Chapter 544 Provincial Capital
In the evening, when Zhang An just returned from Zhang Jianjun’s house, Ding Yi came over.
Although they still live in the city on weekdays, because their old man has come to Changqing, Ding Yi and Li Li will take time to come back every week.
And their mother is taking care of Ding Zijie. If she doesn’t come back often, it’s not certain whether Ding Zijie will recognize them as time passes.
"Siqi, come here quickly, your Uncle Ding has brought you a toy."
As soon as Ding Yi entered the door, he took out an electronic toy gun and pressed it lightly. There was a sound.
Wang Fang was originally washing the little guy's feet, but after seeing the toy gun, he couldn't calm down and insisted on finding Ding Yi.
After all, he is a child and is full of curiosity about all new things, especially toys that make noises. Little Siqi cannot resist the temptation.
But in the end, Wang Fang forced him to wash his feet, dry them, put on his shoes, and then let him go to the ground.
The little guy left Wang Fang's restraint and immediately ran towards Ding Yi.
After finally getting the toy gun, I started watching with satisfaction.
Ding Yi also put their Ding Zizi on the ground at this time. As a result, this guy immediately came to Xiao Siqi's side.
Maybe it’s the feelings expressed through baby talk. When they get together, the two brothers always like to get together. This was also the case when they were on the walker.
At this moment, Zhang An discovered that Ding Zijie could actually walk.
Although I stumbled to the left and right when walking, I was indeed able to walk.
“Hey, when did your young master become enlightened? Why didn’t I notice it?”
When Zhang An usually met Ding’s family, Ding Zijie was always attracted by his grandmother. He was holding him, so Zhang An really didn't know that the little guy could get to the ground.
And this guy usually doesn't get off the ground and always relies on adults. Unlike little Siqi, who is so rebellious that he will struggle to get off the ground after a while.
"Hey, it's only been the past two days, but it's still not as good as the rest of us, walking unsteadily."
Although Ding Yi said this, there was a smile on his face. Anyone can see the look of pride on his face, not to mention the corners of his mouth that have turned up to the sky.
He brought his son here today, maybe he didn't want to show off.
When he saw little Siqi, he had already started to move when he was still so young, not to mention how envious he was.
So after being hit, he began to dislike his son when he returned home, and repeatedly warned the boy's grandma.
Ding Zijie’s grandma was also stimulated when she saw Xiao Siqi running around on the ground every day, so she often let her grandson touch the ground.
Not to mention, after a long time, Ding Zijie got used to crying as soon as she fell to the ground.
Now that several months have passed, I can walk on the ground by myself.
Two little guys were sitting on a chair, babbling and talking without knowing what they were talking about. The two fathers, Zhang An and Ding Yi, paid no attention to them.
"Speaking of Zhang An, when are you going to go to Fatty's place? There are only a few days left."
As Fatty Lu's roommate, Ding Yi naturally has to go. Zhang An was also going, and since they were both in the same place, Ding Yi naturally thought that if they could go together, they would definitely go together.
“The day after tomorrow, we can make it there if we go a day early.”
Zhang An thought for a while, the fat man got married on the 12th, and it was not too late for them to get there on the 11th.
"Okay, then I will ask Li Li to come back tomorrow night, and we will set off directly the day after tomorrow."
Only Ding Yi came back today, and Li Li was still busy in the city.
"No, I'm not going to drive there, but I'm going to take the train. You know Su Ying's motion sickness is so severe. Driving there from here will literally kill her."
Hearing that Ding Yi was about to drive over, Zhang An quickly waved his hand and said.
Su Ying would feel dizzy after sitting in the car for two hours on weekdays, let alone driving from here to the provincial capital.
And he himself doesn’t really want to drive there, because there is no expressway to the provincial capital here and they can only take the national highway.
After all the twists and turns, it will take at least seven or eight hours.
Driving for such a long time is simply torture.
If you take the train, although the current green train is slow, it will arrive in five hours, which is much faster than driving, and people are not tired.
Moreover, trains are different from cars. Su Ying gets car-sick but not train-sick, so Zhang An had already planned to take the train.
It’s just that if you take the train, it’s not that convenient to bring things.
