i was my mistake

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41. Clear morning

At four o'clock in the morning, the railway station of City H City Station.

There are always a lot of people queuing up to buy tickets in the lobby here, and you can see merchants soliciting customers day and night on the side of the road. There are men, women and children of all ages. Some are calling people to stay in the store, some are calling people to eat, and some are driving rickshaws to carry people. Go where the train can't go.

Several breakfast shops on the side of the road have already opened their doors. There is steaming steam in front of the shops. Some passengers who have just got off the bus or will get on the bus after a while go there to buy some breakfast.

However, Wan Qing and the others didn't have time to stay, because her father bought the 04:30 train, and it was almost time to check the tickets.

In addition to the security check, the time is actually quite tight.

The security check in this era is much simpler than in the future. Metal detectors are not popular yet. Although there are X-ray equipment for checking luggage, when people walk aside, the staff can only run their hands through the pockets to check whether there is something worthwhile. Suspected dangerous goods.

In fact, almost nothing can be found out, it can only be said to be a formality.

Although there are already express trains, the slow old green leather cars still exist. The trains do not have many restrictions on luggage, and even live chickens can be brought on it - the premise is to confirm that your ticket is a green leather car, and Not other air-conditioned trains.

The green leather car from H city to L city was completely out of service a few years after entering the 21st century. One time when she was an adult, she went back to her grandmother's house to see that not only were things changed along the way, but even the car she was riding on was completely out of service. The train is not the kind of childhood memory.

But this time, it can make up for that regret.

In my memory, the train station seems to be not particularly crowded as long as it is not during the Chinese New Year. However, the reality is that even if it is only the early morning of Qingming Festival, it is still crowded.

I was a little nervous when I was carrying my luggage. I was afraid that a thief would take my luggage and run away. There was such a huge crowd, not to mention that surveillance probes were not popular, and even if there were, it would not be so easy to catch them.

"Did you drop anything?" Father picked up his backpack and turned around to ask.

"No, isn't it just a bag for each person, and it's not a lot of things." Wan Qing replied, hanging one shoulder strap of the bag on her shoulder, and just carried it casually.

"Okay, let's go, the ticket check has already started."

"Let's go, where is Ye Chen?"

"Here—" Ye Chen stretched out his arms with difficulty and waved. There are too many people at this entrance, and she has already fallen into this seemingly endless sea of ​​people.

"Hurry up!"

"immediately--!!"

City L is a small city that is only one level larger than the county, so there are not many trains going there. There are only three green trains a day. Similarly, there are not many people on the trains.

After passing the ticket gate and coming to the side of the platform, I finally felt relieved.

The air in the early morning is moist with water vapor, which makes people feel as cold as February.

There are some yellow or white lights on the side of the platform, but they can't illuminate everything.

The biggest function is to prevent people from losing sight of the road and accidentally stepping on a void and falling onto the railroad tracks.

The green leather train was already waiting by the platform. Although there were quite a few carriages, it was far behind the red express train parked on the opposite track.

This green leather car does not provide meals, nor does it sell snacks. There are many small stops along the way, and the feeling of sitting up is probably like the light rail of the future.

The only difference is that it burns diesel and the light rail uses electricity.

Tickets have already been checked in front, and there is no special ticket inspector at the door of the green leather train. For Wan Qing from the future, all of this is so free and random that it is unbelievable.

Wan Qing is just an ordinary person. Of course, it is impossible to keep everything and every memory of the past firmly in her heart. As time goes by, the older the memories, the more blurred they become. No matter how deep the impression is, it will still be the same - the difference is that other memories will be gradually forgotten, and those memories that you like, the brain will add a bit of beautiful color to them, making people feel satisfied every time they think about it and happiness.

However, in fact, those memories may be quite different from what actually happened.

This green leather train is a very old model, and the red ticket doesn't even show the seats.

That's right, this is the same as on buses and subways. Seats are first-come, first-served. If there is no seat, you can only stand.

If we go back 20 years, this green leather car may still have many people riding it.

But it is 1997 after all, and it is the end of the twentieth century.

So the carriages were actually quite empty, and most people came in from the platform and just sat in a nearby seat. The carriages in the back were even more empty.

Wan Qing walked inside with her schoolbag on her back.

"Where do you sit?" Ye Chen yawned, and glanced at the unlit sky outside the window.

"Find the emptiest car."

"The last verse?"

"Ah."

The train was not long, and we soon reached the last carriage.

The back of the carriage is not connected to any body, and through the small door half of which is glass, you can see the scenery behind the train.

The red taillights were on, illuminating the gravel on the rails red.

There were not many people in this carriage, so Wan Qing simply found a seat in the back row and sat down, turned her head and took a look, and then put her schoolbag on the empty seat beside her father.

—he sat on the other side.

The seats of the green leather car face each other. Given the choice, few people would choose to ride backwards. It would be uncomfortable to sit that way.

Originally, I could see the scenery to alleviate the motion sickness, but when I sat upside down, looking out the window would only make me feel sick.

"Zhiss——" the locomotive suddenly heard the sound of the airlock deflation, followed by a slight tremor, and the train started to "eat and eat".

