Ruoshui Qiaochu
Chapter 9 Hourglass??
It has its own reason, but she doesn't fully agree with it, she said: "Is there no positioning between saints and ordinary people?"
"If you can do it, you are no longer an ordinary person. There are many people who are born in the ordinary but have an extraordinary bearing, but can you do it? You are in the world of mortals, fool."
Ruoshui carried the potted plant out and placed it beside the pillar. When she came back, she saw Peng Min leaning over his desk in deep thought.
Ruoshui never thought that she and Peng Min could become good friends later.She is her third friend in this city after Qiao Chu and Hu Nuoyu.
Peng Min made his way into the society at a young age.She worked in the United States for ten years and Japan for five years before finally going to Taiwan.
Nearly [-] years of social experience has made her very sophisticated and sophisticated in dealing with people, but what is rare is that she is frank, straightforward, and not scheming.
In less than a week after "Ruo Qiao", her eyes that understand the world can see the relationship between Ruo Qiao at once.
Therefore, she once tested Ruoshui half-seriously and half-jokingly, saying, "Am I the kind of woman you admire?"
Peng Min thinks she looks pretty good, as long as there is nothing to do in the store, she will take selfies with her mobile phone, and the results are all the same style: messy hair (she said it is messy beauty), blurred eyes , Half-open and half-closed red lips.
When Ruoshui saw such a photo, he wanted to laugh inexplicably.She asked Ruoshui to look at her Instagram, which included a series of her selfies besides uploading a lot of her proud coffee latte art.
Sometimes, for the big things in life, she still likes to make a big fuss and express her thoughts on it, still like a cynical young girl.
One day, Peng Min suddenly asked her what she liked about Qiao Chu?
"Don't you only like her type of woman?" She asked her very curiously.
In the following time, Ruoshui was almost busy with the business in the store while thinking about her question.
Perhaps, when she found the answer, she also answered her later questions at the same time—why were Zhou Linshan and Jiang Yingying attracted to Qiao Chu?
After seeing off the customers in the store, they sat at the counter and chatted.
Ruoshui said: "She doesn't like and can't do all the things you love to do and what you can do."
Peng Min laughed wittily and heartily, and asked, "For example, I love taking selfies?"
Ruoshui said: "Also, for those sesame and mung bean things in your life, you will go on and on on social platforms to express your heartfelt feelings, and she will not do this either."
"Actually, you just want to say that you like women who are the opposite type of me?"
"I just think that she won't do the things you do to make her unique, because those things are done by people with small stomachs."
Peng Min couldn't help giving her a white look, and then laughed loudly: "If one day she does the same thing, will you not like her anymore?"
"No. If she does it one day, I will think that she is cuter than you, or cuter than other people who do these things."
Peng Ming casually grabbed a coaster on the counter and threw it at Ruoshui, and she swiftly passed by.
"After all, I am not cute in everything, but she is cute in everything."
"It's not just you, but everyone except you. I just want to say that I'm hopeless."
Suddenly, Peng Min felt that Ruoshui was a strange thing.She looked at her with interest and said, "Well, I accept that this is your unique love logic. So, how much you love her."
Ruo Shui smiled subtly.She felt that she had really talked too much today, and it seemed that this was the first time she had poured out her emotional world to others, so she blushed unconsciously.
Peng Min thought about it and said: "Aren't all people like this? When you love someone so much that you can't help yourself, you won't like the type that is completely different from this person, but sometimes people want to change. Taste, try to be with other people, maybe there will be another spark?"
Ruoshui just thinks that if she has a pen, she just wants to write about the same person, sing about the same kind of love, play and sing the same love song, forever and forever.
She really couldn't think of any other sparks that Peng Min said would burst out in her heart.
They talked and laughed like this, and the sun did not know when it was setting again.
A huge motorcycle stopped at the door at this moment, and the sound of the engine was booming.The knight in the helmet was looking into the store and waved.
Peng Min jumped down from the high chair, and while stretching his stiff muscles from sitting for a long time, he said to Ruoshui: "It's time to get off work, I won't tell you anymore, my boyfriend is here to pick me up."
After Peng Min left, Ruoshui closed the store.
She sat on a bean bag in the loft, looking at the hourglass in her hand.She turned the hourglass upside down and upside down.Time seemed to stop suddenly at this moment.
The quicksand seemed to be set in slow motion in front of her eyes, little by little, slowly, flowing backwards.
35. Section 3
-- restless --
For three consecutive days after Christmas, Jiang Jiying got off work and returned to the bus shelter helplessly to wait for the bus.
Qiao Chu felt that he had no obligation to explain anything to her, but she still said a harsh word to her: "From now on after get off work, you should go home by yourself, we are not fellow travelers."
The seven words behind it have two meanings.Of course Jiang Yanying understood.After learning from the painful experience, she decided to continue to solemnly apologize to Qiao Chu in the following days until she got her forgiveness.
If you don't accept it today, there will be tomorrow, if you don't accept it tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, if you still don't accept it the day after tomorrow, at worst she will use the rest of her life to atone for her sins.She couldn't believe the day she wasn't forgiven!
This morning, Jiang Jiying waited restlessly at the door of Qiao Chu's office as he had done in the past three days.
At 09:30, Qiao Chu finally came.
Jiang Yanying immediately stood up from her seat.Qiao Chu passed by her, still didn't look at her, just said good morning to other colleagues, and walked into the office.
Jiang Yiying followed her with an excuse, knocked on the door and walked in.
She put the folder on her desk, and said flatteringly: "Qiao Chu, you left this document outside yesterday, and it recorded various bugs in your test results a few days ago, I think, you Should be looking for it everywhere..."
Qiao Chu just glanced at the document subconsciously, and said, "Understood, thank you."
"By the way, I've already booked a hotel room. This time it's a business room with two single beds." Jiang Yiying tried hard to save their relationship.
Three days later, Qiao Chu was indeed arranged to return to the city she visited last time, but she had already asked her superiors for instructions, saying that she was capable of multi-tasking at the same time and did not need anyone to assist her or an assistant.
"You should return the room. I won't need it for the time being. I will go to another place with the project manager this time, and I don't need you to accompany me."
Jiang Yiying had expected that Qiao Chu would reject her as an assistant.She tried her best to fight for herself, and said stubbornly: "It is one of your responsibilities to bring in new people. You shouldn't deprive me of the opportunity to learn from the company."
Then, she said extremely indignantly: "You don't know your business and private affairs!"
"Then I want to ask, are you clear about public and private?" Qiao Chu looked up at her.
Jiang Yanying said to herself: "I can accept that I won't go home with you in the future, but I don't accept that you refuse my assistance and cooperation at work."
"But you've been a nuisance to me, and it bothers me."
Jiang Yiying still wanted to continue to defend herself, but Qiao Chu interrupted her and gave orders: "We have a meeting on time at ten o'clock, you go out and inform other people now."
"Qiao Chu, why are you doing this to me?" Jiang Yiying was about to cry.
Qiao Chu said: "People always have to be responsible for what they have done, and this is what you taught me. I hope you understand that I also have my own responsibilities.
