Traveling through 70's wine

Gu Hua heard about it and asked her, "Wen Qing, I heard you are going home to visit your family?"

"Ah."

"Have you bought your train ticket?"

"not yet."

Gu Hua said, "I want to go home too. I have a friend who works at the train station. I asked him to help buy a ticket. Can I buy one for you as well?"

Wen Qing was just worrying about how to buy a ticket. This was not the era of using it, so she hurriedly said, "Thank you so much. Please buy me a sleeper berth ticket to Ezhong. If I can't buy a sleeper berth, I can just sit on it."

Gu Hua: "Okay, I'll try my best."

It’s not that Wen Qing didn’t feel that Gu Hua had a special feeling for her, but what she was thinking about most at the moment was how to gain a foothold in this world, and she had not considered other things for the time being.

Therefore, she usually doesn't accept his kindness and tries not to owe anyone any favors.

Gu Hua is actually quite contradictory. His parents are both university teachers. Because they accidentally said the wrong thing a few years ago, they were sent to a farm in northern Jiangsu to receive education.

His parents were weak intellectuals and had very little food every year, so he often sent some food to his parents.

His brother has already started working and would send them things, otherwise these two intellectuals would not know how to survive.

Therefore, he usually does not talk about his family situation, fearing that he will be criticized. He is neither capable nor in the mood to fall in love now, and everything has to wait until the situation gets better.

Two days later, Gu Hua gave Wen Qing a train ticket to Ezhong City, which was a sleeper ticket. Gu Hua said to her, "We will leave together on January 1, but I will take the 18 a.m. train and you will take the 11 p.m. train."

"Thank you. I will ask the captain for leave and a letter of introduction."

Wen Qing and Gu Hua set off early in the morning on January 1.

Gu Hua went to northern Jiangsu to visit his parents. The journey was long and the weather was cold, so he carried a large bag of luggage. Most of Wen Qing's things were in the space, and the backpack on his body was just for show, with some food and mountain products in it.

Fortunately, people who took the bus to the county all carried large and small bags, so they didn't attract attention.

After arriving at the Luchun County Bus Station, the two boarded a bus to Gejiu City. After sitting for an hour, they arrived at the train station at almost 10 o'clock.

Wen Qing: "It's not easy to eat on the train, I'll treat you to a meal, thank you for buying my ticket."

Gu Hua did not refuse. The two of them went to a small alley near the station and saw people coming in and out of a yard. They walked over and saw that it was indeed a restaurant selling food. After they went in and put down their food, a waiter came over and asked, "What would you like to eat?"

Wen Qing asked: "What is it?"

Waiter: "We have stir-fried vegetables, rice noodles, and noodles."

Wen Qing asked Gu Hua: "What do you want to eat?"

Gu Hua said, "Eat noodles, quickly."

Wen Qing ordered two bowls of meat noodles and a dish of braised pork, for a total of 4 yuan.

The guy placed the order quickly.

In just ten minutes, two bowls of hot noodles and a bowl of braised pork were served.

The big meat noodles tasted good and the portion was generous. The braised pork melted in the mouth and the aroma filled the air. Gu Hua didn't hesitate to eat and asked while eating, "Wen Qing, when will you be back?"

Wen Qing said: "I took a month off and came back after the Spring Festival."

Gu Hua nodded, "The captain allowed you to take such a long leave?"

"I just pick grass for pigs. I'm not an important person."

After dinner, the two separated in the waiting room. Gu Hua went to the waiting room for northern Jiangsu to queue up, and Wen Qing went to the waiting room for central Hubei to queue up.

There weren't many people at the train station, mainly because you need a letter of introduction to go anywhere now, and there weren't as many people doing business as in the past.

Wen Qing waited until half an hour before departure before being notified to board the train. There were not many people in the sleeper car. Wen Qing got on the train and found her berth, which was an upper berth.

Wen Qing climbed up, put her luggage away, spread the old sheets she brought with her on the bunk, folded them up and covered herself with the blanket from the train.

The train wheels made a "clang clang" sound as they hit the rails. I got up early in the morning and made two turns. I was tired now, so I lay down on the bunk to take a rest.

Wen Qing looked down at the passengers in this compartment. There were five people in total. There was no one in the middle bunk opposite. There were three men and two women. Among them, a middle-aged man and a woman were probably a couple. The other two men, one in his 5s and the other in his 50s, looked a bit similar and might be father and son or brothers.

