Before getting on the highway, Hua Ling drove the car into the county town. Lu Ya was puzzled.
Hua Ling put her hands on the steering wheel and said with a smile: "Have another noodle soup here, and you won't be able to eat authentic ones when you leave."
"Don't you do it yourself?"
“Aren’t there other delicious places around Shanghai?”
Lu Ya really couldn't understand Hua Ling's thoughts, but it was okay, it was just a meal.
The small noodle restaurants in the county are all upstairs with commercial buildings. I spent some money to find a noodle restaurant that looked pretty good. I looked left and right and saw no parking spaces. I continued driving forward and there happened to be a parking lot about 100 meters away. There were four parking spaces.
Ten dollars an hour.
After paying the parking fee, I spent zero to stop the parking lot toll collector: "Which noodle restaurant near here is authentic?"
The toll collector waved his hand: "They are all run by fellow villagers, and they are all authentic. It depends on your taste!"
Hua Ling nodded and took Lu Ya with her to the house she was interested in.
After opening the plastic door curtain, she was greeted by the aroma of air-conditioning and noodle soup. Hua Ling took a deep breath and exhaled: "Ha, it smells so good."
The boss came out and was under the kitchen when he saw someone coming in: "Just take a look, they are all good."
After the noodle bowl was brought to the front, Hua Ling first picked up the extra braised chicken legs and gnawed on them, while Lu Ya slowly ate the noodles in his bowl. When he looked up, he saw Hua Ling eating meat with a look of habit.
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"Lu Ya, do you think noodles or rice taste better?" Hua Ling picked up the noodles, sucked them into his mouth, chewed them and swallowed them and asked Lu Ya.
"Depending on the situation, everything is pretty good. There is no distinction between good and bad food."
"Yeah--" Hua Ling nodded appreciatively.
"Hua Ling." Lu Ya looked up at Hua Ling who was putting noodles into his mouth. Hua Ling looked at Lu Ya in confusion: "What?"
Because Hua Ling's hair was relatively long, the end of it had already been eaten into her mouth. Although Hua Ling didn't care, Lu Ya took out two hairpins from his pocket and handed them to Hua Ling.
Hua Ling stared at the hairpin in Lu Ya's hand for two seconds and kept looking at Lu Ya: "Actually, it's not necessary...forget it."
Hua Ling took the hairpin from Lu Ya's hand. It was the simplest hairpin in pure black, but it was particularly conspicuous on Hua Ling's silver-white temples.
After confirming whether she would give it away or not, Hua Ling asked Lu Ya with a smile: "Does it look good?" Lu Ya nodded.
When they were finishing their meal and paying the bill, they suddenly heard a "bang" coming from the commercial room upstairs, which scared the boss and other customers.
Everyone looked up at the ceiling, spent their change and put the money in the boss's hand, then ran outside the store and looked at the commercial room upstairs - a gas explosion!
The house on the third floor was already burning. Hua Ling quickly called the fire alarm and told everyone in the store and upstairs to get to a safe place and protect themselves with water.
Just as the pedestrians were running away from the store and about to come out, they suddenly said "Bang" again!
There are four floors of commercial housing, and two floors were destroyed.
When the explosion occurred on the second floor, a girl of about ten years old was blown out of the open window. The girl probably sensed the danger and wanted to open the window, but there was also a gas leak on the second floor, and the flames on the third floor ignited the air on the second floor.
When the girl fell, Hua Ling and Lu Ya hurried to catch her, but fortunately, they were able to catch the girl without any danger.
The flames were burning brightly, but I didn't know if there was someone on the fourth floor. There was no response. However, before entering the noodle shop to eat, Hua Ling remembered catching a glimpse of a figure on the fourth floor.
When the fire truck was about to arrive, Hua Ling opened the iron door to Lu Ya's surprise and climbed up the stairs in the commercial building and rushed to the fourth floor: "There is someone there!"
Every house has a security door, which is a very heavy iron door. But when Hua Ling walked to the fourth floor, she found that the security door of that house was not closed, and there was a child inside who looked to be only one year old, sitting on the ground and watching.
The flames spread through the window.
Hua Ling violently dismantled the inner door, broke into the house, walked to the child's side and knelt down to check if anything was okay. The little girl innocently looked at Hua Ling who was looking left and right at her.
But just when Hua Ling turned to look somewhere, he was stunned, and his back instantly felt cold. Hua Ling saw a woman lying on the table with her eyes open, looking in the direction of Hua Ling. The woman had already
He died, seemingly committing suicide by taking poison.
Hua Ling put his fingers under the woman's nose to check and confirmed that she was not breathing.
Hua Ling frowned and sighed: "He is a miserable person again."
Hua Ling picked up the little girl and teased her: "Little girl, what's your name?"
Yin Mu...
Suddenly Hua Ling suddenly noticed something hanging around the girl's neck. After adjusting her collar, it was revealed. He saw the familiar golden-edged egret.
Hua Ling turned the pendant over in shock and saw the word "花"!
Hua Ling saw the father who abandoned her mother and daughter in the memory of a little girl, but why did her father keep this pendant?
I don't want to think about it anymore, the first priority is to take the girl to a safe place.
But just when Hua Ling was about to take the girl away, she found that the place was already occupied by thick smoke, there were flames outside the door and windows, and the furniture was on fire one by one.
Hua Ling took the girl into the bathroom and used water in the bathroom to delay the spread of the fire as much as possible.
After hearing footsteps and shouts, Hua Ling was able to determine that the firefighters were coming, and the calls for help reminded the firefighters of their location.
The firefighter picked up Hua Ling, who was still holding the little girl in his arms. Then he heard the team member who was walking with him say: "There is a dead person here! Right!"
"That's this girl's mother. She ran out of breath before I came up!" Hua Ling told the two firefighters bluntly.
The firefighter looked at Hua Ling, his confusion and surprise revealed through his mask, but he also said to the team members: "Take them down together!"
After being brought downstairs safely, the firefighters repeatedly checked whether Hua Ling was injured. Hua Ling said that she was not injured. She did not stand up because her legs were numb, so she was put down.
Hua Ling handed the girl in her arms to the firefighter. The firefighter was confused: "This girl...has nothing to do with you?"
Hua Ling smiled and shook his head: "I just thought that the people in the house didn't respond to the fire, so I went upstairs to check. The child was sitting in the living room. If I hadn't gone upstairs, he might have been burned."
Hua Ling's clothes were already ruffled by the flames, with a hole here and a big piece there, and even more damage on the back. At this time, several firefighters standing behind Hua Ling discovered: "Why are there such big burns on your back?"
Only then did Hua Ling realize that the clothes on her back were burned. She turned around and said with a smile on her face: "It was burned when there was a fire at home before. It's fine now."
The firefighter patted Hua Ling on the shoulder: "I want to ask, how did you know that this girl's mother died?"
"I am a Chinese medicine doctor." Hua Ling took out his palm and turned it around, "I can still see and feel it. Moreover, this woman has taken poison. Something must have happened."
The firefighters understood.
After Hua Ling and Lu Ya returned to the parking lot, Hua Ling changed clothes in the car. While Hua Ling was changing clothes, Lu Ya sat in the passenger seat and sighed: "It's too dangerous."