sensible

Lu Qiubai smiled and said, "Okay. But when you recover from your injury, I'll make it for you first."

Mao Qingdou said, "Really, I haven't eaten the fish you cooked before."

Mao Qingdou suddenly turned around, wrapping herself around Lu Qiubai like a koala, tightly encircling Lu Qiubai, buried her head in his arms, and murmured, "Lu Qiubai, all these years I don't know what I would do without you."

Lu Qiubai's voice was dry and dry, his Adam's apple jumped up and down countless times, but he didn't respond to anything.Mao Qingdou heard the heartbeat of Lu Qiubai's chest, the sound was extremely clear and deafening, as if nothing could be heard in the long dark night, only the sound of the heartbeat remained.Lu Qiubai turned around and paused with her arms behind Mao Qingdou's back for a long time before finally putting her hands on his back. Her arms kept curling up and curling up again, as if she wanted to knead Mao Qingdou into a small one and put it on the on the position of my heart.

After a long time, there was a burst of crying outside the tent.

It was the cry of a child.

Lu Qiubai opened the tent and saw a little girl with ponytails standing outside their tent, crying loudly. Tears had covered her little red face. The little girl kept wiping her tears with her sleeves, while sobbing.

Mao Qingdou followed and climbed out of the tent.

All of a sudden, several adults emerged from the surrounding tents one after another. A benevolent aunt came over and asked, "Little girl, what are you crying for? Can you tell auntie?"

The little girl was still crying.

Suddenly a beautifully packaged candy was stuffed into the little girl's hand. The little girl looked down, stood there blankly, and squeezed the candy.

Mao Qingdou squatted down, patted the mud on the little girl's body, took out another candy, gently peeled off the candy wrapper, stuffed one into his mouth, chewed and praised: "This candy is too sweet!" It’s delicious, it’s so sweet.” After speaking, he looked up at the little girl and smiled, “Would you like to try it too?”

The little girl stopped crying and just held the delicate candy in her hand blankly.Mao Qingdou peeled off the wrapping paper of the candy in the little girl's hand and put it in the little girl's hand, and the little girl stuffed it into her mouth.

"Is it delicious?" Mao Qingdou asked.

"Yeah!" The girl nodded emphatically.

Mao Qingdou grabbed another handful of candy from his pocket, held it in both hands and said to the girl, "If you have any troubles, you can tell brother, and brother will give you all the candies."

After the little girl finished eating the candy, she wiped the tears off her face with the back of her hand and replied, "I, I can't find my parents."

Mao Qingdou frowned slightly, turned to look at Lu Qiubai, Lu Qiubai glanced at Mao Qingdou, and said to the little girl, "Can you tell me where you and your parents got separated?"

The little girl murmured, "On the side of a road with flashing lights."

Everyone started discussing, Mao Qingdou thought for a while, chose the most likely place, and walked out of the hospital with Lu Qiubai, holding the little girl's hand.

The two came to the only intersection with traffic lights in the county. Mao Qingdou asked, "Look, is this here?"

The little girl looked around, looked and looked, and said in a low voice: "Okay, it seems to be."

It was already midnight, there were too few pedestrians and vehicles coming and going in the county, and the traffic lights had already stopped and were no longer flashing.Maoqingdou suddenly lost his mind.

Lu Qiubai looked around, pointed forward and said, "Look over there!"

As far as he could see, there happened to be a police station, and the lights inside were dimly lit.The two took the child in and explained the ins and outs to the police. There was silence in the police station.

The child was successfully handed over to the police, and one of the policemen, who seemed to be the oldest and most experienced, escorted Mao Qingdou and Lu Qiubai out, took out a cigarette and started smoking.After a long time, he finally spoke.

"At this intersection yesterday afternoon, a young couple avoided the running crowd, made a sharp turn, and collided." The police said, "The two died on the spot. It is said that they had a child and lived nearby."

The policeman stubbed out the cigarette butt and said, "Let's go."

Mao Qingdou walked around the streets and alleys of the city, knocking on the doors of closed cake shops one by one, calling out, "Boss, do you have any cakes? I want to buy a cake."

No one answered.

Lu Qiubai accompanied him all the way, all the way in a low voice.

He really wanted to give Maoqingdou another cake.

Mao Qingdou and Lu Qiubai went back to the open space of the hospital. After an unknown amount of time, they felt their eyes dimmed, and finally fell asleep in a daze.

When he woke up, Lu Qiubai was sitting next to him, holding a cup of soy milk and steamed buns.Lu Qiubai stuck the straw into the plastic packaging of soybean milk and handed it to Maoqingdou: "Eat."

I drank a cup of warm soy milk.Mao Qingdou seemed to feel that this day was exactly the same as the countless mornings she had spent with Lu Qiubai in the past.It's just that he never thought that one day the location would be in a tent in the disaster area.

Mao Qingdou and Lu Qiubai put away the tents, and the medical staff came one by one to inquire about the situation, patiently persuading everyone not to panic, everything is going well, and they must have confidence.

Mao Qingdou went to the same police station last night again.All the police officers on duty last night were changed, leaving only fresh faces, and the little girl from last night was never seen again.

They walked back to the entrance of the hospital, and another child covered in blood was sent to the emergency room by the medical staff.

Mao Qingdou and Lu Qiubai waited a long time behind the blood donation cart before it was their turn.Seeing the blood in his body being transported into the blood bag, labeling it, and sealing it up, Mao Qingdou felt that he seemed to be saved.

The two held each other's arms and were chatting. The person next to him interrupted: "Hey, did you come together? How much did you give?"

Mao Qingdou said, "I have two hundred milliliters, Xiaobai four hundred milliliters."

One person interjected: "Men are good, I also want to contribute more."

One said: "I'm afraid it hurts."

"I'm also afraid of pain, but I can't take care of it now. It is said that people all over the country are rushing to donate blood."

Mao Qingdou murmured, "Now I finally feel that I'm still somewhat useful."

Lu Qiubai said: "What?"

"Finally, I feel that I am still somewhat useful." Mao Qingdou said, "Lu Qiubai, don't you think so?"

"I used to have a dream. In the dream, I was trapped in a dark swamp. I struggled for a long time, but no one came to rescue me. Later, I couldn't cry out anymore, thinking that I was going to die. But at that time, A kid showed up and pulled me out of the swamp, wiped all the mud off me, handed me a birthday cake and told me happy birthday."

Mao Qingdou smiled as she recalled: "Lu Qiubai, do you know? That dream was so clear that I felt it was almost real. No matter how difficult it was, I would think of someone who would help me in times of crisis. A small cake. Lu Qiubai, I can't do anything, I can only give them cakes, and now there are no cakes, and I can't buy cakes."

"If there is no cake, it seems that life cannot be redeemed." Mao Qingdou said with a smile.