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On the road

The article is not documentary literature, I am not necessarily me and you are not necessarily you, so don't take it personally!

By ximengPublished 3 years ago 11 min read

It was after six in the morning when I left the house.

It was still light.

An older man, strutting across the road, unhurried and seemingly oblivious to my presence.

I couldn't tell if it was an uncle or a sister.

Anyway, tall, thin man.

I just wondered if he or she needed more brain fitness.

Although very diligent, getting up at the crack of dawn to exercise, a unique feature of the county's residents, is that they go to bed early, for example, going to bed at eight or nine in the evening and getting up at four or five in the morning, which was the routine when my grandfather was alive.

Just watch the dugout, the group starts yelling at 4:30.

The dugout was lit up by five o'clock.

They were obsessed with badminton, but usually had no time and could only play until about seven in the morning, rushing home to shower and eat to go to work.

What if it's a group that doesn't work and is up early?

For example, there are high school students at home.

Then they would go and have goat soup together after the game, and then have two or three bowls of wine each. In our area, wine is measured by the bowl, and a bowl is two and a half taels, which is a tea bowl, and we also drink Moutai here in a tea bowl.

For example, if you say a person's wine is four bowls, that means one catty.

This is part of the early drinking group.

It is also very large.

On the one hand, they are obsessed with sport.

On the one hand, there is a love of drinking.

But, all physically strong, they cancel each other out. My initiation coach is also a liquor lover, two times a day, one pound a meal, but he still plays well, and the way people describe him is that if he could go two days in a row without drinking, no one would be able to beat him.

But ......

Even the best body can't resist the soaking of alcohol.

Liver, that's all light.

I've pushed the alcoholic brain through my study notes before, where the brain becomes dehydrated and shrunken, similar to a sun-dried, hollow walnut, that's what it feels like.

Why do I say this morning person needs brain health?

He doesn't obey the rules of the road.

When I was a kid, my grandfather used to take us two brothers out on the highway to see the cars, so why not my other brothers? They were all older, just me and my brother who were less than two years apart.

We always had a longing for the road, for cars.

When we were in junior high school, we could cross the road too.

Then we started to admire the people in the town, who never looked at the cars when they crossed the road, slow and strutting.

Cars, all stopping, all giving way.

It felt, so dignified.

When I was in junior high school for three years, we ran school, running to school before dawn and then running home at night.

Just those three years, witnessed a lot of car accidents.

There are our classmates, there are parents of our classmates, car accidents here, almost no minor injuries, as long as the accident, almost need to use a shovel, people are crushed into mush, this road is the main traffic road, one is Shanxi to Rizhao thermoelectric coal trucks, two is other cities to Rizhao port container trucks.

Our junior high school music teacher, that's how we walked during our morning practice.

Later, according to my father's statistics, one person died every month on that stretch of road in town, and many of the town's famous and famous people died in car accidents.

What if people were always dying?

A few village chiefs came up with a plan and asked the goddess to take a look, saying that there was something wrong with the name of the road, that the road was called G-4 Road, which is the sound of death, and asked to change it to Peace Road, but the village did not have the authority to change it.

The godmother said there were 100 more deaths and that paper should be burnt ......

I also took a short video, I didn't dare to send it, I was afraid the village headman would fight with me, you will feel how powerful the power of faith is, many local people working in the city, driving back to burn, kowtowing to the road, wave after wave, some little girls kowtowing when you can still see the wear is thongs, the marks were clear.

Of course, the damned still die.

I thought to myself, with all this paper money, just put up a traffic light.

Now, the death rate from car accidents is low.

Three reasons.

Firstly, there are highways now.

Secondly, all the guardrails have been installed.

Thirdly, there are now traffic lights.

There should be another reason: the population of the town is smaller, there are no more students, the town junior high school is still alive, but there is no one in our village who goes to junior high school in the town.

How many people have died on this road in our village alone?

I can't even count them on two hands.

The more ancient and primitive people live, the closer they are to accidental death.

I have previously recommended Chi Tzu Chien's "The Right Bank of the Erguna River", look at these primitive tribes, how many of them can live to the end of their lives? And, these people, most of them, are alcoholics.

Sometimes, it's scary to think about it.

I did so many stupid things as a child, such as going to the county school and riding behind a tractor.

One tailback and it was GAME OVER.

We all counted ourselves as the lucky ones who deviated.

My sister passed by my bookstore and came in to sit down.

I'm not really interested in the gossip, but if I were talking about gossip, everything I tell her would turn her perceptions upside down, like having teachers as pimps, can you believe it? I also gave her 1000 yuan, I just want to verify whether it is true or not, she is the first to charge 1000 yuan agency fee, only responsible for dating together for dinner, as to whether it can be done, depending on the eye, generally will be implied, such as buy clothes, buy shoes, each other understand, is a transaction ......

The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of these.

Then forget it!

This type of story, I can tell a tractor.

Sister told me who bought a car of some kind, 200,000 to 200,000, whose husband had a high income, and asked me, "Have you ever been frustrated by comparing incomes?