But they only went there for two days, so there was no need to bring so many things.
"That's okay. Let's take the train. It happens to be more convenient with two children. Let the fat man come and pick us up then."
Ding Yi used to go back and forth from the provincial capital. I have always driven by myself and rarely take the train.
But when I heard what Zhang An said, I didn’t refuse. After all, taking the train is indeed easier than driving by yourself, and the place is spacious, making it convenient to take care of children.
"It just so happened that Li Li didn't come back. I gave her a call and asked her to buy the train ticket first."
After that, Ding Yi took out his mobile phone and called Li Li. In the past, after three or two sentences, the person on the other end of the phone went to the train station to buy a ticket.
Actually, I won’t be too nervous about buying tickets these days. It doesn’t matter whether I buy them in advance or not.
But it is definitely best if you can buy it in advance. Otherwise, if you go to the train station the day after, you will have to drive yourself if you run out of tickets.
It is also very convenient to buy tickets these days, because it is not a real-name system like in later generations, so you don’t need an ID card, you can just go and buy as many tickets as you want.
But this is also the reason why there are so many ticket scalpers selling tickets at train stations now.
When I got up early in the morning, Zhang An did not do anything else. He packed some food at home to prepare for the train tomorrow.
After all, you have to stay on the train for several hours, which is definitely boring. It would be really hard not to find something to kill the time.
As for the way to kill time, Zhang An, after thinking about it, the only way to kill time is to eat. The other ways are really not good.
Anyway, when he travels far away, he has a lot to talk about.
Prepare a little more food each time, and when the food is finished, you will arrive at the place.
Since then, Zhang An got up and started searching at home.
There is no need to worry about fruits, there are peaches in the orchard and cherries that are dying.
Although the strawberries he had grown before were no longer planted this year, Zhang An still kept some and planted a small patch in the vegetable field for his own consumption.
Coupled with the sugar plums in the nest, I really didn’t want to know this. I was shocked when I thought about it. There are four kinds of fruits alone.
Unfortunately, although the grapes on the grape trellis in the backyard are quite big, they are not yet ripe.
If you want to eat it, you have to wait at least twenty days or months.
“Hey, Mom, where did you get the peanuts?”
Suddenly, Zhang An discovered that his mother who came back from outside came back with several handfuls of peanuts.
The mud on the roots and feet of this peanut is still wet, and it looks like it has just been pulled out of the ground.
But can these peanuts be eaten now? You must know that the earliest peanuts grown in the village were only planted less than two months ago. At this time, I am probably still covering flowers.
“We grow it at home. When we ordered the Nuobaogu, we also ordered a few taels of peanut seeds. When I went to break the Nuobaogu just now, I looked at it and it looked like it was ready to eat. Just pull some and cook them, you like to eat salted peanuts anyway."
Wang Fang threw the peanuts on his hand on the ground, then returned to the kitchen and took out a small basin and started picking peanuts.
She planted these peanuts earlier, just thinking about growing them to cook and eat.
It was only then that Zhang An found out that early peanuts were also planted at home.
But none of this is important. I will just get up tomorrow and cook some to take to the car to eat.
This is considered a complete meal. I probably won’t be able to finish even a little bit of it.
The next morning, when Zhang An got up, Wang Fang was already busy in the kitchen.
Yesterday he just mentioned casually that today Wang Fang got up early in the morning to cook peanuts for them.
When the time was almost up, Ding Yi came over with Ding Zizi, and everyone was ready to set off.
This was the first time for little Siqi to go away. Wang Fang was really reluctant to leave, but she just told them to go early and come back early.
When he arrived in the city, Zhang An left the car downstairs at his mother-in-law's house so that it would be convenient to go home when the time came.
When they arrived at the train station, Ding Yi and his family were already waiting at the entrance.
After checking in and entering the station, although the entire waiting room is not big, there are not many people waiting for the bus.
Train stations in small southwest counties like this usually don’t get very crowded until the Spring Festival travel period around the Chinese New Year.
In July and August of the year, the flow of people is not very large.
Especially now that there are not many college students, and the summer vacation crowds have not yet arrived.
Not long after waiting, the train they were going to take this time arrived.
