Chapter 5 Section V Symbol

On May 15th, due to the possible breach of the embankment of the dammed lake in the upper reaches of Beichuan, the news of the flood in Beichuan was conveyed through regular channels to everyone who had not evacuated Beichuan City. The headquarters organized the emergency evacuation of all personnel, including the rescue force. Temporarily evacuated.Only Gong Jiang still did not leave. He stubbornly believed that there was still life under the ruins, and they could not be allowed to face danger alone. He had to accompany the workers under the ruins every step of the way, as well as Hao Miao, who could not be rescued temporarily.Gong Jiang thought that as long as there was still a glimmer of hope, he would not leave the workers under the ruins, and he would not leave Hao Miao. He was determined to stay with the ruins until his own life was over.

Perhaps his persistence touched the heavens.In the following time, when the family members of the missing employees left the ruins one after another, giving up hope and waiting, three more voices responded to him from the ruins, and the three lives had hope again.At that time, Beichuan's telegram had been connected, and he hurriedly told their family members the news by phone, but the family members couldn't believe it, and some even thought he was "an idiot talking about dreams."It was not until their relatives were dug out from the ruins that some family members who had fled returned to Beichuan to thank Gong Jiang for saving his life.When he learned that Gong Jiang had lost seven relatives, the "professor in love" came out of the scientific research base. He led several young people who love scientific research, and contacted some relatives of employees who knew how to repay their kindness, and went all out to fight with Gong Jiang. The relatives of the family are busy with the funeral of the two old people.Under the organization of "Professor Love Infatuation", these people consciously formed a funeral procession to perform their filial piety instead of Gong Jiang...

Seeing the survivors being rescued from the ruins one after another, Gong Jiang, the "cold-blooded animal" who could hold back his tears when he heard of the death of his relatives, and didn't even go home to take a last look at his parents and younger siblings, finally found himself in a situation where no one was around. I cried bitterly.At 2:05 p.m., a bigger aftershock hit, and Gong Jiang could no longer take into account his image as the president. He was standing alone in the ruins of Xiqiang Shangjie under the scorching sun, shirtless To his surprise, he felt that the rescued employees were far from enough, and he was still unwilling to do so. He wanted to rescue more employees, and only by rescuing more employees would he be able to unravel the knot in his heart.

When a reporter went to the ruins to interview him, he said helplessly that he was the president of the Beichuan branch of Guoxing Bank, and that the ruins in front of him used to be the office building of the Beichuan County branch of Guoxing Bank.The office building is gone, and many employees are gone, so he can only do his best to save one by one!I just want to do something worthy of my colleagues, Guoxing Bank, and my conscience!Gong Jiang also told reporters frankly that there was a female employee buried underground who he liked very much, so he also had selfish intentions in waiting on the ruins.But the reporters should set up a perfect earthquake relief hero, not a flawed hero.The heroes in their hearts are flawless, selfless, and completely convinced by the people of the whole country.In that special period and special environment, in order to arouse more people to contribute to the earthquake relief, they were interested in the love between men and women mentioned by Gong Jiang but did not want to resort to publication.

The rescue team with rescue equipment that Gong Jiang was eagerly looking forward to finally arrived. It was a dozen people from the fire brigade of a province in the northwest.At this time, Gong Jiang seemed to see light in the dark night.He thought, there is hope for Hao Miao, and the mountain of concrete and steel bars pressing on Hao Miao finally has a chance to move!However, during the rescue of Hao Miao, the rescue team found that her right calf was pressed down by a huge cement roof board, and the large rescue equipment could not get in and the cement board could not be lifted away.The rescuers did not dare to move directly on it, fearing that Hao Miao would be hit by the ruins that had collapsed again.

After the rescuers removed some small debris above, a hole the size of a washbasin was exposed.A brave armed police soldier climbed in.Hao Miao saw him, and she could touch the hand of the armed police soldier when she stretched out her hand, but the armed police soldier couldn't pull her out. Hao Miao's location was tightly sealed by several large cement slabs, and the space was so small that only one person could get in.So rescuers had no way of pulling her out of the hole. As the minutes passed, stones continued to fall on Hao Miao's body from time to time in the aftershocks. The ruins were in danger of collapsing again.

Hao Miao looked at her right calf, which was already bloody and almost smashed, with some bones, muscles and muscles still attached.It was stuck under the cement slab, and because there was no room to move, and it was unconscious, it could not be pulled out from under the cement slab. When everyone was helpless in this special situation, Hao Miao gritted his teeth and made a decision.For her husband's entrustment, for the child, and for Gong Jiang who had been waiting for her for four days and four nights, Hao Miao made the helpless and tragic choice of a delicate woman. She wanted to amputate her right calf with her own hands.

