Chapter Eighty-Six: The Woodside Cabin
The farther north you go, the colder the weather becomes, Han Ying is right, it is snowing all over the north, and after a few days, the snow on the ground has accumulated more than a foot thick. When the two passed through a forest, the car finally stopped and had to stop.
Han Ying's car had a navigation system, flipped through the map, turned her head to look at Xu Mo, and said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, but you're also trapped here." The nearest village is also thirty or forty miles away, and it is not on the highway, but the city is even farther away, and the snow on the ground is so thick, how can you get by?"
Xu Mo smiled and said, "It's not your fault, what are you sorry for?" When I passed by the forest just now, I saw a few houses on the side of the road, probably the forest ranger's hut, only three or four miles away from here, let's go there and rest." ”
Han Ying nodded and said, "It's okay." ”
At that moment, the two got out of the car, locked the door, took their luggage, held each other, and walked back with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
The snow on the ground was so thick that although it was only three or four miles away, the two of them still walked for more than half an hour before they reached the place.
It was two blue brick houses, somewhat dilapidated, and the windows were long since broken and sealed with plywood. There were two cars parked on the road next to the house, presumably like them, passers-by stranded here.
Xu Mo heard someone in the room from a distance, approached Han Ying, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, but he didn't hear the person inside agree.
Han Ying raised her voice and asked, "Is the master here?"
Xu Mo replied with a smile: "The master is not here, let's go in." ”
The answer was pure speculation, and it was expected that if the owner of the house was inside, when he knocked on the door, someone would have agreed. Since no one agreed, most of the people in the room were passers-by.
Pushed open the door at the moment, beckoned Han Ying to come in, closed the door again, turned around, and swept slightly towards the people in the room.
There were five people in the room, three men and two women, one of whom sat in the northeast corner, the other man and one woman in the southwest corner, and the last man in his thirties sat against the wall and sat at the right back of the door.
These five people were far away from each other, and when they saw Xu Mo and Han Ying coming in, they only glanced at each other. Han Ying always smiled and nodded when everyone looked over, but only the man in his thirties responded, and the others looked cold.
The two put down their luggage, Han Ying took out a cushion from her bag, spread it on the ground, and beckoned Xu Mo to sit down together.
The middle-aged man casually asked, "Where is the car trapped?"
Han Ying replied: "On the road ahead." He said again, "I don't know when the snow will stop?"
The middle-aged man said: "It's early, the weather forecast says that it will fall tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so you have to wait." ”
Xu Mo said: "The snow has been falling like this, and I don't know when we will be able to leave?"
Han Ying turned her head to look at him, and said with a gentle smile: "Then don't worry, this is the boundary of Yizhou, and it is on the highway, and the state government will send someone to clean it up sooner or later." ”
Xu Mo nodded, and said to the middle-aged man, "How long have you been trapped here?"
The middle-aged man seemed a little anxious when he heard this, and replied, "It was here yesterday." Then he scolded fiercely, "Damn, there is no village in front of here, and there is no store in the back, so it is a big problem to only eat." I don't know if you have anything to eat, but if you don't, hehe!
Han Ying and Xu Mo glanced at each other, the two of them never thought that they would be trapped on the road, so they didn't bring food in their bags, Xu Mo had lived alone in the wilderness for a long time, but he didn't pay much attention to it, but Han Ying couldn't help but care, and when he heard the words, he asked, "Then what?"
The middle-aged man said, "Not much, anyway, someone comes to sell food, it's just a bit expensive." ”
Han Ying let out an 'oh', a little relieved, since someone sells food, it will be much easier. I glanced at the other people in the room, and I couldn't see any people who looked like they were selling food, but I saw a few empty bags of instant noodles on the ground in the southeast corner, or new, obviously the people in this room had thrown them there after eating, and I thought: Could it be that the people who came to sell food came from outside?
The man in the prime of life seemed a little tired, and after saying a few words, he stopped speaking, leaning against the wall and closing his eyes to recuperate. But it was really cold in this room, although the doors and windows were closed tightly, the wind still came in from somewhere, and the man in the prime of life turned the collar of his coat upside down, and crossed his hands into the cuffs, but he was still shrinking from the cold.
Xu Mo was breathing quietly, the cold and heat did not invade, and Han Ying's clothes were relatively thick, and she had just come in, so it was much better.
The two whispered. Soon after, another man and a woman pushed the door in, the man was about fifty years old, wearing a pair of eyes, although he was a little older, he looked like a high-level intellectual, and the woman was only in her early twenties, like a student, and the two of them looked very intimate.
