The long-distance car drove against the north wind on the endless wilderness, and the glass of the windows kept rattling with the vibration of the body. The glass is covered with a room, and the person sitting by the window reaches out and rubs a piece of it from time to time so that he can see the scenery outside.

At a glance outside the car, there was a vast white under the high blue sky, mixed with the withered yellow of weed corpses, a bush here, a bush there, and a few bags of flat snow arched from time to time. Occasionally, a piece of land was exposed, and the black was incomparably intense at this time.

The earth, the fields, the houses, were all hidden under the snow.

The highway has also lost its obvious boundaries, and the passing villages are only a few low houses half-buried in the snow in the horizon, and they look into the distance vigorously, there are no figures, not even animals, as if the car is driving in an empty and unknown world, moving alone.

The pine forests on the distant hillsides were pitch black, and the trail was in the middle of the pitch-black mountain forest, like a blinding white thread, all the way to the top of the mountain where the snow or the sky could not be distinguished.

There would be a river on the side of the road, and the water would have condensed into a hard shell, revealing a stream of blue, reflecting a dazzling light in the sun without a trace of spirit, and on both sides of the river were uplifted snowdrifts, forming a zigzag line that disappeared into the white in the distance.

Xiao Wei retracted his gaze, moved his sedentary and stiff body, and stomped his feet a few times.

There are a lot of people in the car, and there is heating, it is not very cold, the cold wind through the window cracks is a little more refreshing in the boring compartment, but the feet are not good, the thin floor can not withstand the cold outside, and the cool air climbs tenaciously along the feet to the human body.

patted Xia Maosheng, who was sitting next to him with his face up, sleeping soundly: "Old Xia, how long will it take to arrive?"

Xia Maosheng opened his eyes in a daze, glanced at Xiaowei, turned his head to look outside the car, and said, "It's almost over." He closed his eyes again.

I don't know how many words I said this way, Xiaowei sighed, and continued to look out the window boringly, he also wanted to sleep but couldn't sleep, and it was a kind of happiness to be able to sleep in the car.

Beipiao is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Chaoyang City, Liaodong Province, located between Fuxin Jinzhou and Chifeng, known as Sichuan Prefecture in ancient times, is a more famous coal-producing area in Liaodong, opened in 1901, rich in coking coal, and most of the coal-producing areas, now the coal mine has long been closed.

In this era, the traffic here is not very convenient, it is still a relatively closed area, and there is no direct bus to Mukden.

This side is also considered a mountainous area, but because it is on the edge of the Liaohe Plain, the mountain is not large. The bus shook and shook for more than an hour, and finally the people on the side of the road began to dense, and you could see the pedestrians walking, and the figures of chickens, cows, dogs and pigs also appeared kindly, and you could see a tractor with a huge rear wheel on the side of the road from time to time.

When the car finally exerted its last bit of strength and stopped with a shaking, it had come to a completely unfamiliar place for Xiaowei, several cement buildings, all of which were wide bungalows at a glance, and there was a faint smoke floating on the chimney.

Poked up Xia Maosheng, who was still sleeping, Xia Maosheng yawned and looked out the window with his waist lazy, and said, "It's very fast, get to Nanpiao." ”

Nanpiao is a subordinate district of HLD City, which is Jinxi County of the former JZ City. The place names of the south ticket and the north ticket originated from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, when two dragon tickets were issued to Liaoxi, that is, the coal mining license at that time, one south and one north, from which it was named.

got off the bus, exhaled white air, while looking at the black town on the white land, while moving his stiff legs and feet, Xia Maosheng next to him opened his mouth and stretched an exaggerated lazy waist, rubbed his eyes and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

Xiaowei asked, "How far is it?"

Xia Maosheng said: "It's not far, it's an hour and a half by small train. ”

Xiaowei was stunned for a moment, looked at Xia Maosheng and said, "Fuck, does your family live in a cave? Why is it so far away? ”

After coming out of Fengtian and going all the way west to Panjin Jinzhou in Liaozhong, he almost didn't go to the sea, but he had to take another train for an hour and a half, and Xiaowei felt that he immediately began to hurt all over his body.

Xia Maosheng smiled and said: "No way, what I said doesn't count, what I want to say is already straightforward." Let's eat and leave, I'm hungry too. ”

Xiao Wei looked around, and to be honest, a little disappointed in this place, and said, "Whatever, I'll just follow you." ”

The two of them went to the side of the road and found a snack bar and walked in, this side is on the side of the station, relatively lively, there are some small shops and restaurants scattered on the side of the road.

The weather is fine, the sun is shining warmly, and the locals who are fine are standing on the side of the road or leaning against the wall in all kinds of padded jackets, smoking cigarettes and looking at the pedestrians around them. A few local dogs swayed leisurely on the road, coming to the side of people from time to time to smell them.

The restaurant is not big, the two of them casually asked for two dishes to eat, sat down and drank some hot water after eating, rested for a while, and the stiff body was relieved, Xiaowei followed Xia Maosheng out of the hotel and walked to the train station.

Xia Maosheng went to the ticket office to buy a ticket, the train station at this time was similar to the whole country, there was a hole in the window that was not much bigger than a fist, and people had to bend over and twist their faces to talk to the inside.

"What time is Sanbao?" Xia Maosheng asked, then took out five yuan and handed it in to buy two tickets, two yuan per person.

Xia Maosheng pointed to a green car parked more than 100 meters away and said: "That's it, the small train, it runs in the mining area, and the people in the mine don't need money." ”

Two people walked over, the door of the train car was open, and there were no attendants, and when they got on the train and walked into the carriage, they saw two rows of hard seats along both sides of the carriage to the end, not horizontal like ordinary trains, and the middle of the carriage was particularly wide.

There were already some people sitting in the carriage at this time, smoking cigarettes, talking, and melon seed peels were thrown everywhere.

The two of them sat down, and Xia Maosheng said: "Isn't it strange? The seat of this car, this is a special line car in the mining area, and it does not run out, mainly to pull the workers and farmers in the mining area. He explained why the saddle was arranged the way it was.

Xiaowei looked left and right and asked, "Then how are other trains lined up?"

Xia Maosheng looked at him and asked, "You haven't been on a train?"

Xiaowei nodded and said, "I haven't sat before, I used to go from home to the county seat, and there were only buses." Then my uncle drove me from the county seat to Fengtian, and then I came to you, where can I take the train?"

Xia Maosheng swallowed a mouthful of saliva and nodded, saying, "When we go back, we will take the train, you will know, I can't tell." ”

Soon the train started, and there were not a few more people, and the carriages were empty, and they drove out of the platform with a long and long bang.