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Chapter 168
Liang Qiurun fell silent immediately after hearing this. He stood at the door, hidden in the shadows. The moonlight shone through him, bringing a sense of loneliness and coldness.
It was unknown how much time had passed, so long that Liang's mother thought her son would not answer.
He said, "I understand."
The overly calm tone made Liang's mother a little uneasy. She wondered if she had gone too far.
So your son was hurt?
So, Liang's mother decided to come out to take a look, but when she opened the door, Liang Qiurun was no longer outside.
This made Liang's mother even more confused. She was the type of person who would just let go of things if she couldn't figure them out, and never take anything to heart. Since she couldn't figure it out, she simply went to sleep.
As for the son.
Freedom for children and grandchildren is a blessing for them.
It’s none of her business.
*
On the train.
This is the second day that Jiang Meishu has been on the train. Unlike Liang Qiurun who was on a business trip with her, Liang Qiurun had arranged the sleeper ticket in advance.
They were in a hurry this time, and sleeper tickets required qualifications, so only cadres were eligible to buy them.
For ordinary people, being able to get a travel certificate is already very good. As for buying train tickets, most people buy hard seats or unreserved seats.
Jiang Meishu and her group were one of them. There were exactly four of them, divided into two seats, but they spent fifty cents to exchange seats with someone else, and the four of them sat together, facing each other.
She and Liang Rui sat side by side, opposite her was Jiang Meilan, and opposite Liang Rui was Shen Zhanlie.
Jiang Meishu had been sitting there for 24 hours, her buttocks almost throttled. She moved slightly, trying to stand up, but couldn't. It was too crowded. She was surrounded by people who had bought standing tickets, and even the armrests of the seats were filled with people standing.
"uncomfortable?"
Jiang Meilan asked her in a low voice.
Jiang Meishu nodded, beads of sweat on her forehead, her black hair sticking to her fair cheeks. Perhaps it was too hot, her cheeks were a little pink. "I want to get up and move around."
She sat in a seat near the window, and Liang Rui sat outside her. He moved his body when he heard the words. Although he still looked like a teenager, he was tall and had grown a lot taller over the summer. When he deliberately put on a stern face, he was still a little scary.
"A little outside, a little outside, they're pressing on my position."
He forced it outwards a centimeter or two. Now Jiang Meishu had room to move. She stood up and stretched slightly.
"How long will it take?"
"Three days and four nights."
Jiang Meilan said, "We have only walked for a day and a night, and have only covered a third of the way. There is still a lot more to come."
The train smelled bad. The blue seat covers were rubbed to the point of patina, mixed with the summer odor of sweat, talking, smelly feet, and people eating.
The smell in the car is really not pleasant.
When Jiang Meishu heard this, her face wrinkled into a bitter melon.
"Will it take so long?"
She felt like vomiting when she smelled it. Jiang Meilan saw something and took out a green orange from her bag and handed it to her, "Eat it sparingly, there are only three left."
She took ten with her when she left, but she didn't expect the smell in the car to be so bad that everyone had to rely on orange peels to cover up the smell and survive.
Jiang Meishu hummed, took the green-skinned tangerine and peeled it. Suddenly, an extremely fresh and sour smell filled the air around her. Jiang Meishu subconsciously lowered her head and took a deep breath.
Only then did I feel as if all the foul air in my lungs had been dispelled.
After she peeled it, she didn't eat it. She divided the orange peel into four pieces. The four of them each took one piece, held it in their palms and sniffed it, and did the same with the orange pulp.
Liang Rui and Shen Zhanlie wouldn't eat oranges that were too sour; men seemed to be naturally afraid of sour things. But Jiang Meishu and Jiang Meilan weren't afraid. They each took a piece of orange and held it deep inside their mouth, enjoying it immensely.
I just felt that my messy head suddenly became clear.
The other people in the car also started looking around, "Who is eating oranges?"
"Eating some green-peeled oranges at this time will make you feel more energetic."
"Comrade," a young man stood up. "Anyone want to sell me some green oranges? I'll take them. 20 cents each!"
This is simply ten times the amount.
You should know that the green-skinned oranges on the market only weigh two or three cents per pound.
As soon as the young man with a middle-parted hair said this, the noisy carriage instantly became quiet.
"Are you really rich?"
