Chapter 51: Shen Cheng
Thirty years later, the Fucheng Railway Station can still be seen, it can fit hundreds of people, and there is a statue of a running woman standing in the square at the door, this person is the first Olympic race walking champion in Fucheng, in order to commemorate her, Fucheng set her up in front of the station, but the champion later joined the foreign nationality, and it has nothing to do with Fucheng.
Of course, there is no statue of this champion at Fucheng Station now, let alone a statue, and even the station is pitiful, with only more than a hundred seats in it, and a few passengers waiting for the train are scattered.
"The train from Fucheng to Shencheng is almost here, everyone is ready!"
A flight attendant shouted at the passengers with a loud horn.
"It's here, it's here, everyone is ready!"
Zhou Delu immediately greeted everyone.
However, this "almost arrived" made everyone wait for more than an hour, and Liu Lang was about to fall asleep before he heard the sound of a train horn in the distance.
"Puff puff puff .........!"
The huge steam locomotive slowly drove into the platform, and came to a steady stop with billowing black smoke.
The emerald green wagon was particularly conspicuous, and everyone in the station stood up, because this car was the only passenger car in Fucheng that went to other places, and it was only one trip a day.
Six people got on the train, found a few seats at random and sat down, anyway, there was no seat number on the ticket, first on the first seat, then no seat, but there were not many people on the car, three or five groups sat everywhere chatting.
Twenty or thirty years later, no matter when, as long as you get on the train, it is full, there are almost no vacant seats, students going to school, working staff and people traveling abound, catching up with the holidays is even more crowded, not half a month in advance can not buy tickets, but now, Fucheng is like an island, only the people who do business will go out because of business relations, and this kind of thing is almost impossible to see.
Fucheng to Shencheng is only more than 180 kilometers, in more than 20 years later by train will be more than two hours at most, but now, the slow train has the strength to move forward, along the way stopped more than 20 times, it took seven hours to arrive in Shencheng, Liu Lang slept twice in the car.
"Son, get up!"
The father gently hugged the sleeping Liu Lang, and Liu Lang opened his eyes.
They set off from Fucheng at ten o'clock in the morning, and now it was already sunken outside.
"Little Liu Lang, hurry up, Shen Cheng has arrived, this Shen Cheng is much stronger than our Fucheng!"
Zhou Delu said with a smile.
Liu Donglai walked out of the station with his son in his arms and scattered passengers, looking up at the square in front.
"Much stronger, what's stronger?"
Liu Lang looked up, everything in front of him was completely different from twenty or thirty years later, and it was not an exaggeration to describe it beyond recognition.
There are low buildings everywhere, the highest one is only seven stories high, all of them are old buildings of the former Soviet Union in the thirties and forties, you must know that after more than 20 years, you can see the range of hundreds of meters in front of Shencheng Station at most, dozens of storey buildings abound, a person standing in the square in front of the station really has a feeling of sitting in a well and watching the sky, where it is like now, you can see the edge of the sky at a glance.
But even such a building made Liu Donglai and a few others excited.
"Look, such a tall building!"
A man pointed to the seven-story building.
"That's the bus, right? Why is there an antenna on it?"
A man shouted as he pointed to a speeding car on the road.
"Yes, this is a bus, but what is the antenna for?"
There are no buses in Fucheng now, and this kind of "high-end" stuff can only be seen in newspapers, but Liu Donglai has seen it on TV a long time ago, but he still doesn't know what the bus with two "antennas" is for.
"That's a tram!"
Liu Lang said on the side.
"There's a ghost tram? What's the matter? There's a ghost on the train?"
Several people were taken aback.
"That's the track of the track, don't you see the two antennas connected to the wires?
Liu Lang looked at them with "contemptuous" eyes and said.
"Oh! I see, this kind of car can still be connected to electricity, it seems to be a high-end car, I have to sit when I have time, but this guy can't leak electricity, right?"
One was a little worried.
"Okay, okay, stop talking nonsense, let's find a place to live first, you two must be optimistic about the money!"
Zhou Delu commanded in a low voice.
On the way to come, they had already calculated, and when they arrived in Shencheng, they went directly to live near the Provincial Zhengxie, and then inquired about the place of the supply and marketing office to try if they could buy steel, if they could buy it, then they would not trouble the big leader, and if they couldn't buy it, they would go to ask for help.
Among the six people, only the factory director Zhou Delu had come to Shencheng, but he didn't know the direction of the Provincial Zhengxie, and a few people found the staff at the train station to ask, and after asking how to go, they followed the other party's prompts to a bus stop.
After a while, the bus came slowly, this bus was not a tram, several people on Zhoude Road breathed a sigh of relief, they got on the bus, and the conductor came up to collect the money immediately.
"Where are you going?"
The conductor asked.
"To the city center!"
Zhou Delu replied.
There is no bus to the provincial association at the railway station, so you can only transfer to the city center.
"Two cents for a person, no tickets for children!"
As he spoke, the other party tore off five tickets from his hand, which were written in green and white, with the words "two points" and "reimbursement by ticket".
"Give you a dime. ”
Zhou Delu handed the money to the other party and then took over five tickets, which had to be taken back for reimbursement.
It's time to get off work, there are a lot of people on the bus, Liu Donglai was afraid that Liu Lang would be touched, so he picked him up, a few people got on the bus, and the conductor stood in front of the door.
"There is a place in the back, and the people in front walk to the back!"
There was some crowding in front, the conductor shouted, and several people were obedient and walked towards the back door.
With a puff of black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe at the rear of the bus, the bus started and headed forward.
In eighty-three years, even the provincial capital of Liaobei Province, the largest city in the northeast of Shencheng, there are few cars on the road, and there are not many buses, but the cyclists are definitely a "spectacle", it is now the time to get off work, the road has formed an army of bicycles, every time the red light at the intersection is lit, nearly 100 people stop in front of the red light, the red light turns green, and everyone rushes out in a mighty way.
"Son, you see, this is Shencheng, everyone has a bicycle, even the roads are hard asphalt, is it good here?"
Liu Donglai pointed outside through the car window and said to Liu Lang.
Bicycles are the main means of transportation in this era, but in Fucheng, there are not many people who have bicycles, for example, Liu Lang's family only has two, his father has a grandfather, and the others are gone, one is because bicycles are still very expensive, one costs more than 100 yuan, and the second is because Fucheng is only big? From the city center to the edge of the city is two or three kilometers, and it takes half an hour to walk, unlike Shencheng, the huge city can be compared to four or five Fucheng, and it takes an hour to ride a bicycle from south to north.
Therefore, the bicycle share of the common people in Shencheng is much better than that in Fucheng, which makes Liu Donglai very envious.
"Hmm!"
Liu Lang just snorted.
Compared with Shencheng twenty or thirty years later, Shencheng is not even a rural area now.