The night was like water, and the late autumn evening wind blew gently across the Horqin Prairie with a bit of chill. It passed by the riverbed formed by the water of the Alagu River and arrived at Ganqika, Kezuohou Banner, covering the entire park.
From time to time, long-distance trucks pass by on the national highway, and the bright headlights illuminate the road white. Sometimes, a hare will emerge from the cut cornfield and accidentally jump to the road, being illuminated by the car lights.
Run forward.
It is said that once a rabbit runs on the road at night, it will not run away after being illuminated by the headlights. It will only be illuminated by the headlights and run forward along the light. Often at this time, the driver will become excited, slow down, and shine.
The rabbit ran for three or four miles. When the rabbit was exhausted, he slowly stopped the car, got out of the cab, came to the rabbit gently, quickly stretched out his hand, and caught every one.
The driver was very happy, relaxing for himself and adding a bit of fun to this lonely night driving.
Most of the workshops of the copper factory on the south side of the national highway have gone off work. The roar of the machines during the day has disappeared at night. The workshop with lights on is the packaging team, which is protecting the bundles of copper wires, labeling them, and packing them into boxes. Busy
Working.
On the east side of the park, one or two night owls can be heard from time to time in the woods behind the cornfields, which can be heard far away in the open night, carrying a permeating smell.
There are also woods on the west side, and there are more people there. When laying the foundation for the industrial park, many bones were dug up, but no villagers claimed them. In the end, many small coffins were made, the bones were collected, and a Mr. Yin Yang was asked to arrange them.
They were all buried in the woods to the west.
The older villagers said that in the past, the past they mentioned should be traced back to the Yuan Dynasty. Great battles were fought here and many people died, and they were all buried here. Later, after the erosion of rain and the sedimentation of loess, these bones were buried deeply.
Buried underground.
The common people who farmed the land and planted trees couldn't dig that deep, so they didn't dig out the bones. This time they dug with a hook machine. This guy was very energetic and dug deep enough to dig them out directly.
People have a deep fear of the unknown, the dead, things like fooling around, otherwise there would be no such thing as "the living are afraid of the dead, no wonder the gods are afraid."
To the east of the industrial park, there is a township highway leading to Changsheng, which crosses the national highway and is 500 meters away from the park. There are frequent traffic accidents there.
The cars, sedans, and large goods running on the national highway are all very fast. It is much safer for experienced drivers to slow down in advance when passing an intersection and look left and right to see if any cars are coming.
Some drivers didn't care at all and didn't slow down. They just honked their horns, issued a few sharp warnings, and then roared past.
Most of the vehicles on rural roads are agricultural three-wheelers, but there are also cars and sedans, but relatively few.
A disadvantage of a tricycle is that when driving at night, it only has one headlight, so it is nicknamed the one-eyed dragon. A car coming from the opposite direction will mistakenly think it is a motorcycle when it is far away. When passing another car, the space given up is small. When you get closer, you will realize that it is a three-wheeler.
, scratches are easy to occur, and in severe cases, the car may overturn.
In the evening, there will be one table of guests in the hotel and three rooms in the guest room.
Nothing happened to the guest rooms and hotel staff. After seven o'clock, most of them left the store and gathered together to chat.
Lao Tan stood together with Hua Qing, Sun Haicheng and Master Bao, smoking and chatting.
Bart turned off the lights in the store, locked the door and was about to go home. When he saw Lao Tan standing outside, he came over to join their chat and started chatting.
While several people were chatting lively, they heard a sharp and sharp brake sound on the national highway, followed by a crash.
While everyone was stunned, a large truck was speeding past on the national highway from east to west. When they paid attention again, they could only see the flashing red light of the car's taillights. After a while, the red light was gone.
"There was a car accident. The big car hit and the people ran away." Hua Qing was the first to react.
Everyone who had been chatting animatedly just now ran to the place where the accident happened. While running, Lao Tan asked Sun Haicheng to go back to the store to get a flashlight, and Sun Haicheng went back to get the flashlight.
