In 2016 National Day, the first day after the end of the holiday, cheng li saw Lao deng in WeChat “huhe moved brick group” and sent a message: “the railway station is finally empty.”
Cheng Li replied: “We left, then empty.”
This is the last time she will speak in the group. “Wo” is the abbreviation of Jiaxing alias “Wo City”. Six months ago, Cheng li, whose family lives in Jiaxing and works in Shanghai, joined the “amphibians” who commuted to And from Shanghai by train, and has since added her husband. During this time, Cheng Li had children, made friends and encountered dangers. More than 600 train tickets record this special experience.
For now, Ms. Cheng and her husband have changed jobs, rented an apartment in Shanghai and returned to Jiaxing for the weekend. They are still in jiaxing, but they have finally said goodbye to the daily commute. The group of old Deng and Small Na, but still running on the line.
From 904 to 1210
Cheng Li, a native of Hunan province who was born in 1985, went to university in Beijing and studied with Xu Qiang, a student from Jiaxing.
They began to live together in love during their senior year, and neither of them left Beijing immediately after graduation. They worked in Disney and Zhaopin respectively. Like most Beipiao, they shared a house of 1,600 yuan in Baliqiao, Tongzhou, and took the bus 904 from Guomao to Tongzhou every day.
“There are so many people that you can squeeze in.” It took him 30 or 40 minutes to drive, he recalled, and he was stuck in traffic longer. He rarely had a seat to go to work in the morning. Xu also lost his wallet in the car. Cheng Li felt that these days “although hard, but simple and beautiful.”
But Xu has always disliked Beijing, finding that “the feeling of outsiders is too obvious.” Despite four years of college, his stomach has never been accustomed to the harsh northern food. Such day passed more than a year, Xu Qiang is determined to return home Jiaxing, be engaged in human resources in enterprise of a estate, the cheng Li that falls alone also rose the idea that works to the south. They bought a house in Jiaxing.
In the second half of 2014, Cheng Li was brought to Shanghai by his boss and joined a startup company engaged in wealth education. At that time, Xu Qiang also left Jiaxing to work in Shanghai. They got together again and Cheng Li was pregnant.
After the baby was born at the end of 2015, he was taken by the elderly in Jiaxing. Like many short-lived P2P companies, Cheng Li’s company collapsed, suffering five months of unpaid wages and the birth of a child, which temporarily strained the family finances. Fortunately, the former boss began to be in charge of a new company, and Cheng Li went to work for her again. While breastfeeding, she had to commute between Shanghai and Jiaxing every day.
In March, Cheng Li started helping out at the new company, commuting between Shanghai and Jiaxing two or three times a week. In April, Cheng Li went to work by train for the first time. His family had a car bought by installment loan, but he could not walk to the elevated highway during the rush hour. There is a high-speed railway from Jiaxing to Shanghai, but it is not convenient to go from hongqiao, the terminal, to Huangpi South Road, where the new company is located. Taking the subway requires a transfer, and the ticket price of high-speed railway is more than three times more expensive. Taking the train seems to be the best choice.
There are many round-trip trains between Jiaxing and Shanghai. After several “preview” rides, Cheng Li found that the K1210 is the most suitable train for work. The K1210 leaves From Xiamen at 10:10 am the first day, leaves Jiaxing station at 7:53 am the next day, and arrives at Shanghai South Station at 9:06 am. Chengli takes the last leg of the 1,367 km journey. The ticket is 12.5 yuan.
There are more options for getting out of the office. The boss understands the inconvenience of Cheng Li’s lactation period, allowing her to “be late and leave early”, Cheng Li can leave the company before 4:30, take the 16:55 T381 from Shanghai South Railway Station, so that she can not let her daughter waiting at home too long. Sometimes the unit to work overtime, can only delay to leave, train number is not as fixed as the morning k1210.
On May 4, Cheng Li boarded the K1210 at jiaxing railway station and began his daily commute by train.
And time walking
Taking the train to work is a matter of timing.
Every morning at 6:45, Cheng Li gets up punctually. The first thing he does is to nurse, which takes 15 minutes. Wash and make up became a brush with the matter, only simple hydration, moisturizing, cosmetics sunscreen steps are omitted; No time to eat breakfast at home, sometimes the mother-in-law bought good steamed stuffed bun soy milk let Cheng Li take, sometimes the mother-in-law did not have the time, Cheng Li went to the train station opposite to buy meat dumplings or beef powder, mentioned to eat on the train.
