Chapter 148 Don’t eat their wedding candy!
Probably because this train received a temporary notice that it needed to transport soldiers to the army, half of the train's carriages were filled with soldiers returning to Kun District and Xiong City.
Ordinary people holding train tickets were all crowded into the ticket gate.
I watched eagerly as the soldiers in green military uniforms entered the hard seat carriage in an orderly manner, carrying their suitcases.
The doors of the carriage where the soldiers sat were closed after they boarded, so there was a lot less noise.
"Mom, look, there are so many people." Wang Ziru walked to her seat carrying her child. Just as she was about to put the child down, she saw the ticket gate of the train station opened. Passengers carrying sacks and oversized cloth bags on their backs rushed out and rushed to the door of each carriage.
Wang Ziru had personally experienced the "wonderful feeling" of riding a green train, so she was not surprised. She put the child on the seat and said, "You play by yourself, and mommy will pack the luggage."
"Sister-in-law, with a man by your side, why do you women need to do such hard work?" Zhang Kang, Zhai Ximo and two other comrades were helping to stack the luggage on the luggage rack above the seats.
Most of the passengers on this train were from Cangnan County, and most of the soldiers returning home to visit their relatives only carried one suitcase.
So when everyone saw that they had women and children here, they used sacks and oversized trouser pockets to help them along the way.
The men quickly placed the immobile luggage on the luggage rack, placed the food on the seats, and placed the water bottles on the small table in the middle of the seats.
Before getting on the train, Zhai Ximo was worried that the two kettles on the train were not enough, so he went to a nearby store and bought two ordinary kettles.
Only take the tank full of boiling water onto the train.
There were warriors standing at the entrances and exits on both sides of the train, so people from other trains couldn't get through, but one could still visually feel that the train was overcrowded.
At that time, people did not sit according to seat numbers, and when getting on the bus, people did not get on the bus according to the seats and carriages written on the tickets.
Those who couldn't squeeze into the car simply stuffed their luggage into the carriage through the open window and then climbed in.
Soon, the hot and crowded green train started to move with a "whoosh".
"This train only goes to Kun District. Once there, we have to transfer to Xiong District." Zhai Ximo finally had time to sit down and drink some hot water.
Baoer's frail body was squeezed between his parents. He looked left and right, and then he gently pinched a bag of wedding candy on his mother's lap with his little fingers. "Mom, is this bag of wedding candy sent by Pingping?"
"Yeah, yes, you are hungry, right? Come, open it and give you something to eat. You haven't eaten or drunk anything for most of the day, you must be starving."
Wang Ziru slowly withdrew her gaze from the night view outside the car window and opened the wedding candy wrapped in paper. There were actually small oranges inside.
She let the child help himself. When the little guy saw the colorful wedding candies, his eyes widened. He quickly took a few pieces of rice krispie candies and grabbed a handful of popcorn with his other hand.
"Brother, you must be hungry too. Eat some wedding candy first, and then we'll have pancakes."
Zhai Qingsong sat on the aisle edge of the seat, looked around, and saw the wedding candy handed over by his brother and sister-in-law. He grabbed some popcorn and started eating it happily with a "crunch" "crunch".
Wang Ziru sent the wedding candy to the three people opposite.
Sitting opposite them were Zhang Kang and his wife, as well as another fellow villager and comrade-in-arms who was Zhang Kang and Zhai Ximo's junior high school classmate.
"Eat something. We haven't eaten for a long time."
Zhang Kang held his head and pouted, "Is this your brother-in-law's wedding candy?"
"What? Are you still going to be so arrogant and not eat?" Wang Ziru took a small orange and handed it to the fellow villager, "Don't be polite, eat something."
The comrade also brought some wedding candy from Zhang Kang, but the young man was very cheerful and open-minded, so he ate it with them.
Zhu Yan still pursed her lips and smiled, not intending to eat Wang Zonghao and Chen Pingping's wedding candy.
"You and Pingping even exchanged handkerchiefs. If you don't eat their wedding candy, it seems like you two are stingy." Wang Ziru said with a smile.
"Who is stingy? Eat it if you want. Yan'er, here, there is another orange for you to eat."
Zhang Kang said without a word, he said he didn't want to eat but he was hungry.
The bag of wedding candy was quickly eaten up by everyone.
Zhu Yan gave everyone a red egg, and suddenly the carriage was filled with the smell of eggs.
Sitting by the window, Zhang Kang quickly opened the car window to let in the fresh air from outside to dilute the smell of eggs.
Inside the carriage, no one could sleep.
Some were eating melon seeds, some were playing cards, and there was constant laughter.
In the second half of the night, many ordinary passengers came to other carriages carrying large and small luggage bags.
As soon as this group of people came in, the carriage was filled with the smell of sweat.
Wang Ziru finally woke up after a good sleep while holding the child. It was already daybreak outside. "Let's have pancakes in the morning."
Zhai Ximo had just gone to the restroom. "Take Bao'er to relieve himself. The child hasn't relieved himself all night."
After being pressed by the child's small body all night, Wang Ziru felt her legs go numb very intuitively when she stood up from her seat. She had to move her feet with difficulty and let the man take her to the toilet.
When they came back from the toilet, Zhang Kang and Zhu Yan had already started eating.
