Reborn: I'll Never Fail My Childhood Sweetheart Again Chapter 253 112: I Endure—Bro Is the Legendary Teenage Mutan

"Save it, with your condition, there are plenty of rich and handso guys chasing after Qin Shiqing in school, and they've all been rejected by her."

"Maybe she just wants to focus on her studies and has no interest in dating during university!"

"..."

Just as a few guys were talking about the campus beauty.

"Whoosh!"

A taxi stopped at the entrance of Zhejiang University.

The door opened, and Su Zelin stepped out.

Today was the day to take the train back ho, so Su Zelin, who was heading to the train station along with Qin Shiqing, took a taxi and brought along his childhood friend as well.

"Zelin, you're here!"

Qin Shiqing greeted him with a smile.

"Yeah, you get in first!"

Su Zelin took her luggage, quickly opened the trunk, put it in, and then got in himself.

The taxi sped away, leaving a few Zhejiang University boys with question marks on their faces.

Wasn't she supposed to be focusing on her studies and not planning to get a boyfriend?

Did Zhejiang University's good fortune end up in soone else's field?

Arriving at the station entrance, the two quickly found Lu Haoran and Tang Yan who were already waiting outside.

"Su Zelin, Shiqing!"

Seeing her friends, Xiaoyanzi was delighted.

"Haha, you guys are really early."

Qin Shiqing asked with a smile.

"It's all Lu Haoran's fault, afraid of traffic on the way or sothing and worried about missing the train, so he ca to the university super early, causing to wait here for ages!"

Xiaoyanzi complained.

"Better safe than sorry."

Lu Haoran scratched his head.

That's the honest type's personality, you could say he's reliable or call it overthinking.

"Alright, Xiaoyanzi, just be content. This one behind is so leisurely, I called him several tis before he lazily arrived at Zhejiang University, and it really stressed out!"

Qin Shiqing also complained.

Su Zelin is the exact opposite of Lu Haoran.

He seems unfazed as if the sky could fall and he wouldn't worry at all.

In fact, he's not worried.

Traffic jams are rare between University Town and the train station unless there's an accident. Besides, Lin'an's transport departnt knows the universities are on break these days, and during the Spring Festival travel rush, they ensure daily traffic managent on this route. Even if there's a jam, it quickly gets resolved.

If he really misses the train, Su Zelin has his ways to get tickets for the next one. His Nokia 8210 is full of ticket scalpers' numbers.

It's simply a matter of money, very easy.

Talking while walking, the four of them entered the train station.

Seeing the scene in front of them, Lu Haoran, Qin Shiqing, and Xiaoyanzi gasped.

There were already lots of people outside, but the inside of the train station was even more crowded.

Everywhere you looked, it was full of heads.

The crowds surged inside the station like waves, constantly moving, bustling, with a noisy buzz in the air like a disturbed beehive.

The waiting hall seats were long occupied. Many travelers simply sat on their luggage, so spread newspapers on the ground, and so weren't picky and sat right on the floor.

The waiting hall buzzed with various noises, complaints, and parents scolding children for running around. Many staff mbers were trying to control the chaos, but the scene was still a total ss.

Broadcast announcents echoed from ti to ti, with travelers dragging luggage or children, forming snaking lines waiting to enter the station.

This was the grand spectacle of the early 21st-century Spring Festival travel rush!

The term "Spring Festival travel rush" appeared in a Xinhua News Agency bulletin as early as 1980.

However, the era of the Spring Festival travel truly began in the late 1980s with a wave of labor migration across the country.

Countless southbound workers, businessn, and students returned ho for the New Year during the Spring Festival, bringing about an annual migratory movent.

By 1994, the passenger traffic during the Spring Festival had exceeded a billion.

This even gave rise to a special professional group—the Spring Festival scalpers.

As soon as the Spring Festival travel rush began, these ticket scalpers would camp at train stations all day, using special channels or hiring buyers to hoard tickets and then resell them at higher prices.

At this ti, train tickets weren't yet under a real-na system.

Until 2010, the Guangzhou Railway and Chengdu Railway Bureau started trialing real-na train ticketing, and nationwide implentation had to wait until 2012.

In 2000, Yanjing also attempted to launch the first-generation online ticketing system "Capital Railway Online," but many aspects were still lacking back then. Coupled with slow internet speeds, servers frequently crashed, so the business was quickly suspended.

Later, Shenghai followed suit and also promoted online ticketing, similarly shutting it down after only a day due to network issues.

So, travelers ultimately still had to co to the train station to buy tickets.

The failure of non-real-na train tickets and online ticketing trials made scalpers rampant, driven by huge profits, creating nurous scalper factions nationwide. In this era, countless scalpers got rich from reselling train tickets.

Compared to everyone else's shock, Su Zelin remained calm.

He was quite familiar with the chaos of train stations during the Spring Festival travel rush from a previous life.

This scene frightened Tang Yan, as it was Xiaoyanzi's first ti traveling or going ho during the Spring Festival travel period.

She was dumbfounded and exclaid, "So many people, it's really absurd, Su Zelin, how did you manage to get a train ticket?"

"Haha, because I have money power!"

Su Zelin laughed.

Money isn't everything, but it can simplify most complex problems.

"Superpower? Give a break, did your dad know soone at the Lin'an train station?"

She misunderstood the power of money, thinking it was family connections.

Su Zelin's dad was a businessman, and it was said that he often used to travel to Lin'an, so knowing soone at the train station wasn't surprising.

"My dad doesn't know anyone, but I do."