It is true that I am more emotional, you caught my weakness, and I am more indecisive, but maybe you don't know, as long as I decide something, it will not change. "
Finally, Jiang Yiying burst into tears, and she choked up and said, "You didn't even give me a chance to forgive me."
Qiao Chu calmly took two tissues from the table and handed them to her, comforting her and said, "Don't cry, take good care of your heart, and also take care of your image. This is a company, and there are many eyes watching from outside. you."
"I just want you to take care of my mood at the moment." She continued to cry.
Qiao Chu supported her forehead with her hands in trouble, and sighed softly.
Fortunately, Jiang Jiying quickly controlled her emotions, and she stopped crying without taking too long.
Qiao Chu looked up at her, and said earnestly: "You can focus on your work, okay? Now the company really has a lot of projects to do, and it needs you very much. It's not like you can't see my work. I really can't take care of your little emotions. Besides, I'm not worth your time wasting for me. "
Jiang Yiying had already turned around and strode out of the office.
Qiao Chu felt that she was like an inflated balloon, which was deflated in an instant, and she was a little tired.
She turned around and opened the venetian blind behind her to let the sun shine in and shine on her body.
The sun is as bright as yesterday.
Recently, she is often restless, and often has nightmares at night.After waking up, she couldn't remember what she had dreamed of. She only knew that she was terrified and hesitant in the dream.
Especially, when she wakes up from the dream and finds that if the water is not by the bed, she will fall into an inexplicable panic and anxiety.
In fact, business as usual, nothing has changed.
Just like many mornings in the past, Ruoshui always got up earlier than her.She will also wake up to the smell of cake and clearly identify what kind of cake it is.
The day after returning from a business trip was Ruo Shui's birthday.
This year is the third birthday she spent with her.
Strange to say, Qiao Chu never really remembered Ruoshui's age.In her heart, she will always only stay in the year they met, or, as Jiang Yiying and Wu Chongchong think - she only has.Even, she will feel that she will always be just a child, a little girl.
In the past two years, Qiao Chu gave her a watch on this day.This year is no exception, she has already bought this gift.
The watch carrying time and memories symbolizes eternity, commemorating every day they love each other, the countless days they have passed, and then strung together into countless future times.
"Happy birthday, baby." On this day, Qiao Chu woke her up with a kiss early in the morning.
Ruoshui rolled over sleepily and hugged her, uttering a sentence like a dream: "Thank you, my anata."
Qiao Chu couldn't help laughing.Never heard this strange word come out of her mouth. "Little Beibi, are you awake?"
Ruoshui suddenly took out a handkerchief from the bottom of the pillow and spread it on his face, saying, "No."
"Where did you get the handkerchief?! Did you wipe off the cold sweat in the middle of the night?" Qiao Chu took off the handkerchief and asked, "Why do you always like to cover yourself up?"
Ruoshui put the handkerchief on her face again mischievously, Qiao Chu smiled and kissed her through the handkerchief.
At breakfast she put the watch on for her.
Ruoshui had never had the habit of wearing a watch before, and she didn't like any accessories on her body.
But since she was with Qiao Chu, she was willing to wear the watch she gave every day, just like carrying her love with her every day.
The day after his birthday was the day Ruoshan came to the city.
At noon when she was wearing a new watch, Ruoshui gave "Ruoqiao" to Peng Min to take care of.At around 10:30 in the morning, she went to the station to pick up her brother.
Ruoshan said that flying does not feel safe. He likes to take a long-distance bus. Taking the bus can see the scenery along the way, and it is economical.Although, it takes a day and a night to drive from Sangyang Town to the city.
Ruoshui couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw that Ruoshan was alone and his mother didn't come.
"Brother, why didn't Mom come?"
"Mom is temporarily unwell, so I decided not to come." Ruoshan said.
"What's wrong with my mother? She didn't tell me anything during the phone call that day." Ruoshui was puzzled.
"It's just a general stomach upset. It's okay. It's fine if you accompany me to the factory, and today is also the day when my mother returns to the hospital for a follow-up visit." He said.
Ruoshan wore a long-sleeved shirt that he was hardly used to wearing today, navy blue, striped, paired with a pair of pleated black suit pants, and a brown belt around his waist.
His hair is usually loose and untidy, but today he combed his own hair up and tidied himself meticulously from head to toe.
"Brother, you look so handsome today. Have you used half a can of oil in your hair?"
He raised his face subconsciously, and said with a good feeling about himself: "It's not just today, I've always been handsome. Does my appearance today look like Xu Wenqiang in Shanghai Beach?"
Ruoshui sized up his lower body, and pinched him: "Did dad leave these pants?"
Ruoshan protested loudly: "I ordered someone to order it, and it cost 230 yuan and [-] cents."
"Hmm, it looks retro. I like it."
They left the station and walked across the zebra crossing to the entrance of a shopping mall opposite.Ruoshui ordered a Grab there, and first took his brother home to rest.
Arriving at Qiao Chu's single-storey villa and stepping into the living room, Ruoshan put down the simple suitcase, couldn't help but look around and said, "Ruoshui, the place you live in is beautiful and comfortable, no wonder you are here to die not going home."
Ruoshui made a gesture to beat him up, but in the end he just pushed him lightly, and said to him in Qiao Chu's tone: "You are not allowed to speak of me like that!"
Ruoshan went to the bathroom first, and when he came out, Ruoshui said to him: "Brother, we only have one room, and you will be wronged to make the floor in the living room these two days."
"What's the matter?" Ruoshan walked to the sun room in the yard and sat down. When he saw Chuchu, he teased it, then raised his head and looked at the sky through the glass, and said, "It seems that my freak sister has completely Adapt to the life of urban people."
"What's wrong with it, I just don't like the rhythm of the city."
Ruoshan left the sun room, walked to the living room, sat down on the sofa, crossed his legs, and asked the younger sister leisurely: "When will you take me to visit your coffee shop?"
"After you go to meet your friend." Ruoshui went to the kitchen refrigerator to get a bottle of drink for his brother.
"Is there any money in the store? Look at your face, it looks like you are in a loss-making business..."
Having said that, Qiao Chu also arrived home.She had already agreed with Ruoshui on the phone early in the morning that she would take her brother out to eat and wash the dust at noon.
After a good meal, the time came to 01:30 in the afternoon.
Qiao Chu drove the two brothers and sisters to the factory Ruoshan was going to observe and visit.The journey is very long, and it takes four to ten minutes to reach the destination from the urban area.
After the car drove for nearly [-] minutes, Ruoshui suddenly said to Ruoshan who was sitting in the passenger seat: "Brother, I won't accompany you into the factory later, I don't understand what you are talking about, you can go and see it." I can't understand those machines either, I'll just wait for you outside the factory."
Ruoshan said: "Since everyone has gone, why don't you go in? One more person, one more opinion, and you are smarter, I am stupid, you can help me."
Ruoshui said: "Who is this friend of yours? Do I recognize him? Why have I never heard that you have a friend who opened a factory here?"
Ruoshan said that this person was from their hometown. He and Ruoshan were classmates in elementary school. They had lost contact for many years, and they only got back in touch recently by chance.
Ruoshui said: "I don't remember this person anymore."
Ruoshan said: "Don't you believe in fate? He and I are also called fate. This one just wanted to take the factory back to produce things by myself, and the other end let me meet a noble person."
