Chapter 207: The Soul Returns to Its Home
Mikawa Province, Aoki Town, Aoki County. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The scars of the earthquake that shocked the world seven years ago are still fresh in our minds. Everything seems to be in ruins as it was seven years ago.
Seven years, Sun Xiaoxin is already seven years old.
Seven years later, the damage of many earthquakes is far from healing.
The earthquake claimed the lives of nearly 100,000 people, and it also expressed the courage of Nirvana and unity.
The main earthquake area of Aoki Town, which has been opened up as an earthquake site park, is silently receiving blessings from people from all over the country at this time.
The white chrysanthemum, which represents remembrance and mourning, lies there quietly.
At that time, Xu Zhen was still in college, and when the news of the earthquake came, he was suddenly cold. Subsequently, he continued to pay attention to it every day, and even went to the school with some classmates to petition to volunteer in the disaster area, but in the end it did not work out for various reasons.
The only way he could express his feelings at that time was through donations and fundraising.
At school, on the street, he and his classmates raised funds for the earthquake, and finally raised a total of 50,000 yuan to give priceless love to the people in the disaster area.
In the year of graduation, the earthquake site park was opened to the public, and Xu Zhen came here once.
Stepping on this land again today, everything is still the same as it was seven years ago.
Remember the mourning and bless the living.
The Xiejiashan Dam Lake is not in the heritage park.
The dammed lake, which was formed by landslides caused by earthquakes, has now turned into a quiet lake without the danger of the earthquake bursting at any time and submerging the people downstream.
Although it was caused by the earthquake, the people who survived the disaster are still quietly waiting here.
In a small village on the edge of the dammed lake, the houses rebuilt after the disaster have stood brand new by the lake, this lake is very large, with hundreds of millions of cubic meters of storage capacity, Xu Zhen does not know and only guesses that Xie Lili's husband is sleeping under this lake, but the specific location can only be inferred. So, he found a shore that seemed very quiet, and gently scattered Xie Lili's ashes into the lake and the shore.
"Xie Lili, in accordance with your last wishes, I brought you here, hoping that you and your husband can be reunited in heaven...... Rest in peace. Xu Zhen gently put the urn into the water, filled it with water, and quietly sank to the bottom.
"Mom, mom......" Sun Xiaoxin shouted.
The sound of firecrackers sounded in the village not far away, and it was already noon, and Xu Zhen and Sun Xiaoxin were also hungry, so they were going to go to the farmhouse there to buy something to eat.
At the lake's edge, many of the remnants of the earthquake are gone, replaced by verdant mountains, brand-new houses and wide roads.
Xu Zhen and Sun Xiaoxin followed the concrete road into the village and found that a farmer was holding a banquet.
Facing the two unfamiliar faces of Xu Zhen and Sun Xiaoxin, the host of the banquet still welcomed Xu Zhen into the courtyard gate very enthusiastically.
There should be a new girl married.
Xu Zhen felt that he had come, the table was already full of sumptuous food, and the banquet had already begun. The banquet with more than 20 tables was full of red-faced guests. They are here today to feel happiness and joy.
There are also a lot of cars parked on the road.
This is enough to show that the earthquake did not deprive the place of life, on the contrary, the people here were reborn and built a new life.
Although the host is hospitable, Xu Zhenzheng is embarrassed to come to eat for nothing, and it is a happy day, how can he express it, so he gave a gift of 600 yuan, although the climate of Sanchuan Province is different, but after all, it is still in a province, and the customs are also quite quite.
If a guest wants to give a gift, the host will not postpone it, nor will it be too much or too little. After all, gift money is also a blessing.
According to some customs and customs here, Xu Zhen participated in this wedding, and what touched him a lot was that the bride was a girl with only one leg and a prosthetic leg on the other leg.
Everybody knows that it must have been an earthquake injury.
But the damage of the earthquake left a mark on the bride's body, but did not leave a mark on the bride's heart, Xu Zhen saw the bride's happy smile and knew that she had not lost confidence in life, on the contrary, she was building her own happy life.
And the man must have come in with the door upside down.
But all this is not important, happiness is good.
After eating, when Xu Zhen was chatting with some old and middle-aged people, he wanted to ask about the story of Xie Lili and Sun Xiaojun.
Hearing the name Sun Xiaojun, several people chatting with Xu Zhen suddenly became in awe.
"Xie Lili is from our Xie family village, speaking of which, I still have some relatives with her family!" A middle-aged man said.
"Yes, when Sun Xiaojun's name is mentioned, all of us who are alive know it! Today's bride of this family is the earthquake survivor rescued by Sun Xiaojun's unit! ”
"I'd love to hear Sun Xiaojun's story......"
"Who are you?"
Xu Zhen shook his head and said, "I'm not him, but this child is Sun Xiaojun's orphan......"
"Huh?" Several elderly and middle-aged people suddenly became a little excited.
After a long time, an old man said slowly: "Sun Xiaojun is our son-in-law of Xiejia Village, when the earthquake happened, he was ordered to follow the troops to our side for disaster relief, he rescued several survivors, but he was buried under this dammed lake by a mudslide because of an aftershock......
When Xu Zhen saw that everyone talked about Sun Xiaojun, they all gave a thumbs up, and he knew that they were grateful for the selfless spirit of the officers and men of the army who put the lives of the people in front of them regardless of their personal safety.
Sun Xiaoxin finally knew what kind of person his father was again. She had asked her mother many times who her father was and where he had gone.
Xu Zhen vaguely knew that Sun Xiaojun should not be an ordinary earthquake victim, and he couldn't help but have a new understanding of Xie Lili's persistence in the past few years.
married a soldier brother, and before the child was born, the soldier brother sacrificed his life for the country and the people, but Xie Lili spent seven years sticking to everything that a woman can hold.
gave birth to a posthumous child, raised it alone, and even dedicated the last moment of his life to fulfilling his daughter's wishes.
This home is a glorious home.
Xu Zhen knew that Xie Lili was the person here, after the earthquake, she lost her parents, and then she lost her lover. Her love for life made her entrust Xu Zhen to bring her last bones back here, and sleep with Qingshan and her relatives.
After bidding farewell to the villagers, Xu Zhen took Sun Xiaoxin along the road to the dammed lake and went back to the town under the mountain.
"Xiao Xin, when you grow up in the future, you must remember your father's spirit of sacrificing for the country and the people...... Be a person who contributes to society. ”
"Well......" Although Sun Xiaoxin didn't understand very well, she nodded resolutely.
Xu Zhen stood by the lake, looking at the green bay, and said in his heart: "Xie Lili, you can sleep forever, I think the cornea you donated will definitely continue to look at the world you love from the perspective of another person." (To be continued.) )