The two-month study time passed quickly. Before leaving, the leaders of the institute took everyone to visit the Wetland Park in Taishui City as a landlord. That is a famous scenic spot here. During the holidays, the park is always crowded with people. Fortunately, it is the off-season and there are not many people visiting.
There were about 30 people in the team, and they came here early in the bus. At the entrance of the park, the six characters "Taishui Wetland Park" are particularly conspicuous. His teacher was a little motion sick, got out of the car, bent over and retched under a tree.
"Teacher, are you okay?" Zhou Hao handed over a bottle of mineral water.
The teacher took the water and took a sip, the irritation in his throat eased a bit, "It's too stuffy in the car."
Zhou Hao supported the teacher, "It's boring, and the driver was driving too fast."
While the two were talking, Zhou Hao suddenly felt that the big tree in front of him was shaking, followed by the ground, and they felt dizzy and at a loss.
Before they could figure out what was going on, several groups of people over there started running, shouting as they ran, "There's an earthquake! There's an earthquake!"
"Run!" The teacher yelled.
Zhou Hao tried his best to run to the open place, with only one thought in his mind: run! Can't die! Didn't his husband take the initiative to call him last month? Good days are coming soon! Can't die! He can't die!
He ran desperately, his mind gradually emptied, and the idea of survival was like a transparent smock, isolating him from this hasty world.
He just ran, preferably to the ends of the earth, back to his relatives.
The ground shook even more violently, cracks appeared intermittently on the flat road surface, the steel bars in the concrete were turned out, huge dust was blowing to the face everywhere, and there was a flow of people scattered in panic.
Zhou Hao tripped suddenly, and then the drink shop not far from the park collapsed, crushing his legs under the board. He tried to struggle a lot, but found that his legs could not move at all.
Surrounded by wailing and howling victims, he looked at the desolation in front of him, unknown fear swept his whole body, and he choked up a few times in his throat, he was too afraid of death.
The amplitude of the shock was a little smaller, and the desperate crying sounded one after another, endlessly.
With difficulty, he reached out and passed under the board to reach for the mobile phone in his trouser pocket, and then moved the mobile phone to the front of his eyes little by little.
The phone screen turns on.
No signal.
The situation in front of him made him completely desperate.
He is no longer a man, he is crying softly, his facial expression is extremely distorted, he is venting his inner fear. After a long, long time, tired of crying, he began to look back and forth with his face full of dust, hoping that someone would come to save him.
On the first day, the rescue team did not come. Throughout the day, he thought about many people, his vague father, and his mother whom he hadn't seen for many years. Thinking about him made him feel more and more unwilling. He is dying, his mother doesn't know, he is dying, his mother can't give him any love.
The next day, the rescue team still did not come. At this time, he was so hungry that his chest was pressed against his back, and he remembered his updated post on Douban, Mr. Z and Mr. J may not have an ending in their lives.
Jiang Yuqian's occasional tenderness is regarded as his last supper at this moment, he takes it out from the bottom of his heart and lungs, and slowly enjoys it...
The enjoyment was only a short half an hour, because the tenderness given by that person was too little.
"You can't give me more..." Zhou Hao muttered feebly with his mouth full of dirt...
On the third night, things turned around, and the rescue team finally arrived.
Zhou Hao was carried on a stretcher to a temporary medical shed. Fortunately, his leg was only slightly fractured, which did not hinder him, but he had to lie on the bed for half a month to let the bones heal slowly.
Power and water were cut off in the disaster area, and there was no mobile phone signal. Everyone lived in a temporary shelter. It was better during the day, but it was too cold at night. It is really difficult to resist the wind and cold at night with the wind blowing everywhere.
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Yan Ming read the news about the Taishui earthquake from Tencent News, and he called Zhou Hao countless times, but he couldn't get through. According to the news, more than 1,400 people have died, more than 200 people are missing, and more than 7,000 people have been injured.
He wanted to tell Zhou Hao's mother, but he had no contact information at all.
He spends every day anxiously waiting, and he hopes that Zhou Hao can call and yell in a healthy and powerful way—"Damn it, I'm scared to death!"
But no, he never received any news.
After two days of anxiety, he decided to go find Jiang Yuqian. The two of them met downstairs in Jiang Yuqian's company, and he also heard from Zhou Hao that Jiang Yuqian had a company, which was "Nanyi Technology" on Hanlin Road.
"Jiang Yuqian." Yan Ming called out.
The man was accompanied by Cheng Zixu's younger sister, Yan Ming took a good look at Cheng Jing, Cheng Jing understood, and walked to the side.
"Zhou Hao is in Taishui, do you know?"
Yan Ming's eyes were red, he was really worthless for his friend, his life and death were still uncertain over there, and he was still going in and out with his lover's sister here.
