NOVEL NEXT Chapter 39
Chapter 39 – Vicious Sick Girl 19
When she woke up the next morning, Ai Qian felt that her back was sore and her back was aching, and even her mind was a little groggy. When she got out of the car, there happened to be a small ditch not far away, so she walked over to wash her face. Feeling her mind clearer, Ai Qian walked to the car and woke Jia Renlu up.
After Jia Renlu woke up, he sighed and sighed, sometimes he said that his waist was broken, and sometimes he said that he fell into a pillow. Sitting on the co-pilot, Essie gnawed on the cake, and said annoyedly: “If you are really in such pain, then get out of the car here, and I will go by myself. Why do you have to suffer with me?”
Speaking of this, Jia Renlu’s expression was filled with pain, “Cousin, my cousin came out with you yesterday when he was dizzy and confused. Don’t regret it now. But it’s too late to regret. After driving so far, let me go now.” Go back, I’m afraid I may not be able to go back if I break my leg.”
The corner of Ai Qian’s mouth twitched, she held back for a long time and said: “Then don’t think about it, just follow me.”
After eating breakfast, Jia Renlu got into the car again. In his words, driving is a man’s business, and it’s not gentlemanly to let a woman drive. Ai Qian didn’t want to refute him, so she let him go.
We set off early in the morning, and we were almost at the front line by noon. Jia Renlu said: “Fortunately, I filled up the gas, otherwise I might not be able to get here.”
The reason why we know that we are approaching the front line is because we can already see people along the way. From time to time, there were people carrying luggage on the road, and injured people were helped to walk away. It seemed that they had escaped from the war zone. No matter how they were dressed, everyone looked ashamed and sluggish.
Ai Qian asked Jia Renlu to drive the car aside, and Jia Renlu said, “What are you doing? Are you not going to the front line?”
“No.” Ai Qian took out two ragged clothes from her luggage, and said, “The situation here is so chaotic, we’d better keep a low profile. If we wear this, no one will pay attention to us.”
Jia Renlu held the ragged suit and said with disgust, “Are you sure it won’t damage my delicate skin if I wear this?”
Ai Qian: “…I’ll beat you if I don’t!”
The two changed into tattered clothes, and Ai Qian covered their heads with a turban. Clothes can be used as camouflage, but not hair. The hair of the two of them, who had no worries about food and clothing, looked different from those of those who lived a hard life. Ai Qian was still worried, and even got some grass ash to touch the exposed skin.
After such a disguise, Ai Qian and Jia Renlu looked at each other silently, and both of them saw a farmer uncle who had experienced vicissitudes of life in each other’s eyes.
Ai Qian also wrapped her own things in rags as a disguise. She said to Jia Renlu, “When you drive to the city, abandon the car and walk in.”
Jia Renlu glanced at his baby car reluctantly, nodded aggrievedly, “Yeah.”
Ai Qian handed the bag to Jia Renlu again, “Carry it, do you want to watch me carry such a big bag?”
Jia Renlu was wronged and carried the burden, only thinking that this was the darkest period of his life.
Ai Qian comforted: “Don’t be wronged, I told you that I plan to take my father to the United States, can I take you with me too? The United States is hard to fight, and when we go there, we can live such a quiet and prosperous life like now. It’s time.”
Jia Renlu asked, “Is it true?”
“Really.” Ai Qian said, “What did I lie to you for?”
“Then why don’t you go to France?” Jia Renlu said, “I really like the perfume there.”
Ai Qian was so worried, she said: “Are you stupid? France is worse than our country now, are you rushing to eat bullets there?”
Jia Renlu was surprised and said, “No way, it looks like this is still producing perfume?”
Ai Qian was silent for a while, and then said: “Silly cousin, don’t you just believe what others say, okay? You just believe it when she says it’s French perfume?”
Jia Renlu: “…”
Gradually, the city wall could be seen, and the last time Ai Qian saw the battle report was that Bai Yuan was defeated and retreated back to the city, waiting for rescue in the city. The two got off the car not far from the city gate, and saw many people running out in a hurry.
Jia Renlu said, “Why are they running away now?”
Ai Qian sighed and said, “How long has it been since the defeat? Besides, who wants to leave their home unless it is absolutely necessary?”
Among the crowds of people going out of the city, the two of them who were going upstream stood out very conspicuously. When she reached the gate of the city, Ai Qian wondered, “Why isn’t there even a guard here?”
Jia Renlu said: “Nothing is better, what if the things in our luggage are withheld?”
Ai Xi and Jia Renlu entered the city together, and the streets in the city were in chaos. There are broken bricks and tiles everywhere, and dead bodies can still be seen. The wind blew papers and rags flying all over the sky, Jia Renlu said, “Where is uncle?”
“It’s in the north of the city.” Ai Qian said, “If it wasn’t for guarding in the north of the city, how could we walk on the street?”
Suddenly there was a whistling sound from the sky, and the people around immediately panicked. Before Ai Qian could react, an explosion suddenly exploded in front of her. The two fell to the ground in a heat wave, and the warm mud hit them like rain.
