Chapter 55: Returning to the People on a Snowy Night
Three adults with six children, finally climbed to the top of the mountain, the sunny side of the mountain is sunny, can be described as 'red makeup, extraordinarily enchanting', people are suddenly brightened.
"Let's take a break and have something to eat. If you feel cold, you get up and move, but don't catch a cold."
The second uncle hurriedly untied the travel bag from the flat shoulder and put it on the snow, and then padded it with a military coat to let the tired children sit; Teacher Liu and Teacher Wang also took out the buns they bought in the county town and the boiling water in the guest house for everyone.
Fortunately, the buns were still warm, the boiling water was already cold but not icy, everyone ate forty buns, drank two kettles of warm water, and rested for a while to get back on the road.
It's easy to go up the mountain and hard to get down, not to mention heavy snow. This time, even if the second uncle temporarily used the branches chopped by the masonry knife on the side of the road as a cane, and the teacher was holding him, the three children in the forest farm who were already physically exhausted fell on their heels from time to time. Li Jiaming and the three of them are a little better, but they are only a little better, and they should fall the same.
This can't be done, walking on a mountain road in a snowy day, carrying a child up the mountain is almost the same, and it is impossible to carry the child down the mountain. Falling forward on the mountain, falling backwards down the mountain, wrestling alone, the snow on the ground is thick, it is nothing more than a little snow on the body, just get up and shoot it clean. If you carry a child down the mountain in a snowy day, and an adult accidentally falls, unless you step on the air and fall forward, there is a chance that you will fall backwards, what if you crush the child on your back?
As soon as the group turned a mountain pass, they were confronted by a small group going to the county seat, but they were three teachers with nine children. The teachers greeted each other, the children stood quietly on the side, and the three little boys in the Chashan Forest Farm looked at Li Jiaming's embarrassed appearance, wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, all because Liu Shasha was glaring at them.
Deterred the three little boys from the Chashan Forest Farm who wanted to make fun of everyone, Liu Shasha looked up at Li Jiaming triumphantly, Li Jiaming smiled and didn't care about such a provocation at all, but Zhang Shaolong, who was making fun of her just now, turned his head away. If it were him, let alone suppress the other guys, it would be good if others didn't suppress him.
However, the living conditions of the children in the countryside are worse than those in the forest farm, they are more in awe of the teachers, and the people are more shy.
However, Liu Shasha didn't feel proud for a minute, and the two men of Huashan Forest Farm suddenly turned their backs and grimaced at the foreign, beautiful but embarrassed Liu Shasha, and the other girl who was dressed more foreign also covered her mouth and smiled, so angry that her ruddy little face turned bloody.
Hey, children's world!
After a few teachers finished greeting and exchanging information, Li Jiaming, who had been listening to them, sighed, he was going to be unlucky today.
The heavy snow closed the mountain, and the bus drivers in the county town had leaders and supervised them, and they drove the buses to the bottom of the mountain on time, regardless of whether there were passengers or not; the drivers who were stranded on this side of the mountain gave Li Jiaming and their pre-sold tickets for the trip under the pretext that the car had broken down, and they were in Chongxiang Station and refused to move.
Yesterday, Principal Lin of Chongxiang Primary and Secondary School did not borrow a car for the township secretary and township mayor with all the smiles. Today, the teachers and students in Chongxiang are all Zhang Shaolong's father borrowed a 'Longma' agricultural vehicle loaded with goods, stuffed the three children in the passenger cab, and the teacher wrapped in a military coat and shrunk in the carriage, and sent them to Huashan. Now that Li Jiaming and the others are going back, there will definitely be no room for six children in the small passenger cab, and at least three children will blow the cold wind.
Teacher Liu, they are even more unlucky, the people who go to the county seat to participate in the competition, take the hitchhiker to Huashan, but now there will be a car back to Chashan? Hundreds of workers, rangers, and family members of a forest farm are distributed in all corners of the vast mountains. In such weather, the two jeeps in the field did not even dare to use the secretary and the field manager, for fear that there would be no cars available in a critical situation.
After more than an hour, the small team finally arrived at Huashan Forest Farm, where there was a long queue of cars loaded with wood parked on the side of the road, and the owners and drivers also crowded the guest house. Teacher Liu had no choice but to take the students to a friend's house in Huashan Primary and Secondary School to let everyone drink a cup of hot water.
Zhang Weimin, the driver of the dragon carriage, is Zhang Shaolong's father and a well-known wood dealer in Chongxiang, otherwise in such weather, Principal Lin would not move. But even with Principal Lin's face, and his children are students in township primary and secondary schools, Boss Zhang shook his head at driving to Chashan.
