Xiaojun and his grandfather chose not to eat lunch, and after six o'clock, when everyone was eating dinner, they were really drinking the free boiling water in the car and gnawing on the steamed buns that had become cold and hardened, and the steamed buns, it didn't look like they were bought outside, they should have made them at home, they were quite big, they each ate two, and the amount was about the same as the four sold in the bread shop outside.

Along the way, Xiaojun and his grandfather took advantage of the opportunity of people next to them to go to the toilet or go to the car door to smoke, so that their sore legs could relax and rest.

In order to allow them to rest more, Hu Mingchen sometimes deliberately ran to the station at the junction of the carriages for half an hour.

There are really a lot of people on this train, at the junction of the doors, the slightly loose vacant seats are occupied by passengers who do not have seat tickets, some of them put their luggage on the ground as a cushion, sit on the wall and hold their legs and doze off, and some simply sit on the ground, regardless of those exquisite and image issues.

The clanging of wheels against the rails was noisy for some, but hypnotic for others, and by ten o'clock in the evening, some people in the carriage were still in Kanda Mountain, but some were already drowsy.

"You are not sleepy, if you are sleepy, you will sleep by me. Hu Jianqiang gently rubbed Hu Mingchen and said.

Hu Mingchen yawned: "It's okay, I can sleep against the wall, how are you?"

"Oh, the drowsiness is coming, but I can't really sleep when I sit upright like this. ”

"That means you're not sleepy enough, otherwise you can sleep standing up, let alone sitting. Saying that, Hu Mingchen pouted at Hu Jianqiang's back, Hu Mingchen turned his head, and saw that Xiao Jun was already dozing off with the back of the seat.

Xiaojun's grandfather was fine, supporting him with one hand, afraid that he would tilt his head and fall. A pair of eyes are looking east and west, distracting themselves, so as not to be sleepy and dozing off.

"Is this all right?"

"If you stand for ten hours, I guess you can do it too. Hu Mingchen smiled bitterly and sympathized.

"It's good that you paid a little more for a ticket with a seat, otherwise...... I have numb feet just thinking about it. Thinking that the person standing might be himself, Hu Jianqiang sighed with emotion.

"If you don't want to sleep, let them sit and squint for a while, and we'll go to the dining car for the whole supper." Hu Mingchen proposed.

"It's too late to eat at the dining car? ”

"If you want it to have it, it's going to have it, and it's only past ten o'clock, and I guess the conductors are all having supper in the dining car." Hu Mingchen stood up sideways and stepped over from a pair of legs that were blocking the middle.

In order to sleep well, the northerner on the opposite side actually stretched his feet to Hu Mingchen's side. Thinking that it is not easy for everyone to go far away, and the other party is wearing sandals, and his feet are not smelly, Hu Mingchen acquiesced.

"Okay, let's go for supper on the hour. Anyway, I couldn't sleep for the time being, and I didn't feel hungry for instant noodles for dinner, so Hu Jianqiang agreed.

"Come, old man, sit down. Hu Mingchen patted the old man lightly.

"You ......"

"Let's go to the dining car to get a bite to eat, don't sit for a while, you sit and squint. Hu Mingchen explained.

"Oh, thanks, thank you. When you come back, we'll let, thank you, Xiaojun, Xiaojun, wake up, and sit inside. The old man thanked Xiao Jun and shook Xiao Jun awake.

After ten o'clock, they thought that there would be no one in the dining car, and when Hu Mingchen and they slowly moved the dining car, they found that there were really a lot of people inside, and most of the seats were occupied.

"What are you doing?" asked Hu Mingchen a conductor who was standing and watching the cards.

Next to the conductor, there are four people playing cards, and from their uniforms, it can be seen that one is a police officer, two are the chefs of the dining car, and one is also a conductor.

"We want to have some late-night snacks, and we don't know if there's anything else to eat. Hu Mingchen responded.

"What kind of supper, is there no seat, come here and find a place to sit. The conductor who was playing cards didn't lift his head.

"I don't have time to cook food for you now, if it's a seat, then give money, if not, forget it. "A chef playing a card is smoking a flue.

"We're just here to find ......" felt looked down upon, Hu Jianqiang was a little angry.

Hu Mingchen hurriedly stopped him: "By the way, we are here to find a seat to sit on, how much is it per person?"

"Twenty yuan a piece, there is no supper, but melon seeds and peanuts snacks are okay, melon seeds are five yuan a pack, peanuts are five yuan a pack, and if you want to drink, there is also a wine ......" The conductor who asked Hu Mingchen at the beginning said them.

"Okay, then please arrange two seats, a pack of melon seeds and peanuts, third uncle, do you want a whole bottle of wine, or if you have beer, please have a bottle." Without waiting for Hu Jianqiang to answer, Hu Mingchen took the initiative to add a bottle of beer for him.

