If someone bought thirty buns at a bun stall in one go, eating them while hurrying toward the train station, it was already past seven o’clock now.
Apart from the two young ones, basically everyone had a watch on their hand and could tell the time.
They took the bus, transferred once, and didn’t reach the train station until nearly nine o’clock, waiting in the waiting hall.
"There are seats here, come and sit."
A few of them finally sat down to rest, having reached the train station at last.
Thinking that once on the train, it would be even more crowded.
"Lanhua, how are you feeling, is there any discomfort?"
Zhang Lanhua shook her head, "I’m okay."
Rushing to catch the bus did feel a bit uncomfortable, but the thought of going home gave her the motivation.
At half-past nine, they took out their train tickets and went onto the platform, just waiting for their train to arrive.
At nine forty, the train stopped over the track, and with that stop, quite a number of people boarded the train.
Cao Dali was also carrying quite a few things, his wife planned on bringing an electric rice cooker as a gift for her parents’ home, along with their clothes and some other things to take back.
This time going home, pretty much everyone was laden with big and small bags.
Yun Xiaoxiao clutched the hands of the two young ones tightly, also afraid of them being pushed away by the crowd.
"Comrade, your bag has knocked over my son."
That comrade didn’t pay any attention to Yun Xiaoxiao at all, striding forward with his load.
That made Yun Xiaoxiao quite helpless.
"Let’s be careful, take it slow, no need to rush. This is a big platform, and it’s also the starting station, the train will stay half an hour."
"Mama, I know it’s 30 minutes."
After Zhao Tianlei carried the two large bags into their compartment, he asked Zhao Xinxin to keep an eye on things while he went to pick up the mother and her two children.
Zhao Tianlei lifted the two little ones and led the way to the front.
A lower and a middle bunk in two compartments.
Da Bao was placed with Zhao Tianhe and Cao Dali’s couple in one compartment, and their side had the family of three plus Xiao Bao.
They were next to each other.
There were too many things; they couldn’t fit under the beds and had to be placed next to the beds.
Having settled everything, it was already fifty-five past nine, with only a few minutes left before departure.
"Mama, are we going home now?"
"Yes, we’re going home now."
The train started moving.
Zhao Xinxin sat on the lower bunk, looking out of the window at the platform moving backward.
Da Bao didn’t go to the next compartment but stayed with his dad, mom, and little brother.
Zhao Family Village Team.
"Are Xiao Shitou and Educated Youth Yun not coming back this year for the New Year?"
"Our team’s college student has come back, but the two of them still haven’t?"
"Aren’t you well-informed? I heard Xiao He and Xinxin also went to the Capital City to find Xiao Shitou and his wife, and they haven’t come back either, have they?"
The team had already distributed money, grain, and even meat.
Now that these old ladies had nothing to do, they started talking about this matter together.
"It’s already the twenty-sixth of the New Year, only a few days left until New Year’s Day?"
"Xiao Shitou even took his two kids to the Capital City for schooling, wonder how they are doing?"
"Da Shu’s mother, will your uncle and his family come back for the New Year?"
Da Shu’s mother ambled out and didn’t expect to be stopped by someone asking about this.
"I’m not sure, I haven’t heard my in-laws mention anything."
Could it be that Laosan’s family isn’t planning to come back for New Year’s?