Today is the weekend, Tang Huaien carried a large bag of fruit, and walked lightly on the way to the breakfast shop. He hadn't gone there for breakfast, but to meet someone, Mary.

Mary is a widow whose husband died of illness a few years ago, and has been living by running a breakfast shop for so many years, raising her daughter alone. The two have known each other since Tang Huaien rescued her daughter from the fire, and Tang Huaien thanked Ma Li for pulling out the wooden thorns all over his body, and every weekend as long as he was fine, he would bring fruits and daily necessities to see the two of them.

Because the weather is getting colder, everyone is reluctant to get up to make breakfast, so the breakfast shop is doing very well, and now it is close to noon, there are still many customers, Ma Li has to order wonton noodles alone, and fried bun fritters, even with the help of her daughter, she is still busy sweating. Seeing this, Tang Huaien hurriedly rushed forward, took the soup spoon from his daughter Xiaomi's hand, skillfully scooped up a bowl of tofu brain, sprinkled it with icing sugar and handed it to the waiting diners.

"Uncle Tang, you're here!" Xiao Mi saw that he was very familiar with Tang Huaien, the life-saving benefactor, and said hello sweetly.

Tang Huaien nodded and said to the little girl: "Xiao Xiao, go and help your mother, I'll come here." ”

Xiaomi obediently answered and jumped away.

Ma Li looked back and saw Tang Huaien, so she smiled at him, and Tang Huaien also smiled, and neither of them spoke.

"Officer Tang is here!"

"Good morning."

The diners in the store are all residents of the neighborhood, and they often see this firefighter comrade coming to help, and they all know each other, and greet him cordially, Tang Huaien also smiled and chatted with them, although the Mandarin is not very standard, but it is not informal, and the store is full of laughter for a while, and the scene is very harmonious.

It was busy for more than an hour, and it wasn't until it was almost noon that the last customer left satisfied. Ma Li went to the back room to wipe her face, cleaned it up a little, and came out to pour a cup of hot tea for Tang Huaien.

Tang Huaien took the cup and thanked him.

Since joining the fire brigade, he has been with that group of young people every day, and his personality has become much more cheerful than before, and his behavior, habits, and way of thinking have become more and more like a human being. Although he was banned from the mutant ability and is now just an ordinary person, Tang Huaien is happier than before, and he is glad that he is no longer an ugly toad.

Of course, part of the reason why he is happy is because of Mary. This is a very good woman, she raised her daughter by herself, and opened this breakfast shop, she is kind, hardworking, and very beautiful, Tang Huaien doesn't know why, she always wants to come here, wants to see her, and every time she thinks of her, her heart beats fast. It's just that he has been like this for the past few decades, he has no social experience, and his ability to communicate with people is even more lacking, and he can still talk nonsense with his comrades in the squadron, and now when he gets along with Ma Li alone, he is really half a sentence.

He was in a hurry and couldn't express it, so he had to push the oranges he brought in front of her, and stammered: "Eat.. Eat oranges, just bought. Seeing that Ma Li was sitting with a smile and not speaking, just looking at herself with a pair of bright eyes, she was even more nervous, and she didn't even know where to put her hands.

At this time, Xiaomi came in from outside, breaking the delicate embarrassing situation between the two, and Tang Huaien took this opportunity to say goodbye and leave.

Tang Huaien walked out of the store and walked in the direction of the squadron, hammering himself in annoyance as he walked, secretly annoying that he was useless, he didn't go far, he heard the millet behind him call him, Tang Huaien looked back, and the little girl had already jumped to his side, looking at him with a pair of pure and immaculate eyes.

"Uncle Tong." She asked, "Do you like my mother?" ”

Tang Huaien was seen through his thoughts, and his face immediately turned red, and he was speechless.

Xiaomi's tone was like that of a little adult: "I can see it when I'm only 6 years old, my mother must have known about it a long time ago, but why didn't you tell her?" ”

"But... I don't think I'm worthy of your mother, you're all good people. ”

Xiaomi took Tang Huaien's hand, and his eyes were full of seriousness: "You are also a good person, uncle, do you know, you are a big hero in my mind!" ”

Hero, a title he had once destined never to receive, now came out of the mouth of an innocent little girl. Tang Huaien sighed with some emotion and patted Xiaomi's head lightly.

Xiaomi wrinkled her little nose cutely, and then said: "Uncle Tang, let me tell you a secret, tomorrow is my mother's birthday, you must come and spend it with us... Mom, she's working so hard, if you really like her, don't make her wait too long. ”

Looking at Xiaomi's back, Tang Huaien clenched his fists.

The next day, he got up early in the morning, picked out his best clothes, and carefully groomed his hair, and went to a nearby cake shop to buy a big birthday cake. He decided to tell Mary what was in his heart today!

He stopped a taxi at the gate of the squadron, but as soon as he opened the door, he heard a shrill siren from the compound, and a few minutes later the fire truck burst out of the garage.

