Chapter 133 Encounter with Yang Hui
As soon as the group of people ran past the dining car, a group of railway police chased them.
They would approach every passenger with large luggage and ask them to open the bag for inspection.
Of course, these policemen will not touch the passengers’ luggage themselves. They will just watch the customers look through it, and when they are sure that everything is ok, they will leave and then check the next one.
Not only did they check the luggage, they also split into several groups, each of which quickly passed through the dining car and chased after the passengers who had escaped early.
There were also a few people standing at the door of the toilet. They first knocked on the door to warn people inside, and when they refused to open the door, they simply took out the key to open the door and caught all the people hiding inside.
Although the railway police officers were relatively gentle when enforcing the law, their behavior still scared all three children.
Cheng Yang picked up Mingrui and Mingxi one by one, while Shi Xiaoai held Kaikai's hand tightly and quickly left the dining car.
Because they just came to have a meal and did not bring any large luggage with them, the railway police just looked at them but did not ask any questions.
After exiting the dining car, we quickly entered the soft sleeper car. It was already a bit late, the headlights were off, and the doors to the compartments were mostly closed. Although there were still a few people sitting on the small window seats, they weren't many, and the car was very quiet.
Only at this time did Kaikai quietly ask the question he had always wanted to ask.
He pulled Shi Xiaoai and asked, "Sister-in-law, what are those police officers doing?"
"We are cracking down on speculation and profiteering." Shi Xiaoai explained softly.
Cheng Yang, who was walking in front, paused. It was obvious that he didn't know what the police had done. When he heard Xiao Ai's answer, he turned around and looked at her inquiringly.
Shi Xiaoai didn't say it clearly, but pushed Cheng Yang, signaling him to speed up and go back quickly.
I returned to the box, helped the children clean up, and coaxed them to go to bed first.
According to the original intention of the two people, they wanted Mingrui, Mingxi and Shi Xiaoai to sleep on the lower bunk together, which would be safer.
But the two naughty kids insisted on sleeping on top, face to face with their uncle, so they had no choice but to agree.
Normally, if the children were full, they would definitely play for a while, but it was a little late today, and the lights in the box were off, so the three little guys quickly felt sleepy and fell asleep soon.
The box finally became quiet.
Cheng Yang sat next to Shi Xiaoai and asked her, "What happened just now?"
He spends most of the year in school, which is under closed management, so he really doesn't know enough about the situation in the outside world.
Cheng Yang felt a little uncomfortable after seeing the behavior of the railway police just now. Seeing that his wife seemed to know the inside story, he wanted to ask more questions.
"Do you know that the country has now relaxed its management of small vendors?" Shi Xiaoai asked.
"Yeah." Cheng Yang nodded.
"It's not very obvious here yet. At most, the free market is starting to emerge. More and more people are selling vegetables from carts in the residential areas and on the streets, and then there are people selling snacks at the night market. But in the south, some people are already secretly building factories."
"Build a factory secretly?" Cheng Yang frowned.
"Or maybe you call it a small workshop. They usually hire a few workers, secretly make some things at home, and then sell them. Because the cost is low, the price is also low."
Cheng Yang pondered, "So, those people are speculating and buying things from the south and selling them back?"
Shi Xiaoai did not agree with this word.
She knew that the so-called speculation and profiteering would soon become normal business behavior, and in a few years it would be encouraged by the government because it would invigorate the market economy.
But this is really the case at this moment.
The entire railway line is cracking down on this kind of speculative behavior.
She nodded.
Cheng Yang pursed his lips and fell into deep thought. It was obvious that he had his own thoughts about the scene he had just seen.
Shi Xiaoai no longer had the excitement she had before. She leaned lazily on the bunk and didn't want to talk.
At this moment, the door of their box was suddenly pulled open from the outside, and then a person rushed in hurriedly.
After she came in, she quickly closed the door, then stuffed something into Shi Xiaoai's hand, who was sitting near the door, and said, "Help me, let me hide for a while."
Her movements were so fast that the couple couldn't react for a moment.
Seeing her movements, Cheng Kai immediately stood up and grabbed her clothes by the back of her neck, reaching out to push the door open and throw her out!
Shi Xiaoai quickly grabbed the person and called out in surprise, "Yang Hui?"