The man glanced at everyone in the room, and immediately identified each person's identity like Xu Mo, and said to the woman: "It's all passing, okay, let's find a place to sit." ”
The woman did not speak, but went to the northwest corner, spread the cushion that appeared to have been taken from the car seat on the ground, and the two of them sat down with each other.
As if there was no one beside the man, he hugged the woman's and kissed her, and when he kissed him, he kept making a slurping sound. When Xu Mo heard the movement, he couldn't help but glance at Han Ying, who smiled at him and shook his head.
After some time, the middle-aged man opened his eyes, rolled up his sleeves, looked at his watch, and then said to himself, "It's twelve o'clock, and the seller should come." ”
Seeing the new man and woman, he seemed stunned, and then whispered: "Someone is here again, this place is getting more and more lively." ”
He had just fallen asleep, and when he woke up at this time, he couldn't help but feel more and more cold, and couldn't help but shiver, got up from the ground, stomped his feet hard, then jumped a few times, and scolded: "It's cold, it's cold, fuck, it's cold." He glanced at everyone and asked loudly, "It's almost unbearable, is there anyone who can go together to find some branches and dry firewood, and build a fire to roast?"
I asked several times in a row, but no one answered. The new man and woman were still kissing, and it seemed that they were not interested in anything else. The two men and two women in the southwest and northeast corners glanced at him and muttered something in a whisper, but in the end they didn't say anything.
The man and woman in the northeast corner were afraid of the cold and didn't want to go out, but the man and woman in the southwest corner felt that the snow was falling so much, and the dry firewood and branches must have been buried underneath, and they couldn't find it.
Xu Mo himself was not cold, but he couldn't help but ask Han Ying: "Do you feel cold?"
Han Ying smiled and said, "It's okay." ”
Xu Mo glanced at the middle-aged man, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard some movement from the northeast outside the house.
Three men approached as they spoke, and they moved so fast that they sounded as if they were paddling through the snow.
Only one person was heard: "There are two more cars on the road, and it seems that someone is trapped here again." ”
Another person smiled: "The more sleepy people the better, the New Year is coming soon, thanks to this heavy snowfall, we should make a small fortune." ”
Another person said: "It's better that this snow will fall for a long time, and it will stop in three days and two days, but it's not interesting." ”
The man who spoke first said, "Yes, it would be nice to do it all year round." ”
"Ha Lu Ha!" Another person couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "If we do this every day, we will be rich." ”
When Xu Mo heard this, he immediately understood, thinking that these people must be the ones who came to sell things as the person just said, and looking at this situation, the price must not be cheap.
When the words came to his lips, he said no more, and waited for the three to come.
A few minutes later, the three men arrived at the door, but they were three young men, all of them of age, only sixteen or seventeen years old, and their accents were obviously natives of the neighborhood, with thick puffers over them, cotton gloves, homemade skis, snowball fights in their hands, and a backpack on their backs.
Glancing at everyone in the house, one of them shouted, "Sell food, sell food, instant noodles, biscuits, bread, buy as soon as possible." ”
The strong man said, "It's too late today." ”
A young man in a blue down jacket said, "The snow is getting heavier and heavier, so it's good to come over." ”
The man in the northeast corner approached, took out four hundred yuan from his wallet, and said, "Get me four packets of instant noodles." ”
Another long-haired young man glared at him, but he didn't take the banknote in his hand, and said in a sharp voice: "The price of instant noodles has risen, two hundred and one packs." ”
The man was stunned when he heard this, and muttered in a low voice, "It was a hundred yesterday." ”
The young man heard it in his ears, sneered, and said coldly: "If you like to eat or not, the price will increase in a few days, do you believe that if this road is blocked for a week, I can grow the price to 1,000?"
The man didn't dare to say more, flipped through his wallet, and then frowned: "What should I do if I don't have enough money on me?"
The third teenager had a silver ear stud on his left earlobe, and said with a smile: "It's easy to do, do you have a bank card?" said and took out a wireless credit card machine from the backpack on his body, and said with a smile: "I know that this kind of thing will happen sooner or later, so last night, I went to my relatives who opened a supermarket to borrow a wireless credit card machine, you have no money on you, you can swipe the card." Our service is good enough, isn't it?"
When a new man and a woman finally stopped kissing, the man stepped forward and asked, "How do you sell bread?
The young man in the blue down jacket said, "Three hundred breads and four hundred biscuits." ”
The man said, "I'll see what it's like." As he spoke, he reached out and lifted the frame of his glasses, squinting his eyes into the boy's backpack.
The young man said impatiently: "What do you see, what is there to see? I will tell you clearly, instant noodles are sold in the supermarket for two pieces, two pieces of bread, and two pieces of biscuits, all of which are very cheap." But here, it's the price, you like to buy it or not, forget it if you don't buy it. ”
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