kind of bend me

In the early morning, a bus bumped along the rugged mountain road, and the people on the bus were wrapped in cotton coats to sleep.

Old Liu sitting next to Wan Chen is a chatty chatterbox. He started chatting with Wan Chen when they first met in the car in E City.

At that time, a carload of people was full of passion and united as one, vowing to overthrow the world.

But after witnessing the tragedy of the earthquake with his own eyes, after a day and night of intensive rescue work, he was only exhausted.

Earthquakes, no matter how much you watch on TV and how much psychological construction you do, the sense of reality after visiting the scene in person will crush a certain part of your mind.

There are ruins and broken walls everywhere, and there are mournful cries everywhere, and the corpses that have been pulled out have no time to take a second look before turning to the next battlefield.

The city was covered in dust all over the sky, and the aftershocks of frequent visits stimulated everyone's heart.

The living are crying, but the dead have no chance to cry.

The dug out half of the head terrified the college students who were still on campus, and the cement slab that collapsed during the aftershock buried a volunteer forever under it.

Water and food have been in short supply coupled with high-intensity labor, all of which challenge people's nerves.

Someone had a nervous breakdown, and someone stood in the rubble and quarreled with a policewoman.

He has a family, and his family is tens of kilometers away from here. He begged the driver to take him there. The purpose of his coming here is for his family.

The man was very emotional, and his worries and thoughts about his family, as well as the surrounding environment and atmosphere, pushed him to the brink of madness.

He developed from pleading at the beginning to anger and mania at the end,

He picked up the shovel to save people and waved it at the crowd, roaring at the top of his voice, he was going to save his family.

After being subdued by several policemen, the serious-looking female policeman slapped him heavily.

"You are going to save your family, no one can stop you. I can tell you that there is no car, no people, and you can take nothing with you! Here, no one is more precious than whose life. You want to go Just climb over this mountain by yourself, and use your hands to dig your family out of the ruins. If you can’t do it, get out of here! E-city doesn’t need people like you!”

After saying this, the female police officer turned around and walked a few steps away, telling her colleagues to send that person to the car that transported the victims, and send him out of e-city in the afternoon.

Some people say that this policewoman is too cold and unreasonable. Everyone has family members. This kind of feeling should be understood.

Some people say that this is a natural disaster, and the only thing the living can do is to believe that the country will not give up on anyone.

At nine o'clock in the evening, the food delivery person came, and Lao Liu brought two breads and two bottles of water to Wan Chen's side.

"Take a break, brother."

Wan Chen took the bread in his hand, he was really hungry, tore open the package, and took a big bite.

After drinking half a bottle of water, he felt more at ease. He turned his head and saw the policewoman leaning against the car.

She held the bread with a few bites in one hand, and looked at the phone without blinking.

Old Liu followed his gaze and sighed softly, "Oh, Xiao Chu is also a poor person. I heard from her colleagues that her home is not far from here. When the earthquake hit, her three-year-old daughter was still in the kindergarten. It’s been a few days, and there’s no news at all. Xiao Chu didn’t go back once because of work needs. I guess... well, she’s right, who’s life is more expensive than whose life at this time?”

The policewoman stroked her mouth, closed her eyes tightly, lowered her head, and twitched uncontrollably.

Perhaps, at that moment, she had realized that the family she loved the most had left her.

"What are we people who have come all the way here without waiting for a good home?"

Wan Chen's eyes turned to him, and the old Liu in front of him was ashamed, without the enthusiasm and high energy at the beginning, and after calming down, he had more understanding of life.

"I just thought, if I can save one more person and live one more person, that's fine."

Wan Chen lowered his eyes, and the roar of excavators continued to ring around. Lao Liu smiled at him, raised his head and gulped the water in the bottle.

Wan Chen took a few bites of the bread, and when he looked up again, the policewoman had already put away her phone, holding the bread in both hands and desperately stuffing it into her mouth, big tears dripped from her eyes.

Everyone here, everyone, is grieving.

They had families, too, but their families were buried forever beneath the city.

The living have no choice, and the way to go down is only endless loneliness and pain.

Maybe it's because he was too tired, Wan Chen didn't think of Shen Xu these two days.

He never thought about the purpose of his coming here.

Perhaps, as Lao Liu said, if one more person can be saved and one more person can be saved, that would be fine.

A few years ago, when he was still in the position of vice president, in case of natural or man-made disasters, he would donate a sum of money on behalf of the company, that's all.

He never thought that one day, he would come to the disaster area with a shovel and a pickaxe on his shoulders.

When he heard the faint cry for help, his heart would rise to his throat; when he saved a fresh life, looking at the wounded who had never met before, there was a feeling of emotion in his heart.

Save one more person, live one more person.

