Zhang Chi said repeatedly: "Chinese, Chinese, where do you come from?"
"We came from China and were about to travel through the United States. Who would have thought that there was such a heavy snow here? One of us accidentally got into a ditch and couldn't pull him out for a long time. Oh, I forgot to introduce you. My name is Yan Zhou. This is me.
Brothers Sun Fan and Sun Mao".
After Yan Zhou said his name, he pulled on his glove and seemed ready to shake hands with Zhang Chi. However, when he thought about the weather, he immediately retracted his glove hand and stretched out to Zhang Chi with the glove on.
At this moment, there was a guy standing behind Yan Zhou and waved his hand at Zhang Chi: "My name is Gu Ming, Gu from ancient times, Ming from Mingyue."
Zhang Chi shook Yan Zhou's hand gently and introduced himself: "My name is Zhang Chi, Li Zaozhang, Mercedes-Benz Chi."
Zhang Chi feels strange now. Is life in China so good now? Otherwise, how could these people be so idle? If you say you want to cross the United States, just cross it. You won't choose a good road. Start from Los Angeles.
, what a great route to cross the Nevada Desert all the way east.
This kind of line cannot be carried through, so it has to be crossed from here.
It's okay to cross the United States here, but can you not come here at this time? It's full of ice and snow.
What's the matter? You don't think it's easy to play normally, so you chose this time to take this route?
If that's the case, you deserve to freeze to death.
After shaking hands with the remaining people one by one, Zhang Chi asked: "Can it still be activated?"
"Only one started, and the other two failed somewhere and couldn't start," Sun Mao said.
"Brother Zhang, can you repair cars?"
Zhang Chi smiled: "I know a little bit, but repairing a car now? At most, I can only take a brief look."
There are very few men here who can't repair cars. Of course, they can't be compared with professional technicians. They only care about minor problems, such as changing spark plugs, changing tires, putting on belts, etc., without asking for help.
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It's not that people don't want to ask for help, but the cost of asking for help is too high. With a little fiddling, dozens or hundreds of dollars can be spent. Isn't that life-threatening? People here only make a few dollars a month.
As he spoke, Zhang Chi leaned over to the engine compartment and took a look. It was difficult to see clearly even with a flashlight in the dark. Anyway, Zhang Chi checked and found that his little knowledge seemed to be unable to get them back on the road.
"I'm not very capable at this point, I'm afraid I'll have to find professionals," Zhang Chi said as he jumped off the bumper of the car and closed the engine compartment.
"Why don't you use your pickup truck to help us pull the car up first? Our car is not very strong," Sun Fan said.
Zhang Chi said: "Okay, do you have any cables?"
"Yes, yes!"
It's easy to deal with things if they have them. A few people were busy hanging one end of the cable on the tow hook of Zhang Chi's car, and the other end on the rear hook of the car that was stuck in the ditch.
Zhang Chi started the truck, pushed forward and the four wheels began to skid. It was obvious that the four wheels of the pickup truck could not provide enough grip to pull the car out of the ditch.
Let alone pulling him out, it's hard to keep himself stable on the ground, so why talk about pulling someone in?
After trying several times, Gu Ming said to Zhang Chi: "The road is too slippery and it's not difficult to follow. It's better to call the rescue team. By the way, Brother Zhang, how long will it take to call for rescue here?"
arrive?"
Zhang Chi got out of the car at this time: "Call rescue? At other times, it takes about half a day, but today the fastest you can call rescue is probably tomorrow morning. You have to know, there is no one working anywhere today on Christmas Day."
"No one is on duty?" Gu Ming was a little surprised.
"On duty?"
Zhang Chi was amused by Gu Ming's words: "There is no such saying here. If you are looking for an ambulance or calling the police, there must be someone there, but if you are looking for this kind of rescue at this time, it will not count as long as there are no dead people here.
No big thing can prevent them from celebrating the festival. So in their eyes, the roof ditch of your car is just a small thing."
"Of course, you can also call the fire brigade, but believe me, you will definitely not be happy to call the fire brigade, because you will regret it when you get the bill. Why not just throw the car away? It will save trouble.
A little," Zhang Chi continued to say with a smile.
"Then it seems we have to stay here tonight," Sun Mao said.
Zhang Chi was happy again when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Live here? You will be four icy lumps by tomorrow morning. Now that the temperature has dropped, even if you have a cold-resistant sleeping bag, it will be enough for you. I
Look, my ranch is nearby. You can drive your car with me and go to the ranch to deal with it overnight, and then come back to find a solution during the day tomorrow."
Hearing that they wanted to live in the car, Zhang Chi seemed to see the scene of the ambulance crew lifting several ice lumps out of the car the next morning.
Now Zhang Chi could see that these few people in front of him didn't have much experience in wild survival at all. They probably thought that they could just get into a sleeping bag.
This is obviously looking down upon the temperature here.
If there were irrelevant people, Bingtuozi would be a lump, and half-dead would be half-dead. Zhang Chi didn't care, but Zhang Chi really couldn't bear it for a few compatriots.
"Isn't this appropriate?" Yan Zhou hesitated.
Zhang Chi said: "There is nothing appropriate or inappropriate. We are all Chinese, and we should take care of ourselves when we go out. My house is small, so when you arrive, someone must be laying the floor beside the fireplace."
