[Titanic] Golden House

Chapter 55

The life on board is comfortable and beautiful.During the day and night together, the relationship between Rose and Carl is stronger than ever.Because of living together, many habits between each other are clear.

Carl snores when he sleeps, and Rose likes to kick the quilt when he sleeps.Rose habitually stays in bed early, 5 minutes to the left and 5 minutes to the right.But Karl likes to twist and turn vigorously on the bed before going to bed at night, and has to change seven or eight positions to find a comfortable one.

Before Karl gets up, he likes to lie in bed and smoke a cigarette.But because Rose had already said something before, Carl became the habit of getting up early and eating a piece of chocolate.And the source of chocolate is usually the snacks that Rose ate when she lay on the bed after washing and before going to bed.

In this way, a couple in love directly entered the old couple mode.That's it, Carl's unique possessiveness and dominance are getting heavier and heavier in getting along day after day.Sometimes, Rose has a feeling that Karl wants to keep her in captivity.

Along the way, because they brought a chef, Rose was very satisfied with the food.But fruit or something, except for easy storage and durability, don't even think about it.Later, Rose began to eat canned fruit without going ashore for supplies.

Like canned fruit, there are also some easy-to-cook green vegetables. Da Li and his wife put a lot of thought into it.

Can the fruit in airtight glass jars.When someone put them on board, they brought dozens of cans of these alone.

Then Mr. and Mrs. Li brought five or six wooden boxes, filled with boxes of soil, and brought them on board.On the day they boarded the boat, Li Da and his wife sprinkled a layer of seeds in the box, planted some cabbage, lettuce and some green vegetables.

Because they didn't point out how big they grew, so when the vegetables were officially out of stock after boarding the ship, Rose added the vegetables she grew herself to her meal.

Rose couldn't even imagine what her life would have been like if she hadn't brought Mrs. Li with her, and if Mrs. Li hadn't been so well prepared.In modern times, although she is just an ordinary citizen, she really has no shortage of vegetables throughout the year.That's really when you want to eat and when you have it.

How could I have thought that I would be rich and have status when I came here.But the standard of living has dropped. We can't eat watermelons in winter and oranges in summer.

But every time she saw this, Rose would think of the [-]s, [-]s, when the reform, reform, opening, and opening up just started.

At that time, Rose was still very young, and every year, she followed her family members to visit relatives who went out of town.Every time I go out, there are big bags and small bags.Bring the things at home to relatives, and bring back the things in relatives.However, it may be the common people.So no matter how many things there are, there are not as many as Rose.

But at that time, it was impossible to go to visit relatives, and it would take two months on the road.Hehe, thinking of this, Rose couldn't help laughing.It turns out that the distance between Britain and China is not the farthest.The farthest is the distance from Shandong to Beijing.

I didn't see a certain little white flower walking from Daming Lake to the capital for half a year.

Then again, in the [-]s, [-]s, the trains were slow and there were many people.The dark green iron train is slow.Because they are all passing cars, every time their family gets on the car, there are many people on the car, and there is no empty seat.

However, because Rose is small, there are often kind-hearted people who are willing to squeeze each other and let her take a seat on the side of the chair.The experience of squeezing the train at that time is still fresh in Rose's memory.

Compared with now, it is really a sky and an underground.

Besides, food was very poor in those days.Especially the life of ordinary people is even more tight.What to eat and what to buy must be supplied by ticket.

Rose has a registered permanent residence in the city, and her adult food rations have been met since she was born.So the conditions at home are relatively better.But even so, every time she visited relatives, Rose still felt that her family was not as good as the people in her hometown.

To eat an egg, you have to buy it with a ticket. Sometimes, even if you have a ticket, you can’t buy it.And what about the countryside at that time.Because the special ten years of turmoil have passed.So every family can raise a lot of chickens and ducks.Eggs, duck eggs.If you can't finish eating, you will pickle it with salt and eat slowly.

Every household has a garden, and the vegetables in it can be eaten at any time.At that time, pesticides and fertilizers were still a Western product, and not everyone would buy them.So the vegetables in the garden, especially the cucumbers and persimmons, are really ready to be picked and eaten by rubbing them on the clothes.

I remember that at that time, she liked to eat the little eggplants that had just grown, which were tender and could be eaten raw, with a little sweetness.There are also small eggplant stalks, which are the most delicious stewed meat.

Pigs killed during the Chinese New Year can be eaten until summer.But the meat is not fresh.It's all cured meat in a salt shaker, too.Occasionally it is also made into bacon, or bacon or something.

Besides those vegetables, even after the season is over, when the harvest is out of season, all kinds of dried vegetables in the summer and autumn are still delicious.

