Chapter 30 Chapter 29 Human Tragedy

Let us follow Ye Zifei's narration and turn our thoughts to eighteen years ago, to the day when the tsunami occurred. When the vast majority of people on the island were still asleep, a catastrophe had struck them.The icy seawater completely submerged the entire village. Before thousands of islanders figured out what was going on, the fire of life was mercilessly extinguished.Most of the people who escaped the first wave of disasters by chance lived in higher places on the island. Some of them curled up on the roof, and some struggled in the seawater with floating objects in their arms. With their confidence to survive.Under such a natural disaster, manpower is so small and life is so fragile, almost everyone is scared out of their wits and can only beg God for mercy.

Just a week ago, Wang Chenglin's wife had just given birth to a baby boy.Due to the existence of the baby, the mother could not sleep soundly at night, which made her discover the abnormality before the sea water poured into the village, so she hugged the baby and climbed to the roof in time with the young Meng Shaohui, thus avoiding the accident. Swallowed by the sea in sleep. Wang Chenglin went to the county town to buy baby care supplies, but was delayed by something, so he couldn't rush back to the island that day, but escaped the catastrophe.At the same time, the burden of surviving with two children also fell on the shoulders of a lonely woman.

All Wang Chenglin's wife -- Meng Shaohui's mother -- could do was wait helplessly on the roof.The water was coming up little by little, and she was expecting someone to come to rescue them.Meng Shaohui, who has just turned seven years old, has been holding tightly to his mother's skirt, which is the easiest way for a child to relieve his fear. Only the baby was still soundly asleep at this time.For this little life who is ignorant of the world, the mother's embrace is everything, and anything else seems to have nothing to do with him. During this waiting process, people who fell into the water with floating objects often passed in front of them.They have already exhausted their strength in the struggle, and the hope of survival is very slim.

There happened to be a bamboo pole for drying clothes under the eaves. Meng Shaohui's mother took it down and used it as a tool to try to rescue those who fell into the water.After going through all kinds of hardships, she rescued three people on the roof. These three people were Jin Zhenyu, Zhou Yonggui and Zang Junyong. The village where Chang Jian lives is almost at the lowest point of the island, and his house was soon completely swallowed up by the sea.Relying on good water skills, Chang Jian dragged his daughter who is the same age as Meng Shaohui to swim out.At this time, a small raft happened to be washed in front of them, and the two escaped from death.

But Chang Jian's wife disappeared in the sea. He paddled the raft and looked around anxiously.But he never found any trace of his wife, so he could only turn around and row towards the safe highlands of the mountains. During this process, they happened to pass by Meng Shaohui's house, and found everyone trapped on the roof in a precarious state. Chang Jian, who was eager to save people, rushed over immediately.The people who had already lost their souls rushed to grab the raft.Of course, the orphan mother and the weak child cannot compete with the three young and middle-aged men. After Jin Zhenyu and the three of them are all seated.The mother found a chance to carry Meng Shaohui onto the raft, but when she tried to get up with the baby in her arms, the raft tended to sink because it couldn't bear too much weight.

"I can't get on any more. The raft is too small to bear, and it will sink!" Zhou Yonggui was the first to cry out in panic. The woman had no choice but to retreat to the roof first, and then looked at Chang Jian for help. She knew that the other party was the owner of the raft at this time. Chang Jian's heart softened, and he discussed with the other three men on the raft: "Which one of you will go down first, and replace this woman, she still has a child in her arms. I will send them to a safe place and come back immediately to pick them up." you." At this time, the three men all turned their faces away and remained silent.They have just escaped from the gates of death, and the imminent death has deprived them of their courage and sense of responsibility as men.After a while, I heard Zang Junyong say in a low voice: "You are also a man, why don't you go down?"

Chang Jian's face turned pale with anger.Indeed, he is also a man. Normally, he would not hesitate to put the mother and child on the raft, but now his daughter is sitting on the raft.He couldn't imagine how this child who had lost his mother would face the dangers and tribulations in the future after he left.And when the other party said such immoral words, Chang Jian wished he could throw him into the sea immediately.But he knew that he had to restrain himself. At this time, if there was a conflict, the result could only be death. "Whoever waits is waiting. There must be someone who comes first, right?" Jin Zhenyu also opened his mouth to express his position at this time.