Wen Qing took out a book and fell asleep while reading.

When I woke up, it was already dark outside the car window.

Wen Qing felt hungry, so she picked up her lunch box and water bottle, climbed down, sat on a temporary seat in the aisle outside, and started to eat dinner.

She brought eight pancakes, a can of mushroom sauce, and ten boiled eggs, just enough for a few meals on the train.

The woman in the couple saw her eating and came over: "Girl, what kind of sauce is this? It smells so good."

Seeing her generous attitude and clear expression, Wen Qing replied: "This is the mushroom sauce I made myself."

Woman: "What mushroom sauce? The one I make is not as delicious as this one."

Wen Qing introduced her process of making mushroom sauce and concluded: "Maybe the mushrooms I use are different from those grown in the mountains. I have straw mushrooms, nameko mushrooms, chicken mushrooms, and porcini mushrooms."

The two chatted for a while, and the woman introduced herself as a purchasing agent for Nankun City Non-staple Food Company. Her surname was Zhang. This time she was returning to her husband's hometown with her husband, and her destination was also central Hubei.

Wen Qing was not impatient when she saw that the woman was talkative. She introduced herself as an educated youth who was returning home to visit her relatives.

After dinner, Wen Qing washed up and climbed into bed again. She had slept for several hours in the afternoon and was no longer sleepy. She lay down and began to practice.

It was late at night and everyone was asleep. Wen Qing suddenly felt someone walking into their compartment. She quietly looked down and saw a dark figure stealthily reaching his hand into the lower bunk. She blew away a gust of wind and heard a man's voice. "Ah!"

The two people sleeping in the lower bunk woke up at the same time. The woman surnamed Zhang immediately turned over and asked, "Who?"

The middle-aged man on the other side also shouted: "What are you doing?"

The young man on the middle bunk also jumped off the bunk and grabbed the black shadow.

Others also asked: "What happened?"

The middle-aged man said: "I don't know where this person came from, and I don't know if he came here to steal things."

The person caught was a skinny middle-aged man, about 40 years old, not very tall, who stammered, "I just got on the train, I'm from this carriage."

The young man asked, "Which comrade will go and call the conductor?"

Wen Qing got up from the bed and said, "I'll go." She went out to find the conductor's lounge and explained the situation to him.

The conductor hurriedly called the police and asked the arrested man to produce his ticket, but the man was unable to produce it.

The middle-aged man in the lower bunk reminded everyone, "See if your things have fallen."

The police searched the skinny man and found two wallets and three paper bags. They asked, "What are these?"

The skinny man argued: "This is mine, so why can't I have a wallet?"

At this time, people in other compartments also woke up, came over to watch, and chattered about what was going on.

After a while, three women and two men came running over to report that something was missing.

The traffic police took the skinny man away, along with the people who had lost things.

Then everyone went back to bed.

In the morning, Wen Qing got up early, washed up, sat on the bed, and looked out the window. The woman surnamed Zhang said, "Girl, were you scared last night?"

Wen Qing said briefly: "Not bad."

A woman named Zhang sighed: "It's not peaceful out there, you have to be careful when you go out alone."

The young man on the middle bunk glanced at Wen Qing. Last night, this woman got out of bed to find the conductor. She was very agile and didn't look like a frail person.

Everyone talked about how they caught the thief last night and it was very exciting.

While eating breakfast, the woman surnamed Zhang stared at Wen Qing's mushroom sauce again. Wen Qing felt embarrassed and scooped a spoonful with a spoon, "Sister Zhang, you try it too."

The woman surnamed Zhang took out a lunch box and said, "How can this be so embarrassing?"

Wen Qing scooped two more spoonfuls and said, "I made it myself. Please taste it."

Zhang's husband said, "Little girl, don't laugh at me. This is her occupational disease. She wants to try everything delicious when she sees it."

Sister Zhang said embarrassedly: "Sister, I have some pickles here, you can try them too."

As he said this, he handed over a bag of pickled radish.

Wen Qing smiled and said, "Sister Zhang, you are too polite. It's just some mushroom sauce." She took the dried radish, picked out some, and tasted it.

The people in the carriage got up one after another, took out their breakfast and started eating.

At noon, Wen Qing took out the remaining two pancakes, put in a few radish strips, and took a bite. She felt that the pickled radish lacked fragrance, was too salty, and was not crispy enough. She didn't say anything.

After 5 pm, the train finally arrived at Ezhong Station.