Chapter Forty-Seven: A Chance Encounter on a Snowy Day
The winter in the southern mountains is cold, especially in rainy and snowy weather, and the cold and cold can simply penetrate into people's bones.
Uncle Chuanzu rode the fourth uncle's motorcycle early in the morning and sent Li Jiaming, who was wrapped like a big brown child, to the township primary and secondary schools, and they got on the bus with Teacher Wang. There is a tradition in rural primary and secondary schools, whose student takes the first place in the exam, and the teacher who leads the team to the county to participate in the competition is who is, which is also convenient for the teacher to take care of the top student who is most likely to win the prize.
Li Jiaming's four teachers and students were unlucky, it was only cloudy during the day yesterday, and snowflakes were flying all over the sky in the middle of the night. What's worse is that the road to the county seat is called 999 bends, especially the winding mountain road in Huashan Forest Farm is high and steep, and in such weather, the bus can only drive to the bottom of the mountain, so that the passengers can walk more than ten miles, and then take the car to the county seat at the foot of the mountain on the other side.
The more than ten miles of road that I just got in the car was fine, everyone closed the windows, and the car was warm, but as the detours became more and more urgent, even if the driver drove slower and more carefully than usual, the people who were motion sick began to vomit. The windows opened and closed, and the cold wind blew in through the windows, blowing away the heat in the car and making it cold to the bone.
Fortunately, Mr. Wang, who has rich experience in the car, was prepared, and as soon as he got in the car, he gave Li Jiaming and the others a borrowed military coat, and wrapped the two of them tightly and one girl tightly, and it was not cold at all. Li Jiaming, who is also 'rich' in the car, slept as soon as he got in the car, and after being woken up by the cold wind, he sat cross-legged on the seat and wrapped his body in his coat, and raised his collar to cover his head and face, and continued to sleep with his head covered.
When the car arrived at Huashan Forest Farm and Mr. Wang woke up Li Jiaming, the people in the car were almost gone.
"Jiaming, you often take the car?"
Li Jiaming hurriedly got up, and did not forget to fold the general's coat and return it to Mr. Wang, "Hey, hey, the first time I sat down, I felt that the car was rickety and comfortable, and I wanted to sleep." ”
Teacher Wang took the coat, put it together with the other two, tied it into a backpack and carried it on his back, and said casually: "Yes, I was born to take a car, and I can go out to study in the future, so I can suffer a lot less." Get out of the car to get a cup of hot water and take a rest, we still have to walk more than 20 miles. ”
"Hey"
Huashan Forest Farm is located in the middle of a long slope, there is a small river meandering between the mountains, more than a dozen red brick houses are scattered on the road, small river, and from time to time there are chickens and dogs barking. If it weren't for the long carts parked on the side of the road laden with wood waiting for the snow to melt on the mountain, or the empty wagons waiting for the wagons to be loaded with wood, and the shouts of the workers loading the carts, this place would look very much like a small market town in the remote mountains.
Two girls and a girl followed Teacher Wang to the forest farm guest house to drink some hot water, and also prepared to walk up the mountain with other passengers.
As soon as Mr. Wang and his three students came out of the guest house, an enthusiastic uncle took over the schoolbags and coats of the four to help them carry them, and two kind-hearted aunts gave their umbrellas to Li Jiaming. It's too cold this day, and it's frozen out of these three girls and girls who can read, and these simple aunts will not bear it.
"Teacher Wang, your school should ask the township to send a car. If such a small girl freezes to death, how can he get it?"
"You think beautifully! What will those XXX people in the countryside do who eat people and don't do personnel, in addition to gambling, catching superbirths, and urging them to retain the overall fund?"
"That's it, the car in the township, do you still want to make up your mind? It's the special car of the secretary and the township head, and they don't even have a share of the deputy secretary, and it is Mr. Wang's turn to sit with them?"
Li Jiaming and another little classmate, holding an umbrella given by an unknown kind aunt, walked among thirty or forty people, listening to the uncles, uncles, and aunts who despised the cadres in the township, and looking at the snowflakes in the sky and the mountains covered in silver makeup, but they were also comfortable.
After walking four or five miles, the adults didn't feel anything, and the three little ones were already out of breath. At this moment, there was a sound of cars and two or three horns behind them, and everyone hurriedly gave way to the side of the road and looked at the black 'Mitsubishi' off-road vehicle with disdain.
The road is slippery on heavy snowy days, except for this kind of off-road vehicle that you can walk with snow chains tied to it at a glance, other cars dare not climb this mountain. In addition to the county secretaries and county magistrates who can afford to sit in such a car, I am afraid that the township secretaries and township chiefs are not qualified to sit!