“This guy is really rich.”
Faced with the words of the middle-parted young man, Jiang Meishu and the others were not moved at all. Nonsense, they only had three green-skinned oranges left, and they wouldn't sell them even for two yuan, let alone two cents. The smell on the train was so strong, they must have prioritized themselves.
What's more, they don't lack this little money.
The four of them were worth a fortune, and even the least wealthy, Liang Rui, had a four-digit deposit, so naturally they didn't care about the two cents. So no matter how the middle-parted young man shouted, they remained silent.
Seeing no one responded, the young man with a middle part suddenly became anxious. "Comrade, if anyone sees someone eating oranges, just tell me. I'll give you ten cents as a reward."
It's obvious that he is a veteran. He obviously takes this train frequently and can even grasp people's hearts so accurately.
As expected, telling a tip can earn you a dime, so naturally someone pointed it out, "I just saw it in the bathroom, in the third row of seats, someone was eating oranges."
As soon as these words were spoken, the young man with a middle-parted hair immediately gave the other party a dime and squeezed to the front without caring whether there were many people or not.
Jiang Meishu and the others also heard it. Jiang Meishu frowned on the spot, and Jiang Meilan next to her was almost the same.
There were only three oranges left, and they were just saving them for themselves.
Shen Zhanlie, "I'm here, don't be afraid."
Liang Rui also raised his hand and lifted his nose, "Let's see who dares to force the purchase."
As soon as these words were spoken, Xiao Liang, a young man with a middle-parted hair, arrived. He was a businessman, and a trader who had been working on the train in the capital, Yangcheng, for a long time.
When he got closer, he saw the orange peels in Jiang Meishu and the others' hands. His eyes narrowed immediately, and he smiled slightly, "Comrade, I finally found it."
He didn't rush to buy it, but took out a box of Daqianmen from his pocket and offered cigarettes to Shen Zhanlie and Liang Rui who were sitting outside. "Comrade, come on, do you want to smoke? This Daqianmen is really strong. Try it."
This is a very familiar person.
Liang Rui was a straightforward person and refused immediately, "No."
He dared to smoke, so his father broke his legs.
The young man with a middle part was stunned for a moment. "Is your wife strict? Is that why you don't smoke?"
This sentence made Liang Rui blush. He was only eighteen years old, where could he get a wife?
The young man with a middle-parted hair next to him saw him like this and immediately figured out what was going on. He took back the cigarette and put it in front of his ear, then raised his hand and slapped his mouth. "Look at my broken mouth. I drive a truck every day. Don't bother with me, brother."
"Let me introduce myself first. My name is Xiao Liang."
"Come here, you know, I want to buy a green-skinned orange for my mom to eat. It's her first time riding a train and she's not used to it and she's very carsick."
At this point, Jiang Meishu and Jiang Meilan looked at each other and shook their heads, and Shen Zhanlie said, "We don't have enough to eat ourselves, so we won't sell it."
Xiao Liang handed over two more cigarettes and said, "Comrade, can you be flexible? The price isn't the issue. My mother is going to Yangcheng Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for treatment, and I just want her to feel better."
"She kept wanting to vomit in the car. She was really at her wit's end."
"How about this, you name the price, or you sell one and I'll give you ten kilograms."
Xiao Liang is not tall, but he looks very friendly. His smiling and begging look makes it impossible to refuse him, not to mention that he said his mother went to the south for medical treatment.
Jiang Meishu was a bit hesitant. "The medical care in the capital is almost the best in the country. Why did you take your mother to Guangzhou for treatment?"
Xiao Liang gave a bitter laugh. "Yangcheng has the Lingnan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which gathers almost all the top traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in the south. These practitioners all have teachers who teach them, and the traditional Chinese medicine tradition in the south has not been broken. However, our traditional Chinese medicine tradition in the north has suffered a fatal blow, so we have to go to Yangcheng."
Jiang Meishu and Jiang Meilan exchanged glances after hearing this. Lingnan Hospital in later generations was called Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, which was very famous.
Thanks to this, the teacher-student relationship of their period was preserved.
No wonder Xiao Liang took his mother to see a doctor.
"Where is your mother?"
Jiang Meishu suddenly asked.
"She's in the sixteenth row of this carriage. We're in the last row. She can't stand the noise on the train, so she's sleeping now."
