Chapter 18 The toilet on the train is fatal
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After finally squeezing into the sleeper car, Chen Zhaoyue suddenly felt as if she had broken free from shackles. She felt much lighter and breathed a sigh of relief.
Sleeper tickets are expensive and few people buy them. The crowd here is obviously much thinner, and even the air seems to have become a little fresher.
Without the crowded crowds, Chen Zhaoyue quickly found his own bunk, which was a lower bunk by the window.
When his body finally sank into the slightly hard mattress, Chen Zhaoyue couldn't help but let out a sigh of satisfaction.
"Finally I can sit down."
However, just as she relaxed, she felt a clammy, sticky sensation on her back.
When I was squeezing into the train just now, sweat had already soaked through my thin clothes, which were now sticking to my skin, making me feel uncomfortable all over.
Chen Zhaoyue raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, only to find that his hair was stuck to his cheeks.
Outside the window, the crowd on the platform was still pushing and shoving, and shouting could be heard faintly.
Chen Zhaoyue pushed open the window with force. Although the train had not started yet, a slight breeze blew in.
She took a deep breath and secretly thanked her lucky stars that the green trains of this era at least had windows that could be opened for ventilation.
Otherwise, the turbid air in the carriage, mixed with the smell of sweat, cigarettes and food, would be suffocating.
"It's really not easy to take a train." Chen Zhaoyue sighed softly, his fingers already touching the copper buckle of the small suitcase.
It seemed that he was rummaging in the box, but in fact, he took advantage of the cover of the box to quietly take out two bright yellow oranges from the space.
When the cool peel touched his fingertips, Shen Zhaoyue suddenly laughed: "I'm going to buy some oranges, just stand here and don't move."
The station and the oranges, this scene is quite appropriate.
Unfortunately, in this strange era, there is no one to play memes with her.
well……
It's a bit boring!
Chen Zhaoyue's eyelids drooped, and her long eyelashes cast a shadow under her eyes, making her look a little lonely at this moment.
However, her hands did not stop moving. As the orange peel was peeled, the fresh citrus aroma slightly dispelled the stuffiness in the car.
After a while, all the passengers finally boarded the train, and the train started slowly.
Chen Zhaoyue withdrew his gaze from the window and continued to sit there bored.
The train was rattling along, the scenery outside the window was passing by quickly, and time seemed to be stretched to an infinite length.
"This sleeper berth is comparable to a hard seat, and I have to sit for thirty hours?" After sitting for a while, Chen Zhaoyue felt a little restless.
She had only been sitting for a short while when she felt pain in her waist and back. Shen Zhaoyue couldn't help but wonder if she could hold on until she got off the train.
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At noon, the conductor pushed the shiny aluminum dining car slowly past, and the crisp shouts echoed in the carriage.
"Boxed lunch! Hot boxed lunch, only 50 cents a piece!"
"It's only 20 cents on the platform, this lunch box is too expensive, right?" A passenger in the carriage complained.
The journey was long, some people prepared food in advance, while others didn't bring any but went hungry because they thought it was too expensive.
The conductor pushed the dining cart through one carriage after another. Aluminum lunch boxes were piled high, but few people bought them.
As the dining car passed by, the aroma of food wafted in the sultry air, making one's stomach growl.
“I don’t know if the boxed lunches in this era are delicious.” Chen Zhaoyue couldn’t help but feel curious when he heard the hawking.
The boxed lunches on trains in later generations were expensive, unpalatable, and even had a plastic smell.
Maybe lunch boxes are different this era?
After all, it’s served in a real aluminum lunch box, and maybe even freshly made from a food truck…
"Hello, give me one." Chen Zhaoyue found some money and decisively bought one when the dining cart arrived.
As soon as she got the lunch box, she couldn't wait to open the aluminum lunch box lid and picked up the chopsticks with great interest.
But when he took the first bite of the food, the anticipation on his face froze instantly.
"Forget it, at least it's not bad." Chen Zhaoyue sighed, and based on the principle of not wasting food, he ate the whole box lunch.
After dinner, Shen Zhaoyue wanted to go to the toilet.
There was only a connecting point in one carriage, and there were so many people on the train that almost everyone was queuing.
Chen Zhaoyue waited in line for a long time before it was finally her turn.
As a result, when I pushed open the door, I was almost shocked by the scene inside and took three steps back.
A pungent stench hit me in the face, making me want to vomit.
How can this be a toilet?
It's clearly a biological and chemical weapons testing site!
There were suspicious stains on the mottled walls, and the ground was covered with water mixed with unknown liquids, making it difficult to find a place to step.
"How can it be so dirty?" Shen Zhaoyue was puzzled and hesitated to step in.
"Are you going up or not? If not, get out of the way and don't block the way!" An old lady standing behind Shen Zhaoyue urged impatiently.
This young girl is always troublesome. How can a toilet be clean?
"Go! Why not?" Chen Zhaoyue took a deep breath and quickly rushed in.
She held her breath, suppressed her nausea, and the moment she locked the door, she slipped directly into the villa in the space.
“Huh…” Sitting on the toilet in the villa, Shen Zhaoyue breathed a sigh of relief.
Looking at the familiar bathroom tiles, she never thought that even her own bathroom could be so beautiful!
"Fortunately, I have this golden finger, otherwise this thirty-hour drive would have really cost me my life." Chen Zhaoyue sighed. Thinking of the hard berth outside, he simply wanted to stay in the space and not go out.
But there were so many people waiting outside the toilet. After solving his physiological problem, Chen Zhaoyue still reluctantly left the space and left the toilet as quickly as possible.
In the afternoon, Chen Zhaoyue collapsed on the berth, looking like a dried salted fish.
The hard wooden bed hurt her back and waist. The crying of the children next door, the chatting of the passengers, and the clanging noise of the train made her temples throb.
"Thirty hours..." she murmured.
Chen Zhaoyue stared blankly at the upper bunk bed, his fingers picking at the edge of the sheets unconsciously, looking like a half-dead person.
The days without mobile phones and the internet felt like years, and there was not even any entertainment to pass the time.
"Oh..." Chen Zhaoyue turned over heavily, and the bed board made a creaking sound as it could not bear the weight.
She scratched her hair in annoyance, wishing she could hide in the villa in the space immediately.
Although the cell phone couldn't come with them, the spare cell phone and tablet computer that were placed in the villa are still there, not to mention the audio-visual entertainment room!
Unfortunately, someone might pass by this half-open sleeper compartment at any time, and it would be too dangerous for her to disappear rashly.
"Why don't you just read a book?" Chen Zhaoyue sat up irritably.
Before she could get her small suitcase, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a furtive figure out of the corner of her eye.
He was a thin middle-aged man, with a slightly hunched back, his eyes darting around, and he was tiptoeing towards her.
Chen Zhaoyue immediately straightened his body in alertness.
The man's greasy hair stuck to his forehead. After a while, he came to the compartment where she was. When he saw Chen Zhaoyue sitting there, his eyes lit up.
He immediately looked around and seeing that no one was paying attention, he quickly walked into the compartment.
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