The Great Earthquake (novella) Zhang Baotong

As soon as he entered the room, he turned his gaze directly to the front wall where the oil painting was hung. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info but there are no long cracks on the wall, and there is no oil painting to be seen. Looking at the ground again, there was nothing to be seen on the ground, not even the broken glass. He immediately realized that the oil painting must have been taken away by Cui Meiying before leaving. So, he decided to get out of here as fast as he could, because what he saw in front of him was too terrifying for him.

When he turned around, he jumped out of the door, and when he entered the corridor and hall, he saw Wei Hua running over, and he shouted loudly, "Who called you here, you don't want to die!" However, Wei Hua was stunned, but said, "I'm afraid you won't be able to take it alone." Ye Nan shouted loudly, "Run, don't run out quickly." Wei Hua looked a little overwhelmed, and asked rhetorically, "What, don't you want those paintings?" Ye Nan said angrily, "Painting is more important or people are more important!" As he spoke, he ran over quickly, pulling Wei Hua and running out.

However, at this moment, there was another wave of shaking, and the walls of the hall began to crack, and the roof began to collapse. The small building, which had already tilted and crumbling, began to sway from side to side like a boat lifted by a huge wave. Ye Nan happened to be standing on a pile of bricks, and was suddenly shaken by Xiaolou, and almost fell, but fortunately, he leaned against a wall and didn't fall. But the wall was broken and was about to fall. At this moment, Wei Hua, who was standing on the side, was quick and pushed him out of the hall door, knocking him down in the staircase aisle outside the hall.

Perhaps due to Wei Hua's excessive force, Ye Nan was pushed down by the staircase, rolled down a few times one after another, and then fell heavily under a fence. Before he could realize how his head and body had fallen, he heard a loud bang, and the entire third floor of the small building had collapsed, and one of the fallen floor slabs fell straight down on him. Seeing that he was about to die, he shouted, closed his eyes, and shrunk towards the base corner of the guardrail of the staircase. When the fallen floor fell above his head, it exploded in his ear like a bomb, and he was so frightened that he was about to die.

I don't know how long it took for him to feel that the gossamer of life was still wriggling, but he felt a sharp pain in his right arm, which was unbearable. Only then did he realize that one of his arms was tightly pressed by a broken cement slab, and he couldn't move. And his whole body was huddled in a small space at the corner of the staircase, surrounded by broken cement and scattered bricks. He shouted "Help, help!" at the top of his voice.

However, there was no response to his cries. Only then did he remember that there was no one nearby at all, and no one would come to save him. So, he shouted loudly into the hall at the top of the stairs, "Wei Hua, Wei Hua, where are you?" After a long time, there was a faint cry from there, "Ye Nan, I'm afraid I can't do it." Ye Nan asked, "What's wrong with you?" replied, "My head was smashed, bleeding, and my legs were also smashed, it hurt very much, it seemed to be broken, and I couldn't move." Ye Nan said to her in a firm and encouraging tone, "You have to persevere, someone will come to save us soon." But Wei Hua cried and said, "I'm afraid I can't." Can't hold on. Then, no matter how much he shouted, there was no reply.

Ye Nan soon felt that he had no strength and stopped shouting, in fact, he couldn't shout anymore. However, when he was quiet, he clearly felt the pain in his arm suddenly intensify, as if he had been slashed with a needle bayonet. At this time, he was deeply stunned: he really shouldn't have taken this kind of risk, even if Cui Meiying was really killed, he shouldn't let himself take this kind of risk, and he also took Wei Hua in.

Yes, he can repent a thousand times, but reality does not change anything about it. Since he chose to take the risk, then he can only pay a heavy price and even his life for it. In this space so small that he couldn't even move his body, he could only regret and imagine. Imagine what Cui Meiying is doing now, and wonder if Cui Meiying will find a way to save him. He thought that Cui Meiying would definitely come to save him, because he knew that he loved Cui Meiying very, very much, and Cui Meiying loved him very, very much. It's just that Cui Meiying couldn't know that he was trapped here waiting to die.

It was almost pitch black in front of his eyes, except for a bright light the size of a needle and thread refracted on a cement slab not far from him. This is his only connection with the outside world, and although the light of this refraction is so faint, it can make him feel the change of time in the outside world, and make him feel that his connection with the outside world has not been completely broken.

He was confined to this small place, weighed down by a cement slab, and endured severe pain, but could not move. But his mind is unusually active. He was stunned, painful, recalled, reflected, and reviewed almost his entire life in detail. But what I think about the most is his marriage and love. Because this is also the question that makes him reflect and reflect the most.

Of course, it was Wei Hua who made him feel the most guilty. At the beginning, when he came to the Wenchuan Cultural Center after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, he could be said to have nothing except a university degree. He lives in a messy hut in the cultural center, and in addition to practicing calligraphy and painting every day, he reads and sleeps, and his life is very monotonous, and his income is very pitiful. Therefore, the matter of love seems to be very far away from him. Because girls with better conditions don't look down on him at all, and he doesn't look down on girls with bad conditions, marriage problems have become a big problem for him.

That year, the county organized various units to celebrate the National Day in the theater of the cultural center, and the small chorus of a national defense enterprise won the first prize. At that time, he thought that if he could marry such a girl, what else would he want in his life?

That night, he stayed up all night, thinking about how to approach the girl. After a night of reflection, he decided to get a colleague he worked with to match him up. However, what disappointed him was that his colleagues heard that the girl had already become famous, and she was looking for the son of a bureau chief, who worked in the personnel bureau of the county government.

Hearing the news, his eyes were pitch black, and he felt that his whole world was over, and there was no hope anymore. However, he was not discouraged and decided to make another effort. So, he called the girl's unit, saying that he was a painter at the cultural center, and that he watched her performance that day, and felt that her image and temperament were very good, and wanted to create a painting based on her. The girl was hesitant at first, but she couldn't resist his plea, so she agreed. On Sunday, the girl made careful preparations, put on light makeup, and changed into a beautiful light purple floating dress, which was as beautiful as the seven fairies in the movie. Ye Nan was tempted for a while, improvised and painted an oil painting of the costume of the Flying Dancing Girl. After painting, the girl repeatedly appreciated Ye Nan's works and was full of praise. Ye Nan saw that the girl liked it so much, so he immediately gave the work to the girl. So, the girl invited Ye Nan to dinner. Two days later, Ye Nan invited the girl to come out to watch the movie "Tankanic". The girl agreed without hesitation. When the two watched a movie together, their bodies were very close, Ye Nan even tentatively grabbed the girl's hand and shook it tightly, the girl not only did not object, but also smiled at him very charmingly and cordially. For this reason, Ye Nan was bold, and on the way to watch the movie, he hugged the girl and kissed her. In less than half a year, the two got married, moved into a new house, and had a child a year later.

Life with a home is stable and stable, although the passion of love has turned into dull in daily life, but Ye Nan is making rapid progress in art creation, many works have won awards and exhibitions in provinces, cities and countries, and his fame has gradually increased, and he has also become the deputy director of the county cultural center.

If there was no Cui Meiying's appearance, maybe Ye Nan's entire life path would still be stretching forward like that, her feelings and life would be plain and steady, and she would not have made such a big wave.