Zhu Yan didn't have a child with her, so she went to the bathroom several times at night, unlike Wang Ziru who fell into a deep sleep in a man's arms with a child in her arms.
"Sister Ziru, have some of the wedding candy we brought." Zhu Yan said with a smile, pointing to a bag of wedding candy that had already been opened and placed on the small table.
"I remember we still have a few tea eggs."
After returning to her seat, Wang Ziru asked the man to bring the bag containing all the food over.
The tea eggs were served with pancakes. Zhai Qingsong helped pass them to the three people opposite him. "I won't eat it. You can each have one. My sister-in-law cooked it with tea leaves and soy sauce. It's very fragrant."
Zhu Yan wanted to eat but was too embarrassed to do so, so she took one and handed it to Zhang Kang, "I still have some red eggs here, Brother Zhai, you can have the tea eggs."
In this way, several people just ate the tea eggs.
When the fellow villager sitting in the aisle came back from the toilet, Zhu Yan quickly gave him a red egg, "We just happened to have some red eggs..."
"I'm lucky to be riding the train with you guys." Anyway, we were all old classmates and comrades-in-arms, and no one pretended not to eat. Besides, we were away from home and hadn't had a hot meal for several meals, so we could only eat a little bit of this and that to fill our stomachs.
Two days and two nights later, the whole pot of pancakes was still not finished.
The train arrived in Kuncheng early in the morning.
"It's easy for us to get on the bus, but when getting off, we must be prepared to be squeezed with people from other carriages." Zhang Kang had already stood up from his seat and started to take down the luggage packages on the luggage rack one by one.
Several men quickly took the things down and placed them in the aisle.
Zhai Ximo turned around and said to his elder brother, "Brother, follow us closely and don't lose us."
"It's okay, big brother, come with us and walk in front." Wang Ziru held the little guy whose eyes were full of curiosity, with a cloth pocket bag on her shoulder, and went with Zhu Yan, who also only carried a small bag.
Zhai Qingsong felt a little sorry. He was a man, but he could only leave the station with the women and children.
Inside the carriage, several other comrades helped them carry their luggage.
After finally squeezing out of the platform, I had to change to take a long-distance bus to Xiongshi.
"You guys wait at the train station first, we'll go to the nearby long-distance bus station, reserve seats first and then come pick you up." Zhai Ximo knew that they were bringing women and children with them, so they had to get to the long-distance bus station faster than others to secure a few seats.
Perhaps it is because this is a prosperous city with many small vendors and a bustling crowd of tourists coming in and out.
They stood at the edge of the train station where they would not block the road. From time to time, small vendors came by to sell small commodities, either tea and eggs or boiled water. At this moment, there was actually a middle-aged man wearing plastic glasses and with a small wooden board hanging around his neck, which was filled with picture books.
"Brother, buy a picture book for your child. It's not expensive." The middle-aged man saw Zhai Qingsong standing there with a woman holding a baby next to him. He thought that this was a family of three going on a long journey, so he walked over and enthusiastically sold the picture book to them.
Zhai Qingsong looked at his brother and sister-in-law without saying a word. Seeing that they were also reading the picture book and seemed quite interested, he took Bao'er and helped hold him for a while.
"How much is this picture book of yours?"
Seeing Wang Ziru asking about the price, the middle-aged man quickly said enthusiastically, "If you buy one, the child will finish reading it. Why not buy a few more and give you a discount. If you buy three, it will only be 55 cents. How about buying three for the child and taking them home?"
Baoer saw the colorful cover on the wooden board hanging on the middle-aged man's chest and became anxious. "Mom, Zhuzi also has comic books. Can you buy me two?"
"Okay, I'll buy it for you."
Wang Ziru knew that the highest price for a comic book at that time was only 20 cents.
I picked out three books in one go, "Shenzhou Lei", "Shaolin Monk" and "The Legend of Yue Fei".
When the middle-aged man saw Wang Ziru took out the money, there were more than ten yuan wrapped in the handkerchief. He looked at the handkerchief greedily and said, "Why not buy a few more books for the children to take back?"
"That's all. Five-and-a-half cents."
The middle-aged man knew that the family had some money and wanted to continue selling, but at this time a few men in military uniforms came, so he had to walk away in disappointment and sell to other tourists.
Zhai Ximo brought a few old comrades back to help with the luggage.
Seeing the child holding a picture book, he smiled and said, "Hey, you are quite studious. You even bought a picture book?"
"Yes, Dad. I will be going to kindergarten soon. When I finish reading these picture books, I can tell stories to my classmates in kindergarten."
Zhai Ximo immediately gave the child a thumbs up, "As expected of my son, he has some ideas."
He turned around and said to everyone, "Let's go. The car will leave for Xiong District soon."
The group finally got on the long-distance bus. After smelling the stench on the bus, both adults and children lost their appetite.
It was not until after four o'clock in the afternoon that we finally returned to the troops in Xiong District.
The military vehicle first took them to the entrance of the playground, and everyone got off there.
"Let's go report first. You guys wait here." Zhai Ximo didn't bother to go back to his single dormitory, and went straight to report with Zhang Kang.
Not long after, Zhang Kang came back and said, "Yan'er, come with me to sign up. They are selecting female hygienists."
Before Zhu Yan could get a clear look at the captain's appearance, her husband took her to a building.