Obligations of the elderly

On the first day of the holiday, Gongsi and others gathered at the train station. Like most students, they will take the train back to their hometown. Nilu volunteered to buy the tickets. Through the ticketing channels in the college, they bought student tickets. !

"It's very hard to buy tickets for Chinese New Year!" Nilu said, "But it seems that no one in this academy shares the same hometown as Ah Si, so our few tickets are not bad..."

"There are still a lot of people on the same route as us, but they will get off halfway, so everyone should be prepared to be crowded, and if they get separated, they will gather with others in their seats." Nilu said, and handed out the ticket to everyone.

"We're a little nervous when you say that. After all, Emin and I have never taken a train during peak hours." Studying the ticket in his hand carefully, looking at the red on the tip of the ticket, which represents the Chinese New Year, Marlon looked novel.

"Have you never sat before? Did you go back to your hometown early before Chinese New Year?" Ni Lu was puzzled.

Shaking his head, Malone said calmly: "Emin and I are orphans, and there is nothing to go back to our hometown, so we have always celebrated the New Year in the local area, but every time we spend the New Year, there is no festive atmosphere in the place we stay. , For a long time, we almost forgot about the Chinese New Year.”

"Sorry." Nilu said immediately.

"It's okay, it's okay!" Malone waved his hands carelessly, he and Emin didn't think there was anything wrong with being an orphan, but—

Pointing to the red color on the head of the train ticket, Malone asked: "The color and pattern here are different from the previous train ticket. Has the train ticket been revised? It's quite beautiful."

Nilu smiled: "It seems that you have never been on a train during the rush hour of the New Year!"

As Nilu said, he took out a small transparent bag from his wallet. Inside were quite a few train ticket heads, all of which were red. Although the pattern was slightly different from the one in Malone's hand, look carefully. It's just a variant of the same pattern, Nilu said: "When there are various major solar terms every year, the train tickets will be specially designed according to the solar terms. The designs are different every year, and each continent is different."

As Nilu said, he pointed to the lines on the banknote and explained to Ma Long: "Look, this pattern looks like a beast. This is Zhu Rong, the god of fire, and the guardian animal of our entire Jizhou. Isn’t it from Chasing Nian Beast? In Jizhou, Nian Beast was chased away by Vulcan Zhu Rong.”

Hearing what he said, Malone looked more carefully, but he couldn't see what kind of beast these patterns were after looking at them for a long time. He couldn't understand them from all angles, so he could only say...the beast looks too abstract!

Nilu immediately took out another ticket stub from his wallet. It was different from the ones shown before. This ticket was red and blue alternately, and the pattern on it was completely different from the previous ones. Malone could see the difference.

"I remember Ma Long, you are from Yunzhou, right? According to legend, the Nian beast in Yunzhou was chased away by the water god Gonggong, so the guardian animal of Yunzhou is Gonggong, and the ticket head of your solar term train ticket is Gonggong's." Pattern." Nilu said, a little proudly said: "This is the ticket tip of Yunzhou Chinese New Year that I exchanged three Jizhou solar term tickets with my neighbor's lady sister, super rare!"

"After all, there are still very few people at our age who can go to other continents like you two." As he said, Nilu looked at Malone and Amin enviously.

"We are also troubled by life, troubled by life!" Malone said in distress, but his expression was smug, he scratched the back of his head, and the corners of his mouth almost reached the bottom of his ears.

"But you know a lot. Ai Min and I have never studied hard, so we don't understand these things at all, such as guardian beasts, Zhu Rong, Gonggong and so on..."

Opening his mouth, Nilu originally wanted to say that these things were not taught in books. The traditional customs and common sense of the continents were more derived from the oral teachings of the elders. He was introduced to these common senses by his parents through storytelling. However, he He quickly remembered Marlon's status as an orphan, so he smiled: "There are many places to go, as long as you pay attention, you can also ask the locals, and you will understand a lot of things about this."

Speaking of this, he also scratched his head: "Actually, when I was a good-for-nothing, I always wanted to take the folklore major, so I paid special attention to these things, right?"

"Let's go to other continents if we have a chance in the future, and collect tickets from all continents." Xingyun said suddenly.

Raising his head to look at Xingyun, Nilu nodded silently with a reddish complexion.

These two people... Although they didn't say anything, the other two groups of people shook their goosebumps.

At this time, Lin said: "The ticket has been checked."

Everyone trembled: ticket checking means that the Chinese New Year train rushing army is officially approaching the "battlefield" train, and it's time to test whether they can fight a bloody road to their own compartments among thousands of troops!

