Chapter 1
End of August.
Guicheng Station.
In the waiting hall, many young people, carrying suitcases, stood, their heads bent over their phones, yawning occasionally.
Suddenly, a line of words appeared on the big screen above the gate in red, accompanied by a mechanized broadcast voice:
"Hello, passengers. Ticket checking has begun for K913, departing from Guicheng for Jinhai. Passengers traveling on K913, please pack your carry-on luggage and proceed to Gate 6A for ticket inspection. Board the train at Platform 6."
The broadcast was like thunder in the somewhat silent room.
The passengers who had been waiting for a long time set off one after another and went to the gate to queue up for ticket checking.
In the small shop, Lin Jiu, who was standing in front of the shelf and was struggling to choose between braised or spicy flavor, also heard the broadcast and immediately chose spicy beef noodles.
When she reached the store entrance, she placed the bucket of instant noodles and mineral water on the only countertop in the room.
The proprietress, who was sitting with her legs crossed and cracking melon seeds, stood up immediately when she saw Lin Jiu was about to pay the bill.
She sat in the store, a certain distance away from the cash register, but had a good view and could observe the movements at the store entrance in time.
Seeing that it would take some time for the boss lady to come over, Lin Jiu glanced outside at the ticket checking queue.
The line looked like a long dragon. There were clearly six or seven ticket checking lines, but each line seemed to block the waiting hall, and the end of the line was almost reaching the wall.
"A total of eight dollars and fifty cents." The proprietress came to Lin Jiu's side.
She quickly calculated the price of the goods and at the same time, she grabbed a red plastic bag from somewhere and put them in it.
“…”
Looking at the packed goods on the table, Lin Jiujing stood there for a moment. She thought about the prices outside, but no matter how she calculated, they didn't add up, and many questions filled her mind.
quite a while.
Lin Jiu looked at the proprietress and asked, "How much is this water per bottle?"
"Water is three yuan, instant noodles are five yuan and a half." The proprietress spoke casually, but she looked frank.
They are all one dollar more expensive than outside.
This is different from the price Lin Jiu knew.
But she needed these things.
and......
Ticket checking had already started in the hall, and she was in no mood to go to other shops to compare prices.
Pulling a wad of miscellaneous money from her pocket, she pulled out a ten-yuan note to pay the bill.
The proprietress quickly gave her change and then went back to her place to continue eating melon seeds.
Lin Jiu put the packing bag in his schoolbag, put on his backpack, dragged his 28-inch suitcase, and went to the end of the team.
She graduated from high school this year and was admitted to Gimhae University, a top-five university in the country. Tomorrow is freshman registration day, and she will be taking the bus to the university.
Originally, she hadn't planned to buy anything to eat.
In the past eighteen years, she has never left Guicheng or taken a train.
So, she had no idea about this journey at first.
While waiting for the bus, she caught a glimpse of a thick white plastic bucket at the feet of the man next to her. The lid wasn't tightly closed, and inside was several buckets of instant noodles and water.
Then she boldly looked at other people's luggage and found that many people brought some food.
She thought for a few seconds, lowered her head, opened her phone, and glanced at the time of the trip.
About fifteen hours.
It is indeed necessary to prepare some food.
Looking around, she eliminated the modern-looking convenience stores and chose a store that looked more approachable.
However, there is no essential difference between the two.
she.
The first time I suffered a beating from the prices at the train station.
-
The team advanced very quickly.
When there were only a few people left in front, Lin Jiu took out the ticket and held it in his hand.
She leaned forward slightly to watch the person in front of her go through the turnstile, but found that the movement was different from the way she entered the station.
Several people passed by one after another.
She watched for a while.
When it was her turn, she carefully imitated others' movements and quickly passed through the gate.
The passage is bright and deep.
Lin Jiu stopped and looked back deeply.
Only then did she truly realize that this long journey had officially begun and could not be stopped.
Calming herself down, she took firm steps, followed the flow of people, and found Platform 6.
There is a green train parked below.
Under the incandescent light, it is silent, yet has a strong presence.
Lin Jiu had only seen this behemoth on TV.
The first time I saw a real train.
She found it curious and looked at it a few more times.
When she was dragging her suitcase past the elevator next to her, a group of people had already entered the elevator and it was heading down.
There were many people crowded at its door, all carrying heavy suitcases.
Lin Jiu glanced sideways and chose the escalator with more people without hesitation.
She had never been in an elevator before and was afraid of appearing shy, so she didn't want to go in.
