How difficult it is for her to go to Shanghai alone.
First, there was no money, and then there was no way to buy a ticket.
She went to find Zhao Shengli, who listened to her story and advised her, "I say you'd better not go. If you go and see those two holding hands and kissing each other, will you feel uncomfortable?"
"He's not that kind of person."
"Men know men best. I'm asking you, is that female educated youth pretty?"
"nice."
After all, she is the original heroine, how can she not be pretty?
"That's terrible. Men have no resistance to women who come to them, not to mention that they are from the same hometown and are both educated people..." Seeing Lin Miaoyin's pitiful look, he had no choice but to say, "Okay, okay, I won't say anything. I'll lend you thirty yuan. I'll find a way to buy the train ticket. Come find me in three days."
"Okay, thank you so much." Lin Miaoyin said gratefully.
"Well, you can thank me by drawing a few more designs for me. That bag sold very well last time."
"Okay, I'll draw a bunch for you after the New Year."
After she returned home, she didn't tell anyone. She ate and slept alone. After three days of silence, she got a train ticket. It was scheduled to depart on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, the last train, which meant there were still two days left.
She wrote a letter as usual, passed by the Lin family in the early morning, put it under the gate, and left with her bag.
I only brought a few dozen dollars, some tickets, two sets of clothes, a pair of shoes, and some toiletries.
It was 11 o'clock in the morning when we arrived at the county. After eating something, we went to the train station. By the time we got on the train, it was already around 1 o'clock.
The ticket she bought would take more than ten hours to get to Shanghai.
The train was very boring, but luckily she brought a novel that she had bought for Meng Yuanzheng before.
The carriage was noisy and filled with all kinds of unpleasant smells.
This was the first time she had traveled far away by herself since coming into this world, and it was quite new to take the green train.
The train set off with a clang.
After sitting for about five or six hours, the train stopped halfway for passengers to get on and off.
The passengers sitting opposite her also changed, and a young couple got on, holding a baby.
There was nothing unusual at first, but after an hour or two, the baby woke up and started crying, obviously because he had urinated or was hungry.
Lin Miaoyin had taken care of younger brothers and sisters in her previous life, so she understood a little bit.
But the couple just held the child and coaxed him to sleep, but they did not check the diaper or feed him.
Looking at their clothes again, they were very ordinary. They were carrying a big black bag, and the cloth used to wrap the baby was quite nice.
It is said that in this era, it is very popular to carry children in a sling. Looking at other people going on a long journey at the station, most of them would have a sling, but the other person did not.
Lin Miaoyin became suspicious and watched quietly.
The child couldn't be coaxed and kept crying, and the two people began to get anxious, but Lin Miaoyin could see that they were not anxious about the problem with the child, but because the child kept crying.
The child's face turned red and he cried heartbreakingly.
Lin Miaoyin couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so she put down the book and reminded, "Is your baby feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
The two men paused, and the man looked at them with a cold gaze. The woman said quickly, "Yes, she seems hungry. I'll carry her to feed her."
Lin Miaoyin was puzzled. "A child wouldn't cry so much if he was hungry. Why don't you check if he has poop and is uncomfortable? Or if he has bloating?"
The woman was embarrassed and looked at the man. The man glared at Lin Miaoyin and said, "We can take care of our children ourselves. You don't need to worry about it."
After hearing this, Lin Miaoyin shrugged and said no more.
After a while, she left her seat and pretended to go to the toilet, but actually found the flight attendant to report the situation.
Child trafficking is taken very seriously these days, and the crew immediately reported the incident to the train conductor, who in turn called the railway police station.
The conductor told her not to panic and go back first to avoid arousing the suspicion of the human traffickers. The most important thing was to ensure the safety of the child.
Lin Miaoyin went back as if nothing had happened and sat down to continue reading.
I don’t know what methods the two of them used to coax the child to sleep.
But she felt something was increasingly wrong, because after another two or three hours, it was already late at night, and the child still hadn't woken up. Could it be that these two people had fed the child some medicine?
You Miaoyin looked at the child and felt a surge of anger in your heart, but you still had to pretend nothing had happened.
She couldn't continue reading the book. The lights in the carriage were dim, so she leaned against the window and took a nap.
At daybreak, the train finally pulled into Shanghai Station.
Lin Miaoyin stood up, took her bag, deliberately unzipped it, pretending that she had not taken it properly, so the things fell out, and blocked the two men's way out.