The platform illuminated by the light slowly receded, leaving only the taillights of the cars that lit like candles in the darkness.

The railroad tracks in the distance, the trees by the roadside, and even the sky above were all swallowed into the boundless darkness.

The dark yellow lights in the car made people drowsy.

"How soon can we get there?" Ye Chen yawned again, put his schoolbag on the table, and took out the bean paste bread that he bought at a small shop on Friday after school.

"Around seven o'clock." My father folded his arms and closed his eyes. "Maybe 07:30."

"Oh……"

"Sleep for a while, wait for you to call me."

"Well, go to sleep." It was Wan Qing who answered him.

Ye Chen curled his lips: "I might get sleepy and fall asleep later..."

"It's rare to take the train without looking at the scenery."

"I can see a ghost." Ye Chen rolled her big eyes, she looked out of the window, and could only see her own reflection in the glass.

"Wait a minute and it will be dawn."

"What time will the sky be bright in April? Can it be five o'clock?"

"almost."

"Huh, I'd better eat the bread first, won't you eat it?"

"If you don't eat, are you reincarnated from starvation?"

"Don't look for me when you're hungry..."

This time when I went back to my grandma's house, I packed all the snacks in Ye Chen's schoolbag.

"I won't take it myself?"

"Not for you!"

"Are you a primary school student?" Wan Qing rolled her eyes twice.

The train moved forward gradually, and the speed was really slow, probably only about sixty yards.

Moreover, these rails often pass through the city's roads. When passing, the barriers will be lowered to block pedestrians-although there are basically no pedestrians at this time.

White belly slowly appeared in the sky, and the pitch-black night was finally dyed with a little brilliance, and slowly lit up.

The advantage of sitting in the rear of the car is that you can see the rising sun through the glass on the door.

"It would be nice if you could go outside..." Ye Chen murmured softly, she was talking about a small platform outside the rear door, surrounded by railings, and there was a step coming up from the side.

"If it's India, maybe you can stand there and enjoy the wind..."

"Why India?"

In this day and age, information is still underdeveloped, not to mention understanding of foreign countries, even life in other provinces or even other cities in China, many people may not know much about it.

The same is true for Ye Chen. When she left City H, she either went back to her hometown or to her grandmother's house. As for her understanding of foreign countries - India is obviously not a country that people are particularly interested in knowing.

"In India, it can even be hung on the train. If you understand the ticket, you can even sit on the top of the train."

"What is that... is that okay?"

"Okay."

"Fare evasion?"

"No, there are actually such tickets for sale."

"..." Ye Chen was a little speechless, she swallowed the last bite of bean paste bread, and said after a while, "Will you fall or something?"

"Maybe it doesn't matter."

"It's amazing..."

"After all, for that country, there are more than one billion people in the whole country, and I'm afraid there are only [-] million people, and the rest are cattle and horses."

When Wan Qing said this, she couldn't help thinking of the shrewdness of some people on Zhihu, and suddenly laughed out loud.

"Why, did you suddenly laugh?"

"It's nothing, I just thought of something happy." She chuckled, patted the window of the train, and said to herself inexplicably, "Is it? Indian train."

The green leather train always starts to slow down as soon as it speeds up, and stops in front of one small platform after another. Usually, only people get off the train, and rarely get on the train.

The smallest platform doesn't even have a waiting hall, it's just a bare concrete floor with a stop sign on it, and the small ticket office behind it that looks like a kiosk is the so-called train station.

Here, only an old lady carrying a load got on the train. She didn't go inside, but stayed in the first carriage.

The train stopped briefly for 2 minutes, and then started again.

"Gudong Gudong Gudong..." This repetitive and regular mechanical sound is really hypnotic.

The father was already slumped on the chair, and Ye Chen, who wanted to read a novel for a while, also lay down on the table because the more he read, the more dizzy he became.

In the last carriage, Wan Qing seemed to be the only one awake.

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42. Qingming without rain

On Qingming Festival, because of Du Mu's poem, people always subconsciously feel that it will rain on this day.

There is no way, it is really the words "there are many rains during the Qingming Festival" are too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Moreover, it is easy to rain around Qingming, even if it is not the next day, there will be occasional showers.

Therefore, in most people's minds, Qingming will not have any good weather.

But today was a rare day. After daybreak, a bright golden sun hung high. The warm sunshine made people intoxicated. If it hadn't been for the arrival at the station, Wan Qing might really want to sleep in the sun for a while.

But now, she can only get up and wake up the two guys who are sleeping like pigs.

"Ye Chen, wake up, it's time to stop, Dad, Dad? Wake up!"

"Amm..."

"Huh? It's here?" Father slowly opened his eyes, looking much calmer than Ye Chen—if his sleeping position is not so crooked.

City L is the terminus of this green leather train, but it is also a small station.

The dilapidated concrete building, with few windows, looks a bit dark, and looks like a large warehouse for stacking things.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The warning sound of the train sounded rhythmically, and Wan Qing dragged Ye Chen who was still asleep, stepped out of the train, and stepped on the plain and simple platform.

"arrive!"

"You still have to take the bus."

"Uh... yes."