MDMP Chapter 23.1

It was time for school to be over. Three children, Zhao Suisui, Zhao Jingcheng, and Lu Zhou, were climbing the stairs to go home.

As soon as they reached the stairs, they heard the sound of moving things on the stairs.

The three of them walked up to take a look and saw several soldiers in green military uniforms carrying cabinets into the house opposite.

Zhao Suisui glanced at the door twice. After entering her home, she couldn’t help but ask Feng He: “Mom, what are those uncles opposite doing?”

Feng He answered her while serving rice: “Oh, the opposite family is moving in.”

Zhao Suisui thought about it carefully and found that she didn’t have much of an impression of the neighbor’s family opposite her house.

In her memory, it seemed that a family moved in opposite her house, but they didn’t have much of a presence.

Ah, no… Not long after the neighbor opposite moved in, it seemed that the stepmother also appeared not long after!

Zhao Suisui was not sure about the specific date when the stepmother would come.

But, it should be soon!

Zhao Suisui suddenly looked stern.

Mom, it’s dangerous!

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Zhao Suisui’s guess was correct. Lin Juan was indeed on the train at this moment.

There were no direct trains in the county where she was located. Lin Juan had to transfer twice in two days before finally getting on the train to Songnan.

She bought a train ticket and sat like this all the way.

Two days of running around made seven-year-old Zhang Pandi and two-year-old Zhang Wenlin look pale and tired.

Only Lin Juan, her tired face couldn’t stop the heat in her eyes at all.

The train stopped at a station.

On the train, there were passengers getting off the train with their luggage, and there were also people squeezing onto the train with large and small bags.

Several people across from Lin Juan, after arriving at the station, got off the train. Their seats became empty instantly.

But soon, she saw a child cleverly crawling onto the seat opposite, accompanied by a woman’s loud voice: “Don’t squeeze, don’t squeeze, there is a baby. What should I do if you squeeze the baby?”

Lin Juan looked up and saw a vulgar woman dressed as a village woman.

Her hair was as messy as a chicken coop. She was carrying a large backpack on her back, and a one or two-year-old child was tied to her chest. Her hands were not idle, holding large and small bags of things.

In addition to the child who sat down first, there were two other children grabbing her clothes, one on the left and one on the right.

“There is a seat here. Sit down quickly!” The woman urged the remaining two children to get into the seats.

After seeing all three children sitting down, the woman moved to the outside of the seat and put down everything on her back and hands.

The woman had a lot of things. It piled up in a mess at her feet and even occupied the space at Lin Juan’s feet, which made her frown.

Lin Juan endured her disgust and swept over, seeing a chicken coop at the woman’s feet with two live chickens in it.

The live chicken moved restlessly in the cage, emitting an unpleasant smell.

Lin Juan covered her nose and hugged her youngest son Zhang Wenlin tightly. She didn’t want to sit with this rural woman, but she thought that she would be there tomorrow morning, so she could bear it.

“Aiya, I can finally sit down. It’s really hell to take a few rides!” The woman took a few breaths after sitting down and said to herself.

Lin Juan glanced at her lightly and quickly looked away.

“Come on, come on, you all have a drink of water.” The woman took out a water bottle from her backpack, “This is the water I poured from the station. The water in this city tastes sweeter than the water in our well!”

Lin Juan couldn’t help but smile contemptuously in her heart because of the woman’s ignorant words.

But when her eyes casually glanced at the kettle placed by the woman on the table, she couldn’t help but pause.

That’s…a military green kettle!

These days, not everyone can own a military kettle. Those who could have one must have a soldier in their family.

In Lin Juan’s house, although Zhang Weiguo was serving in the military, her house did not have a military kettle.

This military kettle made Lin Juan couldn’t help but re-examine the woman opposite.

She still looked like that slovenly peasant woman, with four children, large and small bags, and this train whose terminal station was to Songnan City…

The identity of the woman in front of her was obvious.

 

 

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Then, I also got tired and rested my body, so it got delayed until today.

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