Tang Huaien didn't care about the taxi, and rushed up to stop the first car with a lunge.

Sitting in the passenger seat was firefighter Ning Yu, who saw Tang Huaien asking, so he told him about the situation. It is a residential building in a small area that is on fire, and it seems that it is still relatively serious, and a lot of manpower is needed, and the whole squadron is dispatched. Tang Huaien immediately handed over the cake to the security guard at the gate and prepared to get on the fire truck to fight the fire together.

Ning Yu dissuaded: "Aren't you going to see the object, don't follow this time, it's okay, there are us." ”

"That's not good, the whole squadron is gone, I'm the only one left, like what." Tang Huaien disagreed, "The building is on fire, the treatment will be completed in time, don't delay me, if it is not handled well, it will be big, go quickly, don't be verbose." ”

Ning Yu was right to think about it, so he let him get into the car.

The fire truck roared into the community, and everyone found that the fire situation had changed again, and they didn't know what ignited something in the house, the flames were even bigger, and even downstairs they could see the open flames bubbling out of the windows on the 13th floor. Squadron Leader Zhang Hao immediately deployed combat missions after the initial reconnaissance: first evacuate the residents in the building, and the combatants went to the upper floor of the fire on the 13th floor to search and evacuate the residents floor by floor; The attackers used the indoor fire hydrant to use the water cannon to break down the anti-theft door of the fire room and enter the room to extinguish the fire.

When it was learned that the 13th floor was on fire, the residents of the residential building began to evacuate quickly, and three firefighters, including Tang Huaien and Ning Yu, knocked on the door room by room to ensure that no one was left at home. When they finally ran to the top floor to make sure that there were no more stranded residents upstairs, they were completely overdrawn and sat on the stairs and refused to move.

Ning Yu looked at Tang Huaien, gasped and asked, "Brother Tang, what did you do before?" Why is the body so good! ”

"Me? Hobo. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, what kind of jobless vagrant are you, looking at your physical fitness, I'm afraid you didn't be a mercenary when you were young!" Another firefighter was clearly unconvinced.

Tang Huaien looked at them, recalled the sad past when he was young, shook his head and smiled: "I tell you, life is a biao. I thought we could all be good people and be loved by everyone. But God doesn't want us to do that, so He wants us to be trampled under our feet like a carpet. You're still young, and when you're my age, you'll understand what I'm saying. ”

Ning Yu was only 19 years old, the young man didn't know what it was like to be sad, he didn't expect Tang Huaien to say such a big and heavy emotion, he didn't know how to answer like this, and only after a while did he say embarrassedly: "Hehe... I didn't expect Brother Tang to believe in Christianity..."

"Hmph, I don't believe anyone now, only myself." Tang Huaien replied calmly, he listened to the movement downstairs, and said, "Go down, they are ready to break down." ”

More than a dozen firefighters were standing guard in the stairwell outside the door of the burning room, and now they were preparing to open the door with external force. After the indoor fire, the temperature of the room will rise sharply, and the air pressure will also rise sharply, if the outer door is suddenly opened at this time, the convection with the air will increase significantly, then affected by the ventilation conditions, room size and other factors, it may cause the surface of the combustible to be involved in the state of combustion, in the term of fire fighting is "explosion". The danger of ignition is extremely high, and many firefighters are injured or even sacrificed because of it, so it is absolutely forbidden to break into the door directly when fighting fires.

Fire fighter Yang Kezhang first touched the anti-theft door with his hand, and found that the temperature of the iron door was not very high, indicating that the distance between the fire source and the door was not very close, and his heart was a little relaxed, and then he tried to push the door, but the air pressure in the house was too high to push it at all, and there was no way, so he could only use a fire axe to break the door. But as soon as the axe went down, it didn't feel right, something exploded in the room, the pressure rose sharply, and now there was this crack in the door as a breakthrough, and the flames rushed madly.

"Not good! Boom!! Attention of all staff-" Yang Kezhang only had time to shout a word, the heavy security door exploded suddenly, a large number of high-temperature hot air and thick smoke accompanied by flying metal fragments under the action of fire and wind pressure, instantly poured into the narrow corridor and elevator front room where the officers and soldiers were, the aluminum alloy window in the stairwell was shattered, and Liu Jie, who was standing closest to the window, did not have time to shout, and was directly swept out by the strong air current.

"Liu Jie!" Qian Lingyun, who was standing next to him, shouted and reached out to grab him, but he didn't want to be taken out of the window under the dual effect of the pull on his hand and the thrust behind him.

There is a cement pavement downstairs, and falling from the 13th floor is absolutely certain to die, just when Qian Lingyun closed his eyes and waited for death, he felt that his trouser leg was pulled by someone. When he looked up, he saw that Tang Huaien's whole person had reached out of the window, and only two feet were still holding on to the window frame.

