1327, Romantic Train
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At half past five, the K588 train from Rongcheng to Shenzhen through Tongren finally began to check tickets, and the three of them ended their idle talk and began to check the tickets with the flow of people. Pinshu.com
Thinking that Ma was going to take a train, Han Lin and Liao Xiaoqing, who had never been on a train, became a little excited. Wang Bo was also a little excited, mainly because of the hard seat of the train, he had sat in the hard sleeper in his life, but he had never sat in the soft sleeper, and he didn't know what the situation was inside. It is said that the soft sleeper car has only two lower berths and four people, unlike the hard sleeper, which has six people, and it is a separate box, and the box door can be locked......
Wang Bo began to think about it, looking forward to him and Han Lin, and the box where Liao Xiaoqing stayed was not satisfied, only the three of them were good.
It's not impossible. The ticket price of a soft sleeper is three times that of a hard seat, and the vast majority of people are reluctant to sit it. Because there is really money, people take a plane, they don't have so much money, and if they want to sleep, they can buy a sleeper ticket at most.
Moreover, now is not the peak period for Chinese travel, and the hard sleeper is estimated to be a lot empty, not to mention the soft sleeper with a hard seat ticket that is expensive for the hard sleeper.
The sleeper car was located near the dining car at the part of the train, and after the three of them got down from the overpass, they didn't take two steps to see the car with the word "R" printed on it.
"Wow, is this a soft sleeper, it feels so advanced!" When the three of them entered the carriage, pressed the tickets, and finally found a seat, Han Lin immediately looked left and right at this small space where the three of them were going to stay for 11 hours.
"Isn't this what it is?" Wang Bo stuffed his travel bag under the bed, stepped out of the box, stood in the aisle, his hands, and began to look at his neighbor through the window.
Outside the window of the car is a surging tide, large bags and small bags, passengers in a hurry. Indeed, as he expected, everyone basically did not run forward, but rushed backwards, and rarely walked into the soft sleeper car.
Five minutes, ten minutes...... Until the train ended and began to move slowly, even the three of them, a total of more than a dozen people entered the soft sleeper car, and they were scattered in three or four boxes. Passengers who enter the soft sleeper compartment, whether they are dressed, or the boxes they drag, the packages they carry, and the other people, they must pay a lot of attention to them, and they are people with good family backgrounds.
"Huh" Seeing that no strangers entered the box where the three of them we......re, Wang Bo secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, it's not completely reassuring yet, and maybe there will be new travelers coming into their box at the later stops, who knows?
Thinking of this, Wang Bo suddenly regretted a little, thinking that if he bought four tickets in one go when he bought tickets at that time, and occupied all the four lower berths of the soft sleeper box, he would not have this kind of worry now.
But then again, if he bought an extra ticket inexplicably, Liao Xiaoqing and Han Lin would definitely blame him. That's not something that can be spoken.
So, alas, let it be fate, see if God will take care of him, and whether he will reward him with a "wonderful and unforgettable" journey.
After the train started, the lively and active Han Lin really wanted to know the situation in the other carriages, so he took Liao Xiaoqing to explore. Liao Xiaoqing didn't want to go, but she couldn't resist Han Lin's drag, and said something like "You want to talk to Wang Boqing and me, it's time late, it's not bad for a while", and she was so ashamed that Liao Xiaoqing beat Han Lin with her fists, and she was embarrassed not to go.
After the two girls left, Wang Bo took off his shoes and lay directly on a bed in the lower bunk, ready to squint for a while. Thinking that he was going to travel with the two female classmates in the class today, he also had a little insomnia last night, and woke up very early in the morning, but now, he is a little sleepy.
When Wang Bo was in a daze and was about to fall asleep, the two girls went and returned. As soon as Han Lin returned to the box, he said loudly:
"Wang Bo, the hard-seat carriage is so lively, bustling, people coming and going. We're so deserted here. I knew that we had bought a hard seat, and it felt so comfortable...... Hey, you're going up so early, it's only half past five......."
Han Lin's sparrow-like chirping voice woke Wang Bo up from a daze, and his drowsiness was more than half gone. He sat up from the bed, crossed his legs, and said with a smile: "Cars, trains, planes, ships, all means of transportation, the busier the place, the cheaper, the quieter the place, the more expensive." If you want to experience the excitement and mingle with the working people, you can go to the hard-seat car to find someone and exchange tickets with him/her. When he said this, he sighed in his heart, thinking, he is really a child, he is almost forty years old and likes to be quiet now, and he can't stand the noise.
Liao Xiaoqing, who was sitting on the lower bunk opposite, said with a smile: "Wang Bo, don't ignore this person to go crazy." She's a 'boar can't eat chaff'!"
"Yo yo yo, you started to speak for your sweetheart so soon?