"Please pass me a saw quickly!" Hao Miao told the firefighters outside. Firefighters didn't know what she was using the saw for.There are many buried people who, after suffering unbearable pain, just want quick relief.The firefighters were worried that Hao Miao committed suicide.But in their career of saving lives and healing the wounded, they have never met a case of ending their own life with a saw.What does she need a saw for?The firefighters hesitated to hand her the saw.After learning about the dilemma of the firefighters, Gong Jiang thought for a while and said, "Hand it to her, she won't do that."

At that time, no one could have imagined that Hao Miao would make another move—a move that shocked the world later known as Huaxia's feat. At this time, Hao Miao's son Wang Meng, who had come from Chengdu, was standing outside the ruins and waiting.He didn't know his mother's intentions, he just thought that something was hanging on his mother's clothes, or something blocked the "way" for his mother to crawl out.The son originally wanted to say a few words of comfort and encouragement to his mother, but just as he took a few steps forward, he was stopped by Gong Jiang, who waved at him, preventing him from coming forward or talking to his mother .Wang Meng was very angry, he clenched his fists and stood there like an angry King Kong.My mother, don't I have the right to comfort her?Wang Meng raised doubts in his heart, but after all, Wang Meng is a 22-year-old boy. After being tempered and nurtured by society, he can take care of the overall situation at critical moments.Here Gong Jiang is the commander-in-chief, and the PLA soldiers and fire officers and soldiers all listen to him. If he does not listen to him and takes drastic actions, it will inevitably arouse everyone's resentment and even anger. Wang Meng suppressed his anger and stood there, watching Gong Jiang's command with cold eyes. .

The rescuers knew that Wang Meng was the son of the female employee buried underground, and seeing him standing there trying to make a difference but at a loss, they asked him to find a saw from a nearby rescue team, and they asked him to stand At a distance, keep him away from the hole.The brave team member volunteered to go into the narrow hole again and handed the saw to Hao Miao. The space was so small that everything in the cave was blurry. Hao Miao gritted his teeth and fumbled to cut down his right leg with the saw.At the beginning of sawing, she seemed to be numb to the point of no sensation, but then she felt pain!Unbearable pain!A piercing pain that cuts off one's own bones!The pain reminded Hao Miao that she was a woman. Can a woman be crazy enough to use a saw to saw her own leg?If in normal times, this kind of self-mutilation behavior is impossible for any woman to think of and do, she is powerless to continue sawing.

