no such thing as a goddess or not."

Chen Lina said, "Anyway, Tiantian rejected him because she followed her heart, really."

How can a rocker have a stable marriage? No down-to-earth girl would like a rocker boy.

Look, Erdan was also hit hard.

I was stunned for a long time, and then he said, "I have seen all kinds of ugly faces of you. When you were squatting in the toilet, you were constipated, and I squatted outside with a stick to cheer you on. I will accompany you as long as you squat."

"But you've grown up. You're so handsome on the stage, like a guard. You'll always be my older brother and younger brother. But I can't possibly like you, Erdan. Stop joking and let's go." Tiantian said, waving her hand and getting ready to leave.

Erdan mustered up a lot of courage to confess his love, but Tiantian rejected him again so easily.

"Is it because I didn't serve in the army that you only like men in military uniforms?" Erdan then said.

Tiantian made up her mind and said "yes."

After all, she thought, Erdan spent so much money to study abroad, and now his top priority must be to make money. He has to make more money to compensate his parents, right?

Sure enough, Erdan held on to the tree with one hand, and with just one sound, he knelt in the woods.

Chen Lina signaled Li Mingcheng, "Hurry up, go out and comfort Erdan. I think he's about to cry."

Yes, Erdan was leaning against a tree. Although he didn’t shake his head and shout “no” like the male protagonists in Qiongyao, he was also hit hard.

"If I tell my dad I want to join the army, he will be furious. No, no, I can imagine it. He will pick up his shotgun and say, 'You have been a loser since you were a child, you loser. You spent so much of my money. Now that your rock career is finally starting to revive, you go to the army again. Do you think everything in this world depends on your temper? Do you think you can do whatever you want?'"

Erdan paused for a long time, then said, "But my ambition since I was a child has been to join the army. Besides, if I join the army, Chen Tiantian will have no reason to reject me, right?"

Wei Xing shook Chen Lina's arm and said, "Mom, let my second brother go to the army. Also, can you persuade sister Tiantian to marry my second brother?"

Chen Lina said, "Love is love, not love is not love, how can you force it?"

Over there, Erdan, who was rejected again in his courtship, was going crazy. "No, Li Mingcheng, I don't want to sing anymore. I want to join the army. I now feel that I betrayed Tiantian. At the beginning, I always said yes and wanted to join the army, but in the end I chose rock music. She rejected me now because of this."

Li Mingcheng was filled with righteous indignation for a long time and said, "Chen Tiantian is just blind."

Erdan said, "I'm sorry Mingcheng, I just want to join the army now. Let the rock music roll. You, find someone else to form a band. I'm sorry, brother."

Li Mingben was originally fine, but he suddenly got irritated by Erdan's words, "You're going to join the army just for a woman, just for a woman, when your career is just starting to take off?"

Erdan, he has never been rebellious since he was a child, but because of Chen Tiantian’s rejection, the fire of rebellion was ignited in him in an instant.

Oh, yes, and his long-standing passion to join the army and to carry a gun to defend his country was ignited again.

Li Mingcheng looked at him for a long time, then suddenly punched him. "Fuck Nie Weiguo, traitor. Goodbye. I'll just be myself. I've never known you, really."

Erdan was walking in front with a dazed look on his face.

The satellite asked Chen Lina, "Mom, do we need to comfort my second brother?"

Chen Lina shook her head and said, "No, a man who has been heartbroken is very sad. If we go to comfort him at this time, it will not only be useless, but it will probably make things worse. After all, he was rejected by Tiantian and doesn't want anyone to know. Do you understand?"

When they were only a few steps away from returning home, Chen Lina saw that the lights in the yard had been turned off. Wei Jiang quietly slipped out and said to Chen Lina, "Mom, Tiantian just hurried out and asked my eldest brother to take her to the mining area. My second brother is in a daze and is downstairs in the kitchen. Is there something wrong with them?"

Chen Lina said quietly, "Stop talking, go back to your room and go to sleep first, ok."

