It had been more than thirty hours since the train left Chang'an. Li Wen felt really uncomfortable and had no place to go, so he could only sleep.

In fact, not only Li Wen couldn't bear it, but no one on the train could relax. Li Wen still had a bed to sleep on, while those who arrived in Hami with hard seats or even standing tickets had no choice but to hold on.

This train is not from Chang'an. It is transferred from Zhengshi. Many people in the carriage are from the south.

Yesterday, in the hard-seat carriage, Li Wen learned that an elder brother had been taking a boat all the way from Qiongdao and reversing to Chang'an for three or four days.

No one can bear to spend such a long time in a small environment.

Starting from today, Li Wen saw several places where people were playing cards and games, and some were even violent. Fortunately, they were stopped by the passengers next to them in the end.

When Li Wen transferred to the No. 9 carriage next door, he saw the elder sister who helped take the luggage from the window yesterday, dozing off with a child in her arm.

Li Wen smiled and walked forward and patted the table.

"Sister Wu, it's really inconvenient for you to sleep with two children in your arms. Look at your older one almost slipping under the chair.

I slept all the way, and I’m not dozing off now. The bed is empty now, so you can take your child to my place to rest!”

Li Wen's actions frightened the woman and raised her head suddenly.

"It turns out it's you! Who did I think it was? Comrade Li, I fell asleep just now, and I didn't hear you when you came." The woman who woke up lifted the two children in her arms.

Li Wen smiled, waved his hand, and said what he just said again.

"Comrade Li, how can you be so embarrassed!" The woman blushed in confusion.

Yesterday afternoon, when Li Wen came to Car No. 9, he was stopped by this elder sister, and the two chatted for a while.

Li Wen also learned that the eldest sister's name was Wu Lanlan, which was a very common name. In this era, there were more than a dozen people with this name in Li Wen Village.

Wu Lanlan is from the Qinbei Plateau, and Qinbei is the holy land of Daxia, so there are particularly many people joining the army.

Wu Lanlan's husband and brother-in-law were both soldiers, and they followed the army to open up new provinces.

Originally, when Wu Lanlan's husband returned to his hometown to visit relatives last winter, he wanted to take his family to settle in New Province. However, the two elderly people in the family were unable to leave their hometown, so they had to give up.

Because there were elderly people at home who were unwilling to leave, Wu Lanlan did not join the army with her husband and stayed at home to take care of her parents-in-law and two children.

The reason for the famine in recent years is that northern Qin is originally a dry land. This disaster has made survival even more difficult.

The grain produced by the brigade is often not eaten until the end of the year, causing many villagers to flee, and the entire village even goes out to beg for a living.

Although Wu Lanlan's family has two soldiers who send their salary to the family every month, as a rural person, it is useless for you to have money!

These days, all you need to do is get tickets, and tickets come before money. You may not be able to survive if you have money, but if you have tickets, you can travel around the world without fear of going hungry.

There was really no food at home, so we could only think of some crooked ways. Wu Lanlan, a pregnant woman, definitely couldn't go to the black market, so she had to let the old man of the family go.

As the saying goes, there is no one who doesn't get wet shoes when walking along the river. One time, the old man was caught selling grain on the black market in the county town.

On the way back, the old man met a robber. The old man fought desperately with several strong men for the food that his grandson and his family could survive. However, he was helpless and outnumbered. In order to save the food, the old man slipped down the valley.

Although the food was saved, the old man broke his leg. Fortunately, it was not far from home, so he crawled back home.

After crawling home, the old man felt completely relieved and fainted.

In order to treat the elderly, Wu Lanlan spent all her family's savings. In these days, even if you are cured of the disease, you still need nutritional supplements!

Treating the old man spent all the family's savings, and the family ran out of food. The old man didn't survive the winter last year and was gone.

When the old lady at home saw her husband leaving like this, she felt relieved and she left within a few days.

Wu Lanlan's brother-in-law and her husband went home in tears to deal with the old couple's funeral affairs. Because the holiday was not allowed, they had to leave first.

Wu Lanlan was asked to mourn the two old people for a hundred days on their behalf, which was considered as the last filial piety to her parents.

After listening to Wu Lanlan's story, Li Wen sighed deeply.

The life of ordinary people is like this, living for the sake of living. Although people in later generations have a better life, why not be like this!

Li Wen took Wu Lanlan's family of three to the berth. A middle-aged soldier heard that Wu Lanlan was a member of the military and enthusiastically gave up his second-story bed.

The two old men also liked children very much, and they both offered to let the little boy sleep in the same bed with them.

The vast majority of people in this era are still very simple, the elderly are very friendly, the young are very polite, and the people are very united.

They know how to give up their seats, know how to respect the old and love the young, and know how to respect soldiers and their families.

Unlike later generations, the bad guys have grown old, the elderly have become bad, society has lost its ethics, morality has become a decoration, and we can only rely on the law to protect our own rights and interests.

"Comrade Li, if you let me and my child sleep on your bed, what will you do?" Wu Lanlan asked with a blushing face.

"I?"

"Sister Wu, you don't have to worry about me. There are only about twenty hours left before we arrive at the station. When the old man and the others stop sleeping, I will just use their bed to sleep for a while." Li Wen explained with a smile.

"Yes, yes!"

"Xiao Wu, it's not easy for you to raise two children. You see how trapped you and the children are, so don't be polite." Several other people also said with a smile.

After Wu Lanlan fell asleep, Li Wen and several fellow riders played cards and paper chess together. Whoever felt sleepy found an empty bed to rest, and the time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was already the afternoon of the third day. The train was delayed and it was notified that it would not arrive until the morning of the fourth day.

In these days, stir-fried vegetables are allowed on the train, but eating stir-fried vegetables is not as affordable as a box lunch, and you have to pay for it with actual national meat stamps and food stamps.

In the evening, Li Wen went to the dining car and asked the chef to cook some dishes, and had a meal with the remaining four car riders and Wu Lanlan's mother and son to say goodbye.

In the early morning, as the boiler stopped burning, the train slowly lost power and stopped at the Hami Railway Station in New Province.

"Oh!"

Li Wen jumped off the train and took a few deep breaths of fresh air. He was really suffocated after riding on the train for the past few days.

"Xiao Li, let's go. We'll see you again in the future." Several riders waved to Li Wen.

"Goodbye everyone!" Li Wen also smiled and waved.

"Goodbye Uncle Fumiko!"

Wu Lanlan's eldest son also established a close relationship with Li Wen in a few days. At this time, his father, who was also picking up the train, was pregnant and waved to Li Wen.

After bidding farewell to everyone, Li Wen calmed down and set foot on the vast land of the new province.
Chapter completed!