It was early 1994, and we were busy welcoming the Spring Festival of 1994. The senior high school students went to class until the 26th of the twelfth lunar month and finally took a vacation, but they only had ten days of vacation. They had to go to class on the seventh day of the first lunar month.
This was probably the shortest winter vacation for Li Wei. In the few days, she hurried back to Yongning with her family, worshiped her ancestors, and then returned to the city. After celebrating the New Year in the city, I took a day off on the first day of the new year and made an appointment with Chen Yating and Hu Linlin to go out to the temple fair.
The three of them were seeking studies and each drew a lot in front of the Bodhisattva. Li Wei was lucky enough to draw a winning lot. Chen Yating and Hu Linlin were envious.
"It's almost certain now. Even the Bodhisattva is protecting you."
Li Wei held the lottery, not only remembering that she had received a good lottery before entering the palace, but that lottery still brought her bad luck.
"Dad, Mom. I have already discussed with my eldest brother and asked him to accompany me to take the art exams in Nanyin and Ningjiang. So I have to ask you for a period of leave."
Li Minghua said: "Do you really want to be on TV? Isn't it good for a girl to enroll in a normal major? You have to be down-to-earth as a person. It's useless to think so much."
After listening to his father's words, Li Wei was silent for a while and then said: "Dad, people still have to have dreams. How do you know it won't work if you haven't even tried it?"
Liu Chunzhi gently touched her husband's arm and said, "It's already here, why are you still trying to stop her? Our family didn't have the conditions to train her before, but now her life is better, and we have the money to do so. , Why not let her go? It’s a good thing if she doesn’t let her go and blame us later.”
Liu Chunzhi gave Li Jianping a thousand yuan. The money was their travel expenses, food and accommodation expenses along the way.
February 18th, the year is not over yet. Li Jianping took his sister and left his hometown to pursue Li Wei's dream. It took nearly four hours to take a long-distance bus to the provincial capital. After getting off the bus, we went straight to the train station in the provincial capital. The sleeper tickets had long been sold out and there were only hard seats. Fortunately, there was a train going there that evening.
Li Jianping and Li Wei were both visiting the provincial capital for the first time, let alone taking a train out of the province, but the two young men were not at all afraid. Li Wei held the ticket he had just checked in his hand and stood on the platform, looking at the rows of long beetle-like green leather carriages. It is said that these big guys can reach a speed of 80 to 110 kilometers per hour. If Daqi can have such a big guy, it won't be bullied and beaten by the surrounding people later.
When it was their turn to get on the bus, Li Jianping pushed Li Wei from behind.
After last time, Li Wei found the location according to the record on the ticket.
It was already after nine o'clock in the evening, and the night was dark, but the street lights at the station illuminated the night as if it were day. Li Wei's seat was right next to the window, and there was a middle-aged couple sitting opposite, not knowing where they were going.
"You have to sit in the car for a long time. There are no sleeper tickets anymore. Just bear with it."
Li Wei said: "It's okay."
More than twenty minutes later, the train slowly began to move forward. The train was wider and moved much more smoothly than the car. Li Wei did not feel uncomfortable at all.
In the second half of the night, Li Wei was very sleepy. Unfortunately, he had no place to sleep, so he had to lie on the table. Late at night, the car ran a little faster and made a "bump" sound.
Spending two nights in the car is a hassle for them. After finally surviving the night, early the next morning, the car stopped at a station.
Li Jianping went to get boiling water and took out the boiled eggs for Li Wei to eat. Li Wei ate an egg and drank half a cup of hot water. Her legs and feet were a little numb after sitting there all night. She walked back and forth in the carriage twice.
There were people playing poker in the car, some selling small commodities, and some buying drinks and instant noodles back and forth. Li Wei gave up the seat by the window to her brother and let her brother rest for a while. At this time, she took out a book and read it seriously. The middle-aged woman opposite asked: "Where are you going, little sister?"
Before going out, Liu Chunzhi warned them repeatedly to pay attention to their safety and not to talk to strangers casually, and not to eat food handed to them by strangers. Li slightly raised his head and said with a calm face: "Go out for a walk and take a look."
"Oh, I thought you were going out to work."
Li Wei read the book and paid little attention to the questions and answers from the middle-aged woman opposite.
In the afternoon, a conductor came to check the ticket and ID card. Li Wei quickly woke up her elder brother, and seven or eight conductors in uniforms came. Behind them were two men whose uniforms were obviously different from those of the train conductors.
Li Wei handed over his ticket and ID card, and the conductor only looked at them twice before returning them to Li Wei.
Li Jianping also took out his ID card, but the conductor took Li Jianping's ID card and looked at it back and forth, and then showed the ID card to his colleagues on the side.
"Where are you going and what are you doing?" The tall conductor had a straight face and a lecturing tone.
Li Jianping was a little puzzled and hurriedly stood up and said, "I'm going to take the exam with my sister, what's going on?"
Li Wei also felt that something was wrong with the situation and said quickly: "He is my eldest brother. Let's go to Lincheng to take the exam." As he said this, Li Wei turned out his exam certificate and showed it to the conductor.
The conductor looked back and forth between the brother and sister several times, and finally returned the ID cards to Li Jianping. After walking to other seats, the brother and sister breathed a sigh of relief.
The middle-aged man opposite said in a low voice: "I heard that a fugitive got into our car. Such a large formation must be to catch that person."
Li Jianping was very puzzled: "Do I just have the face of a fugitive?"
Li Wei comforted him: "Okay, big brother, it's okay."
At this moment, a shout came from the car in front: "Someone is going to jump out of the car!"
The checking conductors rushed to the car one after another, and the passengers were also very curious and wanted to watch. Li Wei sat without moving, but stretched her neck. She wanted to see how the fugitive looked like her elder brother.
Five or six minutes later, two tall armed policemen captured a young man wearing a dark blue jacket. The man lowered his head, and Li Wei couldn't see clearly what he looked like. She turned her head and took a look. She was wearing the same clothes as her elder brother, had the same hairstyle, and was probably about the same height. No wonder he was suspected.
She saw the gun in the armed policeman's hand and shuddered uncontrollably.
She didn't know about this thing before, but after watching some police movies, she realized how powerful it was.
As for the fugitive, there were more rumors in the car. Some said that the man escaped from prison, but unfortunately he was captured as soon as he got on the train. Some people said that the fugitive had a human life on him. Everyone was constantly speculating about this.
Murder is illegal, this principle has never changed. This episode on the train brought a lot of emotion to Li Wei. What should she do if she and Zhao Qian face each other in the future? Can she kill Zhao Qian? Can this revenge be avenged? The gun in the hands of the armed police appeared in her mind, and she felt a little afraid for no reason.
(End of this chapter)