readytorunbook Chapter 130 Early Morning Journey
Chapter 130 Early Morning Journey
It's the middle of the night and it's extremely cold outside, but we have to go no matter how cold it is. Besides, the sun rises two or three o'clock here earlier.
Fu Chengbiao found all of Huang Lingling's clothes and asked her to put them on one by one: sweaters, trousers, military coats, scarves. He even brought a few thick blankets for her, just in case she was cold. Little Jinbao was also dressed like a little bear and was swaddled in Fu Chengbiao's arms.
The group walked out of the military station only after they were dressed neatly.
Fortunately, this group of people had a car to ride in, but the others could only ride in a horse-drawn carriage.
Because there were so many people, all five carriages were packed with people, but no one felt crowded. It was so cold and it was warmer to be crowded together.
It wasn't too cold wrapped in various quilts and blankets.
Huang Lingling shivered as she walked out of the military station because of the cold weather outside.
"so cold!"
Fortunately, there was no wind, and the moon in the sky was very bright, illuminating the road outside.
It has been a long time since I saw such a bright moon. I seem to have heard old people talk about it when I was a child, saying that the nights with the moon were always very bright when they were young.
Huang Lingling looked at her watch. It was already 12:40 in the evening.
After Fu Chengbiao arranged for his wife, he went to the kitchen of the military station to eat something. Then he asked someone to bring out a few baskets of big steamed buns.
Since there was no time to eat at the military station, we gave each person two pieces of food to take with them on the road.
It was common for people to go hungry at that time, and they were lucky to have two steamed buns.
Everyone worked very quickly. After the steamed buns were delivered and everything was sorted out, the convoy started to set off.
Huang Lingling was eating steamed buns vigorously while looking at the scenery outside.
At this time, the outside world is covered with snow.
Fortunately, the road was clear and there were many people like them on the road. Everyone was taking advantage of the fact that there was no snow and the road was clear to purchase supplies.
After the car started, it gradually became less cold inside, and Huang Lingling began to miss her Hyundai cars.
Modern cars have air conditioning so riding in a car is not uncomfortable no matter how cold the weather is. It is not like it is now, where people shiver with cold, mainly because they are wearing too much and feel uncomfortable.
Although Huang Lingling's physique has changed, people from the south are still afraid of the cold when they first arrive in the north. She needs to get used to it slowly, and she is not yet at the point where she is not afraid of the cold.
Fu Chengbiao took good care of Huang Lingling along the way, fearing that she would catch a cold. He would bring in a few pots of hot water from time to time. No one knew how he got it.
Huang Lingling didn't feel so cold anymore when she held the thermos in her arms.
Little Jinbao was also sleeping soundly with a kettle in his arms.
This child is so easy to take care of. He doesn't cry or make a fuss and is very well behaved.
If I really bring back a naughty kid, I guess Huang Lingling won’t accept any money I give her.
It was already dawn after we had been driving for more than an hour.
The sun was shining brightly in the sky outside, but Huang Lingling could not feel its warmth at all.
Huang Lingling was wondering when she would go to the system to buy a real-time thermometer so that she could also know the current temperature outside.
The convoy was not moving very fast, mainly because it had to stop frequently.
Huang Lingling saw that the convoy often had to stop to either rescue people or cars.
It is common to see cars driving into snowdrifts on the side of the road, or horse-drawn carriages sliding into potholes on the side of the road.
Fu Chengbiao and his team have many people and heavy trucks, so it is very convenient to rescue people and vehicles.
Xu Wenqiang thought that Fu Chengbiao would not care about the lives of those people and would just rush on his way.
I didn’t expect that although he looks so domineering, he actually does things in a very authentic way and helps others all the way.
Xu Wenqiang is also from Northeast China and is very familiar with the roads here.
Seeing how kind-hearted Fu Chengbiao was, his opinion of him changed a lot, especially when he saw that Fu Chengbiao arranged hot water for everyone. Only then did he realize that there was a car that had been using a special coal stove to boil hot water for their team.
Although it was just a small matter, it showed that Fu Chengbiao was a particular person.
In such a cold day, it would be much more comfortable for the little soldier to drive with hot water to drink.
After driving for five hours, the convoy stopped to rest, and Xu Wenqiang and his colleagues also had to check the car's anti-skid chains.
The car had just pulled over to the side of the road, and Huang Lingling hadn't gotten out yet when she saw a horse-drawn carriage passing by. Then, for some unknown reason, the carriage slipped and overturned into the ditch beside it.
Fortunately, everyone in the carriage was experienced and jumped off the carriage immediately.
Plus, everyone was wearing very warm clothes so no one was injured.
Huang Lingling was also very worried when she saw this, so she quickly got out of the car and asked Fu Chengbiao to send someone over to check it out.
Fu Chengbiao's men have handled several such accidents along the way and are very familiar with the procedures.
Dozens of people rushed forward and quickly fixed the carriage in place.
The driver was an old man. He jumped out of the car last because he was afraid of hurting others. His face was scratched by the car. Fortunately, it was just a scratch with blood, which was nothing serious.
After the carriage was ready, the old man saw that the horse was not injured, patted his clothes, said a few words of thanks to Fu Chengbiao and the others, and then drove the carriage away again.
The further north we went, the fewer people there were on the road, and even the number of people in the convoy gradually decreased, as some people were picked up by people from other bases.
Huang Lingling and her group were still heading north.
Fu Chengbiao and Huang Lingling said that their base was in the northernmost place and it would take another day to get there.
The main reason is that the roads are slippery due to snow and they can't drive too fast.
Huang Lingling sat in the car for a whole day. Finally, the car stopped again and the convoy had started unloading the cars.
Huang Lingling looked around but couldn't see the camp.
"Reached?"
Huang Lingling asked Wang Qiaoling.
"Not yet, but are we going to change cars?"
"Change car? What car?"
"Look, here it comes."
Huang Lingling saw horses pulling an empty wooden frame.
"what car is this?"
"A sled. It's their special means of transportation in this snowy area. It's quite convenient."
"Oh. Just sled! No need to walk."
The things Fu Chengbiao brought were loaded onto sleds.
The carriage was about to turn back, and most of the people on the carriage had left, leaving only two aunts and a family of six.
There are six people in this family, an old man and an old woman, a boy and a girl, and two boys about six or seven years old.
I don’t have much impression of the two aunts, but I know Aunt Huang Lingling, the one who also wanted to eat eggs.
But the old lady was in no mood to find fault at this moment. It was so cold that she was so frozen sitting in the carriage that she began to doubt her life.
Even though they were wrapped in thick blankets, it was still freezing cold! The old man's beard was frozen to the bone. His entire body was icy cold.
When they heard that they had to change cars, the old man and woman couldn't lift their legs to get out of the car.
Seeing this, the old man quickly called for help.
The old lady looked at the weather and started muttering and cursing.
"Alright, stop swearing. I've already told you, it's cold here, and we southerners can't adapt to it, so why do you insist on coming?
Now it's better and more comfortable. It's so cold that people can't stand it at all."
The old man's hands were stiff from the cold.
A man and a woman next to them were also shivering from the cold.
They came here because they heard that they had no worries about food and drink here, but they didn't expect this place to be so cold.
The two boys were fine, they were held and wrapped in blankets the whole way.
The family got off the carriage tremblingly and waited at the station for someone to arrange new transportation for them.