Back home for the New Year, it was snowing heavily and I drove my Beijing Jeep for 24 hours straight.

?Spring Festival, we embark on the journey home again. The weather will be very cold, but our hearts are beating hotter than ever...

Only Chinese people understand why Chinese people have such a strong obsession with going home to celebrate the New Year?

If not forced by life, who would be willing to live in exile? Where there is a home, there is no work, and where there is a job, there is no home, so there are gatherings and separations, worries, longing, and a desire to return.

Returning home is the biggest expectation of every person who works outside. After being away for a year, I just look forward to returning home during the Spring Festival. My parents are getting older day by day, and we usually don’t have much time to accompany them. We must spend the New Year with them. We went home to spend some time with our parents, who had been waiting for us at home for a whole year.

That winter in the Year of the Pig, that Spring Festival that is destined to be unforgettable, seems like it was just yesterday.

A lot of things happened that year, including the snowstorm in the south, the Wenchuan earthquake, the Sanlu milk powder incident, the international financial crisis, the Beijing Olympics, and the "Shenzhou VII" going to heaven...

That year It's so cold in winter. There is thick ice on the road, and vehicles will slide away even if they are parked in place. Traffic in the entire south is almost paralyzed. It can no longer be measured by how long the traffic jam lasts. Railways are interrupted, highways are closed, flights are canceled...

People going home are stranded on the road.

I drove for 24 hours straight, covering more than 1,000 kilometers, and my eyes nearly popped out.

The Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway was closed due to heavy snow. After making full material and psychological preparations, I decided to take a detour through Jiangxi and enter Hunan from the Guangdong-Jiangxi and Shanghai-Rui Expressways to go home for the New Year.

I set off at 7:30 in the morning on the 28th of the year. The whole morning went smoothly. There were not many cars on the highway. I refueled twice in Shenzhen and Huizhou, and also refilled the 20-liter oil drum I brought. It’s full. I heard that it’s difficult to refuel after leaving Guangdong. Sure enough, there was a long queue of vehicles in front of the Heping gas station near Jiangxi, and the service area was almost full of resting vehicles. I ate a bowl of instant noodles in the car, rested for a while, and then headed towards Jiangxi.

You don’t need to get a card to enter Jiangxi, it’s free. When I looked ahead, there were no cars, and the road was good. It was much better than the road conditions in Beijing and Zhuhai. I felt so happy! Quickly send a message to your friends: Free high-speed traffic without any obstruction. But I was still happy and worried at the same time, because a friend said before that there would be traffic jams north of Ganzhou.

Sure enough, just after passing Ganzhou, there was a long queue of cars. The two lanes and the road shoulders were full of cars. Those cars seemed to fall from the sky, filling the road with traffic. Moving forward at a speed of less than ten kilometers.

There were no rules on the expressway at this time. The large vehicle drove up the slope and directly blocked the entire road. The small car shuttled back and forth in the already congested traffic. This kind of "seek every opportunity" operation directly led to the high speed. Density of collision accidents. Small collisions followed big collisions. Once they hit, they were stuck there. The car behind them became even more anxious and hit again.

Both sides of the road are full of packaging bags of various convenience foods, which shows how serious the congestion has been here in the past few days and how many anxious travelers have been stranded. After "crawling" forward for a while, there was a sign on the roadside: Hengshi Exit 1000 meters ahead. I thought that instead of watching the traffic jam here, it would be better to get off the expressway and take the provincial highway and see the snow for a change.

Finally we saw the exit of Hengshi. The congestion here was even worse. The roadside was crowded with villagers. Some were carrying several hot water bottles, some were carrying boiled eggs and instant noodles, and some were carrying instant noodles in their arms. Holding a bucket with the word "gasoline" written on it.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, we got off the expressway from Hengshi. After walking a section of the national highway according to the navigation instructions, we turned into a country road. After the snow melted, the dirt road was completely muddy. Only the two cars in front of us could be seen. The car was lurching like a boat swimming in the water, with no wheels visible at all.

Our off-road vehicle swayed left and right in the mud. After a while, the windows were covered with mud. The fat man said happily while driving: We usually have to find places like this to play. There are so many good! How enjoyable!

