The train arrives.
After getting off the train, Song Ruan immediately found the toilet at the train station, then went in and closed and locked the door.
She followed the old lady's advice, got a handful of ash from under the pot, mixed it with a little water and soil, and stirred it into a dirty mixture of mud and water.
Then she applied the water evenly on her face and body until the exposed skin looked several shades darker, becoming black and yellow. Only then did she stop.
Then she took off her outermost pants and clothes, smeared them with dirty water and stomped on the ground a few times until they were dirty and worn, and then put them back on.
After some operations, Song Ruan felt that he now looked like a poor and destitute person.
In this way, even if someone wants to steal something again, they probably won't have a reason to do it to her.
After Song Ruan was refreshed, she opened the door and walked out with satisfaction.
Walking on the street.
I don’t know if it was because the bottom of the pot in her space was too black, or the mud on the ground was too yellow, which caused her to overdo it.
Many passers-by looked at her with disdain.
After receiving a lot of stares, Song Ruan looked down.
Well, it is indeed a bit too dirty, especially the stains all over the clothes, as if I haven't changed my clothes for a long time.
However, Song Ruan didn't care about other people's eyes, as long as the thieves didn't try to steal her.
Song Ruan strolled around Pu'er Town with peace of mind.
But before she had walked around for long, a beggar came towards her.
"Please be kind and give me some money~"
The beggar's begging voice stunned Song Ruan.
She was very satisfied with her poor outfit in the last second, but in the next second, a beggar saw through her?
Just when Songruan crashed, the beggar ignored her and walked straight past her.
When he passed by her, he secretly nudged her with his elbow, as if he was afraid that she would steal his business.
"Sir! My dear sir! Please be kind and give me something to eat~" The beggar held up the broken bowl and bowed continuously.
Song Ruan turned around and saw that the person being begged was a man wearing a Zhongshan suit with his hair combed neatly.
No wonder he became a clear target for beggars, Song Ruan couldn't help but sigh.
When the beggar was begging, the two men walking behind the man in Zhongshan suits immediately stepped forward, stopped and scolded the beggar.
"Get lost! You stinky beggar, don't you have eyes to look at? Is this someone you can get close to?"
The two men looked ferocious.
But the man in the Mao suit just waved his hand gently at them and said, "Forget it."
As soon as he said this, the two men stopped immediately and took a step back in an orderly manner.
Then, the man in the Zhongshan suit took out a wallet from his pocket, pulled out a big reunion banknote from it, slowly placed it on the beggar's bowl, and then left calmly.
The beggar who received the silver stared at the big reunion in the bowl with wide eyes.
After the shock, he immediately looked horrified again.
Yes.
Song Ruan was very clear that the look on her face when she saw the beggar was not surprise but horror.
He swallowed hard, quickly grabbed the big ball on the bowl in his hand, crumpled it into a ball, and then tried to stuff the small ball of paper into his clothes.
But before he could hide the money, more than twenty beggars came out from several nearby alleys and surrounded the beggar with the big group.
"Hand over the money!"
"Hand it over quickly!"
The big reunion that was begged for was soon fought over by various beggars. Among them, some of them were in groups and they fought the most fiercely.
As the beggars pushed and scrambled for food, even Song Ruan, who was standing next to them, was nearly knocked down.
By the time Song Ruan came to his senses, the twenty or so beggars had already turned from scrambling to fighting.
The beggar who received alms at the beginning was beaten the worst. He fell at the feet of the other beggars, holding his head in his hands and lying motionless.
A fight broke out over a reunion ticket and ten dollars.
Song Ruan looked at this scene, her heart sinking.
This place was colder than she had imagined.
Seeing this scene, Song Ruan now just wanted to find out about Yang Bin as soon as possible and go home early.
The first place Song Ruan went to was the market here.
After asking around, she finally arrived at her destination.
The market here is different from the markets in Shuangshui Town and Jing City.
The first two are small and crowded, but this one is large and empty.
The market here is next to an empty road, with only a few shops, some selling meat, some selling vegetables, some selling daily necessities, some selling sundries, and one selling food, and there are no more.
Song Ruan was the first to arrive at the door of the vegetable shop.
