crossing yin and yang

Chapter 68 The Train Journey

The railway station in the city was expanded during the major renovation of the municipal facilities in the past two years, and two quite high-end modern waiting rooms were built. Unfortunately, the city is not a transportation hub, and the number of passing trains is not too many. The large sum of money was only used to add some color to the face of the former leadership team, and the rest was basically in vain. Now that the winter and summer vacations are still early, the huge waiting room can only be described as withered. The few passengers Occupy the spacious No. [-] waiting room, or lie on a chair to sleep, or bury your head and brush your mobile electronic device in your hand.

A young girl seemed to be tired of swiping her mobile phone. She looked up at the train schedule notice and found that the words "30 minutes late" on the electronic screen had not changed. Fortunately, when I saw her, my eyes widened immediately. At some point, two young men carrying travel bags walked into the waiting hall.

Logically speaking, a few people shouldn't surprise her, but those two people are too eye-catching, with broad shoulders and long legs, and a straight figure. The extremely simple T-shirt and jeans are worn to a fashionable effect, and one of them is smiling. The boy's appearance is considered to be above average, but the handsome guy next to him wearing a baseball cap is different. Although most of his face is covered by the brim of the hat, the exposed part still has an unbearably cold and abstinent look. It's even more handsome than those plane models in the advertisements.

Without any hesitation, she immediately raised her mobile phone secretly, took a picture of Zhang Yuanjing, and posted it on Weibo in a flash. After editing the content with great excitement, she looked up again, and the two of them were already a few rows away from her. The seat was seated, and after a series of painful struggles, the girl finally settled down, pulled the suitcase and walked to the drinking water place in front, poured out a cup of boiling hot water, and replaced it with a new cup before dragging The box looked around and walked to the two of them, stood still, and smiled slightly: "Is there anyone here?"

Wei Yang raised his head, and saw a little girl with a round face smiling at him cautiously. She looked like a young college student. Although she tried to keep her facial expression natural, the corners of her eyes were almost twitching, and she was so nervous.Seeing this, he showed a gentle smile and nodded casually: "No one, please sit down."

The girl was obviously relieved, and quickly sat down on the chair opposite to the two of them, put down the bag and water glass in her hand as if nothing had happened, coughed dryly, and smiled at the two of them: "You are also sitting 17 Time? It’s half an hour late, and I don’t know why.”

"It's natural for the passing bus to be late. Fortunately, it's only half an hour late." Looking at the 100-odd vacant seats in the waiting room, Wei Yang couldn't figure out what the little girl was thinking of running over, so he glanced and sat aside. Zhang Xiuqi, who didn't even raise his hand, smiled even wider on his lips.

"That's right. The last time I took this train, I was an hour late. It's not good in the province. Now it's not the era of high-speed trains, but there are still green leather cars! If I didn't get motion sickness, I would have done it a long time ago." The bus is here." The little girl blinked and asked curiously, "What about you? Why don't you change to another car? I remember that there is a car with the prefix K that is similar to the 1th direction."

"Other cars don't stop at the small station. Anyway, we are not in a hurry. Are you going to the county too?" Wei Yang asked with a smile.

This 17th bus is basically a special line in the province. It just wanders around a few prefecture-level cities and stops at many small stations. In addition, it is a green leather car. The price is much cheaper than the bus. It is still very popular with those who are not in a hurry. travelers welcome.

"Well, my grandma's home is in Shangchi County. In the past two days, my strawberry garden has produced fruit. Let me go home to pick strawberries. Have you heard of the strawberries in Shangchi? All of them are big and red, and they are delicious. Already!" The girl's face glowed a little red, and the corners of her eyes couldn't help but look at the cold-faced handsome guy who had never said a word, "Where are you two? Where are you going..."

"Brother and I are going to the countryside to do research on folklore. We have to go around the neighborhood, and this time we get off two stops earlier than you." Wei Yang lied without changing his face, still looking harmless to humans and animals look like.

"Ah!" The little girl sighed regretfully, and immediately regained her spirits, "Are you both graduate students? It's the first time I've heard of folk customs. What do you study? There is nothing special in our province. Something to watch out for..."

"There are articles on everything about basic necessities of life, food, housing, and transportation, but we tend to focus on things related to folk beliefs, and they are linked to symbols and symbols. There are still many things that can be traced back..."

