The high-speed train arrived, and because we still bought tickets for pairs of twos, the four of us were separated.
According to the ticket, two of them went to their seats.
There was someone already sitting in the seat, next to a woman, but this time she wasn’t wearing black stockings.
Lin Li and Bai Bufan exchanged a glance: Encore?
"Come on, come on, you’re sitting at A and still coming so slow, no manners." The man, wearing Bluetooth headphones and watching short videos, looked up impatiently at Lin Li, took off one earbud, and stood up.
"No, sir, did you take the wrong seat?" Lin Li asked.
"What?" The man frowned at this, then checked the ticket interface and confirmed with the seat information several times before showing Lin Li, speaking more impatiently: "07B, that’s right! You guys are the ones who got the wrong seats! Can’t you see? Annoying, go, go, go."
He immediately sat back down.
Mumbling a few phrases in dialect, which wasn’t from Yushun District, but judging by the tone, it wasn’t anything good.
The ticket information he just showed indeed had 07B as the seat.
"But—" Lin Li tried to continue, but was interrupted before he could finish.
"Get lost, get lost, what ’but’ this and ’but’ that, don’t bother me." The man continued watching his phone without even looking at Lin Li.
"I’m sorry, I’m sorry." At seventeen, the age where you can tolerate grievances, Lin Li sincerely apologized after getting a cold glare thrown at him, then pulled Bai Bufan away.
"Did we really make a mistake? Car 06, 07A and 07B..." After walking away, Bai Bufan was puzzled but not confident, took out his phone to check several more times since it was his first time on a high-speed train today, mistaking it is understandable.
"No need to look, the seat is right." Lin Li waved his hand dismissively.
"Huh? Then why is that uncle’s seat also 07B, double booking?" Bai Bufan was puzzled.
"No, I just saw the train number on that b-ticket, it’s not this train, it’s the one across, he got on the wrong train." Lin Li smiled.
"Then why are we leaving our seat?"
Bai Bufan abruptly stopped talking, looked at Lin Li, blinked, then gradually his face was filled with restrained laughter: "Oh, you bastard, I swear, Lin Li, you’re something else."
"If he had been a bit more polite, I would have explained to him."
Lin Li chuckled softly.
"Agreed, he starts with swearing right off the bat, I hate people who swear without any manners." Bai Bufan agreed, rubbing his hands with anticipation: "But we should remind him when we get off, otherwise, I’d regret not seeing him go all frantic."
Although Lin Li was a bastard, fortunately, Bai Bufan wasn’t a good guy either.
"Sure." Lin Li nodded, he had the same thought, "And it’s best when the train is just about to start again."
"Still, Lin Li, you’re considerate." Bai Bufan gave a thumbs up, "For that moment, it’s worth standing for half an hour."
"No need, I did some homework before coming, the indicators next to the seats on the high-speed train have meanings, red means occupied all the way, green means the seat hasn’t been sold, yellow means not sold until the next stop, although there might be a delay, but as long as we wait till the train starts, find a green or yellow seat, it’ll be fine.
Although we can’t sit together, it doesn’t matter."
Bai Bufan’s eyes lit up, he really didn’t know about this.
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So as they waited for the train to start to find a seat, the two of them stood by the entrance connecting the cars, eagerly watching 07B, afraid the man would get up and leave, making them miss the fun.
But seeing Bai Bufan standing awkwardly next to him, Lin Li asked curiously:
"What are you doing? You look like you need to pee urgently."
"Because I really do need to pee a bit right now." Bai Bufan nodded.
"Why don’t you go pee? There are toilets on the high-speed train. Actually, they are right in this car." Lin Li was surprised, pointing towards the toilets to indicate.
"It’s not the right time yet." Bai Bufan shook his head, "I hope to contribute to the nation’s development."
"Speak human, would you?"
"Lin Li, have you heard of a project that benefits the country and the people, the South-to-North Pee Diversion?" Bai Bufan’s eyes shone as he said this, full of youthful enthusiasm, expressing his commitment to the nation:
"I drink a lot of water in Yushun District in the South just to bring the water to the North to urinate in Nansang."
"In order to solve the imbalance of water resources in our country."
"For the country, for the people of Nansang, I’m willing to endure, to hold back, it’s nothing!"
Hearing this, Lin Li was moved to tears by Bai Bufan’s spirit of self-sacrifice:
"Moved to tears, what an idiot."
The high-speed train arrived.
"Chen Yu Ying: Why haven’t you two come out yet? @Lin Li @Bai Bufan."
"Lin Li: Wait for us for a moment, we’re timing it."
As the sound indicating the train doors were about to close rang out, Lin Li and Bai Bufan exchanged a glance and approached the man with a smile.
"Why is it you two again!" The man, interrupted again with a tap on the shoulder, saw it was the people who bothered him last time and angrily wanted to act.
"Hello, uncle, I just realized something, you got on the wrong train." Lin Li bent over politely to greet him.
"Uncle, shouldn’t you be on the high-speed train heading to Bridge Town? But we’re on the one going to An Sect." Bai Bufan followed up politely, "Oh dear, it seems like you really got on the wrong train."
——With the train number Lin Li remembered, it was easy to check where the man’s original train was going.