It is actually quite difficult to prove the parent-child relationship in this era, because there is no document such as birth certificate, and traveling depends entirely on a letter of introduction.
But this man is not the child's direct relative, and the child is too young. Not only can he not speak, but he is also very picky about people, so it is even more difficult to prove the relationship.
Moreover, looking around the entire train station, I have never seen a man taking a baby of several months old on a long-distance train, so it is normal for the ticket inspector to be cautious.
No wonder the man was sweating in a hurry and kept muttering that he would miss the train if he didn’t check his ticket!
In fact, the warmth comes from seeing the child crying so hard, his whole face turns from red to blue, and he cries so heartbreakingly.
She clearly remembered that when she first came here, she had seen her child crying like this because she didn't want to breastfeed.
If the child keeps crying, he might faint.
Wen Nuan watched Gu Qinghan walking towards them, and the worry in her heart slowly subsided. She had a feeling that Gu Qinghan could definitely help the man solve the problem.
Gu Qinghan walked up to the ticket inspector and the military comrades, then took out an ID from his military uniform pocket and showed it to them.
Gu Qinghan's voice was deep, his tall figure was a little taller than them, and his upright military uniform gave off a strong sense of oppression: "Comrades, I am Gu Qinghan, the deputy flight captain of the 76th Regiment of the 34th Air Division. Is there anything I can help you with?"
The moment Gu Qinghan showed his ID, everyone was stunned, especially the man holding the child.
The man grabbed Gu Qinghan's arm, a hint of joy appeared on his face, and asked: "Are you in the Air Force?"
After asking, he took a special look at Gu Qinghan's ID. When he saw the familiar badge, his brows finally relaxed.
He immediately said: "Comrade Soldier, I can prove to you that the child's parents work, but..."
"But, I can only tell you!" He said the latter sentence close to Gu Qinghan's ear in a very low voice.
Gu Qinghan frowned, then looked at the ticket inspector and the military comrades stationed at the station and asked, "Comrades, are you sure you can leave this matter to me?"
The ticket inspector and the station soldier stood up straight and nodded in unison: "Of course, of course."
Gu Qinghan glanced at the man holding the child, then motioned him to go to the small room nearby.
The child was still crying. Gu Qinghan looked at the child and said, "Let me make it short."
The man patted the child on the back and paced for a few steps before lowering his voice and saying, "Comrade soldier, my name is Liu Mingfei, and I am the child's second uncle. The child's parents are aviation researchers at the 634th Institute. The reason why we can't tell the ticket inspectors outside is because their work is confidential and I can't expose it. You are in the Air Force, so I'm sure you know that place."
Gu Qinghan's frown slowly relaxed, and then he nodded, "I know."
The research institute is indeed still kept secret. Now is the starting period of our country's aviation industry, and many researchers are hiding their identities and staying deep in the mountains and forests to concentrate on their research.
Liu Mingfei was afraid that Gu Qinghan would not believe him, so he opened a bag of diapers hanging on his body and let him check it. "Look, I have some supplies for the child here, diapers, small clothes, all with his name, all embroidered by the child's grandmother. His name is Liu Huaqing. I am really not a kidnapper, and I have a letter of introduction, but I don't go back home often, and the child has never seen me, so he kept crying. Moreover, I am a grown man, and I have never taken care of a child, so I am really clumsy. I can't comfort the child when he cries, so the ticket inspector misunderstood me."
"Oh, I still have the special supply ticket from the base. I used it to buy a can of malted milk. But it's at the ticket gate outside. You can check it later."
Gu Qinghan nodded, and then remembered what Wen Nuan had just said to him, which was basically the same as what Liu Mingfei had said.
Moreover, Institute 634 does have an aviation power expert named Liu.
However, to be on the safe side, Gu Qinghan still carefully checked the child's clothes and the household registration book, and the name did match.
Finally, he led Liu Mingfei and the child back to the ticket gate and checked the bottle of malted milk and the receipt in front of everyone. It was indeed a special supply.
After checking, Gu Qinghan confirmed that the child's identity matched what Liu Mingfei said, and said to the ticket inspector: "This comrade is definitely not a human trafficker."
The ticket inspector said with relief: "That's good. Human traffickers are the most hateful. They have broken up countless families!"
Then he looked at Liu Mingfei and apologized, "Comrade, I hope you don't mind. We were just being rude to you out of caution."
Liu Mingfei nodded, his expression no longer as solemn as before, "I understand. It is because of the caution of the two revolutionary comrades that the criminals did not have any chance to take advantage of us. Thank you for your hard work, comrades."
