At this time,
Xu Zhizhi is currently fighting with scalpers at the train station.
She had only seen the ticket-buying frenzy of the 1980s in TV dramas before, but now that she has experienced it in real life, she understands why people of that era are so energetic even in their old age.
In this day and age, you can’t get anywhere without physical strength.
Xu Zhizhi stood at the entrance of the train station, dumbfounded!
Buy tickets?
My goodness, if we went in there, the kids would probably be squeezed out.
Tickets are now only sold a few days in advance, and some people who live far away bring their bedding with them.
The weather is still a bit hot, with the late summer heat raging. The ticket hall is crowded with people and has a strong odor.
Xu Zhizhi glanced at the seemingly endless queue for tickets and decisively gave up.
Some unnecessary hardships should not be endured.
But Qiqihar is a place she absolutely must go to.
After standing outside the door for a while, Xu Zhizhi decided to try to find other connections. Just as she was about to leave, a middle-aged woman wearing a headscarf, who was standing behind her, nudged her with her cane.
Xu Zhizhi slapped the woman’s elbow with her backhand.
“What are you doing?”
Train stations in the 1980s were very chaotic; all sorts of people came from there.
Seeing that she was a tough opponent, the woman stopped attacking and instead lowered her voice, saying…
“Comrade, whether you’re going to Guangzhou or Shanghai, I have tickets here! No letter of introduction needed.”
Xu Zhizhi’s eyebrows twitched. Was this a scalper?
“How much?”
The woman took out a notebook, which was filled with notes on the destination and ticket price. There were indeed tickets to Qiqihar, but they were almost fifty yuan more expensive than buying tickets in line!
This is equivalent to Li Wenzhu’s monthly allowance.
The space was filled with all sorts of supplies, but there wasn’t a single penny.
The only eight hundred yuan she had was for Li Wenzhu’s funeral expenses, but she dared not spend it, since the person wasn’t dead yet…
“No need, ma’am, I’ll come again tomorrow.”
When the woman heard that the ticket had fallen through, she pouted and spat, “It’s not that I look down on you, but even if you come a hundred more times and still can’t buy one, this ticket was given to me by someone inside. You look so poor, and you still want to go out!”
Xu Zhizhi ignored her older sister and walked silently towards the door.
Those who sell scalped tickets at train stations usually operate in gangs, so she didn’t need to offend them.
The most urgent task is to obtain tickets and letters of introduction.
On her bus ride home, Xu Zhizhi had already thought things through.
Pushing open the door, Xu Zhizhi saw Liang An lounging in the living room with his legs crossed. Without hesitation, she snapped a picture.
“Brother, I’ve taken good care of you since you were little, haven’t I? It’s time for you to repay me…”
Liang An was unemployed, and Liang Fenglan never gave him money. Xu Changgui, who was as cunning as a needle, would never do the same.
Therefore, ten yuan was a huge sum of money for Liang An.
Looking at the brand-new ten-yuan note on the table, Liang An couldn’t resist reaching out and touching it.
“Why are you being so good to me? Are you asking me to betray my mother?”
Xu Zhizhi stood up, picked up the teapot, poured herself a glass of cool water, and gestured for Liang An not to be nervous.
“It’s just a small thing, could you go and queue up to buy me a train ticket?”
“that’s all?”
Xu Zhizhi nodded, “Yes, your sister is pregnant, so I can’t wait in line. If you manage to buy it, this ten yuan is yours.”
Tempted by the ten-yuan note, Liang An carried a small stool and cotton wadding to queue for the train overnight that very night.
As for the letter of introduction, that’s easy to get. Given her status as a martyr’s family member, it’s perfectly normal for her to want to go to the place where her husband sacrificed his life.
Everyone in the family was busy with their routines.
Xu Changgui was on night shift that night, while Liang Fenglan worked in the canteen and left home before dawn.
All that’s left at home is Xu Zhizhi, who eats well and sleeps soundly.
Hearing the door close, Xu Zhizhi opened her evil eyes in the darkness. In her past life, Xu Changgui always complained about being poor in front of her, but she remembered that the factory paid a large sum of money for her mother’s funeral when she passed away.
So the money should be in the father’s room.
She walked into the master bedroom and gently pushed open the door.
