Wang Bo and Tang Suzhen ate some braised vegetables, drank some beer drinks, ate a loaf of bread, took a bite or two of bananas, and made do with lunch.

When the two were eating, a little girl led by a pair of young men and women in their twenties opposite did not blink their eyes, and kept staring at Wang Bo's various kinds of tempting aromatic pickled vegetables on the table and drooling.

However, if the invitation fails, it is impossible for strangers who have never met to eat him. Wang Bo also made a pretense, but he took out a food bag, grabbed it with his feet and claws, and handed it to the little girl opposite. The men and women on the other side still didn't want it, Wang Bo said that it was for children, and there wasn't much, and after persuading him twice, the two of them finally accepted it, and quickly asked the little girl to thank Wang Bo. The little girl timidly said "Thank you, brother". Wang Bo smiled and said no thanks, then squinted his left eye and made a strange appearance towards the other party, which had always looked restrained, and the introverted little girl suddenly smiled.

During the chat, I learned that the other party was a migrant worker working in Chengshi, a businessman/Qiu from Henan, and the New Year was approaching, so the family set off, like countless migrant workers, thousands of miles away, to go home for the New Year.

After lunch, Tang Suzhen took out the materials she had collected for Wang Bo, that is, the articles of the first prize winner of the semi-final of last year's "New Concept Essay Competition", and asked Wang Bo to study it carefully, including the essay "Peep in the Cup" that made Cold famous.

Wang Bo is interested in reading the articles written by his seventeen or eighteen-year-old peers who "moan without illness" and "worry about giving new words". But this was Tang Suzhen's intention, so he had to take it in his hand and pretend to take a look. Tang Suzhen didn't disturb Wang Bo's reading, took out a novel from his travel bag, and read it to himself. Wang Bo glanced at the cover, and it turned out to be Ah Lai's "The Dust Has Settled".

The book "The Dust Has Settled" Wang Bo borrowed it from a rented bookstore in the county town when he was a freshman in high school. What impressed him the most in the whole book was the author's description of the protagonist's milk/zi "color, flavor, and flavor" of the protagonist (probably the nurse), including the fool protagonist who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, and the various meanings/yin and imagination of the milkman's milk//zi, which made Wang Boshi still have a deep impression after more than ten or twenty years. Seeing "The Dust Settled" in Tang Suzhen's hand, Wang Bocai felt that he had made a mistake this time, and he knew that he should have asked Cheng Wenjin to borrow two interesting novels to take on the train to pass the boring and difficult time.

Wang Bo looked absentmindedly at the materials prepared for him by Tang Suzhen, but he glanced around and found that most of the workers in the carriage were migrant workers who went home for the New Year like the couple opposite, and there were also many college students who went to school in Chengshi. Wang Bo's eyes suddenly lit up, and he wandered around, hoping to find one or two beauties, take a look, YY, and kill the boring time. It's a pity that the times are not good, there are several female college students in the carriage, but none of them can get into his eyes, Wang Bo has to sigh regretfully in his heart, sighing "bad luck"!

As the departure station, almost everyone has a seat. However, as the train stopped all the way, there were fewer people getting off the train and more people getting on the train, and the whole carriage began to crowd. By six o'clock in the afternoon, when I drove to Yangping Pass, at the junction of the carriages, it was already full of people, even in the aisle, there were people squatting on the ground. Because it is a closed compartment, the air conditioning is turned on in the car, and the windows cannot be opened.

"Teacher Tang, it's six o'clock now, let's go to the dining car for dinner, right?" Wang Bo couldn't stand the air in the carriage, and also wanted to go out for a walk, so he said to Tang Suzhen.

After the excitement of the first two or three hours of taking the train, Tang Suzhen, who took the train for the first time, felt a little bored with the unchanged scenery along the way, and wanted to change the environment to breathe, but she was a little worried about the luggage on the luggage rack.

