On August 20th, the wind was beautiful and the sun was just right.

At the entrance of Balizhuang Railway Station, a group of people waited for the upcoming train.

After a while, the sound of a train horn "woo-woo" came from a distance.

Several uniformed ticket inspectors stood by the platform, watching the crowd on the left and right shouting loudly, "All line up, the train is coming soon!" If you don't queue, you won't get on the bus! ”

"Mom and Dad, the train is coming, I'll go over and line up first!"

Li Yange caught a glimpse of a smoke-emitting locomotive rolling in the distance, picked up the army-green backpack on the ground, and threw it behind his back.

"Be careful on the road! Remember not to quarrel with people on the train, and call back as soon as you settle down in the capital. Looking at the oncoming train, Dong Qiuhua was still a little worried that his son would take the train to Beijing for a few days alone, but he knew a thousand instructions at this point.

"Got it, Mom."

Li Yange smiled, and then chatted with Yu Chengli, who came to see him off, and Li Dongqing for a few words, then waved his hand and walked behind the queue with a big backpack on his back.

After a while, when the train arrived, the door opened, and the neat line at first dispersed, and many people rushed straight in.

Fortunately, Li Yange bought a sleeper ticket from the terminal Beijing, and there were not many people who bought it, and under the loud scolding of the ticket inspector at the door of the car, everyone entered the car in order in order.

After entering the sleeper in the car, Li Yange threw his backpack on the bed, ran to the aisle and pulled the car window, and waved goodbye to Li Jianguo, Dong Qiuhua, Yu Chengli and others who were still standing outside.

"When you arrive in Beijing, remember to call back!"

"I know Mom, I'll call you when I get to Beijing!"

After chattering for a while, the train "whined".

The ticket inspectors outside began to urge the people on the platform to leave, and the train was about to leave.

"And besides, ......"

With the continuous spraying of locomotive steam, the wheels turned little by little, and the train started!

Seeing that their figures were getting farther and farther away, Li Yange took a closer look, but still didn't see Cheng Shaojun's shadow, and couldn't help sighing, today she got a condolence performance from the textile factory below, and there was no way to come over.

Li Yange turned around and walked into the sleeper, the sleeper layout at this time is almost the same as that of later generations, they are divided into upper and lower berths on the left and right, and the ticket only writes the sleeper but not the specific bed, so if you want to sleep in the lower bunk, you have to come over in advance to occupy a seat.

At this time, there were already two people in the sleeper, one in his fifties, wearing a light gray shirt and a black glasses frame, looking like a cadre leader.

Another Svenwen, who is in his thirties and dressed up, may be an employee of a certain unit who has been sent on a business trip.

The three of them didn't know each other, and they didn't want to talk, Li Yange glanced at the two of them after coming in, opened the big army-green backpack, turned out two books from it, and then stuffed the backpack under the bed, lay on the bed and began to read the book.

There is almost a 1,800-kilometer road from Chengdu to Beijing, and according to the current train speed, it takes about fifty or sixty hours to arrive.

Li Yange was ready to fight a protracted battle, so he deliberately bought two books to read on the road, for fear that he would be too bored.

I don't know how long it has been, a man in his fifties sitting on the lower bunk opposite suddenly said, "Little comrade, where are you going?" ”

"Ugh!" Li Yange was stunned, put down the book and looked at the man, seeing that he was smiling and staring at himself, he was talking to himself, and he didn't hesitate to say: "Go to Beijing!" ”

"To Beijing? You're going to Beijing to go to university, right? ”

"Yes, go to school in Beijing."

"A new graduate?"

"Hmm."

"That should be pretty good, I went to school in Beijing, I don't know which school?"

"Central Conservatory of Music."

"Oh! Yangyin, that's a good school, I didn't expect the little comrades to still engage in literature and art, it's very good. ”

The man looked appreciative.

With nothing to do, Li Yange also sat up straight and asked, "Old man, where are you going?" ”

"I'm also going to Beijing."

"On a business trip?"

"Well, on a business trip."

"It's a long way off."

"Yes, it's my first time going to Beijing."

“……”

The two chatted with each other, purely because they were bored in the carriage for too long, and they were looking for someone to talk to relieve their boredom.

Li Yange's upper bunk also interjected two sentences from time to time, and he said something.

It was in the evening that the three of them chatted happily and shared with each other the food they had prepared.

…………

At 8 a.m. on August 24.

Beijing Railway Station.

"Sir, I'll go first."

"Goodbye, little comrade, I look forward to seeing your performance in the future!"

Pingshui met, they didn't even know each other's names, and after getting off the train, Li Yange didn't talk much with the old gentleman with glasses, waved goodbye with a smile, and walked out of the train station with a big backpack.

"Tsk, the sky in Beijing is quite blue now, but the air is not very good, worse than it will be in a few decades."

As soon as he got out of the train station, Li Yange looked up at the blue sky, it was cloudy today, the sun was not visible, and there was a slight smell of wind and sand. There was a crowd of people outside the train station, some coming by car, some preparing to leave by car, and the pressure was overwhelming.

When Li Yange returned to Beijing in the 80s with emotion, a middle-aged man in his forties with messy hair walked over with a mouthful of cigarette teeth, "Where are you going, little comrade?" Do you want to take a car? ”

Glancing at the man, he asked, "How much does it cost to go to the Central Conservatory of Music?" ”

"Twenty bucks!" The middle-aged man held out two fingers.

"So expensive? Forget it. Li Yange shook his head, really he hadn't been to Beijing? The opening is 20 yuan, and the average person has a salary of dozens of yuan per month, and he will take a taxi a few times when he comes to Beijing to die.

"Hey, don't mind, you're a student in Beijing, right? Let me tell you, the Central Conservatory of Music is in the area of Baojia Street, but it is very far away, and you don't know when you will find it alone. And I'm a good car, do you know RB Daihatsu cars? It was the best car in the world, and my one was the van made by Daihatsu Motor Company! ”

"No thanks."

Li Yange walked away without looking back, carrying a big army-green backpack.

It is six or seven kilometers from Beijing Railway Station to Baojia Street, if I remember correctly, according to the current taxi price is about six cents per kilometer, so the distance is only five yuan, and the opening is twenty yuan.

It's a good car! The brand of Dafa is now a little more prosperous, or in the field of taxis, after a few years the introduction of Xiali taxis, these yellow van taxis have to be eliminated.

"Another poor ghost who doesn't know where he came from! Bah! ”

The middle-aged man spat on the ground with disdain, and when he saw that there were a few suspected parents sending students to school at the exit of the station, he immediately stepped forward quickly: "Where are you going?" Do you want to take a car? ”

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