Because there are the most people at the door of this shop, about seven or eight, and they all talk a lot, she wanted to see if she could hear any useful information here.
Sure enough, when she got closer, she could hear the sound of chatting.
"Alas, these smuggled Wadi people have become more and more rampant recently."
"What can we do? Wadi is poor and chaotic, and there's only a river between us. They must have sneaked over here!"
"Wadi?" Song Ruan pricked up his ears when he heard the place name.
"If he sneaked in here, he should just work hard and behave himself. He just robs things all day long, making this place a mess! Even the vegetables are expensive."
"Yes, Madam Boss, can you sell this dish a little cheaper? This dish is one cent more expensive than yesterday!"
"It can't be cheap! You know, our climate is bad, it's hard to grow vegetables! You also know that these vegetables have always been expensive. After a while, even if you have money to buy these fresh vegetables to eat, you won't be able to eat them!"
The proprietress is a middle-aged woman who is a bit fat. In this age when people can’t even fill their stomachs, being a bit fat means that her living standard is definitely very good.
So, what she said was very firm, as if it was up to you to buy it or not.
"Where is my money? My money is gone! Who stole my money!" A female voice sounded in the crowd.
"Did you take it?!"
While buying vegetables, the money disappeared. The woman who lost the money immediately started to make trouble for the people around her.
"What does it have to do with me?" the person being pointed at said angrily.
"That's you!" The woman who lost her money panicked and started biting randomly.
The seven or eight people gathered at the store entrance suddenly became nervous because of this sudden incident.
Seeing this, Song Ruan quickly took a few steps back to avoid them getting into an argument and accidentally hurting herself.
Then, the store entrance became more and more chaotic, and later, for some reason, someone pointed out that the money was stolen by one of the men.
After the man was identified, his face turned grim and he suddenly pulled out a knife and pointed it at the people around him. The crowd was frightened and dispersed instantly.
The man was determined to go all the way. After scaring the girl away, he went on to rob the boss's wife of her money.
The man waved the knife in panic, and with his other hand he grabbed the proprietress's purse. If anyone approached, he would chop at them desperately.
No one dared to step forward when seeing this. Fortunately, some patrolling garrison troops arrived nearby and scared away the man with the knife.
This sudden unrest was really unexpected.
"Oh! What bad luck!" the proprietress cried a few times.
Only then did Song Ruan realize that the proprietress's hands were bleeding. She must have been injured when she had just argued with the man with the knife.
Seeing this, Song Ruan, who was standing not far away, walked over silently and helped pick up the scattered vegetables and put them away.
As a pregnant woman, she really had no ability to help with the recent commotion, so she could only help out a little now.
"Oh my! What a damned second-rate Wadi!"
"It's a Gaha day! Can you please be quiet?"
The proprietress was picking up vegetables while slapping her thigh and crying.
After picking up the dishes silently for a while, Song Ruan suggested, "Boss lady, why don't you bandage your hand first?"
"I'm bandaging this broken horse Zhang Fei! Not only did I not sell the vegetables, but they were also messed up like this. I won't be able to deliver the vegetables to the garrison troops later! How can I live like this!"
Garrison troops!
Hearing these three words, Song Ruan's eyes flashed.
"Oh, who said it wasn't true? Life is really unbearable!" Song Ruan also lamented.
"Madam boss, don't be too sad. At least you lost some food. For someone like me, it's a question of whether I can survive!"
The lady boss didn't expect that the girl in front of her was even worse off than she was, so she asked, "Girl, what's wrong with you? Why do you even want to say you can't make it?"
Song Ruan lowered her eyebrows and said with a pitiful look, "I came here to seek refuge with my relatives, but when I got here I found that all my relatives were gone. Now I can't find my relatives, and I have no money to go back even if I want to."
"How pitiful! What kind of situation is it that makes you come to the border to seek refuge with your relatives?"
Song Ruan: ...
It was a very tricky question, which made Song Ruan stunned. She simply lowered her head "sadly", unable to speak.
After a while, Song Ruan raised her head again and said, "Boss, are you hiring?"
"What? Hiring? No, no!" The boss's wife shook her head quickly, "Sister, although I sympathize with you, I can't support other workers!"
