Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

When the two little girls saw their eldest sister crying, they stopped chewing the candy and tears were about to fall.

"Brother Lai, look at you, you made them cry." Yu Shui glared at He Lai, then turned around to comfort the squatting little girl.

"It's okay, it's okay. We'll buy you three train tickets to Shenzhen, okay?"

Hearing this, the girl raised her tearful face, looked at the rain and asked, "Big sister, is this true?"

"Really, really, when we get to the next stop, I'll talk to the conductor and ask him to buy you train tickets to Shenzhen."

Yu Shui quickly agreed.

He Lai rolled his eyes and didn't say anything in response, not wanting to make the little girls cry again.

He Lai knew that in those days you couldn't just take a train to wherever you wanted. You needed a letter of introduction, otherwise the conductor would at most hand them over to the local police station, and they would help the little girls return to their hometown.

How could the conductor give them train tickets to Shenzhen? After all, everyone knew what they were going to Shenzhen for.

"Thank you, big sister!" The girl came back to life immediately!

Soon Yu Shui took the three sisters to the bathroom to wash up. It was unknown how long it had been since the three sisters had taken a shower and changed clothes, and they already had a sour smell on their bodies.

After a while, when Yu Shui brought the three sisters back again, they had changed. They were wearing Yu Shui's clothes. Although they were big, they were much cleaner.

"Brother Lai, how about it?" Yu Shui said with a smile.

"What's up? Oh, they look pretty good in your clothes."

He Lai glanced at her and said.

"Hehe, I wiped their clothes a little bit and hung them out to dry. They will definitely be dry by the next stop."

As Yu Shui said this, she started hanging the clothes. It was already a bit hot in Guangcheng in May, and the three little girls were simply wearing a worn linen shirt and linen pants.

"Big brother, let me treat you to some dried sweet potatoes. They are so delicious." The girl held up a piece of dried sweet potato and gave it to He Lai.

He Lai took the dried sweet potatoes, hugged the little girl and said, "Okay, thank you, little girl. You treat me to dried sweet potatoes, then I will treat you to dried meat, okay?"

Then he took out a small bag from his pocket, which contained dozens of pieces of dried meat. He Lai took a piece of dried meat and fed it to the girl.

The girl looked at the jerky in front of her mouth, smelled the meat, swallowed, and looked at He Lai's smiling face again.

Knowing that He Lai was not joking, she took a small bite. She really hadn't eaten meat in a long time.

Soon the aroma of the meat spread in her mouth, and it tasted wonderful.

The girl held the jerky in her mouth, reluctant to chew it, hoping that the meat could stay in her mouth a little longer.

The big girl and the second girl looked at the little girl eating dried meat and they immediately became envious and kept swallowing their saliva.

Erniu's saliva was flowing out of the corners of her mouth because of the jerky. She could only turn her head and throw herself into the arms of Daniu, no longer looking at the jerky.

After Yu Shui hung up the clothes, he saw the expressions of Da Niu and Er Niu, and the bag of dried meat next to He Lai, and he knew what was going on.

"Brother Lai, where did the dried meat come from? Has my brother been here?" Yu Shui asked.

"Can't you just hide it yourself?" He Lai rolled his eyes at her.

"Hey, Brother Lai, didn't you say you had no food?"

Yu Shui smiled and took the bag of dried meat next to He Lai, and handed two pieces of dried meat to Da Niu and Er Niu.

"Eat, eat, big sister will treat you."

"Thank you, big sister." The eldest and second girls said at the same time.

When the girl was talking, her saliva was flowing out. It was obvious that her mouth was full of saliva that she had just secreted.

There was a high probability that the second girl left her saliva on the eldest girl, after all, there was an obvious wet spot on the eldest girl's clothes.

In this way, the four of them ate dried meat, and He Lai took a few bites of dried sweet potatoes.

Only then did He Lai realize how unpalatable dried sweet potatoes were in this era.

I don’t know how the little girl made the dried sweet potatoes. They tasted salty and smelly, with only a hint of sweet potato flavor.

