Spring Festival travel rush
"The road is long and winding~!"
"The wind is blowing and the horses are neighing."
"Qin Yuanqing, be careful and don't scare the motorcycle!"
On the way home, in addition to cars, there were also many motorcycles lined up on the roadside.
An auntie, with a piece of coarse cloth wrapped around her head, greeted the two people sideways and said with a smile, "Little girls, you are college students, right? You sing very well."
When she smiled, her wrinkles became deeper. The motorcycle was very old, and the rearview mirror was broken. Now there was a red wall-mounted round mirror on it.
There was a clanging sound between the front seat and my aunt's belly. The heavily packed luggage had squeezed the seat so much that there was little space left, but she didn't move at all and just leaned against it tightly.
"Auntie, is she also from Huichun City?"
Qin Yuanqing turned off the engine, stopped singing, and asked the aunt.
The environment is not good this year, and people are going home to celebrate the New Year much earlier than usual, so the roads are already congested.
"Back to Ancheng, but next year I'll be able to take my daughter to Spring City, and I won't have to travel so far to work anymore."
Auntie's voice was full of anticipation.
"You college students are so smart. You can even drive a car. My daughter is also smart. She scores 100 on the exam every year."
"Spring City is good. It's warmer than the north and has more people."
Huang Yi thought of the migrant workers in her factory. Their parents all worked in other places, and except for the Chinese New Year, they only had the chance to see their children during the summer vacation.
A fellow villager set out for the north with twelve or thirteen children. The children wore new clothes bought by their parents before the New Year and timidly came to the unfamiliar factory.
In the past, Huang Yi was exploited by his sister as free labor and was responsible for taking care of these children during the summer vacation.
If everyone had a good job and stayed in their hometown, wouldn’t there be fewer left-behind children?
"Yes, Spring City is developing better and better. Children can study well in Spring City."
"You college students should study hard and contribute to society."
The couple in the back were squeezed onto a motorcycle, and the older man echoed her: "Only by studying can you have a future. Don't be like those people who dropped out after attending university."
The group of motorcycles on the roadside were crowded in the innermost lane. It had just rained here and the wind was blowing like a knife. They had to keep going south like this.
Qin Yuanqing and her friends' car was still stuck, but my aunt and her friends' motorcycles had already moved.
She waved goodbye, and the shabby motorcycle carried all her belongings and continued on its way home.
The two were silent for a while.
A rainbow appeared in the distant sky, and Huang Yi asked Qin Yuanqing to take a picture of it.
"Why? It's not like you haven't seen it before."
"Show it to your sister. Has she never seen the rainbow on the Spring Festival travel route?"
The two men drove an old pickup truck with the bed wrapped in three layers of raincoats inside and out.
When Yu Shu was called to the school gate, she was still a little confused.
These two people have been driving for a whole day and night. Don’t they need to go home and rest first?
"On the way, on the way, your sister Huang Yi bought some delicious chicken legs at the service area, take some to fill your stomach."
Qin Yuanqing saw Yu Shu's confusion and answered her with a yawn.
In addition to the clothes for the photo shoot, their car also contained some fabrics and new kitchen utensils that Qin Yuanqing had purchased from other places.
Huang Yi's factory is located in the north, and the fabrics they produce are not as varied as those in the south. In the next two days, they will go further south to Guangzhou and Shenzhen to check out the new fabrics coming in. Maybe they will open a branch factory.
Huang Yi is about the same height as Qin Yuanqing, with a high nose bridge and fair skin. She and Qin Yuanqing have completely different styles, but they look inexplicably harmonious when standing together.
There were seven or eight chicken legs in the bag, each of which was covered in a paper bag with the words "Rao City Roasted Chicken Legs" written on it.
It smelled very good. Yu Shu took it without hesitation and asked, "Give it all to me, thank you, sister."
Huang Yi touched Yu Shu's head and nodded: "We also bought a lot of specialties from Rao City. You can share them with your classmates."
It was already afternoon, and when Yu Shu returned to the classroom, she started to eat a lot of chicken legs.
Xia Qiqi had just finished her geography homework and was still memorizing the climate of different places.
Suddenly I smelled an enticing aroma.
There was no need to explore, she stared directly at the bag of chicken legs in Yu Shu's hand.
"Is this the legendary Raoshi roasted chicken leg?"
She made Conan's classic move, and Yu Shu felt that in the next second, she would blurt out "There is only one truth."
Yu Shu ate one first, and then gave the rest of the chicken legs in the bag to Xia Qiqi and Fu Xue to share.
All the greedy people in the class heard the news and went out.
