Chapter 108 Chapter 108 Candied Seabuckthorn Fruit is Sweet and Sour and Appetizing Contains...
Su Tianli kept staring at the middle-aged woman who was rummaging through her luggage.
Then I discovered that this middle-aged woman was not only walking back and forth in the carriage, carefully observing the luggage on the luggage rack, but was even observing the passengers in the carriage.
He especially likes to linger around places where passengers are sleeping in a mess.
But after a while, the middle-aged woman left.
Probably went to another carriage.
Su Tianli just felt relieved...
About ten minutes later,
The middle-aged woman appeared again.
This time, the middle-aged woman walked directly to Su Tianli - because the passengers in several rows of seats nearby were fast asleep.
Su Tianli also pretended to be asleep, quietly squinting her eyes and observing the middle-aged woman quietly.
Soon, the middle-aged woman's hand reached above Su Tianli's row of seats.
——These seven or eight packages are all from Su Tianli!
The middle-aged woman weighed several packages with her hands, pinched them a few times, and then smiled with satisfaction and surprise.
Then she carefully moved her body, trying to avoid the passengers sitting in the aisle and Fu Yan.
It seemed that she wanted to take down her luggage quietly without alerting anyone...
Su Tianli was about to speak up to stop him,
Unexpectedly, Cheng Yu, who had just entered a light sleep state, was very alert. He opened his eyes and asked softly, "What are you doing? Those are our luggage!"
The middle-aged woman was startled and took a few steps back.
“I, I…”
"Hey, little comrade, why did you speak so quietly? You scared me!"
The middle-aged woman saw Cheng Yu open his eyes, and Su Tianli also opened her eyes wide. She couldn't help but feel a little flustered, and said incoherently: "I, I didn't know you were asleep! No, no, it's me, I didn't know you were still awake... No, no, no, I, I was looking for my own luggage! I didn't know these were yours..."
"Since these are yours, then I'll, I'll... I'll just leave!"
After saying that, the middle-aged woman left in a hurry.
Su Tianli pushed Cheng Yu lightly, but her eyes kept following the middle-aged woman.
Cheng Yu realized that something was wrong and asked her softly, "Lizhi, what's wrong?"
Su Tianli replied softly: "I hope I'm overthinking."
Cheng Yu was suddenly awakened, his mind was still a little dazed.
but,
Three seconds later, he suddenly understood.
He also turned his head to look at the whereabouts of the middle-aged woman...
But the middle-aged woman should have gone to the next carriage.
Cheng Yu didn't say anything, he just stretched out three fingers of his right hand and then bent them slightly.
What I mean is – that woman has three hands (pickpocket)?
Su Tianli nodded.
What she actually wanted to say was,
When she was in the satellite city and chatting with her sisters at night, she was warned:
"Lizhi, when you take the train home, remember not to interact with strangers!"
"When you returned to the city, we didn't remind you because it wasn't the peak season... After all, it wasn't the peak time for human traffickers."
"But once the Chinese New Year comes, human traffickers frequently appear! And those traffickers target the female educated youth who are carrying their luggage and New Year's goods back to their hometowns to visit their relatives and celebrate the New Year!"
"In the eyes of the traffickers, she is a bride who comes with her own dowry!"
"Those human traffickers pretend to be warm and kind-hearted ladies. I heard they would ask the female educated youth for help, saying things like hello, comrade, can you do me a small favor?"
“Many female educated youth were abducted!”
"The most terrifying thing is that our place is closed off by heavy snow every year! Communication is also inconvenient. The female educated youth clearly asked for leave from her unit and went back to her hometown, but she was abducted on the way. Her family thought that something happened at the unit and she didn't go back... It wasn't until the beginning of the next spring that the unit sent a letter to her family asking why the female educated youth didn't go back to the unit?"
"The truth was finally revealed!"
"But what's the use of this? It's been almost half a year! Where are the clues?"
"I heard that more than a dozen female educated youth go missing every year just returning to the city via Lan County!"
"You must be careful, and don't be alone! Even if you need to go to the bathroom, you must ask your boyfriend to guard the bathroom door!"
The sisters explained.
so--
When Su Tianli saw the middle-aged woman's actions,
She chose not to say anything, but wanted to observe for a while longer.
I want to find out whether this middle-aged woman just wants to steal other people's luggage or she is the legendary human trafficker.
However, Su Tianli did not expect Cheng Yu to be so alert.
She wanted to tell him about this situation.
But it was so quiet around.
No matter how quietly she spoke to him,
If there are people around who are not asleep, they will definitely hear it.