Xiao Liang deliberately stood half a foot on the seat and shouted towards the sixteenth row, "Mom."
Perhaps it was because mothers in this world were very recognizable to their children's voices. As soon as Xiao Liang finished shouting, her mother struggled to stand up from her seat, "Liang."
Jiang Meishu happened to be standing there too. She could see Xiao Liang's mother's face. She was obviously seriously ill. Her face was pale and bloodless.
Obviously, her skin alone is abnormal.
"I'm here, Mom, you keep my place. I met a friend and talked for a while. I'll be right back."
Xiao Liang's mother sighed, sat down, and then guarded her seat tightly. No matter who came to sit there, she would not allow them to sit.
Jiang Meishu, after reading it, could guess what was going on. "Your mother has liver disease, right?"
Xiao Liang was a little surprised when he heard this. "How did you know?"
Jiang Meishu said, "People with liver disease will have a yellow complexion. Look at her complexion—" It was obviously in the late stage. Her complexion was yellow and dark. Even if you were sitting more than ten rows away, you could tell it was there.
Xiao Liang hummed, "It's late-stage liver cancer."
As soon as these words fell, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.
Jiang Meishu glanced at Jiang Meilan, who nodded. She then took out a green orange from her bag and said, "We don't have any left, so we can only give you one."
Xiao Liang looked at Qingjuzi, and his eyes suddenly lit up. "Thank you, thank you." He kept bowing and thanking her. "I'll give you money."
As he said this, he took out money from his pocket. He originally said that the orange would cost 20 cents, but he gave 50 cents.
"No."
Jiang Meishu refused, "I can't afford so much, and it's just an orange."
This orange may be important to them, but it is more important to Xiao Liang's mother.
In the advanced stage of liver cancer, every day you live is a day earned.
At this time, it doesn’t matter what the other person wants to eat, as long as it is possible, we will satisfy them.
Xiao Liang held the orange in his hand and was silent for a long time. When he looked up again, his eyes were a little red. The tears that had been hidden in his eyes soaked his entire eyes, making them look bright and clear.
"No thanks for the great kindness."
Xiao Liang took a deep breath and said, "If you go to Guangzhou in the future, you can come to Tao Street or Xihu Street to find me if you have any questions."
"Except when I take my mother to the hospital for medical treatment, I spend most of my time here."
Jiang Meishu was just about to ask Xiao Liang about what happened in Yangcheng.
As a result, Xiao Liang's mother shouted over there, and Xiao Liang hurriedly said goodbye to Jiang Meishu and the others.
Jiang Meishu didn't get the answer, so she had to give up. But she didn't regret it. After all, she was too much of a fool to ask for help just because she gave him an orange. But Jiang Meishu and the others didn't expect that when they came to see Xiao Liang again, time would pass so quickly.
After three days and three nights, Jiang Meishu and her companions got off the train. To be honest, both she and Jiang Meilan were in Guangzhou for the first time and were unfamiliar with the place.
I don’t even know where to buy the goods.
Just when they were completely blinded, Xiao Liang came out of the station with his mother in a wheelchair. Xiao Liang was too eye-catching. In the crowded crowd, he stood out the most with his wheelchair.
Xiao Liang hadn't expected to run into his benefactor on the train after he got out. He was surprised and asked, "Comrade, where are you going?"
Just a small talk.
Jiang Meishu hesitated for a moment. "We plan to go to Yangcheng to look at small commodities. Comrade Xiao, do you have any specific recommendations?"
Jiang Meishu knows Guangzhou two thousand years later, but she doesn’t know Guangzhou in the 1970s.
Xiao Liang's eyes flickered when he heard this. "If you want to look at small commodities, you can go to Tao Street or the Xihu Road Night Market, which is the largest small commodity market. But if you want to see ready-made clothes, you have to go to Gaodi Street. It depends on your needs."
He thought for a moment, then took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over. "This is my business card for Gaudi Street. If you need anything, you can always come to me."
Jiang Meishu hesitated for a moment, but still took it and said, "Thank you."
Xiao Liang waved his hands. "I should thank you." He glanced down at his sleepy mother. "If it weren't for you, my mother wouldn't be so satisfied."
"After eating that orange, she felt much better and insisted on coming all the way to Guangzhou."
