His anxious voice came from the phone, with a hoarse echo.
"Don't worry, Mengmeng! It snowed heavily in the Yimu River, and the communication cables were broken. I ran more than ten miles of mountain roads to a nearby place with signal to report to you that I was safe."
It was a little noisy over the phone, there was a clanging sound of a shovel rubbing against a stone.
Gu Mengmeng held the trolley suitcase in her hand and leaned on the backrest of the airport waiting area. Listening to his heavy breathing and the rhythmic echo of the soldiers, she felt that during this time, her heart was high.
The high-hanging heart slowly fell.
"Are you in the wild?" she asked with concern.
"Well, a fellow villager here is missing. I am leading a search and rescue team in the Yimu River...Huzi, don't use too much force! Dig gently and be careful of the ice under your feet!" Conway directed the soldiers to rescue people while talking to her.
"I'm sorry, Mengmeng. I can't say more to you."
"Then go get busy and call me back when you're free."
Conway seemed to have snatched a soldier's shovel and got down to it. He probably put his cell phone to his ear and gasped, "Okay. The temperature in Beijing has also cooled down. You need to wear more clothes. Don't let it go."
I'm worried."
Gu Mengmeng felt warm in her heart, and there was a hint of coquettishness in her tone as she said, "How am I doing? You know, I don't like dressing up like a bear in winter, it's so ugly."
Kangwei chuckled helplessly, and his rich voice soaked into her heart like an ups and downs tide, making Gu Mengmeng unable to help but tell her about going to Yimu River.
"I tell you..."
"Mengmeng." The two of them spoke almost at the same time. They were stunned for a moment before Gu Mengmeng asked him to speak.
"I really have to hang up! Mengmeng, I guess I will go back to the company after one more busy day, and then I can go online and make phone calls. Take good care of yourself, husband-----ahem-----you, um, you
got it.."
His ambiguous tone made Gu Mengmeng's face turn red and she let out a small murmur.
"What do you want to say to me?" he remembered and asked again.
Gu Mengmeng held back her words and said, "It's nothing, just get busy. See you then!"
"Yeah. Goodbye, wife."
The two closed the line almost at the same time.
She turned off her mobile phone and pulled up two large red suitcases, which were filled with scarce medicines and daily necessities there. She wanted to check in her luggage and then board the plane to fly to Inner Mongolia.
She wants to surprise her lover far away.
Therefore, she did not tell Conway early that she was going to Imuhe.
After a day and night of intense search and rescue, the missing villagers were found safely. After handing them over to the local government and taking them back to their homes, Conway led his team back to the company.
The snow was too deep and vehicles could not pass, so they had to walk back to the station. Conway roughly calculated that it would take more than half a day to return at the earliest.
Halfway through the journey, he was delighted to find that his cell phone actually had a signal.
While walking, he sent text messages to Gu Mengmeng.
"Honey, I'm returning to the post right now. What are you doing?"
After waiting for a while and not seeing the phone ringing, he sent again.
"Honey, why don't you reply to my words? Don't you want to talk to me anymore?"
Still no reply.
Just at this moment, the soldier beside him pushed him and shouted in surprise: "Instructor Kang, look, it's a plane!"
Sure enough, the roar of aircraft engines driving propellers could be heard in the sky.
He covered his face with his hands and looked at the model. He knew it was a helicopter used by the military region to deal with emergencies at the border company after the heavy snow closed the mountains. Thinking of the recent snow disaster, he thought it was just for transporting supplies, but after a few glances he didn't think so.
He looked down at his phone again.
A few minutes have passed since the last text message.
But the phone remained silent and motionless.
He thought in confusion.
Did this girl forget to bring her cell phone when she went out for an interview?
Not very likely.
She is a very attentive girl when it comes to her work, so there is no way she will forget it.
Feelings of despair surged up in his heart, and he still held on to a glimmer of hope and asked the soldiers marching with him.
"Who has contacted the family? Is there anyone who I just spoke to?"
The soldiers looked at each other and did not dare to raise their hands.
Mobile phones are personal belongings in the company and will be confiscated when performing tasks.
Conway asked this because he knew that the soldiers would keep their mobile phones secretly, or hand over a spare one. When no one was around, they would take the opportunity to call their relatives or girlfriends in their hometown to report.
Safety.
Seeing that the soldiers didn't speak, their eyes were still evasive.
His face sank and he said loudly: "I don't want to confiscate anyone's things, I just want to ask if the communication cable here has been repaired and if your mobile phone can be used."
Finally a soldier raised his hand.
"Tell the instructor, mine can be used. I just sent a text message during the break."
"Did you come back?" What Conway wanted to know was the result.
The soldier was stunned by the question, but he still answered him simply, "Report to the instructor, I'm back!"
Some other soldiers booed, "Cao Xikun sent this text message to his girlfriend, instructor! Why don't you ask him what he received?"
Conway was amused and asked, "Cao Xikun, please read the text message!"
The young soldier became anxious upon hearing this. His face turned red and he didn't know where to put his hands.
"Read--read!"
"Read one! Read one!" A group of soldiers who were intrigued by the slightest ambiguity began to boo.
There is an unwritten rule in the army that when a girlfriend writes a letter, she must read it out in front of everyone. Nowadays, with the advancement of technology, mobile phone text messaging has become a way for these monks and soldiers to relieve their loneliness, and they enjoy it.
Cao Xikun had no choice.
I had to blush and read the text message from my girlfriend aloud in front of everyone.
"My dear, no matter how far you go, no matter what happens in the future, I am waiting silently for you in the distance! Take care of yourself, this is the way to love me, remember!"
After I finished reading, no one made any noise.
Conway and the soldiers walked back silently.
His cuteness was just like Cao Xikun's sensible girlfriend, a brave and kind-hearted girl. He missed her for no reason, and his heart ached faintly at the thought.