Chapter 159 The Aunt on the Train
When Shen Ruoqing returned to Luda, Mu Bai had also packed up.
Seeing Shen Ruoqing carrying two large boxes, Mu Bai curled his lips and said, "You don't need to bring too many things. When we get to Jing City, I've asked someone to buy your daily necessities. The train tickets and letters of introduction are here. Let's go now. I bought two sleeper berths. You can have a good sleep on the train. Come, I asked Lu Da to buy some buns, you can eat some to fill your stomach first."
It is very difficult to buy sleeper tickets for trains now, and they are in such a hurry. It seems that Mu Bai still has some skills. She can see the train station from a distance. This train station is much older than she is. Mu Bai told her that this train station seems to have been built in the 1900s.
Shen Ruoqing took the bun and took two bites. It was a pure meat bun. Mu Bai bought a ticket for 9 o'clock in the morning. After he finished eating the meat bun, the train arrived. Mu Bai helped Shen Ruoqing carry the suitcase, and the two got on the train together.
This was Shen Ruoqing's first time riding a train of this era.
Shen Ruoqing looked at the ticket carefully and searched for her seat on the train. Mu Bai bought a lower berth and a middle berth, so he couldn't buy two lower berths, but Mu Bai didn't mind where he slept anyway. It would take more than 30 hours to get to Beijing City. Shen Ruoqing didn't sleep all night. Although she drank some spiritual spring water to replenish her energy, she was still a little tired. Now she just wanted to find her seat as soon as possible and then lie down to sleep.
When I finally found my seat, I discovered that my lower bunk had already been occupied.
The person occupying the seat was a middle-aged woman with a child, who sat on Shen Ruoqing's bed and played without restraint, messing up the bedding and everything.
"Ma'am, you are sitting in my seat." Shen Ruoqing raised the ticket in her hand and spoke in a nice voice.
A hint of displeasure flashed across the lady's face, but then quickly disappeared. She smiled and said, "Oh, comrade, I'm so sorry, but I'm old and my legs are not so good. It's not convenient for me to climb the stairs. How about you switch places with me?"
Shen Ruoqing glanced at the lady. She was not that old actually, and looked to be in her fifties. However, she said that her legs and feet were not very good, so Shen Ruoqing felt embarrassed to force her to leave.
"Well, ma'am, where is your seat? I'll switch seats with you, and you just have to pay me the difference."
Now the prices of upper, middle and lower berths on trains are different, and the lower berths are generally more expensive.
When she heard that she had to pay the difference, the lady's smile froze for a moment: "This, this, I'm the only one going out, and I don't have any extra money with me..."
Shen Ruoqing understood that this old lady just wanted to take advantage of her.
At this time, Mu Bai also came over.
"Ruoqing, what happened?"
"This lady took my seat and wanted to switch seats with me, but she doesn't want to pay me the difference." Shen Ruoqing simply explained the situation.
The lady was a little unhappy: "Lady, please be kind and help me. You see, it's not easy for me to take care of a child. It's just a matter of changing seats. How much difference can it make? I see that you are dressed very brightly and you don't look like someone who would be short of a few dollars."
Someone chimed in: "Yes, little girl, why don't you just exchange it with this lady, the price difference isn't that much."
Mu Bai said, "Ma'am, if you want to change seats with us, then please pay the difference. Which seat are you sitting in? It's not that we will let it go if there is no difference in money. No one's money comes from the wind. And we agree to change seats for you because of your age. We have no relatives or friends with you, so we can't help you pay the difference, right?"
Mu Bai asked the old lady where her location was, but she hesitated and refused to tell him.
"In that case, I refuse to exchange seats with you. Madam, just sleep on whichever bed you choose." Shen Ruoqing lost her patience.
"You young people nowadays have no compassion at all. Seeing that I have difficulty walking, you are unwilling to change seats for me. You really have no sympathy at all."
"That's right, you two young people, how come you don't have any moral integrity of respecting the elderly and loving the young? You have to make things difficult for an old lady. How big is the price difference between upper and lower bunks? Aren't they both reaching the same place?" A young man on the lower bunk opposite couldn't stand it anymore and spoke out.
"I chose the lower bunk because I think it's more convenient. Otherwise, why did you buy it? Comrade, if you want to be a good person, why don't you go and exchange seats with this lady?" Shen Ruoqing gave the young man a blaming look.
The young man seemed to be provoked and stood up immediately: "Okay, Auntie, you can sleep with your child here, I will change seats with you, and I don't want you to pay the difference."
Hearing that someone was willing to exchange her lower bunk for her, the old lady no longer bothered about Shen Ruoqing's lower bunk, and immediately stood up with her grandson and sat on the young man's lower bunk. She kept thanking him, "Thank you so much, comrade, you are such a good person, unlike some people who are so petty, calculating, and unloving."
Shen Ruoqing didn't care about the matter between the lady and the young man. Since the lady had left her lower bunk, she didn't want to bother with the lady. Looking at the messed up mattress, Shen Ruoqing asked Mu Bai to give her one of his boxes, opened the box, took out a new set of quilts, and changed the sheets and quilts.
"You even brought the quilt cover." Mu Bai said.
"Well, I like to use my own quilt." In fact, she just saw the eldest grandson brought by the old lady wiping his runny nose on the quilt, which made her feel sick.
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When the old lady saw this, she said something frivolous, but Shen Ruoqing ignored her.
"Auntie, why are you sitting in a hard seat?" The young man couldn't help but get upset when he saw the lady's ticket.
The old lady didn't look embarrassed at all: "It's hard to buy a sleeper ticket, so I didn't buy one. You're a young man, you're in good health, so you can just make do with it on the train. I'm not in good health, and I can't sleep while sitting."
"Auntie, didn't you just say that your legs are not good and you can't climb the stairs? I thought you had an upper berth ticket, so I changed with you. You're not, you're not lying, are you?"
The lady's face changed. "What's wrong? You said you wanted to change seats with me, and now you want to regret it. I just asked you to do it, and now you want to regret it? And what's wrong with the hard seat? You said it yourself before. They are the same and can reach the destination. What's the difference between a hard seat and a sleeper?"
There must be a difference. The price of a hard seat and a sleeper is twice as much. Shen Ruoqing wanted to laugh now. He asked that young man to be a good person. Now he must be dumbfounded. Shen Ruoqing didn't expect that she said that her legs were not good and she couldn't climb the stairs, but she ended up getting a hard seat. Fortunately, she didn't change with her.
(End of this chapter)