Chapter 324: Going North by Train
Yike was a little confused when he heard it, but after a while he understood what it meant.
She looked at other seats. Some of the seats were occupied by men or women wearing patched clothes. They looked clean on the outside, but when she looked up along the clothes, some people's hair was really unbearable to look at. Yike immediately thought of the disgusting smell when riding on the bus, and instantly understood what the other person meant.
Yike then took a closer look at the girl opposite named Xiangxiang. Xiangxiang looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a slightly dark and rough skin, and a little plateau redness on her face.
Yike nodded and smiled at her, and Miss Xiangxiang also smiled brightly.
After a brief chat, Yike learned that Miss Xiangxiang was returning to her parents' home to visit her relatives. When she mentioned returning to her parents' home, her eyes darkened and she inadvertently revealed a hint of sadness.
The young man next to her is her man. When she talks about her man, she becomes very excited and that trace of sadness on her face seems to have never appeared. It can be seen that the couple has a very good relationship.
Yike likes that all couples in the world have a good relationship, and I like the girl Xiangxiang opposite even more.
Xiangxiang is a very lively girl and also a very talkative person. Ever since Yike started talking to her, the melodious and sweet voice like an oriole has been singing in Yike's ears.
As Yike was listening, he suddenly had a good idea. With a little training, this beautiful voice could become a superstar in the future. How could he let go of such a talent!
So, under Yi Ke's intentional guidance, Miss Xiangxiang gave all the information about her family clearly.
It turned out that Xiangxiang's grandparents were the mainstays of the opera troupe before liberation. When she was a child, she often heard her grandmother singing and she would sing along.
Because of natural disasters in those years, there was not enough food at home. In order to save food for her younger brothers and sisters, she followed a distant aunt and married her current man through the aunt's introduction.
I never expected that Xiangxiang is already a mother of two children. When Xiangxiang talked about her two children, a happy smile appeared on her face. However, when Xiangxiang talked about her mother, her smile disappeared and a look of worry crept up her brows.
It turned out that Xiangxiang and her husband came back from far away this time because her brother sent a telegram asking her to go back and see her mother for the last time.
Xiangxiang's husband's parents were very kind. They borrowed money for travel expenses from relatives and asked the couple to come back quickly to see the old man and say farewell to him.
As Xiangxiang was talking, tears started to flow. Her man hurriedly took out a handkerchief from her pocket to wipe her tears and coaxed her in a low voice.
Yike touched her nose awkwardly; she didn't expect to find out such a sad thing, and she felt a little sad.
Life is really hard for girls in this era. When a family encounters difficulties, the girls are always the first to sacrifice.
When she thought of Xiangxiang leaving her hometown and marrying a stranger far away, and her painful feelings of helplessness, frustration, sadness, confusion and fear, Yike felt even more sad.
Xiangxiang is both unfortunate and lucky. The fact that her husband's family borrowed money to let her come back to visit her relatives shows that this family is kind.
Xiangxiang was probably talking about something sad, so she closed her eyes and fell asleep leaning back in the chair.
At night, the lights in the train carriage were dim and it was pitch black outside the window. Only the monotonous clanging sound of the train wheels hitting the iron made people drowsy.
Yike pressed his face tightly against the car window, trying hard to find the bright spots in the wilderness, but all he saw was loneliness, and only the pitch-black night.
In this era, very few villages in the countryside had electricity, and electric lights were a luxury, so you could hardly see any lights outside.
In the second half of the night, Yike felt particularly sleepy, but when the train stopped at the station, the rumbling sound between the carriages, the conductor's loud shouting that they had arrived at a certain station and asked them to hurry up and get off the train, and the long whistle when the train started, all sounded like magic that filled her ears, making her wake up and fall asleep in a daze and feel very uncomfortable.
Yike and Ziyi sat on the train for a week, changed trains once, and finally arrived at their destination, city H.
During this week's train journey, Xiangxiang and Yike have become good friends. They left each other their addresses and agreed to communicate in the future.
What made Yi Ke happiest was that Xiangxiang graduated from high school. It was not her parents who wanted to sacrifice her in exchange for food, but she found her aunt herself.
Because her second brother and second sister died in order to save food for their younger siblings. So she followed her aunt to her husband's hometown. Her aunt married her to this man and exchanged the betrothal money for food and sent it back to her family, so that her younger brothers and sisters did not follow in her second brother's footsteps.
Although the beginning of winter has not yet arrived, the cold wind is already brewing a new winter. As soon as Yi Ke stuck his head out of the car door, he smelled the scent of winter.
In Yi Ke's hometown, summer has just left and the early autumn scenery is slowly spreading, but here, it can be seen everywhere that winter has already arrived.
On the train, Xiangxiang told Yike that in Province H, the winter is particularly long, coming very early and leaving very late. She told Yike that it would be better to finish his work early and go back, because the weather in H City is like a woman's mind, which is the most difficult to guess. It could turn into ice and snow overnight, and your face and nose would feel as if they were being cut by a knife when you go out.
Yike listened to the advice and said she would go back after finishing her work. Only then did Xiangxiang and her husband leave with peace of mind.
Ziyi and Yike first found a guesthouse to stay in and took a nice hot bath. Then they went out to a department store and bought two sets of men's winter clothing, which were prepared for Su's students.
The next morning, Yike and Ziyi walked out of the guesthouse fully armed, wearing thick cotton coats, cotton hats, and fluffy scarves.
The biting cold wind whistled like a bear roaring and a tiger howling.
The temperature today is lower than yesterday. Even though Yike thought he was wearing warm clothes, he was still shivering in the cold wind.
Ziyi reached out and held Yike's hand, and Yike miraculously stopped shaking. The two quickly left the guesthouse, went to a restaurant to eat a bowl of hot noodles, and then got on the car to the farm.
The road conditions here are very bad. Sitting in a car is like sitting on a boat in the ocean, bouncing up and down again. Ziyi half-hugged Yike tightly, which prevented Yike from vomiting in the car.
When the car arrived in County C, the two of them took a horse carriage, and it took almost a day to reach the farm.
The farm where Su Lao's students worked was called Geyushan Farm. When Ziyi and Yike arrived, Su Lao's student Ran Dongsheng was cutting wood on the mountain with others. There were more than twenty of them in total, and they needed ten truckloads. Each truckload contained more than three hundred pieces of wood as thick as a bowl.
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