Ruoshui asked with some doubts: "But can he really provide you with advice?"
Ruoshan said: "Anyway, we are old classmates, so let's talk after meeting people."
Ruoshui said, "Okay."
After about five or ten minutes, Qiao Chu finally drove the car to the factory.
The scorching sun made the whole factory white, which was very dazzling, but Ruoshan's friend was already waiting outside at this time, it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time, and he looked a little anxious.
He squinted his eyes, and his whole face was wrinkled tightly from the sun.Seeing a car arriving, he hastily raised a hand and waved it.
This is a very ordinary-looking flour mill. It occupies a large area, and the scale should not be small.
However, based on Qiao Chu's experience and observation, she felt that this was not a factory that met the specifications.
Ruoshan couldn't wait to get out of the car before Qiao Chu parked it, and ran towards his friend.
Qiao Chu handed her water bottle to Ruoshui, and told her: "The weather is hot, and the factory is also hot, so drink more water. Call me when you are all right."
Ruoshui said: "We'll just call a car and go back when we're done. I don't know how long my brother will talk with his friend."
"It's okay, I'm just doing a software maintenance job for a colleague in a nearby company."
Ruoshui nodded in agreement, and when she was about to get out of the car, Qiao Chu suddenly reached out to hold her hand and said, "Alright, remember to call me."
"I will." Ruoshui said.
After watching the two siblings follow the strange man into the factory, Qiao Chu turned the car around and prepared to leave.
Arriving at the intersection, passing a strong tree, when she was about to turn to the left, something suddenly fell from above on the windshield of the car, even though it was only a slight movement, it still scared her to death immediately. Stay in the car.
It turned out to be a bird's nest.The bird's nest is not big, but it has been overturned, and three birds with sparse feathers that are waiting to be fed have just fallen out of their homes and scattered on the water deflector of the mirror.
Qiao Chu quickly got out of the car, first took the fluffy empty nest, and then gently put a few pink and tender lives back.
Although the bird's nest is intact in my hand, what should I do next?She couldn't climb the tree and put it back in the tree.
Just when she didn't know what to do, and she didn't know where the inspiration came from, in the end she almost bit the bullet and jumped on the front of her own car.
Standing on the front of the car, she just reached the lowest branch of the big tree.Just like that, she settled the bird's nest there, and said: "You will never be separated, just wait for your mother to come back! However, Qiao Chu has no intention of going to the company she mentioned for the rest of the time." What maintenance has worked.
The uneasiness a while ago was magnified tenfold this afternoon.She also had some inexplicable heart palpitations.
She took the car to a car wash. After the car was washed in 10 minutes, she suddenly made a decision - quickly go back to the factory to find Ruoshui.
When she came to the factory, she didn't drive the car in.The factory area is too open, and there is not a single shaded place.
She stopped the car under the big tree where the bird's nest fell just now, and then called Ruoshui.
As soon as Ruoshui picked up the phone, he complained to her, "Xiao Qiao, it's so hot in the factory, it's too hot."
Qiao Chu said: "Don't stay inside, come out, I'll wait for you outside."
"Why are you here so soon?" Ruoshui was a little surprised.
"I don't know why, I'm not in the mood for work." Qiao Chu panted lightly, and then repeated her own words: "Come out."
Ruoshui hesitated: "But my brother is still inside, they are watching the machine in the workshop, I want to wait for him to go out together."
However, Qiao Chu asked her abnormally: "Brother will contact you when we have a good deal. Can you come out first? My car is parked under the big tree outside the door. You should come out first."
Ruoshui was still dawdling while wiping the sweat off his face, and said, "Little Qiao, it's really hot here, and powder is flying everywhere. It's hard for me to imagine that my brother will have to breathe such air every day in the future."
Qiao Chu urged her: "Have you come out yet?"
Ruoshui turned his head as he walked towards the exit, and went deep to see what his brother was doing.
"I'm coming out now." She said slowly.
After finally leaving the factory that was so hot that it made people want to die, Ruoshui came to the place where she got off the car just now, looked around, but she couldn't see Qiao Chu's car, she said: "Xiao Qiao, I came out, but I can't see you, you where?"
"I just said that I'm under the tree outside the factory gate. It's shady here and the sun is very hot. Don't be slow, get in the car."
While Ruoshui agreed, he really trotted towards the gate under the hot sun.
Just when she ran to a distance of about five or six meters, she suddenly heard a loud noise from behind, and then she was bounced to the ground several feet away by an inexplicable force that seemed to be drilled from the ground. , she was lying on the muddy ground, the water bottle she held in her hand had already left her palm and flew into the distance.
She couldn't figure out what happened at all, and she didn't have time to panic, her mind went blank, and she was stunned.
When Qiao Chu heard the loud noise, she was frightened out of her wits, and she called out, "Ruoshui, what's wrong? Ah?"
The moment she got out of the car, the second loud noise came again, deafening.
Ruoshui was still lying on the ground, and instinctively covered his ears with both hands to cover himself on the ground.
Then, she turned around, only to find that the factory was on fire, and the flames were dancing towards the scorching sun above. Shi held the phone and said tremblingly, "Little Qiao, the explosion, the factory exploded..."
Qiao Chu has already rushed in front of Ruoshui, she just wanted to take her to a safe place quickly.At this moment, the farther away from the disaster site, the better.
Ruoshui grabbed Qiao Chu, and said in horror and helplessness: "Xiao Qiao, brother is still inside, he hasn't come out yet, he's still inside..."
Qiao Chu hugged her head in pain and said, "It's too late, Ruoshui, it's already too late..."
The two finally fled to the lawn opposite the factory as if they were fleeing for life. Qiao Chu saw that Ruoshui's hands and feet were scratched and bleeding in many places, but she didn't seem to realize her injury, nor did she feel the pain. Repeated the same words: "Xiao Qiao, my brother is still in the factory, he is still inside..."
Having said that, she was already crying, while Qiao Chu called the police in her haste.
Turning around, she hugged Ruoshui tightly, unable to speak a word because of the panic and excitement in her heart.
She couldn't help trembling all over, and before she could organize any words for herself normally, she had to suppress herself from continuing to tremble.
In a short period of time, all the people from the nearby factories came out, and the originally quiet roadside was surrounded by people in an instant, and even the passing cars stopped, causing traffic jams.
They were all discussing, pointing at the factory building that was being engulfed by the fire, saying: It seems that no one came out, not a single one.
The ruthless fire has not diminished, and the flames are still frantically baring their teeth and claws.Ruoshui could only watch helplessly, weeping bitterly again and again.
36. Section 4
—not a nightmare—
A day of misery fell from the sky like a bomb in their originally beautiful and peaceful life, without any forecast, and it came as soon as it was said, which caught people off guard.
Ruoshui cried until his heart broke, he only hoped that it was a nightmare.The nightmare will wake up, and everything that happened is not real.However, this is not a nightmare, so it can never wake up.
Waiting for rescue in misery has become the longest, most painful, and most tormented process in her life.
