Signing in during the Republic of China: Starting from a foot patrol

Chapter 116

After Lin Hongfei came back, Wu Erhan told Chen Wanshun and his wife about the matter just now.

Lin Hongfei sneered: "This is really treating his girlfriend as a bad person, purely as a goods used to exchange money."

"Second brother, you tell the tiger again, let him clean up Xiao Liu Mazi fiercely."

"His father Liu Mazi let me pick the hamstrings, and I didn't dare to sell people anymore, this little Liu Mazi is not old, and his son inherits his father's business."

"This is still inherited!"

After this little episode, the car factory finally came to life, and Chen Wanshun and his wife did not dare to make trouble again.

Lin Hongfei saw that everything was arranged, so he was ready to pack his bags and leave his hometown.

He planned to go to Zhou Village first, discuss with the Chen treasurer about opening a dyeing factory, and when this matter was almost done, he would report straight to the military academy.

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"Successful check-in."

"Get 1 gold-encrusted Fox double-barreled shotgun with 500 rounds of ammunition!"

"I'll go, good stuff!"

Early in the morning, after Lin Hongfei woke up from his sleep, he obtained a valuable double-barreled shotgun.

This gold-encrusted Fox shotgun was custom-made for President Roosevelt, the elder of the Beacon Nation, and later sold for $860,000.

Taking it out and playing with it, Lin Hongfei showed a satisfied expression.

At this time, in the corner of his room, several suitcases were stacked, and as he finished washing, several coachmen walked in to help him carry his luggage into the car.

Today is the day when Lin Hongfei left for Lu Province, and Qin's sister-in-law and Xiaomeizi got up early to make noodles, chop stuffing, and wrap dumplings for Lin Hongfei and others.

The freshly baked meatball dumplings gently bite, then nourish the piping hot gravy, dip in the black aged vinegar in the bowl, bite down half of the garlic cloves in the mouth, and then put the blowing meatball dumplings into the mouth, the taste of sour and hot oil aroma immediately exploded in the mouth.

"Sister-in-law, is there a vegetarian? I want to eat vegetarian dumplings! Lu Xiwa shouted at Qin's sister-in-law.

Qin's sister-in-law brought out a pot of hot dumplings that had just come out of the pot, and scolded with a smile in her mouth: "When you eat buns, you look for meat." When eating dumplings, you look for vegetarian.

"Xiwa, say it yourself, are you a little wrong!"

"Hahaha!"

Everyone burst into laughter!

Dozens of meat dumplings were put down, and then a bowl of dumpling soup with a layer of oil flowers floating on it, and everyone's faces showed a satisfied smile!

Lin Hongfei went to Lu Province this time, in addition to Wang Zixi, who was responsible for leading the way, he also brought Lu Xiwa, Sun Tie, Ding Dehu, and Chen Deshan as escorts to prevent encountering robbers on the road.

Arriving at the train station, the group first met with Wang Zixi, who had been waiting here, and then entered the station in turn and boarded the train.

During this trip, Lin Hongfei and others first arrived at Jinmen by train, and then changed from Jinmen to a southbound train, and went straight to Jifu in Lu Province along the Jinpu Railway.

There is a Jiaoji railway between Jifu and Qingcheng in Lu Province, and the village of Zhou, where Chen is located, is located along the Jiaoji railway.

Riding the train is also not easy, but it is better than sleeping in the wilderness.

At this time, the interior of the passenger train already had first-class, second-class and third-class carriages.

The fare of the third-class car is the cheapest, and the general pattern is similar to the hard seat car of the later green train, but the third-class car seat in the Republican period is more uncomfortable, basically hardwood seats.

Moreover, the position of the third-class carriage is close to the front of the steam locomotive of the train, and the temperature in the carriage is extremely high in the summer, and at the same time, a large amount of coal ash and black smoke drift in through the open window.

However, in winter, the third-class carriage is instead placed at the back of the train, and the highest-class first-class car is arranged behind the locomotive.

In winter, because the windows are not open, black smoke and soot cannot float in, and because it is close to the steam engine, the temperature of the first-class room is very comfortable in winter.

And the third-class carriage at the bottom of the line was frozen like an ice cellar.

The second-class carriage is similar to the sleeper of the Green Train, with four bunks in one compartment, two beds on the left and right, and two floors.

As for the first-class cabin, there is no need to say more, there is no need to talk about the fans, heating and these things, there is also a carpet under the feet, and each box has an independent dressing room and toilet, and its comfort level is comparable to the high-end soft sleeper of the green train.

It's just that the first-class fare is the most expensive, but Lin Hongfei is not short of that little money now, and directly asked the stationmaster of the Beijing Railway Station to leave him six first-class tickets.

When the train enters the train station, the passengers of the same train present different boarding scenarios.

The passengers of the third-class carriage were blocking the entrance of the carriage one by one, with large bags of small luggage, like a pimple.

In this crowd of passengers boarding, passengers carried, carried, carried, or dragged their luggage taller than themselves onto the train.

Some of the people who were riding in the car had the idea of sending a companion to squeeze into the carriage with their bare hands, and then move everyone's luggage in one by one through the open window, and when the luggage was finished, the others could easily squeeze on the train.

There are also some people who can't squeeze in for a while, and directly drill through the window!

Although the passengers in the second class also carried luggage, the number of people was relatively small, so the line was not so crowded.

The passengers in the first-class carriage were the most relaxed, they were gorgeously dressed and bare-handed, and their luggage was carried up one by one by the next person, and then they slowly boarded the train.

On the contrary, first-class passengers like Lin Hongfei who carry their own luggage are relatively rare.

Before Lin Hongfei got on the car, he looked at the crowd in the third-class carriage, and the scene of riding in a green car when he went home from college came to mind.

At that time, Lin Hongfei went from the north to the south to go to university, and one year the plane tickets were tight, and the train tickets were only station tickets, Lin Hongfei was stunned at the junction of the two carriages, and took the train for a full 60 hours.

Lin Hongfei still remembers that when he got off the car with his luggage, his whole person was floating, and he fell asleep when he returned home, resting for three or four days before relieving himself.

"Alas!"

Lin Hongfei sighed and boarded the train.

With a long whistle sound from the front of the steam locomotive, in the sound of popping, thick smoke drifted around, and the train slowly started and drove along the tracks towards Jinmen.

The speed of trains in the Republic of China was not very fast, the speed was thirty or forty kilometers per hour, which was not much stronger than the electric motorcycle of the takeaway brother in later generations.

Therefore, during the Republican period, people along the railway would climb on the running train at night and steal the goods in the freight compartment of the train.

This way of making a fortune still existed until the eighties and nineties, and it was not until the train speed was greatly accelerated, coupled with the continuous crackdown on such incidents, that this behavior gradually disappeared.