The footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer. People who work or work outside the home are thinking about how to go home and celebrate the New Year. However, due to the epidemic, it has become a little uncertain to go home for the Chinese New Year. At this time, I suddenly remembered what happened on my way home from annual leave 28 years ago.
It was 6:30 a.m. on the 20th day of the 20th month of 1993, and four of us poor students stepped onto the bus back to Yinan from Qingdao Sifang Station. I say step on, not sit on, because when I get on the bus, the seats are full and we have to be station passengers. I thought to myself, this is miserable, I have to stand for more than 6 hours (at that time, the bus was particularly slow, and the driver master had to stop for dinner in the middle).
What's more tragic is that during the trip, there are still people who constantly wave their hands to hitchhike, as long as they go to Yinan, the driver does not refuse until they can no longer squeeze in people. In the passenger car aisle at this time, people have no sense of distance between people, closely united, tall people play a high-altitude advantage, thin people skillfully use space; some people stand on two feet, do not dare to slack off in the slightest, afraid of a foot, the space under their feet belongs to others; the dwarf can clearly hear the breathing of the tall, and feel the straight hot air spraying on the face.
So crowded, so that the good mood of going home for the New Year suddenly dropped a lot, even people with seats to sit on, the look was also anxious. Everyone hopes that the bus will drive faster and reach the destination as soon as possible, but because of the serious overload, the car is slower than usual, and there is a lot of wind and clouds for you, and I am not in a hurry.
The car has finally arrived in Zhucheng, but something more annoying than crowding has come. Someone shouted, and it was snowing. Sure enough, standing against the seat, I turned my head to the outside of the car, and the snow was already fluttering. The car, as the snow grew heavier, got slower and slower. There was a suffocating sense of oppression in the car, and a few sighs came from time to time, why was the way home so difficult?
In the midst of the sigh, a sharp soprano suddenly came out: "What do you do?" Rubbing on me, uneasy and kind. I heard a bass voice timidly say, "No, really not, I'm just too tired to turn around, find a place to stay, accidentally touched you, I'm really sorry." ”
The woman said, "You're lying, you're next to each other, why are you moving around?" The man replied very aggrievedly: "I really didn't mean it, you look at my foot, and there is a dangling one that does not land on the ground?" "One of my classmates happened to be standing next to this lady, saw the embarrassed boy, squeezed forward again, gave up one foot position, gave it to the boy, and calculated the embarrassment.
My classmate was enthusiastic, and he wanted to adjust the oppressive atmosphere in the car, so he raised his voice and said: "The people in our car, except for the part-time workers, are poor students, and they all want to go home for a happy year." But Heaven is not beautiful, and we can't be so depressed. Let me tell you a story. Recently, I read an article by Teacher Wang Zengqi, which wrote about a woman who had not given birth for many years and went to the Niangniang Temple to ask for a child. She said happily to the lady of the child, 'This year is coming, I am following you for a mile, next year is coming, I am holding a mile in my hand, giggling and giggling!' 'Her mentality, let's see, how good, is her difficulty less than ours?' We're just on the bus, the weather is bad, do we need to be so depressed? I don't think it's necessary, we put up with each other, we can get home safely. Let's learn from the woman, 'This year we came by car, we want to get home safely, and next year we come by car, or we have to get home safely, giggling and giggling!' After the classmate's words, laughter came from the car.
On that day, we finally arrived safely in Yinan County, although it took 8 and a half hours. But I often think about this journey home and often chew on what my classmates have said. Yeah, not only on the way home, but at all times, we should have a "giggle" mentality.