The tragic situation in front of her made her panic and anxious beyond measure, but God seemed to deliberately play a joke with her that wasn't funny——
Time slowed down, so slow that she felt that she was about to collapse every moment——
It seemed that half a century had passed before the team of the fire department rushed to the scene to put out the fire. In the scene of boiling people, panic and chaos, the rescue team blocked the scene, and the yellow and black bands urgently surrounded the scene. At the scene of the discovery, the crowd was evacuated at this time, and like all the families of the victims who rushed to the scene, they were urged to go home and wait for further news under extreme anxiety.
As the first witnesses at the scene of the crime and one of the victims of the disaster, the police need to take statements from them to cooperate with the disaster investigation and evidence collection.
After returning home that night, news from the police came in at midnight, confirming that there were 46 people in the factory at the time, 45 of whom were killed in the bombing, and only one survived, and this survivor was Ruoshui.
Although, she escaped without realizing it.The cause of the explosion is still under investigation.
"Little Qiao, why did my brother die so badly? Why didn't he get a good death?" Ruoshui cried until his heart broke.
After poor Qiao Chu returned home, she still couldn't restrain the trembling all over her body.The trembling from the outside to the inside, and then from the inside to the outside, is a kind of trembling of body and mind, because on this day, she was actually only one step away from losing Ruoshui forever.That step, maybe just 1 minute, maybe just a thought.
Maybe.she does not know.
Human life is like a gamble, a temptation, so out of control.Overnight, with a single thought, you may be separated from a certain person.
When she closed her eyes, too many horrible images appeared in her mind, it was a kind of fear, a kind of fear with only one result and lingering fear.
If it wasn't for the inexplicable anxiety these days, if it wasn't for some kind of strange induction, if it wasn't for her abnormal persistence, she would definitely be the only one who came back to this house tonight.
While she was deeply grateful to God for sending her various inspirations, the complicated emotions made her brain unable to calm down for a moment.
Whenever she thinks of the key point that she may not have persisted in, she can't help crying quietly.
Qiao Chu didn't want Ruoshui to see her emotions.Losing Ruoshan, she was sad enough.
She must try her best to pack up her emotions thoroughly before she can face her heartbroken, and she must be stronger and calmer than her.
Ruoshui hadn't eaten a single grain of rice all night, and the food on the table was cold, Qiao Chu took the microwave to heat it up for her, and tried to coax her to eat it, but she still shook her head, saying she couldn't eat it.
She has been guarding in front of the box that Ruoshan left in the living room.That was the only relic left of him at this moment.
She opened the box and put the clothes in her arms, then she closed the box and lay on the box crying like hell, and so on.
Qiao Chu came to her with the medicine box in his arms, and wanted to treat her wounds.Ruoshui asked her in a murmur, "Xiao Qiao, why did brother come here to die?"
Qiao Chu put down the medicine box, just hugged her in his arms, unable to say a word.She couldn't find a reasonable answer for her at all.
"He's a good person. Isn't it good that he just stayed in his little Sangyang Town? He obviously lost contact with his classmate for more than ten years. Why did he die as soon as they contacted him? Why?"
The word "fate" has never been a subject that Qiao Chu would really think about.To be more precise, like many people, she would attribute everything to fate only when she could not find any reason to prove the impermanence of life, but that was just a helpless lament.
And what is fate?Blaming fate is not a satisfactory answer after all.
However, after today, she began to believe that behind the fate of people, there must be some kind of force manipulating it.
There is no birth for no reason, and there is no death for no reason. Why do some people have a good death and why do some people not have a good death?She began to want to find the answer.
Qiao Chu found that Ruoshui had at least six visible skin injuries and many bruises.
She said distressedly: "We still have to go to the hospital tomorrow, okay?"
In fact, before going home, she had to take her to the hospital for an examination, but she insisted on going home and waiting for news.
But at this moment, after her consciousness gradually accepted the cruelest facts, the nervous system slowly regained consciousness, and she began to feel all kinds of pain in her body——
First the bruises on the bones, then the tearing pain from those skin traumas.
However, this is nothing compared to the unforgettable pain of losing her brother. Compared with her pain, her brother's pain is tens of millions of times more painful. Thinking of this, her heart was pierced like a knife, and her tears flowed again And then said: "Little Qiao, brother died like this, he must be in great pain, I would rather be the one who dies, I am willing to die in his place..."
"You can't think like this. What should I do when you leave? My brother just went to a better place earlier than you, so that he doesn't suffer in the world." Qiao Chu really racked his brains to say this.
However, this sentence seems to be very effective for Ruoshui. She seemed to have been greatly comforted suddenly, she couldn't stop nodding, shedding more tears and said, "My brother must have gone to a better place in advance. definitely is."
"You're right to think so." She just wanted to try her best to comfort her.
Watching Qiao Chu disinfect and apply medicine to the wound on her hand, Ruo Shui seemed to realize something suddenly, and she said: "Xiao Qiao, the new watch you gave me is missing, the watch..."
In fact, the watch had already flown out of her hand along with the kettle the moment she flew to the ground.
Qiao Chu comforted her and said, "If you don't see it, you can let it go. Just treat it as a disaster for you. It's the greatest luck that you are fine."
That night, she only drank a cup of hot milk, and finally fell asleep.But she couldn't sleep until dawn, and she suddenly woke up crying again.
Qiao Chu couldn't sleep all night because she was afraid that the people around her would collapse at any time. Only by staying awake and guarding her would she feel more at ease.
She hugged her and heard her crying in a low voice: "Little Qiao, have I really lost my brother? I can't believe it's true until now..."
Ruoshui didn't have the courage to tell her mother that her brother had left immediately, but her name and photo were published in the newspapers the next day. The survivors of the disaster will always be infinitely magnified by the media.
In that small town of Sangyang, there was no news that would not leak, let alone such disastrous news.What's more, she and Ruoshan are the sons and daughters of the proprietor of "Time-honored Brand" on Sangyang Street.
Yes, this news caused a sensation in that small town, and it was impossible to hide it from their mother——
A pair of sons and daughters of the proprietor of "Time-honored Brand", the son died unfortunately, but the daughter survived by luck.
However, the fact is not what Ruo Shui thought.Mom didn't know the bad news, and the news seemed to be cut off by God.
Because, at this moment, she has been sent to a large hospital a hundred kilometers away from the town.No one would have the heart to tell such a sad news to a patient.
"Auntie, where's my mother? What's wrong with her?" The call Ruoshui received in the morning was not from her mother, but from the third aunt.
The third aunt pretended to be calm and said: "Ruoshui, I learned about Ruoshan from the newspaper. You should take care of your brother's affairs first. Don't worry about your mother. We are here and we will take good care of her. Come back and see her later."
Ruoshui fell into a huge daze and panic. She didn't know what the god was playing with her again. She still asked nervously, "What happened to my mother? Tell me now."
"It's nothing serious, don't worry too much, we'll talk about it when you come back, Ruoshui, Auntie is still busy, so hang up first." The third auntie hung up the phone after speaking hastily.
Ruoshui has no time to think about it, her mental and physical strength is only enough for her to deal with her brother's affairs.
On the same day, almost all friends who knew Ruoshui and Qiao Chu called to express condolences, including Zhou Linshan.
She said to Qiao Chu seriously: "I saw the news report just now, I really didn't expect Ruoshan to leave like this. He is such a sunny and lively person. How is Ruoshui now? Is she okay?"
