hold you in my arms tonight

June 27, [-].

The city collapsed in an instant.

It was midnight in Chong'an City, and in gusts of wind, it ushered in the most violent rain this summer.Hundreds of thousands of citizens are still asleep, and no one thinks that a catastrophe is coming.

Eight-year-old Jiang Xun was woken up by his father shaking him.

His father didn't say much to him, he hugged him with one hand, and his brother Jiang Nan who had woken up next to him with the other.The ground was shaking, the ceiling crashed, and Jiang Xun and Jiang Nan cried out in fright.

When the father hurriedly carried the two brothers to the living room, he saw Jiang's mother who was also flustered and holding the eldest daughter Jiang Yun without letting go.

When the family of five ran out the door, the wall of the corridor had cracked, followed by violent shaking, and the world was in darkness, because the building had collapsed, and no one in the family escaped.

Many years later, Jiang Xun could no longer remember that feeling.

People have the psychology of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. For those tortured memories in memory, they will subconsciously downplay their senses.Jiang Xun couldn't remember if it hurt when the stone slab fell, it seemed that someone was protecting him.

He only remembered that when he was waiting for rescue in the dark, the rain seeped in from the cracks in the rocks, the time passed little by little, and the bodies of the family members around him became colder and colder little by little.

It was three days later that I saw the sun again. After a noisy noise, the large stone slab above was removed by the rescue team, and the sight suddenly became clear.

Jiang Xun couldn't see what the people who came to rescue him looked like, the sun was dazzling, his eyes moved down, and the picture he saw became his nightmare for the rest of his life.

"This child is still alive, hurry to the hospital!"

The rescuers picked him up and quickly sent him to the stretcher of the medical staff.Before being sent to the ambulance, Jiang Xun was numb, his eyes were dull, and his eyes were fixed on the ruins.

After the disaster, the hospital was the busiest, the wounded had reached the limit of the hospital, and even the hospital beds were placed in the hall.Jiang Xun was placed in the corridor. After a series of examinations, he was the least injured in that ward, only the sequelae of abrasions, cold and hunger.

The doctor said to the visiting rescue team: "It is a miracle that he survived this disaster."

The dark-skinned captain of the rescue team was silent for a long time, touched Jiang Xun's head, and said, "Where are there so many miracles? When we moved the stone slab, his father and brother were on top of him. When the building collapsed It should not have hit him, and that place formed a triangle again."

Jiang Xun's eyeballs moved slightly, his face still expressionless.

After several aftershocks occurred in Chong'an City, the hospital was overcrowded, and the god of death hovered over the city every day.

Jiang Xun was placed in a temporary aid station set up by volunteers. Everyone was busy and no one would pay attention to him.

It has been a month since the disaster passed.The city of Chong'an has become a permanent pain for many people.It is said that the earthquake claimed the lives of more than 6 people, and tens of thousands of people are still missing.

Jiang Xun lived in the aid station for more than two months, and his body has fully recovered, but the child has not spoken.

One afternoon, volunteers brought a middle-aged man to stand in front of him.

"Xunxun, I'm uncle, do you remember?"

Yang Neng only found out that there was an earthquake in Chong'an after reading the news, and then remembered that he had a cheap sister Yang Lan who was not related by blood in Chong'an.He and Yang Lan had a reorganized family. He was only three years old when his mother took him to marry Yang's father, and his surname was Yang, but Yang's father still loved his own daughter more.Later, his mother died of illness, and he didn't get along well with Yang's father, Yang Lan. He felt that both father and daughter looked down on him.

At the age of 17, Yang Neng stole money from a neighbor's house. Yang's father wanted to turn him over to the police station. He ran away on the way. Once he ran away, he never returned to Chong'an.Yang Neng had learned how to repair cars and worked as a porter. He didn't make any money, but he liked to gamble and couldn't live without money, so he went to steal things again. Later, he even robbed a few times, but he was never in danger. When he was in his 20s, he got married to a woman who had been on stage, named Jiang Min.Both of them are maggots of this society.

The couple are lazy, and both of them like to gamble, one plays cards and the other plays mahjong, life is getting more and more difficult.

One day Jiang Min brought back a girl whose mouth twitched due to cerebral palsy, and sent her to the train station to beg on her knees. The money she got every day was actually more than he went to work a day.

The couple found business opportunities, one was abducting and selling, and the other was using disabled children to beg.

Yang Neng didn't respond when he learned about the earthquake in Chong'an. He just got a boy of seven or eight years old. There is a child in the rescue station, is he willing to take care of it?

He is happy, isn't he doing the business that needs children?He thought it would be best for the child to lose arms and legs in the earthquake, so it would be the most profitable to go out and beg.But now the child in front of him is still very healthy, Yang Neng has some regrets.

"Do you still remember Uncle?" Yang Neng's tone was gentle, he thought that if he didn't go to this volunteer here, he would be sick of pretending to be like this.

"Can uncle take you home?" he continued.

Jiang Xun burst into tears.

