At 14:28 on May 12, 2008, a magnitude 8 earthquake occurred in Wenchuan, Sichuan, China, and the tremor was clearly felt in all provinces and cities across the country. At that time, Ansu, who was far away in G City, was working in the office, when he suddenly felt a shaking of the desk, and then there was a "bang", and a plastic basket containing the sample of accessories on the shelf next to him fell down, and the accessories inside were scattered all over the ground. The girls in the office whispered and looked up at each other, not knowing what was happening. After a while, someone realized that there had just been an earthquake. The assistant hurriedly came over to pack up the accessories scattered on the ground and put them back on the shelf. Everyone continues to work hard. Not long after, someone in the office shouted out, saying that there had just been a major earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan. The office suddenly began to chat. Ansu did not participate, but remembered the earthquake drill held at the school that year.

Ansu has seen the word earthquake countless times in books, and what she really felt about earthquakes was in the first semester of the second year of junior high school.

That afternoon happened to be a geography class, and not long after class, Ansu noticed that the umbrella hooked on the table at the same table suddenly "gurgled", and was puzzled, and the table suddenly shook. It's not intense, but it's clearly felt. The teacher who was writing on the board was also stunned for a moment, and saw the students below begin to look around. He sternly told everyone that there had just been an earthquake, and by the way, he told everyone what the earthquake was all about, and then told everyone that he would talk about it in detail in the following lessons, and then continued the class. The students didn't take this to heart, and they didn't realize what a terrible thing the earthquake was.

That evening, the news reported a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in the Taiwan Strait in the afternoon. The earthquake caused losses and casualties in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian. The cities of Shantou, Chaozhou, Jieyang, and Foshan in Guangdong, and Zhangzhou and Xiamen in Fujian were strongly felt and damaged by different processes. Among them, the walls of 21 school buildings in Raoping County, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province were cracked, with a total area of 14,200 square meters, of which 4,920 square meters were damaged by Yan Zòng, and the economic loss was 5.78 million yuan. The earthquake killed three people and injured 671 people, including 100 seriously. The earthquake did not attract much attention and was only briefly reported by the media during the news time. The city where Ansu is located did not suffer any damage except for the obvious tremors, but reports of cracks in the walls of the school building in Raoping County, Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province, caught the attention of the leaders of the No. 5 Middle School. The school began to pay attention to earthquake prevention.

A week later, the students were given a pamphlet about how to escape the earthquake. Originally, the city was located in the "Southeast Coastal Outer Zone Seismic Zone" of the "South China Earthquake Zone", which is the seismic zone with the highest level of seismic activity in the Southeast Coastal Earthquake Subregion. Although the earthquake occurred in the Taiwan Strait, far away from the local area, the school gave the students a special lesson and held a drill on how to escape when the earthquake occurred. In order to attract the attention of the students, the school specially invited professionals to come to the video and asked the students to wear school uniforms.

On the first day of the video, the school organized a rehearsal for the students. The scenario is set to be in class when the earthquake strikes. The first long beep on the radio was the signal of the moment the earthquake occurred, and when teachers and students heard this signal, they had to quickly crouch down and get under their desks. The second long whistle on the radio was the end of the violent tremors, and when the teachers and students heard this signal, they had to quickly leave the classroom and run to the playground to assemble. However, the students only took the school's arrangements and did not take it seriously at all.

When the first signal was given, the students were still giggling.

The tall boy in the back row was shouting, "Teacher, I'm too tall to get in." ”

Then another boy pointed to the classmate next to him and said, "Teacher, the fat man is stuck there." ”

Everyone saw that the fat classmate was drilling into it with a "hum". At this time, the students laughed, and the students who had already gotten under the table stuck out their heads to come up with ideas.

Someone said to the fat man: "You put your head in, and let your ass be exposed, anyway, your ass has a lot of meat, and it won't hurt too much if you smash it." ”

Someone said to a tall boy, "You get into it and lift the stool to protect your head." ”

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In the midst of all that, the second signal came. Some students were already under their desks, and some had not yet had time to get in, when they heard the signal and rushed out. The teachers were completely unaware of what could go wrong in such a chaotic situation. Before they even ran out of the school building, it was already a mess, and everyone was just running to the playground, and there was no discipline at all.

As soon as An Su came out, he ran into Xiang Hui. was squeezed by people from the front and back, and the two of them squeezed together. The two looked at each other, then quickly looked away. Suddenly, An Su felt that someone had pushed her back, and the whole person couldn't help but fall forward. The students in front of her were also hit by her, and several students fell around them, while the students who ran out from behind did not react at all to stop. Seeing that she was about to be stepped on, she closed her eyes helplessly.

Suddenly feeling the weight on her body, An Su opened her eyes and found that it was Xiang Hui who was protecting her.

A good drill rehearsal turned into a stampede, and the director of the Political and Educational Department was heartbroken. The students who were trampled were taken to the infirmary, and the remaining students obediently went to the playground to listen to the director's instructions. The director told the students that the school did not arrange this earthquake drill for show, but so that when an earthquake really happened one day, everyone would know how to save themselves, and hoped that everyone would take it seriously.

In the infirmary, the school doctor was checking and cleaning the wounds of several injured students, except for Xiang Hui, the rest of them had minor abrasions and were fine. Xiang Hui, who was the strictest, had several bruises on his body in addition to being bruised on his arm. After the school doctor examined him, he was prescribed some oral and topical medications. Xiang Hui didn't take it seriously.

Xiang Hui never said a word to An Su from beginning to end. When the school doctor examined Ansu, he had been standing aside as if nothing had happened, but he was actually listening carefully. He was relieved when he heard the doctor say it was okay. After cleaning the wound, he picked up the medicine prescribed by the school doctor and walked out of the infirmary. Everyone didn't expect Xiang Hui to be protecting An Su, and they all thought that he would be stepped on because he was pushed down.

A few days later, Ansu ran into Xiang Hui, who still passed by her without squinting. Only this time, Ansu stopped and looked back at his back, hesitated for a while and called out to him.

Ansu said thank you.

Xiang Hui paused, but did not look back. He said coldly, "If it were anyone, I would do it." With that, he took a step and left.

This is the first thing Xiang Hui said to her since entering the fifth middle school. The meaning of the words was simple and easy to understand, but it made An Su stand in place for a long time.

No. 5 Middle School was the first unit in the city to actively carry out earthquake prevention propaganda, and the video of the earthquake drill was later used as an earthquake prevention learning material for elementary and middle schools in the city. The school leaders of No. 5 Middle School have also been praised by the municipal government and the Education Bureau, and for this reason, the city television station also came to the school to conduct interviews. However, the matter passed quickly, and not many students really remembered the significance of this earthquake drill, and regarded it as a superficial work done by the school to win the praise of the superior units. Later, when we saw how many students died in the Wenchuan earthquake, everyone could understand the painstaking efforts of the school to publicize the earthquake prevention at the beginning.