The station was bustling, noisy and crowded.

Pei Manning heard the voice faintly and immediately turned around to look in the direction of the sound. There were people outside the car window, waving goodbye to the people in the car, and unfamiliar faces flashed past her eyes.

The car was speeding up, Pei Manning tried to look outside the car, but unfortunately she could no longer see the face clearly.

"Xiao Ning!" Ning Yan pushed aside the crowd in front of her and walked forward.

He had been staying in Shanghai these few days, looking around like a headless fly.

After searching for a long time and finding nothing, he simply went to the train station and waited.

Unexpectedly, he actually found her. He would not mistake that face.

In that carriage just now... Xiaoning should have gone to Nanjing.

…

The train started for a while, and the staff came to check the tickets and letters of introduction.

"The lady sitting by the window, could you please take a look at your letter of introduction and your train ticket, comrade, comrade?"

Pei Manning came back to her senses: "Okay."

There were still many people standing in the aisle. She sat by the window, leaning against the inside. The two people next to her helped pass things to the staff, and then passed them back after the inspection.

Pei Manning absentmindedly put the things away, wondering what she had just heard.

"Comrade, are you going to Nanjing?" Not long after the staff member left, the person sitting opposite her spoke to her.

Pei Manning looked up and saw a boy of about seventeen or eighteen years old, speaking with a hint of dialect and looking a bit delicate and shy.

She glanced at the boy, and his cheeks flushed. Two of his companions, who were also about 17 or 18 years old, were sitting next to him. They nudged him with their arms, looked at Pei Manning evasively, lowered their heads shyly, and urged, "Ask quickly, we are all counting on you."

The young man scratched his head and rubbed his cheeks. "Comrade, I want to ask, after arriving in Nanjing, which bus is the shortest to Liuyinxiangxiang?"

Pei Manning actually knew this, because Yanzi Alley is very close to Liuyin Alley: "Take bus No. 1 and get off at Changqing Road East Section."

"Thank you, thank you." The boy thanked him repeatedly.

Because of the previous voice, Pei Manning had no mood to talk at all. In addition, she was not used to chatting with strangers on the train, so she simply closed her eyes and took a nap.

Seeing her like this, the man opposite her pursed his lips with a cold attitude, and the blush on his face gradually faded.

The teenagers lowered their voices when they spoke.

Pei Manning dozed off against the window, and got a lot of information from the conversation between the two.

They graduated from high school last year. Because of the shortage of labor in the publishing industry in Nanjing, they wanted to recruit more than two apprentices. After passing the recruitment examination, they went to the "Seventh Cadre School" for intensive training for half a year and were assigned jobs in January this year.

These people were sent to a certain publishing house in Nanjing, the woodblock engraving department and the illustration and painting department.

…

The train rattled and swayed for nearly seven hours before arriving at the train station, just in time.

She searched at the station for more than half an hour and finally found the eldest sister of the Xu family who was holding a cardboard. She handed her the fine fabric that Aunt Xu had asked her to bring and then took the bus home.

After more than ten days, the flowers and plants that I planted have grown a lot, and the whole small yard has become full of vitality.

In particular, the thorny wisteria flowers have grown taller, with long vines stretching along the wall.

Pei Manning poured a little more water from the Xumi Realm.

When Mrs. Xu knew she was back, she was the first to run to see her and took her aside to ask what Shanghai was like.

Pei Manning told everyone he had met during this period.

For example, the General Post Office Building in Shanghai has a postal business hall known as the "largest hall in the Far East"; for example, the Bund in Shanghai has more than a dozen classical revival buildings of different styles, known as the International Architecture Expo; for example, the alleys in Shanghai are very narrow and the living conditions are very tight.

Mrs. Xu listened with great interest.

"By the way, Sister Xu, here's the vanishing cream I brought for you." Pei Manning took something out of her luggage. Sister Xu had taken care of her for so long, and she wanted to express her gratitude.

"Hey, what kind of vanishing cream are you giving me? These things you girls use are so expensive. One box costs several yuan. You can't waste your money like this."

“I’ve bought everything.”

After much persuasion, Mrs. Xu finally accepted it reluctantly. Feeling sorry for her, she helped her clean the yard.

"By the way, Miss Pei, doesn't my niece work at the supply and marketing cooperative? The company has a batch of defective cloth to deal with recently. The cloth is all good, but the dyeing is uneven. It doesn't require a ticket, and it's cheap. Many people are vying for it. My niece deliberately left some for me, and I was thinking of asking you if you want it?"

Pei Manning nodded. It was spring now, and she wanted to make some spring and autumn clothes. "Do you know what kind of fabrics are available?"

"Wool, pure cotton, corduroy, and khaki. Oh, and some wool yarn. Do you know how to knit? If not, your sister-in-law will teach you when the time comes."