Summer of Fireflies

Come on Lisa. "

"Grilling? Since when did you get interested in grilling?"

"Lisa, don't worry about it so much, Sarah, hurry up and buy tonight's barbecue materials~"

"...Okay, what do you want to eat?"

“Roasted marshmallows~”

"...Bai Lan, can you be a little more promising?!"

I was woken up by the sound of rain outside the window. I rubbed my eyes. I put one hand on my forehead to cover my eyes. The scene in my dream is still lingering in my mind. The familiar voice and familiar dialogue , I don’t know why I suddenly remembered the past.

I looked down and saw a blanket covering my body, remembering that there was no blanket before I fell asleep, and An An was not in the room, so the young man should have covered me with this blanket.

I took off the blanket and got up and walked into the house. The sound of the rain outside the window was crackling on the glass door, once and for a while, making a crisp sound when it hit the glass, and the center of my eyebrows jumped three times without warning, a kind of Anxiety and restlessness gradually spread in my heart.

When I went down the stairs, I happened to see the young man sitting on the sofa in the hall reading a book quietly. His short brown hair hung down to cover half of his face. Analysis", probably borrowed from my study.

Compared with the noisy sound of rain outside the window, the young man who was watching was particularly quiet.I kept looking at my watch, and the pointer stayed tick-tock at 17:20. According to the distance calculation, An An should have returned by this time.

Recently, photos of Janice's honeymoon trip have been sent every day, from Venice to Hawaii, to Vancouver and Washington, traveling all the way.It just so happened that An An’s kindergarten also organized a tour, which was held in a seaside town near Palermo. I remember that the morning before An An’s departure was still sunny, but after three o’clock in the afternoon, the whole of Palermo was cloudy and rainy. .

Listening to the sound of raindrops constantly beating the ground outside the window, my mood was also ups and downs. I came to meditate with the book. After I took the book, my eyes stayed on the front page without moving. The time passed by every minute and every second. When the pointer pointed to 19:30, An An still did not come back.

"Sister, what's wrong with you?" The silent young man at the side finally noticed my abnormality.

I opened my mouth to answer, but the phone in my pocket rang suddenly, I immediately took out the phone and pressed the answer button, after a few seconds...

"What did you say?! An'an's school bus encountered a landslide on the way back? Are all the students dead or alive?" It was almost my roar, and the uneasy premonition came from it.The hand holding the phone trembled. If the young man hadn't answered my call in time, I think my phone would have been smashed to pieces.

My dull pupils stared out of the window, and when I came back to my senses, I rushed over and grabbed the phone in the young man's hand and asked in a trembling voice: "Where is the location? Where is the accident?" Upon hearing the location mentioned by the other party, Before I had time to think too much, I grabbed the car keys on the table and rushed out the door like the wind.

"Sister, wait, I'll go with you." While I was grabbing the car keys, the young man who had reacted grabbed the umbrella by the door and followed me closely.

The rain outside became more and more majestic, and the city was gradually illuminated by neon lights. The road surface was wet, and the road surface was immediately splashed with water as the vehicles passed by. I sat on the main frame of the car, and the young man sat on the On the co-pilot, no one spoke, I pinched my sweaty palms, and the temperature there gradually became freezing cold.

The outside of the car window was covered with water droplets due to the slapping of the drizzle. Wherever I looked, the wiper arm kept swinging back and forth in front of me, which made me more and more disturbed.I stared desperately at the blocked red light ahead, wishing I could go faster.

After finally waiting for Tongtong, I accelerated the speed and drove towards the suburban road quickly. The more flustered I was, the less I could show it. If the driver is distracted while driving, it is easy to get into a car accident. Something happened, I don't know who else would be worried about what happened to An An.

The road ahead was impassable, and the sirens were blaring, but at this moment the main road was damaged, "Damn it!" I cursed in a low voice, because there were several big rocks blocked in the middle of the road, and those policemen were blocking the passage Vehicles, by the way, move those big rocks blocked in the middle of the road.

I can't wait any longer... I anxiously opened the car door and ran out. The young man followed me closely with an umbrella in his hand, but no matter what he said to me at this moment, I couldn't listen to him.