The person froze, obviously she hadn't recognized Shi Xiaoai at all.
Hearing the cry, she quickly turned around and asked for help: "Help me first, please, please!"
When Cheng Yang heard his wife calling out the person's name, he let go of her hand.
Shi Xiaoai now realized what was happening.
She quickly grabbed the large travel bag that Yang Hui was holding, threw it at the feet of Kaikai on the upper bunk, and covered the bag with a quilt.
At the same time, Cheng Yang also pulled open the quilt on the bed he had just sat on and stuffed Yang Hui's backpack into it.
Just as a few people had packed up, someone knocked on the box door again.
When the door was opened, the conductor in charge of this carriage and two railway police officers were standing outside.
Because the passengers who could afford to sit in the soft sleeper at this time were basically of some status, the few people spoke to them very politely.
When they saw the child sleeping on the upper bunk, they lowered their voices even more.
"Comrade, this is a routine inspection. Please open your bag and take a look."
After what happened in the dining car just now, the couple no longer questioned it. Cheng Yang bent down and pulled out the luggage from under the bunk, opened it and showed it to a few people.
It was a routine inspection and it was indeed a routine inspection. The men just glanced at it casually without even leaning forward.
Although there was one more person, Yang Hui, in the compartment, because they bought four adult tickets when they boarded the train, the conductor didn't say anything at all and left quickly without even asking any questions.
It was not until those people had checked all the compartments in the carriage and the footsteps were getting farther and farther away that Yang Hui finally let out the breath she had been holding.
Yang Hui sat down next to Shi Xiaoai again, calmed herself down, then stood up again, smiled at her and said, "Thanks to your help today, I was so scared just now!"
As she spoke, she pulled out a nice little velvet bag from her pocket, handed it to Xiao Ai, and said, "It's just a little gadget, try it on for fun. It's not worth much, but it's pretty nice."
After saying that, she stood on tiptoe to pick up the luggage on the upper bunk.
Shi Xiaoai caught her.
"Don't leave so quickly. Those people haven't gone far yet. Aren't you afraid they'll come back and attack you?"
Yang Hui's hands trembled and she stood there not daring to move.
Seeing this, Cheng Yang stood up and said, "I'll go out and take a look. You guys can chat."
After saying that, he didn't give Yang Hui a chance to refuse. He stood up, opened the door and walked out.
After Cheng Yang left, Yang Hui obviously relaxed a little, but at this time she also felt embarrassed and lowered her head embarrassedly.
Shi Xiaoai and Yang Hui had not known each other for long, but she had a very good impression of Yang Hui.
It felt like the two of them were already close friends.
So at this time, she didn't beat around the bush and asked directly: "Yang Hui, what happened? Didn't you say you were in a hurry to go to Hai City? Why are you here?"
Yang Hui lowered her head silently and didn't speak for a long time. Shi Xiaoai didn't urge her, but sat quietly beside her.
After about five minutes, Yang Hui raised her head and smiled to herself, saying calmly, "There's nothing I can do. I was just tricked."
Shi Xiaoai frowned.
She did not ask any more questions, but walked to another bunk and sat down. She took out the sesame seed cakes and tea eggs she had brought with her from the bag on the table and pushed them to Yang Hui.
Then he took his teacup and poured her a glass of water.
Yang Hui didn't hesitate and picked up the pancake and started eating.
She looked like she hadn't eaten properly for a long time. She ate very quickly, with her cheeks puffed up like a little squirrel.
After she ate a sesame seed bun and a tea egg, she finally slowed down.
Shi Xiaoai pushed the fried peanuts and braised beef in the lunch box to her and said, "Eat some more. We brought a lot of food and we won't be able to finish it even after getting off the bus."
Yang Hui looked at her and did not refuse. She picked up another pancake and slowly started eating it with the dish.
Seeing her like this, Shi Xiaoai felt heavy in her heart.
The Yang Hui she had met before was not like this. Even though she had suffered a lot in sports, she always gave people the impression of being smart and proud.
Looking at how clever she was when she was trying to trick those people in Courtyard No. 1, you can tell that she is a girl with strong vitality.
But now, she looks exhausted all over, and feels very depressed.
Yang Hui finally finished her meal. She wiped her mouth and said, "I did go to Haicheng before. My boyfriend was attending university there, and I went to live with him. But what I didn't expect was that he kept urging me to go over there. He was actually trying to cheat me out of my money so that he and his new girlfriend could go smuggling."
