I walked for forty minutes on the 690-meter road... From now on, I will no longer "fight against the sky"

? "But, just that night, a typhoon hit, heavy rain poured down, and the whole city was trembling weakly."

Reread Mr. Yu Qiuyu's "Wind and Rain in the Sky" ", I was surprised to find that the National Day trip to Ningbo with my old friend was exactly the time when a typhoon hit and heavy rain fell. Unlike my husband, I only felt the "ferocious ceremony of the Emperor of Heaven" at that time, and did not feel any of this. The way the city is "trembling softly".

On the way from the high-speed rail station to the hotel, I saw men and women who were "bent" in the wind and rain like me, and stubbornly trembling pure black, pure blue, dark red plaid and white lines, Long-handled umbrellas and folding umbrellas with navy blue plaid and black lines, blue and black plaid, are scattered in the vast world. I also have a pure green eight-bone three-fold umbrella. I bought it at 7-11. It took less than 2 months from the time I bought it to Ningbo. I call it "Little Green". Looking back on the four-day trip to Ningbo, if Little Green could tell fortunes, he would definitely prefer to leave himself at the Wuxi High-speed Railway Station when going through the security check!

My old friend and I are both "Buddhist tourists" who don't make detailed plans except to think about the destination. We pursue the concept of "I haven't rushed in half my life, so why not get lost and see the scenery". We prefer Unexpected surprises or scares along the way.

One person is in Wuxi and the other is in Changsha. It is normal for them not to see each other for a year or two. One night before the National Day, we chatted and hit it off immediately. We thought "it's time to meet". Then, we got accommodation, air tickets, and train tickets all in less than an hour. However, they all forgot to look at God’s face!

My old friend said it was all her fault for choosing the place by clicking on the map, but obviously we made the decision before the typhoon, so it was also the fault of this typhoon. Follow us and go to Ningbo. This typhoon has no independent opinion at all. Know to follow us. My old friend didn’t know that the typhoon had hit Ningbo until she received a text message from a certain website that the flight was canceled. She was supposed to fly to Ningbo at 3:15 on the first day of the National Day. When she received the text message, it hadn’t arrived yet at 12 o’clock, and she had already arrived. Already waiting at the Huanghua International Airport terminal.

"Sorry, there are no flights today."

"Where's the one at eight o'clock tomorrow morning?"

"There won't be one tomorrow either."

< p> After repeated inquiries to no avail, my old friend had to accept the cruel reality of grounded flights. She asked me on WeChat like she was squeezing toothpaste how long the high-speed rail has been running, implicitly wishing that I would send her a message that could display the speed and location of G7599 in real time. , itinerary applet.

People’s premonitions about bad things are extremely accurate. I probably expected what happened, so I took a photo from a good angle of the hot beef rice I just got and sent it to her. Shocked.

"My flight was canceled (face covering)."

"What?"

"Canceled due to weather conditions . ”

“It’s okay, the worst thing is to play by yourself!”

“It’s okay.”

“Is my trip over?” /p>

Later, an old friend told me that after a half-day trip to the airport, she carried her luggage and returned directly to the laboratory. When she saw her, her younger brother looked incredulous: "Senior sister, you shouldn't have already Are you in Ningbo?" But she was the only one who knew that it rained all night. Not only did she not see the plane, she even lost her student ID card and campus card.

Large expanses of rice fields flashed by quickly outside the window. The clouds were a bit thick and gloomy. There was a section of the road where all the plastic greenhouses passing by were rows without rows. The big and small trees in the sequence were thrown behind the window glass. I tried to capture some faces of nature, but the pictures I took were always "motion blurry" like the outdoor TV antenna being blown by the wind, and the wires on the roadside. The pole can't be shot straight either.

After preparing for the worst for three seconds, I quickly comforted my old friend not to worry, and to go back first and then think of a solution. On the other hand, I still found it unbelievable. Looking out the window, God's face looked a little gloomy, but I couldn't tell that he had the power to ground the flight. The rain rushed to hit the glass window of the high-speed car, and when it touched it, it immediately transformed into scattered tadpoles, clinging to the glass and swimming continuously. After saving "a string of question marks" first, I quickly opened my phone and clicked.

