Chapter 187 The Train Home
"Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang~"
The No. 83 train runs very slowly, so slowly that passengers can clearly distinguish the differences between the several "bangs" before and after.
Many people who take a train for the first time like to listen to the unique rhythm of the metal collision sound, but for those who have taken the train many times, all they hear is boredom and monotony.
Jiang Xiaoyan sat by the window, staring at the scenery slowly passing by outside in a daze. She had completely lost the excitement and agility she had when she took a train for the first time half a year ago.
"Xiaoyan, what are you thinking about? I called you for a long time but you didn't listen?"
"Ah? Oh, you want to sit by the window? Then let's change."
Jiang Xiaoyan was pushed by Hu Man and subconsciously raised her butt to move.
The trains are very crowded around the Spring Festival, and the smell in the carriage can be imagined, so everyone likes to sit by the window. Even if the window is not opened, the fresh air leaking in through the gap can make people feel refreshed.
Jiang Xiaoyan had the best position at the moment, so she thought Hu Man wanted to switch with her and get some fresh air.
But Hu Man said, "Why change seats? Didn't you hear Li Dayong quarreling with someone over there? You guys go over there and try to mediate. I'll stay here and watch over the seats and luggage."
"Ah? Well, just keep an eye on it! We'll go over and help!"
Jiang Xiaoyan listened carefully and indeed heard a faint quarrel in the next carriage, but she did not hear Li Dayong's voice. But since Hu Man said so, he quickly got up and went to help.
"How can you help? Just try to persuade him and prevent him from getting into any trouble."
Hu Man was not afraid that Li Dayong would suffer a loss. After all, Li Dayong dared to admit that he was the second strongest in Qingshui County No. 2 Middle School, and only Li Ye dared to admit that he was the first. The two brothers had never lost if they really fought.
She was afraid that Li Dayong would hurt someone, so her family members reminded her countless times before she went out that it is a blessing to suffer losses when traveling abroad, and that it is better to have less trouble than more.
"Oh, I know. If it doesn't work, I'll go call Li Ye."
Jiang Xiaoyan agreed and followed Yan Jinbu, Fu Yingjie and others, squeezing through the crowd to go to the next carriage.
She knew why Hu Man didn't go and persuade Li Dayong herself. After she rejected Li Dayong, an invisible barrier appeared between the two of them. They began to avoid each other tacitly to avoid embarrassment.
This time, everyone could have sat in the same carriage, but Li Ye took the sleeper ticket that Wen Guohua sent over, so he naturally went to the sleeper carriage.
However, Li Dayong went to the next carriage with two classmates, which caused Fu Yingjie and others to spit on him and laugh at him and Li Ye as the "disunited elements" in the eight-person group.
But everyone really just laughed and scolded, but no one took it to heart. After all, Li Ye took the sleeper berth because of Wen Leyu, and Li Dayong went to the next carriage because of a female classmate named Lin Qiuyan.
According to reliable information provided by Fu Yingjie, Li Dayong has been in close contact with Lin Qiuyan, a sophomore female classmate from Dongshan in the past two months. Not only did they study and eat in the cafeteria together, but they also climbed Xiangshan Mountain and visited Beijing together.
In Fu Yingjie's words - Why didn't I see before that Li Dayong had the potential to value women over friends?
"Please make way, please make way, Dayong, don't be impulsive, we are here."
The two girls, Jiang Xiaoyan and Han Xia, followed Yan Jinbu and Fu Yingjie and squeezed into the next carriage impatiently. They all knew that Li Dayong had a bad temper and wanted to go over and persuade Li Dayong to stop.
However, when several people crowded to the scene of the quarrel, they found that Li Dayong was also a person trying to persuade the quarrel to stop, and there was someone else quarreling.
A girl in a red woolen coat was standing in front of the seats, coldly questioning the family of four in the aisle.
"You guys made my coat dirty, right? If it's dirty, why isn't it your responsibility? And you're accusing me of blackmailing you? Are you really that unreasonable?"
"We didn't say it wasn't our fault, but you asked us to compensate you 200 yuan. What kind of coat is worth 200 yuan? You're a college student, so you can't ask for an exorbitant price, right?"
The red-dressed girl said sternly, "It's okay if you don't want to compensate. Tell me your workplace's contact address. I'll write to you and ask why your ideological education is so lax."
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Fu Yingjie, Jiang Xiaoyan and others were dumbfounded because they really didn't know how to persuade them to stop fighting.
The girl in the red woolen coat is Lin Qiuyan, who has a special relationship with Li Dayong.
As for the family of four in the aisle, except for the man whose face turned red with anger, the other three women were obviously frightened.
In particular, there was a little boy whose hands were covered with vegetable soup. He was sobbing with tears in his eyes, obviously knowing that he had "made a big mistake."
