K3 leaves the Imperial Capital Railway Station at 11:22 p.m., and according to the timetable, the train will arrive in Erenhot at almost 12 o'clock in the evening after passing through Datong.

A conductor walked into the bag with a towel on his shoulder and handed Crewe and me two things. I took it and saw that it was a free meal voucher in Chinese and English and Russian.

I simply left the lunch ticket as a souvenir, and Crewe smiled and waved the meal coupon in his hand at me, telling me that this is only available in the Chinese section, and it will be gone when it comes out of the Chinese section.

The conductor walked back to my and Crewe's box a short time later, and said to me with a smile, "The train on your imperial capital?" ”

I nodded and asked with some surprise, "Are you from the imperial capital?" ”

The conductor smiled and nodded, "We have three emperors in this carriage, and there is a little couple on the other side of the carriage, who are also going to Moscow, so I am not embarrassed to disturb them." ”

On the side, Kru suddenly interjected, stumbling in very non-standard Mandarin: "I heard that the imperial capital of China is very good at chatting."

The conductor laughed, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes were clearly visible, "It's not easy to meet one or two compatriots on this train, and if you don't hurry up and listen to Huaxia for a while, you won't be able to say hello when you go home." ”

I asked curiously, "Aren't there many Chinese people taking this train?" ”

The conductor uncle shook his head and said with a wry smile: "What's more, the tourism industry in Russia is not developed, and the tourism of the train is not paid much attention to." In recent years, there have been more students and couples on graduation trips, and if you put aside the previous few years, if there were ten Chinese people on this train, nine would be fallen masters. ”

I nodded, Russia has always been a strange country in my eyes, although this country has recently been in the impression of the Chinese because of its attitude towards Ukraine and NATO, as well as the charisma of its leader.

Russia is probably the most underdeveloped country in the world in light industry. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 90s, there was an extreme shortage of goods in Russia, especially daily necessities, which provided an opportunity for cheap Chinese goods to enter the Russian market, and international trains became the earliest means of commodity transportation.

Although there are regulations on the train, the baggage limit of passengers is 35 kilograms, but probably no one pays attention to this regulation, or it has long been dredged by the passengers to exist in name only, so these Chinese passengers often carry a lot of daily necessities on the train, and the small station where the train stops often becomes the distribution center of Chinese goods, usually not yet to Moscow, the goods on the car have long been exchanged for a lot of rubles.

The conductor smiled and continued: "Speaking of the poured master, I remembered it, give the young man a reminder, wait a while to go to the dining car or go to fetch water, don't be too enthusiastic when you meet the Chinese people who greet you, and you are also anxious to tell him your carriage number and box number, and you are anxious to invite someone to be a guest, if you don't know it, you will carry a bunch of things later, please help him keep it." ”

I didn't know why they did this, but I guessed that it was to cope with an inspection or something, so I smiled and nodded.

Outside the window, the train has arrived in Datong.

In my inherent impression, Datong is just a coal capital, but today I have added another article to this inherent impression - the sky of Datong is changed, and it seems that it is not much better than the emperor.

The train continues to move forward, and you can hear the sound coming from under your feet while sitting in the aisle, and the K3 train itself seems to be a museum, with many old objects. When I walked to the restaurant to eat, I passed by the boiler room, which was a charcoal-burning boiler, spitting green paint and burning coal underneath.

The conductor uncle was cooking food, turned around and saw me and smiled at me and said, "Going to eat in the dining car?" Don't go and eat with me, the food in the dining car is not delicious. ”

Without waiting for me to speak, the conductor turned around and put the dishes on the plate, and walked towards my box with a bowl of food in one hand and a smile, "Let's go, go to your place to eat, the Belgian named Crewe probably didn't eat either." ”

I had to follow behind, and when I returned to the box, I found Crewe cutting ham with a knife, next to the bread slices that had been arranged, and it looked like he was making a sandwich. When he saw me walk in, he immediately stopped his movements and said with a smile: "I'm making sandwiches, do you want them?" ”

The conductor uncle behind him spoke up, "Don't do it, that thing can't be eaten." Eat this. ”

I looked at my uncle in surprise, and I swore that this was the first time in my life that I had heard the English language of Beijing. It may also be my own reason, and I automatically translated what my uncle said into Beijing films in my head.

Uncle's craftsmanship is very good, a stir-fried cauliflower and a kung pao chicken, Cru and I almost swallowed our tongues.

After eating, Crewe took out two chocolates from his bag and handed them to me and Uncle Conductor, the chocolate is a very famous brand in Belgium 0.

Uncle conductor waved his hand and put the chocolate on the table, "Give me this, you might as well give me a beer, I'm not a little girl, I don't like this." ”

Belgium is famous for two things, chocolate and beer.

After eating, it was not dark outside the window, the train had probably entered Inner Mongolia, the sunset outside the window was red in the carriage, I took out my mobile phone and took a few photos and suddenly found that the power of the mobile phone was almost not enough, took out the plug and plugged it into the socket in the high bag to charge, and connected the phone to find that the socket had no electricity at all!

On the side, Kru said: "The sockets in our carriage are useless, the voltage of the sockets in the aisle is unstable, and I charged the flashlight overnight and it was not full." The train staff's storage room is said to have an outlet that stabilizes the voltage. ”

I reluctantly put away the number of lines, and when the conductor uncle came over, I asked the uncle with a shy face if I could go to him to charge.

A blonde woman suddenly walked into the bag and greeted Crewe with a smile, "Hey, Crewe, I'm here." Is this your new roommate? Chinese? ”

Crewe smiled and said, "Yes, Richard, Chinese." Richard, I'll introduce you, this is Monica, my companion on a trip. Monica, Paul, what about them? ”

Monica suddenly took off her T-shirt and said with a smile: "They're drunk and sleeping, and they might come over later." ”

I was dumbfounded,, this is the rhythm of the live broadcast? How can you still encounter this kind of benefit when you take the train? Do I want to shoot some videos and post them until the soup is not hot to increase the number of fans?

However, Monica took off her T-shirt and went into the bathroom, and Crewe smiled apologetically at me and began to explain the reason to me.

It turned out that Crewe was not traveling alone, but with four other companions. They booked a high-pack ticket in an ordinary hard sleeper car, considering that only the high package has a private toilet and 24-hour hot water, which can allow them to take a bath.

Only then did I realize that there were indeed not many passengers in this carriage, except for me and Crewe, who were high-level people, it seemed that only an old man next door and the couple on the other end of the carriage were left.

Just as he was thinking about this, a voice came from the door, "Young men, do you want to drink?" ”

When I looked up, it was the old man next door.