Follow the landmarks.
Lin Jiu found carriage number 10.
The carriage was not as clean and tidy as she had imagined.
The space is not big and quite depressing.
The uniform blue hard seats and the green pillowcases were rather messy and slanted.
Her seat is 016.
Close to the carriage door and also close to the aisle.
The narrow aisle was crowded with people rubbing shoulders with each other, making it difficult to move forward.
It was stuck for a minute.
Lin Jiu arrived at his row of three-seater seats.
The middle seat was empty.
There was already a boy sitting by the window.
His arms were slightly muscular, his hands were folded, and he was lying face down on the table, so his face could not be seen clearly.
After looking at it for a few seconds, she quickly pulled the suitcase to the aisle inside the seats and stood.
There is no one sitting opposite you, so there is plenty of space.
The suitcase is quite large, and even though there is nothing heavy inside, it is still not light.
She looked down at the suitcase, prepared herself mentally for a few seconds, took a deep breath, and was about to carry it to the empty space on the luggage rack.
A middle-aged man sitting across from her stood up and said, "Girl, let me carry you up."
Lin Jiu looked at the large tattoo on his arm, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Trouble."
The tattooed uncle lifted the suitcase and finished it in seconds.
Lin Jiu nodded at him and said thank you.
The tattooed uncle quickly waved his hand and said, "It's okay, no big deal." Then he sat back in his seat.
The kindness of strangers.
It instantly soothed Lin Jiu's anxiety about traveling alone.
Leaning back in her seat, she held her schoolbag in one hand and checked the time on her phone in the other.
23:10.
There are still 15 minutes until departure.
She casually swiped the screen, felt sleepy, and turned off the screen to prepare for bed.
I unzipped my backpack and was about to put my phone into the inner compartment when the screen lit up.
The beautiful lady sent a message: Are you asleep?
This person's name is Wen Min, and he is Lin Jiu's high school classmate.
After the college entrance examination results were released, Lin Jiu registered a WeChat account and posted the QR code image on his space.
The two of them added each other on WeChat.
Lin Jiu doesn’t have many WeChat contacts and is too lazy to change the notes.
and......
Wen Min is indeed a great beauty.
Lin Jiu wrapped his arms around his schoolbag, clicked into WeChat, and edited a message to reply her: Not yet, I’m on the train.
Beautiful girl: Are you going to school today? Doesn’t school start tomorrow?
The universities they were attending were in different cities, over a thousand kilometers apart. Lin Jiu started school early, so Wen Min had to wait a few days.
Lin Jiu quickly replied: Depart tonight and arrive tomorrow.
His finger paused on the screen. A few seconds later, Lin Jiu sent another message.
Jiubujiu: Why aren’t you sleeping at this hour?
Beautiful lady: I'm tired from shopping. I ate and lay down for a few hours, and just woke up.
After reading this, Lin Jiu thought the conversation was over. Unexpectedly, Wen Min sent a series of messages.
Beautiful lady: I wanted to tell you tomorrow. But now that I’m awake, I can’t hide it anymore.
Beautiful girl: I met the monitor on the pedestrian street today and we chatted for a while.
Beautiful lady:!!!
Beautiful Girl: I just found out that something big happened on the day of the graduation dinner.
Big Beauty: Guess who it’s related to?
After asking the question, Wen Min stopped talking, giving Lin Jiu enough time to think.
Look at this nonsensical question.
Lin Jiu flipped through the chat history but found no clues.
She frowned and thought hard for a while but couldn't find a definite answer. She didn't plan to guess anymore and asked directly: Who is it related to?
Wen Min didn't necessarily require Lin Jiu to give an answer. Seeing that she asked, he would reveal the answer directly.
Great beauty: Zhuo Ling.
Looking at the name, Lin Jiu felt both surprised and not surprised.
Zhuo Ling can be described as fair, rich and beautiful.
She and Wen Min were privately recognized as the double beauties of the class, but they disliked each other.
Lin Jiu and Wen Min have a good relationship.
My relationship with Zhuo Ling is average, and it can even be said that there is basically no communication between them.
Lin Jiu typed quickly with her fingers, preparing to ask Wen Min what had happened.
Received the message again.
Beautiful Girl: On the day of the graduation dinner, the class monitor went to the bathroom and saw three or five boys confessing their love to Zhuo Ling at the stairs.
Jiubujiu: She probably didn’t agree, right?
Wen Min replies quickly.
Beautiful Woman: Zhuo Ling refused very straightforwardly.
