Shao Shengan treated Shao Shengfei's wound, disinfected it, applied medicine and bandaged it, then took out mineral water and pills and gave them to him: "Big brother, take them yourself."
Shao Shengfei nodded obediently. Qiao Qingqing was setting Qiao Songzhi's bones. Her left hand was broken and it was hanging there, unable to move. Applying medicine and fixing it with a wooden strip was the simple treatment.
After getting on the kayak, Shao's mother fell down. After a thorough examination, Qiao Qingqing determined that her coccyx was injured. Seeing that she was in so much pain that she couldn't sit or lie down, she had no choice but to give her painkillers.
Qiao Qingqing dealt with the serious injuries first, and the others had to be dealt with slowly and without haste.
Everyone had many injuries from the impact. Shao's father had a large bruise on his back. Shao's mother cried and said, "Your father was holding me the whole time. It must have hurt."
Father Shao didn't take it seriously: "It hurts, it's just a little bruise, rub it with medicinal wine for a few days and it will be fine. Qingqing, take care of yourself first."
Qiao Qingqing knew her situation and shook her head: "I'm fine for now, I just need to take some medicine."
"What should we do if Xiao Zeng wakes up and knows the secret of space?" asked Shao's father.
"Liu Zhen and the others are missing, as are your colleague Xiao Liu and the others," said Shao's mother.
"Qingqing, don't move. Let me take care of the wound on your foot." Qiao Songzhi held her foot.
"Although we have been through hardships together, the time we have spent together is too short to fully understand a person's character. Qingqing, let's separate from Zeng Guangyu so that our family can be more free when using supplies."
Shao Shengan has completely adapted to the rules of the end times.
Appropriate and timely compassion, but only a little bit.
Qiao Qingqing nodded: "Leave the kayak to her."
No one had any objection.
Half an hour later, Zeng Guangyu woke up and found herself sleeping on the kayak with no one around her. She sat up immediately in shock and found that her nails, which had been broken while grabbing the wooden boat in the ocean waves, had been simply treated with traces of herbs. It still hurt, but it was treated so cleanly that it would heal quickly as long as it was not exposed to water.
She looked around and found that her luggage bag was still there. In addition to the backpack, there was a wooden barrel with a bucket of fish inside and a knife stuck in it. She recognized that it was the knife Uncle Shao used to kill fish. Next to the wooden barrel was a Coke bottle, exactly the same as the bottle used by Sister Qiao's family to filter water.
Looking around, Zeng Guangyu realized that he had been abandoned.
No, it can't be said that she was abandoned, but Sister Qiao's family was very cautious, and she couldn't join them from beginning to end. She sighed, feeling very disappointed and regretful. She got along well with Aunt Qiao and Aunt Shao, and thought she could stay. Although it was agreed that they would only stay for three days, they had experienced the forty-nine hours of water and fire together, and no one mentioned the three days after the rain of fire. She didn't expect that they would still abandon her.
"What a magical family combination." Zeng Guangyu sighed. Shao's father doesn't like to make decisions, Sheng Fei has some brain problems, Aunt Shao and Aunt Qiao are both kind and amiable, Brother Shao is hardworking, steady and has a good temper, Sister Qiao looks cold, but she is the core of this family, and everyone listens to her. It should be Sister Qiao who made the decision to let her go, hey, Aunt Qiao and the others won't intercede? Is Sister Qiao's words final?
But it was no use thinking about it. If her family didn't take her out to play, she would have to rely on herself. At least they left her a kayak. They were really nice people!
Not far away, Shao Shengan put down the telescope: "She's awake."
"Okay, let's go now!"
After a few hours of madness, the sea calmed down and it was already dawn.
Along the way, Qiao Qingqing and the others looked for Song Sanhe and Liu Zhaoyun. Qiao Qingqing was very wary of outsiders. She could accept cooperation between the two groups, such as Song Sanhe, but she could not easily accept outsiders into her own group.
