662 Hope
The cars were still moving forward with difficulty towards Tangshan. Broken bridges, cracks, and even aftershocks could not stop everyone's desire to go home. However, the closer they were to Tangshan, the slower the car was moving forward. The cars in the city were driving out desperately; and the rescue vehicles were going in, causing traffic jams.
There were many cars driving out of the city that pulled the injured. As soon as these cars stopped, the people in the car called their family's names, and Zhang Jingchu also lay on the car window and kept shouting. Now no one knows whether their family is dead or alive, and they all hope to find their family among the injured.
In the city, Wang Luodan handed the little lamp to a middle-aged woman with injured feet to take care of him. She climbed up to the ruins and wanted to dig out her family. She was digging, and suddenly came from behind her: "Little lamp, little lamp!" Wang Luodan turned around and saw Xiaolan shouting "Dad" and pounced on a young man. The man hugged Xiaolan tightly, unable to suppress his inner excitement, and cried into tears.
Many viewers cried with Xiao Deng’s father in front of the screen, but Wang Luodan on the screen smiled.
Because the road was very blocked, Hu Jun's car did not drive into Tangshan until the afternoon. The city was even more blocked, and military vehicles were crowded with the road. The speakers on the PLA propaganda car broadcast the orders of the Tangshan earthquake relief command center and called on citizens to concentrate the bodies in the designated area. The car really could not drive forward, so Zhang Jingchu and the others had to get off and look for their own families.
Zhang Jingchu looked at the ruins around her and couldn't tell where she was. She could only walk on the gravel and rubble while asking.
The dust in the air and the stench emitted by the corpses were intertwined, which made people suffocate. Along the way, the collapsed houses were sunk into the ground, and only the skylights and roofs were visible, and there was no high building at all. On the broken walls, there were corpses hanging, the injured on the roadside were moaning, and the people waiting for rescue under the ruins were shouting.
A propaganda car drove slowly, followed by two militiamen carrying guns, and a young girl broadcast on the car: "The police in the city are mobilizing to be wary of someone robbing the country's property and making money from the national crisis. Once discovered, the law will be rectified on the spot and will never be ruthless!"
Ji Chen and the others dug a pregnant woman from the ruins. Her leg was injured, but the situation was not serious. The only problem was that she was about to give birth. The soldiers carried the pregnant woman and rushed to the base of the Medical Team of the Demon City in a hurry.
Soon, the baby's crying came from the tent.
Zhang Jingchu walked for several hours and finally found her home that had turned into rubble.
Song Zhu'er looked at everything around her in a daze and asked, "Mom, where is this?"
Zhang Jingchu came back to her senses and said, "This is our family!"
Song Zhuer said puzzledly: "Where is our house?"
Zhang Jingchu sighed and said, "It was shaken by the earthquake!"
Song Zhuer said sadly: "Then do we have no home?"
Zhang Jingchu's eyes became firmer: "If the house collapses, you can repair it again. As long as your family is there, your home is there!"
Song Zhu'er nodded as if she was ignorant and looked at the ruins. She saw a figure that was difficult to discover on the ruins and shouted happily: "Aunt! Mom! That's my aunt!"
Zhang Jingchu also saw Wang Luodan and shouted hard. Wang Luodan on the ruins raised her head, saw them, showed a gratified smile, and walked towards them.
Zhang Jingchu's face was pale and her lips were trembling: "Where is your brother and the others?"
Wang Luodan sighed and said, "Everything is buried underneath!"
Zhang Jingchu shook her body, but finally stopped and said in a crying voice: "How could this happen?"
Wang Luodan did not answer. She really didn't know how to answer, so she could only say: "Sister-in-law, let's dig them out!"
Zhang Jingchu nodded and walked towards the ruins with Wang Luodan, asking, "Why are you the only one, Xiao Cao?"
Wang Luodan said calmly: "Die!"
Zhang Jingchu was silent immediately.
At this time, there were already many troops entering Tangshan, but all the rescue teams were looking for living people. If they found that there were no living people, they would dig together. If they wanted to find dead people, they could only rely on themselves to find them.
Zhang Jingchu and Wang Luodan stood on the ruins and digged hard. Even when Song Zuer knew that his younger brother was buried underground, he helped and carried the small stones hard.
The two women were digging hard with a child, one day, two days, three days... Their faces were covered with dust, their eyes were covered with blood, their bodies were covered with rags, and blood was everywhere. The bodies of their parents and Zhang Ran were dug out, but their son Guangming's body was never found. They did not give up and kept digging.
On the morning of the sixth day, Zhang Jingchu vaguely heard someone calling him mom, like the sound of his son's bright light. She couldn't believe it: "I seem to hear Mingming's voice!"
The sound at the scene was quite noisy, and Wang Luodan didn't hear it: "Sister-in-law, did you hear it wrong? It's the sixth day!"
With a glimmer of hope, Zhang Jingchu knocked on the floor with a stone and shouted hard: "Mingming!Mingming!"
A faint echo came from under the cement slab: "Mom!"
"It's still alive!" Zhang Jingchu cried with joy and shouted at the ruins, "My thought, hold on, mom will save you soon!"
Wang Luodan was also overjoyed: "I'll call the People's Liberation Army to come and help me, I'll go find my second brother!"
At the same time, Ji Chen and his team had just excavated the body of the family. The two adults wanted to use their bodies to protect the child when the building collapsed, but the whole family was killed. Ji Chen and his team wrapped the body of the family with a quilt and carried it to the funeral car; they registered their documents and valuables and handed them over to the competent department.