"It doesn't matter if the floor is laid, will it be a little disturbing?" Sun Fan asked.
Zhang Chi smiled and said: "It's now time to be polite, let's go."
"Is it okay to leave this car here? Will a thief steal the car?" Gu Ming was a little worried about his car.
Zhang Chi said to Gu Ming: "Don't worry, there are very few thieves here, and even if there are, they won't come to Amber Town to steal your car in the ditch. Don't worry, when you wake up tomorrow morning, you
The car is definitely there, even if it’s not there there’s nothing you can do about it.”
Gu Ming thought for a moment and said with a smile: "That's right, it's better not to worry than to worry."
Sun Mao said at this time: "How come the snow here is so heavy, and the road is too slippery, and there is no guardrail or anything. It is a lot worse than the roads in China."
"A road with guardrails must be a highway. There are no roads in our town. The roads here are not very good. In winter, when it snows and freezes, it is easy for people who are not familiar with it to
The car has been driven into a ditch, five, six, seven or eight times a year, which is normal."
The last time a truck dug a ditch, Zhang Chi heard from the old cowboys that cars would go into the ditch every year on the road here in the winter. The municipal government had long said that it would build this road, but after talking about it for more than ten years, it has not even been done yet.
There was no movement.
This road is winding and winding. If it were done in China, it would definitely be a straight tunnel, which would save at least an hour.
But the road was built too early. It is estimated to be almost a hundred years ago. It was built at the beginning of the last century. At that time, the technical conditions were not as easy as it is now.
So the whole road winds and winds here and there in the mountains. Not only does it wind up, but it also connects the towns along the way, so there are not many bends in the road.
With the road being built like this, cars naturally have to go this way. It's okay if the weather is not bad. When the weather is bad, you have to drive carefully, otherwise you will end up in a ditch like Sun Mao and a few others.
The main reason is that there are many curves. If you are not a local and are not very familiar with the road, if you drive faster and are not careful, this is what will happen.
Car crashes and fatalities rarely happen. Last time, the truck driver was still lying in the hospital. He probably won't be able to recover for half a year.
There are curves all the way, and the speed of the car cannot be increased at all.
In Zhou Xingxing’s words: At worst, he is seriously injured or wants to die? It’s not that easy!
Everyone got in the car, and the four of them crowded into one car, with Zhang Chi driving a pickup truck in front.
Zhang Chi didn't know that the people in the car behind him were now making jokes of their own.
"Do you think this person is a bad person?" Sun Mao asked.
Yan Zhou, who was driving, said: "You should watch less mystery dramas and crime movies. They are kind-hearted and helping us."
Sun Maodao: "I just said casually, it's a coincidence that you said this. Our car broke down, how come we met him, and he was a Chinese."
Gu Ming said: "You really think too much. Even if he is a bad guy, how can we, the four of us here, who are all tall and powerful, be afraid of him?"
Sun Mao said: "How can we calculate it like this? What if he poisons him, or else he gives him a drug?"
Snapped!
Before Sun Mao could finish his words, his brother Sun Fan slapped him on the head: "Ouch~! Why are you hitting me? I'm telling you a possibility."
Sun Fan said: "What do you have to offer others? Are you beautiful or did you bring money?"
"We brought money"
"People have ranches. If a Chinese buys a ranch here, how can they care about the little money we have with us?" Sun Fan said.
Sun Fan thought that Zhang Chi’s ranch was bought with money earned in China, so based on his own experience, he believed that Zhang Chi was very rich and the people who bought ranches in the United States were wealthy. Not only the Chinese at home knew that, but also the United States
Everyone knows that the most ruthless people who spend money to buy pastures and farms are the Chinese.
In addition to farms and ranches, there are also American wineries, manors and mansions, etc., which are also popular among domestic wealthy people.
"If you have a ranch, you can't be a pervert?" Sun Mao asked.
Yan Zhou said at this time: "No, it can be seen from this man's eyes that he is a warm-hearted person."
A carload of people pulled and followed Zhang Chi to the gate of the ranch.
After entering the ranch and arriving in front of Zhang Chi's house, several people realized that it turned out that when Zhang Chi said the house was small, he was not just being polite. This house was really small.
These people came to the United States from China to play, and they drove across the United States by themselves, so whether it was Yan Zhou, the brothers Sun Fan and Sun Mao, or Gu Ming, they all had some spare money.
The salary is dead, let alone several thousand a month, even if it is more than 10,000 or 20,000, it is impossible for the family to be willing to spend money to play this.
"We're here, the place is small," Zhang Chi said to Yan Zhou and others who got off the bus.
Yan Zhou and others immediately said: "It's not too small. It's very good. It's a small villa in a private courtyard in China."
You feel small in your heart, but when you say it, it means you have a low IQ. They are letting people come over to stay overnight, and they are afraid that you and others will freeze to death in the car. Do you still think that their house is small?
Can you sleep in the car?
After entering the house, it was very cold, so Zhang Chi's first step was to light a fire and raise the fireplace. The temperature in the living room slowly rose.
(PS: There are two chapters today. I have something to do at home. The update may be later tomorrow. I can’t say exactly when. It will be back to normal the day after tomorrow. I’m a little sorry for everyone. I’m sorry.)