Chapter 485 Gathering into Dawn
The next morning, Chu Mingzhou went out at daybreak. After a while, Gu Yan appeared outside the tent waiting.
Lin Anan didn't waste any time. She washed up casually and came out dressed neatly.
"Brother Yan, good morning."
"morning."
"Have you had breakfast?"
Gu Yan raised the two lunch boxes in his hands and said, "Come in and have breakfast first. I'll check your condition."
"Okay."
There were four steamed buns in the lunch box, and the two of them ate them with water.
"Did you cough less last night?"
Gu Yan was neither hurried nor in a hurry to leave. He took out a stethoscope and began to examine Lin Anan with skillful and focused movements.
"Much better, except that I coughed a few times when I was awakened by the aftershock in the early morning."
Lin Anan looked at his profile as he was taking notes seriously, and suddenly remembered what Chu Mingzhou said last night: "He is just here to treat you, he has no mission", and couldn't help but want to laugh.
Who is such a senior expert director who has so much free time to travel so far to treat me?
Chu Mingzhou is too domineering.
Gu Yan put away the stethoscope and nodded, "It's not a big problem, just take the medicine on time. Captain Chu asked me to walk with you. He said you wanted to collect some materials."
"Well, this incident is so big that I want to see more of it. In addition, I also want to show my love and learn more so that I can have a better understanding of it."
The two walked out along the temporary dirt road. The dim morning light gave the broken walls and ruins a cold silver edge.
On the rubble pile by the roadside, someone had written the words "Come on" with chalk, with a crooked sun drawn next to it and a small stone underneath.
After walking a distance, Gu Yan stopped and pointed to a group of tents not far away. "That's the 'Mom's Tent'. It's full of women with children."
Outside the tent, several women were cooking porridge around a camp pot. A naked child was sitting on the edge, holding half a steamed bun in his hand, but his eyes were fixed on the rice grains in the pot.
Lin Anan walked closer and heard a woman whispering, "Yesterday, Mrs. Zhang gave the last bit of milk powder to the premature baby of the Li family, and her own child could only drink rice soup..."
Another woman added: "Stop talking. It's not easy for anyone right now. Just having a bowl of rice soup is good enough."
Their voices were very soft, but they pierced Lin Anan's heart like needles.
"The people here are very united. They all spontaneously leave their last bite of food for those who need it more."
Lin Anan hummed lightly, with reluctance in her eyes.
"I heard that the day before yesterday, an old man brought all the relief food distributed by the government to the 'Mom's Tent' and went out to dig wild vegetables to eat. As a result, he got food poisoning and is now lying in the medical center."
The two walked forward in silence. When they passed a ruin, they saw a little girl in a red scarf kneeling on the ground, carefully cleaning up the rubble with a small shovel. In front of her was a small mound of earth with a few branches stuck on it, like a simple tombstone.
"Little boy, what are you doing?" Lin Anan asked softly.
The little girl raised her head, her face covered with dust. "This is my puppy, it was trapped under the earthquake." She pointed to a piece of rag next to the pile of earth and said, "This is its nest." After that, she lowered her head and continued to shovel the earth, her little face full of seriousness.
Gu Yan squatted down and helped her straighten the crooked branch: "What's your name?"
"My name is Hu Xiaohua. My father is a firefighter. He said that we should do things well from beginning to end."
The little girl's voice was soft, but it was firm beyond her age.
Lin Anan looked at her small figure and suddenly remembered what the old guard said about "responsibility" - this may be the inheritance engraved in the bones. Even if in the ruins, we should not forget to respect life.
"Brother Yan, look over there."
Lin Anan pointed to an open space where a group of soldiers were talking to an old man.
The old man sat on the broken wall, holding an enamel pot in his hand, with the word "1950" engraved on it.
Gu Yan's eyes were filled with warmth, and his voice became a little softer. "That old man is a veteran of the Korean War. He couldn't sit still, so he came to tell the soldiers stories about the battlefield during breakfast."
"Is it to cheer everyone up?"
"Um."
As they approached, they heard the old man say, "... During the Battle of Shangganling, we didn't have any water for seven days and had to lick the dew on the rocks. Now in Tangshi we have water to drink and food to eat, so there is hope!"
The soldiers' eyes turned red when they heard this. A young soldier suddenly stood up and said, "Uncle, when Tangshi is built, I will take you to see the hydropower station!"
The old man laughed and slapped his thigh, "That's great!"
Lin Anan took out her notebook and started recording quickly.
Gu Yan stood aside, just looking at her focused profile quietly.
"An An, there is always hope in any situation."
"Um?"
At this time, a clear singing voice was heard, and several children came over, leading a blind old grandmother.
The old lady was leaning on a cane in one hand and the other hand was held by the children.
"This is Grandma Wang. Her three sons were not rescued during the earthquake. She injured her own eyes while trying to save her grandsons."
Gu Yan pointed to the smallest child beside the old lady and said, "That's his grandson. The rest of the children came here on their own initiative. Now they take turns taking her for a walk and singing to her every day. I hope grandma can cheer up."
Lin Anan looked at the children's innocent faces. He was obviously very sad too...
She suddenly understood that the so-called unity between the army and the people was never a slogan, but an instinct engraved in their bones - it was the determination of the soldiers when they used their bodies to block the pipe burst, it was the calmness of the people when they gave their last ration to those who needed it more, and it was the kindness of the injured people helping each other.
"Brother Yan, let's go over there and take a look."
"Um."
"How do you know so much?"
"While you guys are busy...I have nothing to do, so I'm just wandering around."
Hearing him say this, Lin Anan was quite surprised.
So Gu Yanzhen just came to treat me?
If he came on behalf of the Northwest Military Region General Hospital, he couldn't be so idle.
Gu Yan looked at the soldiers who were reinforcing the dam in the distance, and the red flag flying on the ruins, and said seriously: "An An, write down everything you want to write."
"Of course, I will definitely write it well."
The wind blew through the ruins, carrying with it the moisture of fresh water and the smell of earth.
In the sunshine, the busy figures of the soldiers, the singing of the children, the pale eyes of the old grandmother, and the reconstruction site under construction in the distance, are intertwined to form a tragic yet hopeful picture.
Lin Anan tightly gripped the notebook, feeling that every page was heavy. It not only recorded suffering, but also the brilliance of humanity that shone through the suffering.
And she knows that these lights will eventually converge into the "dawn" that illuminates the future.
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