Looking back now, maybe I was in the high-speed rail at that time and my experience of the world outside the glass window was dulled. In addition, I had hot beef noodles on hand. This was the first time I used the high-speed rail online ordering service. It takes less than ten minutes from ordering to having your meal! I am very proud of the strength of my motherland. I allowed a glass window to block the reality outside. What I saw and felt inside the glass window was "my country is amazing." I didn't even realize that my destination, Ningbo, was already occupied by "Mina" at the moment, and that in ten minutes I would be pushed outside the glass window to experience the real violent storm.

Ten minutes later, G7599 arrived at Ningbo Station on time.

I walked out of the Harmony carrying a medium-sized schoolbag and a small camera bag. Immediately, a strong wind hit me. I grabbed the bag strap and hurriedly followed the flow of people. Walking outside, feeling vaguely uneasy.

As soon as the sky dawned, it was a bit dazzling. Standing in the exit square, I was stunned.

There is a rectangular advertising light box right in front, one corner has been torn, and the unsupported canvas is shaking in the wind and rain, just like an aunt wrung out the clothes and unfolded them before drying them, working hard The ground shook several hundred times, and the canvas in this corner shook and made a clanging sound. It also shook my head.

Pure black, pure blue, dark red plaid with white lines, navy plaid with black lines, blue and black plaid long-handled umbrellas and folding umbrellas, at this time, they all seemed to have passed the thirteenth level of dance. The flexibility was so good that it was jaw-dropping. I watched the dark red plaid fall back and go down. Not to be outdone, the blue plaid also went down. The navy blue plaid also went down. The dark red plaid made a beautiful turn and got up again... leaning back, It leans forward and rotates in a dizzying way, accompanied by a dull but solid clanging sound.

I couldn’t bear to look at it anymore, so I lowered my head silently and took out my phone. I wanted to make a call. The hard work paid off, almost as soon as I placed the order, the screen showed that the order was received successfully. I was surprised at how efficient the taxi-hailing software was. The driver called me immediately, and my heart skipped a beat.

"Hello, do you want to go to a certain hotel? Can you please cancel the order? I ordered it wrong and I won't send it there."

"Ah, I ordered it wrong. Ah, I got it. ”

This master is very efficient in taking orders and rejecting orders! The explanation was given without gasping.

That’s all, thinking that this is the first step of my long march of thousands of miles, how can I give in? The Buddhist system belongs to the Buddhist system, so time cannot be wasted like this. According to the navigation display, I have to walk 762 meters to the intersection of Yinjiang Road and Sanshi to take bus 368. In front of you, the square in front of Ningbo Station is about two meters above the ground. You have to go down the long steps on the left front. After going down, you will face a row of small shops. The door can be slightly blocked. After observing the surrounding situation, I untied my small green umbrella from the shoulder bag strap and walked into the storm. At that moment, I felt that I was two meters tall, very tall.

However, he was only tall for three seconds. As soon as he left the platform, his body was out of control. The wind and rain came from the left, and the front Seeing so many umbrellas "leaning forward and leaning back", I couldn't bear the little green umbrella to slip away, so I quickly turned the umbrella head to the left to face the wind. Now it's better, the little green's eight bones and eight sides can't wait to stick together. The most folded umbrella can't be stretched out coyly, like a petunia. I wish I could have more one. Three heads and six arms are used to hold up the umbrella surface from the inside, so that it can grow together with the umbrella. I had never thought before that when holding an umbrella, I have to work hard to protect it, to prevent the umbrella surface from flipping over with a "swish", and to use my arms along the handle to prevent the umbrella from flying off. Pay attention to the tilt angle of your body to prevent you from being carried over by the umbrella.

The entire steps are less than ten meters long, but in my mind I have walked for a century. There are only enlarged cement-colored steps in front of me, endless. My upper body has always maintained a "fighting" posture, but my lower body looks like a decrepit old man, which is extremely disharmonious and even a bit funny. I wonder if the gloomy God will be amused by the funny looks of all sentient beings when he sees this scene?

Finally reaching level ground, I was relieved and hurriedly ducked under the eaves. Xiaolu's frame seems to have expanded a little, a little swollen, and it's a little stuck when it's put away.