Jiang Yuqian was silent and did not speak. He also knew about the news—the magnitude 7 earthquake in Taishui City.
Seeing that he was indifferent, Yan Ming roared angrily, "There's an earthquake there! Zhou Hao's phone can't be reached at all! I don't know what's going on now!"
After yelling, the voice lowered again, "I'm going to have a look over there tomorrow, you go with me. Whether it's life or death, there must be a... quasi-belief. I bought two plane tickets, tomorrow at twelve o'clock at noon, I'll be waiting for you at the airport in City A."
After Yan Ming asked him for his mobile phone number and left, Cheng Jinghao stepped forward, "Let's go."
Jiang Yuqian was still standing there stupidly, stunned, his mind was full of that person coming to say goodbye to him before he left—"I'm going to a city in the south for two months, come and see you before I leave..."
Then they kissed...
He was a little hard to accept as a real person. Even if he doesn't love, he will still feel a little sad when his life is uncertain.
"Go back by yourself and tell your brother that I won't have dinner with you today."
Cheng Jing didn't know Yan Ming well, but she could guess that it must be related to the man just now, but she didn't know what they said.
At night, when he returned home, Jiang Yuqian bored himself in the room. He opened WeChat, slid his finger down, and found the message Zhou Hao sent him two months ago in a group of messages, which he had never clicked on.
The pictures were quickly buffered, and there were five pictures in total, all of which were single pictures of that person, with a mountain hospital in the background and the like. The man was wearing a baseball jacket, grinning and smiling happily.
He used to have the same piece of clothing on Zhou Hao's body, but later saw that Zhou Hao had also bought the same one, so he didn't wear it anymore.
"If..." Jiang Yuqian thought silently, "That's it, if you are liberated, I will be liberated too..."
what if? What he thought was—if you die, that's how it will end for us.
In fact, Jiang Yuqian is a little sad, after all, he is a big living person, he used to jump around in front of your eyes all the time, and suddenly someone told you that he might have died in the earthquake.
However, sadness is only a momentary thing. The two of them were not on the same line in the first place, and it was Zhou Hao who had to tie them together.
That person was not his lover, and all he could do was mourn for him in silence for a few seconds. After a few seconds, his life would return to normal.
He moved his finger to the delete button on the interface, hesitated a few times, and finally pressed delete. Now that his life was about to get back on track, he didn't need to guard the remaining photos of this person.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yuqian's heart was not so heavy anymore.
Of course, the next day, he didn't go to the airport to keep the appointment. Yan Ming waited for him in the terminal for a long time, but no one came. His heart was almost completely chilled, so he still called the person.
The phone rang for a long time before Jiang Yuqian answered it. He was in a meeting at that time.
"The plane is about to fly, where are you!" Yan Ming asked sharply, as if he had become Zhou Hao at this moment, questioning his ruthless partner for himself.
There was silence in the conference room, and everyone was waiting for the boss to answer the phone.
"I'm not going."
"Zhou Hao is really blind! He has fed dogs for the past four years!"
Jiang Yuqian hung up the phone suddenly, and the people around the conference table looked at him, his expression became serious again, "Go ahead."
Yan Ming went to Taishui City alone. Of course, it was very difficult and almost impossible to find Zhou Hao in such a disaster area where information was blocked. But he still plunged in, and he kept praying in his heart, alive! Must live! Even if you lose an arm or a leg, please live!
In the end, it really was a useless effort, and he could only return without fruit.
Ten days later, the power supply was restored in the disaster area, and the radio signal was also available, so Zhou Hao turned on his phone.
He has run a mobile call reminder service, so with a signal, the previous call will remind him by text message.
Zhou Hao slid down one by one. Apart from some small advertisements, there were dozens of missed calls from Yan Ming, and there was no Jiang Yuqian.
Zhou Hao called Yan Ming back, and the other party's ecstatic words surprised him, it was so exaggerated, it was not like the usual wood at all.
He had no way of knowing what this phone call meant to Yan Ming. People who thought they might be dead suddenly came back to life.
The two chattered for a while, Zhou Hao only said that his bones were crushed, he needed to lie down for a few more days, and he would go back in a few days.
In the end, Zhou Hao couldn't help but asked Yan Ming, "Does he know what happened to me?"
Yan Ming on the other end of the phone replied without hesitation, "I don't know."
"Oh." Zhou Hao was a little disappointed, "Let's have a good meal when I go back."
"Heal your wounds and wait for your return."
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Zhou Hao stared at the gradually darkening phone screen, lost in thought for a long time. That person didn't know, he didn't even know. He wanted to share the ecstasy of the rest of his life with him, but he lost the opportunity.