Big Beauty: And...she even confessed her love to someone.
A few seconds later.
Wen Min sent an emoticon of himself holding his chin.
Big Beauty: I originally thought she still had feelings for Ji Xin, but...
Wen Min suddenly left a suspense.
Lin Jiu looked at his phone in silence.
The amount of information is a bit overwhelming.
Ji Xin.
Wen Min's neighbor.
He is the cool and handsome boy in the class, with good looks and good temperament.
When I was in school, I was ranked first in my grade.
In his second year of high school, he won the gold medal in the biology competition and was admitted to the capital of China - Beijing University.
According to the requirements of Jinghe University at that time, he went to study directly in his senior year of high school without any student record.
It seems normal to like Ji Xin.
There had been rumors in the class that Zhuo Ling liked Ji Xin, and Zhuo Ling had never denied it.
Now......
It wasn't him.
Another person's name suddenly flashed in Lin Jiu's mind.
Chen Miao.
He looks very flamboyant, but his personality is not flamboyant, he is quite low-key.
Compared to Ji Xin's cold personality, his personality seems much better.
He is not cold, but not hot either. He is polite but distant to others, and he doesn't have close friends with his classmates.
He only interacted with his cousin Meng Qinyang.
Lin Jiu asked tentatively: Could it be Chen Miao?
Wen Min replied immediately.
Beautiful lady: Yes.
Beautiful lady: You guessed it right!
Jiubujiu: ...
There are only three handsome guys in their class. Eliminate one and choose one of the other two.
After the banquet, Zhuo Ling met up with Chen Miao, and they spoke for a few minutes in the hallway. Zhuo Ling looked quite sad as she left. Others tried to comfort her, but she ignored them and quickly walked away, not even going to the karaoke bar afterward.
Beautiful woman: If you were there that day, I wouldn’t have known it now.
Big Beauty: I don’t want to miss out on Zhuo Ling’s gossip…
Immediately following.
Wen Min immediately sent an angry emoticon.
Beautiful lady: It’s all Ji Xin’s fault!!!
Beautiful lady: He had to drag me away early...otherwise I would definitely be able to watch and enjoy the show.
Lin Jiu didn't go to the dinner party that day.
Wen Min talked to no one and drank his wine boredly.
Ji Xin, who was sitting next to her, saw that she had drunk too much, and with a cold face, he forcibly took her home.
After reading the long string of messages sent by Wen Min, Lin Jiu wanted to know more about her and Ji Xin.
then......
She immediately replied to Wen Min: After talking about Zhuo Ling, let’s talk about you.
She and Zhuo Ling have no friendship, and it is highly likely that they will not contact or meet in the future.
This kind of thing will just pass after you listen to it, and there will be no follow-up.
But Wen Min is different.
They will keep in touch in the future.
After Lin Jiu sent the message, Wen Min rarely replied immediately.
Jiubujiu: Didn’t you say you wanted to pursue Ji Xin?
One minute later.
Wen Min replied with an emoticon of a person throwing a tantrum.
Next second.
An emoticon of someone begging for mercy with their hands folded.
Beautiful lady: Wait a minute, I'll take it easy and tell you when I have news.
Perhaps because he was afraid that Lin Jiu would ask again, Wen Min immediately sent a message to change the subject.
Beautiful Girl: I heard from the class monitor that Chen Miao didn’t go to Jinghe University. He is in the same university as you.
Beautiful lady: You take advantage of it!
Looking at the cheesy emojis Wen Min sent later, Lin Jiu replied:...
Seeing her indifferent attitude, Wen Min launched into another long string of words.
Beautiful lady: You never had a relationship in college?!
Beautiful girl: You and Chen Miao are classmates after all. You have a great advantage over others.
Beautiful lady: To be honest, Chen Miao is one of the best guys. The guys you met in college are probably not better than him.
Big Beauty: Although... maybe...
Beautiful woman: He is not easy to pursue.
Looking at Wen Min's long speech, Lin Jiu guessed that she was mostly joking.
After all, she and Chen Miao didn't seem to have any communication.
The relationship is completely unrelated.
It's nothing to joke about.
but......
Lin Jiu felt a little guilty.
She replied ambiguously: Let’s talk about it later.
The topic was quickly ended.
Lin Jiu leaned against his seat, hugged his schoolbag tightly, and thought about Wen Min's words.
Chasing Chen Miao?
......
like......
unnecessary.
As long as she wants.
She could be with him anytime.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
