Chapter 352 The Missing Children】
"Reporter Zhou, are you... okay?"
Ye Qingyue asked tentatively.
She had long noticed Reporter Zhou's concern for her.
At first, he was unfriendly and disdainful, but she didn't know when Reporter Zhou's attitude towards her changed.
But Ye Qingyue never thought that Reporter Zhou would look at her and cry bitterly.
"Doctor Ye."
Reporter Zhou wiped his haggard face fiercely, and he choked and said: "You are a good doctor who cares about patients wholeheartedly!"
"Thank... thank you?" Ye Qingyue didn't know how to respond.
Reporter Zhou continued: "A good doctor like you should not be maliciously speculated by villains in the outside world and suffer those injustices innocently!"
Ye Qingyue blinked.
Reporter Zhou was filled with righteousness and said, "I will never let those villains splash dirty water on you again!"
When he returns to Beijing after the rescue, he will publish what he has seen and heard along the way in the newspaper, so that everyone knows what kind of person Ye Qingyue is, and slap the face of Beijing Morning News!
After saying that, Reporter Zhou thought of his previous misunderstanding of Ye Qingyue. He stood up and bowed to Ye Qingyue, saying, "Doctor Ye, I'm sorry for my previous prejudice against you."
Reporter Zhou is jealous and hateful, but he also admires those who are kind and do good. He dares to take responsibility for his actions. Even if Ye Qingyue doesn't know what he has been thinking, he is willing to apologize frankly at this moment.
"You didn't do anything bad to me. On the contrary, you helped us a lot last night."
Ye Qingyue has actually long been accustomed to outsiders' speculation about her. It is already very good for someone like Reporter Zhou to find the problem and correct it in time.
Many people will continue to hate her for the sake of face even if they find out that the fault is not hers.
She said, "Reporter Zhou, don't put too much pressure on yourself. Eat the noodles quickly, or they will clump together. Don't waste the kindness of the villagers."
After that, Ye Qingyue picked up the noodles with chopsticks and finally ate them.
Fortunately, these are hand-rolled noodles, and the noodles are chewy. Even after talking for a while, they are not softened.
It smells so good.
Ye Qingyue picked up the bowl and took a sip of the soup.
Reporter Zhou was stunned when he saw Ye Qingyue concentrating on eating noodles as if nothing had happened just now.
Zhong Jun on the side also looked at her with complicated eyes.
How much has this child been through, how many times has she been splashed with dirty water, and how many people have misunderstood her, to be able to be so calm and indifferent now?
It makes people feel a little...
distressed.
After eating chicken noodle soup, Ye Qingyue and Zhong Jun brushed their teeth, washed up briefly in the makeshift shed, changed into clothes and went back to their sleeping place.
The medical staff who had been sleeping before woke up one after another and got up quickly.
Seeing Ye Qingyue and Zhong Jun coming back, someone asked, "Why are you up so early?"
It had been less than six hours since they arrived at the camp.
If they hadn't wanted to seize the time to treat the wounded, they would have wanted to continue sleeping, but they didn't expect someone to get up earlier.
"I don't think I saw Dr. Zhong and Dr. Ye come back with us last night."
"Did you not sleep at all?"
Everyone talked one after another, and soon found out that Zhong Jun and Ye Qingyue did not sleep last night and ran to the injured concentration point to save people. They admired them but were also worried.
"This journey has exhausted your physical and mental strength. Don't try to be brave. Take a rest. It's our turn next. You should get more sleep!"
Someone prepared a place for Ye Qingyue and Zhong Jun to sleep. The tired doctors and nurses left in high spirits.
Knowing that Ye Qingyue and Zhong Jun worked all night to save lives and reduce the burden on the rescuers, how could they dare to slack off?
Ye Qingyue and Zhong Jun didn't force themselves to sleep and fell asleep.
They slept for ten hours and woke up in the afternoon.
When Ye Qingyue went to brush his teeth, he found that there were more people in the camp. Hearing the chatter of the villagers around him, he knew that the rescue team had dug out more victims and sent them here.