Qiao Chu
"If you can do it, you are no longer an ordinary person. There are many people who are born in the ordinary but have an extraordinary bearing, but can you do it? You are in the world of mortals, fool."
Ruoshui carried the potted plant out and placed it beside the pillar. When she came back, she saw Peng Min leaning over his desk in deep thought.
Ruoshui never thought that she and Peng Min could become good friends later.She is her third friend in this city after Qiao Chu and Hu Nuoyu.
Peng Min made his way into the society at a young age.She worked in the United States for ten years and Japan for five years before finally going to Taiwan.
Nearly [-] years of social experience has made her very sophisticated and sophisticated in dealing with people, but what is rare is that she is frank, straightforward, and not scheming.
In less than a week after "Ruo Qiao", her eyes that understand the world can see the relationship between Ruo Qiao at once.
Therefore, she once tested Ruoshui half-seriously and half-jokingly, saying, "Am I the kind of woman you admire?"
Peng Min thinks she looks pretty good, as long as there is nothing to do in the store, she will take selfies with her mobile phone, and the results are all the same style: messy hair (she said it is messy beauty), blurred eyes , Half-open and half-closed red lips.
When Ruoshui saw such a photo, he wanted to laugh inexplicably.She asked Ruoshui to look at her Instagram, which included a series of her selfies besides uploading a lot of her proud coffee latte art.
Sometimes, for the big things in life, she still likes to make a big fuss and express her thoughts on it, still like a cynical young girl.
One day, Peng Min suddenly asked her what she liked about Qiao Chu?
"Don't you only like her type of woman?" She asked her very curiously.
In the following time, Ruoshui was almost busy with the business in the store while thinking about her question.
Perhaps, when she found the answer, she also answered her later questions at the same time—why were Zhou Linshan and Jiang Yingying attracted to Qiao Chu?
After seeing off the customers in the store, they sat at the counter and chatted.
Ruoshui said: "She doesn't like and can't do all the things you love to do and what you can do."
Peng Min laughed wittily and heartily, and asked, "For example, I love taking selfies?"
Ruoshui said: "Also, for those sesame and mung bean things in your life, you will go on and on on social platforms to express your heartfelt feelings, and she will not do this either."
"Actually, you just want to say that you like women who are the opposite type of me?"
"I just think that she won't do the things you do to make her unique, because those things are done by people with small stomachs."
Peng Min couldn't help giving her a white look, and then laughed loudly: "If one day she does the same thing, will you not like her anymore?"
"No. If she does it one day, I will think that she is cuter than you, or cuter than other people who do these things."
Peng Ming casually grabbed a coaster on the counter and threw it at Ruoshui, and she swiftly passed by.
"After all, I am not cute in everything, but she is cute in everything."
"It's not just you, but everyone except you. I just want to say that I'm hopeless."
Suddenly, Peng Min felt that Ruoshui was a strange thing.She looked at her with interest and said, "Well, I accept that this is your unique love logic. So, how much you love her."
Ruo Shui smiled subtly.She felt that she had really talked too much today, and it seemed that this was the first time she had poured out her emotional world to others, so she blushed unconsciously.
Peng Min thought about it and said: "Aren't all people like this? When you love someone so much that you can't help yourself, you won't like the type that is completely different from this person, but sometimes people want to change. Taste, try to be with other people, maybe there will be another spark?"
Ruoshui just thinks that if she has a pen, she just wants to write about the same person, sing about the same kind of love, play and sing the same love song, forever and forever.
She really couldn't think of any other sparks that Peng Min said would burst out in her heart.
They talked and laughed like this, and the sun did not know when it was setting again.
A huge motorcycle stopped at the door at this moment, and the sound of the engine was booming.The knight in the helmet was looking into the store and waved.
Peng Min jumped down from the high chair, and while stretching his stiff muscles from sitting for a long time, he said to Ruoshui: "It's time to get off work, I won't tell you anymore, my boyfriend is here to pick me up."
After Peng Min left, Ruoshui closed the store.
She sat on a bean bag in the loft, looking at the hourglass in her hand.She turned the hourglass upside down and upside down.Time seemed to stop suddenly at this moment.
The quicksand seemed to be set in slow motion in front of her eyes, little by little, slowly, flowing backwards.
35. Section 3
-- restless --
For three consecutive days after Christmas, Jiang Jiying got off work and returned to the bus shelter helplessly to wait for the bus.
Qiao Chu felt that he had no obligation to explain anything to her, but she still said a harsh word to her: "From now on after get off work, you should go home by yourself, we are not fellow travelers."
The seven words behind it have two meanings.Of course Jiang Yanying understood.After learning from the painful experience, she decided to continue to solemnly apologize to Qiao Chu in the following days until she got her forgiveness.
If you don't accept it today, there will be tomorrow, if you don't accept it tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, if you still don't accept it the day after tomorrow, at worst she will use the rest of her life to atone for her sins.She couldn't believe the day she wasn't forgiven!
This morning, Jiang Jiying waited restlessly at the door of Qiao Chu's office as he had done in the past three days.
At 09:30, Qiao Chu finally came.
Jiang Yanying immediately stood up from her seat.Qiao Chu passed by her, still didn't look at her, just said good morning to other colleagues, and walked into the office.
Jiang Yiying followed her with an excuse, knocked on the door and walked in.
She put the folder on her desk, and said flatteringly: "Qiao Chu, you left this document outside yesterday, and it recorded various bugs in your test results a few days ago, I think, you Should be looking for it everywhere..."
Qiao Chu just glanced at the document subconsciously, and said, "Understood, thank you."
"By the way, I've already booked a hotel room. This time it's a business room with two single beds." Jiang Yiying tried hard to save their relationship.
Three days later, Qiao Chu was indeed arranged to return to the city she visited last time, but she had already asked her superiors for instructions, saying that she was capable of multi-tasking at the same time and did not need anyone to assist her or an assistant.
"You should return the room. I won't need it for the time being. I will go to another place with the project manager this time, and I don't need you to accompany me."
Jiang Yiying had expected that Qiao Chu would reject her as an assistant.She tried her best to fight for herself, and said stubbornly: "It is one of your responsibilities to bring in new people. You shouldn't deprive me of the opportunity to learn from the company."
Then, she said extremely indignantly: "You don't know your business and private affairs!"
"Then I want to ask, are you clear about public and private?" Qiao Chu looked up at her.
Jiang Yanying said to herself: "I can accept that I won't go home with you in the future, but I don't accept that you refuse my assistance and cooperation at work."
"But you've been a nuisance to me, and it bothers me."
Jiang Yiying still wanted to continue to defend herself, but Qiao Chu interrupted her and gave orders: "We have a meeting on time at ten o'clock, you go out and inform other people now."
"Qiao Chu, why are you doing this to me?" Jiang Yiying was about to cry.
Qiao Chu said: "People always have to be responsible for what they have done, and this is what you taught me. I hope you understand that I also have my own responsibilities.
It is true that I am more emotional, you caught my weakness, and I am more indecisive, but maybe you don't know, as long as I decide something, it will not change. "
Finally, Jiang Yiying burst into tears, and she choked up and said, "You didn't even give me a chance to forgive me."
