rebirth of cataclysm

Although Hu Mingchen was willing to spend more money to reduce the pain and torture on the road, the landlady managed to get a few sleeper tickets and only got two hard-seat tickets.

Compared with unseating tickets, it is good to have hard-seat tickets.

After eating and refunding their seatless tickets, Hu Mingchen and Hu Jianqiang crowded into the bus with the crowd of passengers.

Although it is not the Spring Festival travel period, there are still a lot of people on this express train heading to Guangzhou. He was afraid that Hu Mingchen would get lost, so Hu Jianqiang pulled Hu Mingchen and squeezed into the train with great effort.

When I found my seat, there was already an old man and a young man dozing off.

Hu Jianqiang rudely shook them awake, showed them their tickets, and asked them to give up their seats.

Although Hu Jianqiang's behavior was not too polite, Hu Mingchen didn't say anything. It was like this on this crowded train. If he was polite and kind, he would have to stand still.

The old man and the young man also knew that the seats were not theirs. When they saw the rightful owner coming, they quickly stood up, collected their luggage, and gave up their seats to Hu Mingchen and Hu Jianqiang, who were standing in the aisle next to them.

Hu Jianqiang asked Hu Mingchen to sit by the window, while he sat on the edge. The luggage was stuck on the luggage rack, and the bag of food was stuffed under the seat. The small table by the window was already filled by the two passengers opposite.

their stuff.

With a long whistle, the train set off. Hu Mingchen and the others would stay on the train for more than thirty hours. With the electric pole outside the car window moving backward, Hu Mingchen embarked on a long-distance journey away from his hometown for the first time after his rebirth.

Although Hu Mingchen was sitting in his own seat with peace of mind, he had been observing the old man and the young man who were driven away by their uncle and nephew, intentionally or unintentionally. Hu Mingchen felt a little guilty towards them in his heart.

The old man looks to be in his fifties, his temples are slightly gray, and the wrinkles on his forehead are clearly visible. His blue tunic suit looks relatively new and the color is quite dark. However, it must be a few years old and he didn't want to buy it recently. I guess this

For this old man, he only wears personal clothes when traveling far away or visiting relatives and friends.

The boy next to him looks about thirteen or fourteen years old. His hair is long and messy. He probably hasn’t had his hair cut for several months. He has left school during the summer vacation, but he is still wearing a blue and white school uniform with rich text printed on his chest.

The mark of the second middle school in the county.

The old man leaned one hand against the side of the back of the chair and put the other on the boy's body, for fear of passing passengers bumping into him. The boy rubbed his sparse eyes, and then looked around curiously, as if everything in front of him was quite normal.

Fresh.

Hu Mingchen has never been to Fuwen County, but he knows that there is no train station there. If the old man and the young man want to take a train, they have to rush to the nearby Quyang City. Judging from the difficulties the two men were just in, it is estimated that they were there last night.

Didn't sleep all night.

At noon, the dining car rolled by, and passengers either bought a fast food to satisfy the five internal organs, or took out the food they had prepared in advance, especially instant noodles and boiled eggs. For a time, the entire carriage was filled with chaos and complexity.

the smell.

The two men sitting opposite Hu Mingchen and the others must be from the north. What they brought out was pancakes rolled with green onions, and they also brought a bottle of sauce with them. They used chopsticks to pick some sauce and dip it on the pancakes.

Put the white scallions in the middle, roll up the pancake, hold it with one hand and start eating.

"Young man, would you like some?" Seeing Hu Mingchen concentrating on his food, a male tourist thought that Hu Mingchen wanted to eat, so he invited him politely.

The two men brought at least twenty sheets of pancakes, a thick pile, and green onions in a bulging plastic bag.

"No, thank you. We also brought something to eat." Hu Mingchen politely declined.

"Haha, you southerners may not be used to it and may find it irritating." The other party didn't force it and said with a smile.

When Hu Mingchen and Hu Jianqiang got in the car, they also saw that they had indeed brought a lot of food.

The vast majority of people who take the train don’t like to eat the food on the train unless they have to. Whether it’s fast food or even stir-fried vegetables, the food on the train is expensive, tastes terrible, and the hygiene is lacking. To be honest,

, it’s better to bring something from home.

To put it bluntly, if people don’t like to eat food from trucks, they are forced to do so.

"Fortunately, if I didn't use the sauce, I might feel that way." Hu Mingchen said casually.

Hu Mingchen had actually eaten this kind of big cake rolled with green onions, but it was before his rebirth. At that time, he went to the north with a contractor to work on the railway construction. At that time, the workers on the construction site had so many visitors that they ate only

Naturally, northern tastes were the main focus. At that time, Hu Mingchen once

After eating steamed buns for fifteen days in a row, he also ate this big pancake rolled with green onions a few times with them. He didn’t know why others thought he could eat it. Anyway, Hu Mingchen could eat it. The pancake was soft, the green onions were crispy, and the aroma was paired with it.

The smell from the sauce and green onions makes it good to chew.

In fact, Hu Mingchen was not the only one who was staring at people eating. The boy turned his head and kept watching this strange way of eating, but the northerner had no intention of inviting the boy.

