Chapter Twenty-Three: The Late Train
At seven o'clock in the morning of the next day, Xie Shuyao appeared at Tianjin West Railway Station carrying a large and bulky leather suitcase.
Coming out of the ticket office, Xie Shuyao heard that the train tickets to Pukou would only start to be sold at 11 o'clock at noon, and the train entered the station at one o'clock in the afternoon, and the train tickets at this time could only be sold two hours in advance, unlike the train tickets in later generations that could be pre-purchased a month in advance.
Xie Shuyao is not worried that she will not be able to buy a train ticket, she will not go to the ticket gate of the third-class train with most people, the third-class ticket is very cheap, the ticket price only costs more than five yuan, but the environment of the third-class carriage is really unbearable, you can't imagine the scene of thick phlegm all over the ground, it makes you don't know how to get off your feet, not to mention the smell of feet, sweat, belching and farting after taking off your shoes......
Seriously, the environment of the live poultry market is simply fresh compared to the third-class carriages, although Xie Shuyao has not really made third-class carriages, but these are the third-class carriages that Xie Shuyao has indeed seen. Xie Shuyao felt that if she didn't have to do it as a last resort, she would never buy a third-class ticket to torture herself.
Although the second-class carriage is much more expensive, for a "girl" who goes out alone, the safety and security of the second-class carriage is much better than the mixed third-class carriage, and the third-class carriage often has a big fight for a seat, because the train tickets in this era are not numbered seats, they are all first-come, first-served, so the third-class carriage often appears that one person occupies several seats. And the seats in the second-class carriage are always unsatisfied, for no other reason, just because it is expensive - expensive!
There were a lot of vacant seats in the second-class carriage from Peking to Tianjin last night, Xie Shuyao found a row of three seats empty, she slept directly on this "bench" last night, and saved her a sum of money to buy a sleeping berth.
Tianjin West Railway Station does not do as much as the front door back to the station, it is not so lively, Xie Shuyao carried a large leather suitcase to find an open-air tea shop that looked quite clean and sat down, wanting to have breakfast here.
As soon as Xie Shuyao sat down, a young man immediately ran over and greeted enthusiastically: "Sister Jie, do you have something?" ”
This strong Tianjin dialect caught Xie Shuyao off guard, and after being stunned for two seconds, he realized that he was asking himself what to eat, Xie Shuyao asked the guy without thinking about it: "Do you have dogs here to ignore buns?" ”
"Sister, okay, it's the first time you've come to Tianjin Wei, okay, if you want to eat a dog, ignore you and go to Deju! Why come to our small place, we are a place to rest! The guy explained.
Xie Shuyao smiled awkwardly, ordered something a little embarrassed, and sent this upright young guy away.
After breakfast, Xie Shuyao felt that it was still early, so he took a rickshaw and wanted to go to the city for a walk. In fact, the county seat of Tianjin is not big, and in less than an hour, Xie Shuyao basically walked around the main streets of Tianjin County. Xie Shuyao saw that the master who pulled the car kept snorting and panting, and couldn't bear to let this master pull him around again, in case he was tired and sick again, it would be a sin, so Xie Shuyao excused himself to the place, so he got out of the car and settled the account for the master.
Xie Shuyao walked a few steps along the south road, and stopped when he saw an empty rickshaw.
This time she planned to go to the Japanese Concession to have a look, she had heard that the Japanese Concession in Tianjin was a paradise for addicts, prostitutes, smugglers, and gamblers, because in the Japanese Concession prostitution, gambling, smuggling and smuggling were legalized, and for a period of time the international newspapers had criticized these problems in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin, but the Japanese Government was not moved at all and still wantonly used drugs and other illegal means to exploit the wealth of the Chinese people.
Sitting on the rickshaw, Xie Shuyao found that since entering the Japanese concession, various brothels, smoke houses, and gambling halls have appeared one after another, and these places are just as many as restaurants and teahouses in Beiping City, and Xie Shuyao even saw the sign of a North Korean brothel. While making Xie Shuyao stunned, her heart also rethought human nature, there is no morality at all in this kind of place, the sinking of **, the mud of drug smoke, and the cliff on the gambling table......
was frowning and observing the "guests" who came in and out of the smoke houses, gambling houses, brothels on both sides of the street, a figure appeared in Xie Shuyao's sight, Xie Shuyao looked at it carefully a few times, and really saw that the person was Jin Bihui. How did she end up in Tianjin? One of her was followed by an old foreign man in a long robe, like the polite Mr. Emperor I met at the last art exhibition!
Xie Shuyao immediately asked the master who pulled the car to turn the head of the car and go back, she didn't want to meet Jin Bihui, she thought that she should be careful and low-key, there was no need to run to this ninja friend. At this time, she was in no mood to continue to criticize the black miasma of the Japanese concession, and hurried back to Tianjin County.
After returning to Tianjin County, looking at the time and an hour before the tickets were sold, Xie Shuyao was not in a hurry, she found a decent restaurant near the Drum Tower, had a simple hot meal, and then stopped a rickshaw to rush to the railway station in the west of Tianjin County.
