Meng Yan's Transformation

When uncle Yunxuan got up early and went to the bathroom, he found that Zhan Yingying was missing, so he hurriedly woke up Wang Yawen.

"Xiao Yingying is missing! Let's get up and look for her!" Yunxuan said to Wang Yawen anxiously.

"Oh, don't make a fuss anymore. Little Yingying must have gone up the mountain to play again. What are you looking for? She will come back when she has had enough fun and is hungry. I kept the girl busy for half the night. She is exhausted, sleepy and tired. Please let me sleep a little longer..." Aunt Wang Yawen yawned, turned over and fell into deep sleep again.

"That's right. This girl always fights with Yun Yuanxi. After being criticized, she goes to the mountains to play. When she comes back, she acts as if nothing happened, eating and drinking as usual..." Uncle Yunxuan thought about it and went back to sleep for a nap.

Zhan Yingying came to the train station carrying a large snakeskin bag filled with wild fruits. (Zhan Yingying had been to the train station before and was very familiar with its location, so she took a shortcut and saved a lot of time to get to the train station.)

Zhan Yingying did not buy a train ticket when she arrived at the train station because she did not have enough money to buy a train ticket. She only had 8 cents on her, which was the money she earned from picking bracken, red fruit, Zhiyuan medicinal herbs and Huangfeng medicinal herbs in the mountains. She was reluctant to spend it and she estimated that it was not enough to buy a train ticket.

"What should I do? How can I get on the train to find my sister?" Zhan Yingying thought about it again and again, and now she was in a dilemma.

“Don’t cry, stop crying... Let’s come to my aunt’s house in Dandong next time to see my little sister and have fun with her again..." A couple was coaxing a little boy, about three or four years old, who was crying loudly.

Zhan Yingying looked in the direction of the voice, took out some red wild hawthorns from her snakeskin bag, walked towards the crying boy and said, "Little brother, look what your sister brought you."

The little boy closed his eyes, opened his mouth, and cried loudly. He was crying freely and his eyes were tearful. He heard Zhan Yingying's gentle voice. The little boy opened his black gemstone-like crystal clear eyes, "Sister!..." The little boy stopped crying and looked at Zhan Yingying and shouted. He stretched out his chubby little hand to take the red wild hawthorn from Zhan Yingying's hand and smiled happily...

The little boy’s father and mother saw that Zhan Yingying had made their son giggle and they breathed a sigh of relief: “Finally he stopped crying! If he keeps crying and can’t be comforted, we’re going to stay and go back to his aunt’s house…”

"Little girl, how old are you? What's your name? Where are your parents? Where are you going?" the little boy's mother asked Zhan Yingying gently.

"My name is Yingying, I'm 8 years old this year, my mother is seriously ill, I came to stay at my uncle's house temporarily, now I want to go back to my hometown in Jinzhou, my uncle just bought me a train ticket to Jinzhou, he had something urgent to do, so he left first, and asked me to take the train to Jinzhou by myself, my father will meet me at Jinzhou Station..." Zhan Yingying replied. As she spoke, she reached into her pocket to look for the ticket, but couldn't find it.

"Don't be anxious, little girl, take your time to look..." said the little boy's father.

The boy's mother carefully looked at the little girl in front of her who looked like she was about five or six years old: Zhan Yingying had slightly wheat-colored skin, black hair draped vertically on her shoulders like a waterfall, a pair of bright and clear big eyes with a childish look, decorated with long eyelashes, like two crystal grapes, a red mouth that was neither too big nor too small, revealing a bit of cleverness, and a slightly upturned nose, giving her a playful feeling, making her look very cute...

"Xiao Yingying, did you lose your train ticket?" the little boy's mother said gently.

"Let us give you an extra ticket! How can an 8-year-old child be so thin? A half-ticket will be enough." said the little boy's father.

"I see Yingying is so short that he doesn't even need a ticket." said the little boy's mother.

"Half-tickets don't cost much. To be on the safe side, let's give her a half-ticket. Her father and mother are not around..." the little boy's father asked his wife for her opinion.

"Uncle, I have some money here, can you buy me a half-price ticket?" Zhan Yingying heard that half-price tickets were not very expensive and thought that she could buy one with her own money. As she spoke, she took out her own 8 cents and handed it to the boy's father.

"Little Yingying, remember to buy food with your money. I'll ask your uncle to buy you a train ticket as a way of thanking you for helping us to comfort our crying little brother!" The little boy's mother said as she put Zhan Yingying's 8 cents back into Zhan Yingying's pocket.

The little boy's father bought a half-price train ticket to Jinzhou for Zhan Yingying.

"Our family of three is going back to our hometown in Shanhaiguan, and we happen to be taking the same train with Xiao Yingying!" the little boy's father said to Xiao Zhan Yingying.

"Great! Great! Let's go with Sister Yingying! Let's go together!" The little boy happily took Zhan Yingying's hand and left.

The little boy's father helped Zhan Yingying carry a large snakeskin bag filled with wild fruits and walked in front. Zhan Yingying and the little boy walked in the middle, hand in hand. The little boy's mother walked at the back holding three train tickets. Everyone passed the ticket gate safely, just like a family of four traveling.

The four of them entered the train carriage, and the boy's mother found seats for them according to their ticket numbers. After they were seated, the boy's father felt that Zhan Yingying's snakeskin bag of wild fruits was a bit heavy and it was not safe to put it on the overhead luggage rack, so he put the snakeskin bag under the seat.

The little boy's mother took out a ribbon from her bag and combed a "ponytail" for Zhan Yingying. Zhan Yingying shook her head, like a flying swallow, and she became much more energetic...

"Sister, you are so beautiful!" The little boy clapped his hands and shouted when he saw Zhan Yingying with a ponytail tied with a colorful ribbon.

"You are such a blessed person! Look at how good your son and daughter are! Your son is handsome and your daughter is beautiful!" A middle-aged woman sitting opposite said enviously as she looked at the little boy and Xiao Yingying.

"I want to have such a good girl, but I must have accumulated so much virtue in my previous life to have this!" said the little boy's mother while touching Xiao Yingying lovingly.

Zhan Yingying heard many people in the car praising her, and her face turned red with shyness...

The little boy's mother told everyone: Xiao Yingying came to live temporarily at her uncle's house because her mother was seriously ill, and now she has to go back to her hometown in Jinzhou by herself.

When the people in the carriage heard this, some took out delicious food for Xiao Yingying, some gave Xiao Yingying clothes, and some gave her money...

"Thank you! Thank you! Uncles and aunts! These are the wild fruits I picked from the mountains, please have a taste!..." Zhan Yingying said as she took out a snakeskin bag and took out wild hawthorns, wild pears, etc.

Everyone tasted it symbolically and said it was delicious, "What a polite, poor good child!" Everyone praised Xiao Yingying while eating the wild fruits.

The train was about to arrive at Jinzhou Station. Zhan Yingying left some wild fruits for the little boy and said goodbye to the people in the carriage...