Chapter Thirty-Nine: Seeing People's Hearts Over Time
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the fish was not cooked yet, but it rained lightly in the sky. The www.biquge.info was worried that the heavy rain would cause flash floods at night, so they hurriedly moved the campsite to the slope of the mountain. By the time the improvised shelter made of stones and branches was completed, they were all completely soaked.
The camp is surrounded by a half-metre-high windbreak wall made of stones and tree branches, and a waterproof shelter made of pine branches overhead, which protects the fire from rain and prevents the fire from being extinguished by rain. Although it is only October, and it has not been long since the beginning of autumn, the temperature of the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast will still drop to about three or four degrees at night, because there are girls in everyone, and everyone is embarrassed to take off all the clothes on their bodies and bake them. There were a large number of people, so two fires were built, one for boys and one for girls, and the soaked coats were hung up and baked by the fire. It's windy in the mountains, and it's basically hot in front of you, and your back is shivering.
The only warm marching blanket was covered on the body of the sick Li Mengting, and the others were squeezing each other to keep warm, although it was very cold, but everyone didn't close their eyes for a day and a night, and the wolves fell asleep after eating the grilled fish and drinking the fish soup. Huang Guofan relied on meditation and pranayama to relieve his physical fatigue, and after everyone had gone to sleep, he was responsible for adding firewood to the fire and burning it vigorously, so as not to freeze on this cold and rainy night.
Morning is the coldest time, and everyone is almost awake at five o'clock in the morning, and at this time, the fish soup left over from last night in the pot is hot, and the simple stretcher made of two pine poles and rope is also ready. Huang Guofan was not idle this night.
The forest has good water, the water of the rain river last night is still as clear as ever, and after eating the breakfast prepared by Huang Guofan, everyone began to set off. The way down the mountain was not easy to walk, and the rain soaked the mud, making it particularly slippery to walk. Moreover, there were wounded people who were carried, and they walked less than 20 miles in one morning, which made everyone's mood a little low. The clothes that were dried last night are now soggy too.
Everyone sat silently on the moss-covered stones, eating the candy that Huang Guofan gave everyone, which was the last food leftover. After a short break, we continued to walk down the mountain, and the way down the mountain became smoother and faster.
"Lao Huang, your fellow has a fever!" Wang Meng's shout made Huang Guofan, who was walking in front to lead the way, hurriedly handed over the knife in his hand to Hu Wenjie and ran to Li Mengting's side.
Huang Guofan saw that Li Mengting's face was pale, her whole body was trembling, and she reached out and touched her forehead like hot coals. The injured Li Mengting's resistance decreased, and the cold wind at night made Li Mengting cold, although she was lying on a stretcher covered by a marching blanket, her back was breathable, and the marching blanket was also wet by rain, and the extremely bad situation made Li Mengting have a fever.
Huang Guofan took out the first-aid kit, "Here are a few antipyretics, I'll give her first, and if her fever hasn't subsided after half an hour, you can tell me again." ”
Huang Guofan twisted the marching blanket fiercely, put the marching blanket under the stretcher, took off his waterproof jacket and covered Li Mengting. The left ear, who has been in charge of taking care of Li Mengting, said, "Lao Huang, you are crazy, the weather here is so cold and rainy, you will catch a cold if you take off your clothes!"
Huang Guofan patted his chest and said, "My body is very good, I don't get sick so easily, you don't have to worry about me." ”
There was nothing to eat all day, and when the evening camped and rested, no one wanted to look for food, and by this time the small river had already merged into a big river, and the river was so fast that no one wanted to risk their lives to catch fish. Huang Guofan originally wanted to hunt some squirrels or something, but the rain also concealed their whereabouts, so everyone starved for a night.
The next day, everyone had no strength, and under the pressure of hunger and cold, it seemed difficult to walk on their own, and few people were willing to carry the load-bearing stretcher. Even the writers who were interested in Li Mengting ignored Li Mengting, and Li Mengting's classmates became strangers, and the only one who stayed with Li Mengting at this time was Huang Guofan. Huang Guofan pulled Li Mengting up from the stretcher without saying a word and carried it on his back.
Li Mengting's condition has improved after taking antipyretics, Li Mengting felt that she couldn't affect everyone, so she insisted on calling the police to stay and wait for rescue, but Huang Guofan still pulled her up and carried her on her back and followed the army slowly. "You are my fellow countryman, you are a relative when you go out, how can I leave you here alone, it is raining now, and your feet are inconvenient, even if you call the police and the police find you for at least one to two days, you have no food or drink, and there are fierce beasts in this mountain forest. There's no way I'm going to leave you here, I'm going to take you back no matter how far away. ”
The rain gradually became heavier, and Li Mengting's face didn't know if it was rain or tears. The group was speechless all the way, Hu Wenjie walked in the front and led everyone out, and Huang Guofan followed behind with Li Mengting on his back. Wang Meng and Left Ear also slowed down and followed Huang Guofan's side, occasionally handing the kettle to Huang Guofan to drink, and the two took turns carrying Huang Guofan's backpack.