In winter, the house burns firewood, which is warmer than the coals Rose's family burns in the city.After all, all the coal in Rose's family was paid for, and firewood was really available in the countryside.

Therefore, Rose has never known which aspect of the urban hukou that those people envy is better than the rural hukou.This thought has been lingering in Rose's mind.The more I went on, the more I felt that the rural hukou was really a hundred times stronger than the urban hukou.

Before boarding the ship, Carl contacted a staff member of the British Embassy in China through his relationship, asking him to help rent a house in the capital of China and help hire a local guide.It's best to know English, and it's okay if you don't understand it.

At the beginning of September, due to various reasons, the cruise ship that Rose and her party were on was going to dock in China's Tianjin Port.

Tianjin is in modern times from Beijing. If it is a high-speed rail, it is half an hour away, and it is about one or two hours by ordinary train.But at this moment, the car is okay, although it is all dirt roads, it can be reached in three or four hours.As for the carriage, hehe, sorry, it will take at least half a day.

At around ten o'clock in the morning, Rose looked at the carriage in front of her to pick them up, and then looked at the dusty road where two carriages could run side by side.He gritted his teeth and sat in.

The guide they hired was named Liu, a young man who had studied abroad.A few days ago, after he received the news that Karl and others were coming, he went to a famous carriage shop in the city to book a few carriages.

Originally, he thought that the employer brought a lot of people, but he didn't think there would be more luggage.Especially when there were two obese black and white bears in the luggage, the corners of his mouth twitched even more frequently.

For some unknown reason, none of the carriage horses were willing to ride them.There is no way.Rose had to send someone to find a bullock cart.Chased them up.

Originally, I was thinking of arranging for them to return home when they arrived in the capital, so I didn't say much about it.Directly let someone take them to Sichuan.Seeing this, Changxing quickly expressed his willingness to go with him.

Rose had no objections, and after giving Changxing a red envelope that she had prepared long ago, she let them go.

On this side, among the luggage, except for the clothes of Rose and Carl, only the couple of Li had the most luggage.

The rice and noodles are almost eaten, but some of the remaining empty boxes have to be taken down, and these can still be reused when they go back.These boxes filled a whole carriage.

The driver of the carriage, seeing that there was a box specially filled with soil, said in his heart, "Foreigners can be demons, and they brought the soil from home in a box when they went out."Even in their countryside, there are no such bumpkins. '

Hurrying along the way, apart from being introduced by the guide at noon, after having a meal of Tianjin food at Tianjin City Gate, the group of people rushed non-stop, and finally arrived at the capital before the sun went down.

Of course, to say that it is non-stop is only a relative term.Before leaving the city gate, Rose spotted a pancake seller on the street at a glance.Immediately let people stop, must buy one to eat.

Because the ship would also weigh anchor from Tianjin Port when their group returned to England, so Rose's itinerary to visit Tianjin was arranged before the return journey.That's why I didn't stop in Tianjin.

Don't ask Rose why she used the word 'back' to speak of England.A sentence that is so straightforward that it is a bit vulgar-my home is where my heart is at ease.Carl can run in the United Kingdom and the United States, but he will never agree to run in the United States, Britain, and China. Well, he can't afford to run at this traffic speed.That being the case, returning to the UK to settle down is certain and inevitable.

The taste of pancakes made more than 100 years ago is really indescribable to Rose.It is delicious, but it is not as delicious as the one I ate at the night market in my memory.It's not delicious, but in Rose's mind, she always feels that the pancakes of this era are more authentic, and the taste should be more delicious than the food with a lot of additives added in later generations.

Was she beautifying the food in memory?still......

No matter how I think about it, the sadness in my heart still rises.No matter how good she is in this time and space, she still misses that modern age after all.No matter how fast the pace of life is and how stressful life is, it is still an era she is familiar with.A place with a sense of belonging.

Tianjin, which passed by in a flash, has no similarities with Ben's previous life.After leaving the bustling urban area, the outside of the city is very dilapidated, backward, and depressed.In Rose's eyes, the city of Tianjin has become the gray old photo in the memory of her previous life.

Thinking back to the streets and alleys that were crowded with people just now, people's faces were all blank.The new Huaxia has not yet produced a sense of belonging in the hearts of these people, just like the Huaxia at the moment for Rose.

With a "burp", Rose quickly covered her mouth.Hiccups and the like are the most embarrassing.

"Hmph, hurry up. I'm not talking about you. You've already disembarked, and you'll be here soon. If you can't make it, you'll get it tonight. What's the rush?" Karl gloated, but luckily he was the only one in the carriage And Rose, otherwise you will see if Rose will become angry and make use of it.

