Chapter 37: The Journey
The memories left by Nanqi University to Zhang Xiaoxiao are not so good.
In the past, it seemed that every time school started, she was very complicated in her heart: on the one hand, she was reluctant to leave home to go to N City, and on the other hand, she was very longing for more than ten hours on the journey.
But this time is different, she Zhang Xiaoxiao is justifiably traveling to N City - or with Mu Chaoyang.
The annual leave was requested very smoothly, and it seemed that people who came out of the university had some alma mater plots, and when they heard that Xiaoxiao was going back to participate in the centennial celebration, they all agreed with both hands and feet.
The leader successfully approved the leave, and Yu Yan also gave her a package ticket to let her play with confidence.
"Where's the ticket?" Mu Chaoyang took Xiaoxiao to the station, and saw the girl in front of him traveling lightly, only carrying a big backpack, a little unaccustomed, "Have you taken it?"
"No!" Xiaoxiao shook the ID card in his hand, "Do you want to be together?" ”
Mu Chaoyang took out the ticket from his wallet, "I came to the station two days ago, and I picked it up by the way, you can go quickly." ”
This season is not the peak period for travel, and there are only a few people in front of the self-service ticket counter at the station, and the process of laughing and laughing is very smooth.
"Do you want to go to dinner first?" Mu Chaoyang looked at the time, there were still 2 hours before the drive, he was afraid that something would go wrong with his smile, so he met her in advance, "Or eat in the car." ”
"On the train!" Xiaoxiao Zhang Xiaoxiao chose categorically, "Wait until 7 o'clock for dinner, the train just arrived in P City, and the fast food on the platform of P City is particularly delicious! I haven't eaten for a long time." ”
Mu Chaoyang took out his mobile phone to check the scriptures, and sure enough, his memory was not wrong, and he raised his mobile phone.
"The train station in P City is being renovated, and all the trains have stopped at the stations in the subordinate counties, so I'm afraid you won't be able to eat this fast food. ”
Is that so...... The smile that was still cheering just now was disappointed for a moment, yes, she hadn't been on this trip for three years.
"Mu Chaoyang, you said that I can't eat the boxed lunch at the train station in P City, will the shops around the school be closed?" Thinking of such a possibility made Xiaoxiao a little frustrated.
"It's fine. Mu Chaoyang comforted her, "At least when I come back, the barbecue and teppanyaki you like are still there, and I don't know about the rest." ”
In Mu Chaoyang's memory, the relationship between the two in college was always in a hurry, and Xiaoxiao asked him to help him, always shouting to invite him to dinner.
But Mu Chaoyang seems to have come and gone like this, and the two of them seem to be very unfamiliar, so he doesn't go every time. So the two of them eat together at school probably not as often as the two of them eat together on the train.
After thinking about it, he only remembered that he loved to eat barbecue and teppanyaki with a smile.
"It's not barbecue and teppanyaki!" "When it comes to the food of Nanqi University, he smiles and snaps his fingers like a few treasures, "There is also milk tea at the school gate, fried noodles at the night market, barbecue at the south gate, pineapple rice in the faculty cafeteria......"
"I didn't even know that there was so much food in our school. Compared with Xiaoxiao, Mu Chaoyang didn't pay so much attention to eating, he once felt that in fact, the food in the school cafeteria tasted good.
Feeling that Xiaoxiao counted and counted, and his saliva was about to flow, Mu Chaoyang half-jokingly poured a scoop of cold water: "Xiaoxiao." Don't forget, you're just going for 4 days, so many things, can you eat them all?"
"It's fine. Zhang Xiaoxiao smiled slyly, "I've planned it, I can't eat so much staple food, but snacks are okay." Eat what you can't eat in Z City first, do you have any plans to go back to school, do you want to go together?"
With him? Mu Chaoyang's expression froze for a moment, "Didn't you say you were going to a class reunion?"
Besides, Mu Chaoyang seems that Xiaoxiao has been away from school for a longer time, and there must be more classmates and friends to meet, so he has a full schedule for these 4 days, and he doesn't want to disturb Xiaoxiao.
Listen to her...... Doesn't seem to be the case?
"Your friends, aren't they going back to school?" Mu Chaoyang asked her.
Friend......?