The chicken legs were torn into small pieces and passed around.
"Thanks to Yushu's sisters for letting us eat such delicious chicken legs."
Xia Qiqi remembered that she also had to thank the person who bought the chicken legs, and said it loudly.
Su Yuekang got the last chicken drumstick. He hadn't tasted it enough and said something surprising: "I'm going to Rao City to buy chicken drumsticks during the winter vacation this year. Is there anyone who wants to help me bring them?"
He is always the worst student in the class. Although his grades have increased a lot this semester, everyone in Class 10 has seen their grades increase. I don't believe his parents will take him out to play at this critical time.
Teacher Li walked in and heard Su Yuekang's words, and shattered his thoughts neatly: "The last time your father came to school, he promised to take you to make-up classes during the winter vacation."
Su Yuekang's father was also a student of Teacher Li. Many years later, the father and son fell into the hands of the same teacher.
When I go to the school to pick up Su Yuekang, I always have to be careful to avoid Teacher Li, especially after the Chinese language results are out.
"ah--"
He protested meaninglessly.
No matter how much you protest, the exam is coming.
This final exam is a city-wide joint exam, and the score ranking is also based on the city.
Among the more than 90,000 third-year junior high school students in the city, Yu Shu scored in the top 600 in this exam, and tied for 542nd place with eight other people.
The transcripts were hung on the cultural wall in the school square, and only those for the third year of junior high and the third year of high school were included.
After looking at her grades on the left, Yu Shu went to the right to see how she had performed in her senior year.
Unlike the junior high school, the high school department only lists the grades of students in its own school.
When Yu Shu saw that the first place was ranked only around 600th in the city, she understood why.
The scores of the senior high school students of No. 3 Middle School are mostly concentrated between 15,000 and 38,000. There are no high scores, the science scores are mediocre, and the liberal arts scores are polarized.
As the saying goes, if you master math, physics and chemistry, you will not be afraid of traveling around the world, but the high school department of No. 3 Middle School "emphasizes liberal arts over science". Good students like to study liberal arts, and poor students also study liberal arts.
Perhaps due to historical reasons, the predecessor of No. 3 Middle School was the First School of Spring City. From teachers to students, they were all high-level cultural intellectuals of that time. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, most of the outstanding teachers attracted were liberal arts teachers, and the science resources were not rich enough.
The teacher’s lectures are lively and interesting, so students naturally fall in love with and choose liberal arts. After all, there is no saying that studying liberal arts is a dead end.
Xia Qiqi was watching with her, shaking her head, thinking about applying for college after school started.
"I asked the teacher, and she said that if you want to study physical geography, you have to choose science in high school."
In her previous life, Yu Shu had directly applied for liberal arts, but she didn't know that geography majors required science.
"Then we must not apply to this school."
Fu Xue and Su Yuekang came over together. She was holding Su Yuekang's fish tank, which was covered with a piece of white velvet. "Look, the fish are still very healthy."
Su Yuekang said proudly, "Of course, I'm an expert in raising animals. I have three dogs, a cat, a rabbit, and eight or nine fish at home."
Although only this little fish belongs to him completely, he serves every animal in the house every day.
Yu Shu marveled at how lively the little fish was, pouting and spinning around in the jar. "Then you could study animal protection or veterinary medicine."
Someone with such an affinity for animals should be interacting with cute little animals.
Su Yuekang frowned thoughtfully, "Forget animal protection. How can I take care of my children if I'm out running around all day? I should study veterinary medicine. I can even treat my animals for free."
Yu Shu realized a serious problem. It seemed very difficult to graduate from medical school. Veterinary medicine is also a medical field, and there are so many books to study.
Fu Xue obviously shared the same understanding: "Studying medicine is extremely difficult."
Su Yuekang waved his hand casually: "It's okay, I may not be able to pass the exam."
Forehead……
It's really refreshing to see this. However, this time Su Yuekang is not the last in the class.
Yu Shu saw the names of other students in the class after his name.
Yu Shu went home after getting her results. They had agreed that she could start filming after the exam on Friday.
But Qin Yuanqing and the others were delayed by some things in Guangshi, and they can only start filming after they come back tomorrow night.
Yu Shu was not in a hurry either, because this afternoon and tomorrow morning, she participated in the Spring Festival travel volunteer activity organized by Zhou Changqing. Yu Shu also just learned that there was such a volunteer club within No. 3 Middle School.
This year, for various reasons, a large number of people returning home have to transfer in Spring City and go home.
Whether going to the county town below or another railway line, Chuncheng is an important transportation hub in the south.
In addition to these local junior and senior high school students, there are also some college students who are returning home for the New Year.
