Gong Mingxia had already grown fearful of trains from this era; they were too crowded, and the journey took several days. Consequently, she asked Cao Yuan to take her to the airport.
Taking the plane, she arrived at the capital of H province in just over two hours, followed by a four-hour train ride to their county; then, after another rural bus ride that lasted over two hours, she finally reached their town. By the time she arrived at the town, it was already dark. Gong Mingxia was so exhausted that she simply spent twenty yuan to stay in a guesthouse for the night.
The conditions there aren't even worth mentioning, obviously too dreadful to look at directly. But she was so sleepy that she slept in her clothes until the next morning when she caught a bullock cart right at the entrance of the town to head towards home.