Cheng Li lives near Wanda Square in Jiaxing New District, and he often builds roads in Jiaxing. It takes him half an hour to get to the railway station by taxi from his home at 7:15, and he has less than 10 minutes left to get on the train. He needs to get the ticket in advance. Cheng Li bought k1210 tickets for a week at a time and took them out in case he needed to get on the train.
Fortunately, the bus was not crowded when it arrived in Jiaxing, and there were no delays. After the end of May, Xu Qiang job-hopping to the company into Li, two people go to work together, her husband drove to the station, the time is easier to master.
Around 9:00, outside the window farmland water network began to disappear, through the suburban buildings of Shanghai, jiashan, leisurely Fujian taste of female voice rang again, “the train is coming to the station”.
After arriving at Shanghai South Station, he followed people down the platform and had no time to wait for the escalator. Cheng Li generally went down the stairs and hurried through the ticket gate to the No.1 subway line. Catch the 9:11 subway. Take 6 stops to Huangpi South Road and get out of Exit 4. The time is before 9:30.
From Huangpi South road station to the company has more than 800 meters, step up some steps need to walk 10 minutes. Passing through Shanghai’s Xintiandi cinema and fashion district, and passing three traffic lights, Cheng Li walked out of xintiandi’s shiny district around 9:40, and saw some old buildings in the startup park. The elevator to the fifth-floor company is at the gate, and sometimes the wait is so long that she pushes her way up the stairs so that by 10 o ‘clock she is almost at her desk.
Go home by car in the afternoon, although there is no requirement to clock in, waiting for breastfeeding children is still rigid pressure. If we can catch up with T381 smoothly, the speed will be faster and we can get home at 6 o ‘clock. Sometimes I leave a little late. The train is not suitable. I can’t get there until seven o ‘clock. The child resisted bottle feeding and preferred to be hungry all the time. When he saw his mother coming home, he opened his mouth and began to cry. Such as pick up the baby nursing, a day and the time of race walk is the head.
Masks, milk crates, movies
Cheng li wore a mask throughout his train ride to and from work. She felt the smell of the train, like that of a man who has been up all night. The mask is removed only when you get on the bus to eat. At this time she felt she was eating steamed stuffed bun or meat zongzi mixed into the smell of the carriage, usually the good smell of the taste became a little nauseous, but also can only wrinkle nose to eat.
In the early days, in addition to the masks, Cheng Li had another unusual piece of equipment: a milk bag. It’s a kind of two-seperated backpack with a plastic box on the bottom, insulated on all sides, and three or four ice packs inside. During his time at the company, Cheng li squeezes about three or four bags of milk. He puts them in a milk bag and carries them home to his daughter.
After cooling the milk reheating has fishy, the daughter is not willing to eat, her mother-in-law also suspected trouble. Then her daughter had enteritis, and she was afraid to let her eat again. However, when the days of carrying milk were over, the backpack did not lose its usefulness. For some time, Cheng Li would bring rice to the company.
After husband Xu Qiang goes to work together by train, the feeling of li is much better than at the beginning, and the mood set up a mobile phone to see a movie. “I watched the most movies of my life that six months.” It gave Cheng Li a sense of accomplishment.
Xu Qiang on the side, like other passengers who stayed up late from Xiamen, chose a long row seat with no one sitting, lifted the seat cover over his body, closed his eyes to make up for sleep. Usually go off work late, the evening child sometimes make, sleep not well. The K1210 is always empty, allowing for this way of sleeping.
“It’s not just physical fatigue. That kind of hard, in any case is not a daughter of young lady, can overcome. It’s mostly tired.” The feeling of being wet in the rain, the anxiety when the train is late, the smell of the human body on the train, the weight of the backpack, the urgency of walking, the sometimes faint stomachache on the hard seat, all of which are combined into a feeling of psychological exhaustion.
But the thought of a rush ahead, and can accept down, through the gate again, start a new day back and forth.
“You’re not the only one on this train.” “You’re not the only one on this train.”
Cool,
On his 10th day alone, Cheng Li met an old woman who also got on the bus from Jiaxing.
The grandmother walked straight up, sat across from Cheng Li and asked her if she was going to work in Shanghai. The old woman was a Shanghainese, a capitalist lady in her youth. Though she was greying in the temples, her manners were elegant, and the charm of her youth could be seen.
After retirement, she sold a house in Shanghai and bought a house in Jiaxing to save millions of yuan for retirement. The grandmother had a brother who was mentally stimulated during the Cultural Revolution and remained single. She lived in Jiaxing to take care of her brother and returned to Shanghai on weekends to see her husband and take care of her grandson. “I thought it was the right thing for me to do.”