The people in the corridor hurriedly ran up to save them, but unexpectedly, the load-bearing capacity of the aluminum alloy was limited, and under the pull of three big men and dozens of pounds of equipment per person, it suddenly broke open, and Tang Huaien's feet slipped and fell from the upstairs.

Amid the screams of everyone upstairs and downstairs, Tang Huaien struggled to grab the protrusion between the eighth and seventh floors and stopped the downward trend. The three of them were strung together, Tang Huaien grabbed Qian Lingyun's feet, Qian Lingyun grabbed Liu Jie's hand, and the three of them hung in the air. The broken window smashed down from above, Tang Huaien bore the brunt, he could have avoided it, but in this way, the two comrades-in-arms below suffered, so he had to grit his teeth and resist, the heavy metal window frame smashed on his head, the sharp broken glass cut through his bare skin, and blood poured down, sprinkled on Qian Lingyun and Liu Jie.

Qian Lingyun shouted: "Old Tang, let go of me!" So you can live, or we'll all die!" ”

Liu Jie was also shouting: "Lingyun, let go, it's no problem for Lao Tang to save someone!" ”

"Shut up! I'm not going to let go! Qian Lingyun scolded below.

"You... Shut it all up! Tang Huaien's eyes turned red because of overexertion, and he gritted his teeth and yelled at the two, "Hold on to me, don't want to die." ”

The muscle fibers on his arm should have been broken, and the nails picked at the wall were also turned up several times, Tang Huaien's head and face were covered with blood, and he endured great pain, and every second was torment.

Finally, they waited for help. The team members ran to the window on the seventh floor and caught Liu Jie, Tang Huaien pulled Qian Lingyun and swung an arc, and also sent it to the team members who leaned out of the window, the burden in his heart fell to the ground, and it was immediately dark in front of him, and he loosened the wall softly and fell to the ground.

Captain Zhang Hao was quick and grabbed him, and several people dragged the unconscious Tang Huaien into the window, and there was finally no danger.

...

When Tang Huaien woke up, he was lying on the hospital bed, his entire right arm was hanging on his chest in a plaster, and he struggled to sit up, but he woke up the person who was sleeping on his side. Ma Li sat up "Teng", and asked Tang Huaien with concern how his health was, if there was anything uncomfortable, Tang Huaien didn't expect that it would be Ma Li taking care of him, his mind was chaotic for a while, there were countless thoughts in his heart, and a thousand words came to his mouth but only her name remained.

"Mary..."

Ma Li had tears in her eyes, and said bitterly: "Why do you have to do it every time, do you know that you almost died this time?" A few years ago, Xiaomi's dad left, and now you're going to leave too, aren't you? ”

Tang Huaien is not a fool, listening to Ma Li's words that clearly revealed his heart, he was very moved, and finally plucked up the courage to say: "I'm sorry Ma Li, I... I'm definitely not leaving! ”

Mary turned her head and said, "Anyway, you just didn't take our orphans and widows seriously. ”

"No, no, I will definitely pay attention to safety in the future, and I won't let you worry about it."

"Cut, who's going to worry about you." Ma Li took a sip, her side face was a little red, she glanced at Tang Huaien, and said softly, "What, aren't you going to say it yet?" ”

"I said... I... That..."The more anxious Tang Huaien became, the more speechless he became, and he wanted to slap himself twice.

Ma Li looked at his embarrassed appearance with red ears and knotted tongue, angry and funny, reached out to hold his hand, and said softly: "Okay, I already know your intentions, I just ask you not to disappoint me in the future." ”

"I..."A huge sense of happiness filled Tang Huaien's heart, his eyes turned red all of a sudden, and he felt more and more that the previous decades were really not as good as dogs, although the current life is hard, but the heart is steady, this is the life of a person!

Ma Li took care of people very carefully, coupled with the nourishment of love, Tang Huaien's body recovered quickly, and it was the day of discharge in a blink of an eye, and he returned to the squadron on the same day accompanied by Ma Li and Xiaomi.

As soon as he stepped into the squadron compound, he heard two salutes of "bang bang", and the paper flowers scattered all over them, and then there was loud applause in the compound, and I don't know when, all the firefighters arrived, and everyone was clapping hard, with a happy smile on their faces. A banner was unfolded by two bamboo poles, and it read "Warm welcome to the return of hero Tang Huaien". Qian Lingyun and Liu Jie, two young people, ran over very doggedly and took over the large bags of items in Ma Li's hands.

"Salute ——!"

Squadron Leader Zhang Hao shouted, and all the firefighters raised their right hands in unison and saluted Tang Huaien.

Tang Huaien trembled and raised his right hand, which was not yet perfect, put his five fingers together with difficulty, raised it to his temple, and returned to his comrades-in-arms, a standard military salute. Ma Li stood next to her, looking proudly at her man, laughing and tearing up.

Comrades-in-arms are in front of you, your lover is by your side, damn it, this is the life of a person! Tang Huaien thought to himself.