The icy heavy rain kept washing the ground, my face, hair and clothes were all exposed to the rain, and the rough raindrops hit my cheeks, burning and hurting, but at this moment, I didn't have the extra energy to care about everything on my face. Suffered from pain.

There is a gap between the big stones in the middle of the road that only one person can pass through. I squeezed in through the gap while the police were busy, passed behind the stones, and the spacious asphalt road ahead seemed It's much easier to go.

Warnings from the police to stop came from behind me, but I didn’t hear what they were saying. Running in high heels was a hindrance, so I simply took off the high heels and ran barefoot. At first, the soles of my feet didn’t adapt very well, and then the tingling sensation came to me. His feet gradually became numb.

Wanting to find An An sooner, this idea became more and more popular in my mind.Later... for some unknown reason, the scene changed to a young man pulling me to run in front.

The wind direction is not conducive to running while holding an umbrella, so the young man simply put away the umbrella and held my hand instead. My thinking is still a little confused at the moment. If the young man is not pulling me to run in front, I may be the first to run. Collapsed due to exhaustion.

While running in the cold rain, I looked at the silent and resolute side face of the young man. My confused mind calmed down a little, as if I felt the strength to move forward from the warmth of the other party's hands.

After half an hour, we arrived at the scene of the accident. The road railing under a certain hillside in the suburbs had collapsed. I looked down the hillside and saw only the wreckage of the kindergarten school bus embedded in the soil. I found my way and slid down.

"An'an, An'an, where are you? An'an..." Surrounded by lush greenery, I yelled into the woods, but no one responded to me except for the sound of rain, and my uneasiness gradually increased.

For me, the little guy has always been the focus of my life and my spiritual pillar. An'an is everything in the center of my world. If something happens to the little guy, I can't imagine how my world will be The collapse and madness, in fact, I am far from being as strong as I imagined.

I knelt and sat in front of the wreckage of the car, my fingernails and mud kept digging out the wet soil, and my ten fingers were cold and painful. Soon, the gravel rubbed the skin of my hand, and the bright red blood was left on the ground along with the raindrops. In the dirt, I ignored the pain and just mechanically planed the dirt on the ground, as if as long as I dig a little harder, An'an will emerge from the dirt in the next second.

"Enough!" The silent young man suddenly grabbed my bloody finger and held it in his palm, and pulled me to stand up together, "Sister, calm down, An An is not there." He raised my head and looked straight at me. My sluggish eyes, the brown pupils are filled with a touch of distress.

I blinked my eyes hard, and found that the corners of my eyes were sore. I turned my head and glanced at the wreckage of the car, and then glanced at the clear eyes of the young man. If An An and other children were buried in this car wreck, no They should have been rescued long ago.

The young man turned my face to the side of the forest. Although the rain washed away many shoe prints on the soil, there were still a few pairs of children's shoe prints left on the ground because of the help of the trees. Come down, there are the shoe prints of adults and the shoe prints of children.

But those shoe prints did not come out from the car wreck, but from the muddy road on the other side of the landslide, indicating that the children may not have been in the car before the car body landslide, or some children may have survived down.

Someone survived, which meant that An An might be among the survivors, and his heart beat suddenly. At this moment, my thinking quickly became active.

The author has something to say: Keke, Kawen is gone, so it’s a little later

After the book is finished, I will start customizing it. The customized book cover has been made, and I will show it to everyone:

24. Sunny day

"I'm sorry, I don't know where An'an is either." The director apologized.

When the young man and I found the director in the woods, the director was taking the frightened children to hide in a cave in the woods to avoid the rain.

In the thunderstorm weather, the mobile phone signal was not good. If the principal hadn't sent a text message asking for help before the phone ran out of battery, I probably wouldn't have known that something would happen to An An.

Originally, the director of the park called the police, but because the road was blocked, the young man and I were the first to arrive at the scene of the accident.

According to the principal, on her way home with the children, she encountered a group of strangers who entangled them on their school bus.

It was difficult to drive on a rainy day, the ground was wet and the road was slippery, coupled with the entanglement of strangers chasing after the car, the principal's school bus accidentally hit the railing on the side of the road and slid off with everyone on board Fortunately, the road was not very high from the bottom of the slope, and neither the principal nor the children had any accidents.

The stranger was still hot on his heels, and the calm principal immediately led the panicked children out of the overturned car.

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