"Ahhh! It's bright! It's bright!" Shao Shengfei jumped up, turned around on the spot, pointed at the sky and shouted, "It's bright! Dad, mom, and brother! Dad, mom, and brother!"
"Qingqing! Did you see it?" Qiao Songzhi excitedly grabbed Qiao Qingqing's hand. Qiao Qingqing's eyes were red and she nodded with tears in her eyes. "I saw it, I saw it."
She looked longingly at the red shadows left in the sky by the two flares, and her heart, which had been hanging in the air, finally settled down.
Sheng An is nearby. He is nearby.
After the joy and excitement, Qiao Qingqing was faced with another choice: two directions. She only had to choose one direction to move forward. Which one should she choose?
After calming down, Qiao Qingqing thought for a while: "The two signal points are close to each other, so they should get closer to each other first. Anyway, we get closer first. It's hard to travel at night. They should wait until tomorrow morning to set off. It's already dawn at six o'clock now, and the two-hour journey can shorten the distance a lot. We can wait until eight o'clock tomorrow morning to send the signal."
"Okay, I'll listen to you then."
Somewhere in the wilderness, Shao Shengan and his father were equally excited!
"It must be your mother and Qingqing and the others! We found them!" Shao's father cried with joy, tears overflowing from his eyes.
Looking at his father's completely white hair, Shao Shengan felt both happy and sad. Since the tornado that day, he only found his father, and his mother was missing. These days, the father and son have been living like hell, pain, abnormal weather crisis, food shortage... The pain of not being able to find their family is all tormenting them. At least they have a companion, what about their mother alone?
Shao Shengan didn't dare to think that his mother had met with an accident in that horrific disaster. His father had said more than once: "Your mother is a coward. Why didn't the tornado throw me away, but lost your mother instead?"
"Great! Let's go now!"
Shao Shengan quickly stopped his father: "Dad, it's dark now and it's not safe to go out. Have you forgotten that there are cracks and potholes everywhere? The visibility is not good at night, and if you accidentally fall, it will be broken. Mom and Qingqing will not go out so late. Let's wait until tomorrow morning and set off as soon as it gets light."
No matter how anxious Mr. Shao was, he knew his son was right. He nodded reluctantly and asked, "Where are we going then?"
Shao Shengan said: "Go to the nearest signal point and wait for the people at the farthest signal point to come and gather."
"Oh good!"
Neither of them slept much that night, and it was four in the morning when Shao Shengan simply sat up and rubbed his face. His father's voice came from the side: "Why don't we set off now? Hold a torch and be careful to watch the road."
"good."
Before daybreak, they got up, packed their things, had a simple meal of roasted roots, put on their backpacks, and set off with torches. After walking for more than an hour, the sky began to lighten, and the two walked faster.
"Dad, be careful!" When Shao's father almost fell again, Shao Shengan supported him.
"I'm fine! I just accidentally stepped on a stone, cough cough!" However, Shao's father no longer tried to be stubborn and held his son's hand as he walked.
Before eight o'clock, they came to a large-scale ruins, where many holes were dug, and the survivors hid in them to avoid the rain. The disaster forced humans to become survival experts. They dug holes and then dug drainage holes. Although they couldn't keep the caves dry on rainy days, at least there was no water accumulation, and at least they had a place to sit and rest.
When Shao Shengan and his son arrived, they saw smoke coming out of several holes. Upon closer inspection, they found that someone was burning dry weeds to dry the caves.
He saw some people fetching water from puddles, some setting up stoves, and some making fire to cook...
Soldiers in faded military uniforms were walking among them, carrying a large stone on their shoulders. When I saw them out of the corner of my eye, I shouted, "Third brother, there are newcomers!"
A man came out of a hole, with thick smoke billowing from beneath him: "I'm fumigating the house! Do you want to stay, newcomer? If so, find a place to live by yourself and be self-sufficient!"
Shao Shengan hurriedly shouted, "I'm here to find someone!" He said his mother's name, "Excuse me, is this person here?!"
"Sister Xia? This seems to be her name. Who are you to her?" The soldier who was moving the stone stopped busying himself. He put the stone down and approached Shao Shengan.
Shao Shengan's heart beat fast: "I am her son! She is my mother!"
Father Shao said quickly: "She is my wife!"
The soldier looked at them, and his expression made Shao Shengan feel uneasy.
"Then come with me."
The two men followed nervously, and the soldier brought them to the top of the ruins, where there was a pungent smell of burnt hay.
"Sister Xia is inside, but there's not much space, so you guys can go in alone."
When they got here, Shao's father was a little timid, but he still thought it would be best for him to go down. His legs were not convenient, so Shao Shengan supported him and watched him bend down and go in. Soon, he heard a burst of crying, which made Shao Shengan's hands start to tremble.
"Sister Xia was seriously injured. We have no medicine, so we can only live on." The soldier's eyes were red. "It was Sister Xia who pulled me out of the crack. Yesterday she said she felt, felt that she was not going to be well, so she asked me to help her fire the last flare. You saw the flare, right?"
