The woman's son also wanted to buy some, but the woman refused. She said, "It's too expensive. 50 cents can buy a bowl of rice on the train. It's just seven or eight oranges. It's not worth it."

The girl then left.

Jiang Tingxia took an orange out of the net bag, peeled it, and placed it on the table in front of him without eating it. The whole car was filled with the faint scent of citrus.

Just as the orange seller left, Li Changpu came back, carrying a lot of bags.

A big greasy roast chicken was also wrapped in oil paper.

Li Changpu put the things away, pulled out a large chicken drumstick and handed it to Jiang Tingxia, "Eat some."

Jiang Tingxia smelled the smell of meat oil, and her stomach churned. She turned her head away and refused, "I don't want to eat it."

Li Changpu insisted on holding up the chicken leg and said sternly, "You haven't eaten well these past few days. You'll be sick when you get to Wenhai."

Jiang Tingxia didn't seem to be persuaded at all. Instead, he frowned and said, "Take it away. It smells disgusting to me."

After saying that, he took the orange he had just peeled and smelled it twice, and his expression relaxed a little.

Li Changpu knew that she was picky about food and had a keen sense of smell, so he wrapped the roast chicken tightly in oil paper.

He took out another can of yellow peaches and said, "Then eat this."

“This has no taste.”

Jiang Tingxia still turned her head away and didn't look at him. Li Changpu got annoyed, put the can on the table with a bang, and sat aside.

After a while, seeing Jiang Tingxia still holding her orange in a daze, Li Changpu took a few deep breaths before saying, "Then eat your orange, that's fine."

Jiang Tingxia didn't move, but accidentally saw the curious eyes of the two people opposite him. Not wanting to be laughed at, he forced himself to be calm and said, "No, it's been left for too long, and it's all covered with dust."

Li Changpu really felt like he was serving his ancestors. He resigned himself to the bag of oranges and asked, "I'll pick another one. Do you want to eat it?"

The mother and son who had been paying attention to the situation here also came to their senses. Looking at the two people getting along, although the man spoke with a stern face, he made people feel humble and pleasing for no reason, coaxing and giving in. The woman had an indifferent expression. As both were women, the short-haired woman could tell at a glance that she was holding a breath in her heart and couldn't let it out.

This was not what the mother and son thought, a relationship of colleagues that was better than strangers. They were clearly a couple quarreling and having a disagreement.

After a long time, Jiang Tingxia finally nodded.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief and took out an orange from his pocket, but saw that the bottom of the orange had begun to rot, the color had become darker, and it felt soft to the touch.

Jiang Tingxia also noticed it. He opened the pocket and saw that only a few of the oranges were good. The others were more or less bruised and had begun to rot. They were all rotten oranges.

The short-haired woman whispered, "Look, it's a good thing we didn't buy it."

Jiang Tingxia was already furious after hearing this, and now he was even more furious. He stood up and took the bag of oranges in his hand.

Li Changpu stood up and stopped her, "Where are you going?"

Jiang Tingxia was so angry that her pale face turned pink. "She lied to me. I'm going to find her."

Li Changpu stood in front of her and coaxed her, "Don't go, just stay here, I'll buy you some oranges."

Was she eating for two?

Jiang Tingxia pushed him away and spoke faster, "It's not because of Juzi, it's because she lied to me, I have to go find her."

Li Changpu couldn't feel at ease, so she had to follow her, but Jiang Tingxia glared back, "Don't follow me."

"The big dog is still inside, you keep an eye on it."

Jiang Tingxia walked a few steps and turned back to say, "Don't follow me."

After making sure that Li Changpu didn't follow her, she quickly began to search in the direction the little girl had left.

She asked along the way, and several people who had bought oranges before gave her directions.

In a few minutes, Jiang Tingxia found the girl selling oranges.

She was standing in the carriage, taking a bamboo basket of oranges from a fat man.

Jiang Tingxia thought, this is perfect, the child’s lie has something to do with her parents, so it’s a good opportunity to settle the score with her parents.

So he walked quickly towards the two of them.

But then they saw the two of them flash away, avoid everyone's sight, and hide in the corner.

Jiang Tingxia would not let them go and still walked over. However, it took her several minutes to walk over as there was half a carriage between them.

Jiang Tingxia was afraid that they would run away, so he quickened his pace, but he didn't expect to see a shocking scene.

The man hid in a corner with the little girl. He sat on a small stool and held the girl on his lap. One hand went up along the girl's patched jacket and stopped at her flat chest...

The girl was only about five or six years old. She sat on the man's lap without struggling, with a confused look in her eyes...

Jiang Tingxia even thought she had seen it wrong. She, an adult, was shocked by the scene before her, let alone an ignorant child.

The next second, Jiang Tingxia screamed and pointed her finger in the direction of the two people.

This was a hard-seat carriage, and coincidentally there weren't many people there, only a few people looking over.

Jiang Tingxia saw that the man heard the noise and immediately let go of the girl in a panic and stood up, moving so quickly as if nothing had happened.

The man had a fierce look on his face. He was tall and fat, which made people scared. He glared at Jiang Tingxia viciously.

Jiang Tingxia's heart was pounding with fear, and she shouted, "Where's the conductor? Is the conductor here?"

No one answered. The man with a fat face looked at Jiang Tingxia puzzledly, as if he was gauging what she was going to say.

Jiang Tingxia saw that the situation was unfavorable. There didn't seem to be any strong man in the crowd who could subdue him, nor was there any train conductor passing by.

She had no choice but to point at the little girl and yell, "It's you who sold me rotten oranges."

As he spoke he walked up to the girl, grabbed her arm and pulled her to him.

Jiang Tingxia looked angry as if she had been cheated, and she yelled at the little girl, "For 50 cents, you gave me a bunch of rotten oranges. You are such a heartless little thing, and you're cheating people at such a young age."

"Watch me teach you a lesson."

Seeing Jiang Tingxia like this, the man breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the woman pointed in their direction just now because of Orange. Also, he deliberately found this blind spot so that it would not be easy for others to see.

The man tried to snatch the little girl back, but Jiang Tingxia immediately pulled the girl away a few steps, looked at the man warily, and said, "She tricked me with a rotten orange. I'm going to send her to the police."

Faced with this situation, Jiang Tingxia was confused and even more afraid that the perverted man in front of her would suddenly attack her, so she had to call in the police to bluff.

The people around saw that the girl was about five or six years old, thin and small. Jiang Tingxia, on the other hand, saw that she was arrogant and unreasonable, and they all advised, "Forget it, just a few oranges, you still want to report it to the police?"

"Yeah, let this little girl go."

The little girl started to cry, and Jiang Tingxia looked even more arrogant and felt at a disadvantage.

The man said, "Comrade, I am the station manager of this area. Leave her to me and I will take care of her."

Jiang Tingxia pulled the girl towards him again, glared at the man and said, "Leave it to you!"

"You said you were an administrator, and you are, but you don't even have work clothes."

"Also, I just saw you give her a basket of oranges and ask her to sell them."

"I think you are in cahoots with this little liar. Come on, go to the police station and explain yourself."

After hearing what she said, the man took a few steps back and accused her, "Lesbian, don't talk nonsense without evidence."

"You have to pick on such a young child."

People around: “That’s right.”

Jiang Tingxia pointed at the man and appealed to the people around him righteously, "Everyone, please understand clearly that they are engaging in speculation and profiteering, which is a crime. Everyone, please help and send them to the police station together."

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