However, what happened next made people laugh.

A car unable to move in the mud.

A large truck blocked the road. The large truck in front of it was struggling to hit a slope, but it slipped down again every time it approached the top of the slope, and so on. After waiting for more than an hour, I asked them if they could make way for us to pass first, but they said they were paying someone to pave the way and refused to give way.

After a while, only a dozen villagers were seen, some carrying hoes, some carrying shovels, and some carrying reeds. Finally, after they paved the road, with the villagers pushing behind them, both large trucks climbed over the small slope. I was really worried about them at that time. If the truck slid backwards, the consequences for the person pushing the truck would be disastrous.

It was getting dark, and the small mountain village where there was a power outage was dark and quiet. The villagers who had taken the money also dispersed with a bang. We drove forward slowly behind two large trucks. About half an hour later, the large truck in front was stuck in the mud and couldn't move. There happened to be an open space next to it for overtaking, and the large truck behind passed by it, and we followed closely behind. Unexpectedly, the large truck overturned in the mud as soon as it passed by. Alas, poor guy, it will probably be after the Spring Festival when a crane comes to rescue him!

Finally we reached the national highway again, but due to the irresponsible navigation, we didn’t even give a warning when we went the wrong way, so we wasted nearly an hour.

I don’t know when it started to rain. After walking relatively smoothly for a while, I saw that the front was extremely lively and crowded. It turned out that we came to an intersection at the junction of the national highway and the expressway. The police and some We couldn't figure out the identity of the person directing the vehicle, and we were driven onto the highway again in a daze.

The highway was full of cars. At this time, I smelled a smell similar to disinfectant. Before I could understand what was going on, the car stalled and I couldn’t start the car no matter how hard I tried!

Almost at the same time as our car stalled, the road ahead was completely blocked. All the cars were parked motionless on the road, all the cars turned off their lights, and no one was making any noise. , the highway filled with cars is dark and silent. Just when you use your mobile phone, you will find that the network is extremely busy and it is difficult to get through the phone because almost everyone is busy contacting family and friends.

The driver of the car next to me said that the battery should be out of power. Instead of plugging it here, it would be better to go to the repair shop next to the national highway to buy a battery and replace it.

The time at this time is ten o'clock in the evening, this place is called Jinshi, and this highway intersection is called Suichuan. In other words, after seven hours of tossing, we have only walked forward for a short ten years. Seven kilometers.

After placing the triangular board behind the car, I changed from a car friend to a traveler and started hiking. Half an hour later I arrived at the small town outside the highway entrance. I went to several auto repair shops and asked about battery prices. For batteries priced at 200 to 300, the price was 800. It was so dark!

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In the dark and far away, a police car parked behind the car, which made me calm down a lot. The tow truck towed our car off the highway and dropped it at a small repair shop next to the national highway. There was only one worker in the repair shop, and he offered to help light the car on fire for 300 yuan. He brought a big battery and tinkered with it for a while, but the car didn't respond. He said that he didn't know how to repair cars. The master went home to celebrate the New Year. He said that he would ask a master from the city to come over to repair the car tomorrow morning and let him stay in his hotel for one night. However, their so-called hotel had no electricity, no hot water, and no clean quilts. .

Unwilling to give in, I ran to a repair shop opposite. A master was repairing a large truck. He said that he was a master at repairing jeeps here. If he couldn't repair it, no one would repair it here. I I felt excited, finally there was hope. After waiting for nearly an hour, the master repaired the large truck. However, after looking at my car, he said that he usually only repairs large trucks. He couldn't understand off-road vehicles and couldn't repair them. Dizzy! There are all kinds of people!

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the time felt extremely long. I held the baby tightly, but the baby was still shivering with cold under his small blanket and quilt.

I hope there is no big problem with the car and can be repaired soon, and I hope we can get home safely! Hope everyone on the road gets home safely! Looking at the car full of New Year supplies and "food and grass", I thought to myself, although we had done our "homework" and had plenty of food and various necessities, we never expected that we would actually use them or spend the night in the car. .