Seeing that Hu Mingchen was happy, the conductor arranged the two of them to sit down on an empty chair, and there was already a person sitting opposite, and they began to sleep on the dining seat.

The conductor collected the money, put a small packet of melon seeds and a small bag of peanuts in front of them, and then wrung out a bottle of Shancheng beer from the freezer, opened it and handed it to Hu Jianqiang: "You can only sit until six o'clock, and you must leave at six o'clock, when we will start selling breakfast."

"We have a place for ourselves, so why should we come here and spend this unjust money? Look at their attitude, it's just ...... There is no service attitude at all. Hu Jianqiang took a sip of beer and said very depressedly.

"Hehe, third uncle, if you talk about service attitude with Boss Tie, isn't that the same as talking about civilization with hooligans and thieves? Hu Mingchen smiled, "It's just a few dozen yuan, forty yuan for two seats, you can do something good." ”

"Forty yuan is also money, the problem is that we have bought a seat ticket, and we can only sit until six o'clock, by the way, you really plan to sit here until six o'clock, and those two seats will be given to the grandfather and grandson to sit?

"If it's a good thing, it's not a good thing. Okay, okay, don't care about this, make it so stingy, where is it like a boss. How nice is it here, loose, spacious, not crowded, no smell of sweat, and how big is this dining table, isn't it more comfortable to sleep on your stomach?" Hu Mingchen said very open-mindedly.

A person's state of mind is different, and the angle from which he looks at the problem will be different. And a person's state of mind, or a person's bearing, often subtly affects how far the person can go and how bright the future is.

"Forget it, the money is given, what else to say. By the way, let's go this time, and we can come back in a few days?"

"It also depends on whether things go well, if it goes well, you can come back in one day, if not, you can stay for two more days. Hu Mingchen said.

"Do you have a definite goal or certainty? When I bought the ticket, your father called me to tell me and tell me. ”

"Ba Jiu is not far from ten, but who can say clearly, we are not yet to the ground. Either way, it's always good to come out and see the world and see the outside world. has been nesting in the mountains, and after a long time, it will become a frog at the bottom of the well. Hu Mingchen said.

"That's right, I used to only hear people say that Guangzhou is a big city, very prosperous, Pengcheng is a special zone, all kinds of conditions and our side is simply incomparable, I have never been here, this time to see and see, not to live. ”

"Third uncle, look at what you said, is it so serious? In the future, there are still a lot of things you have to see, this is in China, if one day I take you to the United States, to Europe, England, France, and those, then you are not going to die beautifully? Hehe, your wonderful life has just begun, this world, when the time comes, we can go wherever we want. Hu Mingchen said heroically and domineeringly.

"Wow, I still have to go to the United States, Britain and France, what are we going to do, I don't go if I'm idle, I don't go to a foreign country, I have to know a foreign language, I can't even speak Mandarin well, I go to a foreign country, even if I don't starve to death, I can't find a way back, those places, I still can't go if I can't go. Hu Jianqiang said with a slight inferiority.

"Hehe, go eat a foreign meal, go find a foreign woman for you, don't know what to be afraid of in a foreign language, please translate." As long as there is money, will those problems be problems?" Hu Mingchen joked about Hu Jianqiang.

The two blew for a while, and at twelve o'clock, the staff who played cards stopped playing, and the conductor turned off the lights overhead, leaving only the small lights next to them, and the inside of the dining car suddenly became dark.

Hu Mingchen and Hu Jianqiang yawned twice, and they were also sleepy, so they dozed off on the wide dining table like everyone else.

There was no noisy noise, and the two of them slept quite soundly, and it was not until five o'clock that Hu Mingchen was woken up by the noise of the staff in the car.

It turned out that the staff of the dining car began to get up early to prepare breakfast, and after a while, someone would come to eat breakfast, and they would also fill the small food cart that they were pushing and selling, and after seven o'clock, they would have to push one carriage after another to do the morning business.

"Oh, this night's sleep is so long. Hu Mingchen stretched his waist and looked out of the car window, although the countryside outside the window was still not clear, but a touch of fish belly white had appeared on the horizon.

"You're awake, ouch, it's past five o'clock, let's go, you can go back to our seats." After Hu Mingchen woke up, Hu Jianqiang was also affected and woke up. He also stretched and looked at his watch by the way.

"Okay, let's go, it's going to get noisier and noisier in here anyway. Hu Mingchen stood up, twisted his waist and moved.

The two walked to their own carriages in a clear and quiet manner, and at this time, in each carriage, the vast majority of people were still silent in their dreams.

When they walked into the No. 11 carriage where they were, Hu Mingchen saw a man in his thirties squatting in the aisle next to their seat, holding something in his hand and pulling out the pocket of Xiaojun's grandfather's clothes.

There is no doubt that Hu Mingchen didn't have to think much to know that he had encountered a pickpocket.