After a simple rebirth

This atmosphere is not about "unity" where everyone in the village will go up to fight when someone has a problem. Instead, everyone cares about old ladies and children and lives in harmony. No matter your age, the quality of your house, or your family income, you will not be discriminated against, be told what to do, or stand by and watch.

It is true when I think about it. In the two years here, Fu Ying has not experienced any school violence, nor has she seen others being bullied in school. No students have made appointments to fight after school, and no teachers have pointed at students and scolded or physically punished them.

Children like Zhu Xue and my little cousin who are considered special in the family can still live happily here. They will be affected eventually, but there are no children or elderly people who spread rumors about others behind their backs and cause lifelong psychological trauma to others.

Thinking of this, Fu Ying suddenly felt that this village seemed to have been sublimated from her memory.

Sixth Uncle and Fu Ma suddenly stopped, and so did Fu Ying and Fu Zhe. It turned out that an old lady was asking them questions. She was obviously very familiar with Fu Ma, and she might have watched her grow up. Fu Ma was chatting with her.

A boy from the old man's family brought out a high stool for them to sit on, and Fu Ying and the others sat down. Fu's mother and sixth uncle were talking to the old man, and Fu Zhe and the boy actually started chatting. Fu Ying? Am I redundant?

I glanced at the boy, but I have no impression of him and can’t remember him. Maybe he was one of my playmates when I was a kid?

As a result, the boy took the initiative to talk to her, "Fu Ying, you are in high school this year, right? Are you studying in the county?"

Fu Ying looked confused, but still answered, "Yes, first year of high school. There's a new high school near my home, so I'm studying there. It's very close."

"Why do I feel like you don't recognize me?" the boy asked directly.

Fu Ying was embarrassed and shook her head, "I don't know him."

The boy was still shocked. "Fu Zhe, your second sister didn't lose her memory like in the TV series, did she? She didn't remember anyone? Then what did she remember?"

Fu Ying... young man, watch less melodramatic TV dramas. I didn't have a car accident, I wasn't injured, and I didn't lose my memory. It's just that so many years have passed that I don't remember you.

"No, she just can't remember some things. She still remembers a lot. But she seems to have some amnesia. My dad said that she doesn't know if it's because she smoked too much coal last time and affected her brain. She feels different. She can't even call many of my relatives." Fu Zhe said.

Fu Ying was speechless, the person involved was here!

But she didn't expect that Dad Fu would think of the gas incident. After she came back, no matter how close she was to the past, she had changed a lot. Fu Ying knew that she was noisy and had a bad temper in junior high school. She always quarreled with Mom Fu. Now she is so quiet, obedient and independent. It is indeed quite abnormal. It is normal for her parents to notice it, but she didn't expect that her family had already found a reason for her.

It's a good thing that she has gotten better. Her grades and personality are improving. If she had gotten worse, Fu's parents would have rushed her to the hospital for a brain check.

It’s not known whether the boy believed it or not, but he didn’t talk to Fu Ying anymore, and the two continued chatting.

They were all chatting, while Fu Ying looked at the scenery. This area was the largest in the village, with houses on both sides. It was like a circle, with houses on one side and many meters back on the other.

There is an old house opposite. It is not a yellow mud house, but a wooden house. It is built with wooden boards. It is very old, and the wooden boards are moldy and black.

Fu Ying looked around again. To the right of the house was a small path, and across the path was an abandoned house. It could be seen that it was a yellow mud house. The overall wall was still there, but because no one had lived there for a long time, the roof had collapsed and the door had also collapsed.

Fu Ying recalled that they often came here to play, and played house and hide-and-seek here, because this was the center of the village. When the earthquake occurred, they were required to stay in an open area, and it was also here.

If she hadn't seen this, Fu Ying would have almost forgotten that they had experienced an earthquake, but not at the epicenter.

Even though they were 08 kilometers away from the epicenter of the Wenchuan earthquake, they still felt it clearly.

That afternoon, they were in a primary school class, which was taught by the homeroom teacher. They were all listening attentively. Suddenly, there was a shaking sensation. Fu Ying was sitting in the second row. The student in the front row suddenly turned his head and told her not to push the table. Fu Ying was confused. After a few seconds, Fu Ying also felt the table behind her pushing her back. She told the table in front of her that it was not her who pushed, but the one behind her. Her back was also pushed by the table.

The head teacher suddenly threw the books away, yelled "Earthquake", and asked all the students to run out of the classroom to the playground. Fu Ying's classroom was on the third floor, and when they ran to the playground, many classes were already there.

We didn't feel any shaking while waiting, but some students found that the teaching building had cracked. Everyone looked and exclaimed. The primary school has only one teaching building, which is five stories high. There was a crack on the side from the fifth floor to the third floor. The crack on the roof was as wide as a little finger.

Fu Ying didn’t know whether the teaching building was rebuilt later. It was not rebuilt before she graduated, and she never went back there after graduation.

They waited in the playground for half an hour that day and there was no more shaking, but the school was closed immediately. Back at Uncle Six's house, Zhao Ming and his classmates from junior high school were also closed. Uncle Six came back at dinner time. He came back and said that he just found out that when Fu Ying felt the push on her back in the afternoon, a huge earthquake occurred in Wenchuan. They were not in the center, so there was some impact but not much. They didn't hear that any houses collapsed and crushed people, but there was a power outage.

The village notified experts that aftershocks were expected and asked them to wait in a wide area outdoors and try to sleep outside at night instead of staying indoors.

They were playing outside, and Fu Ying went back to bed because she was too sleepy. At 12 o'clock in the evening, Uncle Liu came back, and the village asked everyone to go to the square. Fu Ying struggled to get out of bed because she slept so well, so Uncle Liu directly moved the mat and quilt to the small square, and Fu Ying reluctantly followed.

When I got to the square and sobered up a bit, it was already full of people. The older ones stood by themselves, and the younger ones were held by their parents. Everyone had flashlights in their hands, so we could only chat to ease the tense atmosphere.

Fu Ying also waited for a while, but there was no movement. She and Zhao Ming lay on the cool mat and fell asleep under the quilt. Fu Zhe stayed up for quite a while. He said that there were indeed a few shakings at two or three o'clock, and they were quite severe. He almost fell down a few times. Fu Ying was confused. She was sleeping so deeply that she really didn't feel anything. Fu Zhe was speechless. She slept like a pig. If there was a real earthquake, she couldn't run away.

The next day was a holiday, and then everything returned to normal.

In the second half of 08, she went to Guangdong Province to study in junior high school. The school organized a donation, and she asked Fu's mother for yuan to donate. This was acceptable to Fu's mother and was also Fu Ying's intention. Fu's mother said that their factory also organized a donation, and she had donated yuan.

After Fu Ying learned how to use the Internet and read various materials, she realized how cruel the earthquake was. She told others that she had experienced the earthquake, and some believed it and some did not. Even the places near the earthquake felt so strong, and it was hard for Fu Ying to imagine the tragedy at the epicenter. It didn't matter whether others believed it or not. She wished that those who had been there that year would have a soul in heaven and a peaceful afterlife.