At Kaifeng Railway Station in Henan Province, Uncle Wang and Uncle Li were carrying a package with a change of clothes and some steamed buns and street vegetables. They were queuing up to enter the station with their tickets.
"Grandpa, this train can go directly to the leader of the Western Regions. It takes about seven days. I bought you a sleeper ticket. You can get there just by sleeping every day."
Li Ye looked at Uncle Li who was going to the river and couldn't help but keep urging him.
"If you can buy food on the train, don't save money. When it's time to eat and drink, just treat it as going out to have fun. Eat and drink well."
"After entering the station, you and Grandpa Wang should go to the left, go to the far left entrance and wait for the train to arrive. If you don't understand, just ask the staff inside the station.
It's the people who wear those clothes, they will tell you."
"I have already sent a telegram to Uncle San in Longtou Town. They already know that you are going, so they will pick you up at the exit in advance."
Li Ye and Wang Yi were both worried.
Their grandfathers are both over sixty years old. Although they are still in good health, this time they plan to visit their emigrated sons and grandsons while they are still healthy.
In the words of Uncle Wang, we will meet again in this life, so there will be no regrets when we die.
Before I immigrated, I was annoyed when I saw my son. I beat him and scolded him. Now I have immigrated to a far away place.
I haven’t seen them for many years, and I actually miss them very much in my heart.
This person has reached a certain age and has looked away from everything except his own child.
Uncle Li, who originally didn't want to go, decided to go to the river with Uncle Wang to see his third child after hearing what Uncle Wang said.
Fortunately, now that there is a train, commuting is more convenient and easier.
If they had to go to the river on foot or horseback as before, Li Ye and Wang Yi would definitely not agree to their troubles. After all, they are very old, in their sixties.
"Don't worry, don't worry~"
"Go ahead and get busy. We are not children. We will ask people if we don't understand."
Uncle Wang waved his hand, still very confident in himself.
"Yes, yes, go ahead and get busy~"
"We can do it ourselves. If we don't understand, just ask others."
Uncle Li also waved his hand impatiently. He was not a child. He didn't need so many instructions. If he didn't understand, just ask someone.
Soon, Uncle Li and Uncle Wang entered the train station. As soon as they entered, they were stunned.
There were so many people inside the train station that it was hard to distinguish between east, west and north.
Fortunately, the two of them heard their grandson's advice and quickly found the staff at the train station to ask, and then found the waiting area.
While waiting for the bus, the two of them couldn't tell which compartment they were in or which seat they were in. Fortunately, they met many kind-hearted people who helped guide them, and the two of them successfully arrived at their compartment and found it.
A berth bought for me by my grandson.
"Woo~"
With the sound of the whistle, the train started to move.
Uncle Wang and Uncle Li were not sleepy at all. Looking at the gradually receding scenery outside the window, and thinking about where they were going next, they felt a little panicked.
"I have never been to a place so far away in my life."
"Now that I think about it, I feel very uneasy."
Uncle Li is a little nervous now. In the past, the farthest he could do was to visit the state capitals around Kaifeng Prefecture, and he had never even gone out of Henan Province.
Now I have to go to the Hezhong area, which is thousands of miles away, and I feel crazy just thinking about it.
But as Old Man Wang said, he has reached the age of burial. If he doesn't go see his son or grandson while he is still healthy, he may never see him again in this life.
So Uncle Li and Uncle Wang boarded the train to Hezhong together.
"What are you worried about~"
"Sit peacefully and just fall asleep. If you really can't sit still anymore, you can go to the carriage and get some fresh air."
"It's so comfortable to ride on this train. It's not bumpy and fast. You can also see the scenery along the way. Isn't that nice?"
"There's food on the train, and there's a place to go to the toilet. What's there to be afraid of? I just haven't showered for a few days."
Uncle Wang was very indifferent and had a good attitude. He lay down directly on the berth and began to fall asleep.
Uncle Li looked at Uncle Wang, and after thinking about it, he also lay down, but couldn't fall asleep. He looked at the scenery outside the window, listened to the sound of whistles, and thought about his life.
"Times are changing so fast!"
“I used to walk everywhere, but if I walk to Wanli Pharmaceutical now, I don’t know how many pairs of shoes I will have to wear out.”
"It's better now. You can actually take a train. I don't know who invented this thing. It doesn't need people to pull it, and it doesn't need a horse to drag it. It can travel thousands of miles a day."
