Chapter 51: Sleepless Nights

In the past few days, there has been a lot of goods arriving at the station and shipping out of the station, and the long-term tightening for several days has made Li Xin so tired that he has no appetite for food.

Tonight, it was not easy to put all the goods that arrived at the station into the warehouse before midnight, Li Xin, who had been frozen on the platform for several hours, was cold and tired, and after returning to the dormitory to clean up, he fell asleep in a quilt.

It was about the second half of the night, and a violent shaking woke Li Xin from his sleep.

The plank bed was shaking, and the doors and windows were clattering, as if someone was kicking the door outside.

After a short period of panic, Li Xin suddenly understood that it was an earthquake!

He shouted loudly, "Master Su, wake up, there's an earthquake!" When the earthquake had eased a little and the doors and windows were less noisy, the two of them opened the door and ran down the stairs as fast as they could.

Downstairs was an open space, slightly larger than a basketball court, and in a short time, a lot of people had come running out of several nearby buildings.

The frightened people, some of them were wearing quilts, and some of them ran out without wearing shoes. Everyone panicked and chattered about each other, trying to figure out what was going on.

Those who ran out wearing very little clothes were so cold in the cold winter night that they wanted to go back to the house to get their clothes, but they were persuaded by the people around them, saying that it was dangerous to go back to the house at this time, and that if there was an aftershock, the building would collapse.

In a hurry, Li Xin didn't have time to put on a sweater, only wore a coat and ran down. At this moment, sitting on the cold steps, I felt a chill hit my body.

It was very windy and the temperature was very low at night. He shuddered and wrapped his clothes tightly. It's only 3 o'clock in the morning, and it's still early in the morning, so how can you stay up this long night? Will there be aftershocks?

The people around him were talking, and everyone was telling about the thrilling scene just now, estimating how many magnitudes the earthquake just now, where the epicenter was, and whether there would be aftershocks.

Seeing that there were many people around, Li Xin's panic eased slightly, he took out his mobile phone and called Li Ying, but Li Ying's mobile phone was turned off. I want to call home, but I don't know what to say, it's so late, what do my parents say after receiving the call?

If that's the case, they don't know what they're worried about!

Looking at the vast night, Li Xin felt very helpless, the mood that had been very low for this time, coupled with the fright tonight, made Li Xin's nose sour, and she almost burst into tears.

"Hello, can you lend me your phone?" someone next to him whispered.

Li Xin secretly wiped the corners of her eyes, and when she looked back, it was a girl in a red down jacket next to her who was talking to herself.

"Okay, you can use it. Li Xin handed over the phone.

The girl took the phone and said to Li Xin, "Thank you, I'll call home." ”

Li Xin heard the girl talking on the phone, and she cried as she spoke, sobbing like a child, and it is estimated that her family was also comforting her on the phone.

After a while, she stopped crying, hung up the phone, and returned the phone to Li Xin very embarrassed, saying, "Thank you!"

Li Xin persuaded her: "Don't worry, being able to call out means that the magnitude of the earthquake is not large, and there is not much damage." ”

The girl said: "Yes, my family lives in another county, more than 100 kilometers away from here, and my father said that there is no obvious shaking at home, and the magnitude of the earthquake should not be large, so there is no need to be afraid." ”

Li Xin asked, "Are you also from the station office?"

The girl said, "No, I'm from the station infirmary." ”

Li Xin asked, "Are you a nurse?"

The girl said, "Yes, what about you?"

Li Xin said: "I am from the company's station office. ”

The girl said, "Why haven't I seen you before?"

Li Xin said: "I have only been here for a long time. Where's your infirmary? I didn't notice there's an infirmary. ”

The girl said, "It's on the second floor of the station office building." ”

Li Xin asked, "Nurses have to work night shifts, right?

The girl said, "Of course it's hard to work night shifts, but we don't have to work night shifts here." We have an infirmary here, and we temporarily deal with some small problems of headache and brain fever, and the slightly larger diseases go to the county hospital, so the work is normal within 8 hours. ”

Li Xin smiled and said, "You should be very bold when you study medicine!"

The girl was surprised and asked, "Why?"

Li Xin explained: "When I was a child, I was afraid to go to the hospital for injections when I was sick, but doctors and nurses are very accustomed to it, and it is not strange. Especially when I was extracting my teeth, I was scared half to death before I entered the hospital, and when I entered the dental office, I saw the doctors and nurses bring out a plate of trays and scissors with a cold light, and my feet were so frightened that my feet were weak. The doctors and nurses can talk and laugh in the blood with these instruments, and that terrifying memory has been lingering in the depths of my mind, and when I grow up, I have nightmares many times and dream of those shiny stainless steel instruments, and I am scared into a cold sweat. Therefore, I think that those who study medicine have a very hard heart and are very bold. Since you can calmly face the dripping blood, of course, you should also be able to face the bleak life, which is really admirable!"

