Chapter Eighty-Three: You Want to Be Beautiful
The man laughed, ignored Shen Mengxi, and continued to say to Qi Baoping: "It's really a pity that our primeval forests are overcuted, and the new forests can't be continued, and the climate has changed. ”
It was the first time that Qi Baoping was so valued by an older person, and although he was a stranger, his heart was still stirring, so he chatted with that person back and forth.
The man came down from the middle bunk, sat on Qi Baoping's lower bunk, and talked on his knees.
In fact, Qi Baoping doesn't have much environmental knowledge, but he has read some reports on TV and newspapers, and these days he has heard his cousin talk about the indiscriminate deforestation of Qingfeng Forest Farm, and now he has moved over according to the gourd painting.
Most of the time he listened to the man, secretly remembering it in his heart, ashamed, and secretly determined to go back and study more.
Soon after driving, the train stopped again, and a few people came up at the Three Trees train station. Due to the short parking time, a man in his thirties ran anxiously under the train, shouting, "Dad, talk to someone, change the bunk!" Father! Are you listening? ”
An old man responded with a sigh, the car drove away, he held the ticket in his hand, carried his bag, staggered to the bed rail, and carefully looked at the bunk number.
He was the upper bunk, and his son said that he really couldn't get the lower bunk, so let him get on the train, find a young man who can talk well, and change the bunk.
When he found the seventh shop, he was dumbfounded when he saw the high upper bunk, this is really not going up.
But he just couldn't open his mouth to ask for help, and sat on the small stool at the window with his leather bag in his hand.
"Wei Qing! You have nimble legs, so let's switch places with the old gentleman. "It's good to have a big generation, Shen Mengxi shouted unceremoniously to his nephew who was reading the Hong Kong and Taiwan pictorial in the lower bunk.
"Okay, auntie." Qi Weiqing put away the magazine, stood up, and walked over to exchange tickets with the old man.
Qi Baoping also heard it, stood up and said, "I'll change, Wei Qing is not honest when he sleeps, don't fall down." ”
"Isn't there a railing, it's fine." Qi Weiqing said nonchalantly.
The old man looked at the little girl who spoke of adults, and then at the two young men, and he was not polite, "Then thank the young man and his aunt!" You are all kind-hearted people from Xuefeng! ”
"You're welcome!"
"As it should be!"
Qi Weiqing threw his schoolbag to the top bunk, let the old man sit on the lower bunk, and sat on the small stool by the window to continue reading magazines.
The old man suddenly remembered something, and he asked Qi Weiqing, "Young man, is the ticket price different, you should be more expensive than mine!" ”
Qi Weiqing didn't know the ticket price, so he said: "It should be almost a few cents." ”
After a while, the conductor held a ticket holder and shouted "Ticket exchange, ticket exchange!" Get your tickets out! ”
Qi Weiqing took the opportunity to take the ticket from Qi Baoping's hand, took a look, this look, he was shocked, a hard sleeper ticket cost 127 yuan, three is nearly 400 yuan, and staying in a hotel is ten yuan and eight yuan a day, how can you live in a train for a night, it is so expensive!
If they sit on a hard seat, they should have a lot less money, and the old aunt is not tall enough, as long as half a ticket, maybe the three of them won't even need a hundred yuan.
As he calculated, the conductor took his ticket and replaced it with a plastic card with the number seven upper berth on it, with Sun Island printed on the back.
"Take it, change it back before you get off! If you want to drink water, go to the door of the No. 6 carriage to fight! Lights out at 9 p.m. The conductor drooped his eyelids, repeated the words mechanically, and walked to the next bunk.
Qi Weiqing whispered to Shen Mengxi: "Auntie, the attitude of the soft sleeper conductor before was much better than this. ”
Shen Mengxi nodded, "If you take a plane, your attitude is better!" ”
"You haven't sat down, how do you know?"
"Analyze it yourself! Of course, you have to analyze it! ”
"Because the soft sleeper can only sit for people of a sufficient level, so their attitude is better than here, and the plane ticket is more expensive, and they are all leaders who can sit, so the attitude is better, right?"
Shen Mengxi immediately stretched out his thumb, "The son can be taught!" ”
The middle-aged man chatting with Qi Baoping laughed when he heard this, "Your sister is really amazing!" ”
"She's the youngest in the family, and she's so naughty that she makes you laugh." Qi Baoping seemed to have matured a lot, and he was polite with that person.
