Chapter 1255 I'm too milky inside...
"Hey hey, what happened?"
Hearing the anxious voice of his father Li Fugui behind him, Li Xiangnan braced himself against the wall, turned around and saw his parents and wife running out, and quickly shouted in a high voice: "Mom and Dad, don't go out! Ruobai, you're fine at home, there might be an explosion in the public toilet..."
"Exploded? Why did it explode? Were there spies causing trouble?" Li Fugui was stunned. As an old man who had experienced wars, he naturally knew that there could not be a war at this moment. Such a big noise could have been made in the downtown area. He guessed that it was most likely some spy who had been lurking there before.
Hearing this, Xu Damao's voice trembled, and he said with sweat on his forehead, "Damn, spies? It's New Year's Day today, and you made such a big fuss? No one will die, right?"
As soon as these words came out, Qin Ruobai, who was standing at the door, frowned!
It's the end of the year, and it's also New Year's Eve. Now that something like this has happened, as a public security official, it is her duty to go and deal with it. If someone really died, or if it was really done by some spies, that would be a big deal!
"southward!"
She turned around and ran to the chest of drawers, grabbed the first aid kit and ran out, "Let's go take a look. If someone is really injured, you should immediately provide emergency treatment on the spot!"
Li Xiangnan, who originally didn't want her to go out, saw her serious look and knew that she would not stay at home waiting for news, so he nodded and said, "Mom and Dad, you stay at home and don't come out to watch the fun. If there is any aftermath, it will be over. Take good care of Grandpa. Ruobai and I will go out to take a look..."
Zhu Qiuju rushed out and shouted, "You two, be careful!"
"Yeah!" Li Xiangnan waved his hand. As soon as he stepped out of the backyard door, he saw Lei Jin wearing a cotton jacket and running hurriedly from behind.
"Xiao Li, what happened? Why is there such a big noise?" Lei Jin followed him out and turned his head to look at Zheng Jiayi's wall which had half collapsed.
He spent the New Year's Eve quietly with his mother at home that night. He took good care of his mother and let her rest. Just as he lay down, he heard the noise and hurried out to see what was going on.
"I don't know, what happened in the public toilet!" Li Xiangnan shook his head.
"Hurry, hurry! What happened?"
"Hurry up, everyone, bring your basins and buckets and put out the fire!"
"Be careful! There might be an explosion!"
The neighbors in the middle courtyard, Uncle Yu, He Dashuang, Zheng Gousheng and others all hurried out of their homes, looking for things everywhere in a panic and running outside.
Seeing Li Xiangnan, Lei Jin, Qin Ruobai and Xu Damao hurriedly running out, they quickly followed and asked what happened.
Li Xiangnan could only guess and couldn't tell the specific reason. He waved his hand and didn't want to say more. He just said to go out and take a look and reminded everyone to be careful.
Passing by the front yard, Chen Lei and Wu Xiaoyun, as well as the Yuan family, were all standing at the doorstep, looking up at the movement in the sky, seemingly dumbfounded!
The footsteps of Li Xiangnan and others seemed to wake them up. Grandpa Yuan shouted quickly: "Old Yu, my God, what happened? It's fatal. We were just having dinner..."
"Old Yuan, start the fire quickly and tell the boys to go and check what's going on. If the explosion gets big and someone dies, we'll be done for!"
Uncle Yu shouted loudly, Yuan Qingshan was startled, shrank his neck, and hurriedly called for help.
Qin Ruobai paused and looked at Yuan Zhenkuang, the youngest and most nervous member of the Yuan family: "Xiao Yuan, go to the Dongcheng Police Station and report the case, quickly!"
"Got it, sister-in-law!" Yuan Zhenkuang was quite tactful. He saluted immediately and ran away in a hurry.
The group followed Li Xiangnan and ran out of the yard. They met Zhou Feng and Zhou Yuejin, father and son, who were waiting at the door. They looked at each other, then merged into the crowd and went out to rescue people.
