Chapter 82: The Train Is Late
"Wow~"
"Alas, babies don't cryโ"
"Ah, you stepped on my footโ"
"I, I didn't mean to-"
Zheng Jianguo felt unsteady and stepped on someone's foot, but before he could retract his foot, he was hit by the conductor who did not stand firm and squeezed on others, and subconsciously wanted to use his hand to help him before remembering that this was a lesbian, so he had to reach out and touch the back of the seat next to him to support her, I don't know if it was angry or what, the female conductor's face was already red into a monkey buttocks, and a pair of big watery eyes swept over him and looked behind him across the crowd, and his voice shouted: "The car is stopped, please tell the old comrade, get off quickly." โ
"Auntie, hurry up and get out of the car and walk back, that is the cancer hospital. โ
The shouting at the top of his voice obviously knew the back of the old man's ears, and soon the old man's voice sounded: "Okay, okay, get off, get off-"
As the old man got off the bus, the people on the bus also stood up straight, the bus slowly began to accelerate after a puff of smoke, and the compartment of the next passenger was still as crowded as before, Zheng Jianguo was used to these states, and when he didn't feel anything after standing straight, the female conductor had already bent down to pick up the newspaper from the ground, looked at him and said with a crimson face: "Comrade, your newspaper has fallen." โ
"Oh, thanks. โ
Looking at the newspaper that was sandwiched under his armpit before, Zheng Jianguo naturally felt the different expression of the conductor, and his mind flashed when he was hit before, his hand seemed to be pushing her away?
Until he got off the train at the train station, Zheng Jianguo didn't remember what he had done to make people blush, glanced at the watch on his wrist, there was still an hour from the arrival time mentioned in the telegram, and immediately crossed the road and followed the sparse flow of people to the ticket hallใ
Approaching the opening season of major colleges and universities, there have been many parents at the door of the ticket hall of the railway station, and when Zheng Jianguo followed the people into the ticket hall, there were five long queues in front of the five ticket windows, and he knew that he had made some mistakes.
After counting the heads of the five teams, Zheng Jianguo found a relatively small team and lined up, and then heard a lot of exhortations in the discussion: "Outside-"
Considering the memory of the global village and the difficulty of traveling here, Zheng Jianguo experienced the worries of sending his children to distant places as parents in the process of buying tickets, and what came to his mind was the cheeks of Zheng Fugui and Du Xiaomei.
Children will never grow up, this is the main reason why most parents are concerned, of course, this is what children can't recognize, grow up, isn't it about the same height as their parents, and the age is over 18 years old?
Zheng Jianguo, who was cranky in his mind, followed the team forward, but his eyes and ears were observing the progress of several teams and the noisy sounds in the hall, so he passed the time and soon came to himself, took out his student ID and bought a platform ticket, which has been canceled after decades, and the reason for the beautiful name is for people's safety, and the biggest reason is to control the overloading of the train.
Otherwise, a few years later, platform tickets will have to be sold with train tickets, that is, platform tickets can only be purchased after buying a ticket, and with time, only one platform ticket can be bought, and the number of people who see them off will be required until they are completely canceled after a few decades, and they can be sent at the door.
In addition to the students, the vast majority of the people who traveled here were business personnel in various enterprises and institutions, followed by cadres who belonged to the leaders, Zheng Jianguo bought the platform ticket for the telegram on the train, and followed the other passengers with large bags and small bags into the waiting hall.
"Dear passengers, the 151st train from the magic capital to Shancheng is expected to be forty-three minutes late, and the time to arrive at Qicheng Stationโโ"
"Well, what's the matter, I'm right, this train will be delayed. โ
"Forty-three minutes late, then it's just five o'clock, it's about the same as the next train-"
"It's a lot worse, that trip is from the sheep province to the mountain city, and the delay has to be calculated by the hour-"
The noisy voices came and went, Zheng Jianguo really forgot about this matter, the train departure time is fixed this year, but most of the arrival time is inaccurate, like the person who spoke, if the slow train meets the express train and needs to stop temporarily, the delay has become a common phenomenon, fortunately, at this time people's concept of time is not tight, and the slow pace of life is also accustomed to it, and they already think that late is the norm.
