Chapter 0018 on the way home
Zhang Guoshan excitedly started his little Polo and shouted: "Let's go back to Fengcheng. We agreed that when we get home, you have to invite me to eat hairy crabs at the Miramar Hotel."
"Let's go now. Don't we have to go to the afternoon shift?" Fang Feiyang asked.
"Whatever, let's not go. We have a holiday tomorrow. I guess there won't be many people in the office right now. We might as well take advantage of the freeway and go home quickly."
Zhang Paoshan drove this small Polo onto the main road, and after leaving the city, he drove straight to the nearest highway entrance.
Zhang Paoshan, who was on the expressway for the first time, looked a little serious. He nervously held the steering wheel with both hands. After receiving the pass at the toll gate, the little polo drove into the ramp at a speed of 40 yards and prepared to enter the driveway.
As the speed pointer on the instrument panel slowly climbed from 40 to 80, Zhang Paoshan, an amateur driver, slightly moved his stiff shoulders and relaxed his body.
"Brother, don't be nervous, relax your shoulders, don't hold the steering wheel so tightly, be more natural, haha..."
Fang Feiyang didn't care at all that Zhang Guoshan had no experience in driving at high speeds. He sat in the passenger seat with a smile and a relaxed look on his face. He joked with Zhang Guoshan and imitated what the instructor at the driving school often said.
Deliberately pretending to be senior and telling Zhang Guoshan.
"Holy shit, you kid, you're not driving as smoothly as I am, but you're teaching me. I asked you to be my observer, not pretending to be a coach."
While driving this little white polo at a speed of 80 yards, while bickering and joking with Fang Feiyang, Zhang Guoshan's originally nervous mind returned to normal, and the speed gradually increased to 100 yards. The car ran very steadily on the roadway.
From Suzhou City to Fengcheng, the expressway covers a total distance of more than 300 kilometers. The huge billboards on both sides of the highway passed through the car windows one after another, retreating rapidly like walls.
Soon, Little Polo left Sioux City. The factory buildings in the industrial park along the road were gradually replaced by green farmland. The surrounding brand-new residential areas also looked quite impressive. Residential residences in the form of small villas in separate courtyards made Fang Feiyang proud.
He couldn't help but think of the old house in his hometown. He had always dreamed of hiring someone to build a rural villa with a separate courtyard according to his own ideas in the suburbs of Fengcheng, and bring his parents over to live with him. Unfortunately, this dream never came true.
Zhang Guoshan's Volkswagen Polo was driving on the highway at a speed of between 80 and 100 yards. Three hours later, the car passed the Jiangyin Bridge, a cross-river hub connecting southern and northern Jiangsu, and entered
Fengcheng territory.
"We finally arrived at the boundary of Fengcheng. Hey, don't sleep Feiyang. We'll get off the highway soon."
Zhang Guoshan rolled down the window, lit a cigarette to drive away his sleepiness, and continued: "You guy, I asked you to be my observer. You are very comfortable. Not long after leaving Suzhou City, your snoring is louder than
My acoustics are even louder.”
"Don't accuse me wrongly. I never snore when I sleep."
Fang Feiyang stretched out, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, and started smoking happily.
At noon at Sichuan Xiang Temptation Restaurant, Zhang Guoshan didn’t drink because he had to drive in the afternoon. However, Fang Feiyang couldn’t resist Mr. Qiao’s enthusiasm and opened a bottle of Yanghe Sky Blue with Mr. Qiao. After lunch, Fang Feiyang also
I drank almost four ounces of white wine.
The car drove all the way facing the west mountain sun. The early autumn sun was warm on Fang Feiyang's body. After a while, he felt tired and breathless. He tilted his head against the seat and closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Fang Feiyang looked at the road sign outside the window. Sure enough, there were still two kilometers to the Fengcheng exit. The residential buildings on both sides of the highway were farmyards with Fengcheng characteristics. Many of the farmlands in front of them were growing other than traditional rice and wheat.
, but out-of-season vegetables. At a glance, the neatly planned white plastic greenhouses in the distance are undulating and scattered, forming a unique scenery.
Two kilometers later, the little Polo slowly drove out of the Fengcheng exit. After paying for the Fengcheng toll card, Fang Feiyang said: "Pull over in front, I can't hold it in anymore, let's solve the physiological problem."
Zhang Guoshan nodded and said: "Well, after passing the first traffic light, I also want to make it easier."
The car passed the traffic light intersection, Zhang Paoshan turned on the right turn signal and pulled over.
Opening the car door, Fang Feiyang immediately felt a heat wave coming towards him from outside. The weather was very good today, and the highest temperature outside reached 32 degrees. Under the sunlight, there was a steam of steam rising from the asphalt road in the distance.
The scene shows that the power of this autumn tiger cannot be underestimated.
The two got out of the car and let go of the excess weight on their bodies. They moved their bodies separately. After sitting in the car for more than three hours, their lumbar spine became stiff.
While taking a rest, Fang Feiyang did not forget to praise the performance of this joint-venture German car, and the sound insulation effect in the car was quite good. Just as he was talking, Fang Feiyang discovered a bad phenomenon, this Volkswagen Polo
The right front tire seems to be under-inflated.
