Chapter 24: The Old Goodbye and the New Beginning
Before going to bed, Shu Neem glanced at the alarm clock at the head of the bed, ten o'clock. She yawned, lay upside down, rubbed her face against the slippery pillow, and closed her eyes to sleep.
To say that it is not all bad things after resigning, at least the quality of sleep has improved, you don't have to stay up late, and you can sleep until you wake up naturally every day.
Somehow tonight, the more hypnotic she became, the more she couldn't sleep, and Shu Mei attributed it to the blow she had received from the Rolls man so much that her anger stimulated her brain, and she couldn't sleep for a long time.
Due to light sleep, Shu Neem's consciousness was in a state of alertness, the mobile phone placed next to the bed kept vibrating, the bright light of the screen in the dark was very dazzling, Shu Neem closed his eyes for a few seconds in stress, and after getting used to it, he saw the caller ID clearly, and turned on a crackling roar: "Qin madman, what kind of nerve do you have, you don't sleep in the middle of the night to disturb the people!" β
Qin Feng, a Qin madman, was employed as a photojournalist for a media outlet in the capital and was one of the few students in their class who had not yet changed careers. I usually like to post some gossip in the circle and video records of visits with leaders in the alumni WeChat group.
The classmates liked to joke with him: "Qin madman, it's amazing, the reporters accompanying the big leader have become reporters, and the future is limitless, when you come out, don't forget to bring your brothers!" β
Shu Neem thought that he couldn't sleep and harassed his old classmates when he was jet lag abroad, and just wanted to continue spraying him, but the noisy sound from the mobile phone earpiece was strange, and if he listened carefully, there was a fire alarm horn and a continuous explosion sound, and Qin Feng's breathing was very sluggish, and he seemed to be trying his best to restrain something between inhalation and exhalation.
"Qin Feng-", Shu Neem sat up, grabbed his mobile phone and shouted, "Qin Feng, what's wrong?" She heard it, it was a choked voice. If a well-informed journalist can be made to panic, the situation must be very serious.
Qin Feng exhaled heavily and said, "Tianjin Port...... Tianjin Port exploded! β
"Tianjin Port, Tanggu?" , Unbelievable, Shu Neem thought she was dreaming, she was still a reporter in the newspaper and followed the leader to Tianjin Port Binhai New Area for an interview, in fact, until I received a call just now, the world's fifth-ranked northern port has hardly had any negative * side * news, who would have expected that something would happen as soon as something happened.
Shu Neem turned her head to look at the alarm clock, and at half past two in the morning, she licked her dry lips and asked, "Where is the bombing, how did it blow up?" β
"There is news that there is an explosion in a logistics warehouse in Binhai New Area, I just learned from the fire department that the container is full of dangerous goods, the fire started first, and then exploded twice in a row, it was too miserable, the ground was full of messes, thick smoke was billowing out, the streets were full of residents who had escaped from the nearby community, many people were injured, and I heard another colleague of mine interviewed in the hospital say that the surrounding hospitals were full one after anotherββ"
Shu Neem heard the choking sound again, and she could imagine the impact that Qin Feng had suffered when he witnessed the disaster.
"The steel bars more than two meters high were crushed into noodles by the air wave generated by the explosion, and the new cars parked on the dock were basically damaged, and the explosion affected a radius of three kilometers"
"The casualties of the firefighters were very large, the situation at the scene was unknown, and they did not hesitate...... Shu Neem, when I received the task and drove out, I was still thinking, when will this kind of ghost day on call be a head, my wife is about to give birth, and I am always urging me to change to a stable job, but when I see the firefighters rushing to the core area of the explosion to extinguish the fire, I spurned in my heart that I forgot my duty as a reporter, I was ashamed! β
Shu Neem's eyes were hot, and his face was hot.
"I used to take you as a lesson and warned myself not to work too hard during the interview, so as not to fall into trouble, but what kind of reporter is this, shouldn't the reporter rush to the front line to record and expose the truth?"
"Don't blame yourself, you've already gone, cheer up, there's still a lot to do after dawn!" , Shu Neem comforted him.
