NABC Chapter 150 The train stopped.
Chapter 150 The train stopped.
Lin Shuyao left a letter for Cheng Zheng.
However, instead of placing it with the blueprints and bankbooks, it was sent via local mail and would arrive two days later.
In the darkness, the train clattered and swayed along, like a lullaby.
A light rain began to fall outside, and the raindrops fell on the car window, gathering into streams that trickled down the glass.
It was past 2 a.m., and almost everyone on the train was asleep, with snores filling the air, but Lin Shuyao was wide awake.
She sat by the window, resting her chin on her hand, gazing at the endless night outside, her mood as damp as the weather.
The appearance of Su Wan's mother caught her off guard.
She left in such a hurry that she didn't even have time to properly plan her future.
The fake letter of introduction she obtained was only valid for half a month, which meant that after arriving in Guangzhou, she had to find a new identity in a short period of time.
She also considered going back to Yuncheng, getting another letter of introduction under the original owner's identity, and then living in another city under that identity.
However, Su Wan's family knows the original owner's family, so the original owner's family probably already knows that she has not disappeared and is living a good life in the capital. They may even be eager to follow Su Wan on her journey to the capital, wanting to enjoy the good life there as well.
Lin Shuyao had absolutely no good feelings towards the original owner's family.
The original owner was the second child in her family, with an older brother and a younger brother. The family favored sons over daughters, and all resources were allocated to the older brother and younger brother.
The original owner's father was a worker in a state-owned factory, and her mother was a housewife. Because her older brother got married and had a child, there was no room in the house, so the family gave the original owner two choices: either get married and move out as soon as possible to earn a dowry for the family, or go to the countryside.
The original owner didn't want to get married so soon, spending all her time like her mother, revolving around the stove, serving her husband, and taking care of her children, so she chose to go to the countryside.
There are subsidies for going to the countryside, and the more remote the place, the higher the subsidy, but it's only a dollar or two more. In order to get the higher subsidy, the original owner's parents insisted on sending him to the most remote part of northern Guizhou.
How remote is that place? It takes a whole day and night to walk from the village to the nearest town, crossing mountains and valleys, and following narrow paths carved out of cliffs.
The original owner had complicated feelings towards her parents. On one hand, she was saddened by their favoritism, as they always put her older brother and younger brother first. On the other hand, she couldn't escape the concept that filial piety is the most important virtue, and she always felt that if she was not respectful to her parents, she would be committing a terrible mistake.
But Lin Shuyao was different. To her, the original owner's parents were like strangers, and the kind of strangers she disliked.
Therefore, expecting her to be filial to the original owner's parents is absolutely impossible.
She never considered going back to her hometown to rely on them.
If we don't rely on them, we can only rely on ourselves.
In this unfamiliar era and unfamiliar environment, she had to find a way to survive safely and live well, and have money, because she couldn't bear a life of hardship.
But how easy is it to achieve these things in this turbulent era?
Once she arrived in Guangzhou, everything was uncertain. Could she, a young woman, survive successfully?
If this were in a future era, she was confident that with her talents, she could live a good life. But now, she was not so sure.
And Cheng Zheng.
The thought of him finding out she was gone tomorrow morning made her heart clench with pain and sorrow.
Will he hate her when he sees the letter she wrote?
Will I forget her?
In fact, Lin Shuyao already had the answer in her heart, but she was afraid to face it.
If it were her, and she were dumped so suddenly and then deceived, she would definitely hate him to death and never want to see him again for the rest of her life.
She blinked, her eyes feeling dry and sore.
The rain outside is getting heavier.
Rainwater seeped in through the cracks in the window, soaking the small table beside the bed, and the damp chill crept up my skin.
Lin Shuyao rubbed her arms, sat down inside, and was about to lie down on the bed when she suddenly felt the train shake violently and then come to an abrupt stop.
She sat up straight and waited quietly for a while.
There was no response over the train's public address system. If there had been a malfunction, the train staff would have explained the situation over the loudspeaker and reassured the passengers.
But now there's nothing.
The wind howled, and the rain lashed against the carriage like someone was whipping the metal, the sound dense and urgent.
Lin Shuyao stood up, walked to the window, and opened it a crack.
A cold wind, carrying raindrops, blew in. She squinted and looked outside. It was pitch black outside; there were no platform lights, no signal lights. The railway was barren on both sides—perhaps fields, perhaps hillsides—she couldn't see anything clearly.
A train will only stop halfway in two situations: one is when it receives an order from the central dispatcher to stop.
Secondly, some malfunction forced it to stop.
Even if it's just to give way to another vehicle, they will slow down in advance and won't brake suddenly like this, let alone stop in the middle of nowhere.
Not right.
A sense of unease crept into Lin Shuyao's heart. She closed the window, turned around, and walked out of the carriage into the corridor.