Chapter 69: Preparations before Leaving (Page 1/2)
Lin Man and Huo Qinghuan were preparing lunch. Huo Qingci had gone to the train station in the morning to queue up to buy train tickets.
After waiting in line for several hours, he finally bought three sleeper tickets to Guangzhou for the next morning. He originally planned to buy two lower berths and one middle berth, but the conductor only sold him a row of upper, middle and lower berths.
Sleeper berths are hard to buy, and if it weren't for his military officer ID, they probably wouldn't have sold him a sleeper berth ticket.
After buying the ticket, he went to the post office and called his grandfather and father to tell them what time the train would leave tomorrow night.
Mom and Dad decided to take half a day off tomorrow to come and see them off, and Grandpa also plans to come back.
They have to start packing their luggage tonight, putting large items into storage and small items into woven bags and suitcases.
The farm where my aunt and uncle's family were sent to was probably more than 30 kilometers away from where he worked. They had to settle there first, and it might take some time for my aunt and her family to go there.
Lin Man had just put the food on the table when Huo Qingci came back. Huo Qinghuan asked him, "Brother, did you buy the train ticket?"
"I bought it. The train will be at 7:20 the day after tomorrow. As long as it's not delayed, I can arrive in Guangzhou at 6:20 the next day."
"Brother, are we going to take a 59-hour train ride?"
Huo Qingci smiled and said, "Yes, we have to take the train for three days. But don't worry, I bought a sleeper ticket."
Lin Man asked, "Three sleeper tickets aren't cheap, are they?"
Huo Qingci smiled and said, "Well, the ticket price is a bit expensive, but I can't let you two squeeze in with them. You won't even be able to stretch your legs straight when you sleep at night."
Lin Man added, "The ticket is for the day after tomorrow morning, so we have to leave at five o'clock!"
"About the same. It takes dozens of minutes to get to the train station from here. Grandpa will come tomorrow and they will take us to the train station."
"Let's eat quickly. I'll start packing this afternoon. You take Qinghuan for a swim."
Huo Qinghuan has been learning to swim for three days and can finally swim about ten meters. It would be good for him to learn for one more day to exercise.
Huo Qingci didn't want to leave his wife home alone, so he said to Lin Man, "Manman, come with us. We'll have enough time to pack our luggage tomorrow. It's so hot, and you'll be bored at home."
"Okay, then we'll go out at three o'clock and eat. Let's eat first."
It was hot and I didn’t know what to eat, so Lin Man made a loofah egg drop soup, a steamed eggplant with garlic, and a bowl of braised pork ribs.
She didn't cook much rice. She had a bowl of rice for herself, and Huo Qingci and Huo Qinghuan had two bowls of rice each. Anyway, there would always be no leftover rice in the pot every time she cooked.
She hates eating leftovers, so she cooks meals in just the right amount, not too much or too little.
After dinner, Huo Qinghuan took the initiative to wash the dishes. Huo Qingci threw him a dime and asked him to buy popsicles in the afternoon.
The nine-year-old child couldn't sit still, and he ran around the streets even on a hot day. After washing the dishes, he took the dime given to him by his elder brother and went out.
He decided to be generous and treat his two good friends to a mung bean popsicle each before leaving Beijing, and say goodbye to them at the same time.
As soon as Huo Qinghuan left, Huo Qingci took Lin Man into the space.
After entering the space, Huo Qingci was taking care of the herbs, while Lin Man went to the field and picked a few ripe watermelons to feed the pigs and ducks, and she fed the chickens directly with millet.
After feeding the poultry and livestock, Lin Man washed her hands and went to pick lychees and bayberries. The loquats had been picked long ago, but unfortunately these fruits could not be sold now.
She keeps some fresh ones for herself to eat slowly, and the rest are either processed into dried fruits or directly dried using the machines in her own space.
Fortunately, we only planted two trees of each kind of fruit. If we planted more, we wouldn’t be able to pick all of them.
