20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2159 Are you getting in the car?
Zhao Changan saw that Tao Jiao's pretty face turned a little ugly, and knew that she was tired of talking about these things about her parents' new significant other, so he wisely ended the topic and motioned for her to look at her luggage while he went to the store to buy some. thing.

It's still snowing outside the train station now. Although it's much lighter and it's powdery snow, the sky is still very gloomy and it's probably going to continue to snow in the future.

According to the weather forecast, the entire North China will be covered by the heavy snow in the past two or three days, and it will even affect the Pearl of Southern Jiangsu and Northern Zhejiang in East China.

It's just that the temperature there is higher than here, and the sea is an equalizer with good specific heat capacity. Even if it snows, it won't be too heavy. It's usually sleet or a thin layer of snow.

中国铁路路网经过了98年提速30%，99年提速25%，现在车速已经可以达到140-160千米/小时，不过普遍在120千米/小时浮动。

With this train including more than a dozen stops, it will take fourteen hours from Yanjing to Mingzhu. According to the timetable, it will arrive at around one o'clock tomorrow morning.

However, there is heavy snow along the way now, so it is estimated that the speed cannot be so fast. Normally, it would take less than [-] hours to reach the Pearl, which is considered fast.

Then it’s best to buy some food and drink in advance to avoid running out of choices on the train.

Zhao Changan stood up and walked outside the waiting hall. He couldn't help but look at the row of huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows on the second floor.

Of the six sofa and coffee table combinations near the glass, only three were occupied, and the others were empty. The coffee tables were covered with tablecloths, and there were vases with bouquets of flowers in them.

This kind of waiting room is not a waiting area for soft sleepers, but an area specially used to receive high-profile people, such as scientists, model workers, international friends, and famous sports and literary workers. The area inside is not large, with only the lower part The area of ​​this waiting room is less than one-tenth, but the environment is really good. It's not the kind of place where you have the right to sit in just because you have a lot of money.

Zhao Changan does not hate the rich, because he is a rich man, and he also feels that it is right to allow some outstanding people to have more independent time to think about important issues, so he does not think there is anything wrong, and of course there is no envy. .

After all, the higher the position, the greater the responsibility.

Then, he saw a familiar figure there. A man walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling glass and looked at the train waiting time indicator at the entrance.

Zhao Changan looked a little dazed.

However, the figure only stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass for a few seconds and then walked back. Obviously, he did not show off his uniqueness like the display bags sitting on the three sets of sofas.

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Although Tao Jiao's idea of ​​getting on the train first and then paying for tickets was a good one, as the trains let passengers in, the swarming crowd made it impossible for the ticket inspector to check tickets, and a sea of ​​people rushed towards the platform.

Zhao Changan estimated that if all these people boarded the train, the train from Yanjing to Mingzhu would have to stop at more than a dozen stations, where only one passenger would get off and another passenger would get on.

The reason is very simple. A large number of passengers who are stranded because the train is delayed, who don't care about the fare or can go back and claim it, simply don't care about the original ticket, get on the train first and then pay for it.

Those passengers who cared about it had already refunded their original tickets and bought platform tickets. Just as Tao Jiao thought, they got on the train first and then paid for their tickets.

Sure enough, when we arrived at the platform, the entrance to each carriage was filled with people.

The conductor shouted at the top of his lungs: "Those who have tickets line up to get on the train, and those who don't have platform tickets leave. You can't get on the train and replenish your tickets!"

Because it is the departure station, passengers enter the station 10 minutes early, so these conductors are not in a hurry, and there will not be a swarm of people entering the platform just now.

"It seems like you can't go to school. That's it. Go back to school as soon as possible."

Zhao Changan was happy inside and tried hard not to smile.

"Humph!"

Tao Jiao sneered and said, "Go up first and hand me the ticket through the window."

"Don't think about handing the ticket from the window, checking the ticket and then going in. You can't get on the train with a ticket that has been cut."

Hearing the conductor shout this, the sneer on Tao Jiao's face couldn't help but solidify a little.

Then she gritted her teeth and looked at the lathe and said to Zhao Changan: "Please let me get up there!" This train is not the latest fully air-conditioned train. The sleepers and soft seats are air-conditioned, and the windows are sealed, while the hard seat area can be opened. Windows, because there were too many people crowded, some passengers got on the train first, and then asked relatives and friends who came to the platform to see them off to pass things through the open lathe.

Although this kind of window can only be opened halfway from the bottom, Tao Jiaolai, who is 1.6 meters tall and weighs less than [-] pounds, said that there is no problem in getting in.

"Tao Jiao, you really don't have to do this. It doesn't make any sense unless you just want to impress yourself."

"I'm so impressed with you. Don't you understand? I won't go to school. Do you understand? I'll drop out of school! Do you want me to go to school? Do you want me to go to school myself?"

Tao Jiao turned around to face the train and used both hands to open the window.

"What are you doing? You just get on the bus. We will check it inside before driving. If you don't have a ticket, you will be kicked out! Who is responsible if you fall off the bus and get injured?"

I have never seen those conductors. Especially in recent years, with the rapid development of the country's economy, a large number of laborers have been liberated from the land and laid-off factories. Everyone has left their hometowns to work in gold mining. It is usually difficult to buy tickets. During holidays, the toilets on trains are sometimes crowded with people.

Tao Jiao was a little dejected and stopped opening the car window, silently carrying his big travel bag, pulling the trolley suitcase, and carrying his schoolbag, without even looking at Zhao Changan, and prepared to leave.

"Tao Jiao, wait."

Zhao Changan called out to Tao Jiao.

"Waiting for you to send me up?"

Tao Jiao's voice was very calm, as if he had no emotion.

In fact, in her heart at this time, she was like the petrel flying on the sea in the boundless dark storm described by Gorky.

Tired, desperate, unwilling, shouting, furious,——

"Of course not, but you have to let me sell this standing ticket. Not only is frugality our fine tradition, but it also allows a person who really wants to get on the bus to go home."

Zhao Changan said with a smile: "I think the snow is too heavy, and there are still many things that have not been dealt with in Yanjing. After they are dealt with, I won't have to make another trip before the year."

At this moment, Tao Jiao suddenly broke through her guard. Her eyes, which had been looking at Zhao Changan with a strong indifference, were instantly filled with tears. Then, even though she stubbornly raised her pretty face, the tears could not stop flowing. Flow along both sides of the cheeks.

Zhao Changan felt heartbroken when he saw this, knowing that this proud girl was carrying too many heavy things.

Things about her parents, bad training classes, a major she didn't like, and confusion about the future and direction, but she could only bravely move forward alone.

"You get in the car. I know you are going to participate in the trial production ceremony of the mobile phone factory tomorrow. I will buy the tickets. I will leave when the tickets are available."

When Tao Jiao said this, Zhao Changan knew that she must have blocked the road here from last night to this morning. Otherwise, if she had to go back to Mingzhu in this weather, she could also go back to school or company and wait for the train. It’s not too late to leave.

"It's okay, it's just a trial production."

Zhao Changan took out the tickets in his hand and was just about to shout out who wanted standing tickets. When he arrived at Mingzhu, he was surprised to see three theatergoers standing next to him.

One is the woman, the other is a young man in his early thirties wearing a suit, and the other is a woman in her forties wearing railway overalls.

He smiled at her and prepared to call someone for a ticket.

"Are you getting in the car?"

Unexpectedly, this woman asked Tao Jiao with a curious and friendly attitude.

(End of this chapter)