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The old-fashioned trains are far less smooth than the modern high-speed trains, and Caroline's messy mind was dazed by the train.

Fortunately, after Caroline's simple judgment, she was traveling alone.The conductor who had just passed told her that the train was still a few hours away from its destination in Chicago, giving her some time to figure out the situation.

The small bag I carried with me had been flipped through, and there was a train ticket from Columbia City to Chicago today in it.Folder with the ticket is the identification card belonging to "Caroline Meeber".Caroline was born in 1871 and is just 18 years old this year.

Other than that, there was only a pitiful four dollars in cash and a small note with the address in the bag:

"344 Van Buren Street"

Thank God that the address on this note belongs to Caroline's sister Minnie, otherwise Caroline would not be able to remember where it is from the chaotic memory at this time.

After confirming the information at hand, Caroline tried hard to dig out the history of the United States at the end of the 1929th century from her memory. Unfortunately, after working hard for a long time, she only remembered the Civil War and the Great Depression in the United States in 30. The former has passed 40 years, the latter is almost [-] years away.

"Oh my god, I'm really not suitable for time travel," Caroline covered her eyes in pain.

Outside the window, the train passed through open grasslands, rows of telephone poles and more and more placards.It's a pity that Caroline didn't have the strength to think any more. Her motion sickness symptoms were a bit severe, and she finally couldn't help leaning against the car window frame and fell into a light sleep again.

But Caroline didn't sleep well this time.

In her sleep, she first saw Lin Nai's self in another world in her "previous life", and she was still living step by step.Going to and from class, reading books, occasionally teaching English to the children of relatives and friends on a part-time basis, and paying off the mortgage on a monthly basis, life seems to have not changed much.And she got divorced after the college entrance examination, and her parents who got married after that are still in good health and live a peaceful and stable life.Caroline didn't know what was going on, but her heart was relieved, but it was also a little empty.

Then Caroline Meeber's 18-year life in fast forward appeared in the dream.The Meeber family lives in the small town of Columbia.She was more often called Sister Carrie than the name Caroline.

Sister Carrie didn't read much. She could read and write, but that was all.The girl is full of yearning for the prosperous life in the city, but her life in Colombia remains the same.

With longing for the future, Carrie took the train to Chicago yesterday.It was just a few minutes' nap on the road, and I woke up to be the current Caroline.

This memory surged back and forth in Caroline's mind, and the key words "Chicago, train, sister Carrie" finally brought back memories of Caroline's previous life.

"Sister Carrie! It turned out to be Sister Carrie!" Caroline suddenly stood up from her seat, grabbed her hair forcefully, and wanted to scream loudly.

A young man with a mustache sitting next to him showed curiosity and concern. Caroline forced a smile back and suppressed the fire in her chest.

Caroline, a former English major graduate, stumbled across the novel "Sister Carrie" when she was studying. The story begins with a beautiful girl from a small town going to a big city to make a living, and the follow-up story roughly tells that she is greedy for prosperity and elopes with others. , and eventually became a theater actor.But the problem is that Caroline is very, not, deeply impressed by the specific plot of this story.

If she had known that one day she would run into this book, she must have read "Sister Carrie" with the same vigor as she read "Notre Dame de Paris", no, no, she would have to deal with it with the devout attitude of staying up late to memorize the Oxford Dictionary!

"Chicago, Chicago is here!" the conductor slammed open the carriage door and told the passengers in the carriage loudly.

It was getting dark outside, and the train slowly drove into the carport. The lights did not dispel the darkness. The loud voices and the crowd outside the window made Caroline, who had just arrived, a little timid.

She wondered if someone would come to pick her up, would she be recognized as different from the old Caroline?

If no one picked her up, would she go to Van Buren Street by herself?

She remembered that Minnie's letter mentioned that Chicago already had a tram as public transportation, but did the tram go to Van Buren Street?

Thinking that there will be no Didi, subway and map navigation in the future, the girl who is spoiled by the developed modern Internet traffic is very painful.

Caroline took a deep breath and walked to the car door alone.

