Fuxing Girls' Middle School, on Fuxing Road, the carriage first sent them to the girls' middle school, Elle got off with all kinds of luggage, as a sister-in-law of everyone, some pomp and circumstance were still there, four or five maids, plus two healthy servants, with stuffed things for a whole carriage, the gate of the girls' middle school was closed, leaving only a school gate.

The entrance of the women's middle school is a gate with a clear church style, that is, the church is renovated, two priests and 4 nuns are responsible for the teaching of the girls' middle school, classical and closed, only the servants who are certified by the guò can enter the women's middle school, and the others, you need to use a temporary pass to enter, you must also be accompanied by a security guard, after entering, you must come out quickly.

Compared with later generations of China, this women's middle school can be said to be very tightly protected, and it is also that the students who study in it are all beautiful ladies, all of whom are the daughters of huge rich or wealthy families, and the annual tuition fee is also extremely high, 1500 yuan a year, this money, ordinary families can live for several years, but for huge rich families, it is just a drizzle.

"Brother, Brother Yuanzhao, I'm leaving, you have to promise me, you must come to see me!" Yang Qian's little face showed a faint reluctance, then showed a bright smile, turned around, and ran into the women's middle school.

"Brother Yuanzhao, it seems that my sister has a good impression of you!" Yang Yue said meaningfully.

Yang Yuanzhao's head is big for a while, perhaps, in this world, 13 years old can already be an adult, is the age when he can marry, but in Yang Yuanzhao's concept, at this time, he is still a child, and in the next life, he is just a second year of junior high school, so how can a 25-year-old adult think about it, feel a chill, and a sense of guilt for no reason.

Looking at Yang Yuanzhao's embarrassment, Yang Yue laughed, the carriage was reopened, and he said: "The train is half past one in the afternoon, and there are still three or four hours, why don't we go shopping in Taiyuan, Brother Yuanzhao is coming to Taiyuan for the first time!" ”

The city of old China, even if it is the provincial capital, Yang Yuanzhao does not have the slightest interest, I am afraid that it must be on the way, even the town of later generations is not as good, the entire market is full of gray, white, blue and black and other colors, and the colorful colors of later generations are also obviously different, Yang Yuanzhao is not an archaeological enthusiast, continuous hurry, so that he is slightly tired, refused Yang Yue's invitation.

The carriage came to the Yang family's headquarters in Taiyuan, which is a Western-style four-story building, the first floor is a shop, which looks somewhat similar to a grocery market, where goods can be bought from the north and south, and the business is really prosperous.

When the modern logistics and commerce were not formed, the ordinary business group was to reach the north and the south in this way, because the goods were complete, Yangjia Department Store was very famous in Taiyuan, and from time to time you could see the people and merchants who came to buy the goods.

It was the afternoon ticket, at noon, there was no big deal, just near the headquarters of the Yang family, I ate a bowl of Shanxi-style sourdough noodles, thick meat slices, delicious soup, Shanxi old vinegar and white noodles intertwined, the taste can be said to be unique, Yang Yuanzhao and others, after a full meal, then went to the train station.

Taiyuan Railway Station, not far from Yangjia Department Store, almost 5 miles, when he got off the carriage, Yang Yuanzhao almost couldn't believe that the dilapidated building in front of him was Taiyuan Railway Station.

The railway station looks like a railway station that can't be compared with even the railway station of the small county town in later generations, just a few houses, and even these houses, just a random one, no reinforced concrete, let alone blue bricks and tiles, look at the walls, it seems to be an embryonic house.

Cement, in this era, is also known as ash, the whole of China, except for the enlightenment of Tianjin, there is no other place to produce, less cement, some basic buildings, can only use the soil embryo, not only the quality is very poor, the construction time is also very long, next to the long railroad tracks, there is no guardrail, even the station, is not a closed type, the people, can even cross the railway at will.

On the long steel tracks, there is not even a stop train, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the train appeared, but the utilization rate of the train and the railway, far from reaching the limit, Taiyuan is the terminal station of Shizhengtai Road, not the most important place of Zhengtai Road, here, only the passing train, just after adding water and coal in Taiyuan, it will leave, will not stay here.

