My village can't be like this

Chapter 544 Provincial Capital
In the evening, as soon as Zhang An returned from Zhang Jianjun's house, Ding Yi came looking for him.

Although the couple still lived in the city on weekdays, because their father had gone to Changqing, Ding Yi and Li Li would take time to come back every week.

Moreover, their mother is taking care of Ding Zijie. If she doesn't come back often, it's not sure whether Ding Zijie, the little guy, will recognize them after a long time.

"Siqi, come here quickly, your Uncle Ding is back with toys for you."

As soon as Ding Yi entered the door, he took out an electronic toy gun and made a sound when he pressed it lightly.

Wang Fang was originally washing the little guy's feet, but after seeing the toy gun, she couldn't calm down and insisted on finding Ding Yi.

After all, he is a child who is full of curiosity about all new things, especially toys that make noises. Little Siqi cannot resist the temptation.

But in the end, Wang Fang forced him to wash his feet, dry them, put on his shoes, and then let him go to the ground.

The little guy left Wang Fang's restraint and immediately ran towards Ding Yi.

After finally getting the toy gun, I started watching with satisfaction.

At this time, Ding Yi also put their Ding Zizi on the ground. As a result, this guy immediately came to Xiao Siqi's side.

Maybe it's the emotion communicated through baby talk. When they get together, the two brothers always like to get together. This was also the case when they were on the walker.

It was only then that Zhang An discovered that Ding Zijie could actually walk.

Although I stumbled to the left and right when walking, I was indeed able to walk.

"Hey, when did your young master become enlightened? Why didn't I notice it?"

Usually when Zhang An meets Ding's family, Ding Zijie is always held by his grandmother, so Zhang An really doesn't know that the little guy can already go to the ground.

Moreover, this guy usually doesn't get off the ground and always relies on adults. Unlike little Siqi, who is rebellious and will struggle to get off the ground after a while.

"Hehe, it's only been the past two days, but it's still not as good as the rest of us. We can't walk steadily."

Although Ding Yi said this, anyone could see the proud look on his face, not to mention that the corners of his mouth were raised to the sky.

He brought his son here today, maybe he didn't want to show off.

When he first saw Xiao Siqi, he was already moving around when he was so young, not to mention how envious he felt.

So after being shocked, he began to dislike his son when he returned home, and repeatedly warned the boy's grandmother.

Ding Zijie's grandma was also stimulated when she saw Xiao Siqi running around on the ground every day, so she often let her grandson touch the ground.

Not to mention, after a long time, Ding Zijie got used to crying as soon as she fell to the ground.

Now a few months have passed and I can walk on the ground by myself.

Two little guys were sitting on a chair, babbling and talking without knowing what to say. The two fathers, Zhang An and Ding Yi, paid no attention to them.

"Speaking of Zhang An, when are you going to go to Fatty's place? There are only a few days left."

As Fatty Lu's roommate, Ding Yi naturally had to go, and Zhang An also wanted to go. They were both in the same place, so Ding Yi naturally thought that if they could go together, they would definitely go together.

"The day after tomorrow. If we go there a day early, we can still make it there."

Zhang An thought for a while, the fat man got married on the 12th, and it was not too late for them to get there on the 11th.

"Okay, then I'll ask Li Li to come back tomorrow night, and we'll set off directly the day after tomorrow."

Only Ding Yi came back today, while Li Li was still busy in the city.

"No, I'm not going to drive there, but I'm going to take the train. You know Su Ying's motion sickness is so severe, driving over here will literally kill her."

Upon hearing that Ding Yi was about to drive over, Zhang An quickly waved his hand and said.

Su Ying would feel dizzy after sitting in a car for two hours on weekdays, let alone driving from here to the provincial capital.

And he didn't really want to drive there, because there was no expressway to the provincial capital and they could only take the national highway.

After all the twists and turns, it will take at least seven or eight hours.

Driving for such a long time is simply torture.

If you take the train, although the current green train is slow, it will arrive in five hours, which is much faster than driving, and people are not tired.

Moreover, trains are different from cars. Su Ying gets car-sick but not train-sick, so Zhang An had already planned to take the train.