If you go back in time, you will see a man wearing a thin aqua blue sweatshirt half-hunched in the middle of the steps, holding the front end of the umbrella handle with both hands, holding a green umbrella diagonally, and the umbrella has been turned over , shivering crazily under the raging typhoon, she had to awkwardly twist her whole body and "swish" the umbrella cover back.

I walked quickly along this row of shops, just wanting to hurry to the No. 368 platform. The small shop that also sells rain gear was obviously much more popular, and a cleaning lady caught my attention. She should be wearing a dark coat, but because it was wet from the storm, it looked like a strong soy sauce color. She came out of a store, holding a black broom and an iron dustpan in each hand, slowly walking Walking into the rain, maybe because my clothes didn't fit me well, I looked a little clumsy. When I was almost overtaking her, I stopped, because she lowered her head in the wind and rain, holding the broom and dustpan, but she didn't move at all, as if she was fixed by someone. The scene seemed to freeze. After five or six seconds, the broom moved slightly. Great, I breathed a sigh of relief.

She just moved mechanically, stopped and moved again. She was very stiff, like a machine with a faulty program, performing its tasks poorly. "The typhoon is coming and the rain is pouring." She not only has to ensure that she can stand still, but also protects her broom and dustpan. This is how the "motionless" scene happened.

? She can't hide in the shop all the time, because she has to make a living in the wind and rain.

The way to the platform was not long. I walked very slowly due to the bad weather. Several scenes along the way impressed me deeply.

When I passed the first traffic light, I saw three umbrellas on the side of the road. One was brown, about 15 centimeters wide, with white edges. Most of the ribs were stuck out with grinning teeth, and the umbrella surface was also separated. hanging at the back; a black umbrella, relatively complete, with only one rib sticking out; and a delicate dark blue umbrella dotted with red and pink flower patterns, very complete, with one side bent downwards Come out with a deep arc. Judging from the appearance, it is the grandfather who holds two umbrellas. His left hand is leaning forward and holding a black umbrella, and his right hand is holding a brown umbrella with white edges behind him. The person holding the flower umbrella was grandma. She held the delicate little flower umbrella very low, holding a corner with her left hand to deliberately lower the umbrella. If you look carefully, your grandson is being protected in your arms.

Looking down at my clothes and pants, they were all dripping with water, and then I looked at Xiaolu, whose waist had flashed countless times. There is no doubt that a heroic "defense battle" was staged here. Under the three protective umbrellas, only the grandson (daughter) escaped unscathed.

Under the viaduct, a pair of "backpacker" men and women, each carrying a large backpack half a person's height, were adjusting each other's blown transparent raincoats as they passed by. It looked like they were well prepared. I’m so envious of them wearing raincoats, even their backpacks can be covered! Although I was holding Xiaolu stubbornly at the moment, I was already soaked to the skin. I was shivering with cold as soon as I stopped. I just wanted to save a few traffic lights so that I could keep moving forward.

After countless rounds of broken bones in Xiaolu, I finally saw the end point - the intersection of Yinjiang Road and Sanshi. The No. 1 stop sign from top to bottom is Route 368. There was a mother and daughter on the platform. They must have been waiting for a while. The little girl was eating potato chips and had already taken out half of them. The mother was very young. She opened the purple umbrella horizontally, with the tip of the umbrella facing the road, and surrounded by a little girl. The little girl was just up to her waist. She had a pair of big eyes and bit the potato chips loudly. After talking, they learned that the little girl was five years old, and they came to Ningbo from Haining to visit relatives during the National Day. They were much luckier than me. They got a taxi as soon as they got off Ningbo Station. However, not long after the taxi started, the young mother received a call from her brother, asking her to drive to pick them up in person. In order to live up to her brother's kindness, they were much luckier than me. , they got off the bus again and walked to the nearest platform to wait for their families to pick them up. However, typhoon weather is not something to be underestimated. The woman’s brother has been stuck in the road, and her mobile phone has automatically shut down due to lack of battery. When I saw them, they had been waiting for two hours.

The coffee-colored wax cloth satchel on my body has already turned into soy sauce color after drinking the rain 762 meters away. It’s the color of light soy sauce, not dark soy sauce. I took out the power bank from the wet soy sauce bag and handed it to the young mother, and secretly took a photo of the little girl biting potato chips.