And on Lin Qiuyan's bright red woolen coat, there was a large patch of dark-brown soup, which made the fashionable woolen coat look like a mangy dog with hair falling out.
Looking at the rice, soup and vegetables spilled on the ground, how could anyone not understand that the little boy accidentally dropped the lunch box on Lin Qiuyan when he was getting the food.
How can I persuade him?
Persuade Lin Qiuyan to give up compensation?
But it was obvious at first glance that her red wool coat was not a cheap item. Not to mention whether it could be washed or whether the greasy soup could be washed off, even after washing, would the coat still be so crisp?
But looking at that family of three, it would be really hard for you to ask them to pay 200 yuan in compensation.
The cotton-padded jackets that the two children were wearing were not new, and they were still wearing cloth cotton shoes. Two hundred yuan might empty their family savings.
Li Dayong must have had a headache as well, so he whispered to Lin Qiuyan, "Forget it! I'll accompany you to the building to buy a new one when we get to the provincial capital."
"Are you rich? Why are you showing off as a poor student who doesn't make any money? Do you think they will be grateful to you for doing this? They will think we are wrong."
Lin Qiuyan kept scolding Li Dayong, and she turned the bear-like man into a cowardly man with hunched back and slumped shoulders.
Jiang Xiaoyan, Fu Yingjie and others looked at each other, then quietly stepped back to discuss countermeasures.
Han Xia said, "How can this Lin Qiuyan be so powerful? She always makes a big fuss as soon as she opens her mouth. She even wrote a letter to her employer to question them. Doesn't she think the incident is big enough?"
Fu Yingjie whispered, "Lin Qiuyan is like this. She is either unreasonable or unreasonable. She will talk about it for a long time if she finds a small mistake. I can't help but be afraid of her when I see her."
Jiang Xiaoyan scratched her head and said, "What should we do? We can't do anything! Li Dayong has been scolded so much, who are we?"
Yan Jinbu pursed his lips and whispered, "I'll go find Li Ye when we get to the next stop! Only Li Ye can handle this matter."
"Yes, Li Ye can do it."
The small group of eight people have lived together for such a long time, and everyone's trust in Li Ye is increasing. They feel that such small things are a piece of cake for Li Ye.
As a result, when they arrived at the next stop, Yan Jinbu climbed out of the window and ran to the sleeper car to talk to Li Ye. Li Ye was also very troubled.
This is not a piece of cake, this is a fucking mess!
The two men rushed over, but Li Ye didn't rush over to mediate. Instead, he found a bystander at the end of the carriage to inquire about the situation.
"There is no right or wrong in this matter. I just happened to see that the little boy was helping his family get lunch boxes, and the girl was chatting and laughing with her friends. I don't know how they bumped into each other."
"But at the beginning, the girl was not so strong, but the mother of the troublemaker boy was very angry and said that the two hundred yuan was extortion! The college girl was like a firecracker and exploded."
"You said a coat cost 200 yuan. What kind of material is it? So expensive?"
"Who said it wasn't true? If I heard that, I would have thought they were blackmailing her. The family of four was unwilling to compensate her with a brand new fur coat."
Li Ye roughly understood the whole story, but there was no good solution, so he could only walk over and watch.
Seeing Li Ye coming over, Li Dayong's eyes were a little evasive, and he smiled awkwardly and said, "Brother, it's just a small matter, we will solve it right away."
"Can you solve it yourself?" Li Ye nodded: "Then I don't care, just solve it yourself!"
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Li Dayong was a little dazed, and Lin Qiuyan looked at him fiercely.
Li Ye looked at her calmly for a few seconds, feeling somewhat amused.
Because he felt a sense of "official power".
Speaking of "official authority", Grandpa Li Zhongfa has it, but Li Ye has been exposed to it since he was a child and didn't really feel anything.
But he had seen the other two great gods.
Teacher Ke and Wen Qingsheng were very kind to Li Ye. They were very easygoing and chatted and laughed during meals at home.
But Li Ye had encountered Teacher Ke and Wen Qingsheng answering the phone at home a few times, and the feeling they gave was completely different. That kind of hidden aura gave Li Ye a very strong feeling.
Wen Guohua also has that kind of aura, but his level is obviously lower. Wen Leyu, on the other hand, is somewhat similar to Teacher Ke, and can occasionally make Li Ye feel something strange.
But the smell of Lin Qiuyan! It gave Li Ye a feeling of being somewhat ambiguous. It was quite intimidating at first glance, but after a little taste, he felt a little like laughing.
The man in the family of four was in a dilemma at this time. Seeing Li Ye suddenly joining in, he quickly seized the opportunity and said, "Brother, you see, we didn't do this on purpose, and we don't want to compensate, but everything must be negotiated, and we can't just give a fixed price, right?"
