Chapter 206 Support from All Sides
When Xiongchuan went back to pack his backpack, he saw another team of soldiers rushing around.
"Xie Dayi, where do you think we should go this time?"
As soon as Xie Yi came back, he quickly went over in his mind what he needed to bring, and then immediately stuffed things into his backpack.
"How should I know? Don't put your stinky socks in the bag. I don't want to die of the stink next to you."
"No way! My socks are freshly washed."
Xiongchuan also began to resign himself to his fate and stuffed everything in.
"Stop joking and leave quickly. You'll get scolded if you're late."
Once when he was taking a political class on the island, Xie Yi was waiting for him.
My goodness, this guy squatted in the toilet for a long time, and as expected, they were both late.
During the second class, Captain Qiu blocked people at the door, beat them with a belt, and then made them run laps as punishment.
After running in the hot summer, I sweat like rain and don’t even need to take a shower.
"Here I come."
Trucks carrying soldiers in uniform drove to their destination.
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On the second day in Beijing, many people evacuated from their cars.
With so many people crowded together in the middle of summer, as the temperature rises, we toss and turn on the mats at night because we are so hot.
There are also mosquitoes and flying insects that attack indiscriminately from all directions without any blind spots. These days, Lin Xiaotong's arms and thighs are covered with red rashes.
Everyone took their own tools and set up a simple earthquake-resistant shelter in the open space at the door. Large and small, various earthquake-resistant shelters were placed next to each other.
Insert the wood you find into the ground, secure it with a cross-rope, and tie a bed sheet or urea bag on top to provide simple shelter from the wind and rain.
Pull out all the weeds on the ground, spread a mat on top of the straw, and sleep on it at night.
"It's raining, and the well water has turned yellow. It takes a long time to settle even for cooking. It's too slow."
Gao Xiulan found it troublesome to use a kettle to cook multi-grain rice. There were several wells in the automobile factory and so many people were using the water that the queues were very long.
After it rained for a long time, the water that came up was all yellow mud.
"Let it cook slowly. We can just eat some cucumbers for lunch. We're not working right now, so we can get by even if we eat less."
There were spots of mud on Xie Da Jiao's clothes and trouser legs, and everyone's face had a hint of fatigue to some extent.
"Yeah, Mom, I can't eat in this weather."
Lin Xiaotong spoke weakly, with dark circles under her eyes. She didn't know what possessed the mosquitoes in the area, but they kept biting her every day.
There were bruises all over his body, even on his face. There was a big swollen bump on the right side of his cheek.
Gao Xiulan also applied cooling oil to her, lit mosquito coils in the shed at night, and picked wild mint on the roadside, crushed it and applied it on her face.
So now Lin Xiaotong smelled strongly of mint and medicated oil, and her wrists were painted green.
The smell is so pungent when you get close to it that most people can't stand it. Even Xiaoju doesn't want to pay attention to her.
But at night, Hu Tou and his other little rascals came to the house and stayed in the Xie family's earthquake-resistant shed.
Because Lin Xiaotong is now an automatic mosquito repellent, mosquitoes will not bite people around her.
Of course, Lin Xiaotong was the only one who was attracted by mosquitoes, and she was so sad that she couldn't even cry.
"Mom, is there still no news from the street office?"
Little Green Man Lin Xiaotong's resentment towards mosquitoes was so great that he slapped eight of them to death without blinking.
"Not yet? The radio didn't say where the earthquake occurred."
When Gao Xiulan ran back to get the medicated oil, she brought the radio with her. Xie Da Jiao would turn on the news channel from time to time and wait for new news.
"I went to look for Ma Baoguo today, but the subdistrict office was empty. No one was there at all."
It wasn't until noon the next day that the radio started to crackle and a voice came from it.
"Now, I have some sad news to report. A major earthquake recently struck Phoenix. The current number of casualties is unknown..."
"Bang—"
Upon hearing the news, the aunt whose daughter had just married to Phoenix City a few years ago could not even hold the bowl in her hand. Her body went limp, her eyes closed, and she fell backwards.
"Cuihua, you have to hold on."
The person next to him quickly caught it, dragged the person to sit aside, and gave him some water.
Gao Xiulan turned up the volume of the radio to the maximum and played it three times in a row.
The children who were still jumping around in the car were pinned down by the adults and made to stand still.
The people around put down their work, lowered their heads, and waited for a while before they heard crying.
Sadness seems to be contagious, and more and more people are crying.
The ignorant children shrank their buttocks, pouted their lips, and shed tears silently, fearing that they would get beaten if they cried loudly.
At first, Aunt Cuihua lay in the arms of her little sister and cried silently. Later, when there was no more news from the radio, she could not help but lie on the ground and cry loudly.
"Damn, Xiaoqin, why don't you come home to visit me in the summer?"
"If I had known, I wouldn't have let you get married so early, Xiaoqin! My Xiaoqin!"
He kept shouting until his voice was hoarse and he couldn't speak anymore. He pounded the ground with his hands and big tears fell down his face.
Lin Xiaotong couldn't bear it anymore, and hid in Gao Xiulan's arms and cried with a smell of medicated oil.
Her tears soaked her clothes at her shoulders, and Gao Xiulan slowly patted Xiaotong's back.
Her eye sockets became shallow, and she wiped her tears with her sleeves while crying.
In the face of natural disasters, human life is so fragile that it seems as if living people will disappear overnight, and the living have to accept the reality of death over and over again.
However, there is true love in the world. After the Phoenix earthquake, the People's Liberation Army and nearly 300,000 rescue troops from all walks of life across the country rushed to the disaster area and began a race against time and death to save lives from earthquake disaster relief.
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By the time Xie Yi and his team arrived, Phoenix City had already experienced another strong aftershock.
After the heavy rain, the mud on the ground was dyed red with blood.
Everywhere you look are collapsed bungalows and a large chimney in the boiler room that's been cut in half.
There are no buildings or roads in sight.
The first batch of people's soldiers have arrived and are carrying out rescue work with the most primitive tools such as their hands, shovels, and crowbars.
A loud speaker nearby shouted: "Be determined, fear no sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory."
Without any chance to catch their breath, Xie Yi and his team also joined the search and rescue team.
Carefully search under every floor and in every corner of broken bricks and tiles for possible signs of life.
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The street office also began to take active action. Ma Baoguo, with his sparse hair and a small beard, came to the compound to encourage everyone to donate actively.
"Don't worry, everyone. I won't waste a single cent of this money. If I, Ma Baoguo, embezzle even a penny, my son will call someone else "Dad" when I get back!"
"Mr. Ma, you have to keep your word. We are all watching!"
Diao Yulian took the lead in making a fuss, and she was prepared to donate twenty yuan.
"Why don't you send a team to the neighborhood office to check it out? That way you can rest assured."
Although Ma Baoguo usually has some small calculations in his mind, it would be a real crime for him to do anything else at this time.
This amount of money is hot to hold in your hands, and anyone who spends it will feel uneasy.
He also brought an account book with him and asked Xiao Hu to write down the money he collected from each family. Every penny, no matter how much, was a token of his thoughtfulness.
Gao Xiulan said loudly, "You said that. Don't accuse us women of being heartless."
"Of course, I, Ma Baoguo, am a real man. Men are always as sure as can be."
Ma Baoguo patted his chest and the hair on his head shook a few times. Xiao Hu next to him saw with his own eyes that Director Ma had lost another hair.
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