Become a burden in a period novel

Chapter 419 Mother and Son on the Train

Qin Wangshu lay on the upper bunk after getting on the train. After the train started, she put down her book and took a nap.

She prepared some food and put it in the space, ready to get out of bed and eat in the dining car when it was time for dinner.

The couple below were sitting on their beds respectively, without communicating with each other, and the whole carriage seemed very quiet.

After the train stopped at the next station, Qin Wangshu was awakened by the noise outside. At this time, the last person in their carriage also got on.

The person who came up this time was a girl dressed very fashionably, who looked about the same age as Qin Wangshu. After she came in, she put her luggage away and went to her bed without communicating with anyone.

It seems that the companions on this trip are not very communicative, so the journey will be a little quieter.

Qin Wangshu had just taken a nap and was no longer sleepy, so he sat up and picked up the book he had been reading.

It was not until dinner time that Qin Wangshu got out of bed, picked up his bag and prepared to go to the dining car.

On the way to the dining car, Qin Wangshu passed by several carriages. When she walked to one of the carriages, she heard a child crying.

The crying was so loud that it felt heart-wrenching. The people around were already a little dissatisfied, but the person holding the child was unable to coax the child.

When Qin Wangshu saw this scene, the first reaction in his mind was, is this person holding the child really the child’s mother?

There was no way. Before she transmigrated into the book, she had heard and seen many cases of child trafficking, and there were also such descriptions in many novels.

Fearing that such a situation might really happen, she looked carefully at the woman holding the child.

She was a pale and thin woman, and the clothes she wore were patched. Although she was anxious to coax the child, the look in her eyes when she looked at the child was filled with anxiety as well as deep heartache.

Looking at the child, the sheet wrapping the child was also old. Although the child was crying, his body was clean. From the facial features, he looked somewhat similar to the woman, so it seemed that he should be the woman's child.

Since it wasn't abduction, Qin Wangshu was relieved. At the same time, she couldn't help but feel that she was overthinking it. How could there be so many human traffickers!

It was not good to let the child cry like this all the time. Thinking of the medicine he had brought with him, Qin Wangshu walked over to the woman.

"What's wrong with the child?" Qin Wangshu walked up to them and asked in a gentle voice.

When the woman heard what Qin Wangshu said, she was stunned for a moment before she looked up. "Child, the child is hungry. I... I don't have milk..."

When Qin Wangshu got closer, he found that she put her fingers in the child's mouth, trying to coax her.

"Are you traveling alone? Is there anything else to eat?" Qin Wangshu seemed to have seen that children over six months old can eat complementary foods. This child should be six months old.

"This is all I have!" The woman took out a piece of dry biscuit from a bundle next to her. This was their food for tomorrow.

She wanted to take her child to find the child's father, but she had no money. All her money was used to buy train tickets, so she had no money to buy food.

"There is hot water in the car. I'll help you soak the pancake and give it to the child. You can't let him cry all the time." Qin Wangshu was ready to help the mother and child. "I'm going to the dining car. You guys come with me. It's more convenient over there."

"I...I..." The woman was at a loss as to what to do. She didn't know whether she should believe the girl in front of her, but she had no other choice.

"Don't worry, I'm not a bad person. If you don't want to go to the dining car, just give me a lunch box and I'll get you some hot water." Qin Wangshu knew that the person in front of him had probably never been out of the house, but he couldn't let the child keep crying like this.

She took out two candies from her bag, in fact from the space, and put them in the woman's hand.

"Eat a piece of candy first. Not only is the child hungry, you should be hungry too." If she wasn't hungry, she wouldn't have run out of milk. Qin Wangshu didn't know what she had been through, but poverty was certain.

It’s not that other people in the carriage didn’t think about helping the mother and son, but the mother was too timid, and the approach of other people would arouse her fear.

The child cried like this for a long time, and they were a little annoyed, but looking at the situation of the mother and child, they didn't know what to say.

The woman didn't know how to react, but when she looked at Qin Wangshu, she felt that she looked familiar and could be trusted, so she coaxed the child while taking out a lunch box from her bag.

Qin Wangshu took the lunch box and walked towards the dining car. The child was so young that it was impossible to feed him with soaked biscuits. She remembered that there seemed to be a box of milk powder in her space, so she could make a bowl of milk for the child.

After Qin Wangshu left with the lunch box, the woman looked at the two candies in her hand and tears could not help falling. Although she was very hungry, she could not bear to eat the two candies. She peeled one of the candies and put it to the child's mouth.

She put the candy near the child's mouth and let him start sucking immediately. Seeing that the child stopped crying, she was relieved. The child had been crying for a long time, but she really had no way to help him.

She had no money and no food. She was starving, let alone milk to feed her child.

She really had no other choice, otherwise she wouldn't have taken the risk of getting on the train to find the child's father.

The child's father was an educated youth. He was admitted to university last year. After the college entrance examination was resumed, he was determined to take the exam, but he failed the first few times. He finally passed the third time, but there has been no news since then.

At first, everyone in the village said that the father didn't want them anymore, but she didn't believe it. After all, although the man was a little lazy, he was still very good to her. Especially since they had a child, whom she had given birth to.

But as more and more people talked about it, she couldn't help but doubt. She remembered the man's school. She had seen the admission notice when it was sent to the village. So she took the child in her arms, sold some things at home, raised enough money for the ticket, and took the child to the school, wanting to ask the man whether he wanted them and his child.

But she didn't expect that she, who was always hungry, would run out of milk in the car, and her child would cry from hunger.

She said sorry many times and tried to comfort the child, but the child kept crying and she was really at her wit's end.

Just when the woman was immersed in sorrow, Qin Wangshu came back.

"I've got some hot water, you can drink some too." Qin Wangshu handed over the lunch box and saw her feeding the candy to the child. He didn't think there was anything surprising.

"Don't worry, hot water is free. There's hot water on the dining car over there. It's not far away. You can get more yourself after you finish drinking it."

The woman looked up at Qin Wangshu, her eyes unfocused, filled with deep sadness and confusion.

"Drink some first." Qin Wangshu added some space well water to the hot water, and the water temperature was just right now.

The woman walked closer to the lunch box handed to her by Qin Wangshu in a daze. Seeing her like this, Qin Wangshu handed the lunch box to her mouth, and she drank a sip of water from Qin Wangshu's hand.