Fortunately, fate had played enough jokes with Caroline today. When she got out of the car with her meager luggage, a thin-faced woman in a gray cloth skirt recognized her immediately. her a hug.

"Is the family all right? Sister Carrie." The woman patted Caroline on the shoulder. The familiar tone and face made Caroline sure that this was her sister.

"It's okay, Minnie, they're all okay."Caroline has gradually mastered the memory of her body, and she tried her best to act like a little girl seeing her long-lost sister to conceal her anxiety.

The woman smiled, and under the smile was an unconcealable exhaustion, which prevented her from noticing the change in her younger sister.She quickly led Caroline out of the station.

Caroline was secretly relieved that the suspicion that Caroline was worried about did not happen at all.

No. 344 Van Buren Street is a simple apartment. My sister Minnie and her brother-in-law Hansheng live in a household on the third floor facing the street.This rented apartment was not spacious, far from the kind of apartment that often appeared in European and American movies, and there were a few pieces of furniture that looked of poor quality.

My older sister, Minnie, is 27 years old. She married her husband who also works in Chicago a few years ago, and they have a one-year-old child.Brother-in-law Han Sheng works as a cleaner in a breeding farm, which is the only source of income for their small family.

The two of them were living a tight life. They had agreed to bring their younger sister over earlier because they agreed in advance that Carrie would come to work, and she would have to pay for board and lodging if she stayed here.

After greeting Han Sheng and Caroline, he sat down at the dining table and read the newspaper.Caroline sat on the second-hand sofa in the front hall, holding the child thrown to her by her sister who was cooking in her arms, staring at the old newspapers pasted on the wall, remembering that she had borrowed a loan for 20 years before crossing, and spent two It has been renovated for a month, and the wind has been scattered for three months. I just lived in a new house for one night, and I can't help but feel sad.

After dinner Caroline asked Minnie and Hanson about their work.

"I remember you wrote a letter last time and said you wanted to go around first?" Minnie smiled and said to her sister,

"So I just thought, we can go to Lincoln Park and Michigan Avenue this Sunday. There are many good places in Chicago that don't cost money."

If it was the original Carrie, she might be very interested in it, but the current Caroline doesn't have that much thought.She really wanted to appreciate the style of this industrial city a hundred years ago, but at the moment she was more worried about her dry wallet, and the feeling of losing everything suddenly made her very uneasy.

"Of course Minnie, let's go together on Sunday. But I want to go see if there are any job opportunities in these two days."

"You can go to the factory district, just on the east bank of the river. Most of the new girls in Chicago go to work in factories," Han Sheng interjected. "When you have an income of five or six yuan a week, life will not be a problem."

Caroline was noncommittal, she knew that in the eyes of Minnie and Hansheng, it would be great if she could find a job in a factory.But after all, she is a modern person who has received a university education in the 21st century. Although restricted by the times and abilities, she can no longer be a teacher, but she is always unwilling to be asked to do mechanized work.

What's more, she had just inquired with Minnie that the rent for the small apartment they were renting now was five and a half yuan a week, and more than half of the family's income was spent on it.If Caroline wants to live independently in the future, she must have a higher and more stable income.

Han Sheng had to get up early for work, and before the clock on the wall pointed to nine, he went to sleep in the only small bedroom.Minnie made a bed for Caroline in a corner of the hall and left a kerosene lamp for her.

The apartment became quiet, and the voices from the next door could be vaguely heard.Caroline leaned against the window, looking at the night-shrouded street outside the window, under the dim light of the gas lamp, like a scene in a movie.

Speaking of which, this was her first time "going abroad", and she spent the whole day in fright, pretending and dazed, and Caroline's heart did not gradually calm down until this moment.

The author has something to say: Caroline (Linnaeus), is a very, very ordinary young urban teacher, she has no extraordinary talent, she doesn’t know how to play piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, poetry, business, or the Six Kingdoms foreign language.Because she became a teacher directly after graduation, her social experience is even poorer than many of her peers.Her "ordinary starting point" is destined that she will not become a big boss immediately after time travel.Of course, as she gets more familiar with this era, she will definitely get better and better.