86_86324If you really want to make a comparison, the instant noodles that were soaked in Duan Ke at the toll booth last time can't even catch up with the noodle soup this time. Man is indeed an animal that can never be satisfied.

I had this idea after eating my first bowl of noodles. The water in the pot was boiling, and Duan Kezheng was happily sandwiching luncheon meat into his bowl. She also took off the clothes that didn't fit and had been wrapped for a day, saying that they were wearing chopsticks that hindered her from moving. The security guard was very calm, it seemed that his food here was still very good, probably because it was next to the supermarket. He didn't eat much, so he took out several cans of wine from behind the couch and divided two cans out to me.

We both opened a can of wine at the same time, and the overlapping "flutter" sound was particularly beautiful. He raised the wine and touched it in my hand, and after a few sips, he said to us: "I forgot to mention, my name is Wang Junying, I used to be a soldier, and now I am a security captain in this supermarket." ”

I raised my head and took a big sip, the coldness of the beer making me take a breath. This person is really not an ordinary security guard, fortunately he endured the excesses planned in his heart just now, otherwise it would have been bigger. I slowed down and said to him, "My name is Lou Li, she is Duan Ke, we used to be college students, and now we should be considered college students." Duan Ke nodded in agreement while chewing on the things in his mouth, "Thank you Uncle Wang for your hospitality." ”

Uncle Wang laughed, drank the wine again, and drank the rest in a few sips. He threw away the empty can, opened another one, and said with a smile, "No one has drunk with me for a long time, I mean, haven't spoken to a living person for a long time." I smiled wryly and nodded, and said in my heart that I can understand your feelings of not being able to find someone to talk to.

"You look like you've been walking a long way." Uncle Wang picked up a piece of meat from the pot and put it in his mouth, and said without raising his head, "How far is your school from here?" ”

Duan Ke looked at me with food in her mouth, blinking her eyes quickly, probably because she was busy eating now and wanted me to answer this question.

"It's not too far, it's fast if you take a car, and if you walk, it's longer." I replied to Uncle Wang, "I have been walking for almost a week. ”

"Did you really come here?" Uncle Wang asked curiously.

"What else can I do, the highway is blocked." I replied.

"I know this," said Uncle Wang, "you can elaborate a little more." ”

I took a sip of wine from the can, and Uncle Wang lit a cigarette to listen to my answer. I took the cigarette he handed me and used about thirty declarative sentences to tell my experience of encountering a sudden change, walking out of the school gate, meeting Duan Ke, and finally sitting in front of him and drinking.

Uncle Wang finished his last puff and extinguished the cigarette butt. After a long silence, he spoke: "It's far away, and it's not easy for you young people." I saw that he had a look of admiration, and immediately straightened his back and agreed, yes, yes.

"There's no one living at your school?" Uncle Wang asked again.

I shook my head and said, "I guess, it's pretty much the same as here." ”

Uncle Wang sighed, suddenly smiled again, and said to us, "I always thought you two were a little couple who came out to hang out." ”

Duan Ke and I instantly froze our hands that were picking up vegetables, avoiding our eyes and looking at each other embarrassed again. After a few seconds, we smiled awkwardly at him and said no. This person is really an old and unscrupulous, I obviously explained to him the relationship between me and Duan Ke, but he still has to ask such an embarrassing question. But looking at his smiling face, it doesn't seem like he did it on purpose.

In order to alleviate the embarrassment in the air, I put the cigarette in my hand into my mouth, lit it and asked Uncle Wang, "What about you, why are you still here?" ”

Uncle Wang immediately froze the smile on his face, and quickly recovered his previous expression. He sat on the couch, bent over and holding his hands with his fingers crossed, staring at me all the time. I was stared at by him uncomfortably, and said to myself, although the action I just lit a cigarette and asked me was quite handsome, but it didn't look at me like this. Or maybe he has a bad ear and can't hear me? As soon as I wanted to repeat it to him, Uncle Wang took his eyes off me and said, "Where else can I go?" ”

Then he sat up straight and leaned back on the couch and told us about his experience.

As he said before, Uncle Wang has been working as a security captain in this supermarket. Two months ago, when all kinds of communication and traffic were locked, folk rumors continued, and a large number of people began to pour into his supermarket to buy daily necessities. However, the panic sale only lasted for a short time, and the supermarkets were quickly sold out. At this time, all kinds of rumors about the virus have long been spread in the streets and alleys, and those with cars have already driven out of the city, saying that it is safest to go west.