Qiao Chu calmly took two tissues from the table and handed them to her, comforting her and said, "Don't cry, take good care of your heart, and also take care of your image. This is a company, and there are many eyes watching from outside. you."
"I just want you to take care of my mood at the moment." She continued to cry.
Qiao Chu supported her forehead with her hands in trouble, and sighed softly.
Fortunately, Jiang Jiying quickly controlled her emotions, and she stopped crying without taking too long.
Qiao Chu looked up at her, and said earnestly: "You can focus on your work, okay? Now the company really has a lot of projects to do, and it needs you very much. It's not like you can't see my work. I really can't take care of your little emotions. Besides, I'm not worth your time wasting for me. "
Jiang Yiying had already turned around and strode out of the office.
Qiao Chu felt that she was like an inflated balloon, which was deflated in an instant, and she was a little tired.
She turned around and opened the venetian blind behind her to let the sun shine in and shine on her body.
The sun is as bright as yesterday.
Recently, she is often restless, and often has nightmares at night.After waking up, she couldn't remember what she had dreamed of. She only knew that she was terrified and hesitant in the dream.
Especially, when she wakes up from the dream and finds that if the water is not by the bed, she will fall into an inexplicable panic and anxiety.
In fact, business as usual, nothing has changed.
Just like many mornings in the past, Ruoshui always got up earlier than her.She will also wake up to the smell of cake and clearly identify what kind of cake it is.
The day after returning from a business trip was Ruo Shui's birthday.
This year is the third birthday she spent with her.
Strange to say, Qiao Chu never really remembered Ruoshui's age.In her heart, she will always only stay in the year they met, or, as Jiang Yiying and Wu Chongchong think - she only has.Even, she will feel that she will always be just a child, a little girl.
In the past two years, Qiao Chu gave her a watch on this day.This year is no exception, she has already bought this gift.
The watch carrying time and memories symbolizes eternity, commemorating every day they love each other, the countless days they have passed, and then strung together into countless future times.
"Happy birthday, baby." On this day, Qiao Chu woke her up with a kiss early in the morning.
Ruoshui rolled over sleepily and hugged her, uttering a sentence like a dream: "Thank you, my anata."
Qiao Chu couldn't help laughing.Never heard this strange word come out of her mouth. "Little Beibi, are you awake?"
Ruoshui suddenly took out a handkerchief from the bottom of the pillow and spread it on his face, saying, "No."
"Where did you get the handkerchief?! Did you wipe off the cold sweat in the middle of the night?" Qiao Chu took off the handkerchief and asked, "Why do you always like to cover yourself up?"
Ruoshui put the handkerchief on her face again mischievously, Qiao Chu smiled and kissed her through the handkerchief.
At breakfast she put the watch on for her.
Ruoshui had never had the habit of wearing a watch before, and she didn't like any accessories on her body.
But since she was with Qiao Chu, she was willing to wear the watch she gave every day, just like carrying her love with her every day.
The day after his birthday was the day Ruoshan came to the city.
At noon when she was wearing a new watch, Ruoshui gave "Ruoqiao" to Peng Min to take care of.At around 10:30 in the morning, she went to the station to pick up her brother.
Ruoshan said that flying does not feel safe. He likes to take a long-distance bus. Taking the bus can see the scenery along the way, and it is economical.Although, it takes a day and a night to drive from Sangyang Town to the city.
Ruoshui couldn't help being a little surprised when he saw that Ruoshan was alone and his mother didn't come.
"Brother, why didn't Mom come?"
"Mom is temporarily unwell, so I decided not to come." Ruoshan said.
"What's wrong with my mother? She didn't tell me anything during the phone call that day." Ruoshui was puzzled.
"It's just a general stomach upset. It's okay. It's fine if you accompany me to the factory, and today is also the day when my mother returns to the hospital for a follow-up visit." He said.
Ruoshan wore a long-sleeved shirt that he was hardly used to wearing today, navy blue, striped, paired with a pair of pleated black suit pants, and a brown belt around his waist.
His hair is usually loose and untidy, but today he combed his own hair up and tidied himself meticulously from head to toe.
"Brother, you look so handsome today. Have you used half a can of oil in your hair?"
He raised his face subconsciously, and said with a good feeling about himself: "It's not just today, I've always been handsome. Does my appearance today look like Xu Wenqiang in Shanghai Beach?"
Ruoshui sized up his lower body, and pinched him: "Did dad leave these pants?"
Ruoshan protested loudly: "I ordered someone to order it, and it cost 230 yuan and [-] cents."
"Hmm, it looks retro. I like it."
They left the station and walked across the zebra crossing to the entrance of a shopping mall opposite.Ruoshui ordered a Grab there, and first took his brother home to rest.
Arriving at Qiao Chu's single-storey villa and stepping into the living room, Ruoshan put down the simple suitcase, couldn't help but look around and said, "Ruoshui, the place you live in is beautiful and comfortable, no wonder you are here to die not going home."
Ruoshui made a gesture to beat him up, but in the end he just pushed him lightly, and said to him in Qiao Chu's tone: "You are not allowed to speak of me like that!"
Ruoshan went to the bathroom first, and when he came out, Ruoshui said to him: "Brother, we only have one room, and you will be wronged to make the floor in the living room these two days."
"What's the matter?" Ruoshan walked to the sun room in the yard and sat down. When he saw Chuchu, he teased it, then raised his head and looked at the sky through the glass, and said, "It seems that my freak sister has completely Adapt to the life of urban people."
"What's wrong with it, I just don't like the rhythm of the city."
Ruoshan left the sun room, walked to the living room, sat down on the sofa, crossed his legs, and asked the younger sister leisurely: "When will you take me to visit your coffee shop?"
"After you go to meet your friend." Ruoshui went to the kitchen refrigerator to get a bottle of drink for his brother.
"Is there any money in the store? Look at your face, it looks like you are in a loss-making business..."
Having said that, Qiao Chu also arrived home.She had already agreed with Ruoshui on the phone early in the morning that she would take her brother out to eat and wash the dust at noon.
After a good meal, the time came to 01:30 in the afternoon.
Qiao Chu drove the two brothers and sisters to the factory Ruoshan was going to observe and visit.The journey is very long, and it takes four to ten minutes to reach the destination from the urban area.
After the car drove for nearly [-] minutes, Ruoshui suddenly said to Ruoshan who was sitting in the passenger seat: "Brother, I won't accompany you into the factory later, I don't understand what you are talking about, you can go and see it." I can't understand those machines either, I'll just wait for you outside the factory."
Ruoshan said: "Since everyone has gone, why don't you go in? One more person, one more opinion, and you are smarter, I am stupid, you can help me."
Ruoshui said: "Who is this friend of yours? Do I recognize him? Why have I never heard that you have a friend who opened a factory here?"
Ruoshan said that this person was from their hometown. He and Ruoshan were classmates in elementary school. They had lost contact for many years, and they only got back in touch recently by chance.
Ruoshui said: "I don't remember this person anymore."
Ruoshan said: "Don't you believe in fate? He and I are also called fate. This one just wanted to take the factory back to produce things by myself, and the other end let me meet a noble person."
Ruoshui asked with some doubts: "But can he really provide you with advice?"
