Shen Tiejun wanted to buy a sleeper ticket, and the retest notice in his hand could also be used as an introduction messenger from the county-level department, but when he heard the price of more than 200, he retreated and bought a hard seat.

The hard seat is a real hard seat, unlike the green car with a thin layer of sponge pads, this hard seat can sit on it for a long time, and you can feel the pain of the bones pressing against the wooden board.

In the first half of the night, there was no sardine scene of crowds, there were twenty or thirty people at Recheng Station, the train stopped and stopped, from Recheng to Yangcheng more than 1,000 kilometers, this car had to run for nearly 30 hours, the average speed was calculated, almost thirty or forty kilometers, the only surprise was that there were not many people on the car.

The horn of reform and opening up has not yet sounded, people do not have many opportunities to travel, most of the cars are salesmen from various units, when Shen Tiejun carried a woven bag on the car, there was a short man lying on the seat, five big and three rough lying there, but it was just right.

The money was sewn into the clothes, and the materials were directly put into the fertilizer woven bag, which was collected by Shen Wang's before, and when he felt hungry, he took out an egg from his arms and peeled it and ate it.

The cart had white wine, melon seeds, peanuts, and ghost stories from map magazines, but there were no instant noodles and ham sausages.

There were sparse people sitting in the carriage, and after midnight, Shen Tiejun couldn't stand it, found an empty seat and lay down, and slept beautifully, until the train woke up, and white had appeared outside the window, and the attendant said in a Beijing accent: "Arrive at the station ahead, Xiangsha Station, stop for eight minutes, and there are passengers ready to get off." ”

Shen Tiejun, who woke up, first felt heat, took off his coat and only the navy blue vest inside, and the figure outside the window ran along the train.

Loud and shouting, Shen Tiejun looked at all this greedily, in another two years, these pictures will become a sea of people, and the car window will become a passage to get on and off the car, and a man in a tunic sat opposite, put down the yellow canvas bag, and took out the book, the English version of "King Lear".

His eyes shrank, Shen Tiejun retracted his gaze and continued to look at the scene outside the window, at this time the train began to start, and the sound of clanging was just that, and he quickly threw the platform behind him after a while.

"Long platform, long wait—"

After singing two sentences gently, Shen Tiejun couldn't remember the lyrics behind him, and laughed at himself and leaned back on the seat and squinted, until his stomach growled, and the tunic on the opposite side was gone.

There are up and down, the distance in the previous single-digit hours, at this time reached three times, when the fatigue of the day ushered in the night, the train finally entered the Yangcheng Province in the clang, but the scene outside could not be seen clearly in the dark night, Shen Tiejun was a little blind, according to this time node, when he arrived at the terminal Yangcheng Station, the time should be about three o'clock in the morning.

This point is an awkward time, you can find a hotel to rest early, and you can go straight to the destination if you arrive late, which is not early or late, and you will definitely not take this train next time.

I slept in a daze during the day, I wanted to sleep late at night and couldn't sleep, and there was no scenery to see outside the dark window, although it was either a hill or a fertile field during the day, but I could always find a point of focus for my eyes, but Shen Tiejun found the English version of "Les Miserables".

Seeing things and thinking about people, this is a gift from Chen Xiaoyun after he went to college, through Zhang Jian, the original words are to thank him for his help, he has already read the content in it, and he passes the time when he is bored.

When the train arrived at the station, Shen Tiejun didn't look much, picked up the woven bag and followed the crowd to get off the train, and walked out of the stuffy can-like carriage, greeted by the coolness, the air seemed to be much fresher, and he identified the direction of the flow of people and hurriedly followed.

Shen Tiejun once came to Yangcheng Station, but it was a super station that had been built several times, and now it looks like it is a little bigger than the railway station in Recheng, so he walked out of the station and nodded again: "It's really big!"

An unknown number of buses are parked side by side in the vast station square, which seems to be used as a parking lot.

The stars in the sky were dotted, Shen Tiejun looked around blankly, he had already turned, and when he didn't want to find the direction, he saw that in the leeward place not far away, several travelers were lying on the mats, sleeping on the ground.

"Is that okay?"

Shen Tiejun was a little confused, in his memory, the police here would verify, it was said that it was useless to have an ID card, and he had to have a temporary residence permit, so he hurriedly walked over to take a look, roughly counted at least twenty or thirty, then threw down the woven bag, took out the mattress and spread it on the ground, and said that he should bring a mattress.

Taking the starry sky as the bed of the earth, riding the cool breeze that blew from time to time, Shen Tiejun fell asleep groggily, until the roar came, and he rubbed his eyes blankly, and then woke up to where he was.

