1novels Chapter 42 Innocent
Chapter 42 Innocent
"Will you not have an accident?"
Shi Yiqing said: "I'm on the playground, with my teachers and classmates. How about you? Are you in the factory, Uncle Shen? Are you safe?"
Shen Mu said he was discussing business outside, so he ran to the square.
"It's a mess outside."
After saying that, Shi Yiqing felt worried, and said: "The news is reporting, there is an earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, please listen to the teacher's arrangement, and call me immediately if you have anything to do."
Shi Yiqing was afraid that Shen Mu would hang up the phone, so he called him immediately: "Uncle Shen!"
"Ah Qing, what's the matter?" Shen Mu stood in the crowded square with his suit jacket hanging on his arm, because there were too many people in the square and the signal was not very good.
Shi Yiqing pursed her lips: "I'm scared, don't hang up, okay?"
Shen Mu listened to his soft voice, looked at the colleague who came with him, and said: "Okay, I won't hang up the phone, but the signal here is not good, if it is disconnected, I will call you right away, and you can't get through if you can't get through." Don't worry, okay?"
Shi Yiqing said yes, and then sat down on the playground.
There is still a slight tremor, and the students on the playground are not so nervous, but the school still decides to let the students stay on the playground for a while.
The overwhelming news poured into TV and the Internet, and everyone knew what was going on.
At night, Shi Yiqing and Shen Mu watched the news with their jobs in their hands. The images from the front line were heartbreaking. They did not say a word for the entire four and 10-minute special report.
At the end of the news, the two of them didn't eat much, and the food was cold. After barely eating, they watched the news on various channels.
Two days later, Shi Yiqing got out of school. Today, the teacher informed that the school will hold a charity donation. Let everyone go home and discuss with their parents.
Shi Yiqing paddled slowly out of the crowd with two toes on the ground, chatting with Zhang Liang by the way.
"My parents took away a lot of my New Year's money." Zhang Liang complained.
Uncle Shen wouldn't accept Shi Yiqing's New Year's money, but he spent almost all of it on bicycles.
As soon as he left the school gate, Shi Yiqing saw a familiar figure on the side of the school gate, and Shen Mu stood beside his car and looked inside.
"Aqing!"
Shi Yiqing tiptoed and slid to Shen Mu's side with a swish: "Uncle Shen, why are you here?"
Then he turned around and greeted Zhang Liang and said goodbye.
Shen Mu pulled out a smile, "Get in the car first."
Shi Yiqing instinctively felt that there must be something serious, so he quickly disassembled the bicycle and put it in the trunk.
"What's wrong? Why are you acting like this." Shi Yiqing fastened his seat belt, and Shen Mu drove on the road, but instead of going home, he went to the center of the city.
Shen Mu: "Our factory has negotiated with the public welfare organization to donate a batch of materials to Wenchuan. We are responsible for the transportation tools, materials and money. We will send a few representatives to go there together. I will take the lead."
He finished the matter concisely, then turned his head slightly to look at Shi Yiqing, observing his expression.
"How long...how long?" Shi Yiqing asked in a low voice.
Shen Mu told the truth: "At least ten days."
After the things are delivered, they have to communicate with local organizations, and there must be landslides on the earthquake road, so there will definitely be a delay on the road because of this. Ten days is a conservative estimate.
Waiting for the red light at the intersection, Shen Mu tilted his head to look at Shi Yiqing, and reached out to rub his head: "Our Ah Qing is a big boy now, so we can live on our own."
Shi Yiqing lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, just three times before the end of the red light, he looked up at Shen Mu: "Uncle Shen, I'll go with you."
"No!" Shen Mu said firmly.
Shi Yiqing: "I'll be with you, I'll ask for leave from school, I won't cause trouble, and I can help move things."
Shen Mu: "You stay at home, the journey is very dangerous!"
Shi Yiqing: "Wouldn't it be dangerous for you if I went there?!"
Shen Mu's rebuttal words were stuck in his throat, and only then did he understand why Shi Yiqing said this, he was afraid that something would happen to him.
But he couldn't let Shi Yiqing go, one is that the road is difficult, and the other is that he still has to go to school.
"Ah Qing, listen to me, this is a task in the factory, I'm not here to play. You still have to go to school, and you have to help take care of Grandpa Lin's family, and Grandpa Ninth, beside the old man. If there is no one, you can take care of them for a while instead of me, okay?"
