Chapter 181

The process of children's growth is not necessarily smooth sailing. For example, the second daughter Yan Zhen has problems now.

Yan Chu did not define the child as a bad child because she lied to her parents more or less in the process of growing up, just because of the difference in the severity of the plot.

Yan Chu believes that this is an experience of many children's lives. This change is a test for children and the same for parents.

Although he wanted to exercise his two children, considering that the fastest train from the provincial capital to Shencheng also needed a six-day trip, and the two children, one thirteen and one eleven, were growing up, Yan Chu bought a hard sleeper ticket. Neither child was small, so he also needed to buy an adult ticket.

As a result, three train tickets cost a full 65 yuan and a dime. Now the per capita wage of workers is about □□ 10, which is not cheap.

"Dad used to buy station tickets in Shencheng and rub the light of you two. Try what it's like to have a hard sleeper on the train."

Yan Chu was carrying the luggage of the three, and the two girls were also carrying backpacks, which contained winter vacation homework and books to read on the train.

In other aspects, Yan Chu's economic control was relatively strong, but in terms of learning, he did not save money at all.

These times looked similar, but there was still a slight gap in the evolution of history and some cultural works. Therefore, Yan Chu formed the habit of learning the current world culture every time he went to a new world.

Now there is a very spacious study in the Yan Family's house. The whole wall is full of book shelves, full of books.

Some were bought from bookstores and some from old book stalls, including several ancient books collected by Yan Chu from the recycle bin. These calligraphers can read them at any time if they want to read them.

At present, it seems that the learning atmosphere at home is still very good. Young children selectively read comic books with many pictures. Older children read story collections or some famous works, which are not necessarily omnipotent. They just imperceptibly rely on the power of books to change them.

If she hadn't noticed her father's generosity in books, Yan Zhen wouldn't have thought of the means to cheat money by this lie.

"How much is the station ticket?"

Yan Zhen couldn't help asking.

"It's cheaper than a hard sleeper. A station ticket costs only 13.8 yuan. It saves 15.80 yuan back and forth, which is enough for less than half a month." Yan Chu led his two daughters to the ticket gate and replied to her.

"Isn't it uncomfortable to stand on the bus?"

Yan Zhen thought that this trip had seven days. Even if the place was spacious enough to sit directly on the ground, her legs and feet couldn't stretch. It must be uncomfortable to curl up for so long.

She thought about it. This semester, she found an excuse to ask her father for six yuan, which her father saved from these places.

"It's only seven days of Kung Fu. You can't bear the discomfort. Therefore, Dajin Erzhen, you should study hard, not for your father and grandmother, or for yourself. Only by reading good books and finding a good job, can you be qualified to sleep in a hard sleeper or even a better soft sleeper when you go far in the future."

While talking, the father and daughter also checked the tickets and walked towards the platform through the ticket gate.

Yan Chu took countless trains. He was used to the outside and inside of the train, but the two sisters couldn't. They saw nothing new and rare. They wanted to touch it directly on the green train.

The exterior of the train was powerful, but the interior was a little cramped. The sisters' joy was slightly relieved after entering the train. For no reason, it was too crowded.

This station in the provincial capital is not the starting station of the train. Now some people on the train have lived in the train for two or three days. It's cold and there is no window for ventilation. Almost as soon as they entered the train, the sisters were mixed with human taste and nausea, and they all wanted to turn around and run out.

This time point happens to be the time for people working outside to go home to visit their relatives. Anyone who can find a relationship and buy tickets has come. Usually, the trains in this time period are overloaded.

The train that originally carried 100 people actually carried 120 people because of various related households. The remaining 20 people were either crowded in the station ticket carriage or rubbed against the seats in the aisle on one side of the ticket carriage, plus large and small bags of luggage, which really proves what it is difficult to walk.

Such a scene was different from what the sisters imagined. They were used to the bad smell. Holding the expectation of Shencheng, they put on smiling faces and followed their father to their bed.

In front of them, it seems that the three people got off the train. The beds are messy. The conductor estimated that he didn't have time to tidy up. When the father and daughter found their position, their beds had been occupied. They were embarrassed to let them go after they took out their tickets.

Looking at the quilt that many people have slept in, Yan Jin and Yan Zhen don't know whether they should lie up. There will be seven days left.

Come on, don't worry about hypocrisy. Shake the quilt and sheets, and sit up with your eyes closed.

At this time, the sisters had some premonition of the hardships of the journey, but the premonition was not deep. When the train began to whistle and start, the continuously backward scenery by the window captured all their attention.

"Give way, give way."

