novelraw Chapter 132 A Chance Encounter with Zhao Tiantian and Her Daughter
Chapter 132 A Chance Encounter with Zhao Tiantian and Her Daughter
It is said that if someone does something immoral, the "Legless Old Lady" will come to their door and kick their leg off. If the person is not particularly bad, she will break one leg; if the person is very, very bad, she will break two legs; and if the person is so immoral that they are practically smoking, she will break a third leg as well!
Because of this legend, those who love to do odd jobs and steal, those who love to write anonymous and false reports, and those who mistreat their daughters-in-law and treat their daughters like dirt, have all behaved themselves for a long time, for fear that the "old lady with the broken leg" will come to their aid!
Tong Yuheng had already arrived near the station by bicycle, where he parked his bike in a deserted corner and walked along the railway tracks.
She decided not to go into the station, as moving with her spatial abilities was too strenuous. Instead, she stood by the railway tracks heading towards Yan City, pretending to be a scavenger, waiting for the train to arrive.
When the train first started moving, it was moving slowly. It was late at night and no one could see her climbing onto the train. As long as she could get back to Yanshi Railway Station, that was fine.
Actually, even on a normally moving train, she could easily get on with her skills. The main problem is that trains these days don't travel very fast, only around 60-70 kilometers per hour. If it were fifty years ago, with trains going over 300 miles per hour, even someone skilled in ancient martial arts would have been smashed to pieces!
Most trains passing through Rongcheng go to Yanshi, but this one is just the right time. Even if it's a ten or twenty-minute delay, she can still catch the train back to Qingshi.
As expected, the train was delayed and didn't arrive until 9:30. She climbed onto the train and went into her spatial dimension to organize her things. It turned out that Geng Peiyan had amassed quite a fortune.
Inside a tin box were about twenty small gold bars, but mostly gold jewelry, jade bracelets, jade pendants, and jade earrings—women's items. This was a thorough ransacking!
There was also over 20,000 yuan in cash inside, without any bankbook. Perhaps he felt it was safest to keep the money in his own hands. If a deputy director of a county-level Party committee could hoard so much money, one wonders what the situation is like in big cities.
At this moment, she thought of Zhang Shaojie, who had close ties with Fan Yaqing. She didn't know that there was such a person in the original book, but he was close to Fan Yaqing and was not a good person. How could she have forgotten him?
Forget it, I won't let him off the hook either. I'll find another chance to cause him trouble later!
When Tong Yuheng arrived at the station, it was already 11 o'clock. Too lazy to go out and check her ticket again, she hid in her spatial dimension, made herself some food, and then planted the crop seeds she had bought there. She just waited for her train to arrive and boarded it.
"The next important step is to refine the supplementary medicines that the family will need; let's grow a larger quantity of medicinal herbs!"
She contributed ripe fruits, grains, and medicinal herbs that she didn't need at the moment to the space, hoping to expand the planting area further.
Sure enough, just as she wished, the space gained another ten acres or so. Tong Yuheng thought to herself, "You didn't even give me a control panel or a space wizard or anything, and you just let me fumble around in the dark. Isn't that a bit unfair?"
The "Space Operation Manual" is the same; there are only a few pages to read, and it's written very briefly. Why make it so thick and make people so eager to read it?
She boarded the train with the flow of people. It wasn't peak season this time, and she managed to buy a sleeper ticket for the upper berth. Once she climbed up, she immersed her consciousness in the space and began to work.
She waits until one or two in the morning when people are most tired, then goes inside to sleep. She gets a full hour of rest outside, which is a real cheat code!
The tractor she got from Zheng Yunqing last time is already installed and is very practical for plowing and harvesting in the space. It's also convenient for transporting things to that warehouse. I wish the space could be upgraded to allow for mental labor and harvesting someday.
With an extra ten acres of land, she planned to dig a larger pond, fill it with seawater to raise sea cucumbers and abalone, since these supplements would be the best for all the women in her family.
"Ugh, I'm such a workaholic. Do I really need to be this capable? Oh well, why bother thinking about it? I'll just benefit the most anyway."
After sleeping enough in her space, Tong Yuheng continued planning and building it. It wasn't until five o'clock, when it was dawn, that she climbed down from her bunk and symbolically went to the water room at the junction of the carriages to wash up.
For breakfast, she had an egg, two large steamed buns, and a bowl of thick, sweet rice porridge. As she brought out the food, she saw a young woman in her twenties with a four- or five-year-old girl on the lower bunk, who smiled at her and said:
"Comrade, did you buy this from the dining car?"
"Oh, I brought it myself, I just went over there to heat it up."
"I knew it! The waiter at the food truck just started preparing breakfast, and it's not served yet! Yingying, be good, Mommy will get you some food when it's served, okay?" The woman coaxed the child gently.
The little girl was very well-behaved and didn't make a fuss at all. She smiled and said, "Okay! Mommy, this little auntie is pretty!"
Tong Yuheng was completely powerless against the cute little girl, and quickly took out another steamed bun, saying, "Little girl, you're so good. Auntie will treat you to a steamed bun. Would you like some porridge? Did you not eat well last night?"
The little girl looked embarrassed and said, "Thank you, Auntie. I'll wait for my mom to get my food before I eat. You can eat by yourself!"
"No need, young comrade, it won't be long before dinner is served. Thank you!" the woman politely declined.
However, Tong Yuheng directly stuffed the steamed bun into the little girl's hand, pulled over her small teacup, and poured her a cup of white porridge.
"Oh, thank you so much! You're too kind of me!"
"Thank you, Auntie!" The little girl took a slow bite of the bun, savoring its delicious flavor, and smiled so much that her eyes narrowed into slits.
The woman also started rummaging through her pockets, taking out a small box of luncheon meat for Tong Yuheng to try.
Tong Yuheng didn't stand on ceremony. He scooped out a piece with a clean spoon and said that he was already full and that tasting it was enough.
The little girl, Yingying, hadn't eaten properly last night and was hungry. But she didn't forget to let her mother try the delicious steamed buns; she's very well-mannered.
The woman took a small bite of the bun and praised it, but when Tong Yuheng offered her more, she insisted on refusing. The little girl happily ate the whole bun and drank the porridge, feeling quite full.
Tong Yuheng went to wash the lunchboxes, and the little girl wanted to go with her, so Tong Yuheng took her along. The little girl said they were going to visit their great-aunt and would be going back in a few days.
Tong Yuheng chatted happily with the mother and daughter along the way. They were going to Jinhai City. The woman's surname was Zhao, and her name was Zhao Tiantian. Originally, it was the "Tian" in "sweet," but her grandfather changed it to the "Tian" in "field."
I still have some complaints about it now, but now I think the "Tian" in "Tiandi" (田地) is better, and the "Tian" in "Tianshui" (甜甜) is like the name of a child who never grows up.
The woman got off the bus first. She had been prepared since around 10 a.m., carrying things on her back and in her arms, and leading her child. Tong Yuheng was worried that the little girl would be squeezed, so he helped them off the bus.