Next to Xiao Zhangyou was a pack of empty biscuit packaging, and in Xiao Zhangyou's arms was a bottle of water that was one-third empty.
"You went out?"
Zhang You looked at her mother in shock. In just a moment, she realized what had happened during the time she was away. Her heart felt so blocked and stuffy that she felt like she couldn't breathe.
A day and a night had passed since the earthquake. An adult could survive three days without food or water, but what about a seven-year-old girl?
So, Mom risked her life by searching for food and water in the narrow crevice... So, they had made that noise just now, accidentally attracting rescuers... So, Dad didn't die from his injuries, but died suddenly while trying to buy time for his wife...
"Why are you so stupid? I don't need your sacrifice! I don't want you to die!"
Zhang You's gaze fell on her mother's back, and she realized how seriously she was injured. A small collapse had just occurred, sending rubble crashing down. To protect her daughter, she had used her body to block the impact, and a piece of porcelain, from nowhere, had pierced her shoulder blade, staining her back red with blood. She probably knew she was dying, and she kept telling little Zhang You what to say. She had so much to say, and she spoke whatever came to her mind.
"Mom also wants to grow up with Youyou... But it's too late... There's so little Mom can do... The rest of the way... Youyou will be alone, don't be afraid... Youyou must be brave... If you miss mom and dad, just look up at the sky. Mom and dad will turn into wind, turn into rain, and scatter into stars, loving you forever..."
"No, Mom, please, don't leave me. I don't want to be alone. I don't want to live a life without you. Don't leave me! Don't leave me!"
They were isolated in two worlds, and no matter how Zhang You cried and begged, she received no response.
"But I want to be with Mom and Dad." Little Zhang You seemed to understand her mother's words. She seemed to sense that they were leaving her forever, never to appear in her world again. She choked with tears, trying to hold her mother back.
However, my mother just hugged me gently again. The temperature of her body was still warm, but there was no longer the faint scent of jasmine. Instead, there was a strong smell of blood.
"Mom, are you hurt? Are you going to die?" Little Zhang You tried hard to suppress her sadness, but her tears were too weak to flow, and in just a moment, she was completely defeated.
Little Zhang You could only feel that after she cried, her mother hugged her even tighter, and all her tears were drowned in her mother's arms.
She was greedy for this warmth, and her little hands hugged her mother tightly, unwilling to let go.
"Youyou...you must live...promise mom...okay?...Mom and dad just want you to live happily...your greatest wish is for you to live..."
"...Okay...I promise Mom..." Little Zhang You felt her mother's arms gradually losing strength as they hugged her, and her mother's voice gradually became weaker. She didn't want to disappoint her mother, so she choked and agreed.
"Youyou... live... must... live... " Her voice was weak until it stopped abruptly.
In the small space, the only sound was little Zhang You's sobs. She felt her mother's arms weaken and fall, unable to hold her anymore. Sorrow flooded through her every limb. She opened her mouth fearfully, one word after another, anxious and nervous, hoping for a response.
"Mom? Mom? Mom... Mom..."
Until the end, she never received a response.
Her mother's embrace was still so warm, and she was still holding her mother, but why did she feel like she had completely lost something? Her heart felt like it was falling from a height of ten thousand meters. She couldn't hold it, and she couldn't calm down...
At this moment, Zhang You was already crying uncontrollably. She was clearly in the form of a soul, but she was as sad as a drowning person. She felt suffocated, and her heart ached with every breath.
As she grew older, she remembered only fragments of the disaster. She only remembered being in darkness for a long, long time... At first, she wasn't afraid. Even though her tiny self was hurting from the impact, she knew her parents were watching over her, so she wasn't afraid. But the darkness lasted too long. Gradually, she couldn't hear her father's voice anymore, and then her mother's voice too. At that moment, she finally burst into tears of fear, sobbing and almost choking.
But her mother's last words were still ringing in her ears: she had to live, she couldn't cry like this anymore. She suppressed the sadness in her heart, biting her lips so hard that they left teeth marks, and let the tears flow, but she didn't make a sound.
After an unknown amount of time, her tears dried up and her face became sticky. She sobbed and stopped crying. She just quietly hugged her mother's body, feeling her mother's last warmth, full of attachment.
Until, there was a sound in her ears, and then, there was light shining through, just in her eyes. She hadn't seen the sun for a long time, and at first glance, her eyes were sore and painful. She quickly closed her eyes and took a long time to relax.
But when she opened her eyes, she saw a pair of guilty and ruthless eyes.
She would never forget those eyes, even if she didn't remember what that person looked like. But those eyes that were cold yet selfish, ruthless yet filled with guilt, had appeared in her mind many times.
Little Zhang You immediately recognized that it was the aunt and her family living upstairs. She seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw and shouted loudly: "Auntie! Auntie! Save my parents! Save me! Auntie! Don't go! Auntie!"
That person didn't come.
She just glanced at Xiao Zhangyou quickly, then escaped and disappeared from Xiao Zhangyou's sight.
Zhang You looked at her and remembered the origin of the eyes in his midnight dream.
It turns out that he is watching someone die without helping...
Zhang You murmured in her heart. She knelt beside little Zhang You and had no strength to speak or cry.
There was a huge beast roaring inside her, trying to break free from its cage, but her face was surprisingly calm.
Human heart.
This is the human heart.
If she was not the person involved, she might be able to judge from a moral high ground: the person is in a difficult situation himself, so it is understandable that she does not offer help.
But she was the one being ignored and begged for help, and she couldn't help but have many dark and vicious thoughts in her mind: Why didn't she die when no one helped her? People like them deserved to die!
The light in little Zhang You's eyes suddenly dimmed the moment her aunt left.
The little girl didn't understand why her aunt pretended not to see her and just left. Didn't she have a good relationship with her mother? Didn't she always chat and go shopping with her mother?
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