At 9:30 a.m. on October 1, 2043, I had a night meal at the restaurant opposite the railway station in Binhe City, checked my luggage from the train station, went up to the second floor along the elevator, entered the sixth waiting hall on the second floor, and waited to enter the station. Because it was a long holiday, although it was already night, the waiting hall was still noisy. In the waiting hall, six people sat down on six plastic chairs on either side of two rows of benches. I saw that there was already a long queue in front of the 267th ticket gate, so I said to Liu Yuexiao: "It's time to start the ticket check, let's go and line up too." Yu Jinling said: "Don't worry, 267 is the first departure, there will not be too many people, and it will not be too late to pass when the ticket inspection begins." ”

At 10:08, the station ticket inspector came to the station sign to start checking tickets, and six people walked along the ticket inspection line to the entrance of the station. After cutting the tickets, as the flow of people descended the passage on the second floor to the long platform, the 267th southbound train had stopped on the west side of the platform. There is still plenty of time, Tian Xiaorui said: "Continue, how many of us are in the carriage." I said, "I just looked, we're in car No. 9." ”

No matter how many people there are, and no matter whether there is enough time or not, people who catch trains are always in a hurry. Running with suitcases, busy with children, adults shouting and children screaming, it is really a kind of car army with Donghua characteristics. Behind car No. 9, a uniformed female attendant said, "Welcome to train 267, please check your ticket and get on the train." "The six Chen Shushan were the first to get on the bus in front, followed by Wang Xiaoqin, Yu Jinling, Tian Xiaorui, and Liu Yuexiao in turn, and I was the last to get on the bus.

After getting on the bus, I found that although the seats of the six people were serial numbers, they were not together, Tian Xiaorui and Liu Yuexiao were sitting on the small seats of the two opposites, and the people in the car had not yet been on the line. After the people who had just gotten on the train arranged their luggage, they found a place to sleep, eat and drink, and the inside of the carriage gradually quieted down. The horn of the train shouted: "Train 267 is about to start, passengers who have not boarded the train please hurry up and get on the train." At this time, a young man and a woman hurried up from the back of the carriage, and they happened to be sitting in the seats next to me.

Before the two of them put their things away, I said, "Brother and sister, can I change seats with you." The young brother said, "Where to go?" I pointed at Liu Yuexiao and Tian Xiaorui with my hand and said, "That's where they are." The beautiful sister said: "It's convenient for others, it's convenient for yourself, where to sit, let's change it to them." The two of them carried their luggage and walked to the seats of Liu Yuexiao and Tian Xiaorui. Liu Yuexiao and Tian Xiaorui had already heard me talking to the two of them, and Liu Yuexiao said to her brother and sister who had changed seats while packing up the supplies she was carrying, "Thank you, thank you." The sister said, "You're welcome." "Tian Xiaorui and Liu Yuexiao were replaced by the three of us.

At this time, the train started slowly, and the horn in the train sounded again. "Passengers, welcome to take the 267th train, the train starts from Binhe City, goes to Guiyang, passes through Wuhan, Zhangjiajie, Jishou and other stations, I wish you all a happy journey." Then, the song "Good Day" sounded on the loudspeaker, and the melodious singing echoed in the carriage.

Twenty minutes later, the train had already left the urban area of Binhe City, and looking out of the window, there were occasional lights flickering in the distance, mostly black fields and mountains, and the journey was monotonous. At eleven o'clock, the horn on the train was turned off. Many travelers have fallen into a state of drowsiness.

I said to Yu Jinling: "Jin Ling, have you ever been to Xiangxi?" Yu Jinling said: "Although Xiangxi is not far from us, I have never been there. Chen Shushan said: "I haven't been there either, but I read a few collections of Mr. Shen Congwen's essays on Xiangxi a few times ago. I have a superficial understanding of Xiangxi's past. I said: "My impression of Xiangxi mainly comes from the old movies "The Story of Xiangxi Bandits" and "The Story of Bandits in Wulong Mountain" and other movies about Xiangxi's bandits. Wang Xiaoqin said: "My impression of Xiangxi is that I feel that there are many bandits in Xiangxi, there are many miasma in the place, and women are good witches. Liu Yuexiao said: "It is said that there are still corpses in Xiangxi, which is so terrifying." ”

Chen Shushan said: "To say that the climate in Xiangxi is roughly the same as that of Yuzhou, and people's eating habits are close to the flavor of Yuzhou, and they like to eat spicy and bacon meat. Tian Xiaorui said: "My understanding of Nanhu is too limited, I only know that there is a Xiangtan County in Nanhu, and there is a Chairman Mao who is famous in the world." ”

Seeing that we were talking so lively, the man and woman who exchanged seats with us also interjected into the chat. The man said, "Classmates, where are you from?" I said, "We are students of Zhongyuan University, and we are going to go to Xiangxi to see the ancient city of Phoenix." The man said, "We are also phoenix people, we happen to be on the same road." Liu Yuexiao said: "Have you changed a lot in Xiangxi?" The girl said: "What you just said is the old yellow calendar of the past, we are now in Xiangxi, the development of tourism and characteristic agricultural industry, the people of Xiangxi are gradually getting rich, if you don't believe it, you can see for yourself, you will know how much has changed in Xiangxi." ”

Chen Shushan said: "Where are the famous scenic spots in Xiangxi? The boy said: "If you want to talk about the attractions in Xiangxi, in addition to Zhangjiajie, you have to count the Phoenix Ancient City, and it is the Peach Blossom Source again." The specific attractions of the ancient city of Phoenix are basically on both sides of the Tuojiang River, mainly to see the stilted buildings near Hongqiao, and to see the ancient Xiangxi dwellings, it is said that those stilted buildings, ancient castles or something, have a history of two or three hundred years. (To be continued......)

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