Ruoshan said: "Anyway, we are old classmates, so let's talk after meeting people."
Ruoshui said, "Okay."
After about five or ten minutes, Qiao Chu finally drove the car to the factory.
The scorching sun made the whole factory white, which was very dazzling, but Ruoshan's friend was already waiting outside at this time, it seemed that he had been waiting for a long time, and he looked a little anxious.
He squinted his eyes, and his whole face was wrinkled tightly from the sun.Seeing a car arriving, he hastily raised a hand and waved it.
This is a very ordinary-looking flour mill. It occupies a large area, and the scale should not be small.
However, based on Qiao Chu's experience and observation, she felt that this was not a factory that met the specifications.
Ruoshan couldn't wait to get out of the car before Qiao Chu parked it, and ran towards his friend.
Qiao Chu handed her water bottle to Ruoshui, and told her: "The weather is hot, and the factory is also hot, so drink more water. Call me when you are all right."
Ruoshui said: "We'll just call a car and go back when we're done. I don't know how long my brother will talk with his friend."
"It's okay, I'm just doing a software maintenance job for a colleague in a nearby company."
Ruoshui nodded in agreement, and when she was about to get out of the car, Qiao Chu suddenly reached out to hold her hand and said, "Alright, remember to call me."
"I will." Ruoshui said.
After watching the two siblings follow the strange man into the factory, Qiao Chu turned the car around and prepared to leave.
Arriving at the intersection, passing a strong tree, when she was about to turn to the left, something suddenly fell from above on the windshield of the car, even though it was only a slight movement, it still scared her to death immediately. Stay in the car.
It turned out to be a bird's nest.The bird's nest is not big, but it has been overturned, and three birds with sparse feathers that are waiting to be fed have just fallen out of their homes and scattered on the water deflector of the mirror.
Qiao Chu quickly got out of the car, first took the fluffy empty nest, and then gently put a few pink and tender lives back.
Although the bird's nest is intact in my hand, what should I do next?She couldn't climb the tree and put it back in the tree.
Just when she didn't know what to do, and she didn't know where the inspiration came from, in the end she almost bit the bullet and jumped on the front of her own car.
Standing on the front of the car, she just reached the lowest branch of the big tree.Just like that, she settled the bird's nest there, and said: "You will never be separated, just wait for your mother to come back! However, Qiao Chu has no intention of going to the company she mentioned for the rest of the time." What maintenance has worked.
The uneasiness a while ago was magnified tenfold this afternoon.She also had some inexplicable heart palpitations.
She took the car to a car wash. After the car was washed in 10 minutes, she suddenly made a decision - quickly go back to the factory to find Ruoshui.
When she came to the factory, she didn't drive the car in.The factory area is too open, and there is not a single shaded place.
She stopped the car under the big tree where the bird's nest fell just now, and then called Ruoshui.
As soon as Ruoshui picked up the phone, he complained to her, "Xiao Qiao, it's so hot in the factory, it's too hot."
Qiao Chu said: "Don't stay inside, come out, I'll wait for you outside."
"Why are you here so soon?" Ruoshui was a little surprised.
"I don't know why, I'm not in the mood for work." Qiao Chu panted lightly, and then repeated her own words: "Come out."
Ruoshui hesitated: "But my brother is still inside, they are watching the machine in the workshop, I want to wait for him to go out together."
However, Qiao Chu asked her abnormally: "Brother will contact you when we have a good deal. Can you come out first? My car is parked under the big tree outside the door. You should come out first."
Ruoshui was still dawdling while wiping the sweat off his face, and said, "Little Qiao, it's really hot here, and powder is flying everywhere. It's hard for me to imagine that my brother will have to breathe such air every day in the future."
Qiao Chu urged her: "Have you come out yet?"
Ruoshui turned his head as he walked towards the exit, and went deep to see what his brother was doing.
"I'm coming out now." She said slowly.
After finally leaving the factory that was so hot that it made people want to die, Ruoshui came to the place where she got off the car just now, looked around, but she couldn't see Qiao Chu's car, she said: "Xiao Qiao, I came out, but I can't see you, you where?"
"I just said that I'm under the tree outside the factory gate. It's shady here and the sun is very hot. Don't be slow, get in the car."
While Ruoshui agreed, he really trotted towards the gate under the hot sun.
Just when she ran to a distance of about five or six meters, she suddenly heard a loud noise from behind, and then she was bounced to the ground several feet away by an inexplicable force that seemed to be drilled from the ground. , she was lying on the muddy ground, the water bottle she held in her hand had already left her palm and flew into the distance.
She couldn't figure out what happened at all, and she didn't have time to panic, her mind went blank, and she was stunned.
When Qiao Chu heard the loud noise, she was frightened out of her wits, and she called out, "Ruoshui, what's wrong? Ah?"
The moment she got out of the car, the second loud noise came again, deafening.
Ruoshui was still lying on the ground, and instinctively covered his ears with both hands to cover himself on the ground.
Then, she turned around, only to find that the factory was on fire, and the flames were dancing towards the scorching sun above. Shi held the phone and said tremblingly, "Little Qiao, the explosion, the factory exploded..."
Qiao Chu has already rushed in front of Ruoshui, she just wanted to take her to a safe place quickly.At this moment, the farther away from the disaster site, the better.
Ruoshui grabbed Qiao Chu, and said in horror and helplessness: "Xiao Qiao, brother is still inside, he hasn't come out yet, he's still inside..."
Qiao Chu hugged her head in pain and said, "It's too late, Ruoshui, it's already too late..."
The two finally fled to the lawn opposite the factory as if they were fleeing for life. Qiao Chu saw that Ruoshui's hands and feet were scratched and bleeding in many places, but she didn't seem to realize her injury, nor did she feel the pain. Repeated the same words: "Xiao Qiao, my brother is still in the factory, he is still inside..."
Having said that, she was already crying, while Qiao Chu called the police in her haste.
Turning around, she hugged Ruoshui tightly, unable to speak a word because of the panic and excitement in her heart.
She couldn't help trembling all over, and before she could organize any words for herself normally, she had to suppress herself from continuing to tremble.
In a short period of time, all the people from the nearby factories came out, and the originally quiet roadside was surrounded by people in an instant, and even the passing cars stopped, causing traffic jams.
They were all discussing, pointing at the factory building that was being engulfed by the fire, saying: It seems that no one came out, not a single one.
The ruthless fire has not diminished, and the flames are still frantically baring their teeth and claws.Ruoshui could only watch helplessly, weeping bitterly again and again.
36. Section 4
—not a nightmare—
A day of misery fell from the sky like a bomb in their originally beautiful and peaceful life, without any forecast, and it came as soon as it was said, which caught people off guard.
Ruoshui cried until his heart broke, he only hoped that it was a nightmare.The nightmare will wake up, and everything that happened is not real.However, this is not a nightmare, so it can never wake up.
Waiting for rescue in misery has become the longest, most painful, and most tormented process in her life.
