The tycoon's wicked wife from the era of literature has been reborn.

Chapter 76 Catching the Train

The night before Gao Qinghe was to leave, Gao Qingmiao rushed back.

Only a dozen or so of the dresses from this batch have been sold. The stock looks too small to display easily, so Gao Qingmiao is planning to go to the provincial capital to restock.

I'll also take my sister to the train station in the neighboring county.

It's quite dangerous for a lone woman to be on a train in the early morning.

Gao Chongyi patted his son on the shoulder with satisfaction, feeling for the first time that his son had grown up.

Gao Qingmiao puffed out her chest, her smug little expression amusing everyone.

But the young man who was happy just a second ago...

The next second, I learned that while I was away from home, my family had been serving lavish meals every day, and my smile instantly vanished.

"Oh, so you all eat and drink to your hearts' content when I'm not home, but as soon as I come back, you eat sweet potatoes and brown rice? Don't I belong to the Gao family? Am I not part of this family?"

Knowing he was about to yell, Gao Qinghe glanced at him sideways and slammed a large basin of braised offal onto the table.

"Second Young Master, how could we possibly treat you poorly? Please eat, this was specially saved for you."

Originally, if Gao Qingmiao hadn't come back, she planned to pack up and bring him into the city first thing tomorrow morning.

Grandma Tian also slapped the brat on the back in annoyance.

"You're the one who yelled the worst. When have I ever shown favoritism towards you three siblings?"

Gao Qingmiao looked at the full bowl of fragrant braised offal and couldn't help but smile.

But she still couldn't resist giving her grandmother a wronged look, "Aren't you biased towards my eldest sister?"

"When I want to eat braised offal at home, you complain that it's too much trouble to make, but when your older sister wants to eat it, you happily make it."

Seeing that he was acting innocent after getting the benefit, Old Lady Tian slapped him, "You can't even shut your mouth when you have food? Bao'er, don't save any for him next time."

Gao Qinghe just sat to the side and smiled, not daring to say that she had eaten three different flavors of ribs in one go.

Gao Qingmiao hurriedly called out again, "Say no! You should stay!"

"Oh, right, I'll pack another box separately and give one to your little sister when I pass through town tomorrow."

Huang Ying found the aluminum lunchbox and gave Gao Qingmiao some instructions.

Gao Qingmiao nodded with her mouth full, making "mmm" sounds to indicate that she understood.

The family chatted and laughed until 10 p.m. before going to their rooms to sleep.

Whenever the children in the family were going on a long trip, Grandma Tian would get up early to prepare delicious food for them to take with them on the road.

A long train journey of a day and a night, even in a soft sleeper, is still unbearable.

Therefore, one cannot be careless when it comes to food.

This is the only source of happiness.

Last time, Gao Qinghe said that fried meat patties don't keep well, so this time Grandma Tian made a whole box of crispy meat strips.

I got up early in the morning, heated the oil in the pan, rolled the meat strips that had been marinated overnight in cornstarch, and put them directly into the pan to fry.

Fry the skin until golden brown, drain the oil, sprinkle with homemade spicy powder, mix well, and then pack into an oil paper bag and seal.

You can eat whenever you want on the road.

Oh, right, there are still two cans of food that Jiang Baohai brought last time. Take them all.

I also made five or six rice balls, and then six boiled eggs.

After washing up, Gao Qinghe entered the main room and saw a large bag of food that her grandmother had packed. She smiled helplessly; it was truly a sweet burden.
After telling their grandmother to cook less in the future, the siblings finished their breakfast peacefully and then set off on their bicycles.

First, go to the town's middle school and hand over the braised offal to the gatekeeper to give to my younger sister.

Immediately afterwards, they went to the county town, put the bicycle back in the rented house, and took a bus to a neighboring county.

We arrived in Linxian County around 2 p.m.

To catch the early morning train, you have to stay overnight at a guesthouse, otherwise you won't be able to stay up.

However, at this time most people choose to sleep in the train station waiting hall, which saves them ten yuan in accommodation fees.

If Gao Qingmiao were alone, that's what he planned to do.

However, his sister clearly wouldn't agree. They found a guesthouse near the train station and Gao Qinghe immediately took a nap.

When they woke up, it was already afternoon, so the siblings went out together to find a place to eat.

Gao Qingmiao was going to purchase goods, and Gao Qinghe wrote him a list of goods.

If you see similar styles in the market, buy some and try them out.

Now that they know selling women's clothing is the most profitable business, Gao Qinghe's order list is full of clothing styles that are popular in later generations.

Accessories can be sold in bundles to avoid having a limited product range.

However, the most important thing to remind you is, "Pay attention to the goods at other stalls on the pedestrian street, and be sure to avoid overlap."

Gao Qingmiao: "What if someone follows our lead?"

"When you go to the provincial capital this time, talk to the boss you're working with and see if you can grant us exclusive authorization."

"If they follow suit and get the same goods, but the quality and style are not as good as ours, customers will definitely still choose us."

Gao Qingmiao nodded and carefully remembered it.

"Don't worry, sis, I can do it."

Gao Qinghe smiled faintly; she knew he could.

After dinner, the siblings took a walk in the riverside park in the county town to digest their food, and didn't return to the guesthouse to rest until 8 p.m.

Fearing she might oversleep, Gao Qinghe reminded the system to wake her up at the designated time.

At four in the morning, Gao Qinghe woke up her younger brother, who was sleeping like a log, and after a quick tidy-up, they rushed to the train station.

I thought there wouldn't be many passengers at this time.

Unexpectedly, there were so many people entering the station that everyone was pushing and shoving, trying to squeeze onto the train carriage as quickly as possible.

Gao Qingmiao led the way, getting trampled countless times, before finally managing to push her sister up.

After finding her seat in the carriage, Gao Qinghe learned from the busy conversations of the other passengers that...

This is a special train heading south to work.

With the help of the local government, large factories in the south came to recruit workers, transporting the remaining young and middle-aged laborers from this area to the south in batches.

There were as few as twenty or thirty people at times, and as many as two or three hundred at most.

Gao Qinghe clearly encountered the latter.

This is just the number of workers needed for one site; there are several more sites that need to hire more people.

Gao Qinghe remembers that in two years, after the first batch of people who went out returned, the young people of Shanghe Village who knew that the factory was profitable would also go to factories in the south one after another.

Gao Qingya is also about to become a member of the southward-bound army.

Thinking of this, Gao Qinghe felt a slight heart attack.

But that was the ending of a past life, not this one.

She didn't believe that with her intervention, her obedient younger sister would disobey her older sister and drop out of school.

As dawn broke, the noise on the train gradually subsided as it moved forward.

Many people who are rushing to catch a train in the early morning have not slept well all night. Once they get to their seats, they immediately start to catch up on sleep, and all you can hear is each other's snoring.

Gao Qinghe bought the lower bunk.

She placed a simple bag of luggage on the bed, spread out the bedding, and then turned to observe the other three passengers in the same carriage.

The person in the lower bunk opposite me was a middle-aged man wearing glasses, and his clothes made him look like a government official on a business trip.

The person on the upper bunk is still asleep, covered by a blanket so you can't see clearly. The shoes on the floor are a pair of women's red high heels.

Gao Qinghe's upper bunkmate was occupied by a young couple with their four- or five-year-old son who boarded the train together.

The child was probably riding a train for the first time, and was very excited, climbing back and forth between the upper and lower bunks.

He wanted to run out to other carriages to take a look, but his mother caught him and scolded him in a low voice, which calmed him down for the time being.

Gao Qinghe felt relatively safe with this setup, and she was lucky with the secret passage.

(End of this chapter)