On the second day of junior high, Jiang Jianjun dragged a large suitcase, and Jiang Liu and Jiang Shengnan each carried a backpack on the road.
The nearest train station to my home is in the city. Fortunately, there are many bus lines now. After only two trains, the three arrived at their destination.
There is no such thing as online ticket purchase. All tickets must be purchased at the designated ticket office. The railway station these days is very simple. The so-called ticket office is a shed next to the railway station. The ticket booth was crowded with people buying tickets.
The New Year's Eve is the most densely crowded place in a train station and a long-distance bus station. Many people are rushing home, and many people have passed the New Year and are going to work. Jiang Jianjun specially brought his son and daughter to arrive half a day early. , but I still haven't bought the train ticket for the time period I want to buy, so I can only wait for the train in the middle of the night.
"Brother, my wife and children are still waiting for me to come home, but my wallet was stolen just now, and I'm still two dollars short of how to get it together. Can you lend me two dollars?"
Jiang Jianjun was about to take his children out of the crowd when he was stopped by a panicked man.
He looked quite old for his age, wearing a thick padded jacket and a Lei Feng hat, with dark skin and a face full of vicissitudes, he seemed quite abject.
At this time, he had a handful of change in his hand, which seemed to add up to about fourteen or five dollars. If it was a long-distance train, this amount of money was indeed not enough to buy a ticket.
"I don't have any change with me."
Jiang Jianjun tightened the two children, smiled at the man, and then squeezed out of the crowd.
"I have change here, I'll give it to you."
There are so many enthusiastic people these days, a little girl wearing a red beret who stands out in the crowd took out a five-dollar piece of money from her wallet without thinking: "Uncle, you can buy some of the remaining money. Bun, don't go hungry on the road."
Jiang Jianjun looked at the little girl's actions, smiled, and said nothing.
"thanks!"
The man with the Lei Feng hat said a vague thank you, and then quickly rushed into the crowd. The young girl who had just helped someone just thought he was in a hurry to buy a ticket and didn't care.
Jiang Liu, who was watching this out, realized that this kind of deception already existed all these years.
Jiang Jianjun and his two children squeezed out of the crowded ticket shed, not too far away, so he found a fairly empty place beside the shed, and untied the mattress he was carrying at the beginning and spread it on the ground.
"We have to wait here until midnight, let's get together and lie down for a while."
Jiang Jianjun untied the thick rope that tied the quilt, and let the two children hurriedly get into the quilt. In the waiting plaza, there were many passengers who acted like Jiang Jianjun. At a glance, almost all of them were spread out beds.
They set out from home early in the morning. They had breakfast at that time, but it was more than two hours after the bus to the city railway station. The food they had eaten before had already been digested. Jiang Jianjun looked around. , I saw a few small stalls placed next to the ticket booth, steaming hot smoke, the aroma of the food kept digging into the nose.
"If you want to eat something, it is estimated that there are tea eggs and steamed buns."
Jiang Jianjun didn't want to starve his precious son, so he glanced at what the small vendor was selling and asked the two children.
"Two tea eggs and one meat bun."
"Just like my brother."
The two children were not too picky about the food they ate. Soon, Jiang Jianjun bought a bunch of food and came back.
"I see there are soy milk shops there. It's hot. If it's too hot, you can use it to warm your hands first."
Jiang Jianjun took out a few bags of soy milk and handed them to the two children. Seeing the solemn expression of the third daughter Jiang Shengnan, Jiang Jianjun couldn't help laughing: "Why, do you still remember what happened just now? Do you think Dad is rich? Why don't you give that old uncle two dollars?"
How could the little girl's mind be hidden from an old fox like Jiang Jianjun, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to teach the two children a lesson.
"Not at all."
Jiang Shengnan shook her head, although when she was sensible, the family's economic conditions were already very good, but she really didn't have any extra love to dedicate to others. The money is earned by my father. Several cousins in the family are still living a hard life. She has money to help outsiders, and she is more willing to help her relatives.
She was just very strange, as if Dad looked down on that person. She didn't know if her feelings were wrong, so she had the solemn expression before.
"Little treasure, how about you?"
Jiang Jianjun looked at his son who was heartless eating tea eggs, and wanted to see his son's performance with great interest.
"If I'm not mistaken, it should be a liar."
Jiang Liu ate the egg yolk of the tea egg. The tea egg had been boiled for too long, and the egg yolk was very dry. In order to swallow the egg yolk smoothly, Jiang Liu took a mouthful of soy milk to smooth his mouth, but the soy milk was too hot. He bared his teeth and grinned, constantly breathing in to dissipate heat.
"How did you get it?"