Don’t ask me where the little green umbrella went? Xiao Lu suffered multiple fractures, and her role has changed from "shielding from wind and rain" to "barely blocking the wind."

I keep the navigation on my phone, and the screen is wet. I suddenly want to send a message to Moments, but the fingerprint unlocking keeps failing. When I press the digital password, I only fill in the first and second numbers every time. There is a black dot, and the small black dots behind it magically fill in automatically. However, it was all filled in randomly, and I was so angry that I had to click again.

After trying three or four times in a row, I finally realized that it was raindrops on my face and head that were dripping on the screen, causing this weird "auto-fill" thing to happen! That’s it, wipe your face, wave your hands, come again!

Later, behind the mother and daughter’s back, I successfully posted a message on WeChat Moments, and attached a secretly photographed photo of the little girl biting potato chips: A young man doesn’t know what it’s like to be sad, but he’s still happy eating potato chips!

The young mother wore a white cardigan with few dry areas. After charging the battery and reporting that her brother was safe, she still couldn’t help complaining: "Why did I get off the car? We got a taxi. Oh, it’s all about face!” The young mother didn’t blame her brother for why he came to pick her up. She didn’t blame others. This is something we can learn from.

However, who has never done something "for the sake of face"?

"The typhoon is coming, and there are heavy rains." What follows is the grounding of flights, the suspension of high-speed trains, and the taxi-hailing apps are on strike. There are umbrellas but they are not enough to protect them from the wind and rain. There are platforms but they are waiting. Not even by bus.

"When my brother comes later, let him take you to the hotel first!"

"No, I'm waiting for 368."

Maybe God had seen enough of my funny looks along the way and couldn't bear for me to "look through the eyes" again. Two empty taxis passed by the No. 368 platform one after another. Seeing stars in the gutter may be how I felt at that time. There's help!

The room I booked was on the fifth floor. Looking down, I saw that the road was quite wide, but there were no people walking around and there were very few cars. It turned out that everyone knew there was a typhoon. The street tree was bullied by "Mina" to the point that it was close to the ground.

It was only about 3:30 when I came out of the shower, and God was still gloomy.

Do we have to stay in the hotel? Ordering takeout?

But Wanda is only 670 meters away, what a great location the hotel is in.

Aren’t the ducks and dogs going to go?

But eating is the only activity that is possible today without having to look at God’s face.

Do you know that there is no difference between taking Little Green out with him or not?

I know, I just need to be more at ease with it.

Do you know how miserable the afternoon is?

I know, but I’m so miserable and I can’t bear to eat what I want.

? I was really unwilling to give in. At that time, my temper was rising, and I was still a little bit obsessed with fighting with the sky. If I was not allowed to go, I would go. It was immediately obvious that there was an energy inside that could not be suppressed. Is this the legendary "gamble"? Anyway, I have decided to go all out and dry today's set of wet clothes as quickly as possible, including sneakers!

After 70% of the pants were dry, I immediately switched to sports shoes. I was secretly happy: light running shoes with mesh surfaces should be easy to dry. I put a paper towel in my shoe and aimed the air outlet at the shoe opening. It should not be too close or too far away to ensure that the heat energy of the hair dryer was utilized to the maximum extent. I am "anxious and want to eat hot tofu". I knew it was impossible that the hair dryer didn't have a "quick-drying" function, but I still couldn't help but touch it every five or six seconds to see if it was dry. Nine times out of ten, it was hot and humid. After squatting with the left leg and squatting with the right leg, you need to do some mental construction for yourself. All I can think about are the recommended series from Tank Duck Dog, cheese glutinous rice balls, matcha glutinous rice balls, roasted goose...

By the time the shoes and pants were enough to wear, at least an hour and a half had passed, and it was already dark outside. . Also, I find that insoles are the hardest to blow, turn over the most, and dry the slowest.

On the map, the route from the hotel to the west gate of Wanda Plaza is very simple. It is generally "L-shaped" and is 690 meters long. It shows that it only takes 9 minutes to walk. I can do it!

After locking the route, I told my old friend on WeChat that I was going to help her try the duck dog. Then, as if I were heroically dying, I quickly stepped on the steaming mesh running shoes. He pulled out the room card and went out with the injured Xiao Lu. It's so comfortable to have dry clothes and dry shoes.

