"Yes, yes! Qingqing has the medicine, Qingqing must have a way!" Father Shao seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and his tone became anxious, "Hurry up and pick up Qingqing, be careful, be careful!"
"I will definitely come back." Shao Sheng'an set off. His heart was very heavy, but his steps went against his mood and he ran as fast as he could. He temporarily put aside his worries about his mother and ran faster, faster, and faster. He wanted to seize the only chance to save his mother's life.
In fact, he knew that the flare might not be Qingqing's, and Qingqing and the other two might not still be together.
But he had no other choice, what else could he do?
While running, the moisture in Shao Shengan's eyes blurred his vision. He blinked to make his vision clear again, then stopped thinking and continued running.
Suddenly a white flare flew up in front of him. Shao Shengan's heart tightened and he subconsciously glanced at his watch.
Eight o'clock in the morning.
One kilometer away, Qiao Qingqing and the others' expectations were dashed.
"There should be no more flares. After all, we have been separated for a long time..." Qiao Qingqing exhaled and encouraged with a smile, "Let's keep going!"
Ten minutes later, Qiao Qingqing stood there in a daze, staring blankly at the bearded man in front of her.
The man ran towards her, his figure as fast as a gust of wind. Qiao Qingqing took two steps forward and stopped, suddenly squatting on the ground and covering her face with her hands.
"Sheng An? It's Sheng An!"
"Wow brother! Brother brother!"
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and then Qiao Qingqing felt someone hugging her.
"Qingqing, don't cry."
When Shao's mother woke up, she thought she was dreaming. She wanted to rub her eyes, but just as she moved, she remembered that her hand was injured. So she raised her other hand and touched the back of the person beside the bed. Why did this person's back look so much like her Feifei?
Shao Shengfei sat by his mother's bed to "take care" of her, but he was a child at heart and had no patience to sit there, so Qiao Qingqing gave him a Rubik's Cube and asked him to spin it. He hadn't played with the Rubik's Cube since he fled, and he was having a lot of fun with the new Rubik's Cube. Suddenly someone touched his back, and he looked back in surprise, then his eyes widened and he shouted in surprise: "Mom! Mom!"
"Fei, Feifei?" Shao's mother murmured, "Mom dreamed of you."
"Mom, you're awake!" Shao Shengfei lay down in front of her and called her happily. He had a lot to say to his mother. He said that he bravely protected Qiao's mother and sister, and that he saw a tank. He also saw a beautiful flower next to the tank, but it was a pity that it was picked by someone else. He didn't find another flower as beautiful as that one...
He couldn't say those words, he pouted and cried: "Mom, I miss you so much."
"Hey, Axia, you're awake! Qingqing is really reliable. She said you'd wake up soon and you really did." Father Shao limped over from the stove, wiped his hands and touched her forehead, and said happily, "It's not hot anymore! You must be hungry, I'm cooking porridge, it'll be ready soon, Feifei, stay with your mother."
After saying that, he turned around and went to the stove again.
On the other side, Qiao Songzhi came back with a bucket after hanging up the clothes. Seeing her wake up, she was overjoyed: "Axia, you're awake! I was so worried. It hurts to see you like this. How do you feel?"
Shao's mother felt that this dream was too real and too good, so good that she didn't want to wake up and her tears kept flowing.
"Why are you crying? Don't cry, don't cry. You are too weak now. Qingqing said you need to rest and not get too emotional." Qiao Songzhi quickly put down the bucket and sat over. He gently held her other hand and patted it soothingly, "Don't get excited. Calm down."
Only after seeing Liu Zhen did Shao's mother truly believe that she was reunited with her family.
"Xia Jie, I shouldn't call you Aunt Xia, haha. Your son is two years older than me, it's not appropriate for me to call you sister." Liu Zhen scratched his head. He said to Shao's mother, "It's great that your family came to see you!"
He finally understood why Aunt Xia was so determined to be reunited with her family, because Aunt Xia’s family was so amazing!
The husband and son came first and made the bed for Aunt Xia. Then the daughter-in-law, eldest son and mother-in-law came. It was incredible. Liu Zhen stared at Aunt Xia's daughter-in-law, not because of her appearance - she was wearing a mask, but because Aunt Xia's daughter-in-law was really amazing. After she came, she opened a bag without saying a word, took out a set of needles, and quickly pricked Aunt Xia up like a hedgehog. Then she took out a scalpel, disinfected it with fire, and directly cut open Aunt Xia's festering wound, squeezed out all the pus, and finally sprinkled medicine and bandaged it.
The bandaging was done by Aunt Xia's son. During that time, her daughter-in-law crushed the capsules and pills into powder and mixed them into a bowl of medicine. She pinched Aunt Xia's chin and somehow managed to force the whole thing down her throat in two strokes.
After that, he said that while the person was still unconscious and didn't feel any pain, he removed the wood and bandages on Aunt Xia's arm, and after carefully feeling around for a few times, he twisted, pulled, and pressed. He heard a few bone cracking sounds that gave him goose bumps. The comatose Aunt Xia groaned in discomfort, but her daughter-in-law smiled and took out a bottle of black stuff from her backpack that was like a treasure chest, dug out a large lump of something with a stinky medicinal smell and applied it. She then asked Aunt Xia's son to find a clean stick and she would tie it on, saying that it would be enough to fix it for three months.