"Honey, be strong, I believe in you, you have to be strong..." Somehow, her husband Wang Junfeng encouraged her again, Gong Jiang's anxious face appeared in front of her, and the child's expectant eyes made her more courageous. If you want to go out, you would rather be disabled, and go out with your life!In order to save her, Gong Jiang stayed with her without hesitation, regardless of the threat of the collapse of the barrier lake and his wife's kind persuasion.If I live up to his expectations, I am a person without morals and conscience.As long as you can go out, as long as you have a pair of eyes to see the baby, and have the thinking to educate the baby, this is what Hao Miao thought at the time. There was a light in front of Hao Miao, and there was power, and the sudden force gathered on her body. She continued to pick up the saw, gritted her teeth, and saw her right calf continuously in the darkness once, twice.... The flesh was sawed open, the bones were severed, and the tendons were still connected.Hope is ahead, the dawn is in front of us, and the Long March is only one step away, but this step is also the most difficult and life-or-death.Hao Miao finally made up her mind. Her lips were bitten by her teeth, and blood dripped from the corner of her mouth to her chest. "Pass me another pair of scissors, and a little more." The rescuers hesitated for a moment, probably thinking that the ruins might be in danger of collapsing again due to the continuous aftershocks.At this time, if the person buried underground can save himself, it is the best choice. Losing the opportunity means losing his life.The brave team member got in again and handed the scissors to Hao Miao.Hao Miao picked up the scissors and stretched them towards the tendons on her legs. The tendon between Hao Miao's thigh and calf was finally severed, and the bloody calf that was crushed under the boulder was finally completely severed from Hao Miao's body.She said to her husband: "I'm leaving. For your entrustment, I will leave one leg to accompany you." Hao Miao kissed her husband's cold face, but she didn't shed any tears, as her tears had run out.Hao Miao groped and crawled out of the cave, the sky was moved, and time and space were frozen here. It was the afternoon of May 16. After being buried for 93 hours, Hao Miao was still alive and stubbornly escaped from hell by means of self-mutilation, and luckily bid farewell to the god of death. A hand reached in and grabbed hers.Ten hands reached out and lifted her into the 120 ambulance.This is another miracle, the miracle of the Chinese nation's rescue and self-help in the earthquake! At that time, I saw this rare and strong woman with my own eyes. Her courage and spirit made me unable to contain my emotions. I couldn't help crying and writing. After Hao Miao crawled out of the cave of death, he didn't know that his son Wang Meng had already arrived at the scene.With tears in his eyes, the son watched his mother struggle out of the gate of hell, watched the firefighters rescue her from the ruins, and never dared to speak.The son has been hidden behind Gong Jiang. Gong Jiang told him that he must not let his mother see him. If he sees him, you should understand the consequences.His son Wang Meng suddenly opened his mouth. He felt ashamed of his ignorance. At this time, he tried to hide, fearing that his mother would lose her concern and leave him forever when she saw him. Afterwards, a reporter asked Hao Miao if she knew her son was at the rescue site. She said that if she knew that her son was outside the cave, she might not have amputated her own leg, cut her tendon, and would not have climbed out of hell. door.She will go with her dear husband, she cannot do without him, and under that special circumstance, she will not abandon him!Hao Miao can't tell lies. People who have passed the line of life and death know that they treat others with sincerity, and there is no need to tell lies to deceive others. Hao Miao crawled out of the rubble, but her husband Wang Junfeng remained in the darkness four meters below. Wang Junfeng's legs were clamped by the cement board and his arms were in a hugging position.The blood from his head and neck clotted into a black shell covering his whole body.This is a great man who completed an unprecedented sculpture underground. From the moment he yelled "earthquake", her husband desperately protected Hao Miao's head from harm.Under the protection of her husband, Hao Miao suffered no injuries except her right calf was crushed. Hao Miao was sent to a hospital in Mianyang City for emergency treatment.When she woke up from the coma, she saw her son for the first time. She told him: "You must see your father and say goodbye to him. I can't live today without your respectable father." The son didn't speak, but held his mother's hand tightly on the hospital bed, as if he was afraid that she would leave.He has forgiven his father's punishment for him when he was a child, and understands why his father is so strict with him. On May 18, Hao Miao was out of danger, and her husband Wang Junfeng was still under the rubble.As soon as Hao Miao closed her eyes, she dreamed that her husband was looking at her with a smile, but didn't speak.Gong Jiang sent her a crutch and never visited her in the hospital again.Knowing that he had lost seven relatives, Hao Miao secretly shed tears for Gong Jiang a few times and prayed silently for him, so she felt a little comforted.She understands Gong Jiang's behavior very well. He is the leader of the group, and the task of post-disaster reconstruction is even heavier. He wants to forget the pain of losing his loved ones in his selfless work. His son Wang Meng rushed back to the earthquake site in Beichuan, waiting for his father's body to be dug up.When it was almost evening, Hao Miao heard that there was a threat of flood in Beichuan. She called her son from the hospital bed and asked him to withdraw quickly. I'm going to crawl to find you!" The son has never seen his father's body, and his father's body has become an underground sculpture, erected forever in the forest of steles recording the noble nature of human beings.Beichuan also no longer exists, and China will have an earthquake museum that maintains its original appearance after an earthquake of magnitude 8 or above.The rescuers couldn't bear to disturb the people sleeping underground, and everyone had a common wish: to let them rest in peace on the land they were familiar with forever. At the moment when Hao Miao climbed out of the ruins, the news media recorded this shocking scene.In the face of numerous spotlights and interview machines, Hao