Chapter Seventy-One: Returning to the Hometown and Meeting the Old Man
On February 5th, two days before the New Year, a large wave of cold waves from Siberia enveloped the whole of China, and the weather became colder and colder, but it could not stop all the wanderers who were struggling to return home.
It's another year when the Spring Festival arrives, and the folk call it the New Year. A few days before the Spring Festival, the world's largest and spectacular migration of human beings took place in China, and strangers scattered all over the country began to pack their bags and flock to railway stations, airports and bus stations with a year's harvest and expectations.
In the past few days, outside the train station and bus station, the crowded crowd, and the thousands of faces inside and outside the station, either nervous or expectant, are all telling the desire to go home. Even if it is thousands of miles away, even if it is difficult to get a vote, it can't stop the indomitable heart to round the worry of a year.
In order to go home, they can go to the station to queue up to buy tickets; in order to go home, they can endure the crowding and chaos in the station and carriages, and are not afraid of the physical and mental exhaustion of long-distance travel; in order to go home, they are reluctant to spend money that they are usually reluctant to spend to buy tickets and buy New Year's gifts for relatives and friends. Although the time spent at home during the Spring Festival may not be as long as the time spent on the road back and forth, every stranger has a lifelong concern at home, or elderly parents, wives and children at home.
This is the true portrayal of thousands of returnees in the domestic "Spring Festival"!
At ten o'clock in the evening, a BMW off-road vehicle pierced the cold night of the magic capital, rushed onto the national highway, and embarked on the road home.
Inside the off-road vehicle, Ye Chen stared at the punctured light of the headlights in front of him, sneaking in the dark night.
He's ready to go home for the New Year!
After attending the annual meeting of Sister Liu's company last night, he rested at Sister Liu's place during the day today, and after recuperating his spirits, he was ready to drive back to his home in Shancheng overnight.
Before going back, he had already checked the specific driving route, it would take about five or six hours to drive from the Modu National Highway to the mountain city, and then get off the highway and go home from the mountain city.
The New Year is coming, and the most traditional festival of the year to reunite with family seems to be wafting in the sky over the country with the festive atmosphere of the coming Spring Festival. On the national highway, the vehicles coming and going, and the flickering lights, seem to be pinning on the homecoming feelings and expectations of each family.
Ye Chen was also affected by the atmosphere of returning to his hometown by the dense car flu around him, and there was a strange throbbing in his heart, and he couldn't wait to hurry back home.
"If you have money or not, go home for the New Year!"
A simple old saying, full of feelings.
At this time, the mobile phone rang in the car, and the mobile phone placed in the front window of the car lit up.
"Sister, I'm on the highway!" Ye Chen picked up his mobile phone, paid attention to the road situation in front of him, and connected the phone.
"You drive carefully at night and call me back when you get home. Sister Liu admonished on the other end of the phone, and her plain words were full of warmth.
She only learned today that Ye Chen spent 1.7 million yuan to buy a BMW off-road vehicle, and scolded Ye Chen for being a loser, but she couldn't help but try the feel of the car, it seems that it is a woman's nature to love cars.
"Sister, I know! I'll call you when it's time. Ye Chen answered, and hung up the phone in his hand.
"We ordinary people, I'm so happy today" hung up the phone, the corners of Ye Chen's mouth curled, and he couldn't help humming a more down-to-earth song.
However, his joy did not last long, and after driving for more than an hour, he began to get stuck in traffic for a short time, and the speed of the car began to drop significantly. The original joy of returning home was also polished by no less than a dozen traffic jams.
Along the road, what made him sigh was that he saw a relatively fierce car accident scene, a van and a light truck. The bread was knocked over and caught fire, carrying a family of four, the male driver died on the spot, and the other three were injured and were taken to a nearby hospital by the crowd and the police.
The scene was a mess, with a pool of scattered blood and smoke wafting up.
This incident caused nearly two hours of traffic jams, and the people who got off the car witnessed the scene of the car accident, all sighed and sighed, a good family rushed home for the New Year, who would have expected that the world was unpredictable, and this kind of thing happened.
Ye Chen saw it from a distance, and he also felt pitiful, the moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have good fortune and misfortune.
Time passed unconsciously, more than seven hours passed, and Ye Chen finally arrived at the boundary of Leshan City and got off the highway.
After driving for seven hours in a row, the first time he drove for so long, Ye Chen couldn't stand it a little, and his eyelids were a little tired. I didn't dare to drive tiredly, so I slowed down after getting off the highway.
Out of the center of Shancheng City, Ye Chen refueled at a gas station and continued on the road, thinking that he would soon be home, and his tired mood became a lot better.
When the car drove to the road near Sanling County, Ye Chen saw a man on the side of the road waving to a passing car, as if asking for help.
Near the man was a modified three-wheeled motorcycle with a roof attached to it, and a woman was looking out with her head out.
Although the man was waving to the passing car, the car did not stop, and drove away.
Ye Chen's car deliberately slowed down a little when it was approaching the man, he was wondering if the other party had encountered any difficulties, who was willing to stand in the cold wind and wave to the passing vehicles in the winter.
The man on the side of the road was overjoyed when he saw that a car had finally slowed down, but a look of hesitation flashed on his face when he saw the BMW logo on the front of the black SUV.
However, the man finally walked over, and Ye Chen saw the situation and parked the car to the side.
The man knocked on the window, a hint of nervousness on his face.
Ye Chen pressed the electric key to roll down the window and looked at the man, who was very young and looked like he was only in his twenties.
Unexpectedly, after seeing Ye Chen, the young man's eyes were stunned, as if he had encountered something incredible.
"Ye are you Ye Chen?" the young man stammered as he said this, and seemed to call out Ye Chen's name very unexpectedly.
"Are you?" Ye Chen was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the young man in surprise, did he know himself?
However, Ye Chen looked at it so carefully, not to mention, this person was really familiar, but he couldn't remember it.
"My name is Li Donghai, one class in the first class of our senior high school, the one who dropped out of high school in the second year of high school. The young man's tone smoothed out, and he busily introduced himself.
As soon as the other party said this, Ye Chen's mind turned slightly, and after a while, he thought that there was such a number one, because there was only one person in their class who dropped out of school in the middle of the second year of high school, and his appearance and name matched the young man in front of him.
Speaking of which, Li Donghai, that is, the young man in front of him, was a very dishonest person in the class in high school, like a gangster who was very rebellious, just because he got pregnant with a senior sister in the third year of high school in his sophomore year, and later made a fuss and expelled him from the school.
So, as soon as the other party said it, he remembered.