Then Liu Mingfei saluted Gu Qinghan even though he was holding the child: "Thank you for your help, Comrade Gu."
*
After resolving Liu Mingfei's issue, Gu Qinghan did not linger any longer and planned to check his ticket and get on the train early.
But Wen Nuan kept looking at Liu Mingfei and the child, with a look of pity in her eyes.
He picked up several large bags of luggage again and patiently explained, "Our train will leave in twenty minutes. If we delay any longer, we may not have enough time."
Wen Nuan nodded, knowing that she could do nothing to help, but she just couldn't bear to see the child crying so miserably.
"Well, let's get in the car first."
She held the child in her arms and followed Gu Qinghan onto the train. They then passed through one carriage after another, as if they were swimming in a sardine storm. Finally, they stopped at a sleeper carriage.
Although the little guy was in my arms, he cried for a while as he followed the crowds of people. He only stopped when we got to the sleeper car. At this moment, his eyes were wet and he was curious about everything around him, looking around.
"Put the child down first, ours is the lower bunk."
After hearing what Gu Qinghan said, Wen Nuan couldn't help but ask, "How come you can still buy a sleeper ticket when the time is so urgent?"
Wen Nuan thought that since she had to join the army so suddenly, she could only buy a hard seat ticket. If there were many people, standing tickets were not impossible. Who would have thought that she could actually buy a sleeper berth, a four-person room at that.
Gu Qinghan didn't intend to hide it, so he said, "The organization is taking care of our young child, so we specially applied for a berth." After that, he took the child from Wen Nuan's arms, then put the little one on the bottom of the berth and let her sit.
"But there's only one."
"Oh." Wen Nuan pursed her lips and smiled faintly: "It doesn't matter. We have to take care of the luggage and the children anyway. We can just take turns sleeping when the time comes."
Wen Nuan had been carrying the baby all the way and her back and waist were already sore. She didn't care what Gu Qinghan thought and just fell down on the berth and lay next to the little guy.
The little guy saw Wen Nuan lying down, and then reached out and grabbed her hair, making her hiss in pain.
Seeing her wrinkled face, Gu Qinghan quickly pried open the little girl's white and tender hands and scolded, "You can't pull her hair like that!"
However, the little girl followed Gu Qinghan all the way and was no longer afraid of him. When Gu Qinghan didn't let her pull Wen Nuan's hair, she grabbed Gu Qinghan's chin with her hand.
But I don’t know if it was because of the stubble that pricked his hands, but the little guy didn’t want to scratch it anymore after scratching it twice, and instead grabbed the bunk sheets.
Wen Nuan simply sat up and patiently reasoned with her, telling her not to "destroy public property."
While listening to Wen Nuan talking to the child, Gu Qinghan took out a small blanket from a military green luggage bag and put it on the berth: "If you're cold, you can cover yourself with it."
Wen Nuan was sweating from carrying the child all the way, but when she took the blanket from Gu Qinghan, she smiled and said, "You are so thoughtful."
Then Wen Nuan asked, "Are you tired? Do you want to sit down and rest for a while?"
Although Gu Qinghan was tall and muscular, Wen Nuan felt that he was tired just by walking all the way with the luggage on his back.
Unfortunately, his expression did not change at all, and his breathing was steady and gentle.
Before Gu Qinghan could respond, a familiar sound of a baby crying was heard in the carriage. Liu Mingfei, whom he had just seen at the ticket gate, was seen holding a crying child in one hand and carrying a few bags of luggage in the other. He was looking out of breath at the door of the sleeper car.
When Liu Mingfei saw Gu Qinghan, his tense face relaxed: "Comrade Gu, what a coincidence, I meet you again."
Then he added: "Thank you so much for what you did just now, otherwise I might not have caught this train."
Gu Qinghan actually didn't expect such a coincidence to happen. He looked a little unnatural and said, "You're welcome. Actually, my wife was very observant and reminded me."
If it weren't for the warm reminder, he might not have cared about it.
After all, this was beyond his authority.
Only then did Liu Mingfei notice that there were two people, one big and one small, sitting on the sleeper berth in the carriage. The big one was bright and pretty, while the small one was cute and well-behaved.
He nodded to Wen Nuan: "Hello comrade, thank you for your help."
Wen Nuan noticed that the child in his arms was still crying, and without bothering to say anything polite, she said, "Comrade, the child must be hungry, and it's time to change the diaper... Why don't you make some milk powder for the child first?"