At the intersection of a rural road and a national highway, a tricycle rolled over into a ditch beside the national highway, with a person underneath it, moaning in pain.
The voice sounded like a woman.
A man wearing a helmet was thrown more than ten meters away. He must be the driver and was directly hit.
"Hurry up and save people." Lao Tan shouted loudly.
Bart and Hua Qing led the two chopping boards down to the ditch to lift the car and dragged the woman out.
Nothing serious happened to the woman, she probably broke her leg.
Lao Tan ran to the man wearing a helmet.
The man made no movement and had no injuries on his body. He was lying there like a dead man.
Lao Tan lowered his head and called twice, but the man did not move.
He didn't dare to act rashly, so he used his only common sense to sit down in front of the man's head, hugged his head, and tried to take off his helmet.
At this time, Bart and the others had already lifted the woman to the road and asked Tuya to sit on the ground and support her. The woman let out a scream.
At this time, he was still calm as he was older and knew what to do and what not to do. Bart picked up his cell phone to call the police and dialed 120 at the same time.
Sun Haicheng had already run over with a flashlight and shined it on the man.
The man was wearing a helmet. The front glass of the helmet was stained with dirt and shattered, making it difficult to see his face clearly.
Lao Tan slowly took off his helmet.
The man's eyes were closed tightly, his mouth was full of blood, he was still spitting out blood, and he had lost consciousness.
"Alive." Lao Tan said.
"Brother, hold me tight and don't move, you may rupture the cerebral blood vessels." Bart said nervously.
There were all hotel employees around. Lao Tan asked: "Do you know any of them?"
No one said anything, and no one seemed to recognize him.
The woman who was carried to the road took a breath and cried out, "How is my dad? How is my dad?"
"It's okay, I just passed out." Lao Tan replied.
These are father and daughter.
It was not far from the street. Soon police cars and ambulances came over with their lights flashing and sirens. They first put the man on the stretcher. When the man was getting on the stretcher, Lao Tan heard a faint breathing and human voice, and knew that this man
Can't die.
The father and daughter were taken away by the ambulance, and the traffic police asked everyone about the situation. After learning that the driver had escaped, the police immediately sent a message to the traffic police detachment in front, asking them to intercept and inspect the passing large trucks on the road ahead - easy inspection
, the collision was so severe, it left traces of the collision.
The traffic police left and everyone started to go back to the hotel.
They were all excited and felt happy that they had done a good deed. Although it felt like nothing, even a little insignificant, the joy and glory of helping others still made people proud.
How can I put it this way? This happened in the countryside. Everyone went to save people without thinking. If it happened in the city, it might not be like this. People would also crowd around and have the intention to save people, but if they couldn’t take action, would they dare?
You have to think about it before taking action.
The normal practice is for well-meaning people to call the police, call 120, 122, or 110, and wait for the police to come and solve the problem. Before the police arrive, they just watch and talk about solutions, but do not dare to take action.
People were blackmailed.
There are forgotten moral standards in the high civilization of the city, as gloomy as smog; there is a rare simplicity in the development of the countryside, as thick as the earth.
On the way forward, society will inevitably encounter the quality of human morality reflected in different periods and stages, but in the end it must develop towards nobleness.
Hua Qing said angrily: "The driver is not a human being. He hit the person and ran away."
"This is us. If we hadn't touched that man, he would have died here." Sun Haicheng said.
Lao Tan said: "Don't worry, the driver can't escape, he will still have to get into trouble."
As he was told, the truck driver who caused the accident panicked and ran away in fear. After driving fifty miles, he was approaching Tongliao and collided with a large truck pulling gravel at a fork in the road. He was not so lucky this time.
Sand and gravel trucks are not used to his faults.
The large truck rolled over and the driver's leg was broken.
The traffic police uncovered a hit-and-run case involving a truck driver that night.