Tianjin West Railway Station is a domed European-style building, there are two curved and symmetrical stairs in front of the hall, very European palace taste, Xie Shuyao is not a student of architecture, she only thinks this design is very beautiful, but she can't say anything, she can only feel that this is a very beautiful building. If Lin Huiyin, a classical beauty, was here, she would definitely be able to help her explain the story of this building, Xie Shuyao thought as she looked at this European-style train station.
Looking at the watch, it is said that the train should have started to sell tickets, but Xie Shuyao did not see the crowded scene at the ticket office, and it seems that the train tickets have not yet started to be sold.
Could it be that the train has already left? Xie Shuyao thought suspiciously.
Xie Shuyao hurriedly ran to the ticket window to ask, only to learn that the train was delayed for some reason, and it was estimated that ticket sales would start at one o'clock in the afternoon.
The train in this era is like this, it is often delayed for no reason, although this has long been prepared in my heart, but Xie Shuyao's face still can't help but show a helpless look.
Xie Shuyao found an open-air tea shed to sit down, and from this open-air tea shed, you can directly see the direction of the platform. On the one hand, the waiting room is only prepared for the first and second class carriages, and the third class ticket cannot enter the waiting room. And people who can get into the waiting room are often not willing to wait stupidly in the simple waiting room. Therefore, the high-end restaurants near the train station generally have arranged for the guys to be near the train station, once the train enters the station, those guys will run back to the store as soon as possible to remind those customers who are waiting for the train to enter the station.
Xie Shuyao, who was sitting in the tea shed drinking tea, suddenly appeared in front of a girl in a white dress and a long dress, she sat opposite Xie Shuyao without seeing anything, and looked at Xie Shuyao with a smile: "Sister, can I sit down here?" ”
Xie Shuyao slowly put down the big bowl of tea in her hand, looking at the handsome girl who suddenly appeared in front of her, Xie Shuyao had no reason to refuse one of her requests, and she was also a beautiful and lovely person. Xie Shuyao smiled and nodded slightly, and just as Xie Shuyao nodded, the woman's eyes flashed with imperceptible cunning.
"Sister, where are you going?" The woman in white glanced at Xie Shuyao's big leather suitcase and asked very normally.
Xie Shuyao replied without much thought: "Pukou, where are you going, sister?" ”
The woman in white suddenly exclaimed, "I'm also in Pukou!" Are you on this train at three o'clock? ”
met a beautiful girl who could walk with her, Xie Shuyao unconsciously got a lot closer to this beautiful girl, and the conversation between the two gradually let go of the initial inhibitions.
Xie Shuyao drank three large bowls of tea, Xie Shuyao liked this very thoughtful girl very much, the two seemed to have endless topics to talk about, Xie Shuyao actually had a feeling of hating each other.
Xie Shuyao was gushing about exposing the little tricks that men use, when she was suddenly interrupted by the girl in front of her and asked, "Sister Shuyao, do you know why the train hasn't come until now?" ”
Xie Shuyao subconsciously looked at her watch, there was still a quarter of an hour to one o'clock, Xie Shuyao smiled helplessly: "Isn't it normal for the train to be late?" It's normal for a train to be an hour or two late now! ”
He Meiqi shook her head slightly, slowly stood up and looked into the distance, then looked at Xie Shuyao with a serious face and said, "Sister Shuyao, if I do something sorry for you, can you forgive me?" ”
Xie Shuyao thought she was joking with herself, so she couldn't help but tease: "Sister Meiqi, are you in love with me?" ”
"Sister Shuyao, sister is sorry for you, you must forgive me!" He Meiqi looked at Xie Shuyao apologetically.
Seeing He Meiqi's serious look, Xie Shuyao was a little confused, she didn't understand what she meant by these words.
Xie Shuyao didn't like such a dumb riddle-like conversation, she couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and complained: "Sister Meiqi, what do you want to say?"
"Sister Shu Yao, in fact, I made the train run late," He Meiqi lowered her head embarrassedly, like a little daughter-in-law who had made a mistake.
Xie Shuyao slowly stood up from her seat, frowned and asked, "What do you mean by that?" ”
He Meiqi raised her head cautiously and looked at Xie Shuyao, then suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed behind Xie Shuyao, and said with a little weakness: "Look behind you......"
Xie Shuyao looked back suspiciously, and saw several extremely familiar figures appear not far behind him. At this moment, Xie Shuyao seemed to understand everything......
At this moment, Xie Shuyao's heart was extremely calm, she just wanted to pick up her big suitcase and leave at the moment, even if her mother and others were not far behind her.
"Sister Shuyao, what are you going to do?" He Meiqi stopped Xie Shuyao, who was about to leave.
Xie Shuyao looked coldly at He Meiqi, who was blocking her way, and the words seemed to pop out from between her clenched teeth: "Get out...... Open ......"
"Sister Shu Yao, I can't let you leave today, ah-"
Before He Meiqi's words were finished, Xie Shuyao directly smashed the box at her, and the leather box knocked He Meiqi to the ground at once.
After solving this "little trouble", Xie Shuyao walked straight to the rickshaws waiting for passengers in a row outside the tea shed, and calmly got into one of the rickshaws.
As soon as he got into the car, Xie Shuyao was dragged off the rickshaw by Hans, who was chasing him from behind.
Xie Shuyao wanted to lift the box again and smash it at Hans, but the suitcase was snatched away by Hans......