Chapter 4 A Bumpy Journey
Cheng Haonan used his polo car to carry Ning Caicheng straight to the hospital, speeding all the way, driving fiercely enough.
There are actually not many teachers who can drive a car just after graduation in school, so it can be seen that Cheng Haonan seems to have a good family background. I heard from the senior brother that he has a beautiful girlfriend, and he often sees them like glue in school, and he may be getting married next year.
It has been more than half a month since he came to this strange city, but Ning Caicheng has not really come into contact with this beautiful city. Not long after the enrollment registration, the new students began military training, and after the training every day, they stayed in the dormitory and played with their roommates, or participated in the freshman enrollment education activities organized by the school, which was simple and fulfilling.
Sitting in the car at the moment, looking out the window, "Is this the city where I was born?" Looking at the high-rise buildings in his eyes and the bustling passers-by, Ning Caicheng couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Pingjiang University is his own choice, in fact, with his college entrance examination results, he can choose a better university, and he chose to come to Pingjiang City because of his life experience. After the college entrance examination, the old couple in the orphanage where he was staying told him that he was born in Pingjiang City, and the whole story started more than ten years ago.
Ning Caicheng was orphaned when he was about six months old, and the reason why he said probably, because no one knew his exact birth. It was a catastrophe, a flood that shook the whole of China.
Ning Caicheng was lying in a stroller when he was found, in that era, strollers were rare, and they were often sneaked in by very energetic people from abroad, so it can be seen that Ning Caicheng's biological parents should have better conditions.
It was also Ning Caicheng's life, when the stroller was stuck between the branches of a tree, surrounded by surging floods, and the not stout trees could be uprooted and washed away at any time under the flood of nearly one store.
At this critical juncture, a PLA soldier who participated in the flood relief found the stroller from a distance, without saying a word, tied a safety rope around his waist, and jumped into the turbulent water with a plop, and the comrades behind him stood on the roof just enough to expose the water, holding on to the rope.
At this time, the water flow was full of all kinds of floating objects, large and small, and the little warriors had to be careful, otherwise, if they were not careful, they might encounter a deadly threat.
Fortunately, the little warrior was in the upper reaches of the current, and he quickly approached the stroller along the raging floodwaters.
Thirty meters, twenty meters, ten meters, five meters, three meters......
One meter!
It's just a little bit there!
However, who would have expected that the rope would come to an end at this time!
It's really just a little bit close!
The warriors on the other end of the rope had already handed out the rope as much as they could, and any further on they would either fall off the roof or lose control of the safety rope.
It's almost there! And this little bit seems to be at the end of the world!
"No!!"
At this moment, the most undesirable situation happened, the life-saving tree that supported the stroller finally couldn't withstand the huge impact of the flood and slowly uprooted it......
Seeing that it was about to be reached, such a mutation occurred, and the little soldier roared anxiously! After a short hesitation, he resolutely untied the safety rope tied to his waist and threw himself into the stroller along the current.
"Don't! Lee loyalty! His sudden actions frightened his comrades on the roof, and in such a flood, without the protection of the safety rope, it was like a moth to a fire, and there was no life or death.
At this time, Li Zhongzhong could no longer hear the call of his comrades-in-arms, and at the moment he made his decision, he had put life and death aside, and only the constantly expanding stroller in his eyes.
Finally caught!
Li Zhongzhong was excited!
However, he is in greater danger at the moment, and the rolling flood does not know where he and the stroller will be swept away, in such a current, no matter how good the water surname is, there will always be a time when he can't hold on.
Then he noticed a tree not far away, small but at least not uprooted by the current. This is a silver lining!
Li Zhongzhong grabbed the stroller and swam towards the tree with all his might. It is said to be swimming, but in fact, it can only change some directions slightly by taking advantage of the current.
Heaven forbid! The water rushed towards the tree with Li Zhongzhong and slammed into it! Li Zhongzhong felt that he was thrown up by a giant and slammed it on his body, his internal organs churned, and a mouthful of hot blood rushed to his throat, almost failing to hug the trunk.
From jumping into the water to now, although it has not been a long time, the consumption of physical strength is huge, not to mention that it seems that he has suffered a lot of internal injuries. At this moment, only the belief in survival and strong perseverance support him. One arm was not enough, and he wrapped both legs around the tree as well.
