In 1993, it took at least eight hours to travel by bus from my hometown, Dabei County, to Chengdu. The bus kept circling around on the winding and rugged mountain roads, and several passengers couldn't stand it and asked the driver to stop and rest.
"You can't park here in the mountains." The driver flatly refused them.
"Why can't we stop?" A middle-aged woman became angry.
"We paid, why don't you let us park?" a young man couldn't help but say.
Instigated by these two people, many passengers in the carriage began to complain.
"Why stop the bus? You guys only care about yourselves. I'm telling you clearly, there are robbers here. If you want to die, I'll stop the bus now." The bus driver said in a rough but reasonable manner.
When they heard that there were robbers in this mountainous area, everyone shut up.
Yuan Fangguo also came from that era and knew that at that time, the national security situation was not very good. The main reason was the economic downturn and the increasing number of unemployed and laid-off people. In order to survive, some brave guys began to take risks.
At that time, many long-distance drivers carried knives and sticks in their cars so that if they encountered robbers, they would not have to fight with their bare hands.
However, in his impression, he didn't seem to encounter any robbers along the way.
The bus continued to drive along the mountain road, sometimes going up the mountain, sometimes going down the mountain, and sometimes going through the cave. Finally, at noon, it stopped at a checkpoint on the top of a mountain.
"Take a rest for half an hour." After saying this, the driver walked into the roadside stall.
Yuan Fangguo's stomach was also made a little hungry by the shaking bus, but after looking at the handwritten price list, he suppressed his appetite.
A tea egg costs 1 cent, a glass of ice water costs 5 cents, and a bag of instant noodles costs 2 yuan...
The prices here are at least several times higher than those in the county town, which is totally unaffordable for a poor student like him.
Smelling the fragrance wafting from the stall, Yuan Fangguo could only swallow secretly, then walked to the side and cast his gaze towards the endless mountains.
Enduring the rumbling of my stomach, finally, half an hour later, the bus was back on the road.
As soon as he got on the bus, Yuan Fangguo quickly leaned against the window and fell asleep. Next to him sat a middle-aged man in a suit and tie, which was completely different from his memory of his previous life.
The middle-aged man seemed to be a wealthy man. When he got on the bus just now, he bought a pack of Hongtashan cigarettes, a bottle of beer and a bag of peanuts. It seemed that this guy thought this place was a pub.
Maybe reality will really change because of my rebirth.
After being hungry, he was no longer hungry. Yuan Fangguo simply rested his head on the window and fell asleep. He talked a lot with his third brother last night and did not go to bed until the early morning.
Yuan Fangguo didn't know how long he had slept in a daze. Suddenly, he felt his body suddenly stop, and then his head hit the glass, which was a heavy blow.
He couldn't help but grimace in pain.
"Damn it, why are you driving so fast? The God of Hell is going to take you away." The middle-aged woman covered her head and started cursing at the driver again.
"Bullshit, you old woman, are your eyes in your **? There is a woman on the road." The driver couldn't help but retort.
"There's a woman?" Yuan Fangguo endured the pain and pushed open the window. Sure enough, he saw a crying woman sitting in the middle of the narrow mountain road.
The woman seemed to be holding a child in her arms, with a pitiful look on her face.
The passengers in the car could no longer contain their excitement and stuck their heads out to look at the woman in flowered clothes in front of them.
A woman suddenly appeared in this place where there was no village in front and no shop behind. It seemed a little weird no matter how you looked at it.
"That woman is so pitiful..." The middle-aged woman just now suddenly felt some sympathy.
"Have pity on you, please get off and get her out of the way." The driver said to the middle-aged woman with some annoyance.
"What's wrong with you? You have no sympathy at all." The middle-aged woman criticized loudly.
"Hmph, compassion? Wait until you meet the King of Hell, and you'll know how much compassion is worth." The driver said as he put the car into reverse gear. If he remembered correctly, there was a fork in the road 500 meters away from here. Don't worry about it for now, just go there and see.
After being confronted by the driver, the middle-aged woman stopped talking for a moment, but she still looked at the driver angrily with a look of contempt on her face.
However, the driver had only taken a few steps in reverse when suddenly more than a dozen strong men armed with swords and spears rushed out from the woods beside the road.
"Block the back." A bald man threw the spear in his hand towards the front of the minibus with a vicious look on his face.
Fortunately, the car was going fast this time, and the spear did not hit the front of the car.
But soon, the driver was dumbfounded.
Because there were seven or eight young and strong guys surrounding the back of the car, and each of them looked unfriendly.
"Oh no..." The driver secretly groaned in his heart. He knew that he could not pass this level and could only watch helplessly as he was robbed.
In this age where money matters more than life, as a driver, this is all he can do.
The minibus came to an abrupt stop.
Soon, these habitual criminals pried open the car door.
The bald guy with a face full of flesh just now walked up swaggeringly, surrounded by a few guys with shifty eyes.
Without saying anything, the bald man slapped the driver several times. The driver's front teeth were knocked out and he kept begging for mercy.
"I've remembered your license plate number. I'll teach you a lesson this time, but if you do it again, I'll beat you up." The bald man said as he took out a shiny three-edged scraper and slapped the driver in the face.
Everyone in the car huddled together in fear, and the middle-aged man next to Yang Tianlong also began to tremble all over.
"Don't move. We brothers are forced to do this by life. We just want your money. Those who know what's good for you should behave yourself. If you don't, don't blame me for being rude." The bald man said as he began to plunder the first passenger.
The guy looked gentle and polite, but under the threat of violence, he obediently threw the money and watch on him into the bamboo basket of the younger brother behind the bald man.
"Hurry up..." The bald man slapped the passengers he disliked from time to time.
"Whoever is not honest will be killed by me."
Everyone in the car turned into a group of little sheep. Even the middle-aged woman who had been yelling the loudest just now threw all her money and belongings into the bamboo basket.
The bald man was getting closer and closer to Yuan Fangguo.
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