Chapter 19: Meet the kind old man
In the dark cave, several children were still walking briskly towards the front, and they didn't know what was in front of them, but since they couldn't go back, they could only go forward.
"Ahh
"What's wrong again?" Cheng Weidong said a little impatiently, how can something happen to you! If he came back next time, he would definitely not be able to take these cowards with him, even now he regretted it a little, if it was just him and Qianjing, he might have gone out a long time ago.
"My torch is out." The child cried and whispered. At this time, Mei Qianjing found that his torches had been extinguished, no wonder he screamed in fright, he looked at the torches of several other children, and found that the torches were not very bright, and some were about to go out, only his and Cheng Weidong's torches could last for a while because they were wrapped in linoleum, it seemed that they had to go out quickly, if even their torches were extinguished, they could only wait for others to save them.
The other children also seemed to notice that their torches were not as lit as before, and they all began to feel uneasy, and two of the most timid ones began to cry. "I want to go home, I want my mom." "I'm so hungry, I want to go home."
"What to do? Still ahead? Cheng Weidong didn't have a bottom in his heart at this time, and came over and asked Mei Qianjing in a low voice, he was not hungry, because he had eaten too much at noon, and he hadn't digested it at this point, he was just worried that he could really get out if he went further in this tunnel.
"Let's go, I read that the holes in the book have exits at both ends, and the book says that you can get out by walking towards a windy place." Mei Qianjing said with certainty.
"Okay, what book are you reading? I don't know! Cheng Weidong asked suspiciously, he is in the same class, he didn't remember learning this!" What are you doing? He saw Mei Qianjing looking for something in his pocket.
"Hey! Villain book! Here, I forgot to eat what I bought yesterday, give them a few pieces each. Mei Qianjing handed him a piece of fruit candy, and the others were still crying on the side, and they were not worried about the road behind.
"Give each of you a piece, let's leave quickly, or the torches will be extinguished in a while, and we will never be able to get out again." Cheng Weidong didn't forget to scare them when he divided the sugar, and a few children randomly stuffed the sugar into their mouths and immediately ran to them, for fear of throwing them away.
"Let's go!" This time, Mei Qianjing took the lead and walked forward, after Cheng Weidong broke, the rest of the torches were about to go out and walk in the middle, this was Mei Qianjing's arrangement, I was afraid that the people behind would not be able to see the road clearly without torches, and it would be bad to fall down or fall behind. The group of children walked along the cave for a long time, and finally came to the end of the road, and before they had time to cheer, they found that there was no way up again, only the way down.
"Go down, we're climbing up from below." Mei Qianjing handed the torch to Cheng Weidong and asked him to take a photo, he turned around and climbed down the railing, and when he touched the ground, he shouted to it, "I'm down, throw down one of the torches." When he got to the side, a torch fell from above, and he hurriedly went up to pick it up, but fortunately it was not extinguished.
"Alright, come down and get it." I saw a person crawling down from above, his buttocks were still twisting and twisting, and he was still holding a torch in his hand and slowly crawling down, it turned out to be Cheng Weidong, and he thought it was a little chubby.
"I'll light it up for them, I'll go to the front and take a look." Mei Qianjing told him a word and went to the front.
"Can I get out ahead?" After a while, seeing Mei Qianjing coming back again, Cheng Weidong hurriedly went over to ask him.
"I don't know, it's still far ahead, we have to hurry up." "Let's hurry up, we'll be able to get out soon." Mei Qianjing encouraged the other children, turned around and went to the front to lead the way.
They didn't know that it was already completely dark outside as they walked out of the cave. When Mei Qianjing's father came home from work and didn't see Mei Qianjing, he asked his wife to know that he had played with Cheng Weidong in the afternoon, he thought that Mei Qianjing was at Cheng Weidong's house, so he planned to go to Cheng Weidong's house to pick him up, but when he just walked out of the street, he met Cheng's father, it turned out that Cheng's father also thought that Cheng Weidong was playing at his house, and the two of them panicked when they heard that the children were no longer at each other's house, so late can the two children go there?
Mei Qianjing's mother heard their conversation and panicked when she asked, and hurriedly went into the house and put on a piece of clothing and was about to go out to find it, "Let's look for it separately, go to the nearby classmates to look for it, maybe it's in someone else's house, don't worry about it first." Cheng's father said that he would run home, and he had to tell Cheng's mother about it, so that she could also come out to help find it. The two families began to go separately to their classmates to look for it, and they didn't see it after running several houses, and then Mei Qianjing's parents also met the parents of several other children on the street, and they said that their children didn't go back, and after they met with Cheng's father, they guessed that these children might be playing together, but where could they go? Even a few teenage children, they can't run far. But what they didn't expect was that their children could run much farther than they thought, which they learned later. At that time, they could not find the child, so they decided to go to the police station to report the crime.