It’s just that it’s not that convenient to carry things when taking the train.

But they were only there for two days, so there was no need to bring so many things.

"That's okay. Let's take the train. It happens to be more convenient with two children. Let Fatty come and pick us up when the time comes."

Ding Yi used to drive himself back and forth from the provincial capital and rarely took the train.

But when Zhang An said this, he didn't refuse. After all, taking the train is indeed easier than driving by himself, and the place is spacious, making it convenient to take care of children.

"It just so happened that Li Li didn't come back. I called her and asked her to buy the train ticket first."

After that, Ding Yi took out his mobile phone and called Li Li. After a few words, the person on the other end of the phone went to the train station to buy a ticket.

In fact, you won’t be too nervous about buying tickets these days, and it doesn’t matter whether you buy them in advance or not.

But it is definitely best if you can buy it in advance. Otherwise, if you go to the train station the day after, you will have to drive yourself if you run out of tickets.

It is also very convenient to buy tickets these days, because it is not a real-name system like in later generations, so you don’t need an ID card, you can just go and buy as many tickets as you want.

But this is also the reason why there are so many ticket scalpers at train stations now.

When he got up early in the morning, Zhang An did not do anything else. He packed some food at home to prepare for the train tomorrow.

After all, you have to stay on the train for several hours, which is definitely boring. It would be really hard not to find something to kill the time.

As for the only way to kill time, Zhang An thought about it and found that eating was the only way to kill time. Others seemed not very good.

Anyway, when he travels far away, he has a lot to talk about.

Prepare a little more food each time, and when the food is finished, you will be at the place.

Ever since, Zhang An got up and started searching at home.

There is no need to worry about fruits, there are peaches in the orchard, and cherries that are dying.

Although the strawberries he had grown before were no longer planted this year, Zhang An still kept some and planted a small patch in the vegetable field for his own consumption.

Coupled with the sugar plums in the nest, I really didn’t want to know this. I was shocked when I thought about it. There are four kinds of fruits alone.

It's a pity that although the grapes on the grape trellis in the backyard are quite big, they are not yet ripe.

If you want to eat it, you have to wait at least twenty days or months.

"Hey, mom, where did you get the peanuts?"

Suddenly, Zhang An discovered that his mother came back from outside with several handfuls of peanuts.

The mud on the roots and feet of this peanut is still wet, and it looks like it was just pulled out of the ground.

But can these peanuts be eaten now? You must know that the earliest peanuts grown in the village were only planted less than two months ago. At this time, I am probably still covering flowers.

"We grow it at home. When we ordered the Nuobaogu, we also ordered a few taels of peanut seeds. When I went to break the Nuobaogu just now, I saw that it seemed ready to eat, so I took some back and cooked it. Anyway, you like to eat salted peanuts. Well."

Wang Fang threw the peanuts on her hand on the ground, then returned to the kitchen and took out a small basin and started picking peanuts.

She planted these peanuts earlier, just thinking about growing them to cook and eat.

Only then did Zhang An find out that early peanuts were also planted at home.

But none of this is important. I’ll just get up tomorrow and cook some to take to the car to eat.

This time it was considered a complete meal. I would probably be unable to finish even a little bit of it.

Early the next morning, when Zhang An got up, Wang Fang was already busy in the kitchen.

Yesterday he just mentioned casually that today Wang Fang got up early in the morning to cook peanuts for them.

When the time was almost up, Ding Yi and Ding Zi came over, and everyone was ready to set off.

This was the first time for little Siqi to go away. Wang Fang was really reluctant to leave, but she just told them to go and come back early.

When he came to the city, Zhang An left the car downstairs at his mother-in-law's house so that it would be convenient to go home when the time came.

When they arrived at the train station, Ding Yi and his family were already waiting at the entrance.

After checking in and entering the station, although the entire waiting room is not big, there are not many people waiting for the bus.

Railway stations in small southwest counties like this usually don't get very crowded until the Spring Festival travel period around the Chinese New Year.

In July and August of the year, the flow of people is not very large.

Especially since there aren’t many college students right now, and the summer crowds haven’t arrived yet.

Not long after waiting, the train they were going to take this time arrived.