When everyone arrived outside the public toilet, the scene in front of them shocked everyone, including Li Xiangnan.
The public toilet looked like it had been hit by a bomb, and the entire room was destroyed beyond recognition.
The broken walls looked like skulls gnawed by giant beasts, the brick-and-wood ceiling was blown into an overturned iron pot lid, and the charred prefabricated panels were like broken teeth inserted diagonally into the cracked trunk of the old locust tree.
The roof was gone long ago, and there were seven walls on both the men's and women's sides. Now only half of the wall was left on the side of the men's restroom near the next alley.
The three-meter-deep septic tank cracked into a bloody mouth, and brown and yellow sewage mixed with ice chips meandered on the blue brick ground. The steaming stench was wrapped in the smell of sulfur, and condensed into a yellow-green poisonous miasma visible to the naked eye in the minus ten-degree cold wind.
Even the main road that led from the alley to the courtyards was blown up to a depth of one meter on the side near the public toilet, winding all the way from the septic tank of the public toilet to the outside, forming a spider web on the ground.
"What the hell! What happened?"
The crowd suddenly made a noise, and everyone was stunned by the scene before them.
Neighbors holding buckets and washbasins formed a fan shape, and the beams of flashlights crisscrossed into a web in the ruins.
The roofs of several houses were on fire, and flames were flashing in the darkness.
Li Xiangnan and Qin Ruobai looked at each other and were about to discuss how to put out the fire first.
Suddenly, Qin Cuilian's face turned pale and she pointed to the root of the wall where only half of it was left: "Look, my God, there is a baby there!"
Only then did everyone see that there was a child of about four or five years old curled up next to the pile of broken bricks on the outer wall of the public toilet. His army green cotton trousers had been soaked through and turned dark brown, there was ice on the uppers of his shoes, and his little face was as pale as the steamed buns offered in front of the statue of Kitchen God.
At this moment, he was like a quail struck by lightning. His cotton hat had flown away long ago, the ends of his hair were covered with icicles, and a piece of yellow snot was hanging from the tip of his nose.
One of his new cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles was lost, and his bare feet stepped on the broken bricks, but he stood there stiffly as if he didn't feel any pain.
"Wow, garlic!" Qin Chunlian from the middle courtyard yelled and rushed out, hugging her eldest grandson.
But as soon as her hand touched the child's shoulder, the child suddenly howled "Wow", his vocal cords like a rusty music box, and his tears washed away the coal dust on his face, carving two muddy streams in the ice and snow.
He pointed at the ruins of the public toilet and sobbed, with the vague words "too milky" stuck in his throat.
"Wa wah wah..." Qin Chunlian hugged her eldest son and cried loudly, feeling extremely distressed.
Zheng Gousheng ran out of the yard from the back and saw his mother and son at a glance. He was stunned.
He Dashuang rubbed his eyes, not daring to believe what he saw was real. He stepped forward and squatted, wondering, "Suan Tou, why are you here? What are you pointing at? Is there someone inside..."
"Ahhh!" Qin Chunlian wiped her grandson's face with her sleeve in fear.
Her voice made He Dashuang irritated and he shouted, "Stop crying! He has something to say!"
"..." Qin Chunlian suddenly stopped crying and stared at her grandson blankly.
But Zheng Xiaosuan was infected by his grandmother's fear and just cried.
"Go and see if there's anyone else in the public toilet!"
Li Xiangnan and his wife looked at the public toilet and shouted in unison.
Then Qin Ruobai came over and squatted in front of the two of them, whispering softly: "Xiao Suan'er, what do you want to say? It's okay, auntie is here, you talk to auntie! Auntie is a police officer!"
Perhaps it was because of this identity that Zheng Xiaosuan was afraid to act arrogantly. She pouted and pointed at the public toilet and cried, "My grandmother is in there..."
"???"
Everyone turned their heads to look at the ruined public toilet, including the person who walked to the door of the toilet and was about to go in, all of them were dumbfounded.