There are three children in this family: Roberta is the oldest and she is the mother's favorite child; My brother's name is Pete, and he wants to be an engineer. My youngest sister's name is Phyllis.
Mother plays with children every day, helps them with their homework, writes stories for them, and reads them after dinner. She also makes up some interesting poems on unusual days.
Dad is a government member, and he never gets angry. He is a fair "perfect dad". The family lived happily.
But one night, a terrible thing happened at home, and my father was taken away. A few days after their mother disappeared, they sold their house in London and moved to a place called "Three Chimneys" in the country. In the countryside, my mother can only write novels in the attic to subsidize her family, and even bread that she didn't want to see in the past has become a luxury.
There, the children have nowhere to go, and their mother has no time to study with them, so she can only go to a railway and a small station under the hillside to play every day. Peter also found a coal mine, so he pushed a coal digger to steal coal. Because the family couldn't afford coal, he was once caught by the station chief, who forgave them when he told the reason. Therefore, they got to know the station chief.
Every day, they go to the railway and wave to the train to London (where their father is). An old gentleman often waves to them in the train, and they become friends who have never spoken.
After a while, the children got to know Boxer, the station worker, the village doctor, and the boiler worker of the train, and experienced many interesting and thrilling things. Once, they went up the mountain to pick wild cherries, and suddenly they found that the mountain collapsed and blocked the railway, and the train was coming soon. They immediately decided to run to the front of the train to stop it. Bobby even tried to stop the train.
After many things, they found that the old gentleman was a high-ranking government official. They asked the old gentleman to help them re-investigate their father's affairs, and finally got his father out, and the family lived a happy and sweet life again.
After reading this novel, I learned Peter's courage, Bobby's wisdom and Furesz's thoughtful mind, but I learned more that people were unprepared for each other at that time, and two strangers could say hello to each other when they met. The children asked the train to greet their father, and an old gentleman waved to them. Isn't this a beautiful and harmonious scene? But now it's different. People's attitudes are almost always cold. People are wary of each other everywhere, and few people trust them in their hearts. At that time, even three children asked a strange old gentleman for something, and the old gentleman gave them something. Isn't this a kind of trust?