Chapter 246: Bankruptcy is a matter of time

A ringing sound woke Yu Qing up, and she vaguely heard the announcement on the radio that she would arrive at Yancheng Station in ten minutes.

Is this half the journey?

Yu Qing raised her wrist to check the time, but then she realized that the lights in the carriage were too dim to see clearly. She estimated the time in her mind and found that the train she took at eight o'clock was half way through and took at least five hours, so it would be around one o'clock in the morning.

Unable to sleep for a while, she gently stood up and left the carriage. The lights in the aisle were much brighter. She looked at the time and saw that it was almost half past one.

Yu Qing wanted to go to the toilet. There were toilets anywhere in the carriage, so she chose one side at random. Although it was already April, the cold wind at night blew in from the window and it was still a bit cold.

Yu Qing tightened her clothes tightly, and when she passed the corner of the aisle, she unexpectedly saw a man squatting here smoking.

The smoke filled the air, choking her and causing her to cough several times. It was these coughs that woke up the man who was in a trance.

Yu Qing didn't look back and left quickly.

So she didn't notice the flash of surprise in the man's eyes just now, and narrowed her eyes slightly while looking at her background.

When Yu Qing came back after going to the toilet, she passed by the corner of the aisle. The man had left, but the unpleasant smell of cigarette smoke was still there.

She fanned her nose in disgust and quickly left the suffocating space. When she returned to the car, she seemed to still be able to smell the lingering smell of smoke.

The eldest sister on the lower bunk had already woken up. When she saw Yu Qing coming in, she asked, "Girl, are you going to the toilet?"

Yu Qing responded softly, "Yeah."

The eldest sister stood up and put on her shoes, "Then I'll go to the toilet too. Girl, help me look after my luggage."

Yu Qing was a little reluctant, "Sister, do you have anything valuable in your luggage? If you have something valuable, you'd better take it with you."

"No." The eldest sister smiled: "Just some clothes and food."

The two men who left the upper bunk after the eldest sister also woke up.

"Do you want to turn on the lights?" Yu Qing asked the two of them.

"Then please girl, please turn on the light, we are all awake anyway." The man in the bunk above Yu Qing said.

When the light is turned on, it's a bit dazzling.

Yu Qing sat back on her bed and wanted to drink water, but the water in her teapot was already cold. The eldest sister had not returned from the toilet. She agreed to help her look after her luggage, but it was not good to leave at this time.

I could only endure and take a sip of cold water. As soon as the water entered my throat, my head, which was a little groggy due to lack of sleep, became much clearer.

Sitting bored, she took out the fried melon seeds that Grandma Ruan had packed for her from her luggage. She glanced at the middle-aged uncle on the upper bunk opposite.

"I have melon seeds here, do you want to eat them?"

"Thank you, you can eat it yourself." The middle-aged man thanked her and smiled at her.

Yu Qing nodded to him and started drinking alone.

The eldest sister came back soon. As soon as she entered the door, she shouted: "Oh! That wicked guy, the knife chopper, is smoking in the corridor. I am smelling of cigarette smoke all the way from this corridor. It is really disgusting."

As she spoke, she also smelled the clothes on her body.

Sitting down on his bed, he frowned and said to Yu Qing: "I smelled the smell of cigarette smoke on your body as soon as you entered the carriage. I didn't expect that I would smell it after I went there."

Yu Qing smelled her clothes, there was still a little bit of it, but it was almost gone.

"Sister, do you want to eat melon seeds?" He pushed the bag of melon seeds to the middle of the table.

"Oh, I can have this, thank you, little sister. You said this train ride is so boring, why didn't I think of decorating it with melon seeds and getting on the train?"

The eldest sister grabbed a handful of melon seeds and started eating them. As soon as she started eating melon seeds, her title changed from girl to little sister.

While drinking, he introduced himself, "My surname is Chen and my name is Da Niu. You can just call me Sister Chen. I will get off at Yicheng later. Which station are you getting off at, little sister?"

"I'm just like you."

"We are still fellow villagers." Sister Chen grinned happily when she heard this. She instantly felt that she was very close to this girl, and she directly spoke the Yicheng dialect when the two of them spoke.

"That's not right. I think your father is from the provincial capital, but why are you from Yicheng? Can you still speak the dialect here?"

Yu Qing smiled lightly and said, "I grew up here."

Sister Chen understands that Yu Qing grew up with her grandparents in Yicheng. After all, in this era, many people have to work and leave their children to their grandparents in the countryside because they have no time to take care of them.

"Oh, no wonder."

Sister Chen then asked the two gay men on the upper bunk, "Where are you two going?"

"I'm going to Pingshi."

"I want to go further away, to Yangcheng."

"It is true that you are the farthest and have reached the terminal." Sister Chen nodded.

Besides, there was nothing to talk about with gay men, so she had better chat more with this girl to pass the boring time in the carriage.

The middle-aged uncle gave a bitter smile and said, "I have no choice. I can't live in my hometown. I want to go to Yangcheng to have a try. Maybe I can turn my bicycle into a motorcycle."

Yu Qing didn't feel comfortable asking other people's personal affairs, so she just smiled and joked: "Uncle, you are so humorous."

Sister Chen didn't have this self-consciousness, and her gossip aroused, "What did you say? Why can't you live in your hometown? If you leave your hometown and are humble, you can't live in your hometown, why can't you live in the place where you live?

Can we still survive in a familiar place?"

The middle-aged uncle was not unspeakably embarrassed. He said: "The factory's performance is not good, so I have to be laid off."

Sister Chen asked in surprise: "If the performance is not good, we will be laid off? Then our factory has not been doing well in the past few years, so am I not far away from being laid off?"

After hearing this, Yu Qing was curious about what company the eldest sister was in, so she asked: "Sister, what company are you in?"

"From the Yicheng Linen Mill."

Yu Qing swallowed her saliva. She would be laid off in the future. Yicheng is not a place that produces hemp and cotton. The raw materials for the hemp spinning factory are all transported from other places. The cost increases and there is no competitiveness in the market. Sooner or later, it will go bankrupt.

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When Sister Chen saw that Yu Qing had stopped talking, she asked, "Young sister, you also think that I will be laid off?"

Yu Qing glanced at the uncle on the upper bunk opposite and saw that he was just looking at her with a smile and had no intention of speaking. She swallowed and said, "Your factory is not competitive in the market. It is only a matter of time before it is eliminated."

Sister Chen was severely hit physically and mentally. How will the whole family support herself now that she is laid off?

She asked reluctantly: "So, little sister, which unit are you in?"

"My workplace is in the mountains."

"What kind of unit is that? Will it be built in a corner of the mountain?"

"Hydroelectric power station."

The middle-aged uncle said at this time: "Your work unit is not bad. At least you don't have to worry about being laid off until you retire."

Yu Qing nodded. In the future, the construction and development of cities will be indispensable for electricity, and hydroelectric power generation is more green and environmentally friendly than thermal power plants.

This heavy topic was brought to light, and Sister Chen was filled with envy. She immediately felt that the melon seeds in her hands no longer smelled good.

A few people chatted wordlessly, feeling that the time was not so difficult!

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