Chapter 36: The Mystery of My Uncle's Death 1
This is the end of September 2003, and one of the things that comes to mind when it comes to 2003 should be SARS.
In February 2003, Anne saw a rumor on the forum that there was a "plague" in Yangcheng. Everybody didn't take it seriously.
However, in March 2003, everyone realized that the problem was getting more and more serious.
Although our school is not in Yanjing, it is in Tangcheng. However, this city, which is 173 kilometers away from Yanjing, also formed a bloody storm, when the Education Commission issued an order, and all schools in the city were closed and classes were suspended, and no one was allowed to go out unless there was a special pass. Those who go out without permission will be punished, and the school sports meeting will be suspended.
Polytechnic University next to No. 1 High School. A cordon has been set up in an all-round way. Those who went out before the closure of the school came back in quarantine at home. During this period, the same was true for those who went out to participate in the postgraduate re-examination, and were isolated in a single room in the university hospital for a period of time before being released.
Of course, our No. 1 Middle School is no exception, and classes are completely suspended. Students who live on campus are not allowed to leave the school, students who live at home are completely suspended, and a cordon has been set up inside and outside the school!
On Monday afternoon after the school was closed, September in the north was golden, and one after another golden colors came into people's eyes, and even the clear stream at dusk reflected the golden color. Chang Annie was home alone, sitting on the square carpet on the balcony, looking at Yang Erche Namu's "Walking Back to the Daughter Country" with relish. This book is a thick autobiographical novel.
It tells the story of a girl named Yang Erche Namu who walked out of that magical and beautiful land, which made the world's eyes open in amazement and let the world know about that mysterious place. Namu used her singing voice, her unique beauty and natural intelligence to conquer the world beyond Lugu Lake, so the legends of the land and the stories about her spread far and wide, at home and abroad. Today, she has dissolved into the world culture, and returned to her daughter country as an overseas child, telling the world her adventure and her nation, people's feelings and her perception of the world.
Last night, my aunt called Anne, and Anne was told that "Yanjing is the hardest hit area!" The entire community is sealed and you are not allowed to go out. Groceries and other things are delivered to your door through a special person. ”
On TV, "Xiaotang Mountain" and white-clothed angels who "sacrifice life and forget death" are promoted every day.
It was supposed to be the end of June, but it was a temporary end.
Unexpectedly, now, a second round of disasters has begun.
Jingle bell ~ jingle bell ~
The landline in the living room rang, Anne was immersed in the scene described in the book, and was suddenly pulled back by the landline ringtone, Anne suddenly felt a little disappointed, and put a bookmark on the page she was reading, and put the book on the carpet, the back cover of the book cover is black, and in the middle of the cover is a Chinese girl with the same black straight hair and pink lipstick. Anne slowly climbed up from the square carpet of the balcony with great reluctance, jingle bell~
Anne walked to the small square coffee table in the living room, picked up the landline phone, and said hello, and there was a beep on the other end of the phone...... sounds. Anne hung up the phone inexplicably, turned around and just wanted to leave the living room, just walked to the balcony door, jingle bell ~ jingle bell ~ the telephone landline rang again!
"Hello?"
"Nini, you pack two changes of clothes now, and your aunt and your grandmother will pick you up at home in a while!"
"What's wrong? Where are you going? ”
"Your little uncle has passed away, you and your aunt and grandma will go to Spring City first, your mother is now in Yanjing, and your mother will go directly from Yanjing to Spring City."
Before Anne could understand what she said, her mother hung up on the phone!
Uncle? Anne has never seen her uncle, Anne has been back to her mother for more than 4 years, this person has never appeared, Anne knows that grandma has four children, two sons and two daughters, but the uncle moved to Daxing with his wife and children 12 years ago, the year before the New Year, the uncle also brought his wife and children back once, for Anne to see a meeting, just 5 days, went back, and never saw the uncle again. On weekdays, I have never called home, and Anne has an impression in her heart, and she knows that there is such a thing as an uncle. I was completely unimpressed.
As for this, what uncle? Anne was inexplicably confused.
Anne took her schoolbag, emptied the things used for school in the schoolbag, took a change of sweatshirt and underwear, and simply packed a small bag of washing things, and after sorting out the schoolbag, Anne dialed the phone at her aunt's house.
Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~ Toot ~
No one answered, it seems that the aunt and the grandmother have already come, Anne dialed the aunt's mobile phone again, "beet~beet~beet~" and still no one answered, what's the situation, Anne is so dizzy!
Knock~Knock~Knock~"Nini! Open the door"
Anne heard her aunt knocking on the door outside, hurriedly put down the schoolbag in her hand, ran to open the door, opened the door, the aunt was in a trance carrying a small travel bag, and the grandmother followed behind the aunt as if she had no soul.
"Auntie, who is my uncle? Why is he in Spring City? Why did he never contact us? ”
"Nini, don't ask, pack up, let's go!"
Before going out, Anne specially checked whether the gas pipe valve in the house was closed, and removed the keychain from her neck to lock the door with a safe.
Anne locked the door, the aunt and grandma had already gone downstairs, Anne rushed downstairs, there was already a Santana taxi waiting downstairs, Anne got in the car and sat in the co-pilot's seat, the taxi ran all the way for two and a half hours, and finally arrived at Binhai International Airport when the sun set.
When the taxi stopped in the parking lot of Binhai International Airport, Anne was stunned by the wild running all the way, Anne felt that the whole person was overturned, and as soon as she opened the car door, Anne vomited.
The aunt left her grandmother and Anne behind, and ran all the way to change the boarding pass with her documents.
