When An Lan got off the car to relieve himself, I subconsciously looked at my phone. There was still no signal, not even the satellite signal on the navigation system.
I can only judge by feeling. At this moment, we are only halfway through the mountain at most.
We are still at least two hours' drive from the nearest county seat, and it is already eleven o'clock in the night.
After An Lan came back, he didn't rush to get in the car. Instead, he came to the cab door and said to me, "I'll drive, and you can rest for a while."
"It's okay. You're not familiar with this mountain road. Get in the car quickly. It's cold outside."
An Lan then looked at the road ahead where the headlights were shining. The mountain road was not only steep, but also backed by a cliff. On the other side of the parking space was a cliff of ten thousand feet.
In fact, such mountain roads are not uncommon in Yunnan and Guizhou. From Qinglong Township to Yunlong County, we have to climb several such mountains.
Sometimes I have to admire the spirit of the older generation of workers. What a great thing it is to open a road halfway up the mountain.
An Lan probably realized the danger of this kind of road, so she said to me again: "Then you can rest for a while, don't rush on the road."
After the instructions, she finally got into the passenger seat and turned on the seat heating function.
We parked the car in this gentle place and rested. The car still had enough gas and the heater could be turned on all the time.
There was still light snow falling outside the car, which had already covered the windows. It felt like I was isolated from the world.
In this quiet space, An Lan and I's breathing sounds were so clear.
She took out her phone and looked at it, frowned slightly and said, "Why is there no signal here?"
"It's normal. There are no base stations in such a big mountain, so it's difficult for mobile phones to receive signals."
After she breathed a sigh of relief, she had no choice but to put down her phone and glanced at me again.
"Are you cold?" she suddenly asked me.
"It's not cold, are you cold?"
"It was a little cold when I went to bed, but it's better now."
I hummed and fell silent again.
However, at this moment, a line of light suddenly shone in front of us, and then we faintly heard the sound of a car engine.
My heart immediately rose to my throat.
I haven't encountered any cars since entering this mountain, which is terrible!
Because although the place where we parked our car was on a relatively flat terrain, it was still very narrow, making it impossible to park the car.
The car coming in the opposite direction was getting closer and closer to us, and I immediately became nervous.
Thinking back to the place we came all the way just now, there was a place where we could meet cars, but it was at least five or six hundred meters away from my place.
If we were to go back to the meeting place where we just passed, it would be easier during the day, but in this dark night, we are on a mountain road with steep cliffs, not to mention that there is no guardrail on the side of the cliff.
If there was an accident, it would be a car crash and everyone would be killed!
While we were thinking this, the car coming from the opposite direction had already arrived in front of us.
I couldn't see clearly what kind of car it was under the headlights. It wasn't until I switched back and forth between high and low beam that he changed the high beam to low beam.
Only then did I realize that this was a pickup truck. It was impossible to know how to drive a truck. One side had to fall backwards.
Before I could make a judgment, the pickup truck on the other side honked its horn twice, seeming to prompt us to move backwards.
I don't want to take such a risk. If the place where he can meet the car is closer than ours, it would be better to let him fall backwards.
So after he honked the horn twice, I unbuckled my seat belt and prepared to get out of the car and look at the road ahead. If there was no place in front of them where they could meet other cars, I would fall back.
At this time An Lan suddenly grabbed my hand and said to me: "Be careful!"
I subconsciously looked at her hand holding mine, then nodded to her, and then opened the car door.
After getting off the bus, I used my mobile phone to light up the car and walked forward. As a result, there was a place where I could meet other cars less than fifty meters away.
I immediately walked to the cab door of the pickup truck, took out my cigarette and knocked on the window.
After the car window slowly rolled down, the driver yelled at me without saying a word: "You are blind! Can't you see the car coming? Hurry up and back up!"
It is always true that unruly people come out of poor places. This driver is not someone to be trifled with at first glance.
Moreover, there was another person sitting in the passenger seat. Neither of them seemed to be the kind of people to be trifled with. They were probably locals here.
Naturally, I didn't want to conflict with them, so I took out my cigarette and handed it to the car and said, "Brothers, the place where I can meet the car behind me is too far, and I can't see anything behind me. I can't move back. What I just did
I went to see there is a meeting place less than fifty meters behind you, please step back a few steps and I can watch it for you."
The other party didn't take the cigarette I handed over at all, and even yelled at me: "I told you to give in, why are you so long-winded?"
Before I could say anything else, they had already closed the car windows.
This barbaric approach seems to tell me that they are the masters of this road and I should let them.
At this time, An Lan stuck his head out of the car window and shouted to me: "Chen Feng, please stand farther away."
"What do you want to do?"
Before I could react, I saw that she was already sitting in the cab, started the car, and pushed up against the pickup truck in front of her.
I froze on the spot, and when the Cayenne she was driving was about to hit the pickup truck, I felt my scalp numb.
This girl is too courageous!
I was so frightened that I broke into a cold sweat, and the two people in the pickup truck were probably also very frightened.
The window of the pickup truck was opened again, and the driver stuck his head out and shouted at An Lan in the car: "You don't want to die!"
An Lan didn't say much to them, just honked the horn twice more and pushed forward again.
Just as they were about to collide, the pickup truck finally shifted into reverse gear and began to reverse.
It wasn't until the pickup truck backed up to the meeting place that An Lan started the car again and drove over.
The driver of the pickup truck immediately stuck his head out and cursed at An Lan: "How could you do this? You are really not afraid of death!"
An Lan ignored them at all and called me to get in the car.
I raised my middle finger at the two people in the pickup truck and got in the car.
The pickup truck drove away, but I looked at An Lan a little stupidly, admiring her courage from the bottom of my heart.
Because the scene just now was really thrilling. If both sides don't give in, then An Lan may really take the lead.
"It was so dangerous just now, how dare you?" I asked her with a hint of fear.
"When dealing with such unreasonable people, don't reason with them. This is called fighting violence with violence."
What a woman who fights violence with violence. At this moment, I was really convinced by her.
Then An Lan said to me: "I'll drive it, you can rest for a while."
I didn't refuse anymore. I could tell from just that moment that her driving skills were extraordinary.
We basically didn't stop during the rest of the journey, and we didn't find a hotel to stay in, because we were almost at Dongshan County after climbing over the mountain.
It wasn't until we entered the boundary of Dongshan County that An Lan and I changed places again. Naturally, I was more familiar with the road here.
At 2:30 in the morning, we finally arrived in Dongshan County and randomly found a hotel to stay.