Uncle Wang's attitude towards these things is that he would rather believe what he has than what he doesn't. He took his wife and elderly mother, made an appointment with one of his most trusted comrades, and prepared to take turns driving to the west. Unexpectedly, they didn't drive far before they were stuck in the highway. It's too late to change the national highway, and the surrounding traffic is jammed, and no one will let anyone, so they can't move half an inch away.

Hearing this, I guess Uncle Wang and the others should have left the city very early. Because when I first heard about the highway, I knew that there were military police on the road.

Things were far worse than they had imagined, they thought it was just that the traffic was too big to keep the toll booth busy, and as a result, the car was stuck on the road for several days, and the car engine didn't even start on the road a second time. Uncle Wang, they were sitting in the car and couldn't do anything. They didn't bring much of their own necessities, and they quickly ran out of everything they could eat. Fortunately, there were also speculative vendors wandering between the sews, selling instant noodles and some small snacks, which kept them going for a while.

Uncle Wang said that during the time in the car, he could smoke two or three packs of cigarettes with his comrades-in-arms every day, and at first they could chat and talk about the mountains, but later they had nothing to say. The surrounding drivers talked about the army setting up cards at the toll booth all day long, saying that it was strange that even if the toll booth could not pass, there should be a place in front of the toll booth where you could turn around, so that it would not be so blocked. In the reverse lane next to it, except for those who are bold enough to go against the road, there is no car driving back to the city. Uncle Wang also planned to go to the toll booth in person, but after calculating the time it took to walk to the toll booth, he thought about it.

By the third day, some car owners abandoned the car and ran away, and some people organized the cars behind to fall backwards one by one. However, since someone abandoned the car on the road, the progress of reversing can be imagined. Uncle Wang thought that it was not a way to block it like this, so they discussed and decided to wait another night. If it's still stuck tomorrow, I'll have to abandon the car and walk back. In fact, Uncle Wang knew in his heart that staying for one more night was a meaningless move, even if the toll station was released, there were many people in front of him who abandoned the car, and their cars would still be stuck in the middle and couldn't move out.

They just don't want to give up the last hopeless hope.

I didn't expect it to be this decision. Uncle Wang, as usual, chatted with the driver next to him and fell asleep. The next morning, Uncle Wang woke up before dawn, which was a habit he left behind when he was a soldier. It's quiet, and although there are no taillights on like yesterday, you can still see a car jam in front of you, and it looks like you really have to walk back today. Uncle Wang had no intention of sleeping again, he closed his eyes and sorted out what had happened during this time.

Isn't it a bit reckless to rush out in a hurry without even figuring out the matter? Uncle Wang remembered that when he made trouble in the past, it also made people panic, and at that time, he didn't listen too much to the folk rumors, he did what he had to do, and he came back to life.

Thinking like this, Uncle Wang feels a little better, maybe he can wait a few days for the limelight to pass, he can go back here and drive the car back, and then go back to work in the supermarket, his closest people are still sitting in the car, and life can still go on. Thinking of the people in the car, Uncle Wang's heart was much more steady. But it was at this moment of steadiness that Uncle Wang discovered another problem.

There seemed to be no other people's breathing in the car.

He chuckled in his heart, and immediately held his breath and listened for a while, and the car was so quiet that he couldn't even hear the normal snort when he was sleeping. No, Uncle Wang thought to himself, Butterseed's baby snores when he sleeps, but today he doesn't even have a normal breathing sound. (Butter Zi refers to Uncle Wang's comrades-in-arms, this is his exact words, as for whether it is his real name, I don't know) Uncle Wang immediately opened his eyes, thinking to himself, could they have left first? He turned on the lights in the car and found that Butterseed was sitting in the driver's seat, and his wife and mother were also in the back, both of them usually sleeping in the car, and there were many people.

However, after his eyes adjusted to the yellowish light in the car, Uncle Wang found that their faces were blue and purple. Uncle Wang stretched out his hand and shook the butter seed closest to him, trying to wake him up. However, Butterseed's body just swayed with the strength of Uncle Wang's arm, allowing Uncle Wang to slap his face hard, but he never opened his eyes again.

When Uncle Wang said this, he suddenly buried his head in his arms, and only raised his head after half a minute. He took out another cigarette and lit it, avoiding the gazes of me and Duan Ke and said, "You should be able to guess what happened next." ”

Duan Ke and I nodded, understanding what he meant, and knowing that he wanted to skip a painful part of his memory. But looking at his appearance, and the meaning of continuing to speak, I sat up straight and didn't interrupt him without speaking, waiting to hear Uncle Wang's story later