Siheyuan starts from a better life

Chapter 77, On the train

Jiang Yan's departure naturally aroused the speculation of many people in the courtyard.

Some people said that Jiang Yan made a mistake and was arrested.

Some people said that Jiang Yan found his family and left.

In short, each had their own opinions, but He Yuzhu and the others remembered what Jiang Yan said before leaving, no matter who asked, they kept their mouths shut.

But the only bad thing is that He Yuzhu and Xu Damao have partnered up to harm everyone who speaks ill of Jiang Yan, and smashing glass at night is almost a routine operation.

At this time, Jiang Yan had already boarded the train to Moscow.

There are only two ways to get to Moscow now, one is by plane and the other is by train.

Don't even think about the plane. At present, it is hard to say whether the flight will open or not.

If you dare to sit after it is activated, you will understand after looking at the RH of later generations. They are the masters who regard civil aircraft as fighter jets.

Now there is no direct train from Sijiucheng to Moscow, only in Manzhouli.

If you want to go to Manzhouli, you can only go to Tianjin by train.Thinking that the speed of the train per hour is not as fast as that of later generations, and it is only fifty kilometers per hour.

Starting from Tianjin, you have to go through Tangshan, Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, Shenyang, Siping, Changchun, Harbin, Daqing, Angangxi, Boktu, Hailar, Manzhouli and other places.

It took almost two days to go from Tianjin to Manzhouli alone.

Fortunately, the country arranged soft sleepers for Jiang Yan and the others. It would be a lot of fun if they took hard seats.

However, the train from Manzhouli to Moscow does not run every day. Unfortunately, when they arrived in Manzhouli, the last train had just left, and the next train would arrive two days later. They could only live in Manzhouli.

Manzhouli is familiar with a county that goes down from HLBE City.Located in the northeast of NMG Autonomous Region and northwest of HLBE City, it is located in the transition zone between the HLBE Plateau and the Daxingan Mountains. It has a temperate semi-arid continental climate and borders SL in the north. It is a national land port city.

In the 27th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1901), a railway station was established on the western line of the Middle East Railway. It was named "Manzhouli Station" because it was the first station to enter Northeast China (commonly known as "Manchuria" at the time) from Russia. Transliterated into Chinese became "Manzhouli".

Now Manzhouli is not at all the country's number one land port city in later generations.It's just an ordinary border city.

In this, Jiang Yan experienced once what it means to be frozen for thousands of miles and snow for thousands of miles.

It is now March, and it is basically early spring in Sijiu City at this time. In addition to being a little cold in the morning and evening, the temperature is basically around ten degrees, and the cotton clothes have basically been taken off, and they have changed into light ones. clothing.

Unlike Manchuria now, the temperature here is basically around minus [-] degrees, the snow outside is still melting, and there are still large pieces of ice in the river.

At this time, the city of Manzhouli is very small. According to Mr. Wu who led the team, the population of the whole city is less than 3, which can be regarded as a large area and sparsely populated.

The distance from Manzhouli to Moscow is more than 1 kilometers. According to the current speed, it will take at least ten days.

Jiang Yan, who had recuperated in the hotel in Manzhouli that day, was notified and boarded the bus at 29:[-] in the morning.

This early in the morning, Jiang Yan packed up his things and went out with Cao Bin, Zhang Jiachen, and Zhao Zhanqiang who lived in the same room and joined the team in front of the hotel.

After the leader of the team counted the number of people, they lined up neatly and walked towards the train station in Manzhouli.

Three or ten minutes later, Jiang Yan and the others successfully boarded the train to Moscow.

Jiang Yan and his group of international students were taken care of by the state, and all the students were assigned soft sleepers.

After entering the sleeper, Jiang Yan realized that the soft sleeper in this era is not much different from the soft sleeper in the green leather car in his previous world.

There are four bunks in the soft sleeper box, two up and two down. The width of the bunk seems to be about one meter. Compared with the narrow hard sleeper, the soft sleeper is also more spacious and thicker.

Between the two bunk beds is an aisle about 1.5 meters wide, with a table on the top and two thermos bottles on the table, which have been filled with hot water.There is also a small desk lamp on top of each berth for lighting.

The toilet and water room in the soft sleeper compartment are located at both ends of the compartment.

It may be a coincidence, or it may be that the superior has already arranged that the person who was assigned to the sleeper private room with Jiang Yan was still the person who was in the same room as him in the hotel. Because of Jiang Yan's young age, they took care of him and assigned him to the lower berth.

Because they lived in the same room for the past two days, the eldest Cao Bin was five years older than Jiang Yan, and they were young people, so they quickly got along with each other.

"I heard that it will take tens of thousands of kilometers from Manzhouli to Moscow. We will probably be on the road for half a month!" Cao Bin said while putting the boxes down.

"There are almost [-] kilometers. According to the current speed, it will take ten days." Zhao Zhanqiang, who was on the upper bunk with Jiang Yan, said.

"That time was long enough. My mother was afraid that I would be hungry on the way, so she specially steamed a lot of steamed buns for me, and put a lot of brown sugar in them!"

As Cao Bin spoke, he took out a small bag from the backpack he brought on the bed, opened it, and distributed the steamed buns inside to everyone, and Jiang Yan also took one.

"I have Liubiju's pickles and sesame seed cakes here, try them."

Jiang Yan also put the things he brought on the table for everyone to taste.

Then Zhang Jiachen and Zhao Zhanqiang also took out the things they were carrying.

"Oh! I heard that we will pay 600 rubles a month for studying abroad this time!"

Zhao Zhanqiang said while eating melon seeds.

"So much, how much would it be in RMB."

Cao Bin asked curiously.

"It's about 1600 million yuan," Jiang Yan replied.

The rubles in this period were quite valuable. After CL underwent currency reform, the Soviet Union carried out currency reform.The gold content of the ruble is set at 0.987412 grams, and the exchange rate against the U.S. dollar is determined at 1 rubles per U.S. dollar.

In the same period, the exchange rate of RMB to US dollar was 1 to 7000 RMB for [-] US dollar.

Converted into rubles to RMB, it is basically around [-] yuan.

"My God! My mother's salary is less than 80 yuan a month, so my monthly subsidy is higher than my mother's annual salary." Zhang Jiachen got up from the bed directly, and said in surprise .

The country's subsidy for international students is quite high.

"Our one-month subsidy is estimated to be the income of a village in the country in a year, and it may not be as high as this."

Cao Bin said something in a muffled voice.

As soon as he spoke, everyone fell silent.

According to Jiang Yan's understanding, some of them have even lived in the countryside for a long time, so they understand the sufferings of the countryside better, and they also know that the country is in a period of poverty and poverty. No matter how determined he is, it can be said that it is not an exaggeration to support one person in one county.

Since the country has invested so much, all the people sitting here can only study hard and use the knowledge they have learned to serve the country, which is what they should do.

It is estimated that everyone sitting here has this awareness.

(End of this chapter)