In the middle of the night, I had been sleeping soundly and was awakened by the sound of demolishing a building. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was someone knocking on my door.
My door has never suffered such damage. Being disturbed, I stood up with a look of displeasure on my face, put on my slippers and walked out of the bedroom, heading to the door to see which debt collector accidentally knocked on the wrong door: "Who is it?
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"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
People outside heard my voice, and the knocking on the door became more violent.
I originally wanted to open the door to find out what was going on, but when I saw that the other party was getting more aggressive, I suddenly had no idea. I planned to take a look through the peephole first, but found that the peephole was blocked by the word "福" posted on it.
Damn it, I buried my grievance in my heart, and my tone immediately became more polite: "No, who are you? What's going on in the middle of the night?"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
The person outside the door didn't speak, but kept making sounds similar to whimpering. I was stunned for a moment, and then I remembered that the resident opposite the door was a mute uncle who lived alone.
Could it be him?
I plucked up the courage to open the door, and found that it was indeed the mute uncle standing outside the door. He was wearing a black vest and big pants, looking at me anxiously.
"What's wrong with you?" We are neighbors who live across from each other. We have met many times. He is usually very kind and never causes trouble to others. Therefore, I wondered if he must be in need of help when he was so anxious in the middle of the night.
"Ahhh!" He couldn't speak, so he grabbed my arm and dragged me to his house.
"What happened?" I resisted instinctively.
He pointed at the room and kept saying "woo ah woo ah".
"Okay, okay, okay, you don't have to drag me, I'll go in and take a look." I broke away from the mute uncle's hand and walked towards his open door. He quickly rushed in front of me, leading me all the way.
Arrive at the window.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" He was almost crying, pointing at the building next to us. The three highest floors of that building were burning out, and the billowing smoke had blackened the sky in front of it.
"Holy shit!" I blurted out a Chinese curse, but I quickly calmed down. Although the fire was very big, there were several fire trucks parked downstairs. Since the fire brigade was there, there should be no problem.
, "It's okay, it's okay. Don't worry. The fire brigade is here downstairs. It won't take long to put out the fire."
"Uh-oh!" The mute uncle shook his head and kept pointing there.
Is there something wrong?
I looked over carefully and found that there were two little heads behind a certain window of the top-floor resident. There was a loud bang in my head!
It's a child!
Because the mute uncle and I also live on the top floor, from this angle, we can just see the two children who were trapped on the top floor. Two children are trying to get out of the window in a panic! But the top floor is equipped with an anti-theft net, even if they get through
Even after you come out, you will still be stuck in that position!
I understood what the mute uncle meant, and immediately leaned half of my body out of the window and shouted as loudly as possible to the fire truck downstairs: "Hey! Hey! There are children up there! There are children!!"
"What?!"
"There are kids on the top floor! Two kids!!"
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"Okay! Hurry, hurry, hurry! There are still two children who haven't come out!" The firefighter heard my voice and sped up the rescue speed.
"Must be quick!" I yelled.
At this time, the mute uncle patted me and pointed to where the child was. I looked up and found that the elder brother of the two children had already lifted half of his sister out!
The top floor is not as badly burned as the two floors below, but it will be engulfed in flames soon. Even if the child is not burned to death, he will be choked to death by the smoke!
"Children! Don't come out! Don't come out!" I started yelling at the two children again.
At that moment, the whole community seemed to be echoing my roar.
The child also heard my voice and searched for the source of the sound in the dark.
I asked the mute uncle to turn on the light on the balcony. Recalling that the door leading to the rooftop in our community was not locked, I continued to shout: "Run! Run! Run, kid! Run up! Go to the rooftop!"
The child saw me pointing upwards, so my brother pulled my sister back into the house and turned away from the window.
They did as I asked!
I breathed a sigh of relief, and just turned my head to look at the mute uncle with joy, when a trace of reason dragged me into the ice cellar.
"Fuck... why am I minding my own business..." I realized that if the children failed to escape to the rooftop and had an accident on the way, then I, the person who pointed them in a direction, would be involved.
"Uh-huh." The mute uncle regained some composure and was saying something to me.