But as soon as he rushed into the street, he immediately became active. "Mina" might not be able to tell the difference between east, west and north at night? I always feel that the direction of the wind is random. When I was little, I thought the wind had stopped, and Little Green could finally hold his head high. When he was older, his mind went blank, and Little Green would either turn into a "morning flower" in seconds, or suddenly become a "morning flower". The "folding umbrella" has become a "reverse umbrella". I calculated that it was ten meters at most, and I changed into wet clothes and wet shoes. If you turn on the top spray while wearing clothes, adjust the maximum water volume, stand under it for thirty seconds and then come out, the state will be almost the same as being poured after walking ten meters.

Hey, why didn’t I bring a pair of slippers? If I had known it now, why would I have spent so long blowing it? The beef noodles in my stomach have been digested long ago...

Then I thought about it, my body is for use, not for serving, come on!

There are no cars, no people, and so on. How could the locals be so stupid like me? Where are the street lights? It's pitch black. Occasionally, the community guardroom lights up. I saw at most two cars passing by, and when the car headlights flashed, I felt like I was not alone, and I felt more intimate. I seemed to have been walking for several nine minutes! There's no traffic jam here.

The night is infinitely magnified, and time is infinitely extended. Einstein's theory of relativity is vividly demonstrated at this moment. If you had a God's perspective, you would definitely be able to see a small green dot walking an "L-shaped" route less than 700 meters away, seemingly purposefully, stopping and going, going backwards from time to time, and disappearing for several minutes.

Stop and go because it is really difficult to move forward when there is a headwind. Every time he went backwards, he deliberately took advantage of the wind to help Xiao Lu use the broken ribs to straighten his direction. I disappeared for a few minutes because there was a large recessed entrance in a building next to me. I went in to take shelter and rest.

The typhoon that Ningbo encountered was really the biggest wind I have ever experienced in my life. If I hadn't been there, I never would have thought that one day I would have to work so hard for even holding an umbrella. Not only do you need to hold one hand in front of you, but you also need to hold the other hand ten centimeters away, and then your upper body should be arched so that your arms are almost together with the handle of the umbrella, and all your strength should be concentrated on your arms to push forward.

He actually had to fight against the wind and rain in the posture of a soldier holding up a spear!

? ? I regret it, I don’t want to fight this fight.

I happened to rest in that hole in the middle, and my laziness came out. I didn’t want to be exposed to the wind and rain anymore. I knew that my body relied on such a windless and rainless place, but I was greedy and reluctant to give up my previous efforts. , plus I was feeling unsatisfied and hungry, and I still had to fight a lot when I turned back. I knew I had to get out. I checked Xiaolu with a flashlight and found that the condition was terrible. Half of the ribs were severely twisted.

? I rushed into the wind and rain again. Although I still held the weird posture of holding the spear, I had lost the fighting mentality. My glasses were full of water and my shoes were squeaking. While I was forced to fight against the wind and rain, I regretted going out, having to fight against the sky, and overestimating my abilities!

? "The body is for use, not for service." Let's talk about it later. All I can think about is: You must hold on if you are not familiar with this place! I no longer have any obsession with ducks and dogs. I just want to buy a long-handled umbrella!

According to the navigation, the "L-shaped" turning point requires walking through an underground passage. I saw a half-flooded trash can and the sparkling water. I am a road addict? Atavistically returning to his original reaction, he froze. I'm thinking, is this navigation wrong? Fortunately, the two young men also walked down with their backpacks, so I knew that the route was fine. Then I glanced at the two of them secretly, and they whispered a few words and turned around, indicating that this was really a road and it was really flooded now. Yes, I walked down half the steps and stood there in a daze just to confirm one thing: this passage could be walked before, but now the sparkling water is really flooded!

In fact, before I walked to the underground passage, I saw the brightly lit Wanda Mall in the distance, which was too eye-catching compared to the darkness along the way. But a road addict would not dare to turn off the navigation casually. Looking back at that time, what did going to the mall have to do with whether this passage could be walked in before...