The late autumn days were long, and it was close to 7 o'clock in the evening, but the sky was not yet completely dark, and Anne sat at the airport with her grandmother and aunt waiting for the boarding time.
As the clock ticked and ticked, at the twilight hour, Binhai International Airport was gradually surrounded by night, and in the terminal at night, Anne's stomach was rumbling with hunger, but Anne saw the expressions of her aunt and grandmother, and she didn't dare to say that she was hungry, so she sat silently and waited.
The sound of the airport announcement was heard in my ears: Ladies and gentlemen. Passengers who have taken flight (1384) to (Spring City) should note that boarding starts now, we ask passengers with infants or young children, elderly passengers, and other passengers who need special services to board first, and we sincerely invite first class passengers and gold and silver card members to board first. For the rest of the passengers, please announce it again later, thank you for your cooperation, and I wish you a happy journey!
Anne pulled Grandma, followed behind Auntie's buttocks, boarded the plane, entered the cabin, the corridor with a small space, full of people who put luggage in the luggage rack, messy, Anne was originally hungry, plus noisy, the whole person was a little annoyed, but Anne kept pulling Grandma in her arms, Grandma is very small, Anne is very afraid of crowds, and other people's suitcases touch Grandma's head. So with a schoolbag in one hand, and a hand firmly holding grandma in his arms and protecting his grandmother's head with his hand, I don't know if I don't hold it, Anne instantly felt that grandma was so weak, so weak that she didn't hug her grandma tightly, she was afraid that others would hurt her grandma.
Squeezed around, and finally walked to the seat, Anne first helped her grandmother into the seat, and then went to put her school bag, at this moment Anne saw that the aunt was tiptoeing to the luggage rack to stuff the luggage, the aunt was also small, laboriously tight, Anne found herself for the first time that she was already a head taller than the aunt, Anne hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the travel bag, pulled the aunt over, let her sit down, and stuffed the travel bag herself, it seems that she is tall, and the benefits are still many, Anne effortlessly settled the luggage, After settling in, Anne returned and sat in the seat in the hallway.
After a two-and-a-half-hour flight, there was no flight meal, and Anne was already hungry.
When I started to take off, the night sky at the coastal airport was still very beautiful, and the red light of the plane could be seen outside the porthole, which flashed beautifully, of course, most of the time was in the middle of winter, so it was chaotic for 2 and a half hours,
When the plane arrived in Spring City and descended, Anne woke up from her dream in a daze, and through the small window she could see the lights of the city.
After getting off the plane, my mother was already waiting at the airport, and from a distance Anne saw her mother wearing a black trench coat, Anne pulled her grandmother, and when she saw her mother from afar, she beckoned to her mother, and her mother came up from afar, and Anne didn't see her mother for another week, and her mother looked a little haggard, and her long brown curls were loosely coiled into a bun on the top of her head. The eye makeup is also a little smudgey, and the bean paste-colored lipstick is also mottled, which is not what my mother looks like on weekdays, my mother usually always touches up her makeup in time, and never allows herself to make up mottled outside. Eh, the family took a taxi to the hotel.
When they arrived at the hotel, Anne and Grandma sat on the sofa in the hall and waited for their mother and aunt to register for the room at the front desk. After my mother and aunt finished registering the room, they came over, and Anne couldn't help it, and said, "Mom, I'm hungry, I didn't eat at noon today, I didn't eat in the afternoon, and I didn't have food on the plane."
Mom said, "Go to the room first, when you get to the room, Mom will call you to deliver food, you and Grandma will stay in the hotel, you take care of Grandma, don't go anywhere." The room card is given to you, you can go up with your grandma, your mother and aunt have something to go out! ”
"I see!" Anne was holding her schoolbag in one hand and her grandmother in the other, and her grandmother was delirious, and without saying a word, she was carried by Anne to the elevator in the hall.
Anne glanced back at her mother and aunt the moment the elevator closed, and the two sisters leaned close together into the night outside the hotel!
Entering the room, Anne put down her luggage and helped her grandmother to the bed, Grandma said that she had a headache and asked me to help her get the high blood pressure medicine in the travel bag, Anne quickly took the blood pressure medicine from the travel bag for Grandma, and Anne saw two bottles of pure water on the table, so she quickly took it and let her take the high blood pressure medicine. Grandma took the medicine, but the whole person was still uncomfortable and had no energy, so I helped my grandma lie down.
"Ding Dong ~ Ding Dong ~"
"Who?" Anne was using the toilet in the bathroom when the hotel delivery person arrived. Anne closed the bathroom door and shouted, "Please wait! Hurriedly put on his pants and washed his hands, ready to open the door.
"Hello, your order!"
"Thanks, do I need to pay you?" Anne took the plate with both hands.
"No, the meal money will be included in the hotel room rate, don't bother you, I wish you a happy meal!"
"Thank you! Good bye! ”
Anne gently closed the door with the tray, looking at the food in the tray, it was not on the table, the saliva was about to flow down, Anne put the tray on the coffee table in the window, and walked gently to grandma, grandma fell asleep, Anne didn't dare to make noise to grandma, and whispered: "Grandma, mom has ordered dinner, do you want to get up and eat some food?"
"Grandma doesn't eat it, you can eat it yourself!" In the dim light, Grandma touched Anne's hand and said.
Anne tiptoed to turn off most of the lights in the room, leaving only a small lamp at the head of the bed, and sat on the stool in front of the coffee table alone, eating lightly, that meal, her mother ordered two dishes and two servings of rice, Anne was probably hungry, eating too fast, less than 5 minutes, ending the battle.
After eating, Anne washed up briefly, silently turned off the bedside lamp in the room, and fell asleep tiredly!