Chapter 14 The branches were broken
The village chief's wife also had a bad temper. She glared at Song Shijing and slapped him on the muddy face with a slap.
"You young man, have you read so much that you have become a fool?"
"Don't you know why Meng always comes to my house to help? She comes to my house to help after finishing her work at the lumberyard just to feed you a whole egg every day to nourish your body. But you complain about people gossiping about her. Haven't you and that nurse Su gossiped enough? You are such a jerk!"
"Luckily the girl finally saw you and left, otherwise I really couldn't bear to watch..."
Song Shijing froze in place, as if he was awakened by the slap.
It turns out that Shuyue often went to the village chief's house just for an egg.
For a moment, his eyes turned red, but he reacted suddenly, grabbed the village head's wife's wrist, and said in shock: "What did you just say? You said Shuyue left?"
"He left two days ago! How could you, as his girlfriend, only find out after such a long time?"
"I heard that there was a flood in the neighboring city on the morning of the departure. The trains in the city stopped and everyone fled. I don't know if the girl is okay!"
"Why is that girl so unlucky? She left on that day instead of earlier. It's all because of these two people who had an affair and everyone knew about it, which harmed the girl..."
The voices of the village head's wife and the old man gradually faded away.
Song Shijing froze in place, with only the roar in his ears.
The only sound around him was the crackling of rain hitting the ground and the wooden tiles, but he was like a drowning man in the vast ocean, desperately looking for driftwood, with fear in his eyes.
He kicked open the door of the wood floor dormitory and lit the kerosene lamp in the room with trembling hands.
"Shuyue, Shuyue..."
Song Shijing called her name in a trembling voice.
While calling out, he flipped over the bed covers like crazy and stuck his head out to search under the bed.
I opened the small wooden cabinet and it was empty, without a single piece of clothing.
He stood in the empty room, feeling weak and depressed as if all the strength had been drained from his body.
Just like in that nightmare, he stood in despair in the middle of the burned-down dormitory, feeling the surging pain of losing her about to drown him.
The words that the village head's wife had just said echoed in his mind.
Shuyue is really gone!
He passed away yesterday and his life or death is unknown in the flood!
There was a small box on the clean table.
He opened the box and looked at the hairpin inside. He felt as if he had been hit on the head with a club and the world around him was spinning.
That was the only gift he gave her.
But she left it here.
"Shuyue..."
Outside the house, the night was silent. Inside the house, he curled the hairpin into his palm, supported himself on the table and slid down to sit on the floor, crying like a child who couldn't find his home.
Su Yanyan couldn't wait for him to come back, so she rushed over wearing a straw hat and a raincoat.
Looking at Song Shijing who was crying loudly in the room, she froze in place, her eyes immediately turning red with anger.
"Brother Jing, let's go back. I heard that many houses in the city were flooded yesterday, and there were heavy casualties. She just loves to act like a spoiled child. She didn't leave earlier or later, but had to leave now. Don't blame yourself too much."
Su Yanyan tried to persuade him while reaching out to hold Song Shijing's hand.
Song Shijing pushed her away with bloodshot eyes and yelled at her: "Impossible, Shuyue won't die, I want to find her!"
After saying that, he completely ignored the fact that Su Yanyan was pushed to the ground and her forehead hit the corner of the table, and ran out like a madman, his whole body disappearing in the dark night covered with rain...
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In the shelter late at night, amidst the noise, a man and a woman who were in a coma were carried in.
The military doctor was in a hurry. After bandaging the leg of the patient in the next bed, he hurried over to ask about the condition of the two people.
"Did they faint? Are they injured?"
Several young people who participated in the rescue suddenly blushed and stammered, "We don't know the specific situation of these two people."
"This man probably had a back injury and fainted due to excessive blood loss. As for this woman...we don't know how she fainted."
"Yes, when we found these two people, they were kissing each other on a branch at the end of a tree fork. The man seemed to have fainted a long time ago, and the woman was biting the man like a hungry wolf. She fainted when she saw us coming."
"Luckily we arrived in time. If we had come a little later, the branch would not have been able to bear the weight of the two of us and would have broken..."
Several young men were chattering non-stop, and even though Meng Shuyue was lying on a stretcher pretending to be unconscious, he couldn't hide the heat on his face.
She wanted to jump up and stuff these people's mouths with hard buns.
What does it mean that she pounces on her food like a hungry wolf?
Didn’t they see how the handsome sleeping man who had fainted beside them pounced on her like a hungry wolf?
Otherwise, how could such a thick tree trunk break?
How could he faint from excessive blood loss?
When the rescue comrades saw her kissing someone, they had no idea that she was actually giving them artificial respiration.
The more Meng Shuyue thought about it, the more embarrassed she felt. She didn't know what happened during the day, but she just lost her mind like a crazy lover. She had never been so restless in her life.
Just like that, I suddenly changed from a girl to a woman.
And this was a man I had only met once!
She wanted to commit suicide to thank her parents. She was so weak-willed that she was seduced by a handsome guy and lost her body.
Meng Shuyue cried in her heart, but pretended to be dead on the surface, allowing them to transfer the two people to their respective small beds.
Finally, when there was no one around, she quietly raised her eyelids and looked at the doctor who was still helping Shuai Guo suture his shoulder wound, then she tiptoed to pick up her bag and sneaked away.
Slip away very fast.
Forget about the man she had a brief affair with...
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Three days later.
Meng Shuyue finally returned to Kyoto, sweating profusely, carrying his bag.
Three days ago, she left the shelter and walked to a nearby town. She originally wanted to call home, but at that time, post-disaster reconstruction was in progress and the phone could no longer be used.
So I had to take a detour to another city and buy another train ticket back.
She knew her parents must be very worried after not contacting them for three days.
So he ran to the Chinese medicine clinic without stopping.
At the entrance of the Chinese medicine clinic, from a distance, she saw her mother standing at the door in a daze.
"mother!"
Meng Shuyue screamed, cried and ran into her arms.
Mother Meng's whole body trembled violently, and when she heard her daughter's voice, her dull eyes suddenly lit up and focused again.
She turned around with a stiff neck, and when she saw the slender figure running towards her, she could no longer hold back the fear and worry she had suffered for days and burst into tears.
"My dear Yueyue, my dear Yueyue, I thought I didn't want to live anymore without you..."
"Mom, it's all Yueyue's fault for being so willful and making mom and dad worry!"
The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried. The sound of their cries spread throughout the alley. People who came and went looked at them as if they were crazy.
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