Meng Shaohui's mother didn't expect such a situation at all. She looked at the three men sitting on the raft, and her eyes flashed with anger and staring flames. "I shouldn't have saved you!" She almost gritted her teeth and said this sentence. Jin Zhenyu and others just lowered their heads to avoid the woman's gaze.The desire for survival in their hearts surpassed everything at this time. They abandoned their dignity and shame, and really did not have the courage to return to the icy cold sea water. Meng Shaohui's mother saw the current situation, and it was impossible for the three of them to leave together.She gritted her teeth and handed the baby in her arms to Chang Jian: "Then please take him away first, I will wait here."

The baby suddenly left the warm embrace of the mother, and immediately began to cry loudly.But Chang Jian didn't reach out to pick it up, he said awkwardly: "I can't have this child, he can only be with you, otherwise he won't be able to survive." The woman's heart trembled, and the reason behind this couldn't be more clear: if the mother and child were separated, the baby would not be able to survive without breast milk.Instead of this, it's better to bring the child with you, maybe you can have other vitality. The woman had no choice but to hold the child back to her arms, thinking that this newly born life could only wait for the same unpredictable fate as herself, she couldn't help but burst into tears.Meng Shaohui was standing on the raft at this time, his hand was still holding his mother tightly, looking at a loss.

At this time, Chang Jian suddenly had an idea.At that moment, he thought that this idea was correct and reasonable, but the consequences of this idea made him live in guilt and self-blame for the rest of his life. "How about this, you bring the baby up first, and leave the older child behind." He said, "This way at least one more life can be saved." The woman was stunned, these two children were her heart and soul.But now one of them must be left in a dangerous situation. It sounds like it is indeed more beneficial to abandon Meng Shaohui.But how could she be so hard-hearted?

