Great time travel

Chapter 61. South China Sea Railway Journey ([-])

Lingao New Railway Station
Xu Xiake, whose head was wrapped in gauze, was sitting in the waiting hall, looking curiously at the furnishings and decorations here, while reaching out to touch his bald head, feeling very uncomfortable—even though the Executive Committee of the Traveler Senate has tried its best to Law and order are maintained, but due to the influx of tens of thousands of migrants, various violent conflicts in Lingao County continue to occur frequently.Last month, when the unlucky Xu Xiake was shopping, he accidentally got involved in a large-scale gang fight involving hundreds of sailors. fainted.

Seeing this, Xu Zhongzhao, the clan brother, was so scared that he was out of his wits, and hurriedly asked someone to help him into the hospital for help. However, in order to bandage the wound on his head and prevent infection, the "doctor shaved" actually shaved off all Xu Xiake's hair... So So far, Xu Xiake, who has no plans to "throw a hair" so far, has become a "false hair" with infinite depression - at least until the hair grows back, this hat will never be taken off.

The disdainful and disdainful eyes of the scholars and scholars around him made Xu Xiake, who was forced to shave his hair, deeply hurt.

"... Tsk tsk! He's so gentle and shameless! Looking at his clothes and attire, he seems to be a well-known scholar! How could he be fascinated by the barbarians like this, and make him look like a human being? Does it look like a ghost?"

"... Well, there is a saying in the "Book of Filial Piety": 'The body, hair and skin, received by parents, dare not damage it, this is the beginning of filial piety. I don’t want any more, there is no shame at all! It’s really ashamed to be with him!”

"...Hehe, I'm afraid he intends to join the thief, but the Australian hair thief is not willing to accept it! You see, isn't he still wearing the straight gown of a scholar instead of the four-pocket 'cadre outfit' like the hair thief? It must be that this person shaved his hair and wanted to throw himself into the bandit, but let others shut the door..."

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Those Confucian scholars who made sarcastic remarks didn't seem to have thought of lowering their voices so that Xu Xiake could hear them clearly, so they couldn't help frowning.Xu Zhongzhao, who was sitting next to him, saw his younger brother's face getting darker and darker, so he had no choice but to persuade him, "...Ahem, brother, don't take these sarcastic remarks to heart, and don't bother with these lip-smacking sours. After all, it is a matter of life, presumably Ling Tang should be able to understand..."

"...it's okay, my mother won't care about such a trivial matter. Otherwise, I won't allow me to go out and travel around the world." Xu Xiake waved his hand and replied, "...besides, this place is not less than thousands of miles away from my hometown in the south of the Yangtze River Here, by the time I return home, my little brother's hair should grow out..."

Having said that, it is not a comfortable thing to listen to a group of idlers around me sneering at him.Although he had been ridiculed and ridiculed by Jiangnan scholars before because of his maverick and lack of business, he never came to his ears to make noise like this.Xu Xiake thought he didn't have the kind of patience and self-sacrifice, but it was inconvenient to quarrel with them, so he finally had to turn his attention to this station.

——Because it is a "toy railway system" built with Doraemon's magical props, this brand new railway station is also a typical children's park style: it looks colorful and beautiful from a distance, and it looks very beautiful when you walk in. Only then did I realize that it was actually rather rough and empty.

On the whole, the entire station is just an extra-large pergola made of iron sheets. The waiting hall is directly covered on the platform. There are only a few iron pillars supporting the ceiling on all sides, and there is not even a wall. , the rain may be able to hit the other end from one end of the waiting room.

The benches and ticket booths in the waiting room were also made of iron sheets, and they were hard and cold to sit on, which was not very comfortable.But the shape is very beautiful. For example, the ticket booth was made into a big orange mushroom, and the iron seats were painted with cartoon patterns of various animals and flowers with colorful paint.Even the trash cans stamped out of iron sheets are made in the shape of small animals such as rabbits and monkeys holding baskets, so that when the local aborigines entered the waiting room for the first time, they could not recognize that it was a thing for throwing trash. I thought it was a large vase or flower pot... So, later on, the station really changed these overly exquisite tin trash cans into flower pots, and put a few rattan baskets as trash cans.

At this time, the outside of the waiting room was already crowded with hawkers, eagerly selling fruits, pastries, cold drinks, candies, and various unnamed souvenirs.Because it was blocked by an iron fence, it was impossible to get in, so the hawkers could only climb on the iron fence and shout loudly.Then, from time to time, because they were making too much noise or trying to squeeze in, they were beaten by the "soldiers" in black uniforms at the station gate with their rattan sticks...

In short, Xu Xiake took out a pen and paper while looking at the layout of the station, and recorded it while waiting for the train.

——In fact, according to Xu Xiake’s original travel plan, after seeing the “Australian scenery” in Lingao, and visiting the scenery of Lizhai in the mountains, he, the “first donkey traveler in the late Ming Dynasty”, should At the end of this trip, I crossed the sea and returned to my hometown in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. As soon as he and his clan brothers came out of the deep mountains, they caught up with the unprecedented event of the fleets of various countries gathering in the Lingao League. Persian dancers, African Kunlun slaves, American red barbarians, Tianzhu snake charmers, and all kinds of exotic animals from overseas all rushed to the market in Lingao, which made Xu Xiake, who is curious by nature, dazzled for a while, and never moved again. Not moving... When the formation of airships appeared above Lingao, the eye-opening Xu Xiake was even more unwilling to leave.

The problem is, the brothers of the Xu family spend money every day when they are away from home.After such a long journey across the mountains and rivers and across the oceans, there is not much left of the little things they brought with them when they traveled, and they can't last for a few more days.Although Xu Xiake has lost his face and set up a stall on the street to write letters for others and sell his calligraphy and paintings by the way, the business does not seem to be very good, and the money he gets is very limited... Fortunately, he and Xu Zhongzhao are almost unable to pay. When I was paying for the inn room, I met a Jiangnan businessman I met in Lingao in the past, and I finally borrowed tens of taels of Sichuan capital from him——Xu Xiake was born in Jiangyin Xu’s family, which is also regarded as a family in the local area. A well-known wealthy family, no worries about not paying money.

Seeing that he finally had a little more money, Xu Xiake thought about continuing to travel south—according to the "broadcast" played in the big tin speaker on the street light pole in Lingao Dongmen City, and the "Lingao Daily" According to the content published in the Internet, "The Emperor of the Song Dynasty of Australia" was at the southernmost tip of Qiongzhou Prefecture and the southernmost tip of the Ming Dynasty. Several copperplate prints of Sanya's "ends of the earth" scenery were published in the newspaper, which immediately attracted Xu Xiake, a donkey traveler.

——You know, as the most famous tourist in the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Xiake often died just to see the scenery.He used to climb cliffs with bare hands in order to find alpine lakes on Yandang Mountain.Later, in order to enjoy the scenery of Xiangxi, he took the initiative to drill on the battlefield where the government and the army suppressed the bandits. It can be said that there is no limit to death.Now that he knows that there is such a scenic spot at the southern tip of Qiongdao, and the transportation is very convenient, how can he not go and feast his eyes?

As for being involved with the "Ausong Song thief"... He has never been afraid of this question since he left home...