Zhou Yu kept staring at the end of the aisle, hoping to see that familiar figure, but fifteen minutes passed and the figure didn’t appear. Half an hour passed, and the figure still didn’t appear. An hour passed, and still, that figure didn’t appear.
“Could it be that when the train stopped at the station, he got off and returned to his seat from the platform?” Zhou Yu muttered to himself.
“Since you want to be a good person, then go find him!” Li Fei said deliberately loudly, clearly still angry at Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu shook his head and said, “Don’t be like that, Li Fei. I have a hunch that this windfall might bring us disaster. We have to think of a way to get rid of it!”
Li Fei sneered and said, “You’re saying scary things again! If you’re so afraid it will bring you disaster, then hand it over to the train police and earn a good reputation for returning lost property.”
As soon as Li Fei finished speaking, a tall train police officer walked over from the connection between the carriages.
Zhou Yu stood up, preparing to tell the train police about the large amount of cash hidden in the box under the seat.
Li Fei angrily pulled him back into his seat, and said in a low and stern voice, “Are you really planning to hand the box over to the police? Please think about my sister who is suffering from illness, I beg you!”
Zhou Yu’s heart felt like it had been struck by something. He knew very well about Li Fei’s sister’s condition. She was a little girl with an angel’s face who was only fourteen years old. She suffered from severe spinal deformity, with a deformity exceeding 150 degrees. Because of her own physical defects, she rarely spoke to people, and her eyes often contained melancholy, showing that she was very inferior.
Deep down, she must yearn to be able to “hold her head high” like a normal person, but this requires a considerable treatment cost. Her parents are not capable of earning money to treat her, and this unexpected windfall has given Li Fei great hope. It is understandable that he wants to use it to help his sister get treatment.
Although Zhou Yu still had concerns, he couldn’t ignore the feelings of his fellow villager, and said, “Okay then, I won’t hand the property over to the police.”
“If my sister knew I was doing this for her, she would definitely be grateful to tears.” Obviously, Li Fei was intentionally saying this, for fear that he would have the idea of handing the property over to the police again, so he tried to put a moral “spell” on his mind.
Zhou Yu certainly understood Li Fei’s little thoughts.
Zhou Yu had always been suspicious of the words and deeds of the woman who was suspected of swapping his suitcase. He tried to see the truth through the fog – he believed that if the woman had really swapped his suitcase, then the suitcase should be placed under the luggage rack below the woman’s seat, or on top of her seat. As long as he saw his suitcase in that place, it would prove that he was lying with a guilty conscience.
“Where are you going?” Li Fei saw Zhou Yu leaving his seat and walking into the aisle, and couldn’t help but get nervous.
“Going to the toilet.” Zhou Yu decided not to tell him what he was going to do.
Zhou Yu was walking in the opposite direction from where the man came. Along the way, he looked at people very carefully, not missing anyone in each seat, and looked at the items on the luggage rack very carefully. In addition, he did not miss searching under the seats.
After passing through two carriages, he went to the connection between the carriages. A hot smell of pig iron rushed to his nose, and the clanging sound of the wheels rubbing against the rails kept ringing in his ears.
He intentionally swept his eyes across the neatly placed items on the luggage rack. Suddenly, a black suitcase came into view, and he couldn’t help but feel excited. He immediately walked towards that suitcase.
He felt that suitcase was his suitcase!
There was more than one black suitcase on the luggage rack in this carriage. Why did he feel that suitcase was his suitcase?
Originally, in addition to the suitcase itself being extremely similar to his swapped suitcase, there was also the imitation copper carved Yuma padlock that locked the suitcase. This lock was exquisite and unique, and he had specially purchased it on Taobao. He believed that it was unlikely that a second person would use this kind of lock on this train, and also use it on a suitcase of the same color and style as his.
He suddenly slowed down and then stopped walking, because he saw that familiar face. At this time, the person was sitting in the seat below the suitcase, holding a book and reading. He didn’t know what to do for a moment.
Seeing his suitcase, Zhou Yu was very dissatisfied with the woman. It was clear that the other party had swapped his suitcase, but the other party flatly denied it. This extremely abnormal behavior made him even more convinced that the origin of the money was very suspicious.
Hmph, I’ll go question that guy right away and see what else he has to say! Zhou Yu thought to himself.