Wei Jiang gave Chen Lina and Wei Xing a washed and peeled cucumber each. He originally wanted to talk to Lina about Edward's statement that if he didn't want to become an American citizen, he would not be able to get his own property.

But on second thought, what he has is the ability to make money, and if Edward still treats him as his son, then that's fine.

If you threaten him for a little inheritance, it would be better for him to give up the inheritance.

Thinking of this, he didn't say anything more and turned back to his room.

Erdan cooked himself a bowl of noodles without even turning on the lights. He ate it in the yard, slurping it.

Chen Lina turned on the light, looked at Erdan for a while, brought out the chili oil and mixed some for him.

The satellite was holding a vinegar pot and added some vinegar to his drink.

Erdan ate two mouthfuls of noodles and suddenly said, "Mom, I'm fine. I'm really fine. When I was little, no matter how the teacher scolded me, as long as I thought about eating the noodles my mom made when I got home, I wouldn't get angry, sad, or feel inferior. It's the same now. After I eat a bowl of noodles, I feel much better."

"After dinner, go to bed, okay? No matter how big the matter is, I believe you will be fine after a good sleep, really." Chen Lina said.

Erdan said, "Mom, I don't want to do rock music for the time being. It's not because there aren't enough listeners or the response isn't enthusiastic enough. I still feel that Mingcheng and I are lacking a lot of things."

"The band's name is also very ugly." Chen Lina said honestly.

Erdan has always been silly and cute under the pressure of his two brothers, so Chen Lina finds it difficult to hit him.

All along, all he had to say was encouragement, but the name of the band was really ugly.

"So, I want to join the army. Maybe in the short term, I won't be able to earn enough money to pay you back for my living expenses and tuition fees. Is that okay?" Erdan then plucked up the courage to say.

Chen Lina patted her bear-like son and said, "When parents raise their children, they don't expect them to pay off their debts. Be brave. As long as you can convince your father, you can join the army."

To her, as long as Erdan was alive and didn't commit any crime, nothing else mattered to him.

But Nie Gong was different. After all, for his son, he had made the red phone call and cried in front of his mentor.

If Erdan doesn't rock, Chen Lina is afraid that the worker will untie his belt and beat him.

When Erdan thought about his father, he became extremely worried. He guessed that his father was really going to beat him to death this time.

…

On the other hand, Chen Tiantian called out to Nie Weimin, who drove her home.

The guard went to the bathroom to steal a condom, but there was a mousetrap on the condom. It caught his hand and it hurts now.

"Nie Weiguo confessed to you, Tiantian, I'm wondering, do you really not like him? Also, I didn't realize he liked you, so what's going on between you two?" Wei Min asked Tiantian while driving.

Tiantian originally planned to stay for a few days when she returned home this time, but because she rejected Erdan, she was afraid that Erdan would feel embarrassed and this was not an urgent matter, so she just prepared to leave.

She smiled wryly and said, "It's impossible, Weimin. You and Xiaohong are the same kind of people, so you can get married. You are equal in spirit. I am a saleswoman who only knows Ah Wo'e and doesn't even know ABC. I followed Nicholas Tse, who graduated from Thames College in the UK. We are not the same kind of people."

"But he really wrote a lot of songs based on you. You don't understand the source of his creative inspiration for a singer.

For him, it is everything, and it may have nothing to do with how many books one has read or how much cultural background one has. " Nie Weimin advised.

However, he still hadn't figured out how they would get along if Tiantian became Erdan's wife.

If his ugly sister really got married, Nie Weimin would save money to give her a big gift, but if she married Erdan and called him "big brother" from then on, Nie Weimin always felt weird in his heart.

Tiantian was calm. "The goddess in his heart is really not me. One day, he will meet that girl. I am going to marry him, and he just happened to meet that girl. Weiguo is a man who values ​​friendship and loyalty, so he probably won't get divorced."

As for me, I am a woman who cannot tolerate any sand in my eyes and will not allow him to have an affair. In this way, won't both of us suffer? "Tiantian smiled sweetly and said, "I am not good at studying, but I still have a thorough understanding of this aspect."