The old man took out a ten-yuan voucher and forced it to Qi Weiqing, "Young man, give you the money!" ”
Qi Weiqing hurriedly stuffed it back, "Don't!" My aunt bought this ticket, and I didn't spend any money! ”
"Then you also suffer, you must take it!"
Shen Mengxi motioned for Qi Weiqing to take it, and Qi Weiqing threw the money to her, "You take it, go back and give it to the third aunt." ”
Shen Mengxi is accustomed to fair trade, believing that the best way to get along is to not owe each other and use each other. The other party often does not appreciate the things taken for nothing, and the grace of dripping water may not be reciprocated, but it is easy to rise to the situation of fighting rice and hatred. "You take it yourself, after all, you suffered a loss, climbed the top bunk, your aunt's love, you remember." In fact, she wanted to say that Qi Huici naturally had her channels for reimbursement of tickets.
Qi Weiqing also wanted to say that if he did a good deed and didn't leave his name, why should he still collect money from others. But for more than half a month, getting along with the He family, he has learned a lot, the He family acts, the atmosphere is open-minded, and many seemingly casual people are sophisticated, but they are very different from the strict rules of the grandfather and grandfather.
He wisely didn't ask anything more, looked at Qi Baoping, and saw that he didn't say anything, so he said sorry to the old man and accepted the money.
The old man said again and again, I should say I'm sorry.
Then he patted the quilt on the bed with peace of mind, and with an ouch, he lay down comfortably.
"Beer, drinks, ham, sausages! Peanuts and melon seeds popsicles! Come on, put your legs away! "A female conductor pushing a vending cart came from the front carriage, and her voice was crisp and high-pitched.
Shen Mengxi snorted and was happy, and finally heard this shout again.
Qi Weiqing turned his leg under the small table and asked the conductor to pass. The old man, who had changed shops, got up and called out to the conductor to buy them popsicles to eat, and the conductor happily took out popsicles from a thermos bucket. Shen Mengxi paid first in the upper bunk, bought five popsicles, and gave them to the middle-aged man and the old man, the old man said that his teeth were not good and he couldn't eat, so Shen Mengxi gave the extra one to Qi Weiqing.
In the evening, the middle-aged man went to the restaurant to eat, and Shen Mengxi and the three of them ate the bread and roast chicken that Zheng Yuan bought, as well as three bottles of soda.
The old man ate sugar cakes and salted eggs, and after he saw the ticket just now, he blamed himself for letting his son spend so much money. In any case, he refused to spend another penny to buy anything, and he resolutely did not want the chicken that Shen Mengxi gave him, "I have no teeth, I can't bite it." ”
The middle-aged man came back from eating and said with a smile: "The food is good, boys!" I knew I was going to eat it with you! ”
"Let's eat a little more!" Qi Baoping picked up a chicken leg and handed it over, the man laughed, "Just kidding, I've already eaten it, they said the chicken cakes on the train are delicious, I bought some, this is for you to eat, he opened the plastic bag and asked them to take the trough cake inside, obviously eating their popsicles, I don't want to owe mercy."
Shen Mengxi generously pinched one, "Thank you!" ”
Qi Baoping and Qi Weiqing said that they didn't like to eat, but they didn't answer.
The man put the bag of cake in the middle bunk and said, "Take it back and give it to my son to taste." ”
The next day, when it was just dawning, Shen Mengxi heard the sound of rustling, and the man exchanged the ticket with the conductor, sorted out his luggage, and carried a rattling plastic bag to get off the train.
Qi Baoping was very vigilant, sat up, checked Shen Mengxi, looked at Qi Weiqing again, and said to the man: "Uncle Ji, have you arrived at the station?" ”
In front of him was Yishi, and the man was about to get out of the car, "Little brother, it's okay to call me Uncle Ji and Brother Ji, let's meet again!" ”
"See you soon!" Qi Baoping looked at his back and was reluctant.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the train arrived at the end point of Tang County, and they were not in a hurry and slowly got off the train. They also had to change passenger cars, and the two teenagers carried large bags and small wraps, which was very hard, and there were no adults to follow, so they stood on their own, and the tickets and meals were also well organized.