A special experience of going home in the snow
Fluffy snowflakes are so attractive in my thought. They can make the purest and noblest carpet for you. When you step on it, it will tenderly hold your foot to the ground and make a big footprint for you. Also it makes a nice picture. Everything in the nature seems like wearing new clothes at this time. It makes us feel that everything is new. And of course usually after the snow everything seemed has gained the fresh energy from the snow. But it would be cold.
A few years ago just the day before the New Years Eve, we got some trouble in getting back to home. We were selling some special local products in the City of xiaoshan. There we could sell a higher price. But at first the selling didn’t go well. It was a few days before the New Year’s Eve when the situation changed. But when we sell all the goods out, there was only one day away from the New Year’s Eve. We haven’t had a New Year Eve out. So it shouldn’t be that time either. We decided in the morning we go to the market buy some goods for the New Year and then try to get back to home soon. I only remembered that we had bought a big cock. But when set off, the snow visited us.
It was not a good sign. At first we thought it wouldn’t snow heavily. But later the closer we were to our home, the heavier the snow was. We needed to cross a mountain. There was no coach to home already. Also it was difficult in hiring a small bus in such bad an climate. But luckily we found one at last. The driver said that if we agreed to pay the double money, he would try. That is a nice deal. When the bus sent us to the hillside when he found the road too slippery. It was very slow. So we could find it very easily. At lasts the bus stopped climbing although the bus engine was working its best. So we thought we should get out of the bus to check whether the bus have fell into a pit on the road. We found no pit but when we all get out of it the bus start to move backward a few steps. It stops finally, left the driver with no idea about what to do with it. What should we do? There was no way but climbing over that mountain to see whether we can find another bus on the other side. I remember it was in the afternoon. It was very cold on the hill. My ten years old nephew thanked that cock a lot because the cock gave him much warmth. It was not a smaller group. There went my dad, my elder sister, my brother-in-law, and their son and I. Sometime I think a few more people may be better when to do things.
The sky was gray and sometime it made you feel the night falling. On that side of the hill we met no bus later. When we arrived at the top of the hill, we can see some cooking smoke arising from below. There was a village where my dad told us we have a relative. He told us we could go to him for help. Hearing this good news we accelerated our paces. And you can’t imagine that then we met a bus. Maybe it is not considerate to take a bus on this weather and on such a passage. But now I can remember at that time we all hadn’t thought about it at all. None of a bit. I think we are lucky. Even so, it was 11:00 at night when we got home.
It can’t be compared with the experiences of our brave soldiers in Red Army in Long March. But I think it is also a special experience.