Liao Xiaoqing was used to it, as long as Wang Bo was there, as long as there were no other people around, Han Lin's continuous teasing and teasing of her and Wang Bo, she didn't bother to refute, and directly glanced at Han Lin.
At 10:10 a.m., Wang Bo asked the two girls to go to the dining car to eat together. The dining car is next to the sleeper car, so it doesn't take the three of them to go too far.
"Hey, Wang Bo, why aren't there many people in the dining car? Don't people on this train eat dinner?" Han Lin, who walked into the dining car, saw that there were only two or three big cats and small cats in the dining car, forming a distinct pair with the flow of people in front of him who were sleeping hard and sitting in the carriage.
Before Wang Bo could speak, Liao Xiaoqing on the side explained in a low voice: "It is estimated that many people have brought their own dry food." I just saw a lot of people boiling blistered instant noodles. ”
"Understood, right?" Wang Bo said with a glance at Han Lin.
The three of them found a quiet place to sit down, and soon a food truck attendant brought a menu for the three of them to order. Wang Bo handed the menu to the second daughter opposite. Han Lin only glanced at the menu, his face suddenly changed, and he stuck out his tongue. The two women looked at each other, and then returned the menu to Wang Bo and asked Wang Bo to order.
Wang Bo is also not polite, what is the back pot meat, mapo tofu, boiled meat slices, kung pao eggs, tomato egg soup...... ordered several in a row, until Liao Xiaoqing and Han Lin, who were sitting opposite, said in a row that he should stop ordering and that he couldn't finish eating too much, so Wang Bo ordered three more cans of beer before he gave up.
As soon as the waiter left, Han Lin immediately vented his dissatisfaction and said: "What kind of rotten place, a pot of meat costs ten yuan? !
"Now you know why not many people come here? The people who sit on the hard seats are ordinary people, the people at the bottom, ordinary people, if it is not necessary, they will definitely not want to come here to suffer a stick!" Wang Bo said with a smile.
As soon as he said this, Han Lin's face finally turned a little dark. Only then did she suddenly realize that she and Liao Xiaoqing went out to travel with Wang Bo this time, whether it was food or accommodation, the other party came to entertain them both with high standards.
The three of them ate and drank while chatting, and from time to time enjoyed the scenery of the sunset outside the car window. However, after leaving Rongcheng, there are hills and tunnels all the way, for Wang Bo, the scenery outside the car window is not much to see, but the second daughter who took the train for the first time watched it with relish, and from time to time let out a voice of amazement. Wang Bo looked at the second daughter's line of sight, and immediately understood the reason for the second daughter's amazement, but he saw the undulating hills and broken houses, no village in front, no shop in the back, and lonely people's homes.
"Wang Bo, I feel that the lives of the people living in this mountain are so poor and backward - the houses are so broken, the roads are so narrow, so rotten, and they are crooked, it is estimated that the tricycle cannot drive in, and it is definitely inconvenient to go out...... What should I do if there are still children studying? I can't see the school or the township for several miles......" Looking at the mountain village houses that flashed by and flew away outside the car window, the two girls' brows furrowed, and their expressions were full of surprise, unbearability and sympathy.
In the past, Wang Bo always felt that he was a person cursed by fate: his parents divorced early, and his stepfather who was found after his mother's second marriage was also two and five, without any sense of responsibility, usually lacking food and clothing, and the family was in a state of being a vegetarian monk all year round.
It wasn't until he was admitted to university, took the train to Shuangqing for the first time, passed through the vast hills and mountainous areas, and saw the people in the mountain villages more impoverished, isolated, and more depressed along the way, that his sorrow for his misfortune weakened a lot.
Later, Wang Bo only sneered at some people who were obsessed with the development and prosperity of their ancestors, as if they had caught up with Britain and the United States, and even looked down on the surrounding developed countries such as South Korea and Japan, which were tens of thousands of dollars per capita. These people simply regard Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and even other first- and second-tier provincial capitals as the general situation in China, ignoring the fact that the vast majority of the rural population, especially the rural population in the western mountainous areas, is still in difficulty.
For these people, Wang Bo really wants to drag them to the mountains to live in force for two years, so that they can feel the "development" and "prosperity" of the motherland!
However, a group of Yelang are arrogant, relying on sucking the blood of hundreds of millions of peasant workers to support a "developed", "convenient", and "beautiful" life without knowing it, or they are just guys who know but pretend not to know! Whenever he hears such extravagant and empty-eyed remarks, Wang Bo seems to understand a little bit the original intention of the movement that Taizu launched decades ago, which is of course the catastrophe in the eyes of some people:
Let you, who are detached from the masses and don't know the sufferings of the world, experience the living conditions of the Chinese people at the bottom.