Chapter 19: Scalpers
There are still a few days to go, it is Christmas, for this kind of imported foreign festival, everyone's interest is still very high, and the student union is also saying that they are going to prepare for a Christmas party.
Although there are not many days to go before the final exam, Lu Tao is not in a hurry at all. It was another weekend, and he slept until half-past nine before getting out of bed.
Li Hong, who was on the lower bunk, picked the soles of his feet on the ladder with his right hand, Lu Tao quickly retracted it, and then directly stretched out his entire calf and shook it on the top of Li Hong's head.
Since Lu Tao gave 1,000 yuan to Li Hong yesterday, the relationship between the two has become better, and there is inevitably a fight early in the morning.
"It's Christmas in two days, aren't you going to prepare some gifts for your partner?" Li Hong waved his hand, knocked Lu Tao's foot aside, and asked him.
"Gifts?"
He was too busy during this time, and the things he received from Peng Ying in the mail before were just a reply, and the original plan was to go over and meet directly during the winter vacation, but he didn't expect it to be Christmas so soon.
"Look at you, can you even forget such an important holiday? Li Hong said jokingly.
Lu Tao was shocked.
Yes, although I am busy, there is always time to buy some gifts and send them over, even if I was poor in my previous life, I still went to the mall and picked a silver necklace to send over, although it only cost 50 yuan, but that was half a month's living expenses.
Is it really too busy?
Or is it because you know the settlement of your past life, you can't mind it now, and your mentality has changed, and you have become less proactive, and you can forget about buying gifts?
With a little confusion in his mind, he looked at Li Hong and asked, "What kind of gift do you say is better to buy?"
Li Hong has a little inferiority complex because of the pimples on his face, and he belongs to the category of blushing when he sees girls, and he is obviously a chick.
Expecting him to come up with an idea, Lu Tao obviously found the wrong person.
"You still ask me to buy a gift, according to my opinion, just send 200 yuan over and let her buy it herself. ”
Lu Tao was speechless, opened his mouth slightly, looked at Li Hong, and the word 'service' was capitalized on his face.
This kind of topic has always been the talk of the dormitory, and several roommates woke up one after another, listening to the conversation between the two, and couldn't help but interject.
"Of course, it's to buy a bouquet of flowers, and then have a candlelight dinner, how romantic. ”
"Fart, it's okay to make a promise directly, haven't you ever heard that the best gift when you fall in love is yourself?"
"Zhang Jian, according to what you mean, giving gifts is just going to sleep? cheesy, scoundrel. “
Several people's opinions are not unanimous, at the beginning it was okay, they all came up with serious ideas, when it came to the back, everyone was playing hooligan, and Lu Tao shook his head when he heard it.
"Okay, okay, I still don't expect you to lose friends. Lu Tao said directly.
Lu Tao pondered in his mind, according to today's mailing speed, even if he went to buy a gift now, it would be after Christmas, so it would be better to buy a ticket first, and then call her to surprise her.
Several people were still discussing where to go for Christmas in the dormitory, Lu Tao had already made a decision, and couldn't help but say: "You guys discuss slowly, I'll go to the train station to buy tickets first." ”
"What time is it? “
"It's not that you don't know, if you don't buy it in advance, there will definitely be a lot of people, and you won't be able to buy it. Lu Tao deeply experienced the pain of going home and taking the car.
"Also, you're too far away from the school, and you have to change trains, so you have to buy it early, like a few of us, it will only take seven or eight hours at most, and I'm not in a hurry now." "Li Hong has basically sided with him since Lu Tao lent him money.
At this time, there is no such thing as buying tickets on the Internet. Although the school has a sales point, there is only one window, and the time is also very fixed, and there are many people in line, and often can't buy tickets, so Lu Tao plans to go directly to the train station.
The train station is in the city, and you still need to make a bus for a dollar to get there, Lu Tao came to the opposite road outside the school gate and waited.
There are no bus stop signs, and most passing buses have a bus stop at the entrance to the school, and the stop sign is just under the tall telephone pole, and a few cypress trees are covered with snow.
It was still relatively early, Lu Tao stood under the telephone pole, and after waiting for a while, a somewhat dilapidated white-shell car drove over.
"I'm going to get on the bus in the city. The conductor held a small red box with a ticket in his hand, pulled the window glass and shouted outside.
The clanging bus ran in this cold weather, and the thick green cotton curtain at the door couldn't resist the cold wind blowing in.
From time to time, there was the sound of stomping feet in the car, there was no way, it was too cold, and I had to find a way to ward off the cold.
After an hour of taking the bus, Lu Tao finally arrived at the train station, where there were already several long queues, all waiting to buy tickets.
While waiting, Lu Tao looked at the station, it was relatively shabby, and there were no people doing business and setting up stalls outside, at most it was a small tin cart, selling pancakes and fruits and the like.
The train station is full of people, there are many floating populations, and the general security is not very good at this time, this situation has actually lasted for many years, Lu Tao clearly remembers that when he first came to school by train alone, thousands of yuan of tuition fees were sewn into ** by his mother, just to prevent theft.
Finally, when it was his turn, he took out two light blue sheets of a hundred with a big back on them from his pocket, and reached through the window.
"Auntie, come with a ticket to Wu City. ”
The uniformed ticket seller quickly checked the ticket, and the screen showed the number and price of the train to Wushi.
"What time is it?"
Lu Tao stared at the screen, he had never been there, and he had no idea how many hours it would take, so he chose a departure time at random.
"It's just morning. ”
"It's 210 pieces in total. ”
"Auntie, this is a student ID. "Students buy tickets at half price, and go back and forth four times a year during winter and summer vacations, Lu Tao hurriedly took out his student ID and handed it over.
As soon as he came out of the ticket hall after buying the tickets, a middle-aged man in a green military coat, a brown woolen hat on his head, and a low-quality cigarette in his mouth suddenly appeared in front of Lu Tao.
"Where, young man, have you bought a ticket?"
The man was very enthusiastic, to be precise, quite enthusiastic, so he almost pulled Lu Tao away.
"I have a ticket, a ticket, a sleeper, I can buy it anywhere, do you want it, young man?"
Lu Tao didn't care, he walked forward by himself, there are many ticket sellers at the train station, and now that he has bought a ticket, he can't give scalpers a chance. Besides, many times these people are not just simple scalpers, they are also doing some illegal things, so it is better to be careful.
Unexpectedly, the man still didn't give up, and kept following him, continuing to ask: "Don't want a ticket? ”