"It's fine to go to dinner, but after we're gone, the luggage on this luggage rack—"

"It's okay, nothing of value. You can call Brother Liao to take a look. Wang Bo said to Tang Suzhen, and immediately looked at the two couples opposite, and said to the migrant worker surnamed Liao, "Brother Liao, let's go out for dinner, you help us take care of the luggage!"

"No problem, Xiao Wang, you can go with confidence. The man smiled and said that he had a very good impression of the little brother opposite who took the initiative to invite his family to eat and insisted on giving his daughter food and drink.

The two of them walked through several swaying and crowded carriages all the way, found the dining car, and suddenly their eyes suddenly brightened.

"Wang Bo, why are there so few people in the dining car?" The first few carriages were crowded like canned sardines, but the dining car was quite empty, Tang Suzhen saw it, and immediately became curious.

Wang Bo thought, when you see the price of the food on the menu, you will know why there are so few people, but he didn't say anything, just said: "Probably everyone has dry food, so I don't want to eat in the car for the time being." ”

The two found an unmanned table to sit down opposite each other, Wang Bo picked up the menu, handed it to Tang Suzhen, and asked the other party to order.

As soon as Tang Suzhen received the menu, it was like receiving a red-hot soldering iron, and she almost dropped the menu on the ground.

"This, the food here is too expensive, isn't it? Back to the pot meat in a square restaurant only sells for three yuan a piece, here it costs eight yuan? This is too knocking, right?" Tang Suzhen's eyes widened, and she looked incredible.

"Uh, Mr. Tang, this, the food on the train is...... It's more expensive!" Wang Bo whispered. When he was a student, he never dared to eat the things on the train, including the simplest instant noodles and mineral water, because it was too expensive and not cost-effective. He usually buys it in advance at the supermarket and takes it on the train. As for the daunting food truck, he only visited it out of curiosity, but he never dared to sit down and order a dish. The only time I ordered food in the dining car was when I got married and went to Phoenix with my ex-wife for a honeymoon.

"Then let's just order two dishes, and we'll forget it. Precious dead!" Tang Suzhen patted her chest and said, looking like she had palpitations.

"Yes, Mr. Tang. Wang Bo nodded in agreement, but he was a little disappointed, he still wanted to prepare a big meal. But Tang Suzhen looks like a "thrifty revolution/life", and he is not good at acting too extravagant and wasteful, although this little money is completely negligible to him now.

After discussing with Wang Bo, Tang Suzhen ordered two dishes, one meat and one vegetarian, one back to the pot and one mapo tofu, which are the most common Sichuan dishes.

After dinner, the two sat in the spacious, fresh air dining car for a while, until about eight o'clock, and then returned to the air polluted carriage with some reluctance.

Back in her seat, Tang Suzhen continued to let Wang Bo study the model essay of the first prize winner of last year's "New Concept Essay Competition" semi-final, while she continued to read the unfinished "The Dust Has Settled". Wang Bo still had the patience to waste his time on those little children's articles, so he said that he had finished reading them, and asked Tang Suzhen if he had any other novels, and lent him a copy.

Tang Suzhen brought a total of two novels, one for Ah Lai's "The Dust Settled" and one for Wang Anyi's "Song of Long Hatred", and took "Song of Long Hatred" to Wang Bo. "Song of Long Hatred" Wang Bo read it when he was a literary youth in college, and he didn't have much sense of expectation. But it's really boring right now, so read it again and pass the time.

After reading the novel for more than an hour, Wang Bo felt a little sleepy. Today, in order to catch the car, I got up too early in the morning, and I was tired all the way, and I didn't stop for a minute until now, and I was a little tired. Wang Bo closed the book, ready to return it to Tang Suzhen, and closed his eyes and squinted.

As soon as he turned his head, he found that Tang Suzhen, who was still reading a book not long ago, had fallen asleep on the train.

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PS: "Dusk is the rhythm of my awakening" Brother's reward yesterday was 1888 starting coins instead of 588, I was wrong, sorry!

Corrected!

Sorry hah) (To be continued.) )