Ling Chengyan entered the crew compartment, but she didn’t go in to see the injured person because she met the volunteer doctor in the corridor.

She handed over the medicine and whispered, "From the military."

The doctor’s face turned solemn and he nodded to her seriously, "Thank you, I will pass it on to the injured. Your name..."

Ling Chengyan shook her head, "No need to mention my name, you have your work cut out for you."

After speaking, she turned and walked away.

The doctor paused for a moment, didn’t linger, and went back.

Ling Chengyan walked to the carriage door but didn’t go out immediately. Instead, she leaned to the side, hiding in the dimly lit corner within the door.

In this spot, there was no light, she could see outside, and people passing by would hardly notice her presence unless they paid close attention.

She just wanted to wait a bit, observe the actions of the person outside, and determine if her intuition was correct.

Unexpectedly, there was a surprising discovery.

A young man in a crew uniform rushed out, the man hovering at the door immediately approached, and the two hid in the nook connecting the carriages and murmured a few words. The crew member, with a not-so-good complexion, hurriedly walked towards the passenger carriages.

The other man continued to circle around and eventually swayed away.

Ling Chengyan’s gaze narrowed slightly, she followed the man, trailing him with a few steps behind.

They say a thief never leaves empty-handed, and some say stealing is an addiction. This man, for whichever reason, when passing through the hard seat carriage, brushed past a middle-aged man and reached out to pickpocket his pocket—

However, he didn’t succeed this time, as he had just taken the wallet from the man’s pocket, his wrist was caught by someone.

He instinctively flicked his hand, the wallet slipping from his grasp—he was trying to dispose of the stolen goods!

Ling Chengyan adeptly tilted, picked up the wallet like a magnet meeting iron, and neatly pinned it under her foot.

"Hey, comrade, see if you’ve lost anything?"

With her call, everyone around turned their gaze towards here, with several instinctively reaching for their pockets.

The person who lost the wallet seemed to have urgent business and walked forward in a hurry without stopping.

Ling Chengyan called again, "The man in the blue vest!"

This shout made the man stop, others stepped forward to block him.

The man seemed bewildered at first, then, being reminded, quickly reached for his pocket, and his face changed dramatically.

"Where’s my wallet? My wallet was stolen!"

"Hey, don’t panic, no need to panic, we stopped you precisely for this, that lady caught the thief, hurry over there."

With others’ reminders, the man hurriedly turned back.

Ling Chengyan asked him about the wallet’s shape, color, and questioned what was inside the wallet. After confirming everything, she didn’t return the wallet but took the man and the wallet to find the train police.

With the train police as witnesses, after making a record, the wallet was returned to the owner.

Surprisingly, the thief was extra quiet and well-behaved, not resistant at all, once caught did not utter a sound, yet when he saw the train police, he suddenly confessed voluntarily, not only admitting his accomplice but also the insider on the train—the steward he connected with.

This public confession stunned everyone present.

Ling Chengyan handed the person over and quietly left.

As for the subsequent developments, she wasn’t worried.

The thief confessed not only with those on the train, but also with the wallet owner and injured passenger as well as the doctor there.

With these people around, even if there were any hidden shady dealings, Ling Chengyan didn’t have to worry.

As for Ling Chengyan herself, she never intended to seek any reward for her actions.

Just like Wang Liansheng said, what you did might be akin to slapping someone’s face, they probably wouldn’t be grateful.

With the joke said, Ling Chengyan didn’t even look at him, and then isolated Comrade Wang Liansheng. The children laughed gleefully cooperating with their mom, unwilling to help their dad, cheerfully enjoying the commotion.

The journey endured a heavy rain, the car stopped for over forty minutes before restarting.

The train, originally scheduled to arrive at ten the next morning, was delayed by nearly two hours. At the provincial city, the rain already ceased, leaving clear skies.

Back home, the family was in good spirits, washed up, had their meal, and went about their studies and work, not thinking further about the journey.

As a result, two days later when watching the news, they realized that a flood occurred in the area they passed through, prompting the train to stop and wait due to the flood warning, and it resumed only after the danger was cleared.

"Thinking back now, isn’t there somewhat of a sense of dread?" Wang Liansheng squeezed close, asking softly.

Ling Chengyan put down her book, turned her back, shut off her bedside lamp, and closed her eyes to sleep, ignoring someone.

Wang Liansheng, rebuffed, laughed awkwardly, and laid flat in his bed, head on his arm, continued, "I’ll tell you something, elder brother called me today, he received an invitation for an engineering bid in the provincial city, planning to participate. If successful, elder brother will likely develop in the provincial city in the future."

Ling Chengyan lay with eyes closed, breathing steady, not even twitching an eyelid.

Sister-in-law had long mentioned it over the phone, someone still thinks using this to coax her into conversation?

Elder brother Wang Lianqi coming to the provincial city is indeed Wang Liansheng’s lifeline. With elder brother here, Ling Chengyan couldn’t give her husband an unrewarded face before him, finally allowing the couple to talk.

Elder brother is kind-hearted, with a generous disposition, doing engineering without cutting corners, reliable in quality. Though it seems lesser to earn quickly temporarily, accumulating year by year, those engineering teams only wanting quick profits are surpassed. Now, not only in Huicheng, across the Eastern Province, their engineering company is reputable.

Wang Liansheng admired elder brother’s new Passat car, genuinely praising, "Elder brother got a new car, very nice indeed."

Wang Lianqi often immersed in engineering remains tan-skinned, his smile with a weathered face seemed no different from an old farmer.

"Hey, we’re out here doing engineering projects, need to maintain appearances, they trust you have the ability to undertake projects with these."

Wang Liansheng, smiling, nodded, indeed these years, people’s lives improved, societal opinions and trends changed, judging based on appearances is popular, hence in business circles, they care about this, euphemistically called ’branding’.

Welcoming elder brother inside, Ling Chengyan was in the kitchen preparing meals, Wang Liansheng ushered elder brother inside to sit and promptly put on an apron, going to the kitchen, driving Ling Chengyan out, "Finish preparing the dishes, then go chat with elder brother, I’ll take over cooking."