Chapter 49 Would you like to learn painting from me?

Nowadays, only ordinary people can take a plane. Ordinary people dare not even think about it. The green train is the most mainstream long-distance transportation in this era.

Not to mention the two little kids, even Su Taotao was riding a green train for the first time in two lives.

The front of the train was smoking not far away, and its color was very similar to the mailbox at the entrance of the post office. As the sound of the whistle got closer and closer, the green carriage slowly approached. Su Taotao was as curious and excited as the two children.

Chen Chen clapped his hands and nodded: "Train~~"

Su Taotao: "Yes, a train, a green train, will the dust break?"

The little guy bit his chubby fingers and shook his head: "No~~"

The tone is a bit resentful.

Fu Zhengtu patted his head and said, "Dad will teach you."

Chenchen grinned, revealing his white millet teeth, and nodded: "Hmm~~"

Su Taotao felt that Fu Zhengtu was becoming more and more adept at calling himself dad.

Fu Yuanhang quickly took out his little notebook and drew the green train, writing down the starting point and the end point. He also drew the family of three next to him, recording his first time riding a green train in his life.

When it was time to get on the bus, Su Taotao could no longer laugh. She hid away with Chen Chen in her arms, shivering.

It was like a net full of fish scrambling to jump out of the water, but instead of jumping out of the water, they dived into the carriage!

She had seen news reports about the year 2000 in her previous life. At that time, high-speed rail lines were not particularly developed, and not everyone was willing to take a plane. This was the scene of a large number of Spring Festival travelers rushing to the railway station to go home for the New Year.

Later, people's living conditions became better and better, and everyone was willing to pay for flights. In addition, more and more people could afford cars, so there were traffic jams on highways and national roads during holidays. Coupled with the rapid development of high-speed railways, the Spring Festival travel rush was gradually not so scary.

She never expected that she would get to experience the Spring Festival travel rush in this life, which she had never experienced in her previous life.

The key point is that it is not a festival now.

"Why are there so many people?" In fact, there were a lot of people when entering the station, but Su Taotao was so excited and it was dark that she didn't pay much attention to the crowd. She was only shocked now.

The place with the most people the two children had ever seen was the market day in the county town. They had never seen such a scene before, and they stared with their eyes wide open, not because of fear, but because of curiosity.

Fu Zhengtu used two large packages to create a space and protected them inside.

"Let them go first and we'll go last."

The family of four just watched the "school of fish" "swim" into the carriage one after another. Chen Chen was so happy that he wanted to applaud.

Su Taotao pinched his little face helplessly.

When almost everyone had gotten on, Fu Zhengtu asked Fu Yuanhang to lead the way, Su Taotao walked in the middle holding Chen Chen, and he walked at the back carrying the package to prevent anyone from bumping into them from behind.

The family went through a lot of hardships to find seats. Fu Yuanhang and Chen Chen got free tickets. Fortunately, Fu Zhengtu bought two hard sleeper beds, otherwise Fu Yuanhang, a half-grown child, would not even have a place to sit as the dining car and the aisle were full of people.

There were six berths in the hard sleeper car. When Su Taotao came in, the two lower berths and the two upper berths were occupied. Only the middle berth was empty. Fu Zhengtu had clearly bought a middle berth and a lower berth.

Su Taotao held the ticket and said to the middle-aged lady who occupied their lower seat: "Excuse me, this is our seat, please give it up."

The aunt raised her eyelids. Perhaps she thought Su Taotao looked easy to bully. She covered her mouth and coughed twice: "Comrade, I am not in good health and my legs are not very good. Can I change seats with you? This is mine."

Auntie pointed to the shop opposite.

Su Taotao said back, "It would be fine if I were alone, but I have two children with me, so I'm afraid I can't. If it's inconvenient for you, go find the train attendant or the conductor, they will help you."

It’s hard to tell whether her legs and feet are in trouble, but this auntie speaks with more strength than she does, and she doesn’t look sick at all.

The aunt looked as if she didn't want to get up.

Fu Zhengtu directly called the flight attendant, and the aunt started cursing and climbed up to the middle bunk opposite swiftly.

Su Taotao: “…” What about the inconvenience in your legs?

If we were in the village at this time, the two children would have gone to bed long ago, and now they are both very sleepy.

Su Taotao asked Fu Zhengtu to get some hot water, took out a small basin to wash the face and hands of Chenchen who was already asleep, and then let Fu Zhengtu carry him to the middle shop to sleep.

