Chapter 23 Section 2 Miscellaneous Miscellaneous
Section 3 Frolicking Train
Life is very boring, and a little helpless, very boring. Ever since the train smashing prank, no one wants to repeat the same trick.
There are fewer and fewer miscellaneous rice in the field, and sometimes I am busy for a long time, and I can't find a single miscellaneous rice, so I go out to work purely to kill time, to pass the time quickly, hoping that the rice will mature sooner, and I will harvest it early and go home.
When I went to the field to remove the miscellaneous and coped, I turned around the field, and then I went to the sugar cane field to pull a sugar cane, and then sat on the railroad tracks to rest, where the terrain was high, and there was no shelter around, and it was very cool. The cane was too thick and hard for their teeth to wrench, but they had a way to knock the rails and they all cracked. While chewing sugar cane, while riding the cool wind, watching the scenery, chatting, this time passed unconsciously.
It doesn't matter, this railway is perhaps the quietest section of the country's railways, with only four trips a day, one passenger car in the morning and one in the evening, and one freight car in the morning and afternoon. If you come across a train, don't panic, the train is much slower than the car, the freight car is slower than the bus, and there will be absolutely no problem if you turn over and climb up. So, when you are resting, if you come across a train and hear it playing its air whistle, you should leave immediately.
Because of boredom, idleness panics, the so-called idleness is not good.
I don't know whose invention is to stretch the reed under the wheel of the train, and after the iron wheel is flying, it will turn into a faint burst of green smoke and float out, and there is a trace of indescribable fragrance, which smells very good.
Everyone followed suit.
On both sides of the railway embankment, there are shallow ditches overgrown with reeds, and Marlinxi waded into the water, and brought in finger-thick blue-yellow reeds, stripped off the leaves, and when the train came, they stretched the reed stalks to the rails, and the heavy train wheels rolled over, and immediately a faint trace of smoke rose, and then they would smell a burst of green incense, sniff, very good. So, everyone stood in a row by the roadbed, like a fishing competition, stretched the reed stalks to the rails, and waited for the rolling wheels to roll until the reeds in their hands were only a small part that could not be shorter.
The train roared past, wisps of green smoke curling.
After sending off the departing train, they sat back on the tracks contentedly, and continued to eat sugar cane, look at the scenery, talk about women, talk about boring topics, and wait for the time to break off.
Sitting on the tracks again and again to pass the time, watching the train drive them off the tracks again and again, I really felt a little unwilling, why did I have to give way to the train? This idea is very strange and absurd, very incredible. Marlinthi later thought how ridiculous, how naïve and ignorant.
But at the time, Marinthi, like everyone else, thought that way. People who often play together think like this, isn't the train just relying on the track and having great strength? If you have the ability of Sun Wukong, and the ability to make the river flow backwards, Mount Tai bow its head, and the Yellow River give way, I am afraid of you as a ball. I'm not afraid of any train. I towards the middle of the railway, is a ditch, a mountain, is a sea, a cliff, whoever you drive, you have to stop obediently for me, Lao Tzu does not give way, you don't want to pass from here, than Zhang Fei who stood at the head of the bridge and drank the retreat of the army.
So, how do you stop the train? Come to think of it, there is only one way, you blow the whistle, and I will ignore you.
"Hey, let's play with the train. Jiang Sigui said with a smile.
"Holy. Is the train something you can play?" Wang Changsong said, biting the sugar cane hard, his head tilted, one eye closed tightly, his whole face was deformed, and the mouth was even more ugly, and saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth.
"Hey, look, it doesn't look like a woman's thing. The water is coming out, haha. Hu Longbiao pointed to Wang Changsong's ugliness and danced happily.
"Hahaha. Everyone laughed and rolled back and forth.
At this moment, a train pulling goods came from the side of Huangliu. The rumbling sound grew louder and louder, and after a while, the air horn sounded.
The train was not a joke, everyone quickly jumped off the tracks, leaving Jiang Sigui sitting there alone, not moving, staring at the oncoming train with his eyes firmly fixed.
"500 meters, 400 meters, 200 meters......" The train roared and rushed over.
Jiang Sigui still didn't move.
"You want to die of shit!"
"Run!"
"Quick—run!"
Everyone exclaimed in unison.
"Woo-" The train was only less than a hundred meters away from them, and the train driver leaned half of his body out of the window while sounding the whistle, waving his big hand, signaling Jiang Sigui, who was sitting there motionless, to leave quickly.
Jiang Sigui saw that the train was only seventy or eighty meters away, so he jumped off the tracks like a monkey, stood firmly on the roadbed, and grimaced at the frightened train driver.
The train really slowed down and passed in front of them.
The moment the train met them, the driver yelled, "You don't want to live anymore, shit." ”
The long sound of dragging was drowned out by the sound of rumbling wheels crashing against rails.
"Forgive him for not daring not to slow down. Jiang Sigui said with a smile, as if he was a hero who had won a battle, and his spirit was vivid.
"I didn't expect the train to slow down. Qi Moxiang said.
"People aren't afraid of crushing people. Wang Changsong said.
"If a train crushes someone, it won't call the driver to pay for his life. Hu Longbiao said.
"At least it was an accident. Luo Yufu seems to be an expert.
"What an accident, the driver thinks the person is mentally ill. Xu Feng said.
"Yes, yes, yes. It's really like a god disease. After Marlinsi finished speaking, everyone laughed.
"But. If we hadn't left just now, and we were lazy on the tracks, maybe the train would have stopped. Seven or eight lives. Wang Changsong was serious.
"That's right. Everyone spoke in unison.
"I don't believe it. We'll try it tomorrow. Wang Changsong suggested.