"I don't need to be supported, I don't need wages, I just want a place to stay temporarily." Song Ruan immediately expressed his opinion, "Boss lady, you see, your hand is also injured. How about this, you can ask me to work for a few days while you are injured, and you can give me a place to stay during these days. I still have a few cents to support myself for food."
"Is it enough to just have a place to stay?" the proprietress raised her eyes and asked.
"Yes, yes, as long as we have a place to live, I can do all the work like selling vegetables, moving vegetables, and delivering vegetables." Song Ruan hastily assured.
The proprietress looked her up and down and finally agreed.
Not long after, Song Ruan actively fought for a job.
Deliver a cartload of vegetables to the garrison area.
"Remember, come here immediately after it's delivered. The garrison area is not a place for you to walk around and look around randomly," the proprietress instructed.
Song Ruan nodded hurriedly, "Boss lady, I know."
Song Ruan was very happy to get the job of delivering vegetables to the garrison area.
Because, maybe you can find out some information about Yang Bin there.
But when she saw a large cart of vegetables, the smile on her face disappeared.
If it were a normal situation, it would be fine, but now that she is pregnant, she is really worried about transporting such a large truck of vegetables.
"What's wrong? Why haven't you pulled me over yet? Just follow the route I told you. If you forget the way, just ask anyone. They will know the way."
"Okay, I understand." Song Ruan nodded immediately.
Although she was pregnant, the boss's wife didn't know because she was covered by bulky clothes, and she couldn't let her know, otherwise, this rare opportunity to deliver food to the garrison area today would be lost.
Song Ruan put the climbing rope on his shoulders, took a deep breath, then bent his waist and legs and pushed forward, and the cart was finally pulled slowly.
After pulling the car to a place where the proprietress could not see him, Song Ruan stopped immediately.
She quickly rubbed her stomach to relieve the abdominal discomfort caused by the force applied to her waist.
There are a total of six large baskets of vegetables on this cart. In order to avoid dust and drying, the vegetables in the large bamboo baskets are sprinkled with water and covered with cloth.
Song Ruan looked around and saw that there were not many people nearby, so she walked to the cart.
She pretended to sort the bamboo baskets, but in fact she touched the vegetables inside with her hands and put most of the vegetables in each bamboo basket into the space.
Then, she planned to wait until she was almost at the garrison area and then find a place to secretly put the vegetables back into the bamboo basket.
Otherwise, she really didn't dare to take the risk given her physical condition.
With the help of space, the task of pulling vegetables becomes much easier.
Following the route provided by the proprietress, Song Ruan arrived at the garrison area.
"Why haven't I seen you before?" In the kitchen, an old chef looked at Song Ruan and asked.
"Oh, the boss lady's shop was robbed by a Wadi man today, and her hand was injured and bleeding, so she asked me to deliver it here. I'm a distant relative of the boss lady, my name is Song Ruan." Song Ruan explained calmly.
When the old master heard her say that, he frowned and said, "How could such a thing happen to these Wadi people?"
The old master said a few words and then had nothing else to say, so Song Ruan quickly continued the topic.
"Yeah, I don't know what happened in Wadi recently. A lot of people have been talking about the Wadi people recently."
"Just pay more attention in daily life and don't ask around." The old master said this and then kept silent, obviously not wanting to say more.
Song Ruan didn't expect that in the garrison area, even the people in the kitchen were so tight-lipped.
"Master, where is the toilet? I suddenly feel a little urgent." Song Ruan asked anxiously.
The old chef pointed to the back of the kitchen and said, "Go straight from here, turn right at the end and you will see a black-roofed shed. That's the thatched shed."
"Okay, thank you, master!" Song Ruan walked slowly towards the shed.
As she walked, she paid attention to the movements around her, whether it was people passing by or voices talking nearby, she tried her best to pay attention.
But along the way, nothing was gained.
Song Ruan walked into the thatched hut somewhat discouraged, and soon came out again, and then could only walk back slowly.
Just when Song Ruan thought she would return empty-handed, she actually saw an acquaintance here.
Song Ruan followed immediately, but was stopped before she had taken a few steps.
"Song Ruan, where are you going? Your cart is over here!"
"Oh." Song Ruan watched the man walk away and took back his steps regretfully.
Two days later, Song Ruan finally came to deliver food to the garrison area again.
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