Volume 1: Reborn in the 1980s, selling lunch boxes with my mother Chapter 143: Heavy Snow Blocks the Road
After Han Dajun left, Hu Qiongfang locked the door from the inside. No one in the room had time to rest. They turned on the lights and stayed up late to make dumplings and rice dumplings.
Jiang Tian was also busy putting the chopped meat and vegetables into the pot, and preparing the topping for tomorrow's noodles.
Pour the cooked topping directly into an aluminum soup pot, cover it with a lid, and place it in the kitchen. It can be heated up the next day and taken out for sale.
As the saying goes, opportunities are reserved for those who are prepared.
The next morning, when Hu Qiongfang got up and opened the door, she was almost buried by the snow!
It snowed all night last night and the snow on the ground was almost as deep as Hu Qiongfang's thighs.
With such thick snow, Hu Qiongfang didn't dare to let Jiang Cheng and He Chunsheng go to school. But she knew that the school would most likely suspend classes today.
It’s snowing so heavily. Not only can the students not go, but even the teachers probably can’t go out right now.
The whole family didn't even have time to wash their faces or brush their teeth. They quickly picked up shovels and brooms and shoveled a way out the door.
There were no cars coming and going on the provincial road. There were a few cars nearby, but it seemed that they had stalled when they drove here and had to stop in the middle of the road.
The sky is gloomy and it looks like it will snow today.
"Mom, you guys sweep the snow here first. Chengcheng and I will go over there and take a look."
It snowed so heavily last night. If these cars had really been parked on the provincial road all night, the people in the cars would probably have been freezing cold.
How could Hu Qiongfang dare to let her two children go? She quickly stuck the shovel into the snow pile, put on rubber shoes, and the three of them walked along, knocking on the car door all the way, for fear that the people in the car would freeze to death.
Not frozen yet, but almost.
On a passenger bus, the conductor Guan Xiumin shook the empty thermos bottle and asked the driver Zhao Qiangguo with a sad face:
"Uncle Zhao, when can we drive this car? If not, let's find a place to park the car first. We have finished the hot water."
The driver, Zhao Qiangguo, looked at the thick snow outside and said with a wry smile, "Find a place to park? You wish! The snow is so thick on the ground that we can't move forward or backward. Let's just wait here!"
Zhao Qiangguo is an experienced driver who has been working for the provincial passenger transport company for more than ten years. If it weren't for his rich experience, the company would not have sent him on this trip.
No wonder he was so cautious. When he found that the snow was getting heavier, he immediately decided to pull over on the provincial road.
After all, the people on the bus were not ordinary individual passengers, but engineers from Z Province Construction who came to their place to help build a water conservancy project.
People have come thousands of miles to them, leaving their homes and families to support their water conservancy project construction. It's the New Year, and the teachers have worked hard for a year and want to go back to reunite with their families. How can we let them squeeze on the train to go home?
So, Master Zhao was given the task of sending the teachers back home to celebrate the New Year.
Who knew we would suddenly encounter a snowstorm halfway through the journey!
Now, let alone getting the person there in time, even if he arrives safely, it would be a blessing from God.
The ticket seller Guan Xiumin was still a young girl who had just started working and had no idea how dangerous the journey was.
It's not so bad when it snows, at most the snow is too heavy and the road is difficult to drive on. The real danger is after the snow melts. If you are unlucky and the temperature drops sharply, the melted snow on the road will freeze. You can't drive forward, and even if you park on the side of the road without moving, you will be very nervous, for fear that a car with slipped tires will suddenly rush up from behind and hit you.
No one can escape.
Having driven a bus for more than ten years, doesn't Zhao Qiangguo know that the best way right now is to drive the bus off the provincial road and find a place to hide first?
Isn't there anything we can do about it?
He wanted to drive, but the snow on the side of the provincial road was thicker than on the road.
Moreover, the provincial roads now have guardrails and hardened sidewalks, unlike those of decades ago.
Once the snow covers the ground heavily, who knows whether it is the road surface or the ditch hidden underneath?
If you drive your car into a ditch and get stuck, you will really be stuck.
At this moment, Hu Qiongfang and her two sons knocked on the car window.
"Master, how long have you been parked here? I think the snow on the road won't melt for a while. Why don't you park the car here and go to my house to drink some hot water and warm up first?"
When Guan Xiumin heard that there was hot water to drink, she was immediately tempted.
Zhao Qiangguo quickly held her down. He didn't open the car door, but rolled down the window and asked where Hu Qiongfang's home was.
Hu Qiongfang pointed to the huge billboard that Jiang Tian had specially ordered at the door.
"Look! That's my restaurant. You can park your car here and walk there quickly."
Perhaps other drivers had questioned her when she knocked on the car window before, so Hu Qiongfang quickly explained, "Don't worry, you can go to my house to rest and drink water. Hot water is free, and we don't force guests to buy anything from us."
"It's snowing heavily, it's not easy to go out, you guys are going home for the New Year too, right?"
Hu Qiongfang's words really hit the heart of Master Zhao and the passengers behind him.
Isn’t it?
Master Zhao is even more unfortunate than those teachers from the Z Province Construction Engineering School who are behind him. As long as the teachers can get through this journey, they can go home and reunite with their families.
After he dropped the person off, he had to drive the car back.
I don’t know if I can make it back to have New Year’s Eve dinner with my family given the road conditions this year.
What a sin~~
Zhao Qiangguo quickly opened the car door. Guan Xiumin tied the scarf around her neck tightly to block the biting cold wind outside. She was the first to jump out of the car and walked slowly towards Hu Qiongfang's restaurant with a group of passengers.
Zhao Qiangguo did not get off the car immediately, but stopped Hu Qiongfang and asked if he could park in front of her restaurant.
He wanted to drive the car off the provincial road first.
I don’t know why, but Master Zhao always has a bad feeling: it might continue to snow today.
If the snow continues to fall, even if we mobilize all the people in the province to shovel snow on the roads together, the speed of shoveling snow will not keep up with the speed of snowfall.
If it continues to snow today , it will be dangerous to park your car on the side of the road.
There was also a lot of luggage in the car.
They can stay at a fellow villager's house nearby for one night, but it is impossible to move all the luggage out of the car.
We still have to find a safe place to park the car first.
Hu Qiongfang pointed to .
"There is a parking space in front of my restaurant, and there is also a road from the provincial highway, but the road is covered with snow now, so I'm afraid your big car can't drive through."
As long as there is a road!
Zhao Qiangguo jumped out of the car and took out two shovels from the back.
How could an experienced driver like him drive a sports car in winter without bringing tools?
Seeing Zhao Qiangguo shoveling snow, others also stopped.
"Master Zhao, do you want to drive the car down?"
"Is there any shovel in the car? Let us help too!"
There were only two shovels on the car, but Hu Qiongfang's family had many shovels.
There are not only iron shovels, but also wooden shovels and wheelbarrows.
For a while, dozens of people were busy shoveling snow in front of Hu Qiongfang's restaurant.