Hu Jianqiang took out two boxes of instant noodles from the plastic bag under the chair, and took out two braised eggs and some snacks.

"I'll go over to the boiling water stove to make noodles. You can eat something small first and wait a moment." Hu Jianqiang stood up and explained.

"Actually, I'm not hungry yet."

"Eat something whether you're hungry or not. It's time for dinner, and you think this instant noodles is so useful, just to fill your stomach." After Hu Jianqiang finished speaking, he took two boxes of instant noodles and four plastic-protected braised eggs.

Went to make instant noodles.

In a carriage, if everyone is eating loudly, and if you don't follow suit, it will feel like something is missing.

As soon as Hu Jianqiang left, the old man said to Hu Mingchen with a shy face: "Can we sit down for a while? There is no one in this seat now. When he comes back, we will give up right away."

"Old man, please sit down. It doesn't matter. You sit down."

"Thank you, Xiaojun, sit down quickly and take a rest. I'll let you go after a while." After receiving Hu Mingchen's permission, the old man did not sit down immediately, but called to the boy he was supporting.

"Grandpa, I'm not tired. You can sit down. You're old, so you can sit down." After standing for several hours, it was impossible for the boy not to be tired, but he gave the opportunity to the old man.

He is really a sensible child, Hu Mingchen thought to himself.

"Silly boy, grandpa is very strong. While you are still growing, you can sit down if you are told to. Hurry up and be obedient." As he said this, the old man pressed the Xiaojun on Hu Jianqiang's seat.

Xiaojun wanted to struggle and pull his grandfather to sit again, but the old man continued to hold him down and remained unmoved.

"Little brother, you might as well squeeze over to me so that your grandpa can sit with me for a while." Hu Mingchen pondered for a moment and then simply suggested.

Although Hu Mingchen and Hu Jianqiang were sitting in two-person chairs, it was still difficult for three people to squeeze in. Besides, including Hu Mingchen, the three of them were not that tall.

Xiaojun smiled shyly at Hu Mingchen, and really moved his butt towards Hu Mingchen, leaving a space as big as a palm outside.

"Xiaojun, it's okay. Don't crowd me. Thank you. Young man, you are so kind-hearted." The old man seemed to have sore feet and numb legs. He was not too polite. He just sat with his buttocks on the palm-sized place.

Come down.

The old man sat down and gently tapped his thighs with both hands to relax the muscles.

"Old man, where are you going?" Hu Mingchen took the initiative to ask.

"We are looking for my father, who is working in other provinces." Xiaojun answered before the old man could speak.

"Oh, are you in Guangzhou?" Hu Mingchen asked.

"No, it's in Pengcheng." Xiaojun replied.

"Both my son and daughter-in-law are working in other places. The child is on summer vacation and misses his parents. His parents also called back to his hometown and said that they can let the child live for a month or two. No, I will take him with him.

Went with the child." Xiaojun's grandfather then added.

"Oh, that's it, we are also going to Pengcheng, so we are on the way."

"Then you are also looking for your parents?" Xiaojun asked in surprise.

"Um...no, my parents are both at home. We just went there to do some errands. We can't stay for as long as you do." Hu Mingchen was choked with words.

"You are so young, what can you do? I thought you were looking for your parents just like me."

"Xiaojun, don't talk nonsense. Didn't I tell you before I went out? Are you hungry? If you are hungry, I will bring you steamed buns to eat." Xiaojun's grandfather may have thought that Xiaojun's words were abrupt, so he quickly stopped him.

"Grandpa, I'm not hungry yet." Xiaojun lowered his head and said after being criticized.

"Your buns are cold, so I'm afraid they won't taste good. I have biscuits here, so let's put some on them first." Hu Mingchen said and handed a box of biscuits to Xiaojun.

But Xiaojun didn't answer at all, or in other words, he wouldn't answer at all without his grandfather's nod.

"Thank you, you can keep it to eat. We brought several steamed buns. Although they are cold, you can just eat them with a little boiling water." Xiaojun's grandfather refused.

Maybe they think it's enough for them to give up their seats and sit there, but if they continue to eat other people's food, what's the point of it?

If they didn't answer, Hu Mingchen couldn't force him. Just then, Hu Jianqiang came back with two bowls of instant noodles.

Seeing Hu Jianqiang coming back, Xiaojun and his grandfather quickly stood up and offered their seats.

Seeing the two of them getting up from their seats, Hu Jianqiang acted blankly. He handed a bowl of instant noodles to Hu Mingchen and ate the other bowl himself.

Lifting the paper cover, Hu Mingchen discovered that in addition to noodles, three braised eggs were added to his bowl.

"Uncle San, why did you add three more to me? Didn't you just eat one?" Hu Mingchen said as he poked one with a plastic fork and handed it to Hu Jianqiang.

"You eat, you eat. I don't like eggs in the first place. Besides, your appetite is bigger than mine. I'm really not very hungry." Hu Jianqiang turned away and refused to accept the braised eggs handed to him by Hu Mingchen.