Zhang Xiaoxiao suddenly remembered that she seemed to have said that she was going to have a party before she dragged Mu Chaoyang back to N City...... But after she decided to make the trip, she asked for a day, and none of the girls she knew planned to go back, so she forgot about this stubble.
"Ah...... They......" Smile and words flickered, looking left and right about him. muttered in his heart: If I say that they don't go, Mu Chaoyang shouldn't refund the ticket on the spot, right?
Zhang Xiaoxiao shouldn't go alone...... This thought popped up in Mu Chaoyang's mind, which made him a little embarrassed. He doesn't seem to have much free time for Xiaoxiao in N City.
"We're here, and there's a celebration. Xiaoxiao had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly said, resolving the embarrassment, "I heard...... The head of the department also has to bind our previous "To Graduation" into a book, and I should always go and read it. ”
The Chinese Department of Nanqi University has a traditional program, and every year in addition to the graduation thesis, you also need to read aloud the essay dedicated to your university - "To Graduation".
I'm afraid that except for the retired old professors in the department, no one else knows which class of rules this is left. At that time, everyone in the senior year had to write these things when they were fighting for their graduation thesis, and many people also complained.
But in any case, looking back now, it was really the footprints of youth.
"Is your memorial party?" Mu Chaoyang said curiously, "One day, why don't I and my friends come to visit." ”
"The last day. Xiaoxiao was glad that she was still careful, and she swiped Weibo for a while before going out and saw this news.
On this anniversary, the Department of Chinese has a special alumni list, and all students present will stamp their handprints on the commemorative book of the anthology, which can be regarded as sign-in.
"Welcome. She smiled like a welcoming host.
Mu Chaoyang looked down at the time, "Let's go, let's go into the waiting room first." ”
"That'...... Where's dinner?" Xiaoxiao was pulled back to reality from her imagination, "P City train station is closed......"
Speaking of which, I still think about eating...... Mu Chaoyang smiled a little helplessly, "Noodles are also served for dinner on this trip, do you want to try it?"
Noodles?
"Okay, let's go!" As soon as he heard this, he smiled and couldn't wait to rush directly to the train with his luggage.
The round-trip tickets for this train from N city to Z city are particularly easy to buy, and you can buy a sleeper every time. And the train running time is very appropriate, Xiaoxiao only needs to get on the train, eat dinner, sleep, arrive at the station, and arrive at the destination in one go.
But for this train, Xiaoxiao also has grievances, needless to say dinner, it turns out that when I go to N City, I bring it to my family, and when I come back, she will definitely buy fast food on the platform in P City.
But because it was early in the morning when she came back and forth to the station, Xiaoxiao almost never had breakfast.
It's not completely nothing, once it was also Xiaoxiao and Mu Chaoyang, there was something wrong with the platform in front of the train during the return journey, and the temporary stop was 3 hours, and the two of them stayed up on the car until it was time to have breakfast.
The conductor was skillfully holding a large iron tray with several bowls of clear water noodles on it, and she asked from car to carriage, "Is there any need for noodles, is there any need for noodles just out of the pot?"
The smell of green onions permeated the entire carriage, it was the first time Xiaoxiao had eaten noodles other than instant noodles on the train, and she seemed to have lost the taste, but the feeling of joy made her never forget.
Seeing that he had passed the security check with a smile, Mu Chaoyang smiled a little doting in the back.
This little girl's family is too easy to satisfy.
"Where's your sleeper card?" the off-season station is cozy, free of the crowds and constant noise. The two entered the carriage unhurriedly, Mu Chaoyang helped Xiaoxiao stuff the luggage into the luggage rack, spread his hands, and asked her for the sleeper card, "I'll help you keep it." ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao touched the pockets on his body, but there was nothing.
"Huh?!Where's my card?"
Zhang Xiaoxiao became nervous, got up and looked around, all the way from the sleeper to find the car door.
Mu Chaoyang frowned, it was only twenty meters from the ticket exchange to the sleeper, and she lost it?
When Xiaoxiao went to N City alone with him for the first time, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the damage compensation clause written on the card and committed obsessive-compulsive disorder. Every time you take the bus, it takes less than half an hour to make sure that the card is still there.
