Chapter 94: Impermanence (4)
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Chen Ran
It was only three days after the earthquake that I joined my colleagues from Xiaojuan's unit and entered the county with the medical team. This short two-minute trembling of heaven and earth and the time that followed, when it was the most painful moment for thousands of people, countless families, wives and families were separated and died, and this earthquake, which had the greatest destructive power and the most casualties since the founding of the People's Republic of China, made the land of China gloomy and sad overnight, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the country is in mourning.
By the time we entered the county, this unprecedented earthquake had killed tens of thousands of people, injured more than 100,000 people, collapsed countless houses, and caused direct economic losses of 100 billion yuan. At this moment, when I sat on the bus to the county that had only been rushed to the county in the early hours of this morning, although I had been mentally prepared, the scene along the way was still shocking.
As far as the eye can see, there are large areas of ruins, like children's toy houses built with sand and stones, which are leveled in an instant by a little wind and rain. The road has long since disappeared from the graceful winding of the jade belt of the past, it is full of large and small cracks, and the car is like driving into a constantly shaking sieve, which can only passively rise and fall with the bumps left and right. The road was littered with damaged vehicles, large and small, and piles of boulders almost flattened the carriages. The aftershocks continued, and the rocks had already loosened, and if they were not careful, they would fly down like foam crumbs, testing everyone's will and endurance. Since communication is still interrupted, many of the disasters that could have been identified by the device can now only be judged by human observation. Everyone was engrossed, their palms were sweating, and as soon as they saw that the stones were falling less, the security officer directed the convoy to pass quickly. In some places, the collapsed rocks have blocked all the roads, and in order to avoid accidents and rush to hurry, we often need to get out of the car and travel on foot, and the convoy will wait until the road is completely opened before continuing to move forward to meet us. Stop and go like this, and when you arrive at the county seat, it is already evening.
After the earthquake, the county is full of devastation, the whole county has not seen a complete building, everywhere is broken and ruined, the former tall buildings are now like a powerless and prostrate dying man, churning old and turbid lime dust, blood-red steel bars have mottled rust, lifeless bending and stretching, as if a pair of hands looking up to the sky to call for help, watching the door of fate cruelly close in front of their eyes. After days of heavy rain, the sediment and waste stains are covered with earth-colored foam, mixed with the black-brown mud, emitting a rotten and unpleasant smell, and the stumps and broken arms and bloody corpses can be seen everywhere in the ruins, and there are constantly heart-rending cries wrapped in the dying cry for help, one after another like mourning music hovering endlessly, and it seems that the whole county is like a ghost raging gloomy and desolate.
Looking at the beautiful tourist resorts in the past turned into purgatory on earth in an instant, Rao is seven-foot Angzang man can't help but cry like rain at this moment. In order to seize the 72-hour golden time to save more lives, regardless of grief and fatigue from days of travel, everyone quickly plunged into the intense rescue work. On the one hand, my comrades and I from the Health Bureau assisted the medical team in providing initial treatment to the wounded, and on the other hand, we tried our best to search for information from the local Health Bureau and Xiaojuan. It wasn't until around three o'clock in the morning that I got exact information about Xiaojuan.
Due to the remote location, the county health bureau allocated ample time for the exchange, and the three-day meeting was followed by a field study of the local health system. On the day of the earthquake, research activities are scheduled in the afternoon, and free time is in the morning. I know that Xiaojuan has the habit of going to bed late and waking up late at home, and it must be no exception when there is no work here, as expected, according to the surviving comrades of the local health bureau, the participants are all arranged in the people's hotel next to the unit, and Xiaojuan did not go out that day.
The People's Hotel is a six-story elevator building, and its seismic performance is stronger than that of ordinary buildings, but because it is in the severely affected section, the damage is still miserable. When we arrived at the scene, we saw that the six-story building had been cut in half, and the regular rooms had long been deformed. The flagpole hanging in front of the hotel had been torn off, and the brightly colored flags were scattered on the ground, stained with muddy clods of dirt, and the colors could not be distinguished. Dirty water flows sideways, emitting a foul stench. The spacious lobby of the front desk was now hidden in a pile of tattered reinforced concrete, the passages were all blocked, the faint cries for help could be heard in the building, and I could even see limbs and flattened heads on some twisted window edges, and my heart sank
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, I suppressed the surging nausea, and hurriedly turned my head away, but I saw that the comrades of the Health Bureau of H City, who were traveling with me, couldn't stop vomiting.