Jiang Jianjun was shocked now. He didn't expect his son to see at a glance that the other party was a liar, and even he had a long memory after suffering a loss.
When Jiang Jianjun just came out to eat, he just earned his first money, and he became enthusiastic when he had some money in his arms. When he was buying a ticket at the train station, he was stopped by a middle-aged woman. The men are almost the same. Jiang Jianjun is also a man who is eager to go home to see the child. He can understand the feeling that he can't afford a ticket with some money. He gave him two yuan without thinking about it at the time.
In the early 1980s, two dollars could buy a lot of things!
At the beginning, Jiang Jianjun felt that he had done a good deed. Who knew that a few hours later, when Jiang Jianjun would be able to get on the train immediately, the woman begged for money from a person not far from Jiang Jianjun, and the words on his lips were still the same.
At that time, Jiang Jianjun knew that he had been deceived.
Later, after a long time in this way, Jiang Jianjun also knew how these people made money.
Don't look at the other party who asks for one or two yuan each time. When there is a lot of traffic at the train station, you can ask for 40 to 50 yuan a day. Now the workers' wages are constantly increasing, but they are only one or two hundred yuan a month. The other party only needs to hang out at the train station, and if they are thick-skinned enough, they can earn more than ten times their wages, which can be said to be a huge profit.
However, Jiang Jianjun is wary of these people because he has been deceived. It was the first time his son went away, how did he see that the other party was a liar? Jiang Jianjun was very curious.
"It's very simple. Before, he had fourteen or five dollars in his hand, but he said that he was still two dollars short of getting a train ticket, which means that the place he was going to was very far away, but since he was going home a long way. , how can you be alone, without salute."
Jiang Liu pointed to the mattress they were sleeping on, the quilt they were covering, and the large and small bags of luggage held by the father and son. They weren't returning home, they were just going out to play.
He pointed to the other passengers in the train station square. Almost all of them had large and small bags beside them, and looked at the people around them vigilantly, for fear that things would be stolen.
"Perhaps he was stolen?"
Jiang Shengnan asked, didn't that person just say that his wallet was stolen? Maybe his wallet and luggage were put together, so he didn't have a suitcase on his back.
"That's even weirder."
Jiang Liu asked back: "Third sister, what would you do if you went out to work or visit relatives and lost your salute and your wallet was stolen by a thief?"
"Report to the police, get your things back."
Jiang Shengnan replied without hesitation, as soon as the words came out, she knew where the problem was with that person.
Seeing that the other party's clothes are not rich, and even in order to create a sympathetic atmosphere of poverty, the other party's clothes can be described as abject, so the first reaction of an ordinary person who lost his luggage and wallet at the train station was not to hurry up The nearby public security station called the police to retrieve the lost things, but instead borrowed money from pedestrians to prepare to go home. Such an attitude is too abnormal.
"Little treasure, why are you so clever?"
Jiang Jianjun loves his clever boy to death. With this ability to react and observe, he will be very good in the future as a police officer. At that time, his father may be caught by speculation, and his son will be able to help Laozi to talk about love.
Jiang Shengnan had nothing to say when he heard his brother's analysis. She was still an older sister, but she was not as careful and intelligent as her younger brother. Jiang Shengnan vowed silently in her heart that she must study harder and not let her younger brother compare.
*****
On the other side, the old lady sighed at the parents, thinking that she won't see her precious grandson for a few days, and she suddenly panicked with thoughts, so she could only find something to do to divert her attention.
"Mom, isn't Wu Niu a little weird?"
Yao Huilan had nothing to do to coax the twins. Seeing Jiang Liunan, who had not cried for many days, she asked curiously to the old lady beside her.
Although it was annoying for the other party to cry all day before, as a baby, it was strange not to cry or make trouble. In comparison, Si Niu was much more normal.
Jiang Liunan, who was contemplating the changes in this world, felt a tightness in his heart, and realized that he seemed to be too frightened, but he never cried again because he was afraid of being driven to his uncle's house. This was obviously different from a normal child.
"Whoa-"
In panic, Jiang Liunan cried.
But when he cried, it was even more strange.
"It's okay, some kids are like that."
Pan Xiuluo stared at her little granddaughter for a long time, and Jiang Liunan felt a little hairy when she saw it, but in the end she still had a good word for Jiang Liunan.
Yao Huilan didn't think much about it. This is the child of her uncle's family. If there is any problem, it has nothing to do with her.
She didn't think in a mysterious direction at all, but Pan Xiuluo thought about it. After all, she felt that this little granddaughter was a little evil before.
But now that the other party was crying, Pan Xiuluo was not very worried.
So stupid, even if it is dirty, it is stupid dirty.