"We will regret it in due time."
After Xiao Liang left.
Jiang Meishu murmured, "I didn't expect that just giving an orange away would actually help us so much."
"Are we going to West Lake Street now?"
She is more familiar with West Lake Street than Tao Street.
"Let's go to Xihu Street." Jiang Meilan also made the final decision. "The size of the mirror and the harmonica is not important. We will go to Gaudí Street last."
"Selling clothes is all about size, and we have to consider too much, and it takes a lot of time."
This immediately convinced Shen Zhanlie and Liang Rui, "We'll listen to you."
It is obvious that lesbians have more insight than them in this matter.
After deciding on the place, they headed to their destination. The market atmosphere in Guangzhou was very open, and as soon as they exited the train station, there were many rickshaws waiting by to solicit business.
"Comrade, are you taking a ride?
"It's 80 cents to go to Nanhua West Street, 50 cents to go to Enning Road, and if you go nearby it's 30 cents and I'll take you there."
Jiang Meishu and Jiang Meilan exchanged glances. "How much does it cost to go to West Lake Street?"
"My pretty girl, let me tell you, West Lake Street is very far from the station. Normally we wouldn't go there, as it would delay our business—" He hadn't finished his words.
Jiang Meilan immediately switched to the man next to him and asked, "Do you want to go to West Lake Street?"
This left the waiter who had been receiving Jiang Meilan and the others dumbfounded. He started cursing in Cantonese with the people around him, "Fuck your mother, you bastard! First come, first served, understand? These are my clients."
"Steal my clients? Are you still a jerk?"
Jiang Meishu didn't understand the unauthentic Mandarin mixed with authentic Cantonese, but she could roughly tell that the man was cursing.
Jiang Meishu was silent for a moment, then pulled Jiang Meilan's sleeve and walked directly to the car of an honest and simple man nearby. "Take us to Xihu Street."
Without any further ado, he just got in the car and left.
Not only was the first boss confused, but the second boss was also confused. They were cursing and making a fuss, so how could the customers be snatched away?
In fact, the boss who was pulling Jiang Meishu and the others was also a little confused. He never dreamed that such a good thing would fall from the sky.
However, Jiang Meishu still reminded him, "Are you still not leaving? Do you still want to quarrel with them?"
Only then did Master Li finally wake up from his dream and immediately pedaled away. A tricycle couldn't hold two people, so Shen Zhanlie and Liang Rui also found another silent boarder.
Anyway, they don’t want the two that were originally arguing.
After arriving at Xihu Street, Jiang Meishu paid the money, but the other party asked for 80 cents, but it took almost an hour to pedal.
Jiang Meishu felt embarrassed to bargain with such an honest man. She gave him one yuan, and Jiang Meilan also meant the same thing, so no change was needed.
Perhaps it is because people have more confidence after having money, and they will be more tolerant when dealing with those who make them feel sad.
The other party was stunned for a moment, then left with many thanks.
After a while, Shen Zhanlie and Liang Rui arrived. As soon as they landed, they stood next to Jiang Meishu and the others. Those who had been eyeing Jiang Meishu and the two sisters on West Lake Street suddenly turned their eyes away.
Guangzhou has never been a good place.
Where people cannot see, there is darkness and blood.
Shen Zhanlie is tall and strong, with a fierce look on his face. Liang Rui is thin, but he looks arrogant, rebellious and unruly. No matter how you look at it, he is not someone you can easily mess with.
Those who were originally looking at Jiang Meishu and Jiang Meilan, the two female comrades who were left alone and were about to have some thoughts, suddenly fell silent again.
At this time, Shen Zhanlie stood up. He looked around with a pair of hawk-like eyes, with a bit of warning, and then said to Jiang Meilan, "Let's go to the state-owned guesthouse."
This kind of place is safer after all.
Jiang Meilan nodded. She was also a little scared and didn't understand why in this chaotic era, most of the people who could come to the fore were men.
Because women in this era are naturally vulnerable. They can be stared at by others just by standing there and doing nothing.
At this moment, she was actually relieved and called Shen Zhanlie to come over. She strongly requested Shen Zhanlie to take a week off, otherwise, bringing Liang Rui alone would not be able to serve as a deterrent.