After they finished eating a piece of dried meat, they stopped eating. Yu Shui, Da Niu and Er Niu sat on one side, while He Lai held the little girl and sat on the other side. They looked at each other without saying a word.

Finally, it was He Lai who spoke up: "Are you sure you want to go to Hong Kong City?"

"Yes! Let's go!" the girl said firmly.

"Where do you come from?"

"We are from Fengshan Village, Gaoyao County."

"Gaoyao County?" He Lai thought about the current structure of Guangdong Province. Gaoyao County should be in the direction of Zhao County to the west of Guangdong Province.

"Then why don't you follow the people from your fellow villagers?" He Lai asked puzzledly. After all, the big girl had said before that they came out with the villagers.

The girl lowered her head and said nothing.

"Big brother, those people are bad. They want to steal our dried sweet potatoes! If we find out, we won't follow them." The little girl answered for the big girl.

He Lai nodded and understood that it was normal to fight for food in this era.

"Brother, they said if we don't give them food, they won't take us with them, so we came to the train station."

Erniu added.

"It's okay, it's okay, we will help you, we can take you to the port city."

Yu Shui looked at the three poor little girls and felt a lot of pity for them. After all, children without parents are really pitiful. Yu Shui felt a little empathy. She had already suffered a lot without a mother, let alone them.

"Big sister, is that true? Can you take us to Gangcheng?" When the big girl heard Yu Shui's words, her eyes lit up instantly.

"Brother Lai?" Yu Shui naturally didn't have this ability, so he could only ask Xiang Helai.

He Lai rolled his eyes at Yu Shui. What was he thinking? It couldn't be that easy.

He Lai was sure that once he got off the bus at the next stop, Qingyuan, he would have no chance of going back, let alone taking them to Hong Kong City, let alone Shenzhen City.

After all, He Lai didn't have a letter of introduction. Even if he called back to Sijiu City, he could only issue his own letter of introduction. The three little girls were destined to be sent back to their hometown.

"Big girl, come here." He Lai waved his hand, motioning the big girl to come to him.

When the girl heard this, she walked over.

He Lai looked at the pretty little face and said slowly: "Big brother, now I will give you two choices.

The first option is that Big Brother will hand you over to the conductor and ask him to send you back to your hometown, which is Fengshan Village."

When the girl heard what He Lai said, her originally happy face suddenly fell. She was about to refute but was stopped by He Lai.

He Lai explained: "As for why? You kids may not know that people from China need a letter of introduction when they travel far away. Without a letter of introduction, you can't take a long-distance bus and can only walk. Do you know that?"

The eldest girl nodded when she heard this. After all, they just walked to Guangcheng.

"Brother Lai, can't we get a letter of introduction to take them there?"

Yu Shui asked with reluctance.

"Yushui, what are you thinking? They are not from the same place as us. If someone asks us, what will we say? Our sisters? How to write a letter of introduction? Others are not fools! Once they ask, we will be exposed."

He Lai explained.

"Then we can send them back to Guangcheng first! And then that..." Yu Shui thought about returning to Guangcheng and then asking He Lai to call someone to take them away.

"Yushui, things are not as simple as you think. If anyone asks the three little girls, they will know where they are from. There is no way they can be sent back to Guangcheng. They can only be taken back to their hometown."

"Then we will send them back to their hometowns and then bring them to Guangcheng."

Rain said eagerly.

"Yushui, what are you thinking about? Do you know that escaping to Hong Kong is a big deal? Unless you also want to go to Hong Kong, you will never come back to the city. To put it seriously, escaping to Hong Kong is treason! Have you thought it through?"

He Lai asked seriously.

After hearing what He Lai said, Yu Shui suddenly came to his senses. He realized the seriousness of fleeing to Hong Kong and stopped talking.

Yes, even when they went to Gangcheng, they had to change their appearance. How could they possibly take their three children with them openly? If they did this, the Chinese government would definitely suspect them, and then they would have no choice but to stay in Gangcheng.