"Well, martial law is already on site, I'm going to rush to the light rail and highway to shoot the destruction"
"Be careful, take care!" , neem advised.
"Shu Neem-", before hanging up the phone, Qin Feng shouted anxiously.
"No, listen"
Qin Feng solemnly apologized: "I'm sorry"
Shu Melia was stunned, "Suddenly...... What to say! β
"I shouldn't have called you stupid back then!"
"You still remember how long it was! Aren't you worried about me? β
"It's true to be worried, but it's wrong to scold you for being a fool, you did the right thing, you're a man!"
Shu Neem looked at the hung up mobile phone speechlessly, stayed for a long time, turned on the lamp, and searched the Internet for relevant information.
Someone in the WeChat group sent a video of the two explosions, which were quite close, and people couldn't help but worry about the safety of the photographer.
Through the small mobile phone screen, Shu Neem still felt the power of the explosion, the sky was reflected red, the mushroom cloud rose into the sky, the explosion was deafening, and the shock wave roared, setting off a scorching wave that shattered the doors and windows.
Dongfang was pale, neem had no sleep all night, rubbing her sour eyes, she got up and went to the bathroom to wash.
I didn't have the heart to make breakfast, so I ate two slices of bread and drank water, and then sat back at the desk and turned on the computer to surf the Internet.
Half a day's work passed, during which I received a condolence call from Ms. Fang.
"Are you alright?" , Ms. Fang asked
"What can I do, no head!"
"Didn't that explode somewhere, you didn't go to the interview?"
"Mom, you forgot about my resignation? Even if my job is still there, it will not be my turn to go to the front line to cover the news, and I have not been a reporter for many years! β
"It's not that you're scared of what happened before!"
"I'm not doing much, haven't all the injuries healed?"
"That's the pork knuckle soybean soup that I have been stewing for you for three months. Ouch, what do you say this is called, we are not far from Tianjin, I heard that the children of a family in the west of our village are working there, the house was bought the year before last, and they are going to get married this year. β
"Don't worry about it, the government will figure it out"
"Don't run away from the daughter-in-law who is about to lead the door!"
"How can the house be ruined and the marriage will not be married, it is good not to get married, it means that the character is not good, and if you find it early, it means that the man is lucky!"
"You said it lightly, the elders saved a lifetime of money to mortgage a house, but it didn't last long to blow up, and they had to repay the loan, and they didn't have the money to buy a house anymore, saying that they were daughters-in-law, and it didn't count if the marriage certificate was not stamped, and when people saw this situation, they turned around and left!"
"No, we have been through hardships together, and the two of them supported me to escape, I don't think so, the relationship between the two should become deeper."
"Okay, don't talk about it, don't drill into crowded places if you're fine, natural disasters*, do you know if you're honest?"
Shu Neem was helpless, and promised Ms. Fang, "Got it, do I lie on the bed every day?" If you want to go back like this, it is fate, and you have nothing to do with others! β
"Whew! You can't say something nice, if Lao Shu hadn't called me to remind you, I wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you", Ms. Fang said excitedly.
"Mom, you listed the person who refused to go to the household, and you restored diplomatic relations with him, why?"
"You Lao Tzu cares about you, where do you come from so much?" , Ms. Fang is reasonable.
"Care about me, call me directly, why call you?"
"Is it okay to talk about your situation? In short, you should be careful, weigh your age before you get into trouble, hang up"
The first time I saw Ms. Fang, I hung up the phone without procrastinating, and I hope she can keep it!
Shu Neem contacted her classmate Yin Fangfang on WeChat and made an appointment to meet at the western restaurant downstairs of the daily newspaper at noon.
Shu Neem went over and waited first, and after eating the three-ball ice cream, Yin Fangfang floated in like a wandering spirit.
"Look at you, it's like a night train"
Yin Fangfang sat down and flipped through the menu, "Yes, change the content of the front page overnight"
"Looks like it's going to be busy for a while"
"Yes, the current content is mainly to report on search and rescue and post-disaster disposal, and the specific news will wait for the official press conference, as for the explosion investigation and accountability that the people are concerned about, but the rescue is the first, and there is news that the β‘β‘ in the hazardous chemicals has leaked, you also know what this means...... Hungry to death, how about a seafood baked rice? β
Yin Fangfang stepped down from the front line and became an editor, but she was also touched by Shu Neem, and was a little frightened to see her beaten to the ground half to death in order to run the news, and later encountered a few similar situations, so she simply stopped being a reporter.
