After a group of them came out of the gate of the Railway Bureau, Hao Hongmin gently tugged at Han Li's sleeve and said embarrassedly.

"Han Li, the time is still relatively rich now, can you talk to that comrade and ask him to wait for us a little."

"Of course you can, but what are you going to do at this juncture?"

"Now that you have the number of trains and you have an approximate time to get home, don't you have to send a telegram to the people in the family to ask them to pick up the car?"

Han Li looked at her and Yang Xiuying with these big bags and immediately understood their thoughts, and asked the family members to go to the platform to pick up the train, otherwise they wouldn't know what they were squeezed into with these things? It's not uncommon to lose a package on a noisy train, not to mention the fact that they have to squeeze a bus out of the train station, and they will definitely be very embarrassed if no one helps.

In this era, if you want to pick up the train on the platform, you first need a platform ticket, but this platform ticket is not something you can buy if you want to, family members need to hold a telegram or letter sent by the educated youth to buy it at the designated window, and a telegram is limited to buying two platform tickets.

Of course, those who have not received the telegram and know the news of their family's return can only wait outside the station, at this time, if a sharp-eyed and talkative social cow person, see someone who is about to enter the station to go up and say hello, so there is a high chance of being brought in by the other party.

Of course, this also depends on the edge of the eye and speaking skills, but more often you need a local accent, otherwise no one will dare to take you into the pit stop because they are afraid that you are the "bad" person who enters the pit station to "make trouble", so that you will be unnecessarily implicated.

(It doesn't count if it's related.) ）

"I don't need to notify my family here to pick up the station, you should hurry up and send a telegram, I will smoke a cigarette on the side of the road with this comrade."

Time was pressing, Hao Hongmin didn't ask much, put the big bags and small bags on the side of the road, pulled Yang Xiuying and ran to the post and telecommunications office.

Han Li told the comrade in the cafeteria that his companion was going to send a telegram, and then pulled him to squat on the side of the road and smoke.

At this time, the ticket was stable, and Yun Yingying and the others also had time to look at the educated youths who walked around the most in front of the station.

This is the place where you can feel the gap between each other the most, some people are beautifully dressed, wearing sweaters inside their tunics, and their hair is combed in four. Six, three. There are seven points, and the whole person looks like five people and six people.

Like the villagers, some educated youths wore a thin jacket with a large blue cloth and a rope tied around their waists to make the padded jacket more intimate and warm.

Female intellectuals are almost the same situation, but they are more concerned about their image, and even if they are dressed, they will generally clean themselves up.

However, no matter how they dressed, they were now dragged down by those bulky luggage, and in the season when they had already put on sweaters and thin jackets, beads of sweat were still rolling down the heads of these people.

Almost everyone carries large and small duffel bags, with colorful ropes tied horizontally and vertically, and the patterned ropes and ties make it easier for them to take better care of and find their own bags.

When Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying ran to the post and telecommunications office, the two of them were still talking in a low voice about everything they had just seen.

"Sister Hongmin, I didn't expect Han Li to be so powerful, originally I thought that he was already a scorpion shit and the only one among the educated youths in Shanghe Village, but who knew that he had already put the relationship on the side of Bingcheng, and he was also the leader of the Railway Bureau, compared to Han Li, I felt like a waste.

However, Second Sister Yun's eyesight is really good, what she said about fellow villagers and the like was a lie, I guess she must have seen Han Li's extraordinary, so she went up to the pole to chase after the people, you said that we knew Han Li first, but why didn't we have the strength and courage to do so? ”

Hao Hongmin originally wanted to say something in a stomach, but what could she say when she heard Yang Xiuying say this? But the bitterness in my heart can't be erased.

Yes, thinking about Han Li's performance all along, why didn't he have that eyesight in the first place?

And when the three of them left the closest, they sat together when they came to the countryside, and later built a house together and went to the county seat to buy things together. But why was Yun Yingying preempted? But now she had to pretend that nothing happened.

"Okay Xiuying, Han Li is already married, so let's just talk about these words, don't say it in front of others."

"I know, I'm not so stupid, if other people hear this, they think I'm thinking about other people's old men."

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After Han Li and the comrade from the cafeteria smoked two cigarettes on the side of the road, Hao Hongmin and Yang Xiuying ran out of the post and telecommunications office.

The group picked up the packages and bags and followed the comrades in the cafeteria through the small door next to the station.

When they entered, a group of people on the side of the train were busy loading coal and water on the locomotive, and in front of the locomotive there were five big characters written in gold on a red background: "Serve the people."

There are only sporadic passengers who get off the train on the whole platform and have not finished walking, as for the group of passengers who get on the train have not yet reached the time to put them in, the whole platform is relatively empty, which is the advantage of taking the internal passage.

Han Li looked at these busy workers and thought to himself that there was a certain reason for the slow trains and long arrival times at the station in this era, the locomotives of these trains were all made of steam mechanisms, and the conversion rate of the boilers was relatively low due to technical reasons.

Secondly, this leads to the addition of coal and water every distance traveled to ensure the continuous power of the train, but no matter the coal and water are added by the workers little by little, which is the reason why the train stops for a long time every time it arrives at the station.

