Teacher Xie Nan did not wish to see Xiao Yuanyang, so she closed her eyes and rested on the bed.
Having been working continuously for the past few days, Teacher Xie Nan was indeed very tired. She fell asleep shortly after lying down.
Perhaps due to her relieved state of mind, Teacher Xie Nan slept very soundly.
When Su Xiaotian looked down at the lower bunk during a break from reading, she even saw a gentle smile on Teacher Xie Nan’s face.
It was unclear if she was dreaming of Su Xiaocao.
During this time, Su Xiaotian had been reading with great seriousness.
Although she no longer needed to rely on reading to sign in and earn money for opening treasure chests, reading was a good habit, and Su Xiaotian was determined not to miss a single day.
The two people in the opposite bunks, with their different thoughts, had also fallen asleep.
The small compartment was quiet.
When Teacher Xie Nan woke up, it was already completely dark outside.
She glanced at her watch; it was already ten o'clock in the evening.
At this time, the train would have its lights turned off at eleven o'clock at night.
In a little while, the train would be extinguishing its lights.
She sat up and shook her slightly dazed head.
Seeing the thermos cup on the table, she opened it and took a sip.
The warm water was just right as it entered her mouth.
After fully waking up, Teacher Xie Nan stood up to look at Su Xiaotian on the upper bunk.
Su Xiaotian was still diligently reading.
Sensing that someone was watching her, Su Xiaotian finally shifted her gaze from the book.
“Teacher Xie, you’re awake?”
“Yes, I slept very comfortably.” Teacher Xie Nan unconsciously shook her arm.
She hadn’t expected to sleep more comfortably on the train than at home.
“You were sleeping so soundly, I didn’t want to disturb you. I even saw you smiling,” Su Xiaotian said to Xie Nan with a smile.
If it weren’t for the other two people opposite them, Su Xiaotian would have wanted to ask Teacher Xie Nan if she was dreaming of Su Xiaocao.
“Yes. Xiaotian, have you been reading all this time? You should rest too, you’ve been reading for so long.”
Although her tone was one of complaint, her concern was evident.
This child’s current achievements were truly not accidental. She had started reading from past six o’clock and continued until ten o’clock.
Setting aside other things, just this spirit of diligent and arduous study was something others couldn’t compare to.
Teacher Xie Nan sighed again, thinking that if every student could be as diligent, there would be no shortage of good students.
Although she hadn’t read for ten hours today, Su Xiaotian still followed Teacher Xie Nan’s advice.
She casually placed the book on the bed and then climbed down from the upper bunk.
Recalling that it was already late at night, and it had been four or five hours since they finished dinner, she figured Teacher Xie Nan must be hungry.
“Teacher Xie, are you hungry? We still have dumplings in our bag, would you like to eat some?”
At this hour, Teacher Xie Nan usually wouldn’t eat anything.
However, they had eaten dinner early today, and she was indeed a little hungry now.
Furthermore, as people who had come through difficult times, Teacher Xie Nan also worried that the dumplings would spoil if left in the lunchbox.
“Then let’s eat some!”
Hearing Teacher Xie Nan say this, Su Xiaotian crouched down and pretended to take out a lunchbox from her bag.
In reality, the lunchbox had been placed in the system space from the beginning.
There was no other way; the weather was getting hotter, and if the dumplings were truly left in the bag, they would likely be inedible by now.
“Xiaotian, open it first and smell it. Has it gone bad?”
Teacher Xie Nan was worried that in such hot weather, if they had spoiled, eating them would cause stomach problems.
Su Xiaotian smiled and said to Teacher Xie Nan, “It’s only been a few hours, it should be fine. Teacher Xie, I’ll take it to the water room to heat it up before we eat.”
The main reason Su Xiaotian wanted to heat the dumplings was that she had placed the lunchbox in the system space from the moment she received them.
If she guessed correctly, the dumplings should still be warm at this moment, not completely cold.
If she didn’t go to heat them up, it was highly likely that her secret would be revealed.
Although she liked Teacher Xie Nan, her secret could not be known by others.
Teacher Xie Nan also felt that eating cold food was not good, so she nodded and asked Su Xiaotian to heat the dumplings.
The sound of their conversation woke up Xiao Yuanyang, who had been sleeping soundly opposite them.
Xiao Yuanyang stood up and, upon hearing them talk about eating dumplings, felt his stomach rumble.
They had also brought food, but it wasn’t dumplings; it was flatbread and bread they had bought.
He looked at Yin Ruyun, who was sleeping on the upper bunk, and wanted Yin Ruyun to get him some water to eat the flatbread with.
Unfortunately, Yin Ruyun seemed to be sleeping very deeply. He stared at the person lying on the middle bunk for a long time, but there was no reaction at all.
Yin Ruyun had actually woken up.
But she didn’t want to open her eyes and face Xiao Yuanyang, that greasy man.
She just wanted to lie there quietly by herself.
Xiao Yuanyang frowned and stared at Yin Ruyun for a long time, and only gave up when he was sure that Yin Ruyun was sleeping soundly and showed no signs of waking up.
After all, in front of others, he couldn’t just shout or even resort to violence against Yin Ruyun.
He picked up his water cup and took a sip. It was cold.
The water cup Xiao Yuanyang was using now was an ordinary glass jam jar.
Unlike Su Xiaotian and Teacher Xie Nan’s thermos cups, the water they had refilled after boarding the train had long since turned icy cold.
Since Yin Ruyun was sleeping and unwilling to get up, he had to get hot water himself.
Teacher Xie Nan watched Xiao Yuanyang walk out of the small compartment with his cup and let out a cold snort.
This man was truly not a good person.
His age was enough to be Yin Ruyun’s father, yet he could lay hands on a girl of that age. Was he not ashamed?
When he held the young girl, did he ever think of his wife and three children still in Beijing?
Although Teacher Xie Nan disliked people like Yin Ruyun, she disliked people like Xiao Yuanyang even more.
After all, in her youth, she had also encountered the wrong person.
Xiao Yuanyang heard Teacher Xie Nan’s cold snort but could only pretend not to hear it.
Ever since he met Teacher Xie Nan, he had felt that something was amiss.
Although he had acted recklessly outside, he wasn’t completely disregarding his wife in Beijing.
The Xiao family was no longer in a position to transfer him back, so he could only wait for his wife to find a way to help him return to Beijing.
If Teacher Xie Nan told his wife about him and Yin Ruyun, he was worried that his wife, in her anger, would cut ties with him.
As Xiao Yuanyang slowly walked towards the water room, he happened to see Su Xiaotian just finishing heating her dumplings and about to return.
Seeing Su Xiaotian’s young, beautiful, and flamboyant face, Xiao Yuanyang became furious.
He glared fiercely at Su Xiaotian.
Su Xiaotian naturally saw Xiao Yuanyang approaching.
However, he had no intention of speaking to Xiao Yuanyang.
As the two passed each other, Xiao Yuanyang couldn’t help but speak.
“Su Xiaotian, you’ve caused me so much suffering!”