A car drove over in the dark, and a master had just returned from repairing the car on the highway. The master got on the car and started it, his apprentices pushed behind the car, and the car started! This time, we saw hope: there is hope! The master said that the battery was broken and offered to exchange the old one in his car with us for 800 yuan! No bargaining! But after replacing the battery, the car still couldn't start...

Car owner Yaya called to ask about the situation. After receiving our call for help, he immediately sent a request for help online. post. When he heard that the battery still couldn't start after changing the battery, he immediately said that there must be something wrong with the starter. Don't wait in such a remote place. It's wasting time without parts. Why don't you let them help you push the car? Just turn off the engine. When it's daylight in Ji'an City, you can find someone to help.

We followed his suggestion and spent 100 yuan to ask someone from the repair shop to help push the car. When I left, I saw six or seven people sitting under the dim light (the repair shop had a generator). Those people's van was broken down and was missing a part. They had to wait until tomorrow to see if there was any part in Ganzhou. If not, they would have to send it from Guangzhou. The goods have arrived.

The navigation showed that this place is still 173 kilometers away from Ji'an. It was already 2:30 in the morning on the 29th of the year. In the pattering rain, we headed towards Ji'an along the 320 National Highway.

It was unusually quiet on the road at night. I said: "Actually, the condition of this road is very good. If it were not such a cold winter or such a rainy night, but a clear summer night with a few stars, It’s quite comfortable to walk on such a night road with the windows open and the wind blowing!”

Obviously, all we have now is nervousness.

The fog is getting thicker and thicker, and the visibility is getting lower and lower. The clouds of fog disperse in front of the car, making people gradually become confused, and because of the heating, the inside of the car is also foggy. It was warm and drowsy.

I want my wife to talk to me, tell me any jokes or stories, and don’t let me doze off. My wife said that she really couldn’t remember any stories at the moment, but I remember that many ghost stories happened in such dark nights, when it was raining, there was no one else on the road, you were just walking by yourself, and the fog was thick. Usually when the fog clears, you will see someone waving to you on the roadside. Remember, no matter how beautiful a beauty you see, you cannot stop!

There is darkness without a trace of light on both sides of the road. When the car lights shine on the road, you can see the thick snow on the roadside. The trees on the roadside are planted relatively densely, and the lower sections of the tree trunks are painted white. Walking on this almost unchanged road is like entering a time and space tunnel.

Suddenly, I braked hard and the car stopped sideways in the opposite lane. I said it was just dangerous! I thought I saw a roundabout in front of me and almost hit it! sky! How horrible! Fortunately, there is no car coming from the other side! I parked the car on the side of the road and took a nap for about ten minutes.

After walking and walking, I finally saw lights and the appearance of a city in front of me. Ji'an has arrived! It’s a beautiful city and there are no blackouts!

At 7:30 in the morning on the 29th of the year, after being out for 24 hours, worried, cold and hungry, we finally lay down on the bed in an air-conditioned room. Compared to those people who have been stuck in traffic jams on the highway for many days, we are so happy.

After a short but very sweet two hours of sleep, we felt much better and the baby was happily eating and drinking.

At 9:30 in the morning, Brother Apple Core from Ganxi called. He was in Hunan and heard that we were in Ji'an. He immediately helped us contact Brother Ding from Ji'an to come to the rescue. At about ten o'clock, Our SUV was towed into a repair shop.

The car was repaired at noon. Brother Jia Ding not only stayed with us to repair the car, but also gave us Jiangxi specialties and treated us to a sumptuous lunch. You know, we had never eaten anything since we had a box of instant noodles for lunch the day before.

The journey from Ji'an to Changsha via the Jiangxi-Guangdong and Shanghai-Rui Expressway went smoothly, via Xinyu, Yichun, Pingxiang, and Zhuzhou. At that moment, I felt that the air was sweet because I was so close to home.

At eight o'clock in the evening, we ate the food cooked by our mother.

It’s good to go home! When I got home, it was warm.

The journey home was uneventful. Everyone said we were lucky, but it was actually because we had everyone’s help.

Thanks to Jia Ding, Apple Core, Yaya, Pineapple Jackfruit, Old Electrician and other riders for their help and concern, allowing us to move forward warmly in the cold snow.

The farther the road, the closer the heart!