There is no direct train to Shanghai, so Jiang Cha has to go to Wu City first and then change to a train heading southwest.
Since ancient times, Wu City has been an important transportation route connecting nine provinces, with convenient transportation extending in all directions.
The journey from Shanghai was peaceful except for the frequent inspections by the Japanese.
Coming to the land of fish and rice, her original plan was to find some local specialties and taste them.
Things like hot dry noodles, noodle nests, and the fish cakes here are all handmade and use wild fish. You can imagine how delicious they taste.
Who would have thought that she arrived at the train station safely, and the first thing she did after getting off the train was to buy a ticket.
Nowadays, buying train tickets requires a certain amount of luck. If you are lucky, you can catch the nearest train and still have a ticket. On the day of departure, you are the luckiest if the train can still depart even if it is delayed for a few hours.
If you are unlucky, there may not be any train coming in the last one or two months. You may even buy a ticket with great difficulty, but various unexpected situations may occur on the day of departure.
For example, what Jiang Cha is facing now is something that makes her speechless.
"Are you saying that Taijun has requisitioned the train lines to transport supplies, so there won't be any tickets for the next month?"
The man at the ticket window had a very long face and tried hard to explain to Jiang Cha while suppressing his anger.
"That's right! Forget train tickets to the southwest. All the lines in Wu City have been requisitioned recently. If you have something urgent, just hire a carriage. If that doesn't work, take a boat!"
"Brother, could you please sell me a ticket for a trip a month from now? My sister is giving birth, and as her family, I have to go.
I heard it's very chaotic over there, so it's safer to take the train! No matter how much it costs, buy the ticket first so I can feel at ease. Otherwise, look at my body and how can I squeeze through!
After saying that, he stuffed two more dollars into the small window. The man inside's expression eased a little, and he looked less irritable.
He nimbly grasped the dollar in his hand, flicked it, and put it close to his ear to listen to the sound. After checking them one by one, he took out a ticket clip from the drawer with a smile.
"You're just being easygoing because I'm your friend. Going to the Southwest, right? Normally, this shouldn't be allowed, but it's fate that we're meant to be together! It's nineteen dollars total, for a first-class box ticket."
Jiang Cha directly handed him twenty dollars, and then looked at what stamp the man had put on the ticket.
He casually handed the ticket out of the small window, then in a good mood took the dollar and blew on it one by one and put it next to his ear to listen to the sound.
Jiang Cha got the ticket and took a look at the stamp on it. It was a personal stamp with a personal name. He didn't know what the significance of it was.
But it should be of some use. If she hadn't given him an extra dollar, I guess this person wouldn't have stamped it.
Before leaving, she said hello to the ticket seller, then turned and left. The person queuing up to buy tickets behind her leaned over the window and said something.
The man inside suddenly cursed something in a very loud voice, but she couldn't hear clearly because they were too far away.
No matter what era, scalpers' business is incredibly good, and they have to be lucky to buy tickets.
The fate between the two of them is worth eight dollars. If an ordinary person has ten dollars in his hand, he can live a decent life!
She was not interested in the ins and outs of this matter. She knew without thinking that someone was taking advantage of the opportunity to make money.
This kind of people will do anything to achieve their goals, and they will plunder every piece of land they pass by.
Judging from the current situation, it must be related to the Japanese, which is why they are making such a big fuss.
The first thing she did after leaving the train station with her suitcase was to find a place to stay. She originally planned to rent a house for a short period of time for a month.
It would be very convenient for her to do anything. It would be best if she could find a room with a private entrance and yard and lock the door so that no one would know what she was doing inside.
Unfortunately, she asked all the way here with her suitcase, and the neighbors around her were very enthusiastic and held her hands and chatted with her.
What do you mean by that?
Where does the young man live?
What do you do at home?
Seeing that the uncles and aunts were talking more and more outrageous, she was so scared that she ran away quickly.
Jiang Cha, who is sixteen years old this year, already looks like an adult in this southern city!
After all, the original body is also from the north, and with a weak body, he cannot match the big skeleton of the northerners.
His thin figure seemed to him like a typical scholar in the eyes of the old men and women.
The weak scholar is fair and tender, and her clothes show that she comes from a well-off family. In addition, her suitcase is a leather suitcase bought from the United States.
Aren’t parents who are anxious to marry off their daughters excited?
What's more, when she spoke, she had a slight Shanghai accent, which made the old men and women even more satisfied.
In the end, Jiang Cha decided to hail a rickshaw and go to the largest hotel in Wu City to book a room and subscribe for a monthly fee.
On the way, she pretended to ask the car owner casually, why are there so many families getting married in the city?
On the way, she saw several teams picking up brides, so she asked the car owner.
"You're from out of town, right? Our Homecoming Group recently got a new leader. They said their people made great sacrifices to protect the people of this city, so they need to help all the brothers solve their personal problems.
Those who have wives will help to marry a younger one, while those who don’t have wives will have their wives and concubines marry in at the same time.
He also called on the people of the city to spontaneously organize the marriage of their daughters and help the returning villagers to have children and raise their offspring, so that they could feel at ease in the outside world.
The voice was very low, and it would be inappropriate for anyone to hear it with so many people coming and going on the street.
So that's why the old men and women were so enthusiastic about her, and why several couples got married on the street one after another because they were afraid of being forcibly taken away by the lackeys of the Homecoming Group?
They fought the Japanese without hesitation, but these lackeys were all masters at smoking, drinking and gambling.
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