Just as they finished cleaning the ruins and were about to leave, a soldier suddenly shouted excitedly: "Hey! Look, there are flowers here!" Everyone looked along the soldiers' fingers, and a white flower that had just bloomed just now appeared in the gap between the cement slabs that had just been cleared.
The petals of this flower are narrow, long and thin, fresh and elegant, giving people a sense of beauty that is dusty but not without its noble character. The soldiers, who were very solemn just now, showed a curious expression on their faces, surrounded them all and started to talk in a low voice.
"The building collapsed like this and didn't kill it. It's so life!"
"What kind of flower is this? It is not only beautiful, but also very fragrant!"
Everyone sniffed, and they could still smell the refreshing fragrance emitted from the petals from the petals.
One of the soldiers named Xiao Li lay on the ground and observed carefully for a while, and proudly announced: "This is a white orchid, and we have it too!"
The soldiers all turned their attention to Ji Chen: "Squad leader, let's rescue it!"
"Yes, the squad leader should save it, what a beautiful flower!"
"The flower pot has been smashed. If we don't move it out and plant it again, it will be killed in a few days."
"Man has life, and flowers have life. The squad leader will save it!"
Seeing that everyone looked at him with anticipation, Ji Chen nodded and said, "Save!"
The soldiers lifted the cement boards and moved the white orchids out of the ruins. Xiao Li found an old flower pot and planted the flowers with the original soil into the pot.
The soldiers held this pot of orchids, chattering and talking as if holding rare treasures, and kept sniffing the fragrance emitted from the petals. The weather was hot these days, and the corpses were rotten seriously. The whole city was floating with a foul stench of the rotten corpses floating. The soldiers all wore masks, applied toothpaste, and white wine, but still couldn't stop the pungent smell. Everyone was so smoky that they were so angry that they burst into tears. At this moment, smelling the fragrance emitted from the orchids, everyone felt as if they had arrived in heaven.
At this moment, Wang Luodan ran over and shouted loudly: "Second brother and second brother! Go and save Mingming quickly, he is still alive!"
Hearing that the child who had been buried in the ruins for six days was still alive, the entire army was sensational. The platoon where Ji Chen was located arrived at the scene, and the battalion chief personally came to the scene to serve as commander.
After a brief observation, the Chief of Staff issued the first order: "The backbone of the Party and League, the chief and deputy squad leader will come first!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several squad leaders and members of the group, including Ji Chen, immediately rushed over, shoveled soil and moved bricks, and pried the heavy cement prefabricated boards.
The exciting rescue has begun!
The doctors from the medical team of the Magic City also arrived at the scene. Five doctors, one captain and four doctors, after discussion, they believed that it was best to rescue on the spot and avoid disturbances as much as possible. So, a tent was quickly set up six or seven meters away from the ruins. As long as the child was rescued, he could immediately rescue him in the tent.
The soldier was digging with all his strength when a prefabricated board suddenly tilted down. Ji Chen stood up and used his shoulders to resist the tilted prefabricated board. Seeing this, the soldier outside the hole quickly brought an iron pillar and supported the prefabricated board. Ji Chen was worried that the iron pillar would not be stable, so he hugged the pillar tightly.
Not long after, more than 40 bricks were built together on the upper left. A brick pile weighing nearly 200 kilograms loosened and slowly fell down, seriously threatening the safety of the people below. A squad leader rushed over quickly and steadily carried the brick pile with his back.
More than ten minutes later, the Chief of Staff saw that the soldiers' excavation speed slowed down and knew that everyone was tired. The speed of rescue determined the child's life, and one more minute of hope of rescue would be faster than the other. He immediately issued an order: "You come out and let us get on!" As he said that, he was the first to lie into the hole that had been dug very deeply. He listened to the sound inside. The sound of light was much louder than before. Knowing that the brick and soil were piled up, he asked everyone: "From now on, all hands will be snatched!"
Under the leadership of the Chief of Staff, the soldiers went up to dig and rescue with bare hands. When one group was tired, they immediately replaced one group; one group came down, and another group was pushed up. The soldiers dug carefully, and when they came down, they were covered in blood.
After a while, the brick and soil accumulation layer was dug through, revealing a small hole as big as a fist. A gust of wind blew, and the flying dust and sand were rolled into the small hole. The Chief of Staff was afraid of rolling in a lot of dust, so he choked on the child, so he quickly blocked the hole with a piece of cardboard and shouted: "Get the water quickly and pour the soil wet!"
Time passed by minute by minute, and the digging and rescue work was progressing in an orderly manner. Soon the hole expanded, Ji Chen lay at the hole, reached into the hole, touched Guangming's legs, and shouted: "Mingming, can your legs move? If possible, move quickly!" Guangming moved immediately. Ji Chen shouted: "Mingming can move, the situation is very good!"
After more than ten minutes of intense battle, Ji Chen finally safely dragged Guangming out of the cave entrance. When he carried Guangming's stretcher down the ruins, the slogans and cheers sounded.
At the same time, warm applause and cheers burst out in front of the screen, and tens of thousands of tight heartstrings finally relaxed, and tears could not stop flowing.
During the preparation period of the movie, the municipal government hopes to film more Tangshan, and when they filmed the changes over the past 30 years, they were very unhappy when Zhang Ran rejected it. But after seeing this, they felt that Zhang Ran chose to perform more advanced methods. There are many children in the movie. They are brave and strong, which is the future of the nation. The audience can feel hope from these children. You don’t need to say much, as long as you see these people and these children, everyone believes that this city will be reborn from the ashes!
Chapter completed!