Everyone's spirits were shaken, and instead of chatting, they concentrated on looking at the ticket gate, waiting for the ticket inspector to let people go...

Facts have proved that with Marlon and Emin around, separation, crowding, etc... don't exist.

With the two of them around, no one would dare to join the line in front of them. They are tall, and Malone and Amin are like the most eye-catching signs. There is no need for them to worry about getting lost, and they just arrived at their car smoothly. , at the end, there is Emin to help everyone put their luggage.

"I thought it was so difficult, it's okay, it's okay!" Marlon laughed and said to everyone while sitting on the seat while Amin was allowed to put his luggage.

"Today went very well. When I went back by myself, I was often cut in line, and I was almost caught on the train several times..." Nilu smiled with a good temper.

Looking at the two people with sharp contrasts in body size and temper, everyone: ...

Amin was in charge of storing the luggage, Malone took out snacks from his pocket, Nilu went outside to get hot water, Xingyun went to the conductor to buy ice cream, Gong Si took out the tea leaves from (Xi Liu)'s house, Xi Liu... I took out the small scissors, took out a few flowers and cut a shape, and finally took out a vase to put the flowers in.

The small table for a few people on the train was set up, and a stack of homework was placed on the table, and they pushed their glasses: "You can do your homework now."

Crowd: ...

The school committee was here, and a few people had to work hard to do their homework first. Regarding this arrangement, the others were fine. The main ones were Ma Long and Ai Min.

"Our homework is always done on the last day. It's really... the first time to do it on the first day!" Malone laughed bitterly.

But complaints are complaints. A group of students do their homework together, chatting while eating snacks, and they can complain about strange problems, not to mention that there is a pretty good scenery outside the window. It didn’t take long for everyone to feel that this way of writing homework is quite good. up.

Malone also took a photo and posted it on his personal page, with the text: Study hard and make progress every day.

At the end, I also received a compliment from the director of the Academic Affairs Office.

Malone didn't dare to swipe his phone in a hurry!

They didn't do their homework all the time, they looked out the window together when they encountered a good scenery, and bought a train lunch from the waiter on the train at noon, and they all ordered one of the ten flavors ← Emin and Malone ate three Servings, one eats two servings.

While eating bento, they continued to chat——

"I just remembered, Ah Si, where are your younger brothers? Aren't they going back?" Ni Lu thought of this question. He knew not long ago that Gong Si's younger brother is the most popular user in the second year of high school. Think about it: these two people have the surname Gong, which is obviously a rare surname, but he didn't connect them at all.

It's okay not to mention this, but when this is mentioned, Gong Si's face turns dark instantly: Regarding their going back, Xiliu prepared an aircraft from the beginning, not the small aircraft they had last time, but a bigger one, It can take more people. Xiliu originally wanted to take everyone away with the aircraft, but before telling everyone, Nilu offered to buy train tickets for everyone.

I feel that if I want to blend in with my classmates, I have to choose a more approachable way ← Xiliu immediately decided to take the train with everyone. Thank you for flying or something, they just take it. Aji also takes a flying machine. Long-distance travel is too difficult for children.

So their family had two ways to go back. As a fair patriarch, Gongsi naturally wanted to ask his younger brothers for their opinions. He asked Dongchun first, and then got this answer——

"Brother, your classmates are too old, I don't have a common language with them, why don't you go back and play football with A Yuan and the others, hehe! I have recently improved my football skills in Jiling Academy, and they must not be able to beat me!" Dongchun Said triumphantly.

The elder brother Gong Si who was said to be old in disguise: ...

Qiuxia didn't take the train either. Both younger brothers took the aircraft, and he volunteered to take care of them.

At least there is one younger brother who is at ease - Gong Si can only comfort himself in this way in the end.

Xiliu, who knew what happened, looked at the palace and was secretly amused: "They went back by aircraft, Aji is young, and the train time is too long."

Xiliu answered for Gongsi.

Nilu nodded: "Yes."

Of course, he thought that Qiu Xia and the others were going back in a public aircraft.

Stream just smiled.

It was Gongsi, who regained his mood, and started chatting with his classmates again: "It's Nilu, I thought you would celebrate the New Year with your family."

The reason why the invitation was sent out to everyone was not to be too abrupt, to make Marlon and the others seem special, but in the end everyone would come ← this is what Gong Si did not expect.

Especially Nilu who came from an ordinary family.

"My parents got married during the Chinese New Year. This year happens to be their [-]th wedding anniversary. They told me long ago that they would leave me to N for their honeymoon. I'm worried about what to do during the Chinese New Year..." Ni Lu smiled.

It seems that Nilu's parents have a good relationship.