Ning Caicheng in the stroller seemed very sensible, did not cry, and lay quietly inside, looking at Li Zhongzhong with big black eyes.
Seeing that cute baby, Li Zhongzhong seemed to be full of strength again! He didn't regret his decision, and if he did it again, he would still make the same choice. He thought of his parents, his girlfriend, and many bits and pieces from childhood to adulthood, and he even thought of a happy life in the future, and he would have such a lovely child.
Thinking of this, he smiled with satisfaction.
Time passed second by second, and for Li Zhongzhong, the only hope was the rescue of his comrades, but in the flood, every second seemed so long.
"Li Zhongzhong! Hold on! Here we go! In the distance, a rubber raft carrying two PLA soldiers quickly approached Li Zhongzhong.
It has been a full forty minutes since the time when I hugged the tree just now, and the rescue soldiers came unhappily, but there were too many people waiting for the rescue, although the troops dispatched a large number of soldiers, but it was still a drop in the bucket.
Li Zhongzhong is completely relying on his mind to support himself, his body has been stiffened, his strength has been exhausted, and he has not even the strength to reply.
The rescue fighters struggled to control the raft and slowly approached Li Zhongzhong. And the moment they took the stroller, Li Zhongzhong smiled contentedly.
With the relaxation of his spirit, Li Zhongzhong could no longer support it. The other two warriors watched as he was swept away with a smile on his face, slowly swallowed up by the flood.
"Li Zhongzhong!" The two warriors let out a heart-wrenching roar in the face of this scene! And yet there really can't be anything they can do!
A young life passed away like this, Li Zhongzhong interpreted the name his parents gave him with his practical actions, he was loyal to the country, loyal to the people, and he died a glorious death!
It can be said that Ning Caicheng's life was bought by Li Zhongzhong with his own life.
The same thing keeps happening on the battlefield of flood fighting and disaster relief, and a disaster vividly demonstrates the noble character of the PLA soldiers who are not afraid of sacrifice and selfless dedication.
A total of 17 fighters died in the flood. More people have been displaced and their wives separated.
Reconstruction efforts have been carried out rapidly, but there are still many children like Ning Caicheng who have lost their parents. After it is determined that the birth parents cannot be contacted, the fate that awaits many children is life in an orphanage.
Ning Caicheng was undoubtedly lucky that a couple who came to Pingjiang for a tour adopted him. The couple lives nearly 1,000 kilometers away in Jingshan City, and although the economy of that place is not very developed, the couple has a lot of money because they went to the sea earlier. However, I have been married for almost ten years, I have no children, the hospital has run all over the place, but unfortunately there is no improvement, the original happy family, but because of the lack of a child, the whole family atmosphere seems to be stuffy, although the old people in the family do not say, but the desire to hold the grandson is obvious.
This time I came to Pingjiang to travel, but also listened to the advice of a friend, go out for a walk, relax your body and mind, maybe you can get pregnant. I didn't expect to encounter a once-in-a-century flood, maybe this is also fate. Seeing that so many children had become orphans after the disaster, the couple was moved by compassion, and they wanted a child very much but couldn't get it, so they applied to the political axe to adopt one, and also helped the country reduce some of the burden. This child is Ning Caicheng.
It turned out that the couple named the child Zhang Caicheng, and the adoptive father's surname was Zhang, hoping that he would grow up to be full of talent, and the word Cheng was to commemorate the warrior named Li Zhongzhong. They also heard about Li Zhongzhong's deeds, and they were moved by it, so they made up their minds to adopt Ning Caicheng.
So, Ning Caicheng was taken back to his home in Jingshan City by them.
When he was a child, Ning Caicheng was very cute, and obedient, never cried, learned things very quickly, and his family loved him very much.
Maybe the couple really let go of their obsession with the child because of the arrival of Ning Caicheng, and actually successfully got pregnant, which is undoubtedly an unexpected joy for their family. She was pregnant in October and gave birth to a crystal clear little girl. The whole family praised her as the pearl of their palms, and gradually ignored Ning Caicheng.
Intentionally planting flowers does not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade. Things are often like this, the more you want something, the more you can't get it, and when you really let go, everything is naturally obtained.
Originally, the family of four could live happily, and the couple's business became bigger and bigger. However, when Ning Caicheng was four years old, when he was playing, he accidentally cut a big hole in the waist of his sister, who was more than a year younger than him, and immediately bled nonstop. He was sent to the hospital and had five stitches, and the bleeding finally stopped.