For Su Tianli,
She had no solid evidence to prove that the middle-aged woman was a thief or a human trafficker.
So she didn't know what to say and just hesitated.
I didn’t expect Cheng Yu to be so smart—he actually guessed that the middle-aged woman might be a pickpocket.
Cheng Yu said nothing, but stood up...
Su Tianli tugged at the corner of his clothes.
Cheng Yu said softly: "I'm going to the bathroom."
The implication is: I'll go check on the luggage we have stored at the connection between the carriages.
Su Tianli sat in her original seat and waited.
After a while, Cheng Yu's scolding voice was heard from the connection between the carriages.
Su Tianli quickly left her seat and walked towards the connection between the carriages.
As expected!!!
Cheng Yu was driving the middle-aged woman away with an angry look on his face, "…What on earth do you want to do?! All these luggages are ours!"
The middle-aged woman said with a smile: "Hey young man, how can you be so angry at such a young age?"
"I didn't mean to do that..."
"I'm old, my memory is not good, I forgot where I put my luggage, can't I just look for it?"
"Since you said the luggage is yours, then it is yours!"
"I didn't say it's not yours!" the middle-aged woman muttered softly.
As she spoke, the middle-aged woman looked at Cheng Yu and couldn't help asking, "Young man, why are you carrying so much luggage when you go out?"
"Are you doing business? Do you buy goods and sell them in the provincial capital?"
"What did you bring?"
"Now that you are not allowed to do business, are you... setting up a stall in the black market?" the middle-aged woman asked with interest, "Do you make a lot of money?"
Cheng Yu was very alert and didn't want to say a word. "Go away. Don't stand in front of my luggage."
The middle-aged woman suddenly felt very bored, "Why can't I stand here? Did you buy this land?"
Cheng Yu frowned.
Su Tianli walked over and said, "Take your things away."
Cheng Yu nodded.
At that moment, Su Tianli stood there looking at the luggage and successfully confronted the middle-aged woman.
Cheng Yu moved all the luggage one by one to the vicinity of the seat.
The middle-aged woman said awkwardly,
But seeing that Su Tianli was young and beautiful, the middle-aged woman became interested in chatting again and asked with a smile, "Girl, where are you from?"
Su Tianli said nothing.
The more the middle-aged woman looked at Su Tianli, the more amazed she became. She couldn't help but ask again, "Girl, how old are you?"
Then he pointed his chin in Cheng Yu's direction and asked, "Who is he to you?"
Seeing the handsomeness of these two men and pretty women,
The middle-aged woman continued to ask, "He is your brother?"
"Oh, he's so fierce!"
"Sister, is he always so mean to you?" the middle-aged woman continued to ask.
Su Tianli already had a rough guess in her mind.
So she said nothing and continued watching the middle-aged woman's performance.
The middle-aged woman began to stir up trouble, "Sister, are you and your brother going to the provincial capital? To visit relatives?"
After thinking for a while, he asked again, "Just the two of you?"
"And you're carrying so much luggage..."
“You city people just have money, hahahahahaha…”
Su Tianli looked at the middle-aged woman quietly.
Of course, in this era, there are also aunties who particularly like to chat with people and are particularly kind and enthusiastic.
However, normal aunts only chat with others to kill time.
They don’t walk around in the middle of the night and touch other people’s luggage;
They also won’t ask people so many private questions;
At this point, Su Tianli had already made a judgment in her mind.
Seeing that Su Tianli said nothing, the middle-aged woman said awkwardly, "Sister, I don't have any ill will towards you... What's your name?"
Su Tianli finally spoke, "What's your name?"
The middle-aged woman was startled, then smiled, "My last name is Zhao! You can just call me Aunt Zhao!"
"What's your name, sister?" Aunt Zhao asked kindly.
Su Tianli said: "My name is Dou Niwa."
Aunt Zhao exclaimed, "Du Ni'er? What a nice name!"
Su Tianli corrected, "It's Dou Niwa."
Aunt Zhao was stunned. "All..."
Su Tianli nodded repeatedly.
Aunt Zhao opened her eyes wide, "…Tease you?"
"What are you doing?" Su Tianli said angrily, "My name is Dou Niwa!"
"Dou is Dou in Dou Erdun and Dou Eyuan."
"Ni, it's Annie's Ni."
"The baby is Dou Erdun's baby!"
"Aunt Zhao, my name is Dou Niwa!" Su Tianli said seriously.
Aunt Zhao laughed dryly twice.
She had no idea who Dou Erdun and Dou E were.