After taking just two steps, Zhou Yu suddenly remembered Li Fei’s almost pleading words to him, wanting to take the money to treat his sister’s illness, so he stopped and thought whether he should go over or not.
At this time, three uniformed train police officers walked over from one end of the carriage in a majestic manner.
The train police stopped Zhou Yu and asked him to show his ID card with a serious face. Zhou Yu thought to himself, could there be illegal elements on the train? He took out his wallet, took out his ID card from it, and the train police carefully checked it before allowing him to leave.
Only one train police officer checked Zhou Yu, while the other two train police officers went straight to the seats behind the man who was suspected of swapping Zhou Yu’s suitcase, and asked the passengers to show their ID cards.
Zhou Yu found that the woman who was suspected of swapping his suitcase was no longer in her seat. He looked around and couldn’t find her figure. He thought to himself that the guy must have smelled the danger when he saw the police, and slipped away with a guilty conscience.
Suddenly, two policemen stopped a young man and asked him in a stern voice which one was his suitcase.
The woman said with a look of panic that she didn’t bring a suitcase. The police said, “Don’t play tricks, and honestly cooperate with the police for inspection.” The woman still argued that she didn’t bring a suitcase.
The police of course didn’t believe what he said, and pointed to a row of suitcases and bags on the luggage rack, asking other passengers to claim them, take them down and open them for inspection.
Soon, the passengers took down their suitcases and bags. Only two suitcases remained under this luggage rack.
Zhou Yu thought to himself that if the man still didn’t admit that he was carrying a suitcase, then the police might pry open his suitcase. No, I have to go over and deal with it!
So, Zhou Yu walked over, took down his suitcase, opened it and accepted the inspection.
The police quickly took down the unclaimed suitcase and pried it open, searching out two giant “pebbles” with uneven surfaces from inside. It turned out that these two “pebbles” were dinosaur egg fossils.
How did the police know that someone was smuggling dinosaur egg fossils on the train? Originally, the railway police had received a tip from the public.
The police seized the dinosaur egg fossils and took the suspect away.
Zhou Yu was preparing to take his suitcase away, but then he thought that if Li Fei saw it, he would start to overthink things again. Thinking this, he took out his graduation certificate, locked the suitcase, and then put the suitcase back on the luggage rack.
Zhou Yu lowered his head and saw a book called “Construction Engineering Project Management” on the seat of the man who was suspected of swapping his suitcase. On the cover of the book, there was a goal written in ballpoint pen: Wishing myself to successfully pass the first-level construction engineer qualification exam and obtain a practice certificate.
On the way back, Zhou Yu thought to himself that through the phenomenon of this guy wanting to take the construction engineer exam, he was essentially a down-to-earth and very ambitious person. It is usually difficult to associate such a person with underworld forces. If this hypothesis is established, then his swapping your suitcase needs to be explained differently.
For example: He found that suitcase on the side of the road, or stole it. He thought there was nothing valuable in the suitcase, so he took the opportunity to swap my suitcase.
Back at his seat, Zhou Yu was questioned by Li Fei as to why he had been gone for so long. Zhou Yu couldn’t help but tell him how he took the opportunity to get his graduation certificate back, and also analyzed the possible reasons why that guy swapped his suitcase.
Li Fei was first surprised, then said that Zhou Yu’s analysis made sense.
“Since this property doesn’t belong to that guy, and I have already taken back my graduation certificate, it can be said that all worries are completely cut off. He has no way of knowing my name and family address, so we can use this money with confidence!” Li Fei’s eyes flashed with excitement.
“Only if the owner of this suitcase can’t find that guy can we rest assured.” Zhou Yu was still worried.
“Don’t worry, nothing will happen.” Li Fei was comforting Zhou Yu, and also comforting himself.
Zhou Yu tilted his head and thought, maybe the man who was suspected of swapping my suitcase clearly saw me taking the suitcase down for the police to check in some hidden corner. If this is the case, then he will definitely think that there is nothing valuable in that suitcase at all. In this way, will he come over to find an excuse to take the suitcase away?
Then Zhou Yu snorted coldly in his heart. If he comes over, I just need to test him on what is in the suitcase, and he will definitely not be able to answer and then leave in disgrace.
At 5:35 in the morning, the train slowly approached Jincheng Railway Station.
Throughout the journey, the woman who was suspected of swapping Zhou Yu’s suitcase never went to Zhou Yu.