What is the level of the little magic stick? Although he opened his mouth, he attracted people firmly with a few words. The girl's eyes were wide and round, and she didn't have time to peek at the cold-faced handsome guy next to her. Excitedly chatting with Wei Yang, it only took more than half an hour, not to mention exchanging names, Wei Yang almost cleaned up the girl's family, and also reached the peak of her favorability.

At this time, the announcement of the arrival of the train came from the radio, and Miss Jiang became somewhat reluctant: "Ah, I don't know if the seats are next to each other..."

There is no need to guess the meaning of the words, Wei Yang smiled slightly: "This kind of green leather car will definitely not be full, and I will get in the car to see the situation later, maybe we can sit together."

These words greatly comforted her tangled heart, she picked up her bag contentedly, and Miss Jiang walked to the ticket gate together with the two handsome men.

Because it is a passing car, there are not many passengers getting on and off the car. It didn't take much effort for a few people to get on the car. As expected, there were not many people in the car, but there were not many empty seats. Many passengers were lying on their backs. On the seats, the rows of vacant seats were tightly occupied, and Xiao Jiang met such an unconscious old man. He didn't have the slightest intention of giving up his seat when he saw people getting on the bus, so he turned over and continued to fall asleep.

Seeing this embarrassing scene, Wei Yang waved to the girl consciously: "Xiao Jiang, come here, we happen to have an empty seat here."

As if received an amnesty, Xiao Jiang immediately dragged her luggage and walked over. Wei Yang helped her put the trolley case on the luggage rack, and took a bag of snacks and put them on the small table: "It's okay anyway, it takes 3 hours by car. Just looking for someone to talk to."

This is very appropriate, as if he specially asked the girl to come over to chat, instead of just helping out.A smile suddenly appeared on Xiao Jiang's face, and he also took out a bunch of melon seeds from his handbag, and greeted the two of them to eat melon seeds: "It's a pity that it's not the return trip, otherwise I would like to invite you to try my strawberry, I'm sure you won't forget it after eating it... ...Hey, Brother Wei, that travel bag of yours seems to be moving! What's in it?"

Both of them didn't throw the travel bags on the luggage rack. Zhang Xiuqi's bag had already been placed under the seat, and Wei Yang put the bag he had been carrying in his hand on his lap. Wriggling, as if there was something alive.Wei Yang snorted, pushed the bag forward, opened a small slit, and sneaked a look at Xiao Jiang: "It's a turtle, take it back and make soup for the instructor."

"What a big turtle!" Looking at it curiously, the little girl exclaimed in surprise, "How did you bring it into the car? Can you pass the security check?"

"Tell the security check that it's good to drink the stewed soup." Wei Yang stretched out his hand to zip up the zipper, but there was a sudden pain in his wrist, which was obviously slapped by the turtle, and the corner of his mouth twitched, giving it to the master With a bang, he closed the bag again and chatted with the girl.

In fact, half of bringing the tortoise out this time was due to helplessness. That kid Sun Muhua had been tossed enough by the master, crying and shouting that he didn’t want to feed such an ancestor again. I don’t know how long it will take to go home this time. The tortoise was picked up from the mountain road that left his hometown. Wei Yang thought about it, and took the master with him. Of course, they didn't have to go through the security check when they entered the train station, and they were sent directly to the station. Let's save the return trip for practice.

Since he always had a gentle smile like the big brother next door on his face, and acted like a gentleman, Wei Yang was immediately labeled as a warm man, and Xiao Jiang's defenses were completely opened, and he chatted in a short while. They were delighted, but the talkativeness of one person showed the silence of the other. In the end, the little girl couldn't hold back her curiosity, and secretly leaned over her head and asked in a low voice, "Well, Brother Wei, doesn't your senior brother like me too much? For a long time, without even saying a word..."

Wei Yang twitched his lips, and replied in the same low voice: "My brother, the five elements of which belong to ice, don't like to talk, don't mention you, my tutor is worried!"

Xiao Jiang burst out laughing: "Then why did you choose to do research with him? Don't you feel bored?"

"My brother is handsome!" Wei Yang grinned generously, "He is in charge of being handsome, and I am in charge of pleasing people. This is called learning from each other's strengths."

