"Xiao Yue, was that person just now your friend?" Xie Changxiao, carrying daily necessities, quickly caught up with them.
He was looking at other stalls earlier and didn't listen carefully to their conversation. He only knew that she had collected everything.
"To be precise, it's my friend's husband."
"No wonder." No wonder she wanted to help. He turned back and glanced in the direction of the square: "His condition looks a little bad."
"It must be asthma." She heard Wen Yaxian say many times that Yan Shuo had asthma, so she always remembered it.
"Asthma doesn't seem to be cured?"
"Well, it can only be relieved."
"That's too frustrating."
Isn't it a toss-up?
Chi Yue lowered her eyelashes, recalling Wen Yaxian crying in the night, sighing secretly, and simply stopped thinking about it.
They returned to the small green brick building, and taking advantage of the free time they had recently, they cooked cooked food at home from time to time and stored it in the space.
After another four or five days, they sorted out the fish and shrimps dried on the island and took them to the square to exchange for some useful things.
"Chi Yue!" Yan Shuo finally squatted down to her. When he saw the figure, he immediately stood up and called her name loudly.
Chi Yue approached with a smile.
She looked at Wen Yaxian, who looked confused, and greeted her in a familiar tone: "Sister Yaxian, long time no see."
Wen Yaxian, who was wondering if there was something wrong with her memory, was stunned for two seconds, then stepped forward to hug the other person enthusiastically.
"Sister, you are getting more and more beautiful!" She held Chi Yue's hand and looked at her radiant face.
I really couldn't remember, and I couldn't directly ask them how they met, so I politely said: "How long has it been since we last met?"
"Four or five years ago."
They had been together day and night for half a year, and Chi Yue knew her things very well. He seemed to accidentally tell her that she was almost bullied while playing in a bar, and was helped by Wen Yaxian.
She used this matter to express her feelings, and her eyes couldn't help but turn red: "I haven't had time to say thank you to you yet."
Wen Yaxian had helped many people in the bar, and with Chi Yue's sincere thanks, she seemed to be able to put aside the feasting and feasting in her memory, sketch out the scene of meeting Chi Yue, and instantly believed her story. .
"What's the big deal? Don't cry." Out of guilt for not recognizing Chi Yue right away, she hugged Chi Yue again, placed a hand on her back, and patted her a few times.
Her comfort made the tears in Chi Yue's eyes slip quietly, and he couldn't help but recall the last time he saw her.
That year──
Just after the tornado, they temporarily stayed in a village in Huawu City to recuperate. Unexpectedly, they would be targeted by people with crooked ideas.
"Bang bang bang" banging on the door sounded in the middle of the night, and three or four tall figures flashed past their reinforced windows.
"Sister Yaxian, come up quickly!" Chi Yue squatted down in front of Wen Yaxian who broke her leg, preparing to carry her and escape from the cellar.
The cellar leads to the foot of the back mountain, which can buy them some time to escape. She gritted her teeth and carried the other person down to the cellar.
Not long after closing the cellar door, the door, which could not withstand the knocking of the group of people, collapsed with a violent sound.
"Little beauty..."
A sickening cry could be heard in the distance.
Wen Yaxian lowered her eyes and looked at Chi Yue, who was breathing heavily. Her fingertips touched her forehead and touched a layer of sweat.
"Yueyue, put me down."
"What?"
"I'm tired." She rubbed the heart-shaped pendant containing Yan Shuo's ashes and murmured in a low voice: "A Shuo has been waiting for me for a long time."
"Stop talking crazy!" Chi Yue, whose ribs were injured, endured the pain and walked unsteadily through the cramped cellar.
Seeing that she was approaching the exit, Wen Yaxian struggled suddenly on her back, fell sideways, and let herself fall to the ground.
She shook off Chi Yue's hand holding her arm and looked behind where footsteps could be heard vaguely: "You can't escape with me on your back."
"How will you know if you don't try?" Chi Yue dragged the other person towards the exit, but because she didn't cooperate, her eyes were red with anger: "Even if you want to die, you must die cleanly!"
The purpose of that group of people is too obvious.
If it falls into their hands, it will definitely be humiliated, and it will be difficult to even want to die.
"But I'm not clean to begin with." Wen Yaxian said about the process of accompanying her guests. When Chi Yue wasn't paying attention, she pushed her out of the cellar entrance with all her strength and suddenly closed the small door.
She clung to the rope wrapped around the handle, not giving Chi Yue a chance to open the door: "Get out of here, don't delay my happiness!"
"Wen Yaxian!"
"Go away!" She shouted, covering up her sobs. She looked at the person walking towards her, pointed out the number of people on the other side, and reminded Chi Yue: "What do you two want to do?"
A burst of obscene words rang in my ears.
Chi Yue, who was in tears, stroked the cellar door tremblingly, looking towards the yard where the noise came from. Finally, under Wen Yaxian's repeated reminders, she stumbled and ran towards the back hill.
She survived.
But on that inconspicuous night, Wen Yaxian held Yan Shuo's ashes and slept forever.
…
"Sister, are you here to trick my tears?" Wen Yaxian saw that she was crying harder and harder, so she cried with her inexplicably.
They held each other and cried.
Yan Shuo and Wen Qizhou's emotions were extremely complicated. The former didn't understand why Wen Yaxian was crying; the latter thought of the injustice Chi Yue had suffered, and his heart felt like it was being pulled.
"I'm so excited to see you." Chi Yue returned to her thoughts and took the tissue from Wen Qizhou and gave it to Wen Yaxian.
She sucked the tip of her nose and wiped her tears, no longer immersed in the grief of her previous life: "How have you been lately?"
"It's okay." Wen Yaxian took her good sisters' arms and invited them home for dinner.
The one-bedroom apartment she rented was very small, with only one sofa in the living room, but it could accommodate five people without any problem.
It was still early for dinner, so they sat around the sofa and chatted for a while, but it didn't stop there.
"I saw the patrol arrested a few elderly people today." Xie Changxiao thought that they had lived at the base longer, so he asked, "Do you know what happened?"
"It seems they arrested a thief?" Wen Yaxian had witnessed others being arrested, and she still had some impression of the incident.
"Probably not." Yan Shuo denied: "The patrol team has been arresting people during this period. It is said that the people they arrested are rabies patients and thieves, but I don't feel like it."
"Have the arrested people ever come back?"
"No."
"That's a bit strange." Wen Qizhou rubbed the glass with his fingers, also not believing the patrol's external rhetoric.
How could so many thieves and rabies patients appear at the same time?
"Could it be that——" Xie Changxiao paused for two seconds, suddenly patted his thigh, and guessed: "They are doing human experiments?"
Wen Yaxian: "Isn't it possible?"
Chi Yue: "I prefer infectious diseases."
Based on her experience in her previous life, there is a high probability that people arrested at the base for no apparent reason are infected with infectious diseases.
But which category it is, I can’t say for sure.
(End of chapter)
