Chapter 63: A Distant Journey (Part One)

  Director Feng stood still after the five students left, occasionally looking back at the place where they disappeared, it can be seen that he was worried about those few students.

  Qiu Ye sighed in her heart, thinking that the current teacher-student relationship was so harmonious. Students could go through thick and thin for their teachers and classmates without any complaints. Teachers were also genuinely concerned about the safety of their students, treating them like their own children with care. Unlike in later generations, where students and teachers stood on opposite sides, many people with poor quality had joined the teaching profession, doing things that made people and gods angry towards students. Students who were spoiled by their families couldn't find their place, thinking they were nothing, yet still opposing teachers every day. When teachers tried to educate them slightly, students would go home and get their parents to come to school to make a fuss, saying that the teacher had hurt their young hearts. Some even jumped off buildings or committed suicide, ultimately making teachers afraid to manage anything in class or say anything, fearing that their good intentions would lead to endless trouble.

  Qiu Ye was lost in thought, and half an hour quickly passed. The loudspeaker at the train station also announced that the train they were going to take had started checking tickets, and many people began to surge forward with their luggage.

  Director Feng frowned and repeatedly looked at his watch, while others stretched their necks to look towards the train station entrance. Finally, after everyone's repeated calls, Chen Kai and several other students returned with large and small bags.

  Director Feng didn't have time to say anything, he just picked up his own luggage and grabbed the luggage of several male students who were unknown to him, slung it over his shoulder, and shouted: "Everyone take their own luggage, let's go to the ticket gate to check tickets, everyone follow one after another, don't fall behind! The boys in the back helped them carry their luggage, the rest of us will get on the bus first." After finishing speaking, he started rushing forward.

  On the way, the four teachers had discussed it. When rushing to catch the train, Director Feng led the way in front, Zhao Shuyan took care of several girls in the middle, and the remaining two teachers brought up the rear to ensure that all students could board the train safely and on time.

  Zhao Shuyan was in charge of taking care of the girls. After all the girls had picked up their luggage and rushed to the ticket gate, she bent down to pick up her own luggage, pulled Qiu Ye along, and let Qiu Feng follow behind. She then quickly caught up with the crowd. The other classmates also set off one after another. The boys in the back voluntarily picked up the luggage of several male classmates and followed closely behind the large group, afraid of falling behind.

  Everyone rushed to the ticket gate, and it was inevitable that there would be mutual squeezing in the crowd. Qiu Ye and her friends had just passed through the ticket gate when they heard a loud shout of scolding from behind.

  Qiu Ye couldn't see what was happening behind him and could only hear the sounds.

  "You little rascal. Are your eyes for decoration only? Can't you see there are people in front of you?" The scolder was a petite middle-aged woman with deep wrinkles all over her face, but her voice was loud and piercing.

  "Big sister, I've already apologized. Just now it was the person behind me who pushed me, that's why I accidentally bumped into you." A helpless male voice sounded in the gap of the woman's scolding.

  "Well, I don't care, you pushed me and now I won't...". The woman looked like someone who wouldn't normally take a loss. Now she was being stubborn and refusing to give in.

  The staff at the ticket gate apparently had seen such situations many times, and seeing that the entire queue was held up by the woman, some of them impatiently shouted: "What's going on? What's going on? The train is about to depart, are you all not planning to get on the train? If you're going to fight, go ahead and fight, don't delay others from checking their tickets."

  After the staff member finished speaking, the people behind who were blocked also started complaining.

  "Right, you guys aren't in a hurry to catch the train. We are, so let us through quickly."

  "If we miss our train because of you, you'll have to compensate us!"

  "You're already so old, how can you still have such a bad temper? The young man has apologized to you, why are you still being stubborn and unforgiving?"

  "Old lady, this is a train station. If you're afraid of being crowded and pushed, you'd better stay at home on your own kang and sit there."

  ……

  The woman's original anger was almost gone after the staff's explanation, but now it's completely gone after what the person behind her said. This is going to cause public outrage! She glared at the person behind her and said, "Hmph, don't follow me!"

  The young man behind her was stunned after hearing that. There's only one ticket gate, and if he didn't follow her, wouldn't he not be able to get on the train?

  The people behind who were blocked looked at the person in front who was causing trouble and had already started walking. The young man was still standing there, looking anxious, and he quickly pulled the young man to one side and squeezed forward himself, saying: "If you're not going to walk, then go to the side, don't block the way."

  The team that was advancing in front then started to slowly move forward again.