But the rescue operation is far from over.
This area is surrounded by mountains and rivers. Because the earthquake destroyed the terrain, the rescue team only rescued the people in the village. It is still unknown whether there are people trapped in the wild.
After Ye Qingyue and Zhong Jun simply washed and ate, they went to the injured concentration point. There were dozens more people than last night. Most of them were slightly injured. They would be fine after disinfection and bandaging.
Fortunately, the houses are relatively simple nowadays, and serious injuries like Lao Zhao are rare. Although the medical team is busy, they did not encounter any difficult problems.
Ye Qingyue looked at Lao Zhao and the other two, and after confirming that they had recovered well, he boiled medicine for them and went to treat other patients with minor injuries.
Night fell. After the efforts of the doctors and nurses, the injured were properly treated and there were no major problems.
Everyone went to rest one after another.
Ye Qingyue had slept all day, but she was not sleepy at this moment. She stayed at the injured concentration point to check on the injured who said she was not familiar with them. Occasionally, she found a few who were not well treated, and disinfected and bandaged them. She also asked the villagers who were volunteers to help boil medicine for some patients with fever.
Aunt Zhao came over and called Ye Qingyue out, and cooked chicken soup noodles for her on a small stove, letting her eat alone.
"If you eat in a crowded place, you can't guarantee that someone will be greedy. You have to eat even if you are a scoundrel. If you are not allowed to eat, they will say that you, Doctor Ye, are treated specially. That's not good. Next time I cook for you, Doctor Ye, I will call you out to eat alone."
Aunt Zhao was older and knew that in such an environment, she couldn't test people's nature. She was worried that Ye Qingyue would be targeted, so she was extra careful.
Ye Qingyue knew that Aunt Zhao had good intentions, so she agreed with a smile.
Just as she finished eating, she saw the rescue team dragging a crying aunt to the camp.
Aunt Zhao seemed to recognize her, and hurried forward to hug the aunt and said, "Isn't this Wang's daughter-in-law? What happened? Are you hurt? I'll ask the doctor to take a look at you..."
Wang's daughter-in-law looked dusty and there were bloodstains on her clothes. It was obvious that she had just been dug out and was injured.
Ye Qingyue stepped forward and was about to take a look at Wang's daughter-in-law when she saw the young woman crying, "I'm fine, I'm fine... It's not me, it's my Xiaohua!"
Aunt Zhao was stunned, and her heart sank, "What happened to your Xiaohua?"
The Wang family is a wealthy family in the village, but the Wang family has a problem that everyone in the village knows. The men in the Wang family have problems with that aspect, and the male offspring they give birth to are unlikely to have offspring.
When it comes to the generation of the Wang family's wife, a daughter was born, named Wang Jia. The village would give children a rustic nickname, thinking that the child would be easier to raise. Wang Jia's nickname was Xiaohua.
The Wang family knew that it would be difficult to have a child other than Xiaohua, so they announced early that they would not let Wang Jia marry out. When Wang Jia grew up, they would find a son-in-law, and the child would naturally take the mother's surname.
Therefore, the Wang family treated Xiaohua as the apple of their eye, and Xiaohua was indeed likable, and was the king of children in the village.
Aunt Zhao often bought candy for Xiaohua because she was sweet, but after hearing what the Wang family's wife said, she thought carefully and found that there was no trace of Xiaohua in the camp.
Not only Xiaohua, but also the children she used to play with were no longer in the camp!
"Xiaohua is gone!"
At this time, Wang's wife cried and said, "Not only her, but also Tieniu next door, Cuicui from the village chief's family... those children went into the mountains to play before the earthquake. The rescue team just came to the village to dig us out, only to find out that they haven't found those children until now!"
Probably to verify her words, the rescue team brought people to the camp one after another. They were all from the same village as Wang's wife. Many people cried and wanted to find their children!
Even some injured people were unwilling to receive treatment at all. They just wanted to run away and said they wanted to go into the mountains to find their children!