Chapter 069: America, I'm Coming
The bus took Zuojiang and a group of 48 people to Songjiang Railway Station, many parents who saw off were waiting at the train station, as soon as the bus stopped, they surrounded them, while helping the children to get their luggage under the car, while surrounding their children to tell something, many female students who had not been far away were even made to cry by this short parting.
Zuo Zheng and Li Shuyuan, as well as Song Dayou and Zhong Lijuan came, after they helped Zuo Jiang and Song Kexin take the bags, Li Shuyuan pulled Zuo Jiang, Zhong Lijuan pulled Song Kexin and began to instruct, Zuo Zheng and Song Dayou stood aside and looked at them silently. The woman's words were shallow and her eyes were shallow, and Li Shuyuan and Zhong Lijuan's eyes turned red as she spoke, while Song Kexin wiped her eyes and sobbed.
The head of the delegation did not give everyone much time to get together, and waved his hand and said: "Everyone be quiet, please step aside for the parents who are seeing you off, all the students will line up in two lines, and we will immediately check in and enter the station to get on the bus." The parents who saw them off flashed to the side one after another, and the students picked up their luggage and belongings and automatically lined up in two lines.
Zuo Zheng looked at the watch on his wrist, it was just 8 o'clock, and pulled Song Dayou and walked towards Tang Guoqiang. When Tang Guoqiang approached, he took the initiative to stretch out his hand and said: "Hello Secretary Tang, I am Zuo Zheng, the director of the Songjiang Railway Branch, and this is Song Dayou, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Branch!" Saying that, he pointed a finger at Song Dayou.
Although Tang Guoqiang didn't understand what Zuo Zheng meant, he heard that it was the two in front of him, one of the sub-bureau chiefs and the other secretary, who knew that the level was not low, so he enthusiastically stepped forward to shake hands with Zuo Zheng and Song Dayou, with an inquiring look in his eyes.
Zuo Zheng said: "Secretary Tang, the 128 trains you want to take have not yet left the warehouse, and the weather is so cold that you are also frozen on the platform when you enter the station, so it is better to go to the soft seat waiting room to rest first, and then go out when the car body is out of the warehouse." β
Tang Guoqiang didn't expect such a good thing to suddenly fall on his head, and said with a smile on his face: "Thank you Director Zuo, thank you Secretary Song!" It's justγIs it just convenient for so many of us? "At that time, only cadres at or above the department level enjoyed the treatment of soft seats, and ordinary people could not sit on soft seats and soft sleepers if they had money, and the soft seat waiting room was specially built for the chief to wait for the car, which was the product of specific historical conditions, and it was natural for Tang Guoqiang to have concerns.
Zuo Zheng said: "Secretary Tang, the visit of the Songjiang Provincial Middle School Student Delegation to the United States is a major event in our provincial education circles, representing the image of our Songjiang and even China. Besides, my son Zuo Jiang and Secretary Song's daughter Song Kexin are also members of your delegation! β
When Tang Guoqiang heard this, he suddenly realized, Song Kexin He may not remember which one, but Zuo Jiang is too familiar to him, that day at the banquet after the Olympiad Commendation Meeting, Secretary Tao of the Provincial Party Committee specially toasted him, or Director Xu also cared about him very much, he just couldn't forget it if he wanted to!
Tang Guoqiang is very good at being a person, he praised Zuo Jiang and Song Kexin in front of Zuo Zheng and Song Dayou, then turned to face everyone and said: "Students, Director Zuo and Secretary Song of Songjiang Railway Branch are very concerned about our delegation to the United States, in order to create a good waiting environment for us, we specially opened the soft seat waiting room for us to rest, and let me thank them with warm applause!" β
The soft seat waiting room and VIP room at Songjiang Station are just enough to accommodate these people, and the parents of those students have no choice but to watch their children enter the soft seat waiting room, go to the waiting hall to wait in line to enter the station, and finally see them off on the platform.
With Zuo Zheng and Song Dayou sitting in the top of the Songjiang Railway Branch, the efficiency of the Songjiang Railway Station is very high, and the staff is responsible for everything from checking the pound to cutting the tickets, which saves Tang Guoqiang a lot of troublesome procedures, and has notified the train department to prepare for it.
After the car body left the warehouse, it was notified, and as soon as the station radio began to cut tickets, the delegation entered the platform and began to board the train. Five of them were deputy department-level cadres who enjoyed soft sleeper treatment and bought soft sleeper tickets, and 42 classmates and interpreters were hard sleeper tickets.
The 128 train travels 11 hours and 32 minutes from Songjiang to Beijing, departs from Songjiang Station at 8:45 p.m., arrives in Beijing at 8:17 a.m. the next day, and then takes an international flight at Beijing International Airport at 11:50 a.m. to the Kennedy Airport in New York, USA, the flight time is about 13 hours.
The next morning, the 128th train arrived at the Beijing railway station on time, and the Songjiang Provincial Office in Beijing sent a bus to pick them up, because the boarding procedures were very troublesome and took time, pulled them to a restaurant for breakfast, and then sent them directly to the Beijing International Airport.
Arrived at the square in front of the terminal of Beijing International Airport just got off the bus, there was a plane with a huge roar in front of their eyes landed on the airport on the other side of the terminal, the students are the first time to take a plane, usually can only look at the plane flying in the sky, can not see what the plane looks like at all, this time to be able to see the plane up close and get on the plane made them very excited, immediately cheered.
Zuo Jiang had only taken two planes in his previous life, and his impression of the plane was already very vague, and today he was also very excited to see the huge plane landing in front of him.
After a series of very troublesome check-in procedures, the students felt very tired, and the freshness of seeing the plane for the first time was also diluted.
Zuo Jiang's seat was next to the window, which was very convenient for him to enjoy the scenery outside the plane, but when the plane flew to the upper layer of the sea of clouds, there was a vast sea of clouds everywhere, and after watching Zuo Jiang for a while, he lost interest, so he sat there and closed his eyes to recuperate.
Lunch and dinner were free food and drinks provided on the plane, and the students were excited for a while in the face of this novel food and drink, and after the excitement of the students passed, they began to close their eyes or take a nap, and the cabin gradually became quiet.
Zuo Jiang sat there in a daze and slept again and again, and the last time he woke up, the sweet voice of the announcer came from the radio: Hello passengers, flight CA121 has now flown over New York, and will land at JFK Airport in 10 minutes, please fasten your seat belts and pay attention to safety!
Zuo Jiang looked at his watch, it should be late at night in the United States at this time, why is it still daytime? I just wanted to ask about the classmates around me, but suddenly it occurred to me that this is the United States, and the middle of the night in Beijing time is noon here! I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart.
The radio was repeated in Chinese and English, and the stewardess also appeared in the cabin to check everyone's seat belts. Zuo Jiang was very excited at this time, turned his head to look down from the window, the whole New York City was like a condensed model into his eyes, attached to the plane's approach and reduced altitude, this model gradually enlarged, Zuo Jiang first identified the twin towers of the New York World Trade Center, these two buildings that were blown up in the 9 and 11 terrorist incidents, like two lonely giants, standing tall above New York.
Thinking of the world's financial and trade center, thinking of the billions of jackpots that are about to be generated, Zuo Jiang's heart couldn't help but shout: America, I'm here! New York, I'm coming!
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