Chapter 623: Potato buns and soba noodles
In the evening, Xiao Yao came to the side of the road and sat down, beckoning them to come over to rest.
"It's a big bend and the train is going to be slow here, so we're waiting here for the wagons to come and pick up the train. Climb up and find someone to transport food, and we'll get some to eat before we leave. ”
After they left the mountain stream, they walked for a few more days, and since they finished eating the baked potatoes, they did not find any junk food, and the water in their stomachs had long been depleted. Xiao Yao is at the bend of this railway, also for the sake of insurance.
"Alas, we are so stupid, we have been walking for so many days, why didn't we think of picking up the train?"
"It's not that I haven't thought about it, I'm worried about the danger, I've only picked up cars, I'm not hungry now, and I won't choose to pick up the train to eat. ”
Wang Yan looked at Xiao Yao, and didn't know if what he said was true or not, but he found that the railway curve was indeed very big, so he said slowly:
"Well, the curve here is so big, the train will definitely be slow to get here, Son Jin should be fine, right?"
Jin Ming was looked down upon by Wang Yan and was very unconvinced, but Xiao Yao and Wang Yan both slid off the cliff unscathed, only he was the only one who cut his palm because his clothes were not wrapped properly, and now he has just grown up, the reality is here, and it is useless to quibble.
"I'm not as good at fighting as you two, I'm not necessarily worse than you two in running, and I've been in cars. ”
According to Xiao Yao's proposal, the three of them sat at the bend and waited for the train. The first to come was a bus, they shouted at the window for food, but no one dropped the food from the window, and they could only watch the train go away in disappointment.
Then came a coal train, one carriage after another connected very long, there are more than 50 cars, more than twice the length of the passenger car, the three of them sat on the side of the railway did not move, counting the carriages in their mouths, watching the coal truck slowly panting, struggling to crawl in front of them.
The hard work paid off, and just when the three of them were waiting in despair, another train came, and the wagons were not like coal trucks, which were filled with piles of spikes.
"We split the two of us, threw down what we had to eat, and then came back to pick it up. ”
Jin Ming's hand injury had just healed, Xiao Yao was worried about his safety, and he was not allowed to pick up the car, just let him follow the train to pick up things.
Xiao Yao was lucky, he climbed on the train, and when he turned over to the second carriage, he saw baskets of apples stacked inside, he happily grabbed one and stuffed it into his mouth, and then picked up a basket of apples, and wanted to throw them under the train, but unfortunately, he couldn't throw them out of the high carriage at all.
Xiao Yao wanted to call Wang Yan to help, but he didn't know that he was in the carriage, so he had to put the apple basket up two layers and climb up with difficulty.
When he stood up and tried to reach the basket of apples below, the train shook, and he "cooed" and planted his head, biting the uneaten apple in his mouth, and he didn't know where to throw it.
Although the height of the fall was not high, and there were wicker frames with apples underneath, Xiao Yao was also bared his teeth and grinned, and cold sweat broke out on his head.
Xiao Yao was afraid that he would be on the train for too long, that he would be taken away too far by the train, and that it would be unsafe for the train to speed up and get off, so in desperation, he had to take off his shirt, carry a dozen apples, and jump off the train.
Before jumping off the train, he threw down his shirt with apples in his pocket, and as soon as he got off the train, he hurried to look for the apples that had rolled down.
"Hahaha, there's apples to eat. ”
Xiao Yao was still looking for it, Wang Yan and Jin Ming ran over, neither of them helped to find it, one snatched one from Xiao Yao and ate it.
"Help me find it, and. ”
Although Xiao Yao didn't have time to count how many people he had taken down from the train, he only found five or six now, which was too much difference, and he knew that such a number was definitely not right.
"Hmm. ”
The two of them hummed as they ate, helping to expand the search area. In the end, only nine apples were found.
"Why do you deduct it like that? There are exactly three of them? And I don't want you to spend money on it, why don't you get some more?"
Wang Yan chewed in his mouth, holding half an apple in one hand and two in the other, complaining indistinctly.
"You also said that I almost didn't die in order to get a basket of apples down, what did you do?"
"Bullshit, I turned over three carriages, two are machines, one is a plastic pipe, I didn't dare to look for it again, so I ran down, Jin Ming said you didn't come down, we just ran with the train, I didn't expect you to get the apple, I knew we both went up. Get a basket down, enough to eat for several days. ”
The train has long since disappeared, and it is in vain to think about anything else.
"Let's go, let's keep walking, and when we're tired of walking, we will find a corner and wait for the truck. ”
Of the three apples that were evenly distributed, none of them proposed to leave even one for tomorrow to eat, and they all devoured it in one meal.
"Xiao Yao, why do you always see so many walls in the distance, is there any crops planted in them?"
Jin Ming's discovery, Xiao Yao has already seen it, those walls, not only can be seen in an hour's walk, but also different heights and lengths, Xiao Yao has always thought that it is some kind of ruin, and it is far away, so he has not thought of going to check it.
At this time, they were reminded by Jin Ming, and after discussing it, they left the railway and walked towards the distant wall together. Wait for the three of them to come closer. Only then did I understand what kind of wall this is, it is clearly the residents of a village.
