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In the first class on the afternoon of the second Monday in May, Yan Ruyi entered the classroom with textbooks.

After Zhu Yuan yelled to stand up, Yan Ruyi briefly explained that the Chinese teacher had something to do and changed classes with her.

A group of students who still hadn't fully woken up from the noon sleepiness sat in the classroom drowsy, and no one expressed any opinion on the temporary class change, only dawdlingly taking out biology textbooks from the desk.

The class went on for about 10 minutes, and Yan Ruyi walked off the podium after knocking on the blackboard repeatedly but couldn't remind a group of students below to doze off.

Because Yan Ruyi suspended the lecture, Xu Nuo raised her head, followed Yan Ruyi's figure to the back of the middle of the classroom, she knocked on the desk of the boy who was sleeping on the table, and reminded loudly: "It's true. If you feel sleepy, go downstairs to wash your face and wake up."

The seat under her was kicked from behind, and Xu Nuo's body leaned forward. She thought Zhang Qiming did it unintentionally, so she ignored it, and still looked at Yan Ruyi's side face.

The sunlight outside the window shines on her body through the dense needles of the tall Metasequoia tree behind the classroom. Under the dappled light spots, she can't see Yan Ruyi's expression clearly, but feels that her whole body is glowing.

The boy stood up reluctantly, but staggered and couldn't stand firmly, and tilted to the side.At the same time, Zhang Qiming kicked Xu Nuo's bench again. This time, he pushed her and the seat forward a few centimeters with more force than before.Xu Nuo turned his head sullenly and wanted to warn Zhang Qiming, but saw him raise his head and ask Xu Nuo with a blank face: "Why does it feel like someone is lifting my stool?"

Before Xu Nuo had time to ask back, he heard the cracking sound of broken glass and the screams of boys and girls from around him.All the students seemed to wake up at the same time. No one knew what happened, but ran out of the classroom desperately following their instincts.

It took only 20 seconds from when I felt someone kick the stool to when everyone ran out in chaos.

When Xiao Jing screamed in the seat that there was an earthquake and told her to run quickly, Xu Nuo was stunned for half a second, then suddenly stood up from the seat, her feet seemed to be surrounded by huge waves, she could only hold on to her feet because she could not stand still. A violently shaking desktop.

"Nuo Nuo, there's an earthquake. Run out quickly." Zhang Qiming saw her in a daze.She reached out to pull her, but she turned around at the same time, chose a different direction from everyone else, and squeezed towards the inside.

"Promise! Dangerous!"

Zhang Qiming's voice was drowned in the hustle and bustle, Xu Nuo frantically squeezed away the classmates who were in a countercurrent state with her, and finally saw Yan Ruyi who was squeezed against the corner of the wall, still shaking under her body, with lime mortar and fluorescent lamps on her head The hood fell off, and she watched Yan Ruyi powerlessly blocked by the crowd at the end, but still trying to tell her classmates to go out, her eyes were red with anxiety.

"Yan Ruyi!!" She pushed away the person in front of her and rushed to Yan Ruyi's side, grabbed Yan Ruyi's wrist, and squeezed out as if dying.

Tables and chairs fell to the ground and blocked the way, everyone was running for their lives in a panic, crying and shouting, but the way downstairs was blocked by teachers and students rushing out, everyone was desperately trying to squeeze down the stairs, but every time Individuals move slowly like turtles.

The shaking teaching building makes people dizzy. No one knows whether the building will collapse or when it will collapse. Everyone is ashamed and terrified. Xu Nuo kept shaking Yan Ruyi's hand. The lips were silent and did not speak, just following the crowd.All the people are like sardines packed in a can, densely packed and unable to loosen.

Until another wave of shaking rushed up, screaming one after another, and the people behind began to squeeze down non-stop. She pulled Yan Ruyi forward and tilted it nearly forty degrees, but she held Yan Ruyi with her hands in a panic. The person who was trampled on was crying heartbreakingly. Yan Ruyi tried to comfort the students loudly, but his voice was drowned out by the noisy surroundings.

The fourth floor, usually I don't think it is very high, but when the disaster strikes, it becomes so frightening.The people behind seemed to be encouraged by the crying, and pushed forward with greater strength. Someone pushed Yan Ruyi from behind, but she didn't stand still, and rushed forward, pushing the people in front forward again Yibo, if Xu Nuo didn't pull her, she would probably step on Yan Ruyi like that.