Su Taotao said, "Take Xiaohang to wash up first, and I'll take over later."

The aunt opposite muttered: "Too particular..."

Su Taotao naturally ignored her.

One bed can't accommodate two adults. In fact, it's already uncomfortable for an adult of Fu Zhengtu's size to sleep on it.

Only Su Taotao and Chen Chen could sleep in the middle bunk, while Fu Zhengtu and Fu Yuanhang could sleep in the lower bunk.

When they came back, Su Taotao said to Fu Yuanhang: "Xiaohang, if you get up at night, you must tell your brother. You can't leave this compartment alone."

Fu Yuanhang nodded: "I understand, sister-in-law."

It is naturally impossible to get a good sleep in such an environment. Only the two children's sleep quality is not affected. Su Taotao listened to "what's more" for most of the night without closing her eyes.

Fu Zhengtu was not much better. Mainly because he knew that Su Taotao was a restless sleeper and he was always worried that she would fall down in the middle of the night. Moving two packages to the bed was not enough, and he stood up almost every once in a while to check on her and the child.

Su Taotao always closed her eyes and looked at him intently.

After a few times, Fu Zhengtu let her get down and sleep on the bed, and carried Fu Yuanhang up. He made a simple fence with a sling to ensure that Fu Yuanhang would not fall down before sitting next to Su Taotao and holding her in his arms. Like the nights in the village, he patted her back gently. Su Taotao counted the beats before she fell asleep.

No words were spoken that night.

Although I was sleeping, I was actually just dozing off for a few hours.

Fu Zhengtu had to worry about the two little ones on the bed and the one in his heart, so he hardly slept at all.

At around six or seven in the morning, Su Taotao woke up in a daze and got up to let Fu Zhengtu go to sleep. He hadn't slept much for two nights in a row, so he fell asleep as soon as he lay down on the bed.

The two children woke up at around seven o'clock. Su Taotao took them to wash up first, and then ate mugwort rice cakes and eggs with hot water.

There were still quite a few mugwort cakes left, and they would go bad if they were not eaten. Su Taotao gave one to everyone in the carriage, including the aunt.

There are still many good people who are simple and unpretentious these days. In the carriage, there was an old man wearing glasses and imitating others. He kept praising Fu Zhengtu as a good man. He also particularly liked Chen Chen and Fu Yuanhang and always took them out to play.

After Chenchen got familiar with his grandfather, he took out the chess set his father gave him from his schoolbag and played with his grandfather.

The old man initially thought that the little kid knew nothing, so he didn't care and just played with him casually.

Chenchen didn't say much, just fiddled with the chessboard silently.

The old man had never expected that Chenchen could actually play chess. He knew the rules very clearly. He could tell which chess piece was big and which was small, and who could capture whom just by looking at the chess pieces he had turned over. He knew to occupy the camp first when he turned over his own chess piece. If he turned over a bomb and the person next to him was not a commander or a corps commander, he would think his chess piece was too small and would not capture it. He would hide in the camp first. He also knew to send engineers to dig out his mines...

After one round, although the old man won, the way he looked at Chen Chen was different.

"Is your son really only two years old? Can he read? Who taught him to play chess?"

Apart from anything else, a two-year-old child is at the age when he loves to move and run around, and being able to sit for such a long time requires concentration and patience that are not something that ordinary children can achieve.

Su Taotao had never played military chess before. She didn't know the rules or the difficulty. She smiled and said, "He can't read. His father played with him for a few days. He is two years old in virtual age, but still a few days short of his actual age."

The old man raised his thumb and said, "Your son has a bright future. Train him well."

Su Taotao thought he should be a teacher, and the love and appreciation for talent in his eyes could not be concealed.

This was especially evident when he saw Fu Yuanhang's sketch. His hands were shaking as he held Fu Yuanhang's sketch, and his eyes were shining:

"You really have never learned to paint?"

Fu Yuanhang shook his head: "No, I just drew it based on my feeling."

"It's so spiritual." The old man asked Su Taotao: "May I ask where you are going?"

It was a chance meeting, so Su Taotao was cautious and didn't tell them where they were going. She just said, "We'll get off at the next stop."

The old man's eyes lit up even more: "I, I'll get off at the next stop too."

Su Taotao looked at him in surprise.

He excitedly grabbed Fu Yuanhang's hand and said, "What's your name? Are you willing to learn painting from me?"

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