earthquake

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The sky is so bright, and the hot weather in summer makes people reluctant to go out. In the afternoon, people came out of the streets and embankments of the county one after another to enjoy the shade.

Because her mother is the director of the neighborhood office, she has eaten and gone to the neighborhood committee to work with her in middle age. I went with my lunch box to deliver food to my fiancée.

When I came to the central square, I met a few acquaintances, and we greeted each other, and made an appointment to meet here for a while, and we went shopping together.

I came to the beauty shop opened by my fiancée, knocked on the glass door outside, and after a while, Xiao'e, the beautician in her store, ran out and saw me, smiled and said, "Brother Tao, I am free today, I am so early to deliver food, is there any mine." I smiled and said, "With you, just now your sister Hong called me and said that you didn't go back, so I'll send you some." ”

Xiao'e took the lunch box with a smile and said inside: "Sister Hong, Brother Tao has brought you food." ”

It replied, "Okay, oh! Then he told him to wait for me. ”

Xiao'e agreed, grimaced at me and said, "Did you hear it, you dare to run." ”

I smiled and said as I was accustomed to: "I'll come back to pick her up later, I'll go to the square first, and my friends will wait." ”

Xiao'e: "You're going to be spanked at night." Huh," she turned and walked in.

I came to the central square again, but none of my friends came, I lit a cigarette, sat on the only remaining long board in the square, quietly watched the scene that happened every day in the square, many young women and children came to the square to play, many old people sat together and chatted, some old men played chess and stamped cards together (this is one, China's earliest card game, not A, K, O, J, 10 but a lot of points, divided into heaven, earth, people, and so on a bit like the ancient gambling set of pai gow). After a while, the two old chess players fought over each other and were ready to fight. The old man watching the battle next to him pulled away the two of them, persuaded them from east to west, and finally the two old men didn't fight, and after a while, they began to be fierce and abnormal.

I almost laughed out loud when I saw this. I finished smoking this cigarette, my friends haven't come yet, my mouth is a little thirsty, I threw away the cigarette butt and ran to the commissary to buy a bottle of water, just when I opened the bottle, I felt dizzy and unsteady, I heard a cry from someone in the square: "There is an earthquake!!!! With this shout, the people around me panicked, and they ran to the center of the square in a hurry, and I felt the vibration of the ground, wave after wave like on the waves, and I followed the people to the open area of the square, but I couldn't run steadily at all, just like the feeling of running drunk, one high and one low, running left and right.

When I ran to the open area of the central square and the earthquake had passed, I thought of my mother, my father, and my fiancée, and my heart tightened, and I hurriedly took out my mobile phone. My mother's can't get through, my dad's can't get through, and my fiancée's can't get through, all of them show that the network is busy, I'm sweating profusely in a hurry, and there is no way.

I shook my hand and took out a cigarette, lit it, and remembered that my fiancée was closest to me. I ran in three steps into two steps, ran to the front of my fiancée's shop to see, fortunately the building did not fall, they were all standing outside in the middle of the intersection, I shouted at her: "Xiaohong, close the store door quickly, tell them to go to the central square first, where are you waiting for me, I will go to find my mother." ”

My fiancée hurriedly greeted the clerk, closed the door and ran to the central square.

I ran out of breath to the neighborhood committee, which was 500 meters away from the central square, and saw my mother and her sisters busy, and assigned the team leaders to the house to call everyone out. I stepped forward and called my mother: "Mom," my mother had just finished her busy work, looked up at me, and the first thing my mother said was: "Son, it's okay if you're fine, Mom was so worried just now." ”

I looked at my mother, who had been busy all day, with a swarthy face, less than fifty wrinkled. When I heard my mother's first words that she cared about me, tears flowed down my eyes, and I said to my mother in a crying voice: "Mom, you don't have to worry, I'm young and fast, it's okay, the main thing is that you and Dad should pay attention, Dad doesn't know the situation yet, and the phone can't get through." ”

My mother smiled and said to me, "My son is fine, your father and they are all bungalows, and the venue is also big, so it's okay." Okay, Mom is going to get busy, you go to the central square, where are you waiting for Mom. "I watched my mother turn away.

Mother walked away, I came to the central square again, then I saw the square full of anxious people sitting or standing, children chasing each other and playing without knowing the situation, many couples hugged each other and were glad that each other was okay, and the elderly gathered together again to discuss, walked through these groups of people who were still talking about the earthquake situation at that time, came to the fiancée, looked at the fiancée who was still wearing beautician clothes, and the lovely face was still wearing a mask on one ear, and I was a lot more happy, I came to her side and hugged her silently, She let me hug me too, and I felt her cry, tears seeping through the T-shirt on my chest and onto my skin.