Unlike these uncles, uncles, and aunts, Li Jiaming developed the habit of looking at the license plate 'early', and when he saw that it was Guangdong A, and it was the car that Wu Jianguo was sitting in yesterday, he couldn't help but figure it out. There is no guest house in the township, he must have returned to the county seat last night, how could he be here with such a heavy snow?
However, Li Jiaming didn't think much about it, if there is a hitchhiker, he will not sit in vain. If you sweat profusely after walking more than 20 miles in the snow, you will take a car to blow the cold wind all the way, and it will be difficult to avoid catching a cold. When the car passed by quickly, Li Jiaming hurriedly looked carefully into the car, and saw that the car was empty except for Wu Jianguo, so he hurriedly chased the car and shouted: "Uncle Wu!
On a snowy day, the driver who was driving was cautious, and suddenly heard someone chasing the car, so he quickly stopped the car, and when he saw Li Jiaming outside the car, he turned around and said: "Uncle, Qin Ri will call you when he comes out (Uncle, the little guy called you outside yesterday. )”
"Huh?"
Wu Jianguo, who was looking at the snow scene outside the car, smiled slightly, turned his head and saw that the little guy who didn't treat himself as a godson yesterday was holding his hands on his knees and gasping for steam.
Pushing the car door, Wu Jianguo laughed and quipped: "Yo, Jiaming Xiaopenyou, you are 'I'm not afraid of the car coming, I'll fight with the car?'"
If you ask for someone, you have to look like you are begging, Li Jiaming smiled and said, "Uncle Wu, don't laugh at me." 'I'm not afraid of the car coming', that's the nursery rhyme of your city people, and our mountain boys sing 'Di Di Di, I'm the little driver of the car'!"
Wu Jianguo got out of the car, pressed his big hand on Li Jiaming's head, rubbed it vigorously, and then looked at the stunned crowd on both sides of the road, and said with a smile: "Do you dare to sit in a car? Hey, that one in a military coat is your teacher?"
"How do you know? Oh, Mr. Wang is my teacher, taking us to the county to participate in the math competition", Li Jiaming glanced at Mr. Wang, and saw two children standing next to him, and then suddenly realized.
Before Li Jiaming finished speaking, Wu Jianguo, who was wearing a black tweed coat, had already walked towards Teacher Wang, stretched out his hand from afar, and said with a smile in Hong Kong Mandarin: "Teacher Wang, right? I'm Jiaming's uncle Wu Jianguo, just go into the mountains to do some errands, take my car and go, the children are too young, don't freeze." ”
Uncle: Li Jiaming's ancestors have been farmers for eight generations, when did a Guangdong uncle come out? Could it be a friend of his fourth uncle?
Teacher Wang shook Wu Jianguo's hand suspiciously, and wanted to decline the kindness of strangers, but when he looked at the two children around him, he hurriedly smiled and said, "Mr. Wu, then I will trouble you." ”
"Little things, little things, please"
Teacher Wang hurriedly took the backpack and schoolbag from the hands of his fellow villagers, and took the two students to the bus, and did not forget to pat the snowflakes on the three students, his own body and shoes before getting on the bus. Wu Jianguo also hurriedly helped the driver and put down the seats in the third row, and two adults and three children sat in the spacious car, which was not only crowded but also very relaxed.
A businessman with a lively mind and a somewhat old-fashioned teacher Wang became familiar with a few words in the car. It's just that the initiative of the conversation has always been in Wu Jianguo's hands, which not only makes Mr. Wang feel like a spring breeze, but also laughs with him from time to time.
Riding this kind of imported high-end off-road vehicle is a new thing for Mr. Wang and the other two little classmates, but it is not a little new for Li Jiaming, and he even 'misses' his "original" Hummer, and he began to doze off again a few minutes after getting in the car.
Wu Jianguo looked at Li Jiaming's head in the back row, and then looked at the two children next to him who were curious about everything in the car, and said with a smile: "Teacher Wang, your student is really different." ”
Teachers are proud to have excellent students, and so is Mr. Wang.
"Oh, classmate Jiaming is really different, let's see if I can take the Tsinghua University and Peking University exams in the future, and win glory for our hometown. ”
After Mr. Wang praised him, he encouraged the two children next to him: "Shaolong and Congju, you must also work hard, talent is given by God, but you must also be diligent." Jia Ming has already started to study junior high school courses on his own, you should learn more from him!"
Ten minutes of conversation was enough for Wu Jianguo to understand Teacher Wang, and when he praised Li Jiaming like this, he couldn't help but look at this sleepy insect a few more times.