In the evening, the bookstore closed and everyone returned to the third residence, and Akemi received a call from Zhang Wenhao.

"Hey! Akemi, I'm Moon Ho! You okay? Zhang Wenhao's voice was a little tired, and Mingmei was very distressed when he heard it, he must have suffered a lot in Gansu.

"Wen Hao, I'm fine, when will you come back? You're on winter vacation too, right, I'll pick you up at the train station. Akemi was very happy and hid her pity.

"I won't go home for the Chinese New Year this year, we have a child in school, my grandfather is sick, my parents are working in the city, and I won't go home for the New Year. I'm going to stay here and spend the New Year with them. Zhang Wenhao didn't let his parents send him when he left, and now he doesn't plan to go home to see them when he arrives in Gansu, and Zhang Wenhao still resents his parents in his heart. Growing up in the midst of his parents' quarrels, he is repairing his scarred heart.

"I don't want to go home for the New Year, my dad has found a girl again, and I guess I'm being favored now. I'm too lazy to look at them like that, so it's better to spend the New Year outside and be clean. I'll go find you, what do you lack over there? I'll bring it over. Akemi was interested.

"The conditions here are difficult, the road is difficult to walk, don't come, I'll just guard here alone." Zhang Wenhao felt sorry for Mingmei.

"I'm not afraid of hard work, you send me the address, I'll mail you some books first, and give them to the students!"

"I teach all primary school students, and the conditions are not very good." Zhang Wenhao actually began to care about others, and Akemi felt the change in him.

Hanging up the phone, Mingmei contacted Assistant Ma and asked him to donate some school supplies to Zhang Wenhao's school in the name of Ming's enterprise.

Akemi summoned everyone to the living room and asked, "During the winter vacation, I'm going to Gansu to visit poor students in the mountains." Do any of you want to go with me, I will cover the cost, but I'm afraid I won't be able to go home for the New Year. ”

Xue'er and Xia Bing looked at each other, and then said in unison: "I want to go home!" ”

The third child held the spicy bowl and said, "If I don't go home for the New Year, my mother will definitely hunt me down!" ”

Li Guo put his hands in his pockets, sat on the sofa with his buttocks, and said: "I'll go, I plan to find a factory to seal a batch of red bean porridge and send it to Gansu to give Zhang Wenhao and the children a taste." It's like canned eight-treasure porridge. ”

"Two bosses, tomorrow Xia Bing and I have to ask for leave to buy train tickets, tickets are sold twenty days in advance, we have to queue up one day in advance, otherwise we won't be able to buy them." Cher felt that it was the worst time to take a leave of absence, but it would be too late to say anything more.

"Go ahead!" Akemi and Li Guo replied together, full of tacit understanding.

The next day, at 3 p.m., the ice and snow combination came to the ticket hall of the train station, and tickets for up to 20 days were sold on the first floor. If you want to buy it for early sale, you must queue up on the second floor until 8 o'clock the next morning. Xia Bing and Xue'er are both southerners, and buying train tickets before the winter vacation every year is a big deal, and they are both about to graduate and have already bought experience.

To spend the night here, you must be fully equipped, each person must bring a small maza, bring books, water, dry food, and importantly, be sure to go with two people, and you can take turns to go to the toilet. I also have to prepare a few clean newspapers, and sleep on the floor when I am tired.

The ice and snow group took leave, and when they came to the second floor, there were already a few people lined up, and the ice and snow picked two teams next to each other and occupied the third place in the two rows.

Xia Bing broke a piece of bread, handed the other half to Xue'er, and said, "Eat some bread!" You see that most of the people in line are students, there are no scalpers at all, how did they buy tickets? ”

Xue'er took the bread, took a bite, and said: "Inside, it only takes a few minutes to buy tickets every year, the sleepers are all sold out, and there are hard seats, but who can stand it?" More than 30 hours, sit on a hard seat! I can't stand it. ”

At five o'clock in the afternoon, a lot of students came, and there were about 20 people in each ticketing line, and they were arranged in a straight line and in an orderly manner.

At one o'clock in the morning, everyone laid out the newspaper and prepared for bed, and the line turned into a sinuous S-shape, although a little chaotic, but the order could still be seen.

Xia Bing felt the cold air pressing, got up from the ground covered with newspapers, and walked to the window. The first snow, gracefully falling from the sky, gently falls into the mortal world. The heavy snow in the sky is like a white marshmallow, hurriedly closing the curtain for late autumn.

Xia Bing woke up Xue'er, and the two southern girls were excited, although it was not the first time to see the snow, but the days of watching the snow in the future may be limited. When I returned to the south after graduation, I could never enjoy such a magnificent snowy scene again.

At three o'clock in the morning, Xia Bing was so sleepy that he couldn't do it, lying on the iron railing in front of the ticket gate, his body was tense and straight, as if he had light work, and he was sleeping on it. The head rests on the first railing, the buttocks sit on the third railing, and the feet resting on the fifth railing.

At five o'clock in the morning, the comrades on patrol woke up those who were sleeping on the railing, so as not to be in danger and reminded everyone to protect their finances.

At seven o'clock in the morning, everyone resumed their formation, and more and more people gathered, and at eight o'clock the conductor began to sell tickets, and at eight o'clock Bingxue began to buy tickets, and they were told that the tickets they wanted to buy were sold out instantly.

Back in the bookstore, the ice and snow combination is very embarrassed, like two hungry people fleeing.

Seeing that the two of them couldn't lift their spirits, Akemi stepped forward and asked, "Didn't you buy a ticket?" ”

Xia Bing said: "I bought it, but it started from Beijing, and we had to rush to Beijing first, so I was afraid that we would have to run on the road for three days to get home." ”

Xue'er comforted Xia Bing and said: "It's also good, you don't have to be on the train for more than 30 hours, you can stop and go for a life, and you can enjoy the scenery along the way." ”

Akemi was puzzled: "You two lined up all night, why didn't you buy a sleeper from here?" ”

Xia Bing said: "Sleeper? This year, even the hard seats were snatched up in three minutes, and there were not a few tickets in the first place, so what else did the people of the whole country grab together, ah, my mother! Lao Tzu lined up all night! Xia Bing was a little annoyed and almost cried, she never thought that the way home would be so difficult, and she regretted a little why she didn't go to the queue earlier.

Xue'er patted Xia Bing's shoulder and said, "Okay! Why did you still become Lao Tzu? It's good to be able to go back, if we buy that sleeper, it means that there is a person who can't buy it, it's all to go home, and it's not easy for anyone. Now think about how to get to Beijing! ”

"Come with me and Li Guo!" Akemi sends out an invitation.

"How do you walk together?" Cher asked.

"Li Guo and I drove to Gansu, because there were too many things, so we had to drive a van. Just passing by Beijing, let's go together, there is a response on the way! Akemi laughed, there were so many people on the road, it was a good idea.

"Boss, you're so nice!" Cher hugs Akemi, not knowing how to express her joy.

"Don't scream, the guests misunderstood!" Xia Bing slapped Xue'er on the head, and Xue'er grinned in pain.