Pan Di squeezed over to take a look and nodded: "Auntie, it's here."
The old lady heaved a sigh of relief and sat down on the lower bunk opposite Gu Guizhi: "I'm so tired, Pan Di, you sit down too, and take a rest."
Pan Di lowered her head and sat next to the aunt, without saying a word.
"Pandi, I'm telling you, you can't do this when you join the army. If you continue like this, you won't get anything out of it and even your sister won't be able to help you." The old lady looked as if she was disappointed in him.
Pan Di just nodded without saying anything. The old lady tapped Pan Di's head with her index finger and said, "You little girl."
Pan Di smiled at the old lady in a flattering way and whispered, "Don't worry, old lady. I will work hard."
As she was speaking, Pandi's stomach made a rumbling sound.
The old lady sighed and went to look for something to eat in her cloth bag. After searching for a while, she found a black steamed bread and handed it to Pan Di: "Eat it."
Pan Di took the steamed bread, hesitated for a moment, broke it in half, and handed one half back: "Auntie, I only need half."
"I can still afford a steamed bun, you can eat it." The old lady forced the steamed bun into Pandi's arms.
Qi Mengmeng looked at the scene in front of her but didn't say anything. The clothes on the aunt were fine, but the clothes on Pan Di were so patched up that the original color of the clothes could no longer be seen.
Although the two people looked pitiful, they could probably afford sleeper tickets, so they couldn't be really poor.
Gu Guizhi obviously knew this truth, so he didn't say anything.
After the train started, Gu Guizhi got up and went to the restaurant to buy a lunch box. Qi Mengmeng peeled a piece of candy and put it in her mouth. Pan Di opposite her glanced at her.
Qi Mengmeng saw it but didn't say anything. She just stuffed the candy wrapper into her pocket.
Pan Di looked at her several times in a row, with an expression that seemed to want to say something but hesitated. Qi Mengmeng was annoyed by her and asked in a bad tone, "Why do you keep looking at me?"
"No, I didn't." Pan Di quickly shook her head. The lady next to her was staring out the window in a daze. She turned her head and looked at the two of them and asked, "What's the matter?"
Pan Di shrank back and whispered, "Auntie, I, I just looked at the candy wrapper of the comrade opposite me, really."
Qi Mengmeng was stunned. She didn't expect that Pan Di was looking at the candy wrapper.
The old lady didn't expect this either. She quickly explained to Qi Mengmeng: "Comrade, I'm sorry, my niece has never eaten candy since she was a child. I guess she is just curious about the candy wrapper. Don't mind it."
What could Qi Mengmeng say? She couldn't even let others look at it, and looking at the look of Pan Di opposite her, it seemed that she was really looking at the candy wrapper.
Qi Mengmeng took out a candy wrapper from her pocket and handed it to the other person: "How about I give this candy wrapper to you?"
"Really, thank you, thank you." Pan Di quickly stood up to thank him and accidentally touched the upper bunk. She covered her head while thanking him, which made Qi Mengmeng feel very sorry and she said it was okay.
At this time, Gu Guizhi came back with lunch. Qi Mengmeng didn't talk to Pan Di anymore. She took the lunch box and ate with Gu Guizhi.
There were two dishes in the lunch box that Gu Guizhi bought, one was stir-fried cabbage with meat, the other was scrambled eggs, and underneath was a full bowl of rice.
Qi Mengmeng could not eat any more after eating half of it, while Gu Guizhi ate one and a half boxes of lunch.
After the meal, he took the two lunch boxes to wash and returned them. A deposit was paid for the lunch boxes, which could be returned after the meal.
The lady opposite took out another steamed bun and handed it to Pan Di. Pan Di shook her head and whispered that she was full after eating the bun just now. The lady persuaded her a few more times, but Pan Di still refused to eat.
Qi Mengmeng saw clearly that there must be a lot of wild vegetables mixed in the steamed bread, so it looked black. The steamed bread was only the size of a child's fist. An adult would definitely not be full after eating one.
The reason why Pan Di didn't eat it was mostly because she couldn't bear to eat it.
Qi Mengmeng saw it, and the lady opposite must have seen it too. She handed another steamed bun to Pan Di and insisted that she eat it, but Pan Di was very stubborn and stuffed it back to the lady.
"Auntie, I'll go get some water."
Perhaps because she was afraid that the old lady would stuff more steamed bread into her mouth, she stood up.
The old lady took out a military water bottle from her bag and asked if he wanted to go with her.
Pan Di shook her head and said, "I can go by myself. Auntie, just look after the things."
Although they didn't bring much with them, the letters of introduction and other things were in the hands of the old lady, so they must not be lost.
The old lady obviously understood what she meant. She nodded and said a few words of worry to ask her to come back soon.
Qi Mengmeng saw the military water bottles and guessed that the two people should be military dependents, otherwise ordinary families would have no place to buy them, not to mention that the two people were obviously from rural areas.
She does not discriminate against rural people, but it is true that rural people have a hard life in this era.
Qi Mengmeng took out the kettle and drank some water. Then she had some physiological needs. When Gu Guiyi came back, she immediately stood up and said, "I'm going to the toilet."
Gu Guizhi pointed ahead and said, "The toilet is right there."
Qi Mengmeng nodded and walked quickly.
There happened to be an empty toilet, so Qi Mengmeng quickly slipped in and was almost suffocated to death, then she slipped into the space.
She went to the toilet and walked out immediately, bumping into two people coming out from the opposite side.
The woman opposite immediately lowered her head and helped the other person forward.
Qi Mengmeng was a little surprised. There were two people using the toilet which was so smelly. She really didn't know how they could stand inside it.
When she turned around, her eyes swept across the ground and suddenly stopped. The patched pants and cloth shoes on the person who was supported looked so familiar. He looked very much like Pan Di who was sitting opposite them just now.
Pan Di staggered, obviously being dragged by another woman.
A thought flashed through Qi Mengmeng's mind. Her luck couldn't be so "good". Had she encountered human traffickers again?
She had already guessed that Auntie and Pan Di were military dependents, so she naturally couldn't bear to see Pan Di being abducted in front of her, but apart from her space, her fighting power was not high.
If the human trafficker has accomplices, she may not be able to defeat them.
Qi Mengmeng gritted her teeth and slowly followed.
The woman in front of her heard the noise and looked at her. She glared at her and said, "What are you looking at?"
The woman rolled her eyes, looked at Pan Di again, and stepped aside: "You go first."
Qi Mengmeng stopped cautiously, looking suspicious: "Why are you so kind? I don't know you."
The woman was so angry that she just gave way. Why did this person have so many problems? But in order to stop Qi Mengmeng from yelling, she could only support Pan Di and continue to move forward. Qi Mengmeng followed silently behind.
Whenever the woman turned around, Qi Mengmeng would stare at her cautiously, making the woman so angry that her teeth itched.
The three of them walked through a carriage, and the woman walked into a berth. Qi Mengmeng walked forward as usual, and then exclaimed, "Hey, who are you? You weren't there when I got on the train just now?"
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