With no outsiders in the house, everyone was relaxed and finally able to eat the food in the space. They had never compromised on food and drink. These days, they ate and drank like ordinary survivors and always felt greedy.
Everyone felt very satisfied after eating white rice after a long time.
"Sanhe and the others should be okay, right? I just don't know where they were swept away by the waves." said Shao's mother.
"It will be fine. As long as the rope doesn't break and we are tied to the wooden boat like we are, there will be no big problem." Qiao Songzhi put away the washed dishes and turned them upside down to dry in the sun.
Qiao Qingqing had been using a telescope to check the surroundings. She saw some survivors, but more dead bodies. Their family was really lucky. Tying a wooden boat was not foolproof. If their wooden boat collided with Song Sanhe's boat, or if the waves rolled their boat into rocks or other hard objects, the whole family would die.
The one who was most seriously injured was Shao's mother. Her lumbar vertebrae and coccyx were hit hard by the broken end of the wooden boat. Until now, she can only lie down. Qiao Qingqing didn't dare to say too much, but just tried her best to treat her.
"Can you find it?" Shao Sheng'an reconnected the severed hemp rope so that he could continue using it. When he saw Qiao Qingqing put down the telescope and sit down, he looked up and asked.
"We can't find it. This sea is too strange. We must have been swept to a far place and there is no way to find the land." Qiao Qingqing felt a little regretful. She had thought that she could live by the land for a little longer. Maybe... she could wait until the land resurfaced? In this way, their family could stand on land as soon as possible.
"It doesn't matter if you can't find it. You see, we met by chance before. This is fate. We will have a new fate with the second piece of land." Shao Shengan touched her head.
They chose a piece of water without any corpses to stay on, set up a sunshade, built a wooden fence underwater, and put two kayaks and a speedboat together to expand the family's range of activities.
The sea water was raging this time, and Qiao Qingqing's family were all injured to varying degrees. After settling down, they concentrated on recuperating. Unexpectedly, the chickens and ducks were intact in this disaster, not a single one was lost, and not a single one died. After being fished out of the water, they were all dizzy, and most of them lay down and couldn't move. Unexpectedly, they recovered after a few hours, and they had a good appetite when fed and watered. Now they are swimming happily next to the kayak - they have no fear of water at all.
Everyone in the family smelled of medicinal wine and had ointments on them all day long. After Qiao Qingqing recovered, she started to give them acupuncture, and their injuries gradually healed.
At night, Qiao Qingqing and Shao Shengan shared a kayak and chatted in low voices next to each other.
"Does it still hurt? I feel it's still a little swollen." Shao Shengan gently pressed the back of her head. Qingqing's head had a lot of misfortunes, as it always hit this place every time.
"It doesn't hurt that much anymore... Sheng An, I want to give you a few injections on your head later."
Qiao Qingqing felt the hand on her head stiffen, and the body behind her seemed to have turned into stone. She felt a little bitter and sad, and turned over to face Shao Shengan, smiling gently and touching his face.
"Are you scared? Don't be afraid, it's just a few symptoms. My eyesight is still there, just in case."
Shao Shengan's hands were shaking. Qiao Qingqing looked into his eyes in the dark and saw two pools of sadness. Her smile disappeared, and she pinched his face hard.
Shao Shengan's mood was disrupted by her, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Why are you pinching my face?"
Qiao Qingqing didn't stop and pinched out a little chicken mouth: "Oh, it really looks like Dabao's mouth."
All the sad emotions are gone!
Shao Shengan grabbed her hand and pressed her into his arms.
The two of them didn't speak for a while.
After a long time, Shao Shengan said, "Don't be afraid. I am here with you. It has been more than ten years since the end of the world. We have walked through the most difficult road. No matter how many difficulties we have stepped through, I am not afraid of any disaster that comes."
Qiao Qingqing said "hmm".
