Switched Marriage: The Coddled Little Wife-Chapter 465: That’s Really Not Necessary

Lin Chuxia glanced at Wang Tianxue.

In their previous lives, there wasn’t such a person beside them, but now it seemed that Sister Tianxue had a good eye for people.

After settling down and chatting for a while, it was time for lunch.

Jia Liang brought some buns and dishes packed from the restaurant, and the meal was quite decent.

Even though the food had cooled down, the weather was hot, so it didn’t matter.

But there were no ready-made meals afterward, just some bread, biscuits, and vacuum-sealed cooked food from their company, like beef sauce and chili sauce.

Having eaten and drunk their fill, there wasn’t much to do, so everyone lay down in their spots to take a nap.

Lin Chuxia had brought two books, but the carriage was too chaotic at the moment, and she couldn’t focus on reading, so she simply closed her eyes and forced herself to ’shut down.’

But she was soon awakened by the heat.

The train at that time didn’t have air conditioning; it only had windows open for ventilation, blowing in hot wind.

The narrow window crack still couldn’t dispel the foul air inside the carriage.

As the train journey went on, the smell inside the carriage got stronger.

People were intermittently passing through the corridor, their voices fluctuating.

Lin Chuxia felt that Qin Yang had indeed spoiled her.

After Wang Tianxue left in their previous lives, she too had traveled alone to the south for business.

Once, unfortunately, her sleeper carriage was shared with four big men and an elderly lady.

Even though she had the lower bunk, the old lady lacked decency, sternly lying above and refusing to switch places, even when the conductor came to persuade her to make way for the elderly.

There were also two with stinky feet.

Once their shoes were off, not just their area, probably half of the carriage was filled with the smell.

That time, she ended up sitting in the connecting passageway between two carriages for two days and a night.

Meeting Jia Liang’s gaze, Lin Chuxia whispered, "I can’t sleep; you go ahead and rest, I’ll watch."

While they rested, Jia Liang kept watch.

Jia Liang didn’t decline and took out two newspapers from his bag, asking her if she wanted to read.

Lin Chuxia held up her book and gestured, "I’ll read this."

Her book hadn’t been flipped through much when Wang Tianxue also sat up, saw her awake, and invited her to sit on the lower bunk.

Once she came down, Wang Tianxue handed her a cup of water.

Lin Chuxia took a sip of water, gazing at the trees and fields moving backward outside the window, and sighed heavily, "Taking the train is really exhausting," more than thirty hours.

"Once this trip is over, it’ll be fine; my cousin lives over there, we can discuss and later on, we can ask her to send whatever goods we need on our behalf."

Wang Tianxue’s cousin lived in Rong City, that was the connection she previously mentioned.

After a while, other people also woke up one after another; the weather was hot and noisy.

Houzi, seeing everyone bored, took out a deck of cards and straightforwardly started playing poker.

Houzi, being such an extroverted person, was calling everyone over to play cards, yet his eyes kept stealing glances at Liu Guoqiang.

Finally, he mustered the courage, barely smiling as he asked Liu Guoqiang, "Brother Liu, want to join us for a bit?"

Liu Guoqiang seemed easy to talk to; even while sitting, his back was straight, hands naturally resting on his knees.

Just his sitting posture alone gave off a righteous and resolute vibe.

He nodded in response, "Sure."

Houzi sneakily glanced at Lin Chuxia.

Lin Chuxia smiled slightly, "I’ll play too. Playing Upgrade? I’ll team up with Brother Liu?"

Houzi, seeing his savior, said with a smile, "Liu Na’s family and I brought folding stools."

Liu Guoqiang and Lin Chuxia took the sleeper berths, while Houzi and Liu Na sat on folding stools, and the four of them started playing card games.

Wang Tianxue was sitting next to Lin Chuxia, helping her watch the game, Jia Liang didn’t have a lower berth and was lying on the middle berth where he could almost see everyone’s cards, but he still focused on Liu Guoqiang’s cards.

With the entertainment, time passed a bit faster.

In the evening, the lights were turned on in the carriage, and everyone packed up the cards.

For dinner, they bought meals from the train along with their own home-cooked meat sauce, which was enough to fill them up.

After dinner, everyone stopped playing cards and lay back in their beds to rest.

As night fell, the carriage quieted down significantly, and with the temperature dropping, it became much more comfortable.

Houzi had slept at noon, so he was quite energetic now and stayed up to watch.

Seeing that Liu Na opposite him wasn’t asleep either, he leaned on his berth and quietly talked to her.

Houzi and Liu Na were acquaintances even though not very close.

After the Qin Family Village’s vegetable greenhouses were built, the fresh vegetables needed daily by Qin’s Restaurant in the city were all delivered by Houzi, including meat and eggs from the village’s chicken and pig farms.

One could say that not a single drop of "fertilizer" flowed into others’ fields.

Houzi, who frequently traveled to the city, had also made nodding acquaintances with the staff of the restaurants there.

Of course, his connection with Liu Na wasn’t just that.

After Feng Zhong went missing, Jia Liang had asked Houzi to look for Feng Zhong in An City.

He knew a bit about what happened between Feng Zhong and Liu Na.

Knowing that the boss had brought this girl on the trip, Houzi felt a bit of sympathy and pity for her from the bottom of his heart.

He cursed Feng Zhong countless times in his mind, a nice girl wasted by that asshole Feng Zhong, truly a piece of garbage.

Just then, a ruckus suddenly erupted outside, filled with cursing, crying, and screaming...

Followed by the sound of hurried footsteps approaching.

Lin Chuxia sat up abruptly, and seeing this, everyone else also watched the aisle warily.

Liu Na was the most timid, and she panicked completely, "Sister Lin, it seems like someone is shouting to catch a thief."

She stared intensely at Lin Chuxia’s bag, thought for a moment, then climbed down and sat directly with Lin Chuxia on one berth.

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Lin Chuxia:"..."

That wasn’t necessary; there were only a few changes of clothes inside.

Jia Liang jumped down from the middle berth, and Liu Guoqiang also stood up, "I’ll go and check."

He walked out, and Jia Liang stood at the entrance of the sleeper compartment.

He was naturally strong and bald, looking like a guard deity, obviously not someone easy to provoke.

This caused those who were sticking their heads out to watch the commotion to retract their heads.

Soon, the noise quieted down, and Liu Guoqiang came back.

"It’s all right now, there was a thief caught red-handed in another section. Besides the train police, there are plainclothes officers on the train, we just need to be careful, and there won’t be any problems."

He spoke casually, but Lin Chuxia, with sharp eyes, noticed a big rip on his sleeve.

As expected, later a police officer came over, thanked Liu Guoqiang in person, and said he had acted heroically; without him, another suspect might have escaped.

It turned out to be a gang committing the crime.

Houzi quietly explained to Liu Na from the upper berth, "This train is heading to Rong City, from north to south, there are probably many people like Mr. Lin on this train. In the eyes of pickpockets, they are all fat sheep, their targets are big, obviously they come prepared, committing crimes as a gang, this is the most basic guarantee on the train."

Liu Na nodded continuously in response, exclaiming, "Thieves need guarantees too, huh."

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