Xu Nuo's eyes were red with anger, and the people behind her were still pushing down. At the corner of the stairs, she tried her best to push the boy who was still pushing Yan Ruyi down, and then slapped him hard on his leg. He kicked her hard, and warned that person with blood red eyes: "If you dare to push her again, I will fight you hard!"

The boy who wanted to get close to throw fists at Xu Nuo looked at her angry face, lowered his head cursingly, and squeezed to the side.

After finally coming to the corner of the stairs on the second floor, Xu Nuo finally relaxed a little when she saw the light from the exit of the first floor through the dense crowd. She turned her head, gave Yan Ruyi a consoling smile, and said, "Go out immediately. gone."

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a white shadow slipping in front of his eyes, and then he felt a stabbing pain on his right shoulder.

"Ah..." Yan Ruyi screamed, and the hand held by Xu Nuo began to tremble: "Xu Nuo...your shoulder..."

"It's okay." Xu Nuo endured the pain, gritted his teeth, didn't look at his wound, only tightly clenched Yan Ruyi's wrist, and pulled her down.

It wasn't until she came to the inner playground that she realized that there was only a layer of sweat on the palm of her hand holding Yan Ruyi. The sweat in the palm of her hand seemed to be extra sticky.

She let go of Yan Ruyi's wrist, and wanted to raise her hand to wipe her palm on the corner of her clothes, but when she looked down, she saw that her hand was covered with blood.Only then did she remember turning her head to look at her injured shoulder. The dusty old iron lampshade in the stairwell fell and hit her shoulder, scratching her t-shirt and cutting the flesh on her shoulder. Thin, so thin that the wound was a little deeper, and a small piece of white bone was seen on her shoulder.

Yan Ruyi stood beside her, looking at the wound on her shoulder that kept bleeding, tears couldn't stop falling down.She was a little at a loss and wanted to reach out to touch Xu Nuo's injury, but lost courage the moment she raised her hand, Xu Nuo was injured, she seemed to suddenly not know what to do, she forgot that she was a teacher, and forgot this time She should have organized the students who were still in shock to go to the big playground, but she just covered her mouth, looked at Xu Nuo's right arm that was almost completely stained with blood, and kept calling her name.

Everyone was going to the playground, no one paid attention to who was injured, and they were all trying to contact their families in a hurry to ask if they were safe.

Xu Nuo looked at Yan Ruyi's pale face, watched the crowd slowly recede from the side towards the playground, took Yan Ruyi's hand with his left hand, smiled gently and said to her: "Don't be afraid, it's okay. Yan Ruyi, never mind."

"Hmm..." Yan Ruyi finally regained her composure, quickly wiped the corners of her eyes, took Xu Nuo's hand, and walked side by side to the playground.

The school did not collapse, but many people were injured when they went downstairs. Yan Ruyi was not the class teacher, she did not have a class to organize, so she followed the promise to her class, and she stayed here to help count and take care of the injured students.

Speaking of taking care, in fact, only Xu Nuo was injured in the whole class. The wound on her shoulder no longer bleeds, but the dark red blood stained on her white T-shirt and arms is extremely dazzling.

Yan Ruyi has been standing less than two meters away from her, keeping her within her field of vision. She knows that there is also an indescribable sweetness in her heart.

Xiao Jing and Zhang Qiming surrounded Xu Nuo and asked her about her situation, and Xu Nuo answered them all.Probably because of bleeding a lot, she was a little tired, sitting in the middle of the playground, Zhang Qiming sat down with her, let her lean on his shoulders, Xu Nuo raised her head, she turned to Yan Ruyi from the corner of her eye, she Talking to students.

Zhang Qiming's mobile phone suddenly received a news message, he took it out to look at it, sighed and said to Xu Nuo: "It's an earthquake, in Wenchuan, magnitude 7.8."

Xu Nuo didn't understand how powerful the 7.8 level was, she didn't care too much, she just lowered her head slightly to look at Zhang Qiming's cell phone, the signal was very weak, and sometimes it didn't work.

"In such a strong earthquake, the casualties must be very serious." Xiao Jing stood beside her with her arms folded, a little absent-minded.