Although she had never lost it, this kind of surprise almost made Mu Chaoyang crazy.
"It's gone!" The compensation of 50 yuan for the cost of work is nothing at all for a person who works like Xiaoxiao. But the shadow of this matter was too deep before, so Xiaoxiao was still immersed in inertial thinking.
If you lose it, you lose it, Mu Chaoyang doesn't care too much. But he thought, it shouldn't be.
The two of them walked all the way, and they were not crowded, so there was no reason to fall. Even if it is dropped, will anyone still take this thing?
Xiaoxiao was so anxious that he sat on the sleeper and stretched out his head to poke his head, Mu Chaoyang thought for a while, and his eyes moved to the backpack on the luggage rack.
"Xiaoxiao, didn't you just stuff it in your bag?" he asked.
Zhang Xiaoxiao, who was so anxious that she was about to sweat, suddenly stopped her movements and ...... Backpacks?
Following Mu Chaoyang's line of sight, she also moved up. She recalled that when she exchanged tickets, she was carrying a bag. smiled and remembered, and then she couldn't remember......
Xiaoxiao was still reproducing the scene in his mind, Mu Chaoyang had already stepped up the stairs and took down his backpack and handed it to Xiaoxiao.
Zhang Xiaoxiao dug into her habitually stuffed pocket, and sure enough, she found a card with a raw edge, and took it out to see, isn't it the sleeper card she has been looking for for a long time just now......
She handed the card to Mu Chaoyang with some humility, thinking that this trip was really unfavorable. Why hasn't the train left yet, and she made such a big joke.
Mu Chaoyang received the card into his wallet, and when he saw that he was still in a daze, he looked at her helplessly, didn't speak, and stretched out his hand in front of her.
"Hmm...... What are you doing?" Zhang Xiaoxiao, who had just made a fuss, was a little weak-hearted, and he didn't understand what he meant for a while, so he asked blankly.
"Bag. Mu Chaoyang pointed to her backpack, "It's good to find it." ”
That's it? Xiaoxiao handed it over mechanically, waiting for Mu Chaoyang's lecture. But he didn't say anything, and put his luggage on it.
"Zizizizi......" A strange voice sounded around Xiaoxiao.
What's wrong with this train? I saw Mu Chaoyang looking at her with strange eyes, and sure enough, she could hide from the first year of junior high school, but she couldn't hide from the fifteenth?
"Your phone rings, won't you answer?"
"Ahh......h Pick up, pick up ......" Xiaoxiao reacted at this time, the sound was nothing else, it was the ringtone of her mobile phone's vibration mode.
"Hello senior sister. Hey, I'm Zhang Xiaoxiao. Because the department was going to arrange an alumni dinner, the senior sister in charge of the reception called Xiaoxiao to confirm, "Accommodation, ......"
glanced at Mu Chaoyang with a smile and inquiring, and saw that he nodded confidently, "Oh, no, I'll get it done." ”
"Really? Great. The senior sister looked very happy on the other end of the phone, "Zhang Xuemei, you don't know, the hotels next to the school are eager to open in the lobby." It's so far-sighted that you can book a room. ”
Xiaoxiao was a little ashamed, as if she was not the one who had the foresight.
"Pan Wei, do you know me?" said a name on the other end of the phone, making Xiaoxiao freeze, "Is she from the same class as you?"
……
"It's not. Xiaoxiao's tone was a little stiff, "I'll be in the next session." ”
"Oh~ Yes, that's great. When the time comes, if you have any questions on the day of the event, just look for her. The senior sister explained on the phone, "There are a lot of alumni this time, and I don't know all of them, Pan Wei is a volunteer, I seem to be in the same boundary as you, so I asked." I didn't expect to really know. ”
"Hmm. Know. Xiaoxiao turned her face to the car window to see that it was not clear, "Senior sister, I'm going to drive, hang up first." ”
"Good. "I'll send you Pan Wei's mobile phone in a moment, and I'll give her your information when the time comes." ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao completely believed that the senior sister who contacted her at this time should be a little different from her, after all, ...... Back then, the whole department knew about her and Pan Wei...... It should be no less.
"Hmm. Good. Thank you, Senpai. Xiaoxiao replied very calmly, calmly to the point of being a little cold.