In the extreme snowstorm and freezing rain, returning home has become extremely bumpy.
It first rained on the highway, and the rain quickly formed ice, layer by layer to form a thick layer of ice, and then it snowed, and the snowflakes were spread on the ice layer by layer, and the snow remover was to no avail, completely blocking the road to the hometown, causing a large number of vehicles and people to be stranded on the highway.
Some drivers were trapped for more than 30 hours, the dry food and New Year's goods had been eaten, and they had no choice but to boil snow water with their wives to quench their thirst, and some drivers were trapped for two days and two nights, and the food and water had long been exhausted, and posts and reports such as this abound on the Internet.
There was even a middle-aged man who collapsed to the point of facing the camera and cried directly, crying aggrievedly that he had been stuck on the road for 50 hours and couldn't move, "I just want to go home for the New Year, why is it so difficult?"
Heaven and earth are unkind, wind and snow are ruthless, but people's hearts are hot.
Many villagers near the highway have spontaneously reached out to help, bringing hot water and all kinds of food from their homes to solve the urgent needs of the trapped drivers.
In Maozui Town, Xiantao, Hubei Province, the villagers used rope hanging baskets to spontaneously send food, hot water, coats and other materials to the highway and gave them to the drivers and passengers for free.
In Xiaogan, Hubei Province, a junior boy bought all the money he earned from his hard work during the winter vacation into mineral water, bread and instant noodles, and brought hot water and fruits from home to the trapped driver for free.
Similar ordinary touches abound, innumerable, but there are free and charged, and there are those who are willing to give money but are rejected, and there are naturally those who complain that they are too expensive after paying.
Under the backdrop of free and free, the paid behavior of charging is not surprising, and it is really scolded.
An elderly grandmother carried two pots of hot water and sold them for 5 yuan a cup, not a disposable plastic cup, but a thermos cup, but a man next to her who accused her of selling hot water for 5 yuan a cup is too expensive.
There are also people who sell a cup for 3 yuan, which is also too expensive, and between the lines is a condemnation of the villagers' ill-gotten gains.
But I noticed that most of the villagers who came to sell boiled water were elderly people, and most of their villages were far from the highway, and they had to walk more than a kilometer through the thick snow to get the hot water.
It is not so much 5 yuan for a full cup of hot water as 5 yuan for freight, after all, there is usually no road from the village to the highway, either over the mountains and mountains, or on rugged paths, and you have to brave the wind and snow to wade through the snow.
It's not too much to charge a 5 yuan freight under this kind of transportation conditions, right?
What's more, water costs money, boiling water also costs, and the hot water of that thermos can be filled with up to four or five cups, and the old man with poor legs and feet can only bring two thermos at a time, and all of them are sold out for a maximum of 50 yuan.
The relationship between supply and demand determines the price, too expensive can not buy, under the premise of reasonable charges, free or not is the freedom of others, no one is obliged to come every day to send free drink and food, everyone is very busy for life, there is not so much leisure.
The hot water that charges is just an example, and the real infuriation is that the food that is charged is also scolded.
In Zhangjiajie, Hunan, a pair of young sisters and brothers stood on the side of the highway to deliver hot water for free, but because their sister had a collection code, they were suspected of making ill-gotten gains, forcing their parents to come forward to clarify and explain.
The hot water is indeed supplied for free, and the food that can be taken out at home has been sent out, but there are too many trapped drivers, so they can only spend money to buy it, which has a cost.
For example, freshly made glutinous rice cakes are sold for 2 yuan each, but the cost is recovered, and no money is made, and other ready-made foods are also charged according to the market price, and they don't think about making a profit at all.
There is still an obvious premium for the food sold on the high-speed rail and the train, and the villagers only charge the cost price of making food and the market price of buying food when the weather is cold, and they don't even calculate the labor cost, so how can they make ill-gotten gains?
Some people are accustomed to satisfying food and clothing after "picking up the bowl of meat, putting down the chopsticks and scolding the mother", but they don't know that they are lucky to meet someone who comes to sell food, and there are more drivers who are trapped in the deserted road, and they can't buy a cup of hot water for 100 yuan.
Money can't buy food and drink, that's when you're most helpless.
A Hubei netizen said that he picked a box of instant noodles and hot water on the highway and sold it for 5 yuan a bowl, but the driver next to him pointed his nose and scolded him for making ill-gotten gains on the grounds that "the supermarket only sells 3 yuan", "Everyone else gives it for free, why are you selling it so expensive?"
was heartbroken, so he simply stopped going, lying at home and watching them coldly and anxiously, and his heart had no fluctuations.
The hurt is undoubtedly those who come after them, who do not take it for granted that they are free, who do not feel obligated to provide food and drink free of charge, and who are willing to pay a reasonable price for food and hot water, but who are no longer able to buy them.
A very small number of people who only want to ask for it for free because they think it is too expensive, so they push most normal people who are willing to pay into a predicament.
From the perspective of business logic, compared with free water and food, reasonable charging behavior can actually help more trapped drivers and passengers, as long as the price is not so expensive that it is outrageous, such a business behavior is worthy of affirmation.
Don't take it for granted that everything should be free as soon as you get the news of free hot water and food on the Internet, and don't stand on the moral high ground to accuse others, free is never the obligation and take it for granted.
Capable people are willing to deliver water and food for free within the scope of their ability, of course, they deserve to be praised and encouraged, but ordinary people have no money and no time, and they should not be kidnapped by morality if they choose to pay labor and energy to sell food.
There's a good saying:
Excessive pursuit of what is right is a form of paranoia, and it is a disease to demand that others be right as well.
We want to promote positive energy, but we are not under the guise of positive energy to put moral pressure on others, the villagers pay labor to make money, it is reasonable to make money by catering to demand, and the price is slightly expensive in ice and snow weather but most people can accept it, which is enough.
is still the same sentence, no one in this world owes anyone, it is love to be willing to lend a hand to help for free, and it is also duty not to be free.