Xue Yuantong heard a familiar voice, turned around and recognized his classmates.
The girl has short, thick black hair spread freely, a handsome face, bright eyes, and a soft sportswear, exuding openness and freedom.
"Yang Sheng, are you here?" Xue Yuantong was surprised.
She looked at the other girl next to Yang Sheng. Xue Yuantong raised his head slightly, because the girl was too tall, only slightly shorter than Jiang Ning, and she was wearing sports shorts.
Xue Yuantong was attracted by her long, dazzling white legs. She resisted the urge to lower her head and glance at her short legs for fear of feeling ashamed.
"Tang Fu." She is the only non-Class 8 member at the small dining table.
Yang Sheng noticed Xue Yuantong's doubts and said with a smile: "Dong Qingfeng came to me the day before yesterday and asked me if I would come to Taishi. I saw there were quite a lot of people, so I agreed, just in time to try Lu Province barbecue again."
It is usually not easy to gather people to go to Shandong Province for barbecue. Now that some classmates are willing, Yang Sheng certainly doesn't want to miss it. She likes to play around.
"This is Tang Fu, my golf friend, no introduction is needed," Yang Sheng said.
The only time she and Tang Fu met before was during a sports meeting. In that long jump event, Yang Sheng lost to Tang Fu.
At that time, Tang Fu, as the physical education committee member of Class 7, had a strong personality, sharp edge, and commanded the overall situation.
Later, after the Little Dinner Table Project, Yang Sheng discovered Tang Fu's true nature, and thus they had an intersection.
During the summer vacation, Yang Sheng saw a photo of her playing badminton in a circle of friends and became a golfer after going back and forth.
This time she planned to come to Shandong province and took her with her.
Jiang Ning said a simple hello and went to the ticket machine to get the tickets.
Yang Sheng came over and asked: "What's your carriage number?"
"No. 9." Xue Yuantong held the ticket. She and Jiang Ning were in the same carriage, with tickets for the lower berth of a hard sleeper.
The train ride from Yuzhou to Taishi takes 5 hours. It would be tiring to stay in a hard sleeper for 5 hours. Jiang Ning thought about it and chose a hard sleeper.
"I'm in carriage No. 10." Yang Sheng and Tang Fu also bought hard sleeper tickets. Their family conditions were better than those above, so they didn't skimp on the fare.
"It seems we can't be together anymore."
Yang Sheng picked up his backpack: "Dong Qingfeng and the others are on the same bus as us. Let's wait in the waiting hall first."
Xue Yuantong followed Jiang Ning, followed the crowd to check tickets, scanned luggage, and entered the waiting hall on the second floor. She had never been there before, and it was very novel.
Jiang Ning was familiar with the road and walked into the waiting room that belonged to them.
The train departs at 10:40 and it is now 9:30, still more than an hour away.
Not long after, Dong Qingfeng and his party appeared in great force.
Xue Yuantong looked around and saw many classmates, Dong Qingfeng, Huang Zhongfei, Shan Kaiquan, Guo Kunnan, Yu Wen, and Jiang Yanan.
When Dong Qingfeng saw Yang Sheng and Tang Fu, he quickly ran to him and smiled: "They are all here!"
Guo Kunnan said hello to Jiang Ning and the others, and then found an empty seat with his good brother Kai Quan. This time he climbed the mountain just to relax.
In this year, he had true feelings countless times and was hurt countless times. Guo Kunnan decided to climb a mountain to cleanse his soul, mend his Taoism, and become his unrestrained self again.
Yang Sheng was surprised: "Squad leader, why are you here?"
Jiang Yanan: "The monitor is here to guide us."
For the life-long happiness of her good sister Yu Wen, she deliberately pretended to be ignorant and hoped that the squad leader would help them. Sure enough, she begged him to come over.
Dong Qingfeng got the right ticket. They all had hard seats. If Dong Qingfeng traveled by himself, he would definitely get a soft sleeper.
But in order to be with Yang Sheng, Tang Fu, and Jiang Yanan, I had to choose a hard seat. Later I learned that Yang Sheng had bought the ticket in advance.
Shan Kaiquan and Guo Kunnan are on hard seats. It only takes five hours to travel from Yuzhou to Taizhou. For energetic high school students, they can easily handle even 14 hours of hard seats.
The main reason is that hard seats are cheap, only about 40 yuan.
Dong Qingfeng discussed with several people: "Today is the 10th, and I checked the weather forecast. It will rain on the 13th, so in order to see the sunrise, I can only climb today or tomorrow."
"If we climb during the day, we need to stay on Mount Taishan for a long time. It is very cold on the mountain and it is easy to get sick if the wind blows."
Yu Wen: “Can’t we stay here?”
Dong Qingfeng shook his head, "Accommodation in the mountains is too expensive, costing hundreds a night, and the key environment is very poor."
Yu Wen's family is just an ordinary family. When they heard the price, they immediately gave up.
Dong Qingfeng: "So my suggestion is that we take a rest first and try Shandong barbecue together in the evening."
Yang Sheng: "I agree!"