There was a lot of noise and laughter on the train. The hum didn't stop in my ears. What was louder than these laughter and noise was the shouting of the dining car attendant, full of breath and loud.

"Comrade, what are today's boxed meals?"

"The assorted fried rice is thirty-five cents, the braised eggplant with minced meat is thirty-five cents, and the fish with vinegar is fifty cents."

All the food sold in the car is covered rice. The price is much more expensive than eating outside or cooking at home.

Therefore, many people ask, but few buy.

The beautiful female conductor shouted to give way all the way, stopped several times and disappeared into the carriage.

After getting on the train for a long time, the two sisters were tired of seeing the scenery on both sides of the train. They looked at their father and didn't talk, covering their stomach and didn't ask.

The sisters remember that they brought a lot of baked cakes and steamed bread. In the past, when my father went away, he also brought dry food. Just because the things on the train were expensive, it was cost-effective to eat his own dry food.

The 1980s was the golden age of train meal. At this time, train meal has not been outsourced. No matter how effective it is, it can ensure the harvest in drought and flood. Therefore, the master of cooking does not spare the ingredients and seasonings. He adds enough oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar. The meat slices are also real meat slices. It certainly tastes good.

In the 1990s, the contract system for train meals began. In order to make enough profits, the quality of food materials became worse and worse, and the level of chefs began to be uneven. Only then did there be more and more complaints about the bad taste of the dining car.

At present, the cook on the train is still an iron rice bowl, so many of the cooks on the dining car are the chefs of big restaurants in those days. It's absolutely impossible to say that the craft. Although the price of boxed lunch is expensive, it's also worth it.

Of course, if you want to say the best, you still have to go to the restaurant on the train by yourself. There you can order by yourself. You want to order dishes, as long as you have ingredients, as long as the master who is there that day can do it, and as long as you have enough money.

Just when Yan Jin and Yan Zhen thought that dinner was steamed bread and cakes with boiling water, they were led by Yan Chu to the carriage of the restaurant.

Usually those who come to the train restaurant for dinner are either rich or expensive, so the restaurant's dress is also particularly petty bourgeois. Each table is covered with a tablecloth of small broken flowers, and a vase is placed near the window, with a delicate and timid flower in it.

There was a menu in each position. Yan Chu opened the menu and asked the two children to order by themselves.

"Today is your sister's first time on the train and the first meal on the train. Let's have some good food. Dad borrowed your sister's light again. I came back for the first time."

Yan Chu crossed his fingers, put his elbows on the table and handed over the task of ordering to the two girls.

"Dad, the things here are too expensive."

Yan Jin is also a little girl who wants face very much. She doesn't dare to say it too loudly. She just comes to Yan Chu's ear and whispers a reminder.

She thought the price of boxed lunch just shouted by the dining car was high enough. As a result, she came to the restaurant and learned that one mountain is higher than another.

The sisters have never seen such things as stewed deer meat, stewed turtle and Tremella bird's nest, not to mention the price that blinds the eyes at a glance.

Braised prawns in oil, shredded chicken in soy sauce and sliced bacon with winter bamboo shoots are also huge sums of money of three or four yuan.

The sisters are a little smacking. They cook dishes at home for less than a dollar. How can they sell at such a high price here?

"Eat, let's have a meal today, and then we can only eat steamed buns and pancakes brought home."

Yan Chu pushed the menu forward. The two girls discussed with each other for a few words, and then ordered the cheapest piece of chives, eggs and three bowls of rice on the menu.

"Another portion of braised prawns and a bowl of shrimp and white gourd soup."

Yan Chu added two more dishes. Yan Jin and Yan Zhen thought that their father might encounter dirty things today, otherwise such a forthright spending attitude would never appear on their father.

The meal cost a full 12 yuan, because at last Yan Chu asked for a canned yellow peach as dessert for the three.

After a meal, the two children were satisfied and heartache.

It's great to meet the taste of these dishes, especially the braised prawns. Each prawn has half a palm. The prawns are tight, elastic teeth and stained with some sauce. They are both fresh and fragrant.

The sisters even chewed the shrimp shell. When they sucked the shrimp brain yellow, they were happy with little stars in their eyes.

There was nothing left of the three courses, and the soup was all added to the meal.

Yan Jin and Yan Zhen thought how happy life would be if they could eat such meals every day in the future.

Unfortunately, it's too expensive. The money spent on this meal alone is enough to make them feel distressed for a long time.

Maybe the first meal was too good. When they chewed dry steamed buns for the next six and a half days, the sisters understood what is difficult from extravagance to thrift and easy from thrift to extravagance.

The days on the train finally began to suffer.