On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, while we were waiting for class, Abin in the back row poked me with a pen.

"Xiaoxiao, can you call home and see if you can get through? There was an earthquake in Sichuan. ”

I sneaked out of my phone and found an unread text message, thinking it should be a mobile company, so I didn't read it directly.

I had no idea about the earthquake, so I unhurriedly dialed the phone at home, but no one answered, and then I dialed my father's mobile phone, which was no longer available.

"What's going on? My dad's phone won't get through. I turned around and asked Ah Bin.

"The earthquake must have destroyed the base station." Abin looked down at the latest news.

"Oh." If it doesn't work, it won't work, and I'll try again later.

After a while, the class started, and after a class, I broadcast my father's phone again, and this time it was connected.

"Dad, why couldn't you get through on the phone just now? No one answered the phone at home. ”

"There was an earthquake, and we felt it very clearly here, and it shook so badly that everyone ran to the square."

"Is it so serious?"

"But it's okay, it's not shaking now."

"It's okay, then I'll hang up."

After hanging up the phone, I saw the unread text message and simply opened it.

"If you can't survive the earthquake, you have to remember that I will always love you!"

It was Du Shaofa, and it seems that he has returned to China.

When I dialed his number, it kept saying, "Your number is unreachable for the time being!" ”

I began to regret not reading the text messages in time, maybe the line was open at that time.

After the afternoon class, everyone started talking about the earthquake, and Shizuko's mother called and said that Shanghai was all tremor, why didn't Nanjing feel it, and Shanghai was more east.

"Please call me back when you receive the message!" The call was fruitless, so I had to send a message, maybe the line was connected.

In the evening, I finally waited for Du Shao's call.

"Hello? How are you? I asked anxiously.

"It's okay, don't worry." Du Shao's tone was very calm.

"I'm in a hurry, you can't get through the phone. My dad said that the family is not very serious. ”

"I was in Dujiangyan, not far from the epicenter of the earthquake, and many houses had collapsed, and the walls of the hotel I was in were cracked."

"What are you doing in Dujiangyan?"

"Come here for a meeting, this is the first meeting I've come back, but luckily my dad didn't come along."

"You're in luck, aren't you?"

"I'll get down to business."

"Say it."

"I'm going to volunteer to go to the earthquake center to help."

"Is it dangerous there?"

"It should still be quite dangerous, there will be aftershocks at any time, and you may be buried."

"Do your parents agree?"

"I didn't tell him, it's good if you agree, hehe."

"If you've thought about it, go ahead, stay safe, or talk to your dad, maybe he'll agree."

As a soldier of the people, I think it's a good thing that he can have such an idea.

When I came back to my senses, I realized that our call was so incredible, we hadn't been in touch for so long, what we had said here, it seemed like the other party was still around yesterday.

The earthquake reopened the barrier between me and Du Shao, and it made me understand my heart better.

After hanging up the phone, I decisively sent a message to Du Shao.

"I love you!"

After the message was sent, I breathed a long sigh of relief and smiled unconsciously, it turned out that love has always been there.

The news began to report comprehensively, Wenchuan, the collapse of houses, the burial of schools, rescue, aftershocks, tears, prayers, national mourning, helpless faces, if I knew that this would be the scene that day, maybe I would not be so calm at the moment when I didn't answer the phone at home, and I also increased my worry about Du Shao as time went by.

A few days later, the school called on the students to go to the earthquake-stricken area to carry out rescue work, each team has five places, I took the initiative to apply to participate, and the reason I told the team cadres that day was that my boyfriend had already gone to the rescue, and I would go too!

Eventually, I managed to follow the school's rescue team to CD and board the green pickup truck bound for the disaster area.

We squatted in the truck, observing everything on the side of the road, and at first there was no sign of the earthquake, but when we entered Dujiangyan, we were shocked, there were collapsed buildings everywhere, and the streets were in chaos.

As the truck continued to move forward, we saw high mountains on both sides of the road, and there were landslide sections on the mountain, and we really felt the destructive power of the earthquake.

Suddenly, the car stopped.