Tang Fu pawed: "BBQ with beer!"
With their approval, Dong Qingfeng smiled brightly and said in a high tone: "Then tomorrow on the 11th, we will continue to rest during the day and catch up on sleep. We will set off to Mount Tai at 10 pm, climb Mount Tai at night, and enjoy the sunrise on the 12th."
"But there is a disadvantage to climbing at night. You can't see the scenery during the climb." He added.
Guo Kunnan: "You can get up early the next day and watch it."
Huang Zhongfei made an estimate and said, "It's not good. I'll be very tired the next day."
Guo Kunnan disagreed: "Squad leader, you underestimated our physique!"
Huang Zhongfei did not argue, but talked about the accommodation problem. He had been to Mount Tai before and had relatives doing business here.
"My relatives have two houses with four bedrooms and two living rooms that are fully decorated and can be used by us," he said.
Dong Qingfeng: "Squad leader, you tell me how much it should be. Don't give it for free. We can't take advantage of you."
Huang Zhongfei thought for a while: "One hundred a day."
Others may not understand, but Dong Qingfeng often goes out to play and knows very well: "What nonsense? Friendship prices cannot be like this."
Huang Zhongfei changed his mind: "Just two hundred a day, four people live in a house."
In total, it costs 50 yuan per person for a day's stay, which is very cheap.
After speaking, he looked at a few people apologetically.
Yu Wen counted silently in her mind. There were 5 boys and 5 girls in total, and there were not enough rooms.
Yu Wen screamed in her heart: 'I can share a room with the squad leader, I don't take up any space!'
Jiang Ning said: "We have booked a hotel, you can share it."
After finalizing the process, Dong Qingfeng created a WeChat discussion group to facilitate communication, and added Tang Fu's contact information.
…
The waiting time was very long. It was past 10 o'clock. Xue Yuantong was hungry. He was too excited in the morning and only ate a small amount of breakfast.
She took out instant noodles from her bag, but there were too many strangers around her, so she didn't dare to make them.
Seeing her cowardly look, Jiang Ning was very funny. He asked Xue Yuantong to guard his luggage and went to McDonald's to buy a hamburger set meal.
Xue Yuantong was helpless. She had never eaten McDonald's before.
Jiang Ning tasted some French fries, which made Xue Yuantong even hungrier, but she was never one to take the initiative to eat.
She asked implicitly: "Is it delicious?"
Jiang Ning put the fries in front of her: "Let me smell it for you. Do they smell good?"
Xue Yuantong was already hungry, and nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Smells, smells good."
When she went out, she only trusted herself. Jiang Ning didn't tease her like before and gave her the entire meal.
Xue Yuantong smiled very happily and shared half of the fries.
After eating, an announcement sounded in the waiting hall and the train started checking tickets. Xue Yuantong quickly grabbed his bag and prepared to set off, for fear of missing the train.
Jiang Ning crossed her legs and said calmly, "Don't be anxious, wait a moment."
Seeing him like this, Xue Yuantong pretended to sit calmly. It wasn't until more than half of the ticket check-in line was filled that Jiang Ning walked over slowly.
The current ticket checking method is to check the ticket with ticket checking pliers. After the ticket is cut, there will be a small gap.
After passing the ticket check, enter the overpass, then go down the stairs to where the train is expected to arrive. The area is full of passengers waiting for the train.
Xue Yuantong looked around with his dark eyes, unfamiliar with everything.
Suddenly, a whistle sounded in the distance, and Xue Yuantong saw a huge train approaching from a distance, like a steel beast.
She quickly stepped back and stayed far away. Xue Yuantong looked directly at Jiang Ning's back. He was still standing there, in a state of ecstasy.
Xue Yuantong always felt that Jiang Ning's stance was particularly cool and indescribably elegant. She wanted to imitate it, but unfortunately she couldn't.
…
Car No. 9.
As soon as Fang entered the carriage, Jiang Ning's consciousness activated and locked onto the lower bunk where he was, and a burst of spiritual power was driven out, like a pervasive ultrasonic wave, sweeping all the quilts and pillows on the bed to remove dust, stains, and bacteria.
There were many people and passengers in the carriage, and a smell unique to trains hit him. Xue Yuantong grabbed Jiang Ning's backpack.
Finally finding a bunk, Xue Yuantong sat on the bed and breathed a sigh of relief.
She shook the quilt on the bed again and found that it was very clean. She felt that the train environment was quite good.
Jiang Ning was in the bunk opposite her. Xue Yuantong looked at Jiang Ning. The discomfort of coming to a strange place was diluted a lot. As long as he was there, Xue Yuantong felt inexplicably at ease.
In the next bunk, a little boy was trying hard to climb into the middle bunk, with his parents urging him below.
The employees on the train urged the parents. It turned out that they had only bought a sleeper berth for their children, and they were in a hard-seat carriage.
A thick snoring sound came from the bunk opposite, but it quickly disappeared. A young lady stared at Jiang Ning for a few times, surprised by the boy's appearance.