I don't know what Annie means.
But she understood the word "doll"...
Plus Su Tianli looked so angry and serious,
Aunt Zhao guessed Su Tianli's origin at once, "Sister, you are an educated youth, right? You city girls have names like Gaoya! We have never heard of it!"
Su Tianli didn't say anything.
Aunt Zhao asked again, "The New Year is coming soon, sister, are you anxious to go back to the city?"
Su Tianli nodded.
Aunt Zhao then asked, "Where is your hometown?"
Su Tianli: "Beijing."
Aunt Zhao exclaimed, "She is indeed from a big city! Not only does she have a good name, she is also beautiful and has a special temperament..."
Then she looked at Cheng Yu again and asked Su Tianli, "Who is he to you?"
Hearing this, Su Tianli also looked at Cheng Yu.
In fact, Cheng Yu had already moved the luggage early in the morning, and even wanted to come over and take Su Tianli back to her seat.
Because Cheng Yu felt that the middle-aged woman's behavior was quite suspicious, he didn't want Su Tianli to stay with her for too long, which made him feel very insecure.
However, Su Tianli had already put her hands behind her back and shook her head at Cheng Yu, signaling him not to come over.
After Cheng Yu saw Su Tianli's gesture,
After much hesitation, he decided to follow Lizhi's suggestion.
But he didn't dare to relax.
He kept staring at this side coldly, and was even prepared to kick Fu Yan to wake him up, and then rush to the connection between the carriages to pull Lizhi back.
Su Tianli said to Aunt Zhao: "I don't know him."
Aunt Zhao was stunned.
Su Tianli said: "He and I happened to sit together and chat for a while."
Aunt Zhao was very happy!
"Oh, I thought you two knew each other well! Weren't you helping him with his luggage just now?"
Su Tianli made up a lie, "I just want to go to the toilet."
Hearing this, Aunt Zhao was stunned.
She pointed to the toilet four or five steps away and asked curiously, "The toilet is right there! If you...if you want to go to the toilet, just go. Why are you standing here for so long?"
Su Tianli exclaimed, "Ah!" with a shy expression, "So the toilet is right there."
Aunt Zhao rolled her eyes and asked again, "Dou...sister, do you rarely go out?"
Su Tianli nodded embarrassedly.
Aunt Zhao showed a meaningful smile.
Then his expression became serious and he said hastily: "Me too! I seldom go out, hahaha. I didn't even know where the toilet on the train was, hahaha..."
"Oh, sister, I'll take you there!"
"Can you open the toilet door?"
"Oh, this door looks like the same wall, it has to be like this - to open!"
As she spoke, Aunt Zhao brought Su Tianli to the toilet door and helped open it.
Just at this time——
The announcement sounded in the carriage:
"Hello fellow passengers, the train ahead is arriving at Huangshi! Passengers who need to get off at Huangshi, please make preparations in advance. Huangshi is almost here!"
Then,
Su Tianli saw a strong light suddenly flashing in Aunt Zhao's eyes, which was a feeling of joy that came from a determination to win.
At this moment,
Su Tianli suddenly had a premonition.
Aunt Zhao had already suppressed the ecstasy in her eyes. She urged Su Tianli, "Sister... hurry up and go to the toilet. Hurry up! As soon as the train arrives at the station, the toilet door will be closed. Hurry up! I'll be waiting for you at the door."
Because she was anxious, she even pushed Su Tianli gently.
Su Tianli pursed her lips, revealing an expression that seemed like a smile.
She was about to step into the toilet, but was frightened by the terrible hygiene conditions inside the door!
After thinking for a moment, Su Tianli took off her small shoulder bag and handed it to Aunt Zhao, "Aunt Zhao, please help me hold it."
Aunt Zhao was stunned for a moment, then she was overjoyed!
She was flattered and quickly took the messenger bag that Su Tianli handed over, and patted her chest to assure, "Go to the bathroom, I promise to keep it for you... Don't worry, I will definitely not dirty your bag!"
After Su Tianli entered the toilet,
Aunt Zhao's face showed an expression of ecstasy again, but then it was suppressed tightly.
She thought to herself—
Oh my god!
This Dunier is so beautiful!
Still a city girl!
This is such a perfect girl, I will kidnap her from the car and sell her to the mountains...
This won’t cost more than a thousand or eight hundred yuan, right?
Then Aunt Zhao touched the shoulder bag that Du Nier had just handed over, and thought: Such a gullible little sister...
It's like it's delivered to your door!
