The dragon is alive

Chapter 6
Hearing his son say that there was sand in his eyes, he said to Yang Wenlong without further questioning, "Xiaolong, after the dispatching of the train, it will stop for 5 minutes. You can go up at that time, that is, in the last carriage. I have already told the dispatcher that they will not drive you down, and you have to take care of yourself when you arrive in the county, and call home if you need anything.”

Yang Wenlong's house doesn't have a telephone, but a public telephone in the town. If you have anything to do, you can call there to make an appointment, and then ask someone to bring a letter to tell your family to wait for the call.After instructing his son, Xiaolong's father also picked up the burden and prepared to work.Yang Wenlong followed his father and waited for the train to be dispatched a little ahead. He also took the opportunity to observe his father's burden. It turned out that this heavy burden was made of thick pieces of orchid and bamboo, and the weaving was not made of bamboo. Instead of steel wires, the edge of the burden was inlaid with several long iron plates, which strengthened the burden and increased the wear resistance of the burden. No wonder it weighed fifty or sixty kilograms .

The train was dispatched soon, and Xiaolong's father went to work, but he watched his son climb into the last carriage before leaving with the burden.

Yang Wenlong is so big, this is the first time to take a train, but there are not many seats in the compartment for the dispatcher, and the compartment is very short, except for two stools by the window, there is an oven in the middle of the compartment. It was used for dispatchers to keep warm in winter. After Yang Wenlong went up, several people came up after him. It seemed that these people were all here to make free cars.When the train whistled and was about to leave, the two dispatchers climbed onto the train. No one took the two seats, and everyone knew that they were for the two of them.

After the two got up, they sat on their seats and started chatting, and the people who took the free car with Yang Wenlong also stood by the oven in the middle of the carriage, because there were no handrails in the carriage, so the oven became a handrail .When the train started, Yang Wenlong didn't feel any discomfort. The train was much smoother than the car, so Yang Wenlong put the luggage on the ground and gently held the oven with one hand.

This was Yang Wenlong's first time riding a train, and he only heard the sound of 'bang, bang, bang' in the carriage, and sometimes the whole carriage swayed a little.There were seven or eight people in the carriage, only two dispatchers were chatting and laughing, Yang Wenlong and the others who were supporting the stove were silent.

From Songzhen to Zixian, it takes about two hours by car, but it is faster by train, and it only takes one hour to get there. It may be because of the poor roads that it takes so long by car.It’s just that the train only has to stand, and the car still has a seat.When the train drove for half an hour, Yang Wenlong couldn't take it anymore, so he simply used his bag as a stool. Anyway, there were some clothes and a few books in the bag, and when other people saw him sitting like this, they all jumped up. Following suit, some without a luggage bag took off a shoe as a cushion and sat in the carriage.

Unknowingly, the train arrived at the railway station in the county seat. After arriving at the station, the train would stop here for a few minutes or transfer other goods, so Yang Wenlong and the others took this opportunity to get off the train.The first time he came to the county railway station, he had to follow other people and prepare to walk out of the station. Although it was still early, the county railway station was different. The platform was already full of people waiting for the train.

Following the others, Yang Wenlong also found the exit of the train station.The station was still some distance away from the school, so he asked someone that he could take a bus there, and the fare was not much, only two yuan.When he came to the place where the car was taken, Yang Wenlong saw several cars waiting there, so he was about to get on the first car. Just as he got in, there was an aunt who seemed to be a conductor. She said very bluntly: "Such a big bag, I need to buy a ticket."

"Cargo ticket? How much is it?" Yang Wenlong replied.

"Just like people, two dollars."

"Two dollars? But my bag doesn't occupy a seat, and it's not too big."

"It doesn't matter whether you are old or young, you can't get on without buying a ticket."

Hearing what the aunt said, Yang Wenlong thought: "Anyway, we have come to the county seat, why not walk to the school, and save a few dollars." Thinking of this, he raised his head and said confidently: "If you don't sit, don't sit, I don't believe it or don't sit." Your car will kill people" and got out of the car.

The aunt heard that the country bumpkin in front of her was talking to her like this. She was about to get angry when she saw that Yang Wenlong had walked a few meters away, so she shouted loudly: "You bumpkin, if you don't have money, just walk obediently. If you want to take a car, there is no way."

Hearing such words, everyone would get angry. Yang Wenlong turned his head and shouted to the aunt: "So what if I'm a country bumpkin? It's not that I don't have the money to ride in your car, but that I found something wrong when I got in the car. I feel like you There is going to be an accident with the car, so I won't take your car when I walk." Yang Wenlong left quickly after speaking, fearing that the aunt would get angry, because if he said this early in the morning, others must think it was unlucky.

Not to mention, when Yang Weilong said this, the aunt was stupefied, she hadn't left the car today, and this was the first time soliciting customers, so she was told that something would happen, it seems that today must be unlucky.There were a few passengers in the car who were waiting for the departure. They also heard Yang Wenlong's call, hesitated for a while, got out of the car one after another, and ran to sit in the car behind.

Seeing the situation, the aunt hurriedly shouted: "Hey! What are you doing? My car has to go first, oops! How can you listen to that kid's nonsense, bad luck, why did you meet such an unlucky person so early in the morning? If he had known earlier, he would not have accepted his freight ticket."

Yang Wenlong didn't know what he said, which made the aunt's car unoccupied, but the aunt's car didn't leave for a day today, and it just parked in place for a day.Because when the driver came, he found that there were no passengers, but the car behind him was full. He only found out what happened when he asked about the situation. As a result, he made a decision to take a day off today and not to drive.

Yang Wenlong was walking on the main road by himself with a large canvas bag on his back. This was the first time he had come to the county seat when he was so old, and he didn't know the way at all, but he could read and write, so of course he knew the way. After walking for more than half a hour When I came to the city when I was young, I could see many buses now, so he looked at the road signs at the bus platform and asked some people, and naturally found the way to the school.

It took Yang Wenlong two hours to get from the train station to the school. The distance was not far, but he didn't know the way and took some detours, so it took more than two hours.At about ten o'clock, Yang Wenlong stood in front of the gate of No. [-] Middle School, a key high school in Zi County.

(End of this chapter)