After the Earthquake of Rebirth

On the dusty dirt road, against the flow of people, a dusty bicycle bumped forward.

Ning Qiyan pedaled the bike numbly.

It has been more than three years since the global earthquake, and the survivors have gradually adapted to the harsh climate, and the government's reconstruction system is more suitable for today's living environment.The sorrow and panic that filled the entire earth at the beginning have gradually faded away, and a little bit of stable life has rekindled people's hope.

Ning Qiyan looked at the calm or smiling faces passing by, the corners of his lips curled up mockingly.

A profound loneliness separates him from the whole world.

After more than an hour of riding to the end, the car was pushed to the carport at the foot of the mountain.He took out two potatoes from the frayed trouser pocket and handed them to the young man watching the car in the shed.

Now that order is being re-established, coins have been useless since the earthquake.No matter what you do, you trade directly with food.If he didn't want to wait until he went down the mountain and couldn't find the only means of transportation, Ning Qiyan had to pay the "seeing fare" honestly.

Tightening the backpack behind him, Ning Qiyan walked along the not very spacious mountain road to his cave on the top of the mountain.The earthquake that year destroyed nearly half of the buildings in the city. Although his community survived the disaster, the extreme heat and cold that followed forced him to abandon his home without electricity and water supply, and follow the government's arrangement to go to the mountains. A cave was dug to survive the winter and summer.

The cave is located near the top of the mountain, and it took almost two hours to walk up from the bottom of the mountain.Ning Qiyan looked down at the small hole and the leveled ground around the hole.

He got into the cave, groped skillfully to where the torch was placed, and lit the torch.The dim light of the fire illuminated the cave of [-] to [-] square meters.Ning Qiyan walked to the innermost part slowly, stopped in front of a small soil bag, and looked at the soil bag quietly.

"I'm back." After a long time, Ning Qiyan sighed softly and said something in a low voice, as if someone here was waiting for him to go home.

"I heard that the crematorium in the city is about to be rebuilt. I will take you to the cremation at that time, so that I can bring you with me when I go back to live in the city. You should be happy now." Ning Qi Yan said with a chuckle, and took out the prepared food from the bag. "I brought your favorite meat. Meat is getting more and more expensive now. Yesterday I took twenty catties of potatoes in exchange for six taels of rabbit legs. You say you, for the less than three catties Rabbit took his life, is it worth it?! Well, I know you just want to vent your anger because I didn't promise you, but can't you give me some time?! Anyone who wants to be broken needs a psychological Let’s go through it. You’re fine, you want me to be with you, but you leave me and go to another world..."

The eyes are slightly red on the face that is no longer fair due to today's climate, but the chuckle at the corner of the mouth has not disappeared.

Ning Qiyan muttered softly, as if the silent man was still by his side.

Time passed by little by little, and when he was tired from sitting, he leaned against the soil bag, Ning Qiyan stopped talking, and silently recalled the man in his memory.

Since when have you become inseparable?

It seems that it started when the old dean let him live with Du Cheng.At that time, Du Cheng hadn't spoken for more than a year since he came to the orphanage.But even after growing up, Du Cheng rarely spoke.

I remember that when we first lived together, he didn't pay any attention to Du Cheng.At that time, in order to win the place in elementary school that year, he devoted himself to courting those aunts in the courtyard to be good-looking.Then why did Du Cheng suddenly follow him every day?

It's been too long to remember.

Later, because Du Cheng always stood by his side and helped him solve many children who didn't like him, so he also won a place for Du Cheng to go to school.

After that, the two read together, ate together, and slept together.Whenever one is present, the other must also be present.In this way, accompany all the way and grow up together.

After the college entrance examination, when he learned that the two were admitted to University B together, the old dean happily agreed to help them finish college.But I didn't think about it, before the summer was over, the old dean left.Abandoning the children in the whole yard and closing their eyes forever.It was not only nearly a hundred children who were left behind, but also the hopes of the two.

The new dean kicked them out of the orphanage.Not to mention studying, there is no place to live.The annual tuition fee of nearly [-] is like an abyss blocking them.

But in the end he walked into the campus, because Du Cheng carried his future on his weak shoulders at the time.

Manslaughter, sentenced to nine years. 180 million.

It wasn't until he received the check that he knew that Du Cheng, who had disappeared suddenly for half a month, had actually gone to take the blame.

He couldn't do anything. In the end, he could only carry the luggage of the two of them on his back, took the check, and continued to study.

In nine years, he finished college and graduate school, and came back here again.Bought a big house and arranged a home for two people.

When Du Cheng finally stepped out of the high wall, and when the two were finally able to live together again, Du Cheng moved out because of a confession from a school girl.

At that time, he didn't understand why the family that was finally consummated was broken again just by falling in love.Holding his breath, he watched Du Cheng, who couldn't find a job because of the nine-year stain, go to the construction site to work hard.Neither had spoken until the earthquake.

No one could forget that shocking earthquake and the shaking of the entire earth, even in the past three years.

He couldn't forget the bloody hands that carried him out of the dilapidated company.

After that, they seem to have forgotten the previous cold war at the same time, and returned to the days of being together.

Scorching sun, dry plants, hot temperatures.They survived the summer.Frozen for more than three months, the cold that invaded the bone marrow, limited food, embraced for warmth.They survived the cold winter.

For two years, they survived cautiously.But because of a girl's confession, Du Cheng's mind was aroused.The sudden emotion overwhelmed him, making him not know how to face the silent man.

and after?

Later, before he could sort out his feelings, the silent man was gone.Because of a rabbit, he was hacked to death in the forest.

The hands that covered the eyes could not hide the tears that were pouring out.Ning Qiyan turned over and lay down on the dirt bag, as if in this way he could feel the warmth of a man again.

The torches were burned out, and the cave was plunged into darkness.

Ning Qiyan was tired, tired, and suddenly didn't want to live in numbness anymore.

So be it……

Thoughts filled with memories quieted down and gradually sank into darkness.

Maybe an hour, maybe a day, maybe a long time.A light suddenly appeared in the dark cave.The soft white light is getting brighter and brighter.But the white light was the potatoes placed in one of the bowls in front of the soil bag.

An illusory figure slowly emerged in the cave, vaguely, it seemed to be a tall man.The man bent down, put the glowing potato into the sleeping Ning Qiyan's hand, and then lightly brushed Ning Qiyan's face with his fingertips...