After getting on the bus, Zhang An discovered that the ticket Li Li bought was for a soft sleeper.
Two children are free of charge. They are exactly four adults and directly booked an entire standard room.
It was only a five-hour drive, and all Zhang An could think of was to buy a sleeper ticket, since there wouldn’t be many people there anyway.
Unexpectedly, Li Li bought a soft sleeper directly. Now the space is larger, and the two children can play freely in it.
However, the fare has increased several times, and it is even enough to cover the entire journey for those going outside the province.
If it were in later generations, the price of a soft sleeper would definitely make Zhang An feel distressed.
But now, he doesn't care about the money, and it was Li Li who bought the ticket.
With a whistle, the green train began to move from slow to fast on the rails.
Speaking of which, this is Zhang An’s first trip by train in his life.
Originally, Zhang An thought that this was the first time for his son to take a train, and he might be a little troubled because he was not used to it.
Because these days, after getting on the train, I will start wailing.
But apart from being frightened by the loud noise when the train started moving, the two little guys quickly adapted to it.
Now he is lying on the small table, staring at the food Zhang An took out.
The two brothers were used to eating other fruits, but after tasting them, they turned their attention to the peanuts that Wang Fang had just cooked in the morning.
After the originally raw and crispy peanuts were cooked, they lost a bit of their original crispiness, but the flavor of five spices and salt made them delicious.
The two little guys just tasted some, then stopped pampering other things and stared at the bag of boiled peanuts.
Wang Fang and Li Li, two mothers, had to become mere tool men who specialize in peeling peanuts.
With the friction of the train's wheels and the rails making a "doo-doo-doo" sound, the train drove to Hongyan Town.
Through the glass on the window, Zhang An saw a familiar place near Hongyan Town, and soon passed the platform of Hongyan Railway Station.
This train is a regular express train, most of which go to outside the province, and usually only stop at larger railway stations.
As for small rural train stations like Hongyan Town, only the slow trains that stop at every station will visit.
Not long after, Xiao Siqi and Ding Zizhe began to doze off as soon as the novelty of riding a train for the first time wore off. It may be that they were full, so they were found by sleepy bugs. , and soon fell asleep.
Zhang An and the other adults began to chat as if they were liberated.
After riding the train for a long time, Zhang An realized that this train seemed to be missing something.
After thinking about it carefully, it turned out that the shouts of "melon seeds, peanut mineral water, beer, drinks, and eight-treasure porridge" were missing.
In fact, it's not that there is nothing, but the cart selling things on the train spends most of its time in the hard-seat carriage and rarely comes here.
At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the train finally arrived at the provincial capital railway station.
Although taking the train was easier than driving, Zhang An still felt a little uncomfortable in his butt after more than five hours.
There were a lot of people getting off the bus here, and Zhang An only realized what a crowd is.
These days, even provincial capital train stations don’t have high-end gadgets like elevators. Going up and down the stairs depends on your legs.
Zhang An was carrying little Siqi on his back and pulling Su Ying in front, which was kind of helping to clear the way for Ding Yi and his family behind.
After exiting the station, a burst of familiar yet unfamiliar advertisements came.
"Would you like to stay in the hotel? I have a little girl."
Although he was not asking Zhang An, he felt that this was the familiar railway station in the provincial capital in his heart.
In later generations, every time I took a train to the provincial capital, I would be asked by a bunch of old ladies after getting off the train, because there were too many such messy small hotels near the railway station in the provincial capital.
But even if you need accommodation, don't go to this kind of place. Don't listen to what they say about eyes lighting up when a little girl is around.
If you go to these places, there will be no young girls, but there will be a lot of old ladies, and their skin will probably peel off when they come out.
Of course, Zhang An has never been there. This was in later generations. To hear a worker tell it personally, it was simply too horrible to watch.
"Old Ding, Zhang An, here, here."
As soon as they walked out of the train station square, they heard someone calling them.
Looking around, I found that Fatty Lu had been waiting here for a long time.
"Oh, my two eldest nephews are here. Let Uncle Fat see if he has been good during this period."
After everyone gathered, Fatty Lu first went up to talk to the two little nephews. Guys get close.
The two little guys also gave him face, extending their hands to greet him.
(End of this chapter)