She takes the bus back to Shanghai every Friday morning and goes to Jiaxing on Monday. She always sees Cheng Li wearing a mask when he takes the bus, so she comes to ask her.
“You are not the only one like you on this train,” said the old woman. She took Cheng Li to the back two cars, which were more empty except for a single seat stall where two people sat opposite each other, a man and a woman. Cheng Li and old Deng, xiaona know.
Lao Deng, also from Hunan, was a boss who owned a house in Shanghai. But with two sons and no hukou in Shanghai, he was unable to get into a good school in the city and, after several struggles, bought an apartment in Jiaxing. There is a high school attached to Northeast Normal University near the community, and two sons have obtained the qualification of nearby enrollment. The house in Shanghai is small, the house here in Jiaxing is big, and my son is happy to come. Wife at home to do a full-time wife, Old Deng is rushing about Shanghai and he two places, daily to Shanghai to do business.
Deng told Cheng li that he had made the right choice to take the K1210. He had tried driving, taking the high-speed rail and taking other trains, but the K1210 was the best and not crowded.
Xiaona is a jiaxing native, working in a foreign trade company in Shanghai, is a single woman. Married a Shanghai husband before, later found to be a mother treasure male, xiaona and mother-in-law discord, finally make to divorce, 6-year-old daughter sentenced to her husband.
When coming off work, xiaona suspicion T381 crowded, generally sit K270, 7 minutes late. Sometimes Lao Deng went with Xiao Na and sometimes with Cheng Li. The history of the two people commuting by train is much longer than Cheng Li, Lao Deng lasted two years, xiao Na has insisted on four years. Xiaona although like to play, but to their own than Into li Ruthless, work with meals, save the company 25 yuan a meal, to Jiaxing home is also by bus. Cheng Li felt sure that he would not last as long as they did.
After her husband joined the train family, cheng li initiated the establishment of WeChat “huhe move brick group” for the convenience of contact. Before going out every day, people will post the train number information in the group.
This group, which existed for more than 4 months, kept a large number of chat records, most of which were related to the weather, train number, number of passengers and carpooling. They informed each other, such as sleeping too late to catch the bus, going out in the rain without an umbrella, or reminding each other of storms and extreme heat.
As for the emptiness of the K1210, members of the brick-moving group felt uneasy: what if the train was to be cut someday? There was a warning: Xiaona’s usual k271 after work was reduced to four carriages because there were too few passengers. Worried, she consoled herself with the prospect of an intercity train in Jiaxing. “These cars stink. If you have intercity, you can get rid of them all.” But no one knows when the fabled intercity will appear.
On September 6, When Cheng Li was driving to Shanghai South Railway Station, he encountered a dangerous situation. A man with a scar on his face claimed that he lost his wallet and borrowed money from cheng li to buy a train ticket back to xiaoshan. At first, he said that he had transferred money to WeChat, and later that he had no money on WeChat. After being rejected, he suddenly reached out and patted li on the shoulder, saying that there was something dirty. Cheng Li quickly got rid of the other cars, but began to feel dizzy, convinced by the drug. She hurriedly call to still have not come off work of husband, send a message to already arrive south station to wait for a car of small na, let her arrive elevator mouth to pick up her once.
Xiao Na at first feel exaggerated, such as see li also believe. Two people called the police, the police said that this kind of thing is too much to deal with. At that moment, cheng Li still felt dizzy. “Having such a car friend is more important than ever before.”
Before leaving the train trip on National Day, Cheng Li told Xiao Na and Lao Deng the news on the train. After the old deng and Cheng Li in addition to the dialogue, move brick group into silence. Into li and Xiaona had agreed, such as out of lactation, together to eat barbecue and crayfish, since then has not been realized.
Seems to leave together to catch the train to work this head, we again difficult to connect together.
The end of the
The days of catching a train to work are over, but the houses in Jiaxing are empty and Cheng Li often has to go back. When children reach school age in the future, they will face the same situation as Deng.
“My experience of catching a train comes from an unusual combination of being in the right place at the right time and having the job in Shanghai but no place to live.”
The plan of Cheng Li and Xu Qiang is to wait for the children to enter the kindergarten, the family focuses on the investment of some new third board stock incorporated into the main board, there will be a relatively large rise, support two people to go to the United States to study graduate students, the children in the United States to receive education, completely get rid of the situation of “Hu he moved bricks”.
This prospect, like the intercity train in Cortana’s mind, requires anticipation and waiting, plus a bit of luck.
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