The houses here are very different from those in the south, and the roofs of the houses they have seen are equilateral triangles with two sides against the water, with doors in front and windows in the back to facilitate air circulation. But now they say that the houses they see are all right-angled triangles with roofs against water.
The wall they saw was the wall on the north side of the house, and on the south side of the wall was a half-house. Like the building they built, there was only one door on the south side for people to enter and exit, and there were no windows at all.
The north wall is more than twice as tall as the south wall, and it is thicker, which is not only to block the wind and sand, but also to keep out the cold. Xiao Yao and the others came to this village is not big, less than 20 households, and the memory of the whole village for the three of them is very depressed and dilapidated.
"Hehe, there are people here, if we are starved to death by the railway, it will be a big joke. ”
Three out-of-town teenagers suddenly broke into the village, which attracted many villagers to come and watch curiously. Due to the language barrier, I didn't ask for the name of the village. Xiao Yao had no choice but to put one hand flat on his mouth, and the other hand on the flat palm of his hand to pull food into his mouth.
The kind-hearted villagers understood, and a few of them turned around and went home, some brought soba noodles and stirred them with boiled water, and some brought gray-white buns made of wheat noodles and waited for them to finish eating enough before giving them them. Wheat flour was also a high-quality grain in the village at that time.
The noodles mixed with soba noodles and water were too dry, and the three of them were hard to swallow with boiling water and dry-fried oil-free shredded potatoes. When they saw the buns, they all thought that there was meat in them, and the three of them hurriedly divided the only three buns, opened their mouths and bit them.
After this bite, the three of them looked at each other, and a wry smile of disappointment appeared in the corner of their eyes at the same time, the filling in the bun was not the meat filling they expected, and it was also shredded potatoes without the slightest oil star.
A few families made do, and finally let the hungry wolf-like three people eat enough. Xiao Yao looked at their family background and the clothes on the adults and children, and knew that these people were not having a good time, and after they were full, they didn't dare to stay anymore.
They all knew very well that in such a village, whoever ate more would have to eat less, even if Xiao Yao wanted to make up for it with money, he couldn't take the only six cents in his pocket.
The three of them were well fed, sincerely thanked the villagers for their kindness, and walked towards the railway again.
Xiao Yao is really grateful to the kind villagers of this unknown village, although what they entertained Xiao Yao and the three of them to eat was shredded potatoes and soba noodles without oil stars, and the best was the gray bread filled with shredded potatoes that no one has eaten now, but that was their best staple food.
Entertaining a person is not based on what kind of food you use, but on what kind of attitude you use. The most important thing is sincerity and care, even if the poor villagers and Xiao Yao do not understand the language, they are selflessly given to them.
"Hahaha, good luck can't be stopped, I just ate the bun not long ago, and I saw the station. ”
There is no panic in the stomach, and it is good to hurry when you are full of food and drink. The three of them didn't walk long after leaving the village, and after turning a few corners, they saw a small station not far ahead, and Wang Yan laughed happily.
Xiao Yao and Jin Ming were also very happy, and the three of them quickened their pace and walked along the railway to the small platform.
In the small stations in the countryside, unlike the closed and strict stations in the cities, they didn't stay on the platform for long, and then they came to a southbound bus, but no one checked the tickets, and the three of them didn't care about 3721, and mixed into the carriage.
"After we get off at the terminal, you two don't run around, follow me along the railroad outside. If we go out from the exit and find out that we don't have a ticket, we will definitely be sent to the repatriation station, and then we will be sent home again just like the last time I went to Shanghai. ”
Because he didn't know what place this was or how far away it was from the terminal, Xiao Yao told them what he thought as soon as he got on the bus, so as not to get time to rush into chaos.
"What about checking tickets on the train?"
Jin Ming remembered that when they came to Beijing from the provincial capital, they had checked the ticket halfway through the train, and he had no bottom in his heart.
"When we checked the tickets, we hid in the toilet. ”
After Xiao Yao finished speaking, he signaled not to say more to prevent being heard by others. The three of them sat down in the aisle at the junction of the carriages, closed their eyes together, but they all fell asleep after a while.
I don't know how long it took, Xiao Yao was awakened by the commotion, he opened his hazy eyes, only to find that the train had stopped. The passengers in the entire carriage were holding their luggage and preparing to get off the train.
"Hurry up, it's time to stop. ”
Xiao Yao was startled, and hurriedly woke them up, secretly glad in his heart, fortunately they didn't meet the ticket check, otherwise the three of them slept like dead pigs, where would they go to the toilet to avoid the ticket check.
The three of them walked out of the carriage and did not follow the flow of people. Everyone else flocked to the exit of the station, but Xiao Yao took the two of them and walked forward in the direction of the locomotive. As long as he walked out of the management area of the station, he was not worried about being arrested and sent back by the station personnel.
After these days of hard work and a few hours of train rides, Xiao Yao felt that he should not be far from Beijing, and he was getting closer and closer to home, and the three of them were full of interest and chatted while walking.
"Stop! you can't get out here, you guys go back. ”
Just when the three of them were chatting happily, a loud shout came, which frightened the three of them to look around.