The lessons learned from her previous life taught Song Nanting that being soft-hearted will not make your life better. Instead, it will give you an opportunity to be caught by others, which may even cost you your life.
She remembered clearly that when they got off the train in Henan Province, Xu Shichang deliberately sent someone to catch them buying tickets.
It is now 1974. If the three of them had not reacted quickly and pointed the finger at Xu Shichang immediately, all three of them would have been finished.
Speculation and profiteering are undermining socialism, and the worst form of this is eating peanuts.
But there was no chance at that time, and it would have been fine if Xu Shichang had never met them again. But now that they had met, and Xu Shichang wanted to find someone to disgust them, she couldn't just let it go.
Just like she told Aunt Song, beating someone doesn't have to be done openly. If you do, you will get yourself into trouble.
It’s not like now, in the middle of the night, apart from the rumbling sound of the train, no other sound can be heard.
Song Nanting beat Xu Shichang up directly and then went back to sleep.
At around four or five in the morning, a scream broke the sky.
I was woken up early in the morning and someone started scolding me impatiently.
"What are you yelling about so early in the morning? Your father is dead."
"That's right. It's so early in the morning and I can't get any peace."
The conditions on the train are poor and I couldn’t sleep well to begin with. It would be strange if I was in a good mood after being woken up like this.
Song Nanting opened her eyes and glanced down, "What's going on?"
"It seems like there's something going on. I'll go take a look." Li Guihua had already put on her shoes and asked Aunt Song excitedly, "Sister, do you want to go and see what's going on?"
While they were talking, the old lady had already leaned over to look, and when she saw that there were a lot of people gathered there.
"go."
The two old ladies were not so picky about their beds and slept well that night, then went to watch the fun in high spirits.
Comrade Han was reading a book on the lower bunk. He smiled helplessly when he heard this. "Xu Shichang probably wanted Li Guihua to disgust us and have a fight with us, but he didn't expect that Li Guihua and Sister Song would get along so well."
Song Nanting laughed, "Yes, that's right. This is called stealing a chicken but losing the rice. But yesterday evening I saw that he seemed to have bought a sleeper ticket again. He is really rich."
“That’s true.”
Comrade Han agreed with this.
It's either that people these days don't like to go out or that travel is too expensive. For example, a sleeper ticket can easily cost dozens of yuan. If Comrade Han hadn't been on a business trip and the government had not reimbursed him, he would certainly not have dared to buy a sleeper ticket.
Xu Shichang had lost one ticket, but he could still buy two more. This makes people think more.
Rich people.
Song Nanting sat for a while and prepared to come down to wash up.
The excitement over there seemed to have died down, and from a distance one could see someone being carried away.
Aunt Song and Li Guihua came back with a look of gloating on their faces, and talked about the excitement they saw with gestures and laughter.
"Oh my, Xu Shichang was beaten up yesterday."
Song Nanting was surprised at the right time, "Is there such a thing?"
"Of course not." Aunt Song was overjoyed. When she was in Henan Province that day, she wanted to tear Xu Shichang to pieces. Today, when she saw Xu Shichang being beaten, how could she not be happy?
"Oh my, he was beaten up and his face was bruised and swollen. He looked quite pitiful."
Having said that, there really isn't any pitiful expression on his face. It's more like he's gloating over someone else's misfortune.
Song Nanting also felt happy. "It's very satisfying, but we have a conflict with him, and we're worried that he will implicate us."
Sure enough, a train police officer arrived shortly after and said that Xu Shichang had a conflict with them on the train and they suspected that they were the perpetrators.
Auntie Song and Li Guihua simply refused to do it. "What does it have to do with us? We are all poor and lower-middle peasants who are both red and professional. Why would we beat him up in the middle of the night? We are lying down and sleeping peacefully until dawn."
"That is, do you have any evidence that we did it?"
The two old ladies started arguing, and the police officer was also in a headache. "We are not saying that you did it. You have to go back and cooperate with our investigation."
The two old ladies wanted to make more noises, but Song Nanting pulled their arms and said, "Aunties, the train police just want to understand the situation. We just need to go back and explain it clearly. Even if we have a conflict with Xu Shichang, we didn't do it. The train police will definitely not accuse us wrongly without evidence, right?"
The conductor nodded, "What this lady said makes sense."
In fact, if they were to say, Xu Shichang must have offended someone at some point. The people in front of them were either women or old ladies, and there was also a cadre who looked thin and was not Xu Shichang's type.
The four people followed the conductor to the duty room, where Xu Shichang was sitting on a chair and a doctor on the train was treating his wounds.
When he saw four people coming in, his eyes immediately fell on them, and his gaze moved back and forth among the four of them, as if trying to determine who was the one who beat the person.
Li Guihua and Auntie Song couldn't help but spit at Xu Shichang's appearance, "He must have done too many bad things and got beaten up. He deserves it."
"Good fight if you ask me."
Comrade Han had no choice but to explain to the conductor, "No one of us left the compartment at night, but we all slept in our berths. And among the four of us, there were two old ladies, a young girl, and I was the only man left. Do you think I could beat him?"
There is actually nothing much to say late at night. What else can you do except sleep?
Xu Shichang was relentless. "I was beaten on your train. You have to find the person for me. Otherwise, when I return to the Capital Committee, I will investigate your railway department thoroughly."
Hearing this threat, the train attendant was also unhappy, "It was the middle of the night and no one saw anything. You didn't see who hit you, so how can we find out?"
Xu Shichang's face was gloomy. He glanced at the four people in the room, and finally his eyes fell on Song Nanting. He pointed at her and said, "She beat me."
Hearing this, everyone in the room looked at Song Nanting.
Song Nanting blinked, somewhat incredulous, "Are you sure it was me who hit you?"
"Yes, it was you." Xu Shichang was so angry that his breathing became rapid. "I bought a new sleeper ticket. You were the only one who saw me yesterday evening. There was no one else except you."
Xu Shichang was so excited when he spoke that he pulled the wound on his face, which made him look a little hideous.
He said firmly, "It was her, Song Nanting, she was the one who beat me, I remember it clearly."
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