Chapter 109 Train
Lu Guodong drove a tractor with Lu Ping'an, Shen Xiaoyue and two boxes to the county town.
Wu Qingyun spent the whole night picking and choosing to pack these two boxes. Beijing was too far away, and she was afraid that the two of them would not have enough to eat or sleep well, and she couldn't make it in time.
"Have you brought the notification letter and household registration book?"
"Dad, I've brought them all."
Lu Guodong responded.
After a while, "Did you bring thick clothes?"
"I brought it. I brought it all."
"Remember to bring the meatballs your mother fried a few days ago. Xiaoyue loves them. There's nothing to eat on the train."
"I brought it. I brought everything. I also brought sweet potato balls. Dad, don't be reluctant to leave us. We will be back soon."
Lu Guodong choked and snorted, "Who is reluctant to leave you? I was not here yesterday, and your mother is careless. I am just worried that she didn't prepare everything."
"Don't come back if you have nothing to do. Just study hard at school. It took a lot of effort to get admitted."
"Dad, universities also have winter and summer vacations. We will come back when we are free."
Lu Guodong said with a nasal tone: "You said that you have been around Dahe Village since you were a child. Others say that you have been spoiled by us and you have lost your sense of the world, but I know that you have been smart since you were a child."
"Now, everyone is going to Beijing to attend university."
"Dad, what you said is making me cry, wuwuwu."
Lu Ping'an pretended to sob and held his face in his hands.
Lu Guodong, who was originally still very sentimental, paused and said, "Get lost, don't force me to beat you."
As soon as they arrived at the train station, a man came up to them with a shifty look in his eyes. He carefully observed them and then asked in a low voice, "Do you want a sleeper ticket?"
Probably because they were carrying so many bags, it was obvious that they were going to take a long journey.
Sleeper tickets are harder to get than pork these days. Looking around, there is already a long queue at the ticket window.
Lu Pingan was a little moved, he didn’t care, but he was afraid that Shen Xiaoyue would not be able to bear sitting in a hard seat for dozens of hours.
However, it is not certain whether this ticket is genuine or fake.
"No hurry, let's go to the window first."
Shen Xiaoyue held down his restless hand and dragged him to the window to queue up.
The two were lucky and bought two sleeper berths. Although school had just started, Peking University started earlier than other schools, so not many people went to Peking University today.
Lu Guodong patted their shoulders and stuffed another twenty into Shen Xiaoyue's pocket.
"Dad, no need, we still have more."
"Okay, stop pushing it back and forth. If you don't take it, don't come back this year."
Lu Guodong deliberately kept a stern face.
Shen Xiaoyue didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she accepted it.
"Okay, I'll drop you off here. If you have time, call me. The village phone is going to break if it's not used."
There were many people standing on the platform. Lu Guodong accurately captured the backs of the two people and waved to them only after they got on the train.
The train started slowly with a "whoosh" sound. Lu Guodong waved his hands vigorously, fearing that they couldn't see it.
Suddenly he turned his back and his shoulders trembled slightly.
Shen Xiaoyue couldn't stop her tears from flowing out for some reason.
She always felt that the days in Dahe Village would be very long, so long that her dream of getting into university seemed out of reach.
But in the blink of an eye, she and Lu Pingan boarded the train to Beijing.
"Wife, don't cry, we will go home when we have the holiday."
Lu Pingan held her hand and comforted her.
"Um."
Shen Xiaoyue’s voice was muffled.
She pretended not to know that Lu Ping'an secretly cried in bed last night after he thought she was asleep.
Just now on the tractor, when Lu Guodong said the second sentence, he was actually shedding tears secretly, and he held his face with both hands just to wipe them clean.
Perhaps children who grow up in love know better how to love others.
Obviously, he was the one who had to leave his hometown and the village where he had lived for twenty years, but he was still trying hard to make them laugh.
Shen Xiaoyue shook his hand back.
"We can go home together when we have time."
The two men carrying large and small bags found their way to beds with great difficulty. There were too many people in the carriage, the smell was not very good, and the beds were not often changed or washed. Wu Qingyun specially brought clean cloth for the two men to lie on the berths.
"Found it, wife, do you want to sleep on top or on the bottom?"
"Let me sleep on top. You're tall and it's uncomfortable for you to sleep on. I'm just right."
Lu Ping'an nodded and stuffed the luggage under the bed.
It was good for him to sleep downstairs, just in time to guard these things. Although the important things were all on him, several sets of clothes in the box were made by his uncle for his wife, and they were much better looking than those bought outside.
The clothes his daughter-in-law made for him were also in the box.
When he insisted on bringing this dress, Shen Xiaoyue didn’t quite understand, “Don’t tell me you’re going to wear this in college, then you can’t tell others that I made it!”
"No, I'll hold you while I sleep. After all, I'm just a poor married young man who has to sleep alone. You have to leave me some thoughts."
It's an irresistible reason.
The two were cleaning up when an auntie sitting opposite them, probably bored, started chatting with them.
"Hey, you're quite diligent, young man. Is that your wife next to you?"
When Lu Pingan heard the first sentence, he didn't want to respond. When he heard the second sentence, he turned around and saw a middle-aged woman who looked quite kind. He responded, "Yes."
"You are so pretty, but you are also handsome. Are you educated youth sent to the countryside?"
The previous stop was a county town, and my aunt guessed that the two people should be educated youth who went to the countryside.
The aunt was eating melon seeds while looking at the two men. Both of them were fair-skinned and seemed to come from a well-off family. Originally, when the young man had his back to her, she thought he had a very straight figure.
Moreover, this young man was the one who was packing from the moment they got on the train, leaving his wife sitting next to him. This is rare.
Lu Pingan was usually very vigilant, but when he met someone who was so good at talking, he couldn’t help but reply a few words: “I’m not, my wife is.”
The aunt smiled and handed a handful of melon seeds to the two of them: "Where are you going? I'm going to Beijing. I got on the bus two stops earlier than you did, but I'm bored. I'm free anyway, why don't you chat with me?"
Shen Xiaoyue did not refuse.
Maybe people who read a lot have a unique temperament. The aunt opposite looked intellectual and elegant. She wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and had fashionable curly hair. She was very elegant and made people want to chat with her for a few more words.
My aunt also had a book next to her, "To the Lighthouse". This kind of niche foreign book is not easy to buy.
Shen Xiaoyue guessed that she should be a teacher or a cadre.
"Thank you. We are also going to Jing City."
"That's great, are you going to Beijing to attend university?"
Shen Xiaoyue nodded.
"Would you mind telling me which university it is? It's okay if it's not convenient."
"It's convenient. We're going to Beijing University."
My aunt's eyes lit up instantly, "What about your lover? Did he send you to school?"
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