At this point, I had no intention of guessing what he wanted to express, so I pushed myself hard and quickly turned off the lights in order not to be noticed anymore. Then my legs became weak, and my hands and feet were cold, sometimes looking towards the window and sometimes towards the rooftop.
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Thirty seconds passed and there was no one in either place.
A minute later, the window was engulfed in flames, and firefighters were still working on the emergency rescue.
One minute and thirty seconds passed, and there was still no movement on the rooftop.
The mute uncle helped me, who was about to collapse to the ground.
"It's over, it's over, it's over..." I muttered to myself with dull eyes.
The two children did not escape.
I was full and full, so I took the initiative to take responsibility for this matter.
If my parents found out about this, they would definitely scold me for having nothing to do and looking for trouble.
"I'm done..." I collapsed on the ground, face ashen, imagining the firefighter asking me why I let the children run around, and the children's parents pulling on my collar to ask me to save the lives of the two children.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" The mute uncle hurriedly opened his mobile phone and typed a line of text for me to read.
【Thank you】
I stared at the mute uncle helplessly.
If he hadn't woken me up in the middle of the night, I wouldn't have been able to do this: "Thank you so much! I'm going to die, and it's all your fault..."
The mute uncle started typing again.
"You killed me!" I almost collapsed, holding my head in my hands and sobbing, "What nonsense is this! I'm only twenty-one years old! I just want to help! I didn't want to do this!
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"Ugh! Ugh!"
"Can you stop screaming!" I just want to be alone.
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After a while of sobbing, the mute uncle suddenly slapped my shoulder hard.
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"What else do you want!" I looked up at him with red eyes.
He didn't pay attention to my gaze and pointed outside again.
I calmed down a little, struggled to get up, and looked in the direction he pointed, and found that the top floor of the building next door had also been completely engulfed in flames, and on the rooftop, there were two children looming!
"Ah!" I was stunned in disbelief, and then burst into tears.
The children are still alive!
"The children are on the rooftop! On the rooftop!!" I leaned out again and shouted to the firefighters in a tearful voice.
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More than ten minutes later, the firefighters successfully rescued the children. A couple who had been out rushed back in a hurry, took the rescued children into their arms and burst into tears.
I wiped away the tears on my face, crowded on the balcony with the mute uncle, and looked at the scene downstairs, smiling in tacit understanding.
It's good that people are here.
"Huh..." In the past half hour, my mood has been ups and downs like a roller coaster, and now sleepiness has hit my heart again, "The fire is almost out, you should go to bed early, I will go back and fall asleep."
The mute uncle stopped me, who was exhausted and my voice was hoarse, and typed another line of words on his mobile phone for me to read.
【Thank you, you saved the children】
"If it weren't for you, I would still be sleeping in the room right now." I thought about how I had scolded the uncle when I was scared just now, and said apologetically, "You saved these two children."
The mute uncle still has to type.
This time it was my turn to stop the mute uncle: "I thank you on behalf of the children. Okay, you can rest peacefully."
After that, I left my uncle's house, returned to my own home, and lay on the bed with relief. I put my hands behind my head, stared at the ceiling for a long time, smiled, sighed, and fell asleep.
It's a rainy day. The rain is still light now, but the radio says there will be heavy rain tonight.
"Dong dong dong." Someone knocked on the passenger window with his knuckles.
I had been driving for a day and was planning to go home and have a good sleep. Moreover, I saw that the man didn’t hold an umbrella and was soaked to the skin. He would also wet the seat when he came in, so I waved my hand to indicate that I wouldn’t do it now.
Take orders.
"Dong dong dong." The man ignored my wave and knocked on the car window stubbornly.
I patiently lowered the window: "Brother, I don't--"
"Go to Xingyun Bridge." The man flashed a hundred-dollar bill before I could finish my words.
I wanted to refuse, but after all I was on my way and couldn't bear to see him in the rain, so I accepted the money and let him get in the car: "Where are we going to Xingyun Bridge?"
"Just on the bridge." The young man said.
I looked him up and down while starting the car. This young man had long hair and round-rimmed glasses. He looked like an artist. Unfortunately, he didn’t have a camera bag on him. He probably didn’t go specifically to take pictures of landscapes. “What are you doing?”
What to do?"
"Nothing." the man replied.