  All teachers and students who came to check tickets were organized by Director Feng to the ticket gate, so Qiu Ye, who was waiting, got a free show of excitement.

  After gathering people, they began to kill towards the train that had already arrived at the platform.

  The leading teacher walked in front and behind, shouting: "Faster, faster, three cars, at the back."

  When everyone arrived at the door of the third carriage, they saw Director Feng pointing to his students next to the conductor, counting the train tickets in their hands one by one.

  Finally, before the train started, everyone got on safely and settled down quickly under the direction of several teachers. Luggage that should be placed on the luggage rack was placed on the luggage rack, and those that couldn't fit were put under the bed. Director Feng repeatedly emphasized to everyone that they must carry their valuables with them and not put them in their luggage. Although this is a sleeper car and there are relatively fewer people, it's still not absolutely safe.

  Then another leader, Teacher Li, began to assign beds.

  "There are ten girls in these two rooms, Teacher Zhao, you and the two children will also be in this room, right? These two lower berths are yours." Teacher Li said, pointing to a room opposite the two lower berths.

  Zhao Shuyan nodded in gratitude towards Teacher Li, it was clear that this was specially taken care of for her and her two children.

  "Thank you, Teacher Zhao."

  "Ah, don't be polite, they're all young, it's convenient to climb up and down." Mr. Zhao said casually, then turned to the ten girls and said: "The remaining bunks will be divided among yourselves, whoever is not afraid of heights can take the top bunk, and whoever has difficulties, you all take care of each other." After he finished speaking, he went off to assign bunks to the boys.

  The girls all understood each other, so they quickly divided up the beds. Then everyone started looking for what they wanted to buy in the bags that the boys had put down, of course, and also paid for them. Just now there wasn't enough time, so Director Feng took the money and let the male classmates make a unified purchase. Now that everyone has taken their things, they need to pay the money back to Director Feng.

  Qiu Ye went into the crowd, carried back a big bag of fruit he wanted to buy, and put it under his seat. He planned for the three of them to eat some every day, so that they would finish it just in time when they got off the bus.

  Then she lay down on her own bed, thinking of resting for a while. In just over an hour, it seemed like a battle had been fought, and now finally quieted down, her body began to feel weak. She sighed in her heart, this old man (she thought she was an old man who had lived two lives) was so useless, now she was tired, from the inside out, even her temples were slightly throbbing with pain.

  She thought back to the moment she just got on the bus, it was a wave of fear, she almost suffocated to death. When the ticket inspection started, everyone rushed towards the entrance, although she had her godmother protecting her, but all around were people, it was truly crowded, with people pushing and shoving each other, those in the back trying to speed up the pace by pushing forward, just being over 1.4 meters tall herself made her suffer. The four sides were occupied by a surging crowd, she could only try to lift her head to breathe in fresh air. And if someone accidentally fell, wouldn't it lead to a stampede?

  She had never experienced such a grand scene before, where people were exhausted from rushing to catch the train, and her spirit was always tense. Now thinking about it, she felt scared. She couldn't help but think that this train station wasn't easy to get into, and in the future when she had money, she would take planes when traveling, resolutely refusing to worry or suffer like this again.

  Of course, there are also some chimpanzees who are tireless and fearless, like Qiu Feng. After getting on the train, he started jumping up and down, sometimes going to the upper berth to take a look, sometimes lying down in the middle berth, and then wandering around the whole carriage. In short, he was so excited that he couldn't sit or lie still.

  Zhao Shuyan saw Qiu Ye lying motionless on the bed, not at all like Qiu Feng's excitement, and thought to herself that this child may seem mature in her heart, but her body is still too thin, and she would be exhausted after a while. So she said: "Little Ye is tired, take off your shoes and lie down for a good rest, take a nap, and you'll feel refreshed when you wake up."

  Everyone in the family knows that Qiu Ye has a habit of taking a nap, and even if he does more business this year, he will try to take out ten or twenty minutes at noon to rest for a while. According to Qiu Ye himself, only by resting well can he have the energy to do more things.

  Qiu Ye was a bit sleepy, but compared to sleeping, she felt there was something more important that needed to be done first.

  "Dry mother, I'm hungry, can we eat first and then rest?" Qiu Ye said pitifully.

  Zhao Shuyan only then remembered that it was already one o'clock, and everyone hadn't eaten lunch yet. Just after getting off the bus, they were disturbed by the crowds at the train station and didn't have time to eat. After boarding the train, they were all excited and forgot about this matter. Adults can skip a meal or two, but for a young girl like her, skipping one meal is not okay.

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