After a while, Shao Shengan lit a candle, and Qiao Qingqing gave herself an acupuncture injection based on her experience.
If someone had told her that one day she would be on a rocking kayak, poking a needle into her own acupuncture point in the dark, she would have thought that person was crazy. How could she do that? ! But hardship is the most effective whetstone, it sharpens everyone's mind and soul, and inspires the creation of many impossibilities.
They spent more than half a month recovering from their injuries, and their lives were very dull. The sea could change its temper at any time, but recently it had been very quiet without any waves, and it was simply rushing from one extreme to another. Of course, people prefer a gentle sea.
Through internal and external application, the injuries of Qiao Qingqing's family have been steadily improving, except for Qiao Qingqing's eyes, which are often blurry and sometimes even fall into darkness for several seconds. She is not panicked, after all, it is not the first time, and her mentality is relatively stable.
Half a month later, sharks appeared in this sea area, but their number was small and they posed no threat.
In addition to sharks, Qiao Qingqing also saw a whale one day.
The picture was very shocking. It was evening, and the water surface was illuminated by the sunset into a thick orange-red. After reading for a while, Qiao Qingqing felt her eyes were tired, so she looked at the water to relax.
There were some small fish and shrimps swimming underwater, the ducks poked their heads in to look for food, and the chicks were pecking at the algae floating on the water.
Then Qiao Qingqing saw a large black shadow appear under the water. The shadow was swimming. She was curious and cautious. Just as she was about to go into the water to take a look, Shao Shengan stopped her: "I'll go!"
He jumped in for a while and then swam up again, and actually called them to go into the water for the first time.
"Quick, come down and take a look, it's a whale!"
Except for Shao's mother who was still unable to move, the whole family jumped into the water. They could see the creatures more clearly underwater: their huge bodies, smooth curves, and smooth skin… These amazing creatures that could only be seen through glass in an aquarium or through a screen on TV swam leisurely past them, slowly returned to the deep sea, and disappeared.
"It's so shocking! Oh my God!" After coming out of the water, Shao's father was amazed.
"It's even bigger than it looks on TV!" said Shao Shengfei.
Qiao Qingqing sighed: "Now the ocean is their territory."
Seeing whales is really an eye-opener!
In the following days, they saw some marine creatures, some of which they could not name. Qiao Qingqing felt that this experience was really wonderful. Having lost their homes and land, they lived like duckweed on the boundless sea. Everyone was like dried kelp, with hair tangled with salt grains and skin wrinkled, itchy and painful. But they also saw wonderful scenes that ordinary people would never see in their lifetime.
This is probably what it means to find joy in suffering.
The next day, the mung bean sprouts sprouted, and Qiao Qingqing made a cold bean sprout salad and cooked a bean sprout and minced meat soup. Just after she finished her meal and went to a distant place to wash the dishes, Qiao Qingqing suddenly felt a shaking under her body. This shaking was too familiar. She thought the sea was going to go crazy again, so she quickly put the bowl into the space.
"Let's go back!" Shao Shengan was picking out the shrimp threads from the freshly caught shrimps nearby. Seeing this, he immediately grabbed the oar.
The couple quickly returned to the camp, and the family quickly packed up the trivial daily necessities, and then tied the people and the boat together with hemp ropes as they did last time. Qiao Qingqing was afraid that the kayak would be dangerous if it leaked air. Last time, there was no time to prepare. This time, there was no outsider around, so she directly took out the life jackets and lifebuoys in the space, and everyone put them on.
After a hasty and orderly preparation, everyone waited nervously, but unexpectedly the water surface was still shaking and no more violent movements occurred.
Their kayaks swayed with the waves, from day to night, and from night to dawn, making people feel sleepy and yawning.
For a whole day and night, the sea water kept shaking, just like a naughty child playing with the water in a basin, and they were the toy ducks in the basin being played with.
"It seems that it is not so dangerous this time. That's great!" Shao's father said happily.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