Shao Shengan nodded, his throat choked and he couldn't speak.
Shao's father came out with tears on his face. He called Shao Shengan: "Your mother has a fever. Give me the medicine and water in the bag and I will feed it to your mother."
Ten minutes later, Shao's father poked his head in again: "My feet are not working, go and get your mother out."
Shao's mother had already fallen into a coma, and Shao's father had a hard time feeding her medicine. The soldier sighed, "Last night I told her that flares would appear from two directions at exactly 8 o'clock, and she was very happy. I didn't expect that when I got up to check on her this morning, she couldn't shout anymore."
Father Shao held his hand tightly and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you! Thank you!"
The young soldier looked ashamed: "This is what I should do... Sister Xia saved me first, I have to repay her, but I can't find the medicine... I'm sorry..."
"Don't say that, don't be like this, it's fate, God won't let us have an easy life..." Shao's father finally couldn't help it and burst into tears.
Although the cave had been smoked and dried, it was still damp and dark. After Shao Shengan carried the person out, he asked Shao's father to start building a bed and a awning. During the days they were on the road, they tried their best to collect a lot of things, including some tent canvas destroyed by the tornado, iron brackets that could still be used, and wooden boards in better shape... The luggage on the father and son's backs was getting heavier, but at least they had a place to sleep when it rained.
Shao's father laid out the wooden boards and put up the tent cloth. The soldier helped. He said his name was Liu Zhen and asked Shao's father to call him Xiao Liu.
"We can't find the tent cloth. It's all been taken away by the people in the camp over there. There is a camp over there, but it's a rich man's camp. They have quite a lot of people. When they recruit people, they have to sign an agreement, which is similar to the indenture agreement on TV. The world is not good now, and we have no choice but to settle down here with some survivors..."
Father Shao was stunned when he heard this: "How can such a thing happen?"
Liu Zhen quickly spread the canvas and said, "Anything could happen! If we didn't have guns, two girls would have been robbed by that rich man's bastard son, a perverted bastard who can't even walk when he sees a pretty girl. A bad guy like that should be thrown into the northwest by a tornado and die!"
Soon a bed with a canopy was set up. Fortunately, it didn't rain today. Shao Shengan carried his mother on his back and wrapped her with an emergency blanket.
After carefully putting the person down, Shao's mother didn't move at all.
"Xia Jie was injured on her hand, her right arm. She was injured when we met, and she used force to save me... I fixed Xia Jie's arm with wood, and then I met up with the third brother. The third brother had some Yunnan Baiyao on his hand, so I sprayed Xia Jie with it. She was almost healed, but a few days ago, Xia Jie was bitten by a rat. Rats are so poisonous nowadays. Xia Jie didn't tell me after she was bitten. Later, when she had a high fever, she told me that she was bitten. Look at her right calf, the damn rat is so poisonous! The wound is black and rotten! Do you have antibiotics? What medicine did you give her just now?"
Shao Shengan carefully untied the cloth strips wrapped around Shao's mother's feet and took off the wooden strips. Hearing this, he replied, "It's the antipyretic medicine. We have no anti-inflammatory medicine." Even this antipyretic medicine is one of the only two left. It has been more than a month since the earthquake. Everyone is covered in scars. The medicine was used up quickly at first, and then there was a tornado... After he found his father, his father was pressed under a stone. The wound worsened and caused a high fever. He used up all the antibiotics of the two people to stop the wound from continuing to pus. The antipyretic medicine was also consumed very quickly. He himself was reluctant to take the medicine even when he was unwell. After his father's condition got better, they began to move and sent flares along the way, but all the signals fell into the sea until he found his mother today.
Seeing his mother lying there unresponsive, Shao Shengan felt heartbroken and experienced once again the pain he felt when he found his father under the flood.
"Mom, Mom?" Shao Shengan gently touched her face and called her name.
Shao's mother did not wake up.
Shao Shengan had no choice but to treat her wounds. First, the wound was caused by a rat, which was covered with a layer of green paste. Liu Zhen said it was anti-inflammatory herbs. The herbs he found were very few, only enough for Shao's mother to use twice, and this time it was applied yesterday at noon.
"The weather started to get hot, humid and hot, and Sister Xia's wound started to fester and rot again. I didn't dare to bandage it up." Liu Zhen helped and reminded Shao Shengan that if he didn't have anti-inflammatory drugs, it would be best not to cut open the abscess to drain the pus. "I cut it once to drain the pus, but the incision couldn't be treated well, and the pus became worse afterwards."
Shao Shengan also understood this principle. He gritted his teeth and endured the pain as he cleaned the wound with the remaining disinfectant. He then gently wrapped it with gauze to isolate it from dust and bacteria in the air.
As for the wound on his mother's arm, he did not move for the time being. He knew in his heart that if the wound from the rat bite was not properly treated and without antibiotics, his mother would not survive. He looked into the distance anxiously and said to Shao's father, "Dad, you stay here to take care of Mom. I'll go pick up Qingqing and the others."
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