"Paoshan, your car's tire seems to be flat." Fang Feiyang pointed to the right front tire and showed it to Paoshan Zhang.
"Oh, I wiped it, it's really flat. No wonder I felt it was difficult to control the direction in the last few kilometers, and the car body was shaking badly."
Zhang Kaoshan stepped forward and stepped on the right tire, then squatted down and checked the surface of the tire. After searching for a long time, he could not find the leakage point in the tire.
"Stop looking for it. It must have been poked by something small. The leak must not be big. If the tire was seriously injured, it would have been completely deflated."
Fang Feiyang opened the trunk and motioned to Mr. Zhang to come over and get the tools, preparing to replace the front wheel with the spare tire. The two of them dug out the jack and wrench from the trunk and squatted on the ground to tinker with it for a long time. They were sweating from the heat, but they couldn't do it.
Understand how to use this jack.
"It turns out that my brother really overestimated himself. After tinkering with this little jack for half an hour, he really doesn't know how to use it."
Zhang Guoshan couldn't bear the heat anymore, so he got into the car and blew the air conditioner. When the two of them looked at the time, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and there was no way to continue groping like this. So they discussed it for a long time and felt that although the right front wheel was flat,
Once it's down, you should be able to hold on for a while longer, and drive to the nearest repair shop first.
"I remember I got off the expressway before and turned right ahead of the national highway. There were several small repair shops next to it. Let's drive over and look for them."
Fang Feiyang sat next to him and guided the way, while Zhang Paoshan drove the trembling Volkswagen Polo towards the national highway junction in front.
Both sides of the national highway have changed a lot. Many old buildings have been demolished and replaced by towering medical buildings and international exhibition centers.
Fang Feiyang came to a crossroads based on his memory.
“There’s a tire repair guy ahead!”
Zhang Guoshan had sharp eyes and noticed at a glance that there was a wooden board erected on the side of the road with the word "Tire Repair" crookedly written on it.
The car drove in along a small road. It looked like a long-standing rural residence. Each house was separated by a small courtyard, and some even had a jujube tree planted in the courtyard with lush branches.
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Fang Feiyang got out of the car and walked a few steps, and found that no one lived here anymore. Looking inside through the dilapidated courtyard door, the yard was covered with weeds, and there were several big "Demolish" written on the wall outside.
Each word "split" is also surrounded by a circle.
"It turns out that this residential area is going to be demolished. Alas! What a pity these jujube trees are." Fang Feiyang sighed.
The old house of Fang Feiyang's family has four bungalows and a spacious yard. There is a tall winter jujube tree in the southwest corner of the yard. Every June, the tree is covered with winter jujubes as big as thumbs. When they are knocked down with a pole, they crackle.
They can be scattered all over the yard. There is a stone table and four or five stone benches under the jujube tree. When I was a child, I remember that every summer, the family would sit on the stone benches in the yard to eat and enjoy the cool air. When they were greedy, they would nibble on a few winter jujubes.
So uncomfortable.
While Fang Feiyang was immersed in his childhood memories, Zhang Paoshan parked his car in front of a dilapidated repair shop.
"Is anyone here? Help me fix a tire!"
Zhang Guoshan got out of the car and shouted into the messy facade. They said it was a facade, but in fact, this family opened a door on the west side of their yard, separated a small repair room, and hung it to the outside.
There are signs for repairing cars, motorcycles, and electric vehicles. Wrenches and screwdrivers are scattered on the floor at the door. Many used tires of all types are piled up against the wall.
It was a black workshop, but at this time, they couldn't tolerate being picky. It was already a good place to find this place. After repairing the tire, they quickly went home.
At this time, a middle-aged man in his forties bent over and came out. He was wearing a dark blue work clothes full of oil stains. He had a beard all over his face and had a very rough appearance. After he came out, this man walked around the polo in a circle.
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"Four hundred yuan?" The bearded man opened his mouth and spat out three words.
"How much? Did you rob?"
Zhang Guoshan was originally in a bad mood. He wanted to drive his car home and show off to the neighbors first, but the tire got flat for no reason. It was not easy to find such a repair point in this corner. Damn, this is
The bearded boss asked for four hundred when he opened his mouth. Zhang Guoshan was so angry that he almost went up to beat him.
"I won't rob! But it's just this price. If I don't repair it, I'll knock it down. Don't delay me from doing my business."
The bearded boss didn't have a good temper either. He looked at Zhang Guoshan expressionlessly, turned around and prepared to enter the house.
Fang Feiyang looked at this scene and saw that another half an hour had passed. The right front wheel had now completely deflated. It was definitely impossible to drive back. He quickly stepped forward and handed the bearded boss a cigarette.
, said: "Master, look at us coming down from the highway, it's not easy to find you. Why do you charge 400 to repair a tire? There's no way it's that expensive."
The bearded man snorted, reached out to take the cigarette, and said: "It's not a tire repair, it's a tire replacement! I can tell at a glance that you young people don't know how to take care of your car. You drove three kilometers even though the tires were flat. Look at this
The leather has been worn hard and is rotten, and the wheel hub inside must be deformed, making it difficult to remove it."
Fang Feiyang and Zhang Guoshan looked at each other. They obviously did not expect the consequences to be so serious.
"Then four hundred, four hundred, you have to give me an original tire."
Chapter completed!