Finally, there was only a sidewalk away from the square, and a funny thing happened. I mentioned before that "Mina" couldn't tell the difference between east, west and north at night and blew randomly. No, I managed to hold up a small green umbrella (crooked) when the wind was light and wanted to get over quickly, but I was caught off guard and was blown 270 degrees, and even moved back half a meter before I could stabilize my center of gravity. The funny thing is that while I was still spinning, my fleeting thought turned out to be: I turned out to be a thin person, and I was blown away by the "wind"...?

As soon as I stood still, I noticed that there was a platform about ten meters away, and there were many people standing next to the platform. It turned out that we were in a busy area. So funny, so embarrassing. I didn't care to close the umbrella, so I held the half-open small green umbrella and hurried away. Also, it turns out it’s much easier without an umbrella!

At the entrance of No. 7 of the shopping mall, I found that Xiaolu had been damaged to the point where she no longer looked like an umbrella. Several stainless steel umbrella ribs were broken over and over in the same position. I had to press hard in to make it barely fit. Tie up the straps. While I was collecting it, the words "die well" came into my mind. An umbrella's true function of "shielding from wind and rain" has reached the point where it can no longer be used. Such a "death worthy" is something I have never thought about.

I had mixed feelings, so I pinned it on the shoulder bag chain and hurried to find a larger long-handled umbrella.

According to my observation, people holding long-handled umbrellas are less embarrassed than those holding folding umbrellas.

Later I bought a dark red ten-bone long-handled umbrella. Although it can break, if I react a little faster, I can adjust the angle in time, and the frequency of fractures is reduced. The most important thing is that it can It plays the role of sheltering from wind and rain. But it's not as labor-saving as imagined.

In a violent storm, having an umbrella is almost as good as not having one. You have to protect a small umbrella while moving forward. Not only can you not escape the fate of "drowned rat", but it also seriously affects your speed. I wonder: does the umbrella protect the person, or does the person protect the umbrella?

There is no need to deliberately protect a large umbrella, but the stronger it is, the less deformable it will be, and the greater the resistance will be. As a result, it will still not go fast. I am already a drowned rat. This ten-bone long-handled umbrella now not only fails to protect me, but also hinders my walking.

After being pushed by "Mina" a few more times, that's it, I don't want the umbrella anymore.

It took thirty or forty minutes to go and less than twenty minutes to come back. I finally made a decision that did not disappoint me.

The first thing I do when I get back to the room is to take a shower, wash my hair, dry my clothes and shoes. I had never thought of taking a shower and washing my hair twice and drying my clothes and shoes twice in half a day. I shook my head helplessly. It was funny to think about it. So many "unexpected" things had happened in the past few hours. The clothes I prepared for these four days are all based on sunny weather. Tomorrow’s forecast is sunny, and then look at the storm outside. Oops, “It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice.” There is also a saying that “the sky is unpredictable.” Just squat down and blow. The unexpected situation is too terrible!

My old friend took the high-speed train for six hours the next day and finally arrived in Ningbo at 4 p.m.

? ? "What if there is no train today?"

"If there is no plane, I will take the train. If there is no train, I will take the bus. If there is no bus, I will walk. I will crawl." Climb over here! ”

Old man, this sentence sounds a bit familiar to you, haha, but I believe you!

From what I saw and heard when I stood up in Ningbo, to fighting against the wind and rain for the sake of food and drink, to the little green umbrella "die in its place", to buying a long-handled umbrella, to throwing away the umbrella, the wind and rain Along the way, the awkward journey made me want to understand a lot of things.

Protection with a disparity in strength is vulnerable, and delayed protection is meaningless and may become an obstacle to progress. Sometimes you might as well throw away your “protective umbrella” and travel light! The most important thing is to have a sense of awe, respect nature, and do not challenge nature.

People have things they can and cannot do. You can't fight against the odds without knowing your own capabilities, but you can do it by cherishing your close friends now.

"The typhoon hit, and the torrential rain came." Mr. Yu Qiuyu waded barefoot into Tianyi Pavilion the next day. He wrote, "Perhaps, I will have to be under the auspices of the Emperor of Heaven when I enter Tianyi Pavilion today. Hold a ferocious ceremony?" Looking back, I realized that the first stop the next day was the Tianyige Museum.

Is this violent storm a ferocious ritual arranged by God to wash away the hostility of all living beings?

That’s it, don’t think about it anymore. Always have a sense of awe. The most important thing is to always have a sense of awe.