When she arrived at the mining area, she got off the car outside the clothing factory, waved and said, "Da Dan, goodbye. I'll go home next time and we'll meet again if we meet again."

"Okay, goodbye." Wei Min also waved.

His little sister, just like she did before, just waved and left without looking back.

…

Nie Gong, who didn't know that his son Nie Weiguo, who was the best at spending money, had just started to become popular in rock music and was making a fuss and refusing to sing and wanted to join the army, was now on the difficult journey home.

He went on a business trip to Daqing and was reported in Beijing after he came back because he signed up to be a people's representative at this year's National People's Congress.

Although for him, this was just a formality, he still had to queue up, review documents, and talk to the leader.

"There are no more flight tickets to Umayyad. You can only take the train. Is that okay?" said the cadre comrade in charge of purchasing tickets.

The worker was in a hurry to go home. A plane is so fast, it only takes two hours, but a train would take two days and two nights.

But the laborer has always been a person who doesn't want to trouble others. He can only say that the economy of the mining area is developing so well now that it is impossible to book a flight ticket unless you book it three days in advance.

Large numbers of wealthy people travel by plane between the mining area and Beijing to do business.

After getting on the train, in the soft sleeper car, the worker saw that he was in the lower bunk and there was an old lady struggling to move to the upper bunk. So he gave his ticket for the lower bunk to the old lady, helped her sit on the lower bunk, and moved himself to the upper bunk.

Two days and two nights, read some books, think about some problems, and it will pass. It's not hard to endure.

There were only four people in the soft sleeper car. On the opposite bunk were a couple, probably going on their honeymoon. They were crowded in the lower bunk, chatting among themselves. The old lady in the lower bunk occasionally chatted with the worker.

But seeing that he was only responding incoherently, I was afraid of disturbing him, so I just covered myself with the quilt and went to sleep.

Nie Gong was reading a book, and without knowing when, he fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up again, it was still daylight, but the train was moving inexplicably slower.

The original speed of the train should be a steady 120 mph, but the train was visible to the naked eye at a maximum speed of 90 mph.

Moreover, he remembered that when he was reading and preparing to go to sleep, the train should have just passed Hongyan, so it should be 5:30 in the morning.

However, when he raised his wrist, he found that the hour and minute hands on his watch were shaking constantly, making his eyes hurt.

After patting Lao Zhongshan's watch, Nie Gong thought that the watch had a screw loose, so he unwound the spring and wound it a few times, thinking it would be fine.

As a result, the spring seemed to be useless. No matter how he twisted it, the hour and minute hands kept swinging around inside.

"Should the ashes of the two children also be scattered in the mining area along with their mother?"

"Well, this was their only request when they died. They wanted to be buried with Sun Gong, but Sun Gong's ashes were scattered all over the three major bases in the mining area. So should the children's ashes be scattered as well?"

On the berth opposite, the young couple had left at some point, and now they were replaced by a couple of middle-aged people.

And on the upper floor, there were two urns.

The worker lowered his head and found two people sitting in the shop opposite. One of them was wearing a military uniform, a crew cut, and big-toed leather shoes with pointed corners. He had his hands in his pockets and was sighing.

The other one was dressed better, wearing a suit with a 3:7 split style. The clothes he wore looked to be of good quality, so he must be very rich.

But just looking at his mental appearance, he looks thin, tired, and seemingly depressed. It is obvious that he is very, very sad at the moment.

"Bo Zhao, I'm sorry for defending the people and the country, but all the leaders in the province unanimously believe that they are guilty, and drug trafficking is a serious crime. I tried my best, but I couldn't save the child. I'm sorry." said the man in military uniform.

The man in the suit slowly and heavily raised his arm and patted the man in the military uniform on the back. "It's my fault for not teaching my children well, so they dared to sell drugs. You have nothing to apologize for. They deserved to die. Really."

The worker suddenly turned over and sat up.

Because he was surprised to find that the two people sitting opposite him were himself and Leng Qi who was still in military uniform.