After listening to Li Xin, the girl forgot the horror caused by the earthquake just now, leaned back and smiled and said, "Look at what you said, it's like a horror movie, it's too exaggerated! Is it that scary?"

Li Xin said: "It's not an exaggeration, this is my true feeling! In your opinion, tooth extraction should be a minor operation, right? But when I saw those things, I was scared and my feet weakened, and if it was a bigger operation, wouldn't I faint with fright? I think I will definitely not be able to study medicine, I am too timid!"

The girl said, "Actually, it's not that scary, we also have classmates at school who are too timid to take anatomy classes, and then they can get used to it." ”

Li Xin shook his head and said: "That's someone else who has the potential to be a doctor, if it were me, I would resolutely not learn this, and my scalp would be numb when I thought about it!"

The girl smiled and asked, "Then what do you have the potential to learn?"

Li Xin laughed and said, "I studied computer software, but I don't have potential." ”

The girl said happily, "Then you are very good at computers, and I don't know how to do many things when you have time to teach me!"

Li Xin said: "Okay, this is no problem. ”

The two of you chatted word by word, forgetting that there were many people around us, and also forgetting the panic caused by the earthquake.

At this time, the sky is gradually brightening, and the news of the earthquake at night is gradually becoming clearer, and the news from the Earthquake Bureau is getting that the epicenter is in a township more than 20 kilometers away from Yuanshan County, with a magnitude of 5.0, so that everyone pays attention to the aftershocks, but there is no need to panic too much.

After hearing these news, the surrounding crowd gradually dispersed, and order at the station slowly returned to normal.

The girl got up and waved her hand at Li Xin and said, "Goodbye! Come to our office to play when you have time, don't forget what you promised!"

Li Xin said, "Okay, goodbye!"

Li Xin went upstairs and put on a sweater, and her body was much warmer. He grabbed a thermos, went to the bathroom to brush his teeth, and wiped his face with hot water.

After a sleepless night, sitting for hours in the cold night wind, he felt hungry and, worse, had a terrible headache. He thought: Maybe I wore less clothes last night and caught a cold.

After eating breakfast in the cafeteria, Li Xin went upstairs to put down the dishes and chopsticks, originally wanting to lie on the bed and rest for a while to make up for the lack of sleep last night, but he was worried that there would be aftershocks.

The memories left by last night's earthquake were so terrible that he didn't dare to stay upstairs longer, so he moved a chair to the open space downstairs and found a place where the sun could shine and sit down.

Master Su came back after breakfast and saw Li Xin sitting downstairs and asked, "Why don't you go up?"

Li Xin said: "Don't dare to stay upstairs, I'm afraid of aftershocks!"

Master Su smiled and said, "You are too careful, it's okay, it's already over, if there are aftershocks, it will come long ago." ”

Li Xin said: "It's better to be careful, don't be careless!"

The flow of people in the station gradually increased, and it seemed to be no different from before, but in the originally empty space downstairs, there were many more people like Li Xin sitting in the sun today, and these were all employees in the offices of several nearby buildings who did not dare to sit in the office for fear of aftershocks.

The sun shone warmly on Li Xin's body, his eyelids were very heavy, so he leaned back in the chair and took a nap.

I don't know how long it took, he heard someone calling him in a daze, and when he opened his eyes, it was Master Su.

"Li Xin, let's go, go to the warehouse, the goods have arrived. Master Su said.

Li Xin rubbed her eyes, yawned, got up and said, "Okay, you wait for me for a while, I'll move the chair up." ”

After arriving at the warehouse, I opened the warehouse door and saw that last night's earthquake had actually left some traces.

The stacks of sugar in the warehouse, which were originally stacked high and neat, have collapsed a lot. The passage left between the original neat cane sugar piles has been tightly filled with sacks of cane sugar that have slipped down from the height, and the original appearance is completely invisible.

"No, we have to get back to the way it was as it was! These sugars belong to different companies, so it will be troublesome to mix them together and ship them in the future, and the quantity and affiliation are easy to get wrong. Master Su said.

"Why don't I go and talk to the station and ask them to send a porter over as soon as possible?" Ms. Li said.

"Okay, you go and contact the porters, I'll keep an eye on the warehousing here, and ask them to stack the newly arrived goods separately from these, otherwise if the new goods are mixed together, it will be even more confusing!" Master Su said.

After finishing all this work, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon. Li Xin, who was exhausted, went back to the house to drink some water, and then lay on the bed to rest for a while.

He slept in a daze for more than an hour, and when he woke up, his headache was still not relieved, so he got up and went downstairs to the station office building, intending to go to the infirmary to see a doctor.