Chapter: 42 Bus Seat Grabbing

“Shen Shili, stop making trouble. It’s none of your business whether I give things to others or not. You are here to save face and be a good person and reason with me.

You are magnanimous and noble. Look at the educated youth in our whole carriage. The food is not very good. You should pay for everyone to have a good meal. Don’t eat meat buns secretly by yourself and blame others for not doing anything.

Who gave you the face?”

Lin Weiwan felt sick when she saw Shen Shili’s face. How could she be so blind to agree to marry such a man in her previous life.

He looks like a hypocrite who pretends to be noble and righteous. Lin Weiwan felt sick just thinking about it. She actually spent three years with this man.

Many educated youth stood up to watch the quarrel here, and some even clapped excitedly when they heard that someone was going to treat them.

Shen Shili was stared at by so many people like wolves and tigers, and he didn’t dare to say anything. He could only sit back in his seat and look out the window.

Seeing that the only person who was speaking up for her was suppressed, Cui Hongying could only stuff the cornmeal cake in her hand into her mouth and swallow it quickly under the mocking eyes of many people.

Because she swallowed it too quickly, she choked and rolled her eyes. She drank half a cup of water before she recovered.

Wang Qiaoyun looked at these things without saying a word, just secretly eating the cornmeal cake in her hand.

Today, she paid all the 80 yuan in her hand to Lin Weiwan, and also wrote an IOU for 20 yuan. Now she only has 5 yuan left in her hand, and she doesn’t know what the current situation is.

I originally thought that living in the city with my brother would allow me to stay away from the countryside and not have to make a living in the mud.

I didn’t expect that I would go to the countryside instead. My brother originally wanted her to go back to her hometown, but my mother would never agree. She had no relatives in the countryside and even sold her house. She went to the city with everyone’s envious eyes. How could she go back? Would she be laughed at if she went back?

It’s not safe for a girl to go back alone. It’s even more difficult to find a job in the city to marry. When people hear that she is from the countryside, they won’t even consider it.

After going to the countryside, she had to write a letter home, asking her mother to send her some more money. She had to pay back the money she owed to Lin Weiwan. Just thinking about it gave her a headache.

If she had known, she would not have helped out. She had thought that Lin Weiwan would take advantage of this opportunity to take advantage of her alone, but she ended up losing a large sum of money. She frowned, ate a mouthful of food, and closed her eyes to prepare for bed.

After dinner, Lin Weiwan walked through the carriage to wash the lunch box, and then took an empty kettle to get water back.

The air in the carriage gradually became unpleasant, and the temperature gradually became a little cool.

Lin Weiwan returned to her seat and took out a blanket from her luggage bag.

She put on the mask in her shoulder bag, and a faint fragrance came.

The citron tree in the space was full of fruits again. Lin Weiwan got a few citron peels to dry and stuffed them into the mask in the first few days.

Anticipating that the smell on the train would definitely be bad, she quickly put on the mask and prepared to cover herself with a blanket.

“What’s that smell, Comrade Lin?” Du Shanshan smelled a faint fragrance. She had just finished her meal, and there was a smell in the carriage. The smell of sweat, smelly feet, and strong body odor made the whole carriage filled with an indescribable smell.

“My family used to have a citron tree. Every year when I harvested the fruit, I would give some to my neighbors. This is a mask made for me by my aunt from the dried citron peel.”

Lin Weiwan couldn’t say that this was hers. The Lin family had been robbed some time ago, so where did she get the stock from?

“Comrade Lin, do you have any more? Can you exchange one for me, with milk candy?” Du Shanshan felt that Lin Weiwan was really lucky. Her neighbors were so kind to her and gave her so many things.

Wang Ping had just come back from getting some water. When she saw Lin Weiwan wearing a gauze mask and a thread blanket, she quickly took out a thread blanket from her package.

“I’m sorry, Aunt Qin only gave me this one.” Lin Weiwan really only made this one, and she couldn’t take it out again.

I don’t know what the details of Du Shanshan next to me are. I can’t figure out everything.

“Okay then.” Du Shanshan nodded without any hesitation, but stood up and took out a coat from her luggage bag. It was indeed a bit cold at night.

The next day, several more people got on the bus, and the aisle was gradually occupied by people. Some sat on luggage bags, some sat on sacks, and they had to squeeze and step over each other to go to the toilet in the morning.

The smell of the toilet was even more… Lin Weiwan returned to his seat and waited for a long time before he recovered.

He took out the preserved vegetable braised pork pot cake from the luggage bag under his feet and ate it slowly with boiling water. Although it was a bit dry and hard, it became more fragrant the more he chewed.

When Zhou Rongrong came back, she saw Lin Weiwan leisurely eating the fragrant preserved vegetable pancake.

She and Shen Shili took out the steamed bun and ate two bites with water. The tip of her nose smelled the fragrance of preserved vegetables, and she couldn’t eat anymore.

But thinking of her face, which had just started to get less swollen, she didn’t dare to confront Lin Weiwan for the time being.

Shen Shili’s face was not very good either. He slept sitting up all night and his waist and back ached. When had he ever suffered such a torment?

But when he saw Zhou Rongrong looking at him with tender eyes, he was happy in his heart.

He and his family were just awkward for a few days, and it would probably take a few days for his father to calm down, and he would definitely find a way to get him back, and then they would be able to accept Rongrong.

Shen Shili had a good idea, but he himself did not expect that he would never have the chance to go back after this trip to the countryside.

Lin Weiwan ate two preserved vegetable pot cakes, drank some warm water, leaned back in a chair, and looked at the scenery outside the window.

In Haishi, Zhou’s mother took the fourth son to go through the hospitalization procedures. After two nights of careful consideration, Zhou’s mother still couldn’t bear to watch her son die.

Old Mrs. Zhou looked at the mother and daughter going away, and she looked much older.

The hospital did not agree to let the half-paralyzed old man Zhou have a kidney removed, and the letters and telegrams sent to Zhou Laosan did not get any response.

Zhou’s father’s case has been investigated, and the date for parading and execution has been set, which is the day after tomorrow.

The train from Haishi to Jinshi stopped eight times. Many people squeezed on the train. The No. 56 train number was also changed to No. 57 in Jinshi.

The three-day train finally stopped at Sanshu Station in Harbin. Lin Weiwan took out a piece of cloth from his shoulder bag and tied the two luggage bags together with the cloth strip so that he could carry them on his shoulders when getting off the train.

He stuffed the small luggage bag and cloth bag under his feet into the large luggage bag he brought with him, and packed his things neatly. Carrying the luggage roll, he followed the crowd to squeeze under the train.

It was already past four o’clock in the afternoon. There were no buses going to Mixian at this time. He could only find a guesthouse to stay overnight and wait for the bus to Mixian at around seven o’clock the next day.

After getting the introduction letter issued by the Youth Educated Office at the train station with the certificate of going to the countryside, a group of people went straight to the nearest station guesthouse.

It didn’t cost money to stay in this guesthouse. It was the Youth Educated Office. As long as the Youth Educated Office’s getting off point did not match the departure time of the bus, they could stay overnight for free with the certificate issued by the Youth Educated Office.