"Yeah, Xiao Jing, do you live far away?" Zhu Yuan took the conversation and began to discuss with Xiao Jing what to do later.

"Call home." Xu Nuo let out a breath, reminding Zhang Qiming that his cell phone has a signal.

Zhang Qiming shook his phone and changed many places. After trying for more than ten minutes, he finally called home and confirmed that everything was safe. After that, he returned to Xu Nuo and handed her the phone. Xu Nuo pondered for a moment with calm eyes. He handed the phone back, shook his head and smiled bitterly and said, "I don't remember their phone number."

Zhang Qiming moved the corners of his lips, trying to say something, but he didn't say it in the end. He pointed to Xu Xu's injury: "Many people have been injured, and now they are not allowed to go into the building to get sanitary tools, and even if they are taken out, the things prepared by the school It’s also limited. I don’t know how the outside situation is, whether the medical treatment has been affected, promise, wait for my dad to pick me up, and come home with me, I have an uncle who is a doctor, let him handle it for you.”

Xu Nuo smiled, didn't say yes or no, just lay on his back on the ground, looked at the sky that had become gray at some point, and said to Zhang Qiming, "Thank you."

From time to time, the ground beneath him would feel a surge, but it was not as strong as before.Xu Nuo looked at the sky, trying to recall the phone numbers he had memorized back and forth a few years ago, but found that the more he thought about it, the more blank his mind became.Home, should be all right?

Yan Ruyi walked through the crowd, squatted beside Xu Nuo, looked at Xu Nuo's distressed appearance, reached out and touched her forehead, and simply arranged her distressed clothes for her. When her eyes fell on Xu Nuo's shoulder, she lowered her head Go, after a moment of silence, he raised his head again and said to Xu Nuo with a smile, "I'll take you to the health center when the number of people is counted."

"En." Xu Nuo nodded, and slowly closed his eyes.

"Why is Teacher Yan always in our class?" After Yan Ruyi walked away, Zhang Qiming looked at her back and frowned slightly, asking questions to himself.

"I don't know, it's probably because I was in our class just now." Xu Nuo replied blankly and didn't speak again.

Aftershocks continued, and from time to time people would ask each other if there was another shock just now. Everyone kept their spirits up, but Xu Nuo was suddenly so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. It was only then that she realized for the first time that she was highly nervous about a person's safety and kept her nerves tight. Tension will make people fall into endless fatigue after the pressure is relieved.

After the earthquake, the originally sunny sky suddenly turned cloudy, and the sky looked like dusk before three o'clock, which was very worrying.

Parents began to come to the school to pick up their children. After the school confirmed that no one died and that there were enough students, they began to release them.When Zhang Qiming's parents came to pick him up, he invited Xu Nuo again, but Xu Nuo shook his head and refused.

"Go to my grandma's house. Promise, Zhu Yuan can come with me." Seeing that she rejected Zhang Qiming, Xiao Jing suddenly sent out an invitation: "It's on the side of the road around the city, not a building. We can sleep in the yard at night."

"I'll take her to treat the wound later." Yan Ruyi, who had been paying attention to the situation here not far away, said suddenly, her voice was clear and unquestionable.

Xiao Jing looked at Xu Nuo, then at Yan Ruyi, and could only nod in agreement.

"Xu Nuo." Pharaoh found Xu Nuo from behind the crowd, saw Xu Nuo lying on the ground, and hurriedly handed her the phone in his hand: "Your mother is calling."

Xu Nuo froze for a moment, sat up with his hands propped up, took the phone and put it next to his ear, and called out in a low voice: "Mom."

"Nonuo, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine."

Mother Xu's crying voice reached her ears, Xu Nuo suddenly wanted to cry, she asked in a low voice, "How is the family, are they...all...okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay. Wait for your dad to drive to pick you up."

"No need, mom," Xu Nuo instinctively refused, not because she was injured, nor because Yan Ruyi said that she would take her to treat the wound, her refusal was entirely out of an instinct similar to conditioned reflex.

"Why?" Mother Xu asked in astonishment.

"I don't know what's going on outside. I don't know if the car can be driven. You can just stay at home. The school is arranged by the teacher." Xu Nuo took a breath, and found a seemingly perfect excuse to refuse Dad Xu to pick him up. she.

After confirming that the family members were fine, her heart that had been hanging on her body finally fell to the ground.