"Okay, then put your seat belt on." I've been doing this for so long, I don't even need to ask a question, I can tell just by looking at people whether they are talkative or not. Seeing as this guy doesn't like to talk, I don't bother to talk to him.
, drove towards Xingyun Bridge.
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After only 20 minutes of driving, there was thunder and lightning, and the rain suddenly became heavier. After only 20 minutes of driving, there was thunder and lightning, and the rain suddenly became heavier.
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"It's such a bad weather, let's finish it as soon as possible..." I said to myself.
"This rain will continue until the day after tomorrow... I just checked the weather forecast." The man sitting in the passenger seat said abruptly.
I kept an eye on the road ahead and slowed down the car: "Really? That's how it is here. Either you don't get off, or you die. It's really frustrating."
The man looked a little anxious: "When will we arrive?"
"Just another...twenty minutes." I estimated the time and replied.
The car returned to silence.
I originally thought that I would be able to make a small fortune on the road at the end of the day, and I was lucky. However, the situation took a turn for the worse ten minutes later. The car suddenly stalled and stalled when passing through a deep water area.
"Holy shit," I blurted out and tried to start the car again.
The man next to me frowned and silently watched my meaningless struggle.
I tried several times, but the car couldn't start. I soon realized that this guy was a little impatient, so I took out my umbrella and said, "Don't worry, I'll get out of the car and check the situation, and I'll definitely send you there."
"There's no rush." The guy took a deep breath and said what he meant.
I opened the car door, held up the umbrella, and as soon as my feet landed, the water directly covered my calves: "Fuck, it's so deep..."
Our poor place always accumulates water whenever it rains, and today's heavy rain made the water accumulation even worse. I walked around the car and looked up and down, but couldn't see any problems, so I got in the car dejectedly, rubbing my hands and looking apologetic.
: "Brother, I'm sorry, this car won't be repaired for a while, I have to contact a tow truck."
"Okay." The man probably noticed it, so his mood didn't fluctuate much. He just unbuckled his seat belt and got off.
I grabbed him and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Go over there," he said.
I stared: "Crazy? How can you walk through such heavy rain? What's your emergency?"
He opened my hand and said as if he had seen through it: "You don't need to refund me the money. I'm leaving first."
I felt sorry for myself and handed him the umbrella: "Then you can take this umbrella."
He was stunned for a moment when he saw the umbrella, then slowly took it and held it up: "Thanks."
"Why are you thanking me? You should just sit and wait for the rain to lighten up. I'll help you contact a car to take you there when it's done." I said.
"No need." He held up his umbrella and walked forward.
It's a pity that my little broken umbrella was useless, and he was blown apart by the wind and rain before he could take two steps.
Seeing this scene, I felt even more sorry. I stuck my head out of the car window and shouted: "Come back! Get back in the car!"
The man ignored me and simply threw away the fallen umbrella and continued walking through the water.
I cursed in a low voice, rolled up my trouser legs, got out of the car and caught up with him, dragging him back: "Let's go! Get back to the car to take shelter from the rain first! Why are you so anxious? We can't wait for the rain to deal with such a big thing.
Stopped?"
"It won't stop until after the rain!" the man said, wiping his face.
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"Then you come back to the car with me first, and I can help you contact a taxi company?" I dragged him back to the car, and first contacted a friend who drove a taxi to come pick him up, and then I went home with him.
After reporting that he was safe, he looked at the man and said, "What's the rush for you? You have to run across the bridge under such heavy rain at night."
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"Nothing." The man still didn't say.
"In a bad mood?" I took off my wet shirt, took out a cigarette and handed him one, "Would you like to smoke?"
"I don't smoke."
I lit one on my own: "My friend will be here in a minute, let him pick you up, okay? You don't have to pay for the car anymore."
"No need to trouble anyone, it's not that far away, I can just walk over," the man said.
I was so angry that I said, "Why are you so stubborn? It's hard to drive the car, so why are you forcing yourself to drive?"
"Feel sorry."
"Why are you apologizing to me?" I was stunned.
"Let's go." The man got out of the car very quickly this time and ran directly out.
I was too lazy to chase him, so I told my friend that I didn't need to come over, and I just waited for the tow truck to arrive.
The next day, I saw the news about a man jumping from a bridge into the river.