Rebirth 78: Hunting for Treasure in the Mountains, Spoiling My Wife and Daughter to the Heavens

In late October in Northeast China, it was already very cold, and it would snow in a few days.

But it gets hotter the further south you go.

The father and son lay on the comfortable bed in the sleeper car and laid out all the food.

In the days before mobile phones and other electronic devices.

The only way to relieve boredom was to keep eating.

There weren't many people in the sleeper berths, since most of them got off along the way.

Even if you're going to Shanghai, you can basically save over fifty yuan by buying a thirty-six yuan hard seat ticket.

What can someone in their fifties do?

In rural areas, even poorer families can afford to get a wife.

The door to the soft sleeper berth remained open.

The ticket seller checked the tickets before closing the door.

But not long after, there was a knock on the door.

"Jiacheng, go open the door. Buy whatever you want to eat."

Lu Weiguo thought it was the pushcart that shouted, "Peanuts, melon seeds, roasted fish slices, cigarettes, drinks, eight-treasure porridge."

So I didn't pay much attention to it.

After all, when they asked the ticket seller, they found out that the upper berths in their soft sleeper compartment hadn't been sold.

The two of them, in their lower bunks, essentially had the entire soft sleeper berth to themselves.

"Dad! I want to drink orange soda."

But as soon as Lu Jiacheng opened the door, the "auntie" at the door rushed in.

"Oh! I've finally found you! Call me 'sister'! Who are you calling 'auntie'?!"

Pfft!

Upon seeing that person, Lu Weiguo spat out a mouthful of tea directly onto him.

What the hell?

Everyone says women hold grudges, but I've never seen one this vengeful.

Lu Jiacheng only called her "Auntie," how did he manage to find his way here?

Lu Jiacheng was also stunned for a moment, but he still pointed at the woman's hair and said, "My grandma said that women with hair like this are all aunties."

My sister won't have curly hair; older people tend to dress up more.

"puff!"

Then came the woman's violent coughing.

First, he was sprayed with tea leaves by his father, and then he was verbally attacked by his son.

The woman quickly took off her denim jacket and waved it in the hallway.

Pointing to her hair, she said, "This is the most fashionable hairstyle! Do you country bumpkins even know what it is?! Ugh, I'm so angry! Call me 'sister,' or I'll spank you."

"Dad said that boys and girls are equal; if you spank me, I'll spank you too!"

Lu Weiguo exclaimed "Ah!"

The woman glared at Lu Weiguo and spat fiercely, "You scoundrel! You've given birth to a little scoundrel!!"

"Auntie, I'm not a hooligan."

Lu Jiacheng's eyes widened, and he patted his chest.

Lu Weiguo pricked up his ears, waiting...

What's going on? You're explaining that you're not a hooligan, but what about your dad?

Is he your father?

However, soon, there was such a lovely child as Lu Jiacheng.

The misunderstanding was cleared up in no time.

The woman was very open and generous, and soon she was holding onto Lu Jiacheng tightly.

The two of them, calling each other "cute little brother" and "pretty big sister," started playfully bickering on the sleeper berth.

"No... how did you get in? The ticket check..."

Lu Weiguo looked helpless as he saw the woman lingering there.

This isn't him, so what's your purpose? Don't hire someone who's just taking care of a child.

"Why do you care so much, you old scoundrel? How could you have such a cute child?"

That's what I meant.

Lu Weiguo choked on the meat sandwich in the steamed bun and kept drinking water.

He didn't say more than three sentences from the moment the woman entered the room.

How did he become an old rogue?

"This is the famous steamed bun with meat in that county, right? Do you have any more? Give me one. I'm exhausted from trying to catch the train."

The woman reached out and asked for it.

"Aren't you afraid I'll poison it in here?"

"Pah, you old scoundrel, watch your mouth when you talk in front of the kids."

Lu Jiacheng sat to the side, grinning foolishly, and took out a steamed bun with meat from his dark green shoulder bag with a red star on it.

Lu Weiguo glanced at it and seemed to understand something.

There was nothing unusual about the things he brought.

After all, they were just old burlap sacks from home.

But the things Zhao Kaishan gave him, and the bag he gave Lu Jiacheng, were all government-issued items.

Including that dark green shoulder bag, besides the five-pointed star, there are also the words "Danjiang County Government" embroidered in red thread below.

This woman either has ulterior motives, or...

There are no more.

It means their motives are impure.

The train headed south, as if it were chasing after time.

Moving parallel to time makes everyone on the journey feel that time is passing exceptionally slowly.

There was a strange woman in the private room, eating and drinking for free, and I didn't even know her name.

Lu Weiguo didn't dare to sleep either, and could only stare at the newspaper he had asked the ticket seller for.

He kept glancing at the woman out of the corner of his eye.

It was six o'clock in the evening, and it was still not dark outside.

The food cart finally arrived, and a boxed meal costs five yuan.

A bottle of orange soda costs one dollar and fifty cents.

This orange soda only costs three cents outside.

When Lu Jiacheng heard the price, he felt a little reluctant to part with it.

"Buy it! I'll buy it for you." The woman bought two bottles, but had no intention of giving any to Lu Weiguo.

But to outsiders, the sibling relationship was definitely confirmed!

"Three yuan, how about a boxed lunch?"

The ticket seller smiled as she opened the lunchbox and remarked that the siblings had a great relationship, and that being an older sister was just like that.

"We don't need the boxed lunches, we'll bring our own food," the woman said first.

Lu Weiguo frowned, still feeling something was off.

He wanted to get rid of the woman, but then he saw how well she was getting along with Lu Jiacheng.

I'm also a little reluctant to part with it.

I just wanted to see more.

Please, please don't let anything happen at this time.

Especially human traffickers and the like.

Just as Lu Weiguo was thinking of this.

Lu Jiacheng stared wide-eyed and asked earnestly, "Sister, are you a human trafficker?"

Pfft!

Lu Weiguo almost spat out the tea he had just drunk.

This is insane.

Is it really appropriate to ask such a direct question?

"My sister is not a human trafficker; my sister hates human traffickers the most."

The woman wasn't angry and replied seriously.

Lu Weiguo looked at the two people and was utterly shocked.

One dared to ask, the other dared to speak, and then they actually believed it.

This is a complete stranger.

You remember, Dad said that men and women are different, but men and women are equal.

Do you remember what your mother said: the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is?

We played for a long time.

The train stopped at Changchun Station.

This is a large platform; we'll be stopping for quite a while.

Lu Weiguo wanted to go out for a smoke, but the woman showed no intention of getting up.

Instead, he kept glancing outside out of the corner of his eye.

This guy is clearly looking for accomplices!

Seeing this, Lu Weiguo dared not leave any further and could only smack his lips around tea leaves to satisfy his craving.

really!

A short while later, four men in their thirties, dressed in trendy Dacron floral shirts with denim jackets over them and wearing sunglasses, got into the car.

Wearing sunglasses in the dead of night is either an idiot or a bad guy.

The four people's soft sleeper berths happened to be the rooms next to Lu Weiguo's.

Women's attention is usually focused on external things.

But when the man passed by, he suddenly started playfully fighting with Lu Jiacheng.

They looked just like real siblings!