The comrades of the county health bureau told us that Xiaojuan's room was on the third floor, and my heart shrank to the third floor, and the third floor was so badly damaged in front of me that the entire building collapsed almost all together after being cut off, and the people at the bottom were almost all crushed below as long as they did not run out at the first time, and the difficulty of survival and rescue would be greatly increased. What's more, there is no way to know Xiaojuan's specific room. From the outside, many of the rooms on the lower floors have been deformed, and if Xiaojuan's room is in the middle of the floor, there may still be a glimmer of hope, if it is the room on the side,...... I can't imagine it......
But now is not the time to be sad and hesitate, and there is no qualification to choose, in the current catastrophe, every life is priceless, and before we can determine Xiaojuan's location and life and death, we can only work with the troops to search for and rescue the survivors. I don't know if it was such a tragic disaster that the heavens finally gave birth to a little pity after the mountain shook the ground, giving us a rare moment of peace, and there were no aftershocks in nearly two hours, and it did not make the already crumbling ruins worse, and it was possible to save more lives, and the troops rescued five survivors, including an eight-year-old girl. In the face of natural disasters, although the strength of the individual is small, as long as there is one percent hope, one hundred percent of the effort will be made, and the will and spirit of the soldiers and medical team members who will never retreat and never give up infected and inspired me, so that I gradually have confidence in Xiaojuan's survival.
By the time we finally confirmed Xiaojuan's room, it was almost dawn, and the sky began to faintly reveal clear dust, like a curtain soaked in thick ink gently gliding through the water, and the color stains between the warp and weft precipitated, bringing wisps of ink rhyme, leaving only the faint dark traces, which merged with the remaining ink gradient. The rain is weakening, and the cold and turbid smell of the rocks is mixed with the rotten mold rising from the ruins, creating a strange smell that has never been breathed, which makes people smell sick.
When the troops received the news that a new round of BAO rain would soon strike, everyone's hearts couldn't help but sink, and the expressions on their faces became more and more cold. The continuous rain is the most unfavorable for rescue, and it is easy to breed virus epidemics, and the grim situation makes everyone sweat. My slightly relaxed heart was raised again, and the premonition of more and more auspicious was like a shadow from beginning to end. Fortunately, Xiaojuan's room is close to the middle, and although it has collapsed badly, it has not been completely deformed. Falling stone slabs and broken beams and columns are jagged and staggered, arching a triangular space. The life detector showed faint signs of life, and faintly audible screams of weakness could be heard, which had weakened with the passage of time. My heart was beating wildly, could it be Xiaojuan?! Is it her? This thought made me not care about the floor slab that was about to collapse at any time, so I jumped forward in three steps and two steps to pick up the gravel and dirt that was clogged up with my hands.
With the concerted efforts of everyone, the stones piled up outside were quickly cleaned up, and through the gap in the ruins, I saw a man and a woman being crushed under the collapsed stone pillar, the man was no longer breathing, he was prostrate on the ground, his hands made a posture of pushing outward, but his elbows were supporting the ground, as if trying to make a little space, the pillar smashed heavily on his back, and his body had been squeezed and deformed, which looked very strange. Underneath him, the woman's legs were crushed, and the upper half of her body was hidden in the rubble, revealing only her scarred face covered in dust and blood.
But I recognized that familiar face in an instant, even if the hair was scattered and dusty, the black dress and the wrapped body were the pillow person who had been with me for ten years in my indelible memory - Xiaojuan.
At this moment, she closed her eyes and let out intermittent moans, occasionally squirming in pain, thinking that her bloody legs made her constantly switch between consciousness and coma, her lips were no longer colored, and the chapped lip lines were embedded in the fine dust, as if sealing the opening and closing, and the sand and dust fell gently with a slight shake.
