Chapter 394 - The Great Earthquake (7. Full of Desolation)
The Great Earthquake (Novella Marriage Romance Novel) Zhang Baotong
That evening, seeing that the patient in the same room had just finished calling, Ye Nan couldn't help it, and pleaded, "Can you let me use your mobile phone?" The man laboriously leaned sideways on the bed and handed the mobile phone to Ye Nan with his uninjured hand. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ye Nan took the phone, put it on the bed, and dialed the number with his left hand. The mobile phone was quickly dialed, but the mobile phone immediately came with a prompt of "You dialed an empty number, please check and dial again". Ye Nan wondered if he had dialed the wrong number, so he checked the number again, and felt that this was Wei Hua's mobile phone number, yes. So, he dialed again, but it was still empty. He couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart. Immediately pull out my daughter's mobile phone number. However, it is still empty. Immediately, he felt a heaviness in his heart, as if he had been weighed down by a huge rock, and he could barely breathe. He took a deep breath to ease his mood, and then began to call Cui Meiying. Soon there was an echo, but it was a man's voice, asking who he was and who he was looking for. He said I'm looking for Cui Meiying. The man replied impatiently, "You've made a mistake. Ye Nan thought it was a mistake, so he pulled it again. However, the other side immediately replied loudly, "I told you that I made a mistake, I made a mistake, why did I still call!" After saying that, he hung up.
After making the call, Ye Nan was in a very bad mood, although he didn't get through a single call, he also revealed a lot of information to him that made him feel panicked and uneasy: Wei Hua may no longer be alive, but why is his daughter's mobile phone number empty? If her daughter is still alive, she will definitely contact them through this mobile phone number. When he thought about it like this, he felt that his scalp was about to explode, and he didn't dare to continue thinking about it. Because from the outside world and Chen Yujiao, he had long known that the school buildings collapsed the most in this earthquake, and the students also died the most. Thinking of this, his tears welled up unconsciously.
However, what he couldn't figure out the most was why Cui Meiying's mobile phone number would become someone else's. She didn't have to change her phone number at all. But why did she change her number? This really surprised him and puzzled him.
For several days, his mind was always blank, and many questions could not be solved. I couldn't figure it out, and I couldn't find someone to talk to, so I could only hold it silently in my heart. The longer these questions are held in the mind, the more anxious and restless the emotions become. Therefore, he thought about this problem all day long, analyzed it, analyzed the past, analyzed that his mind hurt, and his heart juice was about to be boiled dry, but he still couldn't analyze the reason.
Because this kind of thinking is getting worse day by day, staying in the hospital all day has become a very difficult thing, and it is like going to prison. On this day, he asked the doctor again when he would be able to heal the injury and how he would be discharged from the hospital. But the doctor said it would take at least a month. As soon as he heard this, he said, "The operation is going well, and the wound has healed, so why wait another month?" said the doctor, "Although the wound is healed, the injury is very serious, and the dressing and inflammation will need to be changed, and the cast and straps will be changed so that the injured bone can be fixed slowly." If not properly recovered and treated, the injury will continue to worsen. ”
However, Ye Nan couldn't care so much at all, and one morning, after the doctor had changed his medicine and bandages, he asked to be discharged from the hospital again. Seeing that he had made up his mind, the hospital agreed to discharge him, but he had to come to the hospital regularly to change his dressing.
After leaving the hospital, he hurried back to Wenchuan because he wanted to know too much about the safety and situation of his relatives. However, he was afraid to return home. Because he was afraid to see that terrible reality. Riding a minibus along the road, the road is littered with collapsed houses and tumbling stones. Every once in a while, you can see construction crews scrambling to repair the road, or large excavators clearing pieces of rubble. The vehicles on the highway were one after another, either military vehicles or vehicles with the word "rescue" on them, so the minibuses were moving very slowly.
When the car passed by Wutang Town, Dujiangyan, Ye Nan suddenly remembered that Li Tiangui's family lived in the town, and he was emotional, Ye Nan felt that he should go to visit this patient who had spent difficult years with him.
He got out of the car and came to town. The town is not big, and after the earthquake, there were many collapsed houses in the town, and there was a bleak and deserted scenery everywhere. He walked along a concrete road piled up with a lot of rubble and debris and asked, and when he came to the middle of the town, someone pointed to a large collapsed building and told him that this was Li Tiangui's original home, and told him that Li Tiangui had already returned to the countryside. Fortunately, a kind young man took him to Li Tiangui's house in the countryside on a motorcycle.