In the woman's dilemma, several other passengers on the raft lost their patience. "I think this method is very good, let's do it first!" Zang Junyong said, while hugging Meng Shaohui off the raft, "Come up quickly, don't waste time!" Like a lifeless puppet, Meng Shaohui got on the raft and was carried off again, without any right to choose. The woman hesitated for a while, and finally, the urging of everyone on board and the crying of the baby in her arms prompted her to make up her mind.She leaned down and hugged Meng Shaohui tightly in her arms, tears streaming down like rain: "Son, you wait here, mom will pick you up in a while..." Meng Shaohui had a vague premonition of something, and shouted in a crying voice: "No, I don't want to stay..." Until his mother got on the raft, he still held on to her by the corner of her clothes, refusing to let go. The woman was heartbroken at this time, and with a "plop", she knelt down in front of those men, weeping uncontrollably: "Please...don't let our mother and child be separated...please!" But her entreaties did not receive any response. Chang Jian sighed silently, hardened his heart, and rowed the raft. Meng Shaohui cried hoarsely, but the connection between him and his mother was finally cut off by the cold sea water.His mother looked at him helplessly and sadly. This scene was deeply engraved in his mind and made him unforgettable forever. The weeping of the woman, the crying of the baby, and the shouting of Meng Shaohui, these mixed sounds constitute the most heart-pounding tragedy in the world, and this sound will still ring in the ears of everyone on board after many years, torturing their souls. After arriving at a safe mountain, Chang Jianli rowed the raft alone and went back to pick up Meng Shaohui.At this time, the sky had already turned white, and the houses had already been submerged by the rising sea water.Fortunately, Meng Shaohui hugged a floating tree trunk and survived, but there was a long scar on his forehead.Chang Jian rescued him on the raft, and secretly rejoiced that the mother and son could finally be reunited.He would never have imagined that an even more tragic human tragedy was still waiting for them. On the raft, Meng Shaohui kept crying for his mother, and that crying was enough to break anyone's heart.But when Chang Jian took him to the high ground and saw his mother, he stopped crying.Even though he was hugged tightly by his mother, there was only a dull expression on his face, and his eyes were lifeless, as if they were covered with a layer of ice. The son's change made the mother feel uneasy, but the joy of reunion diluted everything. She didn't realize how the experience just now had an impact on Meng Shaohui's young mind. This tossing made everyone exhausted. After reaching a relatively safe place, they relaxed, leaning or lying down, and rested separately.After Meng Shaohui's mother fed the baby and put him to sleep, she also fell asleep.Meng Shaohui sat not far away and watched all this. When his eyes rested on the baby, some chilling light began to flash inside. Although he is still young, he has already begun to understand the truth.In his heart, this baby took away his mother's love and care for him. He knew that at the moment of parting life and death just now, it was precisely because of the existence of the baby that the mother finally abandoned him. Jealousy and sadness flashed in his eyes, as well as a deep hatred that shouldn't have appeared at this age. When the mother fell asleep, he got up quietly and picked up the baby. Everyone was tired, and no one paid attention to his abnormal movement. He came to the edge of the cliff, the sea water had reached the steep mountain wall, and then he let go of his hands and threw the baby down. Not long after Meng Shaohui took the baby away, her mother's unique sensitivity woke her up.She opened her eyes, followed the sound of the baby's crying, and just saw that terrible scene. The woman screamed and rushed to the edge of the cliff, only to see the baby's swaddle floating in the water, which might sink at any time. The woman let out an inhuman sob, she looked at Meng Shaohui beside her, the child still looked blank, full of strangeness.Her heart was torn apart in an instant, and she understood that she had lost two sons at the same time. At this time, Chang Jian and the others noticed the abnormality and surrounded him one after another. "What's going on here?" Chang Jian asked in surprise. The woman didn't answer. She turned her head and glanced at the men in front of her. Her eyes were piercingly cold, like two sharp knives, piercing through their hearts one by one.Then she jumped into the water below the cliff. She found her child in the water, and until the last moment of her life, she still held the child tightly in her arms. The bodies of the mother and son hung on the tree branches of the cliff during the sinking process. This cliff will be the "Ghost Watching Slope" in the future. Since then, Meng Shaohui has become silent, and no one knows what he is thinking. If this continues, his whole life will be shrouded in a terrible shadow.Fortunately, after his father came back, he took him to find Dr. Xue, who is highly skilled in medicine. After several months of treatment, Meng Shaohui forgot a lot of things, and then the father and son left Mingze Island and lived a new life incognito. The cowardice and selfishness in the face of death threats and the resulting terrible consequences became a sharp sword hanging in the hearts of Jin Zhenyu and others. I know the ugly scene at that time. Chang Jian was under tremendous psychological pressure.His well-intentioned advice has led to a tragic tragedy, which has no way of extricating him.He can only become a monk and escape into the world, and stay with the lonely grave of the mother and son all the year round, in order to comfort his soul. Chang Jian's daughter also witnessed the whole process of the incident. Having just lost her mother, she felt deep sympathy and sympathy for Meng Shaohui.Since then, she has never forgotten that boy, and the helplessness and sadness in his eyes. Several years later, a letter from Wang Chenglin to Dr. Xue brought news of the father and son.The girl bid farewell to her father, and went out to look for the lingering shadow in her heart.In order to avoid stimulating the other party's memory, she concealed her real identity and renamed herself Ye Zifei. This is what happened before the beginning of our novel. After knowing all this, Luo Fei's heart became extremely heavy, almost making him unable to breathe. The men in distress betrayed the mother and son who helped, the mother abandoned the son, and the elder brother drowned the younger brother. This is the heart-pounding human tragedy that happened in that natural disaster. He remembered what Deping had said before his death. "If you really know that secret, you will regret it. You will not find the evil you want to destroy, and you will find that when you have accumulated all your strength and want to make the final blow, the imaginary The opponent doesn't exist. You just see the deep helplessness and sadness, and I promise you, it's an experience that no one would want to touch and understand." Yes, he was indeed regretting, he wished he had never set foot on Mingze Island, never met Meng Shaohui and Ye Zifei, so he didn't have to experience that unbearable sadness. "You should understand that everything my father and I do is for that child, so that he can be happy and happy. For my father, this is the only way to untie the painful knot, and for me, 'Love ' is enough to explain everything. Meng Shaohui must not be allowed to come into contact with the memories of those years, it will completely ruin his future life." Ye Zifei said quietly, "Now, can you promise me to keep these secrets?" "But how can I be conservative?" Luo Fei shook his head in pain, "No matter what, you killed four people, and there must be an explanation for these things. This is my duty." "Yes, I killed someone, the criminal must be punished, this is the law. Your profession makes you unable to disobey it." Ye Zifei bowed her head in silence for a moment, then she seemed to have made up her mind, she raised her tearful eyes and said to Luo Fei , "But if the criminal has been punished and she is dead, can't all this end here?" Luo Fei suddenly realized something: "You..." Before he could utter his words, the knife in Ye Zifei's hand had already been stuck in her throat, and bright red blood was gurgling out...