Passengers who crossed the Yangtze River on a small steamer and traveled north by train arrived at Pu Yu Station, which is across the river from Shimonoseki Station.

In his previous life, he took the train several times to pass through the Yangtze River Bridge in Beijing, Chen Muwu didn't have any special feelings, but he was just one of the countless bridges on the railway line, what was the fuss?

However, now, together with other passengers, he sat on the "Chengping" steamship across the Yangtze River, Chen Muwu looked at the surging river outside the window, and suddenly understood how much sadness and helplessness was hidden behind the great man's sentence "A bridge flies north and south, and the moat becomes a thoroughfare".

Although the words are talking about the Han Dynasty, and he is now in Shenjing, it is the same river that he has to cross.

Some people say that Zhan Tianyou, the father of the railway, has successfully built China's first cross-river railway bridge "Luanhe Iron Bridge" as early as 30 years ago, but after all, the river in the south is different from the river in the north, and the Yangtze River is the largest river in China.

Therefore, the existing railway lines in the south are basically all repaired to the edge of the river, even if they are repaired to the end.

When the passengers have crossed the river to the other side, they take a train on another railway line that starts at the station on the other side and go to other places.

In addition to Pu and Xiaguan, there are also Dazhimen Station in Han, Zhakou Station in Hangzhou, Baiguan Station in Chen Muwu's hometown, and Xujiapeng in the future where Zakuchang will appear.

In addition to the Qiantang River Bridge, which was blown up just after it was built, the history of passengers crossing the river by ferries at the above-mentioned stations has continued after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In less than ten minutes, the small steamer reached the north bank of the Yangtze River.

Carrying his luggage and checking in at Puyan Station, Chen Muwu saw a beautiful train parked next to the platform at a glance.

This is a high-end cargo ordered by Wu Yulin, director of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway Bureau, from the United States only last year, and is specially used for the first and second special express trains between Tianyi and Pukou.

The carriages are all made of pure steel, painted with blue paint on the outside, commonly known as "blue steel skin", which is the most advanced train carriage in the entire Far East and even in the whole of Asia.

Chen Muwu, who sat in the first-class carriage again, did not know that he would have a bad relationship with this train in the future.

His mind was now completely out of the window, wanting to see how high the platform was as mentioned in Mr. Zhu Ziqing's "Back", and whether there were any orange vendors outside the fence.

At 5:05, it was getting dark, and the train left Pukou Station at dusk.

Chen Muwu took out a piece of the ocean, called the tea room to the dining car and ordered a few things to eat, and after taking a bite of it, he lay down on his bunk early.

Although it is the sleeping car of the top first-class car in the country, Chen Muwu is almost equivalent to insomnia on this night on the train.

People who have tasted the sweetness can no longer stand the suffering, and in the eyes of people in today's era, perhaps the train is still a high-end foreign and convenient and fast new thing.

But in Chen Muwu's opinion, this kind of slow and bumpy train, put into the eighteenth layer of Abi hell, can be used as the lowest layer of torture.

On the return trip, don't take this broken train again, change to a China Merchants ship, and go home by sea instead!

With resentment, he finally stared in a daze for two hours, and when he opened his eyes, the sky was bright, and the train had already passed Jiyang Mansion.

I washed my face with the water from the teahouse - this trip made Chen Muwu see the power of money, as long as you are willing to spend money, someone can serve you as an uncle anywhere - when passing by Dexian, he bought a grilled chicken wrapped in oiled paper on the platform, he held the chicken thigh in one hand, and looked through the magazines he brought to the car with the other.

"Saturday" and "Red Magazine" are two of the best-selling magazines in the city, and their main readers range from small citizens to cultural celebrities, and the content focuses on the market atmosphere of a small citizen.

The novels published in it basically belong to the Mandarin Duck and Butterfly faction: romance society, shady prostitution, family martial arts, gods and monsters, military, detectives, and comical history...... The subject matter is wide and all-encompassing.

Chen Muwu saw a masterpiece that he had never read for a long time in the first issue of the "Red Magazine" of the new year that he had never heard of for a long time, Xiang Kairan, that is, "The Legend of Jianghu Heroes".

This novel was regarded as a classic by countless martial arts masters in later generations, and it is said that the national popularity in the civil period was also very high, and the resulting adaptation of the movie "Burning the Red Lotus Temple" was filmed eighteen times in three years, and one was filmed, and the audience in the theater where the movie was screened was full.

After reading it a few times, Chen Muwu's evaluation of this novel is that it is okay to pass the time, and it does make him forget the discomfort and bumps of sitting on the train for a while.

But there are shortcomings in terms of attractiveness, because after Chen Muwu watched the latest serialization, he didn't have the kind of ear-scratching feeling that he couldn't wait to see the next storyline immediately.

Probably because I have watched a lot of Jin Gu Liang Wen before, and now I read the pioneering work of Pingjiang Buxiao Sheng, the martial arts ancestor, and I feel a little "I don't look at Yue when I return from Huangshan".

It is said that in order not to let Xiang Kairan lose the motivation to write, Shen Zhifang, the general manager of the World Book Company, offered him a high price of 1,000 words and ten oceans in the later stage of the serialization of "The Legend of Jianghu".

But in the later stage of writing, Pingjiang Buxiao still disappeared, and Shen Zhifang had no choice but to invite Zhao Yuanfang to ghostwrite, and finally finished the novel.

When people found Xiang Kairan, who had been missing for a long time, they found that he had indeed abandoned a certain part of his body.

However, he did not cut off his little brother and enter the palace to become a eunuch, but shaved off his hair and became a Buddhist layman.

Chen Muwu is not interested in the latter paragraph, but he seems to have found a way to make money from this high remuneration.

It was late at night when the white smoke locomotive drove into the Shaojing Zhengyangmen East Station, and Chen Muwu, who was still worried about the dead of night in the last second, where should he go alone, saw the crowd outside the train station in the next second: relatives and friends who came to pick up the station, waiting for the foreign cart and donkey cart to solicit customers - because the eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty liked to take the carriage, so after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, people taboo to take the same means of transportation as the eunuchs, and the carriage gradually withdrew from the ranks of common means of transportation, and there were also carts pushing with a flat pole, A vendor selling a variety of snacks and late-night snacks.

"Japonica rice porridge! Japonica rice porridge! Japonica rice porridge just out of the pot! A bowl for two! ”

"Deep-fried buns, fried coke rings, fragrant and crispy hemp flowers!"

"Tahini pancakes!"

"Chicken soup ravioli!"

"Lamb noodles!"

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Listening to the melodious shouts of the Beijing dialect, Chen Muwu saw with his own eyes the fireworks in the world that he had only heard in Hou Baolin's cross talk before.

Standing in the Western Clock Tower to the west of the railway station, the hour hand on the dial has pointed to nearly eleven o'clock, Chen Muwu felt that he must not bother his eldest brother's friends tonight, so he had to find a hotel around the station that looked clean and safe, and lived in.