She just noticed that the diaper inside the child's crotchless pants was already in a mess and was not wrapped properly at all.
Liu Mingfei put the child down on the berth, then rummaged through the bags and finally found a bottle.
Then he pulled out another diaper, but didn't know how to start.
Wen Nuan walked up to him and said, "Comrade, if you trust me, why don't I help him change it?"
Liu Mingfei handed the diaper to Wen Nuan as if he had thrown away a hot potato, and said, "Xin Xin Xin, thank you for your help."
Then he said, "Then I'll get some hot water and prescribe some formula for him."
Wen Nuan turned around and looked at him, smiling: "This is not good, you have to stay here and look after the child."
Anyway, if it were her, she would never let such a young child out of her sight.
Then she turned to Gu Qinghan and said, "Qinghan, go get some hot water for this comrade."
For some reason, Gu Qinghan felt that when Wen Nuan called his name, it sounded particularly nice.
This has never happened before.
His ears turned red, and he immediately took the kettle from Liu Mingfei, "I'll do it."
Liu Mingfei was deeply moved by them, and said with tears in his eyes: "I really met good people today. How can I repay you?"
Wen Nuan bent down slightly, and in a short while she had re-wrapped the child's diaper. She smiled and said, "Comrade, you are too kind. It's just a piece of cake."
The child's crying finally subsided a little, and Gu Qinghan quickly came back with hot water. The two grown men hurriedly started to make the milk powder.
However, when it was time to feed the child, the child started crying again, obviously not wanting Liu Mingfei to feed him.
In the end, it was Wen Nuan who took the initiative to offer help, and Liu Mingfei finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Maybe it was because Wen Nuan was still breastfeeding, and there was an aura on her body that made the child soothed. As soon as the child was in her hands, he stopped crying immediately, sucked the bottle happily, and finally fell asleep.
Wen Nuan carefully put the child on the bed. "Maybe he was tired from crying, so he fell asleep after drinking most of it."
Liu Mingfei looked at the little guy who had fallen asleep, and said to Wen Nuan gratefully, "Comrade Wen, I, Liu Mingfei, will remember your kindness today and will repay you one day."
Wen Nuan felt that the name Liu Mingfei sounded familiar, and the name of a future business tycoon in a book flashed through her mind, and it seemed that he was also called Liu Mingfei.
I don't know if it's just a coincidence that they have the same name.
Wen Nuan smiled and glanced at Gu Qinghan who was teasing her daughter. "My husband is a soldier. As a military wife, I will accompany him on the road of serving the people. I'm glad I can help you."
After he finished speaking, Gu Qinghan met the warm smiling face and his expression became a little unnatural, but he could not ignore the joy that was gradually rising in his heart.
*
As the train headed north, the temperature gradually dropped.
Although the journey was long, the children were very well-behaved along the way. Moreover, the two little ones had company. They fell asleep when they were tired of playing, and played together again when they woke up. They were very happy.
There happened to be two berths, so Wen Nuan squeezed into one with the two little kids, while Gu Qinghan and Liu Mingfei took turns sleeping and watching over the other.
The time was not that unbearable.
The green train stopped and started for two days, and finally arrived at the terminal at noon on the third day.
Beijing city.
Gu Qinghan had said before that they would get off in Jing City and then take the army’s special car to the air force base in Beicheng, so they would stay in Jing City for one night.
In the 1970s, people in the capital were looking forward to warmth. This city, which had survived hundreds of years of war but remained standing, carried the expectations of countless Chinese people.
She is like a giant dragon lying dormant between the years and the mountains and rivers, waiting to be awakened by spring.
Wen Nuan got off the train holding her child. Then a strong wind carrying snowflakes swept over. She hugged the little one tightly in her arms, shivering.
I didn’t expect that Beijing was so cold in the 1970s!
Feeling so warm at this moment, she wanted to take the quilt out of Gu Qinghan’s luggage bag and cover herself with it.
Gu Qinghan followed behind with his bags. When he felt a gust of cold wind, he subconsciously asked, "Are you cold?"
Wen Nuan gritted her teeth and shook her head: "It's not cold!"
Then Wen Nuan said bluntly: "But I'm hungry."
After eating dry pancakes and steamed bread for a few days, her mouth became bitter, and now she just wanted to eat something hot to warm her body!
Although the weather in the north is cold, the warm mood at the moment is completely different, and she has an expectation for a new life.