CHAPTER 464: CHAPTER 464: LIU GUOQIANG

No matter if it’s Zhuangzhuang, Niuniu, Ningning from her family, or Li Wei’s son, or Sun Lanlan’s son.

When she sees the children, her eyes light up, and she’s extremely patient with them.

Perhaps because of this, every month when her period comes, her mood becomes very low and disappointed.

She even asked herself what she would do if she couldn’t have a baby.

She really wanted a child of their own.

Qin Yang hadn’t expected Lin Chuxia to take the matter of having children so to heart.

Perhaps it was this that put pressure on her, that’s why...

Lin Chuxia didn’t know what Qin Yang was thinking and had already packed her luggage.

This time, they were just going to stock up goods, so they traveled light, only bringing a few changes of clothes, considering they’d be on the train for several days, and it would take a few more days once they arrived.

Fortunately, the weather was warm, and the clothes were thin, so they didn’t take up much space.

Their train was at 9:40 in the morning. When Lin Chuxia arrived at the train station, the others were already there.

Apart from carrying backpacks, Jia Liang and Hou Xiaobao also carried two big bags full of food.

Jia Liang noticed her gaze and explained, "Once we’re on the train, we should try to move around as little as possible. The food on the train might not be good, so I brought extra."

"You’ve thought it through thoroughly."

Before, when Lin Chuxia took the train by herself, she didn’t know how many meat buns and such she had stored in her space.

Suddenly traveling with strangers, she had almost forgotten.

Wang Tianxue saw that she was only carrying a handbag and was shocked.

She quickly stepped forward, pulled her aside, and spoke in a low voice, "Have you secured the money? Just carrying it like this?"

With it in hand?

Just thinking about the more than twenty thousand yuan inside for their goods, Wang Tianxue’s heart trembled.

More than twenty thousand yuan, now how many are millionaires?

According to her idea, this time was just a test run, there was no need to stock too much inventory.

After all, she had planned to start from setting up a street stall.

However, Lin Chuxia felt that a trip wasn’t easy to make, and the transportation cost for ten thousand yuan worth of goods was the same as that for twenty thousand yuan worth of goods.

Also, their shopping mall’s scale was considerable, she didn’t want everything to sell out as soon as they opened.

Wang Tianxue was amused by her words at the time.

Whose business sells out on the first day of opening?

But she didn’t dampen Lin Chuxia’s spirits—the clothing styles from the south were indeed more popular than the local ones, so she didn’t insist further.

In any case, that was all the money she had.

If the boss wants to invest more, she, the employee, could only try to make sure the boss spends the money to his satisfaction.

But seeing her so casual, she couldn’t help but grumble.

Even if she doesn’t take money seriously, if it were really lost, their trip would be in vain.

Lin Chuxia gave her a reassuring look, "Don’t worry, it’s all secured. I have everything under control."

Well, nothing more could be said at this point.

Wang Tianxue glanced at the three big men opposite and thought that since everyone was in the same carriage, it would be fine to just keep an extra eye out.

"Chuxia, this is Liu Guoqiang I told you about."

Wang Tianxue introduced the driver she brought to Lin Chuxia.

Lin Chuxia had spotted the unfamiliar man among the group early on.

He was over 1.7 meters tall and looked quite sturdy.

In his early thirties, he had a handsome face, especially those bright eyes.

When Wang Tianxue introduced him, Liu Guoqiang stepped forward and briskly extended his right hand, "Mr. Lin, hello, I’m Liu Guoqiang."

Lin Chuxia shook his hand and raised an eyebrow, "Discharged from the army?"

"Yes, I served for eight years and have been retired for several years now."

Lin Chuxia had always admired military personnel. Not only did Liu Guoqiang look respectable, but his every movement still bore the traces of a soldier, which immediately endeared him to her.

When the time came, the six of them followed the crowd into the station to have their tickets checked.

The crowd was at its largest and most chaotic then.

They spontaneouly formed a circle around Lin Chuxia, one to prevent others from bumping into her and another to protect her bag.

Only when they entered their own carriage did they finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Jia Liang and Hou Xiaobao were the most nervous among them.

Having been involved in such activities before, they knew all too well the methods of the pickpockets and could tell at a glance who was the most suspicious in the crowd.

When they reached their seats, Hou Xiaobao was still feeling shaken as he told them, "It’s indeed a long-distance trip to Rong City. Just now, when boarding, there were more pickpockets in the crowd than you could count on both hands. I even saw someone slash open a man’s bag and steal his money."

"Slash open a bag?" Liu Na exclaimed in surprise.

This was her first long journey, and she had only heard about pickpockets on trains. Hearing Hou Xiaobao describe so many, she cast a worried glance at Lin Chuxia.

Lin Chuxia was already aware of these things from her past life and was not surprised.

At that moment, she was checking out the six bunk beds.

Conveniently, it was three men to one side and three women to the other.

On the men’s side, Houzi took the top bunk, Jia Liang the middle, and Liu Guoqiang the bottom.

On the women’s side, Liu Na, being the youngest, took the top bunk. Lin Chuxia settled in the middle, with Wang Tianxue on the bottom bunk.

Wang Tianxue had wanted Lin Chuxia to take the bottom bunk since the middle bunk among the three-tiers was the most uncomfortable, but Lin Chuxia refused.

Hou Xiaobao continued to talk about pickpockets, with Liu Na now sticking close to Lin Chuxia, unblinkingly eyeing her bag for fear someone would actually come over and slash it open.

Finally, Wang Tianxue could not stand it anymore, "Nana, do you know what you’re doing now? It’s like holding a lamp to search for something in the daytime – too conspicuous."

Lin Chuxia laughed along, "It’s just the six of us here, and if outsiders come near, we’ll be alert right away, don’t worry, it’s fine."

She put her bag in the innermost part of the bunk. The bunk was open, so if anyone came in, they would notice immediately.

Jia Liang also nodded, "Mr. Lin is right. Just relax here; we’ll all be watching out."

Lin Chuxia reminded them, "Outside, stop calling me Mr. Lin, do you want to make me a target? Just call me by my name, and Brother Liu, you can just call me Chuxia."

Liu Guoqiang nodded, then glanced at Hou Xiaobao.

Seeing that his look was meaningful, Lin Chuxia couldn’t help but ask, "Brother Liu, what were you doing before? After demobilization, you should have been given a job arrangement, right?"

Liu Guoqiang retracted his gaze and spoke indifferently, "Police."

"Clang!"

Hou Xiaobao, who was climbing onto the upper bunk, nearly fell off in surprise.

Lin Chuxia suppressed her laughter and continued, "Sister Tianxue mentioned that you’re currently self-employed, so why not continue with the police?"

Self-employed was Lin Chuxia’s euphemism for being jobless.

This time Wang Tianxue brought him over, firstly to ask for his help and secondly for Lin Chuxia to meet him and see if he could be retained to work in the mall.

However, Lin Chuxia found her own question too abrupt and hurriedly added, "I’m just asking casually, if it’s not convenient, you don’t have to answer."

Liu Guoqiang laughed, "There’s nothing inconvenient about it. I had a comrade-in-arms who, due to some family situations, couldn’t settle into a job. In my opinion, he needed such a job more, so I gave it to him."