After returning to the hotel, Wang Hong first saw a large blood stain on Lao Tan's chest. She knew that there was a car accident outside, but the woman was timid and it was dark, so she did not dare to go out and see.
Seeing the blood on Lao Tan's clothes, I thought something had happened to him, and immediately asked: "What's going on? He's covered in blood? Was he beaten?"
Only then did Lao Tan realize that the blood on his clothes looked a little oozing. As he took it off, he said, "Save someone. The man's mouth was full of blood. I held him and he vomited."
After I took it off, I looked at it and realized that I couldn't wear it anymore. It was stained with someone else's blood, and it was quite large, which was a bit taboo. The hurdle vest underneath was also stained red by the blood that had seeped into it.
Hua Qing said: "Master Tan, don't want these clothes."
Wang Hong also said: "Looking at it makes you sick. You are not allowed to wear it and I won't wash it for you."
Lao Tan said: "Okay, I don't want it anymore." Still a little reluctant, he said, "I quite like this one."
"What a rude person." Wang Hong said: "Throw it away quickly, it's a taboo. People get bonuses for saving people, so it's better for you to wear clothes."
Lao Tan said: "This is called sacrificing oneself for others."
While we were talking, it was time to get off work. Lao Tan went back to the dormitory to change out of his clothes and prepared to eat in the small restaurant. Wang Hong prepared the food and brought it out, followed by Hua Qing and Sun Haicheng.
The four of them sat in the room eating, discussing the car accident for a while, expressing their emotions, worrying about the father and daughter who were hit, scolding the driver who escaped, and then chatting to the hotel again.
Hua Qing asked: "Master Tan, this is not very effective. Can we work until the Spring Festival?"
Lao Tan said: "Yes, there was no problem a year ago, don't worry."
Wang Hong said: "There are still three months, it's fast, it will be there in the blink of an eye."
Lao Tan asked her: "Has your child enlisted in the army?"
"Well, I joined the army and became an auto soldier. It's not bad." Wang Hong said.
At this time, Sun Haicheng asked: "Master Tan, where will you go after the New Year?"
Lao Tan said: "I haven't thought about it. It's a bit early to think about it now. The plan won't change quickly. It's useless to think about it too early."
"I will go wherever you go, and I will follow you from now on." Sun Haicheng said.
Lao Tan smiled and said: "I can't do it either, but your skills need to be improved. You're stuck in cooking. You just need to be more flexible. The main reason is that you haven't worked in a big place, so you haven't let go."
"Yes, I have been working in mid-range restaurants. We are the biggest ones here." Sun Haicheng said.
"It's okay. Practice more and see more. The size of the place doesn't matter. The main thing is to let go."
Wang Hong said to Lao Tan: "Brother, I will still follow you during the Chinese New Year, don't leave me behind."
He definitely couldn't leave her behind. When he was working in Binhai, those brothers all arranged their jobs after returning to the provincial capital. Now she was working by his side and he had to take him with him.
There are unwritten rules in the chef's shop. The boss leads everyone to work and earn money. When he stops working, he can have no job, but he must find work for the younger brothers who follow him. The boss makes more money, and he can't work for one or two months.
If you have money to spend at work, you can survive, and if you have a family, you don’t have to worry about where to live. If I can’t, where is the easiest place to live?
So I have to find a job.
After you have arranged your little brother, people think you are a good boss and fastidious, so they will follow you unconditionally next time there is a job.
If you have a bad character and just ignore your younger brother, you will just make a one-time deal and no one will take the job in the future.
Kitchen work is completed by the cooperation of many people and cannot be done by one person.
Hua Qing said: "Master Tan, I feel that Mr. Xu needs to call you back. I heard from my brother that the kitchen is in a mess now. Just like before, many people want you to go back."
Lao Tan said absently: "Let's see."
"I will go back if you go back. If you don't go back, I won't go back." Hua Qing said.
Lao Tan looked at the three people in front of him, thought for a while and said: "We stopped moving before the year, and we will stay here. I will call you when I find a good job after the year, and we will still work together."