Chapter 46: The Bizarre Experience of a Long-distance Driver
After the big truck stopped, a rough man walked down, who looked to be about forty or fifty years old, and the smell of his body was very strong, and the smell of smoke and sweat was mixed together, and it made my eyes spicy.
However, as soon as this man opened his mouth, he felt a good impression, because he was very bold, he should be a northern man, this person saw Liu Laodao dressed as a Taoist priest, and he was also very respectful to Liu Laodao, and asked where we were going, if we were on the way, we could give us a ride for free.
Liu Laodao reported where we were going, and the man immediately beckoned us to get in the car, saying that he could take us by the way.
We didn't say anything, just followed the car, we waited here for a while, there were not many people willing to take us at night.
After getting in the car, we found that there was a driver in the car, who looked similar to the previous big man, a bit like twin brothers, the man saw Liu Laodao, and quickly folded his hands to salute the old man, and the old man quickly returned a salute, regardless of whether this salute was right or not.
The big truck started again, and the big man before also briefly introduced himself, they are indeed brothers, but they are not twins, they are two years apart, and they are also surnamed Liu, so we call them Da Liu and Xiao Liu.
Xiao Liu Mu is a little, and he doesn't talk much when he drives the car, but Da Liu Ke is very familiar, and after a few casual chats, he handed us cigarettes, but we refused, one is to be careful when going out, and the other is that we really don't smoke, we were all poor as dogs before, where did we get the money to smoke.
Da Liu didn't care, he lit a cigarette himself, saying that they drove a long-distance bus, and smoking was basically standard. Because of the need to refresh oneself, some people used to drink alcohol to refresh oneself when the grip was not strict, but now no one dares to do so.
Da Liu gushed endlessly, and soon talked about some of the things they ran long distances, running long distances was a very profitable thing in the nineties, and many people made a fortune from it, of course, there are many stories that happened to them in this line, and some things are very bizarre.
Da Liu is a veteran driver for more than 20 years, running all over the country, transporting timber from the north to the south, fruits from the south to the north, minerals from Shanxi to Shandong, clothes from Zhejiang to Sichuan, everything has been transported, and most cities have also run.
However, this line of work is also dangerous, in addition to storms, sleet, landslides, mudslides, and the appearance of car bandits and road rage in the era of bad security, there are also all kinds of mysterious events.
So they are extra vigilant when driving, take the hitchhiker we are riding today, they didn't dare to accept it in the past, these people are not afraid of robbing the road, they are prepared with guys in the car, and there are few cowards who dare to eat this bowl of rice in that era, and they are afraid that those who are not people.
This is not a joke, there are many such stories circulating in the circle of long-distance drivers, even the parties can find a lot of them, and this Lao Liu is one of them.
Lao Liu said that it was still when he was in his twenties, the third year of long-distance running, and at that time he had not bought a car, so he followed his master to help a team owner run a car.
At the end of the year, they set off from Guangdong to the north to transport goods, preparing to make a final move, and then go home to slaughter a fat pig and have a good year.
By the time their convoy was about to cross the Yangtze River, it had already fallen sleet, you must know that the big trucks are not afraid of heavy snow, they are afraid of this kind of sleet in the south, as soon as the snow falls, it will become ice, and the big trucks are heavy, if you step on the brakes, the whole car will not be able to control it, and you don't know where to slide, so you can only brake a little bit.
It was the same time, after the convoy stopped, they changed into snow chains or something, and a group of people even had a hot pot to warm up, but they didn't go far before they saw a drunk man lying on the side of the road.
In the north, if you meet a drunk on the side of the road in winter, you must help, either take him to another place yourself, or call the police and wait for someone to save you, otherwise the drunk will freeze to death the next day.
Da Liu and his entourage are all northerners, so they naturally know this rule, and don't look at the place by the Yangtze River, but the temperature that year was extremely low, if you don't save people, the drunk will definitely have an accident.
Da Liu was hot-hearted, the first to jump out of the car to see, it was okay, but he was drunk and unconscious, Da Liu made a call to the police but was busy, Da Liu estimated that it was the end of the year, and the police station was also busy, so he didn't think so much, so he picked the person into the car, and the boss didn't say anything, just explained where to put the person down and hand it over to the police.
They drove all the way, and it didn't take long to reach the Yangtze River Bridge, and the owner of the convoy was going to let everyone stop and rest for a while, and by the way, hand over the drunk man to the police next to the bridge.
But I didn't expect that all the cars in their convoy stopped, but Da Liu's car couldn't stop, it was useless to step on the brakes, the truck slid all the way to the end, and all the snow chains and the like were useless, and the truck didn't stop until it slid a few kilometers and hit a guardrail.
The people in the other cars in the convoy were so frightened that they had already caught up desperately, and as soon as the car stopped, they climbed up, and the two drivers of Da Liu and their two drivers had a false alarm, but when they looked back, they were all frightened, because the drunk man in the back seat was gone, and only the clothes that Da Liu covered for him remained.
They searched all over the car and couldn't find anyone, they all realized the problem, and they didn't dare to break it, this rule is the same as carrying the coffin, what happened, as if you don't know, just go forward, if it is broken, that thing may be pestering you.
Da Liu and his entourage trembled across the Yangtze River Bridge, that night Da Liu had a dream, the drunk appeared in his dream, the drunk man told him that in fact, he is not a person, but a python spirit who has been practicing for many years, his practice has come to an end, and the next step is to molt and become a dragon.
And from the python to the dragon needs to go Jiao, what does it mean, I'm afraid people along the Yangtze River will understand better, anyway, there is a rule for Jiao, that is, if you can not kill, try not to kill, the more creatures you hurt, the greater the disaster it will suffer in the future.
The python spirit walked all the way to the Yangtze River Bridge, and seeing the vehicles on the bridge coming and going, it naturally didn't dare to move, so it waited, ready to wait until it snowed, and there would always be fewer people at that time.
But what it didn't expect was that the New Year had arrived, and the traffic on the Yangtze River Bridge was not only less, but more, which made him depressed, so he had to pretend to be a drunk to see which kind-hearted person would take him across the Yangtze River Bridge, so he met Da Liu.
It's just that Da Liu's car is going to the other side of the bridge, not downstream, so the python spirit used some means to make Da Liu's car out of control, and it apologized to Da Liu for this.
On this matter, the python spirit owed Da Liu a big favor, and for many years after that, it also appeared in Da Liu's dream many times, and every time it appeared, it could save Da Liu's life, so this also made Da Liu very grateful, and told many relatives and friends about this story, so that they would not dare to fight snakes and eat snakes in the future.
After listening to the story told by Da Liu, I was also very curious, I didn't listen to stories like this, Liu Laodao told me a lot, but the situation where the party was still there was really rare, I still pestered Da Liu to continue to tell the story of the python spirit, whether it turned into a dragon or not.
Da Liu laughed and told me that the python spirit hadn't appeared in his dream for seven or eight years, and he didn't know whether it had become a dragon or not, but seeing that I was so interested, he could also tell me other stories, and it was guaranteed to be very exciting.