Shi Xiaoai's heart skipped a beat, and she sat up straight in an instant, asking in a lost voice, "You went?"
Yang Hui shook her head and smiled sarcastically: "If I had gone there now, you wouldn't be able to see me."
Shi Xiaoai finally breathed a sigh of relief, but her heart was still pounding.
The country was too poor at that time.
Because the movement had ended, some information from outside was slowly transmitted through various channels, so the trend of going abroad also quietly arose at this time.
The bright lights, wine, women and song and dance outside are so tempting to young people who have always been in a high-pressure environment that many people feel that the moon in foreign countries is rounder than that in China.
At this time, many young people, especially those in big cities, tried every possible way to go abroad.
Some people were willing to sell their property, some people sought guarantors from foreigners through various channels, and some people who really couldn't find any other way even chose to sneak across the border out of desperation.
Those people completely disregard the law and take risks with a sense of luck.
Maybe some of them will succeed, but the vast majority will definitely fail.
Those who fail may be caught by the coast guard if they are lucky, and they will be detained and sentenced.
Those who are unlucky may even lose their lives.
So when Xiao Ai heard Yang Hui say that she was almost tricked by her boyfriend into going abroad illegally, she was really shocked!
"What's going on? Was the money from selling your house also scammed away?" Shi Xiaoai didn't care about being polite anymore and asked anxiously.
Yang Hui looked unhappy. She bit her lower lip and nodded slightly.
It was only through Yang Hui's story that Xiao Ai learned that her ex-boyfriend was also a worker in a textile factory and worked in the same workshop as Yang Hui.
The two of them started dating two years ago and were planning to get married, but the man got admitted to university.
Her boyfriend went to Hai City to study, and Yang Hui was naturally unwilling to stay there, so she had been studying hard in the past two years, hoping to be able to get into Hai City and go to the same school as her boyfriend.
Fortunately, her boyfriend did not despise her for being admitted to university. He has been very concerned about her in the past two years. Not only did he often write letters to encourage her, he also sent her a lot of study materials.
The relationship between the two has always been very deep.
Yang Hui was actually very confident this year. She felt that after studying for so long, she would definitely pass the exam.
Just then she received a call from her boyfriend, saying that he had obtained a place in the school's government-funded study abroad program. Because of his good grades and performance, the department agreed to let him bring his family with him.
Let Yang Hui go over quickly.
He also said that they might have to stay abroad for three years and would not be able to return home during this period, so they needed to sort out family affairs and avoid any trouble.
He also asked her to find a way to raise some money, because although he could bring his family members, they would have to pay for their own air tickets.
Shi Xiaoai was shocked and said, "You believe this?!"
Yang Hui turned her head to the side in embarrassment and said nothing.
"Then you sold your house and property and rushed over?"
"Um."
Yang Hui sold everything she could at home, leaving only some daily necessities, and scraped together a little over 3,000 yuan.
She took the money and went to see her boyfriend.
But she was finally more careful and did not give the money to the man. She just said that she would keep it for herself first and give it to him when she needed to buy a plane ticket or something.
The man probably realized that he couldn't get any money from Yang Hui, so he had to take her to Yue City.
Of course, they were not the only two who went there. There were also three other boys and one girl.
The reason that person gave Yang Hui at that time was to board the plane from the airport in Yue City and fly from there.
Yang Hui trusts her boyfriend very much, otherwise she would not have come to him without hesitation.
Her boyfriend did a very good job of hiding the truth in order to confuse her.
The people who were traveling with us kept talking about studying abroad. They even arranged a car to take us to the station in the name of the school.
The reason why Yang Hui was suspicious was because of that girl, mainly because the interactions between her and her boyfriend seemed too clingy.
In Yang Hui's words, her eyes seemed to be able to draw threads.
She has been in love before, how could she not think too much?
But the two men were obviously avoiding her and behaving in a well-behaved manner in front of her.
Others also cover for them.
Yang Hui couldn't find out anything, but she still kept her interest.
So after arriving in Yue City, one day when they had another meeting to discuss academic issues, she did not avoid them again. Instead, she secretly walked around and hid outside their door to eavesdrop when those people were not paying attention.
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