Li Tiangui's house is old, as if it had been abandoned for years, and one of the walls had collapsed in the earthquake. There was no one at home, and a rusty iron lock hung from the door. When Li Tiangui's younger brother heard that Ye Nan was coming to find Li Tiangui, he welcomed him into the house and told him that Li Tiangui was no longer there. He was hanged in the pine forest behind the village the day after he left the hospital and returned to his home. Hearing this, Ye Nan was shocked and didn't say anything for a long time.
Under the leadership of Li Tiangui's younger brother, he came to Li Tiangui's tomb. Li Tiangui's grave was on the edge of the pine forest, and patches of green grass had grown. The afternoon sun shone on the grave in the distance, adding a touch of desolation and sadness to the graveyard. Ye Nan knelt in front of the grave, thinking that a living person had passed away like this, and his heart couldn't help but feel sad and sad, and before he kowtowed, tears had already gushed out like a spring.
I don't know how long he knelt in front of the grave, Li Tiangui's younger brother patted him on the shoulder and said, "Big brother, get up." Ye Nan looked at the sky, the sun was close to midsky, and it was time for lunch. However, he got up from the grave and didn't even return to the village, so he asked Li Tiangui's younger brother to take him to the town on a motorcycle, and at this time, a minibus to Wenchuan happened to pass by.
On the road to Wenchuan, there are pieces of collapsed buildings and four-wheeled vehicles everywhere. Many of the buildings, although not completely collapsed, have fallen apart, with only a few frames left, and the entire wall is missing. Other buildings have collapsed to the top floor, and the entire floor below has become a pile of broken walls. In front of a school that had not yet completely collapsed, he saw a middle-aged man in tattered clothes sitting on the stone steps in front of the school gate very sadly and depressedly, and tears could not help but welled up in his eyes. He even felt as if the man were himself.
The road runs almost inward around the outskirts of the county, but many large excavators and vehicles can be seen rumbling and working intensely on the rubble. At the same time, you can also see patches of white tents and blue and white mobile homes set up in the open fields and open spaces. Many of the victims gathered around the tents and mobile homes, their expressions were melancholy, their eyes glazed, and they looked like they had not yet recovered from the shock. Some of them sat on the grass outside their tents, silently and boredly watching the sun, while others simply lay on the grass and fell asleep. Although the sun shone brightly on their faces and eyes, there was not a trace of warmth and smile on their faces.
After Ye Nan got out of the car, he walked quickly to the county cultural center. However, most of the buildings of the cultural center have collapsed, and only a small two-story building built in the 60s has not collapsed, but the brick walls of the small building have obvious cracks and are in danger. There is a large open space between the collapsed and uncollapsed buildings, and there is a cement basketball court in the middle of the clearing. There are three or four tents made of mosquito nets or plastic sheeting.
Seeing Ye Nan coming over, the old man of the doorman Wang hurriedly greeted him from the plastic tent, shouted, "Director Ye", grabbed Ye Nan's hand, and cried, "You can come back, we thought you were killed." Ye Nan said, "I was killed, but I was rescued by armed police soldiers and sent to the hospital, and I was not discharged until today." Then, he asked, "What is the situation of our unit?" said the old man Wang, "the loss of our unit is very large, more than ten of the twenty or so people died, and only seven or eight people remained. Even Director Xu and Secretary Tian were killed. ”
Ye Nan looked at the collapsed four-story office building, let out a long breath, and asked, "What about the rest of the people?" said the old man Wang, "They all went to the earthquake relief with Deputy Director Chen." They ate and lived on the construction site and did not return for three days and three nights. ”
But Ye Nan was full of thoughts about Cui Meiying and her daughter, so he asked, "Have you seen Meiying?" Old man Wang said, "Yes, of course, he came to you in the afternoon after the earthquake." I said you didn't come for the afternoon. After that, she came to inquire about you every day for several days, but she never got any news from you. When Ye Nan heard this, his heart couldn't help but feel hot, and asked, "Do you know where she is now?" Old man Wang thought for a while and said, "I heard that there are many mobile houses built for schools in Yanmen District, why don't you go there and have a look." Ye Nan nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "Okay, I'll go to the school first to find my daughter and Meiying." ”