On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Gang took the train to the capital with his family.
This time I won't be back for a short time, and at least the family won't be returning to Jichun for a year.
Because Li Suhua was in poor health and Zhou Cong was too young, it was too tiring to go back and forth.
The train technology of this era was not good enough. It took two days and two nights to travel from Jichun to the capital. All food and accommodation were on the train. It was too much for adults, but not for children either.
Fortunately, Wang Gang had money and bought a berth for his family. Although Li Suhua said that he spent money recklessly, he still had no objection for the sake of Zhou Cong and Feng Yue.
Zhou Bingyi did not go to the capital with Wang Gang and others. He bought a hard seat on the train for the next day.
It's not that Wang Gang was stingy and didn't buy a sleeper ticket for his eldest brother, but that Zhou Bingyi wanted to spend one day with his wife Hao Dongmei instead of going with his family.
After riding for two days and two nights, the train finally arrived at the station. Li Suhua looked very bad.
Wang Gang also didn't expect that Li Suhua got motion sick and lay completely down the next day, unable to stand up.
After arriving at the station, Wang Gang and Zheng Juan stood side by side and finally lifted Li Suhua off the train. They sat in the waiting hall and waited for two hours.
"I'm old and useless. Your dad and I used to take the train for three days and three nights, and it was fine from my hometown to Jichun. I didn't expect it would be so uncomfortable this time." Li Suhua exhaled.
Wang Gang said: "Mom, I'm sorry for making you suffer like this."
Li Suhua touched Wang Gang's face and said, "Silly boy, what does this have to do with you."
Wang Gang said: "If I had known, I wouldn't have let you come to the capital."
Li Suhua said with a smile: "Before I came here, I really didn't want to come to the capital, but now that I'm here, I still don't want to leave. The capital is really different from Jichun. The train stations are all grand."
"Mom, when my school is on vacation, I will take you to various attractions in the capital." Wang Gang said with a smile.
Wang Gang looked at the time, frowned and said, "Didn't I inform Zhou Rong to pick us up? The train arrived at the station two hours ago, why hasn't she come yet?"
Zheng Juan said uncertainly: "Sister, won't you stray from us?"
Wang Gang had a headache and said, "I'm going to make a call. You guys wait for me."
In this era, there were no mobile phones, so communication was really inconvenient. Wang Gang could only find a phone number and spend money to call Feng Huacheng's work unit.
"Bingkun, has your train arrived at the station? Zhou Rong went to pick you up, but she couldn't find anyone for a long time. She was almost dying of panic." Feng Huacheng said on the phone.
"Is there any way you can contact Zhou Rong? We are in the waiting room." Wang Gang asked.
"Don't leave where you are, I'll contact Zhou Rong immediately." Feng Huacheng said.
Wang Gang hung up the phone and returned to Li Suhua. Within a few minutes, he saw Zhou Rong hurried over.
"Mom, I finally found you!" Zhou Rong complained to Wang Gang as soon as she arrived: "Zhou Bingkun, what's the matter with you? You brought mom to the waiting room without saying a word to me. I've been waiting at the exit for two hours.
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Wang Gang snorted coldly: "We came out of the station two hours ago, why didn't we see you?"
Zhou Rong blushed when she heard this. She was indeed five minutes late.
Zheng Juan stood up and smoothed things over: "Maybe there were too many people when we left the station and we didn't see each other. It's better to leave now!"
Wang Gang saw that Li Suhua still didn't look good, and didn't want to waste time with Zhou Rong, so he said, "Go directly to the house I rented!"
He turned to Zhou Rong and said, "You take mom to the bus station by bike."
Seeing that Wang Gang didn't bring much luggage, Zhou Rong asked strangely: "Where is your luggage? It couldn't have been stolen on the train, right?"
Zheng Juan said: "Bingkun said that everything can be bought in the capital, so he didn't bring any luggage."
Zhou Rong curled her lips, thinking that when Wang was rich, he would show off.
Several people walked slowly to the bus station and took the bus for an hour before arriving at the house Wang Gang rented.
As soon as he arrived downstairs, Li Suhua sighed: "Bingkun, are you renting a building?"
"Yes, the house is on the second floor."
"I have never lived in a building in my life." Li Suhua sighed.
People in this era have always been proud of living in buildings, and Li Suhua is no exception.
Wang Gang took everyone upstairs. He opened the door and let Li Suhua go in first.
Li Suhua walked into the room expectantly and quickly frowned.
"Bingkun, the house you rent seems not as big as ours?"