The tragic situation in front of her made her panic and anxious beyond measure, but God seemed to deliberately play a joke with her that wasn't funny——
Time slowed down, so slow that she felt that she was about to collapse every moment——
It seemed that half a century had passed before the team of the fire department rushed to the scene to put out the fire. In the scene of boiling people, panic and chaos, the rescue team blocked the scene, and the yellow and black bands urgently surrounded the scene. At the scene of the discovery, the crowd was evacuated at this time, and like all the families of the victims who rushed to the scene, they were urged to go home and wait for further news under extreme anxiety.
As the first witnesses at the scene of the crime and one of the victims of the disaster, the police need to take statements from them to cooperate with the disaster investigation and evidence collection.
After returning home that night, news from the police came in at midnight, confirming that there were 46 people in the factory at the time, 45 of whom were killed in the bombing, and only one survived, and this survivor was Ruoshui.
Although, she escaped without realizing it.The cause of the explosion is still under investigation.
"Little Qiao, why did my brother die so badly? Why didn't he get a good death?" Ruoshui cried until his heart broke.
After poor Qiao Chu returned home, she still couldn't restrain the trembling all over her body.The trembling from the outside to the inside, and then from the inside to the outside, is a kind of trembling of body and mind, because on this day, she was actually only one step away from losing Ruoshui forever.That step, maybe just 1 minute, maybe just a thought.
Maybe.she does not know.
Human life is like a gamble, a temptation, so out of control.Overnight, with a single thought, you may be separated from a certain person.
When she closed her eyes, too many horrible images appeared in her mind, it was a kind of fear, a kind of fear with only one result and lingering fear.
If it wasn't for the inexplicable anxiety these days, if it wasn't for some kind of strange induction, if it wasn't for her abnormal persistence, she would definitely be the only one who came back to this house tonight.
While she was deeply grateful to God for sending her various inspirations, the complicated emotions made her brain unable to calm down for a moment.
Whenever she thinks of the key point that she may not have persisted in, she can't help crying quietly.
Qiao Chu didn't want Ruoshui to see her emotions.Losing Ruoshan, she was sad enough.
She must try her best to pack up her emotions thoroughly before she can face her heartbroken, and she must be stronger and calmer than her.
Ruoshui hadn't eaten a single grain of rice all night, and the food on the table was cold, Qiao Chu took the microwave to heat it up for her, and tried to coax her to eat it, but she still shook her head, saying she couldn't eat it.
She has been guarding in front of the box that Ruoshan left in the living room.That was the only relic left of him at this moment.
She opened the box and put the clothes in her arms, then she closed the box and lay on the box crying like hell, and so on.
Qiao Chu came to her with the medicine box in his arms, and wanted to treat her wounds.Ruoshui asked her in a murmur, "Xiao Qiao, why did brother come here to die?"
Qiao Chu put down the medicine box, just hugged her in his arms, unable to say a word.She couldn't find a reasonable answer for her at all.
"He's a good person. Isn't it good that he just stayed in his little Sangyang Town? He obviously lost contact with his classmate for more than ten years. Why did he die as soon as they contacted him? Why?"
The word "fate" has never been a subject that Qiao Chu would really think about.To be more precise, like many people, she would attribute everything to fate only when she could not find any reason to prove the impermanence of life, but that was just a helpless lament.
And what is fate?Blaming fate is not a satisfactory answer after all.
However, after today, she began to believe that behind the fate of people, there must be some kind of force manipulating it.
There is no birth for no reason, and there is no death for no reason. Why do some people have a good death and why do some people not have a good death?She began to want to find the answer.
Qiao Chu found that Ruoshui had at least six visible skin injuries and many bruises.
She said distressedly: "We still have to go to the hospital tomorrow, okay?"
In fact, before going home, she had to take her to the hospital for an examination, but she insisted on going home and waiting for news.
But at this moment, after her consciousness gradually accepted the cruelest facts, the nervous system slowly regained consciousness, and she began to feel all kinds of pain in her body——
First the bruises on the bones, then the tearing pain from those skin traumas.
However, this is nothing compared to the unforgettable pain of losing her brother. Compared with her pain, her brother's pain is tens of millions of times more painful. Thinking of this, her heart was pierced like a knife, and her tears flowed again And then said: "Little Qiao, brother died like this, he must be in great pain, I would rather be the one who dies, I am willing to die in his place..."
"You can't think like this. What should I do when you leave? My brother just went to a better place earlier than you, so that he doesn't suffer in the world." Qiao Chu really racked his brains to say this.
However, this sentence seems to be very effective for Ruoshui. She seemed to have been greatly comforted suddenly, she couldn't stop nodding, shedding more tears and said, "My brother must have gone to a better place in advance. definitely is."
"You're right to think so." She just wanted to try her best to comfort her.
Watching Qiao Chu disinfect and apply medicine to the wound on her hand, Ruo Shui seemed to realize something suddenly, and she said: "Xiao Qiao, the new watch you gave me is missing, the watch..."
In fact, the watch had already flown out of her hand along with the kettle the moment she flew to the ground.
Qiao Chu comforted her and said, "If you don't see it, you can let it go. Just treat it as a disaster for you. It's the greatest luck that you are fine."
That night, she only drank a cup of hot milk, and finally fell asleep.But she couldn't sleep until dawn, and she suddenly woke up crying again.
Qiao Chu couldn't sleep all night because she was afraid that the people around her would collapse at any time. Only by staying awake and guarding her would she feel more at ease.
She hugged her and heard her crying in a low voice: "Little Qiao, have I really lost my brother? I can't believe it's true until now..."
Ruoshui didn't have the courage to tell her mother that her brother had left immediately, but her name and photo were published in the newspapers the next day. The survivors of the disaster will always be infinitely magnified by the media.
In that small town of Sangyang, there was no news that would not leak, let alone such disastrous news.What's more, she and Ruoshan are the sons and daughters of the proprietor of "Time-honored Brand" on Sangyang Street.
Yes, this news caused a sensation in that small town, and it was impossible to hide it from their mother——
A pair of sons and daughters of the proprietor of "Time-honored Brand", the son died unfortunately, but the daughter survived by luck.
However, the fact is not what Ruo Shui thought.Mom didn't know the bad news, and the news seemed to be cut off by God.
Because, at this moment, she has been sent to a large hospital a hundred kilometers away from the town.No one would have the heart to tell such a sad news to a patient.
"Auntie, where's my mother? What's wrong with her?" The call Ruoshui received in the morning was not from her mother, but from the third aunt.
The third aunt pretended to be calm and said: "Ruoshui, I learned about Ruoshan from the newspaper. You should take care of your brother's affairs first. Don't worry about your mother. We are here and we will take good care of her. Come back and see her later."
Ruoshui fell into a huge daze and panic. She didn't know what the god was playing with her again. She still asked nervously, "What happened to my mother? Tell me now."
"It's nothing serious, don't worry too much, we'll talk about it when you come back, Ruoshui, Auntie is still busy, so hang up first." The third auntie hung up the phone after speaking hastily.
Ruoshui has no time to think about it, her mental and physical strength is only enough for her to deal with her brother's affairs.
On the same day, almost all friends who knew Ruoshui and Qiao Chu called to express condolences, including Zhou Linshan.
She said to Qiao Chu seriously: "I saw the news report just now, I really didn't expect Ruoshan to leave like this. He is such a sunny and lively person. How is Ruoshui now? Is she okay?"
Qiao Chu
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