A landslide in front of the road blocked the road, many trucks carrying supplies lined up on the side of the road, and two excavators were rushing to repair the road.

We waited for about half an hour, the truck started, and slowly, we passed the blocked section.

Two excavators were parked on the side of the road, and several people with hard hats were talking, and when they saw our truck passing by, they all looked over.

One of them caught my attention, wasn't that Du Shao's father? Why did he come to the disaster area?

I should have said hello to him, but by the time I reacted, the car had already driven away.

The road was getting worse and worse, and we bumped around in the car for half an hour before finally arriving at our destination.

There are ruins everywhere, flying rocks rolling down the surrounding mountains from time to time, and the ruins are full of armed forces and civilians in standard uniforms, some looking for signs of life, some digging in the ruins.

I was assigned to the logistics support team, and a non-commissioned officer showed me around the temporary settlement.

"Xiaoxiao...... "I heard someone calling my name from afar, I looked for prestige, and about fifty meters away from me, a group of people who were carrying bricks in the corner of the wall, one of them was waving to me.

"Xiaoxiao, it's me, Du Shao......" The man shouted at me, wearing an orange hard hat, covered in ash, I really don't know him if he doesn't speak.

At this moment, my feet suddenly shook, and I almost didn't stand still. Looking at Du Shao's side again, the wall began to collapse.

"Run, run......" My heart rose to my throat, and I rushed over there while shouting, and Du Shao also ran out and stopped not far away.

With a "boom", the whole wall collapsed, burying the place they had just searched, and I was stunned with fright.

For a moment, everyone was surrounded by the ashes that had taken off.

I looked at Du Shao, he smiled at me, opened his arms, I rushed up quickly, and hugged him tightly.

Who would have thought that our meeting would be so thrilling.

I didn't know how to say a thousand words, and after a long time, I finally popped out a few words.

"Stay safe!"

I work in a temporary settlement, where there is a conspicuous camouflage tent with all kinds of necessities piled up in it, and from time to time there are trucks to deliver supplies, and I, together with a few other comrades, are responsible for distributing all kinds of supplies every day.

The distribution of materials is indeed more suitable for my job, people from all walks of life come to receive the materials, they all come with skills, and I, moving bricks is too slow, I can't treat the sick and save people, and I can't disinfect the corpse, hey, I can only shake my head to myself.

Occasionally, we could see Du Shao come to receive food, and we always looked at each other and smiled, and then returned to our busyness.

"I saw your dad when I came over the day before yesterday."

"Well, we've met."

"Why is he here too?"

"I'm afraid that I won't be able to get out of here, so I'm here with an excavator."

"It's still your dad who has the courage! You don't know that when we came over, we were blocked by a landslide, and he dug it through. ”

"Looks like you have a good opinion of him."

"And where is he now? I didn't see an excavator here. ”

"I went to Wenchuan with his machine."

"Huh?"

"Ahh

I don't think my uncle did this for the sake of his son, and it's no wonder that Du Shao came to the disaster area to volunteer, and so did his father.

Sometimes when it rains, Du Shao will take his companions to our tent to shelter from the rain, and help to grab supplies by the way, but everyone is becoming more and more silent, not to mention the intensity of work every day, dealing with the corpses in the ruins all day long, which is also a kind of psychological destruction for them.

One day Du Shao walked into the tent with an expressionless face, he was already covered with ash, this posture was really a bit cautious, he found a corner and sat down straight, it seemed that there was something on his mind, I took my own mineral water bottle and walked over.

"Did you dig into ...... again," I slowly crouched down next to him.

"A two- or three-year-old kid...... He's so small......" Du Shao buried his head in his hands.

The earthquake did bring too many deaths and injuries to people, and I am not a psychiatrist, so I don't know what to say, so I can only pat him on the shoulder.

When he looked up, I handed the water over, and he took a sip and stood up.

"I'm over." With that, he gave me back the water and walked out.

Looking at Du Shao's back, I suddenly felt that he was much stronger than the person I knew.

We fought side by side in the disaster area for 20 days, and after 20 days, I and some of the students involved in graduation returned to the school first, and then Du Shao and several other volunteers evacuated the disaster area.