No.70 days

Later, for people in Sichuan and Chongqing, 2008 was never the same again.It wasn't a year of prosperity, it wasn't a year of celebrating the Olympics, it was—it was the aftershocks like howling earth in the middle of the night, it was the fifty cents in the donation box of the supermarket, it was the long queue outside the blood donation car team.

That year became an indelible scar, a cold knife that pierced into the bones, or a door that sent Shao Wu away from the paradise where he had never known pain 17 years ago.

Shao Wu remembered everything that day, and even looked back frequently in his dreams.

In fact, the earthquake in Chongqing was not very strong. In addition, Yongchuan No. 28 Middle School conducts escape drills every year, so the students quickly gathered on the playground without any accidents.Shao Wu remembered very clearly that after the earthquake at [-]:[-], some teachers even suggested that everyone should go back to class?However, the geography teachers strongly objected, and their expressions were not very good-looking.The teacher who proposed to go back to class also complained: "It is not your class that is missing."

Soon, there was news that there was an earthquake in Chengdu, a big earthquake.

The students who finally reacted began to call their parents, some used the teacher's mobile phone, and some took out their own mobile phones—they couldn't care less about stealing mobile phones in violation of school rules at the moment.Shao Wu received a call from his parents right away, and lent Yang Shuyi his cell phone. His father-in-law and mother-in-law were all taking a nap, and they didn't even know there was an earthquake. Longlong was at school, so she was safe.

Anyway, there was no class, so the students got together in twos and twos, sat on the ground and chatted.Shao Wu sat next to Yang Shuyi, saw Yang Shuyi's eyes were dazed, so he stretched out his hand in front of him: "Are you scared?"

Yang Shuyi shook his head, his voice was very low: "No, I just... suddenly feel uncomfortable."

Shao Wu suddenly became nervous: "What's wrong?"

"My chest is a bit stuffy," Yang Shuyi smiled at Shao Wu, "It's okay, don't worry."

"Did you run too fast just now? Would you like to ask Mr. Deng to help you?" Mr. Deng is their school doctor, and he was standing and chatting with the old class not far away.

"No, I'm fine." Yang Shuyi said.

His expression was quite normal, but he seemed absent-minded, but he always had this expression on weekdays, so when he said it was okay, Shao Wu felt that it was okay.When Shao Wu recalled this scene in the future, he always had the feeling that his flesh was being run over inch by inch.Why did Yang Shuyi suddenly have chest tightness?Running too fast?In fact, if you run in a hurry, the students in the whole building are crowded downstairs, so you can't run fast at all.

If there is such a thing as telepathy in this world——Shao ​​Wu realized it later—it is the telepathy between close relatives.

They sat on the playground for a full two hours that afternoon, and news kept coming in. Some said that there was an earthquake in Chengdu, another that there was an earthquake in Tibet, and another that it was not an earthquake, but that there was a problem with the satellite launch in Xichang... Until Teacher Cui walked over with a serious face and said to their class: "Wenchuan earthquake."

That was the first time all their students—including Yang Shuyi—heard of the place “Wenchuan”.

"In Aba, the situation is very serious," Teacher Cui said in a deep voice, "I told my parents when I got home from school today that there may be aftershocks at night, so it's best to sleep in an open place."

Then it's after school, go out first in the first year of high school, then in the second and third year of high school.The old class told them one by one: "Send text messages when you get home, be careful of aftershocks."

It was only after four o'clock in the afternoon. When I left the school gate, I saw a lot of traffic on the street and shops were open, and it seemed that there was nothing unusual.Shao Wu went to push his bicycle, and when he passed the guard’s duty room, he heard the sound of the radio: “A huge earthquake occurred in Wenchuan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province…” The place name “Wenchuan” still makes Shao Wu feel unfamiliar, a huge earthquake?He also has no concept of a major earthquake.

At this time, the whole country thought that the most severely affected place was Wenchuan County, so the "Wenchuan" that Shaowu had never heard of frequently appeared in the news.It will take another two days or so before the location of the epicenter will be re-determined—not Wenchuan, but Yingxiu.

As for Yingxiu, Shao Wu had already heard of this place name.

After leaving the school gate, the students dispersed separately, and the bus ran as usual. Shao Wu took the bus with Yang Yi at the bus station, and Shao Wu rode a bicycle—but did not go home.His birthday was a close one, but he didn't forget the gift from Yang Shuyi. With his mobile phone in his pocket, he was going to take a picture of the graffiti.

It was still two stops, passing the elementary school, passing through the vegetable market, halfway through the bicycle chain fell off, fortunately there was a small car repair stall on the roadside.Shao Wu pedaled the car, thinking of the graffiti, his heart seemed to be floating on the clouds, light and light, as if he could hum a tune.

Yang Shuyi really found him a good job, that wall - apart from carefully photographing it, he probably had to look at it twice a day.I can't wait to surround it with a fence, like a museum, and put a sign beside the wall, which reads: Yang Shuyi gave Shaowu a gift for his 17th birthday.Everyone who came and went knew that this was sent to Shaowu by Yang Shuyi, and Yang Shuyi painted it with his own hands, five Fuwa.