Zhou Rong walked into the house and was envious when she saw the living room of the house.
"Mom, the bungalow you live in in Jichun is of course big. Don't think it's small here. This kind of house is rare in the capital. Feng Huacheng works in the library. Although he is also assigned to a building, this is the only one.
The room is so big, it’s still a Tongzi building, nothing compared to this.”
Li Suhua said: "Our original house is better. It's big and comfortable, and there's a yard where you can bask in the sun. The building doesn't seem to be anything special."
Wang Gang smiled at Li Suhua and said: "Our house in Jichun is certainly better than this one. It was originally built specifically for Lao Maozi experts and is rare in the country.
You have to live here for the time being, and when I have the opportunity in the future, I will buy a big house in the capital."
When Zhou Rong heard Wang Gang's words, she always felt that he was in Versailles to show off his wealth, although she didn't know what Versailles meant.
"Okay! Fortunately, this room has four rooms, so it's enough to squeeze in." Li Suhua sighed.
Zhou Rong was severely hurt by her mother's words. If you can barely live in four rooms, then their family is nothing.
"By the way, how much is the rent for this house?" Li Suhua remembered something and asked Wang Gang.
"Twenty-five yuan a month." Wang Gang said.
Li Suhua was not frightened when she heard this, but said: "It's not expensive."
Zhou Rong was speechless and wanted to ask Li Suhua, isn't twenty-five yuan expensive? My monthly salary is less than twenty-five yuan.
In fact, Li Suhua felt it was not expensive, not because she had no concept of money, but because the money was nothing compared to Wang Gang's monthly income.
Although Li Suhua didn't know exactly how much her son earned every month, he heard Zheng Juan vaguely say that it was at least a thousand yuan, and sometimes even as much as five thousand yuan.
With my son's income, I can afford the rent of 250 yuan.
"Rong'er, there are four rooms here. You can live here when you are free and spend some time with Yueyue. The child is not close to you now." Li Suhua turned to remind her daughter.
Zhou Rong looked at the house and then at Wang Gang. She could feel that Wang Gang didn't like her. If she really lived here, there wouldn't be any trouble.
"If I can't be a mother, I still have to review. The child will affect my study." Zhou Rong said.
"You can't just study and ignore your daughter. Yueyue will gradually become wiser, and sometimes she needs her mother." Seeing that her daughter was not understanding, Li Suhua could only say bluntly:
"It will be too late for you to make up for the relationship between mother and daughter later."
Zhou Rong said disapprovingly: "I am her biological mother, how can she deny me."
Hearing this, Li Suhua felt a little resentful that iron could not become steel, but Wang Gang persuaded her: "Mom, you have been on the train for two days, so you should rest for a while. We will go to Quanjude for dinner in the evening, and you can try the famous roast duck."
Li Suhua was indeed a little weak, and the two-day train trip was quite tiring for her.
"Invite Hua Cheng together tonight, and we will eat together as a family." Li Suhua said to Zhou Rong.
"Huacheng has to work overtime at night, let's eat next time! Everyone will live in the capital in the future, so there will be plenty of opportunities." Zhou Rong looked at Wang Gang's face and still refused.
"Yueyue, mom is leaving." Zhou Rong waved to Feng Yue.
"No, I want to see my new room." Feng Yue ignored Zhou Rong at all and ran away without a trace.
Zhou Rong had no choice but to leave alone. No one saw her out.
Li Suhua took a rest, Wang Gang pretended not to see it, Zheng Guangming really couldn't see it, and Zheng Juan was cleaning up the house.
Zhou Rong feels like she is a redundant person in this family.
Three hours later, the house was almost tidied up, and Li Suhua had had enough rest, so they went to Quanjude to eat roast duck.
The next day, Wang Gang and Zheng Juan did not report to the school first, but took Zheng Guangming to the chess academy.
The two of them were like a pair of parents sending their children to school. They brought Zheng Guangming to the Capital Chess Academy and were received by the dean Zhou Qingyuan.
Wang Gang met Zhou Qingyuan, and he strongly recommended Zheng Guangming to enter the chess academy.
If Qingbei University is the highest academic institution in the country, then the Capital Chess Academy is the best Go school in the country.
As the dean of the Chess Academy, Zhou Qingyuan's staffing staff is no lower than that of the Qingbei principal.
"Mr. Zhou, Guangming, things may have changed. Some teachers in the chess academy did not agree with Guangming's admission, so they prepared some assessments for him." Zhou Qingyuan apologized to Wang Gang and Zheng Guangming as soon as he came up.