Chapter 459 - A Little Girl (1/2)

The fastest way to travel by ground was to take a four-hour trip in a high speed train to travel from Shanghai to Beijing. Instead of taking a flight, Qin Sheng preferred to take the high speed train so that he could enjoy the scenery along the way. Chang Baji and Hao Lei sat on the row behind him. There was a little girl sitting on his right side; going by her looks, she had just enrolled in Middle School. She was enjoying movies in the iPad she was holding.

Qin Sheng thought that the little girl was quite cute. Based on her temperament and the way she was dressed, she probably came from a rich family. If so, Qin Sheng wondered why the elders of her family had so easily allowed her to travel alone. “Could it be that they are confident that nothing will take place along the way?”

The always smiling little girl may have sensed Qin Sheng’s stare. She raised her head and offered a wider and radiant smile to Qin Sheng as she said, “Hello, uncle.”

Qin Sheng didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he replied, “Shouldn’t you call me brother?”

The little girl, who was somewhat surprised, figured out what Qin Sheng’s words meant and immediately changed her greeting, “Hello, brother.”

Qin Sheng almost burst into laughter and thought of himself as a cheeky person. As expected, be it men or women, no one liked to be addressed as a senior once they grew older. Qin Sheng had swiftly turned almost thirty without him knowing, he didn’t know how he should evaluate the former half of his life without achieving anything big so far.

Qin Sheng, who had nothing to do, asked casually, “Are you go to Beijing alone? Why are you traveling without companions?”

The little girl replied with a quite sweet voice, “Both Grandma and Grandpa are old. Uncle and Aunt are busy with work. I can take the railway train by myself since I am a grown-up. Then my father and mother will pick me up at the railway station.”

Sensing the little girl was a considerate child, Qin Sheng asked thoughtfully, “Are you going to Beijing for fun?”

The little girl shook her head and said, “No. I study in Beijing. I came to Shanghai because of my vacation. Since the school will open the day after tomorrow, I need to go back to Beijing today.”

The little girl was quite cute. She had a moon-face and big eyes. Her hair was black and silky, which had been tied into a ponytail with a flower-embedded hair ring. She certainly would become a beauty once she grew up.

Qin Sheng teased her on purpose and said, “Did you finish all the winter vacation homework?”

The little girl blinked her eyes and replied, “Brother, we don’t have any winter vacation homework.”

Qin Sheng was speechless after he heard the little girl’s reply. It turned out the children in the current society were so blessed that they didn’t have any winter vacation homework at all, which was completely different from the time he attended Middle School and had a massive amount of homework to do. Fortunately, Qin Sheng had been skilled at handling his academic studies at that time. Sometimes, with the teacher’s exemption, he had not needed to do any homework at all, as long as he ranked among the top 10 in the whole grade when it came to the examination score.

After Qin Sheng chatted with the little girl for a while, he took out his laptop and continued studying the subject assigned by the old professor in the classes for advanced studies. The subject was related to a classical case on the domestic capital merger and acquisition, which had involved many unknown secrets.

At noon, the little girl stood up and intended to go to the toilet. However, she was almost knocked down by a middle-aged woman who was supposedly going to the toilet in a hurry. If Qin Sheng had not supported her swiftly and nimbly, she would have bumped into the front seat. Since the middle-aged woman saw it was a little girl, she directly walked forward without even apologizing to her. It was unknown whether she did so because she needed to go to the toilet as soon as possible or due to other unknown situations.

The little girl called unhappily, “Auntie, you almost knocked me down.”

Unfortunately, the middle-aged woman was far away by then, she might not have heard what the little girl said. The little girl felt so wronged that she almost burst out crying. In the end, she had no choice but to sit down obediently and pout her lips, looking unhappy.

The little girl, who could not figure out why the middle-aged woman had treated her like this, tilted her head and asked, “Brother, why didn’t she apologize to me?”

Qin Sheng replied gently, “You can ask her when she comes back. She owes you an apology.”

The little girl thought for a while, then she nodded and replied, “All right.”

A few seconds later, the middle-aged woman came back from the restroom. The little girl stood in her way and said, “Auntie, you haven’t apologized to me yet.”

The middle-aged woman replied disapprovingly, “Whose child is she? So uneducated. I just almost knocked you down by accident. You were not even injured.”

What the middle-aged woman had said indicated that she thought she was in the right and was self-confident, making Qin Sheng admire her courage. He wondered why she had been so confident since it was clear who was the uneducated one, based on the current situation. It was true that people could never expect that the people they encountered were as normal as themselves in recent days.

The little girl did not let the middle-aged woman go because of what she had said. Instead, she insisted, “Auntie, since you almost knocked me down, you should apologize to me.” According to her mother, people who committed mistakes certainly needed to apologize and admit their mistakes, which was basic courtesy to others. The little girl wondered why the middle-aged woman had acted the other way around.

It was unknown whether it was because the middle-aged woman was going through menopause or her period, since she pushed the little girl away gruffly and said, “F**k off. Don’t stand in my way. Whose child are you? Do your parents just allow you to act like this?”

After the little girl was directly pushed away the middle-aged woman, the child felt wronged and burst into tears on her seat. It might have been the first time she had traveled alone; she had no choice but to bear all the wrongdoings on her own since she had nobody to confide in.

As Qin Sheng witnessed the whole process, he felt sincerely sorry for the little girl. Although all the adults taught the children to be polite and abide by the rules, it turned out some adults didn’t follow the rules at all. In that case, Qin Sheng wondered how the children should face the world, who must feel that everything was contradictory in secret.