No.70 days

landslide.

For a moment, Shao Wu felt that his brain was empty. Hearing these four words, he couldn't understand their meanings—even the geography knowledge he had seriously minored in was thrown out of the blue.

"I'll call Sister Xin," Longlong's voice pulled him back from his thoughts, "She said...she hasn't contacted my brother for a month."

"Don't worry, Liangshan Prefecture, Liangshan Prefecture is very big," he admired his calmness, "it won't be such a coincidence. Besides, there are mountainous areas over there, so it's normal for mobile phones to have no signal."

"It's never been like this before."

"When did you find out that the phone couldn't get through?"

"yesterday afternoon."

"...Then when was the last time you contacted him?"

"On the 20th, he paid me my living expenses that day," Longlong couldn't help crying at this point, "He said he would leave for Liangshan right away."

"Specific location?"

"Did I ask..."

"Have you asked your mother-in-law?" Shao Wu paused, "Whether he has called her in the past few days, you don't know."

"Grandma..." Longlong muttered, "Grandma, she..."

"What about her?" Shao Wu thought she didn't dare to ask her mother-in-law, for fear that the old man would be provoked, so he said, "You should think of a way and ask around."

"She can't remember," Longlong said, sobbing, "she can't remember things now."

"Don't you cry, take it easy, she can't remember—what does it mean, she can't remember at all? Is she sick?"

"Yes," Longlong cried even more fiercely, "She's sick."

That afternoon, Shao Wu returned to Yongchuan.

According to the address Longlong gave, he soon met his mother-in-law - it turned out that she had moved to Yang Shuyi's aunt's house.My aunt is nearly ten years younger than my mother-in-law, so she can take care of my mother-in-law, and it happens that the two old people are my companions.

When Shao Wu knocked on the door, it was the mother-in-law who opened it.She seemed to be fatter than before. When she saw Shao Wu, she said happily, "Hey! Xiao Shao is here!" Her voice was unexpectedly loud, and her face was also rosy.

"Mother-in-law, it's me." Shao Wu smiled at her while secretly wondering, is her mother-in-law really sick?

"Come on, come in and sit down," the mother-in-law turned her head and called, "Third sister, let's make some tea."

"Don't bother me, I'll just—"

"Xiao Shao, look," the mother-in-law rolled up her sleeves, showing her right wrist, "How is it? Niuniu bought it for me!"

It was a gleaming gold table.

Shao Wu: "Niuniu?"

"Her daughter-in-law." At this time, the aunt came over with a teacup and said with a smile, "My eldest sister, she is very happy when others give her anything."

"Hey, this bracelet is very expensive," the mother-in-law said, "I told Niuniu not to buy it, but she was so excited to buy it."

"Okay, okay," my aunt nodded with a smile, "your daughter-in-law is the best."

If he hadn't heard Zou Xin's words with his own ears, at this moment, Shao Wu would have almost suspected that Yang Shuyi had lied to him—in fact, Zou Xin hadn't cheated at all, and their family enjoyed themselves happily.

"This bracelet looks good at first glance." Shao Wu looked at it carefully, "it's pure gold."

Mother-in-law: "What gold?"

"Pure gold means pure gold," my aunt explained next to her, "999."

"I don't even understand what you young people are saying," the mother-in-law rolled up her sleeves, "it's pure gold, otherwise it's so expensive!"

"Grandma, do you have Shuyi's phone number? I changed my phone and I don't have his number anymore."

"Shuyi's number? I have it."

"Then you bring your phone, let me remember?"

"Yes," the mother-in-law got up and walked into the bedroom, and came back soon, and handed Shao Wu an old mobile phone, "You can find it yourself, oh, I'm really old, I can't use my mobile phone."

Shao Wu quickly opened the call record.

A few seconds later, he returned the phone to his mother-in-law: "Okay, I'll remember it."

"So fast?" Auntie asked in surprise, "Is it memorized now?"

"Ah, yes..."

"You don't know, Xiao Shao has a very bright mind," said the mother-in-law with a smile, "Shu Yi came back and said that Xiao Shao often takes the No. 1 exam."

Shao Wu got up: "Mother-in-law, aunt-in-law, then I'll go back first." He knew that he was being rude, but he couldn't wait any longer.

"Why do you have to leave just now!" said the aunt, "Have a bowl of tea."

"I still have something to do..."

"Students are all like this now," the mother-in-law also got up, "I'm very busy with school."

Shao Wu: "Huh?"

"You're talking nonsense again," my aunt patted her mother-in-law's arm, then smiled at Shao Wu with a helpless expression.

