Waiting for You in a City - Chapter 8

Xu Qin’s car went all the way south on the West Third Ring Road. There was no traffic jam or red light. Soon he arrived outside the camp of Shilitai Fire Squadron.

It was late at night.

The street lamp shone on the yellow leaves, leaving no one on the street.

Xu Qin looked inside through the fence, the moonlight spilled over the large playground and dormitory building. She looked up at the fence two to three meters high, just about to step on it, and a police dog barked from the playground.

“Wang!”

A **** dog wind generally rushed from the playground: “Ao! Ao!”

Xu Qin was not surprised, turned around and ran away. The dog did not resign, he sprinted for 100 meters, locked Xu Qin, and shouted at her across the fence: “Wang! Wang!”

The cry was fierce and resounded throughout the street.

Xu Qin ran to the gate in one breath, the sentinel standing on the post was standing upright, and his eyes turned to watch her cautiously.

In the distance there is a man saying: “Xiao Meng!”

The barking stopped abruptly.

Xu Qinli took care of his hair and clothes and glanced in that direction. A huge De Mu was standing not far away, with two pointed ears straight. Its bright eyes stared at Xu Qin, and after a while, he turned and ran to the man in the distance.

Xu Qin asked the sentry: “Hello, I’m looking for Song Yan.”

The sentinel glanced at the warning sign at the door, Xu Qin followed his gaze and saw “No visit” written on it.

The dog-training man came here. The figure was tall and fuzzy.

Xu Qin stared at him, and soon he was relieved. He walked from the shade of the tree to the moonlight, and she saw it clearly, it was Suo Jun’s instructor.

Suo Jun saw that there was a situation here, came over and asked, and he recognized Xu Qin: “Did you mean that day …”

Xu Qin: “Hello, I am looking for Song Yan.”

Suo Jun: “He has gone on public training.”

Xu Qin: “… oh.”

Suo Jun: “What’s the matter with you?”

Xu Qin: “No, just passed by. Thank you, bye.”

“Eh–” Suo Jun had to say something, Xu Qin hastily turned around, walked across the street very quickly, and drove away.

Dry wind rushed in from the car window, and the road ahead was dark and hard. The entire city is gray and the buildings are like dying plants, stunned and listless.

If the next heavy rain is enough, Xu Qin lights a cigarette and thinks that the next heavy rain that will flood the city will be fine.

She was suffocating and choking to death.

…

The next day, the sun was shining and the temperature rose suddenly.

Dozens of firefighters and soldiers underwent the scorching sun on the playground for physical fitness assessment.

The players lined up, and Song Yan whistleed, rushing out of the starting line, running, hurdling, creeping, obstacles, push-ups, sit-ups.

Song Yan was wearing a camouflage suit, standing tall and standing on the side with a stopwatch and a scoreboard. He glanced at the traveling team members, glanced at the stopwatch, and recorded the time spent on each item.

The players behind looked at it from time to time and compared it in their hearts.

One person finished, Song Yan whistled, and the next person set off. After an hour, all the players were assessed and re-lined.

Song Yan glanced at the transcript: “Stand up!”

The officers and men stood upright.

“Relax.”

Let the brush rest for a while.

“Reporting results, Jiang Yi, sprinting 11 seconds 3, hurdles 17 seconds 8, …” Song Yan looked up at his team members, but saw Suo Jun walking across the playground, “… the total score was 2 minutes and 24 seconds Last week increased by 15 seconds.-Applause. ”

The soldiers clapped three times neatly.

Suo Jun stood beside a tree next to him, and the military dog ​​Xiao Meng crouched beside him, waiting for Song Yan, one person and one dog.

Song Yan finished the notice one by one, put the record board behind his back, and said briefly: “Everyone has improved their performance, continue to maintain. Take a 10-minute break,” glanced at the watch, “Assembly at ten thirty, physical training. Stand up!”

“Yes.” The team members stood together and saluted.

“Dissolve.”

Song Yan turned to leave and walked towards Suo Jun. Chong Xiaomeng snapped his fingers: “Disband!”

A moment ago, Xiao Meng, with a serious and squat expression, opened his mouth immediately, stuck out his tongue, and rushed towards Song Yan. His front paws caught his chest, and he kept shaking his tail.

Song Yan rubbed its head and laughed: “Lying trough, I haven’t seen you for a few days, I think so.”

Suo Jun: “You have brought this dog to breed a disaster, you can’t eat without it, you have a bad temper, and you bark when you see someone. The feelings for you are really deep.”

Song Yan: “Nonsense, Lao Tzu raised it.”

Suo Jun said: “Yes, this dog is very affectionate and follows the owner.”

Song Yan was scratching the dog ’s neck, raising an eyebrow at him: “How do I feel there is something in your words?”