Then I took off my shoes and climbed onto the middle bunk.
Xue Yuantong observed it and found that the lower bunk was the most spacious. Jiang Ning must have had the foresight to choose such a good location.
After a brief period of chaos, accompanied by noise, the train started moving slowly, and the scenery outside the window receded.
Xue Yuantong sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Yuzhou City that was gradually getting away, not only Yuzhou, but also everything she was familiar with, her family and friends.
And everything he faced was unfamiliar.
It was like the first time she took a bus from Humiao Town to Yuzhou City.
She couldn't help but feel melancholy. Even though she had just left home, she wanted to go home again.
I miss my mother, I miss Chu Chu, I miss my soft bed, I miss the sofa in Jiang Ning’s house, Jiang Ning’s computer, and her own refrigerator because there are a lot of snacks in the refrigerator.
She looked across at Jiang Ning, who was watching the scenery outside the window with her.
Jiang Ning saw Xue Yuantong's state. He took out his backpack, took out a well-packed bag, and gently unwrapped it. A smell of ice cubes came out.
"Eat it." Jiang Ning handed it to her.
Xue Yuantong held the wooden handle and couldn't believe that he actually brought mung bean ice cream.
The familiar smell of mung beans made Xue Yuantong's sadness disappear instantly. Now she only felt that her home was always around her.
Fear, confusion, all disappeared.
Xue Yuantong happily ate the ice cream. She made it by herself and it was delicious.
Jiang Ning brought six or seven ice cream sticks. He sent a message to Yang Sheng in the next car, asking her if she wanted some. If she wanted to eat, come and get it.
In less than a minute, Yang Sheng appeared in front of him, "Thank you, I'll treat you to some ice water when we get to the station!"
After that, she took away two popsicles and returned to the carriage. Yang Sheng showed out the ice cream. The passengers in their bunk were a little dumbfounded. Wouldn't the ice cream melt if brought to the train?
Yang Sheng gave one to Tang Fu and sat on Tang Fu's lower bunk to eat together.
Tang Fu felt that the ice cream was vaguely familiar, so she asked: "Did you buy it?"
"Given by Jiang Ning."
"Oh." Tang Fu's dusty memory immediately opened up. She remembered that during the opening ceremony of the school anniversary, everyone was basking in the sun, and Jiang Ning was distributing ice cream to eat in the Class 8 square next door.
Extremely hateful!
Unexpectedly, one day, she would be able to take advantage of it.
On the lower bunk opposite Tang Fu sat an aunt, well-dressed, very cultured, and good at communication. She was chatting with the two male college students above her just now.
"It's really cool to be able to bring ice cream here." Auntie praised.
Someone spoke to her, so of course Tang Fu would not pretend not to hear, "It was given by a classmate."
"Have you gone to college?" Auntie chatted.
"No, I'm only a sophomore in high school." Tang Fu didn't hide it. She didn't think the other party had bad intentions. The public security is now very good.
Moreover, she is a student who specializes in sports. She is 1.8 meters tall and has stronger physical fitness than boys of the same age.
What's more, she is not an idiot and will not be cheated!
"You're only a sophomore in high school?" A male college student in the middle shop said to them. They really didn't expect it.
Yang Sheng continued to eat ice cream and just watched. She didn't like chatting with strangers.
When the aunt saw that Tang Fu was very tall, she asked curiously: "Little girl, how old are you? In what year were you born?"
Tang Fu finished the last ice cream and her tongue felt cold. She wanted to say 1998, but then she thought about it. She was born in December 1998. Rounding up, it was almost equivalent to 99 years.
Tang Fu hesitated and said, "In 1999."
"As old as my daughter." The aunt said. Perhaps seeing her hesitation in answering, the aunt asked again ignorantly,
"What do you belong to?"
Tang Fu wanted to say that her zodiac sign was Tiger, but she stopped when she said it. The year 1998 was Tiger, but she reported it was 99. What does 99 mean?
Tang Fu thought about it for a long time and felt uncomfortable. No matter what, she couldn't remember what the year 99 was.
The eyes of the aunt and the male college students on the middle and upper bunks were all focused on Tang Fu.
The atmosphere was a bit solid for a while.
Yang Sheng glanced at her, finished chewing the ice cream, and said, "She is a rabbit."
Tang Fu: "Ah, yes, I am a rabbit."
Auntie laughed dryly and didn't answer any more.
…
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the train traveled for more than four hours.
The few people in the sleeper berths were fine, but the few in the hard seats were a little tired.
Huang Zhongfei slept on it.
Dong Qingfeng slept on the table.
The two Shan Kaiquan brothers also fell asleep.
Jiang Yanan and Yu Wen did not sleep. They communicated with each other through eye contact. Yu Wen said that traveling is the best opportunity to enhance the relationship between the two parties. She has been silent for too long. During this trip, she must build a closer relationship with the squad leader.
Jiang Yanan asked her to wish for herself.
Yu Wen had a well-planned plan. She would have a barbecue at night and would definitely drink when the time came.
And alcohol is the most likely to cause accidents.