But the mother-in-law acted as if she hadn't heard, she brought Shao Wu to the door, and suddenly lowered her voice: "Xiao Shao."

Shao Wu's heart pounded: "Hey, mother-in-law, what's wrong?"

"You are at school, play with Shuyi more often, okay?"

"I……"

"He's a child with a lot of thoughts, and he doesn't tell us anything when he gets home," the mother-in-law sighed softly, "His father just left not long ago, I know he feels the most uncomfortable, but he doesn't tell us. , afraid that we will worry..."

"..."

Shao Wu looked at his mother-in-law, feeling dazed.

The mother-in-law was still chattering: "Fortunately, he made you a friend. The next day you are in college, you should keep in touch frequently. Shuyi wants to go to college with you. He said that the university you are going to take, that one ...I can't remember the name...He said that the school was so good that he couldn't pass the exam."

Is this what Yang Shuyi said in 2009?

Shao Wu said, "Renmin University."

"Ah, yes, Renmin University," the mother-in-law smiled, and then showed a worried expression, "Sometimes I think, one day I will leave too, and he will be left alone—how can I rest assured? ? Longlong is still young and still depends on him to take care of him, so he is the only one..."

"Hey—Second Sister!" Auntie came out of the kitchen and dragged her voice, "I'm talking nonsense again—"

The mother-in-law quickly said: "Okay, okay, I won't talk anymore!"

"Don't worry," Shao Wu looked at her mother-in-law's cloudy eyes and her face with many age spots, "I will often go to Shuyi in the next day."

Shao Wu went directly to Chengdu by high-speed train.

He read the short news over and over again. At around 3:23 pm on March 6, a landslide occurred in Leibo County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province. At present, the fire brigade is searching and rescuing, and the casualties are unknown.

CCTV did not report this news, and the website that Longlong sent to Shaowu was the Sina News Center.On the way, Shao Wu dialed the county government's livelihood hotline, but no one answered.Shao Wu forced himself to calm down. He thought that since CCTV did not report it, there are two possibilities. One, it was just a small-scale landslide that did not cause huge casualties.Second, the real casualties were concealed.

In fact, Shao Wu is more inclined to the first situation. The casualties caused by natural disasters are obvious, such as mudslides directly engulfing entire villages. Coupled with China's consistent strong grassroots management, it is not difficult to count the casualties.Since the news said that "casualties are unknown", it is likely that the landslide did not directly endanger the village, and even the public facilities were not seriously damaged.

But if——if Yang Shuyi and the others happened to run into him, if only one or two people died in it, it really didn't seem to be considered a "major casualty".

If there were Yang Shuyi among those one or two people.

Shao Wu also called Yang Shuyi's work unit, but also couldn't get through, and it was past office hours.

The high-speed train arrived at Chengdu East Station, and Shao Wu received a call from Longlong, who said that she had already bought a ticket to Chengdu.

"It's useless if you come, I can't take you there," this is the first time Shao Wu ordered her so forcefully, "I will let my brother pick you up, and then you stay in Chengdu, you are not allowed anywhere go!"

Longlong cried and begged him, but he still said, you stay in Chengdu and you are not allowed to go anywhere.

But the moment he hung up the phone, standing at the exit of the station where people come and go, Shao Wu only felt a deep sense of helplessness.He told Longlong not to go anywhere, but in fact he didn't know where he should go, he didn't even know if Yang Shuyi went to Leibo County, Liangshan Prefecture.

Liangshan Prefecture is so big, with so many lofty mountains, where is Yang Shuyi?

Reason told him that the best choice at the moment is to stay in Chengdu, and then wait until tomorrow to ask Yang Shuyi's work unit.Although he felt that the unit might not tell him, after all, he couldn't prove that he was someone from Yang Shuyi... But he should wait, since the news said that the fire brigade was already searching and rescue, maybe tomorrow, there will be definite news .

but.

But there was no moment like this moment when he suddenly understood Yang Shuyi's mood eight years ago. Eight years ago, Yang Shuyi also rushed from Yongchuan to Chengdu alone like him now. At that time, he didn't know the exact location of Yang Long and Xiaojuan. , he didn't know how severe the earthquake was and how many casualties it caused. Even, even if he was like now, imagining that his father's cell phone just ran out of battery and broke, he also felt that it was just a small-scale accident. Natural disasters, maybe tomorrow, tomorrow my father will call back home.

Yang Shuyi couldn't bear the torment of waiting, so he took a car, walked, and crossed mountains and ridges to enter the disaster area.

And Shao Wu also knew that he couldn't wait.Can't wait.He prepared for the worst, if he really received the news of Yang Shuyi's death - it must be on his way to find him.