Suo Jun said haha: “Is it important for you to have feelings. Oh yeah, a woman came to you the night before, as if it were the doctor.”

Song Yan bent over and rubbed the dog’s head, looking careless.

“I was looking for her contact information, but she ran away.”

Song Yan looked up: “It’s not an important person.”

…

It rained for three consecutive days, getting better and better.

Xu Qin likes all the bad weather and bad weather, watching everything calm and torn into ugly scars. But colleagues at the hospital obviously don’t think so.

Whenever bad weather occurs, the number of emergency patients will multiply. The hall, consultation room, injection room, observation room are overcrowded everywhere.

Xu Qin and his team received seven traffic accidents of different sizes in the past three days. One of the boys in their early twenties stopped breathing on the way to the hospital.

The parents of the deceased dragged the doctor and cried, calling for help from the doctor to rescue their son.

Although doctors and nurses are used to life and death, they are not used to it.

Xiao Nan couldn’t help wiping her tears while washing her hands in the clean room.

Xu Qin asked: “What’s wrong?”

Xiao Nan: “The boy who died just now is so young. His parents are too pitiful.”

“Well.” Xu Qin washed his hands, dried it with a tissue, and said, “I’m off work. See you tomorrow.”

Xiao Nan froze watching Xu Qin leave his pocket and happened to Xiao Bei walk in: “What are you looking at?”

Xiao Nan: “I found that Dr. Xu never seemed to have mood swings.”

Xiaobei handwashed with hand sanitizer: “You found out today that everyone in the hospital said it. I haven’t seen her laugh, I haven’t seen her cry. She met the poor patient, she seemed to be sympathetic; she met miserable family She does n’t have mercy; she does n’t even get angry even when she encounters Hu Naotang. So I think she is the best person to be a doctor. ”

Xiao Nan is strange: “Why do you say that?”

Xiao Bei shrugged: “Keep the distance from the patient and treat the medical treatment rationally as a non-emotional professional and academic.”

Xiao Nan: “But I heard Dr. Zhu Xian from the Department of Burns say that Professor Xu has opinions on Dr. Xu and disagrees with Dr. Xu being promoted to the chief physician.”

“Eh? Why? Although Dr. Xu is not enthusiastic, he can do things reliably and work with her easily. Other doctors have to deal with interpersonal relationships, and the trouble is dead.”

“It seems that Dr. Xu has no heart. I heard Dr. Yang Sijia said that she and Dr. Xu had the same batch of interviews. Several directors of surgery were there. Director Xu Ken asked, if a critically ill patient applies for transfer to your hospital for surgery, you Judging that the success rate is not high, will you accept the transfer to the hospital for treatment? Yang Sijia said he will definitely say that our hospital has excellent medical skills and saved many patients that other hospitals cannot. She hopes that she will become such a wonderful doctor one day. ”

Xiaobei: “What about Dr. Xu, how does she answer?”

Xiao Nan: “Dr. Xu said he would not save.”

Xiaobei: “Did you say the reason?”

Xiao Nan: “Say, I don’t want to ruin my career.”

Xiaobei: “Lying trough, so direct?”

Xiao Nan: “No. Director Xu crossed the form at the time, but she didn’t expect her to come in, and she was divided into the most skilled burn department in our hospital’s surgery, which happened to be the department in charge of Director Xu.”

Xiaobei worried: “Can Doctor Xu be promoted this time?”

…

Xu Qin returned home at noon and found that the windows were not closed and rainwater came in, making the solid wood floor dirty.

She looked around and didn’t buy a mop at home, nor did she have a rag. There is no way to get an hourly job.

She couldn’t bear a trace of dirt, looking around, turning out a new sweater from the cupboard and wiping the water off the floor.

It has rained these days and the temperature has dropped suddenly. After finishing his housework, Xu Qin felt a little stuffy nose, so he found a knitted coat.

She sat on the sofa, lit a cigarette, and looked at the empty big room, unconsciously started. The smoke burned to the end without any notice. This is often the case after going to Shilitai that night. But she was used to calm, so even if she felt depressed, she would not notice it.

After sitting for a long time and groaning in her stomach, she remembered that she only ate the cake given by Xiao Nan in the morning. She hadn’t eaten today yet. Just after she got out her mobile phone and was ready to order takeout, Meng Yanchen’s phone call came in: “Qin Qin?”

“in.”

“Are you home?” Xu Qin’s work schedule is extremely complicated, but Meng Yanchen has a clear grasp, never disturbs her during work hours, and always cares about her rest.

“Arrived.”

“It’s okay, let me remind you. Red rain warning tonight, don’t go out and run.” Meng Yanchen has always spoken plainly, and there was not much concern in his tone.

“Got it.” Xu Qin said.