Xia Qiqi, Fu Xue, Zhong Cui and others also participated.
Five people from Class 10 came, along with many classmates of the same age. They didn’t have that many vests, just a red armband to wear on their arms.
Xia Qiqi took the thermos, which was filled with hot water. Many people wanted to rest here, drink some hot water, or make instant noodles or steamed buns. There was not enough water, so the volunteers helped to manage it.
Yu Shu and Zhou Changqing were assigned to the ticket window together. There were too many elderly people who spoke poor Mandarin and couldn't clearly tell where to buy tickets. It was easy to waste everyone's time queuing at the window, so Yu Shu and the others helped find out the time and place for these people to buy their tickets.
There are also some free buses to take these hard-working workers home to the bus station. The taxis outside Chuncheng Railway Station are so rip-offs that even locals like Yu Shu have to take them for a ride.
Later, Spring City became a tourist city, and taxi scams were often exposed on the Internet.
Of course, not all taxis are like this. Yu Shu has also met good drivers who have a good attitude and help with luggage.
According to Yu Shu, the worst taxi service is probably the taxi near the university. No matter how many people ride in a car, the price remains the same.
She took a notebook and wrote down the location the uncle mentioned, and Zhou Changqing helped her compare the nearest train schedule and subsequent transfer plans.
The old man spoke a southwestern dialect, and Yu Shu couldn't understand some of the words in the dialect at all. She was so frustrated that she just guessed and wrote them down.
The uncle repeated it and it matched, except that the accent was too confusing.
I spent the whole afternoon helping to buy tickets. I felt a sense of accomplishment, but also felt very tired.
Yu Shu sat down to rest and saw a lottery station next to her where many people waiting for the bus were watching others scratch lottery tickets.
Xia Qiqi suggested: "We've done something good today, let's buy a lottery ticket, maybe we'll win."
She was so excited that she wanted to drag Yu Shu to buy it together.
Yu Shu thought about it and felt that it made sense.
I bought the cheapest scratch-off lottery ticket to try my luck.
If you win, spend it immediately; if you don’t win, give it to charity.
As expected, when luck comes, it cannot be stopped. As soon as she scratched a corner, Yu Shu saw the winning sign, but she didn't know how much it was.
She looked at the rules again, fearing she would scratch off the voucher for a prize, the maximum reward being one thousand yuan.
Yu Shu scratched off the two zeros after the one, but she stopped before she finished scratching off the two zeros.
Zhou Changqing had already finished shaving his own hair. Seeing that Yu Shu hadn't finished shaving yet, he asked her, "Are you waiting for us?"
Yes, Yu Shu was deliberately waiting for them to come over and watch her win the prize.
Hehehe!
Unfortunately, she was too proud of herself and there was no more zero behind her good luck.
"Wow, one hundred bucks, treat me."
Yu Shu didn't need this little money, so the five of them went to the management to hand in the red armbands.
I rode my bike out of the train station area. It was already dark, but it was winter. It was only five o'clock, so it was still very early.
"Whatever you want to eat, let's go eat sausages, or something?"
Xia Qiqi asked in front, saying that in winter it must be accompanied by a hot dog that is grilled and sizzling with oil and popping.
It smells so good!
"How about we go get some roasted chicken legs? I know there's a delicious roasted chicken leg shop in Lianshui. Their roasted chicken legs are also delicious."
Fu Xue remembered the roasted chicken legs from Rao City that Yu Shu had given her last time and suggested.
The railway station is located in a relatively suburban area, and Lianshui Town is the closest suburban town to the railway station, not far away.
Now that you’re here, let’s go!
Several people followed him up and down the slope. This is how the hilly areas in the south are. There are many slopes in the urban area.
People like Yu Shu who grew up here have long been accustomed to it. If they suddenly arrived at a flat land, they would be shocked.
Zhong Cui did not ride a bike, she sat behind Fu Xue. As usual, she brought some photography equipment with her this time, not a camera, but a small D.
The sky was hazy, and the green belts on the roadside were not as lush and green as those in the city center. They looked a bit desolate and dark yellow. The faint sunlight shone on the faces of the pedestrians, and the street lights had not yet come on.
On the other side of the road, tired adults are driving their cars home with their headlights flashing, and on this side of the road, young students are preparing to ride their bicycles to eat chicken legs.
Zhong Cuid honestly recorded every moment and the different feelings that the world brought her.
Where is my hometown? Where is the way home?
We should feel every moment of our life. Everyone has to go through youth and fatigue.
"Zhong Cui, you're taking pictures again!"
"Yeah, I like taking pictures."
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