Chapter 106 Be fully prepared
When Su Wan woke up the next day, it was already light outside.
She looked at the vast expanse of white outside, and then saw that the car in front of her had not moved yet. She couldn't help but stretch herself, only to find that Xu Ruichen in the driver's seat was not there.
When the driver saw her wake up, he said, "Miss Su, you're awake. We're stuck on the highway. Don't worry, we can leave once the road is clear."
"I see there are a lot of cars ahead. It doesn't look like we can move forward."
Su Wan looked at the road ahead, feeling a little worried. "Should we go ahead and see what's going on?"
"The leader has already left and told me to take good care of you here."
The driver was a young man in his early twenties, and he felt a little embarrassed when he said this.
Su Wan was about to say something when she suddenly had a strange feeling that made her want to solve the problem of reincarnation.
She licked her lips and asked, "Brother, how do you solve the problem of going to the toilet?"
The driver pointed outside and said, "Miss Su, you can go over the railing. There's nothing to be embarrassed about. Just use an umbrella to cover yourself."
Su Wan nodded and quickly got out of the car with her umbrella.
The feeling was so strong that Su Wan felt like she could run a marathon in the snow. In fact, she was not moving very fast.
When he got to the roadside, Su Wan quickly found a big tree and opened his umbrella to go to the toilet.
Fortunately, the tree was big enough, so she only needed to cover the back. After covering herself tightly, she went to the toilet and then got up to go back to the car.
As soon as I walked over, the driver got out.
Su Wan washed her hands with the snow on the roadside. Her hands were red from the cold. She saw the driver gave her some hot water to wash her hands.
She had just washed her hands with hot water, but the wind blew on them and made them even colder.
Su Wan shuddered, "Have you had breakfast?"
"I just grabbed something to eat, I'm not hungry now."
"Then let's get something to eat first!"
Using the stove to light the fire, the charcoal was quickly ignited.
She put a small pot on the stove, boiled a pot of water and heated up the sesame cakes, then sat next to the driver and started eating.
She poured the boiled water into the kettle, poured some into the cup, and then slowly started to eat.
Obviously, others are not as thorough as she is.
Seeing that they had food, several people started to come over and ask for food.
They brought a lot of sesame cakes, so Su Wan thought for a moment and gave each of them one. She also reminded them, "It's snowing heavily now, so you should buy some more food for the bus when you get to the rest area!"
No one expected the highway to be so congested. After all, there are fewer cars these days, and there has never been such severe blizzards and cold waves and freezing rain before. Everyone thanked them before leaving.
The driver looked at Su Wan in surprise and asked her, "Ms. Su, do you think we will be stuck on the highway?"
"That's probably the case."
Su Wan knew that there would definitely be a traffic jam. Although she couldn't say how long it would last, she knew that without food on the bus, it would not last long.
When Xu Ruichen came back, Su Wan was already full.
She heated up several more pancakes before asking Xu Ruichen, "How's the road condition over there?"
"The road conditions aren't very good, but they're being cleared. We'll probably be able to continue our journey tonight."
Xu Ruichen said, looking at the pancake Su Wan handed him and asked, "Did Aunt Zhang make this pancake?"
"Well, yesterday I was in the kitchen with Aunt Zhang, learning how to make dumplings and buns. Aunt Zhang also made some pancakes, saying we could eat them on the road. I was worried about getting into trouble, so I asked Aunt Zhang to make a few more."
She had experienced a snowstorm and was worried about going home around the New Year, so she naturally wanted to make full preparations.
In the 1980s, there was little money to make and the work was heavy. Eating more than 20 buns in one meal was no joke. Last night, Aunt Zhang made 200 to 300 meat buns, all steamed and frozen hard. She didn't worry about pancakes going bad, so she made 100 to 200 for them. Today, Su Wan went out and bought more than 100 pancakes and 58 tea eggs.
She packed all her things, fearing any accidents might happen on the road, and even bought five kilograms of handmade noodles and ten kilograms of rice, just in case.
It was a good thing that they could arrive early. She could take the leftovers back and continue eating. If they really got stuck on the way, they wouldn't go hungry.
Fortunately, we met again in the evening.
Su Wan also felt that he might have been overthinking it. Although the 1980s were not as good as later generations, the snow shoveling work was not bad either.
Every time they arrived at a rest area, they would refuel and go to the toilet, and refill their thermoses with hot water, for fear that something might happen on the road.
After driving out of Hebei Province one night, the car got stuck again in Henan Province.
There are many mountains on the highway in Henan Province, and their car was stuck in the middle of the longest section of the road. The tunnel more than ten miles ahead was blocked due to a landslide, and freezing rain suddenly fell behind them. In just a moment, all their cars were entangled in the freezing rain. The body of the car was covered with hard freezing rain, and their handlebars were frozen.
Su Wan sat in the car, lit a stove in the middle of the back seat where her feet were resting, and heated up food for everyone.
The driver couldn't help but give Su Wan a thumbs up.
"Miss Su, you're amazing! You seemed to know it was going to be freezing rain and we wouldn't be able to leave. You prepared so many things. If my boss and I were to go out alone, we'd probably be starving in the car."
"It just feels like this year's cold weather is different from previous years. I'm from the countryside, and in the countryside, we rely on the weather for our livelihoods. Occasionally, when the weather isn't right, we always make plans in advance."
What Su Wan said was not a lie. After all, when he was growing up in the countryside, adults would teach him how to look at the sky to judge the weather for the next day. There was also a saying that when thunder roars in winter, eight out of ten cattle pens are empty.
The driver nodded as if he understood, his expression full of admiration.
He said, "It's true that people who have more education are different. Miss Su, you know so much after graduating from high school. If you graduated from college, wouldn't you be even more amazing?"
Su Wan felt a little embarrassed.
She had a high level of education in her previous life, but in this life...
"I didn't think about taking the Gaokao back then, and now I feel a little regretful. But I'm still young, and I heard Huaqing University offers continuing education. If I have the opportunity in the future, I'd like to go."
This time, Xu Ruichen actually took another look at Su Wan.
He suddenly asked, "How did you know that Huaqing University has proposed continuing education?"
Su Wan, who was still eating pancakes, was suddenly stunned. She quickly recalled in her mind that Huaqing University's continuing education seemed to be in 1986?
She pulled the corners of her lips together and said awkwardly, "I accidentally overheard two middle-aged men talking on the way to the market that day, but I didn't hear it clearly. Maybe I didn't hear it all, so I misunderstood it."
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