As soon as he got on the train, an unpleasant smell invaded his nose, and Yu Xiangnian couldn't help but dry heave a few times.
The smell seemed to be a mixture of sweat, foot odor and food, which fermented in the stuffy carriage and gave off a sour and strange smell.
Yu Xiangnian pulled up her clothes in front of her chest and covered her mouth and nose.
Cheng Jingmo led the way carrying two large boxes, and from time to time he looked back at Yu Xiangnian and Xiaojie behind him.
Yu Xiangnian held Xiaojie's hand with one hand, covered his mouth and nose with his clothes with the other hand, and followed Cheng Jingmo closely.
The carriage was packed with people, and they were easily separated.
After walking through several carriages, we finally arrived at their carriage.
In order to make Yu Xiangnian suffer as little as possible, Cheng Jingmo bought a sleeper berth, which was the best seat available.
It’s just that there is nothing better, otherwise he would be willing to spend it on Xiang Nian no matter how expensive it is.
Cheng Jingmo put the two boxes under the bed and breathed a sigh of relief.
Yu Xiangnian and Xiaojie sat on the edge of the bed, looking around.
It was the first time for both of them to take a train, and they felt both curious and disgusted!
Cheng Jingmo put down the backpack on his shoulder and took out water and food from it.
Cheng Jingmo brought his own dry food, which was pancakes he baked and some pastries he bought. He also fried some small fish as snacks.
"Would you like some water?" Cheng Jingmo asked Yu Xiangnian.
In the more than 20 minutes since he got on the train, Yu Xiangnian felt that he had a smell on his body.
She shook her head. "I'm going to wash my hands."
There are four beds in a small private room, two on the upper and two on the lower.
When Yu Xiangnian came back after washing his hands, an elderly couple was talking to Cheng Jingmo.
When she got closer and listened, she found out that the old couple wanted to exchange beds with Cheng Jingmo.
The old couple bought their tickets too late and didn't get a sleeper berth together. Since they were away from home, they needed to take care of each other, so they asked Cheng Jingmo to discuss changing berths.
If it were Cheng Jingmo alone, he would definitely change without hesitation.
But now that he was with Yu Xiangnian and Xiaojie, he was worried about them, so he looked at Yu Xiangnian with a questioning look.
Yu Xiangnian looked at the ticket in the old woman's hand. It was at the end of the carriage, while they were at the front.
Look at the two old men again, they look to be in their sixties.
Yu Xiangnian thought it was okay to change seats, "Let's switch with them."
The two old men expressed their gratitude profusely, and Yu Xiangnian and Cheng Jingmo said that it was just a small matter and they were welcome.
"I'm not sleeping now. You stay here with us. When it's time to go to bed, you can go over there." Yu Xiangnian said to Cheng Jingmo.
The train started moving.
Xiaojie lay on the upper bunk looking at the scenery outside the window, while Yu Xiangnian and Cheng Jingmo sat on the lower bunk.
Yu Xiangnian leaned on Cheng Jingmo's shoulder, playing with his fingers and chatting idly.
Across from them was an elderly couple, also chatting quietly.
Yu Xiangnian got up too early today. After more than an hour, she was yawning one after another.
Cheng Jingmo said, "You sleep for a while, I'll come over later."
After covering Yu Xiangnian with the quilt, Cheng Jingmo stood up and glanced at Xiaojie on the upper bunk.
Xiaojie fell asleep at some point, still lying on his stomach with his face facing the window.
He covered Xiaojie with the blanket again and returned to his seat.
In a small private room, there were people lying on the four beds.
Cheng Jingmo thought he had taken the wrong route. He looked at the ticket in his hand again and checked the location of the bed.
Right here, that's right.
But why were there a woman in her twenties and a little girl about three years old lying on the bed?
The woman had her back to the corridor and was playing with the child.
Cheng Jingmo walked to the bedside, "Comrade, this comrade."
The woman turned around, and Cheng Jingmo held the ticket in his hand and showed it to her, "You're sitting in the wrong seat. This is my seat."
The woman said in surprise, "That's impossible! This is the seat on my ticket!"
Cheng Jingmo emphasized again, "This is my seat."
The woman straightened up and searched her pockets, but found nothing.
She said, "Comrade, I lost my ticket, but I remember my seat was seat 36 in carriage 10."
Cheng Jingmo said calmly, "I'll go find the conductor to solve it."
The woman quickly said, "Comrade, since I'm a woman with a child, please give me this seat. I'll pay for a hard seat ticket."
Cheng Jingmo didn't want to get entangled with her, so he turned around and went to the corridor outside to find the conductor.
The conductor followed Cheng Jingmo to the bed.
The woman had already gotten up and was sitting on the edge of the bed. The child was sitting on the bed, playing alone.
The conductor asked the woman to show her ticket, but she still said she had lost it.
The conductor said, "Since you don't have a ticket, please buy one. This seat belongs to this comrade. Please go to the ordinary car outside."
The woman approached the conductor in a gentle voice, "Comrade conductor, I have a child with me and he can't sit in a hard seat. Can I buy him a ticket so that this person can sit in a hard seat?"
The conductor said ruthlessly: "I am only responsible for checking seats according to tickets. This ticket belongs to this comrade, so this comrade should sit here."
The woman pretended to be pitiful again and said to Cheng Jingmo, "Comrade, can we discuss this?"
"Okay." Cheng Jingmo said calmly, "But my ticket is a sleeper berth, so you have to give me the difference."
An ordinary ticket from Nancheng to Sucheng costs 32 yuan, and a sleeper ticket costs 65 yuan, which is more than twice as expensive.
The woman started to blackmail me, "Comrade, you're a young, strong man, so what's wrong with sitting in a hard seat? And you're asking me for the difference! It's not easy for a woman like me to take a child out, and you, a man, don't know how to make concessions."
Cheng Jingmo had a blank expression on his face. "Are you going to pay the difference or give me your seat?"
In fact, he had long seen that the woman wanted to take advantage of him.
If the woman had spoken honestly from the beginning, he would have changed seats with her because she was a woman and had a child with her.
But this woman kept finding all kinds of excuses to make trouble, and the more she did so, the less Cheng Jingmo wanted to change seats.
The woman started to act like a rogue, "Why should I give it to you? This is clearly my seat, but I can't find the ticket now!"
The woman seemed to have remembered something and looked at Cheng Jingmo with suspicion. "You didn't pick up this ticket, did you? Look, my ticket is gone, and you, the train has been leaving for over an hour, and you're just now looking for a seat. Your previous seat must not be this one!"
Cheng Jingmo said: "Your ticket is in your child's hand."
The woman's bag was placed on the bed. The child behind her opened her bag at some point and turned out everything inside.
The woman's face changed, and she quickly turned around, snatched the ticket from the child's hand, crumpled it into a small ball and prepared to throw it out the window.
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