After getting on the bus, Zhang An discovered that the ticket Li Li bought was for a soft sleeper.

Both children are free of charge. They are exactly four adults and have a whole standard room.

It was only a five-hour drive, and all Zhang An could think of was buying a sleeper ticket, since there wouldn't be many people there anyway.

But she didn't expect that Li Li directly bought a soft sleeper. Now the space is larger, and the two children can play freely in it.

However, the fare has increased several times, and it is even enough to cover the full fare for those going outside the province.

If it were in later generations, the price of a soft sleeper would definitely make Zhang An feel distressed.

But now, he didn't care about the money, and it was Li Li who bought the ticket.

With a whistle, the green train began to move from slow to fast on the rails.

Speaking of which, this was the first time in Zhang An's life that he traveled far away by train.

Originally, Zhang An thought that this was his son's first time riding a train, and he might be a little troubled because he was not used to it.

Because these days, after getting on the train, I will start wailing.

But apart from being frightened by the loud noise when the train started moving, the two little guys quickly adapted to it.

Now he was lying on the small table, staring at the food Zhang An took out.

The two brothers were used to eating other fruits, but after tasting them, they turned their attention to the peanuts that Wang Fang had just cooked in the morning.

After the originally raw and crispy peanuts were cooked, they lost a bit of their original crispness, but the flavor of five spices and salt made them delicious.

The two little guys just tasted some, then stopped pampering other things and stared at the bag of boiled peanuts.

Wang Fang and Li Li, two mothers, had to be reduced to mere peanut peelers.

With the friction between the train's wheels and the rails making a "doo-doo-doo" sound, the car drove to Hongyan Town.

Through the glass on the window, Zhang An saw a familiar place near Hongyan Town, and soon passed the platform of Hongyan Railway Station.

This train is a general express train, most of which go to outside the province, and usually only stop at relatively large railway stations.

As for small rural train stations like Hongyan Town, only the slow trains that stop at every station will visit.

Not long after, Xiao Siqi and Ding Zizhe began to doze off as soon as the novelty of riding a train for the first time wore off. Maybe it was because they were full, so they were found by sleepy bugs and fell asleep quickly. .

Zhang An and the other adults began to chat as if they were liberated.

After riding the train for a long time, Zhang An realized that this train seemed to be missing something.

Later, when I thought about it carefully, it turned out that the shouts of "melon seeds, peanut mineral water, beer, drinks, and eight-treasure porridge" were missing.

In fact, it's not that there is nothing, but the cart selling things on the train spends most of its time in the hard-seat carriage and rarely comes here.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the train finally arrived at the provincial capital railway station.

Although taking the train was easier than driving, Zhang An still felt a little uncomfortable in his butt after more than five hours.

There were a lot of people getting off the bus here, and Zhang An only realized what a crowd is.

These days, even train stations in provincial capitals don’t have high-end gadgets like elevators. Going up and down the stairs depends on your legs.

Zhang An was carrying little Siqi on his back and pulling Su Ying in front, thus helping to clear the way for Ding Yi and his family behind.

After exiting the station, a burst of familiar yet unfamiliar advertisements came.

"Whether you want to stay in the hotel or not, I have a little girl."

Although he was not asking Zhang An, he felt that this was the provincial capital railway station that he was familiar with.

In later generations, every time I took a train to the provincial capital, I would be asked by a bunch of old ladies after getting off the train, because there were too many such messy small hotels near the provincial capital train station.

But even if you need accommodation, don't go to this kind of place. Don't listen to what they say about the sight of a little girl making your eyes light up.

If you go to these places, there will be no young girls, but there will be a lot of old ladies, and their skin will probably peel off when they come out.

Of course, Zhang An had never been there. This was in later generations. To hear a worker tell it personally, it was simply too horrible to watch.

"Old Ding, Zhang An, here, here."

As soon as they walked out of the train station square, they heard someone calling them.

Looking around, he found that Fatty Lu had been waiting here for a long time.

"Oh, my two eldest nephews are here. Let my fat uncle see if they behave well during this period."

After everyone gathered together, Fatty Lu first went up to get close to the two little guys.

The two little guys also gave him face and extended their hands to greet him.

(End of this chapter)