Shi Yiqing understood the truth, but when he thought of the danger of Shen Mu's business trip this time, his nose sore and tears fell down his face.
"But I'm worried about you."
Shen Mu was driving the car, unable to wipe Shi Yiqing's tears, and felt sad, feeling sorry for him, so he could only sigh softly.
"I swear, I will come back alive, okay?"
Shi Yiqing twitched her nose: "The news says there are still aftershocks."
Shen Mu: "I know it's dangerous, but this is my duty."
Shi Yiqing turned to look at Shen Mu, expressing his bewilderment.
"Have you forgotten? I used to be a soldier of the people, and it is my duty to serve the people." At this point, Shen Mu gained confidence and continued to appease Shi Yiqing: "I am not only a representative of Wanzheng Automobile Factory, but also a soldier. If not, who will go?"
Shi Yiqing pouted, crying until his nose and eyes were red.
Seeing that he had listened to it, Shen Mu smiled softly: "And this time there is a rescue team going too, it's amazing."
"Rescue Team?"
"Well, many of my former comrades-in-arms are in Yongnan City and a few surrounding cities. They all rushed over when they knew I was going to the disaster area. Everyone used to be a soldier and had been to primeval forests. What are you afraid of in Wenchuan?"
"Oh..." Shi Yiqing took out two tissues and blew his nose.
Shen Mu: "Alright, there are more important things to do now."
Shi Yiqing: "What?"
"I'm afraid that we, Ah Qing, will be hungry at home, so we will go shopping for food." Shen Mu said.
After going to a relatively high-end and relatively large supermarket in Yongnan City, Shen Mu took two trolleys and asked Shi Yiqing to push one as well.
"Uncle Shen, I'm already this old, I won't starve myself, and they sell it outside." Shi Yiqing followed behind Shen Mu, watching him pick pork in the fresh food section.
Of course Shen Mu knew it, but he was still worried: "The food outside is not as delicious as what I make. I will make some dumplings and wontons for you, and make a few whistles. If you don't want to go out to eat, you can cook them at home."
Shi Yiqing watched as Shen Mu bought two big carts full, stuffed them into the car, and then went to the pharmacy to buy the medicine that Grandpa Jiu usually takes, and prepared it for him.
"Ah Qing, do you still have calcium tablets?"
Shi Yiqing: "Yes, there is still an unopened bottle."
"Okay." Shen Mu calculated according to 20 days, and went home after buying all the daily necessities at home.
Seeing Uncle Shen busy back and forth, Shi Yiqing was even more flustered, how long will it take to prepare so many things.
Shen Mu was half worried and half excited, the task was full of unknowns, even if he wasn't cooking for Shi Yiqing, he probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep.
Flipping the dumplings up and down flexibly in his hands, Shen Mu gradually fell silent.
Shi Yiqing was chopping up the meat beside him, his arms were numb all the time.
He was busy until one o'clock in the morning, when Shen Mu came out of the kitchen with the refrigerator full, Shi Yiqing fell asleep on the sofa.
He was thin, smaller than Shen Mu, curled up on the sofa, his hair was a bit long, blocking his eyes.
White and tender, she is his most obedient Ah Qing.
For some reason, he remembered that when Shi Yiqing and him came to Yongnan City, at that time he was small and thin, tanned in the countryside, and he still looked dirty after washing.
He always looks at himself with cautious eyes, walks quietly and eats quietly, wishing to minimize his sense of existence.
But I was afraid that no one would take care of me.
That is such a sensitive and fragile child.
Shen Mu walked to his side and patted his arm lightly: "Ah Qing."
"Hmm..." Shi Yiqing snorted like a conditioned reflex, without opening his eyes.
Shen Mu smiled, bent down and hugged Shi Yiqing horizontally.
This time Shi Yiqing finally woke up, the feeling of flying into the air made him grab Shen Mu's clothes nervously.
"It's okay, I'll send you to your room to sleep." Shen Mu said.
Shi Yiqing blushed all of a sudden, turned his head away and said, "I'm so old, I still want to hug me to sleep."
Shen Mu smiled: "You are still a child no matter how old you are."
"Where is a child weighing more than 100 kilograms!" Shi Yiqing lightly thumped Shen Mu's chest in protest.
"It's only over 100 catties. Why, do you think Uncle Shen is too old to hold you?" Shen Mu teased him.
Shi Yiqing was put on the bed by Shen Mu. He was wearing an old T-shirt after taking a shower. After washing too many times, the fabric became much thinner, and it stuck to the skin loosely, showing the youthful bones.