Uncle Wang thought of his third son again.
"Back then, I was a little harsher on him, beating and scolding him at every turn. Now that the immigrant has left, it's hard to even meet him."
"His mother left early again. Although she said in the letter that it was not bad, she who left her hometown had no idea how much hardship she had to endure over the years before she could survive."
"It's time to go for a walk and take a look. I don't know how many years of good life I have. It would be nice to meet her once. I can talk to the old lady when I get to the Underworld."
Thinking, thinking, Uncle Li slowly fell asleep.
When I woke up again, the sky outside was already dark, but the train was still moving forward without any intention of stopping because it was night.
"Lao Wang, Lao Wang~"
Uncle Li looked at the empty shop next to him. Uncle Wang didn't know where he had gone.
"Here~"
At this time, Uncle Wang's voice sounded outside, and he came back with a few steamed buns and steamed buns.
"Oh, the things on this car are really expensive."
"This steamed bun costs five cents, and a steamed bun costs ten cents. It's really expensive."
"How come the steamed buns are so big? The steamed buns are not enough for me to eat in two mouths."
Uncle Wang took the hot steamed buns and steamed buns to the small table between the two berths, and couldn't help but complain.
"Isn't this too expensive?"
"A steamed bun costs five cents, and a steamed bun costs ten cents?"
"They are robbing money."
When Uncle Li heard this, he couldn't help but get angry. These steamed buns usually cost one penny each, and the steamed buns only cost two cents each, and they were even bigger than the ones on this train.
"Isn't that right? I had a good argument with them, but they told me that it was difficult to make food on the train and that it was expensive and there was nothing I could do about it."
"It's really annoying to say that we can't eat what we like."
Uncle Wang seemed very angry when he spoke.
"Forget it, forget it, just be more expensive. This is what people who go out and live in poverty are talking about."
Uncle Li quickly comforted Uncle Wang and tried the steamed buns and steamed buns. They tasted pretty good.
"Although I say that, I feel irritated when I think about it. The steamed buns costing only five cents are sold for five cents, which is several times the price."
Uncle Wang said angrily: "You don't know how good their business is."
"Everyone is queuing up to buy. Why are the expensive items still selling so well?"
"And the rice and vegetables are even more expensive. A meal costs 50 yuan. This is not affordable for ordinary people like us."
"Just ordering so much rice and vegetables is not enough to feed my little great-grandson."
"People who are away from home don't need this much money for food. Especially the businessmen, all of them are very rich, so eating this little food is nothing."
"Then the railway bureau should also take care of it. They can't just let them rip off passengers like this."
"The railway bureau cannot control these things. This railway is private and must make a profit every year. This is already a good conscience price."
"Those shady shops in the past. I heard that these steamed buns can be sold for more than 100 yuan each, and you have to buy them. If you don't buy them, they will break your legs. That's what they call really shady."
"Is there such a thing?"
"Of course there is. A few years ago, there were countless black shops set up on concrete highways, and they trapped countless business travelers who passed by."
"Later, the court did not vigorously rectify these things, crack down on gangsters and crack down on gangsters, and crack down on road bandits and bullies. This is much better."
"Although the food on this train is expensive, it's actually not bad. At worst, we just need to eat dry food and street vegetables. We just need to deal with it."
"This way, I think it makes sense."
Uncle Wang and Uncle Li were chatting while eating expensive steamed buns and steamed buns.
"To be honest, today's times are better."
"You see, you can take this train wherever you go. Even at night, when it's pitch dark outside, you can still walk on this train. You can travel more than a thousand miles in one day."
"We were still in Kaifeng at noon, and we can reach Shaanxi by evening."
"Yeah, it's not tiring at all to take the train. You can sit, sleep, and just chat. It's pretty good. If we were asked to walk to a place thousands of miles away, our old bones would probably fall apart.
Already."
"No, I don't know how this train travels. It doesn't need people to pull it or horses to pull it."
"My grandson said that this train is driven by some kind of steam engine. In the front locomotive, someone is constantly burning coal. The coal boils the water in the boiler, and the water turns into steam to push the train forward."
"Anyway, it's very complicated. Even those young people can understand it. Zhuge Liang's wooden ox and flowing horse are not as good as this train."
"That's right, I took a look at this train. It has dozens of carriages. It can pull thousands of people at a time. How can a wooden cow or a flowing horse compare to it~"
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