Thousands of miles of blue sky, white clouds like brocade.

The bare tops of the straight poplar trees on both sides of the road, and every now and then a large magpie nest or two hangs from them.

The same is true in the shade of the fields in the distance.

Outside the dusty car window, these scenes quickly retreated backwards.

Zhao Qingfeng fell asleep lying on his back in the seat, his small mouth open, as if there was a drop of crystal saliva hanging on the corner of his mouth.

Zhao Qingyu took out a tissue to wipe it off for him, and yawned tiredly.

After eating at noon, most of the people in the car fell asleep, and Zhao's father and Zhao's mother had already snuggled and dozed.

In a family of four, three of them fell asleep, and Zhao Qingyu didn't dare to close his eyes.

She shook her head and ate another plum, letting the sour taste stimulate her taste and spirit.

Suddenly, out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a man not far in front of her, sneakily pulling out something.

Zhao Qingyu's eyelids jumped, it was a knife.

The man slowly moved the knife forward, aiming for the leather bag that the woman in front of him hung at his side.

Probably sensing something, the man suddenly turned his head to look back, but he didn't see anything.

Zhao Qingyu had closed his eyes slightly, and seemed to be sleeping.

The others were the same, and a few even snorted loudly.

Seeing that no one was noticing, the man turned around and continued the previous theft.

He slashed the back of the bag with a knife, and the bag cracked a long hole, but that didn't work, because there was still a canvas layer inside.

The canvas is not easy to cut, and the man has to work hard.

"Driver, stop, I want to go to the toilet!"

A clear voice suddenly sounded, and the thief paused, and immediately withdrew his hand, as if he had accidentally cut his finger in a panic.

Zhao Qingyu opened her eyes slightly, and the person who spoke was a young man sitting behind her.

"It's only been a long time, and I'm going to go to the toilet again." The conductor muttered in front, but the car stopped.

The young man got up and got out of the car, patted the middle-aged woman on the shoulder as he passed her, and said, "Mom, don't sleep while you are in the car." ”

The middle-aged woman opened her eyes in confusion and looked at the young man walking towards the car door for some reason.

"Mom, this person ......"

The little girl next to the middle-aged woman also woke up, and was about to open her mouth to ask something, when she was suddenly interrupted by the screams of her own mother next to her.

"cut my bag! Death, death! My money ......"

She was halfway through her shouting, and her voice stopped abruptly.

Zhao Qingyu roughly guessed that the middle-aged woman found that her money had not been lost.

But the middle-aged woman's voice woke up almost everyone, and although everyone was a little dazed at first, they quickly reacted - there was a thief in the car.

For a while, everyone looked left and right, as if judging whether the strangers around them were also people with evil intentions.

The young man wandered around in the grass on the back slope of the canal on the side of the road and got back into the car, Zhao Qingyu didn't know whether he was really convenient or fake, but she really admired his courage.

If it was her, she only dared to pretend to sleep silently.

There was a faint sense of shame in her heart.

The conductor, who was still a little impatient, looked at him differently when he saw the young man coming up.

The car continued to drive, and everyone knew that there was a thief in the car, and no one dared to sleep anymore.

Zhao's father and mother turned their heads to look at their children, but did not speak, as if they wanted to tell them to be careful with their eyes.

The people in the vicinity of the middle-aged woman became suspicious, and everyone had to look over there once or twice from time to time, and by the way, they tightened their wallets.

Zhao Qingyu's heart jumped suddenly, she didn't seem to have experienced such a thing in her memory, but the time was too long, and she couldn't guarantee it.

But she always felt a little unsettled, and she suspected that there was more than one thief in the car, and that he probably had accomplices!

The only thing I can do now is to keep an eye on my own things all the time.

Zhao Qingyu has nothing of value except for a PHS.

And Zhao's father and Zhao's mother don't need to worry too much, behind them are two children, even if the thief sits in front of them, he won't turn around and steal things, after all, everyone doesn't want to be embarrassed by each other.

For a while, the car was extremely quiet, except for the roar of the car engine, it was almost audible.

Zhao Qingyu glanced sideways at Zhao Qingfeng, who was looking around curiously with big dark eyes.

She patted the back of his hand lightly, motioning for him not to look around.

After driving for nearly half an hour, scattered red brick houses gradually appeared on both sides of the road.

Generally, if this happens, it means that there will be a village or a small town nearby.

Sure enough, the further you went, the more densely populated the houses became, and from time to time there were mules and donkeys pulling carts on the side of the roadside, and the drivers would sit in front of the carts and shout loudly with their pigtails.

With the crowds, the atmosphere in the car gradually improved, and people began to whisper.

"It's only now that I've arrived in Guoyu Village, and it's at least ten o'clock in the evening when I wait for T City."

"What the hell, I arrived at one o'clock in the morning last time, and I walked home for two hours......"

Zhao Qingyu sat in front, and she heard the conversation of the people behind her very clearly, and one of them was the young man just now.

It's just that this relaxed atmosphere didn't last long, not long after the car passed Guoyu Village, there was a long "no man's land" behind it.

There was not a single house on either side of the road for a long time, and the low hills in the distance were stacked on top of each other, and the sun was at some point blocked behind the heavy gray clouds.

The road conditions here are also not very good, the car is bumpy, and sometimes it can bounce people two or three centimeters high from the seat.

Some people who were already a little motion sick were even more painful at this time, and those things in their stomachs were already uncomfortable and ready to go, and they were tossed like this again......

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, ......"

Two of the little children threw up unbearably, but fortunately their parents had taken the bags in the car in advance.

Just listening to the sound of them vomiting, Zhao Qingyu's face turned a little yellow.

"Ahh My wallet—"

Suddenly, a shrill voice erupted inside the car.

Everyone looked over, and an old woman in her fifties and sixties in the penultimate row of the car stood in place with a cut cloth bag and beat her brother's feet.

"I'm paying for my son's house! I'm a god, my son is about to get married. Whoever took my money and returned it to me—"

The old woman wept so hard that she kept asking the people sitting next to him if they had seen who had taken it.

Next to her sat a middle-aged man of about forty years old, with a fierce face, and the old woman asked him twice, and he impatiently pulled the former's arm away and said, "How do I know, I am asleep too." ”

No one dared to speak in the car for a while, and even several people secretly felt that the money was stolen by this middle-aged man nine times out of ten.

The salesman saw that the old woman was crying pitifully, so he came up with an idea.

"Why don't you go to the office?"

As soon as she finished speaking, someone objected: "The nearest office near here has to take a detour to Wu Town, and it will be the middle of the night when I come to T City, how can you be responsible for delaying my affairs if you ask for more trouble?!" ”

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