My heart seemed to be pierced into the deepest part by a steel needle, and the heart-rending pain quickly spread to every cell in my body, how could this be?! How
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Yes?! Is this true? Is this the real world? A few days ago, I was talking freely and freely in the luxury restaurant in H City, Xiaojuan, who was beautiful, generous, delicate and fashionable, was presented in front of me like this at this moment, in this place that was originally thousands of miles away from our home, in this dark and narrow space, next to a cold corpse, spent three days and three nights! Is this the same world? Is it the present moment in which we live? Why, I feel as painful and hopeless as I have experienced the cycle of life and death?!
"Xiaojuan! Xiaojuan! I'm Chen Ran! I'm coming! I shouted her name as I turned back to the crowd and shouted, "Quick! Fast! It's Xiaojuan, it's Xiaojuan, my wife! She's alive! Save her! Fast! ”
When we were finally able to reluctantly enter Xiaojuan's room, we found that her legs had been crushed by the fallen pillars, and the dark red blood had dyed the black dress a dead hard color, and it was completely impossible to remove from the wounds. The wound was too long and the rain soaked and contaminated, and the section began to decompose, and the medical team immediately decided to amputate Xiaojuan. When the doctor told me about this decision, my mind went blank for a moment.
But it's only a moment, at the last moment, life is bigger than the sky, how can I hesitate? How could I hesitate?! I didn't have time to think about what the amputation of Xiaojuan would mean for our future lives, so I immediately gritted my teeth, nodded to the doctor secretly, held Xiaojuan's hand with one hand, and said loudly in her ear, "Xiaojuan, I'm Chen Ran, hold on, we'll rescue you immediately!" You'll be fine, trust me, I'm there for you! ”
As if sensing my words, I saw Xiaojuan's lips move slightly, my heart was sad, almost tears, I couldn't help but hold her hand tightly, while cooperating with the doctor, while continuing to say words of encouragement in her ear, giving her hope and confidence.
The companions carefully removed the corpse that was pressed on Xiaojuan's legs, and the moment I turned my face over, my face turned pale, and the man who was lying on Xiaojuan's body and was bearing the weight of a thousand pounds and protecting her with the last strength of his life was actually Director Zhao!!
I don't know how to describe how I felt at this moment, but for a moment the blood in my body seemed to freeze into ice, hissing and shattering in my body, and let out a clattering wail. I was only worried about Xiaojuan's safety before, but I forgot that Director Zhao, who was traveling with me, also had no news. He was an orphan, Tingting was young, and naturally no relatives had any relatives to inquire about him in time, and now, when I saw his dead bloodless face, there was a painful twist between his eyebrows and eyes, and the blood from the corners of his lips had long since turned black and cracked, but his teeth were tightly closed, as if he had tried all his strength. In front of my eyes, I remembered the appearance of him talking and laughing during the banquet a few months ago, his forbearance and restrained concern for Xiaojuan, his kind and loving love for Tingting, his heart-to-heart persuasion to me at Xiaojuan's father's funeral, and the impulse and affection to embrace Xiaojuan in his arms on that moonlit night...... He is such a gentle and gentle person, and he loves Xiaojuan so deeply and meticulously, I thought that my breakup with Xiaojuan would have fulfilled myself and fulfilled him, who would have thought that a very ordinary companionship would become the eternal secret between him and Xiaojuan!
For a moment, I couldn't control myself anymore, watching life gradually wither and tears rain down in this dark and distant corner of the county.
The doctors in the medical team are very experienced, and even in such humble conditions and dangerous circumstances, they successfully performed amputation for Xiaojuan. By the time Xiaojuan was lifted out of the ruins and finally safely transferred to City C Hospital after several tosses, it was already two days later.
When Xiaojuan woke up, she didn't feel too excited or surprised to see me, she only pulled her face covered with gauze and moved slightly, as if she wanted to smile at me, but in that smile, there was no joy of the rest of her life and the emotion of life and death, she only struggled to open her dim eyes and asked slowly, "How is Guangcheng?" Even though she had exhausted all her strength, she still listened to me like a withered yellow leaf falling gently from a tree, hoarse and silent.
I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, was silent for a long time, opened my eyes, stared at Xiaojuan's eyes, and said in a deep voice,
"Xiaojuan, Director Zhao, he is dead."
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