Chapter 10: Delivery
Song's father's words frightened the two brothers who had just been standing up for Su Yanyan.
Cutting off their living expenses is tantamount to forcing them to die!
In the eyes of ordinary people, 200 yuan can last for most of half a year.
But who are they?
Normally, those good friends in the circle are dressed in gold and silver, and it costs 50 yuan to invite them to have a meal in a state-owned restaurant.
After a month of dealing with all kinds of social interactions, they treated me to dinner and gave gifts to the young ladies in their circle. 200 yuan was not enough to spend.
But the old father actually wants to take back the living expenses?
"Did you hear that?"
The old father got angry again.
Now the two brothers were completely scared and nodded in agreement.
I was afraid that if I agreed later, the only 20 yuan I had left in my pocket for living expenses would be taken back.
Song's mother was rubbing her painful temples, thinking about the country girl in gray clothes, who could not be her eldest daughter-in-law, and would have to be the second or youngest daughter-in-law. Her head began to hurt again.
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At the train station.
Meng Shuyue sat in the waiting room checking the specialties she had just bought.
Bacon, cold cakes and big red dates that are only available here.
I looked at the time and there were still three hours before I got on the bus.
At this time, an emergency announcement came from the radio of a passenger nearby, "Dear listeners, due to severe convective weather and sudden heavy rain, the dam in the neighboring city was damaged and flooded. If there are young and middle-aged men nearby, please rush to help with the rescue immediately. The elderly and children, please go to high places immediately and wait for rescue until the flood recedes..."
Just as I was listening intently, an emergency notice came from the waiting room broadcast, informing passengers that all trains had stopped running and they should follow the staff to a nearby shelter.
For a moment, the already bustling train station was suddenly filled with noise, and the crowd rushed to the exit of the train station.
Meng Shuyue was holding her bag and was pushed out by the crowd.
Meng Shuyue wanted to squeeze over to help but was pushed out of the train station entrance by the crowd like duckweed floating against the current.
Because the flood occurred in the neighboring city, it would take time for the flood to come over.
But everyone was already panicked and ran all the way towards the mountains in the suburbs.
After Meng Shuyue followed the crowd for half an hour, they gradually slowed down their pace as they looked at the mountains not far away. Some people sat in the haystacks by the roadside to rest in groups of three or four.
Someone took out the radio to listen to the latest news.
The radio broadcast the announcer's magnetic and rhythmic voice, directly transferred to the reporter's live broadcast, "Many comrades from neighboring cities have come to support. There are old people and children trapped on the roof of the adobe house, and there are female comrades holding children trapped in a tree. Commander Shen of the 13th Corps led the soldiers to rescue.
Everyone couldn't help but have tears in their eyes as they listened to the exciting stories reported in the news.
Suddenly, there was a burst of "buzzing" noise from the radio, followed by another news interruption.
"Dear listeners, I am reporting the latest news. A pregnant woman was waiting for rescue on the roof of a house in the center of the disaster area. The branch of a large tree next to the house pierced her right arm and she was fixed on the roof and could not be moved. The pregnant woman is in critical condition and is about to give birth. Please ask the relevant professional medical staff nearby to go to the rescue and give this unborn child a chance of life!"
At this time, the sky in the suburbs was covered with dark clouds. The dark clouds seemed to be right above our heads, making it hard to breathe.
The belated rainstorm finally came like beans, falling one by one, getting heavier and heavier. In an instant, the surrounding mud became slippery and sticky, and full of potholes.
Everyone cried after listening to the news.
Tears mixed with rain flowed down everyone's faces. Some people turned off the radio in a daze, some took out their hats and put them on, and some got on their bicycles again, still heading towards the nearby mountains.
Meng Shuyue stood there carrying her bag on her back. The rain washed over her frail body. She felt isolated and helpless like a wandering soul.
Many images flashed through my mind.
She remembered the purpose of saving lives that her father taught her as a doctor.
She recalled the first time she followed her mother to help deliver a baby. The moment the little baby cried for the first time, she felt the miracle of life for the first time.
Watching the crowd gradually moving away, Meng Shuyue tightened his grip on the bag, put it back on his back, turned around and walked in the opposite direction of the crowd.
"Comrade, are you going to rescue someone?"
Meng Shuyue stopped and looked back.
A young man stood in the rain, pushed a bicycle towards her and handed the bicycle to her.
"You can use this bicycle. I can't carry it up the mountain anyway, and it will be washed away by the flood, so I'll give it to someone who can use it!"
Meng Shuyue took the bicycle, her voice choked with sobs, "Thank you, thank you..."
But before she could finish her thanks, the young man waved and ran away.
She got on the bike, squinted her eyes, pushed the pedal, and rode to the neighboring city.
The neighboring city was only separated from here by a group of mountains. When she rode her bike along the main road to the border of the neighboring city, she happened to meet the troops who were carrying out rescue work.
Meng Shuyue was still shocked as he looked at the desolate scene before him.
Looking towards the low-lying villages, all I could see was floods, with only a few roofs sticking out of the water. Only then did I realize that the rushing water in front of me was not a river, but that villagers originally lived here.
Meng Shuyue quickly threw away his bicycle and walked towards the rescue workers who were arranging the boats.
"Comrade, I can deliver a baby, please take me over!"
The commander in chief holding a map looked Xu Jinhe up and down, then immediately nodded and called on several comrades to escort her to the low-lying areas where the disaster was most severe.
Soon, the wobbly boat arrived at the roof of a hut.
A young comrade reported that a doctor was coming.
Then a blood-stained hand reached down from the roof, and a low, smoky, magnetic voice came clearly into her ears amidst the continuous drizzle.
“Be careful!”
Meng Shuyue clenched the hand without thinking and jumped onto the roof.
Only a two-meter-wide strip of tiles on the roof was not flooded.
She looked at the pregnant woman whose shoulder was pierced by a branch and was still shocked by the scene before her.
It was not a small branch at all. What was exposed on the pregnant woman's shoulder was the top of a branch as big as a palm. The tip of the branch had already pierced through the roof, pinning the pregnant woman to the roof.
No wonder they couldn't transfer the pregnant woman. Once the tree trunk was cut in half, it would cause heavy bleeding. She might go into shock and die on the way to the hospital, and the baby in her belly would definitely not be saved.
It happened that the pregnant woman's water broke, and she seemed to guess that she would not be able to make it to the hospital to give birth, so she begged the rescue workers to send a doctor to deliver the baby.
When the pregnant woman saw Meng Shuyue, her originally gloomy expression suddenly brightened up. She pulled Meng Shuyue and choked up, "Doctor, please save my child, please..."
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