"But you think it's okay to be an editor in a newspaper? Usually it's quite free, but the night shift is a bit damaging to beauty, you look at me, my appearance has dropped like a tornado, and if you encounter a sudden heavy news, it's even more difficult to stay up."
"I feel like I can't find a man in my life - oh, by the way, did Madman Qin call you?"
"Your topic jump span is too big, right, and he called you too?"
"I'll just say, he doesn't beat other people's wives and children on the hot kang, he specially calls a lonely person like you and me, and his eyes are really good!"
"Understand, he witnessed almost the whole process, in that kind of situation, everyone wants to find someone to talk to, then again, post-disaster psychological intervention is also very important!"
"Of course I understand him, who can he tell but us, his wife? Come on, that woman's timidity is like a pinnose! Yin Fangfang said with a hint of disdain.
"It's useless for you to be sour now, I asked you to hurry up and get rid of the Qin madman, you have to wait for him to confess to you, that kind of rough man with a tendon, if you don't make it clear to him, you may not be able to wait in the next life, as a result, you will let other women pry it away when you turn your head! You're left blind! β
"Don't mention this stubble to me, I'll be angry when I mention it! What do you say that woman's face has to be thick, and she follows the man's ass every day! β
Shu Neem smiled, "So in terms of love, abandon the set of waiting for the rabbit as soon as possible, you are reserved, you are roundabout, you are not simple, direct and rude, and then, the rabbit was shot up by the hunter, and it is just a little beauty born in the 90s!" β
"Cut, rare, our newspaper has a new batch of post-90s fresh meat!"
"Go!" , Shu neem instigated.
"Forget it, who made my mother give birth to me early, and I'm still thin-skinned!"
Shu Mei advised, "Don't set limits for yourself because of your age, maybe the right person will miss it!" β
"It's ridiculous, you have a set of theories, and I haven't seen you catch a man!"
"I'm good at talking on paper, my mother calculated it for me, saying that I am missing peach blossoms in my life, which is also fate, otherwise you see that some people are in the peach blossom period at any time, some people are in the peach blossom period once in a lifetime, and some people simply don't, just like me, God doesn't give me the opportunity to create zΓ o, what kind of flowers can I turn up?"
Yin Fangfang sighed, "I did meet it, but in a fleeting moment, this spark is about to come out, and I will bite the gold halfway!" β
The hatred of snatching the husband is really hard to eliminate, Yin Fangfang sulked a cup of dry red!
"Let's look ahead, let's let the piece of meat of the Qin madman rot into his wife's pot, let's find another - Fangfang, there is something I want to ask your opinion"
"Aren't you super assertive, and you still ask me!"
"I want to get back into journalism and be a journalist!"
"What?" , Yin Fangfang exclaimed, "Eldest sister, you are Guigeng, you are still a reporter?" It's hard to change your career, you should walk along this broad road, why cross the single-plank bridge? Can you run the news of old arms and legs? There's a saying you haven't heard? A good man doesn't marry a news girl, we're all this age, and we're still running around outside, it's really hard to find my in-laws! You want to bet on the lonely life, when I didn't say! β
"We studied journalism for four years, and we are really unwilling to give up!"
"Who said that there is only one way left for reporters to learn journalism, Liu Wen jumped to the TV station, and now he is standing in the entertainment industry on one leg, you see that our alumni are envious, he invited you to work on Chinese Satellite TV, why did you refuse, this kind of opportunity is not common, you have to cherish it!"
Shu Neem didn't want to explain, she said lightly: "Okay, I understand!" β
After eating, Yin Fangfang returned to the society to fight, Shu Nee stood by the river in a depressed mood, the wind blowing from the river made her hair scatter and fly, Shu Neem supported the railing of the observation deck with her elbows, looking into the distance, is the end of the river and the sky at the end or the new beginning?