After using ten cents to exchange a room at the guesthouse with the guide, I finally settled down in Guangzhou after booking two rooms at the guesthouse thanks to my Capital Department Store purchasing permit and travel permit.
Jiang Meishu and Jiang Meilan shared a room, Liang Rui and Shen Zhanlie shared a room. They specifically requested connected rooms, which were right next door, so that they could take care of each other in case of any problems.
By the time we had packed up everything, it was already past one o'clock.
Jiang Meishu touched her stomach and said, "Shall we go get something to eat?"
During these days on the train, because the hard seats were too far from the dining car, I had to make do with them every time. I basically ate dry food because that way I would have to go to the bathroom less often.
The toilet is too far away.
"Now."
Jiang Meilan changed into a clean set of clothes, and so did Jiang Meishu. Not only had they been sweating a lot on the train for several days, but they also couldn't change clothes, so the clothes they were wearing were really pickled.
After everything was completely cleaned up, Jiang Meishu and Jiang Meilan came out of the room and knocked on the room next door.
Shen Zhanlie was taking a shower, and Liang Rui, the heartless one, had already taken a nap.
By the time they had packed up and left, it was already half past one. Jiang Meishu and the hostel manager asked around for places to eat, then handed each other a handful of candy.
If you ask someone to do something for you but don’t give them any benefits, how can you ask them for help?
The front desk clerk hesitated for a moment. "Are you from out of town? Your accent doesn't sound like you're from here."
Jiang Meishu nodded, "Yes."
The front desk clerk said, "Then you should try to stay in the guesthouse at night and don't go out."
"Even if you two female comrades want to go out during the day, you must ask your male companion to accompany you."
The situation in Guangzhou in the 1970s and 1980s was more rampant than that in the 1990s. At least by the 1990s the public security system here had been well-established, but now it is still in a state of complete blankness and is being slowly established.
And this black and white area breeds a lot of darkness.
Jiang Meishu was stunned for a moment, then thanked him, "Don't worry, we will definitely go out as a group of four."
If it were just her and Jiang Meilan, they would rather stay in the guesthouse room.
After Jiang Meishu came over, she told everyone what the guesthouse manager had told her to do.
Jiang Meilan thought thoughtfully, "It seems that this place is even more chaotic than we thought."
"Everyone please be safe."
Shen Zhanlie and Liang Rui even started fighting with full energy.
Because they had eaten too much dry food on the train, they all wanted to eat something with soup. Finally, they found a rice noodle shop. Jiang Meishu ordered a bowl of hot rice noodles with pork offal. When it was served, she took a sip of the soup first. It was so delicious that she wanted to bite her tongue off.
She has lived through so much hardship that she can even taste deliciousness from a bowl of soup rice noodles.
After dinner, get to know the surrounding situation on the first day.
Jiang Meishu was worried about Liang Qiurun. She had been gone for four or five days and wanted to let Liang Qiurun know that she was safe, so she went back to the guesthouse and called the office of the director of the meat processing plant.
When the phone was picked up, Liang Qiurun's cool and gentle voice said, "Who is this?"
"It's me, Lao Liang."
As soon as Jiang Meishu finished speaking, Liang Qiurun, who was sitting in the office chair, stood up instantly and asked, "Jiang Jiang, where are you?"
"Have you arrived in Yangcheng?"
Jiang Meishu held the receiver and hummed softly, "I'm here. I arrived at 10 a.m."
Liang Qiurun had a lot to ask. These past few days, he'd been wondering what Jiang Jiang thought of his family. He'd left without even saying goodbye and had been gone for days.
He was reflecting on whether he had not done enough and whether he was an unqualified husband, which was why Jiang Jiang had no attachment to his home at all.
When the words came to my lips, they turned into concern, "Did you have a smooth journey?"
Guangzhou does not look like a capital, nor does it look like Heilongjiang Province. It is an emerging city where chaos and opportunities coexist.
Jiang Meishu bit her lip and said, "It's okay."
Jiang Meilan was calling her over there, saying the car had arrived and was about to leave. She hurriedly hung up the phone, "Lao Liang, I have to go out and get busy. We'll talk next time."
Liang Qiurun blurted out something he had been thinking about for days without an answer, "Jiang Jiang, in your eyes, which is more important, me or making money?"
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