Miao said that when she was crushed under the rubble, the reason why she was able to survive in the dark was that it was her husband who gave her strength and her son who gave her hope.She didn't mention Gong Jiang. This kind of concealment is beneficial to both Gong Jiang and herself.When a reporter asked who woke her up from the ruins, Hao Miao calmly told the reporters that it was President Gong of the Beichuan Branch of Guoxing Bank. I rushed from Wenchuan to Beichuan on the fifth day after the earthquake. The ruins there are still appalling, and the crazy destructive power of nature makes people who are new here feel deeply.The only road leading to the county seat rises more than seven meters high from the flat ground, and the boulders on both sides of the road form a series of "city walls".Some survivors told me that almost every rock has smashed cars and killed fleeing people, and there may be several unjust souls under a huge rock.At that time, I found a few homeless pigeons above the ruins of Beichuan County, looking for their former nests and owners. They hovered over the piles of ruins for a long time and refused to leave.In this "dead city", is it because more than 10,000 innocent souls keep these pigeons, or is the old owner worthy of their eternal memory? ! After all the surviving employees of Guoxing Bank Beichuan Sub-branch were rescued and the communication equipment in Beichuan County could be used normally, Gong Jiang called his father-in-law in Chengdu to ask about Zan Li's news.The father-in-law said that he heard from the Land Resources Bureau that Zan Li went to Beichuan after the earthquake, and there was no news.The father-in-law said that he was about to call Gong Jiang to ask why he didn't call home after the earthquake. If he couldn't get through, your mother-in-law and I would go to Beichuan to find you! Zan Li was gone forever, Gong Jiang knew that Zan Li was completely disappointed in him, Gong Jiang thought, she would never return to Beichuan County!Gong Jiang followed the highway to find Zan Li.He thought that Zan Li was angry with him, and she would definitely not be too far away from Beichuan. She might be hiding in a resettlement spot next to the highway, a place not far and not close, waiting for Gong Jiang to admit her mistake to her. Gong Jiang was ready Okay, let's admit the wrong "line" to Zan Li. When Gong Jiang was looking for Zan Li, he found a red Geely car beside the road from Beichuan to An County, the shell of which was flattened into the shape of a "cake".The car was put on the side of the road by a forklift.According to eyewitnesses at the time, a boulder rolled down the hill and smashed the car into a "cake". In the long river of history, there are some things that we can forget, because they are ordinary stories that happened when the weather is smooth and the weather is calm; some things we can never forget, because they are amazing stories that happened when the wind is raging and the waves are rough.In the days of national calamity, history will engrave the footprints of many extraordinary "little people" in that period. During the days when I went to the earthquake area, I was shocked by the tragic disaster and my heart was shocked by the tragic stories. My nerves, which I thought were strong, were a bit unbearable.During the one month that I went deep into life, I traveled all over Wenchuan, Beichuan and Qingchuan, met a large number of front-line personnel in the disaster area, and witnessed the distress, sorrow, depression and heroism of the people in the "three rivers" with my own eyes. industry and comrades.Finally one day, I saw a different thing and came into contact with a different group.It was the first time to release the suppressed and sad mood in many days, and for the first time to see the smiles of strong people on the faces of four young people who escaped safely and full of vitality.In those miserable days, like a ray of sunshine in winter and a gust of sea breeze in summer, I was comforted, warmed and excited from the depths of my soul! These are four employees from Tashan Branch of Wenchuan Branch of Guoxing Bank. They broke through many dangers and obstacles from Tashan Town in Wenchuan, the epicenter of the earthquake, and escaped to the provincial capital Chengdu with difficulty. The bank treasury funds of 3.5 million yuan in their custody All important certificates and certificates were also transferred safely. In the game against the disaster, they experienced an arduous battle to defend their personal lives and bank property. A month after the earthquake, I came among this group.At first, due to my occupation, they were on guard against me, and they didn’t even let me get close to the work they were doing. Later, I took out my writer’s card and explained that I was a cadre sent by the Chinese Writers Association to the financial system. Bankers absolutely abide by professional ethics.I was only allowed to approach them and get to know them after the certificates I presented were verified by their superiors and accompanied by a superior leader.This is the "privilege" enjoyed by all Chinese writers and journalists in the process of gathering or interviewing.After rushing to the disaster-stricken area after the earthquake, I feel that it is a responsibility and a mission to get to know some insignificant "little people".Because for people in the financial industry, few people in the general public know what they did in the earthquake.Because of their years of dealing with money and the secrecy of their core work, it is difficult for writers to approach them.When I walked to the collapsed building of the Tashan branch of Wenchuan branch of Guoxing Bank, and when I learned that in the face of such a major natural disaster, the country’s property was not damaged and most of the employees were safe and sound, I had no reason not to inquire. The reason and sort out the enlightenment it brings to people's life. It turned out that the Wenchuan Tashan Branch of Guoxing Bank in Aba Autonomous Prefecture was located on a relatively prosperous street in Tashan Town, Wenchuan County. The office of the director of the Tashan Branch Office and credit, credit card and key customer rooms, the third floor is the dormitory for single workers.Standing on the top of the building and looking around, the building is adjacent to Zipingpu Reservoir, surrounded by two mountains, and a winding silver belt behind the building is called Guxi River.Everyone who comes here will praise that the Tashan branch in Wenchuan, Aba Autonomous Prefecture of Guoxing Bank has a beautiful surrounding environment and excellent scenery.