This carriage turned out to be the kind that Rose had only seen on TV, with large wooden wheels, a semicircular roof, and a small window with cloth curtains on the left and right sides. There is a big cloth curtain on the side, and there is no door. When the carriage is fast, Rose is afraid that she will be thrown out.

In the carriage, there are three wooden boards placed on three sides.The roof of the car is very low, so you can only sit in it.Karl is tall and burly, and he occupies one side, the wooden board by the window.Oh, this is no longer called a board, but a carriage chair.

Rose sat in the innermost part, leaning against the wooden board at the rear of the carriage.There is a smell in the car.Rose had Tracy and Dole clean up before getting into the car.Otherwise it always feels too dirty.

The carriage is really too simple.There is nothing the guide can do.The cars these female relatives were riding in were not bad.Both the luggage and the men were pulled by one or two mules pulling an open-air flatbed cart with only one large plank except the wheels.That's called suffering.Along the way, there was dust all over his head and face.

In Rose's car, she and Carl were sitting on the extra blanket she had brought from England.That's it, it's still bumpy.

While sitting in the car on the road, while eating.This is nothing in modern times, and many office workers do it like this.But at that time the road was a smooth road.The car is also functionally good.But now this carriage, it is estimated that even the tora machine will be willing to bow down.

No, Rose was robbed while eating in the carriage.I thought it was a problem with the carriage, but on second thought, I was still too impatient.Originally, Carl said that she would wait until she finished eating before leaving, but she insisted on eating while walking.Now that she is like this, she also feels a little bit of herself.

Take the water bottle Carl handed over.The sweet juice smoothly entered the esophagus.Rose felt a burst of relief.

After eating pancakes that are not as delicious as the ones I remember.Rose opened a slightly larger carry-on bag on her lap.Xiao Miao just pretended to be there and was carried by Rose.Maybe it's the first time I've been in such a 'motor' car.That's why he looked listless, with a look of confusion and panic in his eyes.

The strap of the tote bag was hung on Rose's wrist, and the hand passed through Carl's arm and was held tightly by Carl.

Rose also rested her head on Carl's shoulder, making herself more comfortable.And Karl first rubbed his chin against Rose's hair, and then pressed his head on Rose's head. The two of them leaned on each other, and there was a faint warmth in the small carriage box.

One hand was held by Carl, and the other hand was on Xiaomiao's head, stroking back and forth.Slowly, Rose became a little sleepy.It's just that I don't know how long it took, and I was awakened by a sudden bump.

The guide surnamed Liu sat on the side of the carriage, and the coachman sat beside him.Rose raised her wrist to look at the time, and slowly rubbed herself from the innermost side to sit opposite Carl.As soon as he was seated, he lifted the curtain of the car and asked him, "How long will it take to reach the capital?"

Liu Qian was taken aback. They communicated in English just now.So he never knew that Rose could speak Chinese.Hearing Rose's standard Chinese, I couldn't help being a little surprised.Even so, it was only a matter of a moment, "I have already passed Langfang, and I will arrive in about an hour."

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Rose nodded, and let go of the car curtain she had been holding on to.Carefully got up and returned to the previous seat.

Hearing Rose's words, Liu Qian wanted to reply with some kind words.Just looking up, he saw that the person was no longer at the door, touched his nose, turned around again, and said nothing more.

Sure enough, it was just a polite remark.

"Tonight, don't contact my Huaxia classmates. Wait until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, when we have rested, and then contact them." I wasn't tired at first, but after working on this carriage for so long, my bones were about to fall apart.If I contact them again, I don't have much energy to talk to them after meeting them.That being the case, I can't wait for the rest to get in touch again.

One of Rose's main purposes this time is to attend the wedding of Li Yetong and Zhang Muyuan.When they were leaving, Rose had sent a telegram to tell them about the ship they were on.It was just that there were some temporary problems later, and the ship they were on actually entered Tianjin Port.Afraid that there might be some more problems, Rose told them not to come to pick them up.Tell them when you get there.

Although Li Yetong and the others were a little worried, Rose, a little girl, arranged to disembark by herself in China, where she was born in an unfamiliar place.But I heard that this time her fiancé was also with her.It's a little relieved.

"Well, I said it. When I arrive in Huaxia, I will only listen to your arrangements." Anyway, I am here for vacation, and Rose can arrange whatever she wants. The premise is that as long as you don't do dangerous things, he will never Interfering.

"Carl, you're so kind. How about I treat you to dinner tonight?" Rose raised her face while holding Carl's arm, and said with a smile.

Carl gave her a funny look.It's not even a place to live at night.That's the thing about eating.

In fact, the little guy in front of him must be hungry again.but,

Carl looked down at Rose's waist and chest, feeling extremely distressed, eating so much and still being so skinny.How can his woman become fatter?