Chapter 38: Unreasonable

But she still wouldn’t let up.

“What’s so great about that, a few years ago, profiteering would have gotten you arrested.”

In this era, the domestic economy was booming, and most people going south were doing business.

She had seen Xia Keqing’s ticket just now, so she wanted to get a jab in.

Xia Keqing, adhering to the principle of rather offending a gentleman than a villain, didn’t say anything. Yu Hong couldn’t tolerate it.

She had been poor since she was young, if it hadn’t been for her daring to do business, she might not have been able to eat enough.

She had always worked hard and honestly in her business, she didn’t have anything to hide. Now, hearing this annoying young girl say such things, her face instantly darkened.

“What are you talking about?”

“What’s wrong with us doing business? The country now allows everyone to do business and get rich, if you have a problem, go complain to the higher-ups!”

“We do business, at least every penny is clean, we eat and drink what we earn through our hard work. Unlike some people, they look decent, but they have to ask their parents for every penny they spend. Why do you look down on us?”

This sentence struck a chord with everyone.

“That’s right, girl, you’re wrong to say that. It was called profiteering before, now it’s called business.”

“We’re all profiteers, otherwise, go call the police and have us arrested.”

Yu Xue didn’t expect her words to cause such an uproar.

She looked flustered, but she quickly snorted arrogantly.

“Humph! I’m not wrong! You bunch of profiteers, you do it and then you don’t let others talk about it!”

Xia Keqing really couldn’t believe it. Was she unlucky?

This was her first time taking a train, she thought she could experience the old green carriages and reminisce, but she didn’t expect to encounter such a weirdo.

It was ruining her good mood.

She decided not to stoop to her level.

Yu Hong also calmed down, “Xiao Qing, Aunt will go sit over there, are you okay by yourself?”

Xia Keqing nodded.

Yu Hong glanced at Yu Xue, snorted coldly, and walked away.

Yu Xue turned her face away, pretending to look at the scenery outside.

But she was actually a little regretful that she took this train with Han Feng today.

Yu Xue was from the provincial capital, her parents were both workers, both working. As an only child, she was beautiful and knew how to dress, she was always very spoiled.

As for Han Feng, he was her classmate and also her boyfriend.

But her parents didn’t approve of her relationship with Han Feng.

Han Feng’s hometown was in some impoverished village she had never heard of.

He was the only college student in the village, a golden phoenix who flew out of the mountains.

Originally, if Han Feng had graduated from college smoothly, he would have been assigned a job.

Her parents wouldn’t have been so opposed to their relationship.

But the problem was that Han Feng encountered some problems after graduation.

In Han Feng’s own words, he was framed.

Yu Xue naturally believed her boyfriend.

But Yu Xue didn’t want to live a hard life after marrying Han Feng. So she had already planned that after she married Han Feng, she would ask her dad to help get Han Feng into the factory.

Her dad was a small leader in the factory, it wouldn’t be a problem to arrange a temporary worker position.

But Han Feng said that although guaranteed job assignments were good, the domestic economy was booming now, the wind was changing, even if he didn’t become a worker, he would definitely succeed.

Yu Xue felt happy in her heart.

She just happened to hear Han Feng say that his parents wanted to meet his future daughter-in-law, so she took the green carriage with Han Feng without telling her parents.

But who knew that they didn’t buy seats together, and they encountered someone who took her seat.

They were the ones who took the seat, but they didn’t allow others to say anything?

Stinky profiteers!

Because she was angry, Yu Xue didn’t bother Xia Keqing.

In fact, she kept looking out the window, with a “don’t touch me” attitude.

Fortunately, Xia Keqing wasn’t the original owner, otherwise, she would have been so angry.

It was clearly her who was unreasonable and domineering, but she had become the victim, acting like she was above them and wouldn’t associate with them.

It just goes to show that there are all kinds of people in the world!

Yu Xue ignored her, and she ignored her, they were at peace.

When it was time for lunch, Yu Hong came over, bringing two lunchboxes.

There were lunchboxes for sale on the train, and they didn’t require food coupons, so anyone with a little money would buy lunchboxes to eat on the train.

And it was said that they tasted very good.

Yu Hong had been doing business for many years, she was willing to spend this little money.

Besides, Xia Keqing brought people to patronize her business, it looked like she had given a lot to this girl, but in fact, at the end of the month, when she settled the accounts, Yu Hong was surprised to find that her turnover for this month had almost tripled.

This girl was her God of Wealth!

What was wrong with treating the God of Wealth to a lunchbox?

If Xia Keqing had a big appetite, Yu Hong would even be willing to treat her to two lunchboxes!

Xia Keqing didn’t stand on ceremony with Yu Hong, she directly took the lunchboxes.

She opened one, the white and plump rice was packed full, covered with a red sauce, topped with seven or eight pieces of red braised pork, golden potato shreds, and the most soul-stirring part was the few bright red cabbages.

This train left at around seven in the morning, it was now eleven thirty, and it had been running for over four hours.

Xia Keqing only had a fried dough stick and a bowl of soy milk in the morning, she didn’t feel hungry at first, but when she saw this lunchbox, she suddenly felt hungry.

It has to be said that although resources were scarce in this era, the things were good.

If this were the future, you would be dreaming if you wanted to eat such good food on a train or plane.

Pre-made dishes were the norm.

Yu Xue saw Xia Keqing looking at the lunchbox, she couldn’t help but sneer, “What a country bumpkin, never seen anything good!”

Xia Keqing: …

She really couldn’t stand this woman anymore.

Just when she was about to retort, her tall and handsome partner came over with two lunchboxes.

Yu Xue rolled her eyes, took the lunchbox her partner handed her, and glanced at Xia Keqing with her peripheral vision, her eyes seemed to be saying, “Look at this, this is what it means to be sophisticated, this is what it means to be elegant!”

She took the lunchbox and opened it, she immediately questioned loudly, “Why is there no braised pork?”

“Didn’t we agree to buy braised pork?”

Xia Keqing and Yu Hong, who was standing aside, looked over unconsciously.

They saw that Yu Xue’s lunchbox was dry-fried string beans, with only a few pieces of meat.

Yu Hong’s gaze towards the young man became more scrutinizing.

The lunchboxes on the train were all pre-made, with meat and vegetables, you could choose your own. It was obvious that the young man was lying. Granted, he might have run out of braised pork when he went to buy it, but there were still braised pork with preserved vegetables, braised lion’s head, and other meat dishes.

Although lunchboxes on the train didn’t require food coupons, and they were large and filling, it wasn’t impossible that there was no meat at all, and they could only buy meat-stuffed string beans, which were half meat and half vegetables.

But because she didn’t like Yu Xue, Yu Hong didn’t say anything.

Xia Keqing didn’t think much of it.

Mainly, although she transmigrated, she wasn’t the original owner, she wasn’t used to many things in this era.

But that didn’t stop her from frowning slightly.

Mainly, the woman’s questioning voice was too sharp, Xia Keqing was sitting next to her, her eardrums were hurting.

But Xia Keqing didn’t expect that she hadn’t even started arguing.

Yu Xue actually turned to look at her, her tone was righteous, “Hey, I’ll swap my lunchbox with yours.”