"Of course I have a conscience. You know how to blame me for not telling you earlier. When you saw me, why didn't you ask about your family's situation first? You only cared about your new wife's face and came to deal with me first, which shows that you are the one without conscience!"

After Meng Tao finished speaking, she didn't have time to see Tian Zhigao's reaction and walked out of the ticket gate without looking back. The train was already roaring into the station. Zhang Guoqing bought two platform tickets and together with Meng Zhehan, he saw her off to the train.

Tian Zhigao stood woodenly in the waiting room, looking through the glass window, watching Zhang Guoqing lead Meng Tao onto the train. Meng Zhehan stood under the car and waited for them to find seats and open the window. Meng Zhehan then handed two travel bags in and then stood there saying something to Meng Tao through the window.

Not long after, Zhang Guoqing came down and stood next to Meng Zhehan. Meng Tao leaned over the window and said a few words to him. She seemed to suddenly remember something and retracted her head. After a while, she showed her head again and stretched out her hand to hand out two green-skinned fruits. The two men refused to take them at first. Zhang Guoqing waved his hand, probably to let her keep them for the car. But for some reason Meng Tao said, Zhang Guoqing immediately stretched out his hands to take them. However, Meng Zhehan was quicker than him and snatched all the fruits away. Zhang Guoqing chased Meng Zhehan for more, and Meng Zhehan gave him a fruit. Zhang Guoqing took the fruit and smelled it again and again, smiling like a fool, and put it into his coat pocket with care.

Tian Zhigao saw clearly that it was an orange, and his mouth was inexplicably sour, and his heart also felt sour: Meng Taohua, when did you become so popular? He was sure that she had never been far away before. This was her first time in the provincial capital. How could she make friends with people like Meng Zhehan and Shen Yu? Shen Yu was the son of Director Shen. Xian Fangfang said that he was a genius. He graduated from university at the age of seventeen or eighteen and worked in Beijing. Birds of a feather flock together. Meng Zhehan must not be an ordinary person.

The steel plant has two guesthouses. He thought it was strange that Meng Taohua could live in the high-end guesthouse. Now he understood that it was Shen Yu and Meng Zhehan. This Meng Zhehan also had the last name Meng. Could it be that he was a relative of Meng Taohua? Why hadn't he heard of him before?

His mother Wang Shuifeng had already investigated Meng Shengli's background. Although Meng Shengli was not born and raised in Linshui Village, his roots and ancestors for eight generations were indeed from the countryside. They lived by farming in the neighboring commune. So what was going on with this Meng Zhehan?

Perhaps, it was because of that Zhang Guoqing? Tian Zhigao suddenly had an idea and felt that he had guessed correctly. It should be because of Zhang Guoqing: he had an impression of Zhang Guoqing. His family lived in the town market and he often went to Linshui Village when he was a child. He was a relative of Linshui team leader Zhou Shi'an. Although he had grown up now, he still looked like a teenager.

Meng Taohua was able to come to the provincial capital smoothly with all kinds of certificates on her. Needless to say, it was Zhou Shian and other brigade cadres who arranged for her. Meng Shengli had a very good relationship with the brigade cadres back then. This Zhang Guoqing seemed to be working in the provincial capital. He was following Meng Zhehan closely and the two had a close relationship. Zhang Guoqing played a key role in Meng Taohua's coming to the provincial capital and getting help from Meng Zhehan and Shen Yu.

She was lucky, but what could she do? When people were in a good mood, they would like to do good things, but they could not keep doing it forever.

This time, Meng Taohua was just a blind cat that caught a dead mouse.

Tian Zhigao watched the train leave the station, squinted his eyes, turned around and walked away quickly, heading for the post office. Although he was annoyed that his family didn't take good care of Taohua and let her run around, she was his parents after all, what else could he do except bear the consequences? He didn't know if what Taohua said about his father and sister being in the hospital was true? He had to write a letter home to ask, and by the way, inform him of the situation here, because he was demoted to the workshop, and his salary was also short, and he also had to take care of his pregnant wife to eat and drink well. He was short of money recently, and had no money to send home. Zhiyuan and Yalan's work arrangements could not be carried out for the time being.

As for Liang Tiezhu, since he is able to work in a sugar factory, if he knew how to be grateful, he could save some of his salary and use it to help his parents-in-law.

Although the green train was not as fast as the high-speed trains of later generations, it was still quite good at the time and soon left the provincial capital. It was Meng Tao's second time riding a green train and she had gotten used to the "ding-clang-ding-clang" noise, which sounded quite rhythmic to her. She looked out the window at the field scenery and felt a little emotional.

Meng Zhehan asked her about her plans after returning to the countryside, and she made up a nice story, but to be honest, she really didn't know what to do.

She is not the real Meng Taohua. She will definitely fall behind if she earns work points through labor. However, she is confident that everything depends on human efforts and the road can be made by walking. She will always find a way to support herself.

She just needs to live a few years in peace and quiet, and when she enters the eighties, everything will be fine.

Meng Tao strengthened his confidence and took a deep breath out the window. The green train also has its advantages. You can open the window, stretch out your hands and wave, and the fresh breeze brings a refreshing feeling, which makes you feel relaxed and happy. The pure air unique to this era makes people feel very comfortable.

After having enough fun at the window, Meng Tao turned around to look at the three passengers sitting in the same booth. The one sitting with her was a woman in her thirties, and the two men sitting opposite her, their clothes and expressions showed that they were city people. They looked at her as if she were a country bumpkin. Meng Tao didn't care: I'm a country girl who has never been on this kind of train. I'm just curious about it. What's that?

The train was running fast and the weather was changing. In the evening, it was raining heavily outside and the windows had to be closed tightly. The carriage was a bit stuffy, but fortunately it was autumn and it was not too hot and uncomfortable.

The broadcast on the train announced that the dining car was open and hot meals were available. At the same time, waiters were pushing carts through the carriages selling goods. The glass cover of the cart was divided into two layers, one layer was for cigarettes and newspapers, and the other layer was for bread, cakes, fried twisted dough sticks, melon seeds, peanuts and the like.

A man across from him bought a pack of cigarettes and a pack of peanuts, threw them on the small table in the middle, and said to Meng Tao and the woman next to them, "Eat them, it'll help you pass the time."

Meng Tao and the woman thanked them at the same time, but neither took anything. The fruit snacks that Meng Zhehan and Zhang Guoqing had bought for them were placed on the luggage rack above. Meng Tao didn't feel like eating them now as she had a full lunch and didn't feel hungry yet.

But she really wanted to see what the dining car looked like, so she took the opportunity to get up and walk over to take a look, and also went to the toilet and washed her hands.

After walking past three carriages, they arrived at the dining car, which was converted from a carriage. Half of it was the kitchen, and the other half was occupied by two rows of dining tables. Some people were already sitting there eating. Meng Tao walked to the counter that separated the kitchen and saw that there was mustard greens, preserved eggs, and lean meat porridge, which was steaming hot from the pot. Each bowl cost 1.2 cents, and no ticket was required.

Meng Tao asked the waiter and found out that food on the train does not require a ticket and is extremely cheap. It is so magical and she has no idea why.

Meng Tao wanted to eat vegetable porridge, so she reached into her schoolbag to see if she had used the new lunch box she bought. She ordered a bowl of mustard greens, preserved eggs and lean meat porridge, ate it slowly in the dining car, and washed the lunch box before going back.

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