Oh, I don’t know if she has any money in her bag.
Aunt Zhao felt itchy.
I really want to open Dunier's bag and take a look.
I was also afraid that as soon as I opened the bag, Du Nier would come out of the bathroom...
That's not good!
Forget it, just bear with it.
As long as she kidnaps Dunier, won't the bag and Dunier belong to her? !
So Aunt Zhao forced herself to hold back and did not open the bag.
actually--
There wasn't much in Su Tianli's cross-body bag.
She is not a young girl who has never traveled far and is naive about the world.
You know, she has been working in the Northwest for five years and has basically been on the go.
Instead of traveling around several nearby villages and farms to do epidemic prevention propaganda,
I was traveling back and forth between the 623rd Corps, the satellite city, and the two nearby counties, mainly to seek medicine.
Not to mention, every year she would gather some patients and their accompanying family members and transfer them to the satellite city hospital or the Western Theater Command General Hospital for treatment...
In short, she has a lot of experience in going out.
She kept all the important things, such as money and letters of introduction, close to her.
There was nothing important in the messenger bag, only the things she used frequently, such as a few handkerchiefs, a bottle of Fengyoujing, a soft leather bag, a pen, a comb, toothpaste and toothbrush...
And the small bag of snacks that Cheng Yu brought back for her when he went shopping in the afternoon.
——Those are candied sea buckthorn fruits wrapped in oil paper.
Put cold water in a cold pot over high heat, pour in white sugar and slowly dissolve it and bring to a boil. After it has become a syrup, pour a large amount of fresh but half-dried sea buckthorn fruits into the pot and stir-fry continuously.
Keep frying until... until it sticks together and can't be fried anymore.
After cooling, the syrup on the surface of the sea buckthorn fruit will form a layer of white frost.
The bright red flesh is half hidden and half exposed under the white frost.
It’s so beautiful!
Eat one.
You will first taste the rich sweetness.
With another gentle chew, the sour taste of sea buckthorn fruit will emerge.
The extremely sour and sweet taste mixed with the rich fruity aroma is refreshing and delicious!
Su Tianli couldn't bear to eat it at all.
She made up her mind to bring this bag of candied sea buckthorn fruit back to Guangzhou so that her friends there could also taste the specialties and delicacies of the Northwest!
This candied sea buckthorn fruit is the most valuable item in the Su Tianli bag.
otherwise,
If there is even a little valuable item in Su Tianli's bag,
She would not be willing to use it as a touchstone and give it to Aunt Zhao for safekeeping.
At this moment, Su Tianli, who entered the toilet, tried to pretend to be blind. After quickly going to the toilet, she tried hard to cover her nose...
She just won't go out.
Ever since Su Tianli saw Aunt Zhao's overly obvious expression when she heard the station announcement,
She guessed that the arrival of the train in Huangshi must be good news for Aunt Zhao.
Although I don't know what Aunt Zhao will do specifically,
But, if Aunt Zhao is really a human trafficker,
Then she would definitely trick Su Tianli into getting off the car with her!
so--
Delaying time is the best way to make Aunt Zhao reveal her true identity and to ensure your own safety.
Because each train arrives at the station very quickly.
No matter what excuses and reasons Aunt Zhao used to take Su Tianli off the bus,
As long as Su Tianli leaves the toilet after the train stops, there won’t be much time left for Aunt Zhao to perform.
Of course, if Aunt Zhao wasn't a human trafficker,
Then nothing will happen.
So, Su Tianli waited and waited,
Finally, the train stopped noticeably.
Also, when the broadcast sounded again in the carriage, telling passengers that the train was about to stop at the station, Su Tianli heard Aunt Zhao knocking on the door anxiously outside.
Of course Su Tianli didn't care.
Until the train came to a complete stop.
I even heard the conductor knocking on the door and yelling, "Comrades in the bathroom, please come out as soon as possible..."
Su Tianli then opened the door and came out.
At this time, several passengers carrying luggage and preparing to get off the train were blocking the door.
Because of this, the road leading to the carriage was blocked.
Su Tianli couldn't see Cheng Yu anymore.
However, Su Tianli was very sure that Cheng Yu had already arrived here, but he might have been blocked by the passengers queuing to get off the train and could not be seen for the time being.
Aunt Zhao smiled like a flower when she saw Su Tianli.
She did not return the bag to Su Tianli. Instead, she held Su Tianli's bag with one hand and held Su Tianli with the other, complaining to Su Tianli affectionately, "Ni'er, you took so long to go to the toilet! I was afraid you would not be able to get off the bus in time!"