Well, Shao Wu thought again, although no one would pass by the abandoned tube building... that's fine, but he still wanted to hide it secretly from them.It's baby.

Shao Wu slowed down, stopped, and pushed the bicycle around the tube building.

A tractor appeared in the field of vision, and two shirtless men appeared.

But without that wall.The wall was gone, and the ground was clean, except for a small pile of gray and white bricks.

If the earthquake experienced in the afternoon was like a dream, until now, the dream has finally come true.

It took several seconds for Shao Wu to react, let go of the bicycle and let the bicycle fall to the ground, kicking up a cloud of fine dust.He walked forward, feeling his calves trembling: "Where is the wall here... the wall?"

"It's overwhelmed—" The man looked at Shao Wu strangely, "It's very dangerous, but luckily it didn't hit anyone."

Shocked? Shocked?

How is it possible - Shao Wu was blank, only one sentence in his mind: How is it possible? !

That is clearly a wall, no matter how crumbling or dilapidated it is, it is still a wall, how could it be said to collapse?Oh, there was an earthquake in the afternoon, and it collapsed—but it wasn’t a big earthquake, and it wasn’t a big earthquake—

"What's the matter?" the man asked.

"...Where's the wall?"

"Hey you! It's broken, it's broken by an earthquake! Can't you understand Mark?"

"Did you see it?" Shao Wu's eyes were so anxious that he almost shed tears, "the ones painted on the wall, Fuwa, are the five Fuwas of the Olympic Games! The ones painted just now, the ones painted by Yang Shuyi——"

The man was at a loss: "I didn't see it. We were notified to pull it away when the wall fell down."

"That's it?" Shao Wu rushed forward, he didn't know where the strength came from, and he jumped onto the tractor, the school uniform pants seemed to be hung with a hole, and Shao Wu scrambled among the broken bricks like a hill Find it, he's going to find those painted bricks—

"What are you doing! Come down!"

"Forget it," another man said, "You haven't seen Mark, now it's fashionable to draw pictures on the wall... wait for him to read."

Shao Wu squatted on the tractor. After squatting for a long time, he simply knelt, and the fine stones hit his knees, which seemed to hurt, but he didn't seem to feel it.The dust choked into his throat, and Shao Wu coughed again and again, but he kept moving his hands. He kept digging out painted bricks, some of which were still intact, and most of them were broken.

I don't know how long it has passed, the man who said "wait for him to dig it out" came over and stood beside the tractor: "Little brother, you can't take it with you when you dig it out?"

Shao Wu's fingers were already numb, the fingernail of his right thumb was slightly bleeding, and the bricks he had picked up were piled up at his feet.

The man was right, he could dig out one, ten, or one hundred yuan—but he couldn't take it away.And it's impossible for him to dig out all the painted bricks, so what if he took them all away at his feet?They are still missing.The graffiti that Yang Shuyi drew for him can never be spelled back.

He thought he could keep the graffiti, even in the form of photos, but unexpectedly, unexpectedly, he didn't even have the opportunity to take pictures.The world is not benevolent, and it treats everyone the same.

On the evening of May 5, Shao Wu returned home covered in dust, and the blood on his fingertips had solidified.Mom took his schoolbag and said in surprise, "What are you doing here? Huh?"

Shao Wu had half a brick in his pocket, and he only brought back the half brick.

"Nothing..." He didn't even have the energy to explain.

"What is this? A gift from a classmate?" In the other bag brought home were Zhu Jingjing's big gift box, Zheng Xiaoning's small gift box, Zhou Lei and Han Huiyuan's three sets of papers, and other gifts.

Shao Wu had no strength to dismantle it, he nodded and said tiredly: "Well, find a place and put it away."

After taking a shower, I finally felt refreshed. My mother was cooking: "I can't eat the cake. Xiao Zheng's shop is closed. It is said that there will be aftershocks tonight."

"Ah."

"Let's eat at home. I'll ask your dad to buy some stewed beef and chicken offal with pickled peppers on the way back."

"Okay..." Shao Wu looked at his mother's back, couldn't help the grievance in his heart, and asked, "Mom, why did the earthquake suddenly happen?"

"Who knows," my mother sighed, "this thing can't be predicted, there's no way."

"Yes... there is no way."

"Oh, that's right," my mother picked up the pot and poured the fried corn with pine nuts into the plate, "in the afternoon, Zhou Lei from your class called you, please call back."

"Lei Zhou?"

Shao Wu returned to his room, picked up his phone, and saw a series of missed calls.Zhou Lei called five times, and then—then it turned out to be Yang Shuyi's landline number!At [-]:[-], he should have been rummaging through bricks on the tractor.

"What are you doing! Fuck," Zhou Lei, who always had a playful face, was extremely anxious, "Yang Shuyi didn't answer your calls, so he called me! He asked me to tell you, help me to see his sister these few days!"

"What?" Shao Wu was puzzled, "Look at his sister?"

"I don't know, anyway, he's very anxious! He said he's going to find his dad—what's wrong with his dad?"

———Volume One End——