Yang Yue as early as a few days ago, sent someone to use a fast horse to inform the Yang family department store, the shopkeeper bought the ticket early, Yang Yuanzhao followed Yang Yue into the station, and later generations, the train station is crowded with people, the current train station, it seems particularly deserted, in the ticket hall, a middle-aged man wearing a horse monster, is bored there.

Taiyuan to Shijiazhuang, 15 yuan, this is a somewhat unimaginable number, 15 yuan, to the average farmer for a year, may not be able to earn, as for the workers, workers in Shanghai, seven or eight yuan abound, this is still high-tech, because 15 catties of white flour is only five cents, 7 yuan is enough for a family to live a month, this is a first-class ticket, in terms of the face of the ticket, equivalent to 1500 yuan in later generations, he is slightly strange, what is the carriage, can be worth so much.

The first-class cabin is not in the same place as other cabins and waiting rooms, there are special sofas and tea seats, and even some Western-style coffee, trains and train stations, which are imported products, and are more influenced by foreign countries.

Inside the waiting room, it seems that I saw the shadow of the later railway station, two rows of wooden benches, and their first-class tickets are specially separated from the small waiting room, which is separate from the others.

Gradually, there were more people in the waiting room, and some newspaper boys and vendors selling cigarettes and melon seeds also entered the waiting room, which was much quieter than the lively waiting room.

"It seems that this train, that is, a few of us are sitting in the first-class carriage!" Yang Yue sighed, the train is a good thing, China's trains are too slow, and the recognition is not high, there are still a few people who really do train travel, most of them are still traditional caravans, if they are not in a hurry, they may still follow the Yang family's caravan.

The huge whistle, with a momentum, came from north to south, Yang Yuanzhao looked through the window, and saw a very simple locomotive, thick and bulky transmission, diffuse water vapor, and slower speed, no wonder this railway station, there is no special separation from the surroundings, a little more than 20 kilometers of speed, the train can only travel on the tracks, a little faster running, you can avoid the train, the train pass, has not become a death pass like the future generations.

The train stopped, and at this time, more than an hour and a half before the departure of the train, a few people, most of them, who looked like businessmen, left the train station with their men in twos and threes, and a group of rickshaw drivers surrounded them, and soon separated them.

Approaching the departure, there are more and more people in the waiting room, almost more than 100 people, but most of them are in the waiting room outside, and there are still only five of them in the waiting room for first-class tickets.

Several railway workers began to add coal and water to the train, because of the backwardness, all relied on manpower, shoulder-to-shoulder, almost an hour busy, 20 minutes before the departure of the train, the train sounded the whistle.

The huge whistle proves that the train is ready, and it is about to start, several conductors began to greet in the waiting room, in front, there were 3 small queues, the train tickets are divided into three kinds: A, B, and C, the first-class ticket is 15 yuan in their hands, and the second-class ticket is a little bit, about 5 yuan, As for the third class as long as 1.5 yuan, the huge gap, so that the treatment is completely different, the third class is similar to the hard seat of the train of later generations, in a carriage, full of seats, there is no crowding of later generations, even if it is 1.5, for the average people, it is also an unbearable number, as for the second class, as above, a little spacious, some like the business class of the later airplane, there are coffee tables, and some small refreshments, as for the first class, it is the highest, not a carriage, it is two carriages, in the carriage like a coffee café, wide seats, sofas, as well as velvet tapestries, curtains, etc., they can drink tea here, leisureAt night, you can go to the back compartment for sleeping, which is a separate sleeper compartment.

Yang Yuanzhao didn't expect that even in later generations, there would be no such high-end carriages, no wonder the ticket price would be so expensive, because it was a first-class carriage, they only got on the train for 5 people, and after occupying two tea seats, naturally someone came up and provided all kinds of tea, which was generally free, and those who could afford to sit in this carriage had no money, and they ordered the most high-end tea and dim sum, which was not too expensive, and the price was similar to that of a Western restaurant in Taiyuan, without adding much, it was a normal price.

Sitting comfortably in the carriage, even because they are first-class, they are the first batch to be allowed to get on the train, you can sit on the sofa, looking at the busy crowd around, at this time can afford to sit on the railway, basically the wealthy class or officials, can not see the appearance of the big bags and small bags in the future, but the hurried footsteps still give people a kind of nervousness.

In 20 minutes, most of the passengers have already boarded the train, and at half past one in the afternoon, the punctual train began to open slowly, and the journey of Zhengtai Road began.