Bi Qiao’an lay motionless in the icy snow, watching helplessly as the falling flakes slowly buried her. As her consciousness faded, her mind drifted back to the three arduous years she had spent ...
Chapter 381 When it rains, it pours
East City was unaware of what was happening in South City, and Shen Yanming had dug out another guard who had died.
He was conscious, but his left arm hung limply. There were multiple wounds on his body, and the blood on his clothes had turned dark red.
The medical staff immediately went forward to check and after confirming that it was only a fracture, they cleaned and bandaged his wound first, then fixed his arm with a wooden board, and waited to reposition it after sending him back to the camp.
This was a guard who was less seriously injured. On this day, Shen Yanming had seen several seriously injured ones. The protruding bones, the blood flowing all over the ground, and the large area of skin injuries all challenged his nerves.
Every time he turned his face away reluctantly, then followed the instructions and went to the next location to continue digging.
Time passed by minute by minute. In order to race against death, they didn't even have lunch and kept busy.
In the evening, the sky suddenly became overcast and a cold wind blew in. The people who were sweating all over could not help but shiver.
Then, in a moment, there was lightning and thunder.
The drizzle of rain soaked everyone's clothes and increased the difficulty of rescue.
But no one stopped. They wiped the rain off their faces and continued to race against time to rescue.
Newly recruited security guards such as Shen Yanming were also deeply moved and did their best to assist in the rescue.
At this time, Bi Qiaoan hadn't seen Shen Yanming all day, and she became even more worried when it thundered and rained.
The goose outside the tent was quacking. After its feathers were wet by the rain, it was eager to find a place to take shelter. The coal stove outside had no shelter, and I believe the fire would go out soon.
Bi Qiaoan felt a little bit reluctant when she heard the cry of the big goose, but it was not right for her to bring the big goose covered in water into the tent.
After thinking about it, she got up, put on long-sleeved shirt and long pants, then put on a transparent raincoat, opened a small umbrella, put a bag of ginger slices in her pocket, and went to the temporary restaurant.
Zuo Xiangqun, the security guard who usually chatted with her well, was frightened when he saw Bi Qiaoan walking in the rain with a big belly. He didn't care that it was still raining outside and hurried over to support Bi Qiaoan.
"Oh my, auntie, it's raining heavily, can't you think about your health and stay in the tent peacefully?"
Although Zuo Xiangqun was scolding her, he still helped Bi Qiaoan to the big tent of the restaurant, brought her a chair, and let her sit by the stove to warm herself by the fire.
"Is it because there is thunder outside and you are scared?" Zuo Xiangqun racked his brains and came up with this reason, because apart from this, he really couldn't think of any other reason that would make a pregnant woman come in the rain.
"No, I'm here to ask you for a favor." Bi Qiaoan said.
"What do you want to help me with?"
"My goose needs to hide from the rain here for a while." Bi Qiaoan said, pointing at the big goose at his feet.
"Then just let it come over. Are we going to kill it?" Zuo Xiangqun said with a smile, "Everyone here knows that you have a goose as a pet!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the big goose shook its body vigorously, shaking the water droplets on its feathers onto the two men's faces.
Bi Qiaoan was so angry that he wiped his face and slapped the big goose on the head, of course, without using much strength.
"What are you doing? Acting wildly on someone else's territory. Aren't you afraid that they will stew you or something?"
Zuo Xiangqun quickly stopped Bi Qiaoan, "No, why are you angry with a goose? Can it understand?"
Bi Qiaoan thought, if it can't understand, can it be a pet goose? But she couldn't say it!
"I have to teach you a lesson. This time he shook water on me. What if he pecks me twice next time?"
Now Zuo Xiangqun was speechless. He looked at the big goose with sympathy, but the big goose barked at him twice in an aggressive manner.
Bi Qiaoan probably knew what the goose meant. It was blaming Zuo Xiangqun. If he hadn't said he was going to kill it, it wouldn't have deliberately splashed water on his face.
"Have I offended it?" Zuo Xiangqun was a little confused as to why the big white goose didn't appreciate his nice words even though he kept saying them.
"Maybe it misunderstood your first sentence." Bi Qiaoan smiled embarrassedly, "When it doesn't listen, we always threaten to kill it or stew it, so..."
"But what I meant clearly was that I would not kill it!" Zuo Xiangqun felt a little aggrieved.
"You can't expect a goose to have a high IQ!" Bi Qiaoan laughed out loud.
"Well, that's true!" Zuo Xiangqun touched his shaved head, then looked at Big Goose and said, "I'm sorry, what I meant just now was that you can come here as you please, I welcome you very much."
When the big goose saw the other party apologizing to it, it stopped taking Qiao. After cackle twice, it lay down obediently at Bi Qiaoan's feet, just as well-behaved as a kitten or a puppy.
"It's, forgive me?"
"Probably!" Bi Qiaoan nodded, then took out the bag of ginger slices from his pocket and said, "The temperature outside has dropped so much, I'm worried that my husband and his family will catch a cold after being caught in the rain. Do you have a spare pot here? If so, I can make some ginger soup.
By the way, my coal stove is still outside in the rain, can you help me get it here? Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be extinguished by the rain soon."
"You're really thoughtful, but I really don't have any spare pots here." Zuo Xiangqun put on his raincoat and rubber shoes and asked, "Can you use your pots and bowls? If so, I'll bring them here to make ginger soup."
"Sure, but they're all in the storage box. I'm afraid you can't get them all by yourself."
"It's okay. If you can't take it in one trip, take it twice. Anyway, all the equipment is ready." Zuo Xiangqun said nonchalantly.
At this time, Liu Yanzhi, the person in charge of the temporary restaurant, came over and asked, "Little girl, do you still have these ginger slices?"
Bi Qiaoan didn't know what he wanted to do, so he shook his head and said, "No more, that's all I brought."
"Oh, that's troublesome."
"What's wrong?" Bi Qiaoan asked.
"It's getting colder and raining, and the medical resources here are limited. The medical staff are worried that the people affected might catch a cold, so they thought of making some ginger water for them as a precaution.
The restaurant over there ran out of ginger, so they sent a guy over to ask if we have any. But we don't have any, and I heard you talking to Xiao Zuo just now, so I thought I'd ask you to try.
I didn't expect it. Oh, I guess I should go to the warehouse to get it!"
Although Bi Qiaoan wanted to help the other party, who would bring a lot of ginger slices for no reason? Her small bag was already the limit. Even so, she thought of a lot of excuses to evade those who might ask questions.
Seeing that the little girl was not there, Liu Yanzhi was about to leave. Unexpectedly, he was stopped by Bi Qiaoan's words.