Since giving birth to her sister, Ning Caicheng's adoptive mother looks at him more and more unpleasantly, originally among children, it is normal for this kind of accident to happen, but the so-called layer of belly is different, she always feels that she is raising children for others, and she will not kiss if she is raised, and one day she finds her biological parents, maybe the child will be raised in vain. Now that such a thing has happened, it is even attributed to Ning Caicheng's sister, and she is clamoring to send Ning Caicheng away.
The adoptive father's surname was relatively mild, and he couldn't resist her, so he had to agree to send him back to the orphanage. However, three years had passed since the flood, and it was obviously unrealistic to send him back to Pingjiang, so he was sent to an orphanage in Jing County, under the jurisdiction of Jingshan City, and gave the orphanage a sum of money. That was the time, and the orphanage was really difficult, an old couple was struggling with a dozen children, only relying on a little subsidy from the political axe and the two of them taking on some odd jobs to survive. Originally, they should not accept such a child, but the amount of money is really considerable, which can solve their urgent needs, and the adoptive father secretly promised to send money to the child regularly in the future, so that the old couple accepted Ning Caicheng and promised the adoptive parents that they would never tell the child about this experience.
The six-year-old already has some memories of his own, when he first arrived at the orphanage, he was silent, he didn't cry, he didn't eat much, and he liked to sleep with his eyes open and look at the ceiling. This is a big deal for the old couple, and they just hope that he can slowly adapt to the new life on his own.
I have to say that Ning Caicheng is really sensible, and after a period of time, he not only adapts to the life of the orphanage, but also helps the old couple take care of other younger children with other brothers and sisters.
As the days passed, Ning Caicheng grew up day by day. It turned out that he was called Zhang Caicheng with his adoptive father, but since he arrived at the orphanage, the old couple changed his name to Ning Caicheng, because when he was rescued from the stroller, he hung a jade pendant around his neck, with the word "Ning" written on it. So, they guessed that his biological parents' surname was Ning, because this surname should be less, and hoped that when he grew up, he would one day be able to find his biological parents.
The adoptive father really kept his promise, and he would send money regularly every year, and it was getting more and more every year, and it seemed that his son must be getting better and better. During this period, he also came to secretly see Ning Caicheng once, and when he saw him thriving, he couldn't help but burst into tears. But he didn't dare to recognize each other, let alone take the child home, he knew his lover's surname, and if he really did that, she would not give up. Fortunately, their daughter is very beautiful, except for the wound on her waist, everything else is really impeccable. Whenever she saw the wound, the adoptive mother would complain endlessly, and the adoptive father could only sigh behind his back.
In the blink of an eye, Ning Caicheng has grown up Chengren. I just don't know why, my adoptive father never sent money back to him when he was a freshman in high school. The old couple once asked someone to go to the city to inquire, and the reply was that the adoptive father died of a sudden illness, and the adoptive mother took her daughter to live in another place. Hearing the news, the old couple sighed for a while. In good conscience, the adoptive father is still a good person, and for more than ten years, he has sent money to Ning Caicheng every year, from the first few hundred to the last tens of thousands, which really makes the old couple sigh. They have saved all this money and have not spent it, and they are going to keep it for Ning Caicheng.
After the college entrance examination, the old couple called Ning Caicheng to the room and handed him the passbook that had been stored for more than ten years, and Ning Caicheng was surprised by the huge amount of nearly 200,000 yuan. The old couple is old, most of the children they adopted at the beginning have already worked, and some even have their own families, and there are very few left, they don't want Ning Caicheng to live like this, so they decided to tell him everything, hoping that he can find his biological parents. Therefore, after taking out the passbook, before he could ask, the old couple told him the original story of his life story sentence by sentence. From that great flood, to the warrior named Li Zhongzhong, to the adoptive parents of the family surnamed Zhang.
That night, Ning Caicheng didn't sleep all night.
This is the reason why Ning Caicheng chose Pingjiang University and chose to come to Pingjiang City, he can really choose a better school, although the education level of the place where he lives is very poor, but it does not prevent him from giving full play to his talent, which is exactly the original intention of his adoptive father when he named him.
Looking at the world outside the window, holding the jade pendant hanging on his chest in his hand, he had a lot of thoughts.
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