There are two mountains, a pond, a medicinal spring, and a medicinal field in Huo Qingci's space. There are hundreds of acres of uncultivated land, and only about ten acres are cultivated.
The various fruit trees alone take up three acres, vegetables take up half an acre, and watermelons and strawberries take up one acre each.
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Another acre of land was used to plant peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn and soybeans, and the remaining half acre was used to plant garlic, leeks and chives.
Even if they go to an island, they don’t have to worry about having no vegetables. There are fish in the pond and vegetables in the fields. If they want to eat seafood or meat, they can just go to the market to buy them.
After finishing their respective tasks, the two sat down in the cabin in the space to rest. Huo Qingci discussed with Lin Man, "Manman, should we buy a bicycle in Beijing first and then store it in the space?"
"Let's not do that. Don't you have to get a stamp on the bicycle after you buy it? I'd better go to Hainan Island and buy one later."
"But the bicycle ticket I have can only be bought in Beijing, and it expires in December."
"Then give the ticket to your mother, and we'll go over there and figure out a solution."
If you buy a bicycle in Beijing, not only will the shipping fee be expensive to ship to the island, but you will also have to buy an unassembled bicycle and assemble it yourself, which is so troublesome.
"Should we buy the sewing machine now?"
"No, don't spend money on tickets. Many tickets can only be used in Beijing. It would be a waste to buy them."
Huo Qingci smiled and said, "It's hard for you. I didn't buy you anything except a watch for the wedding."
"Didn't you hand over all the money? I have a sewing machine in my space, which is much more advanced than the one you have now. I can make clothes for you in my space, so don't waste that money."
If they bought a sewing machine on the island, those people would definitely ask her to borrow it all the time, and some might even want to take advantage of her and ask her to teach them how to operate the sewing machine.
If she had that much time, she might as well go to the mudflats to dig up some small seafood. If possible, she would also like to secretly drive a boat out to sea to fish.
However, she still had to avoid other fishermen's boats. After all, the various boats in her space were so advanced and automated that she didn't even have to drive the big ships herself. She could just enter the navigation route on the system display screen.
I’m finally going to the island. Why am I so excited?
"Manman, what are you laughing at?"
"I was thinking, if we go to the island, I can take your brother to go fishing every day. You just go to your job at the military hospital, and I'll take Huo Qinghuan to the beach to dig for seafood."
It had been a long time since she had eaten seafood, and she really missed it: steamed scallops with garlic, salt-baked small conchs, grilled oysters, stir-fried clams with black bean sauce, salt and pepper mantis shrimp, abalone slices with scallions, clam soup, shrimp and crab porridge...
"This time we went to the 301 Hospital of the PLA General Hospital."
"Where is the hospital?"
"There's a village called Houhai Village 2.5 kilometers behind the hospital in Haitang Bay, Sanya, where you can go fishing."
"Yeah, Sanya is the warmest place in Hainan. It's not cold in the winter. Even if it gets really cold, it's still around 12 or 13 degrees Celsius. Normally, it's around 17 or 18 degrees Celsius in the winter. It's also not as humid as Haikou."
The most important thing is that Sanya will be a tourist city in the future. No matter what, she will buy a piece of land there and build a sea view villa ten years later.
"Manman likes Sanya very much?"
"Ah? No, I like you. Wherever you are, that's home."
"Naughty, I prepared some motion sickness medicine. Will Manman get sick on the boat?"
"I don't usually get seasick, but I don't know if your brother does."
"I don't know either, but I prepared some medicine in advance, including Fengyoujing and Qingliangyou."
"I have motion sickness patches in my space. They usually make you vomit if you put them on. They can help prevent motion sickness and seasickness. I'll take them out in advance and put them on everyone."
This time to go to the island, I have to take a three-day train ride, then rest for one night in Yangcheng and take the next day's train to Zhanjiang, then take a boat from Xuwen to Haikou, and then take a bus to Sanya.
It takes several days to travel back and forth. No matter how healthy you are, you can't bear it. You might even get carsick or seasick.
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