He said in his mouth: "No way, you are only 30 years old."
Shen Mu smiled, and then corrected him: "It's 29 years old!"
Shi Yiqing, who was extremely sleepy, quickly fell asleep, until six o'clock the next morning, when he was awakened by the noise in the living room.
Shi Yiqing was lying on the bed, staring straight at the ceiling with his eyes open, he heard Uncle Shen turn on the faucet in the kitchen, he heard Uncle Shen collecting clothes on the balcony, he heard the busy tone of Uncle Shen picking up the phone.
"Ah Qing? Are you up? It's time to go to the remedial class." Shen Mu knocked softly on the door.
Shi Yiqing stretched, pretending to have just woken up and said: "Okay."
Today is Saturday, and the sky doesn’t dawn so early in May, and the outside is still gloomy, with a blue light in the sky, adding to the desertedness of this parting morning.
After changing clothes and coming out, Shen Mu was doing finishing work in the kitchen. If it wasn't for the hiking bag placed by the sofa, Shi Yiqing would have thought it was an ordinary morning.
He will have breakfast with Uncle Shen, and then he will go to the remedial class. When the class is over, Uncle Shen will call him if he wants to pick him up, and ask him what he wants to eat in the evening.
"Ah Qing, brush your teeth and eat breakfast." Shen Mu said.
"it is good."
Shen Mu made egg pancakes today, Shi Yiqing and he both like to eat them, but it is a bit troublesome to make this in the morning, most of them are bought outside.
He was going on a long trip, and thought of doing it for Shi Yiqing before he left.
Just as Shi Yiqing sat down, he found that today was an egg pancake. He was very happy, but when he thought about the reason behind Uncle Shen's doing so, he felt a little sad.
Shen Mu gave him some stir-fried vegetables, "I made sauced beef in the morning, cut it up and put it in the refrigerator. When you want to eat it, you can take it out and heat it up. You can't keep it for too long, you know?"
Shi Yiqing nodded and agreed.
Shen Mu: "I will leave you 500 yuan, which should be enough to spend. If there are any special circumstances that require a large amount of money, just tell Aunt Xiangjun. I have already told her."
Shi Yiqing: "Understood."
"It's hot, don't go to the river to play." Shen Mu reminded again.
Shi Yiqing was flustered by his exhortation: "I know, I know, I'm not a seven-year-old child anymore."
Shen Mu reminded him countless times every summer, because thinking about the fall into the water the year he first arrived in Yongnan City still makes him flustered.
Uncle Shen, who usually doesn't talk much, rambled on all morning today, Shi Yiqing felt annoyed in his heart, but thought it would be good to be annoyed like this for the rest of his life.
He didn't want to be separated from Uncle Shen.
But the colleague's phone call came quickly.
"Let's go, Ah Qing." Shen Mu picked up his luggage, a hiking bag.
He is also wearing mountaineering clothes today, all the equipment he used for camping before, quick-drying T-shirt and pants, and a jacket outside.
Shi Yiqing followed behind Shen Mu with the prepared food on the road, and sent him to the intersection of Xiguan Street to get on the bus.
This intersection witnessed all their partings. Uncle Shen left there when he was on a business trip, visiting relatives, and going to work. Shi Yiqing sometimes sent him to the intersection, and sometimes watched from the balcony.
An off-road vehicle was parked on the side of the road, it was a colleague who went with Shen Mu.
The factory dispatched three large trucks to carry the goods, and an off-road vehicle for Shen Mu and his colleagues to sit on, and to open the road ahead by the way. If the road conditions are not good, the large trucks will not be able to pass, and the route will be re-planned.
Shi Yiqing, who had been silent all morning, suddenly felt sticky. There were already people waiting for the early bus at the bus stop next to him, but Shi Yiqing had no intention of caring whether anyone would see it.
With food in his hand, he rested his head on Uncle Shen's chest sticky.
Shen Mu smiled: "I thought we Ah Qing would ignore me today."
He didn't know that the child also hated him and worried about him, but there were some things he had to do, and if he didn't do it, he would be ashamed of his conscience.
Shi Yiqing didn't speak, as if charging Shen Mu's body, he remained motionless.
"Ah Qing, I should go." Shen Mu raised his hand and patted him on the back twice.
"Uncle Shen..."
"Ok?"
Shi Yiqing finally raised one arm to hug Shen Mu, took a deep breath: "Can you not have an accident?"