[Dreaming, Modernization, Jointly Drawing a New Vision, the Song of Laborers]

Original title: Deng Lan Zhou is the "Lan Zhou", connecting nostalgia and distance

One person, one car, one road (theme)

Worker's Daily - reporter Zhang Chong of China Industrial Network Correspondent Wang Dengfu Han Ya

Deng Lanzhou, the driver of Hubei Wufeng Sannong Passenger Transport Company, got up just after 5:00 in the morning, simply washed and opened the door. In the waiting hall beside the house, Tian Kezhen waited there early to take a bus down the mountain to buy new tea.

Help the old man get on the bus and sit down. Deng Lanzhou steps into the cab and starts the car to meet the dawn. Dayangwu is the highest place in Maizhuang Village, Wufeng Town, Wufeng Tujia Autonomous County, with an altitude of nearly 1700 meters. Every day, Deng Lanzhou starts from here and drives along the winding cement road in the mountains, carrying passengers and goods all the way.

There were few passengers in the carriage, but the hood was full of mountain goods. Deng Lanzhou knew that the cured meat was to be mailed by the old man to his children outside; Tea is brought to the cooperative to help sell; The larger cartons were the online shopping appliances that were brought up to the mountain for villagers yesterday, and today they are returned from the mountain... These are small things. He is obligated to bring goods, and sometimes he has to help deliver and mail them.

The small book on the bridge is full of the villagers' list of goods. After 16 years of traveling, Deng Lanzhou is already as familiar with the demand of villagers for carrying goods as the road under wheels. But it has become his habit for many years to insist on writing on the notebook.

In 2008, Deng Lanzhou, 23, became the driver of the rural passenger transport line from the market town of Wufeng Town to Maizhuang Village. At the end of the year, Wang Qingling, a villager in Maizhuang, stopped Deng Lanzhou's bus at the roadside and asked him to help buy something to bring back. "He readily agreed and brought it back in the afternoon." Wang Qingling still remembers the past. Later, she heard that Deng Lanzhou had been staying overnight at Dayanwu, the terminal of the bus line, so she made a special meal to kill pigs and drove more than 10 miles on the mountain road, waiting by the side of the bus before dawn.

That scene has warmed Deng Lanzhou up to now. Since then, he has always taken the initiative to pay attention to the demand of villagers for carrying goods, wrote down the material information one by one, and began to carry goods for the villagers.

His mobile phone has more than 800 villagers' phone calls, more than 1700 WeChat friends' chat records, and countless records of carrying goods, which witness the past: a package of clothes to a student, a bottle of corn syrup to an old man on the side of the river; Help buy a bag of rapeseed in a store, which is of good quality and willing to sprout... Deng Lanzhou will clearly mark it one by one according to the requirements of the villagers to ensure safety.

The bus went through the clouds, and Deng Lanzhou's route was completely presented. This is a winding mountain highway with a total length of about 40 kilometers, connecting Maizhuang, Xiejiaping, Shuijisi, Xiaohe Village and Wufeng Town. There are many winding roads with steep slopes and sharp turns.

"This is one of the most remote rural passenger transport routes in Wufeng. The altitude difference along the route is large and the road conditions are complex in four seasons." The general manager of Wufeng Sannong Passenger Transport Company introduced to Qingsong that Deng Lanzhou has been responsible for this route since the opening of the route in 2008.

In recent years, cement roads have been built in Wufeng Village Group, and private cars have increased. On weekdays, there are fewer passengers and more goods, and Deng Lanzhou's minimum revenue is only 16 yuan. In addition, Deng Lanzhou spent a lot of time with his family. In order to take care of his daughter's study in the urban area, Deng Lanzhou once had a "retreat".

But within three months of leaving, Deng Lanzhou returned to the mountain. "Many villagers called me and talked about me. I found that they really needed me, so I found that I could not leave them."

Returning to the embrace of the mountain again, one person, one car, one road, go round and round. In the past 16 years, Deng Lanzhou has driven buses for more than 5000 days and nights, and the total mileage of mountain roads is more than 900000 kilometers, without any safety accidents. Along the way, he brought more than 100000 pieces of goods for villagers along the road, some from the mountains, some from outside into the mountains. His service warmed more than 8000 villagers in the mountains. In 2022, he initiated the establishment of the "Deng Lanzhou Volunteer Service Team". More than 10 colleagues of the team participated, and more than 500 people from the whole town joined.

A bus connects the mountain at one end and the mountain at the other. More and more attention has been paid to Deng Lanzhou, who always grinned when someone mentioned something like him. He said: "Growing up in the mountains, I am very happy to do something small for the villagers within my power."