There was a sharp pain in Ai Qian’s chest, and she coughed heart-piercingly. Jia Renlu got up from the ground, “Cousin, cousin, are you okay?!”
There were screams of people all around, and everyone was shouting: “The plane is coming! The plane is coming! Go to the air-raid shelter…”
“Cough, cough, watch…” Ai Qian supported Jia Renlu’s arm and said, “Follow them, and go to the air-raid shelter, cough cough…”
Jia Renlu helped Ai Qian and ran away, and the two followed the crowd into a narrow hole. Not far into the cave, Ai Qian dragged Jia Renlu against the wall and stopped going inside. Jia Renlu panicked and said, “Cousin, what’s wrong?”
Essie had heard that too many people entered some air-raid shelters during the Anti-Japanese War, and the time in them was too long, which led to the gradual depletion of oxygen, and finally everyone inside died of lack of oxygen, because when the bombing ended People can’t get out.
Ai Qian leaned against the wall tightly, feeling that people were passing by all the time, and they were all crowded into the air-raid shelter. When it was really impossible to get in, someone shouted: “Close the door, close the door! You can’t get in… Close the door…”
As soon as the door was closed, the air-raid shelter was completely dark.
There were explosions outside from time to time, the air-raid shelter was trembling, and the soil from the sky rustled down.
Essie inhaled the dust and couldn’t help coughing. The previous explosion was too close to her, and her chest kept hurting. There were sobbing sounds from time to time in the air-raid shelter, Jia Renlu supported Ai Qian and said, “Cousin, how are you doing, cousin?”
Essie: “Cough cough cough cough…”
She coughed for a long time and felt that her lungs were about to be coughed out, and then she stopped coughing, but the pain in her chest seemed to be bursting. Jia Renlu turned on the flashlight, looked at the corner of Ai Qian’s mouth, and exclaimed, “Cousin, why are you coughing up blood?”
A woman next to her saw it and said, “She was injured by the blast, it’s not good.”
Jia Renlu was so anxious that he didn’t know it was so good, Ai Qian whispered: “Don’t worry, wait until I find my dad, are you afraid that there will be no doctor?”
That’s right, Jia Renlu calmed down instantly. The bombing outside was still going on, Jia Renlu said, “When will it end?”
“I don’t know.” Ai Qian said: “But it will end before dark, and the bomber will not be able to aim after dark.”
As expected, the bombing outside ended in the evening, and Ai Qian was glad that she was not suffocated here. The door of the air-raid shelter opened, and the people inside went out one after another. The woman next to them didn’t move, and the child in her arms whispered, “Mom, I’m hungry.”
The woman wiped her tears and touched the dirt on her face, which was very ugly. She said with a dull face: “Mom is too thin, if mom is fatter, I can give you some meat, my baby…”
Jia Renlu looked at the woman in shock. He never thought that there would be someone in the world who could say such a thing.
Ai Qian took out a bag of snacks from her bag and slipped it into the woman’s hand, whispering, “Give it to the child.”
Women get excited and kowtow to Essie. Ai Qian stopped her and said, “Don’t let others see.”
Jia Renlu helped Ai Qian out of the air-raid shelter, and it was almost impossible to see the bombing outside. Jia Renlu said in fear, “The bombing was so terrible just now, uncle will be fine, right?”
Ai Qian glared at him, “Don’t talk nonsense.”
The two of them were really tired. Jia Renlu supported Ai Qian and sat down on one side, and gave her water to drink, “Cousin, are you feeling better? Where did you get hurt just now?”
Ai Qian took a sip of water, grinning from the pain in her chest. She looked at the people who kept running out of the city, and she didn’t know what happened to Bai Yuan.
Suddenly someone shouted: “Everyone, run away, all the soldiers are running away!”
Immediately afterwards, a man in military uniform drove a three-wheeled motorcycle towards the outside of the city. Jia Renlu stood up and pointed to the driveway: “Then… is that uncle’s man?”
Then another car passed by, and Jia Renlu quickly ran to the side of the road, yelling and blocking the car. Several cars passed by without paying attention to him. In the end, he was about to stop a car with his body, and finally stopped one.
The soldier in the car scolded: “Looking for death?!”
“No, it’s me. I’m Jia Renlu, the nephew of Commander Bai.” Jia Renlu pointed to Ai Qian who was not far away, “That’s Commander Bai’s daughter, we’re here to find Commander.”
From a distance, the soldier saw a man with a dirty face and a dirty face, whose gender he could hardly tell. The car behind him was coming, and he said, “Why did you stop?”
The soldier pointed at Essie and said, “He said it was the commander’s daughter.”
Ai Qian walked over, poured some water from the drinking water to wash her face, and said, “I’m Bai Xunmei, I want to see my father.”
When Ai Qian saw Bai Yuan, Bai Yuan’s military uniform had already been taken off, and a layer of gauze was wrapped around it.
Bai Yuan turned his head when he heard the movement, and when he saw Ai Qian, his eyes widened as if he couldn’t believe it. His cheeks twitched for a long time, and finally said: “Why are you so disobedient.”