Inside the room was a wooden bed about 1.5 meters wide. On the clean white sheets, Liang Fenglan’s slip-on nightgown was casually placed. Next to the bed stood a large double-door wooden cabinet and a bedside table of the same color.
Looking at the familiar furnishings, certain long-forgotten memories flooded back into my mind like a tide.
The day after the original owner gave birth, after a night of suffering, she wanted Old Xu to give her the key to the cupboard, because Liang Fenglan had locked all the nourishing items, such as brown sugar, inside the cupboard.
Without the key, she couldn’t touch it at all.
But not only did her father not give her the key, he also picked up the enamel mug from the bedside table and smashed it at her standing at the door, cursing her as a jinx who didn’t deserve to drink brown sugar water, saying that her shouting was too loud and kept him from sleeping well all night, and that she deserved to die of pain.
What Xu’s father didn’t know was that the original owner had developed a serious gynecological disease due to a miscarriage. After that, she would bleed from her genitals frequently, and the abdominal cramps were like a venomous snake, gnawing at her constantly.
The memories were too painful. Xu Zhizhi shook her head, briefly forgetting the events in the book, and approached the wooden cabinet that the original owner’s mother had made for her wedding.
There was a locked drawer inside the cabinet. Her father always hid the key in the same spot, and she quickly found the key in her coat pocket.
I opened the drawer, and inside lay a cookie tin with peeling paint.
She found a property certificate with Xiong Guimei’s name on it, some cash, and various receipts bundled together with rubber bands in the box.
There should be five or six hundred in cash, but that wasn’t all; she also pulled out five or six small yellow croakers from the top of the drawer.
He casually put all these things into his spatial storage.
It seems that Old Xu is still keeping a low profile.
After thinking for a moment, she deliberately found a strand of Liang Fenglan’s curly hair on the bed and put it in the drawer.
After searching under their bed for a while, they found a hidden compartment.
Second-marriage couples are all thieves.
The two managed their own assets separately. If Xu’s father could hide money, then Liang Fenglan would naturally hide money for her son as well.
This hidden compartment was discovered by the original owner when she cried and went home seeking help after being abused at home.
Before they could even go inside, Liang Fenglan and Xu Changgui escorted them back to the accountant’s house.
Opening the wooden board above the hidden compartment, they unexpectedly pried open a small wooden box containing a small bag of Old Yuan’s money.
Xu Zhizhi put it into the space without any psychological burden.
These two old bastards, even though they have money of their own, still came to rob her of her funeral expenses and betrothal gifts. The original owner of this body must have been blind in her previous life, letting them treat her like an ATM.
She glanced at the items in the space; there were quite a few, but the funeral expenses for her mother from back then had not yet been found.
At that moment, a thought flashed through my mind, and my gaze fell upon the Buddha statue in the living room.
Sure enough, inside the Buddha statue, they found a pair of gold earrings, two gold rings, a pair of jade bracelets as thick as a thumb, and a savings book wrapped in a handkerchief. When they opened it, they found two thousand yuan inside!
Xu Zhizhi, not content with her current situation, searched every possible hiding place in the house for money. She found a bundle of three hundred yuan in cash in the rice jar and forty yuan under Liang An’s pillow.
After putting everything away, Xu Zhizhi stared blankly at the ceiling.
Those two damned bastards.
What kind of miserable life did the original owner have? He’s getting a little angry!
To balance her anger, Xu Zhizhi gritted her teeth and packed all the brown sugar, malted milk powder, flour, white sugar, peanuts, mung beans, soybeans, two baskets of eggs, a piece of cured meat, five sausages, and even the unused new bowls and chopsticks that Liang Fenglan had brought into her space.
These will all be valuable assets if I join the army later!
She was truly an ordinary, virtuous wife and loving mother.
After feeling satisfied, Xu Zhizhi went back to her space, ate a late-night snack and breakfast, and then fell asleep happily.
I woke up again to Old Xu’s hoarse voice howling.
Xu Zhizhi picked at her ear. She knew that Lao Xu had finished his night shift. She got up, chose a pure white dress, and went to her space to find some cake and fresh milk.
After eating and drinking her fill, she went out to fight.
It must be said that the food in this space must be carefully selected and of the highest quality!
The milk was mellow and sweet, much healthier than the melamine-tainted milk of later generations. After finishing the last sip, she put the cardboard box into the space’s recycling bin, stretched, and the wooden door was kicked open.