In the past year, this rural family in Lindian County, Heilongjiang Province, experienced 48 well-documented car accidents.
In rainy or snowy weather, cars of different colors, grades, and loads drove outside the house, and then lost control at a right-angle turn, causing car accidents one after another at their home.
Accidents always happen unexpectedly.
The second before a red truck plunged into the yard, the hostess Xu Renxiang was still thinking about the recipe for fish-flavored shredded pork.
It was a noon in February this year, and the fields were covered with snow, which was a bit dirty.
29-year-old Xu Renxiang walked out of the courtyard and went to the grocery store 10 meters away.
Her daughter wanted to eat fish-flavored shredded pork. She checked the ingredients on her mobile phone and thought as she walked: There were still carrots at home, so she had to buy some hot peppers.
It was almost dinner time, so she took three steps and then two steps at a time.
When the loud noise exploded in his ears, Xu Renxiang turned around blankly.
A 20-ton truck rolled over like a mountain, knocking down the iron fence they used as a wall. They erected the goose fence in the yard and pushed it along until it stopped in front of the house.
She had just stood where the wheels had run over.
She didn't scream, her heart was beating painfully, and her legs were weak.
After a while, he tremblingly called his husband, He Haijun, who was working outside.
In 2016, the family took more than 100 photos documenting 48 car accidents on their doorstep.
The doorway is a right angle formed by the intersection of two roads.
This is the auxiliary road of the Daqi Expressway from Daqing City to Qiqihar City, and it intersects with a rural road called "Lin Chang Road".
Xu Renxiang's home is at the tip of the right angle.
The vehicle involved in the accident drove along one side of the right angle, failed to smoothly turn onto the other side, and fell in front of their house.
"Everyone around here knows us - the one who always gets into car accidents." Xu Renxiang said.
She insists there have been hundreds of similar incidents.
However, no one can tell the real number.
This is a common farmhouse in the area.
It covers an area of ??more than 70 square meters, with white walls and blue roofs, backed by stretches of farmland.
There was a sign beside the yard, with bright red characters on a bright yellow background: "Slow." He Haijun's family.
"It almost knocked us apart." Next door to this house, a row of farmhouses were built along Linchang Road. They all had the same white walls and blue roofs, and even the ironwork on the courtyard gates were similar.
The clues of the disaster still appeared in this family at the right angle.
Only this house did not have a skinny dwarf pine tree in front of the house, a small stone bridge that separated the yard from the road, or a blue-and-white European-style Roman column fence - "it was destroyed." They moved the courtyard door to the side of the house, "hide"
Collide".
There are several "fortresses" in the yard.
The outermost layer is a layer of hollow bricks.
Inside is a pile of coarse sand with pebbles and a pile of finer-grained flour sand.
The two piles of sand, initially half a meter high, were gradually smoothed away as they blocked vehicles from rushing into the house.
Behind a pile of corn cores, a blue agricultural four-wheel motor vehicle lies under the bedroom window, acting as the last buffer.
The home was first broken into in November 2010.
Xu Renxiang and He Haijun, who are 8 months pregnant, are sleeping soundly.
The first snow of the year had just fallen, the kang was hot and the night was dark.
There was a boom, and two lights came straight in and were nailed to the bedroom window.
The uninvited guest was a car.
They didn't take it seriously at first.
One evening after that, the couple stood at the gate of the courtyard, chatting while putting reflective stickers on the gate.
Suddenly, a van flew towards the two of them.
He Haijun grabbed his pregnant wife and ran for his life.
"It seems that reflective stickers are of no use." This is the lesson the two learned from the accident.
They follow the daily routine of Northeastern farm families.
The husband leaves early and comes home late, and the wife takes care of her daughter.
On less than four and a half acres of land, we plant corn in the spring and sell it in the fall.
The ground is occasionally dotted with beans and cucumbers.
If you look at this family's life through a fast-forward lens, you will see that in the background of the regular changes of the four seasons, there are always motor vehicles of changing colors and models crashing in front of the door.
One year on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, the couple was eating melon seeds and watching TV in the house.
With a rumble, the pickup truck flew in.
Another time, Xu Renxiang went to the county to attend a wedding. As soon as she got into her classmate's car and drove for a while, she heard a loud noise.
Looking back, I saw a large truck driving through the courtyard gate.
Even the trivial details of married life are mixed with the rhythm of the car accident.
The couple's most serious quarrel occurred after a delivery truck broke into the yard.
He Haijun and the driver went out to discuss a solution, but his cell phone was turned off midway.
The worried mother He was too anxious to care about her daughter-in-law's son, while Xu Renxiang turned her anger back on her husband.
"It was this car that almost knocked us apart." This tall and round man from Northeast China found the culprit from a pile of photos, pointing and sighing.
So far, the accident has caused no casualties.
Some of them left the couple with lingering fears, while others did not cause much damage.
These accidents, large and small, compete for storage space in the couple's brains. Some are blurred together, while others become coordinates for them to review the course of their lives.
Both remember the day as "epic."
Four cars crashed into the yard one after another.
The driver of the first car also drove away secretly at night without paying compensation.
Most of the time, they are able to negotiate privately with the perpetrators and obtain a certain amount of compensation.
Some people suggest that they can make a little fortune by "privately".