"Oh, my clothes." She squatted down and hurriedly packed them up, but she refused to leave, leaving the two people blocking her position.
Other passengers got off the bus one after another with their luggage, and the crew were ready.
"Hurry up!" The two of them were anxious.
"It's okay, it's okay." Lin Miaoyin said, her hands still moving slowly.
"Let's get out first!"
"Why are you in such a hurry? This is the terminal and the train won't move for a while." Lin Miaoyin pretended to be unreasonable and said, "You stepped on my clothes and damaged them, so you have to pay for it?"
The woman looked down at Lin Miaoyin's clothes, which were worn by poor country people, and said sarcastically, "Country bumpkin, how much are your tattered clothes worth?"
"Eh? How can you talk like that?" Lin Miaoyin stood up and retorted, "Do you know that everyone is equal? What else can we workers and peasants wear if not this kind of clothes?"
"You, I don't want to argue with you, get out of the way!"
Lin Miaoyin looked around and saw that most people had left the carriage. She took back her bag and said, "Okay, okay, let's go."
The two men glared at her and walked out towards the car door, and Lin Miaoyin followed behind.
As soon as I got off the car, I saw a small group of police officers.
"Don't move!"
"Ah!" The woman was startled, her grip loosened, and the child fell.
Lin Miaoyin reflexively rushed over and caught the child, then she fell to the ground with a thud. Her elbows and face, which were covered in blood even through several layers of clothes.
Fortunately, the child was fine in her arms, but she was just crying loudly because of fear.
She quickly picked him up and rocked him gently to comfort him.
The two men had been subdued and handcuffed by police.
The police from the railway police station and the train conductor came over and had the child taken away to be checked for any problems. They took Lin Miaoyin to the infirmary and helped carry her luggage.
"Comrade, you did a great job on this matter. You helped catch the human traffickers and saved the child's life. You are as good as any man and you deserve a reward!"
Lin Miaoyin's arm almost cramped in pain, and she replied with a pale face, "This is what I should do. By the way, the child seemed to have been fed some medicine by those two kidnappers on the bus. You must check it out. They got on the bus at Wuzhou Station, so the child may also be from Wuzhou."
The police looked at her with more praise, "Don't worry, our comrades will take care of these things. Now it's important to go to the infirmary first."
I went to the infirmary for a check-up and found it was just a scratch, so I applied some medicine and bandaged it.
The police saw that she didn't look like a local, but rather looked like someone who came from the mountains, so they asked her what she was doing there.
Lin Miaoyin's heart skipped a beat. The ticket she bought was helped by Zhao Shengli, and without a letter of introduction, she had come here by illegal taxi.
"I'm here to visit my relative, he's in Shanghai," she replied simply.
But the police were very enthusiastic. "Have you been to Shanghai? Do you know the way? Where does he live? Otherwise, we can take you there."
Lin Miaoyin was delighted, as she didn't know how to find Meng Yuanzheng.
"I only know that he used to live in the military compound. I can just ask around when I get there."
"It's very close. Follow me."
On the way to pick up the car, the police told her that there would be a reward this time and asked her to leave her address so that they could send it to her later.
Lin Miaoyin left the address of Niutou Bay.
The police asked a driver to take her to the military compound.
Along the way, she could see through the car window that Shanghai was already full of tall buildings. Although it was not as prosperous as in later generations, it was still of a small scale.
It was actually quite difficult to enter the military compound, but fortunately she was riding in a police car so it was much easier. After inspection, she was allowed in.
When she entered, she saw an old lady sweeping the floor. Lin Miaoyin went up to her and asked, "Auntie, do you know Meng Changde's home?"
The old lady's face fell instantly after hearing this, and she glanced at her from the side, "What is your relationship with their family?"
"I'm his daughter-in-law."
"Daughter-in-law?"
"Hey, they got married when Meng Yuanzheng went to the countryside."
"Why don't you ask your man?"
"This... is a long story."
The old lady snorted and continued sweeping the floor. "They moved away a long time ago. Go look for them in Duoer Hutong."
"Thank you, Auntie. Thank you." Lin Miaoyin thanked and left.
The old lady held the broom and muttered, "Yuan Zheng is quite handsome, how come he found such a wife without telling anyone?"
The author has something to say: Woohoo, I was wrong
When I was halfway through writing today, my friends dragged me away to play King of Glory, and we played until very late...
I feel guilty seeing so many comments urging me to update.
Finish this chapter immediately
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