The few benches were either full of people or full of luggage, Zheng Jianguo looked around and couldn't find a place to sit, so he felt that he was prescient to come over with a newspaper, and when he arrived at the white wooden box in the store in the waiting hall, he said, "Get me an old popsicle." โ
"Eight-cents a piece. โ
The salesman wearing a round white hat looked at his face with a full face, Zheng Jianguo also took out the money to pay the bill and took an old popsicle, looked at the corner next to the wall and there was a place, then took a bite and ate to the corner of the wall to put down the newspaper and sat down, looking at the waiting hall waiting for the arrival of the train, but he didn't sit for long, he saw a familiar face appear, and the moment he looked at each other, he almost bit his tongue: "Ha-"
"I said what, the train hasn't left yet, it must be late. โ
Elle looked around the waiting room with her eyes on her lips, and saw someone sitting in the corner licking a popsicle, and then looked left and right, and then wanted to raise her feet and remembered that her brother and mother were by her side, and immediately pointed to the door on the south wall of the messy waiting hall, and said, "You go to the waiting room first, I have something to do." โ
Seeing her mother and younger brother go to the sleeper waiting room one after another, Ai Li shook in front of Zheng Jianguo in a few steps, looked at it condescendingly and said, "School is about to start, where are you going?"
"I'm here to pick things up. โ
Zheng Jianguo still sat in the corner of the newspaper and didn't mean to stand up, chewing the popsicle in his hand as he spoke, remembering the last time he saw this sister in the hospital, he immediately said: "How is it, the test results are okay?"
"It's okay, it's just my mom scaring herself. โ
After Ai Li finished speaking, she felt that it was a little inappropriate for the two sides to talk like this, as a friend she knew, she should be able to leave, but this thing didn't even ask what she was doing, so she felt the faint arrogance of the other party, and after finishing speaking, she blinked and said: "Then I'll go, by the way, Shi An'an came back yesterday, and she was saying that she would find a time to invite you to dinner." โ
Ai Li came in with a middle-aged woman and a young man, as a freshman, her young man naturally couldn't be a boyfriend, it was very likely that she was a younger brother, and that woman was very likely to be her mother from the point of view of her face, considering that she didn't take much luggage, the school she went to should be good, and she would prepare bedding for these things, Zheng Jianguo didn't ask you to see you off after making up for it, but until she said Shi An'an, if she didn't say anything, it hurt the enthusiasm of people running over:" Her family isn't in Qi City?"
"Well, her home is in the capital, and she went back with her family on vacation. โ
After Ai Li said that, she turned around and left, and Zheng Jianguo saw the middle-aged woman at the door of the sleeper waiting room in the distance looking at her, and she had to nod at the other party's curious face, and saw that she said something to Ai Li, Ai Li turned her head and looked over, and quickly went back to the front: "You go to the sleeper waiting room with me, there are fewer people over there." โ
"No, the car you're waiting for is coming soon. โ
Zheng Jianguo didn't expect the other party to send out an invitation, and seeing that there were still ten minutes left, he refused it, and then continued to speak: "Help me thank your mother-"
"Good!"
Before Ellie's voice fell, the loudspeaker in the waiting hall sounded: "Dear passengers, the 151st train from the magic capital to the mountain city is about to enter the station, please bring your luggage and other items to the ticket window to line up for ticket check-"
"You're here to pick up this train?"
Ai Li asked when she followed Zheng Jianguo to the messy team, and the latter nodded and said, "My sister brought me something, let's talk back~"
After speaking, without waiting for Ai Li to speak, Zheng Jianguo had already taken a few steps to the ticket gate to keep up with the line, and soon the number of people in front of him continued to decrease, and it didn't take long for them to arrive on the platform, the staff wearing short sleeves whistled and waved the baton, and at the same time, the station radio sounded: "The train is about to enter the station, please wait outside the security line under the arrangement of the staffโโ"
With the sound, the train gradually came to the front from far and near, Zheng Jianguo looked left and right at the mark of the position of the carriage on the ground, and found that Zheng Donghua was still far away in the carriage, and immediately avoided the crowd and trotted all the way to the No. 14 car mark, the train just stopped and the door opened, and the conductor said to the person who was about to get on the train: "Get off first and then get up, stay away, how can you get on if you don't get off the train?"
A slightly nasal voice shouted, Zheng Jianguo also bent down to look at the movement in the car window, and soon saw a waving arm, Kou Yang tilted his head and poked out of the window and shouted: "Sister Donghua helped Roland take it down, Zheng Jianguo, you help me send Roland to school." โ
"No problem!"
Zheng Jianguo didn't expect to receive such a task, fortunately, the latest bus in the summer is 7 o'clock, how can he send Roland back and back at such a time, he immediately turned around and went to the door of the car, and saw Zheng Donghua getting off the car with a quilt tied into a backpack in both hands, Roland followed her and hugged a big burden, and hurriedly reached out to take it and heard Zheng Donghua speak: "The train is late, it was originally said to stop for fifteen minutes, but now it only stops for five minutes, Jianguo, you send Roland to school and then go back to schoolโโ"
I don't know if it's hot or tired, Roland's pretty face is slightly red: "No, Sister Donghua, there should be a pick-up station in our school, I'll go back with their car." โ