Lao Liu, who is optimistic by nature, said that this is called great love in front of a catastrophe, and when he really got here, he forgot everything.

That's right, here, at this moment, he forgot about Shen Xu, He Lei, and Wan Chen.

In the early morning of the next day, he, Lao Liu and another group of people were arranged to go elsewhere.

The mountain road was rugged, and the car had not arrived at the place after driving for more than two hours, and Lao Liu woke up after wandering around.

Although it was March and the spring was cold, Lao Liu wrapped his cotton coat tightly, and when he turned his head, he saw Wan Chen leaning on his seat frowning.

"What are you thinking?" Old Liu asked in a low voice.

Wan Chen opened his eyes, "Sleepy, but can't sleep well."

Old Liu smiled, "Brother, you should be content. When you get to the next place, maybe it's a luxury not to sleep well."

Wan Chen turned his head, "Seeing that you are so proficient, have you done this before?"

One sentence opened up Lao Liu's chatterbox. He was just a chatterbox, and he would talk endlessly.

"I was only ten years old at the time of the Tangshan earthquake. Believe it or not, I rescued all my family... Fortunately, they were not buried deep. I was digging, prying, and crying. There was a lot of noise. I did... Later, when I got older, I specially learned some knowledge about self-rescue and rescue in earthquakes, but I didn't expect it to come in handy this time..."

Lao Liu spoke with a Hebei accent, Wan Chen closed his eyes and listened to the babble of the past, and he relaxed.

After talking about his own business, Lao Liu remembered to ask, "Hey, brother, tell me, why are you here?"

Wan Chen leaned his head on the car seat, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, "Look for someone."

"Who? Family? Friends?"

Wan Chen shook his head, "It's a rival in love!"

Old Liu was so startled that he almost bit off his tongue, "What are you talking about, rival in love?"

Wan Chen smiled, and Lao Liu shook his head dissatisfied, "You man, I'm serious! Tell me who you are looking for, and if we separate in the future, I can also help you look after it."

Wan Chen thought for a while and said, "Male, about 1.8 meters tall, fair and gentle..." After finishing speaking, he felt that these words were superfluous. I really can't get involved, "Forget it, if he can still talk, just ask me if his name is He Lei."

It had been four days, and the possibility of surviving was getting smaller and smaller. He no longer thought about anything, and resigned himself to fate.

The old face looked surprised, "Male? It can't be your rival in love! You must be sick!"

Wan Chen nodded with a smile, and Lao Liu didn't ask any more questions, "Understood, I'll keep an eye on it for you. Definitely, go to sleep. I don't know when I'll be able to sleep at dawn."

Old Liu turned over, wrapped in his coat, and snored after a while.

Wan Chen slowly opened his eyes, the sky was gradually turning white, the city that had experienced the disaster was slowly waking up, and the faint light brought hope into this devastated place.

Even a corner forgotten by God has the right to be redeemed.

The car was parked in the suburbs of Pingxian County, which was also seriously damaged. When the earthquake occurred, several nearby factories were in operation, and most of the workers were buried below before they could escape.

After the life detector showed signs of survivors, Lao Liu and the others immediately went into intense rescue work.

After peeling off layers of prefabricated concrete panels, it took them a long time to rescue a woman who had been buried for four days.

The ambulance staff immediately carried the woman onto the stretcher. Before leaving, the woman grabbed the clothes of a rescuer and said in a weak voice, "There are...someone below."

Without further questioning, the woman fell into a coma, and there was no sign of life on the detector. The team members hesitated whether to continue digging.

The structure of the factory is complicated, and there is an underground floor. It will inevitably cost a lot of manpower and material resources to go deep and rescue people.

In the end, the leader, Lao Liu, made a decision, save!

The purpose of their coming here is to save people, and they cannot give up any life because of difficulties.

After digging for a while, there was finally a faint sound of knocking from the ground.

The short sound lifted everyone's spirits, and everyone struggled to remove the steel bars and cement blocks on the prefabricated slab, and finally found the survivor.

The man's breathing was weak, and he was completely suppressed from the chest down. The rescuers yelled several times before he slowly opened his eyes.

"Still conscious! Come here! Doctor...doctor..." Old Liu Lianlian shouted, and the medical staff rushed over with medical bags.

Wan Chen wiped the sweat off his forehead, and leaned forward to take a look.

For some reason, that face that was smashed to pieces was always familiar. Wan Chen thought for a while, then suddenly pushed aside the crowd, and half-kneeled in front of that person.

The doctor was checking the wound nearby, and Lao Liu and the others were discussing the next rescue plan. Wan Chen leaned down, approached his face, and yelled suspiciously.

"He Lei?"

The man's eyeballs moved, and he slowly turned towards Wan Chen.

That face covered in dust and blood was Shen Xu's only hope.

He Lei is still alive!