Chapter 10: Noise of the Times

Lu Yang folded the newspaper and carefully put it into his pocket.

Now is not the time to delve into these.

We have to get rid of that annoying guy first.

Hearing the call from his father-in-law, his mother-in-law had already run ahead, so Lu Yang had no choice but to hold his newlywed wife's hand and start running.

When everyone arrived at a place at the innermost part of the waiting room, they found that Yin Mingzhu was there as expected, with disheveled hair, sitting on a chair, curled up in a ball, holding her schoolbag in her arms, and nervously and fearfully guarding against everyone around her.

It seems that he must have suffered a lot.

With such a horrible appearance, it’s no wonder that my father-in-law couldn’t find it after searching for a long time.

"Girl, what's wrong with you? Did someone bully you? Tell your father."

"My son, my son, how did you become like this? Where are your classmates? You told me last night that your classmates would come to see you off. Where are they? Why are they not here?"

Old man Yin was only concerned with comforting his daughter.

Ma Xiulan just kept crying.

Lu Yang glanced around and found that some people were already retreating, at least four or five of them, acting stealthily, with dirty faces that made it impossible to tell their real age. They looked over here from time to time like wolves and vicious dogs, and when they saw that the target was surrounded by relatives, they knew that it was difficult to have another chance, so they were already shifting targets and soon they all blended into the crowd of surrounding passengers.

Lu Yang just watched and did not stop them.

There are too many surprises in this era.

If you are a little bit too lax, you may lose a life.

For people like this who dare to take risks and commit crimes, they have switchblades, Mitsubishi daggers, and other self-defense weapons that normal people in this era might carry when traveling far away. But for these people, it's as easy as eating and drinking for them.

They were also very daring. When there was a slight conflict, they would take out the gun and stab people in vital parts. After stabbing, they would run away and blend into the crowd. In this era, it was very difficult to solve the case near such a crowded and highly mobile station.

Lu Yang thought to himself: I was just reborn, but I am not invulnerable.

Besides, he was quite happy to see that stupid woman Yin Mingzhu suffer a little. After all, it was just inside the station, and the other party might at most be after the tuition fees in her bag, not her as a person, right?

Unless she is stupid enough to follow the other person and take the initiative to leave the crowded station.

Haha, if you are really that stupid, you deserve it.

Lu Yang was watching the joke.

After some consolation, the old couple, Old Man Yin and Ma Xiu Lan, finally found out from their eldest daughter Yin Mingzhu what injustice she had suffered.

It turned out that Lu Yang's information was right. This stupid woman almost got swindled away with both the person and the luggage.

And it's a blatant lie.

It all started when a few of her good friends agreed to send her off and stay with her until she got on the bus, but they changed their minds and blamed her.

She said that since she had bought a train ticket for a train that leaves after 6pm and it was almost evening, why did she have to contact them and ask them to come and see her off so early in the morning? Not to mention that they would be hungry for a whole day, they would have to pay for food and drinks.

Okay, you said that it’s Yin Mingyue who will treat us.

What about public security?

In this era between the 1980s and 1990s after the reform and opening up, and late at night, and in a train station with the worst public security, you let a group of young female students ride bicycles from this train station, in the dark, slowly heading home who knows how far away it is?

Any normal person would think this is nonsense, right?

Maybe Yin Mingzhu didn't think so much, but her classmates, especially the female classmates, had to consider their own safety. Fortunately, they were smart enough not to do anything stupid and knew that they should go home before dark.

Otherwise, if they really sent Yin Mingzhu away and it was already dark outside, they would probably have to wait for their fathers or brothers to pick them up, which would cause chaos for even more families.

Yin Mingzhu was left alone.

After her classmates left, she was not really scared because she was always brave.

However, not long after, a middle-aged country woman who had been paying attention to her for a long time suddenly rushed towards her, grabbed her without saying a word, and pushed her out of the waiting room.

She was still yelling, "I'll beat you to death, you damn girl! You actually dared to run away from home, causing your mother and grandmother to fall ill. All of us uncles and aunts had no choice but to come out to look for you. Fortunately, I found you. Come home with me now."

Immediately afterwards, several middle-aged women rushed over, saying the same words.

Yin Mingzhu was completely stunned.

In fact, not to mention her, even the passengers next to her were confused. No one knew whether these words were true or false, and they didn't dare to stop anyone without permission.

Even the saleswoman at the door was confused.

If it wasn’t for Yin Mingzhu, she would have howled before she was almost dragged out of the waiting room.

She was said to be the top scorer in the college entrance examination in Zhao County, and there was an admission letter from Peking University in her schoolbag. The train police at the station were alarmed, and she was about to be abducted by this group of middle-aged women.

However, although the train police arrived, they did not catch any one.

This group of middle-aged women were very experienced. When they saw that the situation was not good, they left Yin Mingzhu behind and turned around and blended into the crowd again. In that era, people's hairstyles and clothes colors were similar. It was not easy to find them in the vast crowd and then let Yin Mingzhu testify against them.

It became much simpler later.

After confirming that she was the top scorer in the college entrance examination in the county, the station was very polite. Not only did they provide her with hot water, they also specifically asked her if she needed to notify her family or school.

Many passengers in the waiting room came up to her and wanted to ask her how she was doing.

But they were all rejected by Yin Mingzhu.

She is afraid.

Afraid of meeting bad guys again.

Apart from the kindness from the station, which she accepted, she dared not accept any kindness from the passengers.

She also always felt that people around her looked at her in a strange way. Then she remembered that there was 1000 yuan in her schoolbag. Her parents were afraid that she would suffer as a girl going to the capital, so they prepared more money for her university tuition and living expenses for this semester.

Suddenly, she turned her backpack over and held it in her arms, using all her vigilance to guard against all the passengers around her who looked like bad people.

It is no wonder that when Old Man Yin found her, she curled up into a ball, looking so tired and miserable.

Listen to this story.

Lu Yang said it was funny, but he also had doubts.

"Yin Mingzhu, you are the top scorer in the county's college entrance examination, and you are also the only county student who was admitted to Peking University today. You are going to study in Beijing. Don't your high school leaders and the county education committee care about you at all? Don't they even send you off?"

At least send a teacher.

"I actually have one. It's from the County Education Commission. We have an appointment at 6pm. They also said that one of them is going to BJ on a business trip and it's just on the way. I'll have a companion on the way. If I can buy a ticket today, they can accompany me to Peking University to register until I live safely on campus."

Yin Mingzhu explained hesitantly.

Including why she dared to go to BJ alone, and why she had this train ticket today, which was booked a month in advance.

Facts have proved that it’s not that people don’t care, but that they care very much about it. But Yin Mingzhu deserves it.

The appointment is at 6pm.

It was seven in the morning.

Lu Yang smiled and said, "Oh, it turns out you came early!"

(End of this chapter)