It is efficient for several people to write homework together. In the afternoon, the homework is almost done, and they have more time to discuss the scenery outside the window.

When they set off, Ji Lingzhou where they were located had already started to turn green, and the temperature was not so cold anymore. However, as the train headed towards Lengshui Town, the scenery along the way slowly turned back to winter again.

From fresh green covered and hidden by white, from sunny weather to light snow to moderate snow, the speed of the train gradually slowed down due to the weather.

There are fewer and fewer passengers on the train.

At the beginning, they would go out to check in every time they reached a platform, but later on, Gongsi and the others were fine, and Malone, Amin and Nilu couldn't get out at all.

"It's too, cold, too~~~~~~~~~" Malone was so cold that he could make waves.

Teeth chattering, he sniffed, but to no avail, a drop of snot dripped from his nostrils.

"The palace said that we should bring thick clothes. Why didn't you two bring any thick clothes? Your backpacks are so bulging, I thought they were all thick clothes." Handing him a tissue, he frowned road.

"I, I and Emin have never been afraid of the cold in winter, and neither, I, we thought that Ah Si's advice was only applicable to those of you who are afraid of the cold..." Sucking his nose, Maron shivered Rubbed, and then used the tissue paper given to him to blow his nose vigorously, and finally stretched out his hand, indicating that he needed another one.

"There are really no clothes sold on the platform of the train station. Occasionally, I can't touch the thickness of a few pieces. You can only bear with it. First, take our clothes as tops, and then when you arrive at my house, I will take mine..." Gong Si said, comparing the height of the two of them with his own: "My clothes can probably be worn by Nilu, but you and Emin can only make do with Grandpa Jung's clothes."

"If you don't want to wear old people's clothes, you can only go to the town center to buy them, but I don't know if you can buy them at this time. Our place is not a city, and life is not convenient at all." Obviously I have already told you, but this The two guys still didn't take it seriously, so Gong Si could only persuade them to ask for their own blessings. He looked at Nilu again, who was still trembling in a ball...

Gong Si sighed again: Well, this one is very persuasive, quite persuasive, he takes more than anyone else, but he is also more afraid of the cold than anyone else.

After telling the three of them not to get out of the car, they still huddled in the car, and Gong Si took the rest of the people to go outside to check in.

For Lin and Xingyun, such a big snow is still very novel.

Then, as night fell and it got colder, no one went out.

Hiding in the warm carriage, they watched the snowflakes outside become the size of a palm, and when Gong Si said that there were even bigger snowflakes in his hometown, the teenagers all hissed.

At 06:30 the next morning, after sleeping in the car all night, the bell for the finish line finally rang.

The terminus, Winter Volcano, has arrived.

The first one stretched and got up, Malone looked around the interior of the car, and woke up his little friend in surprise: "Get up quickly! There is no one in the car! Could it be that everyone got down?"

"Don't worry, there aren't many people going out on our side, so it's certain that there are few people." Gong Si also got up, made the bed, and he also moved his body: "And this car won't go out immediately. Let’s go, I’ll rest here overnight.”

In my hometown, the palace can be said to know everything.

Putting all the clothes "donated" to him by everyone on his body, Malone dressed like a bear and got out of the car.

"Cold"—was his first thought, but soon he couldn't care less about it—

"My God! It's so beautiful! It's the first time I've seen such a beautiful winter scene! The sky is so blue! My God! The ground is so white! There are no footprints! All are snow-white and snow-white!" Language praises the beauty it sees.

Lin walked behind him, and originally wanted to complain, but when he came out, he was as stunned as Malone.

There was amazement on his face.

Not only him, almost everyone had the same expression on their faces.

The last one came out of the carriage, looking at the foolishness of the friends, Gong Si had a bit of complacency on his face.

"There are quite a lot of people here. When I come to my hometown, the winter scenery will be even more beautiful." He flaunted tactfully.

Turning his head with ecstasy, Malone said loudly to Gongsi: "Quick! Take us there quickly! I can't wait!"

Then Gong Si stretched out four fingers.

Everyone looked at him in puzzlement, and finally heard Gong Si say: "There are still 400 miles, from here to my house."

"This is Dongvolcano City, our superior city. My home is just a town, the farthest one among the dozen or so towns below Dongvolcano City." Gong Si said, shaking the backpack on his back: "Are you ready?" ? Next we have to transfer to the next transportation."

"The next vehicle?" Not only Malone, but everyone was stunned.

Everyone is basically from a big place, and when they go home, they go from one station to another station, or take a kind of transportation from one house to another house, or something...the distance is still 400 miles They really don't have much experience.

Gong Si raised the corners of his mouth and said to everyone: "Sleigh."