When they arrived at the police station to report the case, the male policeman who received them last time saw that so many parents came to report the case, so he asked, "How many children are missing, when did they disappear?" Several parents immediately counted each other and then Cheng's mother said: "7, comrade police, they went out after dinner in the afternoon, and they haven't come back yet, we have found all the places we can find, but there are none, you must help us!" When the policeman heard this, he said, "Good guy, all seven children are gone." He immediately found a few more policemen on duty and decided to go out with them.
Let's not talk about where they went to find these naughty children, let's go back and see what these unlucky children are doing? Did they go out at all?
Under the leadership of Mei Qianjing, a group of children were still walking in the alleyway, they kept walking forward, and gradually felt that the hole began to slowly become smaller, and the wind became stronger and stronger. They walked along the road in front of them for a while and finally found the exit, and the children ran frantically to the exit because they saw the exit, and they finally came out by removing the yellow weeds that were hiding at the entrance of the cave.
It was already dark outside, the night sky was full of stars, and a cold wind blew, and they shivered, and at the same time the joy in their hearts was lost, "Where is this?" Mei Qianjing looked around suspiciously, he didn't recognize what this place was at all, and he also looked at Cheng Weidong as he spoke. Cheng Weidong shook his head, he didn't know either.
"Let's go ahead and see." No way, they don't know what this place is, anyway, they're all out of the hole in the ground, and they're not afraid they won't be able to go home. After they walked forward for a while, Cheng Weidong inadvertently looked back at the back, and exclaimed, "I'll go, we're miserable now, how can the tunnel lead to the mountain." ”
Mei Qianjing also looked back when he heard him, and was also stunned, under the light of the torches, he could vaguely see the outline of the black mountain in the distance, so they are now at the foot of the mountain, which is too far away from their home, and it is estimated that it will be dawn when they have to walk back.
"What to do?" Cheng Weidong looked at Mei Qianjing.
"What can I do? Go down the mountain and go to the police uncle, didn't the teacher say that it is difficult to find the police uncle! Mei Qianjing blinked.
"Okay, let's go, let's go down the mountain to find the policeman's uncle, you guys hurry up, do you want to go home." Cheng Weidong immediately went to get up the guys who were paralyzed on the ground because they were thirsty and tired and refused to get up.
"Let's go, let's go! We'll be able to go home when we get down the mountain. Mei Qianjing had to encourage everyone, he seemed to have said something similar several times today. A few of them walked slowly along the way down the mountain, and with a "poof" sound, their last torch was extinguished, and it was considered to have completed his mission, and it was good that it was not extinguished in the cave, but fortunately, the moon was still bright tonight, and if you looked closely, you could still see the road. I don't know how long they had been walking, but when they couldn't walk, a little light appeared in front of them.
"Look... Look, lights, lights. Little Chubby Dun's fingers trembled and pointed to the light not far ahead. They finally breathed a sigh of relief, and finally saw someone. A few people also forgot about hunger, and ran to the front as soon as they slipped away, and when they ran to the village, because it was too late, no one could see it, and they continued to walk forward for a distance before they saw a small store with lights on, Cheng Weidong hurriedly went in to inquire, and after asking, they knew that they had run to the southern suburbs, but their home was in the northern suburbs, one south and one north across the entire Anxi City, God knows what they did?
A few children standing in the back looked at the food on the shelves behind the boss and swallowed frantically, their stomachs were gurgling, they rummaged in their pockets, and put together a total of two yuan, not knowing what to buy. Mei Qianjing stood at the counter with the two yuan they scraped together and said to the old man inside: "Grandpa, we have 2 yuan left, can you sell us a few bags of instant noodles?" We haven't eaten all day today, they're all hungry, please, grandpa. ”
The uncle looked at a few teenage children standing outside the counter, all of them were grizzled, several of them were obviously crying for a long time, their eyes were red, and their lips were peeled because they hadn't drunk water for a long time, looking at the clothes like children of a poor family, it was not easy to have two yuan, the uncle turned around and walked into the back room, Mei Qianjing and they were about to leave here when they saw that the uncle was gone, but they didn't expect the uncle to come out again at this time, holding a few steamed buns in his hand and handing them "Eat, grandpa will pour you some water to drink." ”
"Thank you, grandpa, grandpa gave you the money." Mei Qianjing and the other children said thank you to the kind uncle. They couldn't wait to eat the steamed buns with their heads buried in their heads, but the kind uncle refused their money, turned around and poured them a cup of hot water and brought it over, "Where is your house?" Why don't you come home so late? The uncle asked suspiciously.
"Our family lives in Shenjiatun, and when we went to Xingwang Cement Factory to play at noon, we saw a tunnel, so we went down to play, and we got here while walking, grandpa, do you know where the police station is?" Mei Qianjing said it to the uncle, of course, what he didn't say was that they were originally going to this tunnel, but they came here by mistake because they were lost in the direction.
"Yikes! You can run far enough, you eat first, and grandpa will take you to the police station later. The old man touched Mei Qianjing's head with a smile, and the other children were relieved when they heard it, they were really hungry, they were all buried in nibbling on fragrant steamed buns, and from time to time they picked up their cups to drink saliva.