I said, no.

I don't work, so who am I comparing my salary with?

I worked as a temp, from the first month to the last month, I never even went to pick up my salary. 1,500 a month was not even enough for me to get gas, I had to pay 6-7,000 backwards every month I went to work because I always bought them food and drinks.

The most impressive thing I remember was a deputy section, who asked during dinner, "Is there any family here that can come up with 100,000 yuan?

I was in a trance because I had over 10 million yuan in my pocket money at the time.

But, I didn't say.

In 2019, let me give it away in one year, I didn't think there would be an epidemic, otherwise? Beat me to death, I wouldn't have tossed it around, and now I'm anxious too, I've been losing money, but I can't find a good way out, if I sell something I'm sure I can make money, but I feel it will affect the quality of my writing, and the fact that I really have no interest in doing that.

My short-term policy is to eat softly.

As we talked, we got to talking about the fact that Sister's husband had joined a money game.

It has now collapsed.

But what about the three colleagues who bought in along with her.

Lost money.

I asked, they didn't ask you for it?

She said, they know this, it's not my problem, and it's not that I took their money.

I said, these things shouldn't be played.

She said, the early ones made money.

I said, IQ tax.

She said, our family is okay, basically flat, no losses or gains.

I said, sooner or later your colleagues will band together and ask you for it.

She said, not much, the most 80,000, the least 30,000.

I said, 10,000 is also money.

She sat for a while and walked away ......

The group, shouting in the afternoon to play, generally said what time I was on time, played seven innings of doubles, then I went to the gym and practiced ten sets of back, shower, go to the hotel, because about the evening together to eat sheep's head.

I hadn't left for a few minutes when my cyclist friend called me and asked if I was far from the electricity bureau. She said that there were fake riders at the intersection of the electricity station who were scamming for money and seriously affecting the image of local riders, and that everyone was heading there.

I said, "I'm five minutes from there.

She said, "Well, go and meet up.

When I arrived, they hadn't arrived. I'm a professional rider, I was a hundred metres away I knew this chap wasn't into cycling, no need to look at anything else, just look at one point, the seat is too short, cyclists must be pouting, the aim is to enable the thighs to pedal straight and maximise power, whereas ordinary people ride with bent legs.

This bike, no more than $200.

We have bikes with polished toothpans, this one is rusty.

I'm leaning on the far side and the chap comes over with his sign up.

I put the window down: where are you from?

He said, Xuzhou.

I asked, "Where are you going?

He said, Dalian.

I asked, "Where is your luggage?

He said he had left it at a small hotel.

He said that he was hungry and had no money for food, so he hoped that someone would give him some money.

I said, "Well, I'll stop the car and you can wait for me, I'm a cyclist too.

He was still quite happy.

We are the grandfather of cheating, cheating him is like cheating a grandson.

I parked the car next to the supermarket.

I came over on foot.

By the time I came over, the cyclist brigade came too, and called the police. The young man couldn't pretend anymore, and we interrogated him, a local, saying that the most he had ever done was to have a big sister transfer him a thousand a day, and the average was a hundred or two hundred, averaging out to three or four hundred a day.

What I was curious about was, who did you learn it from?

He said, shake the tutorials bought on.

I asked, gambled?

He said, no.

Also have a job, just want to try, did not expect a try, the effect is very good, so the desire to stop, very regular, change the intersection to engage ......

Let's put it this way, those who play cycling are rich people.

If you don't have money, who could possibly play with a bike?

It's impossible to ask someone to borrow money for a road bike that can cost 60,000 to 70,000.

There are always people who are overwhelmed with love and feel that they are helping someone who has a dream.

What the hell!

There is no bad career for people who engage in cycling, because cycling is the most desperate of all sports. There was once a cyclist who came to me for fun when he told me that when he was riding in the northeast, there was no one there, and it was a headwind, the whole thing broke down, and he cursed loudly to the sky, saying you have the ability to give me a tailwind?

In 2019, I'm doing 50km a day, what a concept!

Think how long it takes you to drive 50 kilometres, right?

At that time, there were people who sponsored me 1000 yuan every day, many of them were my riding friends. I remember that day, when I was still eight kilometres away from home, I really couldn't ride anymore, so I stood and rested for a while, I untied my helmet, that that sweat was really like rain.

At that time, many people really met me and asked, "Are you that?

I rode every day, rain or shine, even when it was pouring.

You think, from 10 km desperate, to 40 km desperate, every pedal is desperate, cycling is most afraid of the wind, a little wind is life-threatening, so when I see the wind, I have a headache.

Every day after the ride, I told myself, "Understand, if you are around, I must be friends with you, you are too great, if I were a woman, I would let you have fun.

You think, with this amount of exercise, this level of solitude, what's 3,000 rope jumps a day? The difficulty factor isn't a tenth of cycling, so how can my jumping rope not last? We'll stick with whatever we do.

Haha, bragging again.

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