"These sticks are clean." Liu Zhen finally had some room to show his talents, so he quickly handed over the two pieces of wood he had removed. "I washed them and dried them over fire after I found them. I dried them again just now, and they are very clean."
"Thank you." Aunt Xia's son smiled at him and handed the wood to Aunt Xia's daughter-in-law. The two smiled at each other and seemed to have a good relationship.
In short, in Liu Zhen's eyes, this morning was really extraordinary and passed very quickly, as if it was just dawn and suddenly it was noon and time for lunch.
The third brother did not go out to look for food in the morning. After smoking the cave, he chopped wood in the camp and paid attention to the newcomers. Liu Zhen knew the character of the third brother and whispered, "They are Aunt Xia's family, not bad people."
The third brother said, "They are carrying bows and crossbows. It won't hurt to be careful."
Liu Zhen replied sullenly, "I know," and looked around again: "Is it time to cook lunch?"
"You go build the fire, the wood will be cut soon."
Seventeen people lived in this ruin. Under the unified arrangement of the third brother, everyone performed their duties and worked hard together. Today's lunch was still wild vegetable stewed with radish, plus some newly picked wild mushrooms, and a pack of compressed biscuits. The third brother looked at the dwindling supplies and felt worried, but he didn't show it on his face.
While Liu Zhen was making a fire, Shao Shengfei had set up the two tents. Shao's father had also cooked the radish soup and invited everyone to come and drink it. He first served a bowl to Shao's mother.
After drinking, Shao Shengan carried Shao's mother into the tent. Others also came in one after another and squeezed into a tent.
The tent door was open in a position facing away from the ruins, so there was no need to close it. Qiao Qingqing set up a small table and put a lot of food on it, so much that the table could not hold it any more.
Father Shao hurriedly stopped him: "Enough, enough, too much!"
Qiao Qingqing smiled and said, "Not much, we have big appetites."
"Hurry up and eat. You have all lost weight. Feifei and I didn't suffer much following Qingqing. Alas!" Qiao Songzhi sighed.
Shao's mother leaned weakly against Shao's father and smiled when she heard the words: "It's good that we didn't have to suffer. Sheng An couldn't open the space, but fortunately Qingqing could still open it. We were so worried at that time. There were so many things in the space, it would be a pity if they were all gone." Especially when she was chewing wild grass, she missed the food in the space so much, the white rice, white porridge, and white steamed buns, which made people drool just thinking about it.
"Eat quickly." Qiao Qingqing said softly, looking at Shao Shengan. Shao Shengan smiled at her with soft eyes.
After more than a month of separation, the family finally reunited and gathered together for a long-awaited reunion dinner. Shao's father hurriedly mixed some curry soup and ate a bowl of rice, and then fed Shao's mother. Shao's mother could only drink white porridge, and she drank it mouthful by mouthful with care, her brows relaxed. Suddenly she remembered something and looked outside, and Shao's father asked her what she was looking at.
"Where's Xiao Liu? He's such a good boy and has always taken care of me. Can I bring him something to eat?"
Qiao Songzhi smiled immediately: "Of course, we should thank him very much!"
"Qingqing, are there any canned food left?" Shao Shengan asked.
"Yes." Qiao Qingqing took out four boxes of canned rat meat and Shao Shengan handed them to Liu Zhen.
Liu Zhen couldn't refuse and accepted it, and asked his third brother to deal with it. The third brother looked at Shao Shengan's back and said, "Put away the two cans, they are yours, keep them for yourself, and give the other two cans to everyone." Aunt Xia was indeed taken care of by Liu Zhen the most, but everyone worked together to make fire, find firewood, make fire and cook, etc. Aunt Xia also shared everyone's hard work after she fell ill, and it was reasonable to confiscate half of Aunt Xia's family's thank-you gift. Liu Zhen also thought it was reasonable, and he thought that one can was enough for him, and three cans were given to everyone as a meal. He also thought that the one can he kept would be shared equally with his third brother.
Today's lunch was unusually sumptuous. Everyone got a piece of meat. A little kid cried while eating. "My mom gave it to me before, but I saw it was canned rat meat and I didn't want to eat it, so I spit it out..."
The child's words caused everyone to feel sad.
"I still have chickens at home. I walk for hours every day to the wild to cut weeds and catch mice for them to eat. I take such good care of them! But they were all gone after the earthquake. If I had known this would happen, I would not have waited for them to grow up and would have eaten roasted chickens directly!"
"You raise chickens, but I raise mice! I dug a pit at home and endured the stench every day. I also had to dig earthworms and cut weeds for them to eat. I also had to worry that the bacteria on their bodies would pass on to me and make me sick. I had to wear a mask at home..."
"Hiss, Aunt Wang, you are really amazing."
"That's nothing impressive. The news said that mice reproduce faster if they are raised high, and they even have canned mouse meat. If the higher-ups dare to raise mice, why shouldn't I? One of my neighbors is even more amazing. He raises earthworms!"
"Wow!"
The campsite was bustling with activity. Everyone was talking about their past lives. On the other side, Qiao Qingqing's family had finished their meal and were undergoing a physical examination.
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