"We've worked hard on this journey. When we get home, I'll ask your father to make us a delicious meal..." Aunt Zhao stared at Su Tianli and said with a dagger hidden in her smile.
Upon hearing this, Su Tianli's expression froze slightly.
At this point she was certain that Aunt Zhao was really a human trafficker!
Because of what Aunt Zhao said, the passengers around them who were queuing to get off the bus would only think that Aunt Zhao and Su Tianli were mother and daughter.
Aunt Zhao said to Su Tianli affectionately, "Come on, come on! Ni'er, let's get off the car quickly!"
As she spoke, Aunt Zhao grabbed Su Tianli's hand tightly and pulled her to get out of the car.
Su Tianli's eyebrows immediately raised, and she shouted, "Who are you? What nonsense are you talking about? I don't even know you, why should I follow you? I'm going to the provincial capital! Why do I have to get off here?"
At the same time, Su Tianli grabbed the toilet door with one hand and held Aunt Zhao with the other hand, desperately pulling Aunt Zhao back, and screamed again:
“Help! Help—”
“There are human traffickers!!!”
really--
As soon as Su Tianli shouted "there are human traffickers", the air around them suddenly froze.
Almost at the same second, Cheng Yu struggled to push through the crowd, rushed over and grabbed Su Tianli's hand...
The moment he held Su Tianli's hand, his pale and frightened expression relaxed slightly.
Then Cheng Yu grabbed Aunt Zhao's wrist again and shouted along with Su Tianli, "Human traffickers! Catch the human traffickers!"
Aunt Zhao panicked and yelled at Cheng Yu, "You lunatic! You shameless bastard...let me go!"
She even asked the conductor for help, "Comrade! Comrade! Please save us!"
The conductor was also visibly stunned.
He didn't know what the relationship was between Su Tianli, Cheng Yu and Aunt Zhao.
Because they look like a mother and her two children, or a mother-in-law and her son and daughter-in-law...
So he kept looking around, wondering what was going on.
At this time——
Aunt Zhao's hands were held by Su Tianli on one hand and Cheng Yu on the other, and she couldn't break free at all!
And because Su Tianli used the toilet door as a barrier,
So Su Tianli hid in the corner between the toilet door and the corridor and was safe;
Aunt Zhao was forced to stand at the door of the toilet and almost fainted from the suffocation...
Aunt Zhao was so anxious that she had to stare at the conductor with wide eyes and pursed her lips in the direction of Su Tianli, "Comrade! She is my daughter-in-law! She and I are having a quarrel! We are in a hurry to go back to our home in Huangshi, please come and help us... help us get off the train!"
Then, Aunt Zhao pouted in Cheng Yu's direction and shouted to the conductor, "Comrade! He is a scoundrel! He tried to molest my daughter-in-law! Comrade, please arrest him! Don't delay my daughter-in-law and I from returning home!"
At this time, the conductor had already looked at Su Tianli, Cheng Yu and Aunt Zhao, and had already made his own preliminary judgment:
first,
Both Su Tianli and Cheng Yu were pretty and well-proportioned, and they dressed decently. They looked like educated youth or employees of a unit.
But Aunt Zhao's clothes showed that she was a rural woman.
Now, Aunt Zhao said that Su Tianli was her daughter-in-law? And she also said that Cheng Yu was a gangster?
But just based on Su Tianli's clothes and temperament...
There is no way she could become Aunt Zhao's daughter-in-law!
Also, the conductor was at the scene just now. He watched Su Tianli being grabbed by Aunt Zhao as soon as she came out of the toilet. Then Su Tianli screamed that she didn't know Aunt Zhao at all and that Aunt Zhao was a human trafficker.
Cheng Yucai rushed over and helped Su Tianli stop Aunt Zhao.
When did Cheng Yu act rudely towards Su Tianli?
Secondly,
Su Tianli just said that she didn’t know Aunt Zhao at all, and she also concluded that Aunt Zhao was a human trafficker?
The conductor immediately became alert.
You know, he runs this route all year round...
In the past few years, the police have asked me many details about missing persons and trafficking cases every year.
Those missing persons were, without exception, all female educated youth who were preparing to return home!
Now, the clue is right in front of us!
The conductor certainly didn’t miss this situation.
So he immediately slammed the door shut, took out the intercom from his waist, and shouted, "There's something wrong in carriage No. 5! Request an emergency stop! Call the conductor! Call the train police! There's a serious situation in carriage No. 5!!!"
Aunt Zhao opened her mouth in horror.
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