He didn't know this grown-up, but he really wanted to go home, he wanted to go home quickly to find his mother, and tell her that he had a long and terrible dream.He still remembers that Jiang Nan robbed his toy car.

"I want to go home," Jiang Xun cried.

Yang Neng picked him up with a smile and said, "Go home, come home, uncle will take you home."

Yang Neng wanted to take Jiang Xun out of Chong'an City. Before leaving, the volunteer girl who had been taking care of Jiang Xun held Jiang Xun's hand and said softly, "Xunxun must be obedient and strong in the future. You have already It's a little man."

The earthquake in Chong'an was concentrated in the north, and the only road that can still be accessed is the road in the south.Yang Neng drove, put him in the passenger seat, and drove away.

The scenery outside the window along the way was very beautiful, and the trees on both sides of the road were walking backward one by one, Jiang Xun suddenly felt very sad.

He suddenly woke up, it was not a dream, and he could never go home again.

Yang Neng showed his true colors, and said to him: "I wasted so much gas money for you, a loser, and you have to earn it back for me in the future! Your mother also looked down on me at the beginning and thought I was worthless and moneyless, so she refused to take it seriously. Look at me, it's all right now, her son still has to follow me!"

Jiang Xun couldn't understand what he was saying, but he understood the malice in it.

"You, you boy, listen carefully to what uncle says in the future!"

Yang Neng was very happy in his heart. He felt that he usually spends all his time and energy trying to trick his children into robbing them, and sometimes he would be chased and beaten if he was unlucky. This time, he picked up two for nothing in just two weeks.

One is Jiang Xun, and the other is Xie Yuan, chosen by tragic fate.

Yang Neng brought Jiang Xun to Liucheng.

Liucheng is a little-known small city. It is located in the south of the south, [-] kilometers away from Chong'an City, and the air is humid and cold all year round.

Jiang Xun got out of the car and looked at this strange city. Yang Neng felt that he was walking slowly and grabbed him. He couldn't stand still and knelt down.

This was his first contact with the city.

Yang Neng and Jiang Min lived near Liucheng Railway Station and rented a dilapidated house with a backyard. It was located in the deepest part of Lanlin Lane, surrounded only by the mottled back walls of other houses, blocking most of the light.

Pushing open the rusted iron door, Yang Neng pushed Jiang Xun in, turned around and closed the door, then pulled Jiang Xun into the house.

The light in the room was even darker. Yang Neng saw something and shouted inside: "Didn't you tell me to sell this bastard? Why are you still here?"

The fat woman inside came out, dragged the little boy out of the corner, spat rudely on the ground, poked the boy's forehead with her bright red nails, and said in a bad tone, "This little bastard is talking nonsense!"

Jiang Xun saw clearly the appearance of this boy who was as tall as him. He was very good-looking, even more beautiful than many girls he had seen, with pure black eyes and a wound on the corner of his mouth.

This is Xie Yuan.A little boy who spoke pure Mandarin and occasionally a few words of English was standing in the corner of the room wearing a dirty coat.

Jiang Min became angry when he saw Xie Yuan.

She picked up this child for nothing. Three weeks ago, she wanted to secretly carry a newborn baby boy. She followed the new mother for several days but couldn't find a chance. When she went to the public toilet in the park, she was I saw Xie Yuan in the women's bathroom.

At that time Xie Yuan was standing at the sink, and the child had been crying for an unknown amount of time, his voice had already become hoarse, and he could vaguely be heard calling for his mother.

This public toilet is located in a remote place with few people. Jiang Min probably brought him out and asked him, "My little friend, where is your mother?"

The boy said in a crying voice: "She went to the bathroom and asked me to wait for her outside, but after a long time, it was getting dark, and she didn't come out, so I came in to look for her, and I couldn't find her."

Little Xie Yuan didn't know how dark the fat woman in front of him was, he just grabbed her hand and begged: "Auntie, take me to find my mother, okay?"

Jiang Min smiled happily. As a woman, she knew that the child's mother must have left him on purpose.She said yes repeatedly, she took the child away, and looked at the child all the way, the clothes on his body seemed to be expensive, refined, and his hands were so tender.She thought to herself that this should be a child of a wealthy family.

Unfortunately, I met her.

When entering Lanlin Lane, it was already completely dark.Xie Yuan was too scared of this strange and dark place, he wanted to find his mother and go home quickly.

"Auntie, where is my mother?" Xie Yuan asked when entering the door.

"Your mother doesn't want you anymore. From now on, you have to listen to your auntie," Jiang Min said with a smile, "And you, you look good. Auntie will find you a new mother."

Xie Yuan cried loudly.

He knew that his mother didn't like his father and he didn't like him, but when his mother said that he would take him to visit his grandfather's grave, he was very happy, thinking that his mother might like him.Mom took him to the park to play and smiled at him many times.

Xie Yuan has never seen such a gentle mother.She took his hand, stroked his head and said to him, "Mom will be back in a while."

Then, she never appeared again.