Back home, Lao Wang said that he would go to Tangshan for a meeting in a few days and asked his daughter if she would go. Dong Guilan was naturally unhappy.

In order to avoid another dispute, Fang Deng said that she did not want to go, in fact, she was not sure if she could face Tangshan's family calmly.

Fangda, who was in Tangshan, packed his bags, made an appointment with a group of friends, and prepared to go out. Yuan Ni wanted to keep the child and said, "Mom won't force you to repeat your studies, don't go."

Fangda has made up his mind, he doesn't want to nest in Tangshan, under the care of his mother, watching himself live a decadent life. Yuan Ni couldn't stop it, so she had to reluctantly agree. Looking at the back of the child walking away, Yuan Ni behind the door was heavy and worried.

Fang Deng was admitted to Hangzhou Medical College as he wished, and came to the school to report alone. Maybe it's a coincidence, maybe it's a heart, the siblings chose to be in the same city to start a new journey in their lives.

Two years later, one summer vacation, Wang went to Hangzhou to visit his daughter, who had not been home for a long time, and happened to be selling a day trip near the station.

Lao Wang asked for directions, and Fangda took the opportunity to solicit business. Wang felt that it was inappropriate, and Fonda showed his prosthetic leg, and finally persuaded Wang to get on his rickshaw.

The two chatted on the way, and learned that Lao Wang was from the rescue force during the Tangshan earthquake in 76, and Fang Dahao jokingly called Lao Wang a benefactor and wanted to give him a free order.

rushed all the way to the dormitory, Lao Wang knocked on the door cautiously, and it took a long time to respond. Fang Deng was surprised and delighted to see his father, and hurriedly welcomed his father into the house. Lao Wang found out that there was another boy in the dormitory, and that boy was the senior brother Fang Deng knew when he reported to school, Yang Zhi.

Seeing Lao Wang's serious expression, Yang Zhi consciously excused himself to leave. Lao Wang interrogated at this time, Fang Deng only explained that he was a graduate student brother of the same major, and then changed the topic, Lao Wang did not pursue it further, and took out the special snacks that Dong Guilan instructed to bring to his daughter, with a loving face.

Fang Deng asked how his mother was doing, Lao Wang stopped moving, raised his head, lowered his head again, and said heavily: "It's not very good...".

Fang Deng finally returned home to visit his adoptive mother, who was seriously ill in the hospital. In the ward, Fang Deng and Dong Guilan chatted and chatted a lot, and the two of them released their previous suspicions. Lao Wang, who had finished talking to the director on the phone outside the window, choked up again when he saw this situation.

Dong Guilan asked Fang Deng to take out the object pressed under the pillow, which turned out to be a watch for her daughter, and a passbook that the second elder had helped her prepare for many years, and kissed her beloved adopted daughter, Dong Guilan passed away peacefully. Fang Deng couldn't cry.

After dealing with his mother's funeral, Fang Deng returned to Hangzhou to continue his studies. One day, in front of the hospital, Fang Deng walked out without looking back, Yang Zhi hurriedly grabbed him and asked why he didn't do it again, it turned out that Fang Deng was unexpectedly pregnant, Yang Zhi wanted to escape responsibility and took Fang Deng to have an abortion.

Fang Deng talked about her experience of the Tangshan earthquake, thinking of the scene of waking up from a pile of corpses, thinking of her father who died in the earthquake, and giving up an innocent life for her simply can't do it.

Yang Zhi still quibbled with a dead face, saying that he just didn't want her to make such a big sacrifice, Fang Deng looked at Yang Zhi and felt sad and ridiculous, and the two disappeared into each other's lives from then on.

Time flashed, and it was 1995. Fangda, who has a successful career in a travel agency, drove a BMW back to Tangshan with his girlfriend Xiaohe, fulfilled the promise he made when he left home, and told his girlfriend to behave well in front of his mother along the way. Fang Da and his girlfriend said that his mother gave birth to him three times, once when he was born, once when he almost died of pneumonia, once when his mother died desperately to save him, and once when he was killed by the Tangshan earthquake.

The family gathers for dinner. Fangda toasted his mother and suggested that she move to Suzhou and Hangzhou together. Yuan Ni insisted on staying in Tangshan to protect the spirits of her husband and daughter!

"It's gone, and I know what it means to be gone." Mother kept saying these two words!

Refuse to move, refuse to buy a house, refuse to find a wife. Yuan Ni guarded her gratitude and longing for men, the guilt of her daughter, and was willing to use the bleak daily life to calm the great pain brought to her by the past. ”

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On May 12, 2008, in an office building in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

When the earthquake suddenly came, all the employees fled in panic, Fangda unexpectedly calmed down and asked the secretary to call everyone back, "You don't have to run for a small earthquake, you can't run for a big earthquake", and then picked up the phone and greeted Tangshan's mother for safety.

Same. Vancouver, Canada.

Fang Deng, who was watering in the courtyard, felt strange that her husband came back surprisingly early today, and the husband asked his wife to go back to the house to watch TV. CNN is broadcasting the Wenchuan earthquake live on TV, and you can see the tragedy of Wenchuan through the TV screen.

Thinking of her own personal experience thirty-two years ago, Fang Deng cried loudly, she proposed to her husband that she must go back to China to provide rescue, and her husband understood Fang Deng's mood very well at the moment and agreed.

At this time in Wenchuan, the rescue operation was being carried out against time, and people from all walks of life spontaneously formed a rescue volunteer team, and Fang Da was also one of them.

Fang Deng also came, and she joined the medical team with a medical background.

History is always strikingly similar, at the rescue scene, an anxious mother, when the rescuers began to work, there is no trade-off. The child was pressed by a large stone slab, and the legs had to be sawed to save the child, and the consequences of not sawing were very serious, and the lives of all the rescued soldiers and children would be in danger.

The aftershocks suddenly came, and Li Qing, a soldier in charge of the rescue, was buried in an instant. When the mother saw the rescue fighters who were carried out, she was speechless for a long time. Fang Deng was next to the mother and child to help with the infusion, watching the whole process.

The mother resolutely made a decision to ask the doctor to come and saw her daughter's legs, and then dig the building and it will collapse, and more people will be sacrificed at that time, and the helpless mother can't care about her daughter's future resentment.

After the operation, the daughter was saved, the mother couldn't stand it anymore, her emotions were out of control, and she rushed forward and cried loudly, "My daughter, I want my daughter's leg!"

Fang Deng rushed forward and hugged the mother, as if he understood the choice of his mother Yuan Ni thirty-two years ago.

During a short break, in the Tangshan rescue team, the extremely tired Fang Deng came over to rest and replenish his strength, and did not pay attention to the conversation between the two young men next to him.

One person said: "In seventy-six years, I was only two years old, I don't remember, my mother is gone, I have no mother for the rest of my life." Where's your family?"

Another person said: "I have one mother left, my father and sister are gone, my sister and I are dragon and phoenix fetuses, at the time of the earthquake, we were pressed to a cement slab, when my mother was looking for someone to rescue, I found that I was pressed on this end, and my sister was pressed on this end, and people asked my mother who to protect, what can my mother say, my mother didn't say, people were in a hurry, and if they didn't say it, they were both gone." ”

Fang Deng realized that a young man who had lost his arm not far away was his younger brother who had been separated for many years, Fang Da. After 32 years of separation, the siblings finally met each other.