“have you eaten?”

“Not yet. Ready to order takeaway.”

Meng Yanchen paused for a second and said, “I haven’t eaten yet, let’s go together.”

Xu Qin: “Where to go?”

Meng Yanchen: “Which one do you want to eat?”

Xu Qin: “Jiang Zhichu.”

Meng Yanchen laughed faintly over there: “You can’t eat too much.”

Xu Qin: “I will start right away.”

Meng Yanchen: “No, the rain is too heavy and the road is not safe. I will bring it to you.”

Xu Qin: “They can take out?”

“No,” Meng Yanchen said, “wait.”

Waiting for the effort, Xu Qin put away all the ashtrays and cigarette cases at home. After showering and washing his head, he changed into clean clothes and wrapped in a blanket to rest on the sofa.

Soon after, Meng Yanchen came, carrying a delicate bamboo basket, and layering out layers of white jade porcelain dishes: stir-fried lotus root strips, garlic fried wormwood, fried lotus seeds, steamed sea bass, lotus root ribs soup.

Xu Qin’s appetite is almost the same as usual, and a small bowl of soup and then a small bowl of soup, no more. Meng Yanchen had a good appetite, and the dishes were swept away.

After eating and taking the dishes to the kitchen to wash, Meng Yanchen asked: “I haven’t used the kitchen after living in it for so long?”

“No.” Xu Qin looked back. Meng Yanchen stood behind the open counter to wash the dishes. The dark shirt sleeves rolled up on his arms.

Meng Yanchen said: “Find a cooking aunt for you?”

“No. The hospital has a cafeteria. It’s also convenient to order takeout.”

Meng Yanchen didn’t speak anymore. After washing the dishes, he saw the kettle on the table. The plug was English. Looking around, there was no newly purchased kettle.

He stared at the plug for a long time, his voice suddenly lowered, and said: “Qin Qin, you will not take care of yourself like this, what should you do in the future?”

The room was quiet, only the sound of raindrops outside the window.

Xu Qin hugged himself in the chair, looked at the glass blurred by the rain, and said, “Forget what you said, forget?”

…

Meng Yanchen went to work. Xu Qin slept at 3:30 at home. He was awakened by the phone call of Dong Yuanyi’s attending physician, saying that the burn department received a patient with a 3 degree or more than 90% burn. Several professors such as Wang Guodong, Xu Ken, Gao Liang and others personally operated on them. The opportunity was rare, and she was asked to hurry to observe.

Xu Qin immediately left for the hospital. When the car drove out of the underground garage of the community, the rain was pouring.

He rushed to the hospital and entered the observation room next to the operating room. All the surgeons who were not on duty came. Xu Qin found a corner and sat down. At that time, Director Wang was performing a tracheotomy on the patient.

Xu Qin sat on the glass side for more than six hours without knowing the passage of time. Until the final operation was successful, my colleagues returned to their positions one after another.

Her next shift was at 8 o’clock tomorrow morning. She originally wanted to discuss the details of the operation with the professors, the selection, measurement and time period of each infusion and medication, but considering that they had been in operation for seven or eight hours, they were exhausted. He decided to wait for tomorrow and drive home now.

The hospital’s underground parking lot was flooded with water, and I wondered where it came from. Xu Qin thought about the operation in his head, but didn’t care.

When the car was on the road, she was still distracted and had not found the rain so alarming.

She spent more than six hours in the hospital, and the city was full of water.

Pedestrians ran on the overpass, dipped in the water with their legs deep, and then the umbrella was blown by the wind, leaving only the ribs, and the raincoat was torn by the wind. Vehicles are moving slowly in the water, and some are still in the water.

When Xu Qin found that the water level was wrong, the wheels had already dripped into the water. She immediately slowed down and was ready to go backwards, but when she changed gears, the car suddenly stalled. After a few hits, the car ran incompetently, and a car speeded up behind, too late to brake and hit her butt.

Che Qiao slid forward two or three meters, Xu Qin clearly felt that the car was leaning forward, as if on a downhill slope. Heavy rain. Through the wiper, Xu Qin barely saw the familiar signs on the road ahead, and suddenly realized that this was a sinking underpass!

She immediately pulled up the handbrake, but the rain continued to wash towards the bottom of the bridge, pushing the car down the slope.

Xu Qin unfastened the seat belt, pressed the window, the button-type window completely failed, and the door could not be opened.

She turned her cell phone out of her bag calmly and dialed 110.

“Hello, 110–”

“Hello, I was locked in the car and fell into the water. The sinking channel under the Songmen Bridge, white BMW.”

“Don’t panic, please call 119 for fire rescue.”

Hearing the three numbers 119, Xu Qin cut off his reaction at the same time, and the phone was cut off at the same time.