"Teacher Liu, it's not that my old Zhang doesn't talk about people, Principal Lin is my son's teacher, he opened his mouth as long as my old Zhang can do it, he will definitely do it. But you also know the road to Chashan, I really don't have the ability to drive there. ”
Boss Zhang is also telling the truth, the road to Chashan has a steep curve and steep slope, and even those truck drivers with good skills have to be careful, let alone a half-barrel water field driver like him.
Principal Lin's face is there, and his children have been taken care of for the past two days, and Boss Zhang is also sincerely planning for Teacher Liu, and discussed: "Otherwise, you will stay in Chongxiang for one night, and I will help you call two motorcycles to send you tomorrow?"
This made Mr. Liu a little hesitant, in such weather, asking someone to ride a motorcycle to send it, the money is a trivial matter, the key is how much he has to owe people? He is different from Mr. Wang, he will take off the position of principal Lin of Chongxiang Primary and Secondary School next semester, and he does not want to owe favors to others.
As soon as he mentioned motorcycles, the second uncle immediately remembered that he had them at home, and hurriedly said: "Mr. Liu, if you can ride a motorcycle, my fourth child can lend it to you." It's definitely not going to be a good time to travel today, so you go to my house for one night and ride back tomorrow at noon. The fourth child of my family went to Guangdong to work, when do you have to be free, just let someone send me the car back. ”
Teacher Liu is overjoyed, this can solve his big problem, owing the second uncle a favor, which is equivalent to owing a favors to his classmates. My old classmate and this little Jiaming don't look like an ordinary teacher-student relationship, but a bit like the master-apprentice relationship that people in the mountains value very much, so it doesn't matter much.
"Lao Li, then thank you! When the weather is a little better, I will ask someone to send you the car back." ”
"It's okay, the car is also put there, except for my fourth child, no one in the family can ride. ”
After discussing the matter of returning to Chashan, Mr. Liu also took everyone to say goodbye to his friends and go back to Chongxiang in Boss Zhang's car.
The co-driver's cab was only so big, so they had to stuff Liu Shasha, Wang Congju and Zhang Shaolong into it, and the two teachers, the second uncle, and Li Jiaming had to wrap themselves in military coats and shrink in the carriage to blow the cold wind. The two forest farm boys were somewhat resentful, but what can be done about this, whoever let the car be borrowed by the father, everyone is just stained with the light of Zhang Shaolong's children. If Zhang Shaolong hadn't gone home, I'm afraid that Principal Lin might not have been able to invite Zhang Weiguo, who was the biggest timber dealer in Chongxiang.
The weather was too cold, even if he was wrapped in a military coat and held in his arms by the second uncle, Li Jiaming was so cold that his teeth froze. Boss Zhang is a good person, and he stopped after driving for ten or twenty minutes and let the people in the carriage jump down and move. Zhang Shaolong also read about those snacks, and every time he parked, he kindly wanted Li Jiaming to go to the cab to warm up, and he came to the carriage to blow the cold wind himself.
How could Li Jiaming be willing, isn't it just because his precious son won't freeze, and he is afraid that others won't drive steadily? Do you really think that a principal's face is so big that he can make a rich man in the mountains suffer this kind of hardship? Who doesn't know from Chongxiang that this Boss Zhang is the biggest wood dealer in Chongxiang, and he made the best brick house in the town, and even invited a master to the provincial capital to decorate it, making the house look like a palace.
Rao is like this, stop and go all the way, first arrived in Chongxiang to let Zhang Shaolong go home by himself, handed over Wang Congju to their parents who were waiting in the township, and when Boss Zhang sent Li Jiaming and them home, the people in the carriage were also so cold that their lips were blue.
The farm vehicle was parked in front of the second uncle's sunning flat, and it was already twilight. Today, since the end of school, the little sister who has been standing in the sun-grain flat and waiting, when she saw Li Jiaming, who was wrapped in a military coat, was picked up from the carriage by the second uncle, and suddenly cried and pounced.
"Brother, why did you come back!"
Li Jiaming, who was already so cold that he couldn't stand on his feet, was thrown into the snow by his little sister, shivered with cold hands to wipe her tears with his sleeves, squeezed out a smile and coaxed: "Don't cry, don't cry, it's not good to cry again." ”
"Brother, get up, brother, get up, it's cold on the ground!"
The little sister wiped her tears and snot with her sleeve, and immediately got up, and her little hand, which was also cold, took her brother's cold hand, trying to pull him up. The second uncle next to him looked sour, and hurriedly picked up Li Jiaming from the ground, and the younger sister hugged her brother's waist tightly, for fear that he would fall down again.