The mother of the troublesome little boy also gave in and said, "We just happened to have a mink coat that we were going to give to my sister-in-law when she was visiting her relatives. Now we are willing to compensate this college student, but she insisted that her coat was worth two hundred yuan."
"I'm not saying it's worth 200 yuan, it's at least 200 yuan." Lin Qiuyan said coldly, "If you don't believe me, ask this Beijing University economics student how much 35 US dollars is in RMB now."
"A student from Kyoto University?"
The man stared at Li Ye for a moment, then looked at Li Ye's chest, obviously looking for the school badge.
Lin Qiuyan and Li Dayong both had the school emblem of Beijing Industrial College pinned on their chests, which looked like the "magic weapons" in fairy tales, emitting a strong intimidating effect.
It’s just that Li Ye basically doesn’t wear the school badge, so naturally he couldn’t find a man.
He had no choice but to ask, "My classmate, how much RMB can I get for thirty-five dollars?"
Li Ye smiled and said, "This year's exchange rate is 1:1.89. But in real life, there is no way to convert using the exchange rate."
At this time, the girl sitting next to Lin Qiuyan interrupted and said, "In Beijing, people are eager to exchange US dollars for RMB at a rate of 1 to 10. If you don't believe me, ask someone. Qiuyan's coat was brought back from abroad by her cousin, who said that 200 yuan is a bargain for you."
"One to ten? Doesn't that mean 350 yuan?"
The man looked at Li Ye in shock, as if hoping to hear some good news.
Li Ye thought for a moment and said, "It's hard to say the ratio is 1:10, but I heard that there are people who buy 1:8."
At this time, Li Dayong also said: "In fact, we are all responsible for this matter, so our classmate said 200 yuan, which is already half of the responsibility."
The man looked at Li Ye, then at his wife, and silently began to take out his wallet.
The mother also took down a bag from the luggage rack, which apparently contained money.
The little boy who got into trouble looked at his father, then at his mother, and suddenly burst into tears.
Even though he was young and ignorant, he knew that this year would not be easy. Not only would he be beaten several times, but the money his parents had saved for several years was gone. How could he feel proud when he finally went back to his hometown to visit his relatives?
Li Ye suddenly patted the man's shoulder and said, "Big brother, let me see your mink coat!"
The man glanced at Li Ye and handed him the mink coat. Judging from his angry look, it was obvious that he thought Li Ye and Lin Qiuyan were in cahoots.
But men are men, and if it is their own child who caused the trouble, they have to take responsibility for it, no matter how expensive it is.
"This coat is nice. I bought it."
Li Ye blew on the fur of the mink coat and couldn't help but praise it.
Nowadays, mink coats are all made of whole mink, and can be said to be genuine.
But the man seemed to get angry and said angrily: "We won't sell it to you, we'll just compensate you 200 yuan."
Li Ye looked at the stubborn man with amusement, patted his shoulder and said, "Brother, come here and let's talk."
The man followed Li Ye to the door of the carriage with confusion, and then saw him take out some colorful banknotes from his wallet.
"I have some foreign exchange coupons here. Although they are not US dollars, they are almost the same. The girl should be someone who knows the value of things. If you compensate her, she should be willing to do so."
Although Li Ye handed over five thousand US dollars to Teacher Ke for "operation", he still kept five thousand in his hand. Before going home, he went to the Friendship Store and bought some rare things for everyone in his family.
I happened to have some redemption coupons left in my bag, so I decided to do something good, no matter if it was right or wrong, just to give myself peace of mind.
The man looked at Li Ye in surprise, and after a long while he asked, "Where did you get the foreign exchange coupons? No, brother, why are you helping me?"
"Is it important?" Li Ye said with a stern face, "Will you sell it or not?"
Is there something wrong with me? This kind of behavior will be called a saint by readers in novels, so why are you still complaining?
The man hesitated for a long time before saying, "Then I'll give you some extra money."
"No, money can't buy willingness. I just happen to like this mink coat. It's perfect for my sister. But let me tell you! You are responsible for this matter. You asked such a young child to get the lunch box. What if he gets burned?"
Li Ye stuffed the money into the man's hand and walked towards Hu Man's carriage with the mink coat.
Before leaving, she did not forget to remind the man: "Remember! That woolen coat is bought by you, just take it back and wash it with baking soda mixed with white wine, and this matter has nothing to do with me."
"Hey, thanks, brother! Thank you so much!"
The man thanked him hurriedly, then turned around and went back to his own carriage, his face longer than that of a donkey.
Isn't it just US dollars? Why show off?
I bought it, isn't that enough? Take it off for me.
(End of this chapter)
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