The girl suddenly burst into laughter, and as the center of the topic, Zhang Xiuqi just frowned slightly, and glanced at Wei Yang, which was too cryptic, but the little magic stick still received the gaze, smiled at him, and grabbed Wei Yang from the table. A nougat was stuffed in the past.

His fingers lightly touched the palm of his hand, bringing some gentle itch. Zhang Xiuqi paused for a moment, and instead of pushing it away, he tore off the candy wrapper and stuffed the nougat in his mouth.Seeing such a cold-faced handsome guy eating sweets with no expression on his face, Xiao Jiang couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then his heart jumped up. How popular these days are disturbing topics. No matter how dull she is, she has read a lot of jokes. I didn't think about it just now, but after a closer look, the character design of this pair of seniors is simply unbelievable, I really want to post on Weibo!

Unable to guess the reason for the little girl's blushing and heartbeat at all, Wei Yang easily brought back the topic, continued to chat with a smile to pass the time, and occasionally touched a shrimp from his pocket to appease the stuffy old man in the travel bag. To be honest, it's really not a happy person, maybe because of the stress response, he became more alert and talkative than usual, looking like an impeccable traveling companion.

After chatting for a long time, the train stopped again, and Xiao Jiang glanced through the window: "Ah, it's the station again!"

Indeed, it’s time to arrive at the station again. That’s the bad thing about short-distance green leather cars. There are so many small stations, and they have to stop at every station. Go, so the chances of being late are particularly high.But today was obviously luckier. After the new wave of passengers sat down one after another, the train started again.

This time, there were even fewer passengers on the train. Only a couple with a child in their arms came to this carriage and sat down not far away.However, as soon as the train started, the child in the woman's arms began to cry. The child looked very small, probably only two or three years old, and the cry was not small at all, and it was so tragic that many passengers cursed inwardly. , and a lot of eyes glanced over, as if being uncomfortable being stared at, the woman quickly took out a feeding bottle from her handbag and stuffed it in the child's mouth.

However, this action made Wei Yang, who was following the prestige, frowned, and looked at the couple carefully up and down.They are husband and wife, but the ages of the man and woman are a bit strange. The woman looks to be in her 30s and is dressed as a country woman. The man is much younger. She doesn't look like the woman's husband, but rather looks like her brother, and the clothes are quite rustic. , but the child in their arms was dressed very decently. The little children's suit looked cute and had good taste.

However, the attitude of the two of them towards the child was not as if they were fond of the child. The man saw the child crying and didn't intend to hug and coax him, and the woman was even more straightforward. With a muffled cough, he patted the child on the back and forced him to drink milk.Strange to say, after only drinking milk for a while, the child stopped making fuss.

However, this very inconspicuous scene made Wei Yang frowned completely. Without further ado, he picked up the water glass and smiled at the little girl: "Xiaojiang, I'm going to fetch some water, can you bring some?"

Xiao Jiang immediately nodded happily: "Thank you Brother Wei! I don't want too much, just half full."

Wei Yang smiled, got up and walked towards the water room, and returned after a while with two glasses of water.However, when the couple passed by, the car body just swayed, and his footsteps swayed, as if he accidentally tripped, and the travel mug in his hand suddenly fell out of his hand and fell into the woman's arms.Fortunately, the cup was well sealed, and the hot water inside did not splash out, but hit the child heavily.

"Ah! I'm sorry, are you okay!" Wei Yang was taken aback, and immediately stepped forward to apologize, but he didn't have a chance to get close. The man sitting outside stopped him with his hand, and there was no sign of getting angry. She stuffed it back: "It's okay, just walk carefully."

Wei Yang smiled apologetically at the woman. The middle-aged woman was not even interested in looking at him. She hugged the child and leaned against the window without saying a word. However, this movement did not wake up the little boy. With her head nestled in the woman's arms, she seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep, but her closed eyes were red and swollen, and she didn't know how long she had been crying.

Glancing at the listless little boy, Wei Yang didn't say anything, and walked back to his seat with a water glass.Xiao Jiang asked nervously, "Brother Wei, were you okay just now?"

Wei Yang smiled at her, and handed over the half-full water glass: "It's okay, I just tripped over it accidentally."

As he spoke, he looked at the "couple" and the child in their arms again. It was true that he was fine, but the two of them might not be.