In my memory, I have never seen such a big snow that year, and I have never encountered such a cold winter again.
I am a native of Nanning, Guangxi, at the end of that year, it was the peak marketing season, I was sent by the company to Wuhan on a business trip, stay for a month, and cooperate with the store to engage in marketing.
The weather in Wuhan is wet and cold, like a big ice cellar, and I feel that no matter how many clothes I wear, it is useless, and my back is always cold.
I grew up in Guangxi, where the weather is pleasant, and it is indeed difficult to adapt to the cold of Wuhan, and I have the urge to run away, just want to finish my work as soon as possible and leave as soon as possible.
Since it was not cost-effective to stay in a hotel for a month, I rented a temporary rental house near the market and walked about 10 minutes to the market's specialty store.
One morning when I got up, I opened the window, and it was snowing heavily, and the ground was white, and everywhere was covered in snow, and I had never seen such a big snow.
I rushed downstairs and ran through the snow, watching my long series of footprints step on various patterns, excited like a child who had not grown up.
Tired of running, I walked into a breakfast shop downstairs, the place is not big, clean and tidy, only the proprietress and a female helper.
I ordered a dish of shredded pork noodles, and soon the proprietress served it to the table, steaming hot and fragrant, and taking a sip of the soup, I felt warm in my stomach.
It was very early, there were few customers in the breakfast shop, and the proprietress stood aside with a smile and suddenly asked me, "Are you from out of town?"Look like you've never seen snow. ”
I looked up at her, she was in her thirties, pleasing to the eye, tall, dressed in a gray cotton jacket and black pants, dressed casually.
It turned out that she had just seen me running excitedly in the snow like a child, and asked casually.
I replied to her: "Guangxi, I came on a business trip, I have never seen such a big snow since I was a child, it is very fresh." ”
After a few pleasantries, I ate almost enough, I drank not a drop of soup left, and I felt much warmer.
The breakfast shop tasted authentic and affordable, and for several days in a row, I went to eat breakfast, and the proprietress was also familiar with each other, and I met and said hello.
One night when I returned to my room and was about to open the door, the door on the opposite side opened, and a woman came out, who was the proprietress of the breakfast shop downstairs, and it turned out that she also lived upstairs.
She recognized me, and we were neighbors, and because of different schedules, we closed the door as soon as we came back, and we didn't see each other upstairs.
After we had a few conversations, she asked me if I wanted to go to her room to make a fire. I was so cold that I stamped my feet and went to her room, which was a brazier, with a charcoal fire burning and a slit in the window to let me in.
I asked her, is this safe?She said that it was okay, it was brought up from the breakfast shop downstairs and brought it by fire, and she moved it down before going to bed, plus the house was old and unsealed, and the windows of the room were also cracked.
I dried my hands and feet, and they felt much warmer. I said to her, "It's too cold in Wuhan, I didn't think it would be so cold in central China before, and there was no heating in the house, it was really like an ice cellar, and the quilt couldn't be warm all night." ”
She smiled and said, "Yes, we are like this here, the four seasons are distinct, the summer is hot, the winter is cold, and we are used to it." ”
During the chat, I learned that her surname is Zhang, and she is not a local, her hometown is a neighboring county and city, and she opened a breakfast shop here alone, hired a helper, and only did breakfast and lunch business, and rested at night.
I am a few years younger than her, I call her Sister Zhang, she calls me Xiao Zhao, and we know each other.
In fact, it was not too cold for two days of snow, but the temperature plummeted when the snow melted a few days later, and it is said to be the coldest year in the past 20 years.
Walking on the road, trembling all over, I brought a thick jacket from Guangxi and went to a nearby market to buy a thick cotton jacket.
That morning, I was lying in bed, groggy and weak, and looked at the time, it was past ten o'clock in the morning.
I was too sick to go to work, so I was going downstairs to have breakfast and come back to sleep.
Sitting in the breakfast shop, I was eating and coughing.
Seeing this, Sister Zhang asked me, "Are you cold?"In this weather, it is easy to get cold. ”
After saying that, she went to the table drawer and took out a box of medicine, handed it to me, and said that it was unfinished, and asked me to take two tablets, drink more boiling water, and get some sleep.
I slept until the evening, and in a daze, I heard someone knocking on the door, and when I opened the door, I saw Sister Zhang standing at the door with a bowl of black drink.
She handed it to me and said, "This is the cola ginger soup we like to make here, it's very useful to dispel the cold, you can drink it." ”
I took the ginger soup and drank it in one gulp, feeling warm and warm, and tears almost fell. Growing up so big, who has ever cared about me so much except my own parents?In this foreign place, I met her in Pingshui, and I was not very familiar with her, but she treated me like this, which touched me very much.
Two days later, I recovered and went to the customer's store, and when I got off work, the customer gave me a carton of milk and some candy, saying that it was sent by his **merchant, and I couldn't finish it.
I don't usually like to drink milk or eat candy, but when I went back in the evening, I knocked on Sister Zhang's door, gave it to her, and baked it at her house for a while.
Sister Zhang was very happy and thanked me repeatedly.
I said to her, "You're welcome, I've just been here, thank you for your attention." By the way, I don't understand, I don't know you, why do you take care of me like this?”
She paused, and spoke.
Sister Zhang and her husband have a bad relationship, they have been separated from each other for a long time, they are busy with their own money, and their children have become their only contact link, and they will go back to get together during the Chinese New Year.
Over the years, Sister Zhang has been doing breakfast business alone as a woman in other places, and she has also received help from many people, and she is grateful. In addition, her own brother is the same age as me, and he works in other provinces and cities, so she hopes that his brother can be taken care of by others when he is in trouble, just as she takes care of me.
Her statement makes sense, if all the people in the world compare their hearts and help each other, how beautiful the world will be!
Soon a month passed, I finished my work and was going back to Guangxi.
The night before leaving, I knocked on Sister Zhang's door and bid her farewell.
She was a little surprised, and a little melancholy, a short acquaintance, and then a breakup, life is like a passerby, coming and going, dividing and merging, about that.
I left ** for her, saying that if she goes to Guangxi in the future, I will be hospitable.
Sister Zhang's eyes were moist, and she looked at me with tenderness in her eyes.
Before going out, I said to Sister Zhang: "I have already quit the house, I have agreed with the landlord, I will stay for another night, and I will leave early tomorrow morning, and I will say goodbye." ”
Sister Zhang and I naturally hugged each other, a warm current rose, I couldn't feel the cold of winter, and my heart was as warm as spring.
In the days that followed, I lost Sister Zhang's **, and she didn't call.
In fact, we both understand that we are all passers-by in each other's lives, coming and going in a hurry, and we have no contact.
After many years, I can never forget the warm feeling we felt when we hugged each other on that cold winter night!