The sky was bright, the square in front of the station was empty, and the bus that woke him up emitted a puff of blue smoke and slowly disappeared on the road, and he turned around and looked at the big clock on the station, which was already 6:25.

When he arrived at the bus stop and saw the sign, Shen Tiejun asked someone for directions again, and asked two more people with more eyes, and got the same three answers: "Ask the bus driver!"

Shen Tiejun swept a huge army of bicycles, and it was the first time he had seen so many bicycles in his two lives, and he arrived at the bus departure site for a long time, and asked him to understand the number of trains to take: "201 Road." ”

"Young man, are you here to go to college? Why did you come so early, isn't it that you haven't taken the college entrance examination yet?" Shen Tiejun was carrying a woven bag, wearing patched clothes, and a bald head, if he didn't have a young face, I am afraid that he would be treated as a prisoner of labor reform.

"Hehe, I'm late this time, thank you two eldest sisters. "To tell the truth to enthusiastic people, Shen Tiejun can't do things to show off, and he wants to fool the past.

"Are you late? You were admitted last year? Then you are really late, this year's college entrance examination is about to start." Holding a sweater needle in her hand, the woman swept her eyes and calmly said, "Outsider." ”

The college entrance examination in 1978 was a unified time, held on July 20th, and there was less than a month to go, Shen Tiejun saw that the eldest sister seemed to be bored, so he closed his mouth and pretended to nod shyly.

"What kind of foreign language does the young man learn, can he speak a few words?" the young woman's eyes were full of curiosity.

"Eldest sister, I haven't entered school yet, so I won't be ugly. Shen Tiejun said politely, and a voice appeared next to him: "Hello comrade, please ask, go to the Chinese Academy outside Yangcheng, which bus to take?"

Like-minded?

Shen Tiejun looked behind him curiously, and was stunned for a moment, the tunic he had seen in the car before didn't get out of the car, and he had to go to the sheep with him.

After the tunic finished asking, he found that the young woman inside was full of surprise: "Hey, you two are still walking together, but the two of you are late, the car in front of you has only been gone for ten minutes, and it will take another ten minutes to come, wait." ”

The tunic with a round face, a big nose, thick eyebrows and small eyes, cleaned up quite energetically, and found that it was what he had seen in the car before, and stretched out his hand: "In the next week Zhichao, may I ask the little comrade who is also going outside the sheep?"

"Hello Brother Zhou, I also went outside the sheep. Shen Tiejun shook it lightly, and a siren sounded in his heart: "This goods, won't it also be here to take the graduate school entrance examination?"

Zhou Zhichao looked at Shen Tiejun in front of him, his intuition was full of vigilance, and he said: "Brother Shen is here to go to school? I don't know what kind of major? It doesn't seem to be the time to report, right?"

The previous "King Lear" came to mind, and Shen Tiejun smiled shyly: "Brother Zhou, I came to take the exam in advance, and I watched the "King Lear" you watched in the car before, and you also came to apply for graduate school?"

"Graduate student?"

The tone of his voice couldn't stop rising by ten decibels, and Zhou Zhichao's face changed slightly, as if he had swallowed a fly: "You, are you here to apply for graduate school? How old are you?"

"Does age matter?" Shen Tiejun didn't say, but looked the other party up and down: "I see you reading "King Lear" in the car?"

"Ahem, ahem—"

Coughing embarrassedly, Zhou Zhichao blushed a little, he deliberately took it out in front of people in order to pretend to be X, he never thought that this person was here to apply for graduate school, if it was an English major, then this joke would be a big one, and he stretched out his hand again: "Don't dare to be, I am Zhou Zhichao, a 77-level English literature major, Brother Shen is really here to participate in the graduate re-examination?"

"Yes!"

Nodding expressionlessly, Shen Tiejun's dark face remained unchanged, but he still couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart: "Level 77, why are you here now?"

"Well, yes, something happened at home, I asked for leave, and I came here before I finished my business, and I made you laugh in the car before. Zhou Zhichao frowned, and apologized for his almost childish behavior on the train before, if this kid didn't brag, then he was playing a big knife in front of Guan Gongmen, and he didn't know it.

"Young man, what do you mean by that graduate student?" The young woman who played the sweater was full of curiosity, and the sweater in her hand was gone, and after speaking, she looked at Zhou Zhichao and said, "Comrade Zhou, he seems to be very powerful when you hear what you mean?"

"It's amazing, graduate student, I didn't even think about it. You can only take the exam after graduating from college, do you think it's amazing?" Zhou Zhichao said and looked Shen Tiejun up and down, and finally said: "Brother Shen, I don't think you're 20 yet, right?"

"Hehe, age is not an issue. Shen Tiejun touched his nose, couldn't bear to hit his self-esteem again, and diverted the topic: "But why don't you know the school address?"