The comrade in the cafeteria kept sending Han Li and them to the front of the sleeper car before stopping, Han Li stuffed the cigarette in his hand that had not been smoked, and after a few polite words, they parted.

Han Li led everyone into the sleeper car, and it was also the first time to see the sleeper in this era.

Each compartment has six beds, separated from the left and right, and each side is divided into three layers, one side of the bed is fixed to a partition, and the two sides of the suspended are connected by several iron pipes.

The width of each bed was no more than 60 centimeters, and the distance between the bottom and middle bunks was okay, so that the girls could sit upright on the beds, and Han Li could sit down even if he bent down slightly.

The spacing of the middle layer was much shorter, and if a girl wanted to sit up on the bed, she could bend down and bow her head, and Han Li's height could not bend over, so she could only poke out her upper body.

Even if it is a girl, even if it is a girl, she can only climb in, and she can't sit up when she bends over, and if Hou Yuhua comes, it is estimated that she can sleep on the top layer.

But even so, everyone was very happy, and when they touched it left and right, they were much stronger than the wooden seat they had sat on.

Seeing this, Hao Hongmin took the initiative to choose the top floor, Yun Jingjing and Yang Xiuying slept in two middle bunks, and Han Li and Yun Yingying lived in the lower bunks.

Although the bunks were allocated in this way, everyone was in good spirits now, and the four of them gathered in the lower bunk and began to play poker to kill time.

Han Li began to wander around in this sleeper car, there were a total of 11 boxes in the entire carriage, each box was six beds, which meant that this carriage could carry 66 passengers, which was a world of difference compared to those hard-seat cars.

Like the other cars, each sleeper car has its own toilet and water boiler.

(Since the 60s, each carriage of the northern train is its own boiler, independent heating, hot water supply, but this water temperature and water quality can not be guaranteed, and the conductor considers the coal storage situation and generally boils some boiling water, and it is impossible to provide it to passengers all the time.) Heating and hot water. This is also the reason why after the 80s, there were hot water bottles sold on the platform.

But this situation does not exist in the sleeper cars at this time period, and the conductor even in order to ensure that passengers can drink hot water at any time, each compartment is specially equipped with a thermos bottle, and will fill it up for you after each water boil. ）

In this era, the sleeper cars that can sit in the sleeper cars are basically cadres, or relatives of cadres, so the sleeper cars are separated from the hard-seat cars by the dining car, and it is very difficult for those who buy hard-seat tickets to come here.

"This is a general situation, and everything cannot be generalized, because there are also trains where conductors pour water for hard-seat passengers one by one. 》

Han Li walked around and went back to watch them play cards, and before too long had passed, there was a noise outside, it was an ordinary passenger entering the station and getting on the train.

They flocked to the carriage in groups of three or five, and the first to squeeze into the carriage would open the window, and then the luggage and even people of their companions would come in from here, and the scene of the Spring Festival in later generations would not even be considered pediatric compared to the present.

In addition to the squeezing and pushing of the front chest against the back, there are also those who do not have seats to seize the luggage rack, under the seat, the connection of the carriage, the toilet door and other places, and the carriage is still full of various dialects of scolding at the moment.

With the whining of the locomotive, and then the clang, all the carriages trembled, and the locomotive snapped into the carriage.

At this time, the educated youth who had not yet gotten on the train outside were even more anxious, and all kinds of pushing and scolding made the scene chaotic, and the chaos was so chaotic that the station personnel had to stand up for maintenance.

A few minutes later, all the carriages were beaten again, and the train sounded its whistle and slowly drove out of the ice city station.

At this time, the hard-seat carriage was replaced by another scene, and most of the people had stopped scolding meaninglessly.

Those who had seats were closing their eyes, those who grabbed the luggage racks clinged to it like snakes, those who grabbed the seats curled up under the low seats like a hermit crab, and those who grabbed the junction of the two carriages were holding their luggage and curled up there.

There are even people standing on the back of the chair, because the space up and down and the foothold under their feet are too narrow, they start to sway as soon as the train moves, and they can only firmly hold on to the luggage rack to ensure that they do not let themselves be thrown off.

Only those who were squatting next to the toilet were still arguing quietly, and by looking at their appearance, they could guess that this was a fare evasion, and they were arguing about which party to wait for to enter the toilet and hide inside, but they didn't dare to make their voices too loud for fear of being discovered by the conductor.

If people in later generations see these scenes in front of them, they will understand that there is a historical origin for those old men and old ladies who like to occupy and grab seats as soon as they get on the bus, and the root of their problem is estimated to have been planted at this time.

However, none of this was Han Li's business, and the four of them gathered around the small table to play cards.

Han Li held the freshly brewed tea in his hand and sat next to Yun Yingying to act as a qualified military advisor.

And the other bed in their box, when the train started, no one came, which made the atmosphere between them more casual.

At this time, the radio of the train sounded at a fixed time every day, and the trains in this era were equipped with special announcers, so some important news was read by them.

After the news reading, there will be a period of entertainment programs, which will play all the famous songs and model plays of the moment.

At this time, Yang Xiuying, who had been losing, finished a game, put the cards on the table and rubbed her stomach and said.

"I didn't dare to eat much when I was in the railway bureau cafeteria just now, and I'm a little hungry now."

(End of chapter)