"Yes. Try it tomorrow. Play with that driver. After Jiang Sigui finished speaking, everyone agreed.
The next afternoon, the train they had seen every day appeared on time in the direction of the Yellow Stream, far to the west, and roared towards it.
Everyone has agreed in advance that today is to sit on the railroad tracks and stop the train, whoever gets up first will be the dog's day, which is proposed by Jiang Sigui and won everyone's unanimous approval.
So, they all sat in a row along the tracks, holding the tracks with their hands, staring at the direction the train was speeding in, holding their breath, and the train stopped and stopped.
However, when the whistle was tight, and the locomotive was only sixty or seventy meters away from them, everyone jumped off the tracks out of the instinct of fear of death.
The train slowed down noticeably, and the black-faced driver, swearing ugly words, slammed past them.
Although they didn't stop the train, the whistle of the train over and over again, and the sudden slowdown, still made them have a kind of triumphant triumph, after all, they still won a lot of wow. You know, this is stopping a train.
Because they have nothing to do, they are bored to stop the train and play, and get great satisfaction and happiness from it.
However, when this satisfaction is magnified again and again, it becomes their daily pastime.
It's incredible.
Because this adventure is very thrilling and exciting, the frequency of the whistle and the acceleration of the rhythm make them more and more courageous. I even thought that if I persevered, there was a real possibility that the train would be stopped by them, how interesting it would be.
When the train slows down and whistles onto the head-on, the distance from the tracks becomes shorter and shorter. From more than 100 meters at the beginning, to 30 or 40 meters now, it is absolutely dangerous and exciting.
Despite the danger, they were happy to do it, and it seemed that the train driver was also very patient and patient, refusing to stop in order to drive them away from the tracks eventually. Of course, they are not convinced, and they don't believe it, if they really don't leave, what if he drives a train to run us to death?
Let's see who comes out on top.
"Whoever leaves first tomorrow will be the son of the turtle grandson bastard!" Jiang Sigui was ruthless to death.
"Good. Whoever goes first is a bastard!" everyone applauded.
Another afternoon, Marlinxi and his family were in the field for a while, and then they ran into the sugarcane field, "squeak, squeak" to pull the sugarcane, chewing one in their mouths and holding one in their hands, and a dozen people came to a section of railroad tracks at the east end of the railway bridge, lined up, and ate sugarcane with the sun on their backs.
The rice in the field began to turn yellow, the leaves were still green and shiny, the male rice was like a golden ridge, spread out from the field in an orderly manner, and the female rice sandwiched in the middle was like a shallow trough, showing in front of you, like a gorgeous picture painted by a clever girl.
Ma Linxi's station, Tangfeng Seventh Team, was close in front of him, and the Dasha River on the left side of the village flowed quietly behind it. Coconut palms are greener, with polo honey, rubber plantations, betel nut trees, and banana trees in between, and the whole village is submerged in a green island embraced by golden rice fields.
A light breeze blows, the air ripples with a hint of sweet fragrance, people who have stayed in Hainan for a long time know that this is the taste of jackfruit, just like when you walk on the quiet street, suddenly there is a young girl passing by you when the body fragrance is left, it is fascinating.
Full of the joy of the harvest, facing the picturesque scenery, bathed in the warm sunshine, the whole body and mind are filled with youth and sweetness, how pleasant and comfortable it is.
Everyone is gnawing on sugar cane and telling jokes, it is really not a fairy but a fairy. This kind of jolly is pale in any literal description.
"Woo-" When everyone was forgetting their feelings, a train appeared in the direction of Huangliu again, rushing towards this direction.
"As I said last time, no one should leave today. Jiang Sigui spit out the bagasse in his mouth and said with foam.
"Don't worry, you have to stop it. Hu Longbiao stood up and threw out the leftover piece of sugar cane. The sugar cane section was in the bushes opposite the railway ditch, and a few small birds flew away.
"I don't think stop it, no one can afford to take people's lives. Wang Changsong was a little worried.
"You, what a bad seed, your life is worth it. Luo Yufu snatched the conversation.
The train was getting closer and closer, the roar was increasing rapidly, and it was clear that the train was not slowing down. If only before, it wouldn't have been so violent.
It is also strange that there is only a thousand kilometers left except for the whistle from afar, so why is the whistle not played again?
The train is getting closer and closer, at most, only about 100 meters away.
Ma Linxi's mood began to get nervous, and like everyone, he turned his head to look at the locomotive, and his heartbeat began to speed up, "plop, plop", and began to panic. It's not good.
Others also felt that today's situation was a little abnormal, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
"Hey, why don't you blow the whistle on a dog day?" Jiang Sigui said, his eyes still staring at the speeding locomotive.
"Hey. Weird. Wang Changsong was the first to jump off the tracks.
No one hinders, no one blames. If it had been changed a few times before, it would have been scolded by everyone.
Eighty meters ......
Sixty meters......
Forty meters......
"Run!" Hu Longbiao shouted loudly as he ran. A few more people fled.
The whistle still didn't sound. When the train was only about thirty meters away from them, they jumped off the tracks one by one, and stood crookedly under the roadbed, and before they could stand firmly, the train roared and roared past, and a huge wave of air came towards them, accompanied by the sound of thunderous steam discharge, and at the same time poured down a cinder rain, and the eyes could not be opened, and the whole body was numb.
One by one, they quickly shook their heads and shook their arms, rubbed their eyes, and when they opened their eyes, they all became gray men digging coal.
Looking up, the train driver was leaning halfway and waving his shovel in this direction, looking like a victor getting carried away - it turned out that he had spilled cinders on them.
"Lack of morality. Jiang Sigui and the others scolded in unison.
From then on, none of them played the prank of stopping the train.