"I've been walking for a few hours, let me down, let's take a rest, you must be tired from this distance, I am more than a hundred pounds, not everyone can stand it." Li Mengting asked Huang Guofan to stop and rest.
Huang Guofan smiled, "It's okay, I'm not tired, I'll tell you the truth, I'm from a martial arts background, and I still have this strength." At the beginning, we went to work at 6 a.m. and left at 5 p.m., working 10 hours a day. Our work is simple, but it takes a lot of physical energy. The place where we were reformed was a thermal power station, and our task was to get the coal from the train to the coal storage yard. Carry a basket on your back, and a basket will weigh at least 134 pounds. One back is a day, and you are only 100 catties, which is much lighter than the coal. ”
Li Mengting, Wang Meng, and Left Ear didn't know about Huang Guofan's past, and Li Mengting said with some surprise: "What did you do? How long have you been in prison?"
Huang Guofan sighed and said, "It's nothing, that is, excessive defense causes death." I've been in prison for six years, so my physical strength and perseverance have been honed to unprecedented heights in the past six years, and it's no problem to carry you on my back for a day, and you don't have to worry about my body not being able to bear it. ”
The curious temperature in the left ear: "Overly defensive?
Huang Guofan thought for a while and said, "Anyway, it's boring now, I'll tell you about it, and it can also relieve the fatigue of this hurry." In fact, this matter is very simple....... "Huang Guofan gave a general account of what happened at the beginning. Wang Meng and the three of them were fascinated by what they heard, and they all forgot about their fatigue one by one.
"So that's the case, I sympathize with you, for a person who doesn't love yourself, you wasted decades of your good youth in vain, but your incident also warns us that sometimes it's better to try to chase a person you love, than to accept someone who loves you. Wang Meng sighed a lot.
Huang Guofan laughed, "Mengmeng, you are twenty-five or sixteen this year, and you don't have a boyfriend yet, are you also in love with a man who doesn't love you like me back then? Didn't you say that you want to accept someone who loves you? Our landlord should be good, you can accept it, after all, people are so rich." ”
Wang Meng suddenly glanced at Huang Guofan fiercely, "Can you not make fun of me, don't you know that the landlord is a big carrot?" He is pursuing me on the surface, but in private he is constantly harassing his ears, and I have also seen him bring no less than three different girls home, do you think I can accept such a man?"
Huang Guofan nodded: "Well, such a man with a big carrot really can't accept it, and Mengting, as a fellow countryman, I have to say, that writer should be a rich man, but we all see the way he behaves, and I don't think you can accept it." The two of you fell together, and he didn't care about you running away and left you to lie where you all night. Such a man does not accompany a man!"
Li Mengting smiled helplessly and said, "You say Zhang Wenhao, how can I accept him? His family is not very rich, there is a company in the family, and I met him honestly when I was shooting advertisements for their company's products." He then pestered me constantly, he was supposed to take me to 10 countries in Europe and 10 countries. But I didn't want to associate with people like him, so I signed up online to come here for an adventure, but I didn't think he actually knew, so I signed up, and my classmate should have told him. He doesn't like it at all, and he doesn't care about people at all, and he doesn't have any gentlemanly demeanor, how can I accept him, if I want to find an honest person like you!"
Huang Guofan was embarrassed at the time, "Who did we honest people offend, those girls now spend all day drinking when they are young, and in the end, I have to play more while I am young, and when the time comes, I will find an honest person to live a down-to-earth life." I can't figure it out, what's wrong with honest people?"
Li Mengting pinched Huang Guofan's neck and said, "That's other girls, unlike women in my new era, their thinking is not so radical, they seem to be relatively conservative, what I want is just a plain life." ”
The left ear also randomly agreed, "Mmmm, we are people with higher education, not like those who are not mainstream in society, just seeking excitement, what I want is a person who takes care of me, spoils me and loves me, but such a good man has long been picked, and now the rest are scumbags, hey, it's not that we have a high vision, but that society is too complicated." ”
Huang Guofan smiled, "Now the children in the city have been in contact with more since childhood, learn the bad early, and the bad ones are more thorough, like us children who came out of the countryside, when they were children, there was nothing to play when they were young, no computers, no mobile phones, every day in addition to mud, catch the knowledge is to follow their parents up the mountain and down the field." The parents are honest farmers, very simple, and extremely harsh in education, and if they make mistakes, they will be beaten. People in the city go to work every day and don't take care of their children, and they love their children even more, and they don't preach when they are wrong. People in the city joke that the rural people are local, and the rural people can't play and can't enjoy life, but most of the young men in the countryside are from the city. So if you two want to find an honest person to take, you have to go to the countryside to find it, and now the anti-urbanization is developing very rapidly, you have to hurry up, otherwise the good man is really finished. ”